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Strike UNIBEN Staff Commits Suicide Over Financial Crisis

Strike: UNIBEN Staff Commits Suicide Over Financial Crisis

September 11, 2022 3:52 am

Amidst the ongoing strike in the country’s universities, a data entry staff of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Prince Carter Oshodin, reportedly committed suicide on Saturday over his inability to cope financially.

He was reporrted to have taken his own life yesterday in Umelu community in Upper Sakponba area of Benin City.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that although the non-academic staff union to which the deceased belonged called off its strike recently, the members were yet to be paid their salaries. The deceased, who described himself as Craze J. A on his Facebook page, had a message on …

Why Buhari Must Sack Ngige, Ehanire - HURIWA

Why Buhari Must Sack Ngige, Ehanire – HURIWA

September 9, 2022 4:21 am

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to as a matter of urgency sack the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, and his Ministry of Labour and Employment counterpart, Chris Ngige.

This call was made by the National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, in a statement, lambasted both ministers for alleged poor management of human resources.

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The group went on to blame the education minister accusing him of ‘principally responsible for jeopardising the educational right of millions of Nigerians youths, who have …

ASUU Fresh Hopes As FG Reviews ‘No-work No-Pay’ Policy

ASUU: Fresh Hopes As FG Reviews ‘No-Work No-Pay’ Policy

September 7, 2022 5:23 am

The federal government has taken a major step toward finding solutions to its ongoing faceoff with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) by setting up a tactical committee to review the no-work no-pay policy which the striking lecturers have kicked against.

The lecturers’ union has continued to maintain that its members have to be fully paid for the period they were on strike before they return to work.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the setting up of the committee came on the heels of a meeting by the minister of education, Adamu Adamu, with pro-chancellors, chairmen of …

London Bus Drivers Resolve To Embark On Strike Over Pay

London Bus Drivers Resolve To Embark On Strike Over Pay

August 25, 2022 5:10 am

Bus drivers in London have concluded plans to go on industrial action over pay for two days this weekend, their union has confirmed as decades-high inflation prompts walkouts across Britain’s ailing economy.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that no fewer than 1,600 drivers from the London United bus company will stage the stoppage on Sunday and Monday over the traditional end-of-summer long weekend, the union Unite said.

The strike, which from all indications will only affect only a portion of London’s famous red buses, could go on to stop people trying to reach the annual Notting Hill Carnival, which …

Fresh Strike Looms As Doctors Issue 2 Weeks Ultimatum

Fresh Strike Looms As Doctors Issue 2 Weeks Ultimatum

August 22, 2022 4:21 am

Fresh reports reaching the desk of Africa Daily News, New York has it that the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has served a two-week ultimatum to both the Federal and State Governments to press home members’ lingering demands warning of impending industrial action.

The President of the association, Dr Godiya Ishaya issued this ultimatum during a news conference organised at the end of the Extraordinary National Executive Council (E-NEC) Meeting yesterday in Ilorin.

The E-NEC meeting, which was hosted by the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), had about 79 chapters of the association …

Universities SSANU, NASU Suspend Strike For 60 Days

Universities: SSANU, NASU Suspend Strike For 60 Days

August 21, 2022 6:29 am

The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Allied and Education Institutions (NASU), have announced the suspension of the Unions’ ongoing strike for a period of two months to enable the federal government the opportunity to implement some their agreements.

The suspension is coming after the committee met with the Education Minister earlier this week.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the suspension of the strike is expected to take effect from Wednesday, August 24, 2022.

NASU general-secretary, who is also the spokesman of JAC, Peters Adeyemi, …

ASUU Urges Buhari To Meet With Renegotiation Committee

ASUU Mulls For Regulation Of Foreign Education For Public Officers

July 27, 2022 8:57 pm

In lieu of the lingering strike, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have made an open call for a bill to regulate how children of public officers would be able to enroll in schools outside the shores of Nigeria.

Prof. Kingdom Tombra, who is the Chairman of the University of Niger Delta University Wilberforce Island chapter of the union, had made this known at the solidarity protest organised by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Tuesday in Yenagoa.

Recall that the NLC embarked on the nationwide protest in solidarity with the ASUU and other affiliate unions over the lingering …

Blame FG, Not Lecturers, For Strike, ASUU Tells Nigerians

Blame FG, Not Lecturers, For Strike, ASUU Tells Nigerians

July 13, 2022 4:24 am

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) said the Federal Government, and not its members, are responsible for the union’s prolonged strike which began in February this year.

It, therefore, called on Nigerians to ask the government when it will sign the agreement reached at the just concluded renegotiation meeting.

Africa Daily News, New York had earlier reported that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), had on Monday told striking lecturers to consider the future generation and resume work, saying “enough is enough for keeping students at home.”

However, ASUU’s National President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, in an interview with …

ASUU Strike: We Are Doing A Lot Behind The Scenes – FG

ASUU Strike: We Are Doing A Lot Behind The Scenes – FG

June 16, 2022 4:28 am

The Federal Government of Nigeria has claimed that ‘a lot is happening behind the scenes’ as it continues to intensify efforts toward finding solutions to the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made this disclosure while responding to questions from State House correspondents after the weekly federal executive council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that ASUU had in February this year began their strike action and ever since then, all the public universities have …

Drivers In Morocco Go On Strike Over F

Drivers In Morocco Go On Strike Over Fuel Price Spike

March 8, 2022 1:16 pm

Truck and taxi drivers Moroccan are observing a three-day strike in protest at spiraling fuel costs, a union said Tuesday, as oil prices spike over Russia’s war in Ukraine.

About three quarters of drivers are observing the strike, Mounir Benazouz of the SNPTR truckers’ union clarified.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that no fewer than four other unions have also joined the action which is expected to end on Wednesday.

‘We are calling on the government to put a ceiling on fuel prices and the profit margins of distributors, because the situation is becoming more and more critical,’ Benazouz …

Strike Shelved As FG, ASUU Reach Agreement

Minister, ASUU To Hold Emergency Meeting As Strike Looms

April 5, 2021 4:57 pm

Following the threat to embark on another round of strike the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu has invited the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to an emergency meeting with hopes to dissuade such actions.

The emergency meeting is to hold Tuesday, the 6th of April 2021 at 11:00 am in the Ministry’s Headquarters in Abuja, said a statement by Director Press and Public Relations, Ben. Bem Goong.

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Explaining the reason for the emergency meeting, the Minister said the meeting is intended to nip the strike in the …

NMA Slams Ngige For Saying US, UK Don’t Pay Resident Doctors

NMA Slams Ngige For Saying US, UK Don’t Pay Resident Doctors

April 3, 2021 11:54 pm

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has come hard on the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, for saying developed nations like the United States and the United Kingdom don’t pay resident doctors.

Recall that Ngige, who is also a medical doctor,  had on Friday berated the National Association of Resident Doctors for embarking on a nationwide strike, claiming that developed countries don’t pay resident doctors Nigeria does.

He had also stated on Channels Television that resident doctors in foreign countries actually pay the hospitals where they work.

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