Dr. Oluwajimi Sodipo, Chairman, Medical Guild, said on Tuesday in Lagos that the notice was issued based on the challenges as it concerns COVID-19 test for healthcare workers and patients in hospitals.
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The national leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has promised to review its ongoing two weeks warning strike it commenced on Monday, following the intervention of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila.
Alhaji Suleiman Yakubu, National Public Relations Officer of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, says the association is not part of any strike action going on in Kano State.
Some students of the University of Port Harcourt on Wednesday protested allege threat by the Academic Staff Union of Universities to go on strike over government’s payroll system.
The Nigeria Labour Congress, Delta State chapter has started to shut offices and schools in Asaba ahead of the planned strike over delay to implement the new minimum wage.
In a circular sent to the state councils, signed by its General Secretary, Emmanuel Ugboaja, the NLC said this was a notice in case the proposed negotiations slated for October 15 with the Federal Government broke down.
The Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress at a meeting with the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council-Trade Union Side) in Abuja, warned that labour would not guarantee industrial peace in the country if their demands were not met by government.
Almost all flights by British Airways, totalling hundreds of departures, were cancelled on Monday as pilots launched a 48-hour strike in a dispute over pay.
Striking members of the non-teaching staff of Nigerian universities on Tuesday blocked entrance to the Federal University of Technology Owerri to enforce compliance with the nationwide strike.
Esther Ezeama, the chairperson of the union, gave the ultimatum during a news conference on Thursday in Jos.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the workers had embarked on the strike on April 23, over alleged poor funding of the seven tertiary institutions.
Courts in Kogi on Monday resumed work after four months of strike embarked upon by the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities says government must show proof of payment of at least N50 billion revitalisation funds for it to consider suspending the on-going strike.
The Chief Judge of Nasarawa State, Justice Suleiman Dikko, has ordered the re-opening of all courts shut by Judicial Staff Union of Nigeria as its industrial strike entered 59th day.
Some undergraduate students in Nsukka, Enugu State on Thursday appealed to the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities to shift grounds in order to resolve their issues.
The National Association of Nigerian Students on Saturday urged the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities to go back to negotiations with the Federal Government.
Health wworkers of Abia State University Teaching Hospital, Aba, on Tuesday resumed their indefinite strike, locking the entrance to the hospital and depriving patients and other workers access to the complex.
The Muslim Rights Concern, a rights group, on Monday, urged the Organised Labour to shelve its proposed nationwide strike as it would be detrimental to the masses.
The Director General of LCCI, Muda Yusuf, made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Lagos.
The Trade Union Congress, Nigeria Labour Congress and United Labour Congress have threatened to embark on strike over the issue of National Minimum Wage.