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The leadership of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) have directed their members across university and inter-university centre campuses nationwide to withdraw services beginning from Monday, 18 March.   The associations embarked on a seven-day warning strike …

The Nigeria Labour Congress has suspended its nationwide protest and extended the ultimatum given to the federal government to March 13. The labour union had declared a two-day nationwide protest over what it described as unmet demands by the federal government as well as the prevailing hardship across the country. …

The Trade Union Congress has accused the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) of calling for a nationwide protest without due consultation. In a letter addressed to the President of the NLC, Joe Ajaero, the TUC said its sister body should stop making unilateral decisions on issues of interest to the two …

The Association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria (AMBCN) has announced that its members will be embarking on a nationwide strike from February 27 over rising production costs.    Kogi State chairman of AMBCN, Chief Adeniyi Bamidele Gabriel, who made the announcement on Tuesday, February 13, said the strike …

President Bola Tinubu will on Monday, January 1, speak to Nigerians in his New Year day broadcast.    A statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, said President Tinubu will make the new year broadcast from 7am on the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) and the …

President Tinubu has approved a 50 per cent slash in price of interstate transport fare for Nigerians traveling during the yuletide from Thursday, December 21, 2023 to January 4, 2024.   The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, disclosed this to State House correspondents on Wednesday, December 20.   …

A military armoury in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown came under attack on Sunday morning in a suspected coup attempt, the government announced, as it imposed an immediate national curfew.   The government said those attempting to break into the armoury at a major army barracks had been repelled, but the …

The National Industrial Court has restrained the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Trade Union Congress, TUC, as well as their affiliates from embarking on any form of strike or industrial action.   The labour unions were ordered to stop their planned nationwide strike scheduled to commence on November 14.   President …

  The organised labour on Friday declared Wednesday, 8th November 2023 a nationwide strike following Monday’s manhandling of the national president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC ), Comrade Joe Ajaero in Imo State. Ajaero was whisked away by the police at a protest on non-payment of workers by the …

The Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Ahmed Audi, has ordered the immediate deployment of undercover security agents to schools and host communities in the North-West zone and other parts of the country to protect the schools from attacks by bandits.   The Commandant directed …