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Human Rights Watch says 54 children among dead in ‘unlawful’ attack on residential building on October 31. An “unlawful” Israeli air attack that killed 106 people in a residential building in central Gaza on October 31, 2023, was an “apparent war crime”, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said. The inquiry …

The University College Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo State, has threatened to begin strike on April 9 if the hospital is not reconnected to electricity.   UCH owes the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company up to N495m and  the teaching hospital was disconnected from public power supply as a result.   Subsequently, doctors, …

Israel’s bombing of an Iranian Embassy building in Damascus, which killed senior Iranian military and intelligence officials, is a major escalation of what has long been a simmering undeclared war between Israel and Iran. Iran promises major retaliation, and the danger of a miscalculation is ever-present. But given the stakes …

Hamas deputy military commander Marwan Issa was killed in an Israeli strike earlier this month, Israel’s military spokesman has said. There was no immediate comment from the Palestinian group. “We have checked all the intelligence,” Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in a televised statement on Tuesday. “Marwan Issa was eliminated …

Members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU), have called off their seven-day warning strike.   In a circular to branch chairmen at public universities all over the coutry, SSANU President, Mohammed Ibrahim, directed SSANU and NASU members to resume work from …

The National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) has said it will begin a three-day warning strike on Wednesday, March 20, over the non-payment of four months withheld salaries.   Recall that in October 2023, Bola Tinubu directed that the university workers who embarked on a prolonged strike in 2022 should …

The Vice Chancellor of the University of Jos, Plateau State, Prof. Tanko Ishaya, ordered security to break open the gate of the university locked by protesting non-teaching staff members of the university.    Non-teaching university staff, under the aegis of the Senior Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic …

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 …

Mohammed Ibrahim, the National President of SSANU, said this in a communique issued at the end of the union’s 47th Regular National Executive Council (NEC) meeting on Monday in Abuja. Ibrahim said the four months withheld salaries arose from the nationwide strike action embarked upon by all unions in the …

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has announced its plan to commence a seven-day warning strike from March 18.    The impending strike is as a result of the Federal Government’s failure to pay members their four months withheld salaries.    President Bola Tinubu had directed that public …