ASHENEWS reports that the Niger state government has signed an engagement contract with 60 medical students to engage them in the state’s civil service.
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ASHENEWS reports that a non-governmental organisation, Positive Care and Development Foundation (PCDF) says about 10,000 babies are born with clubfoot in Nigeria annually.
The Federal Government and the Organised labour, on Monday night signed an agreement over the minimum wage controversy. The agreement was signed after a marathon meeting brokered by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume. ASHENEWS reports that the meeting was convened in response to the nationwide strike which grounded activities across the country. Details of the agreement below: RESOLUTIONS REACHED AT THE MEETING BETWEEN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE ORGANISED LABOUR HELD ON MONDAY 3RD JUNE, 2024 Further to the negotiation by the Tripartite Committee on National Minimum Wage (NMW) and subsequent withdrawal of Labour…
The Federal Government says, in the national interest, it is ready to offer higher than N60,000 national minimum wage it earlier proposed to the tripartite committee deliberating on the issue. The government decision was disclosed at a meeting of the committee convened Monday night by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, after the organised labour embarked on indefinite strike to press its demand on the national minimum wage. In a circular jointly issued by the committee members at the end of the meeting, and made available to newsmen, it was resolved that President Boka Tinubu expressed his commitment…
“The governor also expressed immense gratitude to his Kwara State counterpart, Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazak, for his personal commitment, cooperation and support towards the success of the operation that led to the rescue of the remaining kidnapped students.
The Yobe chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has dissociated itself from the ongoing nationwide strike embarked by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC). ALSO READ Strike: NMA calls for swift resolution as LASUTH activities come to a standstill ALSO READ Judiciary workers lock out judges, lawyers, others as NLC, TUC begin strike The association’s Chairman, Dr Abubakar Mala, told newsmen in Damaturu on Monday that the state’s NMA is not part of the strike and will continue to provide medical services to patients. ALSO READ Medical doctors in Yobe shun NLC strike ALSO READ [BREAKING] NLC, TUC walk out…
Chairman of Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Niger,Mr. Ibrahim Gana, on Monday said the union recorded 100 per cent success compliance with the ongoing strike over the minimum wage in the state. He said this in an interview with newsmen shortly after monitoring the level of compliance in Minna, the state capital. Gana said that
Skeletal works were seen ongoing at the Federal Neuro-psychiatric Hospital Yaba on Monday as the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) begin a nationwide strike. The NLC, had ordered workers to begin an indefinite nationwide strike following the May 31 deadline for the Federal Government to approve and implement a new National Minimum Wage. The last minute intervention on Sunday night by the National Assembly to prevent the nationwide strike was futile as the meeting with government representatives and labour leaders ended in a deadlock. The Federal Government had insisted on N60,000 as the new minimum wage,…
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has urged the Federal Government to urgently address the concerns of workers toward ending the ongoing nationwide strike. NMA Chairman Lagos Zone, Dr Babajide Saheed, made the appeal in an interview on Monday in Lagos. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) on June 3 embarked on an indefinite nationwide industrial action over lack of consensus on a new minimum wage and the hike in electricity tariff. Saheed said that NMA Lagos was in solidarity with the NLC/TUC to press for a living wage for Nigerian workers, noting that the hardship…
ASHENEWS reports that the Sultan of Sokoto and President General of the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Muhammad Sa’ad, has appealed to the Organised Labour to shelve the ongoing strike in the country.