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The country's national grid and its airports were shut down on 3 June 2024, as were banks, hospitals and schools. The government responded by denouncing the unions' demands as "unreasonable" and declaring the strike to be illegal. The following day, the NLC and TUC suspended the strike, pending talks with the government over raising the minimum ...
1981 Nigerian general strike [9] 1982 Nigerian dockworkers' strikes [10] 1988 ASUU strike, strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities members in Nigeria against structural adjustment, the first strike in the union's history. [11] 1988 Nigerian fuel strikes, series of strikes in Nigeria protesting increases in fuel prices. [12] 1989 Anti-SAP ...
Unions representing Nigeria's government workers have announced they will go on strike starting next week to demand pay raises and to protest the austerity measures of the West African nation's ...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian government workers on Tuesday continued working after last-minute efforts by authorities averted a nationwide strike to protest growing hardship that could have ...
ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigeria's main labour unions on Friday said they had declared an indefinite strike from Monday after failing to agree a new minimum wage with the government. The Nigerian Labour ...
Health professionals in Nigeria during the COVID-19 pandemic, March 2021. During the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria, the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), a national medical association that represents approximately 40 percent of all doctors in the country [1] [2] [3] [note 1] (including 90 percent of doctors in the country's teaching hospitals [6] [7]), experienced a strained ...
Nigeria’s leader increased the wages of some government workers in last-minute efforts to appease labor unions whose planned strike this week could shut down government offices in all sectors of ...
The strike served as a focal point for criticism of British rule of Nigeria. Azikiwe became known for promoting the cause of the strikers. [5] It has been cited as a "turning point" in Nigerian labor relations. [4] An article on the strike in the Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria declared its main legacy to be "the need for mutual ...