The Federal Government has restated its threat not to pay any of its employees on strike or absent from duty post without due authorisation.

This followed the commencement of a two-week warning strike by the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) today.

With the warning strike by SSANU and NASU, activities in the nation’s public universities have been fully grounded. The Academic Staff Union of Universities and National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) are already on strike over Federal Government’s failure to implement agreements with them..

Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen Chris Ngige, told The Nation last night the government had decided to apply the “No-work, No Pay” policy in compliance with Section 43 of the Labour Law.

Ngige said that the actions of the unions amounted to “false leave” and a declaration of forced holidays for students. He reminded the members that the government was not “Father Xmas.”

His words: “Anybody on strike now will not be paid in consonance with Section 43.

“What they (unions) are doing is false leave; they are forcing their employers to close down some of their universities and declare holiday for students because of that.

“So if you do that, you will not be paid. Government is not Father Christmas where you are not working and you will be paid.”

SSANU and NASU had in a joint statement yesterday announced the commencement of the warning strike, saying “no concession should be given in any guise.”

LeoDeKing:
I think the regulation should be such that if there is a strike, all parties involved must lose something, and that is why efforts will be made to avert it making it the last option.

A situation where workers are free to just go on strike and all their salaries paid at the end of the day is a very wrong practice because they have nothing to lose.
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Kilotat:

Read Section of the Nigerian Constitution that talks about Strike. You can't just be talking nonsense here. Na your type vote buhari to power

I think the regulation should be such that...

LeoDeKing:
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Mr constitution that talks "sense", read through what you quoted again, this time slowly.

Above is part of the first sentence of the part you quoted. What does that tell you? I'm aware there is a regulation guiding strikes in Nigeria. So having seen that, why are you still referring me to constitution? Did I tell you strike has no rules? The first 2 words "I think", should also suggest to you is a personal opinion.

And it is based on the arbitrariness of these greedy good for nothing lecturers busy teaching nonsense and demanding for impossible that I made the entire comment in the paragraph.

So because I voted Buhari, useless lecturers should start misbehaving? What do they teach other than giving handouts and repeating same nonsense every semester/session in addition to chasing young female students on campuses?