Tag: JOHESU

Subsidy Removal: Health workers to join NLC strike

Aminu Imam

Healthcare workers, under the aegis of the Joint Health Sector Unions and the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, (JOHESU) have said that they will join the planned strike by the Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC) scheduled to commence on Wednesday, August 2, 2023. The NLC has put plans in place for a nationwide strike scheduled to begin next Wednesday. Though a court order which barred the congress from going on strike in June still stands, our correspondent learnt that the Congress noted that it could not fold its arms…

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JOHESU suspends strike for 21 days after meeting Tinubu

Aminu Imam

The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) and Assembly of Healthcare Professional Associations have suspended its indefinite strike for 21 days. The suspension was announced after the leadership of the unions held a meeting with President Bola Tinubu yesterday. The Acting National Secretary, Matthew Ajirotu, in a text message, said the president promised to approve their demands. He said, “JOHESU has just suspended its strike, with a caveat to review it after 21 days”. “We met President Tinubu today (yesterday) at a 1-hour parley, and he promised to give approval to…

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Just In: JOHESU suspends threat to shutdown healthcare services

Aminu Imam

The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) and Assembly of Healthcare Professional Associations, (AHPA), have suspended their threat to shut down healthcare services in the country. The unions had earlier threatened to disrupt normal services in hospitals and other health care facilities across the country over Federal Government’s inability to meet their members’ demands. The JOHESU Acting General National Secretary, Matthew Ajorutu, disclosed this in a communique issued on behalf of the JOHESU National Chairman on Tuesday, in Abuja. Ajorutu said the decision to put on hold their planned industrial action…

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Looting: JOHESU seeks FG, others assistance for Psychiatric Hospital

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Join Health Sector Union (JOHESU) and Assembly of Health Professionals, Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Calabar branch, has called on the Federal Government and corporate organisations to assist them over the looting of their valuables by hoodlums. The Union made the call in a statement jointly signed by its Chairman and Secretary, Mr Daniel Odo, and Mr Ken Bassey and made available to newsmen on Friday in Calabar. The Union said that on Oct. 24, hoodlums made up of women, men and children, heavily armed with guns and machetes, descended on…

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JOHESU suspends warning strike

Ishaku Yohanna

The Joint Health Sector Unions have suspended their seven-day nationwide warning strike. The National Chairman of JOHESU, Mr. Josiah Biobelemoye disclosed this in a statement released at the end of its expanded National Executive Council meeting in Abuja, on Sunday. The JOHESU chairman directed all members of the union to return to work by Sept. 21, adding that its members should also await further directives from the leadership of the union. Recall that members of JOHESU and the Assembly of Healthcare Professional Associations had embarked on a seven-day warning strike…

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JOHESU declares nationwide strike

Ishaku Yohanna

Following its deadlocked meeting with the Federal Government, the Joint Health Sector Unions have resolved to proceed with its strike with effect from midnight of Sunday, September 13, 2020. This was the decisions reached after its expanded National Executive Council meeting held on Saturday.  JOHESU leaders, at the end of its meeting with government representatives, including the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo (SAN); and Minister of State for Health, Dr. Olorunimbe Mamora, were given Saturday, September 12 to report back to the government’s negotiation team. But…

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Strikes: FG reaches truce with JOHESU, meets NLC, TUC, others Saturday

Ishaku Yohanna

Officials of the Joint Health Sector Unions may shelve its strike scheduled to start on Sunday sequel to the conciliation meeting between it and the Federal Government. The unions had been directed to consult its members on the agreements reached with the FG and report back to the Ministry of Labour by Saturday, September 12. A communiqué issued at the end of the parley said the FG has appropriated N126 billion in the 2020 COVID-19 intervention Appropriation Act for infrastructure upgrading and equipment for the health, noting that lack of…

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