Nigeria: Oyo Teaching Hospital Nurses Strike Over Unpaid Salaries

31 October 2016

The National Association Of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital, Ogbomosho, has embarked on an indefinite strike to demand payment of their eight months salaries.

The nurses, who earlier went on a three-day warning strike on Wednesday, decided to embark on a full blown strike after the warning strike expired without any response from the institution's management. Vice Chairman of the Union, Oyewunmi Opeyemi, said the Oyo State government had been owing them eight months salary. He said that even the January salary was paid in half in August.

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