Tag: Sack
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Photo: PENGASSAN pickets oil company over sack of 64 workers
Oil workers, under the aegis of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), on Tuesday picketed the office of Baker Hughes, a multinational oil company, over sacking of 64 workers. The picketing took place at the Mansard House, Victoria Island area of Lagos State. Some aggrieved members were seeing chanting solidarity songs,…
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Covid-19: Chevron to sack 25% of its workforce in Nigeria
Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) has announced it will cut down its workforce in Nigeria by 25 percent across various levels. CNL disclosed this in a statement titled ‘Chevron Nigeria Limited Reviews Workforce in Accordance with Business Exigencies’, on Friday. The company said the decision was taken as a result of the prevailing business climate caused…
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Shut down your private hospitals or be sacked, Nasarawa govt tells doctors on payroll
The Nasarawa State Government has resolved to sack any medical doctor who is on government payroll and still run a private hospital. The state Commissioner for Justice, Abdulkarin Kana, who spoke to journalists yesterday after the state executive council meeting, added that they must close down their private hospitals. He said the action would allow…
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BREAKING: FG breaks silence on alleged sack of UNILAG VC
The Federal Ministry of Education (FMoE) said it has not been briefed on the purported removal of Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) Prof Oluwatoyin Ogundipe from office by Governing Council of the university. Spokesperson of the FMoE, Ben Goong, said this in a statement in Abuja. The statement noted that while the ministry…
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FG intervenes as Air Peace considers recalling sacked pilots
The Federal Government on Tuesday intervened in the brewing controversy following the sack of over 70 pilots by the Air Peace Management last week. TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) had also earlier urged the management of Turkish Air, Air Peace and Bristow Helicopters to reinstate all the sacked workers within two…
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Urhobo youths gives Buhari 7-day ultimatum to sack Akpabio over corruption in NDDC
THE Urhobo Youth Assembly, UYA, has urged President Muhammadu to sack the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswil Akpabio within seven days. UYA in a letter to the President dated August 7, 2020, alleged that in the past 20 years of existence of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, no statutory board of the…
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Mass sack: NLC wades in, gives Air Peace, Bristow two-week ultimatum to recall pilots
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has urged the management of Turkish Air, Air Peace and Bristow Helicopters to reinstate all the sacked workers within two weeks. Mr Ayuba Wabba, NLC President, said this in a statement on Friday in Abuja, while condemning the recent sack of 100 Pilots by Air Peace, 69 Pilots by Bristow…
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Appeal Court upholds sack of Oyo Council chairmen
The Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan on Wednesday set aside the Oyo State High Court’s judgement restraining the state governor and or government from dissolving local government councils in the state. Justice Haruna Tsammani who delivered the judgment said the sacked local government Chairmen failed to show verifiable facts of the plan by the…
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Barca chief denies Setien one defeat away from sack
Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu has rubbished reports of coach Quique Setien being on the verge of the sack. It’s been claimed victory over Villarreal saved Setien from the axe. But Bartomeu insisted: “I know there are rumours. It’s wrong. “Victory did not save him. He is doing a good job. He has our complete…