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There is tension as federal judiciary workers lament poor working conditions and warn the government of plans to embark on strike. On Thursday, January 23, 2025, two letters were issued in Benin City to the Chief Registrar of the Federal High Court in Abuja and members of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) at the Customary Court of Appeal....READ THE FULL CONTENT FROM THE SOURCE | READ THE FULL CONTENT FROM THE SOURCE
The letter stated that workers have not yet to received a 25 to 35 per cent salary increase and a N35,000 wage award and would soon embark on industrial action.
Reports indicates that workers of the NICN court in Benin City have also not received the N70,000 minimum wage.
One worker told Vanguard on condition of anonymity, “Last Christmas, many of us got peanuts as Christmas bones, the salary is very poor, the minimum wage has not been implemented to workers of the NICN, the 35,000 wag award by the federal government, till date, we are yet to receive, and nobody is talking about arrears, other organisations under the same federal government have January to July but nobody is talking about ours in the NICN.
“Yet the economic situation is high but our management is not doing anything to assuage the sufferings of the workers, I learnt some of our colleagues in the Federal High Court are also going through the same but the little difference is that those other ones go for training regularly but that is not the same for us in the NICN, we recently went for promotion examination, till now, our DTA has not been paid and nobody is talking about it.
We are members of JUSUN but the union seems not to be active at the federal level so our cases are unattended to, they are only active in the states but the leaders at the national level are not living up to expectations, they only collect our dues.”...READ THE FULL CONTENT FROM THE SOURCE
