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The nationwide strike by the organised labour over new national minimum wage, seems not to be effective in kaduna as Government offices have remained open and workers were seen at their duty posts.
Some banks including the Central Bank of Nigeria, hospitals and other public sector offices in the state capital were also opened.
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A nurse at the Barau Dikko Hospital, which witnessed high number of patients, told NAN in confidence that there has been no formal notice from the state labour unions to commence the strike.
“We only heard of the strike order in the media, there has been no formal notice yet either from the Nigeria Labour Congress or our union, the nurses union, but we are waiting,’’ she said.
Naija News also understands that normal activities at the state High Court were going on, although local union officials there said they will meet today to agree on whether to join the nationwide strike.
At the secretariat of the Nigeria Labour Congress, officials were in a meeting on ways to enforce compliance to the strike.
Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, also experienced the same fate as normal activities continued with normal flight operations ongoing smoothly at both the arrival and departure sections of the airport.
Mr Abdulahi Saroke, Station Manager for Max Air, who spoke on the fate of the workers as the strike commence said that he had received flights from Lagos and Kano and boarded passengers to those airports. Adding that he had heard the news that airports could be shut anytime to join the strike.
When contacted, Mr Francis Akinjole, General Secretary, Air Transport Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ATSSAN), said that all aviation unions in the country were currently attending their national delegates conference at Asaba, Delta.
Akinjole explained that the delegates conference, at which a new leadership of the National Union of Air Transpirt Employees (NUATE), would be elected, had been planned before the decision by the labour unions to embark on a nationwide strike.
He said the reason why the strike had yet to be enforced at the airports was because all aviation union leaders were out of their stations. According to him, aviation unions are strongly with the NLC on the strike even though we are not on ground to enforce it today.
“We are currently in Asaba for NUATE’s national delegates conference for today and tomorrow and we shall enforce the compliance in aviation sector as soon as we finish from here,” he said.
A staff of Abuja Airport, who pleaded anonymity, said their various unions had not mobilised them to join the strike.
He said a lot of airport workers were willing to support the strike to press home the demands for a new minimum wage in the country.
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