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UK University Workers Embarks On Strike Over Pay

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Lifestyle Nigeria gathered that The largest strike in decades, according to the University and College Union (UCU), the UK trade union for university personnel, is being held to raise standards in the educational field.

“This is the biggest week in our history. Every single university takes strike action on Thursday and Friday. We need every member, student and supporter on our picket lines on Thursday to show the employers that this time is different,” the union said in a statement.

Announcing the strike on Wednesday, Jo Grady, UCU’s general secretary, warned of a “bigger action” unless employers improved their offers.

Staff are burnt out but they are fighting back and they will bring the whole sector to a standstill,” she said.

“Vice-chancellors only have themselves to blame. Their woeful leadership has led to the biggest vote for strike action ever in our sector. Students are standing with staff because they know this can’t go on.”

The Thursday-starting strike will continue on November 25 and November 30, as well.

On Thursday, Grady commented on the situation and expressed his appreciation with the attendance of university workers.

“Today’s picket lines are huge. 70,000 university staff have turned out like never before, defying bullying tactics from management to show they will no longer accept falling pay, pension cuts, brutal workloads and gig-economy working conditions,” Grady was quoted as saying according to UCL.

“If vice-chancellors doubted the determination of university staff to save our sector, then today has been a rude awakening for them.”
Lawyers, nurses, postal workers, and many other professions have all demonstrated in favor of pay increases that keep pace with the nation’s skyrocketing inflation.

The most recent walkouts follow the UK’s National Union of Train, Maritime and Transport Employees’ announcement on Tuesday that more than 40,000 rail workers will stage strikes in December and January, causing travel disruptions for a large number of passengers throughout the holiday season.

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Don’t Use NLC’s Platform, Funds To Pursue Your 2027 Ambition – Abure Knocks Ajaero

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Lifestyle Nigeria gathered that National Chairman of Labour Party, LP, Comrade Julius Abure, has told the President of the nigeria Labour Congress, Comrade Joe Ajaero not to use the platform, funds and resources of the NLC to pursue his ambition of either becoming the president of the country in 2027 or governor of Imo State.

Abure stated this at Asaba, Delta State on Wednesday while reacting to the shutting down of the Labour Party’s National Headquarters by protesting members of the NLC who demanded for his immediate removal as National Chairman of the party.

He said the “picketing” of the party’s office was politically motivated, describing it as a show of rascality and abuse of office and the laws of the land.

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Why I Withdrew From Ondo Guber Race — Eyitayo Jegede

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Lifestyle Nigeria gathered that the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo state in 2020, Chief Eyitayo Jegede, on Thursday, said he withdrew from the 2024 governorship race to give room for unity and ensure victory for the party in the forthcoming governorship election.

Jegede who noted that disunity has not allowed any candidate from that party to win the governorship race in the state, said he chose to sacrifice his ambition for the development of the party.

This is just as a group within the party, PDP Crusader, hailed the decision of Jegede to step aside in the forthcoming governorship election in the state in order to build a strong and united party that can send the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) packing in the state.

The Coordinator of the PDP Crusader, Hon Mayokun Akinmoladun, said the group was ready to follow and support Jegede in any decision he took on the party’s primary and the November 16 governorship election.

Akinmoladun said the most important thing to the party is to come together and rescue the state, noting that the party was not being run the way it was supposed to be.

He said the party may go into extinction if care is not taken, and commended Jegede for financing the party since it lost the governorship seat some eight years ago.

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El-Rufai Visits SDP Office Amid Rumour Of Defection (Update)

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Lifestyle Nigeria gathered that Ahead of the 2027 general elections, former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El- Rufai on Wednesday visited the Abuja National Secretariat of the Social Democratic Party, SDP.

A source said El-Rufai paid a consultation visit to the National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Shehu Musa Gabam.

The former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, is a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

He was nominated for a ministerial position in President Bola Tinubu’s administration but was not confirmed by the Senate.

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