". FCTA workers receive January salary, partial wage award arrears Skip to main content

Featured

Nigerian man reported killed fighting for Russia in Ukraine

  Reports have emerged that a Nigerian national was killed while fighting on the battlefield for Russian forces against Ukraine. The news was confirmed on Monday by journalist Jaafar Jaafar and security analyst Zagazola Makama. Makama, in a post, described the incident as tragic, noting that the man had left his family in Northern Nigeria to enlist with the Russian army. “Sad. He left his family in Northern Nigeria to join Russia’s army to fight Ukraine. He was unfortunately killed in the battlefield,” Makama wrote. Images circulating online reportedly show the deceased alongside his children. The war, now in its fourth year since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and displaced millions. Russia has faced manpower shortages and has increasingly relied on foreign recruits, private military contractors, and allied militias to sustain its campaign. Ukraine, meanwhile, continues to receive military and financial support from Wester...
Post a Comment
Read more

FCTA workers receive January salary, partial wage award arrears



By Idowu Bankole


Workers of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) received their January salaries last Friday, alongside the payment of one month out of the five months’ arrears owed under the Wage Award, officials have said.

With the latest payment, two months of the five-month Wage Award arrears have now been settled, while the remaining three months are scheduled to be paid alongside salaries for February, March and April.

Despite this development, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) is mobilising workers in other sectors for a protest scheduled for Tuesday.

However, FCTA workers, on whose behalf the NLC is organising the protest, were at their duty posts on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday last week and are also expected to report for work on Monday.

Sources within the FCTA noted that while more than 20 states have either stopped paying the Wage Award or failed to implement it entirely, the FCT has continued with payments and has already cleared two months of the arrears.

Comments

Post a Comment