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Health workers in the state said there have been no signs from the state government that it intends to meet their demands.

The union, which draws its membership mostly from primary health centres, began an indefinite industrial action on Friday over non-payment of 15 months’ salary arrears. The MHWUN Chairman, Mr Barnabas Simon, who gave an update on the strike on Saturday, said the union embarked on the strike as the last option following the expiration of earlier deadlines and fruitless meetings with government officials. He explained that the arrears owed to the union members ranged from two to 15 months. Simo...

Senator trains 520 physically challenged in Akwa Ibom There was pandemonium at the National Assembly entrance yesterday, as a group of People Living With Disabilities (PLWDs) besieged the complex and pounced on security officials for calling in the police to disperse them. Insisting that they came from the Niger Delta region to meet their lawmakers to ask why they were not included in the palliatives shared during the lockdown, they barricaded the entrance to the National Assembly. Speaking un...

Senator trains 520 physically challenged in Akwa Ibom There was pandemonium at the National Assembly entrance yesterday, as a group of People Living With Disabilities (PLWDs) besieged the complex and pounced on security officials for calling in the police to disperse them. Insisting that they came from the Niger Delta region to meet their lawmakers to ask why they were not included in the palliatives shared during the lockdown, they barricaded the entrance to the National Assembly. Speaking un...