{"id":67124,"date":"2025-06-02T11:56:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T11:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67124"},"modified":"2025-06-02T11:56:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T11:56:23","slug":"courts-shut-down-as-jusun-begins-nationwide-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/02\/courts-shut-down-as-jusun-begins-nationwide-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Courts Shut Down as JUSUN Begins Nationwide Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Courts across Nigeria were shut on Monday, June 2, as members of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN), commenced an indefinite strike over unpaid wage awards and delayed salary adjustments tied to the new N70,000 minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p>The strike, declared by the union&#8217;s national body, disrupted operations at major judicial institutions including the Federal High Court headquarters in Abuja, the Court of Appeal, and the FCT High Court.<\/p>\n<p>Judges, lawyers, and litigants were locked out as \u201cJUSUN on strike\u201d banners hung on court gates.<\/p>\n<p>In a circular dated May 30 and signed by acting national secretary M.J. Akwashiki, JUSUN stated the industrial action followed failed negotiations with the Minister of Labour and Employment.<\/p>\n<p>The union is demanding the full implementation of the N70,000 minimum wage, payment of five months&#8217; wage awards, and a 25 to 35 percent salary increase.<\/p>\n<p>Despite appeals from the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, for the union to suspend the strike in favour of further dialogue, the action pressed on.<\/p>\n<p>Judiciary workers under the National Judicial Council (NJC) and those at the Supreme Court, however, did not join the strike.<\/p>\n<p>According to NJC JUSUN spokesperson Joel Ebiloma and Supreme Court chapter chairman Danladi Nda, discussions with the Labour Minister led to an agreement to allow the government two more weeks to meet their demands.<\/p>\n<p>As of Monday, federal courts under JUSUN remained closed, with union leaders said to be in closed-door meetings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola &nbsp; Courts across Nigeria were shut on Monday, June 2, as members of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN), commenced an indefinite strike over unpaid wage awards and delayed salary adjustments tied to the new N70,000 minimum wage. The strike, declared by the union&#8217;s national body, disrupted operations at major judicial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":67125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386,172],"tags":[1726],"class_list":["post-67124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","category-news","tag-strike"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67126,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67124\/revisions\/67126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}