{"id":70580,"date":"2025-07-14T21:01:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T21:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70580"},"modified":"2025-07-14T21:01:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T21:01:57","slug":"fct-council-workers-suspend-three-month-strike-after-wikes-n16bn-intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/14\/fct-council-workers-suspend-three-month-strike-after-wikes-n16bn-intervention\/","title":{"rendered":"FCT Council Workers Suspend Three-Month Strike After Wike\u2019s N16bn Intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Workers across the six Area Councils in the Federal Capital Territory have suspended their three-month strike following a N16 billion intervention ordered by FCT Minister Nyesom Wike.<\/p>\n<p>The suspension, effective from July 15, 2025, was agreed upon after a crucial meeting between the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), and government stakeholders in Gwagwalada.<\/p>\n<p>Wike directed that 10% of the Area Councils\u2019 internally generated revenue be used to offset salary arrears, prompting the breakthrough in negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>The strike, which grounded essential services including sanitation and healthcare, was triggered by non-payment of salaries, allowances, and entitlements.<\/p>\n<p>Workers also demanded the implementation of approved salary structures, payment of wage increments, and remittance of pension deductions.<\/p>\n<p>NULGE leaders, Abdullahi Kabi and Abdulmumini Sa\u2019ad, appreciated the Minister\u2019s intervention and noted that while the strike was suspended in good faith, issues remain unresolved.<\/p>\n<p>A joint committee comprising union representatives, FCTA, Area Councils, and the National Assembly has been given two weeks to harmonize and propose lasting solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The return to work offers relief to FCT residents, but concerns persist over financial autonomy and staff welfare in Nigeria\u2019s local government system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat &nbsp; Workers across the six Area Councils in the Federal Capital Territory have suspended their three-month strike following a N16 billion intervention ordered by FCT Minister Nyesom Wike. The suspension, effective from July 15, 2025, was agreed upon after a crucial meeting between the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":70581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-health"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70580","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=70580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70582,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70580\/revisions\/70582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}