{"id":75468,"date":"2025-09-12T16:12:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=75468"},"modified":"2025-09-12T16:12:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:12:39","slug":"workers-protest-in-abuja-over-poor-welfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/12\/workers-protest-in-abuja-over-poor-welfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers Protest in Abuja Over Poor Welfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Staff of the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs on Thursday staged a protest at the ministry\u2019s headquarters in Abuja, accusing Minister Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim of neglect, poor leadership, and disregard for workers\u2019 welfare.<\/p>\n<p>The aggrieved employees, who booed the minister and chanted slogans, alleged that the ministry lacks basic work tools, including stationery, while the minister maintains more than 25 special assistants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe often use our personal funds for official duties. When we complain, she tells us to go to President Tinubu,\u201d said staff member Anne Ojubele.<\/p>\n<p>Another worker, Alake Success, described the minister as unapproachable, adding: \u201cShe has over 25 SAs, yet there\u2019s no harmonious relationship with staff. We want her transferred.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reacting in a statement, the ministry said while staff have the right to express grievances, such actions must align with professionalism and civil service rules.<\/p>\n<p>The statement, signed by the minister\u2019s media adviser, Jonathan Eze, noted that Sulaiman-Ibrahim \u201cunderstands staff welfare and professional growth are crucial to performance\u201d but stressed that finance and administration are under the Permanent Secretary, not the minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado &nbsp; Staff of the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs on Thursday staged a protest at the ministry\u2019s headquarters in Abuja, accusing Minister Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim of neglect, poor leadership, and disregard for workers\u2019 welfare. The aggrieved employees, who booed the minister and chanted slogans, alleged that the ministry lacks basic work tools, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":75469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75468","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=75468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75470,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75468\/revisions\/75470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}