{"id":77593,"date":"2025-10-27T13:44:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T13:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77593"},"modified":"2025-10-27T13:44:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T13:44:53","slug":"courts-shut-down-as-jusun-embarks-on-indefinite-strike-in-kaduna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/27\/courts-shut-down-as-jusun-embarks-on-indefinite-strike-in-kaduna\/","title":{"rendered":"Courts Shut Down as JUSUN Embarks on Indefinite Strike in Kaduna"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Judicial activities were on Monday completely grounded across Kaduna State as members of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) commenced an indefinite strike over the government\u2019s alleged failure to meet their long-standing demands.<\/p>\n

The industrial action brought operations at the Federal and State High Courts, Upper Shari\u2019a Courts, Customary Courts, and Magistrates\u2019 Courts to a halt \u2014 with all facilities under lock and key.
Banners reading \u201cJUSUN Kaduna State Chapter Embarks on Strike\u201d<\/em> were seen hanging at court entrances across the state.<\/p>\n

At the Shari\u2019a Court in Magajin Gari, the scene was no different, as courtrooms remained closed. However, some staff were sighted outside the premises attending to clients seeking affidavits.<\/p>\n

The strike followed a notice issued by JUSUN on October 23, 2025, and signed by the union\u2019s Secretary, Nasiru Haruna<\/strong>, after the government allegedly failed to respond to earlier correspondences, including a demand letter dated September 1 and an ultimatum issued on October 9, 2025.<\/p>\n

According to the union, several attempts to reach an amicable resolution were ignored, forcing members to \u201cdown tools.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among the union\u2019s demands are the implementation of financial autonomy for the judiciary in line with the 1999 Constitution (as amended), consequential salary adjustments, and payment of withheld salaries for April and May 2021.<\/p>\n

Other issues include the payment of nine years\u2019 arrears of a 20 per cent salary component (from 2016 to date), settlement of arrears of leave and transport grants, and payment of outfit allowances for judiciary staff.<\/p>\n

JUSUN noted that the decision to embark on the strike was reached at an emergency meeting held on October 13, 2025.<\/p>\n

The union further directed all judicial units \u2014 including high courts, Shari\u2019a courts, customary courts, and other related offices \u2014 to ensure total compliance with the strike directive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Omoniyi David Judicial activities were on Monday completely grounded across Kaduna State as members of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) commenced an indefinite strike over the government\u2019s alleged failure to meet their long-standing demands. The industrial action brought operations at the Federal and State High Courts, Upper Shari\u2019a Courts, Customary Courts, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77593","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=77593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77595,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77593\/revisions\/77595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}