{"id":81745,"date":"2026-01-16T21:40:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81745"},"modified":"2026-01-16T21:40:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:40:50","slug":"fcta-workers-to-shut-offices-as-strike-begins-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/16\/fcta-workers-to-shut-offices-as-strike-begins-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"FCTA Workers to Shut Offices as Strike Begins Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Workers under the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), have announced plans to shut down government offices across Abuja and the area councils as they commence an indefinite strike on Monday, January 19, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The action, declared by the Joint Union Action Congress (JUAC), is expected to paralyse activities in all FCTA secretariats, departments, agencies, parastatals and area councils, following what the unions described as the authorities\u2019 failure to address long-standing labour and welfare issues.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the development on Friday, JUAC Public Relations Officer, Holina Adejoh, said workers across all cadres had been directed to withdraw their services.<\/p>\n<p>The strike follows the expiration of a seven-day ultimatum issued to FCTA management on January 7, which the unions said was ignored despite several meetings.<\/p>\n<p>The ultimatum was conveyed in a January 8 notice signed by JUAC President, Rifkatu Iortyer, and Secretary, Abdullahi Saleh.<\/p>\n<p>The unions listed their grievances to include unpaid promotion arrears, delayed promotions, continued extension of service for retired directors and permanent secretaries, non-remittance of pension contributions and National Housing Fund deductions, as well as alleged irregularities in the 2024 promotion examinations.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to obtain a response from FCTA authorities were unsuccessful, as the media aide to the FCT Head of Office did not return calls as of press time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Immaculata Workers under the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), have announced plans to shut down government offices across Abuja and the area councils as they commence an indefinite strike on Monday, January 19, 2026. The action, declared by the Joint Union Action Congress (JUAC), is expected to paralyse activities in all FCTA secretariats, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":81746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81745","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81747,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81745\/revisions\/81747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}