{"id":81881,"date":"2026-01-19T09:28:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T09:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81881"},"modified":"2026-01-19T09:28:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T09:28:20","slug":"fcta-fcda-workers-begin-strike-shut-down-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/19\/fcta-fcda-workers-begin-strike-shut-down-offices\/","title":{"rendered":"FCTA, FCDA Workers Begin Strike, Shut Down Offices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Merciful Omoba<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Workers of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) and the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) on Monday commenced an indefinite strike, shutting down government offices across Abuja.<br \/>\nA visit to the FCTA Secretariat early Monday showed a heavy security presence, with officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and the Nigeria Police Force barring workers from entering the premises.<br \/>\nThe industrial action is expected to affect all FCTA secretariats, departments, agencies, area councils and parastatals, effectively grounding official activities within the Federal Capital Territory.<br \/>\nA security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said workers were denied access to offices due to the strike.<br \/>\nThe action followed a decision by the Joint Union Action Congress (JUAC), which had earlier announced plans to shut down government offices after the expiration of a seven-day ultimatum issued to FCTA management.<br \/>\nJUAC said the ultimatum, which took effect from January 7, 2026, was ignored despite several meetings. The notice was contained in a statement dated January 8 and signed by the union\u2019s President, Comrade Rifkatu Iortyer, and Secretary, Comrade Abdullahi Saleh.<br \/>\nAccording to the unions, unresolved issues include outstanding promotion arrears, stalled promotions, alleged non-remittance of pension and National Housing Fund deductions, and the continued extension of service for retired directors and permanent secretaries.<br \/>\nJUAC also criticised the 2024 promotion examinations, describing the exercise as a failure that reportedly affected many candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Merciful Omoba Workers of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) and the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) on Monday commenced an indefinite strike, shutting down government offices across Abuja. A visit to the FCTA Secretariat early Monday showed a heavy security presence, with officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":81882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81881","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\/81881","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=81881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81883,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81881\/revisions\/81883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}