{"id":82101,"date":"2026-01-25T04:45:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T04:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82101"},"modified":"2026-01-25T04:45:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T04:45:35","slug":"tuc-nlc-issue-14-day-ultimatum-over-delayed-conhess-adjustment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/25\/tuc-nlc-issue-14-day-ultimatum-over-delayed-conhess-adjustment\/","title":{"rendered":"TUC, NLC Issue 14-Day Ultimatum Over Delayed CONHESS Adjustment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) have issued a 14-day ultimatum to the Federal Ministry of Health over the delayed implementation of the Consolidated Health Salary Structure (CONHESS) adjustment.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint statement signed in Abuja by TUC Secretary General, Nuhu Toro, and NLC Acting General Secretary, Benson Upah, the unions said the ultimatum followed the government\u2019s failure to implement the report of the Technical Committee on CONHESS adjustment submitted in 2021 to address salary distortions in the health sector.<\/p>\n<p>The unions said health workers had waited for over five years for the implementation, describing the delay as unjust and discriminatory, especially as adjustments to the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS) were implemented without delay.<\/p>\n<p>They warned that failure to comply within the 14-day period would result in nationwide industrial action, including mass protests, picketing of health institutions and withdrawal of services.<\/p>\n<p>The unions urged the government to act promptly to avert an avoidable industrial crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) have issued a 14-day ultimatum to the Federal Ministry of Health over the delayed implementation of the Consolidated Health Salary Structure (CONHESS) adjustment. In a joint statement signed in Abuja by TUC Secretary General, Nuhu Toro, and NLC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,184,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-health","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82101","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=82101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82103,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82101\/revisions\/82103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}