Joint Health Sector Unions in Yariman Bakura Specialist Hospital, Gusau, Zamfara State have staged a peaceful protest over non payment of salaries and deduction.
The health union says some of it’s members have not been receiving salaries for the past three months while others receive half.
This is coming amidst issues around the implementation the thirty thousand naira minimum wage the Zamfara state government promised to Implement beginning from November last year
The State Government had in October last year assured workers of full Implementation of the Thirty Thousand Naira.
At a peaceful protest to express their displeasure, the health workers issued an ultimatum to the state government to settle the issue or shutdown the Hospital.
The union appealed to authorities concern to act fast on their demands within the 24 hours ultimatum earlier issued or the union will shutdown the Hospital after seven days.
COURT DISMISSES PDP’S SUIT SEEKING DISQUALIFICATION OF TINUBU, SHETTIMA
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has dismissed a suit by the Peoples Democratic Party, seeking the disqualification of Bola Tinubu and his vice, Kassim Shettima, from the 2023 general elections.
Delivering judgment, Justice Ekwo, dismissed the suit on the ground that the PDP lacked locus standi to institute the suit.
Justice Inyang Ekwo held that the case was caught by the principle of issue estoppel, and described the suit as an abuse of the court process.
In its Originating Summons, the PDP challenged the validity of Bola Tinubu to contest for the 2023 presidential election as APC candidate on the ground that Mr Shettima’s nomination as his running mate was in breach of the provisions of the Electoral Act, 2022.
The PDP argued that Mr Shettima’s nomination to contest the position of vice president and Borno Central Senatorial seat contravened the law.
The PDP, which sought an order disqualifying the APC, Tinubu and Shettima from contesting the presidential election scheduled for Feb. 25, also sought an order nullifying their candidacy.
It further sought an order compelling INEC to remove their names from its list of nominated or sponsored candidates eligible to contest the poll.
But the defendants, in their preliminary objection, urged the court to dismiss the suit for want of jurisdiction.
They argued that the PDP lacked the locus standi (legal right) to file the case, which invariably was challenging the political party’s decision and its nomination of candidates for the polls.
They further submitted that such an act was an internal affair of APC which they argued was non-justiciable.
Justice Ekwo agreed with the defendants that the PDP had no locus standi to file the matter.
According to him, where there is no locus, the court has no jurisdiction.
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