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The Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) directed its members to work only two days a week from 19th July. COEASU is demanding a 200 percent increase in the salary of its members.
FCT, primary school teachers, members of the Nigerian Union of Teachers, struck for two weeks from 15 January 26th January. This was over the non-implementation of the 40 per cent Peculiar Allowance and payment of 25 months minimum wage arrears, among other issues. No progress had been made since strike suspended in early October.
Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) members in the Primary Healthcare Centres of the FCT started a strike on January 11, 2024, over non- payment of their arrears and other allowances. The strike was suspended on 30th January.
Doctors down tools on 15th January at Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital after an attack on the accident and emergency department
The drivers of the BRT buses in Lagos went on strike on 13th January over the non-payment of their December salary (due to have been paid on or before 25th December.
Workers in Ondo State tertiary institutions started strike action on 23rd January over the non-payment of the palliative waged award of N35,000 that was paid to other State workers from November.Nassarawa resident doctors at the Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital, declared a 72 hour strike from 30th January over the assault of one of their members by a relative of a patient. Other hospital staff joined protests over incessant aggression towards hospital staff.
Nigeria monthly strikes 
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