strike
The union embarked on industrial action after the government failed to acknowledge their grievances.
The patients showed up at the hospital for their scheduled treatment, not knowing that the doctors were on strike.
The entrance was barricaded by police operatives to keep the staff of the National Assembly away from the premises.
TUC said in a statement through its Secretary-General, Musa-Lawal Ozigi, that it had resolved to go ahead with the strike.
Resident doctors at the Lagos State Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) are set to go on strike on Wednesday, September 5.
The indefinite strike action embarked upon by JAC has been called off with immediate effect.
The students used the situation to protest over the non-payment of salaries to Benue civil servants.
No one was allowed into the premises as the angry workers turned back patients and staff on morning and afternoon shift duties.
LAUTECH VC Prof. Suleiman Gbadegeshin said on Monday that Osun and Oyo State governments had paid a sum of N500 million to settle the salary arrears owed workers.
The governor promised LAUTECH would reopen before January ends.
The Federal Government has said on Wednesday it was only able to fulfill seven out of the eight demands of ASUU, as it could not meet the union’s demand for allowances worth 284bn because of the present economic state of the country.
Nasarawa State governor Tanko Almakura suggested the workers should be grateful they are not being owed.
It took four days of meeting before the agreement was reached.
“Failure to address these within the given next seven days will be met with our revolutionary reaction across the length and breadth of the state.”