The current strike has been halted by the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN), which has directed its members to return to work today Wednesday, June 4, 2025.
The decision to end the strike was made following lengthy discussions on the issues that sparked it and a series of meetings with the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, and other pertinent stakeholders, according to a statement released and signed by the association’s national vice president and ten other association leadership members on Tuesday.
The stakeholders decided that JUSUN should ask the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the CJN, Muhammad Dingyadi, the Minister of Labor and Employment, and other stakeholders to step in.
The agreement said that the union would be able to work with the federal government to guarantee the transfer of cash to the judiciary within a month if the strike was suspended.
Additionally, the communique revealed that “the JUSUN’s demands, which include a N70,000 new minimum pay and its arrears, a 25–35% salary raise, and a five-month wage award and its arrears, will be executed immediately upon the transfer of the monies to the Judiciary.”
The National Assistant Financial Secretary and the Chairman of the JUSUN chapters of the Federal Judicial Service Commission, FJSC, Court of Appeal, Federal High Court, National Industrial Court, National Judicial Institute, FCT High Court, FCT Sharia and Customary Court, and the FCT Judicial Service Commission sign the communique in addition to the JUSUN National Vice President.
