The Chairman of the Ekiti State Chapter of the NLC, Mr Kolapo Olatunde, announced on Monday that the Federal Government would commence payment of the long-awaited new wage from next month. Olatunde made the disclosure in an interview with the Labour Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ado-Ekiti on Monday. “I speak […]
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The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Wednesday appealed to the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to shelve its proposed industrial action over the delay in implementation of the N30,000 minimum wage. Mr Lawan made the appeal when the executives of the NLC and the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria, (PASAN) led by Ayuba Waba […]
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Governments of states Kano Zamfara, Kwara, Rivers, Kogi and Edo, have confirmed their readiness to pay the new N30,000 minimum wage. On his part, Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano State, confirmed to The Nation that, “we are ready to pay N30,000 monthly salary, because the welfare of our workers is paramount to anything and we […]
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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Monday in Abuja said 30 state governors have agreed to pay N30,000 as the new national minimum wage. The union urged the National Assembly to ignore the recommendation of N27,00 by the Federal Government. NLC made the plea at a National Assembly public hearing on the bill. The union […]
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The organised labour on Wednesday said it would demand for two years arrears payment of the proposed new national minimum wage for Nigerian workers from the federal and state governments. Ayuba Wabba, President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) said this when Rosa Pavanelli, General Secretary, Public Service International (PSI), visited him in his office […]
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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) says its members will not be intimidated by threat from the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) to sack workers if the new national minimum wage of N30,000 is implemented. Ayuba Wabba, NLC president, said this in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja. The governors had said paying N30,000 new minimum […]
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Kingsley Moghalu, presidential candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), says there will be “massive” inflation if a minimum wage of over N30,000 is approved. Organised labour is agitating for an increment of the present N18,000 minimum wage to N30,000, and a proposal to the effect has been submitted to President Muhammadu Buhari. Commenting on the development […]
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The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says President Muhammadu Buhari will soon review the report of the minimum wage tripartite committee that was submitted to him on Tuesday. Speaking with state house correspondents after the federal executive council (FEC) meeting on Wednesday, the minister said the president will make his decision known […]
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The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has called off the nationwide industrial action initially scheduled to commence on November 6 to further press for workers’ demand for new national minimum wage. The President of the NLC, Ayuba Wabba, said this on Monday night in Abuja while addressing journalists at the end of a meeting of the […]
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Speaking during a Channels TV programme on Thursday, Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, says N30,000 as minimum wage for civil servants is not feasible. The Nigerian Labour Congress has been at loggerheads with the federal government over a demand for an increase in the minimum wage. Labour has rejected the proposal of the federal government to […]
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