The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) have suspended their planned nationwide protest scheduled to hold today. This was contained in a communique read by the Minister of Labour after a technical session that started late on Sunday and lasted till the early hours of Monday morning. The hike in electricity prices […]
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The meeting between the federal government of Nigeria, labour unions and civil society groups over the increase in petrol price and electricity tariff, has ended without a resolution. The Thursday meeting ended hours after a court granted an interim order barring the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) from embarking on […]
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The National Executive Council (NEC) of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) resolved to endorse the decision of the Central Working Committee (CWC) to embark on an indefinite strike and peaceful protest from Monday, 28 September 2020. That is if government fails to reverse the recent hike in the pump price of petrol and electricity tariff […]
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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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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) is set for a showdown with the Labour Ministry following its declaration of a one-day national protest in Abuja over an attack on its members on a peaceful protest. Ayuba Wabba, NLC president gave the signal at the end of an emergency meeting of the Central Working Committee (CWC) of […]
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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 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 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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