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President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday urged the various labour unions in the country to reduce their agitations to enable his administration to concentrate on repairing damaged infrastructure. Buhari specifically mentioned the Academic Staff Union of Universities and urged the striking...

Governors have said they cannot afford the N30,000 minimum wage demanded by organised labour in the country. They said this in reaction to the allegation of Peter Ozo-Eson, general secretary of NLC, that governors who are against N30,000 minimum wage took such stance because they diverted the...

The Nigeria Labour Congress has declared January 8, 2019, a national day of protest over the delay in processing a new minimum wage for the country. Labour leaders reached the decision at the NLC National Executive Council meeting, according to a statement by the union’s President, Ayuba...

The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba, has reacted to a proposal by President Muhammadu Buhari to set up a technical committee to review the agreed N30,000 minimum wage, saying organised labour will not be a party to such an exercise. Buhari had revealed the plan …...

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has told the Governors’ Forum to cut down their expenditure and allowances to pay the proposed new national minimum wage of N30,000 to workers. Kano NLC chairman, Comrade Kabiru Ado Minjibir, during the inauguration of new labour leaders in councils across the...

There are strong indications that the scheduled nationwide strike may be suspended, owing to emerging developments from the ongoing Tripartite Committee meeting on the new minimum wage. Feelers from the meeting show that Federal and subnational government may concede to Organised labour’s...

The stage seems to be set for a major confrontation between workers and government over new national minimum wage. While organised labour is insisting on N30,000 as new minimum wage, state governors have offered N22,500 as what the states would … Read more via Thisdaylive –...

The dispute over workers’ quest for an upward review of minimum wage in the country became protracted yesterday as the nation’s 36 governors emerged from their meeting in Abuja and said they had agreed … Read more via Thisdaylive – https://ift.tt/2Pyor9z Get More Nigeria Metro News

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has urged Nigerians to commence stocking food and other necessities of life as workers will ensure a total shutdown of the country, beginning from November 6, should the government fail to pass the N30,000 new minimum wage. In a resolution reached at the …...

There is a strong indication that the organised labour in Ondo State may commence another round of industrial action as its meeting with Governor Rotimi Akeredolu was deadlocked on Friday. Akeredolu was alleged to have angrily walked out of the meeting , which was … Read more via...

The Anambra State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Monday alleged that the workers’ contributory pension funds deducted from their salaries since 2014 is no where to be found. The NLC Chairman in the state, Mr Jerry Nnubia, stated … Read more via Naijaloaded | Nigeria’s Most...

It is no longer news that the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) invaded the premises of telecoms company, MTN, across Nigeria from Monday July 9, 2018, ostensibly to picket the company but ended up carrying out acts of violence against the staff of the company and vandalizing equipment. The...

The violence that characterized the three-day picketing of MTN Nigeria by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has attracted condemnation from several quarters, especially from industry watchers, Nigerian workers, and affected MTN staff. It has emerged that the destruction of MTN assets...

Today’s violence and the needless destruction of property is deeply saddening. As always our primary concern is the safety and well-being of our employees, some of whom were attacked by supposed NLC operatives and have sustained injuries. We do not prevent our employees from associating...

There is uproar in the land over the National Assembly’s massive alteration of the budget. In fact, a non-governmental organisation described the action as “criminal”. The lawmakers cut 4,700 projects amounting to N347billion from what President Muhammadu Buhari presented and introduced 6,403...