As the nationwide strike by organised labour over a new minimum wage for workers paralyse economic activities across the country, the Federal Government and labour leaders engage in a meeting in Abuja later on Monday. The ongoing meeting has the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero; and his counterpart in the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Comrade …

The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Hon. Nkeiruka Onyejeocha has appealed to organised labour to be considerate and patriotic in their demands in the ongoing negotiation for a new national minimum wage. In a statement on Wednesday in Abuja by the ministry’s Director of Press and Public Relations, Mr. Olajide Oshundun, the minister said that the Federal Government …

The organised labour comprising of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC), on Monday, ordered state chapters to issue two weeks ultimatum to states that have failed to implement the old N30,000 minimum wage. The NLC and TUC took this decision during a jointly held National Executive Council meeting which took place on Monday. In a joint …

The President of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero has criticised the Federal Government’s pay raise announcement, describing it as mischievous moves. On Tuesday, the Federal Government approved a pay rise of between 25 and 35 per cent for civil servants across various consolidated salary structures. In an interview on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme on Wednesday, Ajaero …

Following Wednesday’s invasion of its secretariats, the leadership of Labour Party (LP) has formally petitioned relevant government institutions requesting that an urgent intervention be taken to protect the party against further aggression from the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). In four separate letters written to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume; Attorney General of the Federation, …

The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero has said that, if the ongoing inflation continues unabated, organised labour might push for a new minimum wage of up to N1 million for Nigerian workers. Ajaero said the demand from organised labour would be influenced by the cost of living which has been increasing since President Bola Tinubu …

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has appealed to the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) to suspend their proposed strike in the interest of the nation. NANS National President, Mr Pedro Obi, made the appeal at a news conference in Abeokuta on Saturday. On Thursday, NLC and TUC had issued a 14-day nationwide strike …

Officials of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) disrupted the inaugural sitting of the Edo State Local Government Election Petitions Tribunal on Wednesday due to the ongoing national strike. Sitting had barely begun when officials of the NLC stormed the venue and ordered everybody out and shut the door to the building. The tribunal was constituted by the State Chief Judge, …

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) on Monday ordered their affiliates to withdraw their services nationwide from midnight of Tuesday. Addressing journalists in Abuja on Monday, TUC President, Comrade Festus Osifo said that the strike would remain until “government at all levels wake up to their responsibility”. The strike is also to protest …

The President of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero on Friday gave an account of how he was brutalised in Imo State, saying police operatives handed him over to some suspected thugs for beating. The NLC president narrated his traumatic experience at a world press conference in Abuja. The development is coming barely 24 hours before the governorship election …