Governors have agreed to increase the minimum wage but not up to the expectation of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), but NLC immediately rejected the governors’ offer, insisting on N30,000 According to Abdulaziz Yari, governor of Zamfara and chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), he and his colleagues have agreed to pay N22,500 to workers. […]
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Labour leaders in Ekiti State on Saturday decried the arrest of the state’s Commissioner for Finance and the Accountant-General by the agents of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), describing the allegation that the Bailout Fund given to the state last year was misappropriated as frivolous and unfounded. Briefing newsmen in Ado-Ekiti, the Chairman, Trade Union […]
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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to do an immediate and comprehensive audit of all monies so far spent in government effort at reviving the power sector in the country since 1999 which it said has failed to yield result, but rather produced several billionaires as a result of diversion of […]
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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has warned that it cannot guarantee industrial peace by May 1, if the Federal Government fails to address the National Minimum Wage issue. The NLC President, Mr Ayuba Wabba, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Monday. “Guaranteeing industrial peace and […]
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Chairman of the Anambra State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Jerry Nnubia, on Tuesday lamented the economic situation of the country saying bag of rice now cost more the N18,000 being paid to them as minimum wage. The labour leader wants to know why workers should be victims of an economic downturn when they […]
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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) says all state councils where salary liabilities of up to three months exist will apply no pay, no work’ rule. NLC President Ayuba Wabba made this known when he featured on the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) forum on Sunday in Abuja. He said that directives had issued to all […]
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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called for the abolition of security vote for the president and governors in the country. The president of NLC, Ayuba Wabba, said in Abuja that security vote had become an avenue for siphoning public funds. “The issue of security vote is another form of corruption; in fact, there was […]
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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) says it will declare a one-day national warning strike over the refusal of the Federal Government to reduce the electricity tariff. NLC President Ayuba Wabba said this while addressing newsmen during the Central Working Committee (CWC) meeting of the congress on Wednesday in Abuja. NAN recalls that on January 29, […]
Continue ReadingThe Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) says about 60,000 Nigerians in the engineering and construction sector are now out of jobs following the suspension of infrastructural development by President Muhammadu Buhari. A Channels TV report said the disclosure was made yesterday at a press briefing in Lagos by Mr Amechi Asugwuni, President of NLC’s affiliate union, […]
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