Labour – City Business News

October 5, 2025 No Responses

Dangote Refinery Lauds Tinubu, Security Chiefs, Ministers For Averting PENGASSAN Disruption

Dangote Petroleum Refinery has expressed appreciation to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for his timely intervention in averting what it described as “the disruptive actions of PENGASSAN” against the company.The company in a statement on Sunday said the President’s leadership, through...

October 1, 2025 No Responses

Dangote, PENGASSAN Reach Truce

THE Federal Government on Tuesday brokered a truce between the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and the management of Dangote Petroleum Refinery.This is contained in a communiqué issued and signed by the Minister of La...

September 6, 2025 No Responses

CNG Trucks: NUPENG Threatens Strike Over Dangote’s Alleged Anti-Union Practices

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has threatened to embark on strike beginning from Monday.The union in a statement jointly signed by its President, Comrade Williams Akporeha and General Secretary, Comrade Afolabi Olawale, the uni...

April 3, 2025 No Responses

SCAN Congratulates Bunu, New MWUN President General

The Shipping Correspondents Association of Nigeria ( SCAN) has congratulated Comrade Francis Bunu on his election as the President General, Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN).Bunu was unanimously elected unopposed alongside new national executives during...

March 26, 2025 No Responses

Labour Threatens Action Over Emergency Rule In Rivers

Organised Labour has threatened action to compel the Federal Government to reverse proclamation of emergency rule in Rivers State. The threat was contained in a statement jointly signed by the Rivers State Chairperson of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Alex...

March 20, 2025 No Responses

Labour Faults Emergency Rule In Rivers

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) have condemned declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State by President Bola Tinubu. The labour unions called for the immediate reversal of the declaration, saying...

February 24, 2025 No Responses

SCAN Congratulates New MWUN Secretary

The Shipping Correspondents Association of Nigeria (SCAN) has congratulated the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) on the emergence of Comrade Oniha Erazua, as its Secretary-General.The maritime journalists, in a statement signed by it’s President,...

February 13, 2025 No Responses

Tariff Hike: NLC Threatens Nationwide Shutdown

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has condemned the implementation of a 50% tariff hike by telecommunication companies, demanding immediate reversal to the old tariff. The NLC and the Federal Government had earlier constituted a 10-man committee to deliberate ...

January 2, 2025 No Responses

NLC Tells FG: Withdraw Tax Bills From National Assembly

The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has urged the Federal Government to withdraw the controversial tax bills from the National Assembly. In his New Year message to Nigerians, especially workers, the President of NLC, Joe Ajaero said the need to withdraw...

November 11, 2024 No Responses

Minimum Wage: NLC Declares Strike

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has directed its members in states that are yet to commence the implementation of the new minimum wage to commence an indefinite strike, beginning from December 1, 2024. The directive is part of the resolutions...

October 23, 2024 No Responses

Akwa Ibom Announces N80,000 Minimum Wage

Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State, on Wednesday, announced a new minimum wage of N80,000 for state government workers.The Commissioner for Information in the state, Ini Ememobong, disclosed this in a statement issued on Wednesday.Mr Ememobong explained that ...

October 17, 2024 No Responses

FG Meets Labour Leaders Over Petrol Price Hike

The Federal Government on Wednesday met with the leadership of the Organised Labour at the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume, Abuja. Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, led the Federal Gover...

September 30, 2024 No Responses

FG Hands Over 64 CNG Buses To Labour, NANS

The Federal Government has handed over 64 100-capacity Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses to the Organised Labour and the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS). The Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, led the gov...

September 9, 2024 No Responses

NLC Reacts To AJaero’s Arrest

THE Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has confirmed that the Nigerian government has detained Joe Ajaero, its president.Benson Upah, head of Information and Public Affairs, NLC, in a statement on Monday, September 9, explained that Ajaero was picked up by agents....