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October 9, 2026 No Responses

NLC Demands Urgent Petrol Price Reduction, Minimum Wage Review

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has given the Federal Government a two-week ultimatum to reduce petrol prices and commence renegotiation of the national minimum wage.The ultimatum is contained in a communiqué signed by NLC President, Mr Joe Ajaero, after a...

October 1, 2026 No Responses

Nigeria At 66: NLC Demands New Minimum Wage, Petrol Price Cut

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has demanded an immediate reduction in petrol price, nationwide wage award and urgent negotiation of a new national minimum wage.Mr Joe Ajaero, NLC President made the demands in a message issued to mark the Independence...

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 27, 2024 No Responses

Bayelsa Announces N80,000 Minimum Wage

Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has approved the sum of N80,000 as the new minimum wage for workers in the state’s civil service, effective November 1, 2024.Governor Diri also approved an increase in the monthly pension of retired...

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

Lagos To Pay N85,000 Minimum Wage, Explains Debt Profile

The Lagos state government is to pay N85,000 minimum wage to civil servants, higher than the Federal Government’s approved minimum wage of N70,000. Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Lagos state Governor stated this in an interview on Channels Television on Wednesday ...

July 19, 2024 No Responses

Minimum Wage: Why Labour Accepted ₦70,000, By NLC, TUC

The Organised Labour agreed to ₦70,000 as the new minimum wage for Nigerian workers because the wage reviews in the country will no longer be every five years but once in three years, the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress...

June 13, 2024 No Responses

NLC Insists On ₦250k Minimum Wage

Apparently reacting to the 2024 President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Democracy Day speech, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has insisted on N250,000 as minimum wage. The committee on the new minimum wage had submitted its report to the Federal Government, pegging....

June 4, 2024 No Responses

Minimum Wage: FG, Labour Reach Agreement

The Federal Government and representatives of organised labour have agreed on a new minimum wage that is above N60,000. The agreement was reached at the end of a meeting held on Monday between leaders of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Cong...

June 2, 2024 No Responses

FG T0 Labour: Return To Negotiating Table

The Federal Government has appealed to organised labour to shelve its planned strike and return to the negotiating table. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) had on Friday declared an indefinite strike beginning from Monday...

June 1, 2024 No Responses

Labour Declares Strike Over Minimum Wage, Electricity Tariff Hike

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) have declared a nationwide strike beginning from Monday, June 3rd, 2024 over the tripartite committee’s inability to agree on a new minimum wage and hike in electricity tariff. The Presid...