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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...

October 10, 2024 No Responses

NLC Faults Fuel Price Hike

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Wednesday rejected the new increase in petrol pump price, saying it will further deepen poverty in the country. “It will further deepen poverty as production capacities dip, more jobs lost with multidimensional negative e...

October 1, 2024 No Responses

Nigeria @64: Don’t Lose Hope, NLC Urges Nigerians

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has congratulated Nigerians on the occasion of the country’s 64th independence anniversary. In a message to Nigerians on Monday, the NLC President Joe Ajaero urged the downtrodden Nigerians who bear the marks or burden broke...

September 14, 2024 No Responses

Edo 2024: NLC, TUC Endorse PDP Guber Candidate, Ighodalo

Members and leaders of the Edo State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), on Friday, threw their weight behind the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Asue Ighodalo, promising to come...

September 10, 2024 No Responses

NLC President, Joe Ajaero Regains Freedom

The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero has regained his freedom A source disclosed that the NLC leader regained his freedom around past 11 pm on Monday. The labour leader was on his way to the United...

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....

September 4, 2024 No Responses

NLC Faults Petrol Price Hike

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Tuesday demanded an immediate reversal of the hike in fuel price announced by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL). The NNPCL increased the pump price of petrol from ₦568 to ₦855, ₦897 (depend...

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 3, 2024 No Responses

Labour Insists On Nationwide Strike

After a four-hour meeting with the leadership of the National Assembly on Sunday evening in Abuja, the leadership of the Organised Labour says there is no going back on the nationwide industrial action slated to start on Monday, June 3,...

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...

May 9, 2024 No Responses

TUC Threatens Nationwide Shutdown

The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has threatened shut down the Nigerian economy should the Federal Government fail to cancel the controversial cybersecurity levy recently introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria. The TUC in a statement signed by its President,.....