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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...

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 3, 2025 No Responses

NLC Threatens Nationwide Protests Over Electricity Tariff

NLC Threatens Nationwide Protests Over Electricity Tariff The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has rejected plans by the Federal Government to regularise electricity tariffs for customers for Bands A, B and C. In a communique released on Sunday after the National...

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 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...