The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has demanded the immediate and unconditional release of its President, Mr Joe Ajaero. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ajaero was allegedly arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS), on Monday at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport on his way to the...
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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called for the immediate reversal of the new price increase in pump price of petrol across the country. The Congress made the demand in a statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja by its President, Mr Joe Ajaero and made available to newsmen. The...
The Nigeria Police Force has again invited the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero. Also invited along with Ajaero is the Secretary General of the union, Emmanuel Ugboaja. The invitation letter is dated August 28, 2024, a day before Ajaero honoured the earlier invitation at the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja- The President of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, has returned to the Labour House after honouring the invitation of the police at the Force Headquarters in Abuja on Thursday morning. It was gathered that Mr. Ajaero was accompanied by human rights lawyer Femi...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) says its President, Mr Joe Ajaero will honour the invitation by the Nigeria Police Force for investigation over alleged terrorism, subversion. NLC Deputy President, Mr Kabiru Sani, said the Congress arrived at the decision at its emergency National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held on...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja- The President, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, has been invited by the police for interrogation on charges related to alleged “criminal conspiracy, terrorism financing, treasonable felony, subversion and cyber crime” NLC Head of Information and Public Affairs, Mr Benson Upah, disclosed this in a...
President Bola Tinubu has said Nigerian workers, as the driving force of the nation, deserve improved welfare, better wages, as well as safe and enhanced working conditions The President stated this on Thursday in Abuja, while speaking with the leadership of the organised labour led by the Presidents...
President Bola Tinubu on Thursday held consultations with the organised labour in furtherance of his engagements with critical stakeholders toward arriving at a new national minimum wage. Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the meeting...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has condemned another hike in electricity tariff instead of a reversal as promised by the Federal Government. NLC President, Mr Joe Ajaero, said this on Thursday in Abuja in a statement titled, “Stop killing the people and the economy,”. According to Ajaero, the...
The tripartite committee meeting for a new national minimum wage is underway. The meeting, which is the fifth since the suspension of the industrial action by organised labour, is holding behind closed doors at the Nicon Luxury Hotel in Abuja. Some prominent members of the committee...
The Organised Labour has relaxed the indefinite nationwide strike declared on Monday, for one-week, to allow continuation of negotiations The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) made this known in a communique issued at the end of a joint National Executive Council meeting on...
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, 2024. “For now, we don’t have the power...
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 President of the TUC Festus Osifo announced the strike...
The Labour Party (LP) has appealed to President Bola Tinubu not to renege on his promise to give Nigerian workers a living wage. Deputy National Chairman of the party, Dr Ayo Olorunfemi, made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in...
The Organised Labour comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) has again rejected the Federal Government’s new offer of ₦57,000 minimum wage. The Organised Labour rejected the government’s fresh offer, the third proposal in about a week when negotiation talks resumed on Wednesday....
The Federal Government has proposed to pay N54,000 as minimum wage, as the Tripartite Committee on the New Minimum Wage returned to the negotiation table after the Organised Labour pulled out of the negotiations last week. At the reconvened meeting this week, the Federal Government made a...
The Organised Labour has reiterated its May 31 ultimatum for the Federal Government to finalise the new national minimum wage fixing process for workers. The position was contained in a communique issued at the end of a joint emergency National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the Nigeria Labour...
The Nigeria Labour Congress, the umbrella labour union in Nigeria, has lost its way and its soul. There’s an Igbo proverb that goes something like this: if you pin the strong man to the ground without getting his machete, can you get it back when he’s upstanding? Yet...
The Organised Labour has frowned at the Federal Government’s plan to utilise the N19.66 trillion pension funds for infrastructure development. This is contained in a joint letter signed by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), which was addressed to the Minister of Finance...
Organised Labour has pulled out from the ongoing Tripartite Committee on the new national minimum wage negotiations meeting for workers. The Nigeria Labour Congress(NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) at a joint news conference stated this on Wednesday in Abuja. The Organised labour had said that the...