The Federal Government has revealed plans to make additional provisions for fuel subsidy in the 2022 budget, Mrs Zainab Ahmed has said. Ahmed, who is the Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning, disclosed this on Monday at a meeting with the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, at...
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The Trade Union Congress on Saturday gave conditions for the removal of fuel subsidies. The Federal Government has hinted that it may end the subsidy programme in June but the move has been opposed in several quarters. At the end of its National Executive Council, the TUC in a...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has appealed to the federal government to reconsider the plan to remove oil subsidies for the interest of the workers. Mr Ikechukwu Nwafor, NLC chairman in Ebonyi, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abakaliki....
The Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) is to engage organised labour unions on the removal of fuel subsidy in the country. The NGF Chairman and Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi disclosed this while briefing newsmen at the end of the forum’s meeting which ended in the early hours...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Sokoto State Chapter, has resolved to join the planned Jan. 27 nationwide protest against fuel price hike The national headquarters of the NLC had directed state chapters to sensitise and mobilise members on proposed protest to oppose a planned increase in the price of...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC has called on The Federal Government to do away with any plan to increase the price of petrol in the country. In his New Year message, The President of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Ayuba Wabba, said workers and masses...
The National Executive Council (NEC) of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has resolved to hold a national protest on Feb. 1, 2022 against plans by the Federal Government to remove fuel subsidy. The decision is contained in a communique issued on Friday in Abuja and signed by NLC President,...
A labour leader, Mr Issa Aremu, has described the travel ban by the United Kingdom and other Western countries on Nigeria and some Southern African countries, as Afro-phobia. Aremu, the Director General, Michael Imoudu National Institute of Labour Studies (MINILS), made the assertion in an interview with newsmen on...
It is a common knowledge that the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) recently rejected the Federal Government proposed N5, 000 for 40 million poor Nigerians when the subsidy on Petroleum Motor Spirit (PMS) is removed. While describing it as ‘nonsensical’ the argument that the complete surrender of the price of...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the 2021 Electoral Act Amendment Bill into law. The NLC President, Mr Ayuba Wabba, said this in a statement titled: ”Time to Strengthen Democracy in Nigeria” on Monday in Abuja. Wabba recalled that on Nov. 9, the...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has rejected a planned petrol price hike in the country and the Federal Government’s proposal to pay the sum of N5000 monthly to Nigerians as palliative. NLC President, Ayuba Wabba in a statement on Wednesday described the plan of the Federal Government as a...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Adamawa, on Thursday, accused the Petroleum marketers for hoarding of petroleum products resulting to artificial scarcity of the products in Yola. Mr Emanue Fwashe, NLC’s Chairman, told journalists after a joint monitoring exercise of fuel dispensing stations in Yola, that the marketers were...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Nigeria Labour congress (NLC) in Cross River State on Thursday suspended the one month industrial action in the state. The suspension of the strike follows the quick intervention of The Traditional Ruler Council in Cross River State, which was headed by Etinyin Etim Okon...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has congratulated the governor-elect in Anambra, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, on his victory during the Nov. 6 and Nov. 9 governorship elections in the State. The NLC President, Mr Ayuba Wabba, in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, described Prof. Soludo’s victory at the poll...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Organized labour in Cross River State on Thursday said there is no going back on the ongoing industrial action in the state unless Governor Ben Ayade meets their demands.. According to the organized Labour, the state’s government has agreed on eight items out of seventeen...