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The Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Kano State Chapter, has lifted its ban on covering Kano State Government activities, with immediate effect. In a statement, Chairman Alhaji Aminu Ahmed Garko explained that the 14-day-old boycott was initiated to protest the government’s handling of issues affecting…
The Nigeria Labour Congress has ruled out strike action scheduled for tomorrow, Tuesday, to demand a new national minimum wage. The NLC President, Joe Ajaero, made this known on Monday during the ongoing International Labour Conference taking place in Geneva, Switzerland. According to the Guardian, Ajaero said organised labour cannot…
There are indications that the organized Labour may end its strike over the new minimum wage as it reached an agreement with the Federal Government on Monday. After a six-hour meeting in Abuja, the Federal Government expressed the commitment of President Bola Tinubu to raising the N60,000 offered as the…
The Transmission Company of Nigeria has announced the complete shutdown of Nigeria’s power grid by labour unions as the strike by the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress begins. NLC and TUC commenced a nationwide industrial action on Monday in protest against the N60,000 minimum wage proposal of the…
In a bid to avert the planned nationwide strike, the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and the leadership of the Nigeria Governors Forum have invited the leadership of the Organized Labour for an emergency meeting Tonight, sources familiar with the matter told our correspondent on Sunday Afternoon. “A meeting has been…
The Federal Government has pleaded with Organised Labour to reconsider its decision to embark on an indefinite strike from Monday, June 3, 2024, in protest against the government’s refusal to raise the proposed minimum wage from N60,000. The interest of the masses should be the top priority of Organised Labour,…
Following the walkout by the Organised Labour comprising of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress during the last meeting with the Tripartite Committee on Minimum Wage after the proposed N48,000 as minimum wage by the Federal Government, our correspondent learned that the government has now upped it…
The Lagos State Water Corporation has announced compensation for scores of workers disengaged from the organisation. The corporation revealed this in a statement by its spokesperson, Kehinde Fashola on Friday. This comes after the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporation, Civil Service, Technical and Recreational Service Employees on Wednesday protested the…
While the conversations for a new minimum wage for workers in Nigeria rages on, the Nigeria Governors’ Forum says it is yet to conclude work on what the states can sustainably pay. A statement issued by the Chairman of the Forum, Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazag, noted that as members of the…
President Bola Tinubu has announced that the Federal Government will soon unveil a new “living wage” for Nigerian workers. Tinubu made the announcement in a commemorative message during the International Workers’ Day celebration at the Eagle Square on Wednesday. The president hailed Nigerian workers for their fidelity to the peace,…
