Borno South senator Ali Ndume has criticised the new N70,000 minimum wage approved by President Bola Tinubu for Nigerian workers. Mr Ndume, a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the president, said the approved minimum wage cannot sustain a household because it can only buy 50kg of rice. The senator stated this in … Read more
The police in Rivers State on Monday allowed former chairpersons of Rivers local councils to hold protest marches in some parts of Rivers, the same day the police had advised the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) in the state to suspend its planned protest. Most of the former chairpersons of the local councils … Read more
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Rivers State have asked the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, to order police operatives to vacate local government council secretariats in the state immediately. The unions stated this in Port Harcourt on Friday after an emergency joint state administrative council meeting, Punch … Read more
The indefinite strike by labour unions may soon end after the unions late Monday reached an agreement with the federal government on a new national minimum wage. The agreement was reached at a meeting convened by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), George Akume, in Abuja. The meeting was also attended by … Read more
The federal government has called on the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) to return to the negotiation table following the commencement of an indefinite strike by the unions. Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, made the call in a statement on Monday. The NLC and TUC began an … Read more
Representatives of the federal government and the leadership of the National Assembly are currently in a meeting with the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress( NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Abuja. PREMIUM TIMES gathered that the meeting, which began at about 5.30 p.m. at the National Assembly complex, was at the … Read more
The meeting between representatives of the federal government, leadership of the National Assembly and officials of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) over the proposed national minimum wage ended in deadlock on Sunday. The meeting which began around 5:50 p.m. and ended at 8:45 p.m. was held behind closed-door at … Read more
There are indications that Nigerians may be in for hard times beginning from Monday, 3 June, as a result of the indefinite strike action declared by Organised Labour. Specifically, there may be nationwide power outages, fuel scarcity, and transportation disruptions, just as the nation’s seaports, schools, and hospitals, among other important government agencies and parastatals, … Read more
The Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress have given the federal government two weeks to commence the implementation of policies that will reduce the impact of the government’s economic policies on citizens. Nigerians have continued to lament the impact of government policies such as the removal of the petrol subsidy and the devaluation … Read more
