The Federal government on Wednesday said it only proposed to pay N24,000 as the new minim wage and not N30,000 as being reported in the media....
As the organised labour pushes forward its demand for a new national minimum wage, opinions are varied regarding the timeliness of the demand, which resulted in...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to intensify his government’s crackdown on corrupt money and recovery of other illicit wealth by...
There are strong indications that the Organised Labour may today (Sunday) suspend the ongoing nationwide strike over new national minimum wage. The strike had commenced last...
In an effort to end the ongoing strike action embarked upon by Labour unions in the country, the Federal Government has fixed October 4 to reconvene...
Governors of the 36 states of the Federation have said that they will not succumb to blackmail or be stampeded into reaching an agreement on the...
Nigerians have been advised to use the next few hours to stockpile food and other necessities if the Federal Government fails to meet the demands of...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) is not ruling out strike to reopen stalled negotiations on its demand for better wages, NLC president, Ayuba Wabba, told The...
As the 14-day ultimatum issued to the Federal Government by organised labour over a new national minimum wage ends Wednesday, Labour leaders have declared that only...
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerians Universities, SSANU, has accused the Federal Government of insincerity in its dealings with the negotiation team on the new national...
FOLLOWING apprehension that the Federal Government was not prepared to approve a new national minimum wage for workers, indications, Tuesday, emerged that organised labour had resolved...
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has accused Nigerian governors of frustrating the apporoval of a new minimum wage for Nigerian workers. According...
Employers have expressed their readiness to pay the minimum wage whenever it becomes law. The national umbrella body of the employers stated this on the sideline...
The consistent decline in Nigeria’s inflation rate since January 2017 is projected to take an opposite trend after 15 months of consecutive reduction if the proposed...
Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige has promised that the federal government would implement the new minimum wage by the third quarter of this...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has reviewed its minimum wage demand upwards to now stand at “above N56,000” in its latest presentation to the tripartite committee...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday inaugurated the committee on Tripartite National Minimum Wage at the Council Chambers, State House, Abuja. With the inauguration of the committee,...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has urged the Federal Government to urgently review the minimum wage in the country, vowing that it would never accept any...
It appears the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and its demands for N56, 000 minimum wage is about to yield results following a consensus between the organised...
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has called on Nigerian workers to take their destinies in their hands in the face of the current economic crisis in...
Workers in the country may soon have cause to smile as the 15-man committee put in place by the Federal Government on the implementation of the...
A faction of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has dissociated itself from the N56,000 minimum wage proposed by the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, and...
Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, has announced the review of the state’s minimum wage from N18, 000 to N25, 000. According to the Governor, who...
The end may not be insight in the crippling fuel scarcity that has plagued the nation for months now, as the National Union of Petroleum and Natural...
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, have jointly proposed and presented N56,000 as the new minimum wage to the...
While reading for my first degree in Political Science at the prestigious University of Ibadan we were told that Labour Unions were not veritable partners in...
As the debate over the ability or otherwise of state governments to continue to pay the N18,000 minimum wage continue, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has...
The governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, Friday, dissociated himself from calls by some state governors that the salaries of civil servants be reduced or that there...
In from Ali Smart The nation has been spared labour unrest for some time now. But that may soon change as may soon change if governors...