Ayuba Wabba, President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), says the union wrongly criticised the idea of the federal government advisory committee on minimum wage based...
NIGERIA Labour Congress (NLC) President Ayuba Wabba has explained why Labour is not involved in the Technical Committee on the Implementation of the national minimum wage...
The controversy surrounding the new minimum wage may soon be a thing of the past, as President Muhammadu Buhari is billed to transmit a bill to...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said it is not embarking on strike from Tuesday, the 8th of January over the lingering agitation for a new...
Ahead of its scheduled Monday meeting with the federal government, the Nigeria Labour Congress said the demand for N30,000 national minimum wage for workers was not...
Nigerian workers have been asked to be ready for a prolonged strike action in the new year by organized labour over the failure of government to...
The hope of Nigerian workers to have a new minimum wage of N30,000 may be hanging in the balance as the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, has...
The General Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Peter Ozo-Eson, said governors who claimed to lack the financial capacity to pay the N30,000 minimum wage should...
The Nigeria Labour Congress on Monday said Nigerians should not blame the union for the looming industrial chaos in January owing to what it perceived as...
The Federal Government may have been tacitly telling its workers that they are “on their own” as it delays in renewing the Group Life Insurance Policy...
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has fixed January 8 as a national day of protest to show anger over the delay in implementing the new minimum...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s suggestion during the 2019 budget presentation that there would be a review of the N30,000...
The Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) yesterday said Zamfara State Governor Abdulaziz Yari was fighting against the actualisation of a new national minimum wage...
The Nigeria Labour Congress on Sunday described the Federal Government’s silence on the N30,000 minimum wage proposal as provocative, stressing that it expected President Muhammadu Buhari...
The organised labour on Thursday responded strongly to a threat by governors to sack workers in the employ of state governments if they are to implement...
In an apparent move to meet up with the deadline given by organised labour over the new minimum wage, governors have schedule an emergency meeting to...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday said the organised labour expects President Muhammadu Buhari to submit the new national minimum wage bill to the National Assembly...
The National Industrial Court of Nigeria, in Abuja, on Thursday ordered both the Federal Government and the organised labour to submit a report of their negotiations...
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari cannot be trusted to implement the minimum wage of...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says President Muhammadu Buhari will soon review the report of the minimum wage tripartite committee that was submitted...
A new national minimum wage law is possible within two weeks if the presidency submits the bill this week to the National Assembly for passage, the...
The New Initiative for Credible Leadership (NICL) has endorsed the reelection of President Muhammadu Buhari for approving the new minimum wage of N30,000. The group also...
The meeting the federal government called to discuss new minimum wage with organised labour was deadlocked on Monday. Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, Chris Ngige, minister of labour,...
Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, has argued that N30,000 minimum wage for civil servants, as advocated for by the organised labour, is not practicable. Labour, insisting on...
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, has assured organised labour in the country that the Federal Government will not restrict their activities but...
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, has met with organised labour over the minimum wage imbroglio. The Guardian learnt yesterday in...
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the implementation of the no-work-no-pay principle when workers go on strike in the federal public service. Minister of Labour...
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....
Fresh face-off between terminal operators and clearing agents operating at the nation’s seaports looms over demand for four days waiver by the Association of Nigerian Licenced...
The strike action embarked upon by Labour unions in the country has been called off. The strike was embarked upon by the Labour unions on Thursday...
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...
BANK customers in Gombe State yesterday expressed anger over the strike and said the labour unions were not sensitive to the plights of the people. They...
The 7-day warning strike called by Labour unions in the country, Thursday recorded partial success in parts of the country. The partial success was however due...
Bleak days await Nigeria and its citizens beginning from Thursday September 27 as efforts by the Federal Government to stop the planned indefinite strike by Nigerian...
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...
The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has said that the Nigeria Employers Consultative Association (NECA) is not its representative at the tripartite committee set up by...
Following $10.13 billion allegations of illegal repatriation of funds and tax evasion against MTN Nigeria, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has urged the Economic and Financial...
The organized labour has given the Federal Government 14-day ultimatum to enable its members finalise work aimed at reaching a definite figure for a 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...
Ekiti State workers, Thursday, made good their threat to embark on strike, as some labour leaders chased away workers from their offices at the State Secretariat,...
The inability to pay June salaries of government workers is generating tension and agitation across the various states of the federation, the Nigeria Labour Congress has...
Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Benue State, Comrade Aayan Godwin, has dismissed reports that Governor Samuel Ortom asked workers to forfeit their one-year...
The Nigeria Labour Congress has said that it is unacceptable for the Federal Government not to make provision for petrol subsidy in the 2018 budget. It...
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has vowed to resist any move that will be aimed at renegotiating its proposed N66, 500 minimum wage for all workers in...
By Wole Soyinka… Mayday, uttered three times, is the distress call “used to signal a life-threatening emergency primarily by aviators and mariners”. Long before its adoption...
President of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Ayuba Wabba, has denied reports claiming that he and other leaders of the body have endorsed the “Grand National...
Very prominent Nigerians and groups, among whom are Wole Soyinka, Olisa Agbakoba, Abduljalil Tafawa Balewa and the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), have formed a Grand Political...