Tag: Dr. Chris Ngige

FG opts for dialogue over S/East insecurity crisis

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The Federal Government has resolved to adopt the dialogue option in settling the escalating insecurity in the South-East region. This resolution was disclosed to State House Correspondents at the weekend by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari and his Chief of Staff, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Ngige also said that he and Prof. Gambari further briefed the President on developments in the labour sector, especially the face-off between the Kaduna State government and the Nigerian Labour…

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Kaduna-NLC face-off: FGN insists el-Rufa’i must dialogue with Organised Labour

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Sets up c’ttee to resolve dispute The Federal Government has said that Kaduna and any other state must dialogue with the Organised Labour as enshrined in the International Labour Organisation, (ILO) conventions, to which Nigeria is a signatory. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, stated this while presiding over the meeting between Kaduna State Government and the Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC), in Abuja yesterday. He said though the Organised Labour has a right to go on strike according to the provisions of the law, it should not obstruct…

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NLC suspends warning strike in Kaduna, as FG intervenes

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…’JUSUN, Parliamentary workers’ll soon call-off theirs”, Ngige assures The Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC), has suspended its warning strike in Kaduna following the Federal Governments intervention. The NLC National President, Ayuba Wabba, announced the suspension of the mass action, which brought Kaduna State to a standstill for three days, yesterday. According to him, the labour union decided to suspend the strike to honour the invitation of the Federal Government. The Federal Government had pledged to mediate in the raging dispute between labour and the Kaduna State government over the mass sack…

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Buhari acts within statutory power to re-appoint AGF Ngige

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President Muhammadu Buhari has not contravened any law by reappointing Ahmed Idris, as the Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has said. Ngige said this on Friday while addressing journalists after a meeting with Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Buhari had re-appointed Idris in June 2019 for a second four-year term after reaching the statutory retirement age of 60, a development labour unions have been raising over its legality. But the minister said on Friday that the president only exercised his constitutional powers.…

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