Tag: Nigeria Labour Congress

Petrol nears ₦1,400/litre, as NLC, OPS demand urgent action

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Petrol price NLC

Petrol prices have surged to nearly ₦1,400 per litre across parts of Nigeria, prompting the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Organised Private Sector (OPS) to call for urgent government intervention amid fears of rising inflation, job losses, and business closures. The increase follows multiple price hikes by the ÆŠangote Petroleum Refinery, with ex-depot prices now around ₦1,275 per litre. Pump prices rose from about ₦1,240 to as high as ₦1,400, with higher costs reported in the North. Analysts link the surge to rising global oil prices driven by tensions…

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Pension Funds Crisis: NLC threatens nationwide strike 

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NLC threatens

…Issues 7-day notice to FG The Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC), has handed the Federal Government a seven-day ultimatum to refund allegedly diverted workers’ funds from the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) and immediately constitute the Governing Board of the National Pension Commission, (PENCOM). In a communiqué issued after its Central Working Committee (CWC) meeting in Abuja on Wednesday, August 13, 2025, the NLC warned that failure to meet these demands would trigger a nationwide strike. The meeting, chaired by its President, Comrade Joe Ajaero, reviewed pressing issues affecting Nigerian…

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‘Fuel Price may skyrocket to N5,000/litre’ – NLC

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Fuel queues

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has expressed serious concerns over the continuous rise in fuel prices, warning that Nigerians could soon be paying as much as N5,000 per litre if current trends persist. Speaking in a published interview yesterday, spokesperson for the NLC, Benson Upah, said the latest fuel price hike directly contradicts an agreement reached between the union and the Federal Government. Upah revealed that the NLC is planning to hold a meeting with its key organs to determine the union’s next course of action. He indicated that the…

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NLC directs workers to shut the economy if its president, Ajaero is detained by Police

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NLC threatens

The leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has issued a stern warning of a potential nationwide strike if the Nigeria Police proceeds with detaining its president, Comrade Joe Ajaero. The NLC, rising from its emergency meeting at its headquarters yesterday, directed all workers in the country to immediately shutdown the economy if the police arrest Ajaero. The meeting was convened to address the recent police summons for Comrade Ajaero in connection with allegations of terrorism financing. During the meeting, the NEC agreed that Ajaero should comply with the police…

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#EndBadGovernance: “Stop this massacre of citizens” – NLC warns Tinubu Govt.

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The Nigerian Labour Congress, (NLC), has demanded an end to the massacre of unharmed protesters across the country by the President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government agents. The NLC made the demand yesterday in a statement by its National President, Joe Ajaero, questioning the professionalism of Nigeria’s security personnel in managing protests by aggrieved Nigerians. Ajaero said that if the Nigerian security agencies and their personnel had deployed the same brutal precision they are unleashing the #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protesters against bandits and other criminals in Nigeria, the country would have been an…

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“We are not behind planned protest” – NLC

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NLC denies protest

The Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC), says it is not behind any planned nationwide protest over the current economic hardship in the country. This is against the backdrop of reports that some youths are planning a nationwide protest between August 1 and 15 against the rising cost of living and economic hardship in the country. President of the NLC, Joe Ajaero, in a statement personally signed by him yesterday, denied reports that it had withdrawn from the protest. According to him, the union “cannot withdraw from a protest that it did…

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New Minimum Wage: NLC threatens one-month nationwide shutdown

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NLC on minimum wage

President of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero, has warned against the National Assembly members’ recent decision to remove wage from the Exclusive to Concurrent list in the Constitution. Ajaero gave the warning while addressing participants at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Annual Rain School’ of the NLC, which was held on Monday in Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State capital. He also warned that if National Assembly members came up with such a law to allow each State governor to determine the minimum wage, he would mobilise Organised Labour to…

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NLC suspends nationwide protest, gives reason

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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has suspended its two-day nationwide protests against the economic hardship under President Tinubu’s administration. In a communique at the end of its National Executive Council meeting yesterday night, the NLC  said the objectives of the protest were achieved on the first day of the demonstration. The union, however, issued a fresh 14-day ultimatum, which will elapse on March 13 for the full implementation of all the October 2, 2023 agreement and other demands presented in its letter during yesterday’s nationwide protest. The communique, signed by…

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Subsidy Removal: NLC to commence total shutdown October 3 – Ajaero

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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have resolved to ground activities nationwide from October 3rd. Its President, Joe Ajaero, informed the NEC members at a virtual National Executive Council meeting, via Zoom, yesterday. According to him, the move was as a result of what as a result of what the labour unions labelled as the Government’s “failure” to put policies in place to ease Nigerians’ suffering after the removal of the subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit, otherwise known as petrol. “We agreed that by October…

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“Ajaero turned NLC into tribal group to support Peter Obi” – Omokri

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Socio-political activist, Reno Omokri, has accused the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), President, Joe Ajaero of turning the body into a tribal union. Omokri claimed that Ajaero turned the NLC into a union that supported the presidential ambition of the 2023 Labour Party, LP, candidate, Peter Obi. According to him, Ajaero would undermine any administration not presided over by Obi. Tweeting, Omokri wrote: “Does it not constitute a conflict of interests to have as President of the Nigerian Labour Congress, a man like Joe Ajaero, who campaigned for and endorsed Peter Obi…

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