Tag: NLC

Nasarawa Gov. approves implementation of outstanding promotion for civil servants

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir
Nasarawa State Map

Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has approved the immediate implementation of all outstanding promotions for civil servants in the state. The governor announced the approval at a meeting with the organised labour and its affiliates on Monday in Lafia. The governor’s decision followed the request by the leadership of the union that outstanding promotions from 2018 to date be implemented before payment of the new minimum wage of N70,000. Speaking at the meeting, Sule said that he called for the engagement because the government had concluded plans to begin implementation…

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“Raid of NLC Headquarters sinister, calculated” – Amnesty Int’l

Aminu Imam
Amnesty Int'l on raid

Amnesty International, through its Country Director, Isa Sanusi, has described the recent invasion of the headquarters of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Abuja by security personnel on Wednesday as sinister and calculated. Recall that armed security men had stormed the NLC headquarters as ransacked the the NLC bookshop and seized materials they claimed were used to incite people to protest. But Sanusi, in a statement, said “Amnesty International strongly condemns the brazen invasion of the headquarters of NLC by a contingent of armed security personnel. The chilling raid last…

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

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NLC warns2

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

Aminu Imam
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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“Why we accepted N70,000 as minimum wage” – Organised Labour

Aminu Imam
Organised Labour on minimum wage

Leaders of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) announced that they have accepted the N70,000 minimum wage approved for Nigerian workers by President Bola Tinubu. President Tinubu, who announced the approval of  N70,000 minimum wage for Nigerian workers at the meeting held with leaders of TUC and NLC yesterday in Abuja, promised to review the law every three years and also find ways to assist the private sector and the sub-nationals to pay the minimum wage. The meeting held with the Labour leaders was the second…

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New Minimum Wage: NLC threatens one-month nationwide shutdown

Aminu Imam
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, TUC insist on N250,000 new minimum wage

Aminu Imam
NLC, TUC

…To meet Tinubu next week The meeting between President Bola Tinubu and the Organised Labour yesterday over the new minimum wage was adjourned to next week, after about one-hour discussions at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The leadership of the Organised Labour led by the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero, and the President of the Trade Union Congress, (TUC), Comrade Festus Osifo, arrived at the State House about 2 pm, and went straight to the President’s office. Recall that the Tripartite Committee on the New National…

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New Minimum Wage: Tinubu to meet with Organised labour today

Aminu Imam
Tinubu & Labour

President Bola Tinubu is scheduled to meet with the Organised Labour in Abuja today, Thursday, to further discussions on a new minimum wage for workers in Nigeria. According to a top labour source, who spoke to newsmen yesterday, the President invited the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) to the meeting, which is expected to be held at the Aso Villa, in the nation’s capital. The President is expected to make a decision on the ?62,000 proposal of the government and private sector side;…

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June 12 address: “I risked my life for democracy” – Tinubu

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Tinunu on June 12

…No agreement on new minimum wage yet” – NLC President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said he was among those who took the risk to midwife the birth of democracy in the country. Tinubu, who stated this while addressing Nigerians in a nationwide broadcast yesterday, as part of programmes to mark the 2024 Democracy Day, added that he is now a direct and obvious beneficiary of the fruits of those historic efforts. The President noted that the Federal Government and Organised Labour engaged in constructive negotiation on the new minimum wage.…

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Minimum Wage: “We are not going on strike” – NLC

Aminu Imam
Ajaero Tinubu

President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, has declared that Organised Labour would not go on strike tomorrow regarding the current new minimum wage dispute with the Government. The NLC president made the decision known while speaking yesterday at the International Labour Conference taking place in Geneva, Switzerland. ?Giving the reason for the decision, Ajaero said Labour would not go on strike yet because the figures are currently on the table of President Bola Tinubu and a feedback is being expected.?Citing examples of previous administrations, Ajaero said it…

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