The National Chairman of the Labour Party, Alhaji Abdulkadir Abdulsalam, is dead.He died in Abuja after early morning prayers, on Tuesday.His closest friend and political associate, the former National Chairman of the Inter-Party Advisory Council, Peter Ameh, confirmed the death to our correspondent on the telephone.He said, “I’ve lost a friend of several decades. He[...]
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The Organized Labour accused the Federal Government of not being prepared for a sincere and honest dialogue in finding a lasting solution to the petroleum price increase and electricity tariffs.The organised labour also accused the government of violating the understanding reached by the two parties before the planned September strike was suspended, adding that it[...]
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Egypt has officially demanded that Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s nomination to contest for the office of the director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) should not be recognised. Egypt through its representation said member states of the African Union (AU) had been required to nominate candidates for the director-general position by November 30, 2019 — over five[...]
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The Trade Union Congress of Nigerian (TUC) has given the 36 states a deadline to sign all the negotiation agreements and commence implementation of the N30, 000 national minimum wage latest by January 31, 2020. This is coming as the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said that it would not extend the December 31, 2019[...]
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Organised labour has vowed to shut down First Bank of Nigeria over plans to sack over 1,000 of its workers without following due process. President of the National Union of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions Employees (NUBIFIE), Anthony Abakpa, who told The Guardian Wednesday that letters were already written and likely to be rolled to[...]
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Organised labour has given the Federal Government an October 16 ultimatum to resolve all issues surrounding the consequential adjustment of salaries for the implementation of the minimum wage. Its leadership, comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) threatened to call their members out for industrial action if the government failed[...]
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The organised labour have alerted Nigerians that plans were underway to embark on industrial action if the current state of affairs as regards the issue of consequential adjustment arising from the new national Minimum wage of N30,000 per month remains the same. It is operating under the aegis of the Trade Union Side (TUS) of[...]
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Bello Matawallen-Maradun was yesterday sworn in as Governor of the besieged Zamfara State in a state ceremony. The new administration of Zamfara State has promised to reinstate the 1,400 workers who were employed by the immediate past Gov. Abdul’aziz Yari. Governor Bello Matawallen-Maradun announced this in Gusau yesterday while delivering his inaugural speech[...]
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The Executive Governor of Zamfara State and chairman of Governors forum has warned the senate to desist from actions that would bring further issues between state governors and labour. Governor Yari issued the warning in an interview with journalists on the sidelines of the public hearing on new National Minimum Wage bill on Monday in[...]
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The Nigeria Labour Congress has rejected the N27,000 figure proposed by the National Council of State earlier today. The NLC has said the council lacked the powers to determine another amount after a tripartite committee had submitted its report. “It is abysmal of government to be delaying the submission of an executive bill to the[...]
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The council of state meeting just ended with Obasanjo, Saraki and all political gladiators from both spectrum present. The group made recommendations for the much agitated minimum wage to be left at a sustainable level where the states could actually pay. The National Council of State therefore has recommended a new wage of N27,000. The[...]
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The Federal Government is considering a review of the federation allocation sharing formula as demanded by Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, to accommodate the N30,000 minimum wage for states. The NGF recently pushed for a new fiscal restructuring plan due to the present economic realities in their states, which they claimed had made it impossible for[...]
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The Nigeria Labour Congress’ (NLC) President, Comrade Ayuba Waba and other labour leaders held a rally on Tuesday to create awareness on the new Minimum Wage for workers at the Federal Capital territory, Abuja. See photos here:
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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 not be taken seriously because some of them diverted the bailouts paid to them by the Federal Governments instead of paying backlog of workers’ salaries. Ozo-Eson also said in[...]
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Former Labour whip Fiona Onasanya could face jail after she was found guilty of perverting the course of justice. The Nigerian born British raised MP lied to police to avoid a speeding charge following a retrial at the Old Bailey today found. With her political career in tatters, she has been formally suspended by the[...]
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The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, has backed the organised labour’s agitation that N30,000 should be the national minimum wage for Nigerian workers. He also stressed that as a member of the Nigeria Governors Forum when he was the governor of Edo State, he had told his colleagues publicly that “when[...]
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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) says its members will not be intimidated by threat from the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) to sack workers if the new national minimum wage of N30,000 is implemented. Ayuba Wabba, NLC president, said this in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja. The governors had said paying N30,000 new minimum[...]
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Nigerian governors under the auspices of the Nigeria Governors Forum have called for an emergency meeting where the issue of the minimum wage is expected to be discussed in Abuja tonight. It is expected that the meeting, which will be presided over by the Governor of Zamfara State, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari, will take a definite[...]
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David Umahi, Ebonyi state governor, says 95 percent of states in the country cannot pay the proposed N30, 000 minimum wage to workers. NAN reports that Umahi made the comment on Wednesday in Abakaliki, Ebonyi state capital. He said the payment of the N30, 000 can only be realised if the federation account allocation formula[...]
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The Federal Government said on Wednesday the N30,000 minimum wage proposal contained in the report of the tripartite committee set up by the Federal Government was still a recommendation and had not been approved. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who spoke with State House correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council, said[...]
Read MorePresident Muhammadu Buhari today endorsed N30,000 as the new national minimum wage. He said this while receiving the report of the Tripartite Committee on the Review of National Minimum Wage at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The report was submitted by the committee’s chairman, Amal Pepple. Buhari has also promised to send a bill to the[...]
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By T.Ade (PhD). Globally, minimum wage has been a controversial social welfare policy. This is possibly due to series of empirical studies that have shown mixed impact of this welfare policy on its intended beneficiaries and potential negative spill-over effects on non-beneficiaries in the form of price increase and job losses. The controversy is more[...]
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The National Industrial Court of Nigeria in Abuja on Monday rejected a request for a fresh order stopping the organised labour from embarking on its planned indefinite strike scheduled to commence Tuesday. The court presided over by Justice Sanusi Kado also refused to grant a prayer for an order to compel the government to immediately[...]
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The unions in the country’s aviation sector have declared their intentions to partake in the indefinite strike scheduled to begin on November 6. The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) had announced the strike as a means to press home the demands for an upward review of minimum wage from N18,000 to N30,000. In a notice on[...]
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has declared an indefinite nationwide strike. According to the organisation, the strike is to protest the poor funding of Nigerian universities. Led by its National President, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, ASUU declared the strike at the end of its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held at the Federal University[...]
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