•Education Minister Prof. Tahir Mamman The federal government has directed that admission to tertiary institutions should not be given to candidates less than 18 years. The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, gave the directive today during a monitoring exercise of the ongoing 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in Bw...
The UK today increased the income required to sponsor someone coming to the country on a family visa as part of the government’s plan to cut immigration. This was revealed by the UK home office via its official X (formerly Twitter) handle today. “We’re delivering the biggest-ever cut in legal migration and an immigration system […]...
•New Naira notes The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has unveiled new minimum capital requirements for banks, pegging the minimum capital base for commercial banks with international authorisation at ₦500 billion. A circular signed by the Director, Financial Policy and Regulation Department, Haruna Mustafa, to all commercial, merchant, and non-i...
States yesterday kicked against Organised Labour’s minimum wage demands for Nigerian workers, saying they were not realistic. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) is proposing N709,000 while the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) is recommending N447,000 as the new minimum wage for workers. But states are proposing between N45,000 and N70,000,...
For workers in the South West geopolitical political zone, the Nigeria Labour Congress has called for a new national minimum wage of N794,000. Chairman of the Lagos State Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Mrs. Funmi Sessi made the aforesaid recommendation to the ruling government today. Sessi made the call in the memorandum submitted at the South-...
•NLC strike The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC has proposed the sum of Eight hundred and fifty thousand Naira as the new minimum wage for workers in the South-South geopolitical zone. Chairman of NLC, Akwa Ibom State Council, Comrade Sunny James presented the position of the zone today in Uyo, the state capital during the zonal […]
•NLC strike The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) ,FCT chapter, has proposed N709,000 as new minimum wage for Nigerian workers. The NLC FCT Chairman, Dr Stephen Knabayi, made the submission at the North Central Zonal Public Hearing organised by the Tripartite Committee on the National Minimum Wage today in Abuja, reports NAN. President Bola Tinubu...
•Labour strike The South-East chapters of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), have proposed N540,000 and N447,000 respectively as new minimum wage for Nigerian workers. The organised labour of NLC and TUC made the proposal during the South-East Zonal Hearing organised by the Tripartite Committee on National Mi...
•NLC President Joe Ajaero There are strong indications that Organised Labour will push for N500,000 as the minimum wage as the zonal public hearing on the new wage structure begins on Thursday (today) in Lagos, Kano, Enugu, Akwa Ibom, Adamawa, and Abuja. The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero, in an interview on […]
•NLC President, Tinubu & TUC President The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero, has stated that if the ongoing inflation continues unabated, organised labour might push for a new minimum wage of up to N1 Million for Nigerian workers. Ajaero said the demand from organised labour would be influenced by the cost of […]...