•NLC President, Joe Ajaero The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has placed its unions and members on red alert over the rift between the Dangote refinery and the Petroleum, Natural Gas Workers Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN). PENGASSAN had been at loggerheads with the refinery, accusing its management of sacking over 800 Nigerian workers, repo...
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has expressed displeasure over what it described as the anti-labour practices perpetuated by Dangote Refinery. PENGASSAN, in a statement signed by its General Secretary, Lumumba Okugbawa, accused the private refinery of unjustly terminating the employment of over 800...
•Tinubu and Nigerian workers The federal government has come under pressure as restive workers’ unions rev up agitations over living conditions. Among the labour unions that have recently been at daggers drawn with the government are the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG),...
•Nigerian workers Nigerian workforce under the aegis of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has asked the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) to halt its plan to upwardly review the remuneration packages of political office holders. RMAFC chairman, Mohammed Shehu, had recently disclosed that President Bola Tinubu earns...
•Nigerian workers Nigerian workers, under the aegis of The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), have vowed to resist any attempt by the National Assembly to remove labour matters — including the minimum wage — from the exclusive legislative list of the Federal Government to the concurrent list, where individual states would determine their workers’ ...
•Nigerian workers Nigerian workers under the aegis of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Federal Capital Territory Chapter, say they are mobilising to shut down the territory after President Bola Tinubu concludes his projects’ inauguration on July 3. The Chairman, Dr Stephen Knabayi, disclosed this in an interview with our correspondent in Ab...
•Nigerian workers and Tinubu Nigerian workers, under the aegis of The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), have said that two years into President Bola Tinubu’s administration, Nigerian workers and the masses have experienced no gains— only pain and misery. In an appraisal of the administration’s first two years, NLC President, Joe Ajaero stated tha...
Today is Workers’ Day! Otherwise called May Day, it is set aside to celebrate workers’ contributions to the nation’s economy. This year’s celebration, themed: “Reclaiming the Civic Space in the Midst of Economic Hardship,” is being observed across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, reports Channels TV. But this year’s event comes...
•Nigerian workers As labour unions commemorate this year’s Workers’ Day today across the country, civil servants in various states on Wednesday said the N70,000 new national minimum wage is not enough to cater for their cost of living amidst rising inflation. Last year, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu approved N70,000 minimum wage for Nigerian wor...
•NLC President Joe Ajaero A few days ago, the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, on behalf of the Nigerian workers, received a two-man delegation from the International Monetary Fund, IMF, comprising the IMF Resident Representative for Nigeria, Christian H. Ebeke, and, Axel Schimmelpfennig from Washington, D.C. The purpose of the ...
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