•SSANU and NASU members protest The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has threatened to shut down varsities across the nation and will on Tuesday protest country-wide to press home its demands. SSANU and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) have been in talks with the federal go...
•Aviation minister, Festus Keyamo About 6,000 retirees of the liquiÂdated national carrier, Nigeria Airways, have appealed to the federal government to return them to the Defined Benefits Scheme (DBS) like their counÂterparts in the other sectors of the economy. Their return to the DBS, they said, would enable them to get their pensions for li...
•Protest The Oyo State Police Command says one death was recorded while 12 suspects were arrested during a violent protest that broke out at the Oluyole Industrial Estate in the state capital Ibadan, on Monday. The police spokesman Adewale Osifeso noted that the disturbing violent protests that rocked one of the factories belonging to Sumal [&...
•Varsity workers protest The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) have threatened to ground activities on campuses nationwide from Thursday except the federal government pays the withheld salary arrears of their members. SSANU said this in a com...
•US migrants The administration of US President, Joe Biden, today, proposed new regulations aimed at protecting labourers working in extremely high temperatures, as heat waves intensified by climate change increasingly blanket the nation. The rule would be aimed at mail carriers, delivery people, construction workers, landscapers, restaurant s...
•Some Nigerian governors The Nigeria Governors’ Forum has assured Nigerians and the organised labour that better minimum wage will result from ongoing negotiations. The governors had previously rejected the federal government’s proposal of N62,000, stating that some states would need to borrow money to pay salaries. Despite this, Organised Lab...
•Nurses protest Barring last minute change, all health institutions owned and managed by the Oyo State Government will be shut for the next seven days. This is because, the health workers across the state government owned health facilities under the aegis of Medical and Health Workers’ Union of Nigeria (MHWUN), an affiliate of the Nigerian [&h...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested two former employees of Union Bank in Makurdi, Benue State, on allegations of stealing N4,199,500 from a deceased customer’s account. The EFCC spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, disclosed this in a statement released yesterday in Abuja. The suspects, identified as Idah Ogoh and Agbo Okw...
Nigerian workers under the aegis of The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) have rejected the newly introduced cybersecurity levy by the Central Bank of Nigeria, demanding its immediate withdrawal. In a statement by its President, Joe Ajaero, the NLC lamented that the levy is another anti-people policy of the government amid excruciating economic ha...
The Organised Labour in Kogi State has demanded the immediate implementation of N35,000 wage award for workers in the state. Addressing the May Day rally yesterday in Lokoja, the Kogi State Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Gabriel Amari, said the current N30,000 national minimum wage fell short of meeting workers’ basic needs in view [...
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