•Chukwuma Soludo The Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has announced the immediate payment of the new minimum wage of N70,000 for workers in the state. The governor stated that the least paid worker in Anambra State will go home with nothing less than N70,000, even as, it could be more ranging between N78,000 to […]
•Governor Nasir Idris Gov. Nasir Idris of Kebbi today signed into law a new minimum wage of N75,000 for the state civil servants. The governor signed the new bill in the presence of the National President of Nigeria Labour Congress, Mr Joe Ajero, and other members of executives at Government House, Birnin Kebbi. … developing […]
Sacked workers of Mobil Producing Nigeria, Unlimited, MPN-U, in Akwa Ibom State, have embarked on a peaceful protest, lamenting the nonpayment of their 12-year severance benefits. The aggrieved workers under the aegis of “Ex-Mobil Janitorial Service Staff” and Unified Catering Workforce defied the early morning rain and converged at the gate o...
The Senior Staff Association Of Statutory Corporations And Government-Owned Companies (SSASCGOC), an affiliate of the Trade Union Congress of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control(NAFDAC) have begun an indefinite strike over failure of the management to address certain issues regarding the welfare of its members. In ...
•Telecoms mast Nigeria’s telecom sector risks shutdown as about 800 workers from the Private Telecommunications and Communications Senior Staff Association have embarked on strike, threatening to cripple services nationwide. The union, largely contract staff, warned of massive disruptions to telecom operations if its demands were not met, as t...
•Fuel queue The latest hike in the price of petrol has pushed up transport fares by over 50 percent in major cities across Nigeria. The newest price hikes, implemented by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company’s (NNPCL) Retail Management, range from N855 to N897 per litre, depending on the location, from the previous N568 – N617, [&hell...
•Mrs Didi Walson-Jack The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HoCSF), Mrs. Didi Esther Walson-Jack, has urged civil servants to embrace the digitalisation policies embedded in the Federal Civil Service Strategy and Implementation Plan 2021-2025 (FCSSIP-25) and the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration. Du...
The federal government says there is a need for data to guide operations in the housing sector, noting that only 5.6 million out of 80 million workers are currently contributing to the National Housing Fund (NHF). Shehu Usman Osidi, the Managing Director of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN), stated this in Abuja at […]
•NLC President Joe Ajaero The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has directed its affiliates, members and indeed all workers in the country to immediately shutdown the economy if the Nigerian Police arrest the Congress President, Comrade Joe Ajaero, reports Vanguard. The Frontier had earlier exclusively reported how Police had last night invited th...
•Miners of the Escondida copper mine on strike, block a road outside of Escondida Workers at the world’s largest copper mine in Chile are striking after pay talks with Australian resources giant BHP fell apart, casting a shadow of uncertainty Wednesday over the market for the commodity. The Escondida mine in northern Chile yearly digs [&hellip...

