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Members of the organised labour comprising both the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress, have convened an emergency meeting over the decision of the Federal Executive Council to step down the memo on the minimum wage. The meeting, according to a top official at the NLC headquarters, will be held at Labour House…

The Management of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has announced the postponement of applications for state-owned tertiary institutions for the next 14 days. This is contained in a statement signed by the head of Media and Public Relations of the Fund, Nasir Ayitogo, on Tuesday. NELFUND noted that the postponement was necessitated by the…

The Academic Staff Union of Universities will appraise its mobilisations across various zones ahead of its planned nationwide strike action. The union across various branches issued a three-week ultimatum to the Federal Government over some outstanding demands. The core issues that pertain to condition of service includes all the contending issues as contained in the…

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has issued a three weeks ultimatum to Federal Government to respond to its demands, to avoid industrial action. Chairperson ASUU Federal University Dutse, FUD, Branch in Jigawa State, Comrade Salim Ahmed gave the warning at an emergency press conference held at FUD, ASUU Secretariat in Dutse. According to…

President Bola Tinubu has approved the reconstitution of Governing Councils and Boards of federal universities, polytechnics and colleges of education. This was contained in a statement on Friday by the Permanent Secretary, General Services, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Nnamdi Mbaeri. He noted that approval was given for the effective…

The management of Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) is announcing that the full list of institutions that have submitted their complete student data, as requested by the agency, for upload onto the NELFUND Student Verification System (SVS) portal will be published on the 24th of June, 2024. This list of both Federal and State owned…

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has refuted claims by President Bola Tinubu that an agreement on a new minimum wage has been reached. During his Democracy Day broadcast on Wednesday, President Tinubu announced that a consensus had been reached between the federal government and organised labour on a new national minimum wage. He stated that…

President Bola Tinubu has revealed that a consensus has been reached on the long-debated new minimum wage between the Federal Government and organised labour. In his national broadcast to mark the 2024 Democracy Day in Abuja on Wednesday, Tinubu revealed that an executive bill will soon be sent to the National Assembly to formalise the…

Organised Labour has insisted on its N250,000 new minimum wage proposal, stating it would not negotiate what it described as ‘starvation wage.’ The Assistant General Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress,  Chris Onyeka, said labour would not accept the latest offer of ₦62,000 and the ₦100,000 proposal made by some individuals and economists. This was…

The Organised Labour has said there will be no strike tomorrow, Tuesday, over the minimum wage negotiation with the Federal Government. Recall that Labour suspended its strike action for one week, while meetings with the government held to determine the new minimum wage. The suspension ends today. However, speaking at the ongoing International Labour Conference in…