The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has appealed to organised labour to consider students sitting for the West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination as it plans an indefinite strike. The Head of National Office of WAEC, Dr Amos Dangut, appealed in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos. He…
The NLC has declared an indefinite strike action beginning from Monday, 3rd June, 2024, as a result of the failure of Government to conclude the renegotiation of minimum wage for Nigerian workers and reversal of hike in electricity tariff. Our branches are hereby enjoined to join in the strike action as an affiliate member of…
The Federal Government has warned workers planning to embark the indefinite strike declared by labour unions that they risk six months jail term.Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), gave the warning in a statement on Sunday. Fagbemi said Section 18 of the Trade Disputes Act requires a worker employed…
The Organised Labour comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), have insisted on proceeding with the indefinite strike action scheduled to commence on Monday, 3rd June, 2024. This is as the leadership of the National Assembly led by Senate President Godswill Akpabio called for a return to the negotiation table….
Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, will participate in the nationwide strike called by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC. However, another rival academic staff union in the university system, the Congress of University Academics, CONUA, is yet to take any position on the matter. Speaking in chats with Vanguard newspaper on Sunday…
Representatives of the federal government and the leadership of the National Assembly are currently in a meeting with the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress( NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Abuja We gathered that the meeting, which began at about 5.30 p.m. at the National Assembly complex, was at the instance of the…
Rising from an emergency meeting on Sunday, the Lagos chapters of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have ordered a total shutdown of schools, government offices, airspace, electricity and water as of midnight on Sunday. The unions, in a joint press briefing, addressed by their chairmen, Comrade Funmi Session and Comrade…
The National Association of Nigerian Students has expressed its support for the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress in their demand for an increase in the national minimum wage. On Friday, the NLC announced an indefinite nationwide strike set to commence on Monday, June 3, 2024, citing the Federal Government’s refusal to raise…
The Federal Government said the N494,000 new minimum wage proposed by the organized labour could cripple Nigeria’s economy. The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris disclosed this during a press briefing in Abuja. The minister lamented that the N494,000 minimum wage demand would amount to a N9.5 trillion expenditure burden to the government….
