The leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said it must rescue Ogun workers from some alleged anti-labour practices of the state governor, Mr Ibikunle Amosun. Mr Ayuba Wabba, the NLC President made the position of the congress known in a statement on Friday night in Abuja. Reports have it that there has been […]
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Following the inability of the Federal Government to urgently transmit the bill on the new national minimum wage to the National Assembly, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has set Jan. 8 as date for the commencement of an indefinite nationwide strike. NLC President Comrade Ayuba Wabba said the strike would be inevitable if nothing happened […]
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Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday received the report of the Tripartite Committee on the Review of National Minimum Wage that recommended ₦30,000 and expressed his commitment to having new National Minimum Wage Act. President Buhari also said that having seen the argument of the government team on insisting on N24,000 and that of the organized […]
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The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, on Friday briefed President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on the threat by the organized labour to embark on industrial action from Nov. 6, over delay in the implementation of new national minimum wage. Ngige, who spoke to State House correspondents after the closed door […]
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Labour Congress, NLC, has fixed its national delegates’ conference, NDC, for February 5, 6 and 7, 2019 in Abuja. This was part of the communique issued at the end of its National Executive Council meeting of September 19, 2018, in Abuja. The communique issued by its President, Ayuba Wabba, said: “The NEC resolved to hold […]
Read More The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) says Nigeria will need $3 trillion in the next 26 years to bridge the infrastructural gap in the country. Mr Ayuba Wabba, NLC president said this at the Infrastructural Summit of the 40th Anniversary of the National Union of Civil Engineering Construct, Furniture and Wood Workers (NUCECFWW) on Thursday in […]
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The United Labour Congress has urged the Federal Government to expedite action on the outcome of the National Minimum Wage Negotiating Committee as it submits its report next week by preparing and forwarding the new national minimum wage bill to the National Assembly. It also called for a quick passage of the outcome of the […]
Read More The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has raised the alarm that the frequent serial killings in some states may scare foreign investors from the country if not urgently tackled. The NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, reacting to the killings around the country, notably in Benue, Nasarawa, Adamawa, Rivers and Taraba states, lamented that these mass murders have […]
Read More A new national minimum wage will be announced before the end of the year, if the word of the Minister Labour & Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, is anything to go by. The 30-member tripartite committee chaired by former Head of Service of the Federation Ms. Amal Pepple is billed to conclude its assignment by the […]
Read More Pensioners in Benue state of Nigeria have asked the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Comrade Ayuba Wabba to intervene in their predicament and ensure the payment of their entitlement running into several months and an upward review of their pensions. In a letter to the NLC President, signed by the Chairman and Secretary […]
Read More The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has urged the Federal Government to use the occasion of the Democracy Day celebration to announce the composition of a tripartite negotiation committee on the National Minimum Wage. It also asked the government to thoroughly investigate recent rumoured coup plot to save the nation’s democracy. NLC President, Mr Ayuba Wabba, […]
Read More The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has lamented that despite the noise aboutanti-graft war, corruption continues to thrive in the country. It said the executive and the legislative arms of government weighed on the scale have performed below expectation. Its President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, who spoke with The Nation lamented that while the citizens continue to […]
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