LAGOS JULY 19TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Mixed reactions on Thursday trailed the pegging of the new national minimum wage at N70,000 by President Bola Tinubu and the two major labour centres, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC). While some respondents said it is grossly inadequate and unsustainable to meet the present economic realities…
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Organised Labour, including the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress, has rejected the proposal of the Southern Governors’ Forum to decentralise minimum wage negotiations to state governments. The NLC condemned the proposal as “unfriendly and anti-worker”, noting that allowing states to determine their minimum wages would be detrimental to workers’…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has increased its offer of a new national minimum wage to N62,000, while organised labour has reduced its demand from N494,000 to N250,000. This comes after the Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, submitted the cost implication of minimum wage to President Bola Tinubu. A source confirmed this to our…
LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Organised Labour has told the Federal Government to perish any thought of offering N100,000 as the new minimum wage. It also asked the government to be serious with negotiations on the issue of workers’ wages, insisting that it used the lowest minimum in arriving at N615,000 as the new minimum wage. Recall…
LAGOS JULY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has scrapped plans to distribute monthly cash of N8,000 to 12 million households as part of efforts to cushion the effects of the fuel subsidy removal, PODIUM REPORTERS can reliably report. Sources in the Villa confirmed the development to this publication today, citing concerns over the ability of the…
LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There are strong indications that the federal government is favourably disposed to raising the minimum wage to as high as N200k per month as demanded by the organised labour in the country. However, state governors are urging for caution while Anambra State governor Charles Soludo has been asked to chair a Technical Working…
LAGOS DECEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Labour Party says it would implement a minimum wage of N80,000-N100,000 if the party wins next year’s presidential election. A few days ago, the Labour Party unveiled its manifesto after a long wait with its presidential candidate Peter Obi touting the payment of hourly wages as against the current monthly format…
By Jerome-Mario Chijioke Utomi LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It may not be characterized as hasty to conclude that the president Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government , after living in denial for a very long time, have finally come to terms with the fact that Nigerian workers have in the past seven to eight years faced unprecedented hardship…