LAGOS AUGUST 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Labour Congress has confirmed that its national office in Abuja was invaded by security operatives, believed to be from the Department of State Services and the Nigeria Police Force on Wednesday night. According to a statement by NLC spokesperson Benson Upah, late on Wednesday, the operatives arrested the security guards,…
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 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidency on Thursday denied reports that the Federal Government was proposing N105,000 as the new minimum wage. The Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, described the report as false. The report followed the presentation of the cost implications of implementing a new national minimum wage to…
LAGOS JUNE 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has agreed to pay more than the N60,000 it initially proposed as new minimum wage. The decision was taken at a meeting the government had with labour leaders on Monday night in Abuja to address the dispute over the national minimum wage in response to the nationwide strike declared…
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 MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The organised labour, comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress, has walked out of the ongoing minimum wage negotiations after the government and the Organised Private Sector made what the unionists described as “ridiculous offers” of N48,000 and N54,000, respectively. According to a source who is a leader of the…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has said the Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government has not given workers breathing space since assuming office. It said the government has been dishing out one anti-poor policy after another to worsen the socio-economic conditions of the workers. In a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, the NLC President,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 24TH (NEWRANGERS)-Electricity workers across Nigeria have shut down the national grid, leading to a nationwide blackout. The strike was called by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in protest of the assault on Joe Ajaero, the President of the NLC, on November 1, 2023, in Imo State. Ndidi Mbah, the spokesperson for the Transmission…