LAGOS APRIL 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Air Peace has announced the suspension of all flight operations nationwide following the strike action embarked upon by workers of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet). “We regret to inform you that due to the ongoing strike by the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), Air Peace is suspending all flight operations nationwide with immediate…
LAGOS JUNE 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, has declared that organized labour would not go on strike on Tuesday regarding the current new minimum wage dispute with the government. Giving the reason for the decision, Ajaero said labour would not go on strike yet because the figures are currently…
LAGOS JUNE 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has threatened to embark on a fresh industrial action over non-payment of accoutrement allowances owed their members. This was disclosed in a communique issued after its general meeting held in Kaduna State, while informing all its chapters to give a two-week ultimatum to the chief…
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 JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Millions of Nigerians are without electricity after the national grid was shut down as part of a general strike over the rising cost of living. The country was plunged into darkness shortly after 02:00 local time (01:00 GMT) when union members prevented operators at the country’s power control rooms from working and…
LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Truck drivers in the country have threatened to embark on strike following attacks on their vehicles by hoodlums. Several trucks and warehouses have recently come under attack from hoodlums as the food inflation and the cost of living crisis in the country spiraled. Worried by the unsavory development, the organised private…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Leaders of the organised labour – the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) – on Friday failed to attend a meeting called by the representatives of the President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government in a desperate effort to avert the planned nationwide strike from October 3. According…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Tuesday, September 5, chased staff of the Federal Ministry of finance out of the office complex in compliance with the two-day warning strike. The NLC officials came in a white Hiace bus at about 1:50 pm stormed the building, and went from office to office…