President of NLC, Joe Ajaero, said this in a communiqué jointly signed by NLC General Secretary, Emmanuel Ugboaja,at the end of an emergency meeting in Abuja. The communiqué was issued at the end of an emergency meeting of the National Executive Council, NEC, to assess the welfare of Nigerian workers and the general populace in light […]
The leadership of the unions’ Jigawa State chapters disclosed this while speaking at the town hall meetings held on Monday at the Banquet Hall, Government House Dutse. The meeting aimed to discuss how to join hands with critical stakeholders to tackle economic challenges and advise people not to become agents of national destruction. According to […]
NLC President, Joe Ajaero, declared the position of the union while speaking on the sidelines of the 67th Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association Annual General Meeting in Lagos.According to the NLC president, the International Labour Organisation recognises wage as a national law, saying it is not for the sub-nationals. The labour leader maintained that every country […]
While labour insists on N250,000 as a new minimum wage, the committee had pegged it at N62,000.But during a Thursday meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, the organised labour led by the NLC President Joe Ajaero and his TUC counterpart Festus Osifo said nothing has changed about the demands. Ajaero said the […]
NLC President, Joe Ajaero, made the call in a goodwill message at the national retreat on Labour reforms and the quest for a living wage in Nigeria: A focus on legislative interventions, organized by the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies in Abuja. Ajaero charged the legislators to review and update the labour laws […]
It also reiterated that the position taken by President Tinubu on the two proposals before him from the final report of the Tripartite Committee on the National Minimum Wage would determine its next line of action. Recall that the government team and organized private sector had made an offer of N62,000 on the last day […]
The President said this at a dinner to mark Nigeria’s 25 years of unbroken Democracy in Abuja. Tinubu thanked those who stood by him over the years, promising Nigerians that he won’t depart from the tenets of democratic governance. The President also pledged to bring down the prices of food items by tackling the menace […]
Labour insisted on ₦250,000, its latest demand at the last meeting of the Tripartite Committee on Minimum Wage , as the living wage for an average Nigerian worker. NLC Assistant General Secretary, Chris Onyeka, who spoke with journalists on a television programme, insisted that labour would not accept the latest government’s offer of ₦62,000 and […]
Recall that the governors under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors Forum rejected the proposed N60,000 minimum wage for Nigerian workers. In a statement issued by the Director of Media and Public Affairs for NGF, Halimah Ahmed, the governors said the proposed minimum wage was too high and not sustainable. The governors said if the […]
Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, said this in Abuja after a Federal Government delegation on the new minimum wage met with the President. The FG delegation includes Idris; Edun; Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume; Labour Minister Nkiruka Onyejeocha; Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Atiku Bagudu; Chief of […]