Nigerian workers have been asked to be ready for a prolonged strike action in the new year by organized labour over the failure of government to...
The General Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Peter Ozo-Eson, said governors who claimed to lack the financial capacity to pay the N30,000 minimum wage should...
The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA) has described as unacceptable, the delay in the implementation of the new national minimum wage by government. The association also...
The Nigeria Labour Congress on Monday said Nigerians should not blame the union for the looming industrial chaos in January owing to what it perceived as...
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has fixed January 8 as a national day of protest to show anger over the delay in implementing the new minimum...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s suggestion during the 2019 budget presentation that there would be a review of the N30,000...
If the outcome of the Friday meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari and state governors is anything to go by, then clouds of uncertainty may continue to...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday met with 36 state governors of the federation over the proposed N30,000 national minimum wage. According to reports, the meeting which...
The Nigeria Labour Congress on Sunday described the Federal Government’s silence on the N30,000 minimum wage proposal as provocative, stressing that it expected President Muhammadu Buhari...
THE earlier meeting between Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State and Labour Unions, to negotiate the new minimum wage for workers in the state was postponed...
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The Monday meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari and the representatives of Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) ended without achieving a definite result. Buhari had met with NGF...
The labour movement is worried that Nigerians may turn a cold shoulder to a fresh call for an industrial action demanding the speedy passage of a...
In an apparent move to meet up with the deadline given by organised labour over the new minimum wage, governors have schedule an emergency meeting to...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday said the organised labour expects President Muhammadu Buhari to submit the new national minimum wage bill to the National Assembly...
The Deputy Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Publicity, Senator Ben Murray-Bruce, has assured Nigerians that the upper legislative chamber would ensure the speedy passage of...
There are fears that the unending negotiation between the Federal Government and organised Labour on the new minimum wage might be a deliberate ploy to deny...
If the demand for an increase in minimum wage is eventually approved by the Federal Government, over N2.31tn would be paid as salaries to the over...
The National Industrial Court of Nigeria, in Abuja, on Thursday ordered both the Federal Government and the organised labour to submit a report of their negotiations...
The Presidency on Thursday insisted that President Muhammadu Buhari had at no time approved the N30,000 recommended by the tripartite committee as new minimum wage. It...
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has increased minimum wage of workers in his conglomerate to N33,000 The approved amount is N3000 higher...
The denial by the Federal Government that President Muhammadu Buhari was yet to approve N30,000 as new minimum wage has got Organised Labour fuming. The group...
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari cannot be trusted to implement the minimum wage of...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says President Muhammadu Buhari will soon review the report of the minimum wage tripartite committee that was submitted...
The National Working Committee (NWC) of Labour Party (LP) has reeled out measures the 36 state governors in the country can adopt to be able to...
A new national minimum wage law is possible within two weeks if the presidency submits the bill this week to the National Assembly for passage, the...
The Presidency has frowned at the misinterpretation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s remarks when he received the report of the Tripartite Committee on the Review of National...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the new national minimum wage of N30,000 proposed by the Tripartite Committee on National Minimum Wage. The report of the committee...
President Muhammmadu Buhari is currently meeting with leaders of the Organised Labour in the country at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja. The Labour Unions had on...
Presidential Candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore has unveiled a salary calculator which compares the salary of Nigerian workers with that of a...
The nation may be set for another round of industrial unrest as state governors have said states can only pay N22,500 as new minimum wage contrary...
The meeting the federal government called to discuss new minimum wage with organised labour was deadlocked on Monday. Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, Chris Ngige, minister of labour,...
Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, has argued that N30,000 minimum wage for civil servants, as advocated for by the organised labour, is not practicable. Labour, insisting on...
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, has met with organised labour over the minimum wage imbroglio. The Guardian learnt yesterday in...
Labour unions in Nigeria have announced they will commence a nationwide indefinite strike should the Federal Government fail to meet their demands for the upward review...
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, may have foreclosed organised labour’s insistence on a new minimum wage of N30,000. He is insisting that...
A LABOUR leader, Mr. Joe Ajaero, said yesterday that the organised labour would never sign any agreement with the Federal Government on new National Minimum Wage,...
The Federal government on Wednesday said it only proposed to pay N24,000 as the new minim wage and not N30,000 as being reported in the media....
As the organised labour pushes forward its demand for a new national minimum wage, opinions are varied regarding the timeliness of the demand, which resulted in...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to intensify his government’s crackdown on corrupt money and recovery of other illicit wealth by...
There are strong indications that the Organised Labour may today (Sunday) suspend the ongoing nationwide strike over new national minimum wage. The strike had commenced last...
In an effort to end the ongoing strike action embarked upon by Labour unions in the country, the Federal Government has fixed October 4 to reconvene...
Governors of the 36 states of the Federation have said that they will not succumb to blackmail or be stampeded into reaching an agreement on the...
Nigerians have been advised to use the next few hours to stockpile food and other necessities if the Federal Government fails to meet the demands of...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) is not ruling out strike to reopen stalled negotiations on its demand for better wages, NLC president, Ayuba Wabba, told The...
As the 14-day ultimatum issued to the Federal Government by organised labour over a new national minimum wage ends Wednesday, Labour leaders have declared that only...
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerians Universities, SSANU, has accused the Federal Government of insincerity in its dealings with the negotiation team on the new national...
FOLLOWING apprehension that the Federal Government was not prepared to approve a new national minimum wage for workers, indications, Tuesday, emerged that organised labour had resolved...
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has accused Nigerian governors of frustrating the apporoval of a new minimum wage for Nigerian workers. According...
Employers have expressed their readiness to pay the minimum wage whenever it becomes law. The national umbrella body of the employers stated this on the sideline...
