The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero is set to be flown abroad for treatment following injuries sustained when he was beaten up in Imo State on Wednesday. The update was given on Thursday by the NLC publicity secretary, Benson Upah. According to him as quoted by The Nation, the injuries…
The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, has been arrested in Owerri, the Imo State capital. Ajaero was picked up from the NLC State Council Secretariat by heavily armed policemen in Owerri and taken to an unknown destination. The Head of Media at the NLC Headquarters, Benson Uper, stated this via…
The organised labour led by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) on Monday night, agreed to suspend its indefinite strike planned to start on Tuesday. The resolution followed over five hours of deliberations between the Federal Government and Labour at the Chief of Staff Conference Room of the…
The President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government on Monday night signed a 15-point memorandum with the organised labour – the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) – in Abuja after an emergency session. SaharaReporters had earlier reported that the organised labour suspended its indefinite, nationwide strike which was billed for…
Daniel Bwala, an aide to the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last general election, Atiku Abubakar, has weighed in on the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) reaction to the N5bn palliative to be given to each state. Truetells Nigeria recalls that the NLC, while reacting to the palliative, opined that state…
The organised labour, comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress, has stated that all workers in the private and public sectors across the country will appear at court proceedings in a contempt case preferred against labour by the President Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government. A statement by the President of Nigeria Labour…
Members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) have commenced protests in Lagos over the removal of petrol subsidy. The protesters have converged on the Ikeja under-bridge and are set to move around the state and stop at the Governor’s office in Alausa, Ikeja. Meanwhile, security operatives are on the ground to prevent the breakdown…
A faction of the Labour Party (LP) led by Lamidi Apapa is opposing a nationwide protest proposed by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC). Instead, this faction suggests that Nigerian workers can express their discontent over the growing hardship in the country by not going to work until their demands are addressed by the Federal Government. The National…
The Nigerian Labour Congress has rejected the palliatives proposed by the Federal government to cushion the effect of the fuel subsidy removal. In a statement released today July 18, NLC President Joe Ajaero, said the union rejects in totality the N8000 palliatives the Federal government plans to give to 12 million ‘mysterious’ poor Nigerians….
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos state has begged members of the Nigerian Labour Congress not to embark on a strike over removal of fuel subsidy as announced by President Bola Tinubu during his inaugural speech. Recall that the NLC on Friday, June 2, issued a five-day ultimatum to the federal government to revert to the…
