By Egena Sunday Ode The Federal Government has described the industrial action by the organised labour billed to commence this morning as “illegal, immoral and irresponsible.” Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, in a…
NLC, TUC and endless strikes: Nigerians react
By Femi Oyelola, Kaduna Baring a last-minute change, the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC,) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC,) have again declared a nationwide strike effective from next Tuesday, November 14, 2023, following the alleged brutalization of the…
State of the nation: NLC, TUC declare mass action, to down tools from Oct 3
By Abubakar Yunusa The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have directed their members and affiliate bodies to start a mass action on October 3, as a protest against the state of the nation. The labour…
Wike moves to halt FCT Councils’ workers proposed Oct. 2 strike
By Stanley Onyekwere In a bid to halt the October 2 planned strike by the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees’ (NULGE), in solidarity with Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) over their lingering grievances with the Chairmen of the six…
Banks, insurance firms to join NLC’s two-day warning strike
By Abubakar Yunusa The National Union of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions Employees (NUBIFIE) says its members will join the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in its two-day strike action. NLC recently announced plans to embark on a nationwide strike to…
Subsidy: NLC accuses FG of abandoning negotiations
Begins warning strike Tuesday, Sept. 5 The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) says it will commence a two-day nationwide warning strike from September 5 to 6 (Tuesday and Wednesday), except the Federal Government addresses the excruciating suffering of the masses. NLC…
NLC threatens to pull out of NHF over FMBN refusal to remit contributory funds
By Christiana Ekpa The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has threatened the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) that they will pull out civil servants from the National Housing Fund’s (NHF) contributory funds over non-remittance of deduction made. Comrade Joe Ajaero,…
Petrol subsidy removal: Echoes from NLC mass protest
Vivian Okejeme, in this piece, captures Wednesday’s NLC mass protest despite the avalanche of legal actions initiated by the federal government to stop same. On Monday 29 May, 2023, in his inaugural speech, President Ahmed Bola Tinubu, announced the scrapping…
The way to go!
The organized labour, comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress [NLC] and the Trade Union Congress [TUC], embarked on a nationwide protest on Wednesday to press home their demands for adequate provision of palliatives to cushion the harsh effects of the removal…
NLC: It’s still time for negotiation not strike
By Rotimi Fasan The NLC has fallen into irrelevance in recent times and one can understand the urgency it feels, especially under a new president like Joe Ajaero, to register its presence among Nigerians and shore up its undesirable…
