Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has dismissed the proposed ₦100,000 national minimum wage being considered by state governors, insisting that Nigerian workers deserve as much as ₦1 million monthly due to the country’s worsening economic realities. Speaking in an interview on Sunday, May 31, NLC spokesperson Benson Upah reacted to...
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Kaduna State Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has dismissed claims that the state government has failed to implement the new ₦72,000 minimum wage, insisting that the process is already in place. This followed a recent report by Sahara Reporters citing the Nigerian Guild of Investigative Journalists (NGIJ),...
Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Associated and Educational Institutions and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities at Moses Orshio Adasu University, Makurdi (MOAUM) has declared an indefinite strike over minimum wage issues. The industrial strike was the decision of an emergency congress at...
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Lagos State Chapter, has called for a minimum wage increase to N150,000 for Lagos workers, citing the recent wage hikes by the Imo and Ebonyi state governments as a precedent. Chairperson of the NLC Lagos State Chapter, Mrs. Funmi Sesi, made this demand on Thursday...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja- Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has praised Imo State’s implementation of a N104,000 minimum wage and called on the Federal Government and other states to follow suit. NLC President Joe Ajaero made the appeal during an interview on the sidelines of the 7th National Quadrennial Delegates...
Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, has sanctioned a new minimum wage of N104,000 for the state’s civil servants, a significant increase from the previous N76,000. The announcement was made during a Tuesday night meeting with labor union leaders at the Government House in Owerri, as reported by the News...
Numerous civil servants in Abuja have called on the Federal Government to settle the four-month backlog of the N35,000 wage award, expressing frustration over the delay in payments. They shared their concerns in interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday, highlighting the government’s slow response. The...
By AMOS MATHEW, Kaduna – Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani has said that his administration has complied with the Minimum Wage Act because no civil servant in Kaduna State is earning less than N70,000. The governor, who reiterated his antecedents as a human rights activist, further said that the...
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has frowned over the non implementation of the new minimum wage and the Consequential Adjustments by some state governors. NLC President, Mr Joe Ajaero, said this at the 6th National Gender Conference organised by the NLC National Women Commission on Tuesday in Abuja. The conference...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja- The Federal Government is set to pay the outstanding five months N35,000 wage award arrears to federal government workers. This is according to a statement issued on Monday in Abuja by the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation. According to the statement, the...
President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Mr Joe Ajaero, on Friday bemoaned the effect of inflation on the minimum wage in the country. Ajaero speaking at the first quadrennial delegates conference of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Abuja, said it was time the organised labour stood united...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The chairman of Sokoto State chapter of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Comrade Aliyu Abdullahi Jangle has advised the National President of the National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), Alhaji Ali Kankara to make inquiries into any development before making claims that could be...
The Nigeria Labourer Congress and Trade Union Congress in Zamfara have given the state government 14 days ultimatum to address the irregularities in the implementation of the N70,000 minimum wage. The leaders of Zamfara chapters of NLC and TUC gave the ultimatum at a news conference in Gusau on...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Academic and non-academic staff of higher education institutions in Nasarawa State, under the aegis of Joint Unions of Nasarawa State Tertiary Institutions (JUNSTI), is set to embark on indefinite strike over the non implementation of N30,000 minimum wage consequential adjustment, promotions and N70,500 minimum...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) said that stringent measures are in place to ensure that states and employers implement the national minimum wage and the consequential adjustment before the end of March. President, Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Mr Mohammed Ibrahim, said this at its one day...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – As Sokoto State Government commences payment of the 70,000 naira new minimum wage, the state chapter of Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has vowed to support the state by fishing out ghost workers as much as possible. Giving the assurance in his office on Monday after commending...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Sokoto State Governor, Ahmed Aliyu has approved the commencement of the payment of the N70,000 new national minimum wage to the state workers. The Press Secretary to the governor, Abubakar Bawa, announced this in a statement issued on Sunday in Sokoto The governor assured that...
Nasarawa State Government says it would conduct a screening exercise for personnel across the 13 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state. Mr Peter Ahemba, Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Public Affairs to Gov. Abdulahi Sule of the state, disclosed this during a news conference on Friday in Lafia....
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, has said the new minimum wage will be reviewed in less than two years from now. Onyejeocha said this on Thursday in Umuahia, while addressing newsmen after a meeting with labour leaders in Abia. She said that President Bola...
The Director-General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig.-Gen. Yush’au Ahmed, has assured NYSC members that their increased allowance will soon be effected. Ahmed gave the assurance on Tuesday in Abuja while speaking with newsmen on the sidelines of the inauguration of a bus donated to the scheme by Capital...