2019: Workers threaten to use N66,500 as bargaining tool for votes
By Olu AJAYI NIGERIA: NIGERIA workers have threatened that they would use the N66, 500 minimum wage being negotiated as their electoral power next year. They said on Tuesday that the amount would be their weapon against any government that refuses to pay the new proposed minimum wage in the country. The President of the […]
Amosun pardons three sacked labour leaders
By Olusola AJIBIKE (Abeokuta) NIGERIA: OGUN State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has pardoned three labour leaders sacked over their roles in last year’s World Teachers Day rally. Instead of prior outright sack, Amosun, who gave the kind gesture on Monday at the Workers Day event held at the Moshood Abiola International Stadium, Abeokuta, converted the […]
Why Amosun sacked me, by Ogun NLC chairman
By Olusola AJIBIKE (Abeokuta) NIGERIA: THE Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ogun State Chapter, Comrade Akeem Ambali, who was sacked by the government of Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has explained why he was relieved of his job. Ambali stated on Monday that his struggle for the implementation of payment of workers deductions and his […]
NLC boss sues Ogun government over dismissal
By Olusola AJIBIKE (Abeokuta) NIGERIA: BARELY two weeks after the leadership of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) pleaded with the Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, to recall some sacked workers without any response, one of them has gone to court. The Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in the state, Comrade […]
SSANU, NLC drag FUNAAB to Buhari, Education Minister
By Femi Shodunke NIGERIA: THE national body of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) have taken the case of the 23 sacked workers of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) to the federal level. The two unions have demanded the intervention of President Muhammadu Buhari […]
NLC blasts Amosun government
NIGERIA: THE Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has criticized the Ogun State government over its refusal to pay their 11 months deductions while going ahead with the infrastructural development of the state. The anger came shortly after the closed door meeting held on Tuesday between the organised labour and the government ended in a deadlock. […]
Ex-governor counsels, as Labour hails Fayose over regular salary payment
NIGERIA: COMMENDATION has come from the organised labour and former Military Governor of the old Western Region to the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose. The workers in the state said the governor deserves commendation for prompt payment of salary. The commendation came as Fayose approved the appointment of Mr Olabanji Ojo, Mr Ibitoye Adeyiola and […]
