Tag: Labour
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Nigerians won’t bear burdens of your inefficiency, Labour blasts FG over decision to end N120bn monthly petrol subsidy
Leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Thursday night said it won’t accede to plans by the Federal Government to fully deregulate petrol pricing because it is no longer able to sustain the subsidy regime. TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said it will stop bearing the N120 billion monthly…
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NLC threatens to picket filling stations involved in causing artificial fuel scarcity
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has threatened to picket filling stations across the country over hoarding and creation of artificial petrol scarcity. The NLC President, Mr Ayuba Wabba, gave the warning at end of an emergency (virtual) meeting of the National Executive Council (NEC) of the congress on Tuesday in Abuja. Wabba said NEC had…
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Just in: Labour activist Didi Adodo dies of COVID-19
Didi Adodo, a former Commissioner for Establishment and Special Duties in Edo state, is dead, reportedly of CoVID-19 complications. Adodo who served during the two terms of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole’s administration died in the early hours of today after a brief illness. He died of complications from COVID-19. It was gathered that he took ill…
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Fuel/Electricity hike: Wny we can’t embark on nationwide strike now – Labour
Organised Labour says it has not yet adopted nationwide strike as the next line of action in spite of the breakdown of dialogue between government and organised labour on the hike in the petroleum pump price and electricity tariff. Mr Joe Ajaero, Deputy President, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), said this at a news conference jointly…
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EndSARS, StartSWAT, labour and a wrinkled leadership, By Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa The President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Muhammadu Buhari, thinks Nigerian youths are lazy and want to be spoon-fed like babies. Some other arms of the country’s wrinkled leadership believe that the youths are hooked on Big Brother Naija and other inanities. So it came as a shock…
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Subsidy removal 2020 and the end of organised labour – Dele Sobowale
By Dele Sobowale “They came forth to war; but they always fell.” James Macpherson, 1736-1796. VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 267. The coincidences are unbelievable. James was the father of Sir John Macpherson, who was the second to the last Governor General of Nigeria, Sir James Robertson, who handed power to Tafawa Balewa on…
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BREAKING: Labour suspends planned strike as FG reverses new electricity tariff
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have suspended the nationwide strike scheduled to commence on Monday (today), September 28. TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that labour’s decision to suspend the planned nationwide industrial action followed an agreement reached with the Federal Government at a meeting which started at 8.30pm on Sunday and…
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Labour ready for nationwide strike – NLC
President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba, on Sunday confirmed that all affiliate unions of the organised labour were ready for the nationwide strike. He made the declaration in Abuja at a meeting with the House of Representatives Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, NAN reports. Wabba said the NLC would go ahead with the strike…
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Fuel, electricity hike: Again, FG, labour talks deadlocked, postponed
The meeting between the Federal Government and the Organised Labour over the recent hike in fuel price and electricity tariff has been postponed till Monday, Sept. 28, for further deliberation. Labour leaders and the Federal Government had met in Abuja on Thursday to deliberate on the development after organised labour threatened to shut down the…
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Strike looms as FG, Labour meeting ends in deadlock
The meeting between the Federal Government and the Organised Labour over the removal of petrol subsidy and the increase in electricity tariffs, ended in a deadlock on Monday. While receiving the labour leaders to the meeting held at the Bouquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, in Abuja, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris…