Tag: workers
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Benue will pay any amount adopted as minimum wage – Ortom assures workers
Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, has promised to pay any amount agreed upon by the negotiating committee on minimum wage. Ortom stated this on Tuesday in Makurdi, when members of Nigeria Labour Congress, Trade Union Congress, and other sister unions visited him to register their support for the upward review of wages. The News Agency…
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N22.6bn Entitlements: FG begins payment to ex-Nigeria Airways workers
The federal government has begun the payment of 50 per cent entitlements of ex-workers of the defunct Nigeria Airways who have successfully completed the verification exercise. Godwin Jibodu, chairman, Nigeria Airways Elders Forum, confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lagos. Mr Jibodu said the government had…
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Minimum wage: We will not sign any agreement less than N30,000 – Labour
A labour leader, Mr Joe Ajaero, on Tuesday said that the organised labour would never sign any agreement with the Federal Government on new National Minimum Wage which is less than N30, 000. ”N24, 000 can never be the new Minimum Wage for workers. If the government pays it, then it is an award,” Ajaero,…
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New Minimum Wage: Nigerians workers will soon have reasons to smile – FG
The Federal Government on Sunday assured Nigerians of its determination to address the agitation for the upward review of the national minimum wage. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha, made the promise in his remarks at the 22nd Choir Anniversary of the Christ Apostolic Church, Living Water DCC Headquarters, Abuja,…
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New minimum wage will take effect this year, NLC assures Nigerian workers
Peter Ozo-Esan, General Secretary, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has assured Nigerians workers of the payment of the reviewed minimum wage before the end of 2018. Mr Ozo-Esan gave this assurance in an interview with newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja. According to him, in spite of the delay caused by the Sallah break, the tripartite committee…
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139 aid workers killed in 2017 – UN
The UN said 139 aid workers were killed in 2017, 102 wounded and 72 kidnapped in the line of duty, renewing the call for civilians and aid workers everywhere to be better protected. Mark Lowcock, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator and Humanitarian Affairs chief, stated this while remembering all the humanitarians killed in the line of…
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Respite for workers as FAAC releases N668bn to FG, states, LGs to pay salaries
The Federation Accounts and Allocation Committee (FAAC) reached a compromise to release N668.898 billion to the three tiers of government for the month of May, pending the resolution of issues raised by the state governors over remittances from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). The Federal Ministry of Finance on Friday, that, the move was…
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Workers to know new minimum wage in August – TUC
The President of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), Mr Bobboi Kaigama, announced on Wednesday that a new amount agreed on by the Federal Government and labour to serve as Nigeria’s new minimum wage would be announced next month. Bobboi, who made the disclosure in an interview with the labour newsmen in Lagos, said…
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MTN breaks silence, speaks on NLC’s picketing, alleged casualisation of workers
The Human Resource Executive of MTN Nigeria, Esther Akinnukawe, has denied that the telecommunications company engaged casual employees. “We do not have casual employees in MTN; I am not aware that MTN engages in casualisation. “The company partners with `service providers’ to recruit workers,’’ Akinnukawe told journalists on Wednesday on the third day of MTN…
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Pay workers’ salaries before attempting to establish state police – TI tells debtor governors
The Transparency International (TI) has advised states owing its workforce to clear the backlog befire attempting establishment of the proposed state police. The Head of TI Nigeria, Musa Rafsanjani, who stated this on Sunday, said as good as the objectives of state police were, state governments must first be able to pay workers’ salaries, provide…