NLC and Politics

Members of the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN) have vowed to resist any attempt by the federal government to privatise public hospitals in the country. The union’s president, Biobelemoye Josiah, stated this while donating items worth N2million to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Durumi, Abuja. …

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  The Nigeria Labour Congress is to liase with the International Trade Union Congress to place names of governors in the states where workers are being owed salaries and pensions for several months on a “watch list”. NAN reports that the ITUC is the world’s largest trade union federation. It was …

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All Industrial Unions All NLC State Councils This is to inform you that the Organised Labour shall commence nation-wide warning strike in respect of the non-implementation of the National Minimum Wage, effective from Midnight of Wednesday, 26th September, 2018. All Industrial Unions and all State Councils are to commence mobilisation …

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A former Ondo State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, has declared his intention to contest the 2019 presidential election on the platform of the Labour Party. Mimiko made his intention known at an event at the national headquarters of the Abdulsalam Abdulkadir-led LP, in Abuja, on Thursday. But the Nigeria Labour …

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  The Nigeria Labour Congress wishes to sympathise with the government and people of Nasarawa State and victims of gas explosion in Lafia, Nasarawa State which claimed scores of lives and destroyed properties worth fortunes. It was a traumatic, awful and tragic experience. The victims, majority of whom were either …

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Press Briefing on the State of the Nation by the Nlc President National Minimum Wage The Congress President Comrade Wabba mni,during a state of the nation press conference spoke on a number of key issues, starting with the struggle for the new minimum wage, He said that over 21 state …

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TUESDAY, May 1, 2018, was May Day all over the world. It is the day set aside to mark the struggles, pains, victories, contributions and aspirations of the working peoples. Here in Nigeria, in spite of the peculiar security, economic and political situation, workers still trooped out under the Organised …

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The National Pension Commission on Thursday said the implementation of the multi-fund investment structure for all active contributors under the Contributory Pension Scheme would commence on July 1 this year. The Head, Investment Supervision Department, PenCom, Mr. Ohioma Ehimeme, said this at a workshop with the theme, ‘Contributory Pension Scheme: …

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The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, on Sunday said that the letter that she wrote to the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, was to improve control over recovered funds. Adeosun said in a statement issued by her Media Adviser, Oluyinka Akintunde, that contrary …

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President Muhammadu Buhari has given agencies, parastatals and government-owned companies up until Friday to submit the details of their budgets to the National Assembly for consideration in accordance with the law. He also directed heads of the agencies to honour invitation from the National Assembly to defend their budgets without …

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