NLC and Politics

The Nigeria Labour Congress is set to Convene her State Delegates Conference in all the states of the Federation including FCT. This is in line with the provision of Article 10 Section 5 of the Nigeria Labour Congress Constitution. Hence, the State Delegate Conference have been scheduled for Thursday 25th …

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ADDRESS BY COMRADE AYUBA WABBA, mni, PRESIDENT OF THE NIGERIA LABOUR CONGRESS (NLC) ON BEHALF OF ORGANIZED LABOUR ON PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI‘S RE-ELECTION   Protocol   On behalf of organized Labour in Nigeria and by extension the entire working people of Nigeria I wish to congratulate you on your re-election …

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PRESS RELEASE ON THE THREAT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WORKERS BY GOVERNOR IBIKUNLE AMOSUN OF OGUN STATE.   PRESS RELEASE Preamble: The leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has taken cognizance of a statement credited to the Governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun, where he threatened to disgrace the leadership …

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. Ogun NLC attention had been drawned to the Public Threat to Organised Labour led by Comrade Ayuba Wabba on National Protest schedule to hold next week Tuesday 5th March in Ogun State a desperate move by a Government whose lies and propangada had been exposed.The sudden vituperations by Senator …

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Press Release                 27/02/19 The Nigeria Labour Congress wishes to congratulate Muhammadu Buhari on his re-election as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, being the second person to get re-elected since the return to civilian rule twenty years ago. We also wish to congratulate other candidates for their participation and urge …

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The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, on Thursday, clarified that President Muhammadu Buhari, did not specify a separate minimum wage for federal workers in the new bill he forwarded to the federal parliament on Wednesday evening. Ekweremadu said Buhari only asked the National Assembly to deliberate on and approve a …

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The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), has frowned at the N27, 000 minimum wage approved for Nigerian workers by the National Council of State. The union was also not comfortable with the Federal Government’s decision to pay its workers N30,000 as minimum wage. The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that …

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The Nigeria Labour Congress said the minimum wage of N27, 000 and N30, 000 approved for state and federal workers was a fragmentation of the wage and therefore, unacceptable. Chairman of the Congress in Anambra State, Mr Jerry Nnubia, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Awka on Tuesday that …

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The Text of an Address by the President of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), Comrade Ayuba Wabba, mni to the 18th Congress of the Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL) I bring very warm greetings from Nigeria and from my own national centre, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), as …

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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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