Workers in the country will not allow the governments at all levels to make them sacrificial lambs of the current economic recession, president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Ayuba Wabba has said. In his New Year message, Wabba said the present minimum wage...

• Calls for thorough investigation of Patience Jonathan, states, LGAs As economic hardship takes a heavy toll on Nigerians, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) confronted President Muhammadu Buhari over the perennial buck passing and blaming of the former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration for the country’s...

...Labour demands wage increase, prompt payment of salary As the economic recession bites harder, spelling acute hardship for Nigerians, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) sunday sought to downplay rising worries over their wellbeing and asked the people to be calm as the economy would...

Former and present Group Managing Directors of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation have expressed fears that the current pump price of N145 per litre is no longer feasible. They said the amount does not correspond with the price-determining components of the commodity and the fluctuations...

Protest against PMS price hike in Abuja NLC President Ayuba Wabba made this known when he featured on the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) forum in Abuja. “We have given instructions to all of our state councils that where there is liability of salary up to...

The 15-man committee inaugurated by the Federal Government of Nigeria on the implementation of the new minimum wage for workers has started sitting in Abuja towards proposing realist wages. Some members of the committee at the weekend said that it had met once. Mr Chris...