Nigerian workers and civil servants affiliated with the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress, TUC, stayed off work on Tuesday as a devastating work stoppage rocks Africa’s largest economy. Electricity workers, postal and telecommunications workers, bankers, medical and health workers, maritime workers, courts of law, railway workers, academic staff of tertiary institutions, and local government employees, among others, all joined the strike. The labour unions, NLC and TUC, last Tuesday, November 7, made...

The presidency has described the planned strike action by the Nigerian Labour Congress NLC and Trade Union Congress TUC as ‘illegal, immoral, unjustifiable and irresponsible’. Bayo Onanuga, the special adviser to the President on information and strategy stated this in a statement on Monday. He said the labour unions’ decision to embark on a national work strike despite a court order restraining them from doing so is an ‘abuse of privilege.’ Read Onanuga’s statement below....

The National Assembly, NASS, on Monday, received eight brand new coaster buses from the NASS clerk, Magaji Tambuwal. Tambuwal donated the vehicles to the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria, PASAN, to cater for the transport needs of the staff given the soaring cost of transportation. The deputy Senate president, Senator Barau Jibrin, commissioned the buses. Jibrin said the gesture demonstrates the commitment of the Godswill Akpabio-led 10th NASS in addressing the wellbeing of staff. He...

The Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, and its sister union, the Trade Union Congress, TUC, are going ahead with their planned nationwide strike despite being barred from doing so by the National Industrial Court in Abuja last Friday. The strike is to protest the battering of the NLC President Joe Ajaero by security agents in Imo State on November 1 as well as the “infractions and encroachments on the rights” of civil servants in the State...