…Says Current Wage Can’t Meet Basic Needs The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, is demanding a significant increase in the national minimum wage to ₦615,000, arguing that the current minimum wage of ₦30,000, set in 2019, is no longer enough to afford basic necessities due to Nigeria’s rising cost of living. On 1st May 2024, the national Workers’ Day, NLC President Joe Ajaero announced the demand at a televised interview. The NLC is urging the federal...

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said that the impact of the 25 and 35 percent range of increase in salaries announced by President Bola Tinubu for Federal civil servants will be eroded by rising inflation. It will be recalled that the Federal Government has approved an increase in salaries across various salary structures in a move aimed at boosting the welfare of civil servants. The increase, ranging between 25% and 35%, will apply to...

…Threaten To Petition National Human Rights Commission Scores of Kogi youths trooped out in Abuja, on May Day in a solidarity walk to protest the handling of the much-publicized allegations of corruption against the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), especially as regards the involvement of the former Governor’s children. The youths condemned what they described as the systematic violation of the constitutional rights of...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has reassured Nigerian workers of the government’s commitment to improving their welfare. While congratulating the workers on the occasion of May Day celebration, the party in a press statement signed on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, Esq, applauded the resilience, sacrifice, diligence and patriotism of Nigerian workers and celebrated their invaluable contributions to the building and sustenance of the nation’s economic life. The statement read, “Nigerian workers...

No fewer than 6,000 Nigerian refugees from Chad and Cameroon would be repatriated. Tijani Ahmed, Federal Commissioner of the National Commission for Refugee, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), disclosed this in Abuja on Tuesday at the end of a Technical Working Group (TWG) meeting on the voluntary repatriation of Nigerian refugees. Ahmed said 6,000 people would be returned from Chad while the number to be repatriated from Cameroon would be determined before the start...

Climate change, unsustainable agricultural practices, and population growth have been identified as challenges facing the Northern region. This is contained in a communique read by the chairman of the Northern States Governors Forum and governor of Gombe State, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya at the end of the NSGF meeting in Kaduna on Tuesday. Part of the communique reads: “The Forum noted that Human Capital Development is critical to the progress and prosperity of the region and...