Subsidy Removal: TUC seeks FG to increase workers minimum wage to N200,000

…Lists other demands The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has asked for an increase of the national minimum wage from N30,000 to N200,000. The requests by the labour body which has already been forwarded to the Federal Government, is part of conditions being put forward by the labour union to shelve its proposed strike, in the wake of the sudden removal of fuel subsidy by the government. There is also a list of other...

Industrial Court halts planned labour strike, on Wednesday

The National Industrial Court sitting in Abuja, under Justice O. Y Anuwe on Monday restrained the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) from embarking on the planned nationwide strike, scheduled to begin on Wednesday, June 7. Justice Anuwe made the order upon an ex parte application drawn from a suit marked NICN/ABJ/158/2023, dated June 5, and filed by the Federal Government, and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister...

NLC, TUC suspends nationwide strike after meeting with FG

The Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, have suspended their planned nationwide strike earlier scheduled for tomorrow. The decision followed a meeting between the leadership of the labour union and the federal government at the Presidential Villa on Monday night. The NLC, in a statement last Friday, announced a boycott of services nationwide from Wednesday, June 7, 2023, in protest against the sudden removal of petrol subsidy by President Bola Tinubu...

Actress Iyabo Ojo dares Lagos State Govt. to jail her for refusing to pay N18m tax

“You are enjoined to pay a total sum of N18,640,092 to government coffers…within seven days,” reads the letter from the Lagos Internal Revenue Service, LIRS, that made Nollywood actress Iyabo Ojo take to social media to vent her anger on the Lagos State Government. According to the letter dated May 22, 2023, the actress has a tax liability of N7,376,000.00 for the 2022 income year and an outstanding liability of N11,264,092 for 2021 which amounts...

Subsidy removal: Court grants FG’s request to stop NLC, TUC’s nationwide strike

The National Industrial Court of Nigra, NICN, has restrained the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, from embarking on their planned nationwide strike on Wednesday. The NLC, in a statement last Friday, announced a boycott of services nationwide from Wednesday, June 7, 2023, in protest against the removal of petrol subsidy by President Bola Tinubu which has resulted in an upsurge in the price of premium motor spirit, PMS, otherwise known...

Fuel Subsidy: Federal Government To Meet Trade Union Congress

In an effort to avert industrial action by Trade Union Congress (TUC), the Federal Government has adjourned a meeting with TUC leadership tomorrow Tuesday to allow for more consultations. Dele Alake, leader of the Federal Government negotiation team, told newsmen that adoption of the agreement needed President Bola Tinubu’s consideration. “This engagement has been very productive. The TUC that attended today presented a list of demands, which we have studied and will present to Mr....

Hon. Somto Udeze, the honourable member representing Ogbaru II constituency in Anambra State House of Assembly, has rejoined APGA from PDP. Udeze who is coming back to the Assembly to serve his third term in office from June 13th 2023, will be the most ranking member of the Anambra State 8th Assembly. Only recently, Hon. Somto Udeze had admonished Igbo politicians to join hands and build APGA. In what appears as walking his own talk,...

No going back on our proposed strike, NLC vows

The Nigeria Labour Congress has vowed that there is no going back on its proposed industrial action on Wednesday, unless the Federal Government and by extension the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Limited NNPCL does the needful by returning to statusque. Benson Upah, Head of Information and Public Affairs of NLC on Sunday insisted on the position in a press statement he signed on behalf of the organisation. The workers body was reacting to a story in...

FCTA sets to develop bicycle lanes in Abuja metropolis  

The Federal Capital Territory Administration  (FCTA) is set to promote the development of bicycle lanes in the supply of arterial and district infrastructures across the Federal Capital City, Abuja, so as to advance the mitigation of climate change and for the comfort of cyclists, The FCT Permanent Secretary, Mr. Olusade Adesola, provided this guarantee on Saturday, in Abuja, at the start of the 2023 World Bicycle Day, which has as its subject “Cycling – A...

Fuel Price: Civil Society Front backs nationwide strike by labour, CSOs

Following the announcement of removal of fuel subsidy and the subsequent increment in pump price of fuel by the federal government, the Labour – Civil Society Front (LCSF), an umbrella Coalition of Labour Unions, human rights organisations, Civil Society affiliates, faith-based organisations, women-led associations, indigenous bodies and youths movements in Nigeria has declared support for the Wednesday strike and mass action by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the Organised Civil...

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