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Minimum wage removal: Plateau workers protest, say bill is anti-people Published Workers under the aegis of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Plateau State on Wednesday took to streets to protest against the bill seeking to move national minimum wage from exclusive to concurrent list. The workers also said removal of the minimum wage from the exclusive to concurrent list was anti-workers and must be discarded. DAILY POST reports that workers in their numbers to...

Vanguard News [Breaking] Minimum Wage: NLC to embark on nationwide protest on Wednesday On By Johnbosco Agbakwuru, ABUJA THE Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and its allies will on Wednesday, embark on a nationwide protest over the alleged attempts by some elements at the National Assembly to remove the Minimum Wage from the Exclusive Legislative List to the Concurrent Legislative List.

Vanguard News PGF DG condemns NLC’s silence on restructuring, food blockade On By Omeiza Ajayi, ABUJA Director-General of the Progressive Governors’ Forum PGF, Salihu Moh. Lukman has condemned the silence of organised labour amidst debates regarding restructuring and in the face of the recent food blockade from the North to the South. Lukman in a lengthy statement on Sunday in Abuja said the Nigeria Labour Congress NLC is fixated on having a non-implementable, uniform, national minimum wag...

Vanguard News NLC threatens strike over minimum wage On *Nationwide protest holds March 10 *Also threatens to picket filling stations over the hoarding of petrol, artificial fuel scarcity By Joseph Erunke, ABUJA THE Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Tuesday, threatened that it would mobilize Nigerian workers to embark on industrial action over an alleged attempt to transfer minimum wage to the concurrent list. It also threatened to picket fuel station over alleged hoarding of petrol by filling sta...

Nwodo, Adebanjo, Jega Outline Benefits, Modalities For about his first time of mounting the rostrum to speak on the contentious issue after leaving office, immediate past President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has challenged the National Assembly to bow to the wishes of Nigerians as it undertakes another review of the 1999 constitution. x When he was in office as President, the issue of whether the amended constitution should receive the final blessing of the execu...

Restructuring In Nigeria: Why? How? When?, By Attahiru M. Jega 13 min read Effort and energies need to be devoted to generating an elite, if not a national, consensus on the necessity of restructuring, defined as the redistribution of power and resources from the federal to the state governments, to be embarked upon before 2023. The embedded imbalance, inequities and perceived injustices in the current federal system in Nigeria have to be addressed as soon as possible to enable ...

Members of Nigeria’s House of Representatives literarily found themselves swimming against the tide last week. This was evident in the grumbles of some |

Senator Ali Ndume is a lawmaker never shy to throw his hat in the ring anytime the issue of Boko Haram is raised for conversation. Marked by unrestrained destruction of lives and property, the Boko Haram insurgency in North-east States of Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe has been a gory tale stretching over a decade. This sad experience has also seen to the displacement of over a million people in some towns and communities in the troubled States. And, beyond this is the pitiable breakdown of social an...

Punch Newspapers Sections Leke Baiyewu, Abuja The Federal Government may soon lose its exclusive power to negotiate and determine the minimum wage for workers across the three tiers of government. The House of Representatives is considering an amendment to the 1999 Constitution by removing matters relating to wages from the Exclusive Legislative List to the Concurrent Legislative List. When a bill becomes law, respective states and local governments will determine different wages for their work...

Share THE planned amendment of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (CFRN) 1999(as amended) is not the appropriate response to the ongoing clamour of the people of Nigeria for true federalism. The simple reason is that the CFRN 1999 is more of a unitary constitution which has been found to be unsatisfactory and unworkable in a federation. The wave of clamour for true federalism is a reflection of the frustrations of Nigerians with the 1999 Constitution which is simply not working...