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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 took their demands to the State House of Assembly where they were received by the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Ab...

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 wage instead of admitting that Nigeria’s existing framework is defective and seeking ways of dismantl...

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 stations thus creating a scarcity of the product in the country. The National Executive Council, NEC, o...

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 executive by way of assent, pitted him and the 7th National Assembly led by Senator David Bonaventure Mar...