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Guest Columnist By Sam Amadi The organized labor is in a tangle with legislators over a pending bill to remove labor relations, particularly, minimum wage from the Executive Legislative List of the Constitution and put it on the Concurrent List. This will make it illegitimate for the federal government to impose a national minimum wage on states that are incapable or willingto pay same. This proposed legislation rides on concerns about federalism and the need for component states of the federation to be freed from constitutional centralization. Expectedly, organized labor is not taken in by a...

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...

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 and economic activities. Ndume literarily wept last week as he, again, took the driver’s seat to lam...