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12 Feb
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has demanded an immediate reversal of the 50 per cent tariff hike implemented on Tuesday by telecommunication companies. The NLC lamented that the companies implemented the new tariff despite an earlier agreement reached with the Federal Government and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) that gave birth to a 10-man committee…
11 Feb
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Oyo State Council, on Tuesday, waded into the industrial disharmony between Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) and its outsourced staff over salary increases, pension remittances, and other welfare matters. It would be recalled that the staff had begun last Friday, stemming from the workers' dissatisfaction with their employer's failure to…
11 Feb
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) President, Joe Ajaero, has accused some state governors of neglecting their responsibilities to live in Abuja. Speaking at a town hall meeting with workers in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, Ajaero expressed concern that governance was being compromised as many governors now “live permanently in Abuja.” “We have visited about five…
11 Feb
With constant agitations bordering on safety in the work environment, cost of living and acceptable salary, the social sector is characteristically an arena for continuous contestations as arriving at acceptable grounds can be frustrating.
7 Feb
Amid the burgeoning weight of the present confederacy on the 36 states in Nigeria, groaning under the heavy burden of debts and inability to perform their fiscal responsibilities, the House of Representatives Constitution Review Committee yesterday proposed 31 additional ones to push the states in the country to 67.
4 Feb
Hoodlums in Plateau State, particularly in Jos Metropolis, were disappointed when they learned that the planned nationwide protest over the tariff hike has been suspended for the next two weeks. The shop breakers and looters had positioned themselves at strategic areas around the shops of traders in popular Ahmadu Bello Way and Murtala Way waiting…
4 Feb
The Federal Government (FG) and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) over the proposed 50 per cent hike in telecommunications tariff. This was contained in an MoU reached on Monday at a meeting convened by the federal government and the NLC over the proposed hike in telecom tariff. The…
4 Feb
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) said it suspended its planned one-day protest against a 50 per cent hike in telecom tariffs to allow further dialogue. The NLC was set to begin the protest this morning across the 36 states of the federation, including Abuja. However, following a meeting with government officials at the Office of…
4 Feb
The planned strike by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) kicks off today with prominent civil society organisations withdrawing support for the action. The labour union had called for the strike to protest the 50 per cent hike in telecoms tariffs by the Nigerian Communications Commission
4 Feb
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has suspended plans for a nationwide protest against the telecommunication tariff increase. This was after a meeting with the Federal Government to reach a common ground on the recent 50 per cent increment approved by the Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC). The meeting was presided by the Secretary to the Government…
3 Feb
The Coalition of Human Rights Monitoring Groups (CHRMG) has faulted the Nigeria Labour Congress's (NLC) planned protest against the 50 per cent telecom tariff increase, describing it as "misguided and not in the public interest." The CSOs said the tariff hike, approved by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), is a necessary measure to prevent the…
3 Feb
A Professor of Energy Economics and President of the Nigerian Economic Society (NES), Adeola Adenikinju and a former consultant to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Dr Samson Olalere have faulted the planned increase of electricity tariff.
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The Speaker, Plateau State House of Assembly, Gabriel Dewan (YPP/ Pankshin North), says the house is seeking government intervention to regulate outrageous house rents in Jos-Bukuru metropolis. Dewan made the call in a notice of motion during the assembly plenary on Tuesday in Jos. READ ALSO:Plateau lawmaker calls for more satelite markets The speaker urged…
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The Organising Committee of the Nigerian German Investment and Cultural Expo (NGICE25), says its 2025 expo will promote the existing cultural exchange and economic cooperation between Nigeria and Germany. Dr. Mike Okiro, retired Inspector General of Police and Chairman, NGICE Organizing Committee, stated this when he paid a courtesy visit to the Minister of Arts,…
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Plateau State House of Assembly member, Mr. Mark Sunday (APC/Jos North West), has called for the creation of more satellite and specialised markets to enable microeconomic activities to thrive. Sunday made the call in a notice of motion during the assembly plenary on Tuesday in Jos. The lawmaker told his colleagues that the provision of…