Peters Adeyemi
16 Apr 2019
Once again, cacophony of voices against the removal of fuel subsidy is reverberating. The chief instigator is not even at the scene of the action (Nigeria), but far away in Washington DC, the capital of the most powerful nation in the world...
19 Feb 2019
The 12th delegates conference of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), may have taken place without rancour and acrimony, but delegates’ expectations from their new leaders in the next four years silently showed on their faces. As the delegates moved round from one seat to another conferring with their colleagues, how to improve the working condition…
6 Nov 2018
As the drum of another national strike action gets louder, the Federal Government has taken two steps to show its readiness to reduce industrial strike action to the barest minimum.
28 Sep 2018
The warning strike declared by the organised labour was observed in part across the country yesterday. Labour is demanding N65,000 as a national minimum wage, up from the current N18,000.
28 Jun 2018
There are indications that the International Labour Organisation (ILO) might sanction Nigeria over industrial infractions by Kaduna and Kogi states.The Deputy President of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Peters Adeyemi, who stated this in an exclusive interview with The Guardian in Abuja
6 Feb 2018
The three unions in the 67 research and allied institutions in the country would stage a mass protest at the National Assembly today, Tuesday, over their unpaid N9billion by the Federal Government.
25 Jan 2018
The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) has vowed to sustain the on-going strike action in the research and development institutions across the country.
14 Nov 2017
Workers of research institutes and allied institutions in the country have begun an indefinite strike over Federal Government’s non-implementation of agreement between them.
7 Nov 2017
The Public Service International (PSI) has developed a five-year plan to confront implementation of privatisation policy in developing countries of the world.
26 Sep 2017
The Public Service International (PSI) has concluded arrangements to begin the implementation of trade union projects in indigent countries in Africa.
20 Sep 2017
The non-academic staff unions in the universities are today meeting with the Federal Government to decide on their demands.
28 Aug 2017
Adeyemi, who is also Deputy President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), said that addressing the issues concurrently would be easy for government since most of the issues canvassed by the academic and non-academic unions are similar.
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