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The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has called on the incoming administration of President-Elect Bola Tinubu to immediately commence discussions on the review of the minimum wage in Nigeria after its…
The Federal Government says it will start the process of reviewing the national minimum wage on January 23. The review comes after President Muhammadu Buhari signed the minimum wage act in 2019, which set the minimum…
The Labour Party, LP, says it would implement a minimum wage of N80,000-N100,000 if its party is elected in the forthcoming 2023 presidential election. Recall that the Labour Party had, a few days ago, unveiled its…
The federal government says it will raise workers’ minimum wage to meet the current realities in the economy of the country. The minister of labour and employment, Chris Ngige, disclosed this on Monday, at the Nigeria…
The Nigerian labour unions have expressed their disapproval over the decision of the state governors to pay only within their capacity as regards the N30,000 minimum wage. Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF)…
The payment of the N30,000 minimum wage is to be effected on or before December 31, 2019, as the Ministry of Finance has been directed by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) yesterday to make the decision happen. The…
The Federal Government and Organized Labour have reached an agreement on the consequential adjustments of the new minimum wage implementation. The deal was made in the early hours of Friday, October 18, 2019, and both…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has issued a statement saying that it did not give any strike notice if an agreement between them and the Federal Government wasn’t reached over the implementation of the new minimum…
Ahead of the looming strike from the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the Plateau State chapter of the Union has stated its readiness to join the planned nationwide action should talks between the Federal Government and…
Here are some of the Budget 2020 Allocations to MDAs. showing the highest going to Babatunde Fashola and Rotimi Amaechi's Ministries of Works & Housing and Transportation respectively. Education: N48bn Power: N127bn…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have threatened to embark on a nationwide strike from October 16 if the Federal Government fails to meet with them over the issue of the new minimum…
The meeting between the Federal Government and the Joint National Public Service Negotiation Council (JNPSNC) over the N30,000 minimum wage has ended in a deadlock. The minimum wage had been signed into law on April 18,…
The Federal Government of Nigeria is expected to generate not less than N2 trillion into the coffers in 2020 when he Value Added Tax (VAT) recently increased to 7.2 per cent is implemented. Going by the increasing…
The proposed increment of Value Added Tax (VAT) from 5 percent to 7.2 percent has drawn condemnation from Nigerians. The Minister of Finance, Budget and Planning, Zainab Ahmed, making the disclosure at the Federal…
The organised labour has dismissed insinuations that the Federal Government was not sincere enough to implement the new minimum wage of N30,000. The President-General of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Mr Bobboi…
Iyabo Obasanjo writes: I am a terminal optimist; ‘a believer’ in Nigeria’s future greatness, that is why three years ago, I would not have believed a bag of rice could be sold for the national minimum wage. With 87…
The Students' Union Action Committee of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) has said Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo should not bother to honour the invitation to attend a programme at the Department of Fine and Applied…
The Presidency has frowned at the misinterpretation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s remarks when he received the report of the Tripartite Committee on the Review of National Minimum Wage from the committee’s chairman,…
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has called off the nationwide industrial action initially scheduled to commence on November 6 to further press for workers’ demand for new national minimum wage. The President of the…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will today begin an indefinite nationwide strike while Labour warms up for tomorrow deadline. The disclosure followed a meeting with leaders of the union held at the…
