Blackout looms as Nigerian electricity workers join labour unions’ planned strike
The electricity workers' strike could throw the country into darkness, given their critical roles in electricity distribution in the country.
The electricity workers' strike could throw the country into darkness, given their critical roles in electricity distribution in the country.
Some of the civil servants, who were heard chanting “Umahi Must Go,” accused the minister of being insensitive to the ...
Mr Abbas said the strike, if embarked upon, will aggravate the current economic challenges facing the nation.
Another meeting has been scheduled for a later date.
The NLC had alleged that the executive arm gave each of the 469 federal lawmakers N100 million as palliatives.
The tribunal had fixed Wednesday to deliver judgement in a petition filed against the election of the senator representing Ogun ...
Banks and public hospitals were shut but senior civil servants were at their duty posts across the South-west.
NLC, in a communique issued after its National Executive meeting on 31 August, announced a two-day warning strike from 5 ...
The taskforce spokesperson says officers of the units were “not posted out today for environmental or traffic operations.”
The union accused the Nigerian government of failure to implement some of its resolutions from previous meetings.
The NLC alleged that Mr Gbajabiamila refused to hold a negotiation meeting with them, a development that makes the demands ...
The move, launched at the National Industrial Court in Abuja, seeks to have the labour leaders jailed for their alleged ...
The meeting was held hours after the labour leaders led Nigerian workers in protests across the country over the increasing ...
Deputy Governor of Enugu State, Ifeanyi Ossai, addressed the protesters.
Similar protests are taking place in other parts of Nigeria.
The Lagos State government pledges to look into demand and respond soon.
NLC members on Wednesday occupied the National Assembly complex to protest against the hardship inflicted on Nigerians as a result ...
The protesters complained that they can no longer feed their families, transport themselves to their various workplaces and that the ...
"Our review of today's broadcast by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu leaves us with the impression that the promises and assurances ...
The Justice Ministry restates its warning against the NLC strike over the subsidy removal in a letter addressed to NLC's ...
The workers and pensioners were drawn from the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC), Nigeria Union of Pensioners ...
The meeting was part of the process of arriving at sustainable decisions on the palliatives to be provided for Nigerians.
The warning came hours after the NLC issued notice to begin a nationwide strike on 2 August amid an astronomical ...
NLC has reportedly given the federal government seven days to address its demands, failing which it will embark on strike ...
President Bola Tinubu had on Wednesday forwarded a bill to the National Assembly seeking to amend the 2022 Supplementary Act.
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