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More than a decade after the privatisation of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria, Nigeria’s electricity sector remains trapped in a cycle of stagnation, mismanagement, and institutional failure — and the country’s most prominent labour voice is pulling no punches about why. Joe Ajaero, President of the Nigeria Labour Congress and General Secretary…
Nigeria’s organised labour marked the 2026 May Day celebrations with a grim assessment of the national economy. Leaders of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress warned that rampant insecurity and deepening poverty now act as a blockade to decent work. When citizens cannot travel safely, markets fail. Agricultural output has stalled because…
The Nigeria Labour Congress has called on the Federal Government to deploy projected oil revenue windfall from the ongoing Middle East crisis to protect Nigerian workers and citizens from the economic impact of petrol prices that have surged to between N1,170 and N1,300 per litre across the country. In a statement issued Thursday by…
The Nigeria Labour Congress has petitioned the Federal Government over what it described as a planned ₦20bn “emergency refurbishment” contract within the Transmission Company of Nigeria, warning that the move could drain public resources and further weaken the country’s already fragile electricity transmission infrastructure. In a letter dated Sunday and addressed to the Minister…
The Nigeria Labour Congress has drawn a clear line in the sand over what it views as the Senate’s deliberate obfuscation on a fundamental pillar of electoral credibility: whether the nation’s votes will be electronically transmitted from polling units to the Independent National Electoral Commission in real time. In a statement issued on Sunday,…
