The Journal seeks to become the most reliable, first-choice Pan-Nigerian information and public knowledge platform. The Journal Nigeria is a serious Journalism from an African Worldview
The Journal seeks to become the most reliable, first-choice Pan-Nigerian information and public knowledge platform. The Journal Nigeria is a serious Journalism from an African Worldview
The disagreement between Nigeria’s two central labour bodies deepened on Monday as the Trade Union Congress president, Festus Osifo, insisted that the Nigeria Labour Congress has no power to negotiate workers’ salaries and allowances without the TUC at the table. Osifo spoke on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief as the row over the Federal Government’s…
The Federal Government approved a ₦70,000 monthly transport allowance for federal public servants on Tuesday to quiet mounting industrial anger. Labour leaders threatened a nationwide strike before signing the conciliation agreement in Abuja with Minister of Labour Muhammad Maigari Dingyadi. The temporary intervention runs for six months starting in November, handing individual workers a total…
The Nigeria Labour Congress warned on Thursday, 1 October 2026, that runaway inflation has completely wiped out the purchasing power of the statutory 70,000 naira national minimum wage. Speaking in Abuja as the country marked its sixty-sixth year of independence, labour president Joe Ajaero accused President Bola Tinubu’s administration of abandoning breadwinners to cruel market…
Nigeria’s organised labour and main opposition leaders mounted fresh pressure on President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday, 16 September 2026, demanding urgent relief after petrol pump prices hit fresh peaks across the federation. The Nigeria Labour Congress called on the federal government to grant immediate wage awards to workers and supply crude to domestic refineries in…
Organised labour has reopened its bitter wage fight with the federal government. The Nigeria Labour Congress wants a minimum monthly wage of 500,000 naira for public workers. Union leaders argue that the existing 70,000 naira floor cannot survive relentless inflation. Skyrocketing food prices and soaring transport fares eroded worker buying power completely. High energy tariffs…
The Nigeria Labour Congress has declared absolute solidarity with the ongoing nationwide strike action organized by the Nigeria Union of Teachers. Labour President Joe Ajaero issued a stern warning to the federal and state governments regarding the unchecked expansion of the domestic kidnapping industry. The central union described the academic shutdown as a vital and…
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…