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The Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress are considering a joint nationwide strike to protest the worsening security situation across the country. Union executives began internal discussions following a string of high-profile mass abductions targeting schools, rural communities, and urban motorists. Organised labour leaders argue that the state’s inability to protect basic lives…
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…
An electrical fault has turned the Nigeria Labour Congress secretariat in Sokoto into a hollowed shell. The fire started at 3 am on Saturday and erased three decades of trade union history in a single morning. Firefighters arrived an hour after the alarm, but the delay proved fatal for the building’s contents. Every computer, printer,…
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 Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria will reconvene in extraordinary session on Tuesday, February 10, 2026, at noon—a summons that carries the unmistakable weight of a chamber seized by political urgency and facing mounting pressure to reconsider a decision that has fractured consensus on a foundational issue of electoral integrity. The announcement…
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,…
Activities across Abuja were largely paralysed on Thursday as the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) threw its full weight behind the ongoing indefinite strike by workers of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA). The NLC said the action, led by the Joint Unions Action Committee (JUAC), was a response to what it described as persistent wage…
