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With just four days to the scheduled commencement of Nigeria’s sweeping tax reforms, tensions are mounting as organised labour, small businesses and employers’ groups warn of resistance, while manufacturers have declared support for the new laws. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has threatened a nationwide revolt over the planned January 1, 2026 implementation of the…
You As Christians across Nigeria marked Christmas, state governors used the season to preach love, unity and peaceful coexistence, while the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) struck a more urgent tone—calling for fairness, collective resistance and an end to policies it says deepen hardship for ordinary citizens. Across the states, governors framed Christmas as a moment…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has warned that Nigerian workers and the wider population are grappling with the worst survival crisis in the country’s history, driven by soaring inflation, worsening insecurity, poor wages, and the collapse of social protection systems. According to the labour congress, the condition of Nigerian workers has deteriorated so badly that…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on 16 May 2021 plunged Kaduna State into total darkness as workers protest the current hardliner posture of the state government on labour issues. Schools, banks, and other critical institutions in the state were directed to shut down. Air and rail transport services were also suspended. Over 15 different unions…
Consternation is already buzzing over the Federal Government’s hint of a slash in the salaries of civil servants. Zainab Ahmed, the Minister of Finance, had made the disclosure that the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission had been directed to identify steps that may involve a reduction in the salaries of workers and employees of…
Recently, a bill seeking an amendment to the 1999 Constitution by removing matters relating to wages from the Exclusive Legislative List to the Concurrent Legislative List, narrowly passed its second reading. The legislation is titled ‘A Bill for an Act to Alter the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) to, Among…
