The meeting between the Federal Government and the organised labour last night on the increment in fuel pump price and the electricity tariff on Sunday ended in disarray as the labour leaders walked out of the parley in anger. The labour leaders accused the government of insincerity in the negotiation, alleging that it had got
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The federal government and organized labour have reached a new agreement on electricity tariff. Nigerians will have electricity tariff price reduced to N10.20 per Kwh for the next three months, according to the agreement between the Federal Government and the Organized Labour. It was reported that the latest agreement will take effect on the completion
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Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige has expressed confidence that the strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) would soon be suspended. According to Ngige, the Federal Government was preparing a high-powered delegation from the ministries of Finance, Education, Labour and Employment and the Office of the Accountant General
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The meeting between the Federal Government and Organized Labour to find a common ground on the recent hikes in electricity tariff and pump price of petrol, yesterday in Abuja, ended in deadlock with no fixed date for reconvening. With this development, the prospect of industrial action and mass protest by labour and its allies is
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The Federal Government on Saturday rescheduled the meeting with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) till next Tuesday. The meeting was earlier slated to take place at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Saturday. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, who convened the meeting, told journalists
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President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige to meet with the organised labour on the state of the Nigerian economy and how the situation affects the people. The Minister disclosed this to State House Correspondents on Friday, after briefing the President on the state of his Ministry’s affairs. Ngige said that
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The organised labour has vowed to stage a peaceful protest in order to draw the attention of the world to the ‘sins’ of Governor Nyesom Wike against workers in Rivers State. At a joint press conference on Thursday, organised by the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Ayuba Wabba and his counterpart from
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Alliance for Surviving COVID-19 and Beyond (ASCAB), a coalition of over 70 labour and civil society organisations (CSOs), threatened Federal government with a legal action if it failed to immediately publish the terms and conditions of all loans it has taken so far. The coalition also asked the national assembly to reveal the terms and
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