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1 month ago | 
newsheadlines.com.ng | Henry Umoru |Victor Ahiuma-Young
By Henry Umoru & Victor Ahiuma-YoungABUJA — Senate President Godswill Akpabio, yesterday came under fire from the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Trade Union Congress, TUC, and Nigeria Employers Consultative Association, NECA, over his comments that only 30 per cent of Nigerians pay tax but want more from the government.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
allafrica.com | Victor Ahiuma-Young |Wole Mosadomi |Johnbosco Agbakwuru |Emmanuel Elebeke
The Federal government has set up a committee of stakeholders to unravel the remote and immediate cause of Saturday's Petrol Tanker accident at Dikko Junction, Dikko-Maje Minna road, Gurara Local Government, LGA, Niger State. While the death toll yesterday rose to 86, 55 other persons were confirmed injured and 80 corpses were recovered and given mass burial at Dikko Primary Health Center premises.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Victor Ahiuma-Young
The Federal Government has been urged to reform its economic policies and implement practical measures to reduce the high cost of living and alleviate the hardship faced by Nigerians.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Adesina Wahab |Victor Ahiuma-Young |Johnbosco Agbakwuru
...Varsity workers to resume suspended strike over withheld salariesThe Congress of University Academics, CONUA, has protested its exclusion from the list of university staff unions the Federal Government wants to meet to re-negotiate the 2009 agreement reached with the unions.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Victor Ahiuma-Young
As the economic crisis confronting Nigeria worsens, the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, has given insight into how workers can be liberated for the quagmire.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
newsheadlines.com.ng | Victor Ahiuma-Young
By Victor Ahiuma-Young As the economic crisis confronting Nigeria worsens, the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, has given insight into how workers can be liberated for the quagmire.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
theafrica.co.za | Victor Ahiuma-Young
as 1.6m Nigerians remain in forced labour By Victor Ahiuma-Young About 1.6 million Nigerians have been recorded as working under forced labour, as the International Labour Organisation, ILO, said freeing people from forced labour and reintegrating them into the mainstream workforce could lead to a $611 billion demand-driven rise in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) globally including Nigeria.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
newsheadlines.com.ng | Victor Ahiuma-Young
By Victor Ahiuma-Young Few days ago, stakeholders in the nation’s industrial relations sector gathered in Lagos to examine the “Challenges of Nigeria’s Economic Downturn: Survival Options for Workers.’’ The event was the 2024 annual capacity building workshop organised by the Labour Writers’ Association of Nigeria, LAWAN, which attracted, the National Pension Commission, PenCom, Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, Nigeria Employers Consultative Association,...
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Victor Ahiuma-Young
Last Month President Bola Tinubu signed into law the N70,000 new National Minimum Wage Act. Though, some states have begun discussion on the consequential adjustment arising from the new wage ahead of its implementation, most states even the Federal Government are yet to begin implementation as the consequential adjustment has to be agreed on.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Victor Ahiuma-Young
·Abia, Taraba, Zamfara still paying pre-2019 wage·Old wage expired March 31There are strong indications that workers will wait for a longer time to receive a new national minimum wage as negotiations have stalled amid excruciating economic hardship and mass suffering in the country. In fact, the delay is allegedly caused by the Federal Government.
