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Nov 11, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Victor Ahiumayoung
The Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, and the Senior Staff Association of Statutory Corporation and Government-Owned Companies, SSASCGOC, have decried the delay in finalising the pensions for aged seafarers from the defunct Nigerian National Shipping Line, NNSL.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Victor Ahiumayoung |Henry Umoru |Dickson Omobola
Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Pan-Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, have urged the Federal Government agencies investigating the helicopter crash in Port Harcourt to do a thorough job. Last Thursday, a helicopter operated by East Wind Aviation ditched into the Bonny River in Rivers State resulting in the death of eight individuals, six contract staff of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Limited, NNPCL, and two crew members.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Victor Ahiumayoung
Leaders of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and their Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, counterparts, have demanded an end to the recurring increases in the price of petrol to allow Nigerians to breathe. The two labour centres also asked the government to jettison and overhaul all policies that had led to the current economic crisis inflicting unprecedented hunger, suffering and outrageous inequality across the country.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Victor Ahiumayoung
The Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) has decried the nonpayment of nine months of salaries owed to its members employed by the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria, CRFFN. The union has called on the federal government to intervene and ensure the payment of the salary arrears without further delay to avoid an industrial crisis.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Victor Ahiumayoung |Johnbosco Agbakwuru |Gift Chapiodekina
*Labour to be incorporated into economic council *FG to meet govs on full implementation of minimum wage this OctoberThe Federal Government and Organised Labour, yesterday, agreed on modalities to crash transport fares and prices of essential commodities, especially foodstuffs.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Victor Ahiumayoung
The Nigeria Employers Consultative Association, NECA, has given insight into challenges facing the manufacturing sector leading to the closure of some companies and exit of some multinational companies from Nigeria. Newly elected President of NECA, Ifeanyi Okoye, in a chat said: "There are a lot of issues that are bothering manufacturers in this country. One of the major aspects of the economic problems that most manufacturers have is infrastructures.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Victor Ahiumayoung |Johnbosco Agbakwuru |Luminous Jannamike
More details have emerged on how pressure from Labour, civil society organisations and other bodies, both local and international, forced the government to release the NLC President, Joe Ajaero. Ajaero was arrested and detained by the DSS at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja. He was en route to the United Kingdom, UK, where he was scheduled to attend and address the Congress of the Trade Union Congress, TUC, of Britain.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Dapo Akinrefon |Victor Ahiumayoung |Olasunkanmi Akoni
Lagos — The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and former Vice President, Abubakar Atiku, weekend, warned that the increase in petrol price by the federal government has put most Nigerians at a breaking point. This came as human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, SAN, yesterday urged the Federal Government to ensure the completion of rehabilitation of the nation's refineries by September 2024 or take legal action against the contractors for breaching their contracts.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Udeme Akpan |Victor Ahiumayoung |Obas Esiedesa |Peter Duru
Lagos — There were indications, yesterday, that the petrol shortage in the country will not end soon as $6 billion debt to petrol suppliers, lack of liquidity and other issues have put pressure on the Federal Government's capacity to sustain the importation of the product. This is even as oil marketers said they had not been able to import the product due to the high foreign exchange rate of $1,500/$, which has increased the landing cost of the product to more than N1,100 per litre.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Victor Ahiumayoung
...as Labour, employers sign agreementThe Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, and shipping companies under the aegis of the Shipping, Shipping Agencies, Clearing and Forwarding Employers Association, SACFEA, have signed an agreement on minimum standards for the conditions of service for workers in the shipping industry.
