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- 19 Dec 2023
NLC Says Cash Scarcity Shameful, Warns FG of Mass Protest
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has described the current scarcity of naira being experienced by Nigerians as shameful, saying excuses would no longer suffice. NLC also asked the federal government and…
- 3 Feb 2025
NLC Calls Off Planned Protest over 50 Percent Telecom Tariff Hike
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called off its planned protest against the 50 per cent increase in telecom tariffs. Joe Ajaero, president, NLC, The labour union announced the protest last week,…
- 9 Sept 2015
NLC Calls for Death Penalty against Corrupt Officials
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and Civil Society on Tuesday advocated for capital punishment against corrupt officials as obtained in China and India. Ayuba Wabba, NLC…
- 3 Jan 2017
NLC Seeks FG Partnership to Curb Outsourcing of Jobs in Telecom Sector
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) says it will collaborate with the Federal Government to stop out-sourcing of jobs in the telecom sector, among others. Mr Ayuba Wabba, the NLC President, said this in a…
- 29 Jan 2025
NLC Mobilises for Nationwide Protest Feb. 4 over Telecom Tariff Hike
Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) Wednesday announced February 4, 2025, as the date to embark on a nationwide protest against the 50 percent telecommunications services tariff hike in the country. Joe…
- 10 Jul 2018
NLC Offers Reasons for Picketing MTN
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday said that it decided to picket all MTN offices nationwide because of the unfriendly Labour practice of the company, saying no amount of blackmail will…
- 15 Apr 2015
Check-Off Dues: NLC to Picket NIPOST – Official
Mr Sunday Alhassan, the President, Nigeria Union of Postal Telecommunication Employees (NUPTE), said the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) would soon picket the office of the Nigerian Postal Service…
- 16 Mar 2012
CNSSL Decries NLC’s Picketing MTN Call Centre in Jos
CNSSL, MTN call centre operator in Jos has decried the picketing of MTN Call Centre in Rayfield, Jos by officials of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) last week. Their stated mission was to protest…
- 9 Jul 2018
MTN Reacts as NLC Pickets Firm over Anti-Labour Laws
MTN Nigeria, has berated Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), for picketing its corporate head office in Lagos and other operational offices across the country over alleged refusal to allow its employees…
- 3 Mar 2025
NLC Fumes Over Telecom, Electricity Tariff Hikes
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has alerted its affiliates to prepare for a possible nationwide protest over the recent hike in telecommunications service tariffs and the proposed electricity band…
- 7 Aug 2018
NLC Accuses NCC, MTN of Undermining National Security
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has accused the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) of aiding telecommunications giant, MTN Nigeria to disobey extant Nigerian laws and international Labour…
- 27 May 2021
NLC to Strike if FG Implements Proposed N408.5/Litre Fuel Price
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has opposed the proposal by the Nigeria Governors Forum(NGF) that price of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, be raised from N162/litre to N408.5/litre. The…
- 26 Feb 2024
NLC Threatens Total Shutdown If Protesters Are Attacked
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has threatened to shut down its services all over the country if labour members are attacked during its planned two-day protest beginning February 27, 2024. The Labour,…
- 25 Mar 2013
NLC Sends SOS to Aero Contractor over 655 Sacked Workers
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has sent save our souls (SOS) message to the management of Aero Contractor airline to recall its 655 workers sacked on March 17. This is contained in a statement signed…
- 10 Oct 2017
NLC Pickets MTN, Others for Maltreating Workers
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), said that it picketed the corporate headquarters of MTN and the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB), because of their anti-labour activities and inhuman…
- 31 Jan 2025
PTECSSAN Urges NLC to Reevaluate Tariff Hike opposition
Private Telecommunications and Communications Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PTECSSAN) has called on the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to reevaluate its opposition to the proposed 50 per cent…
- 23 Jan 2025
NLC Announces Nationwide Boycott over Telecom Hike
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), an umbrella group for trade unions, has announced that Nigerians are planning a statewide boycott of telecom services in protest of the Nigerian Communications…
- 13 Jan 2025
NLC Shuts Lagos TV, Radio Stations over non-Implementation of N85,000 Minimum Wage
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Lagos State chapter has shut down normal operations of Lagos Television, Eko FM/Radio Lagos and Lagos Traffic Radio in protest over the non-implementation of the…
- 17 Aug 2018
NLC May Picket NCC over Telcos ‘excesses’
Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC), may risk picketing of its premises by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) if the NCC fails to address what it described as excess of telecommunications services…
- 15 Dec 2023
NLC Calls World Bank Enemy of Nigeria for Proposing ₦750/litre for Petrol
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has labelled the World Bank an enemy of the Nigerian nation following the financial institution's proposal to the Federal Government that Premium Motor Spirit (PMS),…
- 16 Sept 2018
NLC Urges NCC, EFCC, Others to Probe MTN’s Operations in Nigeria
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Sunday asked government agencies to closely monitor the operations of MTN Nigeria, in the light of the Thabo Mbeki report on illicit financial flow. Ayuba Wabba,…
- 16 Jun 2016
NLC Threatens to Close Banks over Mass Sack
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Wednesday, issued a 14-day ultimatum, starting from Thursday to six banks “to immediately recall all workers so sacked, and allow unionisation of workers in the banks,…
- 25 Aug 2020
NLC Battles Chevron over Sack of 175 Workers via Whatsapp
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called on the federal government to urgently halt the sack of about one hundred of seventy five Nigerians working with Chevron across the country via whatsapp…
- 24 Aug 2015
Reps Get N46, 000 Daily as Newspaper Allowance- NLC President
Mr Ayuba Wabba, president, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has advised members of the National Assembly to reduce their salaries and allowances in line with the present economic reality in the…
- 11 Jul 2018
ATCON Bemoans NLC for Picketing MTN Offices
The Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) has berated the recent demonstration by the Nigerian Labour Congress in front of MTN’s headquarters and branches nationwide. …
- 12 Jul 2018
NLC’s Destruction of MTN Infrastructures Violates Global ILO Rule -Okigbo
Tobechukwu Okigbo, Corporate Relations Executive, MTN Nigeria, has reiterated MTN’s condemnation on the violence that characterized the three-day picketing of its offices by the Nigerian Labour…
- 7 Feb 2025
ATICEN Commends NLC for Suspending Strike over Telecoms Tariff Hike
Comrade Adede John Williams, president of the Association of Telecommunications, Information Technology, Cable Satellite Network Operators and Allied Services Employers’of Nigeria (ATICEN), has…
- 9 Jul 2018
ALTON Expresses Worry Over Picketing of MTN Offices by NLC
Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) has expressed concerns over the picketing of the offices and disruption of operations of MTN Nigeria one of its members.…
- 22 Oct 2021
Labour to Launch Online TV Platform
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said that it will soon inaugurate its online television to enable Nigerian workers tell their own stories. Ayubba Waba, president, NLC, who stated this at the 40th…
- 27 Mar 2025
Again, Labour Fumes, Threatens Shutdown of Telcos over Non-Implementation of 15 Percent Tariff Reduction
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) is threatening to shut down operations of telecommunications companies over their refusal to comment on the 15 percent reduction in telecom tariffs. Recall that that…