Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has said that his administration was working towards cushioning the effects of the prevailing economic hardship in the country on workers in the state. Senator Diri stated this on Tuesday while addressing chairman of the state chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Barnabas Simon, who led…
NLC and TUC Announce Nationwide Shutdown Starting October 3 to Protest Nigeria’s Current State The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have declared a nationwide strike beginning on October 3rd as a demonstration against the state of the nation. The unions expressed disappointment over the government’s absence of strategies to reduce…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) stated that it is not satisfied with the pledges made by President Bola Tinubu in his recent address to the nation. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu The NLC said Tinubu, through his speech, appeared to be out of touch with reality and anomalous with the hardship and suffering that most Nigerians…
“The meeting was an opportunity for us to appeal to the labour leaders by extension Nigerians that we are facing difficulties and challenges that are not our making. We inherited a very bad situation. Most of the problems people are talking about are not a creation of this government. This government is barely two months old and since we have been facing these difficulties and challenges, we have a listening and engaging President, a president who will want to have a conversation and react.
