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The Trade Union Congress has accused the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) of calling for a nationwide protest without due consultation. In a letter addressed to the President of the NLC, Joe Ajaero, the TUC said its sister body should stop making unilateral decisions on issues of interest to the two …

Members of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Student unions, civil society organizations, members of the Hausa community and others today December 22, held a solidarity march for the embattled governor of Rivers state, Siminalayi Fubara.    The state workers used the opportunity to thank the …

The National Industrial Court has restrained the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Trade Union Congress, TUC, as well as their affiliates from embarking on any form of strike or industrial action.   The labour unions were ordered to stop their planned nationwide strike scheduled to commence on November 14.   President …

President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero on Friday, November 10, said that he was arrested in Owerri by the Police and was handed over to waiting thugs that got him thoroughly beaten.   Briefing journalists in Abuja, the NLC president said the NLC wrote to all …

  The organised labour on Friday declared Wednesday, 8th November 2023 a nationwide strike following Monday’s manhandling of the national president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC ), Comrade Joe Ajaero in Imo State. Ajaero was whisked away by the police at a protest on non-payment of workers by the …

The NLC president was allegedly beaten up by police operatives during a protest in Imo State on Wednesday. A report from the Federal University Teaching Hospital, Owerri, Imo State capital, said medical experts are currently pulling out all the stops to salvage the right eye of the president of the …

The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Comrade Joe Ajaero was rushed to the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Owerri with his right eye ‘completely shut,’ after he was attacked in Imo state today November 1.     The NLC Head of Information and Publicity, Comrade Benson Upah, described what …

The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, has been arrested in Owerri, the Imo State capital. Ajaero was picked up from the NLC State Council Secretariat today November 1 by heavily armed policemen in Owerri and taken to an unknown destination.   The NLC is leading a …

An interim injunction restraining the organised Labour from embarking on any kind of strike in Imo state has been extended by the National Industrial Court sitting in Owerri the Imo state capital.   The extension request was granted after Justice Nelson Ogbuanya listened to submissions of the Attorney General of …

The Nigerian Labour Congress has accused Minister of Labour, Simon Lalong of violating its agreement with the federal government on implementation of measures to cushion the effects of petrol subsidy removal.    It’s been reported earlier that the Organized Labour, comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress, …