Insufficient paid work affects almost half a billion people —New ILO report
Almost half a billion people are working fewer paid hours than they would like or lack adequate access to paid…
Insecurity: Declare state of emergency now —PENGASSAN
THE Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has called on the Federal Government to declare a…
NSITF rehabilitated injured workers with N825m in 2019
THE Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) spent about N825 million to rehabilitate injured workers in 2019; the Managing Director…
MHWUN laments shortage of personnel in health sector
The National President, Medical and Health Workers Union (MHWUN), Comrade Josiah Biobelemoye, has decried the acute shortage of medical personnel…
TUC condemns casualisation, slave labour in Nigeria
The Trade Union Congress (TUC) had condemned casualisation and contract staff in all the sectors of Nigerian economy. In a…
Poor working condition main global employment challenge —ILO
THE International Labour Organization (ILO) has declared that poor working conditions are the main global employment challenge; claiming that the…
2020: We’ll mount pressure on massive jobs generation —NLC
THE Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said that one of its major preoccupations in 2020 is to begin a very…
Stamp production and duties collection: SSASCGOC gears up for industrial action
Workers in all Federal Statutory Corporations across the states of the federation and Abuja; under the Senior Staff Association of…
Ajaokuta Steel plant will provide over 15,000 jobs —Union chairman
Comrade Salami Jimoh is the Chairman, Nigeria Union of Mines Workers, Ajaokuta Steel branch. In this interview by YEKINI JIMOH,…
FG calls for increased awareness on HIV in workplace
The Federal Government has called for increased awareness and sensitisation on Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in order to fight the…
Sunmonu, Head of Service, others harp on training and re-training of workers
Stakeholders in labour have identified workers as the driving force of the economy of any nation and therefore called for…
Minimum wage: We can’t guarantee industrial harmony in states beyond December 31 —Wabba
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) held a one-day stakeholders’ meeting on the implementation of the minimum wage at the state…
Africa requires 26 million jobs yearly to meet SDGs —ILO
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has declared that the African continent needed to create twenty-six million jobs every year to…
FIRS must sell stamps, collect stamp duties proceeds —Finance minister
The Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, has insisted that the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), would be responsible for the…
NASU decries overtaxation of workers
The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) has lamented that Nigerian workers have been consigned by the…
ILO begins 14th African regional meeting in Abidjan today
THE International Labour Organization’s (ILO) 14th African Regional Meeting begins in Abidjan, the Ivory Coast capital city today. The ILO…
ILO pledges support for Michael Imoudu Institute
THE International Labour Organization (ILO) has pledged support for Michael Imoudu National Institute for Labour Studies (MINILS), Ilorin, Nigeria. The…
Labour cautions FG over planned removal of NIPOST’s core mandate
THE Senior Staff Association of Statutory Corporations and Government Owned Companies (SSASCGOC), has warned against the plan by the Minister…
ITUC-Africa holds congress in Abuja
African workers, under the International Trade Union Confederation-Africa (ITUC-Africa), ended its 4th Ordinary Congress at the weekend in Abuja, with…
Socio-economic crisis, bane of crime and criminality —Labour Perm Sec
The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Mr. William Alo, has disclosed that social, political, economic and cultural…
