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10th NASS: Otti meets LP Senators-elect, Reps-elect on choice of Candidates …….We will take decision on Friday - Abure Abia Governor, Dr Alex Otti, Thursday, met with the national assembly members-elect on the platform of the Labour Party (LP) to take a decision on which candidates to support for the incoming leadership. In his brief opening remarks, Otti said he came for a meeting with President Ahmed Bola Tinubu and later decided to interact with them as one family. He enjoined the members-elect to work for the people who elected them and ensure that the dividends of democracy were delivered…

Tinubu Govt Plans Earn-as-you-work Pay Policy For Workers The Federal Government has designed a National Pay Policy (NPP) to check arbitrariness in the workplace and to ensure appropriate remuneration for Nigerian workers. The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the National Salaries Incomes and Wages Commission (NSIWC), Ekpo Nta, made this known on Wednesday in Abuja. Speaking with Daily Sun, Nta said the policy will calculate the number of hours a worker spends in the office and the quality of work done which will determine salary payment. He said: “What it entails is that when people are working in any…

Tinubu took the right decision to have removed fuel subsidy - Peter Obi Peter Obi, Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the last presidential election in Nigeria has backed President Bola Tinubu on fuel subsidy removal. Tinubu, in his inaugural speech on 29 May, 2023 openly said ‘fuel subsidy is gone.’ Two days after that, the prices of petroleum product was hiked to between N488 and N555. Speaking on Tuesday after attending the ongoing case he instituted against Tinubu at the presidential tribunal, Obi said Judicial correspondents ambushed him at the entrance of the court and demanded that he should talk…

NASS Summons CBN Governor, Malami, Others Over Missing 48million Crude Oil Barrels, N32billion Payments The House of Representatives committee investigating the allegedly missing 48million barrels of crude oil has summoned the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, to explain the missing N32.5billion, said to have been paid to two companies - Messrs GSCL Consulting and Biz Plus without formal documentation. The lawmakers also summoned the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice (AGF), Abubakar Malami, the Accountant General of the Federation, Oluwatoyin Madein, the Auditor General of the Federation, Adolphus Aghughu, the Managing Directors of…

BREAKING: NLC, TUC Suspend Planned Strike Over Petrol Subsidy Removal The NLC and TUC have announced the suspension of the planned industrial action against the removal of the fuel subsidy by the federal governmentThe Labour leaders announced the suspension of the industrial action following their meeting with the federal government teamNLC, TUC and other organised labour unions have been at loggerheads with the federal government since President Bola Tinubu announced that subsidy is gone FCT, Abuja - The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) have announced the suspension of the scheduled nationwide industrial action against the removal…

NLC Subsidy Strike: Election Petition Tribunals Across The Country To Shut Down Indefinitely From Wednesday. The 2023 Presidential Election Petition Courts sitting at the court of Appeals in the Federal Capital Territory Abuja and other election petition courts sitting across the 36 States of the federation would be shut down this week as the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) announced that it would join it’s parent body, the Nigeria Labour Congress NLC in an industrial action over the removal of subsidies on petroleum products. AttNews had reported that during his inaugural address on May 29, 2023, President Bola Tinubu…

FUEL SUBSIDY: NLC, TUC, CHARLATANS PARADING THEMSELVES AS LABOUR LEADERS When I read the jabberwocky of a press statement issued by one charlatan by name Joe Ajaero, who parades himself as President, Nigeria Labour Congress, I could not but burst into laughter. For a partisan Labour leader who relishes in unmatched bigotry to release such gobbledygook is not only ridiculous but utterly laughable and risible. In the said, Ajaero had, inter alia, stated; "The Nigeria Labour Congress decided that if by Wednesday next week that NNPC, a private limited liability company that illegally announced a price regime in the oil…

Subsidy Removal: NLC Planned Strike Suffers Major Setback As Union Is Divided The NLC planned protest against the removal of the fuel subsidy by President Bola Tinubu has suffered a major setback. It was learned that the northern and southwest states chapter of the NLC have resolved to back out of the strike scheduled to begin on Wednesday, June 7. The division in the union followed the allegation by Bayo Onanuga, a chieftain of the APC, that NLC chairman, Joe Ajaero, was working for the opposition Labour Party to destabilize the country. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has experienced a…

Fuel hike: NLC mobilises ASUU, JUSUN, NUT others for 'mother of all' Strike The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has mobilised all its affiliate unions, including the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Judicial Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) and others for its nationwide strike on Wednesday following the hike in petrol prices. The NLC had resolved to embark on nationwide strike and protest from Wednesday if the Federal Government did not revert the humongous hike in prices of petrol, which is now between N488 and N555. The Congress, in a letter to ASUU, JUSUN, Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP),…