February 13, 2025
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Agric ministry trains,deploys 82,547 extension workers

By Tunde Opalana The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) has said it has successfully trained and deployed 82, 547 extension workers from 2019 to date to aid and promote local farming in Nigeria. Extension in agriculture is a service that assists farmers through educational procedures in improving farming methods and techniques as […]
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Kaduna: ILAW, Centre for Labour Studies back NLC on strike

Ukpono Ukpong, Abuja The International Lawyers Assisting Workers (ILAW) and Centre for Labour Studies (CLS) have unconditionally and totally given their support to the NLC strike which commenced today, May 17 in Kaduna State against the obnoxious anti-worker policies and the subsequent mass sack of workers. In a separate statement issued by both groups, their […]
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Workers shut LASU’s gate over new minimum wage

The in-house unions of Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, on Monday locked its gate, preventing its management, staffers and students from entering into the institution’s premises. Representatives of the unions said that their action was to protest against the delay in the payment of the new minimum wage to the staffers of Lagos tertiary institutions […]
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Kano owes retirees N20bn gratuities – Pension boss

The Chairman, Kano State Pension Fund Trustees, Sani Gabasawa, has revealed that the state government owes retired workers the whopping N20 billion gratuities. Gabasawa made the disclosure to newsmen on Thursday in reaction to some allegations against the commission. He said the pension trustees has not been able to pay gratuities to retirees since 2016, […]
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Nigeria workers deserve 3 months Tax holidays-TUC

The President of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Mr Quadri Olaleye, has called on the three tiers of government to grant three months tax holidays to Nigerian workers. Olaleye made the appeal in his contribution at the Workers’ Day Virtual (online) dialogue with stakeholders to commemorate this year’s annual Workers Day, organised by The Nigerian […]