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FG committee on minimum wage deceitful. ANAP scribe

Ihesiulo Grace 2 May 2018 0

The committee on minimum wage for workers set up by the federal government after last May Day has been described as a deceit aimed at stemming workers’ agitation for better welfare package. This was the view of the Secretary General of Association of Nigerian Aviation Professionals (ANAP),

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Kwara Express salary arrears: Amalgamated union gives state govt two weeks ultimatum

Ihesiulo Grace 15 April 2018 0

The Kwara state Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees (AUPCTRE) has given the state Government two weeks ultimatum to all salaries arrears of Kwara Express workers. The outgoing Chairman of the Union, Comrade Gabriel Afolabi made the disclosure during the 5th Quadrennial state delegates conference held at

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Amosun owes us 4 months salaries ―Ogun workers

Ihesiulo Grace 18 March 2018 0

THE Joint Negotiating Council (JNC), Ogun State, has said that the State Government under the leadership of Senator Ibikunle Amosun, owes workers in the State four months’ salaries. This was stated by the JNC chairman, Comrade Abiodun Olakanmi, during the State Congress of Amalgamated Union of Public Corporation, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Service Employees

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Protest at Total Egina FPSO project site over maltreatment of Nigerian workers

Ihesiulo Grace 14 February 2018 0

Nigerian workers and contract staff of Samsung Heavy Industries Mega Construction and Integration Free Zone Enterprise, Nigeria (SHI-MCI FZE) have downed tools at the Total Egina FPSO project, which they are currently working on, over an alleged ill-treatment and little or no welfare packages they get from their Korean employers. Some of the workers, according to report

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Ugwuanyi reiterates commitment to rural development

Ihesiulo Grace 17 January 2018 0

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has reassured the people of the state of his administration’s commitment to initiate and sustain laudable programmes and policies that would impact positively on the lives of the masses, especially those residing in the rural and satellite areas. Noting that majority of the state’s civil servants live in the […]

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FG Threatens to stop workers salaries over payroll system default

Ihesiulo Grace 16 January 2018 0

The Federal Government has threatened to stop salaries of workers in some Ministries Departments and Agencies (MDAs) over failure to comply with the Human Resource Module of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS). The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HoCSF) Mrs Winifred Oyo-Ita said this in a circular titled; “Employees […]

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NLC Chairman urges Obiano to increase workers salary.

Ihesiulo Grace 14 January 2018 0

Anambra chapter chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Jerry Nnubia has urged the state governor, Willie Obiano to make good his promises of increasing the salaries of workers in the state. He lamented that workers in the state were the least paid in the country. The governor, had during the 2017 workers’ day, promised […]

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Buckle up, Ekiti Head of Service Tells Workers

Ihesiulo Grace 11 January 2018 0

The Head of Service of Ekiti State, Dr. Olugbenga Faseluka has charged workers in the State Public Service to redouble their efforts at delivering quality service to the people of the State in 2018. The Head of Service who gave the charge during a meeting with medical personnel in the Local Government, senior staff of […]

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Dickson approves N5.6bn to pay salary arrears in Bayelsa

Ihesiulo Grace 6 January 2018 0

Bayelsa State Government has approved the release of N5.6 billion from the Paris Club Debt refunds received in the state in December to pay one and half months salary arrears owed workers during the peak of the economic recession in the country in 2016. In a statement issued on Friday by the Special Adviser to […]

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Aregbesola presents 2018 budget Thursday

Ihesiulo Grace 28 December 2017 0

Regardless of the ongoing industrial action by workers in Osun, Governor Rauf Aregbesola, is expected to present the budget for the 2018 fiscal year to the state House of Assembly for scrutiny and approval in line with Section 121 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. This was contained in a press statement […]

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Osun Workers Commence Indefinite strike over unpaid salaries

Ihesiulo Grace 28 December 2017 0

As Nigerian workers resume from the Christmas holiday Wednesday, civil servants in Osun were barred from gaining entry into the Abere secretariat by the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). The NLC on Wednesday morning at about 7 am took over the entrance gate of the secretariat to ensure total compliance to its directive […]

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Reps member berates FG on planned salary increase

Ihesiulo Grace 26 December 2017 0

…insists it’s an attempt to deceive Nigerian workers A member of the House of Representatives, Hon Kehinde Agboola has said that the planned increase in the salary of Nigerian workers was a mere deception being contrived by the All Progressives Congress–led government to delude Nigerians ahead of 2019. Agboola, who is the Vice Chairman, House […]

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‎APC hails Ekiti voters for boycotting LG poll

Ihesiulo Grace 24 December 2017 0

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has praised the people, including workers, pensioners, artisans, market women and the youth for refusing to participate in Saturday’s local government election organised by Governor Ayodele Fayose’s faction of PDP in cahoots with the State Independent Electoral Commission (SIEC) composed of members of PDP faction loyal to the

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Workers tackle DISCOs, GENCOs over inadequate work tools

Ihesiulo Grace 22 December 2017 0

Electricity Distribution Companies, DISCOs, Generation Companies, GENCOs, are currently receiving backlashes from their workers, under the platform of National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, for failing to provide working tools and other materials since the privatisation of the power sector four years ago. The union in a communiqué at the end of its National

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Paris club: Gov Bindow give workers housing renovation loans urges commitment

Ihesiulo Grace 19 December 2017 0

The Executive Governor of Adamawa State, Senator Mohammadu Umaru Jibrila Bindow urged state’s workers of the Local Government councils to show commitment to work. Bindow made the call at the occasion of the disbursement of Housing Renovation Loans by Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria to civil servants of Adamawa in Yola. The governor regretted that […]

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Professor Johnbull tasks uniformed workers on respect for others

Ihesiulo Grace 18 December 2017 0

Popular television sitcom, Professor Johnbull, sponsored by telecommunications company, Globacom, has focused on the attitude of uniformed workers who intimidate drivers when asked to pay agreed fares in commercial vehicles. The sitcom charges security agencies and paramilitary authorities to educate their personnel on acceptable civil conduct while in public transport as

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SEC prioritises workers’ welfare, partners trade union

Ihesiulo Grace 14 December 2017 0

The Acting Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Dr. Abdul Zubair has restated his commitment to workers welfare in order to ensure peace and harmony in the organization. Zubair said this when he received executive members of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) led by its Secretary General Comrade […]

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NLC decries mass sack of 5,000 workers in Kaduna

Ihesiulo Grace 1 December 2017 0

The Nigeria Labour Congress has condemned in a strong term mass sacking of about five thousand local government workers by the Kaduna State Government. The Nigeria Labour Congress in a press statement Thursday, said the purported sack violates provisions of all known labour laws and industrial relations practice as well as processes. The organized labour […]

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800 workers benefit from FMBN N7bn loan disbursement 

Ihesiulo Grace 1 December 2017 0

As part of effort to assist workers to build their own houses, the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) says it has disbursed more than N7 billion loan to 800 beneficiaries in 2017. Its Managing Director, Ahmed Dangiwa, disclosed  this at the FMBN 2017 Management Retreat in Abuja, with the theme Towards Improving FMBN Transaction […]

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Pay workers salaries before Christmas, Buhari tells Govs

Ihesiulo Grace 28 November 2017 0

…We’ll pay on one condition- Govs President Muhammadu Buhari has charged state governors to ensure that they pay all the salaries owed workers before Christmas, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports. The president gave the charge on Monday, when he met with the governors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Many states are still owing […]