Lagos Bans Street Trading
An attack against poor people
The Lagos state government recently declared war against poor working people who try to eke a living by trading on...
Bus Drivers Strike in Abuja
Workers in the Abuja Urban Mass Transport Company (AUMTCO) commenced an indefinite strike on July 20. This was after two days of mass protests during which...
Mass Strikes Paralyse Health Sector
Public health facilities were shutdown for almost two weeks in June. The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) commenced an indefinite strike action on...
Fresh Strike Breaks Out In Kogi
Kogi state workers are once again at the barricades. An indefinite strike action called by the trade union centres and the JNC commenced in the...
Bobboi Kagama Re-elected as President of the TUC
Bobboi Kaigama was recently re-elected as president of the Trade Union Congress(TUC) by the deligates to the 10th Triennial National Deligates Cnference on Thursday 2nd June 2016 at the NAF Conference Centre and Suites Kado, Abuja.
The 10th Triennial National Deligates Conference with the Theme; Labour and National Re-Orientation: The Change We Want had in attendance delegates from the 25 affiliate Unions of TUC and its Councils in the 36 States and Abuja. Com. Ayuba Wabba the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Dr. Chris Ngige, the Minister of labour and Productivity, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, former Nigeria permanent representative to the United Nation and host of others were present at the opening ceremony as invited guests.
In his keynote address Prof. Ibrahim Gaambari said labour is an indispensable partner in production and moreso we can not move forward except we embrace production and productivity and without labour other factors can not translate into production. He therefore appealed that government should not treat labour as organization they will result to when there is crises.
He said one of the reasons why Singapore moved became developed is that the government had a compact agreement with Labour not to go on strike.
He called for attitudinal change on the part of both the government and the governed as change would not happen unless all of us are part of the National re-orientation.
This position of his...
NLC/TUC Commemorate 2016 May Day
“the working class and the quest for socio-economic revival”
Workers all over Nigeria will troop out on Sunday May 1 as part of the international...
NAAPEN Resists Discrimination in Bristow
The National Association of Air Pilots and Engineers of Nigeria (NAAPEN) organised a warning strike which shut down Bristow helicopters operations in Lagos and...
“No Pay, No Work” by Kogi ASUU
Lecturers at the Kogi State University, Ayingba have withdrawn their services. The strike action which started mid-April is over non-payment of salaries. The KSU...
Jos: Junior Doctors Take to the Streets
Resident doctors at the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) took to the streets in the third week of April, as they embarked on a...
Unions and Civil Society Groups Picket Ikeja DISCO
Upon the sack of 400 workers, and the continuous darkness that has plagued the country, youths and workers led by NUEE, FIWON, Citizens Access...
OAU Workers Protest Imposition of VC
When Professor Tale Omole emerged as Vice Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, five years ago, the trade unions on campus protested...
Protect the Union to Defend Jobs
-Comrade Stephen A Knabayi, NUT, FCT Chair
The State Chairman of Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) FCT wing, Comrade Stephen A Knabayi said there is...