PRESS RELEASE10TH OF SEPTEMBER, 2025 SENATE’S PERSECUTION OF SENATOR NATASHA AKPOTI-UDUAGHAN IS A DESCENT INTO LEGISLATIVE DICTATORSHIP AND DEMOCRATIC ANARCHY The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) rises in vehement condemnation of the Godswill Akpabio-led Senate’s decision to continue barring Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan from performing her sacred constitutional duties. This act is not […]
PRESS RELEASE10TH OF SEPTEMBER, 2025 GOVERNMENT IS NOT SERIOUS ABOUT FIXING THE POWER SECTOR: IT HAS BECOME A SYSTEM DESIGNED FOR PERPETUAL DARKNESS The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) observes with utter disgust, yet a complete lack of surprise, the total collapse of the national electricity grid today. This recurrent catastrophe is […]
Press ReleaseSeptember 9, 2025 WE REMAIN UNBROKEN One year after the arrest and detention of our President, Comrade Joe Ajaero, we find it appropriate to let his tormentors know that he remains unbroken. September 9, 2024, remains a day etched in infamy in the annals of our movement and our democratic […]
PRESS RELEASE6TH OF SEPTEMBER, 2025 WE STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH NUPENG AGAINST DANGOTE GROUP’S ANTI-UNION, ANTI-WORKER AGENDA AND MONOPOLISTIC CAPITALIST STRATEGY We state without equivocation that the revelations contained in NUPENG’s statement represent not just an attack on petroleum workers, but a full-blown declaration of war against the Nigerian working class, […]
Press Statement PENCOM DG PAYS COURTESY TO NLC(31/08/2025) The Director General (DG) of the National Pension Commission (PenCom), Mrs Omolola Oloworaran paid a courtesy visit to the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Comrade Joe Ajaero at his Pascal Bafyau Labour House office, Abuja in company of some of her management […]
Press Statement27/08/2025 STAY WITHIN YOUR LEGISLATIVE LIMITS The media is awash with reports that the the Edo State House of Assembly has passed a resolution urging the leadership of the Nigeria Labour to allow Bernard Jormah Egwahide finish his tenure as Council Chairperson of Edo State Council of the Nigeria Labour […]
Press Statement 27/08/2025 INSTEAD OF EXCUSES – JUST DO THE NEEDFUL! In response to the sustained pressure by the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) for the Federal Government to constitute and inaugurate the boards of labour market institutions particularly the Pension Commission (Pencom) and the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust […]
PRESS RELEASE 26TH OF AUGUST, 2025 WE SHALL HOLD YOU RESPONSIBLE We at the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) are worried by multiple credible reports of plans by the Edo state Government to disrupt the inauguration of the Caretaker Committee of the Nigeria Labour Congress in Benin City on Thursday, August 28, […]
Press Statement24/08/2025 RMAFC: RETREAT YOUR STEPS We are outraged by the decision of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) to embark on a comprehensive upward review of the remuneration packages of political office holders across the country. The move is insensitive, unjust, inequitable and will only succeed in deepening […]
NIGERIAN WORKERS HAVE UNFETTERED CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN PARTISAN POLITICS A Press Statement The attention of the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has been drawn to a statement by the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs. Didi Esther Walson-Jack, that civil servants are banned from […]