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Trending News: TODAY IS NIGERIAN ARMED FORCES REMEMBRANCE DAYSENATE APPROVES SOUTH EAST DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION NOMINEESWIKE SIGNS 5,481 C-OF-O IN ONE YEAR, FCT LAND ALLOTTEES GET TITLE DOCUMENTS IN TWO WEEKSPOLICE INVITE CATHOLIC NUNS, ONYE EZE JESUS RELEASED BY KIDNAPPERS FOR INFORMATIONSIMON EKPA’S ARREST REDUCES TENSION IN SOUTHEAST – CHIEF OF DEFENCE STAFF, MUSAVEHICLE FLEEING KIDNAPPERS PLUNGES INTO RIVER, EXPATRIATE, OTHERS MISSINGNERC GIVES ENUGU, THREE OTHER STATES NOD TO COMMENCE ELECTRICITY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION, DISTRIBUTION$225M DEBT: FIRST BANK SPEAKS ON LEGAL TUSSLE WITH OBAIGBENA’S GHLCBN FINES NINE BANKS N150M EACH FOR FAILING TO DISPENSE CASH VIA ATMSJANUARY 1966: A MORNING OF MURDER, MAYHEM AND CARNAGEWE’LL PRIORITIZE PASSAGE OF TAX REFORM BILLS – SPEAKER, ABBAS19 WEDDING GUESTS DIE IN ROAD CRASH IN PLATEAUUZODINMA HAPPY WITH REMOVAL OF OIL SUBSIDY, SAYS STATES NOW GET MORE MONEYPOLICE DEMAND APOLOGY FROM AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OVER PROTEST REPORTHOW YAHOO BOY BEHEADED ABUJA CORPS MEMBER PACKED DISMEMBERED BODY IN BAG – POLICEABDUCTED ANAMBRA REVEREND SISTERS REGAIN FREEDOMMARKETERS RAISE PRICES OF PETROL BY 4.75% AT DEPOTSTHE MANY SINS THAT COST FORMER LAGOS SPEAKER, OBASA, HIS SEATARTHUR NZERIBE, THE MAN WHO BROUGHT DOWN GOVERNMENTS IN NIGERIA AND GHANANASS QUERIES JAMB FOR SPENDING N1.85BN ON MEALS, INSECTICIDE, OTHERSNATIONAL UNION OF PENSIONERS LAUDS TINUBU OVER 20% INCREASE IN BASIC PENSIONSENUGU GOVERNOR, PETER MBAH, APPROVES UPWARD REVIEW OF CUSTOMARY COURT JUDGES’ SALARIESHOW BOKO HARAM’S NEW STRATEGY PRODUCED 60,000 CHILD FIGHTERS – CDSLAWYER WHO LED PROSECUTION AGAINST TRUMP RESIGNS, FLEES USBOKO HARAM KILLS 40 FARMERS IN BORNO, DOZENS MISSINGFUBARA WINS AS COURT NULLIFIES RIVERS PDP CONGRESSESLAGOS LAWMAKERS IMPEACH SPEAKER AMID MULTIBILLION-NAIRA FRAUD ALLEGATIONPROTEST AT PDP HEADQUARTERS OVER TUSSLE FOR NATIONAL SECRETARY POSITIONLAGOS-CALABAR COASTAL ROAD MISSING IN 2025 BUDGETFG ACCUSES NNPCL OF FINANCIAL IRREGULARITIES, DIVERT N2.68TRN, $9.77MUNTIL PRICE OF FUEL IS AFFORDABLE THERE IS NOTHING TO REJOICE ABOUT RESUMPTION OF REFINERIES – KENNETH OKONKWOHOW ABACHA REBUFFED CARTER’S EFFORTS TO SECURE MY FREEDOM – OBASANJOFIVE GOVERNORS MAY DUMP PARTY AHEAD 2027TINUBU WASN’T ELECTED BY NIGERIAN PEOPLE, HE WAS SELECTED BY ELECTORAL COMMISSION, INEC – SOWORESERAP DRAGS TINUBU, 36 GOVERNORS TO ECOWAS COURT OVER MISUSE OF CYBERCRIMESMANY FEARED KILLED IN ZAMFARA AIRSTRIKEKANO EMIRSHIP TUSSLE: BAYERO REJECTS APPEAL COURT JUDGEMENT: HEADS TO SUPREME COURTGHANA’S NEW PRESIDENT REDUCES MINISTRIES FROM 30 TO 23 TO SAVE COSTALLURING PLACES OF INTEREST IN ENUGU STATE, BY ONYEKACHI EZEARMED HERDSMEN KIDNAP THREE SOLDIERS, 35 PASSENGERS ON ENUGU-NSUKKA ROADCOURT ORDER BARRING ME FROM OHANAEZE ELECTION A HOAX – EX-IGP, OKIRO29-YEAR-OLD MAN ARRESTED FOR KILLING MOTHER FOR RITUALSHOW AGGRIEVED PASSENGER GROUNDED ABUJA-BOUND AIRCRAFT LEFT TRAVELLERS STRANDEDECONOMIC ACTIVITIES RETURN TO SOUTH EAST AFTER YULETIDEFRANCOPHONE AFRICA IS ABANDONING FRANCE. 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Wed. Jan 15th, 2025

LABOUR DECLARES INDEFINITE NATIONWIDE STRIKE OVER MINIMUM WAGE

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BREAKING: LABOUR DECLARES INDEFINITE NATIONWIDE STRIKE JUNE 3, OVER MINIMUM WAGE

Organised Labour has announced an indefinite nationwide strike beginning Monday, June 3rd, in response to the federal government’s failure to finalise negotiations on a new national minimum wage and reverse the power tariff increase.

It was was exclusively reported on Friday that Organised Labour under the aegis of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and its Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, counterpart, might declare a nationwide strike from Monday if the tripartite committee on the new national minimum wage failed to meet the expectations of Labour.

At a briefing, leaders of NLC and TUC pleaded with Nigerians to bear with them, saying “Apologies for inconveniences but commitment to pursue the cause to its conclusion.”

We had earlier reported that the federal government invited the leadership of organised labour for fresh talks on Friday as it battled to meet the May 31 deadline set by the union for the government to end negotiations on the proposed new minimum wage.

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    DONS EZE, PhD, Political Philosopher and Journalist of over four decades standing, worked in several newspaper houses across the country, and rose to the positions of Editor and General Manager. A UNESCO Fellow in Journalism, Dr. Dons Eze, a prolific writer and author of many books, attended several courses on Journalism and Communication in both Nigeria and overseas, including a Postgraduate Course on Journalism at Warsaw, Poland; Strategic Communication and Practical Communication Approach at RIPA International, London, the United Kingdom, among others.

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