The Nigerian workers' unions declared industrial action in about 14 states, protesting the failure of state governors to implement a new minimum wage.

Workers in Kaduna, Nasarawa, Ebonyi, and Cross River have begun a one-week warning strike to demand the payment of the new N70,000 national minimum wage.

The Zamfara State Government has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the state’s chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) regarding the implementation of the ₦70,000 minimum wage. In a strategic effort to avert an indefinite strike by the state’s labour union, the government announced that it will begin payment of the new minimum […]

Governor Nwifuru warned the workers to resume work within the next 72 hours or risk being sacked.

The TUC on Tuesday, December 3, opened up on the possibility of a nationwide strike amid the non-implementation of the minimum wage by some state governors.

Governor Francis Nwifuru has threatened to withhold salaries of workers participating in the NLC strike, and demanding the payment of the N70,000 minimum wage.

The President of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Festus Osifo, has lamented that some state governments are not implementing the consequential adjustments on the new minimum wage as it should be done. He explained that the action of such governments is shortchanging workers in the state. According to Osifo, the consequential adjustment is supposed to […]

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has criticized the Ebonyi State Governor, Francis Nwifuru, over the threat to sack striking workers over the non-implementation of the N70,000 new minimum wage. Naija News reported that Nwifuru, while addressing journalists on Monday in his office at the new Government House, Centenary City, Abakaliki,  threatened to withhold the workers’ […]

Joe Ajaero, NLC president, has condemned Ebonyi Governor Francis Nwifuru’s threat to sack striking workers over the non-implementation of the new minimum wage.