With less than 24 hours to the nationwide strike to protest the removal of petroleum subsidy, organised labour has dismissed the possibility of reaching a compromise with the Federal Government to avert the strike. The President General of the Trade Union Congress, Mr. Peter Esele, who spoke on behalf of […]

When President Olusegun Obasanjo was in power we spent 300 billion per year on the fuel subsidy. Under the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan it shot up to 1.3 trillion naira in the last one year alone. Can someone please explain to me how it got so high in 4 […]

The National Industrial Court Friday restrained the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) from embarking on its planned nationwide strike scheduled for midnight Sunday. The ruling of the court followed an ex-parte appeal filed by the federal government through the Office of the Attorney General of […]