The Honourable Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, has appealed to the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) to call off their 7-day warning strike, which started today. Onyejeocha also expressed displeasure at the action of the unions, which she described as…
Meets labour, CBN over Naira Redesign policy dispute. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige has taken steps to avert the impending nationwide strike of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), billed to commence on Wednesday.Ngige, Monday, intervened in the dispute between NLC and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) over the latter’s Naira…
The Federal Government has extended by one week, the suspension of the new electricity tariff to allow for effective implementation of the decisions taken on the matter. This is part of the work plan for effecting the resolutions of the Ad Hoc Technical Committee constituted to investigate the rationale and implementation of the increase in…
The Federal Government has inaugurated the Presidential Joint Board and Audit Investigation Panel on the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) to investigate the management of the Fund. Conducting the inauguration in Abuja, Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, noted that the Panel on the NSITF was established “to check the observed infractions…
The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, William Nwankwo Alo, has called for a more comprehensive identification of risks associated with the Labour sector, for inclusion in the National Risk Register. He stated this in Abuja at the flag-off of a workshop on the Development of National Risk Register (NRR) for Nigeria, organized…
