“The old minimum wage will be expiring by April and ordinarily, the Federal Government ought to have set up a committee six months before that time so that negotiation would have commenced but the Federal Government didn’t do that until (recently when) they inaugurated a committee and the committee has not sat.
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Hundreds of labour activists under the umbrella of the Nigeria Labour Congress stormed Ikeja, the Lagos State capital, protesting in solidarity with the six-month strike action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities. The protest which is ongoing is also an opportunity for the NLC to bring attention to other issues affecting the nation. The score of protesters who stormed the street carried placards with several inscriptions such as ‘Stop importation of petrol, refine the refineries’, ‘Nigeria at 60 years of independence, more hunger in the land, etc. Another placard…
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