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Nigeria Labour Congress Demands Immediate Withdrawal Of Soldiers, Others Amid Siege On Headquarters In Abuja

5 months ago797 min

The leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress has demanded the immediate withdrawal of soldiers and other armed security personnel from union’s headquarters in Abuja.   On Wednesday night, SaharaReporters broke the news that a large contingent of armed security personnel, believed to be from the Department of State Services, stormed Labour House, forcibly entering and ransacking several floors, and confiscating books and files.  According to sources, the agents claimed the seized materials were used to...

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EXCLUSIVE: Lawless Security Operatives Steal All Books Inside NLC Labour House Bookshop During Raid In Abuja

5 months ago794 min

  Hundreds of books from the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Iva Valley bookshop have been emptied by security operatives following a raid by security agencies on the Labour House on Wednesday evening, SaharaReporters can report.      A stark contrast can be seen in the before and after images of the bookshop obtained by SaharaReporters on Thursday.    Prior to the raid, the shelves were fully stocked with books, as evident in a photograph taken...

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Peter Obi Not A Brave Leader; I No Longer Have Confidence In Him –Former Labour Party Spokesperson, Kenneth Okonkwo

5 months ago937 min

A former spokesman for the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Kenneth Okonkwo, says he has ended his political association with the party and its candidate in the 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi.   Okonkwo defected to LP on August 24, 2022, one month after resigning from the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the party’s Muslim-Muslim ticket presidential ticket.   The 55-year-old, at the time, said he joined LP to promote good governance and a new...

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BREAKING: Minimum Wage Negotiation Between Labour Leaders, Tinubu Government Inconclusive, Adjourned Till Next Week

5 months ago843 min

It was learnt that the meeting had been adjourned till next week as the leadership of the labour unions maintained that there was need to report back to their members.  The emergency meeting called by President Bola Tinubu to discuss issues surrounding the implementation of a new national minimum wage has ended without any conclusion with the organised labour.    It was learnt that the meeting had been adjourned till next week as the leadership...

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Peter Obi Denies Plan To Dump Labour Party Amid Crisis, Says Higher Electricity Tariff For Band A Customers Is Normal

9 months ago1104 min

Peter Obi, the candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election has denied that he is planning to leave the party.   In March, a former spokesperson for the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation, Daniel Bwala, said Obi was planning to leave the Labour Party and join a former Kaduna Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, in the Social Democratic Party (SDP).   Bwala, who made the allegation in a post on his X handle, said Obi...

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Electricity Tariff Hike: Tinubu Government Must Face Consequences – Nigerian Labour Congress

9 months ago9611 min

The Nigerian government, on Friday, insisted on the 240 per cent hike in tariff payable by power consumers in the band ‘A’ category despite calls for its reversal.   It also revealed that the subsidised power pricing regime would be for the short term, with a transition plan to achieve a full cost-reflective tariff within a period of three years.   However, the decision did not go down well with the Nigeria Labour Congress, which...

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EXCLUSIVE: Labour Party Edo Gov Ticket In Jeopardy As Akpata’s Running Mate Submits False Information To Electoral Body, INEC; Claims She Was Born Same Year She Obtained First School Certificate
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EXCLUSIVE: Labour Party Edo Gov Ticket In Jeopardy As Akpata’s Running Mate Submits False Information To Electoral Body, INEC; Claims She Was Born Same Year She Obtained First School Certificate

9 months ago10310 min

The leadership of the Labour Party in Edo State has reportedly summoned an emergency meeting.   The meeting will have in attendance the party’s governorship candidate, Olumide Akpata and his running mate, Mrs Oluyinka Faith Alufokhai over concerns that some of the information contained in their forms EC9 submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) may have been false and is capable of jeopardising their candidacies.   INEC recently published the list of governorship...

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Nigeria Labour Congress Formed Labour Party, Owns The Party; It Has Interest In How It Is Run –Ayuba Wabba, Ex-NLC Chair

9 months ago9710 min

As the crisis in the Labour Party continues to deepen, a former President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Ayuba Wabba has declared that the party is a property of the Congress. Wabba who spoke on the crisis ravaging the party while featuring on Channels TV programme, explained that LP was formed by NLC as a platform for members of the union to exercise and defend their rights. SaharaReporters had reported the picketing of...

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BREAKING: Labour Party Crisis: Nigeria Labour Congress Writes INEC Chairman, LP Legal Adviser Not To Validate ‘Illegal National Convention’

9 months ago939 min

As the crisis in the Labour Party continues to fester, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has written to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the National Legal Adviser of the Labour Party to desist from validating the “illegal Labour Party National Convention” scheduled for March 27, 2024.   In separate letters dated March 22, 2024, addressed to the INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, the LP National Legal Adviser and obtained by SaharaReporters, NLC warned...

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