Tag: Joe Ajaero

NLC Demands 65-Year Retirement Age For Civil Servants

Ganiyu Amodu

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called on the federal government to raise the retirement age for all civil servants to 65 years or 40 years of service, aligning with conditions already granted to select sectors. Speaking during the May Day celebration at Eagle Square in Abuja on Thursday, NLC President Joe Ajaero made the appeal while presenting the union’s key demands. “It is imperative to extend the revised retirement age of 65 years or 40 years of service currently enjoyed by teachers, health professionals, and judges to all public…

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BREAKING: DSS Arrests NLC President, Joe Ajaero

ADEOLA YUSUF

Operatives of the Department of the State Services have arrested the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero. According to PUNCH, he was arrested on Monday morning at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on his way to the United Kingdom for an official assignment. READ ALSO NiMet Forecasts 3-Day Thunderstorms, Rains From Monday How Tinubu’s VAT, Fuel Price Hike Will Worsen Cost of Living Crisis – Atiku Man Rapes, Inserts Scissors Into 8 Year-Old Girl’s Private Part The NLC president was billed to attend the Trade Union Congress…

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The Trials of Bro. Ajaero And Other Stories, By Bolanle Bolawole

ADEOLA YUSUF

Now to ASUU! It is too early for the university teachers to threaten to further disrupt an already-disrupted university calendar. No matter their grouse and no matter how long it takes for commonsense to prevail, another strike action should not be on the cards.”   The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) is threatening to shut down the country’s economy if its president, Joe Ajaero, is arrested by the police. Ajaero has been invited for questioning by the police authorities over serious allegations that border on the security of the country and…

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PREPARE: NLC Threatens To Begin Nationwide Strike Wednesday

Abibat Babalola

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has declared a nationwide strike from next Wednesday, of the Federal Government fails to yield to the demand of Nigerians on fuel subsidy removal. This comes amid hike in fuel prices across the country occasioned by President Bola Tinubu’s inaugural speech in which he declared that “fuel subsidy is gone”. NLC President, Joe Ajaero made the announcement after an emergency meeting of the union’s National Executive Council (NEC) in Abuja. He said the government, particularly the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited had up until…

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Nationwide Outage Looms As Electricity Workers Threaten Fresh Strike

Ganiyu Amodu

The National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, on Tuesday said they were ready to embark on another nationwide strike. The Vice President of the Union, (East) Comrade Engr. Joe Oforka, alongside other executives the zonal Secretary of the Union in the South East/South South States, Comrade Ugboaja Joseph, disclosed this to newsmen in Owerri. They alleged that the federal government after almost nine years has refused to pay entitlements of the some of the workers of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN. Also, they were angry that the…

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JUST IN: Blackout As Electricity Workers Shut Transmission Stations

ADEOLA YUSUF

“As of 11.46 this morning it is believed that about 60 percent of the stations have been shut down. The action could be total by the end of the day as NUEE strike continues.”     Electricity workers on Wednesday made good their threat to shut down transmission stations across the country Platforms Africa reports that rising under the auspices of National Union Of Electricity Employees (NUEE), the workers at about 10 am on Wednesday began to shut down the transmission stations thereby plunging the nation into partial blackout.  The action could…

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Power Ministry Moves To Stop Workers From Plunging Nigeria Into Darkness

Ganiyu Amodu

Government begs for two weeks to address issues raised by NUEE + CIRCULAR from power ministry   The ministry of power has began moves to stop workers from a plan strike that could sink Nigeria Into a nationwide darkness. A circular from the Ministry sent to the executive members of Nigeria Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) obtained exclusively by Platforms Africa showed that the minustry was begging for two weeks to address issues raised by the union. READ ALSO: EXCLUSIVE: MDs Fired as Nigeria Takes Over Benin, Kano, Kaduna DisCos…

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