The Trade Union Congress and other bodies in their hundreds besieged the National Assembly to express their displeasure over a bill to remove the minimum wage from the exclusive list to the concurrent list.
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Esele told the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Benin, Edo State that this was because it was the prerogative of the Federal Government to fix national minimum wage.
The NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, revealed this at the end of an emergency (virtual) meeting of the National Executive Council of the congress on Tuesday in Abuja
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, disclosed this on Sunday after a bipartite meeting of the Federal Government and Organised Labour at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja
The commendation was contained in a statement in Ado-Ekiti by Kolapo Olatunde, Chairman, Ekiti State Chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress; and Sola Adigun, Chairman, Trade Union Congress, Ekiti State Chapter.
The NLC Chairman in the state, Alhaji Kabiru Ado, told newsmen at the NLC Secretariat in Kano that the workers would resist any plan to further deduct their salaries.
Labour gave reasons for the suspension in a statement by Yakubu Garba, Chairman, Nigeria Labour Congress, and Tanimu Yunusa, Chairman, Trade Union Congress, in Minna on Tuesday.
The workers added that prior to the outbreak, the organized labour had urged government to save the economy through diversification, but all pleas were ignored.
Yakubu Garba, the state Chairman, NLC, made this known on Sunday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Minna.
Alhaji Mohammed Idris, the state Commissioner for Information and Strategy made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Minna.
The meeting had commenced on Sunday at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa at about 8pm before the Labour leaders stormed out.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the state government in 2019 inaugurated the 27-man committee headed by a former Minister of Finance, Alhaji Bashir Yuguda.
This is contained in a statement jointly signed by TUC’s President, Quadri Olaleye and its Secretary General, Musa-Lawal Ozigi on Tuesday in Lagos.
They are Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, and Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said this on Friday when he featured on TV Continental call-in programme: “This Morning.”
Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, gave the warning in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.
The union said the comparison suggests that Buhari was defending fraud and the impoverishment of Nigerians.
In 2016, the party that succeeded the Peoples Democratic Party, that is the All Progressives Congress, and its leaders who had lied to Nigerians that there was no fuel subsidy in the country, but unconscionable theft, and that the Jonathan government was wrong, promptly increased fuel prices. They argued that a fuel subsidy regime was not sustainable: the same argument that they opposed in 2012
The state Chairman, Gbenga Ekundayo, made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Lagos.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress had in the early hours of Monday suspended the strike over increase in petroleum pump price and electricity tariff.