PRESS RELEASE13TH OF OCTOBER, 2025 YOU CANNOT INTIMIDATE ASUU: NO PAY, NO WORK! The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) is deeply concerned by the persistent crisis in Nigeria’s public education system, marked by chronic underfunding and a failure to honour agreements. The government’s continued refusal to implement agreements voluntarily reached with lecturers […]
PRESS RELEASE13TH OF OCTOBER, 2025 OBITUARY: THE WORKING CLASS MOURNS THE PASSAGE OF COMRADE ABIODUN ‘AREMSON’ AREMU, A FEARLESS GENERAL OF THE PEOPLE The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the entire spectrum of the progressive Civil Society in Nigeria are plunged into deep grief and shattering sorrow by the tragic and […]
PRESS RELEASE7TH OF OCTOBER, 2025 ON WORLD DAY FOR DECENT WORK, WE DECLARE: “NO SACRED COWS! WORKERS’ RIGHTS MUST BE DEFENDED!On this World Day for Decent Work, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) stands in solidarity with the millions of Nigerian workers who toil daily under the yoke of exploitation and impunity. […]
PRESS RELEASE18TH OF SEPTEMBER, 2025 THE RECENT UBA FIRE OUTBREAK AND OTHER FIRE DISASTERS IN LAGOS ISLAND AND THE FAILURE OF THE STATE TO PROTECT LIVESThe Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) mourns with heavy hearts the needless loss of lives in the tragic fire outbreak that engulfed the United Bank for Africa […]
PRESS RELEASE10TH OF SEPTEMBER, 2025 SENATE’S PERSECUTION OF SENATOR NATASHA AKPOTI-UDUAGHAN IS A DESCENT INTO LEGISLATIVE DICTATORSHIP AND DEMOCRATIC ANARCHY The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) rises in vehement condemnation of the Godswill Akpabio-led Senate’s decision to continue barring Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan from performing her sacred constitutional duties. This act is not […]
PRESS RELEASE10TH OF SEPTEMBER, 2025 GOVERNMENT IS NOT SERIOUS ABOUT FIXING THE POWER SECTOR: IT HAS BECOME A SYSTEM DESIGNED FOR PERPETUAL DARKNESS The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) observes with utter disgust, yet a complete lack of surprise, the total collapse of the national electricity grid today. This recurrent catastrophe is […]
Press ReleaseSeptember 9, 2025 WE REMAIN UNBROKEN One year after the arrest and detention of our President, Comrade Joe Ajaero, we find it appropriate to let his tormentors know that he remains unbroken. September 9, 2024, remains a day etched in infamy in the annals of our movement and our democratic […]
PRESS RELEASE6TH OF SEPTEMBER, 2025 WE STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH NUPENG AGAINST DANGOTE GROUP’S ANTI-UNION, ANTI-WORKER AGENDA AND MONOPOLISTIC CAPITALIST STRATEGY We state without equivocation that the revelations contained in NUPENG’s statement represent not just an attack on petroleum workers, but a full-blown declaration of war against the Nigerian working class, […]
Press Statement PENCOM DG PAYS COURTESY TO NLC(31/08/2025) The Director General (DG) of the National Pension Commission (PenCom), Mrs Omolola Oloworaran paid a courtesy visit to the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Comrade Joe Ajaero at his Pascal Bafyau Labour House office, Abuja in company of some of her management […]
Press Statement27/08/2025 STAY WITHIN YOUR LEGISLATIVE LIMITS The media is awash with reports that the the Edo State House of Assembly has passed a resolution urging the leadership of the Nigeria Labour to allow Bernard Jormah Egwahide finish his tenure as Council Chairperson of Edo State Council of the Nigeria Labour […]