The Department of State Services (DSS) has released Joe Ajaero, the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), after detaining him at Abuja airport. The Labour leader was released on bail at about 11pm on Monday but his international passport was seized. Ajaero was on his way to a Trade Union Congress (TUC) event in…
As the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) President Joe Ajaero is set to honour the invitation of the Nigerian Police, all national officers of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) from its 54 affiliate unions will accompany him to honour the invitation. It would be recalled that he has been accused of issues ranging around his alleged…
The leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has put its members and affiliates on red alert, threatening a nationwide strike should the Nigerian Police Force detain its president, Joe Ajaero. The resolution was announced by the deputy president of the union, Comrade Adewale Adeyanju after an emergency meeting of the group’s National Executive Council…
President of Nigeria Labour Congress Joe Ajaero says the two-day demonstration declared by labour is not just a clamour for review of minimum wage but about hunger in the land Speaking in Lagos during the protest, Ajaero said contrary to some claims, the union is not protesting only about a hike in the country’s minimum…
The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, says most governors of the 37-Member Tripartite Committee On Minimum Wage are guilty of not complying with the proposed base pay structure. Vice President Kashim Shettima had inaugurated the committee in Abuja earlier on Tuesday, saying the decision was aimed at ensuring a decent living…
Members of the Imo Elders council have met with the pesident of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Joe Ajaero in Abuja to intervene in the ongoing impasse between the state government and the NLC. This is as the nationwide strike declared by the leadership of the NLC and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC)…
Aviation unions in Nigeria have directed their workers to withdraw their services to all public and private Owerri flights (both inwards and outwards) with effect from midnight. The unions said the strike is indefinite until otherwise directed by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC). The unions are the…
The hearing of hearing of a kidnap charge preferred against two suspects, Jude Odimegwu and Nwokolo Maxwell was failed to hold following the absence of counsel to one of the defendants Chima Gift Gift, is the counsel to the first defendant, Jude Odimegwu. The two men are standing trial before an Nnewi High Court 1,…
The President of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Festus Osifo, has responded to comments by Imo state governor Hope Uzodinma that NLC President Joe Ajaero’s visit to Imo state was for political reasons Speaking on a television programme, said his colleague in the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, was in Imo State on November…
The Imo state government on Monday denied reports that it invaded the village NLC President Joe Ajaero Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Hon Declan Emelumba said, for Ajaero to be making such allegations against the state government shows that he has lost his mental balance Emelumba, who was responding to inquiries from EkweAnaedo News concerning…
