April 18, 2023
Nigeria: Delta State Governor Faults Restriction On Medical Practitioners From Leaving Nigeria
Delta State governor, Ifeanyi Okowa has faulted restricting medical practitioners from moving out of the country, declaring that such experts could be exported to needy nations. Read more »
April 17, 2023
Nigeria: Aviation Unions Adamant, Vow to Shut Down Airports Today
Aviation unions have insisted on executing the warning strike proposed to shut down the sector over irreconcilable differences with the Federal Ministry of Aviation (FMOA). Read more »
April 12, 2023
Nigeria: $22m Calabar Channel Dredging, Intels Contracts Cost Me My Job - Hadiza Usman
For the first time since she left office in 2021, the former managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala-Usman, has revealed how her battle to streamline… Read more »
Nigeria: 2023 Presidential Poll - Obi, Labour Party Have No Case, INEC Tells Tribunal
Under fire from the barrage of criticisms trailing the 2023 general election, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has appeared before the court to defend the… Read more »
April 11, 2023
Nigeria: 'Bill to Halt Doctors' Emigration is Modern Day Slavery' - Doctors' Association
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has described the Bill to prevent Nigerian-trained medical doctors from being issued full practicing licenses or allowed to… Read more »
April 10, 2023
Nigeria: Concerns As More Medical Practitioners Leave Nigeria
While Nigeria's population is expanding geometrically, the health care workforce is shrinking drastically, as doctors to patient ratio in the country drops to 1:10,000 as against… Read more »
March 28, 2023
Nigeria: ILO to Release New Data On Nigeria's Child, Forced Labour
22 years after the last official national data on child labour in Nigeria, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) is set to release data on its already concluded survey on… Read more »
March 04, 2023
Nigeria: Naira Redesign - MAN Raises Alarm Over Impending Job Loss
The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria(MAN) has said, the redesign of Naira notes, among other factors, have negatively affected the economy and tends to worsen employment in the… Read more »
March 02, 2023
Nigeria: NLC Issues 14-Day Ultimatum to Niger Dock to Recall Sacked Workers
The leadership of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has issued 14-day ultimatum to the management of Niger Dock to recall sacked workers or face the wrath of the union. Read more »
February 03, 2023
Nigeria: NLC Elects New Leaders Feb 7
All is now set for the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to elect new leaders to pilot its affairs for the next four years. Read more »
January 24, 2023
Nigeria: Lekki Deep Seaport Targets $361bn Revenues, 200,000 Jobs
President Muhammadu Buhari, has finally commissioned the $1.5billion Lekki deep seaport for commercial operation. Read more »
January 23, 2023
Nigeria: International Passengers Stranded At Lagos Airport As Workers Begin Strike
Hundreds of passengers were, on Monday morning, stranded at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, as workers of the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc… Read more »
Nigeria: Lagos Insists On January 31 Deadline for Employers' Annual Tax Returns
The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) has insisted on January 31, 2023, as the deadline for filing the annual tax returns by employers of labour. Read more »
January 21, 2023
Nigeria: Will Obi's Labour Be Fruitful in 2023?
Audacious, promising and seemingly unstoppable in salvaging citizens from the crumbling old system that has kept Nigeria in the backwaters of underdevelopment, the former governor… Read more »
January 04, 2023
Nigeria: Increasing Assault On Health Workers
It is becoming commonplace for hospitals and healthcare facilities in Nigeria to paste warnings to patients and their relatives on the rights of doctors and nurses to carry out… Read more »
December 19, 2022
Nigeria: Labour Party Candidate Decries Fresh Attacks in Southern Kaduna
Gubernatorial candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Kaduna State, Hon. Jonathan Asake, has urged the state governor, Malam Nasir Elrufai to halt the renewed attacks and killings in… Read more »
December 15, 2022
Nigeria: Strike - SSANU Insists Govt Must Pay Four Months Salary Arrears
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, (SSANU) yesterday insisted that its leadership will not rest on its oars until the federal government pays their members the… Read more »
December 01, 2022
Nigeria: Port Operator Assures Workers of Job Security Over Acquisition
The Tin-Can Island Container Terminal (TICT), on Monday, assured workers that it has no plans to embark on any retrenchment exercise despite the acquisition of the African… Read more »
November 26, 2022
Nigeria: Out-of-School-Children - Communal Violence, Child Labour Behind Rising Numbers
In spite of federal and state laws protecting the rights of children and making their enrolment compulsory in some states, the number of out-of-school children in Nigeria keeps… Read more »
October 18, 2022
Nigeria: Liquid Steel Production - Iron, Steel Workers Fault Kaduna Govt Over Claims
The federal government has been advised to be wary of the deceptive declaration by the managing director, Kaduna Mining Development Company Limited, Dr. Mohammed Sani, claiming… Read more »