LABOUR

  Out of the staff strength of 6,621, The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)  can only  boast of 211 female workforce, representing 18.3 per cent  while men folk accounted for 81.7 per cent or 5,410 persons. The company says it currently has 6,621 staff strength both at its headquarters and...

  The American University of Nigeria (AUN), Yola, has terminated the services of  400 of its staff. This came to light on Tuesday when the university, owned by Nigeria’s former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, announced that it no longer needed their services. The AUN is the second Yola enterprise of...

The President of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Mr Quadri Olaleye, has called on the three tiers of government to grant three months tax holidays to Nigerian workers. Olaleye made the appeal in his contribution at the Workers’ Day Virtual (online) dialogue with stakeholders to commemorate this year’s annual Workers...

An Information Communication Technology (ICT) expert, Mr Tunde Badmus, on Tuesday advised businesses to remodel their style of service delivery to contactless form. Badmus, who gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, said Coronavirus (COVID-19) is the new reality and companies need...

  The Federal Government will not borrow from the pension fund to provide palliatives as the country continues to fight coronavirus pandemic, Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19, Boss Mustapha has said. Mustapha, who is also the Secretary to the Government of the Federation gave the assurance while...

Following the ongoing two-week warning strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige is set to hold a crucial meeting with the lecturers on Thursday. The meeting which is billed to hold at Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja is to appeal...

The National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) on Wednesday shutdown the headquarters of Ikeja Electric (IE) and Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) in Ikeja and Marina, Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the union members at the wee hours of the day locked staff of the distribution...

The World Bank has said that another 4.5 million Nigerians joined the labour force in 2018, as the institution laments that the unemployment rate in Nigeria continues to remain a challenge. The World Bank has said that only 450,000 of the total number of recent Nigerians who joined the labour...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) on Monday said the unemployment situation in Nigeria was ‘frightening’ and could become ‘catastrophic’ if decent jobs are not created for the country’s youth population. The AfDB made the observation at the regional presentation of a report entitled, ‘Creating decent jobs: Strategies, policies and instruments’,...

The Federal Government has threatened to sanction trade unions that fail to submit details of their yearly audited accounts to the Ministry of Labour and Employment. Dr Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour, Employment and Productivity, in a speech at the fourth Quadrennial National Delegates Conference of the Hotel and Personal...