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The National Council on Privatization, NCP, has approved the sum of N1.371 billion for the settlement of outstanding redundancy benefits owed former workers of aviation ground handling service provider, Skyway Aviation Handling Company Plc, SAHCO, The approval was to bring succour and ensure the payment of the entitlements of the …

A total shut down of all public cemeteries in Abuja may be carried out by Environmental workers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). According to Daily Trust, earlier, the workers shut down Gudu cemetery in the nation’s capital, but bowed to pressure from the Presidency, and opened the facility on …

Medical doctors in the employment of the Ogun Government on Tuesday vowed to embark on an indefinite industrial action by August if the state government continues to ignore their demands. The doctors, under the aegis of the National Association of Government General Medical Practitioners, made the threat during a news …

In one fell swoop, South African telecoms firm, MTN, on Friday sacked 280 of its employees in Nigeria, in a major job cut that affected about 15% of the company’s entire Nigerian workforce. Those affected by the move include some 200 permanent employees and about 80 contract staff across various …

Angry workers in their thousand disrupted the 2017 May Day celebrations at the Eagle Square, Abuja, over the failure of the Federal Government to give them a new minimum wage in the country. The workers insisted that the Federal Government had a responsibility to give them a definite position on …

THE Senate said Wednesday that it would reject moves by Mobile Telephone Network, MTN to sack Nigerians working in the telecommunication industry without recourse to global rules and practices. Speaking to journalists, when confronted with media report that MTN Nigeria Limited recently sacked over five hundred staff, Chairman, Senate Committee …

Fresh facts have emerged into the seizure of Zenith Bank account belonging to Ekiti State governor Ayodele Fayose by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday. A credible source within the financial institution who did not want his identity revealed because it was against the ethics of his …

The Workers of the Ministry of Finance on Monday embarked on a protest. They are demanding the removal of the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun. Their grouse, it was learnt, is over the non-payment of what they termed their allowances, which amounted to N1.2 billion. They equally accused Adeosun of …

The population of labour force in Nigeria has increased to 78.4million in the first quarter of 2016 from 76.9 million in the last quarter of 2015 representing an increase in the labour force by 1.99 per cent. The finding was contained in a report titled Unemployment/under-employment watch Q1 2016, released …