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By Jaye Gaskia Let us begin with a quote from The Communist manifesto written in 1845 by Marx & Engels. “A spectre is haunting Europe, the spectre of communism. All the powers of Old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar; Metternich and Guizot; French radicals and German police spies. Where is the ...

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has reportedly received a threat from someone claiming to speak for the Boko Haram sect, creating great fear and making its leadership to stay away from the premises of its secretariats nationwide. NLC President, Comrade Abdulwaheed Omar, has written to security agencies, informing them about the development to forestall any threat to security within and ...

The Joint Action Front (JAF) has deplored the unilateral imposition of N97 as the new pump price of petrol, standing with Nigerians on the struggle for the total reversal of fuel price to N65. It has therefore urged all Nigerians to commence mobilisation and form Action Committees in workplaces, schools, neighbourhoods, social spaces, town associations and worship centres in preparation ...

Not quite two days after the one week old nationwide strike was suspended by the organized labour, Comrade Peter Esele, President of the Trade Union Congress, TUC, one of the organs involved in talks with the Federal Government over the petrol subsidy strike, has been given a Federal appointment. He is to serve, along with seven others, on a special ...

Labour’s civil society partner, has disowned the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria over today’s suspension of strike and mass rallies to protest government’s sudden cut of petrol subsidy. Labour had claimed during a press conference this morning that it consulted its civil society allies before deciding to call off the five-day strike. But in a ...