@NigeriaStories The institution should start if first by acting what they say. Most of the corruption cases in Nigeria are selective and are targeted towards the opposition. Why is Yaya bello today, wanting to be senator.
@NigeriaStories What kind of story is this for Christ sake. Chai, our mumu too much, Nigerians needs a brain reset. This people are taking us for granted honestly. They should reduce the fuel price period.
@NigeriaStories Nigerians politician may be have never seen, but an average Nigerians have seen a man that promised us stable electricity without fulfilling it and many more.
@Wankope_king@PoliceNG@ruffydfire Yes. Highly untrained, I don't know how this person was recruited into the @PoliceNG. That is why terrorism will keep increasing by the day, such tribalistic character in uniform is dangerous as opposed to national unity.
Watch as a Nigerian police officer @PoliceNG, acting out of duty to denigrate P.O publicly. It shows that there is a conspiracy within the institution to hunt down voters choice of candidates. @ruffydfire. His comment can set the nation on fire 🔥 he needs be arrested.
@NigeriaStories It will interest you that, some policial office holder don't know the price of fuel. So, his position is valid. They thought, everything is free.
@instablog9ja This quarterly increase doesn't add value, rather it jacks taxes up indirectly, hence, the NLC should at least, fight for unnecessary high increases in commodity that directly affects the masses. Like fuel, eatables, and even our moribund refineries.
This quarterly increase doesn't add value, rather it jacks taxes up indirectly, hence, the NLC should at least, fight for unnecessary high increases in commodity that directly affects the masses. Like fuel, eatables, and even our moribund refineries.
NLC supports workers’ demand for ₦500 per litre petrol and ₦500,000 minimum wage
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has backed demands by civil servants for the Federal Government to reduce petrol to N500 per litre and raise the minimum wage to N500,000 amid worsening economic hardship.
The demands were contained in a letter to President Bola Tinubu by the Trade Union Side of the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council (JNPSNC).
The workers also demanded an immediate wage award for federal, state and local government workers, as well as the constitution of a committee to negotiate a new national minimum wage ahead of January 2027.
They said the recent increase in petrol prices to N1,430 per litre and above in some locations had further worsened the cost-of-living crisis. The workers gave the government until September 30, 2026, to act on their demands.
The council rejected food palliatives as a sustainable solution, saying: “It has dawned on Nigerian workers that the provision of palliatives, such as bags of rice, Indomie, vegetable oil, garri, among other edible foods, is as good as weaponising Nigerians with poverty because it is a pyrrhic intervention which is unsustainable, inaccessible to the majority of Nigeria’s population and also limited to political cronies.”
The workers instead proposed a fuel intervention fund to bring petrol down to N500 per litre, saying the move would have a multiplier effect across the economy.
They also urged government to look inward and stabilise the prices of fuel to an affordable minimum,describing the current PMS price of N1,430 or more as a k+lling amount.
The JNPSNC proposed that an officer on Grade Level 01, Step 1, should earn N500,000 monthly under the 2027 salary template and called for harmonised wages across MDAs.
Backing the demands, NLC Acting General Secretary Benson Upah said: “The demand for a wage award and reduction in the pump price of fuel are very realistic and long overdue.”
He added that rising fuel prices were affecting transportation, food, school fees and other essential expenses.