{"id":59834,"date":"2025-01-22T18:21:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T18:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=59834"},"modified":"2025-01-22T18:21:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T18:21:04","slug":"nlc-berates-fg-for-prioritising-corporate-cartels-over-citizens-welfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/22\/nlc-berates-fg-for-prioritising-corporate-cartels-over-citizens-welfare\/","title":{"rendered":"NLC Berates FG for Prioritising Corporate Cartels Over Citizens\u2019 Welfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Our Correspondent\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has condemned the Federal Government&#8217;s approval of a 50% telecom tariff hike, describing it as an unjustifiable burden on struggling Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Wednesday, NLC President Comrade Joe Ajaero criticized the move, facilitated by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), as an assault on workers\u2019 welfare and a glaring example of the government&#8217;s alignment with corporate interests over the needs of citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Ajaero warned of collective resistance, including a potential nationwide boycott of telecommunication services, to demand a reversal of the increase.<\/p>\n<p>He highlighted that the hike forces Nigerian workers, who already spend 10% of their wages on telecom services, to allocate up to 15%, a cost he deemed unsustainable given the \u20a670,000 minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is shocking that this approval came within a month, yet it took nearly a year to implement the minimum wage increase for workers,\u201d Ajaero said, urging the government, NCC, and National Assembly to halt the tariff hike and engage in a more reasonable review process.<\/p>\n<p>The NLC reiterated its commitment to protecting workers&#8217; rights and called on Nigerians to unite against policies that deepen poverty and inequality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Correspondent\u00a0 The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has condemned the Federal Government&#8217;s approval of a 50% telecom tariff hike, describing it as an unjustifiable burden on struggling Nigerians. In a statement on Wednesday, NLC President Comrade Joe Ajaero criticized the move, facilitated by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), as an assault on workers\u2019 welfare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":59835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59836,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59834\/revisions\/59836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}