{"id":79842,"date":"2025-12-09T06:16:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79842"},"modified":"2025-12-09T06:16:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:16:23","slug":"nationwide-protest-looms-as-nlc-sets-december-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/09\/nationwide-protest-looms-as-nlc-sets-december-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationwide Protest Looms as NLC Sets December 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has fixed December 17 for a nationwide protest over the worsening insecurity across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The decision, announced in a communiqu\u00e9 after the NEC meeting in Lagos, was signed by NLC President Joe Ajaero and Acting General Secretary Benson Upah.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress said the recent abduction of 24 schoolgirls in Kebbi State and the killing of a school staff member reflect a dangerous collapse of security, condemning the reported withdrawal of security operatives from the school before the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Calling the spike in school attacks \u201cunacceptable,\u201d the NLC urged the Federal Government to immediately secure all learning institutions, particularly those in high-risk communities.<\/p>\n<p>The NEC also reviewed other national issues, including the crisis in tertiary education, the JOHESU strike, and the weakening ideological direction of the Labour Party.<\/p>\n<p>It insisted those responsible for security lapses must be investigated and prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p>The NLC said all affiliate unions will join the December 17 protest, warning that continued government inaction could spark broader industrial unrest.<\/p>\n<p>It urged Nigerians to support the demand for a safer country and called on state governments and security agencies to strengthen protection for vulnerable communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has fixed December 17 for a nationwide protest over the worsening insecurity across the country. The decision, announced in a communiqu\u00e9 after the NEC meeting in Lagos, was signed by NLC President Joe Ajaero and Acting General Secretary Benson Upah. The Congress said the recent abduction of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":79843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-79842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79842","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=79842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79844,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79842\/revisions\/79844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}