{"id":165742,"date":"2025-06-05T10:02:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T09:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/tinubus-two-years-more-suffering-in-nigeria-nlc"},"modified":"2025-06-05T11:08:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T10:08:36","slug":"tinubus-two-years-more-suffering-in-nigeria-nlc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-two-years-more-suffering-in-nigeria-nlc","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu&#8217;s Two Years: More Suffering in Nigeria NLC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has knocked President Bola Tinubu\u2019s two years anniversary in office, saying Nigerian workers and the masses have experienced no gains but only pain and misery.<\/p>\n<p>NLC President, Joe Ajaero, in an appraisal of the administration\u2019s first two years, stated that there has been nothing to celebrate since the government came into power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen President Bola Tinubu took office on May 29, 2023, he promised a new dawn, bold economic reforms that would rescue Nigeria from fiscal instability and set it on a path to prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>But two years later, the only thing bolder than his rhetoric is the magnitude of suffering and hardship his policies have inflicted on workers and ordinary Nigerians. Far from renewing hope, his administration has recycled the same failed neoliberal experiments of the past, proving once again that you cannot cure a patient by prescribing the poison that made them sick in the first place,\u201d Ajaero said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the sudden removal of the petrol subsidy sent shockwaves through an already fragile economy, causing fuel prices to skyrocket from N187 to over N600 per litre overnight.<\/p>\n<p>The NLC boss said instead of reinvestment, Nigerians got inflation so vicious that families now skip meals, businesses shut down daily, and transport costs consume what little remains of workers\u2019 wages.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the naira, left to the so-called \u2018market forces,\u2019 has collapsed in value, turning Nigeria into a bargain basement for neighbouring countries, while local industries suffocate under the weight of imported inflation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat makes this pain even more frustrating is that none of it is new. We have seen this script before, subsidy removals, devaluations, and IMF-approved austerity, each time sold as the bitter pill Nigeria must swallow for a brighter future. But when has it ever worked? These same policies under past administrations only widened inequality, enriched a few, and left the majority poorer. Tinubu\u2019s version is no different, except the suffering is deeper, the anger louder, and the government\u2019s response more brutal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigerian workers have seen their real wages obliterated. Pensioners, SMEs (facing over 150 per cent inflation in inputs), and 150 million Nigerians are now multidimensionally poor. It has been two years of intimidation and harassment for labour leaders and trade unions in Nigeria. Flagrant disregard for court orders and the criminalisation of union protests and actions have become the norm. Wage award arrears at the federal level remain unpaid, despite repeated promises.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only notable effort is the provision of compressed natural gas, CNG, buses by the Federal Government to ease transportation for Nigerian workers, but this remains grossly inadequate, hampered by severe gas infrastructure deficits,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has knocked President Bola Tinubu\u2019s two years anniversary in office, saying Nigerian workers and the masses have experienced no gains but only pain and misery. NLC President, Joe Ajaero, in an appraisal of the administration\u2019s first two years, stated that there has been nothing to celebrate since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":165741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,2660],"tags":[254,220,17676],"class_list":["post-165742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-to-homepage","tag-nigeria","tag-nlc","tag-tinubus-two-years-in-office"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tinubu&#039;s Two Years: More Suffering in Nigeria NLC - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has knocked President Bola Tinubu\u2019s two years anniversary in office, saying Nigerian w ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-two-years-more-suffering-in-nigeria-nlc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tinubu&#039;s Two Years: More Suffering in Nigeria NLC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has knocked President Bola Tinubu\u2019s two years anniversary in office, saying Nigerian w ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-two-years-more-suffering-in-nigeria-nlc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-06-05T09:02:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-05T10:08:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/sm_1749105568.234295.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-two-years-more-suffering-in-nigeria-nlc#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-two-years-more-suffering-in-nigeria-nlc\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Tinubu&#8217;s Two Years: More Suffering in Nigeria NLC\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-06-05T09:02:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-06-05T10:08:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-two-years-more-suffering-in-nigeria-nlc\"},\"wordCount\":462,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-two-years-more-suffering-in-nigeria-nlc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/sm_1749105568.234295.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\",\"NLC\",\"Tinubu\u2019s two years in office\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-two-years-more-suffering-in-nigeria-nlc#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-two-years-more-suffering-in-nigeria-nlc\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-two-years-more-suffering-in-nigeria-nlc\",\"name\":\"Tinubu's Two Years: More Suffering in Nigeria NLC - 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