{"id":170703,"date":"2025-07-21T22:09:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T21:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/fg-govs-stealing-workers-sweat-nlc"},"modified":"2025-07-21T23:16:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T22:16:26","slug":"fg-govs-stealing-workers-sweat-nlc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/fg-govs-stealing-workers-sweat-nlc","title":{"rendered":"FG, govs stealing workers\u2019 sweat \u2013 NLC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has accused the Federal Government and state governors of systematically crushing dissent, weakening democratic institutions, and unlawfully seizing workers\u2019 contributions, which it described as stealing workers\u2019 sweat.<\/p>\n<p>NLC President, Joe Ajaero, made the remarks at the opening ceremony of the 21st Rain School of the NLC, held in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, stating that Nigeria was on the brink of tyranny.<\/p>\n<p>Ajaero described Nigeria as a democratic space, the very arena where citizens, especially the working class, face an assault on their rights to free speech, assembly, and participation in governance.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the ongoing clampdown on civic freedoms and union activities is a calculated effort to silence the voices of Nigerian workers ahead of the 2027 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernance has been abandoned for 2027 politicking. Leaders who should be working to alleviate suffering are instead consumed by power games, leaving workers and ordinary Nigerians to bear the brunt of economic hardship and mounting insecurity, all imposed by their policies,\u201d he said.<\/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 accused the Federal Government and state governors of systematically crushing dissent, weakening democratic institutions, and unlawfully seizing workers\u2019 contributions, which it described as stealing workers\u2019 sweat. NLC President, Joe Ajaero, made the remarks at the opening ceremony of the 21st Rain School of the NLC, held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":170701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254,220],"class_list":["post-170703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-nigeria","tag-nlc"],"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>FG, govs stealing workers\u2019 sweat \u2013 NLC - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has accused the Federal Government and state governors of systematically crushing diss ...\" \/>\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\/fg-govs-stealing-workers-sweat-nlc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FG, govs stealing workers\u2019 sweat \u2013 NLC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has accused the Federal Government and state governors of systematically crushing diss ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/fg-govs-stealing-workers-sweat-nlc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-21T21:09:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-21T22:16:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753123677.08755.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\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\/fg-govs-stealing-workers-sweat-nlc#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/fg-govs-stealing-workers-sweat-nlc\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"FG, govs stealing workers\u2019 sweat \u2013 NLC\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-21T21:09:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-21T22:16:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/fg-govs-stealing-workers-sweat-nlc\"},\"wordCount\":184,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/fg-govs-stealing-workers-sweat-nlc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753123677.08755.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\",\"NLC\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/fg-govs-stealing-workers-sweat-nlc#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/fg-govs-stealing-workers-sweat-nlc\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/fg-govs-stealing-workers-sweat-nlc\",\"name\":\"FG, govs stealing workers\u2019 sweat \u2013 NLC - 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