Hardship: NLC backs workers’ demand for N500 petrol price, N500,000 minimum wage

***Give Sept. 30 deadline for fuel price slash, wage award
***Civil servants’ demands realistic, legitimate –— LABOUR
 By Victor Ahiuma-Young
LAGOS — The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and civil servants, under the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council, JNPSNC, Trade Union Side, yesterday demanded a new minimum wage of N500,000 and reduction of petrol price to N500 per litre to address the worsening economic hardship facing workers and their dependents.
In a letter to President Bola Tinubu, the National Secretary of JNPSNC (Trade Union Side), Olowoyo Gbenga, disclosed that workers were also demanding the immediate constitution of a committee to negotiate a new national...