On the occasion of Workers’ Day, Speaker of the House of Representatives Abbas Tajudeen and Deputy Speaker Benjamin Kalu lauded Nigerian workers for their invaluable contributions to national development, emphasizing the need for better working conditions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a statement issued Thursday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Musa Abdullahi Krishi, Speaker Abbas described workers as \u201cpartners in progress\u201d and praised their critical role in sustaining the economy, referring to them as the \u201cengine room.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He acknowledged the challenges faced by workers amid economic difficulties and commended labor unions\u2014the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC)\u2014for their cooperation with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu\u2019s administration on welfare matters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Abbas urged workers to remain dedicated and patriotic while calling for increased productivity, stating that \u201conly the citizens can sustain their fatherland.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Likewise, Deputy Speaker Benjamin Kalu, in a Wednesday statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Livinus Nwabughiogu, applauded workers for their resilience and pivotal role in shaping Nigeria\u2019s progress. The leaders\u2019 messages underscored the importance of recognizing and improving workers’ welfare as the nation marks May Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On the occasion of Workers’ Day, Speaker of the House of Representatives Abbas Tajudeen and Deputy Speaker Benjamin Kalu lauded Nigerian workers for their invaluable contributions to national development, emphasizing the need for better working conditions. In a statement issued Thursday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Musa Abdullahi Krishi, Speaker Abbas described workers as \u201cpartners in progress\u201d and praised their critical role in sustaining the economy, referring to them as the \u201cengine room.\u201d He acknowledged the challenges faced by workers amid economic difficulties and commended labor unions\u2014the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC)\u2014for their cooperation with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu\u2019s administration on welfare matters. Abbas urged workers to remain dedicated and patriotic while calling for increased productivity, stating that \u201conly the citizens can sustain their fatherland.\u201d Likewise, Deputy Speaker Benjamin Kalu, in a Wednesday statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Livinus Nwabughiogu, applauded workers for their resilience and pivotal role in shaping Nigeria\u2019s progress. The leaders\u2019 messages underscored the importance of recognizing and improving workers’ welfare as the nation marks May Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-labour-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25000,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24998\/revisions\/25000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}