The Nigeria Labour Congress is to stage a nationwide protest against insecurity on December 17 2025 just as it has demanded that the Federal Government should with immediate effect investigate and prosecute those who ordered the withdrawal of security personnel from Government Comprehensive Girls Secondary School, Maga, Danko Wasagu LGA in Kebbi State.
The NLC made the demand in a communique signed by its national President, Joe Ajaero and Acting National Secretary, Benson Upah, which was released to the media on Monday in Abuja.
Not long after the withdrawal of military personnel attached the school, bandits invaded the school killed a security guard and whisked away 25 female students.
The students had since been freed and reunited with their respective families.
While condemning the attack and kidnapping of the students, the NLC said “the government has not done enough to secure all the schools, especially those on the fringes of the towns and those in remote areas, to stop attacks on innocent pupils and students and their teachers.”
According to the communique, “tertiary education sector continues to suffer from chronic underfunding, dilapidated infrastructure, outdated teaching and research resources, and persistent non-payment of allowances and entitlements for both academic and non-academic staff.”
The NLC accused the FG of deploying divide-and-rule in dealing with labour unions in the sector, adding that the tactics, which it asked the FG to stop using, exploit existing differences and weaken collective efforts to secure long-standing demands.
The communique, issued at the end of National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held at Sub-Secretariat, Yaba, Lagos, on Thursday, December 4 2025, urged the Federal Government to implement a fair and uniform remuneration framework for all categories of workers in tertiary institutions, while recognising the peculiarities of various professions and the different allowances applicable to them.
While reviewing what it described as the lingering crisis in the health sector, particularly the strike action embarked upon by the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) since November 14, 2025, the Labour expressed serious concern over the withdrawal of nurses from the ongoing industrial action, saying such was worrisome for the unity of the sector.
The Labour said “all its affiliates will be left with no option but to join the strike in full solidarity, if negotiations between the Federal Government and JOHESU did not yield positive results.”
The NEC meeting also reviewed the situation of the Labour Party, saying the e party has been taken over and made to be an appendage of other political interests, just as it said it rejected the Nenadi Usman-led Caretaker Committee posturing.
The NLC therefore directed that the members of the NLC on these Committees be withdrawn immediately and immediately commence processes of collaboration and coalition-building with political parties whose ideologies align with working-class principles, to work collaboratively alongside the Labour Party.
