Recent news
Latest items of recent news relevant to Nigeria as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.
Nigeria: The pitfalls of probation
Employers must not assume that because there is no statutory basis for probation under Nigerian law that they may just hire and fire ‘at will’ …
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Nigeria: Substantial damages for fatal industrial accident
Evidence arose in a recent case before the National Industrial Court (NIC) that an employer does not defray responsibility for a fatal workplace accident by simply denying culpability, claiming an accident did not take place in the course of employment, by paying for the funeral or insisting that compensation claims were purely the duty of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund and its appeal processes …
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Nigeria: Negotiations stall over new minimum wage
The 31st May deadline for concluding agreement on a new minimum monthly wage came and went without anything close to an agreement …
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Nigeria: Controversial expatriate employment levy (ELL) paused
The EEL, which was intended to “discourage abuse” of the expatriate quota, if adopted, would require businesses employing expatriates to pay US$15,000 to a director and US$10,000 for other workers …
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Nigeria: Pay granted for those who had been on strike
The Nigerian government has given way to University lecturers’ demands that they were entitled to be paid for the time they were on strike last year …
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Nigeria: Ongoing dispute after non-implementation of Autumn concessions
The government has still not introduced the changes it agreed with the Nigerian Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress last October – including a revised minimum wage to replace an interim increment of N35,000 (US$23 …
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Nigeria: Disturbing increase in the fabrication of statistics
In these pages we have reported the proliferation of politically engineered GDP figures in countries such as the USA and UK …
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Nigeria: Foreign national quota returns (2023)
All companies must submit their monthly foreign national quota returns via the “eCITIBIZ” portal by the end of December 2023 …
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Nigeria: Fallout from removal of the fuel subsidy
Trade unions have called off a planned strike over the removal of the government petrol subsidy …
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Nigeria: Whistleblower awarded damages following victimisation and dismissal
The National Industrial Court has awarded NGN7 …
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Nigeria: Supreme Court temporarily halts ban on use of old naira notes
The government’s currency redesign and replacement policy has led to a dire situation across the country, with mass protests over the unavailability of paper currency …
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Nigeria: Economic growth rate contracts as instability and population rises
The World Bank has forecast that growth in Nigeria’s economy will fall from 3 …
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Nigeria: New mental health law introduces greater protection from discrimination
After several failed attempts to pass a Mental Health Bill in 2003 and 2013, it was finally adopted last year and has just been signed by President Buhari into law …
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Nigeria: Court rejects bank claim that leave was not authorized.
The employee, in this case, had claimed that they had sought and verbally obtained three days casual leave from their Supervisor at Unity Bank …
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Nigeria: State clamping down on false employment offers
The southern State government of Akwa Ibom is struggling to tackle an upsurge in fake recruitment activity in which non-existent jobs are advertised in order to attract candidates who not only freely provide their personal data, but are asked to pay a fee to obtain work …
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