Chris Ngige

Unemployability Of Nigerian Youths, A Ticking Time Bomb

January 19, 2023 2:07 am

When Nigeria’s minister of Labour, Chris Ngige described Nigerian youths as unemployable last year, the majority of Nigerian youths wished to go for his jugular. He was massively ‘dragged’, especially because of his position in the country and the very obvious unemployment problem in the country. Many people concluded that he was spewing trash to avoid taking responsibility for his failures as the Minister of Labour and Employment.

However, whether he made an earnest statement or was trying to hide behind his claims, an honest and unbiased look at the youths of these days will show you that his statement …

Proposed ASUU New Wage Will Cost Nigeria N1.12trn Monthly - FG

ASUU Strike: We’ve Taken Voluntary Conciliations – Ngige Reveals

August 2, 2022 8:01 pm

In lieu of the ongoing strike by the ASUU, Chris Ngige who is the Minister of Labour and Employment, has revealed that a measure of voluntary conciliation has been adopted to ensure a quick resolution of the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

The Minister, Ngige had also made this disclosure of his plans on Tuesday at a three-day capacity-building workshop on International Labour Standards and Dispute Resolution in Nigeria in Abuja.

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The workshop is organised by the Industrial Arbitration Panel (IAP) in collaboration …

I Have Three Children In Public Universities – Ngige

November 23, 2020 11:04 am

Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has restated the commitment of Federal Government to end the eight-month strike embarked on by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities.

He described as untrue, comments that government officials have been foot-draggers in the ongoing negotiations with the university lecturers because their children school abroad.

Ngige said, ‘I have three biological children in public schools. They are in public schools; they are not in private universities. Unlike ASUU members who have most of their children in private universities, three of mine are here. So, I am a very big stakeholder

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How Ngige Begged Tinubu For A Car In 2004 – Ex-Aide, Akunna

July 25, 2020 8:32 am

A former Chief Press Secretary to the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige has claimed his ex-boss begged Bola Tinubu, the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for an armoured car.

The ex-aide, Chuks Akunna’s disclosure is coming at a time when Ngige compared himself to Tinubu.

The Minister had while appearing before an ad-hoc committee of the House of Representatives, told a lawmaker, James Faleke that he was “Tinubu’s mate.”

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Ngige, while answering questions over an alleged breach of a presidential directive, compared himself …

Ngige And Hon. Faleke Blast Each Other With ‘Street Slangs’

July 22, 2020 1:41 pm

Minister of Employment and Productivity, Chris Ngige, found an opportunity to ‘scatter’ Honourable Abiodun James Faleke, who is the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Finance when he appeared at the National Assembly to defend himself against allegations of abuse of office.

During a House committee investigative hearing this week, Ngige made it clear to Faleke that he was becoming quite uncomfortable with some of his grilling and choice of words; and the diss began.

“As for Faleke, they say he is up to 60 years of age, I don’t know,” Ngige told the committee while sifting through

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Workers’s Union Seeks Minister’s Intervention Over Crisis

February 29, 2020 4:52 am

The Academic Staff Union of Research Institutions (ASURI) Reformed Group, South East Zone, has urged the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige to intervene in the age-long crisis rocking the national leadership of ASURI.

Africa Daily News reports that the group had been enmeshed in a protracted crisis leading to its polarization.

Rising from its meeting at National Root Crop Research Institute (NRCRI), Umudike Umuahia, Abia state, the ASURI Reformed Group, which broke away from the ASURI mainstream body, said the minister’s earlier attempt to address the crisis in the Union, was allegedly blocked by some powerful interests

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