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From Bimbola Oyesola,
The year 2025, for Nigerian workers, unfolded as a year of grinding economic pressure, where wages stood still while the cost of living spiralled relentlessly upward. From the opening months, inflation dictated daily survival, swallowing salaries through rising food prices, escalating transport fares, higher electricity tariffs and unaffordable rents. Across sectors, public service, manufacturing, education and informal economy, workers spoke the same language of exhaustion, describing an economy that demanded productivity without offering dignity.
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Organised labour framed this reality not as a cyclical hardship, but as a structural failure. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) repeatedly warned that wages divorced from economic realities threatened social cohesion.
“A worker is not a machine,” NLC President Joe Ajaero said during one of several press briefings in the year. “You cannot expect efficiency when people are pushed to the edge of survival.”
The Congress argued that the wage crisis had become a moral question as much as an economic one, insisting that policies which ignored human welfare would ultimately undermine national stability.
