Keynote Address Presented at the 2025 CITAD Kano Labour Institute, 8th July 2025

By Dung Pam Sha, Department of Political Science, University of Jos

In this presentation, Dung Pam Sha provides a comprehensive review of the State of the Labour Movement in Nigeria with international comparisons.

In summary he finds:

• a labour movement trapped between its protest legacy and a declining ability to engage effectively in today’s economic, political, and social terrain.
• While historical resilience remains, fragmentation, disconnect with grassroots demographics, and weak adaptation to neoliberal restructuring have left Nigerian labour vulnerable.
• This aligns with trends in other African countries, though COSATU (South Africa) and TUC Ghana maintain comparatively higher resilience and capacity, but weak connection
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