Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2025, published 114th ILC session (2026)

Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006) - Nigeria (Ratification: 2013)

Article I of the Convention. General questions on application. Implementing measures. The Committee notes that, in reply to its previous comment concerning the implementation of the Convention, the Government refers primarily to the National Joint Industrial Council (NJIC) Collective Bargaining Agreement on Conditions of Service for Nigerian Seafarers in Coastal Sectors 2023, as well as to the ongoing process to amend the merchant shipping Act, 2007 and enact the Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) Regulation. The Committee observes that while the Convention was ratified in 2013, the current maritime legislation does not give full effect to some of its key requirements. The Committee therefore requests the Government to adopt without further delay the necessary measures to give full effect to the Convention, taking into account the issues raised in the request directly addressed to the Government, and to provide a copy of the amended legislation once adopted.

The Committee is raising other matters in a request addressed directly to the Government.