…creates 6,780 jobs
By Funmi Komolafe
Comrade Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state leaves on one in doubt that labour gave him all.    Oshiomhole
played up his background  during his first anniversary   when he said “  I have three teachers; Comrade Hassan
Sunmonu, Ali Chiroma and Abdulwaheed Omar.  My labour background cannot be divorced from me”. His wife, Clara [...]

Benin, the Edo state capital played host to perhaps the largest gathering of activists in the city’s recent history   last Thursday when Governor Adams Oshiomhole,  immediate past president of the Nigeria Labour Congress marked his first anniversary as Governor of Edo state.
Comrades,  Hassan Sunmonu  and Ali Chiroma both former presidents of the NLC were in [...]

For sometime now, the issue of gratuity in the light of the pension reform has been a contentious one between employees and the employer.   Many human resource managers are also not clear about how to handle this.
The secretariat of the Nigeria Labour Congress, published the background, objective and  guidelines released by the National Pension Commission [...]

By Victor Ahiuma-Young
RECENTLY, the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria (CIPMN), organised a manufacturing sector human resource forum on “Maximimising the potentials of the Manufacturing sector in a recessing economy: The role of Human Resource Management” The forum which attracted eminent personalities from all walks of life, once again, brought to the fore the [...]

By Victor Ahiuma- Young
ORGANISED Labour in the nation’s financial sector, the Association of the Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions (ASSBIFI), is set to battle the management of Union Bank of Nigeria (UBN), over alleged non-payment of redundancy and other benefits its former staff retrenched between 2005 and 2008.
Acting President of ASSBIFI,  [...]

Mr. Samuel Jegede, a military  pensioner  is calling for urgent attention from the military pension office.
An edited  copy of the  his letter to the office is produced below:
” I use this opportunity to write you this personal complain letter, which I know if after you go through it, will convince you. Sir, I was in [...]

WHAT could have made a Police commissioner who allegedly commended a group for its peaceful conduct, interacted with it, and above all, praised it for its constitutional behaviour, to suddenly after a private “meeting” with the another group, turneround and declare leaders of former wanted for alleged criminal conspiracy, theft, attempt to commit culpable homicide, mischief and inciting disturbance?

LEADERS of Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN), met a few days ago in Lagos, to review the state of the nation. Under the umbrella of its National Executive Council (NEC), among others, leaders of ASCSN appraised the socio-economic and political situations in the country and concluded that the nation is retrogressing.

ORGANISED labour and its civil society allies, under the umbrella of Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO), will today in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) stage a mass protest to protest government planned full deregulation of the down stream oil sector among others.

“Global economic downturn and trade union action to sustain decent work and decent pay agenda”, was the thrust of a symposium put to together by the Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions (ASSBIFI), to mark the world decent workday, held recently in Lagos.