NLC General Secretary Emmanuel Ugboaja dies at 60
The General Secretary of NLC, Emmanuel Ugboaja, is dead. Ugboaja, the fifth General Secretary of the NLC, died after a protracted illness.
3 union members die as NUSDE’s crisis deepens
Vanguard gathered that the alleged refusal of one of the factions led by Innocent Jaja and Babatunde Suleiman to implement the MoU, has heightened the crisis.
NECA partners PTI, FSD to address unemployment, skills gaps
‘We work with local partners to deliver education, employment and enterprise programmes that empower young people to learn, earn and thrive’
Organise to stay alive, NLC tells unions
Any trade union that therefore refuses to organise has decided to fail and ultimately die. We organise to build power. It is with organising that trade unions build both our solidarities – the organic solidarity and the wide and inclusive solidarity.”
Labour indicts FG over unfair employment practices
‘Apprenticeship, especially in the South East area is as old as life. Up till tomorrow, you cannot enter any workshop or similar trade anywhere in the South East without seeing an apprentice’
Labour indicts FG over unfair employment practices
One of the fallouts of the just concluded 111th International Labour Conference, ILC, of the International Labour Organisation, ILO, in Geneva, Switzerland was the adoption of a recommendation on quality apprenticeships as a new Labour standard.
‘Anti-workers union leaders on prowl’
Among the primary objectives of Trade Union are to protect the job of members, fight and defend their rights and privileges.Union exists for members who have jobs and prospective members.
Maritime Union inaugurates new district in Lagos
By Victor Ahiuma-Young THE Lagos Industrial District under the Seamen, NIWA & Water Transport Branch of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, has inaugurated a new Unit in Lagos. The Unit is located at Ibada, Ijegun, Satellite Town. During the inauguration of the new Unit, the following were elected to run their affairs for […]
Nigeria’s Adejola elected ILO’s Governing Board chairman
NIGERIA Ambassador to Switzerland, Mr Abiodun Richards Adejola, has been elected Chairman of the International Labour Organisation, ILO, Governing Board, GB.
111th ILC session: Nigeria, 186 others adopt new apprenticeship standard
By Victor Ahiuma-Young THE just-concluded 111th Session of the International Labour Conference, ILC, of the International Labour Organisation, ILO, in Geneva, Switzerland, attended by no fewer than 5,000 delegates representing governments, workers and employers from ILO’s 187 member states including Nigeria, was remarkable in many respects. Among delegates from Nigeria were government, Organised Labour (Nigeria […]
Why cases of child labour is increasing in Nigeria — NLC
THE Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has given the International Labour Organisation, ILO, insight into the reasons behind the upsurge in cases of child labour in the country.
