By Victor Ahiuma-Young Few days ago, the Voice of business in Nigeria and umbrella body for employers; Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association, NECA, announced it plans to hold an employers’ submit. According to NECA, with the theme, “The Private Sector – An Engine of National Development” the summit will hold in Abuja between  Monday, 30 and Tuesday, […]

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru The management of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria, FMBN, and some aggrieved workers are bickering over in illegal recruitment,  promotion of senior staff without writing the compulsory examination, mandating junior staff to write examination and lobbying to extend his tenure, among others. FMBN’s Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, MD CEO, Ahmed Dangiwa, […]

AHEAD of the March 25 election of a new Director-General, DG, for the International Labour Organisation, ILO, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, has said Africa is not presenting a candidate just to make up the number of contestants, but contesting to win.

•Raises alarm over food, employment crises By Victor Ahiuma-Young PRESIDENT of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, Festus Osifo, in this piece, spoke  on Petroleum Industry Act, PIA and  poverty/unemployment,  among others. PIA With the signing of the Petroleum Industry Act, PIA, into law, the concern of our association is […]

The Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, has directed workers to shut all port operations from Tuesday, March 1, 2022 over refusal of the International Oil Companies, IOCs, to allow the stevedoring companies access to their platforms to commence operations, denying dockworkers and stevedoring companies access to operate in the IOCs platforms as required by […]

•Decry worsening insecurity in Nigeria By Victor Ahiuma-Young The increasing security challenges confronting the country have been of serious concern to well-meaning Nigerians and groups. And one such groups is the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN. Another issue of worry to the association is increasing management impunity and failure to […]

By Victor Ahiuma-Young Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, Wednesday described leadership as very critical to the survival of any human society, saying without President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria would have been like Venezuela. Ngige said Nigeria was passing through hard times, not because of the current government, but as a result of poor […]

MORE facts have emerged on the underground moves to push through the bill seeking to transfer Labour Matters from the Exclusive Legislative List to the Concurrent Legislative List which passed through the Second reading in the House of Representatives in 2021 before public outcry against the bill forced the legislators to stay action on it.

Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has accused officials of the Ministry of Works and Housing and some politicians of diverting N621billion funds budgeted for the repairs of 21 deplorable and critical federal roads across the country, while the conditions of the roads have worsened and unmotorable nationwide. 

THE National Economic Council, NEC, said yesterday that its decision on the removal of the subsidy on petroleum would be made in June when provision for its payment in the 2022 budget expires.

LEADERSHIP of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, has assured workers in the Maritime sector of its commitment to further defend and fight for their welfare, rights and interests in the coming year.

NON-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, is not happy with the Federal Government over the discrimination against non-teaching staff of primary and secondary schools.

A Roman ruler, Julius Caesar, after one of his numerous battles, said: “I came, I saw and I conquered.” In the next 48 hours, Nigerians will join the rest of the world to usher in the year 2022, and 2021 would become history forever.

By Victor Ahiuma-Young National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, has decried the worsening electricity supply across the country eight years after the privatisation of the assets of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN. President of NUEE, Engr. Martin Uzoegwu, in Lagos, contended that the only workable and practicable option for resolving the challenges […]

By Victor Ahiuma-Young “We need to draw the line so that people will know when they cross the other person’s line. No employer is supposed to interfere in the election of officers of a union or prevent workers from unionisation, except the organisations that have been mentioned and given this exemption all over the world, […]