Bank workers can’t be retrenched on ‘performance’ — ASSBIFI

S’West governors owe us N242bn — Pensioners

By Victor Ahiuma-Young Few days ago, workers in the nation’s financial sector under the aegis of National Union of Banks, Insurance and Financial Employees, NUBIFIE, gathered in Lagos to elect leaders to run the affairs of the Union for the next four years. The event afforded the leadership of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and its […]

By Victor Ahiuma-Young The Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, has raised the alarm over increasing security threats at the port formations and private jetties across the country, saying they have become very porous for vessels laden with dangerous cargoes such as illicit drugs, arms and ammunition, among others. MWUN blamed the absence of Tally clerks […]

By Victor Ahiuma-Young More facts have emerged  on how the African Union’s  candidate for the Director-General, D-G, of International Labour Organisation, ILO, Gilbert Houngbo, a Togolese, was elected the first African D-G of the oldest United Nations Body after 103 years. Recall Houngbo was Friday March 25, 2022, in Geneva, Switzerland, elected the Director-General of […]

•Demands legislative action to regularise ‘non-permanent’ staff in banks By Victor Ahiuma-Young Organised Labour under the aegis of the National Union of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions, NUBIFIE, has picked hole in the ongoing amendment of 35-year-old Bank Employees Declaration of Assets, BEDA, Act 1986, saying some aspects of the amendment bill are offensive and infringe […]

Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday, waded into the conflict between the leadership of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, and its Lagos State council.

AHEAD of the 2023 general elections, the organized Labour yesterday vowed to form an alliance with any pro-workers’ political parties, or organizations in order to rescue the country which it said was sailing dangerously adrift.

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, […]