The Nigerian Union of Pensioners, NUP, in the six North-East states of the country, has decried alleged refusal of governments in the zone to pay arrears of entitlements amounting to a whopping N61bilion and threatened to call members out for mass protests in the six states.

By  Victor Ahiuma-Young NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC’s new General Secretary, Dr. Peter Oso-Eson, was in Lagos where he had an interactive meeting with a cross section of journalists. In this piece, Labour Vanguard brings to its readers, what the new scribe says is his mandate among others. What is your agenda in NLC? The agenda […]

Former workers of Olamaboro Local Government Education Authority in Kogi State, have dragged the state government to the Public Complaints Commission, PCC, over alleged refusal to obey a high court judgement ordering it to pay their five years salaries.

INCLUSIVE and Sustainable Industrial Development: Africa Agro Industry for Food Security, was the theme of a one-day round-table organized in Abuja by affiliates of IndustriALL Global Union Federation, Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, and Federation of Informal Workers’ Organizations of Nigeria, FIWON,with support of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, FES, to mark Africa Industrialization Day 2014.

Organised labour has warned the federal government that it will incur the wrath of workers if it retrenches workers as a result of austerity measures announced last month.

Indusstrial Training Fund, ITF, is working to bring down the high rate of unemployment in the country through Technical and Vocational Education (TVE).

The 26th annual education conference of the National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN, in Ilorin, Kwara State, provided avenue for labour leaders, employers, academics, industrial relations practitioners and other stakeholders, to examine the rebased Gross Domestic Product, GDP, emerging figures from the rebasing, and what these figures mean for industry, labour and Nigeria’s democracy in the midst of falling crude oil prices.

Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State and his predecessor in office, Timipre Sylva, have traded words over who is responsible for the plight of the state pensioners.

By Funmi  Komolafe  & Victor Ahiuma-young Barely three days after our last publication on the issue of the failed housing project and the scam that attended it, thousands of federal civil servants besieged the Abuja head office of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, demanding refunds of their deposits. This edition of Labour Vanguard examines this […]

Despite spending their productive years for the common good, the nation’s senior citizens have continued to wallow in penury.

Barely three days after our last publication on the issue of the failed housing project and the scam that attended it, thousands of federal civil servants besieged the Abuja head office of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, demanding refunds of their deposits.

The National Pension Commission, PenCom, has disclosed that no fewer than 111,210 employees who retired on the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, since 2007, have received payouts of over N268 billion.

Workers of Eko Distribution Company, EKED, have condemned management deduction of four pension arrears from their salaries at once leaving them little or nothing to take care of their families obligations among others.

No fewer than 6.2 million workers or contributors have been registered into the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, since inception, the National Pension Commission, PenCom, has announced.

Speaking at the event, Chairman of African Region of IndustriALL Union, Comrade Issa Aremu, said jobs in Nigeria were no longer secure as employers opt for short-term, flexible employment as part of strategies to save cost and boost profit.