Nigeria Union of Pensioners, NUP, North-East geopolitical zone, has called on governors in the North East region, to pay the backlog of their gratuity, estimated to be about N50 billion.

There is no doubt that a cabal has now been fully entrenched at the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, secretariat.

Alhaji Olanrewaju Ishola is a 60 years old retiree the Health Service Commission, Lagos state. He retired in 2011 after 35 years. At a recent interface between retirees under the platform of the Trustfund Pensions Plc, and Trustfund, in Lagos, spoke to Pension and You on his retirement life among others.

For some time now, the anti-NLC posture of Vanguard newspaper has become too apparent to be ignored and we all need to ask if the newspaper, especially its Labour page handlers have extant motives to destroy the Nigeria Labour Congress under Comrade Abdulwaheed Omar.

Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has said it will compel employers of labour to maintain group life assurance policies for their employees with a minimum benefit of three times total emolument in line with the provisions of the Pension Reform Act 2014. This was part of the decision reached at the National Executive Council, NEC, of the NLC, held at Enugu, Enugu State.

Between August 11 and 15, members of the National Union of Chemical, Footwear, Rubber, Leather and Non-Metallic Products Employees, NUCFRLANMPE, gathered in the ancient city of Akure, the Ondo State capital to examine Emerging Challenges in Industrial Relations Practice: Chemical and Non-Metallic Sector Experience.

Federal Government Pensioners under the auspices of the Association of Retired Senior Public Officers of Nigeria, ARFESPON, have rejected the report of the Presidential Technical Committee on the Review of the Federal Public Service Pensions.

AN employers’ association, the Chemical and Non-Metallic Products Employer’s Federation, CANMPEF, at its 35th Annual General Meeting, AGM, in Lagos, has decried the worsening unemployment rate in the country, saying the unfriendly operating business environment has impeded the capacity of members to create jobs.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that sharp increases in interest rates may cause global economic growth rate to decline by two percent over the next five years.

Foremost labour lawyer and rights activist, Bamidele Francis Aturu, who died Wednesday, July 9, will be buried tomorrow at Ogbagi-Akoko, Ondo State.

The occasion was the 57th annual general meeting of the Nigeria Employers Consultative Association (NECA), held at NECA House, Ikeja Business District in Lagos.

Financial Derivatives Company (FDC) said that the three months increase in inflation rate will persist this month but with zero impact on the exchange rate of the naira.

Director-General of Nigeria Employers Consultative Association (NECA), Segun Oshinowo’s delegation was in Geneva, Switzerland for the 103rd International Labour Conference.

National Pension Commission, PenCom, has concluded plans to host the first World Pension Summit, WPS.

Between Monday July 6 and Tuesday, 7, Nigeria, through the National Pension Commission, hosted the World Pension Summit, WPS, the only platform ‘for and by’ Pension Professionals, exchanging knowledge and innovative ideas on how to secure sufficient pension provisions.