Both factions of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, led by Ayuba Wabba, and Joe Ajaero, have fixed state councils’ elections for Thursday April 23, 2015.

National Pension Commission, PenCom, will bring the full weight of the law against defaulting employers any moment from now following the conclusion of jobs by recovery agents to recover unremitted, deducted funds by employers.

Relief has finally come the way of over 85, 000 military pensioners who have been languishing in pains and protesting non-payment of arrears of their 33% increment, from 2010 to 2013, as the federal government has commenced payment of the arrears.

Those were the words of Senator Joel Danlami Ikenya, the new Nigerian Minister of Labour Productivity, while taking over from Alhaji Tanimu Turaki SAN, who supervised the ministry following the resignation of Chief Emeka Wogu, to contest the Abia State Governorship election.

Indications have emerged on failed plots to scuttle the factional special delegates conference by the 23 aggrieved affiliates of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, that has produced Comrade Joe Ajaero of the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, as President.

If everything goes well, Abdulwaheed Omar, will hand over to a new president of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC that will either take Congress to the next level or quicken its move into oblivion from the Olympian heights that Comrade Adams Oshiomhole left it in 2007.

Public workers in Niger State have written to the state government to officially opt out of the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, to protest government’s refusal to pay its corresponding contribution as required by law.

THE March 12 rescheduled Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, election holds tomorrow amid plethora of unresolved issues that if swept under the carpet, the Congress and indeed, Labour movement, could not only lose its pan-Nigerianism or Africanism, but also die a natural death.

BARELY one week to the March 12 rescheduled election of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, tribal and ethnic sentiments have torn Congress apart, as some of the affiliates and state councils have alleged that the processes leading to the election have been tailored towards ensuring that the president and key officers emerge from the North.

Information from Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Abuja headquarters has it that “in spite of the law on the new minimum wage, the signed agreements with state governments, the passage of time, some state governments have barely fully implemented the law.