Mr. Adelakun called on the Lagos State Government to pay more attention to the plight of pensioners who retired from Local government, Parastatals and so on whose gratuity and arrears of increment in their pension since 2006, had not been paid to date.

For sometime, now, politics indeed desperation for positions has become the norm at the headquarters of the nation’s foremost labour centre; the Nigeria Labour Congress so much that the leadership seems to have acted contrary to acceptable labour standards.

Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC’s new General Secretary, Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson, was in Lagos where he had an interactive meeting with a cross section of journalists. In this piece, Labour Vanguard brings to you what the new scribe says is his mandate, among others.

Recently, Bayelsa State pensioners made good their threats to embark on street on protest to press home their demand for the payment of gratuity and other benefits.

Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate, PTAD, currently reviewing outstanding pension and gratuities owed Federal Pensioners in the country.

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.

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.