THERE is no doubt the high rate of unemployment in Nigeria is a time bomb waiting to explode. But that the problem of joblessness is being compounded by expatriate quota abuse with appropriate government agencies not doing what is needed to stop it, is of serious concern to the National Union of Civil Engineering, Construction, Furniture and Wood Workers, NUCECFWW.

ORGANISED Labour has given reasons why it called off the April 10, nationwide mass protest including the work-free-day declared in Lagos and Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, in solidarity with pensioners over their unpaid benefits.

ORGANISED Labour in the nation’s Textile Industry, has expressed concern over the continuous delay in settlement of the entitlements of workers in closed textile companies of Kaduna Textiles Limited, Arewa Textiles Plc, Finetex/Nortex Limited by the respective owners.

National Industrial Court, NIC, has ordered the management of Gaskiya Textile Mill Kano, to immediately pay a total of N128, 394,220.33 to its former workers and the National Union of Textile and Garment, Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN for legitimate gratuity and outstanding union dues.

SIXTY years ago, in Iyamoh,Edo state, Hadjia Aishetu and Alhaji Aliyu Oshiomhole were blessed with a baby boy whom they named Adams Aliyu Aihanegboye Oshiomhole. Those familiar with the names say Aihanegboye means “The wicked will not catch up with you”.

THE April 10, 2013 national protest by Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, over the plight the plight of pensioners in the country is already gathering momentum. Already reports across the country indicated that state councils of NLC had begun moblisation of members for the protest.

THE April 10, 2013 national protest by Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, over the plight the plight of pensioners in the country is already gathering momentum.

GOVERNING council members face contempt cargeTHIRTEEN members of the Governing Council, The Polytechnic, Ibadan including the Chairman of the council, Professor Oladapo Afolabi, risk being committed to prison over alleged violation of a court order.

TRADE Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, has called on Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to ensure all individuals standing trail for the embezzlement of pension fund are brought to book with maximum penalty.

NO fewer than 450 retirees of the Nigeria Postal Service, NIPOST, have died for lack of money to meet their medical and other needs while waiting for the payment of their pensions among other entitlements in the last five years.

NATIONAL Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN, has heaped curses on individuals and groups directly or indirectly inflicting hardships and pains on the nation’s pensioners.

MONDAY, March 4, 2013,members of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, gathered in Abuja, for their 3rd Quadrennial Delegates Conference, QDC, to take stock of how the union fared in the last four years.It climaxed with the re-election of Comrade Emmanuel Anthony Nted, as President-General of the union for the next four years.

LOWLINESS is young ambition’s ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend.—William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar.

FEDERAL Government has kicked off a process that could generate over 300,000 jobs for unemployed Nigerians as it inaugurated committee on installation of surveillance and traffic cameras and other equipment in the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.

ORGANISED labour in the Financial Sector, has said the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, will remain in the bad book of labour in a long time to for initiating and implementing policies that have continued to kill jobs and impoverish workers in the banking industry.