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.

FIVE unions in the nation’s health sector have explained that their campaigns for the sack of the Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, is to better the health care delivering system in the country, urging President Goodluck Jonathan, to sack the minister before it is too late.

HAVING covered the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, for over two decades, one is in a position to comment on certain developments within the NLC. First for historical records, two for Nigerian workers to have an insight into happenings in their reputable organisation and thirdly to ensure that such anti-labour practices are not allowed in any working class organisation.

AGGRIEVED Nigerian Postal Service, NIPOST, pensioners have appealed to the Federal Government and the management of NIPOST, to pay their over seven years arrears, saying their pensions is for them to live and not for burial.

CHAIRMAN of Pension Reform Task Team, PRTT, Dr. Abdulrasheed Maina, has said more shocking revelations of pension scam are underway, even as he declared his being declared ‘wanted’ by the Nigeria Police Force, has ulterior motives.

TRADE Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, has said the rank and file in the nation’s armed forces will suffer in the long run from the exit of the military from the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS.

NATIONAL Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, has said the no employer can deny workers the right to gratuity using the Pension Reform Act of 2004, which gave birth to the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, saying the agreement between government and Labour on the payment of pension and gratuity to Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, workers, has been faulted.

A MUSLIM Group, the Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has charged the government to enact a law compelling payment of pensioners’ benefits within six months of retirement.

The Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu, has over the years built a strong reputation as one of the finest, efficient and patriotic public servants in contemporary Nigeria political sphere.

TRADE Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, has said the rank and file in the nation’s armed forces will suffer in the long run from the exit of the military from the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS.

IF everything goes on as planned, soon the nation’s Power sector will be fully private sector controlled following the recent agreement between the Federal Government and Labour over payment of terminal benefits for workers in the sector. In this interview with Labour Vanguard, General Secretary of the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, Comrade Joe Ajaero, speaks on issues of job losses among others, declaring that trade unionism has come stay in the sector. Excerpts

Few days into 2013, the recent survey report on Industrial Development in Nigeria, with the theme Industrial Development: performance policy issues, constraints and prospects carried out by Professor Olawale Ogunkola of University of Ibadan, and Femi Aborishade of Ibadan Polytechnic, was the subject of a round table discussions by manufacturing sector unions and other stakeholders.