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.

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.