AS the 14-day ultimatum issued to the Federal Government by Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, to address the protracted leadership crisis in the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, expires tomorrow, Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu is today meeting with parties to the crisis in an efforts to avert the looming NUPENG strike.

With the formation of the transport union in Nigeria, otherwise refer to as the National Union of Road Transport Workers – NURTW in 1978, the union was listed as an an affiliate of the central labour organization – the Nigeria Labour Congress in 1978.

FEW days ago, stakeholders made up of union leaders, human resource managers, and management of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria, FMBN, gathered in Lagos, at a one-day interactive session organized by the Nigeria Employers Consultative Association, NECA, to find ways of quickening affordable housing scheme for workers.

NATIONAL Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN, has said nothing is too much to do to ensure immediate and unconditional release of the more than 200 girls of Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, abducted over a month ago by Boko Haram insurgents.

About N210.78.63billion has been paid as lump sums to retirees under the Programmed Withdrawal of Contributory Pension scheme., CPS.