THERE are strong indications that the relationship between the organized labour in the nation’s aviation industry and the Minister, Princess Stella Oduah, has deteriorated as two unions in the industry are planning a showdown with the Minister over alleged unethical practices and illegalities.

INTERNAL crisis rocking the House of Representatives Committee on Pension, has prevented the committee from performing its oversight function on the Custom, Immigration and Prison Pension Office, CIPPO.

…Seeks clarification on effective date
NON-ACADEMIC Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, has called on the Federal Government to expand the coverage of the 65 years retirement to staff of Research Institutes and Colleges of Agriculture in line with the Agreement it reached with the Unions in the Sector in January, 2011.

HEALTH workers in Nigeria and other West African countries gathered recently in Tema, Ghana, to review the state of healthcare delivery in the sub-region.

SINCE the inception of the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, which came as fallout of the Pension Reform Act of 2004, there has been an unending controversy over continuity of gratuity as part of terminal benefits of employees especially in the private sector.

ASSOCIATION of Pension Operators in Nigeria, PenOp, has faulted the withdrawal of some federal government organization from the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, especially the military, warning that the old scheme is unsustainable.

THURSDAY, September 27, 2012, Labour Vanguard published Comrade Adeyemi’s response to Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC President, Comrade Abdulwaheed Omar, interview on alleged plot to break the NLC. This is the concluding part.

…Urge FG to disband Pension Task Force
PENSIONERS in the Federal Civil Service have demanded for immediate arrest and prosecution of the Presidential Taskforce on Pension, Abdulrasheed Maina, over alleged unethical practices.

THE Committee set up by the Federal Government to within one month work out the entitlements of the over 800 disengaged workers of the Mainstreet Bank, has begun work following its inauguration.

NIGERIA Labour Congress,NLC, President, Comrade Abdulwahed Omar, is surprisingly still lost in severe hallucination about the NLC being broken up by external actors, notably the Federal Government of Nigeria.