National Directorate of Employment,NDE, has commended Governor Ibrahim Idris of Kogi state for assisting NDE to resettle 50 physically challenged persons trained by the Directorate under a special skills acquisition programme for the persons with disabilities and other special needs.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State says employment into the state teaching service will no longer be automatic, adding that the applicant must show competence beyond paper qualification.

ORGANISED Labour has said the N18,000.00 new minimum wage was based on current revenue allocation formula and argued that governors have no reason to hing their implementation of new wage signed into in March 2011 by President Goodluck Jonathan on a new revenue allocation.

A retired officer of the Canadian Labour Congress,CLC, Mr. Paul Puritt, has protested the termination of the appointment of the General Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress,NLC, Comrade John Odah and called for his reinstatement.

For employers in the Chemical and Non-metallic products sub-sector of the Nigeria’s economy, the 2010 financial year that ended June 1, 2011, provided a unique opportunity to indirectly set agenda for the new government that emerged after the April general elections and to warn of the danger posed by rising unemployment, poverty and deprivation to the stability of the country.

CAMPAIGN for Democratic and Workers’ Rights, CDWR, has faulted the sack and intimidation of 20 union leaders Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, AAUA, Ondo State by the institution’s management and called for their immediate reinstatement.

Last week, workers, concerned Nigerians and families of contractors who claimed to have done jobs for MTN Communications Nigeria Limited, gathered at Folomo roundabout, Awolowo Way, Ikoyi, Lagos, by the Corporate Headquaters of MTN to protest alleged refusal to pay for the services rendered to telecommunications giant.

There are indications that a new policy which has a grave consequence for job security is being introduced into the banking industry by management of some banks in Nigeria.

Shoched by June 1, 2011 ruling of a Federal High Court Kaduna presided by Justice M.L. Shuaibu on the case instituted by the union against the management of Finetex and Nortex Limited

MEMBERS of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association, PENGASSAN, are gathered in Abuja, Nigerian capital for their 3rd Triennial Delegates Conference, to review activities of the association in the past three years,

LABOUR leaders in Nigeria have advised President Goodluck Jonathan to form a cabinet that can assist achieve his planned transformation agenda for Nigeria economy.

LEADERS and members of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, Thursday last week, gathered at the ancient city of Abeokuta, Ogun State, for the Lagos zone of the association’s 3rd Triennial Delegates conference.

Among other actions by the outgoing governors of Ogun and Oyo states after the April 26 election, the reported employment

There are strong indications that organised labour in the nation’s Petroleum industry is not taking the the alleged refusal of Depot and Jetty owners in Lagos to allow their workers to join the union as enshrined in the Section 40 of the Nigeria’s constitution and International Labour Organisation, ILO, conventions 87 and 98 among others, may soon lead to confrontation between labour and the owners of these companies

From Akwa Ibom to Maiduguri, from Kano to Ekiti, from Ogun to Kogi and from Lagos to Abuja, the story is the same; unemployment, poverty, harsh living conditions, just name it.