ORGANISED labour has warned that inspite of checks against abuses and unethical practices especially corruption in the new Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, it will not hesistate to declare a national strike should there be any proven case of fraud in CPS.

Trouble is brewing at the Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, AOCOED, Ijanikin, Lagos, over N48 million pension fund allegedly un-remitted, and N188million perceived ‘missing’ staff cooperative fund.

THE Third Quadrennial Delegates Conference, QDC, of Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, in the ancient city of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, will for sometime to come be an issue for discussion. With the theme Reforms in the Oil and Gas Industry: Catalyst for National Growth and Development, (What prospect for the attainment of Decent Work Agenda?), besides attracting local and international guests, stakeholders in the nation’s petroleum industry, used the occasion to emphasize the need for decent jobs in the sector.

The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, recently held its International Relations Forum in Accra, Ghana. The theme was, Trade Unionism in Nigeria and Global Social Protection, and the venue was Kwame Nkrumah African Labour College, Accra. Labour Vanguard shares with you, the thoughts of the Secretary-General of the Organisation of African Trade Union Unity, OATUU, Comrade Owei Lakemfa and the TUC President, as contained in their addresses to participants.

NON-ACADEMIC Staff Union of Educational and Associated Instituctions, NASU, has expressed serious reservation about the deliberate misinterpretation of the Retirement Age Act for Polytechnics and Colleges of Education by some state governors who are insisting that the Act is only for Academic Staff.