The President, Academic Staff Union of University, ASUU, Prof Ukachukwu Awuzie, has warned the Federal Government to urgently implement the 2009 agreement, in order to avert another round of strike.

MILITARY pensioners in the South-South, are planning to take up arms against the Federal Government over unpaid five years pension arrears to draw public attention to their plight, stressing that “a man fights several wars before he goes into six feet”.

ON November 17, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, marked his third year anniversary as governor of Edo state. In over 60 pages speech, Comrade Oshiomhole rendered his administration’s stewardship in last 36 months and disclosed that within the last three years, his government created over 25,000 jobs.

ORGANISED labour in the nation’s Textile industry, has appealed to Governor Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna, and other Northern governors to intervene in the plights of over 2000 former workers of Kaduna Textiles Limited, KTL, Nortex/Fintex Limited and Arewa Textiles Plc.

As opposition continues to mount against the planned removal of subsidy on Petrol in January 2012 by the Federal Government, organized labour has asked government and its trumpeters to demonstrate how the proposed policy will reduce poverty and unemployment in Nigeria.

THE Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, ASCSN, Delta State branch, says it has named its proposed N750 million secretariat after the former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori.

LESS than five days to the expiration of the 14 days ultimatum the organised labour gave the management of Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria, ALSCON, UC Rusal, to pay former employees their four years and eight months unpaid benefits, Pension and You can report that at least, 50 of the ex-workers have died without receiving their benefits.

LAST week, after a tour of the multi-million dollars Dansa Foods Limited’s factory, a subsidiary of Dansa Holdings, situated in Abule Oshun, off Badagry Expressway, Lagos, Managing Director of Dansa Foods Limited, Mr. George Eremionkhale, spoke to Labour Vanguard on some labour related issues in the five years old organization .

TEACHERS in the Delta State University, DELSU, Staff Secondary School, Abraka, have asked the State High Court, Isiokolo division, Delta State, to grant an interlocutory injunction restraining the Delta State Government and four other Defendants/Respondents, their servants, agents and privies from transferring them from their service and status as staff of DELSU to staff of State Model Secondary Schools in Delta State.

Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights, CDWR, has condemned the sack of non-indigenous civil servants in Abia State by Governor Theodore Orji and called for their immediate reinstatement.