PETROLEUM and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has advised government to conclusively address the amnesty programme for the repentant Niger Delta Militants, saying that enduring peace in the region would go a long to stabilising fuel supply situation in the country.

The effect of the global melt down on industry and labor was one of the issues raised at the education summit of the National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers Union of Nigeria (NUTG).

By Victor Ahiuma-Young & Daniel Emeribe Alhaji Nojeemdeen Adebayo Ibrahim, is the Lagos State Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP). At a recent a celebration of the Pensioners’ Day, he spoke to Pension and You on the challenges facing pensioners and how banks are compounding their plight. Excerpts. How would you appraise the […]

For a number of years, organized labour has been deliberating on how to get the unorganized sector organized. Several workshops have been held but nothing concrete has taken place. Recently, the Nigeria Labour Congress took steps to bring the informal sector into its fold.

PETROLEUM and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), has expressed concerned over denial of workers’s right in the country’s Free Trade Zones (FTZ) especially freedom of association as enshrined in the section 40 of the nation’s constitution.

A recent lecture by Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPPS), Kuru, Plateau State entitled “Micro-Credit Programme As a Tool for Wealth/Youth Empowerment Creation and Good Governance” was an eye opener in many ways.

Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has offered automatic employment to graduands of Federal Polytechnic, Auchi who emerged overall best in the various departments.

ORGANISED Labour in the nation’s banking sector, has kicked against any moves by the banks to cut the salaries of workers and vowed to resist such with any means possible including industrial action.

The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), a central labour organisation opposed to the deregulation of the downstream sector to , name and bring to book those who manipulated, abuse and illegally benefitted from the fuel import subsidy before embarking on its planned total deregulation of the downstream sector of the Petroleum industry. This story is an edited version of the TUC statement

…creates 6,780 jobs By Funmi Komolafe Comrade Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state leaves on one in doubt that labour gave him all.    Oshiomhole played up his background  during his first anniversary   when he said “  I have three teachers; Comrade Hassan Sunmonu, Ali Chiroma and Abdulwaheed Omar.  My labour background cannot be divorced from […]

Benin, the Edo state capital played host to perhaps the largest gathering of activists in the city’s recent history   last Thursday when Governor Adams Oshiomhole,  immediate past president of the Nigeria Labour Congress marked his first anniversary as Governor of Edo state. Comrades,  Hassan Sunmonu  and Ali Chiroma both former presidents of the NLC were […]

For sometime now, the issue of gratuity in the light of the pension reform has been a contentious one between employees and the employer.   Many human resource managers are also not clear about how to handle this. The secretariat of the Nigeria Labour Congress, published the background, objective and  guidelines released by the National Pension […]

By Victor Ahiuma-Young RECENTLY, the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria (CIPMN), organised a manufacturing sector human resource forum on “Maximimising the potentials of the Manufacturing sector in a recessing economy: The role of Human Resource Management” The forum which attracted eminent personalities from all walks of life, once again, brought to the fore […]

By Victor Ahiuma- Young ORGANISED Labour in the nation’s financial sector, the Association of the Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions (ASSBIFI), is set to battle the management of Union Bank of Nigeria (UBN), over alleged non-payment of redundancy and other benefits its former staff retrenched between 2005 and 2008. Acting President of […]

Mr. Samuel Jegede, a military  pensioner  is calling for urgent attention from the military pension office. An edited  copy of the  his letter to the office is produced below: ” I use this opportunity to write you this personal complain letter, which I know if after you go through it, will convince you. Sir, I […]