Addressing the delegates, President of NUPENG, Comrade Peter Akpatason, praised members for standing steadfast despite the challenges posed by globalisation, global economic recession and the crisis in the Niger Delta which has remained the greatest threat to job security of members.

THE traditional belief, where girl child is rated as not worthy to be invested in her education has deprived many women of the opportunity to assume leadership positions in the country.

For over a week now, post offices across the country have been shut down. Hospital services suspended as members of the National Union of Posts and Telecommunication Employees ( NUPTEE), Medical and Health Workers Union, National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives, Non Academic Staff Union of Universities commenced a strike last week.

The 98th session of the International Labour Organisation ( ILO) held in Geneva, Switzerland last month, was one in which the three social partners; workers, government and employers agreed to work together to create job more job opportunities .This was done with the unanimous adoption of the Global Jobs Pact.

According to the Nigerian constitution, any time the federal government carries out a review of salary of civil and public servants under which category soldiers fall, such review is automatically supposed to be reflected in the monthly take home benefits of pensioners; military pensioners inclusive.

By Victor Ahiuma-Young RECENTLY, the umbrella body for editors in the country, Nigeria’s   Guild of Editors (NGE), gathered in Awka, the Anambra State capital to among other things, take a critical look at the state of the nation which has been of great concern to many Nigerians in recent time.

“We have received reports that our military pensioners are organizing peaceful demonstrations all over the country in agitation for pension review of 12. 5 of 2003 and 15% of 2007.

The recent 98th conference of the ILO was historic in many aspects. It not only coincided with the 90th anniversary of the ILO, it adopted the Global Jobs Pact designed to overcome job losses that people all over the world have experienced. It was also the first time that the ILO had nine presidents or heads of government address the plenary session. Nigeria was a part of the events in a very positive way.

THE National Directorate of Employment (NDE) and a private firm, Logine International Limited, have set up a joint committee to work out a frame-work that would lead to the establishment of Information and Communications centers across the country with the aim of generating employment through skills acquisition.

“Unions without unionism: Towards trade union relevance In Nigeria’s industrial relations system and polity”, was theme of an inaugural Lecture delivered recently, Professor Funmi Adewunmi, at Crawford University, Ota, Ogun State, where the erudite scholar chronicled the emergence of trade unions and unionism, the relevance of unionism in the present day reality and the challenges facing trade unionism of today

Nigeria and some members of the Internation al Labour Organisation (ILO) have given their support to the
proposed amendment to the ILO constitution

EMPLOYERS in the nation’s Chemical and Non-metallic products sector of the nation’s economy under the umbrella of Chemical and Non-Metallic Products Employers Federation (CAMPEF), recently held its 30th Annual General Meeting (AGM), in Lagos, to appraise the performance of the sector, the challenges facing it and the state of Nigeria’s economy generally and declared that there is not much to cheer.

By Funmi Komolafe As Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO) renews its suspended protest against the deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry among other things, Nigeria Labour Congress has listed three alternatives to the planned deregulation of the sector insisting that the nearly decade tangle of Labour and Government can only be […]

By Victor Ahiuma-Young FOR employers in the food and beverage sector of the nation’s economy, the gradual and steady waning capacity utilisation and employment generation in the sector and indeed, the entire manufacturing sector in the country, is something that the government must urgently address frontally if the country’s dream of joining top 20 economies […]

MOBIL Oil Nigeria (MON) Plc, has said its greatest asset remains it employees and that the long-term success of MON depends on coaching, mentoring and developing employees to attain their full potential