THE opposition against the Abdulrasheed Maina led Pension Reform Task Force, PRTF, Team, has remained unabated and appears to be thickening by the day.

THE Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insusrance and Financial Institutions, ASSBIFI, and the disengaged staff of the Mainstreet Bank are trading words over the severance benefits of the ex-bankers.

THE two unions in the nation’s construction industry; National Union of Civil Engineering Construction, Furniture and Wood Workers, NUCECFWW, and Construction and Civil Engineering Senior Staff Association, CCESSA, few days ago raised alarm over jobs insecurity, lamenting that no fewer than 100,000 workers had been sacked by Multi-National Corporations, MNCs, and indigenous contractors over government refusal to pay for completed and certified projects.

TRADE Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, has kicked against perceived clandestine moves by the State Governors to ensure that labour is removed from the exclusive list of constitution.

NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, has called for capital punishment for perpetrators of pension fund fraud, saying “Pension is the life line of the pensioner and any assault on this is clearly a capital offence that equals the taking of the pensioners’ life.”