GOVERNOR Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State has said the Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme O’YES is his administration’s response to the previous insensitivity to the plight of teeming youths in the state that had remained unemployed.

EVERY May 1, Nigerian workers join their counterparts in other parts of the world apart from the United State of America, USA, to mark workers’ day otherwise known as May Day. As part of the activities marking this year’s celebration, Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees, AUPCTRE, organized a seminar in Lagos to mark the day.

IMMEDIATE past representative of labour on the board of the National Pension Commission, PenCom, Comrade Ivor Takor, has said the recommendations of the Presidential Committee and Restructuring of Federal Government Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies, will have serious implications on Pension Reform and the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS.

Against the backdrop of the ongoing Senate probe on the old pensions scheme known as Deferred Pensions scheme, which has unearthed massive fraud in the scheme, the Managing Director of Penman Pensions Limited, Mr. Wilson Ideva has assured contributors to the new Contributory Pensions Scheme, CPS, that their money is safe.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has assured workers in the state that everything possible will be done to deliver on their welfare even as the revenue accruing to the state from the federation account has been reduced by N300 million.