NIGERIA Employers Consultative Association, NECA, has explained reasons why it has dragged the House of Representatives to Federal High Court, Abuja, seeking an injunction restraining the Attorney General of the Federation, The Speaker, House of Representatives, Clerk, National Assembly, Chairman, House Committee on Finance and Olusola Adekanola & Co from proceeding with the audit and inspection of the books of companies in the private sector as planned.

BARELY a week after the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu, apprehended the planned strike by workers in the Power Sector, under the aegis of the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, and the Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies, SSAEAC, indication of fresh tension in the sector has emerged over perceived renewed insincerity by the Minister of Power and those driving the controversial Power reforms.

Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, and Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, have promised to submit list of employers contravening the Pension Reform Act, PRA, 2004, to the National Pension Commission, PenCom and Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity.

AS NIGERIANS continue to express shock and disbelief in the ongoing probe and unearthing of the wanton corruption and unbelievable wickedness in the defunct Deferred Pension Scheme, DPS, also known Pay As You Go, PAYG, workers in the nation’s textile industry, have said the matter should not be treated as an economic crime, but a treasonable crime.

THE issue of the upsurge in expatriates and expatriate quota abuse in Nigeria has remained topical in the nation’s employment system. Organised labour, civil society groups and other concerned Nigerians have continued to see the increase and abuse as not only an economic crime, but also compounding the employment crisis in the country.