MINISTER of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu, and Commandant of the National Defence College NDC, Rear Admiral Thomas Lokoson, have said unemployment is one of the single largest contributing factors to insecurity in the country and called for broad base policy initiatives including the input and participation of security agencies as a way out of youth restiveness arising from joblessness in the country.

THERE are indications that organized labour is planning a massive assault on five banks in the nation’s banking sector over alleged unfair labour practices including refused to allow workers join and unilateral retrenchment of workers without recourse to labour laws.

NATIONAL Pension Commission, PenCom, has commended the National Assembly, for its efforts at finding lasting solution to fraud, non-payment of pension, incessant verification exercise and other negative issues bedeviling the defunct pension scheme, otherwise known as Pay- As- You- Go, PAYG, saying they are damaging the contributory pension scheme.

NATIONAL Pension Commission, PenCom, it is working on a proposal for an amendment of the Pension Reform Act, PRA, 2004, to prosecute abuses by employers is underway.

RETIRED Prison officers from Edo State under the aegis of Association of Retired Prisons Officers have accused Pension Funds Administrators, PFAs, of unethical practices and sought to pull out Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS.