ORGANISED labour in the nation’s Steel and Engineering sector, has called on the Federal Government to intervene on the plight of over 500 workers of AKS Nigeria Limited allegedly forced out of job for the past three months by a Receiver/Manager purportedly acting under an Ex-Parte Court Order.

THOUGH the Employee Compensation Scheme, ECS, a child of the Employee Compensation Act, ECA, commenced July last year, however, February 24, 2012, at the official commissioning of the Lagos Corporate Head office of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF, could be regarded as the actual take of date for the scheme.

VICE President of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Chairman of Labour Transport Company, LTC, Comrade Issa Aremu, has faulted the Federal Government on alleged planned to 450 and 150 buses to the NLC and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC out of the 1,242 buses to be imported.

PENSIONERS in the South-west have called for the decentralization of pension administration to allow state governments to handle the payments of the Federal share of pension on behalf the Federal Government.

FROM the under-developed countries like Nigeria to the developing countries such as Syria, from the emerging economies like India to a failed economy like Greece and from the developed economies such as Germany and to even a super power like United States of America, USA, the story is the same; unemployment is becoming the greatest threat to peace and stability.