NIGERIA Employers’ Consultative Association, NECA, has offered explanation why some relatives find it difficult to access deceasedpensioners’ pensions under the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS.

TRADE Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, has said the move by the Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF to amend the constitution to remove labour and related matters from the exclusive list to the concurrent list, is aimed at killing the labour movement.

A RENOWNED Industrial Relations scholar and Vice-Chancellor of Joseph Ayo Babalola University, JABU, Ikeji-Arakeji, Osun State, Professor Sola Fajana, has bemoaned the poor labour standards in the country, lamenting that Nigeria has continually been carpeted by the International Labour Organisation, ILO, for flagrant violation of workers and trade union rights.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State will on Friday present another Retirement Bond Certificates, RBCs, worth N2, 287, 787, 241 to the fourth batch of retired public servants under the state’s Contributory Pension Scheme.

THERE are indications that the management of the Union Bank and organized labour have not resolved the lingering dispute over unpaid benefits to close to 2000 retired workers between 2006 and 2008, weeks after a core investor has taken over the bank.