It’s a season of elections not just for politicians but for labour bureaucrats and aristocrats as well.It time to have an election for officers of the Nigeria Labour Congress ( NLC)

THERE has been growing concern that organised labour in the country has abandoned its responsibilities of galvanizing and representing the views of Nigerian masses and intervening in critical socio-economic and political happenings, that ought to bring the nation’s leaders on check.

MINISTER of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu, will this Saturday, clocks 46 years old.

The words of John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, in 1887, when the historian and moralist, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, wrote “Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts obsoletely”, appears to be playing itself out in Nigeria and the Union Bank of Nigeria, UBN, Plc, where the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN appointed Group Managing Director/Chief Executive, Mrs Funke Osibodu, in a show of ignorance and absolute power, a week ago, announced the proscription of the senior staff umbrella body, the Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance, and Financial Institutions, ASSBIFI, in the bank.

NIGERIA would between Monday and Friday, next week hold the 6th African Regional Congress of International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA), which will draw participants from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America.