The Federal Government is committed to addressing the problem of mass unemployment in the country and would spare no effort in ensuring that programmes geared towards job generation and poverty alleviation get the priority it deserves. To attain this objective, the minister for labour and productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu called on the management of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) to step up its activities

After over four decades in the trade union movement within which period he became the general secretary of a trade union from 1978 to2009, left wing intellectual of the trade union movement, Comrade Sylvester Ejiofoh bowed out of career trade unionism late last year.

RENOWNED Professor of Industrial Relations, Professor Dafe Otobo, has called on labour unions in the country to be to be focused and more committed in the struggle to improve the living conditions of workers and masses in Nigeria today in the face of the changing socio-economic environment.

EDO state council of Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, has commended the Adams Oshiomhole-led government of Edo state for the unprecedented positive changes taking place in the state especially in the area of infrastructure and employment creation.

Members of the Trade Union Congress ( TUC) were in Benin , the Edo state capital for the 8th Triennial Delegates Conference, held March 18- 19 , 2010. The high point of which was to elect a new set of leaders to run the affairs of the central labour centre for another three years.