By Victor Ahiuma-Young RECENTLY, the umbrella body for editors in the country, Nigeria’s   Guild of Editors (NGE), gathered in Awka, the Anambra State capital to among other things, take a critical look at the state of the nation which has been of great concern to many Nigerians in recent time.

“We have received reports that our military pensioners are organizing peaceful demonstrations all over the country in agitation for pension review of 12. 5 of 2003 and 15% of 2007.

The recent 98th conference of the ILO was historic in many aspects. It not only coincided with the 90th anniversary of the ILO, it adopted the Global Jobs Pact designed to overcome job losses that people all over the world have experienced. It was also the first time that the ILO had nine presidents or heads of government address the plenary session. Nigeria was a part of the events in a very positive way.

THE National Directorate of Employment (NDE) and a private firm, Logine International Limited, have set up a joint committee to work out a frame-work that would lead to the establishment of Information and Communications centers across the country with the aim of generating employment through skills acquisition.

“Unions without unionism: Towards trade union relevance In Nigeria’s industrial relations system and polity”, was theme of an inaugural Lecture delivered recently, Professor Funmi Adewunmi, at Crawford University, Ota, Ogun State, where the erudite scholar chronicled the emergence of trade unions and unionism, the relevance of unionism in the present day reality and the challenges facing trade unionism of today