As one approached the residence of one of the factional chairmen of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Alhaji Lateef Salako, a.k.a. Eleweomo, one needed no soothsayer to tell him he was entering into a lion’s den.

AFTER many years of agitations, the outdated and much criticied Workmen Compensation Act, WCA, introduced into the nation’s industrial status book by the colonial masters, is on its way out of the nation’s labour law as indication emerged that the Employees Compensation Bill, ECB, sent to the National Assembly by late President Musa Yar, Adua, to repeal the WCA is now waiting Presidential assent.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole has congratulated the new Head of Service of the Federation, Professor Oladapo Afolabi on his appointment to the exalted position as the number one civil servant in the country, saying the appointment is “well-merited”.

OVER 1500 retrenched workers of Union Bank of Nigeria Plc, eased out of the bank between 2005 and 2008, have petitioned President Jonathan, imploring him to prevail on the management of the bank to pay them their required benefits as well as compensation for premature disengagement.

In its efforts to rejuvenate our cherished social and cultural values particularly among the youths, Society Icons, a non governmental and leadership development organisation has taken the campaign for value re-orientation to secondary schools across the country.