Chief Joseph Modupe Johnson (JMJ) the ex-soldier, former radio broadcaster and businessman was elected chairman of the Ibadan District Council in 1948. His election was spectacular because he was a Lagosian, but people in the Ibadan province preferred him as their leader. He was Labour Minister from 1957-1964 a period of serious Labour turmoil including the crippling general strikes of 1963 and 1964. Johnson’s greatest contribution to Labour was on the world stage.

SATURDAY, July 14, 2012 is a day Dr. Afolabi Daniyan says he will never forget. The medical practitioner has his reason which borders on a recent bitter experience he and his wife had in the hands of some soldiers on guard duty at the Ikeja Cantonment of the Nigerian Army.

THE role of Nigerian media in monitoring and reporting diplomatic activities took the centre stage last week in Lagos when the country’s ambassador to the United States, Prof. Ade Adefuye, carpeted the fourth estate of the realm for its negative portrayal of the recent visit of U.S. Secretary of State, Mrs. Hilary Clinton, to Abuja.

SO strong was the JAC’s influence and so successful was this strike that four months later, the traditionally conservative unions in the education sector formed their own JAC, and went on a country-wide strike “for the first time in the history of Western education in Nigeria.”

This is the ninth edition of the serial on OWEI LAKEMFA’s latest work: “One hundred years of trade unionism in Nigeria”. The eighth part was published yesterday.