NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday, berated Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, over  alleged moves to proscribe Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, describing the action of the minister as uncivilised, ungentlemanly and undemocratic.

Nothing suggests that the leadership of an organisation cannot make mistakes. Why would anyone expect a leader to be infallible? But what distinguishes nobility from charlatanism; maturity of mind from mediocrity is the ability to retrace one’s steps, the humility to apologise once a mistake has been unambiguously identified. As psychologists will tell you, rather than being a sign of weakness, humility is a sign of strength, that inner power that makes the purveyor stand erect even after eating humble pie.

UNFORTUNATELY, the dust arising from the skirmishes between the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Dr. Chris Ngige, and one of the nation’s labour centres, the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, over the chairmanship of the board of the Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF, appears to have overcast the giant strides the minister has made to reposition his ministry and the agencies under it.

I did not recommend him. I am the minister permitted by law to do that recommendation and I am telling you unequivocally that I did not recommend him, simple

A group, the Coalition of Delta APC Support Groups, on Friday condemned the decision of the Nigeria Labour Congress to picket the residence of the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige. Moreso, as the action lead to violence and threat to human lives.