Day: July 11, 2019

NSITF: ILO has impacted positively on humanity

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The General Manager, Administration, Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), Segun Basorun has described the International Labour Organisation (ILO) as one agency that has impacted positively on the world. Commending the organisation for the institutionalisation of social security initiatives that have impacted positively on the working class, the NSITF boss, who made the declaration on the sideline of the just-concluded International Labour Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, explained that conventions and standards of the ILO had helped in ensuring social cohesion in the world of work globally. According to him, “in…

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Labour tackles oil firms over debts to contractors

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Workers under the auspices of Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) have fallen out with some international oil companies over the latter’s failure to pay stevedoring service charges. In a petition to the Inspector General of Police and the Director-General, Department of State Services on their behalf, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) referred to a complaint by MWUN vide letters dated June 11, 2019. The official memo referenced MWUN/PS/FMT/TWN/2019 and another dated June 27, 2019 and referenced MWUN/PS/FMT/R/TWN/2019, gave hints into the development. Intimating the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of…

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NOMRA: Skill gaps, profiteering fuelling migration

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    Skills, technology gaps, profiteering, poor implementation of some aspects of the nation’s laws among others have been identified as some of the factors responsible for the influx of migrants into Nigeria and, by extension, other African countries.   Stakeholders, who graced a workshop in Lagos to launch the Research Phase of the four-country Migration for Inclusive African Growth (MIAG) project in Nigeria, identified the factors as ultimately responsible for migrants trooping into the country in droves. The primary contribution of the MIAG network is to gather evidence based information…

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