Category: Labour

  As Nigeria marks her 59th Independence anniversary, organised labour under the aegis of Trade Union Congress [TUC] has advised the newly created Economic team to work towards diversifying the economy for growth.   Lamenting the backwardness the country had been through in the last 59 years compared with countries like China and India, the labour centre in a statement signed by its President, Comrade Quadri Olaleye, and Secretary General, Comrade (Barr.) Musa-Lawal Ozigi, mni, advised the team to work to diversify the economy so the teaming youths can be…

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          As Nigeria marks her 59th Independence anniversary, organised labour under the aegis of Trade Union Congress [TUC] has advised the newly created Economic team to work towards diversifying the economy for growth.   Lamenting the backwardness the country had been through in the last 59 years compared with countries like China and India, the labour centre in a statement signed by its President, Comrade Quadri Olaleye, and Secretary General, Comrade (Barr.) Musa-Lawal Ozigi, mni, advised the team to work to diversify the economy so the…

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Member of the Textile, Garments & Tailoring Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (TGTSSAN) has called on the Federal Government and stakeholders in the textile industries to empower farmers to grow cotton by making funds and seeds available to them.       TGTSSAN in a communiqué signed by its National President, Comrade Ambi Karu, and Vice President, Comrade Babatunde Alamutu, noted that operators in textile industry were faced with perennial challenges, stressing that until those challenges are comprehensively addressed the industry will remain in limbo.   The communiqué was issued…

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Expressing dismay over the delayed conclusion of the consequential adjustment negotiations since the implementation of a new minimum wage in April, President Muhammadu Buhari has directed that the negotiations be fast tracked and a deadline fixed to ensure workers begin to take home a new pay.       President Buhari had signed a new minimum wage into law on April 18, 2019 however, negotiations between the government and the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council (JNPSC),  have not only stalled severally, but had broken down due to unresolved differences…

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  As most Nigerian youths still get confused over what they should engage themselves in after graduation following difficulties in securing white collar jobs, a multi-tasking Nigerian journalist, author, evangelist and motivational speaker, Mrs. Gift Nnamoko Orairu, has advised them to redirect their energy towards becoming self-employed by taking advantage of opportunities within their immediate environment.       Orairu, who has motivated a lot of youths into different spheres of positive engagements across the country through talk shows and editorial materials, said the perception by a section of people…

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  The Trade Union Congress (TUC) of Nigeria, Lagos State Council has congratulated a former Governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, as he marks 90th birthday.   In statement signed by the State Chairman, Comrade Gbanga Ekundayo and the Secretary, Comrade Aladetan Abiodun, in Lagos, TUC eulogised Jakande in view of the fact that his 90th birthday came at a time Nigeria is in need of a servant leadership as epitomised by him.   “The leadership of TUC Lagos State is not surprise at the copious felicitation coming from…

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      As Nigeria’s population and that of other African countries keeps increasing with little or no control, the continent has been projected to have a larger workforce than of Asia by the end of the 21st Century.   The continent’s working-age population will grow by two billion to 2.75-billion in the next 80 years, while Asia’s will decline by 415-million, or 13 per cent even as both continents wrestle with different demographic and economic challenges.   Specifically, Nigeria’s potential labour force is projected to rise by almost 350…

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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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