THE Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees (AUPCTRE), has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to inaugurate the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) board, for real development. The General-Secretary of AUPCTRE, Mr Sikiru Wahid, made the appeal in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. Wahid noted that the call had become imperative to save the commission from destruction. The union also appealed to the National Assembly (NASS), President of the Senate, Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Umana Umana, to take urgent steps to ensure NDDC delivered on…
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By Amos Aar BENUE State governor, Samuel Ortom, says he is ready and poised to meet the leadership of Fulani social cultural organisation, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore at the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague where a suit is said to have been filed against him for reportedly seizing over 25,000 cows belonging to its members and detaining over 4,000 herders. Governor Ortom bared his mind over the weekend in a statement through his Chief Press Secretary, Nathaniel Ikyur, in reaction to a statement attributed to the National Secretary of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Alhassan Saleh, that they have…
LECTURERS in our public universities are so absorbed in their national strike which is in the sixth month that they have not observed the unique contributions of President Muhammadu Buhari to industrial relations practice. Ironically, it has been serving or retired generals that have made the most fundamental contributions to the practice of relations between employees and employers. As a child while learning how to read, I stared at a photograph on the front page of a newspaper. It was some people with property and children. Help came from one of the elders around who helped me to decipher the…
THE Joint Action Front (JAF) has called on the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) to put to action their threat of a nationwide solidarity strike if the federal government failed to resolve issues that led to the strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). In a statement signed by its Secretary, Comrade Biodun Aremu, and Deputy Chairperson, Comrade Achike Chude, JAF wondered why the government is yet to resolve the crisis despite President Buhari’s directive three weeks ago, the two-day nationwide protest by the NLC. Condemning what it described as the unserious…
By Amos Aar THE Executive Secretary, Benue State Emergency Management Agency (BSEMA), Dr Emmanuel Shior, has revealed that about five hundred million naira is needed on a monthly basis to take care of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) across the state. Dr Shior stated this Friday at BSEMA Headquarters in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, when he flagged-off the distribution of food items to IDP camps in the state for the month of August. The Executive Secretary, who lamented that the federal government has neglected Benue State in its intervention in states affected by insurgency, said that more people have been…
RESIDENTS of Abuja (FCT) have expressed their opinions concerning the upcoming national population census scheduled for April 2023. Mr Soboma West, a resident of Lugbe area, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the census is important and requires the support of all Nigerians. “Nigeria as a country needs to plan the allocation of resources and its management for better national development.” He also said that “census is a very valuable exercise that aids the management of the nation’s resources.” Mr Favour Ehiogu a Nigerian youth and a resident at Federal Housing, Lugbe also said, if the statistics gathered…
THE Government of China on Wednesday, August 12, 2022 deposited the instruments of ratification of the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29) and the Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No. 105), bringing the number of ILO Fundamental Conventions ratified by China to seven and the total number of China’s ratified ILO Conventions to 28, the ILO has reported. With these ratifications, China, which is a founding Member State of the ILO, reinforces its commitment to respect, promote and realize the ILO Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. Convention No. 29 prohibits the use of forced labour in all its…
FORMER Governor of Zamfara, Alhaji Mahmud Shinkafi, says a Tinubu presidency in 2023 will accelerate national growth and development. Shinkafi said this on Friday in Abuja while accepting his appointment as Chairman, Board of Trustees of a political support group, ‘Tinubu Support Group.’ The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Tinubu Vanguard is a flagship support group for the realisation of the presidential ambition of the All Progressives Congress (APC) flagbearer, Sen. Bola Tinubu. Shinkafi said that Tinubu’s track records and pedigree showed that he would propel Nigeria to greatness if elected as president. “Considering what he has done…
Police officers secure the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) officials from rowdy agents after the general election, at the St. Teresa Girls Secondary School tallying centre near Mathare in Nairobi, Kenya August 11, 2022. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya WITHOUT providing any proof, the secretary-general of Kenya’s governing party has said there was election rigging, fuelling public anxiety on Friday as media outlets significantly slowed down their unofficial tallies from Tuesday’s tight vote. Only the electoral commission is authorised to declare a winner, but the tallies done by media were seen as a bulwark against the kind of rigging allegations that have…
GHANA, the shining Black Star which in 1957 lit the way to independence for all of Africa, is today, a slave colony of the United States (US). The declaration 65 years ago by its leader, Kwame Nkrumah, that: “The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa”, gave momentum to the independence movements across the continent. Ghana followed up its declaration by providing offices and bases for liberation movements in the continent. For this reason and the moves by Nkrumah to unite the continent into a single United States of Africa, his…