UNITED Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, told countries gathered at the start of the COP27 summit in Egypt on Monday they face a stark choice: work together now to cut emissions or condemn future generations to climate catastrophe. The speech set an urgent tone as governments sit down for two weeks of talks on how to avert the worst of climate change, even as they are distracted by Russia’s war in Ukraine, rampant consumer inflation and energy shortages. “Humanity has a choice: cooperate or perish,” Guterres told delegates gathered in the seaside resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh. He called…
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BAYELSA State was for weeks submerged by floods which damaged or washed away bridges and roads, homes and farms, power transformers, and hospitals, and displaced 99 percent of its over 2.5 million people. Some deaths were recorded with the living clinging to life while the buried could not safely remain in their abode as the floods covered or washed away graves. The only means of reaching the state was either by air or water. State Governor Douye Diri, a fortnight ago, cried out that despite international concerns and desperate pleas, neither the Federal Government nor its agencies had sent relief…
By Amos Aar THE governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Benue State, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Iormem Alia, and the youth wing of Kwande United Peoples Organisation (KWUPO) have separately reacted to Governor Samuel Ortom’s statement during the launch of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Campaign Council at the party’s state secretariat last week over the non-payment of workers’ salaries in the state. Ortom had, at the event, made various allegations against both Fr. Alia and the first civilian governor of Benue State, the late Apollos Aper Aku. He faulted Alia for always promising the masses during his campaign…
THE outrageous payment of less than 50% of their October salary to ASUU members and the retention of salaries of some non-teaching staff is an attack on us all. This is the largest group of trade unionists to suffer the implementation of the federal government’s no work no pay policy. As such, this is one of the most significant attacks on our labour movement, at least since the end of the military era. ASUU members were on strike from 14th February of this year and suspended their industrial action on 13th October 2022. During this period members of the Union…
Calls on NLC, TUC to Rise in Defense of Academic Workers By Peace O. Aboje AN education advocacy group, the Save-Public-Education-Campaign, has called on the federal government to refrain from anti-labour acts and abuse of power but rather dedicate itself to actions capable of bringing peace, stability and development into the nation’s educational institutions in the interest of students whose future is now at stake. In a press statement on Monday, the group also called on the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) to do all in their capacity to end what it…
LUIZ Inácio Lula da Silva, 77 had done his duty to his long suffering country, Brazil. His origins were rough, like those of his motherland. The product of a polygamous family, he learnt to read at ten and began working at 12. At 19, while working as a press operator, he lost the little finger on his left hand. His rough experience trying to get treatment, led him to trade unionism. He became a metal worker at Villares Metals S.A, then labour leader and a pro-democracy activist against a brutal military dictatorship during which he was jailed. In 1980, with…
THE Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has directed its states and local chapters, to hold national prayers for divine intervention in the affairs of Nigeria on Friday. This is contained in a statement signed by John Praise Daniel, Chairman, Local Organising Committee, National Prayer Day, of the CAN on Wednesday. CAN said that the prayers were also to implore God’s help in preventing violence, manipulation, intimidation of voters and other electoral crimes in the forthcoming elections. “We consider this imperative in view of the fact that our nation is passing through very challenging times at the moment despite its abundant…
BENUE State governor, Samuel Ortom, has charged newly sworn in Permanent Secretaries in the state civil service to avoid indulging in any form of financial impropriety in the discharge of their duties. Nathaniel Ikyur, Chief Press Secretary to Governor Ortom, in a press statement by made available to National Record Thursday, said the governor gave the charge Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022 during the swearing-in ceremony for the newly appointed Permanent Secretaries held in the new Banquet Hall of the People’s House, Makurdi. Governor Ortom particularly cautioned the permanent secretaries not to compromise civil service rules but always take the correct…
Awards N50,000 Cost in Favour of APC By Amos Aar THE Federal High Court Makurdi Division presided over by Justice Abdul Dogo has dismissed the suit filed by the Benue State governorship candidate of the Labour Party, Herman Iorwase Hembe, against the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for including his name on the gubernatorial primary election result of the APC. Hembe had prayed the court to make a declaration that the votes allocated to him in the purported gubernatorial primaries of the 1st respondent held on 27th May, 2022, and the ‘purported rerun’…
A RETIRED civil servant has dragged before the Abuja Division of the National Industrial Court the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation (HoS), the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, the Director General, Budget Office of the Federation, the Attorney General of the Federation as well as the Accountant General of the Federation over allegations of abuse of power and corrupt practices in the Budget Office. The retired civil servant, whose last duty post was at the Budget Office of the Federation, Ms Bilkisu Sannusi, is also accusing the Director General of the Budget Office,…