Comrade Takor will use the platform of the column to share his rich experience and make useful intellectual interventions on pension matters, trade union issues as well as other social and economic matters at federal and state levels. Let’s Talk Pension With Ivor Takor will debut on Thursday, June 11, 2020.
Author: National Record
The oligopolies in the oil industry have had their knees on the neck of ordinary Nigerians for too long. It is time to demand that they remove their knees from our neck! For long they have had their knee on our necks in respect of diesel. We are having difficulty breathing. Your policy on PMS will place their two crushing knees permanently on the necks of poor Nigerians and the Nigerian economy. Please, please, please, we cannot breathe!
While the litigation is likely to endure even to the apex court notwithstanding the outcome at the Court of Appeal, National Record findings reveal that head or tail, peace is unlikely to return to NCSU’s fold without serious intervention from the Nigeria Labour Congress along with its key affiliate unions and other stakeholders in the trade union movement.
We request the leadership of the 9th National Assembly to outlaw casualization of labour and toughen penalties for violation, expand social safety measures, advance occupational health, decriminalize lawful strike actions, and enhance the protection of workers from unfair labour practices and job discrimination.
When a system is built on injustice and exploitation, it can only be maintained through violence, insolent bravado and deceit!
This was the historical context that gave Majek Fashek the wings to fly. Artists around the world were also becoming increasingly socially conscious, and their art, reflected that fact. It was the age of hope for social emancipation, after the triumph of the anti-colonial struggles of the 1950s and 1970s. The lyrics of their songs, spoke to the major social issues of the times, and more than most musical forms, reggae was a particularly poignant platform that conveyed the revolutionary ideas of the 1970s and the 1980s, as reflected in the works of Bob Marley; Peter Tosh and so many other reggae musicians. Nigerian reggae too, belonged in that sensibility, first with Sony Okosuns and his wonderful songs, and the younger generation such as Edna Ogoli, Ras Kimono and others.
“Importantly, AU should reaffirm the objective of the Bank, which is to finance Africa’s development. The American ridicule and disparage of the Bank is unacceptably brazen and provocative. According to the World Bank President, David Malpass, who is an American nominee of Trump administration, AfDB “lends too quickly”, thus aggravating the countries’ debt problems, the allegation the Bank had dismissed as “Untrue and unfounded,”.
The reaction of African-Americans when such issue as the murder of Floyd arose have been based on centuries of physical violence, psychological and mental torture that they have been compelled to undergo under the American racial realities! What is significant now is that people of all races are coming together to combat the American racist establishment.
According to the NLC President, the states of the federation have a long history “of arm-twisting and abuse of the judiciary and legislative arms of government, a situation, he said has gotten worse.
The union is calling for the emplacement of tax ceiling for lower income workers such that those earning below the poverty line are exempted from paying income tax; just as it calls for the repeal of the National Housing Fund Act.