Author: National Record

CISLAC made the call in a press release made available to National Record on Wednesday in Abuja. The press release, entitled: “MAGU’S SUSPENSION: CISLAC CALLS FOR THOROUGH INVESTIGATION,” stated that due to the unclear situation of what the real issues are, there are concerns and conflicting signals being passed to the general public.

In a press release dated July 7, 2020, entitled: “A DISCLAIMER ON THE POSITION OF NATIONAL RECORD ON THE PROBE OF THE NATIONAL SOCIAL INSURANCE TRUST FUND,” Comrade Khaleel denied making the comments credited to him by National Record. “I wish to unequivocally disclaim the malicious and blatant lie that I made such comments to National Record or any other news medium,” he asserted.

According to the post, the “working group is mandated to develop a long-term Development Plan tagged ‘Nigeria Agenda 2050’ and a medium-term National Development Plan (2021-2025) which are both meant to replace the current Nigeria Vision 20:2020 and the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP 2017-2020). The Nigeria Vision 20:2020 will lapse in December, 2020.”

The exercise, tagged “OTUWA Health Survey,” which is being carried out in collaboration with the American Solidarity Center, is designed to gather information that will help OTUWA to support healthcare workers in the most appropriate way. It is also a prelude to a sub-regional campaign being planned by OTUWA on the theme of “Healthcare Is A Human Right.”

The NLC, speaking through one of its two representatives on the Governing Board of the NSITF, Comrade Ibrahim Khaleel, who is also NLC’s National Treasurer as well as National President of Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), told National Record that there obviously seems to be confusion around the suspension of the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, three Executive Directors and a number of other top management staff of the NSITF by the Minister of Labour and Employment on Thursday, July 2nd 2020.

NECA stressed that the corporate governance structure of NSITF as provided for in its act empowers the Board to deal with matters as such as being unilaterally being handled by Minister Ngige without the knowledge of statutory institutions that a members of the organisation’s Board, such as the NLC and CBN.

In the communiqué of the joint meeting signed by Comrade Ayuba Wabba, titled; “The Way Forward on Re-Opening of Schools Amidst the Prevalence of the Novel Corona Virus Disease (Covid-19) Infections in Nigeria,” the unions said the objective of the meeting was to brainstorm on measures to be put in place before schools in Nigeria could re-open given the prevalence of the novel corona virus disease.

The likes of Comrade Akele are rarely mentioned by the bourgeois press during democracy celebrations, particularly June 12, but aside being a working class hero, he was also a hero of anti-military struggles, a hero of pro-democracy struggles and a hero of the struggle for independent students’ unionism being the first secretary of the interim leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students in its formative stages in 1980 before the first full Exco was elected in the 1980/81 session under the presidency of Tanimu Yakubu of Bayero University, Kano.

“We wish to state that President Muhammadu Buhari has not suspended the management of NSITF and did not make such announcement. The person mentioned in the media report is not a staff of the President.”

In the suit pending before Justice Essien of the National Industrial Court, Lagos Division, the plaintiffs, Comrade Abiodun Philip and 29 others, accused the defendants, Comrade Oyelekan, who is the National President of NUFBTE and 17 other national officers of the union of perpetuating themselves in office despite the expiration of their constitutionally allowed two terms.