Comrade Wabba said the “savage treatment of migrant workers has become rampant in the Libyan city of Tarhuna” and declaring the NLC stands in solidarity with the Organization of African Trade Union Unity (OATUU) and all African workers in condemning “this un-African, evil, and barbaric development.”
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Describing the situation as most unfortunate, the NLC said the silence of NERC on this matter bellows louder than the obscene and hollow threat by DISCOs to make life even more difficult for Nigerians who are still grappling with the socio-economic dislocations occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic.
The CNG demanded that within the next three months, federal security agencies “must carry out proper threat assessments” geared towards, among other things, evaluating the current state of insecurity including a review of the current poor law enforcement, poor intelligence and the lack of synergy among the security agencies.
They are seeking a declaration that the loan facility, purported to be for infrastructural development, wherein less than 1% of the amount is allocated to the South-East of the country for specific infrastructural development, violates section 16 (1) (a) (b) and S16 (2) (a) (b) (c) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).
It counselled the CNG to explore additional avenues in conjunction with other groups and individuals in order to sustain the momentum and keep the government on its toes.
“He was arrested Tuesday afternoon and moved to Abuja shortly after the peaceful protests in Katsina against killings of helpless citizens by bandits.”
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 strongly reiterate our earlier calls for the silencing, once and for all, of the machines of death in every part of Nigeria. The social trauma, economic displacement and demographic dislocation occasioned by the tributaries of blood flowing through the plains of North East and North West Nigeria foretell foreboding consequences. The spill over from the major theatres of violence in Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina and Kaduna States is also affecting many other states in Nigeria especially states that are in the North Central.”
Describing him as “a non-performing Minister of Power,” Comrade Ajaero, in the press statement titled; “Minister of Power Resign Now”, said the recent removal of the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Usman Gur Mohammed, will negatively affect the gains already made in the power sector in the country.