The Nigeria Union South Africa has confirmed the killing of a member, Kingsley Ikeri, at Vryheid Town in KwaZulu Natal Province on Aug. 30. Mr. Ikeri, 27, was a businessman and native of Mbaitoli in Imo State. Mr.
Usman Duste, the National President of ASUP made the announcement today during theunion's 14th National Delegates Conference at the Abubakar Tatari Ali Polytechnic, Bauchi state.
"The National President oftheunion, Mr Joe Ajaero, was in Imo state on the directive of NLC National Executive Council (NEC) to fight for some workers who were owed 31 months of salaries and over ten thousand workers were unjustly declared
The president who is in the country for 5th European Union-African Union (EU-AU) Summit, was being accompanied by Bola Tinubu; Governor Emmanuel Udom of Akwa Ibom State and Mohammed Abubakar of Bauchi State.
With pains, I wish to announce the death of Students Union President of Umaru Waziri Federal Polytechnic Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State. He died in a motor accident early hours of today, May Jannat Firdausi be his next abode."
She noted that the Commission got assurance from the National Unionof Road Transport Workers, NURTW, before now, as the body is not part ofthe labour union.
Nigerians are reacting on social media to the appointment of no fewer than 30 aides by Comrade Abasifreke Benson, the President ofthe Students' Union at Akwa Ibom State University.
Edwin, who was exasperated by the fact that his daughter got married in Asaba, Delta state not Anambra which is her stateof origin, he laid a curse on her new union.
Over 70 students of Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife Osun State were reportedly arrested by officials ofthe Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in a midnight raid of hostels outside the campus in the early hours of today November 1.
The protracted strike by the Academic Staff Unionof Universities (ASUU) may soon be called off. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, gave the hint in Onitsha, Anambra State, while speaking to reporters.
"We counsel that government at both the federal and state levels must meet the Taskforce specified guidelines for reopening of educational institutions, we insist that all the arrears ofthe withheld salaries of our members in federal and state
Its President, Mr Adetola Olubajo, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on telephone from Johannesburg that Omoyele, a.k.a Ja Rule and native of Ibadan, Oyo State, was killed at a parking lot at Doornfontein, Gauteng Province.
Theunion said the decision was a follow up to the just concluded meeting ofthe National ExecutiveCouncil ofthe Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, which was held on Tuesday 26 September 2023.
Uzodinma also explained that Ajaero has faced challenges in separating his roles as the national president ofthe labor union from his engagement as an interested party in the local politics of Imo State.
This was disclosed by Dr Ezekiel Agbalagba, the ASUU branch chairman, Federal University of Petroleum Resources (FUPRE), Effurun, Delta state while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria in Warri.
The statement read; "The National Executive Council (NEC) of our great union convened at the Federal College of Education, Okene, Kogi State on May 6 to compile the outcome of a referendum conducted across all chapters nationwide.