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By: Funmi Ojuroye  October 19th 2013 Isaac O. Aberare, General secretary, Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers Isaac O. Aberare, General secretary, Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers. In this interview with Moses Nosike of Saturday Vanguard, on casualisation in Nigeria, he reveals how indigenous and foreign companies contravene Labour laws because of government inability to enforce them. He stressed further how Nigerian workers spend 30 years in an employment as contract staff and others. Excerpts: What is the position of NUPENG on casualisation in Nigeria? NUPENG has consistently kicked against casualisation in the oil and gas industry and others in Nigeria as far back as 1983 when we had a show down with a company. The company woke up one day and decided to pay off its workers and reemployed them again as casual workers. We rose against it and fought, and it led to a zonal council strike action in Warri where the entire oil workers in Del...

By: Funmi Ojuroye  October 19th 2013 GOVERNOR of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, Friday, said he had no power to unilaterally appoint a judge in the state, declaring that the authority rested with the National Judiciary Council, NJC. Speaking in Asaba, where he inaugurated three part-time members of the State Judicial Council, Messrs Patrick Oganwu, Peter Wanogho and Francis Omatseye, he said the guidelines and processes for appointment of judges, as well as approval were entirely that of NJC with little input from the executive. Charging the newly inaugurated members to render quality and selfless service at all times, he said, “Only those who meet the 10 years post-qualification guideline and approved by the NJC will be appointed judges. I have little input on who can be appointed, as the NJC must screen and approve the people to be appointed. I cannot unilaterally appoint anybody as a judge”. He told them to help “chart a robust Judicial Service Commission, capable of ...

By: Funmi Ojuroye  October 19th 2013 Professor Jega has supervised over some of the worst elections in Nigerian history, particularly in our Delta state. The man has very little asset, in fact more deficits and liabilities, in terms of conscience, and he masterminded some of the worst electoral manipulations and fraud that took place in the 2011 elections where many Nigerian souls were needlessly lost in the name of Presidential elections, particularly in the Northern parts of Nigeria where the people resisted the daylight robbery by Jega, his corrupt INEC officials up and down the country and the cancerous PDP, that benefited from all the 2011 charade, Jega called Elections!  Joe Igbokwe- Lagos APC spokesperson- was commenting on some of the Nigerian-wide web groups I belong, recently and he talked of 10 reasons why Ngige ( the APC gubernatorial candidate) would win the governorship election of Anambra state, which in a fair electi...