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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...

By: Funmi Ojuroye  October 18th 2013 National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) on Friday barricaded the Asaba axis of the Niger Bridge for more than two hours. The action, which was jointly carried out by some university students and their polytechnic counterparts was in protest of the protracted strike by ASUU. The aggrieved students blocked the bridge at about 1 p.m., which resulted to a traffic gridlock that stretched from the bridge to Okwe junction about five kilometres to Asaba town. They also lamented the recent decisions of polytechnic lecturers under the auspices of ASUP to also embark on a similar strike, saying it would further cripple the education sector and send a wrong signal to the international community. NANS National Public Relations Officer, Victor Ola-Ogun, said that the students were tired of the strike and appealed to ASUU to call it off. He said that the students had embarked on the peaceful protest and taken it to Kano and “now they are in Zo...

By: Funmi Ojuroye  October 18th 2013 The police on Friday beefed up security in and around Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, in readiness for President Goodluck Jonathan’s visit to the state on Saturday. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the President is expected in the state on the invitation of Chief Afe Babalola, a legal luminary and Founder, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti. He is to attend the first convocation ceremony of the university which is graduating 103 science-based students. The President is expected to inaugurate projects at the university, and the Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, located opposite the university. NAN reports that by Friday afternoon, stern-looking uniformed and plain-clothed security men had taken positions in strategic locations in the state capital. In an interview with NAN, the Public Relations Officer of the Police Command in Ekiti, Mr Victor Babayemi, said the police had put in place measures to ensure a hitch-free visit by the...

By: Funmi Ojuroye  October 18th 2013 First Bank of Nigeria has donated sport facilities worth N44m to Queens College and Kings College in Lagos. The bank constructed a 450-seater sports pavilion at Queens College and renovated the squash court at Kings College as part of its contribution to sport development and pupils’ well being. First Bank’s spokesperson, Mrs. Folake Ani-Mumuney, said the bank’s interventions in the area of sports development reinforced its commitment to boosting the process of developing the minds and abilities of the nation’s future leaders. “At First Bank, our ultimate goal is to remain a strong supporter of efforts geared towards equipping the youths with the skills required for socio-economic empowerment through support of sports development, youth engagement initiatives, endowment schemes and infrastructure development,” she said. “Our desire is to see these strategic and need-driven youth empowerment interventions culminate in equipping our Nigerian...