Nigerian Times

In Peace Or In Pieces http://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?topic=844936.0;wap2

Caption: Street demonstration during Labor Day Photographer: Maillard, J. Country: San Francisco, US Date taken: 1987 Copyright: ILO Nigerian oil workers are on strike as we mark the May Day and they are not the only workers who are unhappy all over the world today. The Punch of Nigeria is asking if there is any hope for Nigerian workers? Yes, there is hope as long as the Nigerian workers join hands together to demand their rights to better wages, better working conditions and secure their future in the nation building of a New Nigeria for the common good of all Nigerians. Let us focus on the plight of the poor majority of wage earners who are being exploited and underpaid by their ruthless employers and contractors. If you are one of the employers of labour, please put yourself in the worn and torn shoes of your workers and ask yourself, if you have not been cheating and exploiting them? How would you feel if your were in their condition? Pay a visit to the homes of your office cl...

Nigerian Contractors Stop Work At Nigeria LNG Bonny Plant Complex A group of Nigerian contractors working for the Nigeria LNG Bonny Plant Complex in Rivers state, suddenly started an industrial strike early Monday, and locked all the gates into the complex to stop the staff from working on the premises. The strike came as a surprise to the management of the Nigeria LNG, because the contractors did not inform the management of the industrial action. They are protesting against the maltreatment of the Nigerian contractors who have been deprived of many benefits.

Nigeria: President Yar'Adua Must Save Nigerian Universities From Total Collapse President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua and Vice President Goodluck Jonathan were university lecturers before dumping their academic gowns for Nigerian politics. And millions of their old boys expect the best things to begin to happen to Nigerian education, because of these two former academics that are now in power. That is why they are not surprised that President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua is going to end the three months old strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).The pragmatic measures of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua ended the last nationwide workers strike and he is employing the same pragmatic approach to end the protracted ASUU strike. President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua knows the cause of disagreement between the government and Nigerian university lecturers, because he had been through similar trials and tribulations of Nigerian academics in the past. And it would be unfortunate ...