Tag: Issa Aremu
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After this wage increase, it’s time to look into implementation of 15-point tripartite agreement – Issa Aremu
43years ago, democracy bequeathed us Labour Day … Abubakar Rimi and Balarabe Musa were the first govs to declare May Day in Nigeria Veteran labour Leader and Director General of Michael Imoudu National Institute for Labour Studies, Issa Aremu has said after the wage increase announced by the Federal Government, the 15-point tripartite agreement reached…
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Appointment of Aremu as Director of NILS an honour to NLC – Ayuba Wabba
Comrade Ayuba Wabba, President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has described the appointment of Comrade Issa Aremu as the Director of Institute for Labour Studies (NILS) as an honour to the Congress, and said expectations from him are huge. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Comrade Wabba made this known in a letter in which he stressed…
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JUST IN: Buhari approves appointment of Fikpo as NDE DG; Issa Aremu as Director, National Institute for Labour Studies
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo as the substantive Director-General of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE). TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that before now, Fikpo has been the Acting DG of the agency. According to a statement released by President Buhari’s spokesperson, Garba Shehu, the appointment is for a period…
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Yinka Odumakin: Time for new solidarity for nation building – Issa Aremu
The bi-partisan outpourings of grief following the death of the late Afenifere activist, Yinka Odumakin shows that Nigerian elite can and must find common ground to transform Nigeria and Africa for the better! A foremost labour leader Comrade Issa AREMU made this observation in his condolence message to the family of the late human rights…
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Dr Okonjo Iweala: Trade and Development In Discourse, By Issa Aremu
“Nigeria’s share in world trade is 0.33 per cent”. “Nigeria’s share in Africa’s trade is 19 per cent, below its share of Africa’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP)”. And that is official! At every engagement in Abuja during the week, (the Ministry of Trade and Investment, Presidency and Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala,…
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Textile alone can generate 2.5 million jobs – Issa Aremu tells FG
Mr Issa Aremu, Vice President of IndustriALL Global Union, has said that the textile industries alone can generate over 2.5 million jobs in Nigeria if rejuvenated. To President Muhammadu Buhari, Aremu said the current government could create 100 million jobs over the next 10 years with the resuscitation of the textile industries. Aremu made the…
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Covid-19 Impact on Job losses: Aremu Calls for Reindustrialization, condemns Institutional racism, xenophobia world wide
Sustainable Industrial campaign Trade unions in Africa in collaboration with African governments must intensify the campaigns for sustainable industrial policies for the continent to mitigate the negative impact of Covid: 19 on jobs and investment. Africa’s Vice President, IndustriALL Global Union, Comrade Issa Aremu made this observation during his address to the virtual IndustriALL’s Executive…
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Issa Aremu speaks on Adesina’s travails at AfDB, other important national, global issues
TEXT OF PRESS STATEMENT BY COMRADE ISSA AREMU, MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE (mni) AND VICE PRESIDENT INDUSTRIALL GLOBAL UNION ON MONDAY JUNE 1ST 2020 CONCERN As African trade unionists in Industriall Global Union, we are constrained to express concern about the current unacceptable development at the Pan-African institution, African Development Bank (AfDB). HISTORY Founded…
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PROFESSOR IBRAHIM AGBOOLA GAMBARI: HIS APPOINTMENT IN FULLEST OF TIME
Being Text of Press Statement BY Comrade ISSA AREMU, mni VICE PRESIDENT Industrial Global Union and Member of National Institute, Kuru Jos on the appointment of PROFESSOR IBRAHIM GAMBARI as the new CHIEF OF STAFF to PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI APPOINTMENT DESERVED AND TIMELY The appointment of Professor Ibrahim Agboloa Gambari, CFR, OCORT as…
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COVID-19 and Virtual MAY DAY [Full text of Issa Aremu’s Workers’ Day Address]
2020 May Day Message By Comrade Issa Aremu, mni Vice President, IndustriALL Global Union COVID-19: and Virtual MAY DAY GREETINGS Today I join all workers of the world on the occasion of 2020 May Day. As the Vice President representing our beautiful continent, Africa, on the Executive Committee of IndustriAll Global Union founded in Copenhagen,…