Labour

Osun State NLC Gets New Leadership

By Web News 480

By Funmi Ojo

Chairman, Nigeria Civil Service Union, Osun State Chapter, Comrade Christopher Arapasopo has emerged Chairman, Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Osun State Chapter.

At the 7th Triennial Delegates Conference with delegates from the 32 affiliate industrial unions in the state, held in Osogbo, Comrade Arapasopo polled a total vote of 270 to defeat his opponent, Comrade Olumide Faniran, who scored a total vote of 232.

Declaring the winner, the Electoral Officer who is the National Treasurer, Nigeria Labour Congress, Comrade Olatunji Ambali said Comrade Arapasopo having satisfied all the requirements put in place for the election was declared as the winner.

In his acceptance speech, the new state Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Comrade Arapasopo promised to accord the welfare of workers necessary priority, resuscitate Civil Service Week, embark on resuscitation of Productivity Day as well as resuscitation of Elders/Leaders Forum to serve as a think-tank for the congress.

While commending Governor Ademola Adeleke for giving priority to the welfare of serving and retired civil servants in the state, Comrade Arapasopo promised to lead by example.

Addressing newsmen after the election, the NLC National Treasurer, Comrade Olatunji Ambali charged the newly elected executive members to lead with the fear of God.

He appreciated the immediate past Caretaker Committee for holding forth and the conduct of members during the election.

Other members of the newly inaugurated Osun NLC executive committee are Mr Taoheed Babawale and Mr Emmanuel Adegboye who were elected Vice Chairmen, Mr. Emmanuel Olawuyi emerged Treasurer, while Mr Akintunde Ojo and Mrs Fatimah Olanrewaju were elected Auditors.

Also, Mrs. Funke Ibrahim and Tejumade Ayansola were elected as ex-officio members.

It would be recalled that the triennial delegates conference which ought to have been held last year was disrupted culminating in the setting up of a caretaker committee.

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Politics

State Governors Crippled LGs- NULGE President

By Web News 757

The Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, has fingered state Governors for perpetrating illegality to cripple local government administration across the country thereby resulting in security and socio-economic challenges facing the masses.

The National President of the Union, Comrade Olatunji Ambali, gave this indication in Akure, the Ondo state capital while speaking with Journalists.

The NULGE National President flanked by State Presidents from the Southwest zone, said the root of insecurity and other predicaments bedeviling the country could be traced to the mismanagement of the local government system over the years by many state governors.

While calling for local government autonomy, Comrade Ambali who was in Akure for social event, urged the National Assembly and state houses of assembly to grant same in the ongoing constitution review.

The National President charged local government chairmen nationwide under ALGON, to have the courage to challenge in court illegal collection of motor park and signage fees by the state governments.

Comrade Ambali advocated scrapping of 36 States if it is compulsory to have just two tiers of government under a federal system of government, insisting that local governments are more relevant to the masses than states.

Leke Adegbite