This it is doing with the training of the trainers that would see to the elimination of child labour in the country.
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The Director General of the agency, Dr Fatima Waziri-Azi, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Abuja.
Vanessa Phala, the ILO Country Director for Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Liaison Office for ECOWAS shared this concern during the inaugural National Children’s Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour (NCCECL) themed “Act Now: End Child Labour” at the Reiz Continental Hotel, in Abuja on Wednesday, June 16 2021.
Vanessa Phala, Director, ILO Country Office for Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Liaison Office for ECOWAS, made the call at the opening of a four-day training for 80 traditional rulers in Ondo State, opinion moulders and academics to accelerate elimination of all forms of child labour and human trafficking.
The amendment to the Labour Law seeks to introduce stiffer penalties to punish employers who deny female employees maternity protection and discriminate against women during employment to fill positions in underground work or mines.
Guy Ryder, ILO Director-General, and Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director, said this on Friday in Abuja at a ceremony to mark the 2020 World Day against Child Labour.
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture said it had trained 659 service providers on cassava weed control to tackle child labour.
Members of the Oyo State steering committee on child labour have been urged to intensify efforts to fight the scourge of child labour, modern slavery, human trafficking and forced labour of under aged in the State.
The Federal Government has vowed to fight cultural practices promoting child labour, and declared that nothing would be spared in the war against the menace.
The International Labour Organisation has begun a 28 million Euro project, sponsored by the Netherlands, to accelerate the fight against child labour in Nigeria and four other African countries.
Wife of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential candidate, Titi Abubakar, has given the assurance that she will end child labour and abuse if Atiku Abubakar is elected as the president of Nigeria in February election.
The International Labour Organisation and Economic Community of West African States have charged member-states to implement laws on child labour and trafficking.
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, has reiterated the Federal Government’s commitment to accelerate action in achieving alliance 8.7 of the Sustainable Development Goal that seeks immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, modern slavery, human trafficking and secure prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour by the year 2025.
Saraki made the affirmation in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, on Tuesday in Abuja.
Ayuba Wabba, NLC President, made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Abuja.
The International Relations Officer (Africa Adviser) in the United States Department of Labour, Olaoluwa “Ola” Abina, made the pledge while on a working visit to the Ministry of Labour and Employment on Thursday in Abuja.
Omowumi Olatunji-Edet, the State’s Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, made this known on Tuesday at a one-day training/consultative meeting organised for members of State Working Group on Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Labour.
Bolaji Adebiyi, Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, disclosed this in a statement signed by Samuel Olowookere, Deputy Director, Press in the ministry.
The State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, gave the directives in Ado-Ekiti while receiving the report of a team led by the Deputy Governor, Dr Kolapo Olusola, that went to the school for a preliminary investigation of the incident
The communique called for intensified reportage from the media on the causes and dangers of child labour, urging the media to bring child labour issues to the front burner