President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday restated the commitment of his administration to creating jobs for the youthful population of Nigeria.
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Buhari said this at the opening of the Global Youth Employment Forum of the International Labour Organisation in Abuja on Thursday.
The Federal Government has set up an Inter-Ministerial Committee to plan the 2019 Global Youth Empowerment Forum slated for August in Abuja.
The Federal Government says an estimated 600 million new jobs will be needed by the year 2030 to address the growth of the global working age population.
The Organised Labour Movement has urged the Federal Government to remedy the huge salary disparity in core civil service as compared to other Ministries, Departments and Agencies.
The International Labour Oraganisation and National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons are working together to reduce the rate of child labour and trafficking in persons in Nigeria and West Africa.
The UN labour agency in its Global Wage Report 2018/19 released on Monday, also said that pay rose by just 0.4 per cent during last year in advanced economies.
In a statement issued by Samuel Olowookere, the Director of Press in the ministry on Saturday in Abuja, the ILC was held between May 28 and June 8.
Olusade Adesola, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Youth and Sports Development, said this at a Multi Stakeholder meeting on the ‘Nigerian Youth Employment Action Plan and Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youths’ in Abuja.
This was part of the resolutions in a communique issued at the end of an emergency meeting of the NLC National Executive Council on Wednesday in Abuja.
Guy Ryder, ILO Director-General, said this while addressing delegates ahead of the 2018 World Day Against Child Labour and the 20th anniversary of the Global March Against Child Labour.
The Director-General of ILO, Guy Ryder, made this known in interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Geneva, Switzerland on the sideline of the 104th Session of the International Labour Conference
Illoh, who is the Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Labour, said the establishment of such office in the country would further strengthen the existing cordial relationship between Nigeria and the ILO
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) is poised to engage in face-off with the management of Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) over its ‘anti-labour’ stance.