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Nigeria: Militants Blame Ex-Gov. For Insecurity
Sunday, 10 June 2007, 10:20 am | Akanimo Sampson
CIRCUMSTANCES surrounding the unabating spate of violence in the Niger Delta area, Nigeria's main oil and gas region, have started to creep into the open, with a faction of the armed youths pointing accusing finger at the direction of the immediate past ... More >>
Nigeria: Op. Leader Charles Harry Writes To Ijaw
Sunday, 10 June 2007, 10:19 am | Akanimo Sampson
ONE of the leading opposition figures in the Niger Delta, Nigeria's main oil and gas region, has written an explosive open letter to his Ijaw kinsmen who are locked in a survival battle with the Nigerian state, saying the mighty has fallen. Harry ... More >>
ILO Says 1 in 5 Workers Puts In Excessive Hours
Sunday, 10 June 2007, 10:18 am | Akanimo Sampson
Nearly a century after adopting its first international standard on working time, a new study by the International Labour Office estimates that one in five workers around the world - or over 600 million persons - are still working more than 48 hours ... More >>
UK Issues Fresh Travel Advice On Nigeria
Sunday, 10 June 2007, 10:17 am | Akanimo Sampson
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) of the United Kingdom (UK) on Friday, advised that it is still unsafe for British nationals to remain in three states in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. More >>
World Day Against Child Labour Focuses On Ag.
Saturday, 9 June 2007, 10:27 pm | Akanimo Sampson
This year’s World Day Against Child Labour on June 12 is to focus on the elimination of child labour in agriculture, which accounts for a staggering percentage of the world’s working children and is one of the most dangerous forms of work for children ... More >>
Nigeria: Storm In Rivers Over N2.5bn Withdrawals
Saturday, 9 June 2007, 10:24 pm | Akanimo Sampson
RIVERS State Government in Nigeria has been hit by a potentially dangerous financial scandal.The Rivers Success Movement (RSM), a political pressure group is alleging that the newly inaugurated Celestine Omehia administration made a fraudulent withdrawal ... More >>
4 Million Zimbabweans Face Food Shortages - FAO
Saturday, 9 June 2007, 10:24 pm | Akanimo Sampson
A poor harvest coupled with a worsening economic crisis will leave more than 4 million people in Zimbabwe in need of food assistance by early next year, according to a report issued on Tuesday by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization ... More >>
TI Blasts G-8 Over War On Corruption
Saturday, 9 June 2007, 10:24 pm | Akanimo Sampson
Transparency International’s (TI) ‘G-8 Progress Report’ issued on Tuesday in Berlin , a day ahead of the Group of Eight (G-8) Summit in Germany , concludes that although many laudable commitments have been made towards fighting corruption and ... More >>
ILO Sets To Launch New Study On Working Time
Tuesday, 5 June 2007, 2:05 pm | Akanimo Sampson
ARE people working more or less hours, and where? What is the status of the 40-hour week? In what jobs, and where, do people work longer or shorter hours? Who works longer hours, women or men, and why? More >>
Nigeria: NUJ Spoils For War With Police
Tuesday, 5 June 2007, 2:02 pm | Akanimo Sampson
THE reign of peace and mutual cooperation that have been existing between the Nigeria Police, Rivers State Command, and journalists in the state since the abortion of military rule in 1999, seems to be over. Some superior officers and men of the police ... More >>
Provide Decent Work, Labour Standards For Fishers
Tuesday, 5 June 2007, 2:01 pm | Akanimo Sampson
IN a statement to the Committee on the Fishing Sector at the 96th session of the International Labour Conference (ILC), organized by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) has stressed ... More >>
New Standards Will Reflect Changes In Fishing Ind.
Tuesday, 5 June 2007, 1:57 pm | Akanimo Sampson
THE International Labour Organisation (ILO) is currently working out a new fishing convention, a labour rights activist closed to the fishing industry, told our correspondent in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State, one of Nigeria's main oil and gas-producing ... More >>
Burning Issue For Livelihoods, Landuse - FAO
Friday, 1 June 2007, 2:15 pm | Akanimo Sampson
FOOD and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations says forest fires are increasing as a result of climate change, and that they are affecting larger areas and becoming more severe in several regions of the world. More >>
FAO Backs Trade Controls To Save Sawfish, Eels
Friday, 1 June 2007, 2:12 pm | Akanimo Sampson
A panel of experts convened by Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says they are in support of proposals submitted to the United Nations Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) to add sawfish and the ... More >>
CITES Trade Controls Shouldn't Increase Poverty
Friday, 1 June 2007, 2:08 pm | Akanimo Sampson
CITES Trade Controls Shouldn't Increase Poverty, Says IUCN Akanimo Sampson Bureau Chief, Port Harcourt More >>
Discrimination At Workplace Still Persists -- ILO
Friday, 1 June 2007, 2:02 pm | Akanimo Sampson
A report from the International Labour Office (ILO) wired to our correspondent on Thursday, says there are still mounting inequalities in income and opportunities and significant and persistent forms of workplace discrimination. More >>
Nigeria: Outrage Over Violence In Oyo
Thursday, 31 May 2007, 3:22 pm | Akanimo Sampson
Reporters Without Borders has voiced outrage at a violent May 23 2007 attack on the Broadcasting Corporation of Oyo State (BCOS), a public radio broadcaster in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, by around 100 supporters of a local politician who were allegedly ... More >>
Nigeria: UK Amends Travel Advice
Thursday, 31 May 2007, 3:20 pm | Akanimo Sampson
The Foreign Office of the United Kingdom (UK) Government has revised their travel advice for Nigeria. They are now advising against all travel to the Niger Delta, Nigeria's main oil and gas region, due to what they described as ''the high risk ... More >>
Nigeria: Dokubo-Asari Writes Niger Delta People
Thursday, 31 May 2007, 3:18 pm | Akanimo Sampson
DETAINED Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, the leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), a militia group, has written the peoples of Nigeria's oil and gas region on a number of national issues, including the worrisome spate of insecurity ... More >>
Reducing Poverty Critical For World Bank, Says TI
Tuesday, 22 May 2007, 11:08 am | Akanimo Sampson
TRANSPARENCY International (TI) says the departure of Paul Wolfowitz as president of the World Bank opens the door to new leadership to take the bank and its vital Governance and Anti-corruption Strategy forward. According to the group, implementation ... More >>
