The Nigerian government intends to amend all labour laws in
the country.
Festus Keyamo, (SAN) Minister of State for Labour and
Employment, disclosed this during a working visit to Michael Imoudu National
Institute for Labour Studies, MINILS, in Ilorin on Friday.
“We are trying to amend all the labour laws in the country.
We are going to amend that of this institute so that all the labour centres
will be represented.
“All the labour centres are not represented in the governing
council of this institute,” he noted, specifically referring to MINILS.
Keyamo, explained that the labour laws which established
MINILS and others in the country have become anachronistic.
” The MINILS law, was an old one, it was a decree that was
adopted later as an act of parliament,” he stated, adding that, “at that time, the
Trade Union Congress, TUC, was not in existence.
” We are not unmindful of the lack of balance in the
constitution of the governing council.”
The minister further noted that high level politics in the
appointment of head of the institute had adversely affected MINILS.
He said,” We should not play politics with the appointment
of head of the institute, as playing politics with who should head it has
killed this place till now.”
Keyamo, warned that no one should play politics with a
strategic institution like MINILS.
In his speech, the Director-General of the institute,
Comrade Isah Aremu, said the management was working hard to remove the
institute from the state of hopelessness of the past.
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