YEMEN FIGHTING PUSHES NEARLY 3,000 TO DJIBOUTI IN LESS THAN A WEEK- UN. (PHOTO).

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Yemen fighting pushes nearly 3,000 to Djibouti in less than a week: UN    Nearly 3,000 people have fled Yemen for Djibouti in less than a week as escalating violence drives growing displacement within the country and across its borders, the UN refugee agency said Friday. “Refugees continue to arrive by boat through Obock, Khor Angar, Moulhoule and Godoria after difficult journeys in small vessels,” UNHCR representative in Djibouti Sandrine Desamours told reporters in Geneva, Anadolu Agency reported. More than half of those crossing the Bab el-Mandeb Strait are women and children, while some families have been displaced for a second time after previously fleeing Yemen during the 2015 crisis and later returning. UNHCR is preparing for at least 10,000 new arrivals but warned that capacity is rapidly diminishing. Markazi refugee village, designed for 5,000 people, was already hosting more than 2,700 Yemenis and 1,500 Eritreans. More than 100,000 people have also been displaced ins...

FG URGED TO STOP CASUALIZATION OF WORKERS. (PHOTO).





 FG urged to stop casualization of workers 


 The federal government has been urged to redirect  its policies towards curtailing casualization or contract staffing employment in the country. 


Speaking during the third quadrennial national delegates' conference, of  members of Chemicals and Non metallic Product, held in Ilorin, the national president of the group, Comrade Segun David, described casual work as often temporary, without job security.


The labour leader, said the issue can be checkmated through collaboration with the organized labour, and the civil society organizations.


He said the  growth in irregular work has changed the nature of employment from a labour relationship to a commercial relationship ,with the worker taking all the risks. 


Comrade David explained that the owners  of the business wants to cut costs by all means , adding that  the human capital is treated as mere robots.


He also appealed to  government to check  the high rate of unemployment in the country.


Comrade David maintained that the  challenges of National Development is to manage the economy  and  promote job-led growth rather than the present situation of jobless growth.


The labour leader advised the present administration to  consider various windows of opportunities that will be attractive to business environment and encourage

industrialization for the organized private sector to partner in the provision and expansion of infrastructures at all levels to enable it rise to the occasion and drive the process of employment generation.END

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