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Women Seek Greater Role in Labour

Nigerian workers have been advised to educate and organise themselves as well as give women greater roles in union activities so that they will be able to exhibit their talents. The advice was given at the weekend by Abiodun Aremu at the first Annual Pre-May Day Seminar Organised by leadership of National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) in a paper he delivered to make the labour day at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. Aremu noted that the changing work environment has called for better education, organisation and the need to give women greater and more demanding roles in unionism. For every organisation to succeed it must stand on these three pillars: organisation, education and women. “With these put in proper perspective, every worker would be relevant and the unions would be stronger,” he said. Explaining that the days when women were regarded as spare tyres in work places and homes were over, adding that every man in work place and homes must regard the women as those who could add values to production like their male counterparts. He said that the level of technology requires a new level of education to be relevant Even as he said that the workers should better organise themselves for the task ahead. Also speaking at the seminar, aviation analyst, Olumide Ohunayo, in his paper titled “Transformation of the Aviation industry in Nigeria, Prospects and challenges,” noted that if the incoming government in the industry meant well for the aviation industry and the economy in general, it should scrap Ministry of Aviation and put all the existing agencies in the Ministry as departments under the ministry of Transportation. Ohunayo, who noted that the existence of Ministry of Aviation has not added any value but problems to the aviation industry, argued that the political appointments that have remained a culture in the industry has made negative impact in the sector.