President Muhammadu Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari has advised the incoming administration on the need to respect workers rights as enshrined in International Labour Organisation (ILO) declarations on labour matters. Buhari stated this during the 2023 Workers Day celebration on Monday in Abuja with the theme; “Workers Rights and Socio-Economic Justice’’. He noted that Nigeria, being a viable member state of the ILO and a connoisseur of workers’ rights, had ratified all the core conventions of the organisation by guarding and promoting rights at work. Buhari, who was represented by Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Boss Mustapha, hinted that in June 1998, ILO made a declaration to establish a social minimum at the global level in order to respond to the realities of globalisation. “Hence, the birth of the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work in 1998, and amended in 2022, as an expression by the tri...
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