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ILO applauds Nigeria’s commitment to social dialogue

By Gloria Nwafor
11 April 2023   |   4:02 am
The International Labour Organisation has lauded Nigeria’s unprecedented commitment to promoting tripartism, social dialogue and decent work.

ILO Director-General, Gilbert Houngbo

The International Labour Organisation has lauded Nigeria’s unprecedented commitment to promoting tripartism, social dialogue and decent work.

In a statement issued by the Director of Press and Public Relations, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Olajide Oshundun, the minister of the ministry, Dr. Chris Ngige, was welcomed by the Director General of the ILO, Gilbert Houngbo, during their meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.

He commended the minister for his work and expressed his appreciation for his dedication to the field of labour and employment.

The statement noted that the minister was in Geneva to attend his last governing body meeting of the ILO.

Ngige, however, presented to the ILO boss two instruments comprising conventions 1975 (143) on Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention and Convention 1997 (181) on Private Employment Agencies, which Nigeria ratified.

Houngbo, while receiving the conventions, said he noted the renewed passion and commitment with which the Nigerian government had given to tripartism, social dialogue and decent work in the past few years.

According to him, this is making it possible to ratify four conventions in a year.

On her part, the ILO Regional Director for Africa, Nigeria’s Cynthia Samuel-Olonjuwon, praised Buhari for hosting the Global Youth Employment Forum in Abuja in 2019.

She encouraged the next administration to take such a continental project notch higher in view of the bulge in the youth population and unemployment.

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