By Fatima Mohammed-Lawal
President Ahmed Tinubu is expected to speak at the 10th National Industrial Labour Relation Summit on the 26th of November, 2024 at Michael Imoudu National Institute of Labour Studies, Ilorin.
Mr Issa Aremu, the Director-General of the Institute stated this on Thursday in Ilorin during a news conference organized as part of the activities of the summit.
The theme of the 2024 summit is entitled: “The Future of Work and Renewed Hope Agenda: Issues and Perspectives’.
The D-G who was represented by the Director Social Protection Department, Mrs Olaide Ajiboye stated that the summit is a decade long Annual largest gathering of the critical mass of stakeholders in Nigeria’s labour relations system.
Aremu explained that the summit deliberates on employment issues with the main objective of promoting industrial harmony, productive and secured decent work.
He pointed out that other issues of discuss also includes social justice in work places, occupational health and safety and productivity for national development.
According to him, the summit assumes special importance coming a year after the historic inauguration of Tinubu as the 6th democratically elected President and many state governors in this democratic dispensation.
“The summit offers a timely platform for the President, governors, employers of labour and labour market institutions to constructively reflect on the government labour agenda.
“This is with respect to job creation, decent work, workers’ motivation and productivity improvement for National Development,” he said.
Aremu added that high point of the summit is the conferment of deserving dignitaries with Fellowship of National Labout Institute.
He listed them to include the Governor’s of Kaduna state, Malam Uba Sanni, Abia State, Chief Alex Otti, their counterparts from Borno, Bauchi and Osun States, among others.