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Press statement on FOBTOB nation-wide strike for 20% pay rise

===================================================================================================================================================================================================================== Femi Aborisade Legal Practitioner ================================= Press Statement ASSOCIATION OF FOOD, BEVERAGE AND TOBACCO EMPLOYERS (AFBTE): NEGOTIATE WITH FOBTOB AND GRANT PAY RISE OUT OF PROFIT RISE It is absurd that the Association of Food, Beverage and Tobacco Employers (AFBTE) whose members have incontrovertibly recorded appreciable rise in profit has been resisting granting a 20% pay rise to members of the Food, Beverage and Tobacco Senior Staff Association (FOBTOB) . The AFBTE should therefore meet the demands of FOBTOB in order to end the current indefinite nationwide strike which FOBTOB was compelled to commence on 11 th December 2017.

CONTINUED ATTACKS ON CHARLEY BOY AND THE #RESUMEorRESIGN# MOVEMENT: THIS DEMOCRACY HAS COLLAPSED AND FEMI ADESINA SHOULD BE REMOVED AS PRESIDENTIAL SPOKESMAN

The continued violent attacks on  Charley Boy , # ResumeOrResign # and the # OurMumuDonDo # movements have shown clearly that under the APC-controlled Federal Government, Nigeria’s so called democracy, which is intolerant of dissent, has collapsed.

Nigerians Should Wage War Against Corrupt Politicians, Not Along Ethnic Lines (Vanguard Newspaper)

PERPETUAL HEARINGS AND DELAYED JUSTICE IN CORRUPTION CASES IN NIGERIA: CAUSES, EFFECTS AND WAY FORWARD

INTRODUCTION Permit me to thank the leadership of the Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, for inviting me to share ideas on the all important theme of today’s discourse – perpetual hearings and delayed justice on corruption cases in Nigeria: Causes, effects and ways forward. The topic, it must be admitted, is very wide in scope. A meaningful discussion can be undertaken only if the individual discussant restricts his/her inputs to a small aspect of the topic. For this reason, I have chosen to examine the topic, using the suits involving some bank workers (in CBN and six other banks) as a case study. The suits involving these bank workers are usually reported in the media under various captions such as “CBN Currency mutilation scam/fraud”.