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An emergency meeting of the National Executive Council (NEC) of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) held on Tuesday December 15, 2009, and considered the report of the Committee on Deregulation it set up on November 12, 2009. After due deliberations on the report, NEC arrived at the following resolutions: 1. That NEC-in-session has taken note of all the submissions made to Congress organs and to the Committee on Deregulation. 2. That NEC is convinced that the petroleum sector needs a holistic restructuring in order to ensure stability of production, distribution and even pricing. 3. NEC also observes that corruption is endemic in the sector and immensely contributes to the problems of the sector. 4. NEC as a result of the above further resolve that while agreeing to the issue of restructuring of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry for effective delivery, it is unequivocally opposed to any increase in the prices of petroleum products and that government, as a matte

Introduction   The Labour Party, LP, Nigeria’s fastest growing and ideologically rooted party, held its 2nd regular National Convention on Saturday, December 12, 2009 at the main auditorium of the Labour House in the Central Business District, Abuja.  The convention commenced with two lectures, in line with the party’s appreciation of the importance of education for a social-democratic party’s ideological development and cadres’ mentoring. Senator (Prof) Jonathan Silas Zwingina, Chairman, Centre for Legislative Development, presented the lecture on “Electoral Reforms as a Recipe for Good Governance”, while the second paper presented on “Curbing Corruption by Political Leaders: Challenges and Prospects”, was prepared by Justice Mustapha Akanbi, CFR, pioneer Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission. The Convention was addressed by eminent personalities including: the first Executive Governor elected on the platform of the Labour Party H.E. Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, Governor o

"Human development is first and foremost about allowing people to lead a life that they value and enabling them to realize their potential as human beings" – UNDP 2006, Human Development Report Introduction The human race has come a long way from its humble beginnings when men and women were primitive gatherers of fruits, hardly understanding nature, not to talk of mastering it. Over the last three millennia, humankind has come to transform its environment and as well itself. Empires have arisen and fallen, so much wealth has been created by labour and several social-economic formations have been forged only to crumble. The last two hundred years after the industrial revolution, first in Britain however mark the historic leap of the possibilities of human development. In these centuries of the modern industrial society, more wealth has been created than that created in the preceding three thousand. Large-scale manufacture as the heart of industrial production has created mor