MINILS to complement President Buhari’s efforts to deliver good governance

The Michael Imoudu National Institute for Labour Studies (MINILS), Ilorin says it is set to compliment the efforts of President Muhammadu Buhari in delivering good governance in the context of insecurity and economic crisis.

The Director General of the Institute, Comrade Issa Aremu stated this in Ilorin the Kwara state capital North Central Nigeria, on the occasion of the Democracy Day.

Similarly, he disclosed that the institute  is  poised to partner with the federal government, state governments and major stakeholders both in the public and private sectors to deepen and reflect workplace synergy, to reduce work place conflicts, enhance collective bargaining process, strengthen and deepen democratic process among the unions and their officials and as well engender cordial labour management relations and best practices.

He revealed that the institute agrees with President Buhari in his Democracy Day  speech that “the twin underlying drivers of insecurity namely poverty and youth unemployment.” and therefore commended various unprecedented employment generation initiatives of the President that include interventions led by the government and the Central Bank of Nigeria targeted mostly to the agricultural, services, infrastructure, power and health care sectors of the economy, Anchor Borrowers Programme resulted in sharp decline in the nation’s major food import bill from $2.23billion in 2014 to US$0.59billion by the end of 2018.  Rice import bill alone dropped from $1 billion to $18.5 million annually.

He assured that the  National Labour Institute through its Enterprise Development programme would offer various capacity skill development for workers in formal and informal sectors to promote employability of the youths.

Comrade Aremu stated that today’s celebration assumes special importance as it  marks  22nd years of uninterrupted democratic process in our dear country and also marks the 2nd anniversary of the historic official proclamation of June 12th  as Nigeria’s real democracy Day by President Muhammdu Buhari in 2019.

Ime N