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40th anniversary: Michael Imodu National Institute of Labour Studies honors NNPCL GCEO, Kyari, governors, others

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As part of activities commemorating its quadragenarian, the Michael Imodu National Institute of Labour Studies (MINILS), Ilorin, Kwara State, is bestowing awards and recognitions on governors and employers of labour across the country.

Among the awardees is the Group Chief Executive officer (GCEO) of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd (NNPCL), Mallam Mele Kyari.

He is to be conferred with the institute’s highest prestigious award of “the fellow of the National Labour Institute” (fnli Honorary).

The 40th-anniversary award will be presented on Tuesday, May 9, 2023 during the institutes’s anniversary lecture with the theme, “Workers Education in Nigeria: Past, Present and Future’’.

It will be delivered by foremost Africa’s Industrial Relations scholar, Prof. Dafe Otobo.

A letter personally signed by the Director-General/CEO of the institute, Mr Issa Aremu, said the awardees were being honoured for “promoting decent work agenda through security of jobs, prompt payment of salaries, capacity building for workers through training and retraining’’.

Persecondnews recalls that the institute was renamed after Nigeria’s foremost nationalist, labour struggle hero and pan-Africanist, the late Pa Michael Imodu, who hailed from Sabon-Gida Ora in Edo State and was commissioned in 1983 by the late President Shehu Shagari.

The institute has the mandate to promote labour education in Nigeria and in West Africa sub-region.

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