The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has appointed Emmanuel Okechukwu Ugboaja as the new General Secretary of the Congress to replace long serving former Secretary General, Peter Ozo-Eson.
Ugboaja was appointed during a meeting of the Central Working Committee of the NLC just as a meeting of the National Executive Council (NEC) of the NLC is currently going in Kano with the ratification of his appointment on the table.
Comrade Ugboaja was born on the 15th May, 1966 and he graduated with a degree in Law from the University of Calabar.
After four years of private practice, Ugboaja in 1993 joined the National Union of Chemical Footwear Rubber Leather and Non Metallic Products Employees, an affiliate of Nigeria Labour Congress where he rose to serve as General Secretary from 2000 to 2005.
He later became Coordinator Advocacy and Mobilisation of Alliance for Credible Elections in 2006 and joined the NLC Secretariat in 2009.
Ugboaja, seen as one of Labour’s finest, was a delegate to the 2005 President Obasanjo’s Political Reforms and Constitutional Conference as well as one of Labour’s delegates to the 2014 President Jonathan Constitutional Conference.
He has travelled to several countries on the cause of Union activities and has remained visibly active on the negotiations table and on the picket line and barricade.
The outspoken Ugboaja has been at the forefront in the agitation for workers welfare and his new position is said to offer a new vigour for him to drive issues of workers to greater heights.
Innocent Odoh Abuja
