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 Looking for a country under constitutional democracy but disrespects her constitution,  disregards the rule of law, the judiciary delivers judgements without justice,  the legislature a mere rubber stamp and her elections bring forth the unqualified?  Find a country called Nigeria. 

 Looking for a country that obtains foreign loans to buy seed yams but ends up preparing yam potage for the Rulers only?  Find a country called Nigeria. 

 Looking for a country whose citizens transfer the responsibilities of government to God through vain prayers?  Welcome to Nigeria. 

 Looking for a country Ruled by Civilian coup plotters legitimized by a compromised and confused judiciary to the hurt of the citizens?  Find a country where her citizens have lost confidence and interest in the ballot box with progressively decreased legitimate votes at the elections. 

 The Trades Disputes Act in Nigeria does not contemplate the giving of an ultimatum to go on strike or Court injunctions to stop strike actions.  It is also correct to say that Nigeria is a signatory to the ILO Convention on COLLECTIVE BARGAINING,  but curiously,  Nigeria's public sector managers do not respect the outcome of Collective Bargaining - "Collective Agreements".  The following are some of the factors fueling incessant strikes by the public sector trade unions. They are:  - Disregard for the sanctity of Collective Agreements.  - Bogus demands.  - Impunity.  - Attitudinal restructuring.  - Injunctions from compromised courts.  - Personal interests.  - Personal Ego.  - Outright selfishness by parties.  - Refusal to follow laid down procedures.  - Compromise of officials of Trade Unions.  - Disobedience of court rulings.  Could all of the above factors fueling incessant public sector unions stri...

 Looking for a country that will ever remain backward irrespective of its massive natural endowment and prayers to God?  Find a country that has forgotten or ignored it's history. 

 The Traded Disputes Act in my life set out in clear terms the procedure for handling disputes when they arise.  When a dispute occurs or a grievance attains a dispute status,  both are to use their internal machinery to settle it. However,  when the internal machinery fails to resolve the dispute,  they would then move to the Third Party Intervention.  The Third-party intervention in the resolution of Trade Disputes begins the the signing of the Agreement of Disagreement. The third party intervention could either be voluntary or compulsory.  First stage of third-party intervention is called MEDIATION. This is where both parties agree to appoint a mediator acceptable to them to help in resolving the dispute.  Second Stage of the third-party intervention comes when the first stage fails to resolve the dispute. This compulsory stage is called CONCILIATION.  It comes by either party declaring a trade dispute against the other. At this point, the...