National Union of Food, Beverage and Tobacco Employees

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The National Union of Food, Beverage and Tobacco Employees (NUFBTE) is a trade union representing workers in food processing and related industries in Nigeria.

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History

The union was founded in 1978, when the government of Nigeria merged the country's many unions into industrial unions. [1]

The unions which merged into the NUFBTE were: [2]

It affiliated to the Nigeria Labour Congress. By 1988, it had 44,405 members, and this grew to 160,000 by 2005. [3]

Leadership

Presidents

1979: K. O. Lawrence [1]
1980: Stephen Olubayo Osidipe [1]
1991: Nansel Haruna Mamdam [1]
1995: John Onyenemere [1]
2008: Lateef Idowu Oyelekan [1]
2023: Garba Ibrahim [1]

General Secretaries

1978: Valentine Awah [1]
1979: Solomon Kunle Oyebanjo [1]
1996: Adebayo Kazeem [1]
2006: Isiaka Gbolagade Yussuf [1]
2009: Bamidele Stephen Busari [1]
2012: Lamidi Ayinla Danjuma [1]
2016: Thomas Terhemba Tyoban [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "About us". NUFBTE. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
  2. "Restructuring of trade unions" (PDF). Federal Republic of Nigeria Official Gazette. 8 February 1978. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  3. LeVan, A. Carl; Ukata, Patrick (2018). The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   0192526324.