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The Nigerian government has ratified five of the eight core conventions of the International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions against child labour, ‘The Guardian’ newspaper reported on Thursday.
The ratification was disclosed by Godfrey Preware, the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Employment, Labour and Productivity, at the 89th plenary session of the ILO which ended in Geneva recently, the paper said.
Preware told delegates from the 175 ILO-member states that President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration in Nigeria was “aware of the need to go beyond ratification,” and is “actively engaged in the provision of the institutional framework and the logistic infrastructure to sustain the implementation of ratified core conventions”.
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