IRON MEN!!! FIND THIS STORY IN TODAYS EDITION OF BLUEPRINT NEWSPAPER READ AND SHARE!!! Thursday 21 August, 2014 Published On: Thu, Aug 21st, 2014 News | By Ejom paul Okoro emerges ARWU president in Bulgaria By Samuel Ogidan President General of Nigeria Union of Railway Workers (NUR), Comrade Raphael Benjamin Okoro, has been elected to the exalted office of the President of Africa Railway Workers Union (ARWU). A statement issued yesterday by the Secretary General of NUR, Comrade Segun Esan, said he was elected to the new office at the just concluded 43rd World Congress of the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) which held between August 10 and 16, in Sofia, Bulgaria. “The election of our Comrade President General to this lofty position is in recognition of his experience and exemplary leadership he has been giving at both local and international circles of trade union activities and we strongly believe that this will significantly advance the prominence of the rail transport sub-sector of the continent and that of our nation at the centre stage of the world in general,” the Deputy President General of NUR, Comrade Yakubu Mohammed, said. It would be recalled that prior to Comrade Raphael Benjamin Okoro’s appointment to the post of President, ARWU, he was once the Union Branch Chairman of the Eastern District of Nigerian Railway in 1982 which was the beginning of his trade union activities. He rose to the post of National Trustee in 1999. He became the President-General of the NUR in 2007 through a keenly contested election and was returned unopposed as President General of the NUR in 2011. The International Transport Workers Federation was founded in 1896 as a global union federation of transport workers’ trade unions. ARWU, African Charter of ITF, is the Trade Union platform through which ITF coordinates its numerous affiliate trade unions in Africa among which is Nigeria Union of Railway Workers.
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