Owei Lakemfa
Nigeria’s Owei Lakemfa, has been elected as the Secretary General of the Organisation of African Trade Union Unity, (OATUU), a coalition of trade unions in African countries.
He is taking over from another Nigerian Hassan Summonu, as head of the continental body with headquarters in Accra, Ghana.
Lakemfa, a former Acting General Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress, who played an active role in January’s anti-fuel subsidy protest, was elected on Friday in Algiers, Algeria.
The activist was once a Labour correspondent at The Guardian Newspapers, then Labour Editor at the Vanguard Newspapers.
He studied Dramatic Arts at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile- Ife, Osun State and is regarded as a dogged union leader with wealth of experience.
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