The President General of Nigeria Union of Railway Workers (NUR); Comrade Raphael Benjamin Okoro has been elected as the President of Africa Railway Workers Union (ARWU). He was elected to the new office at the just concluded 43rd World Congress of the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) which held between 10th and 16th of August, 2014 in Sofia,
Bulgaria.
The President General of Nigeria Union of Railway Workers (NUR); Comrade Raphael Benjamin Okoro has been elected as the President of Africa Railway Workers Union (ARWU). He was elected to the new office at the just concluded 43rd World Congress of the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) which held between 10th and 16th of August, 2014 in Sofia,
Bulgaria.
The ITF was founded in 1896 as a global union federation of transport workers’ trade unions. The 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.
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.
It was from there that he rose to the post of National Trustee in 1999, he became the President-General of the NUR in 2007 after a keenly contested election. He was returned un-opposed in 2011.
And responding to the election Deputy President General of NUR; Comrade Yakubu Mohammed, said: “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”.
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