Workers Day: ASCSN assures members that their welfare remains top priority.

By Afolabi Oyekunle.

Workers Day all over the World is today May 1st, and it is celebrated with rallies where the focus centres on welfare.

Towards this, the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, ASCSN has assured its teeming members that their welfare remains a top priority.

National President Comrade Shehu Mohammed and Secretary General Joshua Apebo

In the Association May day celebration message signed by the Secretary General Joshua Apebo and National President Comrade Shehu Mohammed they were assured that all issues that will uplift their living stardand are on the agenda.

Secretary General ASCSN Joshua Apebo.

These include prompt payment of salary, regular promotion, and restoration of gratuity to public service employees

The Association used the occasion to call on members to renew their faith and commitment to the National leadership of the union led by Comrade Shehu Mohammed.

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