Nigerian Emerges African Railway Union President

A Nigerian, Raphael
Benjamin Okoro has been elected president of the 54 member Africa Railway Workers Union (ARWU) an umbrella labour organisation for workers under the Railway Corporations.
In a statement by Nigeria Union of Railway Workers (NUR) Secretary General, Comrade Segun Esan said prior to Comrade Raphael Benjamin Okoro election to the position of president  ARWU, he saw once elected and served as the unit chairman of the Eastern District of Nigerian Railway Workers Union in 1982, where he acquired his trade union activities skill.
The union said the election of their President General to the position of president ARWU bears recognition of his trade unionism experience and exemplary leadership at both local and international circles of trade union activities.
Esan said in the statement that Okoro would in no doubt advance significantly the prominence of the rail transport sub-sector of the continent and that of the union in Nigeria at the centre stage of the world in general.
The election of Okoro as ARWU president took place at the just concluded 43rd world congress of the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) held in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Comrade Raphael Benjamin Okoro is also presently the National President, Nigeria Union of Railway Workers (NUR).