[Q]uite a number of [Nigerian Banks]...are known to promote unfair labour practices which have negative effects on the rights of workers, family life and industrial harmony...Abdulwaheed Omar, [Nigeria Labour Congress] president said, “the greatest impediment to peace in the banking sector is the hostility of the management to unions”. He said it has been observed that some banks at the point of employment compel employees to sign that they would not belong to unions, those who dare to join are sacked...Increasingly, he [General Secretary of the Trade Union Congress] said...pregnant women and married women are being shut out of the industry.