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The Nigeria Labour Congress has lamented the impact of inflation on the N30, 000 national minimum wage. NLC President, Aliyu Wabba, noted that the wage, passed into law in 2019 by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), had been reduced to nothing by inflation. Wabba spoke during the 2021 Decent Work Round-Table discussion, to…
Awka – The National President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Comrade Aliyu Wabba has berated the Nigeria Governors’ Forum for their decision, giving a nod to the deregulation of the petrol price.
The deregulation, which the governors okayed at a meeting mid-May, will see pump price of fuel sky-rocket from the current N163 to 380 and N408 per litre.
Wabba, who was speaking at the 21st National Delegates Conference, NDC, of the Academic Staff Union of Universities held at the new ASUU-NAU Secretariat Complex of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State Capital, over the weekend, said the governors’ decision points to the lack of understanding of the numerous sufferings of the Nigerian masses by the nation’s political leaders.
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JESUSEGUN ALAGBE analyses the dichotomy between the government’s handling of peaceful citizens and insurgents terrorising the country
Fifteen days after bandits stormed Greenfield University in Kaduna State and abducted 23 students, a tweet by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), erupted anger on social media, leaving many with the question: did the President really mean it when he earlier said his regime would go hard on bandits and other insurgents terrorising the country?
The tweet, posted on May 5, was after the bandits had killed five of the abducted students and threatened to kill more if the government refused to pay a ransom of N100m.