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Pensioners in Rivers State are gnashing their teeth over Governor Nyesom Wike’s N500million largesse to the Sokoto State Government to douse the pain on the state and traders affected by the inferno at Sokoto Central Market.
The pensioners, who lampooned the governor, said N500million would have to a high extent met some of the demands of retired civil servants in the State.
Some retirees who spoke to newsmen at the Rivers State Secretariat Complex lamented that since the Governor assumed office in 2015, Pensioners are yet to receive their gratuities and pension arrears.
One of the retirees, Bariza Kpaen said, “How can our governor give out such an amount of money when there are so many unresolved financial issues? We the governor to immediately settle the issues surrounding the gratuity and Pension arrears now that it is obvious that he has so much to spend.”
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is the Chairman of National Economic Council (NEC) Ad-Hoc Committee on Public Engagements.
Osinbajo presided over the first NEC meeting of 2021 on Thursday.
Governors, Ministers, Central Bank Governor and other senior government officials attended.
In his remarks, Osinabjo said NEC will embark on engagements that will focus on wealth creation, social safety nets and employment, education, digital economy, sports development, creative industry, hospitality, security and governance.
Participants of the NEC engagements will be drawn from the following groups of young intellectuals and emerging industry leaders from diverse sectors.
Others are students of tertiary and other educational institutions, youths in the diaspora interested in social-political developments, entertainers and social influencers, trained artisans etc.