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Members of the House of Representatives were, on Tuesday, divided over a bill seeking to allow states to individually determine the minimum wage suitable for them.
Presently, the Federal Government maintains the exclusive powers to negotiate and determine the national minimum wage for workers across the three tiers of government in Nigeria. On Tuesday, a bill seeking an amendment to the 1999 Constitution by removing matters relating to wages from the Exclusive Legislative List to the Concurrent Legislative List narrowly passed second reading due to the division among the lawmakers on the proposal.
When a bill in the House that is making the proposal becomes law, respective state and local governments will be able to determine different wages for their workers, a development that the Deputy Speaker, Ahmed Wase, and some others said would worsen the plights of labour in the states.
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Military coup will no longer be an option to change government for any form of discontent by Nigerian soldiers, as the Nigerian military fared better under democracy as against military rule, Gen. Henry Ayoola, National Chairman, Restructure Actualization Movement (RAM) has said.
Ayoola who said this while fielding questions from journalists on the damage the military has caused the nation through her many incursion on governance maintained that the collective destiny of Nigeria presently remained far more important than any group’s interest.
According to him, Nigeria is being bedevilled by a myriad of insecurity challenges, thus underscoring the need for restructuring the Nigerian system to address the problems with enduring solutions.
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SOLOMON ADUN ASEMOTA, (SAN), Nigerian lawyer and human rights activist, retired as a Superintendent of Police in 1970 to practise law and become a SAN in 1986. In this interview by SUYI AYODELE, the 83-year-old says it is the responsibility of the Fulani leadership to rein their brother cattle rearers over their excesses. Excerpts:
Let us trace the history of the migration of herdsmen from the North to the South and the reasons for the current tension over the activities of the herders.
We thought that when General Yakubu Gowon, in 1967, created the 12-state structure that the North and South and the East invincible boundaries would have been erased. In fact, we thought that Gowon had succeeded with his stroke of pen to provide 12 states. But, it is clear and now very clear that the invincible boundary of the North and the South remains. And the reason for it: we must go back to why the annexation took place or what they call it, the unification or why the amalgamatio
OgbamosaThe crises arising from the recent EndSARS protests have again brought to the fore the need to have a government that will address socio-economic inequalities in the society and be accountable to the people.
This has not been the case. Most of our governments since political independence in 1960 have neither addressed socio-economic inequalities nor shown any reasonable level of accountability to the people. This has resulted in a society where the governed feel alienated from the government; where patriotism is lacking; where material deprivation is to the extreme; where there is a high level of unemployment; where education is not considered a priority; where there is profligacy in government and where there is an increasing level of crime and criminality.
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