Minimum Wage: We Won't Accept N100,000 - Labour
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The organised labour, has said there is no way it could accept N100, 000 as minimum wage after rejecting the proposed N62, 000 for workers.
This is just as the 37-member Tripartite Committee on National Minimum Wage on Monday, submitted its report to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, after about five months of sittings.
Labour had suspended a nationwide indefinite strike for a week after the federal government pleaded for negotiation following penultimate Monday's industrial action, which shook the country.
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator George Akume, had summoned labour leaders to an emergency meeting after the strike, which crippled economic activities.
Minimum wage: States, LGs that can't pay shouldn't exist - Mumakai
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A prominent leader of the Urhobo ethnic nationality in Delta State, Alhaji Mumakai Unagha, has advised the states and local governments unable to pay the new minimum wage to fuse with their economically viable counterparts.
Mumakai, in a statement, said: "It is obvious that some state governments cannot pay the amount the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, is demanding. In reality, it is also true that what the Federal Government has offered cannot sustain an average home in Nigeria.
"I, therefore, call for the merger of some states and local government councils that are not viable economically. The time of hurrying to Abuja for monthly allocation should be discouraged; they should go for the good of the nation.
"If a state cannot pay a minimum wage to better the lives of its citizens, such a state or local government council should not exist.
Why I'm Supporting Ekiti Gov Despite Party Differences - Fayose
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A former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has said his support for the incumbent state governor, Biodun Oyebanji, was because of the mutual respect between them, insisting that when it's time for the election, he will not hesitate to go against him.
Fayose, a chieftain of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), has come under criticism lately for allegedly hobnobbing with and benefiting from appointments from Governor Oyebanji of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
But addressing his supporters in Ado-Ekiti Monday ahead of the ward congress of the PDP coming up next month, Fayose stated that those saying that he got an appointment from Governor Oyebanji should stop playing politics of bitterness, stressing that the state belongs to the PDP and APC.
"I feel satisfied with the work of Governor Oyebanji, done so far in the state.
Hardship: 'We won't tolerate it' - Police warn Anambra residents against staging protest
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Police in Anambra State, have warned that they will not sit back and watch anyone break the law if protesters decide to take the law into their hands.
The Commissioner of Police in Anambra State, CP Obiano Itam, stated this in a press release made available to journalists in Anambra and signed by the state police spokesperson, SP Tochukwu Ikenga.
The CP, was obviously reacting to plans to protest the hardship in Nigeria on June 12, which is Democracy Day.
Ikenga, in the release, said: "The Commissioner of Police, CP Nnaghe Obono Itam, urges Ndi Anambra and residents alike to dissociate themselves from any act that threatens our public peace and national unity.
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