Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has advised Nigerian youths not to be deceived by the political elite in the All Progressives Congress, APC, who are busy spreading propaganda on the developmental strides of the party in Nigeria. Chairman of the Arewa Social Media Forum, Malam Yusuf Dingyadi, stated this in Sokoto yesterday, at the closing ceremony of a two- day National Seminar, titled 'Role of Social Media In Political Development and Challenges Ahead' organised by the MacFarlane Funds for African Development in Nigeria. Dingyadi, described APC as a party that was built on propaganda to hoodwink Nigerians and therefore cannot move the country forward. According to him, only PDP can salvage Nigerians from poor leadership and deprivation being faced by the masses in the past two years. He said, National Caretaker Committee of the PDP under Senator Ahmed Makarfi has shown to the world that, it is yout...
The Nigerian Labour Congress , Zamfara State chapter, has given the state government a 21- day ultimatum to resolve all pending labour issues or face industrial dispute. The NLC described the government as being insensitive to the plights of civil servants in the state. The state chairman of the NLC, Bashir Muhammad Mafara, gave the ultimatum today during the meeting. With the state executive members of the two labour centers in the state, which held at NLC secretariat Gusau, the state capital. “The government should as a matter of urgency implement the N18,000 minimum wage to local government employees, and primary school teachers in the state. The joint meeting of NLC and TUC also advised the state government to pay the backlog of pension and gratuities” to retired workers in the state. Another burning issue that draw the attention of the labour officials was that of non implementation of promotions and annual increment to the the workers at all level ...
The organised labour in Zamfara State today suspended its two weeks old industrial action after reaching an agreement with the state government. According to the Labour union, the suspension of the strike followed the commitment made by the state government to the union at a meeting with state Head of Service yesterday in government house Gusau. The Labour said that the state government has agreed to pay the 18,000 minimum wage, payment of gratuity as well as to release all outstanding promotion to all workers . While calling on workers in the state to resume work immediately, the state Labour Union expressed gratitude to all workers for supporting the two weeks old strike. The union had embarked on an indefinite strike since 10th September, 2017 , to protest their 18 minimum wage’, lack of promotion and annual increments for six years among others . Read the letter of agreement attached below: Report By Khalifa Ja'afar
By Salis Muhammad Moriki It is part of this government's policy to diversify our "too much import dependent" economy to be able to be food sufficient and save huge amount of our forex spent in importation for other development activities in the country. And in its efforts to diversify Nigeria's economy, the federal government has encouraged more state governments and their people to invest more in agriculture, especially rice production. The federal government has given out huge amount of money to states for distributions to farmers in that area, especially those states with farming history and otherwise. Nigeria is one of the largest rice importing country in the world. It is said that in the last five years, Nigeria imported about 17 million tone, thereby spends about $1.8 billion annually on rice importation which is not favourable to Nigerian export/import index. But according to the United Nations Foods and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), Nigeria importe...
By Hakeem Baba-Ahmed The dismissal of thousands of Local Government staff currently going on in Kaduna State will be chalked up as one more anti-people policy by the administration of Governor Nasir el-Rufai. This is the governor who has usurped the powers of Local Governments in order to make life even more miserable for citizens. The governor who claims he is involved in reinventing Kaduna will not allow the people to elect their leaders at Local Government level. Elected Local Government leaders will then be accountable to the people over their decisions on primary school teachers and other Local Government staff. Even military governments allowed for elected Local Government leaders on many occasions. Our governor thinks democracy is too good for our people, the same people who preferred him to a PDP candidate in 2015. So he has amassed all powers to decide entire fates of thousands of families. For every dismissed staff there will at least 15 mouths from whom this gove...
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