There are fresh facts that the Federal
Government may be poised to sack all civil
servants who stay away from work this
week.
It was also learnt that ex President Olusegun
Obasanjo prevailed on President Goodluck
Jonathan, few days before fuel subsidy
was  removed, not to do away with fuel
subsidy at this time.
Pointblanknews.com sources hinted that
Obasanjo spoke with Jonathan while his
administration was contemplating
removing subsidy on petrol.
According to our sources, Obasanjo
acquainted Jonathan with the implications
of kicking out subsidy at this time.
All government agencies and ministries
were empty today in Abuja as all civil
servants stayed away from their desks in
line with the directive from organized labor.
According to our source, permanent
secretaries have been compelled to compile
names of all civil servants who refuse to
turn up for duties on Tuesday.
Our source hinted that all those who fail to
report for duty would be sacked.
The permanent secretaries  have also been
mandated to advertise from next week all
staff who fail to report for duty on
Tuesday.
The Head of Service of the Federation,
Alhaji Bello Sali, said  security officers had
been deployed to the various government
offices to ensure their security.
He said government had discovered that
many civil servants could not report for
work due to lack of transport and,therefore,
directed that the various Ministries,
Departments and Agencies to provide staff
buses for the transportation of workers to
and from work.
It was also learnt that some government
agencies had opened fresh attendance

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pls just say something abt the sack?

its breaking not breaknig

by the way does it make sense to you?

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What a bluff. haha. If they try it they will only make situations worse for themselves. The protest and riots will only grow.

I am ordinary Nigerian feeling the pain s just like another Nigerian
but I am pleading to Lab-our Leaders to go back to work having tabled
our grievances to Mr President. Continuing on strick action defeats
the reason for starting the Action.

It is important that lab our should submit their demand to the Executive
and House of Assembly, and continue with negotiation rather than remaining
on the street.

Also, Lab our and Trade Unionists should insist on House of Assembly
on Pay cut rather than dancing around the information  that the house
persuaded the Presidency to reverse. This amounts to pushing the
focus of the Nigerians to the Presidency as if to say that President
Jonathan is the Culprit in this issue. Remember he is not the only
one that receives huge allowances. The Legislative usually have a way of
putting problems from the issues of governance to the Executive while
enjoying the fruit of high level of Ignorance on the par of the populace.

The constitutional clause surrounding their huge earning was made by the House
and this is the beginning of the Robbery characterizing the government spending.
Person like Patrick Obaghiagbo, former house of reps member, precisely last regime
has no moral right to blame President Jonathan for lack of job, good road, electricity,
corruption etc. This was a government he presided for four years as a Reps member
who amongst all enjoyed the so called huge allowances, even when the roads in his
state, Edo was nothing to write home about. Thanks to Adams Oshiomole and his
Cabinet.  How much did he alleviate the plites of his constituency and to  what extent
did he plead the cause of Nigerians as a Reps member.

tobekaoo:

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everyone is not in support of the strike.

These people continue to shamefully move from one gaffe to the other. Is it that they are deaf, dumb and blind? Ok, how does a willing civil servant get to work amidst this unrest? If he's able to get to work what is he going to do in the office?

Let them go ahead: sack all the workers this week and replace them next week. I wish them Goodluck (pun intended).

I  supported Lab our, Trade Union , Able Nigerians  registering their pain
but I did not support the protest because I foresaw the politicians and
miscreants hijacking it.

In the mist of these protesters are the owners of the unknown Companies
and the Cabals who are committing these fraud. You and I ought to be
honest that there is no way such people will support President Jonathan.

Lets think about it,

Ranting of an ant abegi, next

That is not possible

Even though Jonathan is Retardded but I dont this he is violently mad to think up something like that

That would be pouring gasoline on a burning fire.

Surely they aren't that stvpid.

Fools
Pouring petrol on hot coals
What does aggravating the suitation do?
GEJ&his advisers still do not get it
SMH

The Country loses 158 billion daily due to the strike of civil servants, so na we they pay dis politicians heavy salaries, anoda strike and protest ova their huge pay sul come soon!!!

There are thousands of qualified unemployed people who are ready to work and move the country forward.

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GEJ should Reagan them as in the case of flight director in the 1980s. Hire, hire, and hire
Until he begins to hire new airport engineers for example, other federal employees in other places no go hear word

and gej's supporters, instead of cautioning him, keep pushing him towards his destruction,

as they have done from the beginning of this mess

just imagine; the man is actually surrounded by the likes of these NL sycophants

How can an employee sack his employer,they great people of dis nation put them there, without us there wul nt b dat huge
salaries they get, Now the nation is losing 158 billion naira dially due to the strike (CBN). That means the stupit politicians are just being paid for nothing, after dis, may b another strike sul
follow due to their huge salaries, our eyes are
wide open now labor take note!!!!!!!!!

How can an employee sack his employer,they great people of dis nation put them there, without us there wul nt b dat huge
salaries they get, Now the nation is losing 158 billion naira dailly due to the strike (CBN). That means the stupit politicians are just being paid for nothing, after dis, may b another strike sul
follow due to their huge salaries, our eyes are
wide open now labor take note!!!!!!!!!

When are they gonna trim the 'governmental' budget is what I wanno know.

25% cut is no cut at all!!!!

Lab our Leaders are not making sense telling Government to reverse to
#65. Rather than pressure on the pay cut of House of Assembly and more
on the Executive they are issisting on a demand that will not benefit ordinary
Nigerians.

Or is it that they are amongst the unknown Cabals who are hidding uner the
guise of Lab our Organization to pull the Country back.

Be sure of your reason for this struggle.

Have the civil servants now resumed?

oyb:

and gej's supporters, instead of cautioning him, keep pushing him towards his destruction,

as they have done from the beginning of this mess

just imagine; the man is actually surrounded by the likes of these NL sycophants

For all you blind haters, it's now obvious GEJ can never do anything right before any of you.
80-90% educated Nigerians agree on the evil of fuel subsidy over the years, yes there maybe some disagreement about the method of removing it.

All goverments from Shagari to OBJ always contemplated removing it in one form or another, but GEJ is the only one with enough balls to do it with one slash. I like that.
For the ACN governors who supported this removal and are now quite, shame on you. For GEJ, good job, ride on
I wish the pro-subsidy removal crowd in Bayelsa, Ebonyi, Enugu, Anambra, and other places will come teach una lesson for Ibadan

naijaking1:

For all you blind haters, it's now obvious GEJ can never do anything right before any of you.
80-90% educated Nigerians agree on the evil of fuel subsidy over the years, yes there maybe some disagreement about the method of removing it.

All goverments from Shagari to OBJ always contemplated removing it in one form or another, but GEJ is the only one with enough balls to do it with one slash. I like that.
For the ACN governors who supported this removal and are now quite, shame on you. For GEJ, good job, ride on
I wish the pro-subsidy removal crowd in Bayelsa, Ebonyi, Enugu, Anambra, and other places will come teach una lesson for Ibadan

shame on you, disgraceful sycophant

amazing that you have lost your tongue - seeing as it is an 'incompetent sharia cbn governor' who is the last advocate standing. bloody hypocrite.


gej would do better listening to his enemies

http://www.punchng.com/opinion/the-president-breaks-social-contract-with-the-people-1-2/

The President breaks social contract with the people (1)
January 12, 2012 by Bola Ahmed Tinubu 7 Comments

As Nigerians gathered with family and friends to celebrate the New Year, the Federal Government was baking a national cake wrapped in the scheme that would instantly make the New Year a bitter one. Barely had the public weaned itself from last year when government dropped a historic surprise on an unsuspecting nation. The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency issued a statement abolishing the fuel subsidy. By this sly piece of paper, the government breached the social contract with the people. This government, which owes its very existence to the people’s desire to be governed by someone more humble than elitist, has turned its back on the collective will. By bureaucratic fiat, government made the most fateful economic decision any administration has made since the inception of the Fourth Republic and it has done so with an arrogant wave of the hand as if issuing a minor regulation. Because of the terrible substance of the decision and the haughty style of its enactment, the people feel betrayed and angry. At this moment, we know not to where this anger will lead. In good conscience, we pray against violence. Also in good conscience, it is the duty of every citizen to peacefully demonstrate and record their opposition to this draconian measure that is swiftly crippling the economy more than it will ever cure it.

By taking this step, government has tossed the people into the depths of the midnight sea. Government demands the people swim to safety under their own power, claiming the attendant hardship will build character and add efficiency to the national economy. It is easy to make these claims when one is dry and on shore. Government would have us believe that every hardship it manufactures for the people to endure is a good thing. This is a lie. The hardships they thrust upon the poor often bear no other purpose than to keep them poor. This is such a time.

I am not calling President Goodluck Jonathan an evil man. I do not believe he is perverse. However, the economic ideas controlling him are so misguided that they have a perverse impact. Because he is slave to wrong-headed economics, the people will become enslaved to greater misery. This crisis will bear his name and will be his legacy. The people now pay a steep tax for voting him into office. The removal of the subsidy is the “Jonathan tax.” This situation shows that ideas count more than personalities. People may occupy office but how that person performs depends on the ideas that occupy his mind.

Though someday, Nigeria will have to remove the subsidy, the time to do it is not now. This subsidy removal is ill-timed and violates the condition precedent necessary before such a decision is made. First, government needs to clean up and throw away the salad of corruption in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. Then, proceed to lay the foundation for a mass transit system in the railways and road network with long term bonds and fully develop the energy sector towards revitalising Nigeria’s economy and easing the burden any subsidy removal may have on the people.

But we know this is about more than the fuel subsidy. It is about government’s ideas on the role of money to better the lives of people, about the relationship between government and the people and about the primary objective of government’s interaction in the economy. It is about whom, among the Nigeria’s various social classes, does government most value. This is why public reaction has been heated. It is not so much that people have to spend more money. It is because people feel short-changed and sold out.

Government seeks to convince us that the Jonathan tax is an unavoidable decision mandated by immutable economic principles. If you accept their premise, you must agree with their conclusion. However, their argument falters at its inception. There are few immutable economic principles. Economics is not an exact science with unbreakable rules like physics.

Economics is no less subjective than politics. It was born an offshoot of politics and there it remains. What this government claims to be economic decisions are essentially political ones. As there are progressive politics, there are progressive economics. As there are elitist politics, there are elitist economics. It all depends on what and who in society government would rather favour. The Jonathan tax represents a new standard in elitism.

This whole issue boils down to whether government believes the general public is worth a certain level of expenditure. It is like the situation where a man dates more than one woman. To each, he promises love thus nothing can be deduced from his words. However, we know he will spend and dote more on one and she will be the one he loves above the others. When banks were in distress, government produced billions of naira out of thin air and in record time. It was explained the swift expenditure was needed to stop the banking system from imploding. There was no worry that government would be bankrupted. If the banks were to fall twenty times in the future, government would jump twenty times to their rescue. It does so because this government lives a conservative economics placing it in close alliance, if not collusion, with corporate power.

However, because the distance between government and the people is far and genuine level of affection is low, government sees no utility in continuing to spend the current level of money on the people. In their mind, the people are not worth the money. Government sees more value in “saving” money than in saving the hard-pressed masses.

Yet, what does government actually save by this measure? The concept of a government that has the unfettered ability to print its own currency needing to save that currency for fear of insolvency is an anachronism. That his economic advisors would cling to this notion is like a person insisting on taking to the expressway in a horse-drawn carriage. For a government that prints its own currency, attempting to save in that very currency in order to defend against bankruptcy in that currency is a relic of the gold standard abandoned forty years ago. If government thrashed the fuel subsidy based on considerations that it will run out of naira then it based its decision on a factor that has not been relevant since the time of the Biafran war.

In 1971, the world left the gold standard replacing it with “state” or “fiat money.” Under the gold standard, a nation had to save gold to support its currency or risk insolvency. After 1971, bondage to gold was broken. Since then, the worth of a nation’s currency is not tied to gold which means that the ability of a nation to print currency is not determined by its holdings of gold. The worth of the currency is based on the strength of the economy and the amount of money the nation prints is determined by that strength as well as the nation’s future economic objectives. A nation can no longer fall insolvent concerning debts or payments issued in the national currency. As long as the fuel subsidy is paid in naira, then Nigeria cannot go bankrupt paying it any more than the ocean can run out of salt water. In a fiat money system, the problem with the fuel subsidy is not impending insolvency as the government asserts. The serious constraint is inflation. Here we must ask whether the payment is so inflationary as to distort the economy. We have been making the payment for years and inflation has not wrecked the economy. This historic evidence refutes the imminent disaster claimed by government.

In advancing the argument that subsidy would lead to imminent bankruptcy, government reveals its lack of trustworthiness on important matters of fact. Is this the same government that several weeks ago claimed Nigeria was among the world’s best performing economies with a GDP growth rate of 7 per cent annually? It seems government has a vast canvas on which it can paint a number of different scenarios of Nigeria depending on the whim of the moment. While government may alter its portrait of the nation, the people are forced to live one reality at a time. Is Nigeria a fast growing economy? If the nation’s GDP is growing so strongly, the subsidy or a similar expenditure on the people cannot be the lethal burden government now maligns it to be.

Nigerians have a collective stake in the ownership of our oil resource held in trust by the government of the day. What we need then is the effective management of this scarce resource that will beget long term prosperity to the suffering people of Nigeria and not the present racket in which those in power abuse access and control of NNPC and oil revenue to warehouse money to fund their election campaigns.

This brings us to another inconsistency. On one hand, government states the expenditure is unsustainable yet on the other it claims the amount now earmarked for the subsidy will be used to fund other people-oriented programmes. However, the two assertions cannot exist at the same time side. If the subsidy is bankrupting us, then reallocating funds to different programmes will be no less harmful. A bankrupting expenditure retains this quality whether used for the subsidy or another purpose. Earmarking the funds to something else will not change the fiscal impact. If government is sincere about using the funds for other programmes, then it must be insincere about the threatened insolvency.

•Tinubu is a former governor of Lagos State.

* Says it lacks jurisdiction over issues of subsidy removal

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri

ABUJA – The National Industrial Court, NIC, yesterday, told the Federal Government that it would not exercise its jurisdiction on any issue that bothers on oil subsidy removal.

The court which made the declaration after it denounced what it called “insinuation from some quarters that a ‘black market injunction’ was obtained by the Hon. Attorney General of the Federation from the NIC”, insisted  that the order it made on January 6 stopping the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, from embarking on strike, “was to avoid break down of law and order and to ensure that there is industrial peace and harmony in the country.”

Briefing newsmen in Abuja yesterday, the Chief Registrar of the NIC, Mrs Rekiya Bosade Haastrup, said the reason why the court slated today to hear the suit that was filed before it by the federal government was to create a platform for all the parties involved in the ongoing industrial impasse, “to argue their case and to avail the parties ample time to reconcile their differences, make consultations and avoid likely loss of revenue, lives and avoidance of any unforeseen ugly incidents.”

A press statement  issued by the court yesterday reads in part: “The attention of the NIC has been drawn to some distortion of facts being peddled about in the press regarding the ruling delivered by the court on Friday 6th January 2012 on the suit No. NICN/ABJ/03/2012; Attorney General of the Federation AND the Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC) & Trade Union Congress, (TUC).

“The above suit was filed in the court with a motion Ex-parte and Motion on Notice with affidavit of urgency.

“After perusing the case file, his lordship, the Hon. President of the court listed it for hearing in view of the urgency and a panel of three judges was assigned to hear the motion Ex-parte. The reason adduced for granting the order was clear and unambiguous.

“The panel relied on the precedent in a Court of Appeal decision I the suit between Oshiomole & Anr. V FGN & Anr. (2007) 7 NLLR (pt. 18) page 164 at 189, where his lordship Ibrahim Tanko Mohammed (JCA) as he then was, now JSC, was in delivering the lead judgment had this to say;

“One can understand the spirit of the respondents which seems to be geared towards achieving better social economic conditions for their members and the generality of the citizenry of this great nation. That is alright. But by embarking on strikes, I dare say, the problem will be more compounded. I believe that meaningful discussions, dialogues and conciliations, rather than strike, will achieve more positive results to the satisfaction of both parties, and the general citizenry.”

“The court gave an order in the open court in the full glare of members of the public and the press in attendance. Order of the court was published in a number of national newspapers as substituted service.

“Part of the prayer of the appellant bothers on issues of oil subsidy removal. But the court made it clear in open court that it lacks jurisdiction on the matter. “section 7 (1b) of the National Industrial Court Act (NICA) 2006 and section 254 (c ) sub-section (1c) of the 1999 constitution, as amended, confers jurisdiction on the NICN on matter concerning strikes- matters before the court between the AGF and the NLC and TUC.

“The court declined jurisdiction on two of the prayers of the appellant which were clearly outside the jurisdiction of the court.

“The order of the court was not obtained by fraud as being peddled in some quarters. The order as given by a competent court of the land is still subsisting and ought to be respected by all parties.

“the insinuation from some quarters that a ‘black market injunction’ was obtained by the AGF from the NIC is no doubt misleading, baseless and has no iota of truth in such whatsoever.


And they are about to lose there job

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http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/32353-nba-urges-national-assembly-to-impeach-jonathan.html

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has advised the National Assembly to begin impeachment moves against President Goodluck Jonathan, if he fails to return petrol subsidy.

The umbrella body of lawyers also ordered its members to embark on nationwide strike from Monday.
This is in line with the mother of all strikes declared by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to protest the removal of petrol subsidy by the Federal Government.

“For the avoidance of doubt, all members of the NBA shall participate in the nationwide strike commencing on January 9, 2012.
“The strike shall be comprehensive with all lawyers withdrawing their services from courts and elsewhere except as it is necessary to facilitate the continuation of pressure on government to rescind its actions.”

enough said

There are thousands of qualified unemployed people who are ready to work and move the country forward.

@beaf,
so nigeria will move forward if jonathan buys a dinning set of N300M, eat food of N1B, sambo read newspapers of N45M and magazine of N9M.
even if we buy this fuel at N500 per liter, nothing will change because we are under the leadership of cultists who hate light and suck bloods for their day to day activities.
you are moving nigeria when the money has been shared between the same state, local govt and fg already. where is the fg going to get the money to fix the country?
your weak badluck cannot persecute ordinary bankole so what more his own wife that is a confirmed criminal.