Ajaero guy is being used.. It will blow up in his face

watch the trend of event. NLC is winning

Una for no ask them to return. Una for continue to dey threaten.

In those days, NLC control's the FG, but nawadays, FG toying with NLC just because soldier man na our president.

free2ryhme:
Ajaero guy is being used.. It will blow up in his face

watch the trend of event. NLC is winning

NLC to win this race? When they where begging people to join them in the protest yesterday? We don't have NLC any more. They are just there for their salaries.

stzy:
Did. This government remove subsidy ordid they just increase the price?

No subsidy was removed. The FG only claimed that it had no Forex to issue out to petroleum marketers at the rate of N199 to $1. So what FG is saying in essence is that the marketers should source Forex at the rate of $1 to N298 for the purpose of importation of petrol.

This simply shows that the FG has been forced to devalue the Naira even though it still makes the zombies live in fool's paradise where they claim that the official rate of Naira is 199 to a dollar.

Emmysteve:



www.thenationonlineng.net/fg-nlc-return-negotiation-table/

I thought the Federal government has already reached an agreement with a faction of labour. Or is the divide and rule tactic not working again? This government is a fraud!

[quote author=Burger01 post=45756183]^^^
A house divided against itself cannot stand.

I always give kudos to comrade baba Osho led NLC.... Mehn, that's the definition of NLC and not chop and clean mouth NLC we have today :- and who told u Osho led nlc dd nt collect brown envelop or alert.....where did u think Osho got his campaign fund.....Mr oga. B wise...

Pyno30:
NLC to win this race? When they where begging people to join them in the protest yesterday? We don't have NLC any more. They are just there for their salaries.

I don't engage beer parlour argument.

when you have reliable information lets slug it out here.


I know what i know you know what you know.

Trust me I am closer to where it is happening than you.

Go and find out what is happening to the banks and the maritime sector.

when you get the info share it here Just you know i told you first

Do we still have NLC in this country?

IMO
NLC should return to d negotiation table, allow subsidy removal which will keep fuel price at N100/litre or thereabout. I'm glad this government NOW sees that they CAN't fight corruption in subsidy regime; d best is to scrap it.
If fuel goes for a maximum of N110 naira a litre and minimum wage is increased, no problem.
The government can now call all warring factions in ND to d table and RETURN d pipeline protection contracts to those that did it well during d Yaradua and GEJ era, what's d sense in loosing 1 billion dollars a month (600,000barrels of crude ) to vandals BC u don't want to pay less than a million dollars to people to protect it!

Pyno30:
NLC to win this race? When they where begging people to join them in the protest yesterday? We don't have NLC any more. They are just there for their salaries.

No more NLC and FG is begging them to come to the negotiation table? What do FG want to negotiate with the non-existent NLC? Is the FG high on nairaland weed?

Oshiomole deserve to be pelted with stones, sachet water and anything any lover of unionism can lay his or her hands on, for attempting ridicule the platform that buttered his bread and catapulted him to the exalted position of governor of his. Who 4 know Oshiomole if not 4 Nigerian Labour congress.

For recognising the Joseph Ajaero's faction, when he couldn't broker truce with the one and only true President of the Nigerian Labour Congress, clearly reveals that Oshiomole no longer feel the pains and pulse of the Nigerian workers.

Those who are asking our NLC President to ask for minimum wage increment instead of reversal to the old pump price of premium motor spirit (petrol) N86.50k do not understand critically the dynamics of govt/management - labour relations. I see very clearly, this carrot the govt is dangling in face of labour as dangerous trap to project labour as selfish and highly insensitive to the suffering of the masses.

Before anyone crucify me, let me unequivocally state my position on deregulation. It is the best thing that can and should happen to Nigeria. But before then the present govt should tell the entire world that efforts made by previous government to do away with it was one in the right direction. They should also not be ashamed of saying sorry for frustrating such a good move only to come around and introduce it.

I just shake my head reading comments of ignorant individuals as regards factions in NLC. Please be informed that the so called faction is led by an election loser. Joe Ajaero of the NUEE (National Union of Electricity Employees) contested during the last NLC election and lost. Instead of him to take the route of his brother GEJ he chose to follow the infamous path of trying to run a parallel government of the Union but unfortunately for him,he has just 3 Unions following him (PENGASSAN & NUGTWUN & NUEE) out of 42 Affiliates of the NLC and this propagandist govt negotiates with that joker.

Why don't we also ask ourselves who occupies the Labour house in Abuja and controls all NLC houses across the Nation. Please even if we will support blindly this propagandist government, leave NLC out of it. NLC is not divided! At the moment, the Labour center is led by no other than Comrade Ayuba Philibus Wabba, mni.

On the current strike action led and fronted by NLC, whether the public supports or not,history will record it that when it matters most SOME PEOPLE STOOD TO OPPOSE THIS PROPAGANDA-FILLED OPPRESSORS!

VIVA NLC! ALUTA CONTINUA!

wolewole200:
I just shake my head reading comments of ignorant individuals as regards factions in NLC. Please be informed that the so called faction is led by an election loser. Joe Ajaero of the NUEE (National Union of Electricity Employees) contested during the last NLC election and lost. Instead of him to take the route of his brother GEJ he chose to follow the infamous path of trying to run a parallel government of the Union but unfortunately for him,he has just 3 Unions following him (PENGASSAN & NUGTWUN & NUEE) out of 42 Affiliates of the NLC and this propagandist govt negotiates with that joker.

Why don't we also ask ourselves who occupies the Labour house in Abuja and controls all NLC houses across the Nation. Please even if we will support blindly this propagandist government, leave NLC out of it. NLC is not divided! At the moment, the Labour center is led by no other than Comrade Ayuba Philibus Wabba, mni.

On the current strike action led and fronted by NLC, whether the public supports or not,history will record it that when it matters most SOME PEOPLE STOOD TO OPPOSE THIS PROPAGANDA-FILLED OPPRESSORS!

VIVA NLC! ALUTA CONTINUA!

Victoria Acerta!!!

This is the number one reason for the suffering of the masses and its not too late for NLC to retrace its step .
NLC is yet to ask State Governors what they did with bailout money meant for salaries. eg Osun, Ekiti, Bayelsa, Imo etc
Many states are owing up to 5 months yet NLC is silence.
Many states cannot pay common minimum wage yet NLC did not talk
Since NLC makes billions of Naira from salary deductions and have invested in mass transit buses why cant they venture into importing and selling of petroleum product at a lower rate to Nigerians or build Mega stations ?
Cant NLC also venture into building refineries ?
What roles have NLC played in assisting the unemployed ?
What role has NLC played to bring to parity diverse wage disparity between political office holders and the common man ?

stzy:
Did. This government remove subsidy ordid they just increase the price?

They increase the price.

I thought Ayuba was not important so why are you calling them for negotiation now?In other news in my area here in Delta state, no school for public school students i.e they are on strike.Ayuba is really a leader giving APC a nightmare.Thanks.

Divide and rule has been an age long strategy to crack a hole in the camp of a formidable foe.
NLC is fighting a lost battle. At the end of the day, few leaders will be settled and strike action will be called off without achieving anything meaningful.
Government everywhere are like that...often mischievous and devilish such is the art of politics. Only that we have it worse in Nigeria majorly cos of corruption.
No saint goes into politics and remain a saint.
God help this country.

marvel323:
NLc seriously need 2 hv a round table talk within demselvs.no hous fights tselvs n stand...how can an organizatn like nlc dat stands as d last hop of d masses b so disorganized n internaly fractured..nlc need 2 fight 4 deir unity first b4 dey fight 4 workers...

Where Are The Occupy Nigeria Group? Bury Your Faces in Shame For Deceiving The Masses In 2012 And Robbing The Nation of Resources That Could Have Been Used For Development Over The Last Four Years.

Once Again I Say, Bury Your Faces In Shame!
Drown Your Voices In Shame!!
Let Not Your Voices Be Heard On This Matter, Except You Are Without Shame!!!

Leoswaggs:
The best thing now na 4 Baba to resign..its clear he doesn't know what he's doing..make he cari he Vice along too

resign ko rewrite ni.

stzy:
Did. This government remove subsidy ordid they just increase the price?

They did not remove it, they only took it away

At Last, NLC Dares FG, Protests Against Fuel Price Hike In Abuja

http://newsdiaryonline.com/last-nlc-dares-fg-protests-fuel-price-hike-abuja/

The Nigerian Labour Congress this morning finally made good its threat,by taking to the streets of Abuja to protest the recent fuel price hike by the federal government.

This is coming after a 2-day meeting between the Federal Government and organised labour union leaders ended in a deadlock yesterday.

The fuel subsidy conversation: Between 2012 and 2016, by Japheth Omojuwa

Having spent a whole week in Germany travelling through villages in Lusatia, Brandenburg and attending lectures in Berlin studying the German Energy Mix for the purpose of understanding lessons Nigeria could learn, today’s article was meant to start a conversation on that but one would be missing an opportunity to address the most pressing issue of the day: the petrol price hike. The conversation on the energy mix can happen at a later date.

I have seen a lot of arguments around, “Why are you supporting subsidy removal now when you occupied Nigeria against it in 2012?” It is a valid question when asked by those who intend to indeed know the rationale behind such differing positions. There’d be a zero need to address those who ask the question, not because they indeed want to know why but because they see the question itself as a conviction of your person because as far as they are concerned, it does not matter what changed, you simply do not change your position on an issue. To this group of people, to change your position, you must have been paid – I even had one refer to me as a low grade paid agent of the government – because the fact that the realities surrounding one’s previous position have changed are not enough to necessitate a change of position. This article is not for those and their kind, instead, it is for those who are indeed interested in knowing one’s rational position.

Former President Goodluck Jonathan increased the price of fuel in January 2012 and President Muhammadu Buhari did just that in May 2016. How can anyone react differently to the same action by these men? To a logical mind, you then have to go beyond both actions to “why they did what they did!” What is done cannot be as important as why it is done. The January 2012 increase was induced by the subsidy payments of 2011 that crossed the N1tn line. According to the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, Nigeria paid N198.11bn for subsidies in 2009, the sum went up to N416.45bn in 2010 and then some extraordinarily amazing thing happened in 2011, the subsidy numbers against reason shot up to N1.9tn! You need not be an expert in Mathematics to see that the 2011 number was way out of line. We paid just N219.72bn in 2006 and N236.64bn in 2007. What happened in 2011 to take the subsidy numbers to celestial realms? It was the 2011 elections. Not only did President Jonathan and his ill-fated co-travellers fund his 2011 election from the subsidy payments, they also depleted the Excess Crude Account to $3m in 2011 from almost $20bn in 2009.

This was what happened before January 2012. Something had to give. It was too late to stop those who got the windfall of N1.9tn from getting something smaller the following year. The President then decided to transfer the burden to Nigerians. This was what Nigerians rejected in 2012! This was why there was a lot of argument on “Cut waste not subsidy” and “Kill corruption, not Nigerians” during the protests. These amongst other issues were the prevailing conversation. There is no need to state that something similar happened for the 2015 elections, only this time, the money mostly came from defence spending.

Bottom line; President Jonathan increased petrol prices in January of 2012 because of the looting that had happened right under his nose and mostly for his own benefit. Several probes proved this in different ways; including the Nuhu Ribadu report, the KPMG report, and the ill-fated Farouk Lawan report that got shot down with the active connivance of the then Presidency. The people naturally protested the fuel price hike of 2012 because all of these were apparent to the general public. Despite the protests, the government succeeded in raising the fuel price. It set up a Subsidy Re-Investment Programme called SURE-P. The scheme was better known for the scams committed under it than for anything else.

What then is inducing 2016’s fuel price hike? A global reality. Before addressing this global reality, I must address the failings of the Buhari government on this issue. You cannot find a more confusing situation than the dollar exchange regime. We have an official exchange rate of N199/$1, then petrol importers now have an exchange rate of N298/$1 while the parallel market continues to speak in different tongues; on Tuesday, it was about N350. Such a state of chaos and absolute uncertainty helps no one, certainly does not encourage private investment. The current FOREX regime is nothing but a form of subsidy for the rich and privileged, it has to end! Apart from this, I will reecho what Dr. Omano Edigheji stated in his recent article, “Where is the APC government’s Development Agenda?” How long are we going to be using piecemeal moves to fix a system that obviously craves a structural change? Something has to give!

Back to the global reality, Venezuela has increased fuel prices by 6000 per cent. You read that right, six thousand per cent! It has also devalued its currency, the Bolivar. The government then increased the minimum wage by 30 per cent. This sounds amazing until you hear the new minimum wage is now just about $13! That is N4,550.00 at N350/$1. Venezuelans despite the increase apparently still get to buy fuel at the world’s cheapest price but the reality should not be lost on anyone, arguably the world’s most socialist country today has been forced to make adjustments, increasing fuel prices for the first time since 1996!

Qatar Petroleum laid off some 3000 people in 2015. RasGas, the gas company, did its own firings. Qatar Museum and other companies including the almighty AlJazeera have had to reduce their staff strength. The sackings continued into 2016.The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company laid off 2000 staff members about two weeks ago. In Kuwait, salaries and other benefits are being reduced while the oil company is sacking those even less fortunate. Kuwait is OPEC’s third largest producer, also holding eight per cent of the global oil reserves.

Hardly any Nigerian conversation ends without comparisons to the United States, despite the obvious disparities in our realities. According to Houston-based Graves and co., Global Oil and Gas job losses have topped 350,000. As of the last report, it stood at 351,410 and counting. Between October 2014 and January 2016, the US alone accounted for nearly 100,000 job losses in oil and gas and supporting segments, understandably, more than half of these job losses are from Texas. This is according to the US Bureau of Labour. There are more examples to pick from but having outlined the reality in five countries above, anyone who cannot see a trend has either simply refused to see it or does not have the ability to see it.

These global realities are one thing, Nigeria’s Dasuki-Dezianian exceptionalism is another. This country has been stolen dry to its bones. Nigerians have been left mostly poor and with frail hope. Despite selling oil above $100/barrel for the better part of the last half a decade, we went on a splurge where “people sat down and shared the money as if it was lunch or dinner.” We are here today with the price of oil and the attendant exchange rate dealing us twin blows! Surely, something has to give! Or the house will come down fast.

No matter what happens, the poor must be protected. The government must make sure its N500bn intervention plan reaches the poorest of the masses; we cannot afford another Dasukian reality here. Apart from this, Nigeria must be intentional about strategically pursuing a structural change in its economic and development agenda. Even Saudi Arabia is advancing plans to restructure its economy and compared to Saudi Arabia, we earn peanuts from oil, even when we were earning a lot.

In summary, the 2012 price increase was necessitated by election-induced corruption; the 2016 fuel price increase is being necessitated by the reality of oil’s dwindling fortunes globally and the effect it is having on foreign exchange earnings and exchange rates added with Nigeria’s poor choices of years past. One cannot protest like one did in 2012.

Never seen a government that lies so brazenly. One talk today, another one tomorrow. Oya Na, we dey here together. Carry dey go!

Do we know that the increase in fuel price is a phenomenon round the world. The pump price for a liter of fuel is 100 dollars in America. The instability in crude oil price and our peculiar situation with the dollar, should make the matter worse in no distant time to the extent that we might pay #400 per liter. If the govt said #145 is the maximum that could be sold no matter the condition In the next 5yrs and we could have a legal agreement to that, then its a Win Win situation for us becos when it rises above #145 the govt. Will have to subsidize it. The govt can use the current subsidy funds to carry out capital projects( esp. Electricity) to reduce our over dependency on fuel and save for the rainy day than to keep feeding those elite dogs at the expense of development in the name of subsidy.