Without any apology to anyone, I believe that the hierarchy of the labour unions in Nigeria is populated by morons.

On another note, I find it significant that this article which I submitted to the editors at The Daily Times a few days ago was published today, the very same day that The Guardian published a story telling us that labour wants to mobilise people for another (aborted?) strike.

After the pissed on opportunity of last week, who should take them serious? Such a person's head would need to be examined,

You raise some good points.

However, I disagree with your premise that their leaders are foolish. In fact, their leaders are very intelligent. They are not-so-subtly monopolizing Nigeria's resources for a small clique of people (namely, themselves).

From what I've been reading, for some of these states to implement the minimum wage, their entire allocation from the FG would not be enough to cover worker salaries. In other words, 100% recurrent expenditure. Can you imagine a situation in which this small clique (in most cases, under 50k people in each state) manage to monopolize for themselves 100% of the state's resources? Wonderful for this clique, terrible for each state and Nigeria as a whole.

I don't like unions, and have never liked this concept of a minimum wage. Especially in a country where unemployment and underemployment are rampant. I think that they are doing more harm than good.

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no other comments on this thread? crazy

ekt-bear, what's d problem,

Just thought it was a pretty good post, surprised so little interest in it.

I read it ekt_bear and sorry I did not respond, I'm deprogrammed from any thread of commonality to the federation. Supporting the union is akin to supporting the federation.

Negro_Ntns:

I read it ekt_bear and sorry I did not respond, I'm deprogrammed from any thread of commonality to the federation. Supporting the union is akin to supporting the federation.

One couldn't say that you are a petriotic Nigerian by nature. Would you by any chance have any plans to show or express your lack of support for this federation? Are you a brave millitary man with the will to seize power and dismatle the union? Do you simply plan to siddon look and wait for Allah to dismantle the country for you? I ask these questions because you don't come across as a coward to me.