Seun Osewa,the owner of nairaland opinion on the increase of minimum wage in respect to the increase in fuel price on twitter today got many talking .
Here's his opinion on increasing the minimum wage ;


If I may ask,what do you think about his opinion on this issue?

Here's the responses he got ;

And more !

Trailer, trucks and haulage vehicles conveying goods use diesel

Nobody in Nigeria Civil Service earn base minimum wage not even cleaners

If you increase wage bill of companies, cost of production would increase

Minimum wage would affect even the jobless people patronizing markets

Less than 1% are civil servants 99% use Petrol


Increase minimum wages and we will all pay for the inflation while only civil servants and Politicians get increased pay , if you don't work with the Government shishi you won't get and you will fvcking pay higher price for common bread and indomie, tax would increase




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Schooled how?

solmusdesigns:
Trailer, trucks and haulage vehicles conveying goods use diesel

Nobody in Nigeria Civil Service earn base minimum wage not even cleaners

If you increase wage bill of companies, cost of production would increase

Minimum wage would affect even the jobless people patronizing markets

Less than 1% are civil servants 99% use Petrol

All this lies too cheap for 30k per post

Seun not as smart as I thought.

KingOfIsoko1:
All this lies too cheap for 30k per post

Abi

and if I no tell lies or no earn 30k from anyone make God punish you

Amin inshallah

Pure water trucks uses petrol. Some years again they abandoned diesel and still using mini van and concerted trucks. As I speak they haven't supplied water since last week. Before you know it the union will hold meetings and fixed the price to N600 per bag. And boom inflation

Here's more !

I don't understand the way some people think! Someone here even said civil servants earning 30k minimum wage don't deserve to have a car, forgetting that they will still take taxi even if they don't have a car. If he's doing it to çhase clout, I think he needs to stop it now. That tweet is beyond insensitive

Seun no sabi anything.

He thinks it is nairaland.

How can you say that salary should not increase.

But you keep increasing your ad fees to be at par with the reality.

I am sure the mods are under paid na why agbado full their pocket

Seun raised a very important argument here. Is just that obidient are such sore, toxic souls, Since Seun has not exactly been showing sympathy to their messiah's cause, they will ever be on standby to attack his ideas. Civil servants are lazy, fat and overpampered in Nigeria. Here in Abuja, many of them get free vehicles to work, live in fee houses (Or paying next to nothing), gets wardrobe, and other allowances, some of them even have official cars, yet contributes almost nothing to the economy. They go to work Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays arriving 10pm and leaving 3pm those days.
It is the private workers that bears the brunt of labour productivity in this country and no one is advocating their cause. I'll rather demand the government enforce increased minimum wage for private workers, albeit almost impossible. The issue of casualization of staff should be abolished. Moreso, for state governments that are bare paying salaries, where exactly will they get funds to pay an increase in civil servant's salaries? Dey play, just dey play!

Yugoslavia247:
Seun no sabi anything.

He thinks it is nairaland.

How can you say that salary should not increase.

But you keep increasing your ad fees to be at par with the reality.

I am sure the mods are under paid na why agbado full their pocket

don't mind him, he is even disturbing people with his yeye ads

IamV:
Seun Osewa,the owner of nairaland opinion on the increase of minimum wage in respect to the increase in fuel price on twitter today got many talking .
Here's his opinion on increasing the minimum wage ;


If I may ask,what do you think about his opinion on this issue?

He get sense? No be today I know that guy has nothing upstairs, having a website does not make him to know all. See as they humble am

solmusdesigns:



Abi

and if I no tell lies or no earn 30k from anyone make God punish you

Amin inshallah

Not only that you earn 30k zómbie wage, u also scam people. Your punishment is really waiting for you in sheol

matrixme:
Seun raised a very important argument here. Is just that obidient are such sore, toxic souls, Since Seun has not exactly been showing sympathy to their messiah's cause, they will ever be on standby to attack his ideas. Civil servants are lazy, fat and overpampered in Nigeria. Here in Abuja, many of them get free vehicles to work, live in fee houses (Or paying next to nothing), gets wardrobe, and other allowances, some of them even have official cars, yet contributes almost nothing to the economy. They go to work Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays arriving 10pm and leaving 3pm those days.
It is the private workers that bears the brunt of labour productivity in this country and no one is advocating their cause. I'll rather demand the government enforce increased minimum wage for private workers, albeit almost impossible. The issue of casualization of staff should be abolished. Moreso, for state governments that are bare paying salaries, where exactly will they get funds to pay an increase in civil servant's salaries? Dey play, just dey play!

Another brainless fuuul

This guy has no brain at all but just like that tweet say maybe he steal this nairaland from someone...Person just Dey wonder how he go think like a cow smh for him...

Everybody go become civil servant o! Kikikikikikikiki 😃 😄 😄 😄 😃 😄

IamV:
Seun Osewa,the owner of nairaland opinion on the increase of minimum wage in respect to the increase in fuel price on twitter today got many talking .
Here's his opinion on increasing the minimum wage ;


If I may ask,what do you think about his opinion on this issue?

richidinho:

Another brainless fuuul

Yes, simply slinging crude insults without making any sort of reasoned argument is the true hallmark of genius!

IamV:
Seun Osewa,the owner of nairaland opinion on the increase of minimum wage in respect to the increase in fuel price on twitter today got many talking .
Here's his opinion on increasing the minimum wage ;


If I may ask,what do you think about his opinion on this issue?

He is on the right track. 99% of Nigerians are not civil servants or related to civil servants.

The average Nigerian is a rural dweller, living on subsistence farming, cattle herding or fishing. They don't have time or even access to Twitter or much of the internet. Nobody speaks for them or tries to change govt policy to benefit them (I believe subsidy for kerosene was removed years ago to virtual silence from Nigerians).

The government should aim to improve the quality of life for the average Nigerian, not the vocal urban/city dwellers who frequent places like Nairaland and Twitter. To this end, carefully targeted palliatives would be useful. They can even use the money to pay for healthcare access or access to primary and secondary education (maybe aim for free education up to SS3 level) improving health and human capital.

If civil servants feel that working for the government is uniquely bad, they can try a different line of work.

Nigeria can't afford another big increase in recurrent expenditure to pay higher civil servant wages. It is disingenuous to suggest that the way to provide welfare aid to reduce poverty in Nigeria is by increasing civil service pay when civil servants are arguably already better off than most Nigerians. That's why people pay bribes to be hired as civil servants!

None of you insulting Seun on here have shown the slightest evidence that you have a single working brain cell between the lot of you put together. His question is quite a sensible one, and its essence is simple to grasp for anyone who has a basic understanding of arithmetic.

Petrol is just one of the many factors of production in any of the goods and services a typical civil servant will consume, and even for transportation it is hardly the only one: whether we are talking buses or taxis, vehicles need regular servicing, cleaning, up-to-date insurance, accounting for depreciation, etc., and most of these things aren't affected by the cost of petrol. Even if petrol were 20% of the cost of running a business, doubling the price of petrol while keeping everything else constant would only require a 20% price increase to maintain the same margins as before.

For civil servants who are only consumers of transportation rather than being in the business themselves, this transport price increase would in turn account for only a small part of their personal expenses, which include food, clothing, housing, insurance, electricity, mobile telephony, etc. Some of these expenses have zero input from petrol - for example, housing and insurance don't magically get more expensive because petrol prices go up. Accounting for how all these factors should be properly weighted is precisely what official inflation rate statistics are for, and there is simply no chance that removal of the subsidy will see inflation spike to more than 20%.

Put all of this together and its utterly insane to justify a gigantic minimum wage hike because of the ending of petrol subsidies. The only effect of doing so will be to push the rate of inflation higher, which will lead to a new round of demands for minimum wage increases, which will then cause yet higher inflation, etc.

The only thing all of the insults in this thread has exposed is that there is a reason Seun is the one who runs this website while you lot have nothing to share with the world but abuse and hatred. You are all too clueless to even recognize just how vast your ignorance is, being the Dunning-Kruger specimens you are.

Seun na eran iya(batter ram) na only got nairaland he Dey strong nyash, Dey ban ban people

Dem dey always cook am like garri for twitter, he no dey hear word

Instead make he create the thread for here he go still carry am go twitter go mumu himself, and the screen shots end up here, for more cooking

See finish of a Yoruba bigot

omohayek:
None of you insulting Seun on here have shown the slightest evidence that you have a single working brain cell between the lot of you put together. His question is quite a sensible one, and its essence is simple to grasp for anyone who has a basic understanding of arithmetic.

Petrol is just one of the many factors of production in any of the goods and services a typical civil servant will consume, and even for transportation it is hardly the only one: whether we are talking buses or taxis, vehicles need regular servicing, cleaning, up-to-date insurance, accounting for depreciation, etc., and most of these things aren't affected by the cost of petrol. Even if petrol were 20% of the cost of running a business, doubling the price of petrol while keeping everything else constant would only require a 20% price increase to maintain the same margins as before.

For civil servants who are only consumers of transportation rather than being in the business themselves, this transport price increase would in turn account for only a small part of their personal expenses, which include food, clothing, housing, insurance, electricity, mobile telephony, etc. Some of these expenses have zero input from petrol - for example, housing and insurance don't magically get more expensive because petrol prices go up. Accounting for how all these factors should be properly weighted is precisely what official inflation rate statistics are for, and there is simply no chance that removal of the subsidy will see inflation spike to more than 20%.

Put all of this together and its utterly insane to justify a gigantic minimum wage hike because of the ending of petrol subsidies. The only effect of doing so will be to push the rate of inflation higher, which will lead to a new round of demands for minimum wage increases, which will then cause yet higher inflation, etc.

The only thing all of the insults in this thread has exposed is that there is a reason Seun is the one who runs this website while you lot have nothing to share with the world but abuse and hatred. You are all too clueless to even recognize just how vast your ignorance is, being the Dunning-Kruger specimens you are.

do you a hike in petroleum price no matter how little will significantly affect price of foods, services, etc because our economy is largely dependent on petroleum, if there was constant light and govt decided to hike price of petrol many will not complain, but if you can’t give me constants light and you are still increasing the cost petrol with no increase in salary, that’s dangerous

Peoples budgets will be affected , you need to budget more for fuel now, in weeks time cost of food stuffs may increase because the trucks transporting them across the country dey use fuel, so they will charge more to move those good, the market woman will now increase the unit costs of these food stuff, the ripple effect is endless

Salaries won't even be increase 100% not to talk of it been increase 300%


States can increase salaries reasonably though.

He took the sarcasm to Twitter stage… most people do not understand his message.

What is the sense increasing workers salaries and then watch as inflation eats up that very wage increase?

I would suggest a slight increase in the minimum wage to N36,000 a month.

Then government should lift basically the ban on the importation of rice and poultry products into the country and replace them with low tariffs- 15%. This will bring down the price of rice and poultry and make them much affordable. Nigeria has no comparative advantage in the production of rice and trying to be self sufficient in it simply means Nigerians will have to pay premium prices for it.

Cheap food is a better trade-off for higher petrol prices, especially for the poor.

Lift the ban on the importation on second hand clothing. Put low tariffs on them. There is no better gift you can give the poor than these- they not only wear them (even many in the middle class), but they trade in them. They provide livelihood to hundreds of thousands of people.

matrixme:
Seun raised a very important argument here. Is just that obidient are such sore, toxic souls, Since Seun has not exactly been showing sympathy to their messiah's cause, they will ever be on standby to attack his ideas. Civil servants are lazy, fat and overpampered in Nigeria. Here in Abuja, many of them get free vehicles to work, live in fee houses (Or paying next to nothing), gets wardrobe, and other allowances, some of them even have official cars, yet contributes almost nothing to the economy. They go to work Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays arriving 10pm and leaving 3pm those days.
It is the private workers that bears the brunt of labour productivity in this country and no one is advocating their cause. I'll rather demand the government enforce increased minimum wage for private workers, albeit almost impossible. The issue of casualization of staff should be abolished. Moreso, for state governments that are bare paying salaries, where exactly will they get funds to pay an increase in civil servant's salaries? Dey play, just dey play!

since you don't even know the difference between AM and PM I don't think you deserve my reply.

Seun funny no be small