₦airaland Forum

Like play like play, Trump is making himself chief comedian of the universe. Attracting ridicule and hatred to almighty America. What an unfortunate time to be an American.

To avoid the money from being looted immediately, even before it drop, I suggest that the African development bank should liaise FG to run 20k transfer each to 5 million people to use and buy petrol to power their generators for a day. After all na still electricity.

After that,
Job done.
Billion dollars gone.

Life continues, na naija we dey.

Dapson73:
You better remove those useless beads,

Ohaneze has no authority to crown you in

Lagos, if not, you're going back to the same prison.

Only Lagos State Government can crown you

Through Ministry of Local Government and

Chieftancy Affairs.

Nwatago ?

Remember to tell Sarkin Fulani of Lagos this

Q

Jagaban2012:
Just a question : name one Igbo present or past governor who has married outside of his State. ...just name one.....

This will buttress your point


As a matter of fact, no Igbo governor has married a woman outside of his state of origin. Now, it is easy to say about all kinds of people whose political systems differ from ours...but you do not need to go far when you have a plethora of examples right at home....

Even Yakubu Gowon, which you mentioned... Gowon later married someone from his tribe and used her as the first lady.


All these deception games you are playing will not help you. ...repent...

Although I don't support all these divisive and provocative statements.

Peter Obi's wife is from Akwa Ibom, remember.

Ekiti should steer clear from this game, it is specifically meant for "O" states.

Where are they?

I mean the gang of " they are spoiling the image of Nigeria in foreign countries"

If this happened within the known geographical space where it is an acceptable norm, I would not have been surprised.

I am only shocked because you left your homeland and traveled to a distant land with your evil trade.

I say make you leave your comfort zone and travel, I no say make you carry your evil trade with you.

Shalom.

Maybe you mean another Lagos

Our hardworking president has turned Lagos and Nigeria at large into an El dorado.

More wahala for wike ooo

Make una no dey confuse us
Learn to stand one place
Which side una dey?

Every Ronu should speak with one voice, that is supporting Bulaba.

If you are standing with Kemi, that means you are against Bulaba, and "unRonu-istic" and "unemilokanic"

Even when we try not to give up on this country, these people would always find a way to disappoint us.

I am tired, finally.

Lol

Reno has become a peace maker between slaves and their masters.

What a time to be alive.,

Urine dispenser

November 26, 2024

Press Statement

Imo Gov’t has siphoned N116bn from workers' salaries, yet to implement the old N30,000 minimum wage — PDP

*State's civil servants dying of hunger with lowest salaries in Nigeria

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State has uncovered a fraudulent scheme by the Gov. Hope Uzodimma-led administration in the State by which it has diverted N116bn from workers' salaries in the last four years and eight months. The conduit is the government's inexplicable and criminal refusal to implement the old N30,000 national minimum wage and the deprivation of promotion benefits, allowances and other entitlements meted out to workers.

Imolites will recall that Imo civil servants immediately began to complain of non-payment of salaries upon Uzodimma's assumption of office in January 2020. For some, their salaries were slashed. The previous administration had initiated the payment of N30,000 minimum wage, but Uzodimma came in and reversed it.
Some workers were sacked unjustly.

As the issue generated ripples, the Governor was quick to say that he was conducting a sanitization of the workforce to block leakages arising from ghost workers and that his administration was already saving N2bn monthly from that. But the Governor and the State Government have yet to account for the money till today.

As a result of this wickedness, Imo workers today are dying of hunger and deprivation, and fare worse than their counterparts in other States. Our findings reveal that the humongous sum has found its way into the private pockets of the most powerful officials of the government.

Evidence from all the ministries, agencies, and parastatals shows that Level 8 and 10 workers (graduates) still earn just a fraction above N40,000 monthly. In other words, graduate workers in Imo State do not earn up to N50,000. No ministry—be it agriculture, works, commerce and industry, finance, education, etc.—is left out, and the workers are groaning in pain. Local government workers are also included. Long-serving security guards, messengers, and gardeners earn between N27,000 and N30,000, while new intakes earn less.

At the State's institutions of higher learning, Level 12 and 13 lecturers, who have been working for many years, only earn around N120,00 a month. A professor at the Imo State University (IMSU) cannot boast of earning N300,000 a month in salary. Compared to their counterparts in other parts of the country who earn N500,000 and above, it is astonishing that this is happening in Imo State.

With Level 8 and 10 graduate workers earning less than N50,000 in Imo State, it clearly shows that the Uzodimma administration has not implemented the N30,000 minimum wage, and there is no plan in sight either to comply with the N70,000 national minimum wage agreed upon this year. Yet, the State Governor went about initially saying that Imo was paying N40,000 as minimum wage. He has recently positioned to extend the deception, claiming to be making plans to implement N70,000. But we know these are all lies.

Furthermore, the Governor has deprived workers of promotion benefits. In 2022 and 2023, the State government announced promotions for workers. However, to date, no Imo worker has received an increment of even a kobo to his salary. The yearly additions to salaries, which usually happen in July, have not occurred even once during Uzodimma's two terms in office. This is not just wicked but also criminal.

For five years, the government has not paid other allowances to workers. For example, Lecturers in the Medical Faculty of the Imo State University have not received their Call Duty and Hazard allowances since the inception of the present administration.

It is the height of wickedness and insensitivity that Uzodimma and his cohorts, knowing that at 43 dollars per month, Nigeria's minimum wage is way lower than that of Rwanda, South Africa, Togo and Benin Republic have $188, $249 $87 and $86 respectively, and seeing that Nigeria’s inflation has made prices of food, other goods and services four times higher from the last two years, ultimately eroding the purchasing power of Nigerian workers, still refuses to fully implement the previous N30,000 agreed to in 2019, not to mention implementing the new national minimum wage of N70,000, and on top of that have deprived workers other benefits.

The Uzodimma-led government has continued to prove that it is a curse to Imo State and its people.


Signed:

Lancelot Obiaku
State Publicity Secretary
PDP, Imo State

Front page bound
Front page worthy

@mods

Nairaland should help to checkmate our leaders by exposing their atrocities. Most of them think that greater percentage of masses don't know about their evil ways.

Mods should help to checkmate our leaders by pushing issues like this to the front page.

Minimum Wage: Uzodimma Has No Sense of Humanity

By Lancelot Obiaku

To understand how tough the economy has become, one who earns and depends on a monthly salary in the region of N70,000 to N100,000 would be considered to be living in poverty. If such a person has a family that depends on him or her for daily sustenance, then that family, large or small, is living in abject poverty. This is the reality of today's Nigerian economy. From such a paltry sum, the worker is expected to pay exorbitant house rents and electricity bills, and buy from a market where food prices and those of other goods and services are now three to four times higher than they were just two to three years ago. Therefore, many will argue that the N70,000 minimum wage is insufficient and does not meet present-day economic demands.





Nigeria's minimum wage is only about 43 dollars per month, as compared to $188 and $249 for Rwanda and South Africa, respectively. Togo, with $87, and Benin Republic, with $86, have higher minimum wages than Nigeria. As bad as Nigeria’s inflation, which has eroded the purchasing power of Nigerian workers, is, Governor Hope Uzodimma, who has been in office in Imo State for almost five years, has not fully implemented the previous N30,000 agreed to in 2019, not to mention implementing the new national minimum wage of N70,000.



Evidence from all the ministries, agencies, and parastatals shows that Level 8 and 10 workers (who are graduates) still earn a fraction above N40,000 monthly in Imo State. In other words, graduate workers in Imo State do not earn up to N50,000. No ministry—be it agriculture, works, commerce and industry, finance, education, etc.—is left out, and the workers are groaning in pain. Local government workers are also included. At the Customary Court, long-serving security guards, messengers, and gardeners earn between N27,000 and N30,000, while new intakes earn lower.


In another example, at the State's institutions of higher learning, Level 12 and 13 lecturers, who have been working for many years, do not earn up to N150,000 a month. A professor at the Imo State University (IMSU) cannot boast of earning N300,000 a month in salary. Compared to their counterparts in other parts of the country who earn N500,000 and above, it is astonishing that this is happening in Imo State. A lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery at IMSU recently lamented that he earns around N120,000, even after working for over 20 years. The despondent lecturer complained bitterly that the present administration, for five years, has never paid their Call Duty and Hazard allowances, regretting not accepting offers that came to him a few years ago to work at a university in another state, as he wanted to be patriotic and work for his own state.

With Level 8 and 10 graduate workers earning less than N50,000 in Imo State, it clearly shows that the Uzodimma administration has not implemented the N30,000 minimum wage, and there is no plan in sight either to comply with the N70,000 national minimum wage agreed upon this year.


Furthermore, the Governor has deprived workers of promotion benefits. In 2022 and 2023, the State government announced promotions for workers. However, to date, no Imo worker has received an increment of even a kobo to his salary. The yearly additions to salaries, which usually happen in July, have not occurred even once during Uzodimma's two terms in office. This is not just wicked but also criminal.


The State Governor appears to be an agent of pain; hence one cannot explain why civil servants immediately began to complain of non-payment of salaries upon his assumption of office in January 2020. For some, their salaries were slashed [apparently, the previous administration paid a N30,000 minimum wage, but Uzodimma came in and reversed it], while others were inexplicably sent packing from the workforce. As the issue generated ripples, the Governor was quick to say that he was conducting a sanitization of the workforce to block leakages arising from ghost workers, and that his administration was already saving N2bn monthly from that, an amount the government has not accounted for to date.



Does Governor Uzodimma want Imo people to completely forget that the State is one of the oil-producing states that earn extra billions from the 13% oil derivation fund? If workers cannot be paid what is due to them, and as and when due, what has he been doing with Imo's monthly allocations, LGA allocations, the 13 percent oil derivation fund, Internally Generated Revenue, and the N2bn saved monthly from leakages in the wage bill and other sources of revenue? These are funds running into tens of billions per month that the government does not account for.

If Gov. Uzodimma does not feel the pain of Imo workers who still earn meager salaries in a harsh economy and have not improved the State in any way, then it is evident that he has no sense of humanity at all. It sums up the fact that his emergence as Governor was a collision with ill fate for the State and its citizens.

May Imo Prevail!

Lancelot Obiaku, a public affairs commentator, writes from Owerri.

Musiwa the professor map allocation from Yoruba land is back again after many years of sabbatical leave. Welcome, Musiwa

More shege for the common man.

Very unfortunate.

What a precarious time we found ourselves in.

More economic chaos and summersaults as a result of trial-and-error policy formulations.

We know that it is very impossible.

APC immunity covers him.

Who no like better thing?

Na strengthen person go use carry patriotism, no be on empty stomach.


Politicians/leaders who wants you to be patriotic by staying behind to develop the country are always sending their own children abroad for better life.

Na those wey never chop go build Nigeria on empty stomach?

This is very serious

White elephant project that doesn't have any direct positive impact on the people.

Money that would have been used to build clusters of skills acquisition centres for youths, just wasted like that.

Project built for ego massaging.

What a shame!

How funny!

So these people want "the best" to rule other countries but would proudly and violently go for the worst to rule over them in their own country because of tribalism.

Very unfortunate

Very unfortunate situation.

The wicked system has frustrated everyone.
It has taken a suicidal dimension

Very good.

Souless criminals

I remember challenging Reno about using an alternate account to reply his post, and making a screenshot of that response to create another Facebook post, just to bash the Igbos, he blocked me immediately.

Other south east governors have announced their own minimum wage and declared October as implementation month but that is not what the governor is thinking, he said both federal government and his state civil servants can go to hell. He has continued to pay workers meager salary.