₦airaland Forum

Great100000:
https://punchng.com/states-work-on-total-electricity-subsidy-removal-new-tariff/

States should build their own power generation plants and distribute to consumers ensuring such distribution are put through prepaid meters on each building or structure as the case maybe. Electricity tariifs can be fixed at prices that are reasonable and economical but it should encourage consumers to use light. There is no need for subsidy on such for it will only be an avenue for someone to steal government monies.

BeeBeeOoh:
https://dailypost.ng/2024/06/10/labour-may-resume-strike-tuesday-after-rejecting-n62000-insists-on-n250000/

I just look forward to the NLC holding it's ground and getting through the demands. It's either now or never. Maybe this will be a lesson to the the Executive and Legislature on all arms of government.
The FG did not think it through when petrol subsidy was removed though it wasn't a bad thing, but it's nonsensical to not have your own refineries working effectively or having the government build several other new ones but the government deems it fit to still have persons working in a non functional refinery and earning wages.
The same government who is procuring loans for GENCOs and DISCOs and every hard ware equipment, yet the populace still pay for darkness due to estimated bill system.
We lack sense even in small issues on how to resolve them when it does not benefit us entirely.

Whatever it will take the NLC to do that will make the FG agree to a better minimum wage let them go ahead and do.

RabbleRouser:
Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/06/how-jonathan-wife-others-forced-wike-on-rivers-clark/

When the aged keeps lieing it tells a lot and the intention is not far fetched. The say "Ijaws" is truth but many a times whatever comes out from the mouth of the Ijaw man has always been lies upon lies.
Many of us do not give in to ill gotten sentiments. Those who know what and how Wike became governor of Rivers State will not fall for such stories. It's a pity that those who are referred to as elders and states' men no longer exhibit such in righteousness given their gray(golden) hairs.

Anyone who knew what transpired between the Jonathan's/Patience's and Amaechi and what led to Wike emerging as a governorship aspirant when he made it known as at that time "There is no PDP in Rivers State".
Where were the Ijaws and what was their role in the politics of the State?
Amaechi, Wike, Magnus, Dakuku and a few others were the frontals of Rivers State PDP. The fallout of Amaechi with Patience's/GEJ made Amaechi and those who were loyal to him and understood the nonsense that the Ijaw pride could not settle that made them lose the Presidential election. So Wike took up the leadership of the PDP that had no one to walk the path and do the talk.
If Clark is saying that Wike was forced on the Ijaws, let him say the name(s) of the Ijaws that could withstand going against Amaechi at that time. Or is he referring to those Ijaws who were waiting for handouts and silver spoon?

As far Rivers State politics is concerned there are only a few persons who can walk the talk and Magnus Abe who bas been walking on a lone rangers path have joined them and put the past behind to forge the future.

Maxymilliano:
He should talk to CCECC ... The monorail project will be a landmark achievement if completed

It can only be a landmark project if the monorail is extended to reach Mile 3 areas.

iwaeda:
https://dailypost.ng/2024/06/08/there-is-severe-malnourished-children-in-seven-northern-states-msf/

Imagine $306.4 Million is what the Nigerian government is appealing from overseas.
Meanwhile how much did this 7 Northern States spend for Hajji travels?

As a country we care less carelessly about the true welfare and wellbeing of helpless children, orphans, widows and the less privilege. They are only used as pawns to foster the greed of the elites.

[quote author=SonofLagos post=130370066]go and price a bag of poultry feed, couple with the wahala of managing the birds. You think poultry farming is for kids?[/quote

A kilo of live birds is 4k .

perfectionist:
I consider it a sacrifice for democracy.
If the impeachment had succeeded, Rivers State would have been in a worse political turmoil than it is now.

There's no such thing as worse political turmoil. There's no one that can cause that much turmoil. Those who claim to have weight don't posses that much as they say and nake people think and feel.

OriOko88:
if we talk now they Wil say we worship the whites. Why wud a country be using the same template for minimum wage. USA uses different templates for minimum wage same as in Germany. My sister in Indiana told me their own minimum wage is $12 per hour while in California it's $16. It shows that each state pays it's own minimum wage based on it's economy potential. But in Nigeria the govt is fixing same minimum wage for a worker in Ekiti or zamfara and the ones in Lagos or Rivers. C'mon. Let each state fix it's own minimum wage. But before that can be effective,we must return to Regional govt.

Mk we dey play dey go until then.

The FG is the only person that will fix the MW for only FG employees.
State Governors are only supposed to use that FG figure as a measure to fix theirs. So it's possible that some SG can even fix a much higher MW when compared to the FG given what they generate as IGR and many other States can also improve on their IGR by creating better enabling environment for businesses and looking for ways to encourage true businesses thrive well and entrepreneurship sustainable.

ganisucks:
https://tribuneonlineng.com/give-tinubu-one-more-year-to-fix-nigeria-bode-george-tells-nigerians/



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJns3LxMsUk&pp=ygUqQm9kZSBnZW9yZ2Ugc2F5cyBnaXZlIFRpbnVidSBvbmUgbW9yZSB5ZWFy

Recklessness of talk.
If every President be given two years because they lack experience and competence in their duties, why would any employer be asking for experience from a yet to be employee ? They should all allow all employees to learn on the job and give them two years as well.

BenuePolitician:
https://nairametrics.com/2024/06/07/food-security-fg-providing-n200-billion-to-support-the-cultivation-of-hectares-of-land-george-akume/

Where are the lands to be cultivated and in which of the States?

Bandits and co, are ravaging the north and middle belt terrorizing and seizing lands from farmers and destroying same of those who can't pay ransom to farm their lands.

What is this administration doing concerning the security of those lands and farmers to be able to go back to their farms?

FreeStuffsNG:
https://nairametrics.com/2024/06/07/how-fg-recovered-n12-7-billion-metering-funds-from-local-supplier-after-21-years-adelabu/

This Minister is a strange fellow.
If he is saying the alleged contractor a lady is powerful and that the previous administrations have tried to retrieve the monies given her to supply the meters, so what did he do now that the powerful lady was able to remit some part of the funds to the ministry of power?

BeeBeeOoh:
https://dailypost.ng/2024/06/07/strike-shutting-down-national-grid-was-evil-okupe-tackles-labour/

When people come out and talk no sense.
Does Doyin Okupe knows also that's it's evil that the DISCOs collect electricity bills even when they supply darkness!!!!!

I live in a place where if you check the number of hours the DISCOs brings electricity for usage in a 30 day period, it's not up to the equivalent for 7 days and yet one gets to pay like it's been used for a 30 days because it's all estimated bills. They have refused to bring prepaid meters even when people intend to purchase.

Anybody saying it's treasonable for NLC to have shutdown the national grid should also know that it's a criminal offense for the FG through any of it's representatives to come out and lie to Nigerians.
A man and a people who fought an administration that was better than what we have now should know that he should perform magic to ensure they do much more better and stop telling people to give them time. If one year in office is not okay for you to put the economy in place doing all the right things using the right approach then it's as good as cluelessness.

Dapromzy333:
https://news360ng.com/breaking-fg-makes-n62000-offer-as-new-minimum-page/

It's nothing new that the FG does not have the interest of the common man.
If this administration is not careful, rigging the next forthcoming election will not help them oOoOO and all those nonsense INEC and it's staffs does to aid those who are not supposed to win elections.

dre11:
https://thenationonlineng.net/breaking-governors-reject-n60000-minimum-wage/

Any governor complaining is not fit to continue in that office. If they stop stealing and putting up overbloated projects they would pay those salaries with less worry.

RealTrump:
As an Abuja resident, Wike has done very well in the last year.

But the man does stupid things sometimes and this is definitely one of them.

Permanent secretary are not your political jobbers neither are they your paid online miscreants.

In the scheme of things, permanent secretaries r not the mates of a minister...how many of the current minister knows a thing about the portfolio they hold?

When Umahi tried this rubbish by locking out workers at works ministry, they locked him out too the next day. Nobody told him to behave n understand this is not his children

They locked him out the next day because he came to work late!!!
So where did the gate man or security staff that stands at the gate go to?

geunik:
Go and read our laws. You expect a POS business to pay 100k and above to their sales girl and the owner go home with nothing

The minimum wage is just a basic standard amount any business owner or employer uses as a scale to fix salaries for employees.

Yes, a POS attendant can be paid such amount if the revenue generated through that business wherever it's situated meets up. I'm sure even the attendant knows how much revenue is coming into the business through her services.

This is the reason why in certain private business the employees can request for an increase in their wages if they can actually know the revenue generated and they know their production output.

The owner of a company can't be travelling with private plane and sending his family on vacation and still expect his employees to remain receiving peanuts. Sometimes what makes people in certain establishment is not because of peanuts paid them but because the owners gives certain goodwill packages in different forms.

RealTrump:
As an Abuja resident, Wike has done very well in the last year.

But the man does stupid things sometimes and this is definitely one of them.

Permanent secretary are not your political jobbers neither are they your paid online miscreants.

In the scheme of things, permanent secretaries r not the mates of a minister...how many of the current minister knows a thing about the portfolio they hold?

When Umahi tried this rubbish by locking out workers at works ministry, they locked him out too the next day. Nobody told him to behave n understand this is not his children

Typical of Nigerians to say things. Trying to create a mountain out of nothing.
If PBAT had walked into the Civil Service where these Permanent Secretaries are I believe nobody will even tell them to bow to him which is a sign of respect and nothing more.

Permanent Secretaries that would still take a bow to even Commissioners irrespective of age. How much more the President who by age is their senior.

ogododo:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/more-difficult-decisions-lie-ahead-before-fg

Sometimes I laugh when the FG says the removal of the subsidy saves so so amount of monies because in the actual fact, no one gets to see these saved monies. They are only just audio, written on paper and not existent to be used for other things that will benefit the nation on a grand scale.

Racoon:
@renoomokri

Reno Omokri and his likes are only just in for what sweetens their stomach and never interested in what is the real and factual truth.
I won't be surprised Reno Omokri and his likes did not follow their mum to the market when they were growing up so as adults he can decide to say whatever fits his deceptive ambitious purpose.
I cannot speak for all the tribes and States in the country but one thing I know is that cutting of yam into this sizes for sale is not what it used to be. Yes, some yams are usually rotten on in the inside and I know as a growing child what my mum does is to use knife and do an insertion or there's a way she uses a finger to peel the yam to know if it's rotten on the inside. I have visited certain markets and farms even in the middle belt and I have never come across such way of cutting yams into samller sizes and selling. Even in Benue State, those who roast yams along the travelling road to sell to travellers who buy and eat hardly cut it in smaller sizes.
As far as i know this cutting and selling started within the last 8 years or thereabout in some areas and not every where. It is even strange for some of us to go and buy cut raw yam of such sizes when we can go ans buy roasted or fried yam.

helinues:
Toh

Sometimes, the way we do things in Nigeria is always questionable.

How can you be having discussion about increase in minimum wage without involving NGF? The same NGF have said they are not interested in paying anything above N70k

The NGF are part of that meeting by reason that each State Governor is expected to send a representative but they bluntly refused to partake in it. Many of them don't even pay #18,000, #30,000, as was approved the past years for minimum wage but when it comes to election, the money that would be shared would exceed the total wage bill in their States.
The local NLC in each State should be empowered to go on strikes that will make the respective governors/government pay the stipulated agreed salaries. In some States the NLC are only as good as nothing for they have already sold out themselves to the governors.
Any State Governor that says he can't pay #100,000 as minimum wage have no business sitting in that prestigious office.
Even if concessions might be given in some States, the truth is that whatever amount they bring up let a template as to how it will be expended be shown as well given the price of goods and services in that State.

EponObi:
I pity some state civil servants sha. With the way these governors are talking, you would think most of them even fulfilled the previous #30k minimum wage agreement. Mtchew.

Some states, as we speak, still have months of salary backlog they are yet to pay.

Regional government will solve this kind of mess. The funny thing is that the state workers being owed months of salaries won't drag their governors but will still face the FG. Same with the NLC - they only strike when they have issues to iron with the FG. But in many state chapters, they remain docile while the governors continue to give it to their workers in the ass.

Whatever collapsed regional government happened for a good reason and there's no going back.
Let the FG amend the laws and let every State be fully autonomous and be made to harness their resources, grow their economy and bring about meaningful infrastructural development as it suits their environment, culture, etc, etc.
Those who share common boundary and others can pull up funds to have a common economic policy.

In all let the States, remit to the FG as it was in the regional system of government or let a better way of sharing allocation be done based on what resources are within a State.
Let the LGA operate also autonomous and should be given responsibility to do what the States are doing now. The LGA should remit to States as well. States should be given the powers to create more LGA for larger areas and for smaller areas RDA status for faster development.
Persons who had previously held elective or political appointments in the old system should not be seen holding same in this new system.

[quote author=fergie001 post=130339744]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_T8wfDVWNU

I can't afford to pay my driver N100000 per month, because they are four, where is the money? - SGF Akume

The former Benue State Governor was addressing the National Executive Council of the Christian Association of Nigeria.[/qu


We are all sure that as a former governor you're stilling receiving pension salary.
As SGF you're entitled to a certain number of drivers and their salary is provided for by the Nigerian government even though the drivers have no idea about it and believe you're paying from your pocket.
Please pay your driver's a living wage so they can also take care of their families well.
I'm sure you give your children much more than #100k on a monthly basis.

Kalakulu:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/bill-for-creation-of-new-state-for-south-east-scales-first-reading/%3famp

Let new States be created and all be at 7 States within each. Thenet the States be given the power to create more LGA to ensure development meets those at the grassroots. Full autonomy for all LGAs.

ijustdey:
“If current revenue shortfalls persist, the revenue for 2024 is unlikely to exceed N15.8 trillion,” the report said



https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/701277-low-oil-production-threatens-2024-budgeted-revenue-nigerian-govt.html

This is just an excuse to hoodwink the NLC and the masses that there is no money to pay the new minimum living wage.
But there's so much more to be stolen by the political class.
Very soon we will see start seeing constituency projects like dug out wells, buying of thread and neddle for cobblers, marrying of wives for widows and those who lost their parents to bandits attacks.

malali:
Thank sir you for your comment
Alcohol sale is religious,has nothing to do with the this conversation. In the USA, a lot of "dry counties" dont sell alcohol as well. (Educate yourself if you are not aware)
Ranching would come at prohibitive cost to the average Fulani man, especially in a country where even humans cannot feed adequately due to inflationary government policies.
No deception nor hypocrisy, I am saying Nigerians should be free for all Nigerians to live and practice their trade. Whether you sell drugs as a pharmacist,or spare parts or a Fulani herder or a politician.

There's no such thing as the average Fulani man. They can do such in a cooperative settings.

malali:
You might want to rear goat like chicken in agric cages as well ?
[b]Cows graze in brazil.
Brazil is the world largest producer of beef for a reason.
Even Nigerian human beings grazing with their 2 feet, cannot afford to feed themselves 3 square meals due to inflationary government policies, you now want to tie a cow down.
Ranching is feasible but its very expensive.[/b]

Interesting submission about the bolded.
Please kindly show a pix and video of cows grazing with their herdsmen walking along the roads and farms of Brazilians from one State to another, from one farmers farmland to another. Eating farmers crops and destroying their farmlands.


Your analysis of comparison between a human being and a cow is applauding. I guess only persons from one part of the country can talk that put up such.

malali:
I actually like goat meat.
But you miss the point.

If goat can be reared within small confines why don't same be applicable to cow?


Is it compulsory that cows must roam the streets? Why is it that it's only in Nigeria that certain practices as old as the world was created is still being practiced?

malali:
Potential Impact on Beef Prices
Implementing large-scale ranching could significantly increase the cost of beef due to the high expenses associated with establishing and maintaining ranches.These would make Nigerian cows too expensive for purchase as cows from Niger and other neighboring countries practicing open grazing will be cheaper in the open market.

Suggested Practical Solutions
Designated Grazing Areas: Allocate specific areas for grazing to prevent clashes while allowing pastoralists to continue traditional herding methods.
Conflict Resolution Mechanisms: Establish local committees to mediate disputes between farmers and herders, promoting peaceful coexistence.
Cooperative Farming: Encourage farmers and herders to form cooperatives, sharing resources and knowledge to improve productivity and harmony.
Community-Based Animal Health Services: Provide mobile veterinary services to support herders, reducing the need for long migrations and potential conflicts.
These solutions aim to be cost-effective and fair to both cattle herders and farmers, ensuring sustainable practices and reducing conflicts.

[color=#000000]The Southeast is allowed to ply their trade and open spare parts shop in katsina
The Southwest is holding Aso-rock Office in Abuja
The South-south is FCT Minister in Abuja
Why cant the northern Fulani man feed his cow in the south ?
Lets be tolerant and restructure cattle grazing to accommodate everybody.[/color]

You are one of the reaaons and people why this country should disintegrate into 1000 units.

That part of the North that does not allow alcohol to be sold in its region......What is it called?


If restricting ranching to the native residence and States of those who induldge in it, why do you think it would cause beef to be costly?

Do you not know that it would now open the market for people like me in the South South to start my own cattle business and ranching!!!!




The SS have never complained about the appointment of persons from the Northern part of the country into the Niger Delta Ministry and NDDC from the inception of its formation but you know find fault that a Southerner and a former governor from the Niger Delta region has been made an FCT minister and you speak in such awful manner!!!!
What is the meaning of the FCT?
Even at that all those who were made FCT ministers in past times, how many are truly indigenes of the land?
Not some sand men coming to occupy other peoples land and trying to lay claim!!!!!!


Stop the deception and hypocrisy.

The North through the Nigerian Army have been favoured to rule Nigeria more than any tribe during the era of Heada of State and the rest of the Southern region did not complain.

The North has licneces to oil wells dug in the South and Niger Delta region and none has complained and even in the complain the Southern region have been insulted by those who feel they are bettee breed to rule this nation.

ezugegere:
We need Igbo president to save this country. Hausa-Fulani have disappointed us; Yoruba has disappointed us; Our hope is now on the Igbo president to come and save us

igbos were made Senate President from 1999 and they ended up impeaching and changing one igbo to another.
Now that the entire nation is wary of the igbos how are we sure when they are given the President of Nigeria, they would not do same as thry did during when they were given the Senate President?

coputa:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/06/passengers-stranded-as-abuja-kaduna-train-derails-2/amp/

We thank God there was no life lost or injury to anyone onboard the train.
For a train to go off it's rail tracks then there are lots of reasons . The authorities needs to come clean with what is making such occur and resolve the issue as soon as possible so that the confidence of those using such services shall be restored.

These words alone will stand for itself. The projects will speak for themselves.


7. Describing the Minister as a Gadfly, the President, reiterated that Barr Wike is a force of nature and cannot be ignored.

8. He said, “As I said the last time, Wike is a force of human nature. Love him, hate him but you cannot ignore him because at every point in time, he is striving to redefine the meaning and concept of leadership.

9. “Wike is one of the best appointments ever made in the history of any democratic dispensation in this country.