₦airaland Forum

By Dupe Olaoye-Osinkolu 9 hours 46 minutes ago

Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State yesterday said payment of the N18,000 new minimum wage will be difficult for the state.
The governor, who was reacting to a statement issued by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) urging all states to start implementing the new wage, said based on what accrues　to the state from the Federation Account, payment of new wage would be difficult.
The NLC had also asked governors who cannot pay the new wage to resign.
Governor Aliyu, who spoke during a vote of thanks at a lecture in Minna, tagged: "Towards the Economic Transformation and viability of Nigerian States", called for　a review in the federal revenue allocation formula　to allow states pay the new minimum wage.　　
Lamenting the fate of states that get lower monthly revenue allocation from the government, he said:　"A colleague of mine in another state gets N10 billion per month and I get N2.4 billion per month.　　
"Then somebody in Abuja said that the person collecting N2.4 billion as federal allocation per month must pay the same salary with the person collecting N10 billion per month.　From the report of a committee available to me in the state, we need N4.5 billion per month to pay the new minimum wage.　

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/business/8016-%E2%80%98niger-can%E2%80%99t-pay-new-minimum-wage%E2%80%99.html

damn

Viva Los Rascals

very sad

Very commendable!

Gotta love seeing corporations giving back to the community like this.

Jiah011:
Yes! And they should consider solar power all over too. There is plenty of sun in Nigeria. This may be expensive to set up in the beginning, but in the long run it will pay off. The government should start putting the money to good use.

Solar isn't a cheap way to generate electricity. Too much $/kWh.

See this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source

For Nigeria, natural gas is likely to be the best bet.

She had a Yoruba lover? Lmao, the plot thickens!

Sagamite:
This really has to be assessed in relativity with the revenue the state is currently generating or forecasted to generate in the next few years.

Not like I think such info would be positive if provided.

This might help: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-300410.0.html#msg8234903

http://www..com/ng/states-and-lgda-specific-talks/8017-kano-state-2011-budget-n122-6b.html

Can someone provide some background on this witchcraft stuff in Akwa Ibom? I don't understand it. When and why did it become part of the culture to accuse kids of being witches?

If electricity reforms occur, then the sky is the limit. Imo.

hrm

shawonlese:
I will like to give kudos to the state government. It is a welcome development.

Whilst not one to spoil the Tea party, analyzing the Bi-fuel requirement, this project is just a big generator that has been kept somewhere to generate electricity. After a while, the consumers will start groaning as the price of diesel goes up.

A power plant is fired by gas, coal, LNG, wind turbine, hydro power, nuclear etc, and other sources of cheap energy, not diesel that is N160 per litre. **Countdown to when the customers will start moaning of the electricity tariff.

60%+ of the electricity generated comes from NG

What stops me from buying two giant generators in my community fired by diesel, to supply consumers with electricty and charge them? IPP to the customers.

Diesel alone is an expensive way to generate electricity. . . your neighbors wouldn't want to buy

Kinda cool.

I suspect that I'll end up a farmer at some point later in life too.

on MAY 31, 2011 · in NEWS

By Tony Edike

ENUGU – STRIKING doctors of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Teaching Hospital said, yesterday, that Governor Sullivan Chime and his government have not demonstrated enough commitment to resolve the issues that led to the seven months old industrial action and would, therefore, not heed the governor’s call to return to work.

Besides, the doctors said that until their six months salary arrears were paid, further dialogue with the government on the industrial dispute would not be meaningful since the government had not fulfilled its own part of the agreement previously reached.

Public Relations Officer of the Nigerian Medical Association, Enugu State chapter, Dr. Gerald Nwafor, who made this known while reacting to the governor’s call on the striking doctors to resume work, said the failure of the government to honour the agreement reached with the doctors for the implementation of 20 per cent of the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure, CONMESS, was responsible for the prolonged strike.

He, however, stated that the aggrieved medical doctors “will review the strike the moment the government shows enough commitment to meet our demands for improved pay and settlement of all the outstanding salaries which was accumulated following government’s directive stopping the payment of our salaries in December last year.”

Governor Chime had, in his inaugural address, after he was sworn-in for a second term in office, Sunday, expressed deep concern over the long absence of the health workers from their places of work on account of the strike and had urged them to go back to work.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/05/enugu-doctors-reject-chimes-call-to-resume-work/

scopusng:
Will they still be paying monthly PHCN bill?

No, they are going off grid.

Entirely disconnected from PHCN

Ozin:
@ ekt-bear,First, Lagos is not N154 billion in debt. It is N124. Second, no one has to borrow in life. . . but this limits whats you can accomplish and how quickly you can grow

My guy your statement above reminds me of Salawa Abeni music that tells the story of a guy who hate 9 out of 10 raps of EBA and said he does not feel like eating much.What is the difference btw N154 million and N124million?

N30 billion = $200 million. 24%+ of the debt. You don't think that is a significant amount

What is wrong with using the correct #s rather than wrong ones, when arguing a point?

Yes, we are

na wa o

The pictures were sad

Her face looked like a pizza

^-- lmao.

I guess you are just trolling

I'll leave it be

.[quote author=aloy/emeka link=topic=679107.msg8424193#msg8424193 date=1306814040]5 gbosas for you. Where will Rochas and Amosun get the money to finance free education?. By raising taxes or what?[/quote]They should raise taxes if necessary. . . whatever it takes.

I dunno about the UK, but here in the US we have free education (well, it isn't quite free, nothing in life is really free. The money for the schools comes from property taxes.)

There are some minimum basic things that a government must provide for the people. And imo education (at least up to primary school and ideally also secondary school) has to be one of those things.

Who knows, maybe their budget won't actually allow them to do it. Perhaps there will be some hidden fees here and there.

But it is good that they at least recognize the importance of ensuring that everyone gets an education. . . I don't think any state/nation/people will progress in this day and age w/o trying to educate as many people as possible.

jason123:
What do you mean by group? Age group or what?

Yeah, you limit it to certain age groups or something. . . the very young and the very old, perhaps. And not all services for free, just some basic ones.

How come people are not asking were he will get the money from?

BTW, do you actually believe this??

They have a budget, right? If you are spending 20-30% of that on education, you can probably get pretty close to free primary and secondary, no?

Plus a lot of people send their kids to private schools. . . so it isn't as if you have to provide free education for all kids of that age group. Just those who cannot afford private school, right?

Free education at the primary and secondary level, limited free healthcare to certain groups makes sense.

If he were promising free education up to university level or free healthcare for everyone, that would be unrealistic.

kodewrita:
The prospect of a half-black world must be quite scary.

I don't think they really care. Population control benefits us, first and foremost. It isn't as if they share a border with us. . . so if Africa and Nigeria becomes an overpopulated, poverty-stricken land, it won't affect them negatively. No hordes of poor people streaming into their country

Also, the world won't be half black for the forseeable future. There are more Chinese alone on earth than blacks. . .

First time seeing him in a suit. Looks good on him.

I don't mine the deficit so much (at least in theory it isn't terrible), but I'd like to see closer to 50%+ on capital projects, not only 25%.

So only 25.6% on capital expenditure? I guess the rest on recurrent?

Doesn't sound wise. . .

on MAY 29, 2011 · in NEWS
   
BY EMMA UJAH

Details of the 2011 Appropriation Bill signed into law by President Goodluck Jonathan showed  N1.136 trillion deficit. The deficit is about 2.96 percent of GDP (compared to 4.23 percent of GDP in the Appropriation Bill passed in March), according to the Minister of Finance, Mr. Segun Aganga, in Abuja, yesterday.

“This brings us in line with the provisions of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2007, which pegs this at 3 percent of GDP”, he explained.

The original executive budget proposal of N4.2 trillion had a projected deficit of about N1.3 trillion before it was again jerked up by the National Assembly.

The Amended 2011 Budget is for an aggregate expenditure of N4.485 trillion which is N487 billion lower than the N4.972 trillion passed by the National Assembly in March.

The total forecast revenue is N3.348 trillion based on the benchmark oil price of $ 75/bbl, which is the same as in the original Appropriation Bill passed by the National Assembly in March.


Finance Minister, Olusegun Aganga
The minister said the increase in the benchmark was to ensure that the deficit was at a level that could be financed without excessive borrowing.

Capital Expenditure is now N1.147 trillion which is 22 percent higher than the actual amount of N936 billion spent in the extended (15-month) 2010 Budget.

Aganga said the amount was higher than any amount that has actually been spent on capital projects in the last 10 years.

The minister said the Federal Government in the new fiscal year would vigorously pursue the new approach to funding the development of critical infrastructure in Nigeria through the involvement of the private sector, which, according to him, “has the capital and implementation capacity to successfully deliver specific infrastructure services”.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/05/budget-2011-to-record-n1-1trillion-deficit/

Like a slave being sold somewhere in the southern US during slavery times. Sold three times for N200K, N400K, N480K. I dunno what to say. . . very sad

By Iniabasi Umo
May 30, 2011 09:52AM
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The police in Akwa Ibom are keeping two brothers in custody for the kidnap and sale of their three-year-old nephew .

The uncle of the child, Israel Nkereuwem Asuquo, who lived with the child and his parents in the same house was said to have abducted the child and alongside his accomplice, Emmanuel Edet Morgan and sold him to one Peter Ekanem for N200,000.

Afterwards, Ebere Peter Ekanem, wife of Mr Ekanem who is currently on the run, allegedly sold the child in Aba, Abia State to Godson Echedi for N400,000.

Mr Echedi, in turn allegedly sold the child to another woman, Ethel Chika for N480,000 before the this sorry trade was ended by the police.

The child, who was kidnapped on April 29, 2011 was recovered on the 25th of May, 2011 in Umuahia where he was moved to from Aba.

He had been adopted by a childless couple, who had applied to the child welfare centre there since 2009 for a child.

The 20-year-old hair dresser and mother of the child, Ime Nkereuwem Asuquo, said the loss of the child was an unkind cut from relatives she was taking care of.

“I left for work and kept the child in company of my two brothers. When I returned and asked for the child, my junior brother, Edet told me that Israel took the child away.

“When I asked Israel, he said he took the child out to buy him biscuit. But when he could not produce the boy I raised an alarm.”

However, in an attempt to scuttle investigations into the case of the missing boy, Israel and Emmanuel sought the services of a self-proclaimed prophet, Evans Dick Eshiet, who was paid N20,000 out of the proceeds of the sale of the boy to ensure they were not caught.

Profiteer from crime

His intervention proved useless, however when his clients were arrested by the police.

Commissioner of police, Felix Uyanna, who revealed that investigations were on to verify if the couple who finally adopted the child are culpable in the crime, noted that the female suspects were in the employ of the orphanage and child welfare department of the state women ministry. He said they use the cover of their work to engage in child theft and kidnapping.

“We are witnessing another version of kidnapping,” the police boss said. “Meanwhile, the mother and father of the boy were in distress looking for their son who was kidnapped by the very uncle living with them in the same house and the same building, feeding from the same soup pot.

“You could see the profiteering. As he moved from one hand to another, the price and the value kept going up. We thank God we are on top of the game and we have been able to get all of them.”

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/5707211-146/brothers_in_custody_for_selling_three-year-old.csp