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By Levinus Nwabughiogu
ABUJA—Governor Adams Oshiomole of Edo State has expressed displeasure over his colleagues’ insistence on reducing to N10,000, the N18,000  minimum wage, saying they had no option to than to pay workers their stipulated salaries.
Oshiomole, who spoke to State House correspondents after a private meeting with President Mohammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, in Abuja, reminded his colleagues that the welfare of the people was the basic reason for governance.
He said: “With due respect to my colleagues, it is offensive to talk about minimum wage. How can the food of the steward be the reason that the elders cannot eat? I mean by conventional wisdom. If there is crisis in the system, it is the excess fat that will shade fats not the skeletons. The idea of using minimum is very offensive.
“The problem with Nigeria is that each time we confront a serious economic problem, we look at the escape route option. Those are not the hearts of the challenges, we must go to the heart of challenges, we must revisit  issues. I also think it is simplistic to believe that one drug will cure all the ailments in the various states. Every state has to take its own independent evaluation of the nature of its own problems and design appropriate policy instruments to deal with those problems as they relate to each state.
“The problem in one state is not the same with the one in Edo State. Everybody will have to deal with its own. Lastly, I also think that if anybody wants to talk about federalism, let’s not talk about federalism where it affects the wages of the lowest paid. I have asked this question, why should Edo state governor receive the same salary as the governor of Lagos State when the population of Lagos State is doubled that of Edo state and their GDP is much higher?
“Why should I receive the same pay as the governor of Zamfara or Akwa Ibom, these states are richer by accident of location. If we want to preach this principle, we are in a federal system, everybody should pay according to his cost of living. The cost of governing Edo State is not the same cost as governing Lagos State.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/12/govs-must-pay-minimum-wage-oshiomhole/

December 10, 2015 at 1:54 am

By Kingsley Fanwo

THE governorship election in Kogi may have come and gone but the bells of ripples have kept reverberating to the discomfort of the party that has won the governorship election, the All Progressives Congress, APC
The political dogfight between the contending camps has continued to build around the need for power and the need to avoid losing out completely in the ensuing melodrama that has enveloped the state since the demise of Prince Abubakar Audu, the APC governorship standard bearer before the supplementary election.
The camps and their jokers
Yahaya Bello
Alhaji Yahaya Bello was chosen by the APC to replace Audu Abubakar in the supplementary poll because he came second in the party’s August 29 primaries.  The APC hierarchy favoured him to replace Audu ahead of Hon James Abiodun Faleke, who was Audu’s running mate  because Faleke was not part of the governorship primaries.
To maintain his foothold after being declared as governor-elect by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of which he will be given the certfifcate of return today, Bello is said to have launched serious reconciliation moves to placate Faleke into maintaining his status quo as his running mate and by extension, the Deputy Governor-Elect.
Power shift agitation
Pundits frowned at any attempt at scuttling the status quo, a situation which may plunge the state into insecurity quagmire. The actions of the Okun leaders, who are insisting that Faleke should be governor is considered a betrayal of the power shift agitation by the Kogi Central people.
Abiodun Faleke

Faleke and Bello
As it stands, Hon. Abiodun Faleke is currently facing a number of battles legally and politically. The Lagos State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has approached a Lagos High Court to ask if it was constitutional for a person to lay claims to two constituencies at the same time.
While Faleke was a governorship running mate in Kogi, he was still holding his office as House of Representatives member representing Ikeja II Constituency of Lagos.
On the other front, Faleke is to be battling unyieldingly against the decision to declare Yahaya Bello, first as replacement to the late Prince Abubakar Audu and later as Governor-Elect. To the Ekinrin Adde- born politician, he was the right person to replace Audu. Faleke also alleged that INEC erred by declaring the November 21 governorship election inconclusive. According to him, the election was won and lost on November 21 and he was already a deputy governor-elect to Prince Audu before the latter’s death.
This week, Faleke told a group of Okun leaders that he won’t make himself available for the January 27, 2016 handover ceremonies because the December 5 supplementary poll that produced Bello, according to him, was an illegal exercise.
If Faleke makes real his threat of boycotting the swearing in, he will be rolling the state into another round of constitutional crisis.
A close friend of Faleke, who craved anonymity told Vanguard that Faleke’s fears may be beyond playing second fiddle to Yahaya Bello.
“Faleke is a gentleman and should not be seen as someone fighting his party. His fears are beyond being deputy to Yahaya Bello. He doesn’t believe the emergence of Bello will survive legal hurdles and he is being mindful of losing everything.
“What if he submits himself for the swearing in on January 27 2016 and APC loses at the tribunal? Remember, he would have resigned his membership of the House of Representatives. What we are telling him is to fight on in court and refuse to make himself available for swearing in.
“However, nothing is yet decided. There is intense pressure on him to save the party from further embarrassment. The whole problem was a creation of Audu’s death”.
Wada’s hope
While addressing PDP stakeholders at Government House, Lokoja on Tuesday, Kogi State Governor, Capt Idris Wada expressed confidence that he was sure of securing victory at the tribunal. The governor carpeted INEC for transferring the late Audu’s votes to Yahaya Bello, saying INEC’s decision has no constitutional legs.
As indications point, Wada may file his case before the Governorship Tribunal in the next few days. What the governor is harping on is that Audu’s votes died with him and he is demanding to be declared the governor-elect.
The APC Angle
However, indications emerged yesterday that the National Working Committee, NWC of the APC may convene an emergency meeting over the weekend to take a decisive step over the Kogi impasse.
Sources told Vanguard that the party may gag Faleke from speaking to the press while it works around critical stakeholders in the logjam.
A member of theNWC told Vanguard on condition of anonymity that it has become imperative to find a decisive solution to the wind of war within the party.
He said: “The Kogi impasse has continued to embarrass the leadership of the party. We are fashioning out a lasting solution to the problem. While Faleke has continued to overheat the crisis with his press war, Bello has continued to act with restraints. We are hopeful that the two of them will work together. To start with, there must be press ceasefire.
“We would love to meet only the PDP at the tribunal. It won’t augur well for APC to be divided on this issue. We urgently need to put our house in order”.
However, political bookmakers are already predicting a long legal journey ahead which may navigate to the Supreme Court.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/12/kogi-impasse-bellos-reconciliation-bell/

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By Michael Eboh
ABUJA— Respite seems to be in sight for Nigerians over the unending fuel scarcity witnessed across the country, as the Federal Government, yesterday, said it has paid N407.077 billion to oil marketers for their outstanding subsidy claims.
Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, who disclosed this in a statement in Abuja stated that the Presidency had directed that the payments be made immediately in order to bring to a quick end, the lingering fuel crisis which has caused great suffering to Nigerian families and businesses.
She said the payments include arrears from the 2014 financial year as well as payments for the current year, while she appealed to major oil marketers to reciprocate the action by doing all they can to bring the fuel scarcity to an end.
She also stated that despite dwindling revenues, the government is committed to ensuring continuous availability of fuel to Nigerians.
She said: “It is expected that the recipients would ensure adequate supply of fuel to end the persistent fuel shortage in the nation, especially as this  action shows that government is fully committed to meeting its financial obligations in respect of fuel subsidy.
“Details of the approved payments under the subsidy scheme will be published in the national dailies as has been the practice.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/12/fg-pays-oil-marketers-n407bn-outstanding-subsidy-claims/

December 10, 2015 at 1:12 am

By Michael Eboh

ABUJA — The Federal  Government, yesterday, called for increased participation by all Nigerians in the fight against corruption, stating that the prevalent culture of silence is hampering the fight against the vice and also destroying the Nigerian economy.
Speaking at a seminar marking the International Anti-Corruption Day in Abuja, organized by the Inter-Agency Task Team, comprising anti-corruption agencies, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo stated that for the country to win the fight against corruption, citizens must be in agreement with the government that enough is enough.
Osinbajo, who was represented by Mr. Sadiq Radda, a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, explained that the culture of silence was not only destructive but also contradictory.
He said: “On the one hand, citizens expect government to fight corruption but on the other hand, the people are reluctant to fully identify with and totally support government agenda and anti-corruption measures by sharing information to assist law enforcement agencies.
“Breaking the chain of corruption includes the urgent need to break the chain of silence that enables corruption thrive undeterred under the noses of public servants charged with statutory powers to oversee the nation’s wealth.”
Speaking in the same vein, Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative, NEITI, Mr. Ogbonnaya Orji, promised that the organization would strive to eliminate all forms of corrupt practices in the determination of payments and receipts of revenues by companies to government.
Orji, who was represented by Mrs. Obiageli Onuorah, Acting Director of Communications, NEITI, however, called on the Federal Government to check the incessant smuggling of solid minerals products out of the country.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/12/apathy-culture-of-silence-threatening-war-against-corruption-osinbajo/

The Minister of Youths and Sports, Solomon Dalong has congratulated the Dream Team for picking a ticket to play in the men’s football at the 2016 Rio Olympics

Solomon Dalong
Dream Team yesterday secured their ticket to fly Nigeria’s flag at the summer Games, following a nail-biting 1-0 win against hosts Senegal at the Leopod Senghor Stadium in Dakar.
Reacting to the team’s qualification for the final of the African U-23 Championship, the former prison warden turned barrister, said the team showed courage and determination against the Senegalese, who before the game, were the favourites to qualify.
The Minister of Sports assured that team of all necessary support in their preparations for the Rio Games, adding that ‘the government will leave no stone unturned to ensure a successful outing for the team at the greatest sporting show-piece in the world.
Nigeria, it is recalled won the men’s soccer gold at the Atlanta Games in 1996 and won silver at the Beijing Games in 2008, with  Samson Siasia, the current coach, being in charge of the team to Asia.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/12/sports-minister-hails-dream-team-for-picking-rio-ticket/

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