₦airaland Forum

iwaeda:
Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders, has said it is facing an overwhelming influx of severely malnourished children in seven northern states at its medical facilities.
A statement issued by the MSF Field Communication Officer in Nigeria, Abdulkareem Yakubu, said the affected states are Kano, Bauchi, Borno, Yobe, Sokoto, Zamfara and Kebbi.

UNICEF has been working for decades in many of these same states to curb these same problems. It is time to shut down many of these non-working states abeg. States that have been living on handouts from the government should be shutdown and merged with other working states abeg! Nigerian people should no longer be burdened with states that only exist for the sake of furthering corruption and waste for Pete's sake.

adioolayi:
■Oh...it's the prerogative of the government to enforce minimum wage is being paid across board
Really If NLC/TUC are mere pressure groups for negotiation ONLY and the Government agrees and not implement ..what happens?
You don't think NLC/TUC responsibilities as a pressure group goes beyond negotiations only ...but actually enforcement of whatever that is agreed

Once the Law goes into effect, it becomes the job of the government, sadly, to enforce it. Individuals can come together as groups to sue the government in the case that it is not. NLC local factions can work in that capacity. But I don't believe the law goes in as an NLC law but rather a law to benefit individuals and as such the only right to fight that exists for NLC has to come from aggrieved individuals.

MindHacker9009:
■ The covenant is only for those who follow the TRUE GOD of the Original TORAH. The original Torah God wrote on a tablet and gave to Moses was broken and the written Torah by Moses has been corrupted by the Babylonians and later re-corrupted by the Roman Empire. That is why the True God of the Torah has said "I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people" So that it cannot be corrupted anymore.

▶ A millennium after Moses, God of Isreal was still attempting to make the same Old Covenant which He sealed through Moses with the same House of Israel—"...But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD..." —, abi?
▶ The first sealing — ratification of the Law during the time of Moses — did not work at all hence the reason why the God of Israel had to promise the same Law about a Millennium later only to this time seal it it in the hearts of the same House of Jacob which the first seal failed with.

How sure are you that almost 2500 years after Jeremiah made that statement, this second seal that God of Israel said He would make did not equally fail? 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

Religion does indeed kick one's brain in, no be small! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Streetinvestor2:
■ I expect you to resign if your pay is not commiserate to your labour like it is done in the private sector or go about it with others in mind. Why can't you go and create employment like other Nigerians. Is it not obvious you have nothing to offer outside the civil service.All you want is free money as a lazy person. Do you know why the law forbids the military and police from going on strike.
Let me tell you.The strike was called off because nlc had made big mistake by offing the grid which has to do with national security. And quickly called of within 48 hours because they could be prosecuted for it.They first started by denying the act. It was not because of any futher negotiations that is going to yeild any serious thing that made them call off.....don't be deceived
And know they have falling into the hands of the executives who will push to ammend labour laws after all this minimum wage nonsense because of shutting down the grid.And the bill will fly so fast.
Even during war thr are infrastructures you don't touch. Your nlc chairman is a complete mumu man.Did you see obi supporting the shutting of the grid.who does that.Is it because we don't keep records.Do you know the number of people who must have died in public hospitals that depend mostly on national grid..You need to go borrow logical reasoning.

I am sorry, but why didn't you tell this same to your senators, reps and other ministers who rather than resign, chose to give themselves big fat paychecks instead?

Clearly, you talk and reason worse than a child. And you never got around to answering the straightforward questions I asked meaning you are aware of the ridiculousness of your comments. All of these ramblings of yours mean absolutely nothing so I take it that you have nothing sensible to offer me at this point. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

adioolayi:
“It is important to explain here that a national minimum wage is not synonymous with the different pay structures of different states. The national minimum wage is the lowest floor below which no employer is allowed to pay." The statement above is where I have big issues with the leadership of NLC and TUC...over these years, what exactly have they done to employers that have not been paying NGN 30,000
What have they done to stop loads of private schools to stop paying teachers nonsense money, as low as NGN 15,000
What have they done to stop State Government, Local government fron paying their staffs less than NGN 30,000
Nigeria's employees are not FGN workers only..the regular stylist in the saloon, helpers that sweep people's compounds, gateman, various artisans, sales girl/boy, drivers, cook e.t.c are also Labours...who will fight for them?
How will NLC/TUC ensure these set of people get whatever is agreed upon
These are the conversations NLC/TUC will need to address.

These are very good questions that need to be addressed as well. But they can equally be addressed even as the adjustments to minimum wage are being made. The Government indeed has to be made to enforce the law even after the agreement is made.

OgaRico:
As for me, I think NLC is not smart enough to get a good amount as the new minimum wage from the Government. Propose to the Government the amount of 1 million as the new minimum wage, of course the Government will refuse such amount and then both parties can engage on pricing from the proposed amount to a meaningful amount. Let say if the Government price and price, last last they will at least settle somewhere around 100k, which will not be too bad.

▶ Any amount less than $64.5 or Naira 94,893.69 is extreme poverty and should not even be considered of worth.
▶ Any amount less than $68 or Naira 102000, which is the former minimum wage adjusted for the approximate 340% depreciation of Naira since February 2023, is pretty much not a raise but adjustment to match the old minimum wage. I suspect the recent increase of 300% for the Judiciary was such an adjustment made against the Naira depreciation level. So this Naira 120,000 or $68 point needs to be where Labor begins its negotiating for a raise.
▶ At the federal level though, anything less than N250,000 should be rejected by federal workers. Given the padding senior workers at the federal level freely give themselves, I see no reason why some of that extra padding should not work it's way down and across the board to other Federal workers.

What is a poverty line?
A poverty line, also called a poverty threshold, is a set amount of income below which it becomes difficult, if not impossible, for people to afford essentials like food and shelter. Each country determines its poverty line by calculating the cost of meeting minimum needs. Households with incomes below this line are considered to be living in poverty.
The international poverty line serves as a standard for measuring extreme global poverty and was recently adjusted to $2.15 a day to reflect the rising cost of necessities and adjust for inflation. Since 1990, it has increased from $1 to $2.15, reflecting the rising cost of living.

https://www.worldvision.org/sponsorship-news-stories/global-poverty-facts

Israelhamas:
■ You're confused. The apostles told us about Jesus and what they told us was to believe in Jesus, they didn't tell anyone to believe in them. Jesus said He is the way, the apostles told us Jesus is the way and that we should follow Him.
Or do you mean apostle were wrong to tell us Jesus is the way? That's their opinion? Perhaps you want them to tell us that Jesus is not the way and that we should worship them and not Jesus? What are you talking about?

Many of the contents of his letters of Paul are merely opinions of Paul, something which Paul himself made those, in fact, paying attention aware. You quoting Paul in the name of Jesus Christ is against Jesus Christ who instead told His followers to teach people to obey only that which He has taught and commanded of them.
The mandate given by Jesus Christ is simply expressed.

▶ So go and make followers of all people in the world. Baptize them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach them to obey everything that I have told you to do(the teachings and commandments of Jesus Christ) . You can be sure that I will be with you always. I will continue with you until the end of time.” - Matthew 28 vs 19-21
▶ He said to them, “Go everywhere in the world. Tell the Good News(the teachings and commandments of Jesus Christ) to everyone. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved. But those who do not believe will be judged guilty. And the people who believe will be able to do these things as proof: They will use my name to force demons out of people. They will speak in languages they never learned. If they pick up snakes or drink any poison, they will not be hurt. They will lay their hands on sick people, and they will get well.” - Mark 16 vs 15 - 19
▶ When Jesus helped the followers understand these Scriptures about him. Jesus said to them, “It is written that the Messiah would be killed and rise from death on the third day. You saw these things happen—you are witnesses. You must go and tell people that they must change and turn to God, which will bring them his forgiveness.(the teachings and commandments of Jesus Christ) You must start from Jerusalem and tell this message in my name to the people of all nations. Remember that I will send you the one my Father promised. Stay in the city until you are given that power from heaven.” - Luke 24 vs 45 - 49

Any addition to that which Jesus Christ explicitly instructed of His followers is not of Him but of opinions of men.

Why are you having a hard time with this?

blamingthedevil:
▶ Abia is still paying 18k

If the State/Company is not able to meet up with minimum wage and growth expectations, it should be shutdown/merged with other states abeg!

Emekaonline:
Let's assume that today all state and federal workers are being paid N100k as the minimum wage. What will they do when the prices of essential commodity now multiplied by 10 like say the bag of rice jumps to N150k. Many foolish emergency economists will come here to lambast the government for the high prices of things? How can some people be so daft!

Minimum wage has not been changed since it was last changed in 2023, what has happened to prices of goods since that time in Nigeria? What continues to happen to this day to the price of goods? Na minimum wage cause Naira devaluation and the imminent inflation that followed?

Why do you people reason like headless chickens abeg!

Streetinvestor2:
You are the illiterate here.whr your right stops is whr another person own starts.It is your right to go on strike. It is not your right to be a threat to national security ,endangering others life's and sabotaging the economy of over 200 million people by just 1.2 million group.

LOL...I am afraid you continue to show yourself an illiterate in this.

Workers walked out of their jobs because they did not consider the wage paid them for services rendered meaningful remuneration. The workers abandoned the grids to fend for themselves. The grids were pretty much left to man themselves but sadly, the grids cannot man themselves and as such failed.

▶ Why are the workers to blame for your National security, endangering other lives, sabotaging the economy, etc?
▶ Are they slaves of yours or machines that have no reason to chart their own lives or something?
▶ If indeed you valued your National security, lives of others, and the economy as much as you pretend, why didn't you demand before now your government ensure at all times that the workers who man the grids are adequately compensated to avoid having them strike?

Streetinvestor2:
I can bet you even if they decide not to work for 360 days as strike nobody will shut down the grid again. Nigerians and government will never allow it happen again. And for sacking,many are already on thr way out with the 60k at state level and private sector if you go thr to ask for 60k.Na security man go hand you already back dated dismissal letter. And labour cannot do anything. Go verify from those lecturers sacked then in kwara state University yrs back.

Stop talking like a child abeg! There is no law against employees going on strike and labor laws are there to protect their rights even in that case. So if you think that the government can simply fire them and hire new hands, it means you no even go school well well. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

hafeeanubasy:
■ There Indigens are somewhere on the internet now shouting TINUBU ...and how Hausa fulanis and Yorba used their Oil money to build Lagos and Abuja.
■ That is what their leaders told them to divert their attention from their poor leadership.They will them settle the pastors and Traditional rulers in the state to keep their mouth shot!

1. But they are not lying since much of the money running Abuja and equally shared to most equally non-viable states in Northern Nigeria comes majorly from the oil produced in that area. 🤔

2. More than half of the northern states in Nigeria are being propped up by money sourced from oil revenues. They too would do better to be shut down as well. When speaking of leaders, the problem cuts across the board. Nigerians should have tried to make 19 states work. The creation of more states is how we slowly slipped into this nightmare we have today.

Horlah04:
I'm not in any way fighting on behalf of any politician. I've never and will never do. Private companies increasing minimum wage will affect the price of goods. We all know this and that's why I wrote ONLY IF THERE'S GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION on caps. Abeg ooh I no deh do political fight. I was only stating...

How many private companies in Nigeria to this day pay the Minimum wage of Naira 30,000 even four years on? Can you please stop fighting on behalf of your politicians while pretending to care about what concerns the people?

Israelhamas:
■ Why you keep talking obey only Jesus Christ? Didn't everyone get to know Jesus Christ first, through these apostles? Didn't the world get to hear what Jesus said while on earth when we heard from the apostles? What you talking about?
God sent Jesus, Jesus sent the apostles and the apostles revealed him to the rest of the world, wasn't that the sequence?
The apostles preached Jesus not themselves, they gave the teachings of Jesus not teaching about themselves. Isn't that what it is?
So, why try to separate Jesus Christ from His apostles He directly delegated by Himself to tell the world what He told them? Did the apostles teach anything different from Jesus Christ?

Pay close attention!!!

▶ God never asked any man to follow Paul of the teachings of Paul.
▶ God was explicit when He instead commanded all His people to trust and obey Only Jesus Christ. God even bellowed this from the Heavens on more than one occasion.
▶ Jesus Christ made abundantly clear to His followers that those of them who love Him are those among them who would submit to and obey only His teachings and commandments.
▶ Jesus Christ separated Himself from everyone else when He declared that in His Kingdom, He alone is Master, Teacher, Head, Authority, Good Shepherd, Counselor, etc., over everyone who belongs to Him.

You, following the apostles because, according to you, you supposedly came to know Jesus Christ through them has nothing to do with Jesus Christ but your deceit. You raising the apostles as gods over your life has nothing to do with Jesus Christ. You elevating the ideas and opinions of the apostles above that of Jesus Christ has absolutely everything to do with being against God and Jesus Christ who commanded the opposite of His followers.

Streetinvestor2:
■ Nice try. Just as I expect the government to sack those particular unserious set of workers so that they can become self employed. Then government will employ new people to man it who knows that the sector has to do with national security and the lives of millions of nigeria mostly the ones in hospital depend on it.. And that the lives of 1.2 million of civil servants is a small sub set of nigeria .Next time they will see violence let they received in platue state.
The leader of NGF is the governor of imo state. Tell nlc chairman to go try another nonsense in his state. He will tell you the beating he got the last time and nothing happened

LOL....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Tell your government to go for it then.

SonofLagos:
go and price a bag of poultry feed, couple with the wahala of managing the birds. You think poultry farming is for kids?

MW has not been increased though, so who is to blame for the outrageous prices of goods? Na MW cause am?

snapshot:
So the governor of my small state with huge allocation is also saying he can't pay? I am talking of Bayelsa State That cannot be true, Let each governor speak for himself

Huge allocations propping it up yet the state remains among the poorest in terms of productivity. Can you imagine that nonsense?

spencekat:
Most governors are always problematic. That is why Nigeria has been like this.

Most states/companies in Nigeria are not viable and need to be shut down. Closed/merged with viable states.

Watinhapen:
Any governor that says he can’t afford to pay minimum wage of 60k doesn’t want the good of the people in his state. Such governor should be thrown out.

The state needs to be closed for business abeg! Nigerians should be sick and tired of funding companies that are barely able to make money or pay their workers. It is high time we rolled back the massive waste that is some states.

nairayouthcom:
In an anonymous post shared by an X influencer identified as @Wizarab10, the lady narrated how meeting with her in-laws became a disaster.
According to the embattled pregnant lady, her mother-in-law accused her of stealing jewellery while the duo were in the kitchen cooking This led to a heated argument and an assault from her partner that landed her in the hospital only for the said jewellery to be found in the in-laws’ pocket.

Where is Osinachi abeg make she come advice this one! Oh, wait! She is 6 feet under, all thanks to her own husband.

Horlah04:
Your insinuation is basically why he said he's going to sell at that price. The new minimum wage he stated will indirectly affect price of feed materials from farmers, from suppliers who will have to sell higher to raise their staffs salary. Hatcheries will likewise do the same. He may also have staffs that he's thinking about raising their pay. To be honest, it's actually going to affect the price of most agro commodities ONLY IF THERE'S GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION. I own a farm also and I feel his pain.

Rubbish assertions! Inflation steadily rose in the same Nigeria over the period between 2019 and 2023 even with the minimum wage remaining stable over that entire period. Inflation has since ballooned from late 2023 to the second quarter of 2024. Na Minimum wage cause am? Make una stop to dey fight on behalf of politicians and begin to dey use una heads abeg!

AbuTwins:
∆ You are the one with the Mumbo Jumbo all around like a kid!

Of course,it is mumbo jumbo to one whose only exposure to the contents and facts regarding Scripture come only from close-minded religious scope such as that which you have displayed throughout this thread and many others. 😀😀😀😀😀

Jesus Christ wasn't fooling around when He said one had to be open minded, like a child, if one is to infact see what the facts contained in Scripture which is where all the answers i gave you are taken from.😁😁😁😁

Funflipper:
∆ How can you guys be so naive. It is the norm; Every time the minimum wage is increased, there is always a corresponding increase in commodities and this time, it won't be different. Expect the price of goods to rise.

That is instead an alarmist claim with no truth to it. The Minimum wage was not changed for more than 4 years -- 2019 -- 2023 --- in Nigeria yet prices did not remain stable in all of that period. Come 2024, the cost of living has more than quadrupled, yet minimum wage has remained untouched in all of this time. What do you say to that?

MindHacker9009:
Here is the Original Torah
Jeremiah 31:33
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

Your original Torah, came in almost a millennium after the Torah given by God to Moses? Jeremiah lived during the period between 630BC to 550BC or thereabouts, which is approximately 800- 1000 years after Moses. Meaning the Torah that was given by God to Moses is not the original, right? This other Torah you boast of having which is of probably over a millennium later than the one given by God to Moses is the original, abi? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

abidem4real:
The thing is we men value you women more than you ever imagine but the moment you women do the abominable, it breaks us beyond words and women become so disgusting to us

I really don't care for your bitter ramblings abeg! I made my point already which is that there are no gender issues except the ones you create in your minds out of bitterness.

Parydelegate:
Law of demand and supply

You go school at all?

AbuTwins:
∆ Kobo Kobo!

I am afraid your questions have degraded to even more pathetic levels at this point is all. 🤔🤔🤔🤔

Streetinvestor2:
∆ Nigeria is not only about civil servants. Infact they constitute a very small fraction of the population.
They took us unaware the last time.If they try shuting even banks the next time and not just power.i will participate in burning thr members alive at any of the venue if I am on ground. If the payment is not ok.Go and resign.Try farming or become self employed. The lazy set of people can not hold other hard working Nigerians ransom.
The legislature should quickly ammend the useless laws so that we can deal with them on the street .They are all busy doing nothing in those offices from 9-4pm.The ones in state don't even go to work but just want free money because Nigeria is just a corrupt nation.How much do they add to government revenues

Workers walked out of the job due to terrible pay leaving the grids to run themselves something the grids are not able to since human are required to operate them. The power grids failed and the people suffered. What is wrong with workers working off and letting the grids man themselves?

abidem4real:
I understand you of course I don't expect you not to defend your gender

I didn't defend anyone. I pointed out instead that this ain't a gender issue at all which you lot try to make it.

NwokoloOwa:
∆ Nope.

But the actions taken are typically layered. Shutting the national grid should typically comes deep in the layer. Likewise, health care services, and some other very essential and critical services. That's how we did it throughout Abacha's inglorious regime and it was effective. Even during Oshiomole's, national grid shutdown and other critical service wind down as the strike progresses if the government fails to yield. It's a better and more tactful approach

Typically layered in what exactly? I hate meaningless stories abeg!

Workers walked out of the job due to terrible pay leaving the grids to run themselves something the grids are not able to since human are required to operate them. The power grids failed and the people suffered. What is wrong with workers working off and letting the grids man themselves?

Westerhoffe:
∆ Attempting to win arguments? Is that what you see it as? Sad. I am against false doctrines…

Against false doctrines when all you are worth is exactly that, falsehood? Do you understand the meaning of the word against?

Westerhoffe:
∆ You are sure too far from GOD to know some of His secrets.
I don't expect a demon to know that…

Throwing meaningless slurs again instead of answering questions. All I have noted so far is you are a true example of the religion of Christianity ever without any real knowledge or experience of who the God of Israel or His Son, Jesus Christ, are.

Krankhead:
Laour is not up.to 5% of Nigeria population. They need to.be prosecuted

Prosecuted for refusing to work for extreme poverty pay? Your head dey up there at all?