₦airaland Forum

BlueRayDick:
U need to watch the video. The man used historical events to buttress his point that the increase in minimum wage won't do much.

He mentioned how the Udoji grant was made available to civil servants and everybody went to the market to buy bicycle which was the preferred means of transportation and suddenly the price of bicycles jumped over the roof in an instant. He mentioned how the Chinese government instead provided bicycles for civil servants instead of leaving the cash with the civil servants to drive inflation figures up.

Well, maybe u are right that increase in minimum wage will be a short term approach, but it's effect won't last so long at all

But what's already happening is the reverse of what the man is saying. Prices of things has already jumped over the roof, increasing minimum wage is just to give workers a little breathing space to be able to cope and survive.

liveLongNprospa:
Omo.. Today will be a madhouse for alot of people.

I'm gearing local flight isn't working.

But isn't turning off the power grid an economic Sabotage?
Aren't some things meant to be off limits?
But knowing the FG, na this kind madness them go finally respond to when the suppose Don sort out labour since

They turn off power grid or it collapse?

BlueRayDick:
I was still having this same discussion with a friend yesterday. 2015-2016, what u would buy with meagre salary and still have savings, u can't even buy them with much higher salary after several promotions/increase in income.

Increasing the minimum wage to 100k will not solve anything as of today, it will only lead to an increase in the inflation rate. If the government can't find a way to bring some form of subsidy to cushion the effect of subsidy removal that was done inappropriately, we will only be going around in circles.

It will not solve all the problems but it will still make people lives a bit easier why labor can continue holding govt by the trouser to bring inflation down and stabilize the economy.

Workers need to at least be able to survive for now. Survival is the first thing. Everything has increased x5 but wages has stagnated, how do you want to survive in this situation?

How long will it take to bring inflation down, how long will it take to build affordable housing and the likes.

GrammarNazi1:
It is a pity that some states can't pay the current 30k minimum wage, when even a POS vendor pays around 30k monthly for an attendant.

If a state cannot pay a living minimum wage, let the state look for solutions. If the state is too lazy to look for solutions, it may lay off workers.

Workers should begin to think out of the box and become employers of labour too instead of earning a paltry minimum wage that cannot even take care of a new born baby.

Well it's easy to say lay off workers until a Governor start it and you will see the kind of scandal and uproar it will cause.

I do agree that states must think out the box and find a way to create solution for their states but some states are largely civil servant states. Examples are Osun and Ekiti that I mentioned earlier. For Osun, the civil service salary takes almost 80% of the state FAAC every month, after paying the salaries what will remain for the other citizens that ain't civil servants?

That's why states like Osun politics are basically dictated by civil servants.

In a sane nation with the kind of federation we claim to be running, each state should be maintaining their own minimum wage within their capacity. 100k in Ekiti or Osun is not the same 100k in Lagos or Abuja. The purchasing power of both state differs.

BlueRayDick:
Wow! Just wow!

The man is very very sound , articulate and well informed. He broke everything down referring to historical records and how the management of this country has been dysfunctional in modern day Nigeria.

I like how he explained how labour is chasing the wrong struggle while the government is throwing money at non-money problems .

The only solution to the problem as the man posited in the video is for the government to adopt a welfarist approach to governance. Let the worker be able to spend as little as 30% of his income on housing, transport, healthcare and other physiological needs and u won't see labour coming out every year to demand increase in minimum wage.

It is shocking that when the minimum wage was increased to 18k in 2011, the minimum wage could buy 3 bags of rice but today the current minimum wage can only buy half bag of rice.

If Nigeria will ever be good again, we need to go back to the drawing board as the man posited in the last part of his interview. Let whoever wants to run for president or state governor come up with the workable plans he has about building low cost estates, workable plans on affordable healthcare, workable plans on affordable transport, etc. Not just everybody focusing on political jamborees during elections only to get the seat and start taxing the dead and living to finance expensive lifestyle of execuTHIEVES and legisLOOTERS.

Sounds very good on paper but all these are all medium/long term approach/plans.

Right now, the government must increase the minimum wage and fast.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Lol

But the 60k that they are offering is way way too small.

We cannot say we are saving massively from subsidy, and still can't pay something reasonable[/color]

Some states are not even paying the 30k minimum wage currently since it was increased in 2019.

What the FG should've done is devolve the minimum wage committee into FG and States. Let FG and the private sector deal with the national leadership of NLC and TUC for minimum wage for federal workers and private entities.

Each state can then negotiate their own minimum wage also with the state chapter of the NLC and TUC, that way we can quickly resolve this minimum wage wahala everytime.

A state like Ekiti or Osun cant pay the same minimum wage that Lagos or Ogun can pay and it makes no sense to use the same law for them, it's what's always dragging that negotiations.

I believe the 60k is low for the FG also, should be at least 100k but the states can't pay that and how many businesses can afford to pay it without having to lay off employees?

afrodoc2:
Which is exactly why he needs the ball. Assist leaders are typically point guards, and they are the ones who often have the ball most. How can you lead the league in assists if you don't have the ball a bunch of times?

Na telepathy he dey use do the assist.

Adrian is reporting that Durant has requested for a trade out of Suns.

So on brand.

WhoDeyHause:
This one I no dey hear any striker links again after Osimhen make this people no use tortoise sense still keep Jackson as our starting 9 next season, here no be barka or manyoo wey we go do that long-suffering shit dey console ourselves say one day e go better, 2 seconds everywhere go burst,or theuniverse how you take see am?
No be from well I dey fetch my own viewing centre money.

Jackson dey for una.

patrickmuf:
I can't recognise this moniker. Those I'm on about know themselves.

Probably a burner.

steady986:
This question was posed on Twitter and I can't believe there are people who are saying the Warriors

Them go too slap Lakers. Please what's Dwight Howard going to be doing here?

It's not like he's a very good perimeter defender, Klay and Curry will just be dumping those 3s on his big head.

steady986:
Yes, the phony GOAT is not a generational talent

Pass me your weed now.

liveLongNprospa:
I have a question on this possible restructuring issue.
Would the FG allow Lagos out of their control?
Considering Lagos ports especially and what it means as a revenue generation to the nation.
I'm genuinely curious

All that should be effectively dealt with in the regional agreement.

The region will most likely manage the port and they will come to an agreement on a revenue sharing formula.

At least that's what I think.

For those requesting a video showing the running water tap in the Asa community, here it is.

You'll also see the good people of Asa reacting to the outdated and misleading video posted by @MobilePunch. pic.twitter.com/w3c4tyWfZg

— Ogun State Government - OGSG (@OGSG_Official) June 2, 2024

Them say Punch news dey lie.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]I really don't know if we utilised the power of those social numbers (NIN & BVN)

I don't even see why we should have a personal tax ID. NIN should be enough.

Omoh! Nigeria matter no be am![/color]

We just dey duplicate functions when a centralized database will solve almost all of them.

The more the duplication of functions, the more agencies that our politician can create, the more agencies they create, more positions to be filled by their loyalties.

sod09:
Yeah I took it to binance

Correct. Goodluck

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Some people just dey waste their talent on top X

Instead of them to rent stage, put am for Falomo roundabout, make people dey laugh on transit, dem begin waste am online.

"Why Lagos will not join SW in a Regional Government"?

Make dem come join SS or SE then

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😂😂😂😂😂😂

izzou:
[color=royalblue]It is actually the VIO that should have this database, but I don't think there is a central body for them. Every state runs his own VIO unit how he deems fit.

So why Lagos VIO is innovative enough to computerise and have a database, another state may still be using biro and paper to document theirs.

For you to do Road worthiness certificate in Lagos, you need to take your vehicle for inspection.
For other states (maybe i am wrong), you don't need to.

If there was a central system that can be accessed, it would have been better. [/color]

You are right. For all of Lagos faults, it's still ahead of the remaining 35 states.

I dont know why Bosun hasn't started collaborating with Minister of Interior (NIMC is under Interior) and FRSC to come up with a way for us to have a computerized central database.

It will make it easy for a lot of things.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]So we will run a regional government, and Lagos will not join SW?

And someone wasted characters on X to explain something wey no get bearing?

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Abi. Lagos will become no man's land.

steady986:
Tatum is not a generational talent. Let's get that out of the way.

I've said this here before, you know a generational talent even before they enter the NBA. Luka is a generational talent. He had been killing it even as a kid. He didn't get drafted 1st just because he wasn't American and didn't attend college in America. Giannis, who is a generational talent, wasn't noticed early enough. This is due to the fact that he actually started playing basketball late, and also he isn't American and didn't attend college in America.

Curry and MJ are great players but they aren't generational talents. Obviously they are very skilled players but their mentality and hard work made them who they are. Heck, if they were generational talents why weren't they drafted number one? Who passes up on a generational talent at no. 1? I'm not saying that you have to be drafted no. 1 if you are a generational talent, or all no. 1s are generational talents. No. Take KD for instance. I think he's a generational talent. But the guy who was drafted no.1 in his draft class turned out to be a bust. It can happen.

Zion Williamson is a generational talent, but sadly he hasn't put in the work to live up to that talent. If you put Steph and MJ in the category of generational talent then it means the list of generational talents would be endless. Because we have seen guys like them before. The only difference is that they did it better than we would probably ever see.

Look at this list

KD
Shaq
Wemby
Luka
LeBron
Zion
Wilt
Giannis
Magic

What do you notice? There's a combination of skill and physical attributes that we don't associate with regular NBA players. And you can go as far back as when the NBA began, you won't be able to show me 2 other players that are like these people.

Zion, Giannis are generational talent but MJ isn't?

Must be premium delulu

Ellexy:
But I didn't even talk anything, I just shared screenshot of the rogbodiyan going on.

I responded to a particular post. Like we use to say here, everyone knows what they are doing.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Coming from the man who said Ganduje will have his day in the law court. You're a joker

I dont expect you to understand simple context. It's your trademark.

sod09:
You they see $notcoin so😳😳

Told you it will moon.

You later see say comot for TON?

Make we see whether this NLC and TUC strike will start tomorrow as they said.

Maybe then the govt will start taking them serious and put some urgency into it.

Ellexy:
Ronu Southwest don turn on Woye untop fake restructuring. He's now Ipob. Very useless people.

Woye is not even Yoruba.

You shouldn't join Okpa on this journey. There's a reason why most people usually ignore him.

You are free to ignore my advise anyways.

Ellexy:
As e dey hot

You dont even know what you are talking about.

You do know the Lagos that wasn't part of Western Region then was Lagos Island right? Every other part of present day Lagos was part of western region because it was the country capital.

Make una dey carry history book read once in a while.

KingTom:
Werey ni bobo yi sha

I lie?

izzou:
[color=royalblue]If your plate number is Lagos, then the camera can fine you.

If you use any of the 35 states and FCT, it is helpless, because your information is not on the database[/color]

You are right but there should be a way they can infuse their database with FRSC and those driving in Lagos should be using Lagos plate numbers, no be so he suppose be?

Jodera:
Yes na big club.
No be only UCL win dey make club big else Nottingham forest for big

Ok no UCL.

When last una win league? E never reach 20yrs? Please what's the difference between you and Nottingham Forest except that they have UCL and Arsenal doesn't?

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[font=serif].....quick to rush online to shout and blame everything on the Government, yet 99% of them are bunch of law breakers.

I don't know whether to laugh or weep for Naija when I saw this clip below.

Citizens: Nigeria Problems are the Leaders.

The citizens 👇🏽 pic.twitter.com/e9Aoy26i8K

— UPDATEBOYZ  (@Updateboyx) June 2, 2024

generally not just Nigerians are naturally lawless. The thing is that we feel we can always get away with our lawlessness in this country due to lack of proper enforcement or corrupt enforcement team that are more interested in collect bribes or looking for who to extort.

Look at the traffic cameras in some of Lagos roads, you will think twice before driving nonsense in those location because you know that before you reach house or wherever you are going to, you will get an sms with your fine stated. You cant even drive out with expired papers, you go collect fine surely. This has curb alot of excesses from private car owners and corrupt enforcement teams. The camera does all the work and you pay into government account.

That is how to create a sane society.

Hopefully Lagos get the traffic camera installed on all Lagos roads and find a way to deal with danfo people.

Jodera:
Club go deh him own collect stray bullet

Eh lar.ride??

Make una dey shame small small now.

Big club wey never win UCL na big club?

Android17:
6 League titles in 30 years.

1 league title every 5 years. The best coach.

Okay.

Unfortunately, we don't count local league on NL.