₦airaland Forum

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru & Gabriel Ewepu

THE Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress, TUC, have maintained stance on N56, 000 as new minimum wage with other demands to raise workers’ standard of living.

This declaration was made by Deputy President, NLC, Comrade Peters Adeyemi, during a press conference on the activities marking May Day with theme, ‘The Working Class and the Quest for Socio-Economic Revival’, on May 1, 2016 to hold at the Eagle Square, Abuja, and across the 36 states of the federation. Adeyemi said with the current N18, 000 minimum wage workers in the country can no longer cope with the biting economic challenges.

He also charged the Federal Government to intensify effort on the search and release of Chibok girls abducted two years ago by Boko Haram at their school in Chibok Borno State.

He said: “The 2016 May Day National Rally will hold at the Eagle Square Abuja and in all the capitals of the 36 states of the Federation. The theme of this year’s Mat Day is, ‘The Working Class and the Quest for Socio-Economic Revival’. For the Nigerian workers under the umbrella of NLC and TUC, May Day is a happy and symbolic day when we join our comrades all over the world to celebrate the dignity of labour.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/04/may-day-nlc-tuc-maintain-stance-n56000-minimum-wage/

blacksam:
Please can anyone help me on how/where to get the old model VW beetle, preferably a white colored one ?

Interested!

greatbrian:
. U shouldn't have used the adjective egocentric or bloated when u didn't want me to quote you. Anyway wah will I say u have the rights to ur word as far as social media is concerned. And I won't exchange words with you here because when you give someone a gift and he didn't take it, the gift still remain yours. And for your information u don't know men and I don't know u. So those adjective are far too costly than want u think. Peace

I would ve passed but seeing the maturity you displayed here, I must say I'm impressed! Never the less, never at any time compare ur dad and what ur family passed through at his demise as a general to what the families of other ranks are passing through!

Ur generals sit in a/c office, dishing out orders and condeming those who dare to voice their opinion to death! Then collect fat pays while other ranks suffer and suffer to earn peanuts!!

Pls do we have diferrent markets for officers and other ranks in Nigeria?

If not, why the large pay disparity between 2nd Lt(baby officer) and Warrant Officer of 35yrs in service?

Pls wish ppl only that which you will be happy to receive!!!

Pls Colonel, what is the annual salary of a private soldier vis-a-vis a senator's newspaper/sleeping allowance?

Oh Lord help my nation Nigeria

Above all BABA, help our armed forces who sleep under the weather, face attacks from both real animals and human animals, abandoned thier famillies, are being killed and buried silently etc.

All for our politicians to have peace and steal!!
Collect fat pay packages while the masses suffer unimaginable hardship!!!

No light!

No fuel!!

Paid protesters are occupying National Assembly!!!

Who will occupy PHCN and NNPC

BiafraBushBoy:
I like this... But baba will be looking at me with one kain eyes as always.. lol..

I used the word "how you feel" apply pschology here! How u feel includes how you respect him like ur own father, how u think he deserve bether, how ur hands ar tied in the situation etc.

Bro ur job is very important! But from ur post, one can deduce that u can still leverage the old man and his family!!

My Advice:
There is a reason u ar in the managerial level so apply managerial skill here!
Call d old man into ur office, make him understand how you feel and what is expected of him as driver and you as his superior/supervisor! Watch his response, if he pledge to improve on his duties, patch up for him(Blessed are the merciful....) after a stern warning otherwise follow the rules!!!

A manual for Nigeria’s armed robbers, pickpockets and small-time con artists
— 2


— 26th April 2016
If you happen to know any Nigerian armed robber, pickpocket, small-time con artist, low-level 419-er or participant in medium-grade crime, do invite them to read this important piece, a novel and indispensable how-to-survive manual. Verily, verily I say unto this fraternity of felons: If you hearken to my message and manual, you shall no longer know the peril of torture, detention or death. Instead, you shall be exalted by society and exult in a new found, judicially enforced freedom and prestige.

Kai, if you know any man or woman who has been seriously contemplating a career in armed robbery or any of the allied disciplines of junior criminality (the senior categories being politics and the bureaucracy), do them a favour. For unto them, a prophet is born today – moi! And I bring them glad tidings of life without molestation, without detention, without trial or tribulation of any sort, and certainly without death.

Have all the armed robbers drawn near? Are all the scam artists here? How about kidnappers, are you all present? The pickpockets, nko? Good! Welcome! Open your eyes, oh long-suffering petty felons. Open them wider, wider still! Now, use some soaped sponge to shine those eyes well well. Shine them that they may begin to see and to see clearly.

My message to you this day is a simple one. Ah ah, your mumu don do!

Don’t you see, oh fraternity of persecuted low-level criminals, that Nigeria is designed and run as a law-free zone? Yes, there are laws in the books in Nigeria. There are statutes that define crimes and stipulate punishments and fines. In court, Nigerian lawyers and judges endlessly invoke this or that section, subsection or annex of this or that penal code, as amended. But don’t be fooled by all that legal wizardry and judicial abracadabra. All na for show!

The practice of the law is a different matter. E no dey for Naija oh! Nigeria is run as one of the world’s no-holds-barred, free crime labs where the biggest, baddest, most successful criminals can expect and do receive – beads of traditional rulership, crowns of chieftaincy titles, hordes of national honours, front seats and positions in churches and mosques and hauls of praise names: Statesmen, stakeholders, political chieftains, philanthropists, Sir, Dame, Double Chief, Yeye!

My question to you, low – and medium-grade criminals, is: Why aren’t you demanding to be treated as your patron demons in the political and bureaucratic classes are treated? Why is it that what’s good for the senatorial goose who’s guzzled billions of naira is not extended to the pocket-picking gander, looking for loose change to buy akara?

Don’t forget you heard it first from me: It’s about time you opened and shined your eyes, bo! It’s time you claimed your rights as law-breaking, order-ignoring Nigerians. It’s time you emerged from the shadows and laid claim to what is yours by Nigerian convention: Medium-level chieftaincy titles, local government honour rolls, second-row seats in churches and some junior knighthoods to go with it, and a few middling praise names. I mean, why not?

Why do Nigerian jails and other detention centres overflow with your cohorts, men and women, who are mere petite criminals? Worse, many of your number never even make it to trial. Many of the unlawfully detained, who may or may not be low-grade criminals or suspects, are summarily executed, victims of extra-judicial execution.

I say to you, keep those eyes wide open! And keep shining them, jo! How many Nigerian public officials, current or former, have you seen in jail? And how many Nigerian bureaucrats, serving or retired, are imprisoned. Go ahead, count to zero!

Yet, we know they don’t hide the proceeds of their greed. They live openly, in full view of everybody, in their opulent mansions. They fly in their private jets, from one big-name funeral to a grand wedding. They donate millions to pastors or imams. They’re chauffeured about Nigeria’s potholed roads in their Rolls Royces and Bentleys. Photos of the swanky homes they own in London, Toronto and Potomac adorn the glossy pages of Nigeria’s celebrity magazines.

Open your eyes, become attentive apprentices, and learn from these gurus of big-time, richly rewarded crime. First, embrace the wisdom that there’s strength in numbers. Quick, quick, form an association of low- and medium-level criminals. Nigerian politicians know how to look out for themselves. They created this nasty, muscular bouncer called “Mr. Immunity Clause” and set him smack in the middle of the Nigerian constitution. If you ever accuse a Nigerian president or governor of pocketing public funds – or even of more grave crimes – this expert bouncer will just rise to his full mammoth height and say in a hectoring voice, “This [name of official] is fully covered.”

Lobby for your own minuscule Mr. Immunity, so that when you commit crimes he’ll flex his muscles and tell the police, “Touch not my shielded middle-brow armed robber!” When the system malfunctions and one of you is arrested and charged to court, make sure you suspend all your activities to accompany him/her to court. Nothing intimidates a judge and prosecutors better than hundreds of armed robbers, storming a court to display solidarity with one of their arraigned associates.

In the unlikely event that intimidation fails, you must master the art of hiring the right kind of lawyer. First, never hire only one Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) where you can retain 37, one from each state of the Federal Republic, plus an additional one thrown in for the Federal Capital Territory. Next, be as wise as a serpent in your selection of defence lawyers. There are SANs and there are SANs. Some of them know the fastest way to drive to the judge’s home to drop off Ghana-must-come-back bags stuffed with cash. Yes, those are the ones you want to hire!

http://sunnewsonline.com/a-manual-for-nigerias-armed-robbers-pickpockets-and-small-time-con-artists/

nathz45:
baddo #RED PAINT abi

Yesooooo

Are they not Fulani Herdsmen?

My people, Fulanis are untouchable in this dispensationooo.

Who go stand say na him arrest .... brothers? Abi him wan loose him job?

Y ar men called Emeka and women, Chioma?

Cos we ve masculine and feminine name

I ve a couple of times told ladies to sit properly instead of showing me their panties!

I ve also told some to go take care of their natural red paints staining their skirt!!

There is nothing in a lady telling me "bro, the main gate is open"!!!

Thank God her lies were discovered!

11Th commandment(Thou shall not be caught) was broken!!

No wonder they say person wey them catch na him be thief!!!

Side chick, side chick, side chick! Una mama na Hen?

PDP=THIEVES!

APC=THIEVES!

SARAKI= THIEF!!

PROTESTERS=THIEVES WITH SPONSORS!!

Abeg, make una go occupy PHCN and NNPC!!!

Hipocrisy =buying a litre of fuel at #200 to go and protest against Saraki!!!

egbedore:
Good morning Nlders.

Pls how lucrative is the business of selling cement. Real estate is a business that will always flourish and cement is the core of construction. Pls what do I need to start this business? I really need assistance. How do I source for it? What gain is on it? I work in Ilorin but lives in Ibadan. I want to have 2 shops in those two locations.Anyone with good information should pls help a brother out.

Thanks

Interested!

Bit after bit! This will solve my problem!!

LAW OF LIFE
⚓
When a newspaper reporter interviewed a farmer who grew award-winning corn each year he entered his corn in the state fair, it was revealed that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbours.
Perplexed, the reporter asked, “How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbours when they are entering their corn in competition with yours each year?”
The farmer smiled knowingly and explained, “The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbours grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbours grow good corn.”
So it is with our lives. Those who want to live meaningfully and well must help enrich the lives of others. For the value of a life, is measured by the lives it touches. And those who choose to be happy must help others find happiness, for the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all. Call it power of collectivity. Call it a principle of success. Call it a law of life.
The fact remains, “None of us truly wins, until we all win.” In life, when you help the people around you to be good, you surely become the best. Always bear in mind that "Real happiness is helping others.
live and let's live!!

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delishpot:
Good lesson

Tnx bro

The late king of my community had ten wild dogs. He used them to torture and eat any of his servants who made a mistake. One of the
servants gave an opinion which was wrong, and the king didn’t like it at all. So he ordered that the servant be thrown to the dogs.
The servant said, “I served you for ten years, and you do this to me? Please give me ten days before throwing me to those dogs!”
The king agreed.
In those ten days, the servant went to the guard who looks after the dogs and told him he would like to serve the dogs for the next ten days. The guard was baffled but agreed, and the servant started feeding the dogs, cleaning for them, bathing them, and providing all sorts of comfort for them.
When the ten days were over, the king ordered
that the servant be thrown to the dogs for his
punishment. When he was thrown in, we were all amazed to see the ravenous dogs only licking the feet of the servant!
The king, baffled at what he was seeing, said,
”What has happened to my dogs?”
The servant replied, "I served the dogs for only
ten days, and they didn’t forget my service. Yet I served you for a whole ten years and you forgot all, at my first mistake!"
The king realised his mistake and ordered the
servant to be set free.
This post is a message to all those who forget
the good things a person did for them as soon as the person makes a mistake towards them. Don’t put out the history that is filled with good
because of a mistake you don’t like.
Hope I made sense?

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IyiolaOwabumowa:
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Captcha.. failed!!!

Pls give us quality site that can rival nairaland!

The colourations is also childish!!

Beremx:
sunnybobo and his sentimental post. why did you exclude Rochas?

Bro, EWU AWUSA THINGS NA! Abi u no understand?