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Primary school teachers and local government workers in Osun State have vowed to reject the alleged planned payment of 60 per cent of their March 2015 salaries by the state government.
Some of the workers who fall into these categories told our correspondent in Osogbo on Thursday that they were reliably informed that government officials had taken the payment order to banks but rescinded the plan when they heard that workers had kicked against it.
The workers, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said paying their salaries in piece meal had rendered such payment useless for the workers.
One of the workers said, “We were reliably informed that the government took 60 per cent of our salaries to the bank. That is salaries of primary school teachers and local government workers but we have asked our leaders to tell those behind the plan to stop it.
“They want to pay 60 per cent of our March salary and they would go and announce that they have paid a full salary. We won’t accept that.
“Even the labour leaders were on Tuesday fooled into believing that the pensioners would be paid one month. The pensioners later discovered that the government only paid them 50 per cent of their November 2014 pension.”
The Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress in the state, Mr. Jacob Adekomi, could not be reached as calls put across to his telephone indicated that it was switched off.
But the Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, Mr. Wakeel Amuda, when contacted, said he heard that government wanted to pay 60 per cent of March salary for primary school teachers and council workers.
He, however, said he had been told that the government had rescinded the decision to pay workers 60 per cent of March salary.
Amuda said, “We heard it as a rumour that the government had concluded the plan to pay 60 per cent of March salaries for local government workers and primary teachers.
“They must not make the mistake of making part payment because the union will resist it. They have assured us that they will pay in full.”
Asked if primary school teachers and council workers would suspend their strike if the March salary was paid in full , Amuda said “they will not until the government paid all the workers their five months salaries.”


http://www.punchng.com/news/osun-workers-vow-to-reject-part-payment-for-march/

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Six persons have been declared missing in an ambush in Pang Village in Heipang, Barkin Local Government of Plateau State, according to Capt. Ikedichi Iweha, spokesman for the Special Task Force.

He also said three soldiers attached to the STF, maintaining peace in Plateau, were seriously injured in the ambush.

Iweha told the News Agency o Nigeria in Heipang on Wednesday that the corpse of one of the six missing persons had been found.

Iweha explained that there was a report of cow rustling at Pang Village which prompted the response of officers operating in the area around 4pm on Tuesday, June 30.

“But on getting to Pang village, our team of officers was attacked around 8.30pm leaving three of our soldiers seriously injured.

“About 400 cows were reportedly rustled by some unknown youths, who carried out the ambush and shooting of the officers,” he said.

The STF spokesman added that the injured officers had been taken to hospital, while most of the rustled cows had been recovered.

Three of the cows were found dead, while four were wounded.

He expressed surprise at the attack on the STF personnel who, he said, were neutral parties.

Iweha promised that the STF would do all it could to rescue the remaining five missing persons and also trace the attackers.

http://www.punchng.com/news/six-missing-three-soldiers-injured-in-plateau-ambush/

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An Abia State-based constitutional lawyer and human rights activist, Dr. Anthony Agbazuere, has warned the leadership of the ruling All Progressive Congress to treat with caution, the leadership crisis rocking the National Assembly, saying it can consume both APC and President Muhammadu Buhari if not carefully handled.

Agbazuere, who gave the warning Wednesday at a press conference in Umuahia, advised APC hierarchy to “swallow their pride and accept Senator Olusola Saraki and Hon. Yakubu Dogora as Senate President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives respectively in the interest of the party and to move Nigeria forward.”

He said any attempt by APC to plot the impeachment of Saraki and Dogara “will not only fail but destroy APC.”

Agbazuere further said APC must stop threatening Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, saying his emergence “is a bitter pill which the APC must swallow to survive.”

His said, “APC must not forget that the same structure which brought Saraki also brought Ekweremadu on board, and the Senators in this alliance are greater in number.

“An attempt to threaten them may even lead to the impeachment of either President Buhari or both Buhari and his Vice, Professor Yemi Osibanjo. The implications are obvious.”

Agbazuere warned APC to stop all forms of interference in the affairs of the National Assembly to avoid rocking its boat.

Fielding questions on the controversy over the actual number of months Abia workers were owed under the immediate – past administration of ex- Governor Theodore Orji, where he served as Commissioner for Information, Agbazuere said “staff of all Ministries in the state long received their April salary before Orji bowed out.”

He debunked media reports that the state owed workers up to nine months salaries, describing such reports as “mischievous, misleading and intended by the peddlers to tarnish the image of both the past and present administration in the state.”

http://www.punchng.com/news/nass-crisis-may-lead-to-buharis-impeachment-lawyer/

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The Bayelsa State Government is set to employ no fewer than 30,000 workers, particularly indigenes, in its $3.5bn fertiliser and petrochemical company, State Development and Investment Corporation, has said.

The Deputy Managing Director, BDIC, Mr. Tam Alazigha, in an interview with journalists in Yenagoa on Wednesday said the $3.5bn Brass Fertilizer and Petrochemical project to be sited at Odioma in Brass Local Government Area is expected to generate a turnover of $1.5bn.

He, therefore, predicted a prosperous future for the people of the state as the corporation intensified action on restructuring the state economy and expanding economic opportunities.

Alazigha said the new offices that were opened in South Africa, United Kingdom and Atlanta and the United States, would “take Bayelsa to the world and bring the world to Bayelsa”.

He said the development would open outposts in strategic locations in the various key markets in order to leverage on opportunities that the markets offered to drive the restoration of the Bayelsa economy.

Alazigha said, “The $3.5bn Brass Fertilizer and Petrochemical project at Odioma, which is expected to generate a turnover of $1.5bn will employ about 30,000 Bayelsans. This high-impact catalytic project is expected to produce 5,000 metric tonnes of Methanol per day, 2,200 metric tonnes per day of Ammonia and 7,700 metric tonnes per day of Urea for domestic and export markets.

“This humongous project will ensure availability of high-grade fertilizer for farmers throughout the planting season and meet 25 per cent of the country’s projected annual domestic demand of 10 million metric tonnes. The BDIC is to take up a 10 per cent equity stake in the project.

“The only property owned by the corporation are those in the U.K, located at St. John’s Wood registered under BDIC UK Ltd and forms part of the assets in the balance sheet of the corporation. The property was bought at £2.3m but now valued at over £3m with a monthly rental income of £7,000. For the office in the United States, the property was purchased in BIDC’s name in 2013 for $ 850,000 and was leased as a property with a monthly income of $5,000.”

He said other achievements included the $300m Liquefied Petrochemical Gas project at Agge, with a projected turnover of $100m and which would produce butane or cooking gas.

Alazigha also stated that the corporation was into serious negotiation with Microsoft and Goggle to facilitate deployment of the much vaunted white space technology in the state to make internet available in the rural areas and hence build businesses.

He said the small and medium scale businesses were also key areas of interest in which, adding that much had been done by BDIC to change the state from being a civil service state to a modern economy with a lot of enterprises.

According to him, Bayelsa State with a Gross State Productof $18.5bn (N2.4 trilion) and vast resources in oil and gas is a rich state.

He added, however, that such status had yet to fully benefit the people as it should be.
Alazigha said that it was clear to the state government on getting into office in 2012 that public funds accruing from the consolidated revenue were grossly inadequate to address the huge challenges of infrastructure deficit.

Based on this, he said, the government consequently came up with BDIC as a special purpose vehicle and strategic enabler of market-driven development which could also be a fall back option in times of national or global financial crisis and emergency.

The BDIC, which now has an asset base of over $1.2bn, he said, leverages private sector funds and expertise to grow wealth of Bayelsans and insulate the economy from oil price volatility.

Alazigha, who came to the job with vast experience having worked with JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank and BNP Paribas as investment banker, said the BDIC idea, as a global best practice, was playing similar roles as in such investment institutions like the Qatar Investment Authority, Malaysia Development Berhad, and the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa.

http://www.punchng.com/news/bayelsa-to-employ-30000-workers-in-fertilizer-petrochemical-firm/