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baliyubla:
Any Governor that refuses to pay going into the elections must be rejected at the polls. Nigerians for once must unite and fight these monsters.

beamtopola:
Seun abeg remove this stuff from my profile. I m not a muslim

BabangidaHamza:
Now Buhari you see what you have caused?
All the governors are APC and they are muslims thats why they are wicked and dont want to pay 30k.. Biafla or death.. No lefelendum No erection

baliyubla:
Any Governor that refuses to pay going into the elections must be rejected at the polls. Nigerians for once must unite and fight these monsters.

Ebullience:
By Soni Daniel, Northern Region Editor

As a parting shot for year 2018, Nigerian governors on Monday reiterated their rejection of the demand by the Nigerian Labour Congress for the payment of N30,000 as minimum wage to workers, insisting that they had other competing needs to contain with and would therefore not use more than 50 percent of their income for settling workers.


In a strongly worded statement made available to Vanguard on Monday, the Nigerian Governor’s Forum, made it clear that they would have paid the N30,000 but regretted their inability to do so due to what they described as ‘times are hard’ and because of financial constraints and other limitations that have tied the hands of many states.

The statement, which was signed by the spokesman for the NGF, Abdulrazque Bello-Barkindo, was in response to a claim by the NLC that governors were simply refusing to pay the new wage and that those who diverted billions shelled out by the federal government as bailout funds should be probed.

The governors castigated the NLC for demanding that their financial books should be made known to the union, saying that having shown their financial status to the President during two meetings on the minimum wage, there were under no obligation to show same to the NLC.

The governors also stated pointedly that having made a marginal increment of N22.500 from the current N18,000, they had nothing more to add to the minimum wage and it was left for the NLC to consider and accept that as what was available and possible for now.

The statement said: “Let it be known that governors have met the President twice on this matter and presented their books to buttress their point. First, a batch of state governors, led by the NGF Chairman, Governor Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar of Zamfara State, in company of governors Ambode of Lagos, Ugwuanyi of Enugu, Bagudu of Kebbi attended a closed door meeting with the President where the financial standing of six states, one each from all the geo-political regions in the country, were shown to the President.

“Shortly after that, the President requested all the states to forward their books, their revenues, both internally generated and their earnings from the Federation Account along with their other sources of revenue, for examination. The president appears satisfied with the governors’ position, thus the decision to set up a new committee.

“It is important to add that, there has never been a time in this country, when states have embarked on a more aggressive revenue drive than they are doing today. And this is without exception or prejudice to any state.

“To put the records straight, governors are not under any obligation, by law, to show their books to the NLC. But they have, in their pursuit of the understanding of the union, done so, not once, but several times over, with a view to letting NLC know that what they are asking for is neither realistic nor sustainable. Yet, NLC remains adamant that its will must be done, or the heavens will fall.

“The president at his last meeting with governors (December 15, 2018) had admonished them (governors) to expect harsher economic tides from New Year’s, thus validating governors’ fears that even those states that had hitherto looked comfortable financially, may in the course of the new year, falter.

“Moreover, since that last meeting, of the middle of December, between the Governors and Mr. President, the economists of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum Secretariat have been working closely with the relevant departments in all the states of the federation, and looking into other ways of collating financial standing of states that will help the President in ameliorating the situation.

“Already, revenue to states has dropped drastically while demands by competing needs keep rising astronomically. Last year alone, revenue to states dropped from N800bn when the Tripartite Committee was appointed (November 2017) to between N500bn and N600bn by the time Ms. Amma Pepple submitted its report in October 2018.

“Moreover, state governors are making concerted efforts to improve education, health and infrastructure and for this, would not therefore dedicate their states’ entire resources to workers’ salaries alone, knowing that workers constitute less than 5% of the nation’s population. In that regard, governors emphatically announced, collectively, that no state would devote more than 50% of its revenue to salaries.

“To therefore insist that states must oblige the NLC its demands, regardless of the economic gloom that stares the nation in the face is most unpatriotic and a deliberate attempt to hold the nation, especially the president, to ransom, this being an election year.

“At this point it is important to remind the NLC that most governors exhibited a high sense of responsibility and concern for the plight of workers by ensuring that most of them were paid their December salaries ahead of time. Some even received several months’ salary arrears that was owed them, and they are happy with their governors.

“This is not the time for the NLC to destroy the existing conviviality that is already building-up between workers and their governors, especially in those states of the federation where governors are stepping up to the plate with the right decisions,” the governors said.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/12/we-cant-afford-to-pay-n3000-minimum-wage-govs-tell-nlc/

vickillo:
Wickedness in the land

grandstar:
Many states can not afford to pay workers at 18,000 and they are owing backlog of wages. You now expect them to be able to afford 30,000?

How?

The governors castigated the NLC for demanding that their financial books should be made known to the union, saying that having shown their financial status to the President during two meetings on the minimum wage, there were under no obligation to show same to the NLC.

grandstar:
Many states can not afford to pay workers at 18,000 and they are owing backlog of wages. You now expect them to be able to afford 30,000?

How?

Daniel058:
Apc, Change!! , I hope all of us have seen this level, who knw how next level will be..

Vote wisely.

rexwalters:
How much kobo and Naira did your people pdp add to the minimum wage?

omohayek:
Most of these state government "workers" neither know enough to understand how unsustainable the whole thing is, nor care enough to wish it were otherwise. Just look at the sheer number of comments referring to the exorbitant salaries of NASS members, as if that had any relevance whatsoever to the finances of the state governments, or the many dreamers who think the total (admittedly outlandish) NASS payroll would be enough to cover the costs of the tens of thousands of state workers across the country - a feat which would be impossible even if every form of corruption were miraculously eliminated overnight, and the sums saved added into the wage pot. That's not even considering the sheer absurdity of government at local, state and federal level devoting most of what isn't spent on servicing debts to simply paying wages, leaving almost nothing for essentials like roads, hospitals and the provision of clean water.

Ultimately, the blame for this whole mess lies with the unsound system of financing at the local and state levels, which divorces what governments at those levels get from what they take in as taxes from their citizens. Without the pressure of masses of fed-up taxpayers to keep spending in check, local and state government workers have no incentive to dial back their demands or expectations, while governors and their LGA puppets have no electoral incentive to actively downsize their workforces to more reasonable levels. One fact I learned earlier this year, and which has stuck with me ever since, is that Awolowo ran the entire Western Region government (including the parts now included in the so-called "south south" ) with fewer workers than tiny Ekiti State alone currently employs to so little obvious purpose. Awolowo had to balance his workforce needs against the burden he imposed on the cocoa farmers who brought in the bulk of his revenues, while nowadays the typical state governor only really cares about the size of the federal allocation he gets from Abuja.

In Nigeria, the old demand "No Taxation Without Representation" also applies in reverse: until taxation is the primary source of revenue for state and local governments, any semblance of voter-enforced good governance will remain a pipe dream, and state revenues will primarily be devoted to embezzlement and the doling out of wages to huge numbers of minimally qualified, underemployed "workers".

omohayek:
Most of these state government "workers" neither know enough to understand how unsustainable the whole thing is, nor care enough to wish it were otherwise. Just look at the sheer number of comments referring to the exorbitant salaries of NASS members, as if that had any relevance whatsoever to the finances of the state governments, or the many dreamers who think the total (admittedly outlandish) NASS payroll would be enough to cover the costs of the tens of thousands of state workers across the country - a feat which would be impossible even if every form of corruption were miraculously eliminated overnight, and the sums saved added into the wage pot. That's not even considering the sheer absurdity of government at local, state and federal level devoting most of what isn't spent on servicing debts to simply paying wages, leaving almost nothing for essentials like roads, hospitals and the provision of clean water.

Ultimately, the blame for this whole mess lies with the unsound system of financing at the local and state levels, which divorces what governments at those levels get from what they take in as taxes from their citizens. Without the pressure of masses of fed-up taxpayers to keep spending in check, local and state government workers have no incentive to dial back their demands or expectations, while governors and their LGA puppets have no electoral incentive to actively downsize their workforces to more reasonable levels. One fact I learned earlier this year, and which has stuck with me ever since, is that Awolowo ran the entire Western Region government (including the parts now included in the so-called "south south" ) with fewer workers than tiny Ekiti State alone currently employs to so little obvious purpose. Awolowo had to balance his workforce needs against the burden he imposed on the cocoa farmers who brought in the bulk of his revenues, while nowadays the typical state governor only really cares about the size of the federal allocation he gets from Abuja.

In Nigeria, the old demand "No Taxation Without Representation" also applies in reverse: until taxation is the primary source of revenue for state and local governments, any semblance of voter-enforced good governance will remain a pipe dream, and state revenues will primarily be devoted to embezzlement and the doling out of wages to huge numbers of minimally qualified, underemployed "workers".

TundRash:


Someone should please save my soul.
7 years after leaving secondary school, i have not been able to gain admission into University.
I managed to gain admission into a Polytechnic in 2014 where i studied Mass Communication, finished with good result in 2016 but i don't have the money for clearance and collection of my result.
I have been stagnant.
The only obstacle in my way is lack of money. My parents are not financially okay. They have tried.

Please i don't want to stay idle at home again in 2019.

With a total of #45,000, i will be able to do;

¤Clearance to get my result,
¤JAMB regularization,
¤JAMB/DE- (I don't mind to start all over again, i just want to move forward).

Someone should please help me with any amount of money.

May God bless you as you do so.

Please quote me if you want to help me with any amount of money or to confirm my claim.


You can verify my claim in anyway you like if you are willing to help me.
My Bank account number is 0239584618, Wema Bank.

May God bless you.
Sorry for posting in wrong section.
I really wish to continue my education.

rexwalters:
How much kobo and Naira did your people pdp add to the minimum wage?

rexwalters:
How much kobo and Naira did your people pdp add to the minimum wage?

Boss13:
The President is actually telling Nigerians - Expect more pains and poverty in the coming years (a.k.a Next Level). Yet, polls are showing the he would win the next elections.

Nigerians - wetin dey do una?

TundRash:


Someone should please save my soul.
7 years after leaving secondary school, i have not been able to gain admission into University.
I managed to gain admission into a Polytechnic in 2014 where i studied Mass Communication, finished with good result in 2016 but i don't have the money for clearance and collection of my result.
I have been stagnant.
The only obstacle in my way is lack of money. My parents are not financially okay. They have tried.

Please i don't want to stay idle at home again in 2019.

With a total of #45,000, i will be able to do;

¤Clearance to get my result,
¤JAMB regularization,
¤JAMB/DE- (I don't mind to start all over again, i just want to move forward).

Someone should please help me with any amount of money.

May God bless you as you do so.

Please quote me if you want to help me with any amount of money or to confirm my claim.


You can verify my claim in anyway you like if you are willing to help me.
My Bank account number is 0239584618, Wema Bank.

May God bless you.
Sorry for posting in wrong section.
I really wish to continue my education.