helinues:
FG, Labour and Ngige should stop lieng to Nigerians about the new minimum wage..

Seems fg can't afford it.. Its over a year they have been deceiving themselves

Angelfrost:


You should have stopped at the first line....

Fg can afford it... They know exactly what to do, they just don't want to do it...

A government whose major campaign promise and swansong was cutting cost of governance should do better than this current charade.

BuhariAdvocate:
This logic is very clear. Should I say labor president make a mistake. Yes labour made a big mistake but how ? Because they asked federal government to increase the minimum wage from 18k to 30k of which they thought it will reflect on other workers that earning more than 30k monthly. Federal government only want to make sure that if your salary is more than 30k before There's no any reason to increase your salary. The new minimum wage would only help those who go home with 18k monthly. But I doubt if NYSC have start paying the corps members the 30k. And I believed that labour president signed this agreement so finally government outsmart them yet they will say Buhari is dullard.

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My friend we cannot afford it. Period. Unlike other bone headed simpleton citizens my criteria is earnings not expenditure. What you spend should be tied to what you earn. That is how life has fashioned it. Nigerians are trapped in a viscious cycle of comparisons. They want more because someone else is paid more. Who does that.

Will a man give his wife money based on what his neighbour gives his wife or what he earns. The managers of Nigeria should realise the facts. They either raise more revenue or cut down staff size or this country will go bankrupt simple.

jboixxx:
It is a known fact that minimum wage increase will lead to a percentage increase in other salary levels too, though it might not be noticeable.

I could remember when 18k was implemented, some senior staff only received about 1k raise! The LU based their demands on minimum wage bill, not salary raise; if they'd clamoured for general wage increase instead, it'd have been another case entirely.please how much is even the 11% they are proposing??

Wetin go pain me pass here is if LU eventually accepts the 9/9.5% increase the FG is offering cuz that means they've denied civil servants months of that incremental benefits (since April).

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3.08.trillion for just 10 percent of our population. 3.08 trillion just to organise Nigerians... this country is bankrupt mentally before its is becoming bankrupt financially.

emeijeh:
Ngige, shut up!

You stink!

Senators are eating fat daily, no one is talking, and you are here debating 30k minimum wage.

I feel like setting your white beards on fire.

helinues:
FG, Labour and Ngige should stop lying to Nigerians about the new minimum wage..

Seems fg can't afford it.. Its over a year they have been deceiving themselves

BuhariAdvocate:
This logic is very clear. Should I say labor president make a mistake. Yes labour made a big mistake but how ? Because they asked federal government to increase the minimum wage from 18k to 30k of which they thought it will reflect on other workers that earning more than 30k monthly. Federal government only want to make sure that if your salary is more than 30k before There's no any reason to increase your salary. The new minimum wage would only help those who go home with 18k monthly. But I doubt if NYSC have start paying the corps members the 30k. And I believed that labour president signed this agreement so finally government outsmart them yet they will say Buhari is dullard.

Angelfrost:


If what we spend should be tied to what we earn (I don't disagree), then why do we run one of the most expensive governments in the universe??!...

Buckubuck:

The question you should ask is how the wage bill ballooned from 1.08tr to 3.08tr in 3 yrs while the former minister of finance claimed she removed ghost workers and purged the civil service. Also ask why IPPIS has not been fully implemented till now.
The end result is that TI's assertion that corruption has increased in this admin may be true afterall

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My friend we cannot afford it. Period. Unlike other bone headed simpleton citizens my criteria is earnings not expenditure. What you spend should be tied to what you earn. That is how life has fashioned it. Nigerians are trapped in a viscious cycle of comparisons. They want more because someone else is paid more. Who does that.

Will a man give his wife money based on what his neighbour gives his wife or what he earns. The managers of Nigeria should realise the facts. They either raise more revenue or cut down staff size or this country will go bankrupt simple.

The National Assembly should act and form legislation pegging the maximum amounts available for personnel costs as a factor of the precious year's revenues. They should also compel the trade unions to sign in to make it legally binding on them. So that if oil rises everyone gets a bonus, if militants strike everyone visits the barbing salon.

Also new civil servants employed should have a clause inserted that clearly states that it is not a job for life and that downsizing or rightsizing is a fact in the real world. Enough of this nonsense.

Okoroawusa:
I have said it here over n over again that the problem in these negotiations are the senior staff cadre who incidentally r the heads of the trade n labour unions.
A minimum wage increase is to make sure that the least a worker in civil service can earn as basic salary is #30k. When government made that announcement it's expected that there would be a salary increase but the the way the senior staff are going about it using labour to cover for their selfishness.

Some Perm Sec n Directors are earning about 300 to 500k already as basic salary not including allowances. If the percentage that is used to increase the salary of the junior workers is used for the senior workers then some would be earning over 1mil in basic salary alone. And most of them have been in service for years and are already billionaires from years of corrupt dealings in civil service.
If their request is granted Nigeria will end up with a more bloated civil service n huge recurrent expenditure. So all our revenue are used to only pay salaries n that is all.

How do we continue like this as a country?

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A time is coming when civil servants will have to act like civil servants the world over and start taking responsibility for the condition of this country.

If Nigeria is in a mess they are partly responsible. It is they who execute the directives of the political class without resistance and engender the bad goverments they have become victims of.

They worked in the office of Ms. Winifred Eyo-Ita for instance and processed dubious funds running into billions of naira for her perhaps getting to lick a few crumbs off the table. Then they want the common man in his village to help fight for them when nothing is left in the treasury.

This is just what I cannot understand.

kingmekus:
please how much is even the 11% FG Is proposing??

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Ha. Because we donot tie our expenditure to our earnings. I am a businessman and I know how much I should be spending on my staff. It is factored into every product I make and service I render in percent terms. If demand is good I will naturally need more staff or pay better for more work, if the market is poor I reduce staff and cut benefits. This is common sense.

You must have heard job cuts in the public sector in the UK, policemen being laid off, etc. When Obama came onboard the armed forces size was massively trimmed and many military bases closed. Why is it that a consistently struggling country called Nigeria cannot cut its costs.

You have heard it N1+ trillion in 2016 to N3+ trillion today at the same time there is a recession. This is reckless. Folks have often asked why the massive borrowings despite the hype of recoveries and blockages, well this is the answer.

Goverment people have succeeded in taking legally what was being stolen previously. They have managed to increase their personnel budgets massively between 2016 and now and with little Legislative scrutiny are stealing from the public purse backed by the law.

So the catch 22 scenario for the 'common man' is simple... Cut their benefits and they steal or allow them empty the treasury legally...