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mythanks:
Hello Everyone ,I would like to know if the Planned NLC strike is ON today.Particularly are Financial Institutions part of the Strike .Thanks.

lazy worker....there is no strike ooo... dust ur shoes and vamoose to work now...

Obey court order or you will be arested ..govt tells nlc leader...this is democracy where the rule of law must be respected



Nigerians dont want subsidy... all we seek for is better life and prosperity for all not prosperity for few...

I concour

No strike tomorrow. ..

Not genuine enough to call for strike

9icest:
He's only fixing Aboekuta, thhe rest of the state is in total decay. Sango alone which very close to lagos is a complete eye sore

abeokuta being the capital will definitely attract more interest from any government but you cannot hold him respinsible for federal roads...

tolexy007:
u need a better brain

lend me yours ...ode oniranu

Welcome development ...he shld be ask to refund all the salary and allowances accrued during his over stay in office.... we shall get there soon.

#nigeriaonresetmode

Buhari want to present gej with evidence showing that NDA are his boiz and he created them and also their sponsor ..

The arrest by the military is pointing fingers to the former president ...

Buhari please give him final warning or else....

9icest:
Ogun state is extremely unlucky. It has a sitting president for 8 years...and now its glaring Amosun is another joker.
Well, my state is cursed with all these rubbish leaders. Thank God I've completely moved out of that madness called Ogun State. Eko Oni Baje.
Ogun lee fonka

guy its a federal road ...your state ogun state is second in ranking after lagos as fastest developing state in Nigeria ..Amosun still the best gov...Ogun state has ever heard

Discussing on how to perfect their loot and continue scamming the masses

.....I was at the Presidential Villa on Wednesday May 11th where a stakeholders meeting involving the leadership of the National Assembly, governors, Labour leadership, minister of state for Petroleum, ministers of Information and that of labour held. The meeting was chaired by the Vice President. It was a consultative meeting ostensibly to get the buy in of stakeholders. I was pumped and ready to challenge any proposition for an increase in pump price and my position was known to most people I spoke with.

However by the time the Honourable minister for petroleum finished his doomsday prognosis and gave a graphic account supported with facts and figures of where we are and where we would be in a matter of months if we did not alter the approach or fundamentally change the status quo, I had no option but to capitulate. It was the first time I had been confronted with such a gloomy picture. I found myself between a rock and a hard place. The facts were incontrovertible and the prognosis and consequences dire. We were in an economic cul-de-sac and the country was spiraling down fast due to no fault of this present administration. In fact it was clear that any responsible administration needed to apply the brakes, bring this to a screeching and painful halt and at least for now remove subsidy and deregulate. It was a short term remedy which, all things being equal, would produce a long term solution when the economy would have recalibrated. I struggled with my inner angel and knew this was the only way out. It was made abundantly clear to all seated that in two months there would be no federal allocation to states and no state would be able to pay salaries, including the buoyant ones. The Nigerian nation was on tenterhooks. That’s how bad a picture it was. Indeed I was the first to ask questions after the presentation still looking for a way out when I knew there was none.

Whilst I still believe in the principles I held on to so passionately years ago, including the need to bring any deregulation exercise in conformity with the law and the constitution, I believe this is such a time when we should look at the times we are in and our practical situation as a country. I believe (without sounding Trumpist) that Nigeria will be great again but we must rejig and reboot our economy and take another look at the subsidy regime. Many will say, but why did some of us kick in 2012 and if it was not good then why is it good now? It’s a great question and they are right, but again the times are different. In 2012, we were earning a lot of money from oil. Oil was selling at about 100 dollars or thereabout. We had foreign exchange and petro dollars to continue with subsidy. Now things are different. The economy is comatose and Nigeria is on life support. Oil is selling at below 40 dollars and the currency (dollar) needed to purchase the refined petrol is no longer available.

I want to plead with my constituents and all Nigerians to work with government. You are the most important stakeholders, never mind those of us that gathered around a long table and cushy chairs in the Vice President’s Office on Wednesday May 11th to take this far reaching decision. We did so only in a representative capacity. I urge that you please give this government the benefit of doubt and lets take a chance on whether or not the analogy and parallel often drawn by proponents of deregulation in the oil industry to telecommunications industry may end up a truism and that the price of fuel in a laissez-faire, free market will come crashing in months. Lets consider it a temporary sacrifice for the greater good, with the hope that as promised we will be better off in the long term. This problem is not peculiar to Nigeria. It is instructive that other oil producing countries e.g. Bahrain, have been hit hard by the crash in oil price and are towing the same line and reviewing their subsidy policies.

With this new development I intend to fight with all I have for a review of the minimum wage of all workers in Nigeria. Our country was built on social justice and I cannot, no matter the realities, accept a situation where the cost of living will be increased without a corresponding increase in wages. The sacrifices that we need to make must be comprehensive. Indeed I believe the “wealthy” must not only pay their fair share of taxes, if need be, there must be an upward review of taxes paid by the highest income earners to enable government review the wages of those on the lower rung. It is time to be our brothers’ keepers.

I know this is a painful road to take and I hate that I have to flip flop on this one, but isn’t what they say “no pain, no gain”.

Femi Gbajabiamila is Leader of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Abuja; femigbaja1@gmail.com.

The advengers coming to claim it soon...beware of them ....Ipob plus Advengers coming to claim them soon..


Let me dust my maritime certificate sharp sharp before them come...

The very fact is that no media is talking about the collapsed building which was as a result of corruption in Ogun state... the Govt in shielding the contractor who is the iyaloja of yoruba land and a very close ally of amosun... accepted to be blame for the collapse ...

Hmm..like father like pickin...

The contractor of the building which is mrs alaba lawson shld also be held responsible..

Incompetent contractor...

She needed to be prosecuted...

then if they are libyans let discipline them here in Nigeria by killing them on sight.. Bakassi, OPC, and other beware of Libyans..

How many people likes don epp

minister of darkness number says switch off abi he no get light also to charge his phone also....

just common criminal you call them herdsmen ...abeg make we hear word.

ANOTHER DISTRACTION....MILITARY BEWARE

More than 10 dead bodies were evacuated from the site and a stray bullet killed one person.. the stray bullet from trigger happy piliceman in trying to disperse the crowd when Governor Amosun paid a visit to the site....


Detail coming soon
Reporting life frm Abeokuta

The Governor of Ogun state is presently at the location

The building is being constructed by Amosun the Ogun State Government

Purpose is an ultra modern market...

Information reaching me says at least 10 people are confirmed dead at an Uncompleted building in Itoku area of Abeokuta Ogun state ...

Also police fire stray bullets that also killed one person as Amosun visit the area...

Details later

@OP you should have collected their mobile number so that you can start mobilising them...


Subsidy is a scam and it must leave the system oneday...

What we should be agitating for is increament in salary to meet up the percentage of increament in fuel and transport cost. ..

As you may be aware there is no allocation for subsidy in 2016 budget...

Any payment for subsidy in 2016 is a criminal offence ...

Efcc continue with the good work... continue barking and biting at them ...

And we must always go the way of dasuki, maduekwe, ways which according to him is the way forward

Hmmmm ..hmmmmhmmm its well... Nigeria on a Reset button .....buhari on a trial mode...

See agent of death telling us who will die and who will be alive in few years time... I hope you have due consultation with your master.. (Mr Death) before coming online and you have their expired dates and yours inclusive because you may be the first from the list to taste death ...who knows ....