BUHARI'S SUGAR-COATED PILL TAKES ANTI-GRAFT WAR TO THE STATES By Garba Shehu

The recent agreement between the federal and state governments to implement a Fiscal Sustainability Plan, FSP marks a new level in President Muhammadu Buhari's ambitions to cure the Government at federal and state levels of their corruption ills.

Before now, observers had noted the existence of a gap between what the administration is doing at the center and the business-as-usual going on in the states, without regard to the political party in power.

OPINION: BEFORE WE START EATING MONEY - SAFETY

Nobody curse SANGO in dry season & expect a reaction, for the " god of Thunder " only strike during rains !

FACT __ Aside Lagos State, not more than 2 or 3 States out of 36 are currently paying the present #18,000 minimum wage in Nigeria without owing workers for several months and PENSIONERS for up to a year.


The call for #56,000 minimum wage by the Labour Union was made in an absolutely wrong time. It portrays the leadership of the Labour as being insensitive to the plight which the rest of the Nigerian masses are undergoing. Are we expecting States and FG to use our common resources to service just the workers at the detriment of other infrastructure and other palliative measure that will ameliorate the current economic impasse which we find ourselves ?