Nigeria Is Broke, Hence Fuel Price Hike - Lai Mohammed

The Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said the Federal Government has to take painful decisions and make tough adjustments because Nigeria is broke.

He said this while briefing journalists after Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council meeting that the decision to increase the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit from N86 to N145 per litre was one of those decisions.

Lai Mohammed likened Nigeria’s situation to a case of a person, who got a pay cut and had to adjust to the current reality in terms of his spending. “The current problem is not really about subsidy removal. It is about (the fact) that Nigeria is broke. Pure and simple!

Labour Day: Full Speech of President Muhammadu Buhari

SPEECH BY HIS EXCELLENCY, PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER – IN - CHIEF, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, ON THE OCCASION OF THE 2016 NATIONAL MAY DAY CELEBRATION HELD AT THE EAGLE SQUARE, ABUJA ON SUNDAY, MAY 1, 2016

Great Nigerian Workers!
Great Nigerian Workers!
I bring you greetings.

It is with great pleasure that I honour the invitation by the two Federations of Trade Unions, the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to attend the 2016 National May Day celebrations.

As you all know, this is my first outing in this forum which has a long and historical tradition that are noble and progressive. The efforts of all the heroes past who had fought for the workers of all nations to have a ‘voice’ in determining the course and direction of both national and international issues affecting the state of their being, are commemorated today, the first day of May all over the world. Labour remains unarguably an important element in any policy, programme and project propagated for national development.

This year’s celebration is significant in a number of ways. First, it marks the first May Day celebration under the All Progressive Congress (APC) Administration which brought an end to the sixteen (16) years of national squander, bad governance, unbridled corruption and economic woes by the previous administration.

Rowdy Session As Confab Delegates Reject Honour For Abiola …say no to immunity clause

Echoes of the June 12, 1993 presidential election reverberated at the National Conference on Thursday when a motion seeking national recognition for the presumed winner of the poll, the late Chief Moshood Abiola, was moved at the confab.

The motion, which was moved by Orok Duke, saw the delegates divided along regional lines as those from the southern Nigeria favoured the motion while those from the North rejected it.

Those who were opposed to the motion, led by a representative of the civil society, Mallam Nasir Kura, were shouting “no!, no!”

Confab delegates reject fuel subsidy removal

There was uproar on Tuesday at the ongoing national conference in Abuja as delegates finally rejected the recommendation of the Confab Committee on Public Finance and Revenue for the total removal of the fuel subsidy by the Federal Government.

The Committee chaired by a former Governor of Nasarawa State, Adamu Aliero, had recommended a total removal of subsidy on petroleum products, arguing that this has been a major financial burden on the nation.

The recommendation had generated heated debate at the plenary and created sharp division among the delegates who accused one another of vested interests.

NLC, ex-PHCN workers protest unlawful sack in Ibadan

Activities were disrupted yesterday at the headquarters of the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) as members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Nigeria Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) and the Campaign for Democratic and Workers Rights (CDWR) barricaded the entrance of the office.

The workers, who stormed the place around 7:15am, prevented many of the company’s staff from entering the premises. They said they were protesting sundry issues that started from the privatisation of PHCN.