Ngige told newsmen on the sideline of the celebration that what happened was as result of infiltration by non-workers into the rally venue and not necessarily workers anger about minimum wage
Browsing: Bobboi Kaigama
The Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria made the call at the presentation of the report of the Technical Committee on Minimum Wage and Palliatives to Babachir Lawal, the Secretary to Government of the Federation
The TUC spoke against the attack in a statement sign by its President, Bobboi Kaigama, and General-Secretary, Musa-Lawal Ozigi, in Lagos on Monday
The Nigeria Labour Congress, the Trade Union Congress and their civil society allies made the call at one-day rally on good governance and anti-corruption in Abuja
The TUC made its position known in a statement by its President, Bobboi Kaigama, and Secretary General, Musa-Lawal Ozigi
The position of the TUC was contained in a statement by its President, Bobboi Kaigama, and its Secretary General, Musa-Lawal M. Ozigi
It said in saner climes, the people are the centre of government’s policies and once they are negatively affected by any policy, the purpose of that very policy is defeated
The labour union said this in a statement issued on Tuesday on the proposal by the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, that calls over three minutes should be taxed
It said in the statement signed by its President, Bobboi Kaigama, and Acting Secretary General, Comrade Simeso Amachree: “Our system only favours the politicians and the wealthy more at the expense of the impoverished masses. These lawmakers are just too unreliable.They tell us to pray for the country while they revel in Abuja displaying their exotic cars! They collect constituency allowance but they do nothing for their constituencies and nobody questions them. This is not the way to go
It is peak of wickedness for men to use positions of authority to exploit the weak. They deny the IDPs regular supplies of food, clothing, medicine, and other essentials, just to compound their vulnerability and make want to do anything to live. One wonders why everything about our country is now all about rape: the politicians rape our treasury, the judges rape justice while the security operatives rape victims of war! This is disgraceful and it portrays our officers and the country in a very bad light before the international community
Ours is a tale of a country that has been hijacked by the Brettonwood institutions and an insignificant few in terms of number, who now manipulate the system to their own personal aggrandizement. The politicians collude with the big players in the economy to rape the treasury, leaving the people prostrate, hopeless and frustrated.
If we sufficiently understand the minister, we wonder how he expects such tax to be paid by any worker in a country where the national minimum wage is N18,000 and at a time when workers’ take-home pay no longer takes them home. Apart from exploiting the already impoverished masses, the policy would also discourage investment and lead to loss of jobs
NAN recalls that the Federal Government inaugurated the 16-man Committee on Palliatives on June 2, with the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, as the Chairman
NAN recalls that the Federal Government had announced an increase in school fees for students in government colleges (Unity Schools) from N20,000 to N75,000 from June 1, 2016
The TUC President, Bobboi Kaigama, said this on Thursday in Abuja at the TUC 10th Triennial National Delegates Conference, with the theme: “Labour and National Re-orientation: The Change We Want.”
He said the country’s economy would have collapsed if the union had insisted on the old pump price regime of N86.50 or joined NLC to embark on the strike
He said the decision was taken at the National Executive Council meeting of the TUC
The two unions asked the government not only to put all the nation’s refineries to optimal use, but also increase minimum wage, besides putting all necessary palliatives measures before deregulation of oil
“The NEC-in-Session has given the government till Wednesday, May 18 to invite the leadership of labour for discussion aimed at determining the appropriate way forward,” Kaigama said
The organised labour received a 24-hour notice inviting us to meet with Vice President Osinbajo and some other key government functionaries including the Minister of Labour and Employment, the Minister of Information, the Chairman of the Governor’s Forum, and the Minister of State for Petroleum