The Commissioner spoke in a statement he issued to newsmen on Thursday in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital
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Samson Chikwelu, state Chairman of the union, said this in a chat with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Awka.
The NULGE, Abia State Chapter President, Ikechi Nwigwe, announced the shut down of the secretariat by the union.
In a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Kunle Somorin, the governor said the victory is an attestation of the popularity of Olatunji, who incidentally is an indigene of the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the unions are Trade Union Congress, National Union of Local Government Employees and Nigeria Union of Teachers.
The Chairman, Cross River Local Government Service Commission, Dr Peter Adegen, says a bill for the appointment of Permanent Secretaries for Local Governments is now before the State House of Assembly.
Obasanjo, who spoke on Monday while playing host to members of a Non-Governmental Organisation, Friends of Democracy, at his residence in Abeokuta, Ogun State, said the state governments were using the joint accounts with the LGs to siphon their money and weaken them
A communique issued at the end of an emergency meeting of the union in Ado Ekiti, signed by its state Chairman, Bunmi Ajimoko, and state Secretary, Aleru Sulaiman, confirmed the development
Saraki, according to a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Sanni Onogu, in Abuja stated this during a visit by the National Union of Local Government Employees, led by its National President, Comrade Ibrahim Khalil.
The Adamawa State NULGE President, Hammanjumba Gatugel, confirmed the suspension of the strike action
The protest that kicked off from Unity Road had in attendance Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress in Kwara State, Yekini Agunbiade; officials of Medical and Health Workers Union; RATTAWU; and NULGE National Vice President, South East, Patrick Igwe.
Toward this, Dogara said that ongoing amendment of the Constitution would address the issue of governance and opportunities at the grassroots.
Governor Aregbesola made these statements while declaring open the 2017 National Union of Local Government Employees Week at the Public Lecture organized by the Osun State Chapter of the Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees, held at the Aurora Conference Centre, Osogbo
Dogara also charged local government workers to step up agitation for local government autonomy, saying only through their individual and collective efforts will the desired change be achieved
Illenikhena attributed the delay in the payment of teacher’ salaries to the state government taking over the IGR base of local government council areas
It will be the first time that the National Union of Local Government Employees will be hosting the whole of Africa
He decried the enormous burden the payment of primary school teachers’ salaries was having on the finances of the local government councils and called for the allocation of more funds from the federal allocation revenue to enable them meet up their socio-economic responsibilities
The commendation came just as the state government released another N193 million to augment the initial N555 million for the immediate payment of local government staff salaries