Another sin of the governors is their failure some to pay their employees’ salaries as of when they were due. Their recent hesitation to accept a minimum wage above N60,000 is worrisome. Why are they refusing to pay workers a living wage? Since the withdrawal of fuel subsidies, the statutory allocations have increased by a significant percentage. Except for Borno, Yobe, and one or two other states, there is nothing to show that states receive higher statutory allocation under this dispensation compared to before fuel subsidy withdrawal. Several roads remain in shambles, hospitals remain consulting clinics with no drugs, and there is a dearth of health professionals as they have massively moved abroad. Insecurity is fatally devastating rural communities and travelers.
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There is no Nigerian that will tell you he is not aware of the NLC even if he does not know that it is an acronym for the Nigeria Labour Congress. What the average Nigerian knows about them is that they always go on strike at the drop of a hat, strikes that have lost their meaning because they always achieve almost nothing.
The following day, NEC will accept to temporarily call off the general strike after accepting the meagre offer on the table while claiming offer demands will be eventually met. Workers who had been mobilised, riled up and emotionally charged would be demobilized, downcast and disappointed with their radical leaders who suddenly turned coat and became docile and “reasonable”. That’s the end of the story until the next general strikes.
The moral of the story is that good triumphs over evil in the end. No matter how far the hurricane of falsehood carries the people, the rain of truth will ultimately halt the hurricane’s borrowed time.
To distract Nigerians from the first-year poor performance in governance, the President and his cronies in the National Assembly decided to divert attention from ongoing criticisms by passing and signing the Bill on reverting to the old National Anthem.
Conversely, any chaos or breach in security will affect other parts of the North, thereby stretching the capacity of our security agencies with all the attendant consequences.
“I can wine all I want without worrying about waking up early; I am retired”, and “When you come here next to two/three years, you will not see me, I will be in so, so place enjoying my retirement holiday”.
The Emirate which predates the Nigerian State is not a product of statute and cannot therefore be disbanded by statute as the Ganduje Government did. The Government can remove Emirs with just cause as allowed by law but cannot dissolve the Emirate and recreate new ones.
The solution to the ongoing decadence of the public universities is President Tinubu’s lending of his listening ears to the cries of the university workers, particularly the Academic Union of the Universities (ASUU).
“We must change”. Even revolutions and mass uprisings have guides. Someone had to mobilise them, sensitise them, and lead the way. And that person is called a leader.