I understand the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress are pooh-poohing the Nigerian government’s offer of a minimum wage and insisting on the sacred 615,000 naira. Great, isn’t it? If I were the government, I would borrow to even pay 1 million naira as minimum wage. I wouldn’t think the labour leaders are…
It is no longer news that four of the seven council members with voting rights have chosen Fritz Belizaire as the country’s Prime Minister. The declaration and unexpected political alliance took many Haitians aback. It appears the selection of the new prime minister is now yielding results. Negative ones at that! This is because gangs have…
The federal government of Nigeria has banned codeine. The move came after a BBC report on drug trafficking cum addiction. Everyone is now drug-free. The environment itself is palatable because there’s no more drug trafficking. With the ban on codeine, all the youths are now in a withdrawal process. And they’ve all become SU without…
Virtually all my posts on religion have been on the Christian faith. That’s because, even though some may not think so, I’m a Christian. Why some may not think so is primarily due to the fact that as a liberal, I tend to think that God has enough power to defend Himself. I’d not dwell…
COVID-19 is turning out as an exposure of the rooster’s anus. But I’m particularly concerned about the dignity of Americans who call Common Joe. I mean, who do Nigerians call citizen Muda? There’s no doubt that our so-called leaders do not give the ordinary Nigerian the tiniest amount of dignity. Ok! Every four years, they…
A bill that would make illegal migration a state crime is being viewed with mixed feelings by Oklahoma lawmakers. The news reports that House Bill 4156 is creating the crime of “impermissible occupation.” According to the bill, an impermissible occupation is a person who willfully and without permission enters and remains in Oklahoma without authorisation and…
The Federal Government of Nigeria and the organized Labour have yet to come to a new minimum wage. Punch reports that President Bola Tinubu made this known in his speech at the International Workers’ Day celebration in Abuja, the federal capital. When he was interviewed by Punch, Bayo Onanuga, the President’s Special Adviser on Information…
