http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/11/we-can-no-longer-pay-n18000-minimum-wage-govs-cry-out/

ABUJA – Thirty-six States Governors have said that they can no longer pay the N18,000 minimum wage to workers owing to the poor state of the economy.



Rising from a crucial meeting on that ended at the early hours of Thursday at the Old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja under the umbrella of Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF, the governors said that the dwindling prices of oil had drastically affected their States’ income.

Specifically, they said that the burden of the wage was lighter when oil sold at $126 as against the current $41 per barrel.

They therefore sought to have audience with President Muhammadu Buhari on the economy, resolving that the only way out of the quagmire was to diversify the economy to agriculture and mining.

Reading the communique issued at the end of the meeting, the Chairman of the Forum and governor of Zamfara state, Abdulaziz Yari hinted that the Forum also backed the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) over the N2.1trillion sanction on MTN.

According to him, the governors agreed that the fine must be paid in full.

He said that they received briefing from the Acting Executive Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NCC, Professor Umar Dambata who explained the matter to them.

He said: “We resolved that we must look at ways to enhance revenue generation and at the same time look at ways to cut our overhead costs more especially the political office holders’ salaries and other overhead expenses.

“The situation is no longer the same when we were asked to pay N18,000 minimum wage, when oil price was $126 (per barrel) and continued paying N18,000 minimum wage when the oil is $41 and the source of government expenditure is from oil, and we have not seen prospects in the oil industry in the near future.

“We will diversify our economy in the area of agriculture and mining. But at the same time, we should understand our situation where some of us (states) today are taking N100million take home (monthly allocation) and then have salaries in particular of over N2billion to pay.

“We therefore agreed here to take this suggestion to NEC in our meeting tomorrow (Thursday) so that we can be able to find ways to tackle this problem.

NLC will give you a lovely response when you governors return home. Besides be ready to give up your budget for security votes too. Rubbish decision

Una go remember to cut minimum wage but una no go remember to slash una salary and all these illegal deals.
Government too dey heartless. No wonder dey just dey die from one disease to another. Imagine 14year Alison Madueke son crying because her mum will soon leave him. Blood money no fit give una rest at all. Any single Nigerian that died because of your silly meeting or fund stolen, their blood go dey una head with ur pikin wey follow una chop the blood money. Nonsense!!!!

This country is mothballing into an Economic Disaster- Zimbabwe loading!!

Lwkmd...

This country na joke

Buhari = Badluck

Like keneking the robot I say,' buhari ooh'!!!

ABUJA – Thirty-six States Governors have said that they can no longer pay the N18,000 minimum wage to workers owing to the poor state of the economy.

APC...Body odour will not save any of you.
#Sai Buhari
#Sai Salary Cut

citizenisb:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/11/we-can-no-longer-pay-n18000-minimum-wage-govs-cry-out/

Rising from a crucial meeting on that ended at the early hours of Thursday at the Old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja under the umbrella of Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF, the governors said that the dwindling prices of oil had drastically affected their States’ income.

Specifically, they said that the burden of the wage was lighter when oil sold at $126 as against the current $41 per barrel.

They therefore sought to have audience with President Muhammadu Buhari on the economy, resolving that the only way out of the quagmire was to diversify the economy to agriculture and mining.

Reading the communique issued at the end of the meeting, the Chairman of the Forum and governor of Zamfara state, Abdulaziz Yari hinted that the Forum also backed the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) over the N2.1trillion sanction on MTN.

According to him, the governors agreed that the fine must be paid in full.

He said that they received briefing from the Acting Executive Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NCC, Professor Umar Dambata who explained the matter to them.

He said: “We resolved that we must look at ways to enhance revenue generation and at the same time look at ways to cut our overhead costs more especially the political office holders’ salaries and other overhead expenses.

“The situation is no longer the same when we were asked to pay N18,000 minimum wage, when oil price was $126 (per barrel) and continued paying N18,000 minimum wage when the oil is $41 and the source of government expenditure is from oil, and we have not seen prospects in the oil industry in the near future.

“We will diversify our economy in the area of agriculture and mining. But at the same time, we should understand our situation where some of us (states) today are taking N100million take home (monthly allocation) and then have salaries in particular of over N2billion to pay.

“We therefore agreed here to take this suggestion to NEC in our meeting tomorrow (Thursday) so that we can be able to find ways to tackle this problem.

Lalasticlala

Paris here I come

We warned them but they threatened us with brooms.
We countered their lies, they branded us wailing wailers.
The South westerners connived with their slave masters to remove a peaceful man and impose an illiterate dictator who is also a terrorist on us.


I am Happy because I wasn't part of the people that brought this abomination upon this nation.

This is just the beginning of four years of drought and poverty in this Country. Enjoy your change while it lasts.

2 billion to maintain the presidential fleet in 5 months, bogus sitting and wardrobe allowances, long convoys and luxurious houses and you want to stop paying 18,000 to the common man. Are you mad? Are all of you mad? Jesus Christ save us o. Nigerians can keep fooling themselves over party loyalties till you begin to eat from the dustbin.
Simple maths = petrol at 300/ litre at a minimum of 4 litres per day(transport to work + light from i pass my neighbor gen) = 1200 × 30 days = 36,000.
Feeding, clothing, etc goes where? And 18 quid is hard to pay?? Devil has written text book o

Front page please!!

Nawao

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
APC APC APC
Enjoy yo change oh, call me the driver pls tell him the conductor has no change.
EMPEROR BUHARI MINISTERS TO EARN 500 MILLION EACH A YEAR IN SALARIES ALONE,
10 PRESIDENTIAL JETS MAINTAINED WITH BELLIONS IN JUST SIX MONTHS, NATIONAL ASSEMBLY NKO? BILLIONS IN SALARIES,
na only poor man own go reduce,
WERE IS ACTIVIST OBY EZEKWESILY? TIME DON REACH OH'
BRING BACK OUR SOLDIERS PROTEST ASAP,
WERE ARE THE OCCUPY LAGOS PEOPLE? TIME DON REACH OH, MAKE UNA COME OUT.

We replaced Goodluck with Badluck, we must must live with the decision.

The current APC sponsored ab0ki led NLC executive no go talk.

They are more concerned trying to blame all boko attacks on Niger Delta ex-Militants and Biafra seccessionists

divinehand2003:
NLC will give you a lovely response when you governors return home. Besides be ready to give up your budget for security vaults too. Rubbish decision

There are solutions, but because they find it difficult to reason outside the box, the only solution they could think of is;
1) reduce the slave wage of Nigerian worker.
2) downsizing of the labour force. 3) fines and taxes.
We wish them well! Well well.

What's the problem of these Governors sef? If they can't help. the FG, they should shut up! Are they now relying on MTN fine to survive again? These Governors are so dumb for me.

Before they finally agreed to stop paying the 18k minimum. wage, they should stop collecting salaries and allowances.

Dumb Governors!

ify2016:
Una go remember to cut minimum wage but una no go remember to slash una salary and all these illegal deals.
Government too dey heartless. No wonder dey just dey die from one disease to another. Imagine 14year Alison Madueke son crying because her mum will soon leave her. Blood money no fit give una rest at all. Any single Nigerian that died because of your silly meeting or fund stolen, their blood go dey una head with ur pikin wey follow una chop the blood money. Nonsense!!!!

AMEN AND AMEN.

http://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2015/11/we-may-downsize-or-cut-down-on-salaries.html


Governors under the umbrella body of the Nigerian Governors Forum say they may have to downsize the number of Civil Servants on their payroll or reduce the salaries of civil servants following the dwindling revenue generated from the Federal and state levels.

Rising from their meeting in Abuja yesterday November 18th, one of the governors, Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo state who spoke with newsmen, said there was no way the country could continue with a situation where expenditure is more than income.


“We are faced with a situation where we either have to reduce cost through salary reduction or downsize. All these we don’t want to do but prefer to have a roundtable with the president, ministers, economists to look for means of getting out of this problem.”he said.

On his part, the Chairman of the NGF and Niger state governor Abdul’aziz Yari said the falling price of oil has made it difficult to pay the N18,000 minimum wage.

“The situation is no longer the same when we were asked to pay N18,000 minimum wage, when oil price was $126 per barrel and continued paying N18,000 minimum wage when the oil is $41 per barrel and the source of government expenditure is from oil, and we have not seen prospects in the oil industry in the near future. We are coming together in a roundtable with President Buhammadu Buhari and his team of ministers, technocrats, economic experts to see how we can tackle our situation.”he said

Fayose, who also visited Emure Local Government, said allocations to both state and local governments had gone down drastically, and cited the case of what the 16 local governments had received in the last few months.

“A comparative analysis of the allocations to local governments in Ekiti between January to October 2014 and the same period this year would clearly explain what I am talking about.

“During that period in 2014, the local governments got over N22 billion, while they were given N15 billion for the same period this year. A shortfall of over N5 billion. What even came in last month was terrible. We therefore decided to pay primary school teachers in September and paid local government workers in October.

“Now, the issue is should we now skip a month and pay all workers at once or keep rotating the payment of salaries among different categories of workers? You are the ones to decide,” the governor said.

These lazy f00ls are complaining of reduction in revenue.Can't they find ways of generating money?I tire ooo.

citizenisb:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/11/we-can-no-longer-pay-n18000-minimum-wage-govs-cry-out/

ABUJA – Thirty-six States Governors have said that they can no longer pay the N18,000 minimum wage to workers owing to the poor state of the economy.



Rising from a crucial meeting on that ended at the early hours of Thursday at the Old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja under the umbrella of Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF, the governors said that the dwindling prices of oil had drastically affected their States’ income.

Specifically, they said that the burden of the wage was lighter when oil sold at $126 as against the current $41 per barrel.

They therefore sought to have audience with President Muhammadu Buhari on the economy, resolving that the only way out of the quagmire was to diversify the economy to agriculture and mining.

Reading the communique issued at the end of the meeting, the Chairman of the Forum and governor of Zamfara state, Abdulaziz Yari hinted that the Forum also backed the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) over the N2.1trillion sanction on MTN.

According to him, the governors agreed that the fine must be paid in full.

He said that they received briefing from the Acting Executive Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NCC, Professor Umar Dambata who explained the matter to them.

He said: “We resolved that we must look at ways to enhance revenue generation and at the same time look at ways to cut our overhead costs more especially the political office holders’ salaries and other overhead expenses.

“The situation is no longer the same when we were asked to pay N18,000 minimum wage, when oil price was $126 (per barrel) and continued paying N18,000 minimum wage when the oil is $41 and the source of government expenditure is from oil, and we have not seen prospects in the oil industry in the near future.

“We will diversify our economy in the area of agriculture and mining. But at the same time, we should understand our situation where some of us (states) today are taking N100million take home (monthly allocation) and then have salaries in particular of over N2billion to pay.

“We therefore agreed here to take this suggestion to NEC in our meeting tomorrow (Thursday) so that we can be able to find ways to tackle this problem.

Lazy governors they will always have an excuse,that should find a way of ameliorating the problem

GEJ increasing minimum wages and ensuring the payment, Buhari reducing wages. What an irony of government. Na mumu government we day.

these governors deserve better spanking but sadly we miss the opportunity of doing so for a plate of rice. A state is well known for that

na serious hunger for osun people dey load so.

citizenisb:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/11/we-can-no-longer-pay-n18000-minimum-wage-govs-cry-out/

ABUJA – Thirty-six States Governors have said that they can no longer pay the N18,000 minimum wage to workers owing to the poor state of the economy.



Rising from a crucial meeting on that ended at the early hours of Thursday at the Old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja under the umbrella of Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF, the governors said that the dwindling prices of oil had drastically affected their States’ income.

Specifically, they said that the burden of the wage was lighter when oil sold at $126 as against the current $41 per barrel.

They therefore sought to have audience with President Muhammadu Buhari on the economy, resolving that the only way out of the quagmire was to diversify the economy to agriculture and mining.

Reading the communique issued at the end of the meeting, the Chairman of the Forum and governor of Zamfara state, Abdulaziz Yari hinted that the Forum also backed the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) over the N2.1trillion sanction on MTN.

According to him, the governors agreed that the fine must be paid in full.

He said that they received briefing from the Acting Executive Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NCC, Professor Umar Dambata who explained the matter to them.

He said: “We resolved that we must look at ways to enhance revenue generation and at the same time look at ways to cut our overhead costs more especially the political office holders’ salaries and other overhead expenses.

“The situation is no longer the same when we were asked to pay N18,000 minimum wage, when oil price was $126 (per barrel) and continued paying N18,000 minimum wage when the oil is $41 and the source of government expenditure is from oil, and we have not seen prospects in the oil industry in the near future.

“We will diversify our economy in the area of agriculture and mining. But at the same time, we should understand our situation where some of us (states) today are taking N100million take home (monthly allocation) and then have salaries in particular of over N2billion to pay.

“We therefore agreed here to take this suggestion to NEC in our meeting tomorrow (Thursday) so that we can be able to find ways to tackle this problem.

can u see y dis people no want make biafra go?
chai dis peoples has finis awa oyel.

ArodeTsolaye:
na serious hunger for osun people dey load so.

Hahahahah