And we have been blaming Buhari

They cannot pay a paltry 24,000 Naira? Appalling!

Redundant governments of thieves

May God punish you and your generation. May never have peace for saying that. How much is your salary. Resign if you can't pay. Useless men.

They are very selfish.All what they care for is buying houses abroad.which kind wahala be this sef

Ifwesaywearegoingtodo

Jabulany01:
It's well

but they can bank on security votes of hundreds of millions and billions which they use for nothing.

May God punish you and your generation. May you never have peace for saying that. How much is your salary. Resign if you can't pay. Useless men.

Any governor that can't pay 30k minimum wage should just resign asap... What kind of nonsense people are ruling us...

these jokes called government should be voted out .
DO YOU GUYS IMAGINE HOW MUCH PRESENT AND PAST LEADERS IN THE STATE, LOCAL, AND FEDERAL LEVEL TAKE HOME annually.

my prayer for NIGERIANS is that " God in his grace will open our understanding to vote in the right people, as well as for the elections to be credible, free plus fair

Man cannot rule man damn how can one be earning millions and say he cannot afford 24k these people have killed us from today onwards I will not vote again..JESUS CHRIST

A senator can take home a minimum of 20m naira a month yet a worker can’t earn a measly 24k a month.

Where is fairness here

I was not expecting nothing less.Workers behold your governors!

MallamJackson:



You have a point but then again ahh...


recurrent expenditures as salaries are no walk in the park its a monthly thing


ever wondered why some states like Kogi Ekiti Osun are owing months of salary areas?

A governor once quaried: Are we going there only to pay salaries?


you need to be a people oriented person to be able to not owe salaries and yet be seen doing tangible work for the state

and most of our states are not so lucky.

Then they should down size their workforce to manageable levels just as any private sector operators would or preferrably right size by commercializing as many government functions as possible so that revenue generating agencies absorb part or all the departmental wage bill.

What we lack in Nigeria is ideas. Politicians are elected to make a difference. They are elected not to continue the failed systems of their predecessors but to generate new ideas for the betterment of the society that empowers them.

I think the National Assembly needs to pass legislation obliging all Federating units, both state and local government to set aside a fraction of their budget to invest in revenue earning enterprises with the aim of augmenting income from the Federation account and ensure milestone targets are achieved towards total financial independence over the medium to long term.

I cannot see how the gap between earnings from Federal coffers and the wage bill will not continue to expand within the structure we presently operate as the nation's population continues to increase and the economy remains largely moribund. States should be compelled to invest, to partner the private sector and be shareholders in enterprise.

If they can't pay minimum way,they should simply resign.It shows incompetency on their part.If I may ask why are do there want to govern.

mrakeli62:
Industrial crisis appears imminent as governors have announced that they would not be able to afford the agreed national minimum wage.

Governors under the aegis of Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), who met on Wednesday night in Abuja, said though they were not against the upward review of the national minimum wage, they lacked the ability to pay the proposed N24,000.

Minister of Labour and Employment Chris Ngige had last week told reporters that while Labour unions were demanding N30,000 per month, Federal Government proposed N24,000 and state governors N20,000.

However, it is doubtful if the leadership of the labour unions would accept the N24, 000, which they claimed was “unilaterally” adopted by the Federal Government.

Indication to that effect emerged as the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has summoned an emergency meeting for next week to take a decision.

Chairman of NGF and Governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari, who briefed journalists on the outcome of the meeting, disclosed that the governors also met with the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba, who briefed them on how many states complied with the agreement signed to clear salary arrears.


According to him, the issue was not just on agreed figure to be paid by the governors, but the “ability or resources to take care of that agreed minimum wage.”

Asked whether the issue of minimum wage was part of the agenda of the meeting, Yari said: “We didn’t discuss minimum wage because that is in the hands of the Federal Government, because it is on the Exclusive List. But like we said, we can do minimum wage on any amount we need but the issue is the ability to pay the minimum wage agreed. In the last meeting which the minister of Labour attended with the negotiation committee and also the committee that we also set up, we made it clear that we are not against the upward review of salary, we are in tandem with the NLC to get the minimum wage reviewed but the problem we are having is the capacity to pay what is agreed.


“As at today, most of the states are struggling to pay the N18,000 minimum wage. Some states are paying between 35 to 50 percent of the minimum wage and some states are owing salary. Ifwesaywearegoingtodo anupward reviewof the minimum wage, it is not about only reviewing it but how we are going to get the resources to cater for it.”

On the Paris Club refund which the Federal Government disbursed to states on the condition that they use larger percentage of the money to pay workers’ salaries, Yari said while some states had recorded some progress in line with the condition they signed with the Federal Government, others were still owing arrears

“We invited the national president of NLC to give us details on how some states performed. Some other states that are not up to date, where are they?

“So they have signed Memorandum of Understanding with the NLC at the national level and their representative in states on when they are going to overcome the issue of salary arrears.

“That has been done and it has been taken to the Central Bank (of Nigeria) governor to ensure that those states were also paid.”

However, the National Economic Council (NEC), which met yesterday failed to discuss the issue of a new national minimum wage despite threat by workers to embark on an indefinite strike.

According to Bauchi State Governor, Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar who briefed the press, “the issue of minimum wage was not discussed at NEC today.”

“Unfortunately that was not discussed at the National Economic Council meeting. Secondly, governors are part and parcel of the negotiation. The governors have not taken a decision either way because its a negotiating process and it’s still ongoing. We are represented by six governors in the committee. It’s a work in progress and am sure we will get to the promised land,” he stated.


On Wednesday, General Secretary of NLC, Peter Ozo-Esan, told an online media that the committee set up by the workers’ union had adopted (through a motion) to recommend N30,000 as minimum wage. According to him, the motion was moved and seconded by members from the labour union and the employers’ representatives.

Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, on October 10 after Federal Executive Council meeting had refuted media reports quoting Wabba as saying that the tripartite committee discussing the demand for new minimum wage had agreed to increase it from the current N19,200 to N30,000.

“Such information is not true,” he said.

Ozo-Esan insisted that the tripartite committee adopted a figure and “that is the only relevant thing in the issue.

“If Ngige is manufacturing something that was not agreed at the table, that is his problem. We have called our organs for an emergency meeting that will hold next week and the next step will be taken from there,” he said.

National President of United Labour Congress (ULC), Joe Ajaero, on October 16, said labour would not sign any agreement with the Federal Government on new national minimum wage if it was below N30,000.

NLC which had initially demanded a N50,000 minimum wage for workers, called out workers on a one week warning strike a fortnight ago.

https://www.akelicious.net/2018/10/minimum-wage-we-cant-pay-n24-000-ngf.html

Same governors who secretly take bribes,same govs who purchase brand new cars every three months,same govs who acquire new properties every week,same govs who buy their girlfriends properties at lekki,banana island,maitama,garki,wuse zone 2,,etc. Smh. Just let the governors and senators start getting paid minimum wages and watch Nigeria turn out right.

They can't pay because if they do there will be no money left for them to loot. I wish they can allow me into one of this there meetings i will give them an ear full of disparaging insults. Fools.

All those states that can not generate revenue to pay their workers should be collapsed back to the former state they used to be as I see no reason for creating a state without plans of generating its funds to run it...God go also punish those governors...how much is ur monthly pay that u can not collect less to pay 24k... All these old men that have refused to let d youths grow or develop what we have...na we youths cause am,we never ready to take it but force or by violence

Newboss:
Then fūck off let smart people fūck in

You're occupying a space you shouldn't be occupying thereby obstructing the flow of development

Boss u dey vex o

30K is not bad. Any governor that budget and plan well can pay it. These Politicians think only of themselves. They cannot afford to pay 24K but they can afford to loot millions monthly. mwwe

But the can collect millions in kickback for themselves

Splasshhh:
Ikegwuru

Nne o.. Ikegwuru n'eziokwu

An baboons and monkeys want to vote

rottennaija:


I don't agree. The cost of running government is too high. Yes, salary is a recurrent expenditure, but if they show you how much they pay in a month, you will realize it's not big.

The main problem is their own recurrent expenditure. Take for example, why on earth will a common commissioner be going around the town with 5 cars on his convoy? How much is he spending on fuel, tires, servicing, feeding those he goes around with?

And if there are say 30 commissioners, you can imagine how many cars and humans they are spending on.

How about SSG? Deputy Gov? Gov himself?

In addition to how much they are looting through inflation of contract, security vote?

Then imagine those in the federal setup, ministers, both Junior and senior, SGF, vp, president, chief of staff.

Then you think about the state legislatures, LG chairman, Federal legislators, senators?

Salary or minimum wage is not had to pay. But these people are so used to these opulent lifestyle that they wouldn't sacrifice it for anything.

Why the heck do we have both the senate and the house of reps?

I still maintain that our cost of governance is too much. That's why we can build roads, hospitals, schools, railways, or pay salaries.

you really expatiated everything to the brim, I keep asking myself where Nigeria would become good is coming from exactly. Because these people called our politicians would rather run the country aground than review their sumptuous lifestyles to the betterment of plebeian Nigerians. Till this moment, we still don't know how much is the budget for our senate house. Nigeria issue is beyond perception and assimilation to me.

Mordson:
They cannot pay a paltry 24,000 Naira? Appalling!

It is true that most of them cannot pay. It is easy to say 24,000 is small but the truth is that when you multiply that by say 200,000 workers and factor in various grade levels you will be talking about several billions, then the civil service as we know is filled with all manner of incidental expenses that further bloats this figure.

The fact is that the amounts donot really matter. What is important in expenditure is what you get back from it. It becomes very burdensome when you spend without a visible, tangible return as in social expenditure, but when you expend in investment you recieveall manner ofsupport and encouragement.

I think the narrative and outlook of our public service has to change from one of pure expenditure to one about investment expenditure. I think we need to radically reform the way government works. Every year hundreds of thousands across the country retire and jump on the pension bandwagon. If we cannot set aside pension funds for example and properly invest them to leverage then we will get to a point whereby the 5 percent (by population) of the civil service consumes 100 percent of the annual budget and national revenues.

Nigeria needs to up its productivity and generate new ideas to pay its workers. This system is unsustainable and will lead to increasing crises sooner than later.

Anyad231:
All those states that can not generate revenue to pay their workers should be collapsed back to the former state they used to be as I see no reason for creating a state without plans of generating its funds to run it...God go also punish those governors...how much is ur monthly pay that u can not collect less to pay 24k... All these old men that have refused to let d youths grow or develop what we have...na we youths cause am,we never ready to take it but force or by violence

well said bro but the divisive nature with which Nigerians do things is the major reasons why "doing it by force or violence will not work" because you will always see some bunch of youths on the side of these "old cargoes" because of Little change they've been given.
at these points it's the mercy of God that will see us through.

900warriorz:
my comment is not related to the topic.
before anyone condemns me, atiku or buhari, I'm not voting any....they've not helped Me in anyway. I'm only a realist.

*But Nigerians have failed to understand that if atiku comes in, he's gonna spend complete 8 years and that means power would have been in the north for 12 years including buharis tenure.
*His coming in is to recover all the money he is spending now. for those saying he's gonna change the economy, we said the same thing about buhari. both APC and PDP are thieves. if anyone is coming from a neutral party, we can think of change but not these two parties.
*the Igbos supporting atiku, don't complain of marginalization later coz trust me, after atiku, northerners will still rise again to run for presidency and going by power sharing, its a westerner that'd come in after atiku.
*good Nigerians, please, see beyond sentiments, I stand corrected though, but better the devil you know than the Angel you don't. I'm not advocating for buhari but if you be sincere with yourselves, let buhari just finish his 8 years and go, we've survived this far, we can't be broken now. then, we'd have a better Nigeria. atiku will spend ooo but he'd bring us back to the days of Jonathan. obasanjo that doesn't want to forgive him knows why and to the best of my knowledge, obasanjo is the best President that has ever served even if he was also a criminal.
corrections, contributions and criticism are welcomed.... no insults please. thanks.

my brother I undastand ur view but the truth is will their be a country called Nigeria after another four year with the present government. We are not there yet but I think Nigerians are beginning to reason well when it comes to elections. If the present government is not working no need trying further.And who said Atiku must stay for 8 year.if Buhari that his crew said is a religion and a god is finding it difficult now who won't.

I prefer a government that will share its loot with the poor to a government that will keep the loot within their family and friends only. The present polithiefcians are stealing as much as PDP goons, but they are just more selfish and more daring. Wicked lot.

900warriorz:
my comment is not related to the topic.
before anyone condemns me, atiku or buhari, I'm not voting any....they've not helped Me in anyway. I'm only a realist.

*But Nigerians have failed to understand that if atiku comes in, he's gonna spend complete 8 years and that means power would have been in the north for 12 years including buharis tenure.
*His coming in is to recover all the money he is spending now. for those saying he's gonna change the economy, we said the same thing about buhari. both APC and PDP are thieves. if anyone is coming from a neutral party, we can think of change but not these two parties.
*the Igbos supporting atiku, don't complain of marginalization later coz trust me, after atiku, northerners will still rise again to run for presidency and going by power sharing, its a westerner that'd come in after atiku.
*good Nigerians, please, see beyond sentiments, I stand corrected though, but better the devil you know than the Angel you don't. I'm not advocating for buhari but if you be sincere with yourselves, let buhari just finish his 8 years and go, we've survived this far, we can't be broken now. then, we'd have a better Nigeria. atiku will spend ooo but he'd bring us back to the days of Jonathan. obasanjo that doesn't want to forgive him knows why and to the best of my knowledge, obasanjo is the best President that has ever served even if he was also a criminal.
corrections, contributions and criticism are welcomed.... no insults please. thanks.

You get point baba
Buh I'd rate Yar'Adua above Obasanjo
My own opinion though

people can make things worsen, for me price of things is alienating. oga for this nation. 30k don do for now.