The Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC) insisted that the new minimum wage should come into effect in July this year. Congress President Ayuba Wabba, who told The Guardian in an exclusive interview in Abuja, added that Congress would reject any date beyond July. Wabba said arrangements have been finalized to sign the agreement in Kigali, Rwanda, on March 21 this year. ...
He said: “Going by all the data submitted so far to the negotiation committee, we believe that a new wage is possible in July. Labour will reject any date that is beyond July and we have made that known to the government.”
He stated: “Admittedly a free trade agreement is not a customs union in the sense that Member States abolish only tariffs between them, while maintaining their own tariffs on third world countries, but this would already be impossible.Wabba explained that the trade deal, which is pushed by the European Union and the World Trade Organization (WTO), would damage the African economy and promote massive unemployment. For his part, the executive secretary of the West African Trade Union Organization (OTUWA), John Odah, said that only Nigeria, Gambia and some other countries of the continent had not yet signed the document .
“Far from promoting regional integration of the continent, it will disintegrate it strongly in opening wide the doors to multinationals already well implemented in most African countries and which would concentrate their activities in the most competitive countries from which they would export to the others.”
He added: “Indeed, the new acronym is a new one. The old one was the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) they have been pushing, which has failed. The agreement is a bad move for the labour and manufacturers in the continent and will further subject Africa to the negative effects of the neo-liberal policies on the West.”In addition, the presidency has launched a discreet inquiry into the employment of 350 new staff members of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) by the Minister of Labor and Employment, Chris Ngige. The Guardian has gathered in Abuja that the chief of staff of the president, Abba Kyari, is conducting the investigation. The investigation team was also tasked to unravel the € 200 million spent on staff induction and training approved by the minister.
A source said: “The presidency has directed that a team investigate the employment scam going on in NSITF. It was learnt that some senior members of the ministry got about 300 employment letters of senior new employees ready for distribution.The deadline for submission of the report was not yet known at the time of submission of this report.
“The investigation team is also expected to examine the misappropriation of N200million approved for the training and induction of staff.”
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