Amidst the truce from the labour strike, social media emerges as a robust participant within the discourse on a brand new nationwide minimal wage. With a plethora of data throughout numerous platforms, the recommendation is obvious: caveat emptor-verify earlier than consuming and sharing.
On Wednesday, the warning started to bear fruits.
The Home of Representatives rose in self-defence in opposition to the tales bandying figures concerning the alleged remuneration of legislators. Home spokesman Hon Akin Rotimi mentioned the statistics have been unfaithful. Nonetheless, he didn’t present the proper figures. Rotimi slammed labour for the reviews. Considerably, Rotimi staked a declaration for the Home that aligned with employees’ pursuits.
“The Home of Representatives acknowledges the latest industrial motion undertaken by the NLC and the TUC as a result of a breakdown in negotiations for a brand new nationwide minimal wage. The Folks’s Home is happy to notice that the strike motion has been suspended for one week to permit additional negotiation.
“Throughout this era, as we’ve beforehand demonstrated, the Folks’ Home stays responsive and dedicated to actively participating with all stakeholders to resolve the problems in the perfect curiosity of Nigerians.
“Home Speaker Abbas Tajudeen has constantly advocated a dwelling wage and higher working situations for employees. At numerous boards, he has emphasised the significance of addressing important nationwide priorities, together with the state of the economic system and insecurity, via legislative motion.
“Whereas the Inexperienced Chamber is in full help of the decision for improved wages and dealing situations, there’s a nice must-train warning in growing the minimal wage past what our economic system can maintain to keep away from unintended outcomes similar to inflation, layoffs, and different hostile financial penalties.
“Thus, we restate the significance of approaching this concern from a balanced perspective to ensure long-term stability and prosperity for all.
“Importantly, the shutdown of important infrastructure, such as the nationwide grid, constitutes financial sabotage and is detrimental to the well-being of our nation.
Those answerable for these actions should be held accountable.
“We additionally discover it troubling that the management of organised labour, the vast majority of whom stay far above the technique of the common Nigerian, would have interaction in actions that exacerbate the struggling of atypical residents.
“It’s obligatory, subsequently, to state that whereas industrial actions and dissent are elementary rights inside our democratic house that should be protected, how Labour performed itself in the course of the just-suspended strike broadly exhibits an absence of empathy for Nigerians.
“Is the target of the unions’ management to compel the federal government to implement a dwelling wage or to inflict ache on Nigerians?
“Moreover, it’s important to deal with persistent misinformation and disinformation propagated by organised Labour management concerning lawmakers’ earnings.
“That is primarily as a result of organised labour has, for years, contributed to false narratives concerning the remuneration of members of the Nationwide Meeting, exaggerating figures to stoke public resentment and undermine the credibility of the Legislature.
“This tactic diverts consideration from the core points at stake and unfairly vilifies the establishment of parliament. It’s essential for all events to have interaction in a sincere and clear dialogue reasonably than resorting to the unfold of inaccuracies for political leverage.”
“Opposite to the insinuations of the Labour management via its social media platforms, the Legislature is on the facet of Nigerians and can proceed to behave in the perfect curiosity of our constituents, giving that means to their mandate.”
Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Hon Nkiruka Onyejeocha, weighed in on the allegation that Nigerian legislators take the best salaries amongst legislatures worldwide. She mentioned it’s unfaithful, as she has been in each the legislature and the chief.
• The various narratives included a change in terminology. Specialists started to talk of “a dwelling wage” as a substitute for merely “minimal wage” as fascinating for Nigerian employees.
• Comparisons emerged within the media about minimal wages in oil-producing international locations.
As we hail Nigeria…
“Nigeria, we hail thee” because the de jure Nigerian nationwide anthem continues to draw debates. Contentions are its desirability, timing, price implications, and extra.
Believe Nigerians to see the humorous facet. Experiences and posts appeared exhibiting Nigeria We Hail Thee in Nigeria’s musical codecs. A well-liked one confirmed an Apala model. Wikipedia states that Apala (or akpala) is a music style developed initially by the Yoruba folks of Nigeria in the course of the nation’s historical past as a colony of the British Empire. It’s a percussion-based type that originated within the late Thirties.
The various enjoyable takes included this one:
“Outdated nationwide anthem says our father’s land
The new nationwide anthem says our mom’s land
You positive say Nigeria no want DNA like dis?”.
• Donald Trump’s (mis) fortunes
Former US president Donald Trump continues to excite Nigerians’ fashionable creativeness. A New York jury discovered him responsible on 34 counts, which attracted consideration throughout Nigerian social media.
Your correspondent noticed the controversy on Trump’s electoral probabilities on no less than two platforms. After watching a video clip of the place Trump denied saying they need to lock up an opponent, a participant noticed:
– So, who’s crying over spilt milk? What he wished Hillary, he obtained #34 instances. We going to cease at nothing to look up this crooked 😠 conman. Pinocchio!
One other responded: By the way, Trump would possibly win once more.
He has large supporters. And politics is a sport of numbers.
Not like Nigeria, a place where it’s a sport of cash.
