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| + | NO fewer than 14,000 ghost workers have been discovered at the local government areas of Benue State. |
| − | Even as some states are yet to fully implement the current N18,000 national minimum wage, Vice-President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Mr. Isa Aremu, has demanded an upward review with immediate effect.
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| + | Among those identified as ghost workers, according to the interim report on local government salary automation exercise carried out by Bureau for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, were under-aged children. |
| − | Aremu spoke as guest speaker at the Third Estate Annual dinner in Ilorin on the topic Some Notes on Human Resource as a Critical Factor in National Development.
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| − | He said: To appreciate human resource, we must motivate the labour which constitutes the great resource. We must ensure workers are paid well and on time. It should be noted that delay of salary is the same as wage theft.
| + | Oblivious of their action, the under-aged children who were said to be in their teens, according to the report, were said to have appeared for screening exercise. |
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| + | The Special Adviser on Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Mr Solomon Wombo, who disclosed this to council chairmen during their joint meeting on Friday, added that out of the purported 29,000 workers in the 23 council areas of the state only 16,000 have genuine letters of employment. |
| − | The national minimum wage is due for a review next year. The 2010 National Tripartite Committee on National Minimum Wage headed by Justice S.M.A. Belgore, recommended that to avoid ad hoc approach, the minimum wage is supposed to be reviewed every five years. It is due this year! Time to review this is NOW!
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| − | He regretted that despite the quantitative strength of Nigeria in human resources, in both policy and governance discourse, the country has almost redefined resources as oil and gas in Nigeria and mineral resources.
| + | The outcry by the local government workers to ensure the implementation of minimum wage to them prompted the bureau to embark on staff audit. At the moment, about N4billion was said to be the wage bill of council workers in the state. |
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| − | We have increasingly relegated human resources to the margin in the hierarchy of critical success factors for development.
| + | Mr Wombo disclosed that a joint committee will be sent out to verify and confirm the authenticity of the report for onward presentation to the governor. He cautioned the chairmen to resist the temptation of carrying out new employment especially now that their tenures were getting to an end.<p>Related Articles:</p><ul><li><a href=http://www.louisvuitton-pascher.com>Louis Vuitton Palermo</a></li><li><a href=http://www.louisvuitton-pascher.com>Louis Vuitton Pallas</a></li><li><a href=http://www.louisvuitton-pascher.com>Louis Vuitton Rendez-Vous</a></li></ul> |
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| − | In that light, Aremu suggested that Nigeria should declare emergency on secondary education with a view to re-motivate school teachers for educational service delivery arguing Nigerian secondary education system is terribly sick and requires an urgent, full-scale diagnosis, and deserving physicians. All state governors should be held accountable for the performance of their students.
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| − | In addition, local government edits and state laws must make primary schooling compulsory. The state laws must also criminalize and penalize parents that do not allow their wards to go schools in the 21st century. <br>
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| − | The man, who is also Secretary General, Alumni Association of the National Institute, lamented that before the current dependence on oil and at a time Nigeria was driven by human resources, Nigeria was a fast developing nation.
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| − | In 1965 for instance, Nigeria s GDP was $5.8 billion, compared with $3.8 billion for Indonesia, and $3.1 billion for Malaysia. Thirty years later, in 1995, Nigeria s GDP had increased to $26.8 billion (3.6 fold increase), Malaysia s to $85 billion (27 fold increase), Indonesia s to $198 billion (52 fold increase) and Venezuela to $75 billion (20 fold increase).
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| − | The implication is that these countries have left Nigeria far behind in terms of productivity, income generation and general economic development , and advised that the challenge lies in reinvention of the human resources in Nigeria.
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| − | He observed that the human resources and skilled labour in particular are the most critical to manage other resources to improve the quantity and quality of production and quality of life.
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| − | Indeed it can be argued that where critical human resources are lacking in quality, other factors can hardly add value to development. States can borrow billions of Naira as most states do, but the human managers might divert the funds for the indulgence of the leaders such as buying private jets rather than proving basics like water and motorable roads.
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| − | Himself a product of Ilorin Grammar School, Aremu commended past and present efforts of the town s indigenes in promoting human qualitative human resource through establishment of educational institutions mostly through communal efforts.
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| − | Speaking earlier, President of The Third Estate, Dr. Yusuf Lawal lamented the current spate of unemployment and insecurity in Kwara State and the country in general.<br>
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| − | Nigeria is at a critical juncture of its nationhood. The country is faced with numerous challenges ranging from sectarian violence in the North East and other forms of insecurity in various parts of the country, health and economic challenges and the 2015 General Election with all the dangers and fears it portends. <br>
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| − | As a way of stemming the tide in the state, Yusuf disclosed that the group in August organised a conference to address security challenge in the Ilorin Emirate, which looked at the phenomenal increase in the number of miscreants masquerading as area boys and good boys of politicians.<br>
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| − | We are currently at the implementation stage and Insha Allah, we shall achieve some results to reduce crime and criminality in our community by working together with the state apparatuses that have responsibility for security , he stated.<p>Related Articles:</p><ul><li><a href=http://www.louisvuitton-pascher.com>Louis Vuitton Siracusa</a></li><li><a href=http://www.louisvuitton-pascher.com>Louis Vuitton Sistina</a></li><li><a href=http://www.louisvuitton-pascher.com>Louis Vuitton Speedy</a></li></ul> | + | |
NO fewer than 14,000 ghost workers have been discovered at the local government areas of Benue State.
Among those identified as ghost workers, according to the interim report on local government salary automation exercise carried out by Bureau for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, were under-aged children.
Oblivious of their action, the under-aged children who were said to be in their teens, according to the report, were said to have appeared for screening exercise.
The Special Adviser on Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Mr Solomon Wombo, who disclosed this to council chairmen during their joint meeting on Friday, added that out of the purported 29,000 workers in the 23 council areas of the state only 16,000 have genuine letters of employment.
The outcry by the local government workers to ensure the implementation of minimum wage to them prompted the bureau to embark on staff audit. At the moment, about N4billion was said to be the wage bill of council workers in the state.
Mr Wombo disclosed that a joint committee will be sent out to verify and confirm the authenticity of the report for onward presentation to the governor. He cautioned the chairmen to resist the temptation of carrying out new employment especially now that their tenures were getting to an end.
