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الجزير نيجيريا ةالجزير نيجيريا ة ...first in breaking the news www.aljazirahnews.com Vol. 2 No. 181 MAY NIGERIA N200 3 – May 9, 2021 Insecurity: Government Agencies On Red Alert PAGE 9 As NSA writes security agencies Task forces on major roads Boko Haram, Banditry Sponsors Exposed PAGE 11 With Weak LG N7.5bn Secret Workers Day 2021: Tough Time System, It’s Withdrawal: NASS Governors Paying Beckons As NNPC Difficult To Manage Gives Ultimatum Lip Service To New Nigeria – Jonathan To Finance, NSA Goes Bankrupt PAGE 2 PAGE PAGE 8 25 PAGE Wage – Wabba PAGE 21 EDITORIAL A Nation Under Siege n spite of sustained government efforts and the rest of the regions in the country are relatively budgetary appropriations, the security situation peaceful compared to the North-east, where the in Nigeria has continued deteriorating. Indeed, Boko Haram terrorists have held sway in increasing the lingering so-called conflict between herders dimension. and farmers in the North-central Nigeria has The rising insecurity in the North-west, vicious Ibeen rated six times deadlier than the Boko Haram attacks on local communities and kidnapping of insurgency which the Buhari administration people by criminal groups in the same sub- region is inherited. being described by state officials as banditry. However, The abductions of schoolboys in Kankara further evidence suggests that the government is community, Katsina state, Niger, Zamfara, and most simplifying the dynamics. In actuality, the sub-region recently in Kaduna states are more examples of the has become the safe haven for active terrorist groups, deplorable state of security in the country. Notably, including the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara the unprecedented increase in violent attacks is (ISGS); Jama’at Nusrat al Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM); defying the sustained narrative among promoters of the government’s claim that the North-west and CONTINUE ON PAGE 5 40 Years On, Mambilla Power Project In Fresh Trouble PAGE 10 Benue Slams Investors Withdraw Ifeanyi Ubah’s Guber Obaseki Urges Presidency Over N339.06bn From Ambition Stirs Athletes To Comment On Stock Market In Anambra Political Hope For Brighter Future Ortom Q1, 2021 22 PAGE Space PAGES 16 – 17 – 16 PAGES PAGE 6 PAGE PAGE 23 الجزير نيجيريا ةالجزير نيجيريا May 3 – May 9, 2021 www.aljazirahnews.com 2 Like our facebook page ةwww.facebook.com/aljazirahnewsng Follow us on twitter @aljazirahnewsng news e-mail: [email protected] Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo State (3rd, right); Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu (4th, right) and other dignitaries during the 2021 May Day celebration in Benin City on Saturday, May 1. PHOTO: BJO/NAN. Workers Day 2021: Governors Paying Lip Service To New Wage – Wabba BY CHARLES EBI Buhari sanctioned new wage September 2019 is now faced Nigerian politician. promised. The also told the law. with a significant increase in In Kano, Governor governor to stop hiding April 18 2021 makes it President of the Trade wage burden. Abdullahi Ganduje just under the Coronavirus two years since President Union Congress of Nigeria “While the Kaduna State recovered from a mild Disease (COVID-19) crisis Muhammadu Buhari signed (TUC), Quadri Olaleye, in Government believes that rift with labour over non- to deny them their right of into law the bill to increase February this year noted public sector wages overall implementation of the the new national minimum Nigeria’s minimum wage. that some of the states are still relatively low, their new minimum wage and wage. The new wage bill puts the found wanting include current levels are obviously his deliberate deduction of Currently, on the good minimum monthly salary of Benue, Cross River and limited by the resources workers salary in March books of the Nigerian Labour an average Nigerian worker Ekiti. Some others have available to the government. 2021. After a day-long congress are; Borno, Delta, at 30,000 naira ($98); from only implemented the new What each public servant negotiation on April 8, Ebonyi, Edo, Jigawa, Kaduna, 18,000 naira. wage for workers on levels earns might be puny in labour shelved its decision to Katsina, Kebbi, Lagos, Ondo, But as the world marks one to six with backlogs comparison to private sector embark on a warning strike Sokoto, Yobe and the Federal the 2021 Workers Day today, of arrears on promotion. wages, but the total wage after the governor and his Capital Territory (FCT) it is clear that, in Nigeria at Enugu, Gombe, Imo, Kogi, bill consumes much of the team promised to refund the who have commenced the the moment, very little of Kwara, Nasarawa, Ogun are revenues of the state.” El- deduction they did in March. implementation of the new the fate of workers especially with huge remittance on Rufai said. Wabba However the old minimum minimum wage. those at the subnational deductions. The story is not “The desire to pay more is a threats from bandits which wage of Eighteen Thousand As Nigeria marks the (state) seems to be worth different in Oyo, Plateau, sentiment that must bow to Naira (N18,000) is what the workers day today, it is hoped celebrating. With the current has made Nigerian farmers Rivers, Taraba, Kano, and the limits prescribed by the not to be able to engage Kano state workers have to that other state governors economic reality in Nigeria Zamfara. ability to pay….Therefore, make do with for now. will be moved to motivate where the movement in farming and other In Kaduna, Governor the state government has agricultural activities which In Taraba, Governor their state workers who have of goods and services is Nasir El-rufai, recently no choice but to shed some Darius Ishaku had to make been the backbone of their completely at the mercy of they are known for, has announced his notice of weight and reduce the size added to the fears of the a pledge of working out various stewardships. the stabilization fuel price, disengagements of workers of the public service”. He modalities to start paying This year’s Workers Day the collapsed Naira value workers. in the state public service. added. Although Governor El- the new minimum wage particularly commemorate and the mounting insecurity, According to Governor El- This has sent cold shivers between April to June before the efforts of Nigerian one will agree that the non- Rufai promised to ameliorate Rufai in a statement made down the spine of a lot of the the expected effects the the workers ended the over Workers throughout the implementation of the new available to AljazirahNigeria workers in the state who are two weeks strike they began COVID-19 crisis, where their minimum wage by some disengagements may cause earlier in April says, his battling with the vagaries of on the affected workers, on March 22 this year. The importance in the smooth state governors and the administration being the the current harsh economic Taraba workers expect the running of healthcare and deliberate “robbing Peter to however, marrying words first to implement the reality in the country and with action has always been governor to get back to other sectors of the economy pay Paul” strategy employed new minimum wage in in their state. The security them by June this year as has been highlighted globally. by other governors, calls for the bane of the average national empathy for the Nigerian workers today. trainees are drawn from From Kaduna to Kano, NDE Trains Kebbi Youths On Environmental Beautification each of the 21 local gov- Zamfara down to some ernment areas of the state. The National Directorate The Acting Director- Scheme (EBTS) is designed in habitats (Urban and The D-G, represented north central states, up of Employment (NDE) General of NDE, Mallam to create decent jobs to Rural) particularly towns to some southern states, by the State Coordinator has commenced the train- Abubakar Nuhu-Fikpo unemployed school leav- and cities offering skills in of the Directorate, Alhaji it’s been one excuse or the aesthetics, protection san- other. It is either threat of ing of 42 unemployed said this at the inaugura- ers and drop-outs through Abdullahi Danjuma- Ma- youths on environmental tion and orientation cer- training and development itation, ornamentation chika urged the partici- sacking state civil servants to finishing and employ- or deliberate non-payment beautification under its emony of the trainees in in the landscaping service pants to take the training Environmental Beautifica- Birnin Kebbi on Saturday. value chain. ability skills,” Nuhu-Fikpo serious to better their of their wages as ordered said. by President Muhammadu tion Training Scheme in “The Environmental “The scheme promotes communities and assist Kebbi. 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