Minimum wage delay: Labour urged to declare nationwide strike
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The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights, CDWR, has called on Ogranised Labour to immediately mobilize and declare a nationwide strike over the minimum wage and the recent hike in electricity tariff.
According to CDWR, Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, as the next step in the minimum wage struggle,
should declare and mobilise widely for a 48-hour general strike and mass protest to demand a minimum wage not less than N200, 000 and the reversal of all anti-poor policies (privatization, deregulation, subsidy removal, electricity tariff hike etc).
In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Chinedu Bosah, CDWR said “The NLC and TUC have been at loggerheads with the government and private sector over a new minimum wage and negotiation has been deadlocked for over 3 weeks and still counting.
Government and Private Sector insistence on paying N60, 000 provoked the declaration of an indefinite strike which started on June 3rd 2024 but was suspended on the 4th of June, 2024.
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Gunmen abduct cleric in Ondo
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Gunmen have reportedly abducted a cleric with a popular church in Ondo state, Anthony Ebele, on his farm.
Sources said that the pastor of the popular Pentecostal church, was abducted Saturday evening at his Ogbese Farm, in Akure North Council area of the state.
Vanguard learnt that the abductors have open a line of communication with the victims family.
Details of their negotiations remained unknown as at going to press last night.
A relation, who spoke with vanguard in confidence, said that the abductors have contacted them but yet to demand for ransom.
According to him, they have actually confirmed that the Pastor Ebele is with them. “They promised to get back to us soonest. We are anxiously waiting for them.
Contacted, the spokesperson for the state police command, Funmi Odunlami, confirmed the abduction of the cleric.
Odunlami said that “on the 29th of June around 10pm, one Mr Ogunjobi Adeyemi reported at the station that his brother who went to farm was yet to return home.
” The complainant was expected to meet with the police to trace the victim to the farm but did not show up.
South Africa opposition leader, 11 others get ministerial appointments
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South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday announced opposition leader John Steenhuisen of the Democratic Alliance would serve as the Minister of Agriculture as he unveiled his new government.
Ramaphosa, 71, re-elected for a second full term, will lead what his humbled African National Congress calls a government of national unity after losing its outright majority in the May election.
“The minister of agriculture is John Steenhuisen,” Ramaphosa said from Pretoria in a televised address to the nation.
He also announced he had awarded opposition parties in his coalition, 12 out of 32 ministries.
Don’t politicise fertilizer, Osun group tells Adeleke
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Osun-based rights group, The Osun Masterminds on Sunday continued its war of words with the state governor’s spokesperson,
Olawale Rasheed on the appropriate mode that should be adopted for the distribution of bags of fertilizer received from the Federal Government by the state.
The group’s Executive Director, Prof. Wasiu Oyedokun-Alli, while reading the group’s monthly State of Osun address for June, disclosed that 11 truckloads of fertilizer had been received by the state.
Oyedokun-Alli, subsequently advised the state governor, Ademola Adeleke, to ensure fairness in the distribution of the items.
But Rasheed while responding said the fertilizer was received only last Friday, adding that the Ministry in charge had announced the receipt of the item to the public.