Rivers council crisis: Policemen, vigilance member die
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The Local Government Area succession crisis has claimed a policeman and a vigilance group member in Rivers State.
Though details of the incident were still sketchy, it was gathered that the victims were killed at Omuma Local Government Area of the statThe Local Government Area succession crisis has claimed a policeman and a vigilance group member in Rivers State.
Though details of the incident were still sketchy, it was gathered that the victims were killed at Omuma Local Government Area of the state.
Minimum Wage: Why Workers Deserve Reasonable Adjustments-Fashola
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With talks about a new minimum wage for workers being on the front burner of public discourse, former Minister of Works, Babatunde Fashola says income earners in Nigeria deserve reasonable adjustments to cope with the rising cost of living in the country.
When cost of living rises as they have now, the lowest and the highest income earners are impacted to varying degrees and therefore deserving of reasonable adjustments whether they earn wages or salaries,” the former Lagos State governor said in a piece titled, ‘Minimum Wage Review – My Take Away’.
Fashola also faulted Section 4(1)(b) of the National Minimum Wage Act 2019 which exempted “an establishment employing less than 25 persons” from being bound by the provisions of the Act to pay the minimum wage.
Two Security Operatives Killed In Rivers LG Crisis
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Following the Local Government (LG) crisis rocking Rivers State in the oil-rich South-South geopolitical zone of Nigeria, two security operatives have lost their lives in the line of duty.
Though the details are a bit unclear, it was gathered however that the sad deaths which occurred in Omuma Local Government Area on Tuesday, might not be unconnected with the invasion of the council headquarters at Eberi-Omuma.
Confirming the incident to Channels Television, the spokes person for the Rivers State Police Command, Grace Iringe-Koko, said two deaths were recorded.
She said a policeman and a vigilante operative lost their lives in the crisis.
Don’t be tools for escalation of crisis in Rivers, outgone LG Chairmen told
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As tension continues to escalate in some of the Council secretariats in Rivers state over the tenure extension-induced crisis, the outgone 23 council chairmen have been urged to quietly go home and avoid being used as willing tools to destabilize the state.
In a statement on Tuesday in Port Harcourt, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, a stauch ally of Rotimi Amaechi, former Transportation Minister, urged the former chairmen not to perpetuate political crisis in the state by hiding under whatever illegitimate guise to claim tenure elongation beyond the due date of Monday June 17, marking the end of their 3-year tenure.
Eze also alleged that reports from reliable sources have brought to light surreptitious plots from a certain camp “to use the former Council Chairmen to perpetrate an offshoot of the crisis generated from the controversy of the status of the 27 former Rivers Lawmakers”.
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