Borehole Project: Tinubu Deserves Commendation For Emulating Me — Peter Obi
News Source: Vanguard Newspapers
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), in the 2024 general elections, Peter Obi, has said President Bola Tinubu deserves commendation for heeding his call on wealthy Nigerians to join him in sinking boreholes to provide access to water for the down trodden.
Obi said this via a statement issued by the Peter Obi Media Reach, in Abuja, yesterday.
This was in response to the Presidential directive that 400 boreholes be constructed nationwide as part of a charity initiative to honour the memory of the his late mother, Alhaja Abibatu Magaji.
Dr. Tanko Yunusa who signed the statement said, “The office of the Peter Obi Media Reach, POMR wishes to thank President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for harkening to the call of our Principal, the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, Peter Obi to wealthy Nigerians to join him in ensuring the provision of boreholes across the country for the downtrodden in our midst.
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Seven Persons Killed, Property Destroyed As Bandits Attack Katsina Village
News Source: Channels TV
At least seven persons were killed in a fresh bandits attack on Saturday night on Mai Dabino village in Danmusa Local Government Area of Katsina State.
The attack, according to an eyewitness, saw the abduction of an unspecified number of persons mostly women and children who have been taken to a nearby forest.
The eyewitness told Channels Television on Sunday that the hoodlums operated for about three hours after invading the village at about 10:00 pm, shooting sporadically to scare the residents.
He said that those killed by the hoodlums were set ablaze.
Strike: We don’t want another shut down of varsities – NANS, parents beg FG, unions
News Source: Vanguard Newspapers
As academic and non-academic workers in the university system have threatened to embark on another round of industrial action, students and parents have said they don’t want another closure of universities, calling on the workers and the government to find a way out of their face-off.
According to them, incessant closure of universities is one of the reasons the schools are not faring well in global rankings.
The students spoke under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, and the parents under the auspices of the National Parent Teacher Association of Nigeria, NAPTAN.
Speaking in a chat with Vanguard newspaper, the National President of NANS, Comrade Lucky Emonefe, noted that students were always bearing the brunt in cases of industrial actions by university workers.
NLC Kicks Against Calls To Decentralise Minimum Wage Negotiations
News Source: Daily Trust
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has kicked against the call by some politicians for decentralised minimum wage negotiations.
Secretary of NLC in Oyo State, Mr Adebayo Aribatise, in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Ibadan, said that decentralising minimum wage negotiations would put workers in some states at a disadvantage.
NAN reports that some politicians had, recently, called for decentralised minimum wage negotiations.
One of them, Dr Kayode Fayemi, stressed the need for allowing states to conduct wage negotiations with their labour unions, separate from that of the Federal Government.