Labour

Nationwide Strike: Enugu Workers Defy Order

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Despite the directive issued to workers by the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and Trade Union Congress, TUC,  to embark on a nationwide strike on Tuesday, workers in Enugu State have shunned the strike.

Reports have it that the strike is largely not observed in the state.

Speaking in an interview with journalists about the strike, the Enugu State Chairman of NLC, Fabian Nwigbo said the NLC was working on how to mobilise for the strike.

“We are at a meeting and I am trying to prepare a letter to mobilise the workers for the strike. You know the order is coming from the national Secretariat,” he said.

However, newsmen who went to some areas in Enugu observed that banks were rendering services to their customers.

It was also observed that workers of some government agencies came to work early in the morning.

At the Government Revenue Office along Zik Avenue, it was observed that workers were in their various offices while a bank along Agbani Road was also rendering services to their customers.

Similarly, both private and government schools also failed to observe the strike as teachers were teaching their students and pupils in their various schools.

A civil servant who spoke on condition of anonymity blamed the leadership of both NLC and TUC for the non-compliance, saying they failed to act.

It was also observed that there were heavy vehicular activities on the major roads while the markets were open for businesses.

Punch/ Oluwayemisi Owonikoko

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News

NPC Trains Personnel Ahead of 2023 Census

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In preparation for the first fully digital census in 2023, the National Population Commission, NPC, has commenced training of its functionaries for the trial census in Enugu State.

Briefing newsmen during the kick-off of the exercise, the Federal Commissioner, representing Enugu State, Mr Ejike Ezeh, said the trial census was another key preparatory activity for the main census.

He disclosed that the commission has commenced training of 99 enumerators and local government supervisors to conduct the exercise in all the selected nine local government areas in the state.

Mr Ezeh said the trial would be conducted in all the 7,718 selected Enumeration Areas across the country to test run suitability and readiness for the actual census in 2023.

The commissioner declared that the exercise would avail the commission opportunity to test all aspects of census operations, from planning to implementation, logistics arrangement and management, questionnaire design and format, training procedures, fieldwork operations, publicity, payment system, data processing, data tabulation and analysis.

. The trial census which is also known as the “census dress rehearsal” is another key preparatory activity for the census. It is a process in which all census operations are tested in a detailed and comprehensive manner. This takes place as a matter of best practice about a year before the actual census date to assess the scenario that may be presented during the main Census.’’he said.

Vanguard /Oluwayemisi Owonikoko

Politics

Nigeria will be productive If I’m voted for – Obi

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A presidential aspirant under the Peoples Democratic Party, Peter Obi, has told party stakeholders in Enugu State that he will rescue Nigeria from its present economic challenges, if given an opportunity to lead the country.

Obi, who stated this during meeting with state Executive members of the party, at the party secretariat in Enugu, lamented the dwindling economic fortunes of Nigeria.

Speaking with the newsmen after the meeting, the former governor of Anambra state decried the country’s debt burden.

“We even borrow to service debts. What we are sharing is finished. We need wealth creators. We need to move Nigeria to become a productive nation.

“The cumulative effect of the failure of our leadership in the past decades is what we are suffering from now. So we just have to do things right. Countries don’t fail overnight.”

The PDP presidential aspirant asserted that the best way to save Nigeria from its present economic challenges was to shoot up the production sector by ensuring that all borrowings are channeled into the productive sector.

Others, he said, were to reduce the cost of running governance, create job opportunities for the teeming population of Nigerian youths and enhance food security for every citizen.

Speaking on the incessant killings across the country, Obi said if given the opportunity to lead he would curtail it to pave way for the production sector to thrive, noting that, food security would be one of the top priorities of his administration.

“Natural security is when human beings know where their next meal will come from. 98 million Nigerians are living below the poverty line. The poverty rate in Nigeria with a population of about 200 million people is far higher than that of China and India with populations of over 2.8 billion people combined.

“Unemployment rate in Nigeria is the highest. More than fifty percent of our young people who are of productive age are doing nothing. We want to move Nigeria from consumption to production “.

Culled/Taiwo Akinola

Politics

Gov. Ugwuanyi embodies the concept of a detribalised Nigerian – Makinde

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Governor ‘Seyi Makinde of Oyo State had felicitated his Enugu State counterpart, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, on the occasion of his 58th birthday.

Governor Makinde described Ugwuanyi as a bridge-builder and a detribalised patriot with a strong belief in the Nigeria project.

A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr Taiwo Adisa, quotes him as praying to God to grant Governor Ugwuanyi more years to serve his people and humanity at large.

According to Governor Makinde, the Enugu State governor, like his other colleagues in the PDP, have shown that there is still hope for Nigeria and it is important to celebrate him and pray for long life and more grace for him.

“I celebrate my brother, the governor of Enugu State, Chief Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, on the occasion of his 58th birthday.

“Gburugburu as he is called, is one politician I always commend for his love for his state and his passion for a better Nigeria. He embodies the concept of a detribalised Nigerian”.

“As you add another year, it is my prayer that God continues to sustain you and enable you to do more for humanity”.

“Happy birthday, Gburugburu.”

Iyabo Adebisi