Today’s Headlines: Resign If You Can’t Pay N70,000, NLC Tells Gombe Gov, Atiku, Soyinka, Falana, Others Pick Holes In Tinubu’s Speech

Resign if you can’t pay N70,000, NLC tells Gombe gov

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The Nigeria Labour Congress has advised governors who can’t pay the new N70,000 minimum wage to quit office.

The Gombe State Governor, Inuwa Yahaya, last week said his administration would not be able to pay the new national minimum wage of N70,000.

Yahaya, who chairs the Northern Governors’ Forum, spoke at a meeting with labour leaders, civil society organisations, and traders associations at the Government House in Gombe.

Reacting to the Gombe governor’s declaration, the Head of Public Relations of the NLC, Benson Upah advised him to resign.

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Prominent citizens like former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), and a number of civil society organisations (CSOs), yesterday, faulted the national broadcast by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, saying he did not address the fundamental issues that triggered the #EndBadGovernance protest in the country. The protests, which commenced on Thursday, have claimed many lives and also resulted in the destruction of properties worth billions of naira.

This led to calls from different quarters for President Tinubu to address Nigerians in order to douse the concerns raised by the protesters and other citizens including the cost of living crisis in the country…..Viêw_More