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  • Subsidy removal: TUC demands relief for workers

    Subsidy removal: TUC demands relief for workers

    The Trade Union Congress has asked the Federal Government to hurry its plan to provide palliatives for Federal Government workers following the removal of subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit.

    The TUC said workers were getting more impatient due to the hardship occasioned by the removal of subsidy.

    The TUC president, Comrade Festus Osifo, stated this during a meeting with the Minister of Labour and Employment, Simon Lalong on Tuesday, September 19, in Abuja.

    He also clarified what seemed to be a division between the NLC and the TUC, maintaining that there were no cracks in their ranks.

  • FG will not revert to old pump price – Oshiomhole

    FG will not revert to old pump price – Oshiomhole

    Former governor of Edo State and senator-elect, Adams Oshiomhole has ruled out possibility of the Federal Government reversing the current petroleum Pump Price from N488 and N557 per litre to N194.

    The Edo North senator-elect made this known while featuring on Channels Television on Sunday, saying that the 2023 budget does not provide for fuel subsidy beyond 31st May.

    Backing the decision of President Bola Tinubu who announced the removal on Monday last week, Oshiomhole said it was a move other presidential candidates may have made if they had won the February 2023 election.

    He said, “I think Nigerians are aware that this year’s budget did not provide for subsidy throughout 2023. It ended in June.

    “All the leading presidential candidates had during the electioneering season agreed to remove the subsidy. I remember the then candidate, Peter Obi saying he would remove it the very first day. Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu said the same thing.

    “The issue is not whether you have revenue, if Nigeria is going to save about N7 trillion by removing subsidy, then there is no question that you can take part of that and put it in other sectors because those savings will go to the federation account which will be distributed among the three tiers of government”.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that the  Trade Union Congress, (TUC) on Sunday asked the FG to revert to the old petrol pump price of N194 per litre while it continues to negotiate over the recent increase.

    The union also asked the government to review the current minimum wage in a bid to cushion the effect of the petrol subsidy removal on Nigerians.

    The demands were made at the reconvened meeting with the government held at the State House in Abuja, Sunday evening.

  • TUC urges FG to save people from fuel exploitation

    TUC urges FG to save people from fuel exploitation

    Trade Union Congress, TUC, has called on the federal government to protect the people from those exploiting them through fuel.

    Appealing to petrol marketers to stop hoarding fuel, TUC asserted that the protection of people from exploitation is in line with Section 14, subsection 2b.

    In a statement issued in Ado Ekiti, the State Chairman of the TUC Comrade, Olusola Adigun, charged the marketers to consider the interest of the workers.

    According to TUC, the ordinary people who need to move daily and the artisans whose daily survival is determined by the product are being exploited.

    Comrade implored the task force on petroleum to justify the essence of its existence and protect the people from Shylock businessmen who are bent on making life unbearable for the people.

    The TUC leader noted that workers who had to move several kilometres to work were worst hit by the unjustifiable scarcity and illegal increase in the pump price and the attendant skyrocketing prices of commodities.