The newspaper review for Wednesday, May 30, leads with reactions that trailed President Muhammadu Buhari's democracy day speech, southeast governors likely showdown with IPOB over sit-at-home order among other stories.
The Nation reports that worker's expectations of getting a new national minimum wage by the end of September would not materialise, according to minister of Labour and Employment Chris Ngige.
He explained that the September date is just for conclusion of negotiation on the issue of the minimum wage.
Ngige, in an interview with reporters yesterday at his home in Abuja, said the committee on the new minimum wage is expected to conclude its work by the end of September and its report will be thereafter presented for deliberation.
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This, he added, will be followed by an approval before an executive bill will be presented to the National Assembly on the issue.
The Nation newspaper for Wednesday, May 30 photo credit: snapshot from NAIJ.com.
Vanguard reports that David Umahi of Ebonyi state yesterday explained that even though the southeast geopolitical zone was not happy with the way and manner it was being marginalised in the affairs of the nation, he does not agree with the ideology and methodology behind the activities of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB and Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign state of Biafra, MASSOB, geared towards the socio-political and economic emancipation of the zone.
The governor warned that any trader or businessman or woman who closes his or her shop because of the directive would lose the shop forever.
Vanguard newspaper for Wednesday, May 30 photo credit: snapshot from NAIJ.com.
This Day reports that the minister of information and culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed boasted yesterday that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and President Muhammadu Buhari were very confident of winning the 2019 presidential election.
“We will not be defeated, don’t even contemplate that, we will not be defeated, who will defeat us? Let me tell you, I am a realist. I wish we had a real opposition, I wish we had a government that is not performing, then I would have been worried,” Mohammed stated when asked if Buhari would accept defeat if he is voted out next year.
He stated that the 2019 general election will be free and fair, pointing out that despite challenges, the APC-led administration had performed creditably to earn the votes and support of the electorate.
The minister said the Buhari-led administration has enough to campaign on, adding that there was no zone in the federation that had not felt government’s impact.
This Day newspaper for Wednesday, May 30 photo credit: snapshot from NAIJ.com.
The Punch reports that the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the ‘Not too Young to Run’ bill and give the younger generation the opportunity to govern the country in 2019.
The national president of the ACF, Alhaji Yerima Shettima, stated this in an interview when he was reacting to the Democracy Day broadcast of the president.
Buhari, had in the broadcast, said in the next few days, he would soon sign the ‘Not-too-Young to Run’ bill.
Shettima said that there was nothing encouraging in Buhari promising that he would sign the bill soon.
The Punch newspaper for Wednesday, May 30 photo credit: snapshot from NAIJ.com.
The Guardian reports that President Muhammadu Buhari’s democracy day speech drew mixed reactions yesterday. The president reeled off the achievements recorded by his administration since its inception three years ago.
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Two days earlier, the-minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed, had also stated that: “President Buhari’s administration has achieved a lot in the delivery of dividends of democracy and campaign promises despite the challenges it encountered in the last three years. We are putting our nation on the path of sustainable growth and development, diversifying our economy like never before, tackling corruption at its very core and devising creative measures to secure life and property.”
But NOIPolls, “a country-specific polling service in the West African region, in technical partnership with Gallup (USA) to develop opinion research in Nigeria” scored the government poorly in a report.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said the speech was uninspiring, hollow and full of self-praise, without addressing issues agitating the minds of Nigerians.
The Guardian newspaper for Wednesday, May 30 photo credit: snapshot from NAIJ.com.
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