KEY POINTS
- The Nigerian president Bola Tinubu accepts that the nation faces escalating hardships including want, joblessness together with widespread insecurity.
- The labour organization submitted a twenty-point request to the government which featured wage evaluation as the top priority.
- The NLC/TUC issue complaints about failing economies while pointing out the misrule of states.
During May Day President Bola Tinubu noted that Nigerians face genuine economic difficulties because their expenses have surged alongside increasing hunger alongside escalating insecurity and unemployment that resulted in job loss among citizens.
Through Minister Muhammad Dingyadi at the Eagle Square Workers’ Day event in Abuja President Bola Tinubu affirmed his government’s dedication to handling these problems through programs for job making alongside poverty decrease and better civic participation.
President Tinubu declared his administration stands ready to execute policies that develop jobs while alleviating poverty and boosting economic development together with supporting vulnerable groups in society.
Labour demands action
Organised Labour headed by NLC President Joe Ajaero and TUC’s Festus Osifo requested twenty policy points which included salary adjustments along with democratic oversight and labor rights and workplace safety measures and nationwide violence suppression.
The group denounced governmental indecency while accusing authorities of damaging civic rights and economic disturbances and cautioned that democracy alongside national stability remain in danger unless swift remedial steps are executed.
The Labour leaders emphasized that governmental inadequacy to protect their citizens became evident through the Plateau and Benue and Zamfara attacks as well as other violent incidents. The nation faces immediate threat of becoming a tyrannical state, Labour demands action urgently.
Labour further demanded reversal of Rivers political crisis, Nigeria must solve the unclear PAYE tax system and reduce the expensive telecommunications rates, retirement age extension to all public workers, pensioners and workers should receive fair wage and pension adjustments which rise corresponding to inflation rates, reversal of failed electricity privatization. Their statement emphasized that government leaders should choose between preserving justice or letting their country continue downward.
On the economy, Labour cited: Inflation at 33.69 percent, food inflation at 40.53 percent, over 115 million Nigerians in absolute poverty, collapse in real wages, exit of over 60 multinational firms, underemployment near 70 percent, and youth joblessness at 40percent.
Neoliberal policies received pointed criticism from experts who stressed that domestic manufacturing together with energy sector reforms were necessary.
Atiku recognize worker’s endurance
From his position as former Vice President Atiku Abubakar sent a May Day statement to recognize worker endurance then asked the government to treat labor unions as collaborators instead of growth tools.
The Head of Civil Service of the Federation Mrs. Didi Walson-Jack commended the workers’ commitment while asking them to sustain their efforts toward national growth.
She emphasized that we should use unity with innovation to develop a powerful Nigeria.
