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The Federal Government and Organised Labour, yesterday, agreed on modalities to crash transport fares and prices of essential commodities, especially foodstuffs.
This came as the House of Representatives asked the Federal Government to reverse the recent petrol price hike and take immediate steps to stabilise petrol and cooking gas prices through targeted interventions, such as temporary price relief measures, tax reductions, or subsidies on LPG for low-income households.
Rising from the meeting held in the Office of the Secretary to Government of the Federation, the government agreed to summon a meeting with state governors to ensure the N70,000 new minimum wage fully commenced nationwide in October.
The government and Labour also agreed to continue engagement and discussions to halt frosty relationship that had existed before now.
According to sources at the meeting, the government also promised to release over 2,000 Compressed Natural Gas, CNG, conversion kits in addition to the release of 45 CNG buses to Labour to complete the 90 buses earlier promised.
The Presidency on Wednesday, named the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume and the Ministers as those in charge of the country’s leadership in the absence of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima. Recall that both the President and Vice President are currently abroad while the presidency insists that leadership remains steady and that there is no vacuum […]
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