FG Warns Civil Servants

Living wage vs minimum wage

The Federal Government has called on civil servants to adhere strictly to the provision of the law, which forbids public officers from engaging in private practice.

The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Alhaji Bukar Aji, says henceforth, with the exception of farming, any civil servant who engages in private practice to the detriment of his responsibilities in the civil service will be deemed to have committed misconduct.

Comments:

Edo Boy: Federal Government should find something better to say. What do they expect civil servants to do when the salaries are not enough to feed the children and they are decent enough to find something else to make up, rather than stealing, like the senators?  Mind you, the civil servants are more efficient than the senators, yet they earn peanuts and senators earn millions of naira as salaries and allowances.

Rommel: Government should first consider paying a living wage rather than minimum wage to its workers and after that, any public servant who engages in private practice to the detriment of his/her public duty would then be made to reveal his motivation. Teachers are the worst culprits, they have so reduced the quality of learning in public schools that the only option is to be engaged by the same teachers in private tutorials. This has been bad for us and has gone on unchecked for years but why would they not do this?

Odia: The civil service has become a welfare service where workers are paid peanuts and are ill trained. Politicians are paid over bloated salaries, while the civil servants are, sadly, underpaid.

—punchng.com

LG autonomy

Should local governments be granted total autonomy as the third tier of government?

Comments:

Omooba: Local governments must be granted full autonomy if our nation must make progress. INEC should henceforth be saddled with the conduct of all elections. The current situation, where only candidates of each state’s ruling party “sweep” the polls makes a mockery of democracy.

Ganiyu Musa: We can’t continue to run LG in this manner. Inasmuch as the councils are being funded from federation account, they should be granted autonomy and INEC should be the one to conduct the election.

Mcfoy: If total autonomy is granted local governments, it means they’ve become a separate entity and no longer under the state. For the purpose of closer and better administration,  the state government should have control over its local governments.

—punchng.com

Child labour

As part of efforts to tackle the problem of child labour, the International Labour Organisation in 2002 set aside June 12 as the World Day Against Child Labour. The ILO estimates that 215 million children work, many full-time, around the world.

Comments: (nairaland.com)

Tatiana: Anyone who employs a child as house help is part of the problem and to make matters worse, some will not even enrol those children in school. So, those poor children will be busy washing the clothes of their own children, sweeping, cleaning and even taking care of babies while their own children are at school. If people stop the habit of employing children, that would discourage those parents who keep having children that they can’t cater for simply because they know the children can be put to work.

From Special One to Happy One

Jose Mourinho proclaimed that he is “the Happy One” on his return to Chelsea, adding that he is calmer and a better manager than he has ever been.

Comments: (nairaland.com)

Dipset: No longer ‘Special One’ after he has been forced to eat some humble pies.

GP15: Since Jose Mourinho always comes up with names for himself, the latest being ‘the Happy One’, maybe we can come up with names for other league managers, with former Manchester United manager, Alex Ferguson leading with being ‘the Retired One’, Arsenal Manager Arsene Wenger,  ‘the Austerity One’ and Sunderland Manager, Paolo Di Canio,  ‘the Rascal One.’