COVID-19: NLC, TUC, NECA Sign Jobs Protection MOU

 Organised Labour in Nigeria and the Nigeria employers consultative Association, NECA has signed a memorandum of understanding, to protect job losses in post COVID-19

At the event in Abuja on monday, presidents of NLC  Ayuba wabba and TUC Quadri Olaleye say jobs are not only threatened by the CORONAVIRUS pandemic, but by unabating INSECURITY and oil price drop

Uncertain times for the economies of countries all around the world over the impact of COVID-19.

Nigeria is having her fair share as the economic sustainability committee, ESC, chaired by vice president yemi Osinbajo is projecting about forty million jobs, which translates a to 33.6 percent,  may be lost by december 2020.

Against this background, organised labour and  the Nigeria employers consultative association have signed a memorandum of understanding  to prevent these economic gloom predictions, especially in the private sector.

A job protection MOU between organised labour and employers appears to be a moral booster for workers who are already threatened by the job losses prediction of government.

Lazarus Ikenga, is a civil servant

Minister of Labour and employment, chris Ngige has said severally that government will be creating about two million jobs post covid -19 and will work to protect existing jobs, but with the ESC report, the feasibility of this statement remains to be seen.

BREAKING: Buhari to address the Nation on Monday, May 18

President Muhammadu Buhari will address the nation in a broadcast on Monday following the end of the first phase of the gradual easing of the COVID-19 lockdown.

Aliyu Sani, the national coordinator of the presidential task force on COVID-19, made this disclosure when he appeared on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics.

According to him, the president is to decide on whether or not the country should go ahead with the second phase of the easing of the lockdown.

COVID-19: Owner Of Sosoliso Airline Dies in London

*Victor Ikwuemesi, Founder and CEO of Sosoliso Airlines died in London this morning .*

He went into hospital on Saturday 11th April, 2020 for being sick, he was tested for COVID-19, Result came out positive.......... 

He was in ICU on oxygen, but when the oxygen was removed for him to eat he couldn't breath on his own, So they put him on a ventilator and he died shortly after......... 

May his soul rest in peace........ 

Covid 19 is real......

Stay safe..........

CORONAVIRUS: TU FACE SHOWS LEADERSHIP DONATES N10 Million

Nigeria's legendary musician Innocent Idibia popularly known as Two Baba has showed exemplary leadership among his fellows in the entertainment industry by donating N10, 000,000 to support the fight against CORONAVIRUS Pandemic

DONATIONS FROM OUR CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY IS COMMENDABLE TO THE FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19 IN NIGERIA 

1. Aliko Dangote           - 1Billion naira

2. Abdulsamad Rabiu  -  1Billion naira

3. Femi Otedola           -   1Billion naira

4. Tony O Elumelu      -   1Billion naira

5. Herbert O. Wigwe  -    1Billion naira 

6. Segun Agbaje        -.    1Billion naira

7. Jim Ovia                 -    1Billion naira

Corporate Organisations:

8. Access Bank         -     1Billion naira

9. GT Bank                  -    1Billion naira

10. Zenith Banks       -    1Billion naira

11. NNPC (under FG) -.  11 Billion naira

The donations from the below is highly commendable too:

11. Atiku Abubakar   - 50million naira

12. TuFace Idibia.     - 10million naira

Federal Government donated 10billion naira to Lagos State Government.

More donations are trickling in.......

Father Lord, let this scouge disappear, so that we can plunge these funds (up to the last kobo)  in building State-of-the-Art hospitals across the  country.

TOGETHER, WE SHALL OVERCOME . AMEN.

#COVID-19Naija

COVID-19: UNICEF advises proper environment cleaning by schools

UNICEF is advising all schools to clean properly their environment against CORONAVIRUS.

In its LinkedIn page, UNICEF also appreciated the efforts of health workers around the world

CORONAVIRUS: About 10 states to shut schools in Nigeria

Governors of Northwest, Kwara and Niger meet on security, Covid-19

Governors of states in the Northwest geopolitical zone, Kwara and Niger States today met in Kaduna to review the security situation in their areas and to agree joint responses to the coronavirus pandemic.

Present at the meeting were Governors Aminu Bello Masari (Katsina), Atiku Bagudu (Kebbi), Abubakar Badaru (Jigawa), Nasir El-Rufai (Kaduna) Aminu Tambuwal (Sokoto), Bello Matawalle (Zamfara) and Abubakar Sani Bello (Niger). Deputy Governor Nasiru Gawuna represented Kano State. The Governor of Kwara State joined the meeting by telephone.

The meeting, chaired by the chairman of the Northwest Governors’ Forum, His Excellency, Aminu Bello Masari, was also attended by the SSGs of the states, their Special Advisers and commissioners responsible for security matters. 

The governors received briefings from heads of security agencies, at the meeting which had in attendance Major-General A. Agundu (Commander, Operation Safe Haven), Major-Gen. F.I. Yahaya, GOC 1 Division, AVM, M.I. Mukhtar (AOC Air Training Command), Rear Admiral T. Pani (Commandant, Nigerian Navy School of Armaments) and other senior military officers. Commissioners of Police and State Directors of the DSS from the concerned states also attended the meeting.

After briefings and discussions, the governors of the nine states agreed on extraordinary measures to tackle the menace of banditry. 

A communique issued after the meeting disclosed that the state governors resolved to jointly fund security operations aimed at conclusively addressing the challenge from the criminal elements.

The governors also agreed joint measures to protect citizens from the likely impact of Covid-19. 

These include:

1. School Closures: Measures shall be taken by each of the states, in consultation with the national examination bodies, to close schools for a period of 30 days, starting from Monday, 23rd March 2020.

2. Sensitisation campaigns to discourage large gatherings until further notice.

3. Public health awareness campaigns: States will continue to wage aggressive campaigns to encourage citizens to uphold personal hygiene, including hand washing and environmental sanitation.

Signed

Aminu Bello Masari                                                                               Abubakar Sani Bello

Governor, Katsina State                                                                       Governor, Niger State

Chairman, Northwest Governors’ Forum.                                          Chairman, North Central Governors’ Forum                         

18th March 2020