Akpabio: By Completing 650,000bpd Refinery, Dangote Has Shamed Nigerian Governments Says ordinary VP’s residence could not be completed until after 14 years Ejiofor Alike The President of the Senate, Senator
Godswill Akpabio yesterday declared that the Chairman of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote shamed
successive Nigerian governments by completing the 650,000 barrels per day (bpd) Dangote Petroleum
Refinery, describing the facility as the ninth wonder of the world. Commending Dangote for
completing the largest single train refinery in the world in a record time, the Senate President said Dangote
deserved all the accolades for the Continued on page 5
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L-R: Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu; Senate Leader, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele; President of Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote; Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio; and Vice President, Oil & Gas, Dangote Industries Limited, Mr. Devakumar Edwin, during the visit of the Senate delegation to Dangote Petroleum Refinery, Petrochemicals and Fertiliser Plant in Lagos…yesterday
President Bola Tinubu has declared that his administration is still retooling and rejigging Nigeria’s Continued on page 5
Senior Lawyers Differ on Uniform National Minimum Wage, Say Nigeria Running a Federation Insist individual states should negotiate separately NLC, TUC tackle govs, accuse state chief executives of acting in bad faith States should sort issues out with labour unions, says Makinde Festus Akanbi, Wale Igbintade in Lagos, Onyebuchi Ezigbo, and Alex Enumah in Abuja As the crisis between the organised labour and the federal government over a new National Minimum Wage continues to brew, some Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) have expressed divergent views on whether the proposed agreement between the two parties should be binding on state governments. In their separate interviews with THISDAY, all the senior lawyers agreed that the issue of minimum wage is under the Exclusive List on Item 34 of Part 1 of the Second Schedule to the 1999 Constitution, which provides that the National Assembly has the power to “prescribe a national minimum wage for the Continu-ed on page 5
DELIVERING ON MANDATE… L-R: Minister of State for Federal Capital Territory, Dr. Mariya Mahmoud; President Bola Tinubu; Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mr. Nyesom Wike; and Chief of Staff to the President, Hon. Femi Gbagabiamila, at the inauguration of engineering infrastructure in Guzape District, Abuja...yesterday GODWIN OMOIGUI