Indefinite Strike Looms as NLC, FG's Talks End in Deadlock Labour demands 200% wage award Govt worried over economic impact of another strike Meets TUC today
Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja
The meeting between the federal
government and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday, that was called to avert an indefinite
strike that the trade union centre said would begin from this Friday, ended without reaching any of the
demands of the NLC. This was just as the NLC proposed that the federal government should
grant a 200 per cent Wage Award to workers as part measures to cushion the effect of the withdrawal
of subsidy on petroleum products. Continued on page 10
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Edo Crisis Depeens
Chuks Okocha in Abuja and Adibe Emenyonu in Benin City
L-R: Receiver/Manager Arik Air, Mr. Kamilu Omokide; Group Head, Corporate Services, Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), Mrs. Iyatum Adode-Kobiti; Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Ahmed Lawan Kuru, and Chief Finance Officer, Mr. Olugbenga Ataiyero, at a media parley organised by AMCON in Lagos…yesterday
Despite interventions from different quarters, it seems there is no backing down in the bitter row between Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki Continued on page 10
Adeyemo Identifies Four Economic Reform Priorities for Nigeria
Commends Tinubu’s administration’s bold steps Says unified FX rates essential to attracting foreign investments, declares reversing the policy will be worse Dike Onwuamaeze and Vanessa Obioha The government of the United States of America (USA) has enjoined Nigeria to achieve a stable naira, root out corruption, protect the integrity of Nigeria’s financial system and articulate a fiscal strategy that would release resources for investments into critical sectors of Nigerian economy. These were identified as four economic reform priorities for Nigeria by the U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Wally Adeyemo, in an address he delivered yesterday, at the Lagos Business School (LBS), which was titled “U.S.- Nigeria Economic Relations: People, Entrepreneurship and Investment.” Adeyemo, stated clearly that he was in the LBS to talk about how the United States could be a partner in accelerating progress Continued on page 10
U.S-Nigeria Economic Relations...
L-R: Professor of Economics, Lagos Business School (LBS), Professor Bongo Adi; Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Wally Adeyemo; Vice-Chancellor, Pan-Atlantic University, Enase Okonedo; Professor of Legal, Social and Political Environment of Business, LBS, Olawale Ajai, and Director, Enterprise Development Center, Pan-Atlantic University, Nneka Okekearu, PHOTO: SUNDAY ADIGUN during Adeyemo's visit to Lagos Business School to discuss U.S-Nigeria Economic Relations: People, Entrepreneurship, and Investment in Lagos…. yesterday
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