The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has assured President Bola Tinubu that the Presidential Committee on Implementation of Livestock Reforms would surpass his expectations.
Ganduje assured that the committee would bring succour to Nigerians over the farmers-herders crisis.
Speaking during the inauguration of the committee at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, yesterday, Ganduje commended the president for approving the initiative.
Ganduje said, “We will surpass your expectations and bring succour to Nigerians. Once, again, we thank the President.’’
The committee is expected to address the obstacles to agricultural productivity and open up new opportunities which benefit farmers, herders, processors, and distributors in the livestock-farming value chain.
The report of the committee on livestock reforms was submitted on September 28, 2023 to the president.
The National Livestock Reforms Committee recommended that Tinubu should create a “Ministry of Livestock Resources” to, among other deliverables, reduce the decades-long gory conflict between farmers and nomadic cattle herders nationwide.
Livestock ministry: We’ll surpass expectations – Ganduje thanks Tinubu
Livestock ministry: We’ll surpass expectations – Ganduje thanks Tinubu
Russian strikes kill three in Ukraine
Russian strikes killed three people in southern Ukraine, including at the Black Sea port of Odesa, authorities said on Wednesday.
Russia has carried out nightly attacks on cities across Ukraine since launching its invasion in February 2022.
“The aggressor targeted port infrastructure in the Odesa region. Unfortunately, two people were killed — a security guard and a truck driver,” governor Oleg Kiper said.
It was unclear whether the deaths were caused by direct hits, or falling debris from destroyed missiles.
The southern defence forces said Russia launched a ballistic missile and four guided missiles at the southern port.
“As a result of active countermeasures, three enemy Kh-59/Kh-69 missiles did not reach their targets,” it added.
Separately, a 62-year-old man was killed in Russian shelling on the southern city of Nikopol.
The air force said that 14 out of 20 drones launched over Ukraine were destroyed.
The news comes two days after a rare daytime attack on the Ukrainian capital killed 34 people according to an updated toll from Kyiv’s military administration.
AFP
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El-Rufai’s aides fault alleged N423bn fraud
Former aides of ex-Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, have said that Governor Uba Sani’s administration has been drawing from the various foreign loans facilitated by the immediate-past government in the state.
The ex-officials dismissed accusations that the El-Rufai government drew down the loans before it exited office in May 2023, just as they described as unfair and irresponsible the allegation by the Kaduna State House of Assembly that the former government mismanaged N423bn state funds.
This was contained in a statement on Tuesday, jointly signed by a former Commissioner of Environment, Jafaru Sani, Hafsat Baba (ex-commissioner, Ministry of Human Services), Thomas Gyang (Public Works and Infrastructure), Bashir Saidu ( Ministry of Finance), Ibrahim Husaini (Ministry of Agriculture), Aisha Dikko (Ministry of Justice), Fausat Ibikunle (Ministry of Housing and Urban Development), and Idris Nyam, ex-commissioner, Ministry of Business, Innovation and Technology.
An ad hoc committee set up by the Kaduna State House of Assembly to investigate all finances, loans and contracts awarded under the immediate-past governor had indicted El-Rufai and some of his appointees of siphoning N423bn state funds.
The Assembly, while adopting the report of the 13-man panel, asked the state governor to refer El-Rufai, his finance commissioner and other aides to relevant security agencies for investigation.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission subsequently set up a panel to investigate the alleged fraud.
But responding to a fresh allegation about the disbursement of some foreign loans, the former environment commissioner, Sani, described as exaggerated the number of loans listed in the probe report as having been contracted and funds disbursed before May 2023.
In the statement Sani read on behalf of other ex-cabinet members, he said, “Some loans were negotiated and agreed, as part of the aspirations for the progress and development of the state.
“However, disbursement of several of these loans listed in the (probe report pages 112-116) had not commenced by the time of the exit of the El-Rufai administration in May 2023.
“These include a $280m loan for the Rural Access and Agricultural Marketing Project. A $150m loan is alleged to have been received from the African Development Bank for the Kaduna Special Agro-Processing Zone.
“The El-Rufai government is justly proud of the planning and hard work its team did to ensure that Kaduna State made the first list of states selected for the SAPZs. However, AfDB had not commenced the disbursement of the loan by May 2023.’’
The ex-aide further said that contrary to the assertions in the probe report, it is the French Development Agency, and not the African Development Bank, that provided the $130.7m loan for the Kaduna Bus Rapid Transport System, adding that no cent was disbursed before the last administration’s exit.
The statement also listed other loans facilitated by the El-Rufai administration but which were being drawn by the Sani government, including the $20m loan for the Livestock Productivity and Resilience Support Project and the $62.8m Reaching-Out-of-School Children project.
It noted, “The (probe) report also listed some loans as fully disbursed when they were only partly disbursed during the El-Rufai administration. These include ACReSAL: Only $2m was received by the Kaduna State Government for the Agro-Climatic Resilience Semi-Arid Landscapes before May 2023, all of which was left intact for the successor government.
“Ascribing $494m XDR as the amount disbursed to the state, as the report does, merely continues the pattern of patent falsehood. Only $23.88m was received for AGILE as of May 2023, not the $280m stated in the report.
“As of December 2022, Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment had funded 12 major renovations in 110 schools and minor rehabilitation of 550 others. The initiative also financed the accelerated implementation of the life skills programme in 19 senior secondary schools.
“At the December 2022 Implementation Support Mission to States participating in AGILE, Kaduna was declared as the best state in two components: Renovations and Monitoring and Evaluation. The state also received an award as the most innovative in project implementation.’’
The former cabinet members further clarified that $352,855 was disbursed to the state in June 2023, for the Sustainable Urban and Rural Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene programme, after the El-Rufai administration’s exit.
PSC not reviewing 10,000 police constables recruitment – Spokesman
The Police Service Commission, on Tuesday, denied reports that it was reviewing the list of successful candidates for the 2022 constable recruitment exercise.
The commission also stated that it had never advised candidates to print any updated invitation slips or proceed to the Police Training Colleges.
This is the second time the commission has issued a rebuttal on this matter amid the ongoing dispute with the police over the recruitment exercise.
The row between the two bodies began 11 days after the PSC on June 4 released the list of 10,000 successful applicants for constable and specialist cadre roles in the Nigeria Police Force.
The police had rejected the list, alleging that the recruitment exercise was marred by corruption and irregularities.
However, the commission vowed not to cancel the list, prompting the Minister of Police Affairs, Ibrahim Gaidam, to step into the matter.
The matter has yet to be resolved.
In a statement on Tuesday, the Head, of Press and Public Relations, Ikechukwu Ani, advised successful candidates to be patient and await its official statement on the just concluded recruitment exercise.
Ani said, “The commission wishes to clarify that it has at no time issued any statement on (i) review of the list of successful candidates or (ii) inviting successful candidates to check their application on the newly launched portal.
“The commission has not at any time advised candidates to print any updated invitation slip and proceed to the Police Training Colleges. It has also not announced any date for the training programme, and the Monday, July 22nd 2024, date, bandied in social media, is just the imagination of the impostors.
“The commission wishes to advise candidates to be patient and await its official statement on the just concluded recruitment exercise.”
Ani warned the purveyors of the fake reports to desist as they would be made to face the wrath of the law when apprehended.
He said, “The PSC also warns these unrelenting impostors to steer clear of its activities, especially the recruitment exercise, and warns that anybody caught undermining the exercise will be dealt with in accordance with the law.”
FG sends 2,700 fertiliser trucks to states
As part of efforts to address the food crisis in the country, the Federal Government is sending 60 trucks of fertiliser to each of the states of the federation.
Each of the 109 senators will also receive two trucks of fertiliser for distribution to farmers in their constituents, while the 360 members of the House of Representatives will get one truck each to distribute in their constituencies.
The Senate, which disclosed the plan on Tuesday while debating on the food crisis at plenary, called on the Federal Government to expedite action on the fertiliser distribution.
The call followed a motion moved by Senator Sunday Karimi, representing Kogi West and co-sponsored by Senator Ali Ndume of Borno South at the Tuesday plenary.
The motion titled, “Urgent Need to Address Food Insecurity and Market Exploitation of Consumables In Nigeria,” noted that in the last few months, the price of goods and household consumables had been on an abysmal rise in the country, leading to a high rate of inflation, weakened buying power, and general worsening of living conditions of the vast majority of Nigerians.
Karimi further noted that the latest data released by Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics showed that “food inflation in the country skyrocketed to 40.66 per cent on a year-on-year basis, a significant increase from the 24.82 per cent recorded in May 2023.
“The current market price of food items such as beans, maize, rice paddy, yam, tomatoes, and onions, which initially rose by about 40 per cent after the removal of petroleum subsidy, has now increased to over 100 – 300 per cent without any attributable reason for the increase in prices.”
He added, “Although insecurity in food-producing regions, bad roads, increase in the cost of transportation attributable to the removal of fuel subsidy and depreciation of the value of naira are possible factors that have contributed to the increase in price of food items, household commodities, and consumables; the percentage of increase in cost of transportation and some under factors listed above is significantly less than the percentage increase in the current prices of goods all ever the country.”
Karimi lamented that all efforts made by the Federal Government to arrest the consistent increase in food inflation had not yielded the desired results.
“There is a need to be more pragmatic about addressing food insecurity, curbing herder-farmer crises, kidnapping for ransom, and terrorism, and ensure the development of a viable National Commodity Board to regulate the price of grains and ensure the elimination of artificial contributions to food and commodity inflation in Nigeria,” he said.
In his contribution, Senator Ndume lamented that this was the first time Nigeria was listed as one of the countries battling food insecurity.
He said, “Currently there are four countries, including Sudan and some others, that are facing very serious insecurity. Nigeria is added to this list this year by the International Rescue Committee as one of the spots for food insecurity action against hunger. World Food Programme also indicated that over 32 million people are expected to face a critical hunger crisis and emerging level between and August.
“I don’t know about some other colleagues, but here in the North, we have started seeing it visibly. This is the first time we are experiencing this level of hunger. It’s the first time Nigeria is being listed as one of the countries with food insecurity.”
In his comments, former senate President, Ahmad Lawan, noted that the Nigerians had been extremely patient but for how long he couldn’t guarantee.
He said, “Our constituents are facing real anger. I travelled to states, that’s within the northern states and I’ve seen firsthand how people, especially those who are neither in the civil service nor in any business common everyday constituents, are suffering, fighting, struggling to have food even once in a day under normal circumstances.
“In the rainy season from maybe June up to September or October pending when there will be harvests, but now, the silos are empty, we don’t have anything in the silos.”
Lawan added, “In today’s national dailies, it is written that the Federal Government is considering reducing or removing taxes on imported foodstuff.
“Here’s the catch. This Senate must immediately engage the executive. What are the issues? Which taxes are they talking about? Because we should be seen to be doing the right thing. We have little or nothing in our food reserve across the country and nobody to come and tell us they will distribute foodstuffs from our silos. The silos are empty.
“So it means we have to import food. And if we have to import, it means we need foreign exchange. This is why we have to engage with the executive. We have to help the administration.
“If we don’t take immediate action and our citizens under this situation of increased foreign price, increased electricity price, increased everything, and we are yet to get the right measures to provide food for our citizens, we wouldn’t like the kind of thing that we’d see on our streets.”
The former Senate President warned, “It is time that we take every possible action together with government to ensure that food flow in our country.
“The government must be entirely responsible because we cannot take people for granted for too long. People have come almost to the end of their patience.”
“The 1,200 bags of fertilizers (two trucks), the government wants to give each of the Senators for distribution to constituents, should be done fast as further delay, we render the intervention, useless,” he said.
In his contribution, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Saliu Mustapha ( APC Kwara Central ), informed the Senate that the “Federal Government is already sending 60 trucks of fertilizers to each state of the federation, two trucks to each of the 109 Senatorial Districts and one truck to each of the 360 federal constituencies.”
The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio in his remarks, said the food crisis facing the nation today, was a calamity foretold through insurgency, banditry and kidnapping, with attendant abandonment of farming by farmers.
Reiterating Senator Mustapha, the Senate President said that the distribution of the fertilizers must be properly monitored and ensure that it got to the appropriate quarters.
He said, “I have been informed by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Agriculture and the Deputy Senate president, that 60 trucks of fertilizers are to be distributed to stage governors and they should be distributed to people irrespective of their political parties.”
The Senate, after that, urged the Federal government as a matter of urgency address the food crises across the country.
Understanding Cross-Border Payments: An all-Inclusive handbook for Nigerian business
After the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a noticeable increase in international trade and a greater reliance on digital commodities and e-commerce worldwide. The significance of cross-border payments—financial transactions in which the payer and the beneficiary are located in separate nations—has been highlighted by this change. This blog post delves into the intricacies of cross-border payments, including their advantages, difficulties, and potential future developments.
What are Cross-Border Payments?
Cross-border payments serve a variety of industries and objectives. They are a fundamental part of the modern global economic infrastructure. These payments involve cross-border transactions between the payer and the recipient. As the world becomes more interconnected, cross-border payments are becoming more prevalent and essential. They bridge global trade, bringing together governments, businesses, and individuals from different countries.
Function in Global Trade
Global trade is one of the main purposes of cross-border payments. Businesses, from small enterprises to multinational corporations, rely on these transactions to facilitate their international operations. Cross-border transactions enable the management of international investments, payments to foreign suppliers and receipts from overseas clients. In this way, these payments are the backbone of our globalized economy.
Impact on Remittances
Beyond the commercial world, cross-border payments play a crucial role in personal remittances. Millions of individuals working abroad depend on these transactions to transfer money back to their home nations. This financial support is vital for their families, and it often contributes significantly to the economies of many developing nations. According to the World Bank, remittances to low and middle-income countries hit $540 billion in 2020, underscoring the significance of cross-border payments in preserving international economic stability.
Encouraging Foreign Investments
Foreign investment also benefits from cross-border payments. These transactions allow capital to move across borders, from individuals investing in foreign equities to multinational corporations establishing overseas branches. They promote the world economy’s expansion and prosperity by allowing businesses and individuals to expand their financial horizons and reach new markets.
Supporting Global Workforce Payments
With our workforce becoming more and more international, cross-border payments have taken on a new significance. Companies are now hiring talents from all around the world thanks to the advent of remote work. These international employees must be paid, often in their local currency, which calls for cross-border payments. The increasing adoption of remote work by organizations is expected to fuel this trend, further underlining the importance of these international transactions.
Common Cross-Border Payment Methods
Wire Transfer: an electronic transfer of funds between two accounts within the same bank or across different banks. It deals with transferring money from one account in a global financial network to accounts in other institutions.
International ACH: This is also known as Global ACH. An international ACH must involve international processing so that one can easily pay suppliers and affiliates outside their own country.
Payroll Cards: These are prepaid cards issued to staff by organizations, which they use to make payouts.
International Bank Draft: a type of payment instrument issued by a bank that allows the holder to pay a third party in a foreign country.
E-Wallets: digital accounts that enable individuals to transact online with other parties, such as transferring and receiving money.
PayPal: a global payment system used to make transactions across the globe, whereby one can exchange money at a certain time, although with high service transfer charges.
Paper Checks: Entities may use paper checks for international money transfers in a scenario where a global affiliate cannot provide bank routing information.
How Cross-Border Payments Work
Selecting a payment method: This is a process initiated by the payer, in which he or she selects the appropriate channel for the international transaction.
Checking the exchange rate: Currency changes might be a challenge since this results in variations in the amount that the recipient receives.
Providing the recipient’s details: This step involves disclosing relevant information about the person or company that is being funded or receiving the money.
Verifying the payment: After entering the payment details, the payer should ensure that the transaction details are entered correctly.
Sending the payment: In this stage, the actual transaction takes place after all the information is confirmed.
Tracking the payment: This step is crucial for ensuring transparency, confirming that the transaction has been completed, and resolving any potential problems.
Benefits of Cross-Border Payments
Market Expansion: Cross-border payments allow businesses to market and sell their products to a broader market compared to when they were confined to their domestic market.
Increased Revenue: Businesses can significantly increase their overall revenue by reaching customers around the world.
Improved Customer Satisfaction: Offering international customers a number of payment options will enhance the customer experience and, therefore, the overall levels of customer satisfaction and repeat business.
Competitive Advantage: Businesses able to manage the risks of international business operations have an advantage over those who can only conduct their business locally.
Challenges of Cross-Border Payments
Currency Exchange Rates: Volatility is also perceived as disadvantageous since fluctuating exchange rates can impact the total transaction amount, which puts enterprises at risk. Some online platforms provide services that can help you keep updated with the latest situation.
Transaction Fees: International transactions often impose certain charges that are relatively higher compared to domestic transactions.
Regulatory Compliance: Businesses commonly face issues involving the regulation of both the sending and receiving countries. It can be a complex and time-consuming process.
Fraud and Security Risks: Global transactions often expose a company to different forms of fraud and security risks. 5. Transaction Delays: Cross-border transactions can take more time than those conducted within domestic borders.
The Future of Cross-Border Payments
The development of digitalization and globalization are projected to drive the continued growth of cross-border payments. The emergence of new technologies, such as blockchain and digital currencies, has the potential to completely transform the industry through providing secure, efficient, and cost-effective cross-border payment solutions.
Conclusion
A comprehensive knowledge of cross-border payments can help businesses succeed in the global economic system. Despite the challenges ahead, with the prospects that cross-border payments offer and the numerous benefits to come, cross-border payments are a must-have tool for businesses in Nigeria and other parts of the world.
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No going back on N250,000 minimum wage, TUC insists
The Organised Labour still insists that the N250,000 benchmark remains the ideal minimum wage for workers in Nigeria, the President, Trade Union Congress, Festus Osifo, declared on Tuesday.
Osifo also stated that TUC and the Nigeria Labour Congress were meeting with officials of the Federal Government to reach an agreement on the minimum wage.
He disclosed this at the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Women Commission maiden Annual Convention in Abuja, with the theme, ‘The Dynamic Woman: Navigating Challenges in a Constantly Evolving World.’
Discussions on a new national minimum wage has paused following the decision of President Bola Tinubu to consult with stakeholders before sending the bill to the National Assembly.
The Federal Government and Organised Private Sector have agreed on N62,000 as the new minimum wage, but labour is insisting on N250, 000.
Speaking at the event, Osifo said negotiations on the new minimum wage has not been abandoned, rather labour and the government were fine-tuning the matter.
“The minimum wage negotiations cannot be dead. The 2019 minimum wage (that has expired) took about two years to see the light of day. We started the negotiations in 2017.
“We promised you when we started in January (this year) that we will ensure this one is fast – tracked for us not to be in the conundrum that we were in 2019 which took two years,” the TUC president stated.
He insisted that the minimum wage was receiving attention, adding that the President wanted further consultations before submitting it to the National Assembly.
“So where we are today, we submitted the divergent position in June, when we did that you know clearly that Mr President came out to say that he wanted to consult across board which is the governors, Local Government chairmen, organised private sector and labour, so we are doing some level of reach-out and conversations.
“So that what will be submitted to the National Assembly will actually be a minimum wage that will cater for the poorest of the poor, so for the fact that in the media we are not shouting, we are doing some level of internal work so that this bill will be submitted in earnest soon. We still insist on the N250,000 benchmark as ideal minimum wage,” Osifo stated.
Okechukwu, a journalist with Punch Newspapers, has 15 years experience covering Energy (Power and Petroleum), Finance, Agriculture, Environment, Humanitarian Services, Works and Housing, Trade and Investment, Capital Markets, Aviation and Transport, ICT, among others
Nurses, midwives suspend 5-day warning strike in Kaduna
The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, Kaduna State chapter, has suspended its 5-day warning strike.
This is contained in a statement issued by its chairman, Ishaku Yahaya, on Monday.
He explained that the level of seriousness and commitment made by the government through the office of the Secretary to the State Government, Head of Service and the Commissioner for Health resulted in the suspension of the warning strike and the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding.
The chairman emphasized, “We resolved to suspend the five-day warning strike to give room for more negotiations and await the government to fulfill its side of the MoU.”
According to him, the strike which started on July 8, 2024, to press home their demands for an improved welfare package, recorded 100 per cent compliance.
He commended the resilience, doggedness, and massive support of the entire members of the association.
He added, “Therefore, the strike is hereby suspended and you are expected to resume your normal duties on July 10, 2024.”
Yahaya said that the State Administrative Council appreciated the massive support and was resolute in making the struggle for the betterment of their welfare a huge success.
Nurses, midwives suspend 5-day warning strike in Kaduna
Samsung union dealers indefinite strike, vows production disruptions
A union representing tens of thousands of workers at Samsung Electronics in South Korea said Wednesday it would extend a three-day strike indefinitely in a bid to force management to negotiate.
The strike is the biggest labour action in the tech giant’s history and steps up pressure on the chipmaker’s management, who last week predicted a huge second-quarter operating profit increase.
“(We) declare a second indefinite general strike from July 10, after learning that the management has no willingness to talk,” the National Samsung Electronics Union said in a statement.
More than 5,000 members stopped working Monday for what was meant to be a three-day strike, part of a long-running battle over pay and benefits.
The move follows a one-day walkout in June, the first such collective action at the company, which went decades without unionisation.
The union has more than 30,000 members — more than a fifth of the company’s total workforce.
Samsung told AFP Wednesday that the strike would not affect production.
“Samsung Electronics will ensure no disruptions occur in the production lines,” a spokesperson told AFP, adding the company “remains committed to engaging in good faith negotiations with the union”.
But the union said it had confirmed “clear disruption in production”, and added that the longer the strike went on “the more the management will suffer”.
“Eventually, they will kneel and come to the negotiation table. We are confident of victory,” it added in a statement, urging more workers to participate.
– ‘No impact’ –
Samsung Electronics is the world’s largest memory chipmaker and accounts for a significant chunk of global output of the high-end chips used in generative AI.
But as semiconductor factories are highly automated with low demand for actual manpower, it is likely the strike will not have a major impact, Avril Wu, an analyst at Taipei-based research group TrendForce, told AFP.
“Even if the strike is extended, the current assessment is that there will still be no significant impact,” Wu said.
The union has been locked in negotiations with management since January, but the two sides have failed to narrow differences.
The union’s demands, newly released on Wednesday, include a 5.6 percent pay raise for all members, transparent performance-based bonuses, compensation for financial losses incurred due to the strike and a guaranteed day off on the union’s founding day.
Whether the strike hits production “depends on various factors, (such as) duration of the strike, accordingly lost days of production and recoup strategy”, said Neil Shah, research vice president at Counterpoint Research.
He added that it was also important “how Samsung management has prepared knowing this could happen and already have simulated the solutions to solve this quickly”.
Samsung Electronics managed to avoid having its employees unionise for almost 50 years — sometimes adopting ferocious tactics, according to critics — while rising to become the world’s largest smartphone and semiconductor manufacturer.
Company founder Lee Byung-chul, who died in 1987, was adamantly opposed to unions, saying he would never allow them “until I have dirt over my eyes”.
The first effective labour union at Samsung Electronics was formed in 2019.
Soon after, Lee Jae-yong, the founder’s grandson and current chairman of Samsung Electronics, declared an end to the firm’s no-union principle in 2020.
Samsung’s labour policy “failed to meet the demands of changing times”, Lee, then Samsung’s vice-chairman, said.
The firm is the flagship subsidiary of South Korean giant Samsung Group, by far the largest of the family-controlled conglomerates that dominate business in Asia’s fourth-largest economy.
Samsung recently predicted a more than 15-fold increase in its on-year second-quarter operating profits, thanks to growing demand for generative AI.
AFP
Kaduna nurses suspend warning strike
The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, Kaduna State chapter, has suspended its warning strike.
The association disclosed this in statement made available to According Online by its Chairman, Ishaku Yahaya, on Monday.
The union said it decided to suspend the strike following a level of seriousness and commitment made by the government through the office of the Secretary to the State Government, Head of Service and the Commissioner for Health which resulted in the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding.
“We resolved to suspend the five-day warning strike to give room for more negotiations and await the government to fulfill its side of the MoU,” the statement added.
Yahaya said the strike, which started on July 8, 2024 to press home their demands for an improved welfare package, recorded a huge success and 100 per cent compliance.
Ishaku commended the resilience, doggedness, and massive support of his members.
“Therefore, the strike is hereby suspended and you are expected to resume your normal duties on July 10, 2024.
“The State Administrative Council sincerely appreciates your massive support and resolute in making this struggle for the betterment of our welfare a huge success.
“We assure you of our readiness to represent you and to do that very well without fear or favour. Do not forget it is a suspension, meaning if the promises made are not fulfilled, we shall resume the industrial action at the appropriate time,” he stressed.
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