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•Says no road safety without fair wages •Laments highways becoming corridors of death THE Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has taunted the federal Government over its continued payment of what it described as poverty wages, challenging it to emulate state governments that have already increased workers’ salaries in line with prevailing economic realities. In a paper sent to the 8th Annual Lecture Series of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, at State House, Presidential Villa, Abuja, yesterday, NLC President, Joe Ajaero, declared that Nigeria could not achieve meaningful road safety without fair wages for FRSC officers and Nigerian workers. He declared:  “We demand a pay rise for officers, rank-and-file members of the FRSC, and indeed all Nigerian workers—not the brazen and insensitive attempt to further fatten the pockets of political office holders.  "FRSC officers, who risk their lives daily on our highways and stand for long hours under scorching sun and pounding rain, dese...

 ....Says allocation to LG too small to accommodate it THE Association of Local Government of Nigeria, ALGON,  said it cannot afford to pay the proposed N62,000 as new minimum wage, saying allocation to the councils from the Federation Account is too small to accommodate such minimum wage. National President of ALGON, Aminu Muazu-Maifata told Journalists in Lafia, Nasarawa State, that all the 774 Local Government Councils in the country get allocation of a little above 18 per cent from Federation Account monthly  and hinged his argument on the gross inadequate  of funds to pay  the N62, 000 minimum wage. According to  Muazu-Maifata, "Eeven if  the local government executives decided to set aside the entire monthly allocations for salaries,  ALGON will  still not  have sources to implement the new minimum wage. "Apart from payment of wages,  we  still have other responsibilities such as provision of affordable healthcare, educat...