Nigeria: whose globalisation is it anyway?
Interesting opinion piece from Morenike Taire in the Vanguard, which argues that the Nigerian government's top down messages are finding it hard to gain purchase with the wider populace. There are a range of questions that remain to be asked, not simply of the government and the Labour Movement.
With regard to the fuel price crisis: "Should Labour, as the petroleum marketers claim, be more interested in getting government to channel subsidy monies as well as excess crude incomes into infra structural development than in getting the subsidies to remain?"
Rather the Labour movement Taire argues that despite the government's best efforts, the fuel subsidy is the best way to side-step endemic corruption in the government system. But what's really eating ordinary people is:
"In Nigeria where our minimum 7,500naira minimum wage is 5% of Australia's, we are expected to compete in a global economy buying petrol at the same price. What kind of economics is that?"
With regard to the fuel price crisis: "Should Labour, as the petroleum marketers claim, be more interested in getting government to channel subsidy monies as well as excess crude incomes into infra structural development than in getting the subsidies to remain?"
Rather the Labour movement Taire argues that despite the government's best efforts, the fuel subsidy is the best way to side-step endemic corruption in the government system. But what's really eating ordinary people is:
"In Nigeria where our minimum 7,500naira minimum wage is 5% of Australia's, we are expected to compete in a global economy buying petrol at the same price. What kind of economics is that?"
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