IT is difficult most times to depart from the trodden path of life but sometimes it pays to do so. It is the road less travelled that usually opens path to opportunities and progress.
Having followed the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, activism, I decided to take up the burden of helping these organisations seemingly devoted to the realisation of the welfare of salaried worker/wage-earners in Nigeria 's distorted political economy.
It was probably as a result of this unbroken story of Nigerian worker's salaried or wage troubles that General Yakubu Gowon decided, according to him, to reward workers with increased salary award for"their support and dedication during the Biafra War".
So, in addition to its current struggle to obtain salary increment starting at N615,000, though economically reasonable the impossibility of which the Federal Government has casually dismissed with its measly offer of N48,000 as minimum wage.
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