{"id":265041,"date":"2020-10-01T23:29:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T22:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=265041"},"modified":"2020-10-02T05:33:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T04:33:47","slug":"nigeria-at-60-nlc-makes-demands-from-nigerian-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=265041","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria at 60: NLC makes demands from Nigerian govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has called on the Federal Government to provide a resilient base for sustainable development for the wellbeing of all Nigerians regardless of ethnic and religious orientation in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ayuba Wabba, NLC President, made the call in a message to workers and Nigerians at the country\u2019s 60th Independence Anniversary with the theme, \u201cTogether\u201d on Thursday in Abuja, NAN reports.<\/p>\n<p>Wabba also said that the journey of Nigeria\u2019s nationhood could not be complete without citing the timeless and great contribution of the Nigerian working class in the liberation and developmental struggle for the nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing together after 60 years of independence despite being through very tumultuous moments in our national life, including experiencing a very bloody civil war is certainly something to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut being \u2018together\u2019 must\u2019ve got a stronger value than mere physical co-existence and enforced tolerance of ourselves. At 60 years, we must confer a bigger value to our being together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur togetherness amounts to nothing if we\u2019re not tapping from the wealth of knowledge, experience and cultural diversity of the Nigerian people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur being together amounts to nothing if the rich intellectual resource of our people isn\u2019t applied to solving key developmental issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur togetherness might as well be a liability if we fail to use the political process to achieve national consensus on the Nigeria of our dream,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Wabba added: \u201cIt\u2019s sad that at 60 years, our political leaders still prefer to send their children to schools abroad and treat themselves in foreign hospitals since our public schools and hospitals have been so terribly mismanaged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTruly, the message Nigerians, especially workers, get when our political leaders say that we\u2019re together is that we\u2019re together to the extent of baking the national cake.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has called on the Federal Government to provide a resilient base for sustainable development for the wellbeing of all Nigerians regardless of ethnic and religious orientation in the country. Mr. Ayuba Wabba, NLC President, made the call in a message to workers and Nigerians at the country\u2019s 60th Independence Anniversary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":265042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[41,5728,9786,4448],"class_list":["post-265041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-buhari","tag-festus-keyamo","tag-ngige","tag-nlc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/265042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}