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File photo dated 01/09/20 of the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak. The Government is being urged by MPs to publish a list of companies which have signed up to the furlough scheme amid concerns it does not know how much is being lost through fraud a The Chancellor Rishi Sunak is preparing to deliver his Budget on March 3 in the face of heightened scrutiny and commentary. The background, informed by the global Covid-19 pandemic, is emergency spending and cuts which have informed the UK’s largest peacetime deficit. All very straightforward. Some recent commentary has centred upon the prospect of tax rises designed to address the public finance issues. There are voices within his own party known to advocate that the Chancellor stay his hand in this regard. The argument is that immediate focus should be on economic recovery, fostered by further support measures for individuals and businesses. The Institute of Fiscal Studies has made a similar call to the effect tha
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NLC threatens strike over minimum wage
On Nationwide protest holds March 10 Also threatens to picket filling stations over the hoarding of petrol, artificial fuel scarcity
By Joseph Erunke, ABUJA
THE Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Tuesday, threatened that it would mobilize Nigerian workers to embark on industrial action over an alleged attempt to transfer minimum wage to the concurrent list.
It also threatened to picket fuel station over alleged hoarding of petrol by filling stations thus creating a scarcity of the product in the country.
The National Executive Council, NEC, of NLC, said the nationwide strike could be halted if only the National Assembly back down on its efforts at passing into law, a Bill seeking movement of the minimum wage from the Executive Legislative List to the Concurrent Legislative List.
NLC, TUC set for nationwide strike over FG move to remove minimum wage from exclusive list NLC, TUC set for nationwide strike over FG move to remove minimum wage from exclusive list
• Begin national protest on Wednesday 10, March
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The organised labour – Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) – is set to embark on a nationwide strike over the move by the National Assembly to remove the issue of National Minimum Wage from the Exclusive Legislative List, describing the move as a ploy to allow some state governors to pay slave wages to the poor and hapless workers.
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This week in history: March 1-7
28 February 2021
Aznar in June 1996, after being sworn in as prime minister
On March 3, 1996, the right-wing Popular Party won a narrow victory in Spain’s national elections. It was only the second time in history that power passed from one party to another since the Spanish Civil War and the coming to power of the fascist dictator Francisco Franco.
The election brought an end to more than 13 years of rule by Spain’s Socialist Party and its leader Felipe Gonzalez. Yet the Popular Party and its incoming prime minister, Jose Maria Aznar, whose father and grandfather were prominent Franco supporters, won by a margin of just 1.4 percent of the vote, barely 340,000 out of the more than 25 million ballots cast.