Education: LASIAMA Begins Renovation of 20 Schools in Lagos

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Lagos State Infrastructure Asset Maintenance Agency (LASIAMA) has commenced renovation work in  Secondary Schools across the state.

At a project meeting with  Principals of the affected Schools on Thursday, the General Manager of the Agency, Nike Adekanbi stated that this phase of work became necessary following a comprehensive assessment of the state of schools in Lagos State by LASIAMA and the Ministry of Education.

The meeting, according to her was a strategic move to strengthen the relationship between the Agency and the Principals, being major stakeholders on the on-going rehabilitation projects, while adding that LASIAMA would subsequently embark on routine maintenance of the facilities.

She said further that the scope of work involves repairs of plumbing, electrical, windows and doors, damaged roof and walls, toilet and other essential features of the building to make them conducive and functional.

On the anticipated quality of work, the General Manager noted that the Agency, Contractors and End Users are all on the same page on LASIAMA's zero tolerance for substandard work as the objective is to make the schools infrastructure better than they were.

"We have told our contractors of our zero tolerance for poor quality and the need to achieve best value for money " she said, adding that every steps are being taken to ensure effective monitoring of projects in order to forestall compromise on quality.

She also stated that the Agency is operating in the full spirit of rapid delivery of services to the good people of Lagos, in the bid to fulfil it's own share of efforts to make Lagos a twenty-first century state.

On their part, the School  Principals commeded the administration of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu for giving necessary  attention to the state of School Infrastructures while some noted that such efforts have not been witnessed in recent years.

The renovation projects which are to be implemented within one to four months is only a fraction of several Government owned Infrastructures and Assets to receive attention across various sectors in 2020.

It would be recalled that one of the first actions of Mr. Governor upon assumption of office was to call for assessment of the Lagos State Infrastructure Asset Maintenance Agency (LASIAMA) with a view to making the Agency more vibrant and alive to its establishing mandates.

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Labour To Begin Strike, Directs Members to Comply

The Organised Labour has called on workers from all sectors of the economy to comply with the seven days nationwide warning strike over refusal of the Federal Government to reconvene the negotiation on Minimum Wage.

Mr Ayuba Wabba, President, Nigeria Labour Congress made the call at a joint news conference organised by NLC, Trade Union Congress and United Labour Congress on Wednesday in Abuja.

The News Agency of Nigeria  recalls that the organised labour had accused the Federal Government of stalling the negotiation by failing to mention a figure as a new minimum wage for workers in the country.



The organised labour had also on September 12 issued the Federal Government a 14-day ultimatum insisting that the Tripartite Committee on the new National Minimum Wage should conclude its work within the stipulated time frame.

The Organised Labour said it would commence nationwide warning strike over the non-implementation of the new National Minimum Wage with effect from midnight of Wednesday, September 26.

According to Wabba, the action is in compliance with the decision of the various organs of the organised labour, which endorsed the 14-day ultimatum served on the Federal Government by member of the unions who were part of the negotiation committee.

“The labour further mandated its leadership to take all necessary steps to  ensure compliance with the warning strike in the first instance.
“This is to compel the government to reconvene the meeting of the committee in order to bring it to a logical conclusion.

“In compliance with this mandate, all workers in the public and private sectors at all levels across the country have been directed to join the strike.
“Industrial unions, state councils, all workers organisation and our civil society allies have been directed to step up mobilisation of their members,” he said.

He also said that public and private institutions, offices, banks, schools, public and private business premises including filling stations are to remain shut till further notice.

Wabba said that all those who mean well for the country and want to see to the success of the action should cooperate with labour, saying that the action would remain in force until further directive are given.
The NLC president noted that the justification for the new national minimum wage cannot be over argued.

“We do believe that the reasons governors find it difficult to pay the national minimum wage are lack of political will, high level of corruption, excessive cost of governance, white elephants projects and among others.

“In any case, we are commending the governors that have indicated their readiness to pay the new national minimum wage and we advise those who are not prepared to pay to go back to their state and tell the workers in their state that they would not pay.

“We, therefore, find it necessary to caution against any attempt by government at any level to blackmail workers or/and their unions because we have been patient, considerate and patriotic.
“Indeed government had to commend workers and their union for waiting patiently for two years before commencing negotiations for a new National Minimum wage.

“We advise that our disposition should not be taken for granted,’’ he said.
NAN also reports that the Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige would be meeting with Organised Labour over the nationwide warning strike.

The National Minimum Wage Committee was inaugurated in November 2017 and commenced sitting in March 2018 with a timeline to deliver on its mandate of arriving at a new national minimum wage by August/ September 2018.


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