Daily Post Nigeria ‘Dialogue with them’ – Ajaero advises Tinubu on how to avert proposed protest Home News Politics Metro Entertainment Sport News ‘Dialogue with them’ – Ajaero advises Tinubu on how to avert proposed protest Published on July 22, 2024 By Williams Anuku President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero, has advised President Bola Tinubu to dialogue with the leadership of the groups planning to stage protests over the prevailing hardship in the country for talks, as it is their right to protest if they so wish. Ajaero, in a statement he crafted personally and sent to the media in Abuja on Monday, said the truth is that millions of Nigerians are angry about the state of the national economy. According to the NLC boss, a situation where most Nigerian families are forced to eat one miserable meal a day, whereby eating from the dustbin is now seen as a luxury, calls for a serious intervention by government.
While corroborating a recent country living standards index assessment by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, which established that about 133 million Nigerians live below extreme poverty lines, Ajaero said the International Rescue Committee, IRC, posits that in the first three quarters of 2024, about 32 million Nigerians have been exposed to acute hunger. In his words, when these statistics are added to the millions that are being recruited into the armies of the unemployed and underemployed Nigerians, one can easily situate the hardship, pai.