Why not in UK too?

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hattra replied

7 July 2006, 17:46
Is this another version of the "Nigerian scam"?
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xoggoth replied

7 July 2006, 17:46
Brill! We should certainly learn from that.

That loads of oil money & high poverty really sucks. Much more of the wealth of a natural resource extracted from a region should go to the people who live there. One of the few bits of civil unrest I am entirely on the side of the insurrectionists.
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Francko started a topic Why not in UK too?

7 July 2006, 15:54
Why not in UK too?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/5158890.stm

Nigeria to cut thousands of jobs

Nigeria's civil servants have a poor reputation
Some 33,000 Nigerian civil servants are to lose their jobs by the end of this year, a minister has said.
This amounts to about 20% of Nigeria's 160,000 public workers.

The minister in charge of civil service reform, Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai, said that those who did not lose their jobs would be given an unspecified pay rise.

He said many of those to be sacked were unfit, guilty of serious misconduct or "ghost workers", inherited from the years of military rule.

However, some 50 billion naira ($389m) has been set aside to make redundancy payments, Mr Rufai said.

The measures are intended to improve efficiency in Nigeria's civil service, which has a poor reputation.

Nigeria's civil servants union is not strong and the more militant Nigeria Labour Congress has not threatened any industrial action over the sackings.

Mr Rufai is one of the team brought in by President Olusegun Obasanjo to help turn round Nigeria's economy.

Nigeria is Africa's largest oil exporter but most if its people live in poverty.
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