ON FUEL SUBSIDY...
As HR practitioners and driver of Businesses we cannot afford to take a back seat and fold our hands without proffering solutions to Senior Management and Executives, let’s be proactive.
Let’s not wait for that employee to slump in the office before making moves to ease this pressure and tension in the country.
Some initiatives you can introduce are:
👉🏽Remote or Hybrid work mode can be activated.
👉🏽Reduce work hours for early closure from work to enable staff get home on time.
👉🏽Introduce Rota-work system whereby some employees would have on and off-days.
👉🏽Employees can do car-pooling to save on cost of fueling.
👉🏽Organizations can sign agreement with Vehicle leasing companies to convey employees To and Fro their work places.
👉🏽Motivate employees by paying COLA (Cost of Living Adjustment) or make provision for one-off payment on transportation allowance for 2 months.
Inflation rate has been estimated at 18.5% so calculate COLA at 18.5% of gross salary or work around a variable depending on organization purse.
👉🏽Increase or make provision for purchase of data to help improve seamless work from home.
👉🏽Organizations can withdraw cash systematically and help re-distribute to their employees through their bank’s relationship managers.
👉🏽Serve free lunch or pick 1-2 days a week to serve lunch in the office if you cannot afford 5 days.
👉🏽Introduce wellness programs and do physical exercise in the office once awhile.
👉🏽Admin officers or Facility Managers should liaise with their preferred (Vendor) Fuel Station they partnered with for their staff buses, so they can negotiate and purchase fuel to buy in gallons and re-distribute.
Never have we had it so bad; some people with salaries unable to access it in the banks, the accessible funds are being exorbitantly levied; unavailable and unaffordable fuel pump price has made a mockery of wages and salaries and the take-home pay cannot take people home again.
👉🏽While you are at it, have you started considering what Business Continuity Plan (BCP) you need to trigger going into the removal of fuel subsidy?
As HR practitioners, let’s start showing love and concern as the People’s Advocate.
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#fuelsubsidy #fuelprice #nigeria
Why Nigeria should care about Internet poverty
The internet is the single greatest invention of our time. In 2023, internet access is almost as essential as food, shelter or clothing.
Traditionally, the term ‘poor’ is not often conflated with internet connectivity. In fact, when the World Bank authored a 1990 World Development Report on ‘Poverty’, the word ‘internet’ did not appear in the 276-page report even once.
Lack of access to affordable, quality internet could lock an individual out of economic opportunities, trapping them further in a cycle of poverty.
So, as the internet becomes indispensable for staying connected and making a living, it’s important to define a benchmark for internet poverty.
But definitions are only the first step to solutions. This is why digital economy analysts, not only explains the definition of internet poverty but also analyses how Nigeria should tackle its 65 million internet-poor population.
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I received this mail in my inbox yesterday and I just had to share it because many more people needed to read it.
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I have an inspiring message to pass across to you today.
Back in December 2017, I wrote down the message below for myself.
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In 2018, commit to doing the difficult things, the things other people run away from the things that scare you...
For it is in doing the difficult things that true progress is going to happen for you.
Think about the things you didn't achieve last year.
You didn't achieve them because you didn't do what it takes
to achieve them or you gave up too easily.
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So, let me ask you a question.
Are you living your life doing the same thing you have always done that is not bringing any improvement?
Or are you doing the same thing that the majority of people are doing which is why they are mediocre and poor?
Are you running away from those hard decisions that can change your life but seem scary?
HERE IS THE PLAIN TRUTH:
In order for you to move forward in life, you have to change a lot of things in your life.
Personally, I had to change some of my friends.
I had to change my routine.
And I also had to change my work ethics.
Change is scary.
It is not easy.
That is why the majority of people just wake up and do the same easy thing that doesn't bring any improvement to their lives.
E.g.
Starting a business can improve your life if you get started.
But many people don't do it because it is scary.
They keep listening to the voice in their heads that tells them to do nothing.
'What if you fail?'
Says the voice
Your colleagues, friends and family will laugh at you
So, many people don't do anything.
And a month passes...
Then a year passes...
Then 5 years pass...
And they are still in the same place.
95% of people who read this won't do anything.
They will just read and keep doing the same thing they have always done.
But I know there is a tiny 5% who will take this message seriously and make decisions that will improve their lives.
They are the ones who take responsibility for their lives and do what it takes to be in control of their income and their destiny.
I hope you are one of the 5%.
If you are, then I want to let you know that changing your life starts with reprogramming your mind.
Reprogramming your mind is the most important thing you need to do if you want to improve your income or just get ahead in life.
And reprogramming your mind starts with what you feed your mind on a daily basis.
As a Nigerian who grew up in Nigeria, many of us have to GET RID of the stubborn poverty mindset that has been programmed into us over the years.
This poverty mindset is your number one enemy that keeps dragging you down.
It is why many people keep struggling with their careers or any business they start
Until you begin to attack this mindset and overcome it, majority of the opportunities that come your way will end up the same way.
I know this is a tough truth.
But the earlier you accept it, the better for you.
May God help us all.
~ Toyin Omotosho
Ministering: Pst. Dr. Chioma Nwoba
Topic: Faith
Text: Mark 11 vs 22-24, 1 john1 vs 14-15, James 1 vs 1
Charge: When we call ourselves Christians the first thing we should do is have a relationship with our creator God.
As Christians God wants a deep relationship with him, he wants us to have a personal relationship with him. You can’t develop a relationship with God as a shallow Christian who only hears the word on Sundays.
1. Praying by faith according to his will
2. Fasting by faith
3. Giving by faith
You cannot pray effectively to God. God expects us to pray specific faith-filled prayers.
Once you have doubt about the certainty of your answered prayers you won’t receive it. Your role is to pray in faith with God's words and believe it has been accomplished. God will work it out for you.
When you fast you're not adding anything to God, you fast to humble yourself. Fasting makes you feel helpless and enables you to lean on the all-powerful God for help.
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#theword
#sundayservice
#dominioncitychimeavenue
#divineacceleration
Ministering: Pst. Dr. Chioma Nwoba
Topic: Faith
Text: Mark 11 vs 22-24, 1 john1 vs 14-15, James 1 vs 1
Charge: When we call ourselves Christians the first thing we should do is have a relationship with our creator God.
As Christians God wants a deep relationship with him, he wants us to have a personal relationship with him. You can’t develop a relationship with God as a shallow Christian who only hears the word on Sundays.
1. Praying by faith according to his will
2. Fasting by faith
3. Giving by faith
You cannot pray effectively to God. God expects us to pray specific faith-filled prayers.
Once you have doubt about the certainty of your answered prayers you won’t receive it. Your role is to pray in faith with God's words and believe it has been accomplished. God will work it out for you.
When you fast you're not adding anything to God, you fast to humble yourself. Fasting makes you feel helpless and enables you to lean on the all-powerful God for help.
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#theword
#sundayservice
#dominioncitychimeavenue
#divineacceleration