The Lagos State Government has extended its work-from-home policy for workers for the next three months to alleviate the pain caused by the fuel pump prices increase.
On Wednesday, the State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, granted the extension via a circular signed by the state Head of Service, Bode Agoro.
Recall that on February 28, the governor mandated that the staff work remotely on certain days.
He directed that employees in grades 1-14 be permitted to work from home two days per week, while those in grades 15-17 be allowed to work from home one day per week.
The action was intended to mitigate the effects of the elimination of fuel subsidies on workers.
Sanwo-Olu claimed in Wednesday’s circular that the policy had a beneficial influence on worker productivity in the various ministries, departments, and agencies of the state government.
The extension took effect from September 4.
REPORTERS AT LARGE earlier reported that the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the increase in the pump price of fuel to over N1,000 per litre across the country, describing it as a brutal assault on the sensibility of Nigerians.
PDP said the increase, especially at this time, “is a huge recipe for crisis as Nigerians cannot bear its worsening effect on the suffocating economic hardship which they currently face under the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led APC administration.”
Debo Ologunagba, National Publicity Secretary of the party, in a statement in Abuja, on Wednesday, lamented that the “secretive and corrupt administration of the petroleum sector and persistent increase in fuel price under the Tinubu-administration without due regard to the wellbeing of the people is akin to pushing Nigerians to the wall and daring them to do their worst.
This was just as the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) demanded on Tuesday that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) immediately reverse the fuel price increase, claiming that it has made Nigerians’ misery worse
