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Nigeria plans to distribute grains and fertiliser from Monday and raise salaries of government workers, the vice president's office said, in a bid to cushion the impact of ending a subsidy on petrol that has worsened a cost of living crisis in Africa's largest economy.

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[-] fiat_lux@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Was "Nigeria addresses cost of living crisis by raising government worker minimum wage, transitioning from fossil fuels, distributing food and fertiliser." too long, not catchy enough, or maybe too incendiary for Reuters?

The article sounds like a lot of different sensible actions are being taken to help the average Nigerian, actions which should also be applied across the West. Like paying workers more, making sure they have access to reliable food sources and transitioning away from fossil fuel reliance.

It's like Reuters wants to focus on the bowl of grain at an open-air market photo and make the policies sound "primitive" or something. They buried the union action and government negotiations right down the bottom of the article.

[-] _sideffect@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Raise salaries of government workers??

[-] Zorque@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Nigeria's main labour unions and the government in June set an eight-week timeline to finalise an agreement to raise the minimum wage for government workers.

At the behest of the union of those workers, yeah.

[-] VariousWorldViews@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Nigeria plans to distribute grains and fertiliser from Monday and raise salaries of government workers,

They had us in the first half, not gonna lie.

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