2023 MAY DAY: ‘Nigerian workers most resilient anywhere under the sun’ – Prof Faduyile
Professor Francis Adedayo Faduyile, the special adviser to Ondo State governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu, on Health, has sent his good wishes to all Nigerian workers as they celeberate this year’s May Day.
The Professor of Pathology and Forensic Medicine, in a statement he issued on Monday described the Nigerian workers as the agents of development with commitment to building a better Nigeria.
“The Nigerian workers are trustworthy, dedicated, patriotic, and most resilient anywhere under the sun”.
“Not minding the state of the Nigerian economy, they remain committed to the tasks of optimal service delivery and nation building at the forefront of the government programmes and policies.
“They deserve to be celebrated for their sacrifices and contributions to national development.”
International Workers’ Day, also known as Labour Day in some countries and often referred to as May Day, is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement and occurs every year on 1 May, or the first Monday in May.
Traditionally, 1 May is the date of the European spring festival of May Day. In 1889, the Marxist International Socialist Congress met in Paris and established the Second International as a successor to the earlier International Workingmen’s Association.
They adopted a resolution for a “great international demonstration” in support of working-class demands for the eight-hour day. The 1 May date was chosen by the American Federation of Labor to commemorate a general strike in the United States, which had begun on 1 May 1886 and culminated in the Haymarket affair four days later.
The demonstration subsequently became a yearly event. The 1904 Sixth Conference of the Second International, called on “all Social Democratic Party organisations and trade unions of all countries to demonstrate energetically on the First of May for the legal establishment of the eight-hour day, for the class demands of the proletariat, and for universal peace”.
The 1st of May, or first Monday in May, is a national public holiday in many countries, in most cases as “International Workers’ Day” or a similar name.
Some countries celebrate a Labour Day on other dates significant to them, such as the United States and Canada, which celebrate Labor Day on the first Monday of September.
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I wholly agree with Prof. Faduyile.
Our Civil service, and other sectors under the government are flawed in their administration. The same ‘mostly lazy’ civil servants we complain about juxtaposed in the private sector, are very productive and efficient. Our incoming leadership will just have to design ways to get the average civil servant ‘off his/her butt’s.
One way I think, is revamping our reward and punishment system. No matter how much we want the change, if the undeserving still get rewards and the hardworking godfatherless get the stick when things fall short, we’ll all just keep static.
I agree with you