The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has requested Nigerians to place their hope in Christ throughout this 12 months’s celebration and be assured that, in unity, each problem will likely be overcome to construct a extra resilient and compassionate society.
In a Christmas message to Nigerians, the President of the NLC, Comrade Joe Ajaero, additionally urged the federal government to, within the spirit of Christmas, serve the folks selflessly of their insurance policies and actions and search methods to uplift Nigerians from the struggling they had been immersed in.
He mentioned: “As we method the joyous celebration of Christmas, the Nigeria Labour Congress extends heat greetings and heartfelt needs to all, particularly our Christian brothers and sisters. In a 12 months marked by challenges and uncertainties, we discover solace and energy within the enduring spirit of hope, love, and the teachings of Jesus Christ. It is necessary that we, regardless of the quantum of our trials, proceed to be buoyed by the idea that, as a folks working collectively, victory will come our approach.
“Regardless of the difficulties that many people have confronted and proceed to endure, allow us to bear in mind the essence of Christmas—a time of reflection, gratitude, and the celebration of the start of Jesus Christ. His teachings emphasise love, compassion, and the enduring energy of hope even within the face of adversity. We should do all the pieces to like ourselves as staff and as a folks. It’s only by dwelling in unity that we are able to construct the wanted energy for a greater nation.
“Nevertheless, among the best methods to exhibit love is to have an understanding that we’re one. We’re staff, and we’re the plenty. We’re sure collectively by oppression, worry, deprivation, distress, poverty, and helplessness. This notion will grow to be so highly effective that it moulds and builds us into a strong pressure that can’t be damaged, which may then be used to create liberty and free ourselves from the shackles of the forces of retrogression. We should due to this fact not permit ourselves to be divided alongside any traces in any respect, be they ethnic, spiritual, or communal. This season should train us that we’re one!
“That’s the reason, within the spirit of Christmas, allow us to come collectively as a nation, transcending our variations, to unfold love and goodwill. It’s in these moments of unity that we discover the energy to beat challenges and construct a brighter future for ourselves and generations to come back. Nations are constructed when the folks resolve to face collectively and work in unity and love. It’s troublesome to construct the form of nation we would like if we proceed to see ourselves as completely different in any approach or kind.
“That is what has allowed unpatriotic components to hijack our levers of governance, which they’ve regularly used to negate the pursuits and needs of our folks and our nation. This season should lead us to resolve to construct a brand new nation by mending each crack that has allowed the enemies of the folks to take undue benefit of us and maintain down the nation perpetually within the morass of underdevelopment.
“As we collect with household and pals to rejoice, might the thoughts of Jesus Christ information our ideas and actions. Let His teachings encourage us to be kinder, extra compassionate, and to increase a serving to hand to these in want. Christmas shouldn’t be solely a time for festive pleasure but additionally a chance to mirror on our blessings and share them with others. We can not love others if we don’t love our nation. The love of the nation have to be tied to loving others and ourselves. If we love our nation, we should then be led by the ideas upon which nice nations are constructed.
“To those that have confronted hardships this 12 months, we provide a message of hope. Do not forget that even within the darkest hours, there’s a glimmer of sunshine. Collectively, we are able to overcome challenges and construct a extra resilient and compassionate society. Let hope be the beacon that guides us right into a brighter and extra promising future.
“We urge these in authorities to additionally permit the spirit of Christmas to guide them in all their insurance policies and actions. Jesus served his followers selflessly, and we hope that our leaders in any respect ranges will emulate this and serve Nigerians selflessly. As an alternative of heaping a heavy burden on the folks, it is necessary that they search inventive measures that may carry the current humongous affected by our shoulders. As an alternative of handouts, Nigerians anticipate concrete motion with strong outcomes.
“Nigerians needs to be allowed to win in accordance with the teachings of Christ as a result of it’s the essence of management. It’s only by permitting transparency and good conscience in governance that efficient outcomes might be delivered to the folks. Beggaring the folks insults their sensibilities, however creating efficient platforms to allow the folks to unleash their sturdy energies for wealth creation is what the individuals are asking for, and to our minds, this isn’t rocket science. Our leaders ought to due to this fact search to place a smile on our faces and pursue issues that provide hope to the folks, not insurance policies that demoralise and eviscerate.
“As we within the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) want you all a Merry Christmas full of love, pleasure, and the heat of household and pals, we urge you to keep in mind that in our collective motion, there may be hope. So, allow us to aspire by no matter means doable to come back collectively, stretching forth our arms throughout the divides—North, South, East, and West! It’s our nation! We will construct it!
“Could the spirit of Christmas carry peace to your hearts and encourage a renewed sense of hope for the 12 months forward.”
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