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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J THE IndustriALL Global Union, Africa, has commended the Federal Government’s Executive Council for the constitution of a National Minimum Wage Committee to process the negotiation for a new wage for Nigerian workers, urging stakeholders to negotiate a new living wage for those he described as “impoverished African workforce.” Speaking through its Vice President, Mr. Issa Aremu, in commemoration of the 2017 Africa Day yesterday, with the theme Harnessing the Demographic Dividend through investments in Youth, the body also commended the South African government for embracing the policy of National Minimum Wage, following long agitations by South African trade unions and workers declaring that it “was better late than never.” Aremu, who is also the General Secretary of the National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN, and a member of the National Executive Council, NEC, of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, called on Africa leaders to “pa...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Peter Okutu ABAKALIKI—A 35-year-old lady, Josephine Mba, was yesterday, found dead in her apartment at 9c, Igweogbofia Street, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State. Mba’s decomposing body was found inside her single apartment with flies feasting on her remains. The lady who hailed from Amata Akpoha in Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, was the secretary of Great Minds Academy, a private school in Abakaliki. Many residents of the area have fled following the odour from her decomposing body. Chairman, Ebonyi State Emergency Management Agency, Evangelist Ephraim Ononye, assured that the corpse will be evacuated. “It is the police that will ascertain whether the deceased committed suicide. The police will carry out autopsy and her family will come in,” Ononye said. The post Woman, 35, found dead in her room in Ebonyi appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2pYjt99

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Godwin Oritse, with agency report A BOUT 43 vessels and 58 seafarers were attacked and captured in the first quarter of 2017, slightly more than the same period last year, according to the latest International Chamber of Commerce, ICC, International Maritime Bureau, IMB, piracy report. The global report highlights persisting violence in piracy hotspots off Nigeria and around the Southern Philippines, where two crew members were killed in February. Indonesia also reported frequent incidents, mostly low-level thefts from anchored vessels. In total, 33 vessels were boarded and four fired upon in the first three months of 2017. According to the report, armed pirates hijacked two vessels, both off the coast of Somalia, where no merchant ship had been hijacked since May 2012. Four attempted incidents were also received. The report said of the 27 seafarers kidnapped worldwide for ransom between January and March 2017, 63 per cent were in the Gulf of Guinea, addi...