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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The 36 governors last night resolved to offset the backlog of salaries and pension arrears owed civil servants in the country as soon as the next tranche of payment from the Paris-London Club loan refunds are made. This decision was arrived at in Abuja at a meeting hosted on Thursday night by the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum and governor of Zamfara State, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar at his Maitama Residence. The governors met in anticipation of the release of the other half of the Paris-London Club refund which has been gratuitously approved for payment by the Vice-President Professor Yemi Osibanjo. The funds are expected to hit the states accounts within the month. The governors who are not oblivious of the hue and cry over the non-payment of the backlog of salaries and pension arrears and the precarious predicament of the Nigerian worker deliberated on the matter and concluded that in order to set the country on the path of growth, something imm...

http://ift.tt/2qBwIJk Police watch as commuters arrive at Manchester Victoria railway station on May 30, 2017 in Manchester.<br />A train station next to the scene of last week's suicide bombing in Manchester reopened on Tuesday for the first time since the carnage in which 22 people were killed as the city slowly returned to normal. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / Owen Humphreys British police on Friday evacuated an area in south Manchester after identifying a car that “may be significant to the investigation” into last week’s terror attack that killed 22 people. Greater Manchester Police said they had located the vehicle after tracking bomber Salman Abedi’s movements in the days leading up to the May 22 attack on a concert by US singer Ariana Grande. “This is a potentially significant development in the investigation”, said the GMP’s Russ Jackson. Officers sealed off a 100 metre cordon around the Nissan Micra vehicle, around 2 miles (3 kilometres) south of the city centre....

http://ift.tt/2rsXHeI US President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a welcome ceremony upon his arrival at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv on May 22, 2017, as part of his first trip overseas. / AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN Donald Trump’s first trip overseas was supposed to be about building bridges and clarifying his administration’s intentions to friends and foes alike. But the US president heads for home Sunday with some of Washington’s allies as bewildered as ever by the billionaire tycoon’s abrasive, unpredictable style and the substance of his policy plans. Trip stops in Saudi Arabia and Israel and the Palestinian territories secured broadly favourable coverage with Trump seen by some commentators as having finally hit a presidential note. He then emerged from his Vatican meeting with Pope Francis in buoyant spirits, declaring himself inspired to work harder than ever in pursuit of peace around the world. But ...

http://ift.tt/2qO0bE4 Congolese policemen patrol the streets of the capital Kinshasa (AFP Photo/Eduardo Soteras)<br /> About 100 riot police surrounded the main opposition party HQ in the DR Congo capital Kinshasa Tuesday, an AFP correspondent said, while a party spokesman claimed authorities wanted to stop them building a tomb for their late leader. A troop transport vehicle was burning outside, while a large tent was also smoking under trees opposite the headquarters of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UPDS) in the central district of Limete. Neither the authorities nor police would comment on the deployment. But a UPDS spokesperson said security forces wanted to prevent the building of a tomb for party leader Etienne Tshisekedi, who died in Brussels on February 1 while undergoing medical treatment. He was 84. “This is a show” staged by the regime of President Joseph Kabila “to stop construction work” on the tomb close to party headquarters, Augustin Ka...

http://ift.tt/2oCmZ6h The chairman, however, lauded the State Government for the payment of arrears of gratuities of more than four billion to retired civil servants at the State and Local Government service. The Nigeria Labour Congress ( NLC), has demanded a review of pension to a minimum of N25,000, per month, in Sokoto State, as against the four thousand naira being paid for the past twelve years. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the chairman of the congress in the state, Mr Aminu Umar, made this demand in Sokoto on Monday at the 2017 May Day celebration. Umar also called for the implementation of the government circular of December 2014, on the payment of gratuity and pension to staff and medical workers in the Local Government service, as their counterparts in the state service. The chairman, however, lauded the State Government for the payment of arrears of gratuities of more than four billion to retired civil servants at the State and Local Government se...