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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Victor Ahiuma-Young, reporting from Geneva, Switzerland G eneva : ORGANISED Labour, yesterday in Geneva, Switzerland, told the international community that the worsening conditions of Nigerian workers were getting out of hand. Speaking through the President of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Mr.  Ayuba Wabba, labour blamed the high and increasing cost of living, rising number of dependants given the deepening unemployment situation, low social protection coverage, delayed payment of salaries, among others, for the situation. According to him:  “We wish to state that the situation of the working poor in Nigeria continues to be dire and exacerbating. It is for these reasons that we have demanded and achieved the composition of the tripartite national minimum wage committee to deliver an upward review. “We also wish to state that migration, as an unstoppable human phenomenon, will require broad-based collaboration, especially as we seek to ensure share...

http://ift.tt/2pZoJX3 By Emmanuel Ovuakporie ABUJA —THE House of Representatives, yesterday,  summoned Mr Godwin Emefiele, Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and Mr Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over the N12 billion virtual currency scheme involving 60,000 Nigerian investors. Chairman, House Committee on Public Petition, Mr Uzoma Nkem-Abonta, who issued the directive at the end of the investigative hearing on the petition instituted by Philemon Gora, promoter of the virtual currency scheme,  also directed Mr Ibrahim Idris, Inspector General of Police, to appear in person before the committee on  May 30, 2017. The petitioner alleged that Diamond Bank unlawfully closed the scheme’s account and withheld fund deposited in the account worth N12 billion. Gora, who assured the committee of paying all the depositors as soon as the account was unfrozen, lamented that he was informed that the bank account of the scheme ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Kingsley Omonobi Abuja —The Nigerian Air Force, yesterday,  immortalised two of its Alpha Jet fighter pilots, late Squadron Leader BB Ado, and Flying Officer AJ Layelmenson, who lost their lives during a military operation to stop terrorists backed-rebels from over running the administration of Mali in 2013. The Alpha jets they flew were said to have crashed during the African-led International Support Mission to Mali, AFISMA. Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar,  who immortalised the officers by naming newly constructed Transit and Married Officers blocks of flats after them at NAF Base, Abuja, said: “The two blocks of flats have been appropriately named after our two gallant officers,  who died while on active duty during AFISMA in 2013.” Sadique said: “Two young officers paid the supreme sacrifice while carrying out the noble task of projecting our nation’s interest, hence the need to immortalize them.” This is in consonance ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Haroon Balogun T he Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Nigeria will tomorrow confer International Peace Award on the Arch Bishop of Abuja, John Onaiyekan during the group’s Jalsa Tarbiyya Islamic Training Conference for Northern Nigeria. The award which will hold at the International Conference Center, Abuja was meant to reward the meritorious service of the Bishop Onaiyekan on inter religious harmony in Nigeria.  In 2016, the Peace Award was given to General Abdul Salami Abubakar at the same venue. The Ahmadiyya Islamic Conference for the Northern Region will feature lectures on inter religious issues and global peace from eminent Islamic scholars and leaders for different religious groups. Delegates from all parts of Nigeria are already in Abuja for the three day event.   The post Bishop Onaiyekan bags Ahmadiyya Int’l Peace Award appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2rk52NA

http://ift.tt/2p7PcAu Okonkwo The Executive Director of the National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI) Umudike, Dr Julius Okonkwo, has described the elongated strike by the Non-Academic Staff Union and Associated Institutions (NASU) as unnecessary and uncalled for. He therefore called on all the striking NRCRI NASU staff that have remained at home due to the strike but continued to collect government salary since May 2016, to return to their duty posts in their own interest. Okonkwo, who spoke at the opening of the NRCRI 2017 research planning and review workshop, noted that there are three unions at the Institute that include Academic Staff Union of Research Institutes (ASURI), Senior Staff Association (SSA) and NASU, explained that the trio “are great partners to the management of NRCRI and in fact, the members have contributed to the success stories of the Institute.” He stressed the importance of sustaining the positive attitude of the unions believing that...

http://ift.tt/2pHi7wY Edwin Kiagbodo Clark Ijaw National Leader, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark has blasted former President Olusegun Obasanjo, accusing him of influencing the publication of the book, Against the Run of Play written by Segun Adeniyi, to authenticate what Obasanjo wrote earlier about former President Goodluck Jonathan and Ijaw people in his book, My Watch. Clark described Obasanjo as a man who only believes in himself and no other. In an open letter to the former leader, Clark said: “I received several calls from Nigeria recently while in London about a new book being presented by Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi, former Special Adviser on Media to the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. Adeniyi had earlier written a book after the death of Yar’Adua. In that book titled Power, Politics and Death he made some unpalatable remarks about you. “He later apologised for the statements he made against you. I am therefore not surprised that Adeniyi has now fulfilled his promise to y...