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http://ift.tt/2olIp9n Vice President Yemi Osinbajo The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the setting up of a 29-member National Minimum Wage Committee to negotiate and arrive at a new minimum wage in the country. The meeting was presided over by acting President Yemi Osinbajo. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige said this when he briefed State House correspondents on the outcome of the meeting of the Council held in the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Wednesday. He stated that the approval of the committee followed the council’s deliberation on the report of the joint committee of government and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC). Ngige said that membership of the committee would be drawn from Governors’ Forum, organised private sector and labour federation. According to him, the chairman and secretary of the committee will be appointed by the Federal Government. “Today, the Council deliberated on the report of ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Ahead of the call for submission of entries for the 2017 Etisalat Flash Fiction Award, Nigeria’s most innovative telecommunication company, Etisalat, has announced plans to hold a training workshop to enhance the skills of budding writers. The workshop will be facilitated by Ellah Allfrey an Editor and Patron of Etisalat Prize for Literature and Richard Ali, a Lawyer, Poet and Author is scheduled to take place at the Etisalat Training Facility in Oriental Hotel Office Complex, Lagos on May 17, 2017. Speaking on the imperative of the workshop,  Director, Brands and Experience, Etisalat Nigeria, Elvis Ogiemwanye, said the telco saw the need to organize the training session after the panel of judges for the Etisalat Flash Fiction Award announced that there will be no winner for the 2016 Flash Fiction Prize as none of the entries received met the levels of creativity, quality and excellence required for the award of the Prize. “The workshop is our attempt at en...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Nigerian nationals have topped the list of foreigners arrested for drug smuggling in Navi Mumbai over the past five years. According to the sources from the anti-narcotic cell of Navi Mumbai police, a total of 66 narcotic related cases were registered between 2012 and April, this year in the city. Nigerian nationals were involved in 14 of these cases, the police said. Since 2012, the police have arrested 14 foreign nationals for smuggling drugs to the city and 13 of them were from Nigeria, while one was from Ghana. Barely a week ago, the police arrested one Nigerian from Kopar Khairane who had come to sell mephedrone rock and powder. Around 25 gram of the drug in powder form and 85 gram in rock form collectively worth Rs 3.30 lakh was seized from his possession. As far as foreign nationals are concerned, several Bangladeshis were also arrested in the city in different crimes. But they were mainly into fake currency notes scam, cheating, theft and robbery. None ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Abuja – Mr Umar Dansuleka, President, Kano State Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, has asked the CBN to revert to its 2016 Forex policy that pegged exchange rate at N250. Dansuleka also lauded the CBN’s new intervention for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in an interview in Abuja on Thursday, describing it as being in the right direction. “The intervention for the SMEs is good, although the 20,000 dollars that is given is a start-up; for SMEs to thrive more has to be done. “It is not just giving the said amount but the policy that was made in June 2016 should be revisited to ensure that the range of naira to dollars did not exceed N1.99 to N250,’’ he said. The CBN in April opened a special foreign exchange window for SMEs, to enable SMEs operators to import finished and semi-finished items not exceeding 20,000 dollars for an enterprise per quarter. The apex bank’s special intervention was necessitated by its findings that a large numbe...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Jimoh Babatunde SITTING on 185,000 square metres land space on Kilometre 12, Lagos-Ibadan Express way is a theme resort that can compete with any in the world as it was conceived by those who have been involved in entertainment shows in Europe, America and Dubai. Hi-Impact Planet has become a destination for the family presenting a world-class amusement park with thrilling outdoor rides and exciting indoor games positioned for children, teenagers and the whole family to have a fun-filled experience. A visit to Hi Impact explains why Bisola, the runner-up of the just concluded Big Brother Naija TV show, was excited about the resort that she praised it to high heaven as she was  visibly impressed with what she saw and experienced at the resort during a visit with her daughter. Tourism market It is that experience shared by Bisola and others that the founder and chairman, Solution Media and Infotech, Prince Adeyanju Lipede, who has delivered entertainment...