11/15/18

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Anambra 🚷Impeachment Saga: Gunshots Rock Assembly, 3⃣ Lawmakers Suspended

The All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, has suspended three lawmakers for allegedly spearheading the campaign to change the leadership of the Anambra State House of Assembly, NAN reports.

The Chairman of the party in Anambra, Chief Norbert Obi, made the announcement at a news conference in Awka on Thursday.

The suspended members are Mr Ikem Uzoezie, Mr Harford Osekke and Mr Victor Okoye, representing, Aguata 1, Awka South 2 and Anambra West State Constituencies, respectively.

Obi, who urged the aggrieved and warring members of the party to sheath their swords to avoid escalation, described the trio as ringleaders of the attempted impeachment saga.

“Granted the fact that we had problems during the just- concluded party primaries in the state, it is not enough to pull the party down the more when the party has set up a reconciliation committee.

“It is, therefore, the position of the party that all aggrieved members should sheathe their swords as failure to do so will amount to setting our own house on fire.

“Be that as it may, the three ringleaders of the attempted impeachment saga, namely Ikem Uzoezie, Harford Osseke and Victor Okoye are hereby suspended from the party, pending when they will appear before the disciplinary committee of the party,” he said.

It will be recalled that the House on Nov. 13 impeached its Speaker, Hon. Rita Mmaduagwu, and elected Uzoezie as the new speaker.

Mmaduagwu has since dismissed her purported impeachment, saying it is illegal and invalid, insisting that she remains the Speaker of the House.
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The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved the purchase of 400 Beretta assault rifles with 20,000 rounds of ammunition for officials of the Nigeria Prisons Service.

The Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau announced the approval at the end FEC meeting held inside the council chamber. The meeting was chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.

Dambazau said the arms and ammunition will be purchased at the cost of N272 million.

He noted that this will prevent further jailbreaks in the country.

“If you recall, not too long ago, our prison in Minna was attacked from the outside and some of the dangerous prisoners were freed.

“The prison has an armed squad. We realised after an investigation of that attack that one of the major shortcomings within that prison was lack of adequate arms and ammunition.”

One prison official and a motorcyclist were killed in June 2018 during the process of a jailbreak at the Medium Security Prisons in Minna, the Niger State capital.
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NGF Chairman, Gov. Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari


The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) on Wednesday said they do not have the ability to pay workers a minimum wage of N30,000.

According to them, the N30,000 minimum wage proposal to President Muhammadu Buhari by the tripartite committee is not feasible.

The governors disclosed this at their emergency meeting in Abuja on Wednesday night. They also asked the Federal Government to accede to the review of the national revenue allocation formula.

The chairman of the NGF, who is also the Governor of Zamfara State, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari told journalists after the meeting that the states lack the capacity to pay the new wage structure.

“We have seen what has been presented to the President by the (Tripartite) Committee. As a member of the committee, our representative there said the committee did not take our submission of N22,500 because it came late.

“I am surprised. How can you do this without the input of the states because the states are the key stakeholders in this business.

“So, a situation whereby our report was not taken or considered by the Tripartite Committee, then I don’t know how the committee wants us to work.

“We want to pay, but the issue is the ability to pay.

“If we say no, it is not about the ability to pay, just pay, I don’t know how this formula will work and I don’t know how we can get a solution to the issue,” he said.

Yari, who read the communiqué after the meeting, said that a new committee would be raised to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari over the matter.
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The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has allayed fears of prolonged power outage in Benin, assuring customers that electricity would be restored immediately after maintenance work.
TCN attributed the outage being experienced by consumers in Benin City to maintenance work being carried out by Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC).
Mrs Ndidi Nba, the General Manager, Public Affairs, TCN, said on Wednesday that the outage was also caused by a tree that fell and tripped the breakers of T21 60MVA transformer during the maintenance work.
According to the general manager, this occurred on Nov. 7 and is caused by BEDC maintenance crew.
“Bulk power supply to the area has been restored and is on load shedding through a back feed from transformer T24 to bring relief to GRA, Etete, Switch Station, Koko, Ikpoba Dam and Nkpenekpen.
“TCN regrets the situation and reassures customers that normal supply will be restored as soon as TCN engineers rectify the damaged breakers,” she said. 
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Technology giant, Apple, has won an international award for making details of its supply chains public in a bid to boost transparency and help end modern slavery.
Since 2012 Apple says it has reduced the number of underage workers in its extended supply chain, which includes locations where rare earth minerals are mined for use in smartphones.
Labour rights groups had previously criticised Apple and its biggest manufacturing partner Foxconn for excessive overtime, hiring underage workers and failing to provide health insurance.
“One of the deepest commitments that Apple has a company is to leave the world better than we found it,” Angela Ahrendts, head of retail at Apple, said during Trust Conference in London, which is hosted by the Media.
“As a company whose work touches the lives of so many people, we feel we have an enormous responsibility, and an enormous opportunity, to turn our values into action,” she said.
She made the statement while receiving the prize designed by British sculptor Anish Kapoor.
The Thomson Reuters Foundation Stop Slavery Award recognises efforts by companies to identify, investigate and eradicate forced labour from their supply chains.
Consumer goods giant Unilever was the other winner of the annual award.
Meanwhile, financial services firm Standard Chartered and Thailand-based seafood producer Thai Union were highly commended for their work.
More than 40 million people are estimated to be trapped as slaves in forced labour and forced marriages.
Most of them are women and girls, according to the International Labour Organization (ILO) and rights group Walk Free Foundation.
Nearly 25 million work in factories, on construction sites, farms, fishing boats and as domestic or sex workers, says ILO.
With slavery now considered a major global issue, there is growing scrutiny on initiatives to meet a U.N. goal to end by 2030 a trade estimated to raise annual illicit gains of 150 billion dollars for traffickers.
Businesses are under increased pressure from both governments and consumers to disclose what actions they are taking to ensure their supply chains are free from slavery.
The world’s largest canned tuna company, Thai Union Group PCL, has also pledged to tackle potential labour abuse and overfishing, seeking to clean up the Thai seafood industry.
Thailand’s multibillion-dollar seafood sector has come under fire in recent years after investigations showed widespread slavery, trafficking and violence on fishing boats and in onshore food processing factories.
The company said in 2016 it would eliminate recruitment fees for its workers to prevent labourers from racking up debts to job brokers and from being exploited and abused.
The Stop Slavery Award was won last year by sports giant German sportswear giant Adidas, global fashion retailer C&A, U.S. technology company Intel, and British retail and services group The Co-operative Group.
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