Lagos ports expect 77 more ships in November

Seventy-seven ships laden with various items are expected to sail into Lagos ports between Nov.17 and Nov 30.


This is contained in the shipping position made available to newsmen on Thursday in Lagos by the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA).

The NPA said the information was, however, subject to change on daily basis.

It said the ships were expected to berth at the following terms: Ibafon, Obat ,Capital, Bovas, Jdam, GDNL and APM terminals, 5 Stars, Ports and Terminal Multiservices Ltd. and Tin-Can Island Container Terminal Ltd..

According to the shipping position, 13 ships are loaded with vehicles, two with kerosene, three contain petroleum products while 33 ships are carrying containers.

The report said that two ships are laden with rice, three with bulk wheat, two with diesel, three with cement while five are carrying general cargoes.

The remaining 19 ships are carrying bulk salt, sugar, and cement, bitumen, steel and aviation fuel.
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NYSC FCT Orientation Camp to be Relocated

FCT Minister of State, Oloye Olajumoke Akinjide, yesterday said that plans are underway to relocate the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Orientation Camp at Kubwa due to lack of space and over stretched facilities.

She gave the hint in an address, during the swearing in ceremony of about 3,978 corps member deployed to serve in the FCT.



The minister urged the corps members to conduct themselves in disciplined manners, adding that the orientation programme is designed to prepare them for challenges, which they are bound to encounter during the course of their service year.

While assuring corps members of adequate security measures put in place at the camp to guarantee their safety, she advised them to be security conscious and report cases of threat to security agents as well as the NYSC management.

Earlier in her welcome address, NYSC FCT Co-ordinator, Mrs Linda O. Amugo, advised the corps members to shun tribalism and other anti-social behaviours that would be detrimental to the unity of the country.

She disclosed that of 3,978 corps members deployed to serve in the territory, 2,128 are females while 1,850 are males.

Highlight of the event was the administration of oath of allegiance on the corps members by the FCT Chief Judge, represented by Justice Ufot A. Inyang.

The Chief Judge urged the corps members to abide by the tenets of the oath of allegiance taken as well as urged them to shun corruption.


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NLC cautions FG against review of Minimum Wage Act

Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) President Abduwaheed Omar has advised the Federal Government to shun any attempt to review the new National Minimum Wage Act.


Speaking in Ilorin, on Thursday at the 7th National Labour Relations Summit of the Michael Imoudu National Institute for Labour Studies (MINILS), Omar warned that the union would resist any attempt to review the Act.

Omar alleged that there was an unconfirmed report that state governors were pushing for the review of the law.

He expressed the fear that any such amendment would lead to the end of the Act.

Omar said that the alleged plan to amend the Act was obnoxious and not what the government should consider at all.

He argued that fixing of the minimum wage was not done merely for the sake of fixing but to ensure protection of the workers' wage.

He said if there was no nationally binding law on the minimum wage it would give the state governments the leeway to execute a wage policy that suited their interest but detrimental to the interest of their employees.

"I call on the Federal Government to, as a matter of urgency, forget about the issue of amending the minimum wage law. If there is a process in the implementation of the law that needed correction let us correct the process.

"The essence of the law is to ensure the protection of the workers on their wage so that they are not denied their due wage. We should try to sustain this," he declared.

The Ondo State Governor, Mr Olusegun Mimiko who was at the ceremony as the chairman of the occasion in his reaction, said that governors had yet to take a position on the issue.

Mimiko explained that the governors were of the opinion that the Act as enacted and made binding on the states was offensive to the principle of federalism.

He said that the governors were not against fixing a benchmark as minimum wage payable to the workers.

According to him, the government of the states which are their employers should have the opportunity of negotiating the agreement with their workers.


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