According to news reports, starting from January next year, Nigerians trading in Zimbabwe will no longer be allowed to. Zimbabwean authorities said they have given foreign
shop-owners, mostly Chinese and Nigerian nationals, an ultimatum to shut
down their businesses by January. 1, 2014.
A top official of the black
empowerment ministry said only
Zimbabweans had the right to run shops that have sprung up across the
country and are termed foreign businesses targeted under the nation’s
black empowerment laws, the state-controlled Herald newspaper
reportedFriday.
Those laws, passed in 2007, demand foreign businesses to cede 51
percent control to local blacks. The foreign shop owners have been
criticized for taking retail trade opportunities from Zimbabwean traders by selling cheap imports.
Poor townships and city flea markets have in recent years been inundated
by shops run by foreigners. According to state media, shop owners who
fail to comply will be arrested.
From Integrity Reporters
The
Sokoto State Government said on Sunday that it would give out in a mass
wedding, 250 widows and widowers across the state to give them a new
lease of life.
Alhaji Zubairu Goronyo, the state Commissioner for
Social Development, who announced this at the screening of the
beneficiaries in Sokoto, said that the venture would gulp N30 million.
According to him, a date will soon be fixed for the exercise.
A
correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, who witnessed the
screening that was done to establish the health status of the
beneficiaries, reported that it was handled by various committees.
Alhaji
Zubairu said that beds, mattresses, sets of chairs, curtains and two
sets of female wrappers would be given to each of the 125 brides.
He
said that similarly, the grooms would be given two sets of guinea
brocade, N20,000 each as dowry to formalise the marriage agreement, and
another N20,000 each to boost their businesses.
The commissioner
said that the state governor, Alhaji Aliyu Wamakko, and the Sultan of
Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, would serve as guardians to the brides
and grooms at the ceremony.
Source: News Agency of Nigeria
‘The exercise is going to be on a quarterly basis, so as to enable more potential brides and grooms to benefit,” he said
The leadership of the Academic Staff Union of University, ASUU, has said
that the 4month old strike would only be called off if the federal
government pays them their four month salary arrears since the inception
of the strike as well as the full implementation of the N1.2trillion
federal govt proposed funding for public universities with the
immediate release of N100billion this year. The remaining N1.1trillion
would be spread for 5 years.
They made this resolution after their Friday November 23rd National Executive Council meeting held in Kano state. A meeting
between them and President Jonathan is been called for by the
association before they can call off the strike.
