President Buhari Signs African Free Trade Area Agreement

Nigeria has signed an agreement which aims to increase trade between African countries. Eritrea becomes the only African country not to be part of the trading bloc.
Nigerian President Buhari signed the landmark agreement at the African Union (AU) summit in Niger and the first step will be to cut tariffs for goods from countries within the bloc but the timeframe to do this is yet to be announced.


Currently, African countries trade only about 16% of their goods and services among one another, compared to 65% with European countries, reports AFP news agency. The AU estimates that implementing the African Continental Free Trade Area – called AFCFTA – will lead to a 60% boost in intra-African trade by 2022.


It also reads that AfCFTA will create the world’s largest free trade area. With Nigeria signed up, AfCFTA’s dream of increasing intra-Africa trade, which currently lags behind the volume of trade the continent does with Europe, is now one step closer.

Now that AfCFTA can offer access to the enormous Nigerian market, they are in a much stronger position to negotiate with regional bodies in other parts of the world.

EPL: Mourinho to become Arsenal manager

Former Manchester United boss, Jose Mourinho could reportedly be back to the Premier League as Arsenal manager, according to The Times.

The former Chelsea manager’s last job was in Manchester United where he was sacked last November.

The Portuguese, however, could return to the Premier League as several reports are linking him to Arsenal.

The 56-year-old was seen at the Gunners Europa League match against Vitoria SC
Arsenal are having a difficult start to the Premier League this season as they are currently 5th in the table.

The newspaper reports that manager Unai Emery could be sacked if the North London club don’t make the Champions League next season.

FG and Labour Finally Agree On Minimum Wage

After days of intense negotiations, the federal government and the country’s labour unions have reached a deal on the implementation of the new minimum wage.


Disagreement over how the new minimum wage law signed by President Muhammadu Buhari in April would be implemented had lingered for months, with the organised labour threatening to strike.

The Minister for Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, disclosed news of the much-awaited agreement early Friday morning in Abuja shortly after a government team he led concluded a meeting with labour.

The meeting, which began at 8.24 p.m. Thursday, ended 3 a.m. Friday.

The disagreement had centred around the consequential adjustments in salaries that must be implemented across board in line with the new minimum wage law.

Labour was demanding a 29 per cent salary increase for officers on salary level 07 to 14, and 24 per cent adjustment for officers on salary grade level 15 to 17.

But the federal government offered 11 per cent salary increase for officers on grade level 07 to14, and 6.5 per cent adjustment for workers on grade level 15 to 17.

Agreement

Speaking after the five-hour meeting, Mr Ngige said the consequential adjustment agreed upon are as follows:

“For COMESS wage structure Grade level 7 gets 23 per cent, Salary grade level 8 gets 20 per cent, Salary grade level 9 gets 19 per cent Salary grade level 10 -14 gets 16 per cent while Salary grade level 15-17 gets 14 per cent, ” he said.



”For those on the second category of wages structure, CONHES, CONRRISE, CONTISS etc, Level 7 gets 22.2 percent, Level 8-14 gets 16 per cent , Level 15-17 gets 10.5 percent, ” he added.

Speaking on behalf of the unions, the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Ayuba Wabba, said both parties participated in the process and made input.

”We want our workers to be committed and increase productivity.The guideline will be transmitted to all state councils and they will work in harmony as well as TUC and NLC will work together,” he said.

Similarly, the acting Head of Service, Folashade Yemi-Esan, said the outcome of the meeting was fruitful.

”I think it’s a very good thing the labour unions and government can actually sit together in a constructive manner to get an agreement,” she said.

Speaking on the implementation of the consequential allowance in States, Mrs Yemi-Esan said the federal government can only provide a guide to the state governments.

“The federal government cannot tell what happens in a state but work starts immediately to implement the consequential adjustment and arrears will be worked out.”

President Buhari signed the new minimum wage bill into law in April 2019. But its implementation has been stalled over salary adjustments disagreement between the labour unions and government representatives.

Specifically, the problem centred around the issue of relativity and consequential adjustments of salaries for various categories of workers.

On May 14, the federal government inaugurated the relativity and consequential adjustment committee, which set up a technical subcommittee to work out a template for the adjustment of salaries of public service employees in line with the minimum wage law.

Yeye Boyfriends: Nigerian Ladies Share Their Experiences After Zlatan Promise To Give Out Iphone 11

Zlatan Ibile who just released a new song titled Yeye Boyfriend took to his twitter account to give out iPhone 11 to a lady with Yeye boyfriend.

He tweeted saying..

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900 Students Get Free Tecno Tablets In Abuja

Last week, 900 students of Glisten International Academy, Abuja got free Tecno tablets to enhance e-learning and attain global standard of academic excellence in the school.

Mrs Samira Jibir, Chief Executive Officer of the school said the essence of the free tablets was to ease teaching for the teachers and faster learning for the students. Jibir said meeting up with global practice on teaching was necessary to catch up with other developed countries.

“These Tecno Tablets will help the students to learn better and it will also help the teachers to impact positively on the students. The 16G 1G Rom tablets are going to have notes on different subjects where student can login and read even ahead of the class. This will make the teachers and students to be on same page of academy progress. It will also address the issue of torn notebooks, incomplete copying of notes and all that; since all the notes are in the tablets, the students will learn with ease."

“The devices cost the school N29, 500 each and we gave it free to not fewer than 900 students and still counting. We have expanded our internet provision which initially cost us N1.3 million but now over N2 million: we are determined to take the children to the global stage of technology,” Jibir said.

She said the journey to acquiring the devices began with a thought influenced by the happenings in society and how children were easily swayed by what they watch most specifically through telecommunication devices.

According to her, the thought metamorphosed into what they have today, physical devices for students to enable easier assimilation, learning and comprehension.

“Transforming education requires schools and educators to rethink how they teach and learn that is why we are here and doing what we are doing. Therefore, as a pacesetter that it truly is, Glisten has taken the bull by the horns by undertaking this feat. It is very glaring that the ICT age is upon us and the children we have today are more prone to learning from gadgets and other communication devices than manually. It is therefore wise to teach children through instruments and tools they are conversant with,” she said.

Meanwhile a student of the school, Abubakar Atiku, said he was happy about the devices stressing that it was a dream come true for him. Atiku said finally, the stress of copying large volume of notes from the blackboard was over.

Also, one of the teachers in the school, Mr James Asuatang said provision of the devices was more than easing the work.

“It will make the students enjoy learning and the teacher to be more focus in presenting subjects to the students. Students will learn faster and better because they can read their notes from the tablets at home before coming to the school,” Asuatang said.

However, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that those that attended the events included parents of students, teachers, an official from National Information Technology Development Agency and other stakeholders.

Source: today.ng

DO YOU AGREE? Breast Is No Longer A Private Part In The World Today – Man Says

Hi Guys!!

A medical doctor identified as Dr Dennis on Twitter recently took to the social media platform to declare breast as a non-private part.

According to him, the rate at which women of nowadays are showing off breast is very alarming and it will plain make sense to remove it as part of private parts.

See Tweet Below:-

Guys, come to think of it, it’s hard to go a day without seeing semi-naked breasts, na only nipple dem dey cover😂

But the question still remains 👇

Is Breast Still A Private Part?

Let’s hear from you. Comment below

Top Technology Facts

Technology has made an incredible advancement over the past 20 years, and the future of technology to some may seem unsettling, while to others it may be exciting.

Here we’re going to look at 100 interesting facts about old-school technology, as well as present and futuristic tech.

1. The English word for red panda is ‘Firefox’ which is where the browser gets its name from – this means the Firefox logo is actually a red panda, not a fox!
2. In 1994, the company who had a patent on GIFs tried to charge a fee for using GIFS. The PNG was invented as an alternative, and the company backed down.
3. The very first Apple logo featured Sir Isaac Newton sitting underneath a tree, with an apple about to hit his head.
4. Google rents out goats from a company called California Grazing to help cut down the amount of weeds and brush at Google HQ!
5. The founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, was a college drop out.
6. Bill Gates house was designed using a Macintosh Computer.
7. The word robot comes from the Czech “robota“. This translates into forced labor, or work.
8. CD’s (Compact discs) read from the inside to the outside edge, which is the reverse of how records work.
9. You cannot reverse a Bitcointransaction, or be forced to pay.
10. The average computer user blinks seven times a minute, the normal rate is twenty times per minute.
11. The first ever VCR (Video Camera Recorder), which was made in 1956, was the size of a piano!
12. On an average work day, a typist’s fingers travel about 12.6 miles.
13. The 30^th of November is known as “Computer Security Day“.
14. On 1^st April 2005, NASA pulled a prank telling the world that they had found water on Mars.
15. The radio took 38 years to reach a market audience of 50 million. The television took 13 years and the iPod only took 3 years to reach a market audience of 50 million.
16. Using a hands-free device to talk on the phone while driving is shown to be equally or more dangerous than driving drunk.
17. If you were to have your picture taken by the very first camera, you’d need to sit still for 8 hours.
18. A dentist named Alfred Southwick invented the electric chair.
19. The creators of the PNG file format wanted it to be pronounced as ‘ping’.
20. Credit card EMV chip technology has been around since 1986. It was first implemented in France, with Germany following shortly after. 
21. Alaska is the only state in America that can be typed on one row of a traditional English QWERTY keyboard.
22. The Apple II had a hard drive of only 5 megabytes when it was launched in June 1977.
23. Q33 was the first plane to hit during 9/11 in 2001, when you type in Q33 in Microsoft’s Wingding’s font, a very sinister thing appears; Q33
24. In general, people tend to read as much as 10% slower from a screen than from paper.
25. Although GPS is free for the world to use, it costs $2 million per day to operate. The money comes from American tax revenue.
26. There are computers designed for Amish people, with selling points like “No internet, no video, no music”.
27. Ubuntu is one of the more popular distributions of Linux. The word Ubuntu comes from an African word meaning “I am because of you”.
28. The Name “Macintosh” Was Inspired by an Apple with the name “mcintosh”.
29. Christopher Sholes invented the QWERTY keyboard in 1868. In 1932 Professor August Dvorak created the Dvorak keyboard, which was made to be superior to the standard QWERTY keyboard.
30. Doug Engelbart created the very first computer mouse from wood in 1964.
31. Spam mail got its name from the canned meat after a Monty Python skit that made fun of Spam as tasting “horrible and being ubiquitous and inescapable.”
32. In June 1983, the Apple Lisawas released; it was the first commercial computer with a graphical user interface (GUI) and a mouse.
33. The original Xbox contained edited snippets of actual transmissions from the Apollo missions.
34. In 1822, Charles Babbage created the first computer.
35. 1024 Gigabytes is equal to 1 Terabyte. 1024 Terabytes is equal to 1 Petabyte, and 1 Petabyte can hold 13.3 years of HD-TV video
36. 86% of people try to plug their USB devices upside down.
37. The last game for the Sega Mega Drive was released in 2010 and was so popular it sold out before release.
38. During the first live iPhone presentation, Steve Jobs had to frequently switch phones behind his desk. Otherwise, it would run out of RAM and crash.
39. The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
40. A Welshman threw away a hard drive containing a staggering sum of 7,500 bitcoins. The sum equates to almost $32 million and the man will never be able to retrieve it as it was already buried under a hefty 25,000 cubic meters of rubbish in 2013.
41. The average age of gamers in the United States is 35.
42. In 2010, the United States Air Force used 1,760 PlayStation 3’s to build a supercomputer for the Department of Defense. They used PS3’s because it was more cost efficient and “green”.
43. The Sega Dreamcast was the first 128-bit console in the market. It was released in 1999 and was the first console which allowed real-time online play.
44. Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37% fewer mistakes.
45. Nintendo was started in 1889 as a playing card company.
46. The astronauts of Apollo 11 couldn’t get life insurance, so instead they signed photos that their families could auction in case the landing went wrong

How To Request Data From Friends Using MTN Dash Me Data Service

MTN has just introduced a new service called MTN Dash Me Data. This service allows customers to request for data from a friend, family or loved one.

More like a receiver pay for call service, but this is for data requesting. If you could remember, few weeks ago, MTN Nigeria re-introduced data gifting to their data services, where customers can share their data with their friend or even buy for them instead.

In this post, I am going to show you how to request for data from a friend or loved one using MTN Dash Me Data Service.

How To Request Data From A Friend On MTN

In a nutshell, MTN dash me data allows beneficiary to initiate a data request from their friend or loved one.

> To request for data from a friend, simply dial *131*7*3# and enter the friend's MTN number you want to request data from.

> To view your pending request, dial *131*7*4#.

Entclass 9Mobile SME Data Plan, Get 10GB For 2000 Naira

I'm sure we all are enjoying our stay here on Entclassblog.com with the countless updates we have been posting back to back.

Our sole purpose on Entclass Blog is to make sure everyone browse the Internet with cheap data plans and even completely free browsing cheats. In other words, we have something good for you guys.

Entclass 9Mobile SME data offer is back once again for everyone to enjoy cheap data plans from 9mobile. We all know 9mobile has one of the costly data plans out there because of their fast Internet speed and coverage in almost every part of Nigeria.

This is a limited offer and we might stop selling at anytime. So hurry while offer last.

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It's very simple. We accept only BANK PAYMENTS (either transfer or direct deposit). Then send your 9mobile number to us on Telegram by going here.

I will provide an account where you can pay in. After payment, your data will be sent within some minutes.

The data can be used on any device, be it Android, iOS, Mifi, Tablet, Laptop etc. No VPN is required.

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Eyes on Fraud: Tips to Fight Online Scam

Would you ever knowingly leave your front door unlocked when going out for the day? The chances are that nothing will happen, but surely the risk is not worth taking. This analogy describes how too many people approach online fraud and internet security. They either assume that nothing will happen to them, or they are simply unaware of the risks.

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Cybercrime is a constant threat, and just because it doesn’t represent a physical threat in the form of someone trying to break into your home, it can be just as damaging. So, be vigilant when shopping online. Follow these tips:

• Always ensure the online store is a secured one, look for well-known security labels such as VeriSign and McAfee.
• The website should have complete contact information, terms of use, and privacy policies.
• Payment options should include third-party payment services such as Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal.
• Beware of unbelievable offers. If an offer sounds too good to be true, it probably is. An item being sold at ridiculously low prices, has a high probability of being fake or expired.
• Keep your personal details personal.  Credit card companies also don’t ask for your password over the Internet or the phone. Unless you want to be the lead character in a ‘based on a true story’ movie about identity theft, steer clear.