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Chairman, Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), Fayemi Kayode (left); Deputy Chairman, Aminu Tambuwal; and Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, during the body’s meeting on the new minimum wage and other issues in Abuja…yesterday. PHOTO: LUCY LADIDI ATEKO The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) yesterday said it had reviewed current progress in the implementation of the new minimum wage law and resolved that consequential increments will depend on the capacity of individual state government. Chairman of the forum and Governor of Ekiti State, who stated this in Abuja after the body’s sixth meeting, asserted that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) does not determine what happens in the states. His words: “As you are aware, FEC does not determine what happens in the state because it has own executive council (SEC) which is the highest decision-making body at the state level. “I have made the position of the states clear that what was agreed on was a national minimum wage

The execution and aftermath of the  raids that took down Osama bin Laden and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi were as different as the presidents  overseeing them. But in one area they converged: Barack Obama and Donald Trump both wanted to watch. How each leader handled the defining moment says as much about their mindset as it does their foreign policy. Before, during and after the raids that took down two highly sought terrorists, Obama and Trump adopted divergent approaches and were met with different reactions from the American public. Both recognized, however, the weight the moments carried for their legacy. And both wanted to see it happen. "As though you were watching a movie," Trump recalled Sunday after announcing the death of the ISIS leader in graphically detailed terms. "We were essentially watching what was happening in real time," Obama recounted to CNN in 2016, five years after Navy SEALs took out the 9/11 mastermind. It's easy to understand

  Children line up to enter a tent at the Homestead shelter for unaccompanied children in Homestead, Florida in February 2019. Photograph: Wilfredo Lee/AP The Trump administration has announced it is shutting down one of the  largest US facilities  for child  migrants , which had come under intense criticism because of its regimented conditions and the contractor’s ties to a freshly departed White House official. The US Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement that it has reduced bed capacity from 1,200 to zero and the contract with Comprehensive Health Services is set to end on 30 November. About 2,000 workers will be let go in the coming days. The  facility  in Homestead, Florida emptied out in August but had remained operational in case there was no room at shelters for teen migrants who cross the  US-Mexico border  and end up in government custody. Inside America's biggest facility for migrant teens   Read more Health and Human Servi