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The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines, and Agriculture announced that the Federal Government has agreed to suspend the enforcement of the recently introduced Expatriate Employment Levy . The decision comes after a meeting between NACCIMA and the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, and the Minister of Interior, according to a…
Oye also disclosed that a joint committee will be formed to review the EEL policy, the rollout of the EEL, as initially proposed, will be deferred by the resolutions made. “As imported workforce continues to grow internally, the Federal Government of Nigeria deemed it important to implement the EEL that seeks to balance economic growth, social equity, and workforce development,” it said.
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The United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken has described the mass kidnapping of schoolchildren from a school in Kaduna in northwest Nigeria as "reprehensible'. More than 250 students were kidnapped on Friday morning at GSS Kuriga in Chikun local government area of Kaduna.