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Kenmatt:
Government of Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi is a transparent government.

It's crystal clear that he had delivered credibly in Enugu State.

Senator Utazi stepped down for him to go to Senate only this alone will tell you that he is the man of the People.

Ugwuanyi gave me a tarred road, Old Barracks Ugbene Ajima road. We are grateful God brought him.

Ugwuanyi ceded to the Philosophy of Enugu Politics in the emergence of Peter Mbah. Even Senator Ike Ekweremadu has come to realize this and took a chil pill.

Honestly, Enugu State is in the Hand of God.

Happy Children's Day

Call it marginalisation, maltreatment, man’s inhumanity to man, you may not be entirely wrong. The plight of government primary school staffs in Enugu state is alarming as it is dehumanizing, some staff speak to WITHIN NIGERIA.

Our reporter who went round some primary schools in the state revealed that there is high level of deprivation being meted out to these staffs.

At Oriental Primary school, Ugbene-Ajima in Uzo-Uwani local government area, one of the staff who spoke to our reporter under anonymity for fear of victimization expressed her displeasure over the alleged marginalisation of staffs of Enugu State Universal Basic Education Board, ENSUBEB, a body under which primary school staff in the state are.

According to the staff, ” I have put up more than a decade in this job but I cannot feed my family or train my child in higher institution. What kind of job is that? This is very much disappointing and frustrating. ”

Explaining the staff said that, ” The way we are being treated is very much unfair. Our counterpart in secondary schools are being paid minimum wage since February 2020 while we in Primary school are not. Every month, they keep on telling us one cock and bull story about the minimum wage while our counterparts in secondary schools started receiving their own since two years now. This is very dehumanizing, to say the least.”

However, at Premier primary school 1, Aku, Igbo-Etiti local government area, the story is still the same. One of the staff, Mrs. Virginia Uwadiegwu( not real name) told WITHIN NIGERIA that she regretted being a primary school staff.

According to Mrs Uwediegwu, “my sister advised me against applying for ENSUBEB but I didn’t listen. I didn’t want to stay idle then. Four years after I got this job, my sister also got her employment with secondary school board. If I tell you that her salary is far higher than my own, you will not believe. There is no minimum wage, no thirteenth month salary and leave allowance for us in ENSUBEB while our counterparts in secondary schools are being paid all these entitlements. What have we done to deserve this ill treatment we cannot be told.”

Narrating further, Mrs Uwadiegwu stressed that ” you know as much as I do that the state government has been spending millions of naira on infrastructural development like provision of state of the art buildings, seats,tables and other infrastructure for primary schools in the state. But the annoying thing is that the state government does not think about the staff working in these schools. We are not motivated and this is not good at all.”

Nevertheless, at Model primary school Nsukka, a popular school in the metropolis, one of the teachers, Mrs. Rose Uwazuluike(not real names) who spoke to our reporter stated that working in government primary school in Enugu state is as good as working in private school.

According to Uwazulike, ” imagine as I speak with you now, I have less than five years to retire and I am very much afraid. Why? This is because I am neither expecting gratuity nor pension two years after my retirement.”

Speaking further she explained that ” if you speak to our retired colleagues they will tell you that there is nothing like gratuity in Enugu state primary school system, while our pension starts two years after retirement, that is if one does not have any official issue. We don’t have anything called minimum wage while we receive monthly salary in the middle of the succeeding month. Our counterparts in secondary schools don’t encounter any of these problems. They receive their salary on or before 27th of the same month, they are paid the new minimum wage of N30,000 while they also receive their pension one month after their retirement.”

Explaining further her disappointment, she explained that ” the most annoying thing is that we in primary do more work than our counterparts in secondary school. We teach all the subjects, we stay with these pupils in their class rooms, we write fifteen lesson notes every week yet we are being marginalised.”

Our reporter visited Christian Nwodo, a retired primary school teacher in one primary school at Amalla community, Udenu local government area where the retiree decried the high level of deprivation primary school staff pass through.


” I retired in December 2019. It was only three months ago that I received my first pension. I served this state thirty five years, retiring as a head teacher and as you can see, I don’t have a befitting house because of poor remuneration and condition of service we see in ENSUBEB.”

According to Mr. Nwodo, ” I have vowed that none of my children and grand children will be a primary school staff and I thank God none of them attended College of Education.”

Recall that the Organised Labour in Enugu state, which include the Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC); Trade Union Congress (TUC); Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT); and the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), Wednesday, January 19, 2022 embarked on a three-day warning strike over the N30, 000 minimum wage.

According to the Union, the three-day warning strike was to force the local government councils in the state to start paying their workers the new national minimum wage.

It was also to ensure that the primary school teachers start receiving their own minimum wage like their counterparts in secondary schools and core civil servants who had started receiving the enhanced wage since last year.


Chairman of TUC, Comrade Bennett Asogwa, said they held a meeting sometime ago and decided to embark on the solidarity strike to help their NULGE counterpart.

He said they knew that NULGE alone might not be able to force the authorities to pay the minimum wage since they had been fighting to no avail.

“Yes, we embarked on a solidarity strike for the local government workers and the primary school teachers. They ought to be paid the minimum wage. They don’t have a separate market,” he said.

The NULGE President, Comrade Kenneth Ugwueze, who also confirmed the strike said they embarked on the warning strike to press home the demand for minimum wage for local government staff and primary school teachers.

Nevertheless, few days after the warning strike, the state government dragged the Union to the National Industrial Court of Nigeria sitting in Enugu seeking an injunction to stop primary school teachers from embarking on strike.

During hearing on the matter with case No: NICN/EN/01/2022 the Counsel to the state government, Barr. Joseph Omeh in his argument asked the court to stop the three days warning strikes because they are essential workers.

However the following Friday, the court ordered primary school teachers in the state to suspend their planned strike action pending the hearing of a substantial case filed by the state government.

The presiding judge, Oluwakayode Arowosegbe said that teachers are essential service workers and would not be allowed to embark on strike according to labour laws, stressing that the strike would sabotage the economy of the state and the country.

He, however, warned the state government to stop threatening the teachers and enjoined both parties to maintain the status quo until the substantial case is heard.

By and large, on March 8, the Court dismissed the suit filed by the Enugu State Government seeking to stop primary school teachers from embarking on strike over the non-payment of the national minimum wage.

The court presided over by Justice Oluwakayode Arowosegbe of Court II, had in an interlocutory injunction restrained the teachers from embarking on any form of industrial action pending the determination of the substantive suit and ordered an accelerated hearing.

Delivering its judgement on the suit, Justice Arowosegbe, dismissed the suit and ordered Government of Enugu State to go back and negotiate with the teachers, describing it as discriminatory for the Claimant to pay some workers in the state employee minimum wage, and refuse to pay the teachers same. The Judge noted that the state could not stop the teachers from ventilating their grievances through industrial action.

The court, in its judgement Tuesday, March 8, 2022 held that the Primary School teachers in Enugu State do not fall within the categories of workers who provide essential services, hence they can embark on strike and other lawful means to press home their demand.

“The court found as condemnable the attitude of the Claimant/plaintiff for its failure to implement the national Minimum wage as approved by the federal government since 2020. Such (an) act of the claimant is discriminatory.

“The claimant is hereby ordered to go back to negotiating table with the Defendant and implement the national minimum wage. The defendants are entitled to be paid the Minimum wage.”

He however described the attitude of the government as callous and discriminatory for disregarding the important role and services the teachers render to society.

The Authorities react

Meanwhile, the immediate past chairman of Enugu East local government area, Prince Alex Ugwu said the council chairmen lacked the financial muscle to pay the minimum wage. He said that it won’t be nice to start paying to stop afterwards.

Ugwu said that in spite of the financial autonomy the councils are now enjoying, they cannot pay the minimum wage.

“It is not as if the chairmen do not want to pay the minimum wage. We don’t have the fund to do so. Will it be nice we start paying the minimum wage and later stop or start owing,” he queried.

ALGON and chairman of Udenu local government area, Gov. Ugwuanyi’s local government, Hon. Solomon Onah, simply said it is not Enugu state alone that council workers are not being paid the new minimum wage

Within Nigeria gathered that while primary school head teachers receive between N115,000 and N118,000 as salary, their counterparts in secondary schools with the same certificate and grade level receive between N185,000 and N190,000, a situation that has continued to annoy the former.

In October last year, primary school teachers and local government workers in the state planned a total down tool for nonpayment of minimum wage. In reaction to this action, the chairman of ENSUBEB, Chief Ikeji Asogwa told news men that local government staff and primary school teachers are not state government staff and so, should not expect same treatment with their secondary school counterparts.

However, when our reporter contacted him on phone, he couldn’t pick up.

More so, all efforts to get the reaction of the state commissioner of Education, Dr. Uchenna Eze on phone proved abortive as his phone is said to be always busy.

The Primary Schools have been on strike for several weeks now yet the Enugu State Government hasn't done anything about it. The Children wants to go back to school.

FOR THE ATTENTION OF THE ENTIRE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN ENUGU STATE:

DECLARATION OF AN INDEFINITE STRIKE ACTION OVER NON-PAYMENT OF THE #30,000 NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE WITH IT'S CONSEQUENTIAL ADJUSTMENT BY THE ENUGU STATE GOVERNMENT.

The State Wing Executive Council (SWEC) of NUT, Enugu State Wing, rising from a well-attended meeting on Friday, 6th April, 2022, have directed that PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS in Enugu State SHOULD NOT resume for the 3rd term, 2021/22 academic session with effect from Monday, 9th May, 2022, until the #30,000 National Minimum Wage is paid.

Plse, adhere strictly to this directive.

Comr.Chief Theophilus Nweke Odo (State Chairman)

Comr.Sir Macs F.O.Nnaji,(KSJI,JP.)
Asst.Sec.General
For, & on behalf of NUT, Enugu State Wing.

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Oga read your comment again and judge yourself. I have encountered pregnant women and heard some of their wired behaviours but I didn't hear that their husbands had to be bloodly bruised and attacked brutally before 9 months. Nawa oh, people giving their fellow humans advice that they themselves cannot take. Nonsense and Buhari

Misterone:
She is pregnant. A pregnant woman is a different human being. Endure this. After Child birth you will see another her. Pray it is the good one.

Kyle, you haven't encountered any woman approaching her 30's that is so desperate for marriage, at that point, my brother, their target it to lure any available man for marriage especially when most of her folks are married. Whether the person is rich or poor , it not their concern that period. it is after the marriage that they will coded reveal to you their mission. Don't take any woman for granted, they may not have physical strength but they are spirituality stronger than men.

Kylce042:
I think she is just frustrated and pregnancy is also another factor. Just ask God to provide you with what you need to take care of your family. It is never easy with women and again you weren’t in the best place to marry at the time. Just pray bro and i think the lady really likes you cus normally ie hard now to see a girl willing to settle with a broke guy so don’t give up on her.

You guys are not really helping the young man at all!!!!!!. The most tangible advice I have seen here are from her fellow women ( with F as gender ) who should advice his wife better.

All these men shouting endure , pregnant women are wired and all that rabatash. Cannot endure what he is going through now. I can bet my.... On that.
Pregnancy changes women mood sometimes but not to the extent of bitting her husband , wounding him and calling him unprinted and unpredictable names. Marriage nah world war 4 ni?

I understand a pregnant woman eating wired foods but I don't understand beating and wounding.
I understand a pregnant woman wanting to smell her husband's excrete but I don't understand bitting and wounding.
I understand a pregnant woman sending her husband out to buy her a particular delicacy and latter changing her choice immediately but gentlemen and ladies I still don't understand bitting, slapping brutally abusing the man. For what nah?

I have seen some pregnant women as much as 6 months still selling small small things just to support her husband. I even saw one today at Afo market grabbing palm kernel from a customer who came to sell. Those ones fell from heaven ba? Abi there pregnancy is fake? A friend of mine went to her shop a day before she delivered a bouncing baby girl and she just pour the pikin like the Hebrew women.

OP I understand what you are going through now but you have to realise that your marriage is on a very faulty foundation. You couldn't even afford money for bride price oh , and the medical condition you stated and went ahead to marry in this current nice economy of Nigeria.
The lady in question was super desperate for marriage , played her game and it worked on you like magic. Having acquired the hallowed status of MRS, and even have baby on top, you can't go away for now. I am in the line and I can tell you the legal implications of running away. If she takes you to court, the is when your problem will begin officially.

Pray hard and work even more harder. Don't forget the first advice. May sure you visit a good church every morning and lie down flat in the alter and cry your heart to God. After that immediately proceed to work , visit some NGOs and explain your problem but don't beg them for money, just take their advice.
And before I forget , start making plans to pay her bride price. Bride price is more spiritual than you can imagine.

Come back here later and give your testimony.

Advice to men, make sure you are financially stable to an extent before you marry to avoid coming to Nairaland for advice.

Goodluck bro

I would have been shocked if the federal government accepted the bill. They have to obey the voice of corruption. I spit for Nigeria.

I particularly fear those who don't fear women. please

Hambivert:
sparogatively, this is the wrong time for anything synonymous to relationships!

Wrong time to jilt a partner... as it may end with bottles of Premiums ...Rabi can testify!

Wrong time to start a relationship... When you get Christmas billings, you'll begin to wonder whether she's the one Mother Mary actually gave birth to on Christmas day instead of Jesus Christ

Anyways, I'll always tell anyone that wishes to listen... there are three things to do to live happily and long in this life...
1. Fear Women
2. Fear who and what doesn't fear women
3. Never ever forget Number 1 and Number 2 .

Only Evening Newspapers can do this. There desperation is second to none. The man should look well before we start reading "OP please hide my identity"

The Lawmaker is an Idiot. Ewu Gambia. Receiving jumbo pay without doing anything. parasites to Nigeria.

Slow poison Governor. Useless Leaders!!

#EndPoliceBrutality

What is life indeed President , Governor , Senator , Celebrity today and Corpse tomorrow... I don't even know what to say again

DenreleDave:
Everything in this world are all vanity upon vanity

Beauty

Frnds

Fiance


1000 diamond rings

All is vanity... What has chi chi gained now? Even the 3 rings that she cherished didn't follow her..
The world betrayed her and gave her up.

Husband will probably re proposed to another with 5 rings.. Within a matter of time, she will be forgotten in history..


This world is vanity..

We came with nothing, we go back with nothing...


Rip chichi Eze...

If you are in heaven, we will surely meet again

But if not heaven, bye bye.

Rape is very bad. I support the punishment except for false allegations. But the same Nigerian politicians making these laws should also be Castrated. They have finished this country. It is no longer a thing of pride to say that you are a Nigerian, Even if you have money.

This man has skeleton in his cupboard. Nigeria's corrupt system and government is just shielding him. I don't trust any person who wine and dines with Nigerian politicians.

Everything in Nigeria is manipulated. Just look at our own INEC . The winner of BB naija is even known before the show starts. And they may manipulate the show to favor that person. They can't dash a person 85 m just like that just because you voted. They are business people!

Are they the only ones rendering essential service to humanity. Why are they always making noise? If I am the state governor,
I will give them the babatunde fashola treatment. I don't like what I hate

miky:
When next you get sick make sure you do not go to these selfish set of people!

Nigerian Doctors are very selfish set of people... Always feeling entitled... Rubbish

What did you just say

EdmundChidera:
Ikpeazu is the best governor he have done so much for Abians

Talk and do Governor . I suggest that other South East Governors should temporarily handover to their deputies and embark one month leadership course @ Ebony State. I move the motion.

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Salary is 30,000 plus three square meals. If you know anyone interested , call 08135292757...

It is not okay. If you lay ambush for your partner, you might end up being the one that will be injured...

Covid 19 is a funny and serious sickness. One may have it and not show the symptoms and may even recover with taking common malaria drugs because He or She has a strong immune system but the same person can go and transfer it to a person who has a weak immune system and the rest will be history.... A person that gives you Corona virus may go Scott free but you that contacted it may not especially if you have a weak immune system. The virus is almost malaria just that it is infectious. Stay safe

Nigeria is really a joke. If Covid 19 is real, then Nigeria should prepare for the worst because there is a case where people tested negative and discharged then later they test positive and continue the spread. May God help us.

Enugu is gradually going into community transmission. May God help us.