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spicy v: @ Dadde: Are you serious? Is this really the point you had in mind to drive across when you created your topic? If it was then I retract my concurrence with your ideology. I mean this long epistle you posted as an example does not even correlate with your topic much less justify your points! Please present specific facts that substantiates your argument.

However, I still maintain that I have actually encountered businesses with pursuits that takes them further from their vision and mission statement. Its just an imaginary theory to them.

thanks a lot. i quite understand your angle. i just posted that to put ajanlekoko off my back. my "epistle" are just a tiny example.
i was actually referring to some other creeds like, integrity,innovative , customer service and employee development as well.

In a move that many analysts described as surprising but remarkable, President John Dramani Mahama, has named the head of Ghana’s central bank, Kwesis Amissah-Arthur as the country’s new Vice President.

Earlier reports in some local media hinted that the announcement would be made Wednesday, a day after the one week mourning of the deceased leader who died Tuesday last week after a battle with throat cancer.

A senior official at Ghana’s Ministry of Information confirmed the appointment to BusinessDay in a telephone interview Tuesday afternoon. “He is the vice president. That’s all I can say for now,” the source said.

Amissah-Arthur, an economist who once lectured in tertiary institutions in Ghana and Nigeria, became the Governor of the Bank of Ghana in October 2009.

He has been involved in the team of technocrats who managed Ghana’s structural adjustment programme since 1980s.

Some analysts see the choice of Amissah-Arthur as a calculated attempt by the new president to demonstrates his commitment to consolidating on Ghana’s economic growth and to counter what is seen as the advantage of opposition New Patriotic Party’s presidential candidate who has as his vice presidential candidate a former deputy governor of the central bank.

Among the names speculated for the office before the announcement, were those of Kwesi Botchwey, a former Minister of Finance and professor of economics in Tuft University, United States; Hannah Tetteh, the current Minister of Trade and Industry; Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development.

Others are P.V. Obeng, the Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC); Goosie Tanoh, a leading member of the party; Kwesi Ahwoi, the Minister of Food and Agriculture, and Sylvester Mensah, the Chief Executive of the National Health Insurance Authority.

The position of the Vice President became vacant following the elevation of the then Vice President John Mahama to the high office of the President after the death of President Mills at the 37 Military Hospital on Tuesday July 24, 2012.

Article 60 (10) of the 1992 Constitution states that “the Vice President shall, upon assuming office as President under clause 6 of this article nominate a person to the office of Vice President subject to approval by Parliament.”

Article 60 (1) of the 1992 Constitution also states that there shall be a Vice President of Ghana who shall perform such functions as may be assigned to him by this Constitution or by the President.

you asked for it. Gba

IT is not yet a quick fix, especially in the area of human capital needs for most merged banks, as they have continued to cut down on their workforce.
This post-merger action has attracted stiff resistance from bank employees, who want strict adherence to the rules of their engagement by the new owners of the banks.
After losing in the internal intrigues in the banks, the sacked employees have taken their case to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
In a petition to the apex bank, the disengaged workers alleged that the manner of their sack was designed to deny them their severance pay. They therefore asked the CBN to call the affected banks to order by directing the management to recall them or in the alternative properly disengage them.
Even the retained workers, including senior management officers, are not faring better as their employers have continued to change the rules of their engagement.
The situation is, however, worse for a large number of those who have been sacked in the recurring restructuring exercises, as no avenue for redress had been opened to them. Consequently, the aggrieved workers have taken to the streets in protests, and in some cases, occupying the zonal offices or headquarters of the affected banks in some state capitals and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The Guardian learnt that the end of the current downsizing in the banking sector might not be in sight as the retained workers in the acquired entities might experience more stringent work environment.
In fact, retained workers, who are not comfortable with the new terms and agreements of one of the merged banks have been given a deadline of February 3, 2012 to resign and get their severance benefits or stick to the new terms of employment.
By last weekend, over 1,500 workers of an acquired bank had been laid off by the new “master” bank in a most bizarre manner. The workers in the South-eastern zone were asked to report to a hotel in Port Harcourt for re-orientation exercise on Saturday but were shocked when they were handed sack letters peremptorily.
According to details made available to The Guardian, retained members of staff indebted to the bank in form of loans and were given a month to pay up or have had their appointments terminated.
Also, the data available to The Guardian showed that most of the sacked employees were polytechnic graduates or those without university degrees
So far, Access Bank and Intercontinental have fused while Ecobank has acquired Oceanic Bank. The branches of Intercontinental Bank now wear the corporate identity, of Access Bank. The closure of some branches of Intercontinental Bank is seen as part of the downsizing plan of the new owners.
The completion of the merger of Access Bank and Intercontinental Bank is expected to end in March.
In a statement sent to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Access Bank said the merger of business would be effected through a scheme of merger pursuant to Part XII of the Investments and Securities Act (No. 29) of 2007.
The bank said it had envisaged that the merger would take between 18 and 24 months, adding that it was able to fast-track the process due to a number of factors such as the pre-merger integration process and the support of stakeholders.
Meanwhile, rage and protestation have continued to trail last week’s sacking of over 1,500 workers of Intercontinental Bank by the management of its new owners. On Monday, the affected workers in Abuja staged a peaceful protest at the Cadastral zonal branch office of the Intercontinental Bank near the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC).
The workers, who carried placards with different inscriptions such as: “Say no to injustice, Give us our gratuity; Save our sweat; Pay us our gratuity and severance package now,” told The Guardian that the exercise was a witch-hunt by the new core investor.
The spokesman of the sacked workers, Mr. Pauli Isiguzo, alleged that the new management was acting out a prepared script to weed out Intercontinental Bank workers and replace them with those of Access Bank. He said while a six-month appraisal time was set for them for May this year, the management last week handed them termination letters.
He claimed that the workers irrespective of their departments were given unrealistic deposit targets ranging from N500 million to billions of naira to meet.
Isiguzo said they were directed to prevail on customers not to withdraw from their accounts, particularly between December and last January or be ready to mobilise new deposit in place of withdrawn monies if they were to keep their jobs.
The workers under the platform of the Group of 2012 Unjustly Terminated Staff of Intercontinental Bank Plc, who petitioned the CBN, alleged injustice by their new management in the handling of their sack.
In the petition, a copy of which The Guardian obtained, they appealed to the apex bank to ensure an immediate withdrawal of their termination letters and in the alternative, proper letters of disengagement issued to them with full severance packages defined for all grades of the employees.
When contacted on the issue, CBN spokesman, Mr. Mohammed Abdullahi, replied that he was in a meeting and could not comment on it.
Access Bank’s Head of Corporate Affairs, Mr. Austin Edoja Peters, who said he was working on the management’s reaction, also failed to respond to The Guardian’s enquiries at the time of going to press.

SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN

About 1,500 former Intercontinental Bank workers recently sacked by the new management of Access Bank Plc Monday staged a peaceful protest outside the Abuja regional headquarters of the bank to demand the payment of their severance benefits.



The protest, which saw the distressed workers with a large banner displaying a message conveying their grievances, disrupted normal operations at the bank for more than two hours, before they dispersed after extracting a promise from the bank's management to meet their demands latest by next Friday. Pauly Iziguso, who spoke on behalf of the workers, drawn from all the branches of Intercontinental Bank in the northern part of the country, said since their appointment were summarily terminated on January 27, 2012, the management of Access Bank had not formally communicated to the affected workers on modalities for the payment of their entitlements. According to Mr. Iziguso, the bank suggested an offer from the bank to voluntarily resign their appointments, as being sacked tend to suggest they committed acts of gross misconduct or fraud. “For more than three weeks, we have been going back and forth on the matter with Access Bank management and they have not allowed us to resign,” Mr. Iziguso said. “Since January 27 when we were disengaged, nobody has told us anything," hesaid. "No communication whatsoever. Nobody has been paid. Yet, they are blackmailing us. We have decided to suspend the protest till further notice, because the Access Bank management in Lagos has communicated to the management in Abuja that payments would be made to all those that have completed their documentations latest by next Friday. But if on that day we are not paid we will take the protest to another level. And no policeman would be able to stop us.” Another members of the group, who simply identified himself as Augustine, who claimed to have been the Regional Branch service head for the North Central region, said the former workers were bitter because of the manner Access adopted in relieving them of their jobs, after some had put in between 10 to 15 years. “In January, we came to the office only to discover that we could not log on to our official computer systems,” Augustine recalled. “On inquiries, we were told that the bank was going to downsize. Later a text message came with the directive that all the affected staff from the whole of the northern part of the country should meet at one hotel in at Wuse 2, Abuja, on Saturday January 28. On arrival at the hotel, we were handed formal letters of termination of our appointments. “Our offence was that we were not able to meet some deposit mobilization targets given by management in November last year. The target, which was for six months for different categories of officials, including trainee level graduates to managers in IT, operations and admin departments, was to mobilize between N10million and N30million every month in demand deposits, savings and current accounts that they would pay interests. “Additional condition for meeting the target was that owners of those new accounts must not withdraw from them till after the six months period, otherwise the staff should bring three times the amount withdrawn, or lose their jobs. A performance assessment was scheduled for May this year, to determine what to do with those who fell short of the target.” He said they were surprised that barely two months into the assignment, their appointments were terminated, adding that despite several pleas for them to be allowed to resign, the bank stood its ground. Though the aggrieved workers said they reported the matter to the Niger Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), they were referred to the Association of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions Employees (ASBIFIE), who supported Access Bank's management action. “Since January 30, we have been protesting quietly without anybody listening to us. That is why we say we should come here today and demonstrate, and maybe if we block the entrance of the bank, and disrupt their operations, they would listen to us,’ he said.

Source:PremiumTimes

AjanleKoko: Ogbeni,
There you go, generalizing again.
I don't represent any company. Just helping you to put the facts into perspective.
This is why I asked you for specific examples.
Which companies sent their employees away without benefits? And were there benefits promised to those employees?
Please provide specifics, so we can help you discuss the matter in more detail. Or should we stay away and let you run the thread as a monologue?

you asked for examples ,here they are:
https://www.nairaland.com/898441/n970m-suit-zenith-bank-loses

AjanleKoko: Okay. Now we are getting somewhere. We finally have something we can work with.
The first thing I will bring to your attention is the fact that all assets, no matter how valuable, will depreciate over time, and will need to be replaced eventually.
And that does not exclude the employees, however valuable they might be. In my opinion, that is not a violation of the employer's core values. They can treat an employee right, pay good wages, but if the employee (asset) is not yielding value commensurate to the investment, they stand the risk of being replaced.

obviously u dont understand. almost all organization have in their creed that their employees/customers are key, but do they all threat them as such. i dont know what u are trying to defend. Organization have sent their employees away without benefits; some have supplied goods and services that are abysmal and you are here telling me =@*^%$#

AjanleKoko: I suspect this thread is an attempt by the OP to blame some company for something that has happened to him.

I really don't know why you are so particular about naming companies. to start with, go and read your companies creeds and see if they keep to it to the letter.
Most company says employees are their greatest asset but believe me they regard employee as a tool to achieve an aim. immediately they achieve their target they find a way to dispose off them. however, this does not not apply to all coys

Chanchit: Make them dey come house nau, nxt time they would try harder... Bt this report sef get kolobi, u should have remember to say that its not only Nigerians that were asked to leave o...

na the one way concern Naija i report

AjanleKoko: Can the OP provide instances where the businesses did not live up to their core values and/or mission statement?
The post is too generic.

i know many companies that will promise yes but say no. they are all over us. in the bankn industries, oil and gas and evn sme.

IOC’s communications director Mark Adams said the move is necessary to allow for effective monitoring of the remaining participants and ensure security for the on-going global sporting showpiece.

This development means team Nigeria’s table tennis quartet of Segun Toriola, Aruna Quadri, Funke Oshinaike and Offiong Edem would leave the games after they exited their events.

Also team Nigeria’s boxing duo of Muyideen Akanji and Lukman Lawal are also affected by the order after they suffered shock ousters from the games.

President Goodluck Jonathan’s newly-appointed aide, Dr Doyin Okupe, said at the weekend that his new position as the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs does not make him attack dog for the President but one positioned to let the public know all the good sides they need to know about him.

Dr. Okupe said if President Jonathan needed an attack dog, he would not go for a 60-year-old man like him but for a younger person who can attack.

Rather he said his mission is essentially to let Nigerians know much about what the government is doing and to also take back to the President reactions of Nigerians to some of his policies and programmes.

Speaking at a birthday dinner hosted by Bureau chiefs and editors in Abuja for the former Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr. Timi Alaibe, Okupe said President Jonathan, apart from being a good man who means well for the country, he is doing a good job.

He added that the President is grossly misunderstood, saying that his positive side is under reported by the Nigerian media.

Okupe, who was President Olusegun Obasanjo’s media aide, said his new job would involve his trying to push to the public through the media many good works of President Jonathan.

He noted that the schedule of the media man to the President as well as the Minister of Information is huge and demanding and that there is hardly enough time for them to be able to push through many of the president’s works.

He recalled that when he visited the White House in the United States, he saw large number of workers and on inquiry, he was told that they were of public affairs department of the President with each assigned to specific areas to ensure that whatever the President does is put in public domain and their reactions obtained for the president’s attention.

Also speaking at the event, former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Austin Opara, challenged the government to make known to the public what it was doing, adding that it was not until impeachment threat came from the House that Nigerians knew that 56 per cent of the budget had been implemented.

Opara challenged Okupe to ensure that his new job leads to a change of attitude of government in information dissemination.

Speaking also at the occasion, former Deputy Senate President, Alhaji Ibrahim Mantu, charged the media to strive to identify good people who have served the country selflessly and honour them especially when they are out of office.

Mantu commended the Abuja bureau chiefs for recognising Alaibe even when he is out of job, noting that the vogue is to recognise people in power even when they are not performing.

He noted that what the journalists did by hosting Alaibe was strange but commendable, pointing out that it was like man biting a dog instead of dog biting a man.

“What we do and hear always is politicians and public officers hosting journalists for their services.”

Former Senators, Effiong Bob and Senator Eme Ekaette, also commended the journalists for helping to fish out good people in the society and encouraging them not to relent.

The event, which was held at Nicon Luxury Hotel, attracted friends and family members of Alaibe.

Earlier, the Dean of Bureau chiefs, Mr. Martin Oloja, of the Guardian Newspapers, said the forum having related very well with Alaibe over the years, felt it should host him. “It is from our heart,” Oloja said.

Tags: Politics, Nigeria, Featured, Okupe, JONATHAN’S ATTACK DOG

Like Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State, Kaduna State Governor, Patrick Yakowa, has turned up in London on an Olympics jamboree, accompanied by some officials of his government.

Officially, only three officials accompany Mr. Yakowa: the Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Alh. Nazifi Jibrin Mohammed; the Chairman House Committee on Sports, Hon Yakubu Bitiyong; and the Director of Sports in the Sports Ministry, Alh Yakubu Halidu.

A statement by the governor’s media aid, Reuben Buhari, said that the governor was invited to attend the opening ceremonies. It also said, “While in London, His Excellency will also follow up on some investment opportunities earlier initiated for invited Nigeria Government officials by the organizers of the 2012 London Olympic.”

SaharaReporters sources in the United Kingdom have confirmed that there several people on his entourage, including family members and some associates who linked up with him in London.

In view of the crises that Kaduna State is going through, sources say people in the State are upset, some of them accusing the governor of not living up to his words.

“He said another thing and do another thing, what will take a serious governor from Kaduna State to Olympics?” asked one. "There is no just no reason rather wasting of public funds and shortage of idea to run the state.”

Continuing, he said, “Yakowa is insensitive considering the insecurity in our state; he is not going with three persons alone. His family has reconnected with him and other politicians from the state.”

yemmy_ma: [/b]

The topic failed to separate these three entities. Core Value, vision, mission.

So my response was more inclined towards vision and mission. I don't know if the Op shares my thoughts on core value

i agree with you on this but the topic will be too long if all is to be stated. However, organization's core values should reflect in their mission and vision statement.

jmaine: Charismatic Late Maryam Babangida

could it be that because she started the whole thing?

nifemi01: Wife of da evil genius definitely

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dont u think that the wife of an evil genius could be an evil genius too? she could even be the source of the evils exhibited by the husband?

spicy v: @ Dadde I am not your brother, I am your sister, lol. @ Yemmy: how do you mean? Kindly expantiate.

thanks noted.

spicy v: I totally agree with you poster. I have observed the same thing myself. I think they just lose sight θf why they actually started the business and created room for distractions. It really requires a lot θf focus and sacrifices to stick to the original plan. Specialization has given way to generalization in businesses.

very correct my brother. every company takes the shape of its owner(s)

Korrection: Just thought of something that might not be impossible...I would love to host a party for Nairalanders but im scared there might fight..cos the way some of us reacts to issues here are bloody...Do you think its gonna be a good thing to do and where would you like such party to hold?...what time of the year...date and definitely place...wont like it in the north though...lol...I mean it...

my broda, the out come will be unpredictable. most especially constant posters on the religion and political treads. some people have sworn to kill each other when they see each other.

the life of man has become worthless to desperate individuals.
please be warn the pix is gruesome.

what is this nation turning into. Fellow Nigerians see how poverty has turned us into cannibals.

I have read the core values, vision and mission statement of hundreds of organization. i have discovered that most of these organizations are far from what they claim to be their core values. what is your take on this.

ayobase: Babangida's and Obasanjo's!

why obasanjo's

since the 1985 during IBB's regime, the position of the first lady has become a glamorous office. each first lady have tried to make indelible mark in the the administration of the their Husbands.

in your own view which of the first ladies has made the most impression on you. kindly give your reason(s)

very soon boko haram will get Sahara protection contract

Patience is overstepping her boundries

A company, Global West Specialist Agency, believed to be owned by a former Delta militant, Chief Government Ekpemukpolo, a.k.a Tompolo, has been given a huge contract, with the influence of President Goodluck Jonathan, to supply 20 patrol vessels for the use of Nigeria’s military authorities in securing the country’s coastline.

The Minister of Transport, Senator Abdullahi Idris Umar, revealed this to the BBC Hausa service, monitored in Abuja.

The Minister, who did not mention Tompolo’s name but that of the company, added that the company has already supplied eight vessels of the 20 vessels included in the contract agreement.

Although the Federal Government has always declared that the security of Nigeria’s coastline is ultimately the prerogative of her Navy, ex-militant Tompolo's company continues to enjoy the patronage of multimillion-dollar contracts from the Nigerian presidency.

Mr. Umar did not mention the cost of the contract, either. But he said that Global West Specialist Agency will also consult for the government in securing the Nigerian coastline, thereby rendering the Nigerian navy secondary to the firm.

He also said, “We did not say that the company will take over responsibility of the Nigerian Navy, the company’s job is to just buy the vessels and other components needed in securing the coastline. And the partnership reached has nothing to do with them taking over functions of the navy.

As if anticipating popular criticism in the country, the Minister said, “There is nothing like navy has failed; the issue is not that. The partnership is legal but not taking official functions of the navy. If we guard this coastline it will boost our revenue, and the reforms meeting we are doing is to bring change.”

Abuja — In a bid to save Nigeria from further embarrassment, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke, SAN, Tuesday, urged an Abuja High Court sitting at Bwari to discontinue further hearing on the lingering land dispute between Dame Patience Jonathan and wife of late President Umar Musa Yar'Adua, Turai.

The two women had plunged into cold war after the Certificate of Occupancy for a parcel of land originally allocated to a Non-Governmental Organisation, NGO, "The Registered Trustee of Women and Youth Empowerment Foundation, WYEF", a pet project initiated by Turai Yar'Adua, was revoked by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Mohammed, and re-awarded to Patience Jonathan for the construction of a secretariat of the "First Ladies Peace Mission."

Specifically, the Registered Trustees of WYEF had applied and was granted an allocation of Plot 1347at the Cadastral Zone A00, Abuja, after paying N184,529,438 as statutory Right of Occupancy and was duly issued with the C of O by the FCT Minister.

Meanwhile, under the terms of grant, the plaintiff was given three years to develop the property based on approved building plans.

After the payments of the various levies, the plaintiff paid additional N76, 936,210.00 as building plan fees after which the grant and approval of the building plans were made and given in line with the master plan for Abuja.

The plaintiff told the court that shortly after it engaged a building company, Al-Cooks Nigeria Limited, to develop the property for N13, 516,013,797.58, the FCT Administration led by Bala Mohammed, on November 1, 2011, asked it to pay additional N18,529,438, which it said was also paid.

It, however, lamented that after the various payments were made, the FCT Minister, without reason, issued a notice of revocation of the said property which it allocated to the plaintiff for the purpose of building public institution (Training/Vocational Centre). It noted that the said letter of revocation was backdated with effect from October 27, 2011.

Meanwhile, Turai's NGO stressed that it decided to seek redress in court upon discovering that the same piece of land was re-allocated to another organisation sponsored by Jonathan's wife.

Also joined as defendants in the suit with No. FCT/HC/CV/2591/2010 included the AGF, FCT Minister and the Abuja Geographic Information System, AGIS.

Sequel to the suit, the court presided by Justice Peter Affen, issued an order barring the FCT Administration, AGIS and the AGF from carrying out further activities at the site.

However, while the order of the court was still subsisting, the defendants in defiance of the said order mobilised people to the site to commence construction work.

The action prompted counsel to WAYE, Innocent Lagi, to initiate contempt proceedings against the respective defendants.

Nevertheless, before hearing could commence on the contempt charge, the AGF, last Friday, approached the court, asking it to vacate the restraining order.

Though Justice Affen ordered that all the necessary parties must be put on notice, the AGF, yesterday, re-approached the court, begging it to allow the matter to be settled-out-of court.

Counsel to the AGF, Mr Baba Sa'idu further told the court that his client had already reached out to the aggrieved party for an amicable settlement of the dispute.

After listening to his submissions, Justice Affen adjourned till September 24 to receive the report of settlement.

Meanwhile, the case been adjourned till September 24, 2012 for report of settlement.

Adducing reasons why the case should be discontinued, Adoke earlier told the court "the previous allocations were duly revoked and a fresh allocation made out to the African Peace Mission in overriding interest."

"The invitations to the members of the African Union's First Ladies Peace Mission had already gone out and it would be most humiliating for Nigeria in the diplomatic circle to make an about-turn at this time, given, the time constraint to effect any other changes in venue," he added.

The monetary reward recently introduced by the Federal Government of Nigeria for women who attend antenatal clinics has been received with mixed reactions across the country with people having divergent views on the reward.

The Federal Government has concluded plans to pay women who attend antenatal clinics the sum of N5,000 as part of efforts to battle the menace of high maternal mortality rates.

The plan would be executed as part of the Midwifery Service Scheme (MSS) introduced in 2010 and it is hoped that it would also impact positively on child health.

According to the Director, Primary Health Care System Development with the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Abdullahi Mohammed, the government has budgeted N15 billion for Maternal and Child Health Care from the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P).

“The woman must attend antenatal clinic at least four times. For each of those antenatal visits, there is money attached to it which is N1000. The woman must deliver at the facility; if she does, she is entitled to something; the woman must also ensure that the child is fully immunised. The total package is about N5,000. It is not big, but the feeling is that considering the level of poverty, it’s enough for women to attend antenatal clinics.”

Mohammed said that while antenatal clinic attendance was free, it had some incidental expenses that discouraged pregnant women from registering for antenatal care.

Knowing the problems associated with disbursement of public funds in the country, some people are of the view that it would cause a lot of corruption in the system with ‘Ghost Pregnant Women’ springing up from different corners.

Others say it would be better to reduce the cost of consultation and delivery at government hospitals rather than giving the pregnant women money for attending antenatal clinics because in the end, they may use the money for other purposes and not deliver their children at the facility.

Meanwhile, some say the program is non-sustainable and would fizzle out within a couple of months.

On the other hand, some people have lauded the initiative saying it would encourage women who wouldn’t otherwise attend antenatal clinics to do so. Whereas, others are of the opinion that it would not encourage family planning anymore because women would get pregnant too often if they know they would get an allowance during their pregnancy.

The news report didn’t state whether the money would be paid monthly but since it was called an ‘allowance’, the assumption is that it would be paid monthly.

What are your thoughts? Do you think it is wise to pay pregnant women money to encourage them to attend antenatal clinics? Is this programme sustainable? Would this affect family planning measures being encouraged in Nigeria already? Can the allowance really serve the cause of reducing high maternal mortality rates?

Please share your thoughts.

News Source: Daily Times
Photo Credit: Masterfile.com

afam4eva: Let's all blame GEJ everyone.

WHO ELSE?

Jonacracy.

mukina2: .


http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/07/20/reps-recommend-otehs-sack-say-her-appointment-is-illegal/

arrant nonsense. this lady has not been indicted of any fraudulent act. since the she was appointed based on her track record with similar position.
this woman is changing from the norms and everybody is crying.

eGuerrilla: @OP, we need to ask Rev Jolly Nyame

will you categorize him as a politician or a pastor?