₦airaland Forum

Saintinoo:
If you have ever deal with government you will understand that FG will never pay ASUU withheld salaries if they do not suspend the ongoing strike, there are so many other trade unions in Nigeria, if FG should pay ASUU now, then every other union will want to get more sturborn, just like Ngige said that FG is solving the issues "holistically". Expect NASU, NAAT and SSANNU to start thesame strike, even doctors will go on strike anyhow knowing fully that their salaries is being saved to be paid later.

A presidential waiver was granted ASUU some months ago and their salaries were paid, what made them think same thing will not happen this time around.

In 2013 ASUU strike, they made sure that every dime was paid before the strike was called off.

Saintinoo:
ASUU president is dumb, two out of the three demands with timeline has been succssfully met.

Item 1 and 2 have been met, except for the process of salary which they were promised a presidential wavier but ASUU wants to be above the law, FG should just leave them, when they are tired they can go back to work.

What about the students?

The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Wednesday gave conditions that must be satisfied before calling off its nine months old strike.

The lecturers said they did not reach any understanding with the government to suspend the strike on December 9, 2020.

The President of ASUU, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi, made the clarification in a statement entitled: ‘Why the strike has not been suspended.’

He said the union representatives only told FG’s delegation that it would take the government’s offer to the branches through the various organs of the union and report back.

According to him, there was nothing in the government offer of November 27, 2020, to suggest that conclusion as allegedly claimed by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige.

He said, “The leadership of ASUU has been inundated with enquiries on why the ongoing strike action has not been suspended. This was sequel to the widely reported claims by some government agents that all the demands of ASUU have been met and that the union agreed to suspend the strike action today, 9th December, 2020. Nothing can be farther from the truth!

“To put the records straight, the Principal Officers and Trustees who constitute the core of representatives of ASUU at negotiation meetings with government are not constitutionally empowered to suspend any strike action.
“Whatever comes out of an engagement with agents of the government is an offer which must be taken back to the branches through the various organs of the union.

“Views and perspectives on offers by governments are aggregated and presented to government agents as counter-offers. This trade union strategy of offer and counter-offer is continually deployed until the National Executive Council of ASUU – consisting of all recognised chairpersons – finally approves what it considers an acceptable offer from the government. It is only then that any strike action by ASUU can be suspended.

“At our last meeting in the office of the Minister of Labour and Employment on 27th November, 2020, the ASUU leadership promised to faithfully present the latest government offer to its members through the established tradition. The latest offer by government makes proposals on nearly all items of demand by the union with timelines.

“Among others, the document which was signed by the Hon. Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, contains proposals on inauguration of the reconstituted FGN-ASUU Renegotiation Committee (1st December, 2020); release of details about Visitation Panels (December 1 2020); working on the actualisation of the release of the withheld salaries of ASUU members (Wednesday December 9 2020). Clause 9 on the document reads: “Based on these conclusions reached on items 1-8, ASUU’s leadership will consult its organs with a view to suspending the on-going strike” (Italics, for emphasis).

“Therefore, the ASUU leadership did not reach any understanding with government to suspend the strike on December 9 2020 and there is nothing in the government offer of November 27 2020 to suggest that conclusion as allegedly claimed by the Minister of Labour and Employment.

“The leadership of ASUU has consistently stated at every meeting with high ranking government officials that the union’s representatives have no mandate to take final decision on any strike action by the union. All the leadership does is to present government offers through its organs, and that we have done faithfully in the current situation.

“ASUU recognises and appreciates the concerns of all Nigerians who have been calling for an early resolution of the ongoing crisis. It was a needless crisis in the first place. It happened because government has consistently failed to faithfully implement the Agreements it freely signed with the union.

“ASUU members, as stakeholders in the Nigerian University System, are equally worried and embarrassed that those in position of authority, over the years, displayed seeming indifference to the rot and decay in Nigeria’s public universities. We think it is not too late to do a rethink. We believe if there is the will, there will be a way.

“ASUU acknowledges some more recent interventions aimed at resolving the crisis. While the union is willing to cooperate with concerned authorities on the matter, this would not be done to its own detriment. So, the strike would only be suspended when the union’s organs affirm that the welfare and wellbeing of ASUU members, as well as the survival of our public universities, are sufficiently guaranteed.”



https://punchng.com/strike-what-we-agreed-with-fg-ASUU-president/

Here is why ASUU has not suspended the strike.

By Adesina Wahab
Hope of the ongoing faceoff between the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and the Federal Government being settled before the year runs out may suffer a setback today, Wednesday, as the union is set to further tackle the government on its claims about offers made to the union.

Investigation by Vanguard shows that the leadership of the union is set to fault the claims by the government that it promised to suspend the strike today.

Also, the union may also fault claims of the government on the exact salaries being owed the lecturers.

A source in the union told our correspondent that most of the claims made by the Minister of Labour, Dr Chris Ngige, in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, were not what the sides agreed to at their last meeting last month.
The development, it was gathered, could further lead to a breakdown in the negotiation between the two parties.

When contacted on the phone, the National President of ASUU, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, told our correspondent to await a statement that would be issued later in the day.

“I know why you are calling me, please, we are going to make a formal response in our statement later today, wait for that, “he said.

Recall that Ngige said the union promised to suspend the strike today, Wednesday, saying it was part of a gentleman’s agreement they had.lat their last meeting.

The minister also said the government is owing the lecturers only July to October 2020 salaries, while the union is saying that some of its members are being owed eight months.

The union has been on strike since March this year.

https://www.google.com.ng/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2020/12/ASUU-vs-fg-will-ASUU-call-off-strike-today/amp/

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru
THE Federal Government yesterday faulted claims by the President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities ( ASUU), Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi that the government had failed to deliver on the timelines on offers made to the union.

ASUU was quoted to have said that University teachers cannot return to classes on “ empty stomach.”

But the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, who dismissed the claims by ASUU, said that while it was true that some of the offers made to ASUU have timelines, the same timelines have faithfully been complied with.

A statement from the Minister’s media office said, “For instance, the Federal Government promised to constitute a Negotiation Committee for the 2009 Agreement and has fulfilled it with the last week’s inauguration of the committee that has Prof. Muzali as chairman.

“ The N40b Earned Academic Allowances/ Earned Allowances have also been processed just as the N30b revitalization Fund, bringing it to a total of N70b.

“ Likewise, the Visitation Panels for the Universities have been approved by the President but the panel cannot perform its responsibilities until the shut universities are re-opened.

“The gazetting is also being rounded off at the Office of Attorney General of the Federation while the Ministry of Education is ready to inaugurate the various visitation panels.

“Similarly, Government agreed to pay salaries, allowances of Earned Academic Allowances/ Earned Allowances with a hybrid platform that is not hundred percent IPPIS as requested by ASUU while UTAS is undergoing usability and integrity test at National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) as demanded by ASUU.

“I, therefore, state without equivocation that every offer with a timeline has been faithfully fulfilled as promised by the government .”

The Minister noted that it is false and discomforting for ASUU to wrongly inform the general public that the Federal Government agreed to pay all withheld salaries before it will resume work.

“The truth of the matter is that a ‘Gentleman Agreement’ was reached at the last meeting in which ASUU agreed to call off the strike before December 9, 2020, and the Minister, in turn, agreed that once the strike is called off, he would get a presidential waiver for ASSU to be paid the remainder of their salaries on or before December 9, 2020 .”

Part of the proposal ASUU took back on November 27, 2020, reads, “ the Hon Minister of Labour and Employment informed that he had consulted with the Hon Minister of Education on getting a waiver on the issue of No Work, No Pay as stipulated in Sec. 43 of the Trade Dispute Act, Cap T8, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria( LFN )2004, but a reservation has been made concerning this request because of the ongoing strike by ASUU. The HML&E, therefore, agreed to work on this to be actualized before Wednesday, December 9, 2020.

“ For the avoidance of doubt and for clarity, it should be stated that ASUU began warning strike on March 9, 2020, and went into full-blown industrial action on the 23rd of the same month over IPPIS payment platform.

“With the lockdown at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Minister got special presidential approval to demonstrate good faith to ASUU members that government is not on a vengeful mission or out to starve ASUU to death as some of them are claiming.

“They were subsequently paid for two months of February and March after which it was extended to April, May, and June, months they were on strike on compassionate ground, bringing it to five months.

“This was done because of the Covid-19 pandemic and its deleterious effects on incomes of all workers and their families as government reasoned that ASUU members also have families.

“The Minister later invited ASUU to a virtual conciliatory meeting which they turned down. He further requested them to show good faith over the five months salaries the government made to them by returning to the classroom and start virtual and online teaching as being done by private universities, while the government sorts out the rest of their requests, they also refused.

“ It is therefore unbelievable that ASUU President claimed that government agreed to pay outright, the entire money of the period of the strike to them, even for staying at home and refusing to do either virtual teaching or research.

“ I wish to emphasize further that the outstanding salaries to ASUU are for the month of July, August, September, and October as no federal public servant has been paid for November 2020.

“Hence, it is baseless for ASUU to claim it cannot go back to school on an empty stomach while the government has on compassionate grounds, paid five months salaries out of the nine months they have been on strike.

“ASUU is fully aware of the principle of No Work, No Pay of the Sec. 43 of the Trade Disputes Act under which many unions like National Association of Residents Doctors( NARD) in 2017 and Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) in 2018 among others have lost salaries as a result of the strike.

“ It is consequently important to inform Nigerians, especially parents that Federal Government is asking ASUU to go back to work and when they do, the Ministers of Labour, Finance, and Education will put up a memo to deal with the outstanding four months of salaries.

“Asking the government to pay these four months before it goes back to work, means ASUU is placing itself above the law of the land and no government will encourage, it as it is a recipe for chaos in the labour milieu.

“ Finally, the Federal Government will continue to engage ASUU in the spirit of social dialogue which the Ministry of Labour and Employment has been encouraging based on the ILO Principle on decent work.”

https://www.google.com.ng/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2020/12/strike-weve-kept-our-promises-with-ASUU-fg/amp/

It's simple! The husband should provide the English name for the child while the wife settles for the native name. Vice versa. In this difficult time, giving a child a name shouldn't be a hectic task.

SAMBARRY:
the notorious thrash talker of nairaland has come again

The success or failure of marriage has little or nothing to do with how much was spent on the wedding but the individuals involved

I attended a very big wedding some years ago by a top military personnel's daughter.it was the talk of the town

Bella Naija,ait, Silverbird ,city people etc aired it.dignitaries like politicians,technocrats ,military personnels and buisnes tycoons came.infact the bride came with pomp and peagantry.her wedding dress was ordered from abroad

But guess what.their marriage is 16 years old with 5 kids to show for it

You can also do a low key wedding where they'll be sharing key holders as souvenir and the wedding will not last.so it's not about the size of the wedding but by God's mercies and grace if not ladies that married as virgins with no Social life in school or parties except church fellowships won't be having Marital issues of their husbands cheating on them, assaulting them and all those kind of rubbish


If you can afford to do big wedding do it,don't let any body guilt trip you or shame you with rubbish

If it's small wedding you want to do,do it,it's your wedding not societys wedding

However note that marriage is Oja okunkun.it guarantees nothing

whether you did big wedding or small wedding

whether you marry as a virgin or not

whether you can cook pass international chefs

whether you aborted or not..it's just God's mercies..all these old wives fables old generation will be selling Na wash

To an extent, I agree with him. Sometimes, we spend so much time preparing for wedding instead of marriage. Wedding is just for a day, marriage is for a eternity.

I can't believe this until I see the receipt used in making payment.

The story I am about to tell happened some years ago. I was in Lagos for a writing contract that was going to last for at least three whole months and I went to squat with a friend of mine at Oshodi. My friend had some other engagements that took him away. For this reason, he gave me the key to the room to stay in it.
The compound was a face-me-I-face-you (as it’s known in the local parlance) There were about twenty tenants living in it.
Waking up one morning, I ran into a girl bathing a sick child. By my feeble observation, I sensed that the boy had malaria. The boy - a child of four or five years old; my guess - was shivering and crying as he was being bathed. You could tell he was very ill. I was immediately overtaken by pity.
“What is wrong with him?” I asked the girl who was bathing the child.
The girl told me the boy had malaria as I suspected. She was pouring water on the child from a very dirty bowl. Their room was close to the toilet and there was a passage way for water by the side of the wall next to their room in which was rather untidy. But for the situation of the country, no one would be allowed to raise children in such an environment.
My heart bled for the child.
I inquired about the parents and was shocked to hear that they'd gone to work! Work! How could any sane parent abandon a sick child like that and go to work? What nonsense work was that! I was consumed by rage.
“Please let me have the father’s number,” I asked the girl who was bathing the child. She was probably about twelve years old or more. She was the house help from what I observed.
Reluctantly, the girl gave me the phone number of the child’s father.
Still infuriated, I put a call to the man and told him there was an emergency as his child needed urgent medical attention. There was a little hesitation at the other end before the man replied.
“Hello,” he responded from the other end.
“Good morning sir,” I said into the mouthpiece. “I am your neighbour…”
I quickly repeated why I was calling him and was shocked at his reaction from the other end. He retorted sharply, saying the child had already been prayed for by his pastor that morning and would be well soon. He rebuffed when I still insisted the child need medical attention, hinting that I mind my own business.
I could not comprehend why he reacted the way he did at all. How could he say the pastor had already prayed for the child whom from every indication apparently needed medical care? My anger was fanning tremendously now. I could not imagine myself being a victim of such religious insanity. Why would he not understand that he had just assigned the job of a medical practitioner to a clergyman?
Again, in my heightened rage, I dialed the number. This time, I politely explained to him that the child needed to be taken to the hospital and that if it was money that was the problem, I could gladly make provision for it.
“Money is not my problem,” he bragged on the phone with the ego of a mosquito thinking it was a bird. “I am busy now and you are disturbing my market.”
The line went dead in my ear thereafter. I turned to the house help with all the indignation in the world.
“Give me the mother’s phone number please,”
Reluctantly again, the house help gave me the woman’s number. I was made to understand that she worked as a cleaner somewhere.
“Good morning Madam,” I said cordially into the phone.
“Good morning, who’s on the line?”
I quickly introduced myself and told her exactly what I told her husband. She was hesitant at the other end. I waited patiently to hear what she was going to say. I could see from the corners of my eyes that the sick child was crying and breathing heavily.
“Thank you sir for your concern,” she said. “We have gave him drug this morning.”
I heaved a long sigh; angry with her grammar and at the same time angry with her nonchalance. Deep inside me, I knew that what the boy needed was to be taken to the hospital. That she told me they had given the boy some drugs that morning seemed somewhat meaningless to me.
“Please ma; let this boy be taken to the hospital. He needs urgent medical attention.”
“Don’t worry, he will be fine. Just mind your business.”
I turned back to the house help when the woman like her husband told me to mind my business. I felt that I was beginning to sound more catholic than the Pope.
“Can I take the boy to the hospital?”
Wide horror appeared on the house help’s face when I said that. And when she shook her head I understood that I was just being silly. This could never happen in Lagos where everyone minded their business. If anything happened to the child, the parents would forget my kindheartedness and begin to spew hate. People would not believe that I genuinely wanted to help.
In deep sorrow, I left the house that morning and all through my stay at work, I kept thinking about the child and how to convince the parents to take him to the hospital. I felt for him. I knew there was no way I was going to abandon any member of my family in such a vulnerable situation because of the quest for money.
I arrived around seven in the evening and went straight to them. The child’s mother was now home. She was carrying the boy in her arms and was seated on a small stool. I told her that I was the one who had called that morning and that I still maintained that the child should be taken to the hospital.
“Please ma, take this child to the hospital immediately. That is what I think you need to do right now and this is my candid advice.” I spoke as if there was fire in my mouth.
“We have go to hospital and they have gave us drug,” she replied casually in a manner that provoked me even the more. How could she not see that the child was dying? He was breathing like a cowin her arms.
I heaved, “Please what kind of treatment was the child given?” I echoed still indignantly.
“Hia, Oga I said we have already went to the hospital and they have gave him drug. What is all these questions sef?” This was the sarcastic response I got from her.
I left her feeling very miserable and telling myself that I had tried all the best I could as a concerned neighbor but deep down I kept telling myself that illiteracy as well as ignorance was a terrible thing.
Shortly after I spoke with the woman, her husband returned. He came with a pastor. From my room, I heard the man praying fervently for the child.
“Timothy, I say you will not die. You will live to fulfill your destiny. You will be a blessing to your generation. I say you will live to declare the word in the mighty name of Jesus!”
As I listened to the pastor pray, I felt like going to punch the father of the child in the stomach for his foolishness. Again I wondered why the pastor did not advise the family to take the child to the hospital instead. In all my entire life, I hadn’t seen such brazen folly displayed the manner it was that day.
“Timothy, receive life in the name of Jesus!” the pastor ended his prayer and got the resounding ‘Amen’ from the people.
In no time he was gone.
I came out again and called the man to a corner. For the umpteenth time, I told him that he should take the son to the hospital because that was what the boy needed but he told me not to bother because his pastor had already prayed for the child and ‘spoken life unto him’.
That was when I gave up completely and returned to my room. I was only a visitor there and knew no one I could talk to who could in turn help me talk to the family. There was none that I knew who could do that for me. The heavy breathings from the child wafted into my ears from the other room and I felt really bad that in spite of my little efforts, I still could not do anything to help him.
I retired to bed shortly only to be awoken by loud moans and cries by 3am. The child's health had relapsed and he was convulsing. People were running helter-skelter. The compound suddenly became a bedlam.
Someone was screaming; “Put a spoon; put a spoon in his mouth!”
I sensed in that hour that the time had come. The child had battled with life and could fight no more. Suddenly, I heard knocks on my door. It was the father of the child. He wanted to know if I knew any drug he could buy. I just told him bluntly to rush the young man to the hospital.
“Okay sir,” he nodded and off they all went miserably and helplessly to the hospital.
It was about an hour thirty minutes later that they all returned crying. The child had breathed his last. He died at the hospital even before the hospital could commence treatment on him.
This remains to this day the saddest moment of my life. But for their stupidity and carelessness the boy would have lived. He had no reason whatsoever not to have survived.
The atmosphere was tensed and ablaze with sympathizers that morning. Before 6am that day, the house was already filled up with mourners who came from various places. I remained in my room sulking and angry with the dead boy’s parents. I felt that it was they who had killed the boy. He would have lived. That boy would have survived. He would have lived if his parents had at least listened to me.
I was jolted by a gentle tap on the door and when I poked my angry head out of the door, it was the dead boy’s father that I saw. On both flanks in the house were tens of mourners wearing sorrowful looks.
“Good morning sir,” the man greeted me. “My son Timothy is gone. I don’t know if you can accompany the volunteers to the place of his burial. Please sir.”
That was the most annoying thing I’ve ever heard.
I looked at him angrily and blurted; “Get out from here.”
I believe that he was shocked at my response but he was so scared that he left immediately.
I have told this story to many a person. It taught me a lesson and I believe it taught that family too. We must not wait until it happens to us before we learn. We can always learn from the experiences of others. Life is so precious that we must always do the best we can at all time to preserve it.…

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UnBanEbenezer:
guys e don happen again oh oh
abeg if una no get mind to view gory pics abeg don't click this link below.
https://www.nairaland.com/6292867/graphic-photos-lady-boyfriend-killed

I heard from a source that the guy's death was due to hits he carried out in the past. His death was more of revenge in nature. For long, they've been looking for a way to bring him down. He was an aiye. He was killed alongside his girlfriend while returning from a child dedication ceremony. His nickname was mgba mgba. It's unfortunate that the girl had to go with him.

Brothers, there is no gain in cultism. Forget about all the promises you see them dish out online. I repeat, there is no gain. Whatever promises they make can be achieved when you possess these three things: align faithfully with God, remain committed in your goals. Goals in this case include: study, business or work; and last but not the least your God given family.

Saynocultism

A lady identified as Chinenye and her boyfriend, Chinedu Nwode were killed by suspected cultists at Oriuzor community in Ezza North Local Government Area of Ebonyi state on Sunday, November 29.

The killings reportedly followed a renewed clash between two rival cults in the state, the Baggers and Aye confraternities.

It was gathered that the couple were returning from a child dedication in Oriuzor to Onueke when they were shot dead.

The killing was said to have angered some persons suspected to be members of the Aye Confraternity, who in turn killed one Chikwado Nweke and another man at Onueke community in the same local government.

Spokesperson of the State Police Command, DSP Loveth Odah, who confirmed the incident on Tuesday, December 2, condemned the spate of unreported cult killings in the area.

"This is bad and I don’t know why these things are more often heard of in this area. This is condemnable and it’s unfortunate that those who lost their loved ones to these crises have not come up to identify themselves. How can these things be happening in that place and these are brothers and they are just killing themselves," said Odah.

"On hearing this ugly news, the Ebonyi State Commissioner of Police, Mr Philip Maku, deployed men of the command in the area to ensure that more lives are not lost. The police are investigating the matter and soon, we will tell you what really happened." she added.


https://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2020/12/beautiful-young-lady-and-her-boyfriend-reportedly-shot-dead-by-suspected-cultists-in-ebonyi.html



Happy birthday to the next president of Nigeria.

pocohantas:
They are the most dangerous, highly confrontational and deadly like king cobras. Always paranoid, seeing things that are not there.

Hypergamy guarantees everyone peace of mind- man and woman. Marry down as a Nigerian woman and lose your peace! Even the sound of your heel would be seen as pride. You’ll be walking on eggshells not to upset his ever needy ego.

Chukwu nna ekwela ihe ojo!

I think it should be pratiloma or hypogamy since the woman seems to be of higher class in terms of finance than the man.

If they decide to take up this matter legally against the government, they could win.

The Champ. Imagine losing your best friend, hero, mentor and father. All in one person. It was unbearable. That movie made me to become so much closer to my son. If you don't have the heart, do not watch the movie.

Ngige said all vice-chancellors are to submit details of the EAA/EA to the National Universities Commission (NUC) on or before November 30.

etokhana:
https://thenationonlineng.net/breaking-fg-offers-n65bn-to-end-ASUU-strike/

Nice move from the FG. However, it's not yet uhuru. The ASUU that I know will make sure that every penny is paid before calling off or suspending the strike including their salary arrears.

By Senator Emmanuel Onwe

“I offered this movement [from PDP to APC] as a protest against the injustice being done to South East by PDP.” - Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State

There are a number of perfect justifications that the governor of Ebonyi State, Engr Dave Umahi, could have advanced for his decampment from the PDP to the APC in pursuit of the presidency of Nigeria. Grounding his reason on the purported “injustice” meted out to the South East by the PDP betrays a complete absence of conscience. This ludicrous claim is fed by nothing but blind ambition.

What is “unjust” is to have systematically sabotaged the 2019 presidential campaign of the PDP in Ebonyi State at every turn, not to mention the financial and structural sponsorship of opposition candidates against PDP candidate in the National Assembly election.

But for the funds I provided the Atiku/Obi State Campaign Coordinator, he would have failed catastrophically in his duties during the presidential campaign rally in Abakaliki on 2nd February, 2019.

To be clear, the following facts represent the degree of PDP’s “injustice” against the South East between 1999 and 2015:

1. Sen. Chuba Okadigbo; Sen. Evans Enwerem; Sen. Anyim Pius Anyim and Sen. Ken Nnamani each became a President of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria under PDP.
2. Sen. Ike Ekweremadu became Deputy President of the Senate under a PDP federal administration.
3. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha became a Deputy Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives under a PDP federal administration.
4. Sen. Anyim Pius Anyim became the Secretary to the Government of the Federation under a PDP federal administration (the first in the history of the South East).
5. Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala became the Finance Minister & Coordinating Minister of the Federal Executive Council of the Government of the Federation under a PDP administration.
6. Lt. Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika was appointed the Chief of Army Staff under a PDP administration (the first in the history of the South East).
7. Dr Ogbonnaya Onovo was appointed the Inspector General of Police under a PDP federal administration (the first of its kind in the history of the South East).
8. Dr Aruma Ote and Dr Ndidi Onyiuke were respectively appointed the DG of the Nigerian Stock Exchange under a PDP federal administration.
9. A state burial was granted in honour of General Odumegwu Ojukwu by a PDP President (unimaginable under the configuration of the current federal administration).
10. A ministerial appointment was granted to the son of late General Aguiyi Ironsi (unimaginable under the current federal administration).
11. IPOB was neither proscribed nor its members slaughtered like wild animals on the streets of Igbo towns and cities under a PDP federal administration.
12. Enugu-Abakaliki-Ogoja trans-saharan African highway was constructed to a quality standard by a PDP federal government.
13. Federal University Ikwo was constructed, commissioned and commenced under a PDP federal administration.
14. Federal University Teaching Hospital Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, was designated under a PDP federal administration.
15. Federal College of Agriculture, Ishiagu, Ebonyi State was designated under a PDP federal administration.
16. Judges who hail from Ebonyi State were elevated to the Supreme Court of Nigeria for the first time in the history of State under a PDP federal administration.
17. Akanu Ibiam International Airport was so designated under a PDP federal administration.
18. The PDP gifted Governor Umahi the opportunity to serve as its state chairman for 4 years, as a Deputy Governor for 4 years and now as a two-term Governor.

I could go on and on. Not a single one of these attainments has been replicated under the current APC federal administration, nor is it possible to envisage such replication.

Opinions are not facts. In the immortal words of George Orwell: “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

Umahi’s blackmail against the PDP is worse than pure wind, it’s pure crap!

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Senator Onwe represented Ebonyi Central at the Senate for 6 months circa 2010, after spearheading the gubernatorial campaign of David Umahi in 2015, he reluctantly accepted to be Ebonyi state commissioner for information. Following the election of 2019, he refused the same position and decided to rather mentor youths than be in government.

In 2018, the former publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Nwoba Chika Nwoba, was allegedly attacked by Governor Dave Umahi's boys popularly known as Akubaraoha Youth Assembly, alongside with some others like Charles Otu for criticizing the Governor using their Facebook page. The attack was allegedly lead by AYA leader, Mark Onu aka Chopper.

With the news about the Governor moving to APC, how do you expect the same Chika to remain in the same position as the party's Publicity Secretary. Of course, there is no way he can criticize the governor as the party's publicity secretary.

The honourable thing for him to do in this case is to resign which he did.

Read below what he wrote fews days concerning his attack in 2018 before he resigned.
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How the attack happened. For those who had not read it directly from me after I was discharged from hospital in April, 2018:

That Tuesday evening, 22nd of March, 2018, I was at Chief Mrs Amaka Okeagu's house in Abakaliki. I got intelligence that there's a meeting going on at the defunct Ebonyi Hotels Ltd centering on how to perfect my assassination. Someone who was in the meeting alerted me. He was invited because he knew where I was living. They threatened to kill him if he refused to tell them my location. He denied knowing my location. Each of the four of the boys was given N5,000. That is, N20,000 to kill someone.

I briefed Mrs Okeagu the intelligence I got. She told me to stay back and never get back to my house at Nkaliki that same evening. I told her that my phone was very down and I didn't come along with my charger. She told me to forget about that and stay back for the sake of my life. I insisted that I leave so that I could travel to Awka early in the morning.
She said that I should not go. But when she saw how eagerly I was to leave, she sent someone, Ugochukwu Ogbu (Mature) to drive me through to house.

When I got to house, I began to load my cloths and other things in the bag so I could leave early in the morning. I woke up around 4AM to take bath waiting for the waking of dawn. I never knew the guys had come earlier with two Neighbourhood Watch motorcycles all steaming, but didn't know how to enter into the compound since gate was still locked. My landlord was a driver plying Abakaliki-Ogoja in Cross River State. About 5:30 AM, the landlord opened the gate and they rushed in. The landlord never understood what was going on. I was outside my bedroom at the time. Two entered into my room and two outside. Before I could know what was happening, the other two walked straight to me where I was sitting and discussing with a co-tenant.

They asked whom amongst us was Nwoba Chika Nwoba. The other man looked at me not knowing what was in the offing. I swiftly replied that I wasn't the one, telling them where to enter and see the guy. As they were turning back inside, I tried tiptoeing out of my position. Unfortunately, one of them looked back and told me: "If you move an inch, I gun you down". I asked myself rhetorically, "NCN, is this how you leave the surface of this earth?" Cold tears began to trickle down on my cheeks. My co-tenant never understood what was happening as he's shivering. The guy asked, "so, you are the Chika disturbing government on Facebook?" I was going down already because, the four of them bore cutlasses. There's no how I could have fought the four of them. He put his hand inside the coat he's wearing and brought out a sharp cutlass and landed it at my neck, as though to cut down a tree. The other person landed another one at my shoulder. The first guy landed another at my head, while the other gave me a terrible cut at the knee my right arm, tearing my veins. I was going down gradually.
The other two were guarding outside.

Something happened miraculously. Boys on the street began to come out. The two guys cutting me tried to handcuff me and take me to where they would butcher me. As they were doing so, realizing people were closing in on them, they left me, climbed their motorcycles and zoomed off. I was bleeding profusely. No one agreed to rush me to hospital. I ran out and was running through the APC secretariat which is situated close to my house. I saw two Ikwo guys who know me. I begged them to take me to Chief Fred Udeogu's or Comrade Chinedu Ogah's house who could take me to hospital. They didn't talk to me. They zoomed off.
I trekked back to my house where I was pushed into an ambulance to Hon. Iteshi Clinton Chika's house who them rushed me to C.P.S to take permission from police for treatment. The DPO said that they should rush me to hospital so I don't die in their station.

I told Clinton to dial Oguzor Offia Nwali's phone so he could dial Alex Oguta to protect my Facebook account as the guys collected my phone. Clinton rushed me to hospital and took pictures of me and sent to Facebook. From there, the news spread. Alex then did something to my Facebook account and before they could log in, my password and everything had been changed.
I started receiving treatment in hospital. In the same night, a lawyer fiend from Ezaa North came to see me in hospital. He began to reach out to the sponsors of my attack, telling them that I was still at the ward and they should come now. He didn't know I heard him clearly. I alerted security and told them what was happening. Two DSS officials came from their office and did something on my security. I was later transferred out of the ward. When the sponsors of my attack came, they're barred from entering the hospital from the gate.

From that night those close to me were told to be telling people that I was transferred to Enugu for further treatment, whereas I was at the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki. Later that same day I was attacked, Chief Press Secretary to Gov. Umahi, Emma Uzor released statement absolving government of responsibility of the attack. He said that I was attacked at Ishieke in a hostel of a cultist's girlfriend. But I was attacked at Nkaliki. The distance is like the distance between Abakaliki and Enugu.

I left hospital April ending, second week of May, I was elected State Publicity Secretary of the APC in Ebonyi when I was not even a member yet.

That's how it happened.

NCN.


Also read:

https://m.guardian.ng/news/how-i-was-kidnapped-and-almost-killed/

JudasNaCarrot:
Is he not Ebonyi man again??

WAWA people....very timid set of people. I've never met any Ebonyi civilised person even the highly educated ones. Very local set of people. Gala, la casera hawking and keke drivers is all they do.

Umahi will still come back like Uduaghan of Delta state.....Mark my words.

Mr. civilized man clap for yourself.

My landlord came to my shop yesterday to buy condom and i told him it has finished. This morning, when his wife came to buy bread, i told her to tell her husband that the condom he was looking for yesterday is now available. Since morning they have been fighting and everybody is now blaming me.

Please, what's my crime?

DaddyRochie1642:
She should Remember her Father too

From the pictures posted, may be her dad is no longer alive. Take a good look at the fourth picture, you can see only the mother and her brother. May we all be alive to enjoy the fruits of our labour, Amen!

Juliusmomoh:
Now where is the one she built for her father .. Now i understand what ubunja is talking about.
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From the pictures posted, may be her dad is no longer alive. Take a good look at the fourth picture, you can see only the mother and her brother. May we all be alive to enjoy the fruits of our labour, Amen!

Buhari's government should thread carefully. If Biden assumes position as the President of US, Nigeria might be sanctioned. He's unlike Trump that place economic relation first before humanright.

A renewed cult clash between two rival groups has claimed two lives at the Federal Polytechnic Nekede in Umudibia Autonomous Community, Owerri West Council Area of Imo State.

It was gathered that gunmen suspected to be cult members shot dead an unidentified man at Federal Polytechnic Nekede junction on Wednesday, November 11.

Spokesperson of the State Police Command, SP Orlando Ikeokwu, who confirmed the incident on Wednesday November 11, said that the Commissioner of Police, Issac Akinmoyede has ordered an investigation into the two killings.

“We have collected the two corpses and deposited them in the mortuary while investigation has commenced. We believe it is a clash between two rival cult groups,” he said.



Saynotocultism

https://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2020/11/two-persons-shot-dead-as-rival-cult-groups-clash-at-federal-polytechnic-nekede-graphic-photos.html

“So, we are meeting again with ASUU soon, so that they can also hear that other unions in the university have developed their own payment system against UTAS. Do you now realize why we are tackling this problem holistically?”



The above mention simply shows that the matter is far from over.

Any news on minimum wage arrears?

Written by Ugama Steve

Some Men are abused by their wives too.
Last week I made a post and said I was going to talk about domestic violence against men and so many people laughed it off and said that a man cannot be abused by the woman he married with his own money. (I honestly don't understand why some people still see women as an object that can be purchased in this age and time). Some even said that a man who is abused by his wife is not man enough.
The comments in that post suggests clearly the problem most men who are facing domestic violence in the hands of their wives face in Nigeria. How do you convince the police that it was your wife that gave you a bloody nose? How do you tell your friends or even your doctor that it was your wife that assaulted you?
So many men are suffering in their homes and they can't speak out because of societal perception. It's worse when the wife has succeeded to isolate the man from his family members who ordinarily would have rescued him.
Last two years, we handled the case of a pharmacist who suffered terribly in the hands of his wife and her two sisters. He was a staff of Alex Ekwume Federal university teaching hospital here in Ebonyi state. It wasn't just about the wife and her sisters beating him mercilessly on a regular basis, they practically subjected him to all manners of abuse in his own home including sexual abuse. Once his salary is paid, he transfers it to the wife who now gives him stipends for his transport to work. This man had only three shirts. When we got involved in trying to rescue him, the wife and her sisters threatened fire and brimstone. Even the man has been so subjugated that he saw his condition and treatment as a norm. It was so bad that his 7 years old daughter slaps him and calls him all manner of names. It was that bad. Thanks goodness he is in Canada now and has remained ever grateful for our intervention.
The truth is, there are thousands of men like this pharmacist scattered around the country. They can not speak out and even neighbors who are supposed to come to their rescue see them as cowards, women wrappers, weaklings who allow their wives to humiliate them.
Domestic violence need not be physical, it could be emotional abuse. There was a case of a man whose wife invites his sugar boy to their home and enjoy sex with him even when the husband is at home. She was the breadwinner of the home and so the man had no say.
This is me putting it out here, men suffer domestic violence in their homes too. If you are a men and you are going through this in the hands of your wife, please don't die in silence. Contact human rights lawyers or NGOs. If you know any man going through domestic abuse in your neighborhood, don't call him names, help him to get help. Don't allow the society to kill your humanity.
Together we can Save the next victim.

Access bank, mouau

jamze:
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