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I think your challenges were unique to you because you were just a mere fanatic.
It has nothing to do with the fact that you're a Christian.

I'm one. I'm not broke. I'm employed.These days I'm trying to venture into business, or at least to learn a programming skill and later become a farmer. This year hopefully, I will achieve all.

If I fall sick, my pastor is never aware, I dey go hospital go treat am sharply.

I'm an irregular tithe payer. I've not even paid any tithe this year sef. Wetin concern me? I don't go for evangelism. I was born a Christian so I feel only people who converted to Christianity should preach the gospel, because I no sabi anything! Did I say I'm even part time church goer? I go to church any day and anytime I like!

If you think your life is hard because you're a Christian, then maybe you need to look around. You'll find other Christians like you who are balling even in the same church.

Life is hard (or easy) because of the choices we make. I don't deny there may be some toxic religious indoctrination here and there, but shey you no get sense yourself?

You get kidney stones and you dey drink holy water!

People dey suffer. People dey enjoy.
E no matter whether dem dey go church or not.

56% of billionaires in the world today are Christians. More than 90% say they believe in God. This is according to Forbes.

Any which way, na minority una dey. Nothing spoil.

Though I'm hoping you'll find your way back and that you'll become less fanatic, cuz that was your problem in the first place.

Really beautiful places I must say.
I'd love to visit South Africa someday.

And please don't mind my fellow compatriots saying 'this and that' abeg

The average Nigerian issa talkative (me inclusive) and will never run out of excuses to justify mediocrity (me exclusive).

Many Nigerians would love to visit SA either for work, pleasure, school or even permanent residence.

But how many SA would want to come to Nigeria for any of the above purpose, maybe except for business? that says a lot.

Keep it up guys.

Witcher:
What's this... This unnecessary, Most of the civil service in Nigeria are poverty alleviation scheme
Anyways
I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think that is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other animals make their livings by living, but people work like crazy, thinking that they have to in order to stay alive. The bigger the job, the greater the challenge, the more wonderful they think it is. It would be good to give up that way of thinking and live an easy, comfortable life with plenty of free time. I think that the way animals live in the tropics, stepping outside in the morning and evening to see if there is something to eat, and taking a long nap in the afternoon, must be a wonderful life. For human beings, a life of such simplicity would be possible if one worked to produce directly his daily necessities. In such a life, work is not work as people generally think of it, but simply doing what needs to be done.

Nice post.

Beebsquare1:
Make una calm down salary with new minimum wage will be paid this week strictly for those that are on ippis....

I think this cerpvad of a guy is just an alarmist that's all.
He's probably not even a FG staff.
That being said, whether they pay this month or not, we gonna survive and become stronger

In the long run, nothing spoil!

gensteejay:
I heard federal workers have now received their February salary.

When did you hear that??

helinues:
Who is responsible? State or Federal

Federal

Rahym001:
no news on salary, na wa ooo

Lol... Welcome on board.
The watch begins!
Money never finish for our hand na why all of us still dey calm.

TheNamezJhay:
Bro I'm yet to receive any allawee.... This is wickedness!!!...

Up till now I never see shi shi

Same here. This same thing happened when I was still serving in 2018, April I think. We were paid on the 12th of the following month. See suffer da year.

Buhari will soon turn me to Almajiri now that he has refused to pay February salary.
I just feel powerless and hopeless.
But God dey sha

TheNamezJhay:
Not all corp members cos I'm a corp member and I'm yet to see any alert....



Oluwa, wetin dey allaweenate?

Have you now been paid??

adedayoa2:
Please indicate your office, i have received mine since yesterday.

Do you work in any of the federal universities?

cerpvad:
UPDATE : our source has it that FG has likely become broke, hence the delay and non payment of February salary in MDAs and federal tertiary institutions. Currently, not all employees in MDAs have received February salary despite being on IPPIS, while no employee has been paid in federal tertiary institutions, either teaching or not teaching.

It is well! I have nothing else to say.

How then does the FG expect us to survive??
This is really painful.

Guzel:
Federal MDAs have been paid. It’s only for tertiary institutions

This is becoming serious ooo.

Samakus:
I just love ASUU. That Union fears no 'baga'. Non academic unions are just bunches of cowards. If it was ASUU that enrolled in IPPIS like other union members and the new minimum wage and its arrears are not paid in January, they would have embarked on strike since.

Their bravery and proactiveness is the reason it seems government and management of schools fear them

Lol... dem read book finish na.
Na so so profs and docs full their excos. The government dey fear them gan.

Besides they can influence university students to cause problems and from Nigeria's history, even military government fear Nigeria students.

Whereas in NASU na so so technicians and artisans full there. Even those of us wey manage go school (university) Don dey reason like them.

No levels at all!

cerpvad:
FG's confusion is caused by the ASUU' s IPPIS imbroglio and it is evidently affecting salary payment of non-teaching staff.

True that! I don't really understand why it's so.

cerpvad:
To varsity workers here, has February salary been paid in your institution? Kindly update

Not yet. But I'm hoping we'll be paid today. The silence by the FG is criminal tho'

I've not received any alert but I am encouraged by people who have received theirs.

I just hope everything is sorted out TODAY!!

cerpvad:
This is an old news. We want a fresh update.

BTW, IPPIS or not, have workers in Federal academic institutions started receiving alerts for February salary? Everybody, what is the update in your institutions?

It's very funny, isn't it?
You've not received your normal salary and you're talking about arrears!

Just let it go jare. Make we just siddon dey look.

This current brouhaha is an eye opener for me to start a side business before government bureaucracy make me starve to death.

Even if we're asked to come out and protest, I wouldn't be able to, na garri I chop this morning go work so I no get strength.

cocu25:
Haba... It's just 1st of March na.. patience pls

Lol OK sir. e be like say I no get patience sha.

ETWs:
oga be specific. All federal workers did not move to the platform in January. I'm a federal worker and we enrolled with IPPIS in 2012. I have received my February salary.

Wow! no vex ooo. As at 2012 I had just gained admission into the University. And I got this job late last year. So obviously I was just speaking based on my little experience.
So when did you receive the alert?

Happy Sunday BTW.

Why is this so?
Since we moved to this platform at least since January, we don't receive alert as at when due anymore. I don't know about state workers though. This is becoming worrisome. I got bills to pay na.
Na to save go start business remain now o.

Or have you received your February Salary as a Federal government worker?

richesbhc:
You didn't add Aregbesola ( former Governor of Osun state and the current minister of internal Affiars)

And please remove Rotimi Akeredolu from the list, Tinubu was against his emergence as Governor in 2016

My friend you need to understand Ondo politics. As an Ondo boy, I can tell you that Ondo peeps are not on the same page with Tinubu, as in they don't want his influence in the state.
So what would Tinubu do? Pretend to be against Akeredolu of course! Ondo people are for who Tinubu is against.
So Tinubu deceived them (us) and won the game.
As e clear for their eyes na him den vote PDP for presidential 4 2019.

simtosul:
My friend in the military has not receive alert yet

Omo this is no longer funny o.
After all the expenditures during the festive season, a man is flat broke and salary is being delayed.
Chai.

vertueptime:
They have paid na, gentleman have Patience

Plz when did you receive the alert, this evening??
No vex abeg.

My eyes Don dey red o. Has anyone been paid? I heard the delay is due to the IPPIS stuff.

Campaigners are urging the government to outlaw "virginity repair" surgery.

Many Muslim women risk being outcast, or in extreme cases killed, if their spouses or families discover they have had sex before marriage.

And some are opting for a medical procedure in which doctors restore a layer of membrane at the entrance to the vagina.

But there are concerns a ban would increase the dangers to Muslim women by driving the procedure underground.
Guidelines from the General Medical Council (GMC) state a patient's consent to undergo a procedure should come into question if it is suspected of being "given under pressure or duress exerted by another person".

'Living in fear'
Halaleh Taheri, founder of Middle Eastern Women and Society Organisation told BBC News of a Moroccan student in hiding in London after being told her father had hired someone to murder her.

After coming to the UK in 2014 to study, the woman, now 26, had met a man and they had moved in together.

But when her father had found out about their relationship, he had demanded she return to Morocco, where he had taken her to a clinic for a "virginity test" and discovered her hymen was no longer intact.

She fled back to London but now lives in constant fear her father will find out where she lived.

A Moroccan-born assistant teacher, 40, told the BBC that after being forced to go through with the procedure in her 20s, she could not imagine pressuring her children into doing the same.

"I would never, ever do such a thing to them. I try to teach them to be free."

Wedding night
There are currently at least 22 private clinics across the UK offering hymen-repair surgery.

They charge up to £3,000 for the surgery, which takes about an hour.

Women's rights campaigners say that such clinics are profiting from Muslims afraid of what could happen to them if they are not "pure" for their wedding night.

And many detail the procedure on their websites, with London's Gynae Centre telling women who visit its site "some marriages are even annulled" when a husband discovers his wife's hymen has been broken.

BBC News contacted the clinic for comment but has not received a response.

'Dreadful practice'
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said he would be investigating ways to end this "dreadful practice," but the Department of Health declined to comment on how a potential ban would be enforced.

But Miss Taheri said: "Girls could end up dying if banning this procedure isn't done with proper care."

Dr Khalid Khan, professor of Women's Health at Barts and the London School of Medicine, who has witnessed the procedure first hand, said a ban "isn't an appropriate response".

And as long as "good quality information" was made available to patients, the decision should be left up to individual women.

"I believe doctors' motives are genuinely for protection against abuse," he added.

'Zero benefit'
However, Dr Naomi Crouch, who chairs the British Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology, worries about women and girls being coerced into a procedure with "zero medical benefit".

"The duties of a doctor are made clear in standards set out by the GMC," she said.

"We as healthcare professions are bound by an oath to do no harm to patients and any reputable service engaging in these procedures is open to audit and scrutiny."

Colin Melville, medical director and director of education and standards at the GMC said that it's vital that doctors consider the "vulnerabilities and psychological needs of their patients" first.

"If a patient is under undue pressure from others to take a particular course, their consent may not be voluntary. If a doctor judges that a child or young person does not want a cosmetic intervention, it should not be performed," he said.

Other cosmetic genital procedures, such as labiaplasty, which involves the lips of the vagina being shortened or reshaped, have become increasingly popular, especially among younger women, from all types of background in the UK.

And campaigners say there is little known about the long-term effects of these procedures and are concerned women are not receiving enough psychological support before opting for surgery.

Miss Taheri said: "These women on some level don't see themselves as anything more than an object to be desired, rather a human being.

"For Muslim women, the drive is feelings of shame and the fear of punishment.

"For others, it is down to a lack of satisfaction with their own bodies, being fuelled by what society is telling them is normal."

Source: BBC news.

Thanks all.
Love u all.

Neutrobcorp:
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Or

From gbagada, take a bus to Obalende, at Obalende take another bus to Ajah.....

Alight at chevron.


Or

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Drop at chevron bus stop....

Cross to the other side.... That's chevron

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