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It all happened 3 years ago in Warri.I was in Warri to visit a friend of mine.Immediately I got to the entrance of the Estate, some hoodlums waylay me and told me to keep quiet.They carted away with bread,hollandia yogurt,phone,wallet and they removed my suit jacket too..I was very grateful to God that they didn't unclad me.I reported the case to the police the next day, trust Nigeria police they said I should write statement and deposit #3000 to open file for the case so that they can investigate properly and get those items they took from me..I never here from NPF till now ooo

The chairman of Edo state post primary education board , Pastor Gabriel Oiboh and the first member of the board Hon. osanyemwere Osawe have both resigned their positions following the familar, yet condemnable,illegal pressure and victimization of the Edo state government for them to join the outgoing Governor's emergency party.

Following the excruciating financial burden occasioned by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Delta State Government has temporally suspended the N30,000 minimum wage for civil servants of grade level 7 to 17 in the state civil service.

NIGER DELTA TODAY Online exclusive learnt that the agreement for the take-off of the decision had already been signed by the State Government with the state leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) after series of meetings.

It was also reliably gathered that on the part of government, elected and political appointees including Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, his deputy, Deacon Kingsley Otuaro and the Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori will forfeit between 20 and 25 per cent of their salaries.

Multiple sources, who confirmed the development to NIGER DELTA TODAY Online on Thursday and Friday, said the suspension of the payment will take effect from July salary for a period of six months.
It was however learnt that the state government would return to the status quo if the state revenue record improvement even before the agreed six months reached with the labour leaders.

The deal, according to our sources, was signed last week Thursday after series of meeting on the modalities. NLC, Trade Union Congress (TUC) and Joint Negotiating Council (JNC) witnessed the signing of the agreement.

It was gathered that a delegation of the state government acting on the directive of the state governor, Senator Okowa, told representatives of the NLC and other unions that government can no longer sustain the payment with the current economic reality globally.

The government had at the meeting lamented that it was spending heavily on the management of COVID-19 pandemic so as to contain the spread of the virus as the state is currently sixth on the chart of states with most infected cases in Nigeria.

Recall that Delta was among the first state in the country to implement payment of the new minimum wage.
Our correspondent gathered that the state government delegation had presented three options before the labour leaders during their meetings

The options, according to our sources who were part of the negotiating team, firstly, “that Cooperative and other deductions will not be remitted for the next six (6) months in order to meet the payment of the net salary

NIGER DELTA TODAY Online exclusive learnt that the agreement for the take-off of the decision had already been signed by the State Government with the state leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) after series of meeting

Multiple sources, who confirmed the development to NIGER DELTA TODAY Online on Thursday and Friday, said the suspension of the payment will take effect from July salary for a period of six months.

It was however learnt that the state government would return to the status quo if the state revenue record improvement even before the agreed six months reached with the labour leaders.

It was gathered that a delegation of the state government acting on the directive of the state governor, Senator Okowa, told representatives of the NLC and other unions that government can no longer sustain the payment with the current economic reality globally.

The government had at the meeting lamented that it was spending heavily on the management of COVID-19 pandemic so as to contain the spread of the virus as the state is currently sixth on the chart of states with most infected cases in Nigeria.

Recall that Delta was among the first state in the country to implement payment of the new minimum wage.

How Labour Avoided Retrenchment Of Workers With Deal

Our correspondent gathered that the state government delegation had presented three options before the labour leaders during their meetings

The options, according to our sources who were part of the negotiating team, firstly, “that Cooperative and other deductions will not be remitted for the next six (6) months in order to meet the payment of the net salary

“Secondly, that grade levels 1 to 6 are to receive new minimum wage, while grade level 7 to 17 are to revert to the old wage and the difference to be paid when the economy improves. In other words, they are to sacrifice their percentage increase for the period.”

The third option proposed by the government was retrenchment in the state civil service especially department that were currently redundant and not effective.

It was gathered that after series of negotiation meetings, the union leaders led by the state NLC chairman, Comrade Goodluck Ofobruku, settled for the third option which recommended the suspension of the payment of the new minimum wage for civil servants of grade level 7 to 17.

https://www.nigerdeltatoday.com/exclusive-delta-suspends-payment-of-30000-minimum-wage-for-civil-servants/

Fire guts the building of World trade centre today in Abuja

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The development, however, has drawn the ire of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), which blamed the Federal Government for neglecting Nigeria’s educational system.

The Student and Exchange Visitor Programme (SEVP), which is run by ICE, in a new rule released on Monday, had said foreign nationals enrolled in U.S. educational institutions will have to transfer to in-person schools or take online classes outside the country. Otherwise, they will be deported. Also, the Department of State will no longer issue visas for students to attend schools that offer online classes only.

The statement reads in part: “The U.S. Department of State no longer issues visas to students enrolled in schools or programmes that are fully online for the fall semester nor will U.S. Customs and Border Protection permit such students to enter the United States.

“Active students who are currently in the United States and enrolled in such programmes must leave the country or take other measures, such as transferring to a school with in-person instruction to remain in lawful status. If not, they will have to face immigration consequences.”

In an interview with The Guardian, ASUU President Prof. Abiodun Ogunyemi recalled with regret “a time foreign students were coming to Nigerian universities. Students were coming from South Africa, Egypt, and Ghana.”

According to him, “Today, the reverse is the case. In Ghana, more than half of the foreign students there are Nigerians. So, we can see that they are just harvesting our resources to fund their tertiary education. Why should Nigerians be going to the Republic of Benin, Cameroon, Togo, and Sudan to seek university education, not to talk of U.S.?”

ASUU’s incessant strikes are in the interest of students and their parents, he insisted, stressing that all the union is saying is: “Fix our laboratories, stock our libraries, renovate our workshops, supply facilities for e-learning and provide structures. Are those not the things they are enjoying there?”

The ASUU President said further: “Of course, the ruling class that can afford it are those sending their children to those distant places in America and Europe. The children of the poor are left to attend universities that are without facilities, universities that are not adequately staffed, and universities whose capacity for research have been dwindling. We think this is an opportunity for the Federal Government to sit back and address the problems in our university education and indeed Nigerian education as a whole.”

Also, former Minister of Education Prof. Chinwe Obaji wondered how courses like engineering and sciences that require practicals would be taught online. He called on government to make the universities attractive to Nigerian students abroad by tackling its many challenges, adding that COVID-19 is a temporary setback, which all nations would surmount in due course.

On his part, Prof. Ayodeji Olukoju, former Vice Chancellor at Caleb University, Imota, said: “The truth is that this situation is peculiar. It is unprecedented. It is not sustainable. In due course, we will conquer it. We once conquered the pandemic in 1819, Ebola, and we will surely conquer COVID-19. Nothing is permanent. It is true that online teaching would always continue but it can never take away the issues of face-to face interaction. For example, those students studying engineering in American universities and lab-based sciences, would they do all those things from a distance?”

He added: “We should adjust our curriculum to reflect the reality, mainly that we have to depend more and more, now, on online teaching. Secondly, we need to provide more infrastructure of online learning, ICT infrastructure essentially.

“Thirdly, we have to train people who can manage the infrastructure and those who want to teach on the platform because you can’t teach on the platform the way you teach in conventional classrooms. This is not a permanent situation but the world has to adapt to it.”

Most U.S. colleges and universities have not yet announced their plans for the fall semester but a number of schools are looking at a hybrid model of in-person and online instruction while some, including Harvard University, have said all classes will be conducted online.

Nigeria currently has the highest number of students from Africa studying in the U.S. According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Nigeria had 16,039 students as at 2019.

The agency said: “There are over 36,000 students from Sub-Saharan Africa studying in the U.S. As of March 2019, there were 16,039 students from Nigeria studying in the United States with 54 per cent male and 46 per cent female.

“This is an increase of 3,342 students over 12,693 students recorded in November 2018. Undergraduate students constituted 34 per cent; Masters students 36 per cent; doctorate formed 12 per cent; while associate was 12 per cent. Non-degree and others formed five per cent.”

According to the agency, the top five states for Nigerian students in the U.S. include Texas with 2,713; California, 856 students; Maryland, 827 students; New York, 818 students; and Florida, 753 students.

Also, the over 16,000 Nigerians currently studying in the U.S. contributed $514 million to the U.S. economy in 2018, according to official data from the 2019 Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange released by the Institute of International Education (IIE) and the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

The report indicates that Nigeria was the 11th leading place of origin for foreign students in the U.S. as of the 2018/2019 session. It accounted for 1.2 per cent of the total number of 1,095,299 international students in the country.

A breakdown of the figure shows that 5,689 of Nigerian students were at the undergraduate level; 5,274 at graduate level; 367 were non-degree students; and 2,093 were on Optional Practical Training (OPT).

OPT is a period during which undergraduate and graduate students work for one year on a student visa toward acquiring practical training to complement their education.





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The Office of Auditor-General of the Federation on Thursday said it uncovered several anomalies in the financial records of the Nigerian Law School.

The Audit report presented to the Senate, indicted the apex legal academic institution for misappropriation and spending without approvals.

The 2015 Financial Report of the office is currently being scrutinised by the Senate Public Accounts Committee for investigation.

The report said the management of the Nigerian Law School illegally paid N32m to the account of an unnamed cleaner over a period of 12 months.

The Auditor-General report also queried the payment of N36m as dressing allowance of 52 workers to the account of a single member of staff in violation of Nigeria’s Financial Act.

It read in part, “The examination of payment records revealed that the Nigerian Law School several times paid N36m to staff as dressing allowance in 2013 alone.

“The Management could not substantiate these payments with any approval from Salaries and Wages Commission to enable the audit team to determine the genuineness of these payments to staff. No appropriation in this request.”

Obviously dazed by the startling revelation at the audit session, the  Director-General of the Nigerian Law School, Prof Isa Hayatu Chiroma, said he was not in office when the issues occurred, but agreed that “government is a continuum.”

https://punchng.com/law-school-paid-cleaner-n32m-year-auditor-general/

The crisis rocking the Niger state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) took a new turn on Thursday as a meeting of 22 APC local government Chairmen sacked the Chairman, Engineer Jubril Imam and two other officers.

The meeting which was held in Haske hotel had over 85 per cent of the members of the State Executive Committee of APC including 22 out of 25 APC local government chairmen, 25 secretaries and 27 out of the 33 members of the executive committee.

The two others removed include the Secretary of the party, Barrister Mohammed Liman and the Treasurer, Dr Shafi Abdulsalami.

The meeting was presided by the State Deputy Chairman, Alhaji Ali Kapenter where decision to replace the Niger state Chairman with Alhaji Aliyu Saidu Galkogo was taken. Assistant State Youth leader, Sulaiman Abdullahi replaced Alhaji Mohammed Liman as Secretary while the Treasurer, Dr Shafi Abdusalami was replaced by Saidu Madaki from the Wushishi local government area of the party.

However, the Chairman, Engineer Jibrin Imam in a swift reaction described those that took the action as “jokers” saying that “they have no legal right to take such action”.

It would be recalled that the Niger state APC has been bedeviled with crisis for more than a month with some members accusing the Chairman, the secretary and Treasurer of financial misappropriation, abuse of office and inability to account for over N872 million generated in the past between 2014 to 2019.

The crisis got to the extent that the Chairman was detained by the Police over the accusation but was released on bail.

However, in a swift reaction, the APC Chairman, Engineer Jubrin Imam in a phone call described the meeting as a kangaroo meeting describing those as the meeting as ‘Jokers’.

“The meeting was illegal, they do not have any constitutional right to summon such a meeting, I am the person allowed by law to call any meeting.

“Nobody presented any allegation before me nor was I invited to face any panel. The meeting is a kangaroo meeting because they did not exhaust all avenues provided by the party constitution, aside from this, the case they are talking about is still in court, they have only taken the laws into their hands

“I am still the Chairman, the Secretary is still the Secretary and the Treasurer is still the treasurer, nobody has removed us. We are still in the office.”

spirul77:
post pictures bros, how is renovation of an already existing stadium and state secretariat an achievement for a governor of Niger delta state , a state with the 8th biggest federal allocation in Nigeria. I pity you sha

Comrade Adams Oshiomhole started the renovation of Samuel Ogbemudia stadium after abandoned by Lucky Igbinedion.

Oshiomhole did the following
1.Introduced comrade bus for both rich and poor and students aren't allowed to pay
2.Introduced EDSTMA that employed youths
3.Built new classrooms across Edo state with red roof
4.Transformed Ring road the heart of Benin
5.Constructed so many roads across Edo state and supervised them etc.He started most of his project and completed it

Ehinmen3:
BY Pa. Ehinmen
I am in awe whenever I hear some Esan persons speak ill of Adams Oshiomole government in Edo state. Some even say that oshiomole hates Esan land and did nothing for Esan people while he was governor of the state.
However, all this is not true and its all a lie peddled by the PDP to deceive the gullible and whip up sentiments to get votes in Esan land.
Mind you, I am from Esan, a true son of the soil and I can tell you categorically that oshiomole did well for Esan.
Prior to when oshiomole became governor of Edo state, primary and secondary schools in Esan land was nothing to write about. As a matter of fact the schools in Esan land were all decapitated and abandoned and the poor kids have to learn under leaking roofs and charcoal boards while sitting on the floor , no thanks to the PDP government.
When oshiomole came on board he introduced the 'red roof revolution' which changed the face of primary and secondary education in Esan land. Oshiomole built over 100 new blocks of class rooms across Esan land. He renovated the existing buildings and roofed all of them with red aluminum. Because of this, many esan children began to enroll in school while many left private schools for public school. I dare any Esan person to disproved this fact!
Oshiomole renovated more than 80 schools across Esan land and I can list them if anyone dare to challenge me. In Ekpoma alone, Oshiomole build new blocks and renovated Eguare, Emaudo, Ujeolen, Ihumudumu, Dova, Ujogba, Ebele, Ogwa, Ujeme etc, primary and secondary schools. This is just Ekpoma alone, and this was replicated in Esan north east and Esan south east.
If you go to this schools till date , they all have red roofs, new doors and Windows and even the once that have been vandalized due to abandonment still have their red roofs. Like I said, I pa. Ehinmen dare anyone to come challenge this.
Also, oshiomole constructed roads in Esan land without making noise about it. You can go to igueben, uromi etc and see for yourself.
Further, Oshiomole reinstated the loss glory of Ambrose Alli University, regularized lecturer salaries and raised an already abandoned admin three story building in the school to 90% completion, build new hostels and renovated old ones.
These and many more are legacies oshiomole left in Esan land. Like I said, I challenge any Esan person to dispute them.
Some Esan persons bears the grudge that oshiomole did more project in Edo north where he came from and even build a university in his home town compared to what he did in Esan land. This particular sentiment is what is called a fallacy and an act of double standard by Esan people, given that the late Ambrose Alli developed esan more than any part of the old Bendel state and also build a university for Esan people. So why the foul cry?
Esan people must throw away childish sentients and discard their perceived loyalty to the PDP and embrace true progress with the APC.
Esan people should be grateful to oshiomole.
Pa. Ehinmen is a freelance writer, a Nairalander, and a volunteer member of pastor Osagie ize-iyamu youth movement from Edo State.

Very true OP

Oshiomhole really transformed Edo state in his first tenure

Another lockdown looming

Obaseki didn't do half of what Oshomhole did in his first term.Quote me anyway..Name 5 capital project completed by Obaseki?

The immediate past National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole on Saturday said he has accepted the decision of the National Executive Committee in good faith.

This is the first time the former APC Chairman will be reacting to the crisis that eventually led to dissolution of the NWC of the party.

He said he had no regret for all the actions he took while in office, while he also pledged his continued support and lotality to President Muhammadu Buhari.

chukel:
Nonsense journalism. Intrastate not interstate.

It is interstate not intrastate...Borders linking Delta state to other states have be opened

Delta State Government has directed local government chairmen and members of the COVID-19 taskforce team to open up borders and create opportunity for free flow of traffic.

In a statement signed by secretary to the state government, Chiedu Ebi, the state government directed all local government chairmen to dismantle all road blocks with effect from Tuesday June 23, 2020.

READ THE STATEMENT FROM THE SSG

Good evening Chairmen, Coordinator’s and Supervisors. Thanks for all the calls, prayers and best wishes since I took ill. I am improving with each passing day and hopefully in a couple of days, I should be back to full fitness

After several weeks of hard and dedicated work in protecting our boundaries, the time has come for us to scale down on some of the activities with regard to the boundary enforcement.
Consequently, with effect from Tuesday 23rd June, the Task Force and Boundary activities will be suspended.

All Chairmen are to ensure the dismantling of any blockades and ensure that unscrupulous persons do not attempt to engage in illegal activities. As we try to go back to the new normal, Chairmen are advised to ensure the continued sensitization of Citizens on the necessary protocols.

Once again, well done guys and really proud of the work done to keep our people safe.

Chiedu Ebie
SSG

https://focusnaija.com.ng/2020/06/23/governor-okowa-lifts-interstate-lockdown-dismantles-all-blockades-in-delta/

The governor of Delta state Dr Ifeanyi Okowa daughter have tested positive for COVID-19.He announced this via his Facebook page this morning

The governor of Delta state Dr Ifeanyi Okowa daughter have tested positive for COVID-19.He announced this via his Facebook page this morning

damble:
I learnt local government residence identification letter is required this time around. How true is this? I went to my local government of residence and was asked to pay #3,000. I borrowed the #200 transport fare to the local government, where on earth will I get #3,000 from? Please, is the LG identification part of the requirement or not?

Not true ..I have applied

I have completed my registration

prettybarbie:
most of you nairalanders especially the south eastern ipobs don't know about the political affairs and structure of Edo state but you'll be spilling out ignorant comments and even involve yourselves more than the Edolites.
The Obaseki of a governor has not executed and completed any single project in Edo state, majority of those infrastructures you've been seeing on the media are all audio projects by paid propagandists.
We Edolites have been scammed and due to the massive support Ize Iyamu has been receiving from the Binis, Esan, Etsako, Akoko Edo and all Edolites I can assure you that Obaseki is a goner.

Now the bet is that Edith Isokpan is the flagbear of AAC and let's bet that She'll have more votes than Obaseki irrespective of the umbrella Obaseki belongs.
if Obaseki garners more votes than Edith Isokpan then call me a bastard, drop your account and I'll credit you with 100k
Mind you I'm from Edo state so I know how the political scenario is being played here in my state.

Obaseki didn't perform well in his first tenure compared to Adams Oshiomhole first term.Am an edolite.No capital project were executed by Obaseki.Oshiomhole transformed Edo state, Oshiomhole did the following
1.He introduced the comrade bus
2He introduced EDSTMA
3 He transformed Ring road the heart of Benin
4.He started and completed Airport Road,5 Junction etc
5.He bulit ultra modern schools

McCoy662:
Federal project indeed. I was a student when our sug president announced to us that the governor has promised to build a pedestrian bridge at the main gate. So check ur fact well.

Point of correction it wasn't Obaseki who did the pedestrian bridge.I remember when students blocked Ugbowo axis as a result of a girl that a was hit by a military vehicle.It is a federal government project not state government

Kindledlight:
Amaechi and Babagana cannot run together.Babagana kingibe at what age?

He meant Babagana Zulum the governor of Borno state

That Oshiomhole, it was gathered, had only convened NEC meetings twice since 2018 – a gross violation of the party’s laws.

It was also gathered that he had been paying every member of the National Working Committee N2m each monthly as against the dictates of the party's constitution.

The source also disclosed that Oshiomhole has not given a proper account of the funds realised during the 2019 general elections and this has angered some top members of the APC.

He said, “The annual budget of the party is to be approved by the NEC. He (Oshiomhole) has been running away not to give account of the proceeds of the nomination forms and expression of interest forms sold in 2019.

“He knows that NEC will ask about the finance and expenditure of the party and that is why he has refused to call for NEC meeting.

“We are due for NEC meeting for a long time and it is only the NEC that can resolve the crisis we have in the party.

“Since 2018 he has only called for NEC meeting two times.”

http://saharareporters.com/2020/06/24/reasons-apc-national-executive-committee-may-sack-oshiomhole-nwc-members-thursday

PDP primary was postponed from 23rd of June to 25th of June 2020.Obaseki still have time to act

family source, who confirmed the news to SaharaReporters on Thursday night, said, "Ajimobi is alive. He only slipped into coma. We are praying to God for his revival."

Bolaji Tunji, media aide to the former governor, in social media posts also confirmed that Ajimobi was alive, urging Nigerians to pray for his recovery.

http://saharareporters.com/2020/06/18/breaking-ajimobi-alive-family-says-ex-oyo-governor-slips-coma-due-coronavirus

Court reaffirms and extend order permitting Chief Victor Giadom to act as APC National Chairman

To avoid vacuum, court also appoint Mustapha Salihu to act as Deputy National secretary

Good move but he should also resign as APC governor if truly he loves the people

Once a traitor always a traitor.I sympathize with Philip Shuaibu the deputy governor because he is the biggest loser.

A 28-year-old Nigerian lady has asked her husband for the impossible following his intention to dissolve their marriage.

The lady simply identified as Suliat wants her virginity returned if her husband, Lateef wants their marriage to be dissolved.

Lateef dragged Suliat to court seeking divorce on the grounds of gross disrespect, humiliation, and embarrassment in public places.

According to him, his wife has been nothing but trouble


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