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AN OPEN PETITION TO THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY VIA CHANGE.ORG

BY The Patriots

Title: A Call for 50% Reduction In Nigerian Senators & Reps Allowances And Salaries

The aim is to drastically alleviate the alarming rate of unemployment in Nigeria and make political offices less lucrative.

The objectives are to make the Nigerian Senate and House of Representatives pass a Bill that will proclaim a 50-percent reduction in all allowances and salaries of the Federal legislators,

Eradication and merging of political offices to reduce cost of running the government and putting back the money to create jobs and employment in the country.

The government is meant for the people and we need to make them realize it.

The Patriots.

SIGN THE PETITION VIA THE LINK BELOW (copy and paste the link on your browser)

https://www.change.org/p/the-patriots-a-call-for-50-reduction-in-nigerian-senators-reps-allowances-and-salaries

The Story of Ibadan Taxi driver Samaritan and The Police: Admonition for Faithfuls

On the 23rd of September, a facebook user, Johnson abbaly discolsed on his timeline the story of a taxi driver in Ibadan who honestly returned a whooping sum of N170,000 and other valuables found in his cab to the owner with the aid of the Nigeria Police Force's (NPF) gallant and patriotic personnels in the capital city of Oyo State. This, ever since it occured had sprang up series of encomium from the general public while some have chosen the otherwise in condemning the good Samaritan's patriotic and honest action considering the economic recession and the challenges being encountered by Nigerians, great temptations Mr. Damilare overcame.

The Episode was naturally shot in Ibadan with the scene of a patriotic taxi man, Mr Damilare Adesiyan, who picked up a passenger, at Mokola Round-about in Ibadan, whose destination is Iwo Road. The passenger, who unveiled himself as Mr Balogun Segun in one of the comments on the Facebook post of Mr Johnson, kept his luggage in the booth of the taxi cab all through the trip, on getting to his unknown destination, the excitement of discovering the location entangled him and caused the loss of his belongings in the taxi cab, as narrated by the passenger on the maiden edition of The Conversation programme of Splash FM radio station on Saturday, 8th October, 2016.

Immediately it was realised that something important was missen on him, he got into disarray and saw the world "crashing" on him, with in the period of searching for the missing bag, as a result of valuable documents of contract existing on the Personal Computer PC (Laptop) in his missen bag without a backup. Fortunately for him, not too long after enquiring for the taxi man at the bustop he got Mr Damilare's call.

On the side of Mr Damilare, after he realised the passenger, Mr Balogun, alighted from the cab forgetting his bag, he brought it out and checked in order to be sure it contained legitimate and not incriminating contents before alerting the police. He was amazed as he found cash and some other valuables in it but he never allowed his hustling state to shadow his wise decision as he had been unable pay his house rent for a while. The worst was he being unable to leave fund for his wife for feeding when he left home and as well buying fuel on credit to pilot Mr. Balogun to his destination from Mokola while the passenger was on board. Reasons enough for him to keep the cash and sell the valuables but he held on to his integrity.

Mokola police station in Ibadan received the report and swiftly acted towards ensuring contact was established with the owner of the belongings, which is highly commendable. Many Nigerians already lost hope in the Nigerian Police Force as a result of some of their misdemeanor in the past. This occurrence has revealed that the police force still contains personnels with honesty, loyalty, patriotism and dutiful characters and training. It also denotes that reorientation and training has been embarked upon to guide the force personnels in their respective jurisdictions in order have an utmost performance in the safety of life and properties across Nigeria.

The joint effort of the two parties, the taxi man and the police personels deserve recognition and honors even though the police were on their duties. We can also deduce from this allegory that honesty, faithfulness, patriotism, loyalty as enshrined in our National Anthem and National pledge, still exist in our society having our economy in recession and many average Nigerians hustling for daily survival. It is also a message to the Muhammad Buhari led government to fast track sustainable and adequate projects that will directly impact on the masses and alleviate our hardships.

God Bless Mr. Damilare,
God Bless Nigeria Police Personels,
God Bless Nigerian Police Force,
God Bless Nigeria.

Source:
https://ibadanelite./2016/10/09/the-story-of-ibadan-taxi-driver-samaritan-and-the-police-admonition-for-faithfuls-2/

The Story of Ibadan Taxi driver Samaritan and The Police: Admonition for Faithfuls

On the 23rd of September, a facebook user, Johnson abbaly discolsed on his timeline the story of a taxi driver in Ibadan who honestly returned a whooping sum of N170,000 and other valuables found in his cab to the owner with the aid of the Nigeria Police Force's (NPF) gallant and patriotic personnels in the capital city of Oyo State. This, ever since it occured had sprang up series of encomium from the general public while some have chosen the otherwise in condemning the good Samaritan's patriotic and honest action considering the economic recession and the challenges being encountered by Nigerians, great temptations Mr. Damilare overcame.

The Episode was naturally shot in Ibadan with the scene of a patriotic taxi man, Mr Damilare Adesiyan, who picked up a passenger, at Mokola Round-about in Ibadan, whose destination is Iwo Road. The passenger, who unveiled himself as Mr Balogun Segun in one of the comments on the Facebook post of Mr Johnson, kept his luggage in the booth of the taxi cab all through the trip, on getting to his unknown destination, the excitement of discovering the location entangled him and caused the loss of his belongings in the taxi cab, as narrated by the passenger on the maiden edition of The Conversation programme of Splash FM radio station on Saturday, 8th October, 2016.

Immediately it was realised that something important was missen on him, he got into disarray and saw the world "crashing" on him, with in the period of searching for the missing bag, as a result of valuable documents of contract existing on the Personal Computer PC (Laptop) in his missen bag without a backup. Fortunately for him, not too long after enquiring for the taxi man at the bustop he got Mr Damilare's call.

On the side of Mr Damilare, after he realised the passenger, Mr Balogun, alighted from the cab forgetting his bag, he brought it out and checked in order to be sure it contained legitimate and not incriminating contents before alerting the police. He was amazed as he found cash and some other valuables in it but he never allowed his hustling state to shadow his wise decision as he had been unable pay his house rent for a while. The worst was he being unable to leave fund for his wife for feeding when he left home and as well buying fuel on credit to pilot Mr. Balogun to his destination from Mokola while the passenger was on board. Reasons enough for him to keep the cash and sell the valuables but he held on to his integrity.

Mokola police station in Ibadan received the report and swiftly acted towards ensuring contact was established with the owner of the belongings, which is highly commendable. Many Nigerians already lost hope in the Nigerian Police Force as a result of some of their misdemeanor in the past. This occurrence has revealed that the police force still contains personnels with honesty, loyalty, patriotism and dutiful characters and training. It also denotes that reorientation and training has been embarked upon to guide the force personnels in their respective jurisdictions in order have an utmost performance in the safety of life and properties across Nigeria.

The joint effort of the two parties, the taxi man and the police personels deserve recognition and honors even though the police were on their duties. We can also deduce from this allegory that honesty, faithfulness, patriotism, loyalty as enshrined in our National Anthem and National pledge, still exist in our society having our economy in recession and many average Nigerians hustling for daily survival. It is also a message to the Muhammad Buhari led government to fast track sustainable and adequate projects that will directly impact on the masses and alleviate our hardships.

God Bless Mr. Damilare,
God Bless Nigeria Police Personels,
God Bless Nigerian Police Force,
God Bless Nigeria.

Source:
https://ibadanelite./2016/10/09/the-story-of-ibadan-taxi-driver-samaritan-and-the-police-admonition-for-faithfuls-2/

Aregbesola's even visitation to Ekiti, hint to Tinubu's rivals

Ekiti State celebrated its 20th Anniversary on Saturday, 1st October, 2016 and it was graced by a ruling party Governor of Osun state, Ogbeni Abdul-Rauf Aregbesola who delivered a lecture on Nigeria's economic challenges titled "The imperative of unity". At the occasion, the two governors had divergent perspectives over the sale of national assets as the purported proposed action was described by the host Governor, Ayodele Fayose, as auctioning Nigeria at a giveaway price while the visiting governor reiterated the necessity to sell off our idle assets and spare the active ones in order to lift up the country from the mud of economic recession.

This august visitation by the governor of the State of Osun to Ekiti state became even having recalled the visit of Governor Fayose to Osun in January this year where he revealed that embracing Ogbeni was not political but for his unshaken belief in the oneness of the Yoruba nation.

Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola once served a boss as Commissioner for Works in Lagos State and with the aid of this boss he mounted the throne as a Governor under the auspices of the present ruling party at the center. The said boss is no other personality than Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Jagaban, as Tinubu is famously known, currently has dispute with the party's national chairman for overruling the recommendations of the 3-man Appeal committee set up to probe the primary election of the party's flag bearers in Ondo state gubernatorial race, which was upheld by the National Working Committee (NWC), to cancel the previous primary election organized by the party in the state. This face-off had gotten escalated that Asiwaju requested for the resignation of the party's national chairman, John Oyegun. The supporters of the party chairman are already in war of words with Asiwaju, condemning his call for Oyegun's resignation.

However, it is no more news that Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State (The oshokomole 1) had been attacking both President Buhari and the ruling party since the inception of the ruling government while the state chapter of the ruling party and the governor are like sworn enemies. They are part of the reasons why the Ekiti chapter of APC sparked, after the visitation of Aregbesola, to express strong disapproval over his attendance at the State's 20th Anniversary and vowing to oppose any future alignment of the Ekiti Governor with the ruling party.

We might be committing fallacy if we regard the visitation as necessary by pitching an excuse that the state is celebrating its 20 years of existence and because it's a South-western state. Assuming the two governors were not in good terms Ogbeni would have shelved dining with Oshokomole 1 of Ekiti.

The absence of other APC South-west governors or their representatives and the timing of the visitation could make us deduce that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is sending a message through his men to his rivals in the party as a clear warning for them to desist from any intent to rubbish his personality or cripple his powers in the party or face possible re-alignment in future, as Osun governor hint his counterpart in Ekiti on probable synchronization of forces in the nearest future.

Tinubu's political influence in the South-west region cannot be over looked as he had the record of supporting a Southern President to emerge in 2011 and as well joined forces to overthrow the same government with the 2015 general elections which produced a Northerner. No doubt, realigning his forces with another "party", if this crisis is not well managed, might cause the downfall of the ruling party before and after 2019, the next general election.

Source:
https://ibadanelite./2016/10/05/aregbesolas-even-visitation-to-ekiti-hint-to-tinubus-rivals/

Oct 5: Teachers can't earn high remuneration, a repugnant dogma

The father of the evergreen human right activist and a musical icon, late Fela Anikulapo Kuti, led a united front for practioners of the teaching profession across Nigeria to establish a sublime economic condition and improved welfarism of teachers which have now been reduced to an abysmal state. The dastardly act of cutting teachers' remunerations and maltreating (taking their welfarism with levity) them, there by resulting into a great depression amidst the practioners, were the dominant catalysts that erupted the emergence of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) whose maiden national president was Rev. Oladotun Ransome Kuti (late), formerly the president of the Association of Headmasters of Ijebu Schools (AHIS).

These condemnable acts against the profession had been receiving absolute repugnance from the Union (NUT) since 1931 when it was established, but unfortunately It further graduated to become a norm and belief adopted by both the government and private entities to manage the well-being of teachers in our society. This had apparently discredited both their personalities and the profession itself in all ramifications.

Teachers, who raised and mentored the likes of Senators, Honourables, Governors, Chairmen, Special Advisers, President to mention but a few in government and likewise the proprietors, proprietresses and founders of private educational institutions who are beneficiaries of these mentors, are now being reduced to beggars (hustling for loans) to survive and yet we still crave for peak performance from them in the disgusting states the beneficiaries (now in power) stuck them.

Anyone who had witnessed the gathering of teachers (NUT meetings and others), either in their respective State secretariats or the National Secretariat, wouldn't disapprove of the fact that the physical and mental appearance of personalities in the teaching profession in both secondary and primary schools are abysmal, ridiculous and discouraging, pardon the illustration.

The teaching profession in Nigeria has been infected to an extent that an average youth or the "upcoming" youth (pupils and students) had suddenly become allergic to teaching over decades ( in Secondary, pre-primary and primary educational institutions) and instead they aspire to be governors, politicians, CEOs, MDs and others at the expense of teaching.

Private school teachers bear the brunt more as they are paid peanuts. Some earn N30,000, while some others are belittled to an amount of N10,000 or N15,000 monthly in a college, as reported by Vanguard online news portal in 2015. Such are ridiculous remunerations not capable of sufficing a bachelor-teacher or spinster-teacher let alone Married or Married-with-kids teachers.

As Vanguard news further unveiled, the American National Education Association disclosed that, depending on the state, high school teachers in US get as much as $48,631 while the best-paid 10 percent in the field made approximately $86,720, while the bottom 10 percent made $37,230.

It is regrettably sardonic that teachers are not even paid as and when due by private and mostly the government at the state level. Teachers are not trained continuously, they get one of the worst welfare package and are apparently being owed those packages. These acts and belief need to be eradicated to improve our educational system.

On the 5th of October, 2016, Nigeria with over 100 countries will be celebrating the World Teachers' Day in which many of the practioners of the profession usually felicitate with "an empty stomach" as it had been for years. The excuse of the present economic downturn cannot be considered as genuine because the menace had been in occurrence before this oil "doom" period.

Teachers' employers must rethink and retrace their path to cater for an improved and sustained welfarism of the practioners of the profession in order to rebuild the foundation (pre-primary, primary and secondary learning) of education as the end product will vehemently contribute to uplift Nigeria's economy from the mud of recession and further reposition the Nation to the of top of others across the globe.

Further more, Improving teacher's welfarism should not be limited to western education only, it should also be extended to religious teachers and preachers as they are considered as most valuable Being, in both the Quran and Bible after our parents.

God Bless our Teachers,
Gob Bless our Leaders,
God Bless Nigeria.

Source:
https://ibadanelite./2016/10/03/world-teachers-day-why-the-worth-of-the-teaching-profession-depreciates-2/