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PoliticsHow Betty Akeredolu Abandoned Me After Serving For Seven Years On Salary Of ... by Paraman(op): 2:24pm On Apr 25, 2024
How Betty Akeredolu abandoned me after serving for seven years on salary of N45,000/month – Aide

Folasade Adu, a former aide to Ondo State’s immediate past First Lady, Mrs Betty Akeredolu, has come forward with allegations of abandonment after serving the late Governor Rotimi Akerdolu’s wife for seven years without any form of reward.

Adu alleged that while working with the ex-first lady, she was paid N50,000 as salary, out of which N5,100 was deducted monthly for seven years.

An emotional Adu disclosed this in an interview with Ondo-based journalist, Prince Olujimi Adekale, on Monday, April 22, 2024.

Adu claimed that when she sought assistance after leaving her job, Mrs Akeredolu refused, citing her lack of power as an excuse.

Tearfully recounting her ordeal, Adu said, “I worked for Her Excellency (Mrs Betty Akeredolu) for more than seven years. When I was going, she did not give me anything. I worked with her for srven years as her makeup artist. I used to make her hair (when she was still making her hair) and do her pedicure.

“I was paid N50,000 then, but I usually gave back N5,000 to BRECAN. They would have deducted the N5,000 before the salary was paid. They called it ‘give back to BRECAN’. Another N100 was also usually deducted as charges. So, it was N44,900 that usually gets to me as salary at the end of the month.”

Asked why the sum of N5,100 was usually deducted from her salary monthly, she disclosed that the deduction was Mrs Akeredolu’s directive.

She said, “That was how it was from the beginning. She (Betty Akeredolu) said we would give back 10% of our salary to BRECAN.”

BRECAN is an acronym for the Breast Cancer Association of Nigeria, founded by Mrs Akeredolu.

It is an organisation that is galvanising action against breast cancer in Nigeria through public education, patient support, advocacy, and research.

BRECAN was founded in 1997 after Mrs Akeredolu’s experience with breast cancer.

Adu further alleged that the late Akeredolu’s wife refused to offer any form of reward when she disengaged her services after the death and burial of her late husband and former governor


She added that when she sought assistance, the former first lady claimed she could not render any form of assistance because she was no longer in power.

Adu stated, “She said she’s out of office, so there is no help that she can render.

“I left working with her after the final burial of her husband (Rotimi Akeredolu). When I was to leave, her daughter asked me what I was going to be doing, and I sent her a business proposal of about N4m to reopen my studio.

“Till now, they did not get back to me. I sent a text message to Betty Akeredolu that I needed help and that she was my last hope, that she should render help to me, but she said there was no help that she could render because she is now out of office.

“I usually reach out to her to help me. She once told me that since I have a passport, she would take me out of the country, but till now, nothing.”

She noted that she used to have a studio of her own but lost all her customers while in the service of the ex-first lady.

“I used to have a shop, but I’ve lost all my customers. So right now, I’m just at home doing nothing,” she said,

Speaking further, Adu, who broke down in tears, revealed that coupled with her job as the ex-firstlady’s makeup artist and hair stylist, she sometimes worked as her assistant.

“There’s nowhere she goes to in Nigeria that I don’t follow her. At times, I even worked as her personal assistant.”

Now struggling without income, Adu appealed for support to reopen her shop, as her husband is also unemployed.

She added, “My husband is not doing anything for now. He was working before. The vehicle he was using for a taxi, we used for Akeredolu’s second term campaign, hoping that after the campaign, we would get something. Unfortunately, the vehicle got bad, and we had to sell it at the rate of N100,000.

“I want the people of Ondo State to help me because, as of now, there is nothing. I have been thinking and crying every day. I need help to reopen my shop.”


https://punchng.com/how-betty-akeredolu-abandoned-me-after-serving-for-seven-years-on-salary-of-n45000-month-aide/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social
CrimeRe: Rampaging Cult Members Intercepted By Edo State Vigilante (Video) by Paraman: 1:17pm On Apr 25, 2024
I think it's time for the government to start killing this useless cultists
PoliticsRe: Ondo Guber: Mimiko Selected As ZLP Candidate by Paraman: 12:37pm On Apr 25, 2024
Treadway:
I knew you would say that. He created the trauma centre and mother and child. But I was in Ondo then thankfully so I know better.

The three roads that were dualized in Ondo town where he is from and for 8 years as governor were Inward Ondo from Akure express way, and the two connecting roads from that road; 1 road that goes to Ife garage and another that goes into the other part of town (can't remember the name) all three roads were not up to 1km each.

He also built mother and child hospital in Ondo and Akure and Trauma canter in Ondo. The medical school linked to the trauma center was initiated by him on his way out, but that was all, INITIATED. Akeredolu takes the glory for that cos he executed it.

So we have three roads of less than 3km and a trauma center for Ondo.

The Trauma centre in Ondo, and mother and child (Ondo and Akure) though a laudable project that many benefitted from, esp mother and child, by way of free childbirth (people were coming from far away Benin to chop this freebie) was not really solely funded by him. I'll explain cos I was involved in this. He built the edifice, and he bought some good equipment I won't lie, but you see all the medication and consumables down to gloves, Mimiko no pay shingbai till he comot. But he took all the glory and the goodwil for both projects. The pharma companies that supplied all those items running into tens of billions na them lose. I no even know if those debts still dey till now, or if Akeredolu settled it.

I was in the pharmaceutical industry so I know what I'm telling you. So many companies were already hooked and of course stopped supplying, and it got so bad that those lovely edifices had to go and purchase any items they needed at local pharmacy with cash in hand by about 2015/2016. I saw the debt sheets with my korokoro eyes cos I was also lobbying to secure a huge LPO for my company then, and the HOD na Ondo man too, so I use my knowledge of Ondo dialect take enter am. Some wey dey eager to sell and didn't know we're still supplying and adding to the huge debt figure. The man had to clear me say make I no bother cos as at 2013 mother and child was already owing over a billion (and rising) to various pharma companies for drugs and consumables. Trauma center own even worse, but like I said I won't lie, yes he built those projects and put some really good equipment there. I recall the trauma center as at that 2013/2014 took delivery of dialysis equipment and was the only dialysis center to use in Ondo as at then.

I also know how many people in Ondo ravenously supported him seeing as he is from Ondo. We had very high expectations that he would finally really give Ondo a much needed break and transformation after all the others before him all neglected to do so. Less than 3km of road and trauma center is something, but that wasn't all Ondo was expecting from Mimiko from an eight year tenure.


Again, you need to see what Ambode did to Epe in 4 years to understand why I'm not clapping for Mimiko for less than 3km of road and trauma centre in 8 years
The day I went to Epe, my mouth was wide open

I almost didn't recognize the place again
Foreign AffairsRe: Saudi Arabia's First Alcohol Store Has Opened In The Diplomatic Quarter by Paraman: 9:31am On Apr 25, 2024
lekankolade:
Let’s forget Islamic take about alcohol, what are the health benefits of Alcohol to humans?
Has it done more good than harm to humans?
Imagine if Islam supported taking Alcohol, how do think the world will look like?
The little sanity we are enjoying in the world currently is simply because Islam forbids some stuffs that other religions don’t see as evil 🤷‍♂️

Think about it
Tchewww
PoliticsRe: Ebonyi Govt Reveals Plan To Launch State-owned Airline by Paraman: 8:32am On Apr 25, 2024
jmoore:
From the article, everything is centered on Ebonyi.
Can you explain what you mean? Ebonyi Airways can move people from Ebonyi to Lagos, from Lagos to Abuja, from Abuja to PH from PH to Enugu, from Enugu to Kaduna etc
PoliticsRe: Current Exchange Rate on Bitnob App by Paraman: 8:18am On Apr 25, 2024
This madness will stop when the government start jailing or killing this nuisance.
PoliticsRe: Ebonyi Govt Reveals Plan To Launch State-owned Airline by Paraman: 8:15am On Apr 25, 2024
kettykin:
Do they have they traffic to sustain an airline business
They won't be operating from Ebonyi alone nah
PoliticsRe: MRS Reduces Diesel Price To ₦‎1,050 by Paraman(op): 8:06am On Apr 25, 2024
Tonytonex:
what does that means?
k
PoliticsRe: Naira Retreats To 1,400/$ On Renewed Demand Pressure by Paraman: 8:05am On Apr 25, 2024
Cardoso is doing well. The naira will strengthen against the dollar again very soon
PoliticsRe: MRS Reduces Diesel Price To ₦‎1,050 by Paraman(op): 8:04am On Apr 25, 2024
Tonytonex:
report directly, not quote.

Press the report button not the quote
Tchewww
PoliticsRe: Foreign Investors Return To Nigeria Stocks As Inflows Quintuple by Paraman: 8:03am On Apr 25, 2024
May God bless Nigeria.
PoliticsRe: MRS Reduces Diesel Price To ₦‎1,050 by Paraman(op): 7:57am On Apr 25, 2024
DMerciful:
Ok, lets wait six months whether exchange rate will come to N200 grin
Lets wait till 6 years for it to exchange at #25 Obasanjo met it grin
PoliticsRe: MRS Reduces Diesel Price To ₦‎1,050 by Paraman(op): 7:54am On Apr 25, 2024
DMerciful:
You said we're benefitting by not using dollar for importation of diesel yet its not reflecting in the bottomline.
When did Dangote start selling diesel that you want it to start reflecting immediately? He has not even sell for up to a month. Chill bro... No b magic be this
PoliticsRe: MRS Reduces Diesel Price To ₦‎1,050 by Paraman(op): 7:53am On Apr 25, 2024
Zeebuy:
You're a clown, an incredibly foolish one at that
So I am now the clown

But you that made this ignorant comment below is not a clown grin
Zeebuy:
But he's actually right, you guys said it reduced to 980 yesterday and now you're celebrating 1050. Make this make sense
See the shallow comment of who's calling me a clown grin
PoliticsRe: MRS Reduces Diesel Price To ₦‎1,050 by Paraman(op): 7:51am On Apr 25, 2024
Zeebuy:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/04/dangote-refinery-slashes-diesel-aviation-fuel-prices-further-to-n940-n980-respectively/amp/

This was on FP yesterday. It was even 940 so why are y'all now celebrating 1050? Abi una own na to hail every nonsense because if I remember clearly, you guys hailed that news and used it to insult everybody else, and now y'all are doing same thing to this news
But you claimed some people said diesel is 980?

If you buy diesel for 940 as a retailer at the Dangote refinery, so you expect the retailers not to add any gain on it? The way some of you reason eh grin

Go and buy from Dangote refinery at 940 and start selling at #500 nah
PoliticsRe: MRS Reduces Diesel Price To ₦‎1,050 by Paraman(op): 7:47am On Apr 25, 2024
DMerciful:
Yet the exchange rate during when diesel was N150 was less than N200.

GEJ was subsizing petroleum, defending the naira yet both diesel and exchange rate were low and foreign reserve was $30 billion with $2 billion in excess crude account. Currently,
even with diesel at over 1000 and exchange rate over 1000, foreign reserve is still $32 billion so Nigeria gained nothing from the distress Tinubu is dishing out

Help me understand what Nigerians are benefitting because the naira is 5 times weaker now that when diesel was been subsidized
Well, I have answered the question you asked me.
PoliticsRe: MRS Reduces Diesel Price To ₦‎1,050 by Paraman(op): 7:36am On Apr 25, 2024
Zeebuy:
But he's actually right, you guys said it reduced to 980 yesterday and now you're celebrating 1050. Make this make sense
Even Dangote didn't claim he reduce price of diesel to #980, where did you get your information from?
PoliticsRe: MRS Reduces Diesel Price To ₦‎1,050 by Paraman(op): 7:33am On Apr 25, 2024
DMerciful:
How does not using dollars benefit the citizens?
Not using dollars to import diesel and other refined petroleum mean we will have more dollars to shore up our foreign reserve which will lead to the naira gaining more value and price of goods and service falling.

When we were importing diesel, price was 1700 at filling stations but now price has falling to 1050 because our diesel is now made in Nigeria.
PoliticsRe: Traders Count Losses As Government Demolishes Shops, Houses In Ebonyi by Paraman: 7:13am On Apr 25, 2024
Why's the Yoruba governor in Ebonyi targeting Igbos properties?
PoliticsRe: MRS Reduces Diesel Price To ₦‎1,050 by Paraman(op): 7:12am On Apr 25, 2024
DMerciful:
Of what benefit is it if you no longer import diesel?
We won't have to be using dollars to import diesel into Nigeria.
PoliticsReport Ranks Dangote Over Europe’s Big Refineries by Paraman(op): 7:11am On Apr 25, 2024
The Dangote refinery has been ranked above the 10 biggest refineries in Europe because of its capacity, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

The $20bn Dangote refinery can refine 650,000 barrels of petroleum products per day.

The report stated that this is over 246,00bpd capacity more than Shell’s Pernis refinery located in the Netherlands.

It added that the Pernis refinery has an installed capacity of 404,000bpd the biggest in Europe. The BP Rotterdam in the Netherlands has 380,000 capacity.

Bloomberg also said the GOI Energy ISAB refinery in Italy was built with a refining capacity of 360,000bpd.

Also, the TotalEnergies Antwerp refining facility in Belgium can refine 338,000bpd.

Others listed in the report were the Orlen Plock refinery in Poland with 327,000bpd; Shell’s Rheinland in Germany with 327,000bpd; Miro refinery in Germany has 310,000 capacity and the ExxonMobil Anterwep refinery in Belgium with 307,000 capacity.

It added that the Saras Sarroch refinery in Italy had 300,000 capacity; and the ExxonMobil Fawley in England with 270,000bpd capacity.

Describing the Dangote refinery as a ‘game changer’, the Bloomberg report said the refinery was taking advantage of cheaper US oil imports for as much as a third of its feedstock as it started up.


The refinery has been reportedly shipping products in recent weeks while readying two units to enable petrol output that will deliver a long-promised transformation of the fuel market both in Nigeria and the region, according to analysts.

“Dangote is going to influence Atlantic Basin gasoline markets this summer and for the rest of the year,” an oil expert, Alan Gelder, told Bloomberg.

The refinery is running at about 300,000 barrels a day, nearly half its nameplate capacity, according to the average estimate of analysts at WoodMac, FGE, and Citac.

The complex has started shipping jet fuel, diesel, and naphtha as it widens to a full slate of products.

Reuters recently reported that Dangote oil refinery could end a decades-long petrol trade from Europe to Africa, which is worth $17bn a year.

Reuters, quoting analysts and traders, said the Dangote refinery was heaping pressure on European refineries already at risk of closure from heightened competition, adding that the refinery would be the largest in Africa and Europe when it reaches full capacity.

About a third of Europe’s 1.33mbpd average petrol exports in 2023 went to West Africa, a bigger chunk than any other region, with the majority of those exports ending up in Nigeria, Reuters said, quoting Kpler data.

The Dangote refinery, funded by Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote, was configured to produce as much as 53 million litres of petrol a day, about 300,000bpd.

The refinery has begun the sale of diesel into the Nigerian market, crashing the pump price of the product from N1,600 to N940 in less than a month.


https://punchng.com/report-ranks-dangote-over-europes-big-refineries/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social
PoliticsRe: MRS Reduces Diesel Price To ₦‎1,050 by Paraman(op): 7:07am On Apr 25, 2024
SheikhMuniru:
AROLAT Filling station in Abeokuta is selling it @ N989, let's appreciate the owner of this filling station
Wow!! shocked
PoliticsRe: MRS Reduces Diesel Price To ₦‎1,050 by Paraman(op): 7:07am On Apr 25, 2024
DMerciful:
Diesel was about N150 in 2015.
Tinubu is a disaster
We're no more importing diesel. Tinubu till 2031.
PoliticsMRS Reduces Diesel Price To ₦‎1,050 by Paraman(op): 6:00am On Apr 25, 2024
MRS Oil Plc has slashed the price of Automotive Gas Oil popularly known as diesel to N1,050 per litre across its outlets nationwide.

This was disclosed in a flier prepared by the oil firm now trending online.

The slash in price from as high as N1,700 in some filling stations last month was said to be in response to the recent decision of Dangote Petroleum Refinery to further slash the price of the commodity.

In the flier, the management of the oil firm urged members of the public to report any of its outlets found selling the community higher than the stipulated price.

“We are now selling AGO at all MRS retail outlets in Nigeria at N1050 per litre.

“Any station not selling at this price, please report to customer service or whistleblower,” the message read.


Dangote crashes prices

The Dangote Petroleum Refinery had on Tuesday, announced a further reduction in the prices of diesel and aviation fuel to N940/litre and N980/litre, respectively

On April 17, The PUNCH reported that the Dangote refinery listened to the calls of oil marketers regarding a reduction in the price of diesel, as the refinery reduced the cost of the commodity from N1,200/litre to N1,000/litre.

On Tuesday, the multi-billion dollar facility announced a further reduction in the price of AGO but noted that the change was only applicable to dealers purchasing up to five million litres of diesel and above.

“The price change of N940 applies to customers buying five million litres and above from the refinery, while the price of N970 is for customers buying one million litres and above,” the firm stated in a statement issued by its spokesperson, Anthony Chiejina.


He explained that the new price aligned with the company’s commitment to cushion the effect of the economic hardship in Nigeria.

“I can confirm to you that Dangote Petroleum Refinery has entered a strategic partnership with MRS oil and gas stations to ensure that consumers get to buy fuel at affordable prices in all their stations, be it Lagos or Maiduguri.

“You can buy as low as one litre of diesel at N1,050 and aviation fuel at N980 at all major airports where MRS operates,” Chiejina stated.


He further noted that the partnership would be extended to other major oil marketers.

“The essence of this is to ensure that retail buyers do not buy at exorbitant prices. The Dangote Group is committed to ensuring that Nigerians have better welfare, and as such, we are happy to announce these new prices.

“We hope that it would go a long way to cushion the effect of economic challenges in the country,” the spokesperson for the refinery stated.

The management of Dangote Petroleum Refinery announced a reduction in the price of diesel from N1200 to N1,000/litre less than two weeks ago.

Tuesday’s price slash marked the third major reduction in diesel prices in less than three weeks. The product sold for N1,700/litre about a month ago but was reduced to N1,200/litre by Dangote Refinery.

The facility also carried out a further reduction in the cost of AGO to N1,000/litre before the latest slash to N940/litre. It puts aviation fuel from the plant at N980/litre.

President Bola Tinubu had also commended the refinery for the initial price reduction, describing it as an enterprising feat.
https://punchng.com/mrs-slashes-diesel-price-to-n1050/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social

PoliticsRe: Lagos calabar coastal highway to connect 12 seaports in Nigeria by Paraman: 5:54am On Apr 25, 2024
Forkthiefnubu:
I was wondering same too but it is not beyond the propagandist manipulative party and tribe to play games with ppl , the poster probably knows something is wrong with the map and just incorporated those cities to garner sympathy to a wasteful useless project which will start in Lagos and abandoned just the gates of the southwest
k
PoliticsRe: I Am Not Desperate To Become Next President, Says Obi by Paraman(op): 5:50am On Apr 25, 2024
BluntCrazeMan:
And watch out what that country would become in just 10years.
The country will become poorer than Niger republic and chad in less than 10 years just the way the poverty level shoot up in Anambra under his watch

https://saharareporters.com/2022/11/14/poverty-anambra-state-doubled-under-peter-obi-i-have-verified-information-i-wont-share#:~:text=Yes%2C%20poverty%20more%20than%20doubled,were%20in%20poverty%20under%20him.

https://www.nairaland.com/870945/what-exactly-peter-obi-doing?s=08

You can only fool yourself mr obidients
Foreign AffairsRe: Saudi Arabia's First Alcohol Store Has Opened In The Diplomatic Quarter by Paraman: 10:44pm On Apr 24, 2024
Islamic fanatics all over the world will not be happy with this move by the Saudi authority

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