NIPOST Workers Shutdown Headquarters Over Unpaid Special Allowances

 The headquarters of the Nigerian Postal Services (NIPOST) was yesterday shut down by over one hundred workers of the organization over non-payment of their special allowances since 2011. The workers, who had last week issued a three-day strike ultimatum to management of NIPOST, which elapsed yesterday, protested under the banner of National Union of Post and Telecommunications Employees (NUPTE).

Benefits not paid include transfer allowances, burial expenses and repatriation allowance. President of NUPTE, Sunday Alhassan said the union had written to stakeholders on the matter including the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Emeka Wogu to no avail. However, management of NIPOST and the union later went into a meeting and ironed out their differences with the signing of a communiqué where both parties agreed to commence payment of the 2006 productivity incentive allowance from December 2013 to end in June 2014; and also pay rent enhancement to those on salary grade level 13 and below with effect from 2014. The communiqué was signed by deputy post master general U. K. Shehu and Mr. Alhassan on behalf of NUPTE.

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Zeb Ejiro: President Jonathan Is The Best President

Zeb Ejiro, Nollywood producer/director says Goodluck Jonathan is the best president Nigeria has ever had.
He told a NET correspondent in a telephone chat while speaking on the celebration of Nigeria’s 53rd independence today October 1, 2013.
‘I thank God for Nigeria as we celebrate our 53rd Independence and wish them the best. I don’t think there’s any problem in Nigeria. Jonathan is doing well. He is the best president ever’, Ejiro said.
Zebu! I hail you ooo!!! Hmm, Are you pondering what am pondering? (Mouth Struck!)

Flavian Okojie Shot Dead 3 Weeks After His Wedding

The Nollywood actor, Flavian Okojie, hailed from Edo, has been reportedly shot dead in Benin city by unknown gunmen, three weeks after his wedding. Flavian was also a staff of Edo State Board of Internal Revenue. His wife shared the information via her Facebook page.
 
May his soul rest in peace.

How We Escaped Through The Window – Survivors

Some of the survivors of last Saturday’s midnight attack on the students of the College of Agriculture, Gujba, Yobe State, which about 70 students were killed, have narrated how they escaped death by the whiskers, jumping through the window when the gunmen stormed the hostel.
The survivors, who are now receiving medical treatment at the Sani Abacha Specialist Hospital, following injuries received during the attack told LEADERSHIP yesterday that the gunmen, who were cladded in military camouflage stormed the school in a commando style and opened fire on them.
According to Adamu Mohammed, a final year student of Animal Husbandry department when it dawned on the students that the school was surrounded by the gunmen, all the students were confused and began to seek escape routes.
He said, “We were all sleeping in the hostel when one of our students came into their room in a confused state, saying they will kill us, they will kill us. When we heard this, everybody in the hostel became confused.
“There was no light and we could not go out while we don’t know where to go in the night. Some of my colleagues decided to go into security office to report what they had seem.
“When we were trying to come out from our hostel, we saw many people with army uniforms and immediately, they started shooting us from different directions. They killed many of my friends, but some of us managed to escape through the window of our room, I ran into the bush.”
Another survivor, who gave his name as Sule, said he lost two of his brothers in the attack. He lamented that the attack had left everyone completely devastated.
He said, “Let me tell you that in the recent attack, I lost my two blood brothers. I had to run with them in the bush but no success, we are suffering most in the ongoing Boko Haram crisis. We have lost our brothers and sisters, parents, children and friends. The crisis has impacted negatively on our studies and daily activities were collapsed.”
The Sani Abacha Specialist Hospital where the wounded were taken to for treatment and the remains of the dead were deposited was a beehive of activities as relations and sympathisers thronged the place to see the spectacle left by the attack.
A father of one of the victims, 18-year-old Ahmadu, Alhaji Ado Adamu, described what happened as barbaric and unIslamic.
He said, “Let me tell you that no one in his right senses will destroy the place of learning, destroy houses of the poor and kill innocent people. God is with us, from God we came and to him we shall return. I lost my first son Ahmadu. He is kind, dedicated and very honest. May God Almighty grant my late son Aljanna Firdausi.
US condemns terrorist attacks in Nigeria
Meanwhile, the United States Government has condemned the recent terrorist attacks in Nigeria by the Boko Haram especially the attack that killed over 60 students in the College of Agriculture in Yobe State.

Miss World 2013 2nd Runner-Up, Naa Okailey Shooter Gets A Hero’s Welcome Back Home In Ghana

Uche Jumbo: I Was Not An Child Growing Up

The beautiful nollywood actress, Uche Jombo, revealed why had a secret wedding and also prays not to have a child like her  in an exclusive interview with Thecia Wilkie of Saturday nite show on NTA 2.
Uche told Thecia she wasn't an easy child growing up and how she ran away from home when she was 14 years old.

Breaking News: Associated Airline Conveying The Corpse of Ex-Governor Olusegun Agagu Crashes

Akure Bound Chattered Associated Airline conveying the corpse of ex-Governor Olusegun Agagu crash landed this morning at FAAN Mafoluku, Lagos. According to our investigation, Sources say the plane burst into flames with fire trucks deployed to put out the fire. We were told that the plane was taking off and plunged into a building close to Tank Farm at the airport, close to toll gate (Muritala International Airport). Details has it that the plane was heading to Akure from the local airport.. According to an eye witness on ground, the plane was totally burnt. The wife of the late governor, Mrs Agagu and children, the owner of MIC Casket, Mr Okusanya, Deji Falae, and the son of Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, Gbenga Obasanjo,  all aforementioned names were in the aircraft and were reportedly dead. May their souls rest in perfect peace.