I lost my mother in January 2019. She was a state government pensioner receiving monthy pensions through a new generation bank in Nigeria. Three years after her death, I was advised by my siblings to go check in her bank if she left any cash there before her death.
I approached the bank and they referred me to probate registry to obtain bank certificate before they would disclose the account balance. I obeyed and got the bank certificate from probate office and the bank revealed the balance to be over N2m naira. I then went back to probate with the figure and was asked to pay 10% of the amount which was about N214k.
The processed the letter of Administration after
abou a couple of months and I took it to the said bank.
Surprisingly I was told the funds in the account was monthly pension paid into the account after her death. That I'm not entitled to the funds. That it will be returned to the employer (ie the government of my state). I was mad. I asked them why did they initially advise me to go to probate office and spend over 200k if they know I can't access the fund?
Please is that how it works? Is there any option left for me? This is cash at bank!
Please advise me.

Something tells me this man is a paedophile. Yes! He loves doing small children. Now he has seen "adult child".

Adult child = Adult that looks like a Child.

galaxylauncher:
This is GRA Junction Flyover Port Harbourt. The construction started barely 2-3months ago. What caught my attention today was the amazing speed with the construction giant Julius Berger is doing the project. Watch and enjoy.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfaba6R_YmE

Lalasticlala

Where is the flyover naa? All I can see is a bridge. Abi you don't know the difference between a bridge and a flyover?
OP this is a bridge and not a flyover over.. Wike is not building any flyover in Rivers State. All he is building are bridges along Aba road.

Omooba77:


https://dailypost.ng/2020/12/04/those-killed-in-zarbamari-were-boko-haram-informants-not-farmers-community-source/

Boko Haram is a northern affair. Let them manage their issues themselves. Afterall na themselves dem dey kill. Let dem help us reduce their illiterate and confusion causing population so the rest of Nigeria can have rest.
The south should have nothing to worry about northerners killing themselves!

But corpses for embalming in morgues do not wear clothes and caps. How come this one is wearing clothes and cap?

Business men in labour. They want to go collect again from FG.
Abegi, no get time for paper tigers jare...
NLC na paper tiger ni... Noise noise, no action!

Karlovich:
I wonder why there is so much backwardness in Beerfra, Ojukwu must be turning in his grave. This is not the future he envisaged for his people, in the present day they still label people witches.

What has Biafra and Ojukwu got to do with this story of counsellor beating his brother's wife in Etche, Rivers State?

It's obvious the guy wants to trend and be famous too naa. This is his best approach to fame. But I hope he comes out without losing limbs in this crocodile infested water that he decided to jump into by himself. #SuicideMission.

Awesome!
Governor Wike of Rivers state, please come copy good things like this naa.... and do same for Rivers too... Haba!

Where are the said houses sef? Is there any in Rivers state? I never see o o...

Wey d hair you shave naa?? Na for your face?

White garment girls dancing as Jackie got evicted....

THe Supreme Court of Nigeria (SCN) yesterday voided laws enacted by the states’ Houses of Assembly which allow governors to sack elected Chairmen of Local Governments and Councillors and replace them appointed administrators.

It has of recent become a tradition among governors to dissolve the Executive Councils of the states’ LGs and replace them with their appointees, who they call caretaker committees. In a unanimous judgement of five Justices of the Supreme Court described the practice as “executive recklessness”, which must not be allowed to persist.

The judgment by the five-man panel, led by Justice Olabode Rhodes-Vivour was on the appeal in relation to the dissolution of the 16 Local Government Executives in Ekiti State, during Kayode Fayemi’s tenure.

The appeal _marked:SC/120/2013_ was filed by the Ekiti State Government.

It had Prince Sanmi Olubunmo (Chairman of Ido Osi LG and Chairman of Association of Local Government’s of Nigeria – ALGON, Ekiti Chapter and 13 others as respondents.

Fayemi, (then) Minister of Mineral Resources reportedly announced the dissolution of the councils in a radio announcement on October 29, 2010, when the elected council officials still had up till December 19, 2011 to end their three-year tenure.

The Supreme Court, in faulting the law purportedly relied on by Fayemi, held that Section 23(b) of the Ekiti State Local Government Administration (Amendment) Law, 2001, which empowered the governor to dissolve local government councils, whose tenure was yet to expire, violated section 7(1) of the Constitution from which the state House of Assembly derived the power to enact the local government law. Justice Centus Nweze, in the lead judgment, said: “There can be no doubt, as argued by the appellants’ counsel, that the Ekiti State House of Assembly is empowered to make laws of Ekiti State.

“However, the snag here is that, in enacting section 23(b) of the Ekiti State Local Government Administration (Amendment) Law, 2001, which empowered the first appellant to bridge the tenure of office of the respondents, it overreached itself. “In other words, section 23(b) (supra) is violative of, and in conflict with section 7(1) of the Constitution (supra). “Hence, it is bound to suffer the fate of ll laws which are in conflict with the Constitution, section 1(3) thereof.”

The judge Said Section 7(1) of the Constitution seeks to guarantee “the system of local government by democratically-elected local government councils and conferred “sacrosanctity on the elections of such officials whose electoral mandates derived from the will of the people freely exercised through the democratic process”.

“The implication, therefore, is that section 23(b) of thethe Ekiti State Local Government Administration (Amendment) Law, 2001, which was not intended to ‘ensure the existence of’ such democratically-elected councils, but to snap their continued existence by their substitution with caretaker councils, was enacted in clear breach of the supreme provisions of section 7(1) of the Constitution.

“To that extent, it (section 23(b) supra) cannot co-habit with section 7(1) of the Constitution (supra) and must, in consequence, be invalidated.

"The reason is simple. By his oath of office, the governor swore to protect and not to supplant the Constitution.

“Hence, any action of his which has the capacity of undermining the same Constitution (as in the instant case where the first appellant, ‘Governor of Ekiti State and others’ dissolved the tenure of the respondents and replaced them with caretaker committees) is tantamount to executive recklessness which would not be condoned,” the judge said.

Justice Nweze said the the tenure of the local government councils could not be abridged without violating the supreme constitutional provisions.

“Simply put, therefore, the election of such officials into their offices and their tenure are clothed with constitutional force.

They cannot, therefore, be abridged without breaching the Constitution from which they derive their force. “The only permissible exception, where a state governor could truncate the lifespan of a local government council which evolved through the democratic process of elections, is ‘for overriding public interest’ in a period of emergency.”

He upheld the earlier decision of the Court of Appeal on the issue and adopted the orders made by the Court of Appeal on the case in its judgment delivered on January 23, 2013.

The Appeal Court had among others, ordered the Ekiti State Government to compute and pay all the allowances and salaries accruable to members of the dissolved councils between October 29, 2010 and December 19, 2011, both dates inclusive.

Justice Nweze directed the Attorney- General of Ekiti State to ensure that the orders of the lower court (Appeal Court) affirmed in his judgment, are complied with.

https://alfrednehemiah..com/2019/06/supreme-court-voids-state-laws.html

The United Nations has decried humanitarian services to victims of Northeast crisis, lamenting that it is not meeting international best standard.

The world body also criticised what it described as dearth of knowledge by some of the key stakeholders in the provision of humanitarian services in the troubled Northeast region.

Speaking at the Humanitarian Stakeholders Forum organised by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in Maiduguri on Thursday, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mr. Edward Kallon said services to the troubled Northeast region must be based on international best practices.

He said: “We need to have a better understanding of the gap in the services we are providing for the displaced persons in the camps; it seems we don’t have a better understanding of the gaps.

“We also need to provide services based on international best practices. We are not meeting the best standard; it requires we must work together to provide better services.”

Kallon added: “One thing that is very clear whatever we have done and what we are doing currently is way below international standard.”

He asked the meeting to as a matter of urgency brainstorm on how to relocate 89,000 IDPs, adding that more than 28 hectares of land was needed for this.

He said he was shocked to discover that 20,110 displaced persons were sleeping outside without shelters in Bama, Borno State.

Kallon said: “When I was in Bama, I was shocked with what I saw. Damboa shows another ugly face with over 10,000 without shelter.”

“Camps are over congested, we are under so much pressure to improve on what we are doing; we should not be too proud that we have done extremely well, there is still a lot that needs to be done. I call on NEMA and SEMA that we need to work with the international community to bridge the gap. I am seriously worried about the efficiency and effectiveness of what we are doing to address displacement in Northeast. We should do better and we must do better.”

The NEMA has also painted an ugly picture of handling of humanitarian services in the Northeast, lamenting that over 45,000 IDPs are sleeping in the open in Borno State.

The Director General of NEMA, Alhaji Mustapha Maihajja, who was represented by Director of Planning and Strategy, Mr. Kayode Fagbemi said that the recent challenges faced was as a result of massive arrival of IDPs from some attacked areas in Borno.

According to him, the Northeast Zonal Coordinator said about 45,000 people were without shelter, and this was because of the new arrivals. He said the agency was there to address the challenges as well as to provide food and other items that will bring succour to the people.

He explained that the purpose of conveying the meeting was to tell discuss the challenges and gaps so as to proffer solutions to them.

He said: “We know that the humanitarian situation is getting worse in some areas and there are more critical needs in some areas.”

HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE IN THE NORTH-EAST BELOW STANDARD - UN https://alfrednehemiah..com/2019/06/humanitarian-response-in-north-east.html

A disagreement between the Federal Government and Organised Labour in the Public Service on the template to work out consequential adjustment in wages may delay the implementation of the new National Minimum Wage.

President of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), Comrade Bobboi Kaigama told The Nation on the sideline of the International Labour Conference in Geneva, Switzerland that while the government wants an amount be fixed across all levels, labour wants the adjustment to be done in percentages.

The immediate past Minister of Labour, Senator Chris Ngige had told The Nation in his last interview as Minister that the government will run into trouble in the implementation of the minimum wage if it carries out the consequential adjustment on percentage basis as the government will not have the money to implement it.

The government has however set up a technical committee made up of representatives and officials of the Public Service Joint Negotiating Council to work out the template for the adjustment from grade level one step two to grade level 17.

Kaigama, who threw his weight behind the call for a universal minimum wage being canvassed by some world leaders at the 108th Session of the International Labour Conference, however assured workers that whenever the template is finalised, government will be obliged to pay arrears of the new wage.

He said: “We are concerned that the templates for the implementation of the new minimum wage are not yet out.

“It is one thing to sign the law proscribing minimum wage and another is implementations because there are two bodies in charge of negotiations.

“But as soon as we finish this last leg, the effective date of the law is the day the President signed the bill into law.

“Be rest assured that all employers of labour in Nigeria will have to pay for arrears. The President gave us one month to sort this out.

“But after setting up the technical committee, we discovered that there are hitches.

“So we decided to go back and prepare some scenarios, then back and look at them before agreeing on one which will cut across all levels in the service.

“Government is of the opinion that we fix an amount across, but we believe that is not scientific.

“We believe we should take a percentage and even if that means you have to stagger it.

“We are preparing scenarios and at the end of the day, we hope to arrive at something.”

WHY IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW MINIMUM WAGE MAY BE DELAYED

https://alfrednehemiah..com/2019/06/why-implementation-of-new-minimum-wage.html

1Sharon:
After 4 wives? What is wrong with men for goodness sake? This is why I believe polygamy changes nothing

Was it men that did that or it's that man only? Why accuse all men for what one man did? Stop generalizing and be precise.
That man messed up and not men.

SaturnNick:
wetin this guy dey talk sef

He is trying to showcase his high level of ignorance for all to see.

dadavivo:
Believe Punch at your own risk, they just sit down and start writing rubbish just to sale their dying papers.

You too, I can't believe you. You just told an internet lie.

Was there internet during Abraham Lincoln's time? When did he make this quote you are referring to with his picture and name boldly attached?
Internet was invented in 1st January, 1983. And was improved upon in 1990. Later in December 18, 2013 Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web (www.)

How did Abraham Lincoln know and comment about internet that was not in existence in his time?
#Confused internet lairs!

soberdrunk:
People will soon come here and be shouting Wike Wike! As if it is his duty to be driving patrol van round the state with Ak47 and arresting criminals, Rivers state has a Commisioner of police and he should be blamed along with the IG.

Just shut up if you don't have what to say. Must you get partisan with everything? Tell me a governor that is not receiving security vote in millions monthly. Let him justify his security vote, that all. Haven't you seen governors that patrol day/nights to monitor security agencies performance in the state?
Must all arguments end in partisanship?
Buhari is handling security issues with kids glove at the federal level and we are complaining. Can't the states, especially Rivers State, that is controlled by the opposition do things better? This kinds of followership are the biggest threats to our democracy because they support their party foolishly.

oganology33:
Is this not the same guy dat Gov. Wike honoured last year and presented a house to

Gov Wike did not fulfil his promise till date.

Adequate and efficient Waste management is very vital to any society that really wants to live healthy and also achieve optimum longevity. As such it's very imperative for every government to prioritize efficient waste management. It's very unwise to politicize waste management.

It's very unfortunate and also sad that waste management is contracted to unlicensed and I'll equipped contractors whose main aim is to make money, and very less of creating sound healthy environment in the course of evacuation of the waste.

Whenever I see the working conditions of those innocent young men working for refuse contractors in Port Harcourt and its environs, I feel so sorry for them especially the way they work without any effective safety gears. Most of them even eat bread and other snacks right in the middle of the pile of refuse they work on.

It's grossly unfair that these category of workers do not have access to regular medical checks as should be, due to the health hazard they are subjected to daily.
Therefore, its very imperative that the government should enable Environmental Health Officers to routinely monitor and evaluate the working environment/conditions of refuse worker:

1. All refuse contractors must be made to undergo regular medical checks at least every three (3) months (ie quarterly). They must immediately provide clinical retainership with accredited hospitals (be it government or private) to manage any major health challenge(s) that may arise from their work environment.

2. The waste management authority must provide a standard clinic with qualified medical/health professionals and well equipped ambulance attached, in their facility as was the case in the past.

3. Qualified Environmental Health Officers should be empowered with full authority and attached to every refuse contracting company. The said Environmental Health Officers should be made to have authority to sanction the refuse management companies especially to prevent public health violations on the part waste management companies. It should be made in such a manner that only CLEARED waste management companies should be paid or contract renewed.

4. Sanitary Waste collection points and final disposal sites should be sourced and re-established on the recommendations of the supervising Environmental Health Officers.

5. The government should procure equipments such as payloaders, bulldozers, refuse trucks, landfill compactors etc to enable effective and efficient support for waste management in the state.

6. All hospitals, clinics and health management organisations (HMOs) must be made to forward their waste management plan to the Waste management Agency quarterly through the supervising Environmental Health Officer and no hospital, clinics, Health Management Organisation (HMO) should be allowed to dispose of their wastes (especially the medical wastes) without the direct supervision of the Environmental Health Officer assigned with that responsibility.

7. With current awareness due to civilization and globalisation, it is now public knowledge that the current unprofessional method of waste collection via open dumping on the ground and allowing such to accumulate by road sides, junctions and median of major roads is unhealthy, unhygienic, insanitary and anti-public health. This method is pre-colonial and must be discontinued to protect the environment and prevent diseases.

8. The Rivers State Waste management (RIWAMA) Law strictly prescribes INTEGRATED WASTE MANAGEMENT which has to do with proper waste separation from generation to final disposal/treatment sites. It's then worrisome why RIWAMA can not respect and obey it's own enabling law. Instead RIWAMA encourages the public to dump and accumulate all their waste by roadsides thereby defeating the real aims of INTEGRATED WASTE MANAGEMENT as enshrined in the RIWAMA LAW of 2014. Friends of the Environment must rise up collectively to stop this public health menace as it also deface the esthetics of the city.

9. The state, through RIWAMA, must as a matter of urgency provide relevant and adequate waste collection facilities that would encourage and enforce waste separation from the point of generation, collection to the final disposal / treatment. There should be properly labelled collection bins at all collection points across the city of Port Harcourt and its environs.


Also, specialised waste management companies should be contracted. Some should specialise only on papers and paper products, others plastics and plastic products. Whilst some would be licensed to specialise only on metals, some others should be for glasses; and yet others should be for household refuse etc, all to encourage recycling of wastes where possible. The practice of jumbling up all wastes together and given to a specific wastes contractor is not only uncivilised, pre-colonial, insanitary but also anti-public Health and should be discontinued for the sake of of posterity.

10. There must be clear-cut implementation of environmental health regulations to the extent that all final disposal sites should be very far away from residential settlements and other business places /offices.

• There should be adequate security and perimeter fencing ant final disposal sites to discourage scavenging, unauthorised disposal of dead animals and even human remains, and also incessant burning of the waste which results in smoke etc...

• The final disposal sites should be regularly disinfested via the proper application of integrated pest management method; fumigation and deratization, including other effective and efficient pest and vermin control methods. This is not a matter of choice, but in line with international standard operating protocols (SOP)

• Refuse collection trucks must be washed clean daily and should not be over filled to the the point of littering the streets with refuse as they move.

• Adequate and functional fire extinguishers should be provided at all final disposal sites to arrest sudden fires before it gets out of control. RIWAMA. In the same vein, RIWAMA must enter into an understanding to ensure quick response to manage fires at final disposal sites.

Source:
EHSadvisor's blog

https://ehsadvisor..com/2019/04/need-for-sanitary-waste-management-in.html

GLeesMODEL:
NO SLAYING!!! MBMN Queen Engage In Community Service Development, Set Flag-Off New Project On Rape (photos

Queen Favour Umeike, Most Beautiful Model in Nigeria - MBMN, has joined her fellow students at Ignatius Ajuru University of Education in a community service during ongoing interlocking road project of her department in the school.

The reigning MBMN Queen was on Tuesday spotted at Rumuolumeni in Portharcourt, Rivers state at a private University where she is presently schooling. According to reports she joined workers in carrying sands and using concrete paving stones to establish a base layer.

In a reaction from her Majesty, Queen Favour Umeike, she stated that her vision was aimed at engaging community development projects that will continue to make live easy for Nigerians, as well as hasten the environmental enhancement across societies.

Queen Favour has before now continued to make relevant progress in her commitments to humanity. However, reports have it that the intelligent and vibrant looking damsel will be unveiling her book soon, as she sets up for the official flag-off of her project tagged "League Against Rape and Domestic Abuse - LARDA.

http://www.alexreports.info/2019/04/no-slaying-mbmn-queen-engage-in.html?m=1

Op should cross check facts properly before posting. Ignatius Ajuru university is not a private university. It is owned by Rivers State government. It was formally Rivers State College of Education that was upgraded to a University of Education.
Besides what is news about the story? If she is truly beautiful let her remove the intense make-up and stop applying bleaching cream. Na only then we go know if she is truly beautiful as claimed. I am not a fan of artificial beauty lai lai....

Holocene:
Flushing is faster jare....who get that time to come fill am up with water

You can flush condom if you use pit toilet or pour flush toilets.
But if you use Water Closet, (WC) please don't flush condom down the water cystern if you use WC kind of toilet.

KOLLYPROF:
To dispose condoms inside toilet is wahala abi

Except na pit toilet � though....

If na water closet (WC), don't try it because it shall cause serious blockade and your wc won't be able to flush your shit away... till you call plumber....

Why contradict yourself? This story is confusing. You said ONE DEAD in your headline but later you concluded by saying that NO CASUALTY was recorded.
How come one died yet no casualty?

Chai! Double wahala for dead bodies.

But wait o! Is this a general hospital mortuary? Look at the structures sef. This looks more like a roadside mortuary.

She told you the truth that her friend took her to the concert by 12.00am. She didn't tell you lies after all. Her friend could be a guy, yes! A male friend of hers took her to the concert and they had good fun together.
What do you expect from social media relationships?
Guy wake up your idea.

Deyooo:
BREAKING: Presidency to spend N5billion to impeach Akwa Ibom State Speaker. IG of Police to be instructed to escort 5 APC members to the STHA in order to forcefully achieve this tomorrow. Goal is also to impeach Gov.

5 is now greater than 20.
APC MAGIC.
We say no to impunity. - Adeyanju Deji @ 10pm Yesterday

Fat lie. Stop spreading falsehoods. Only illiterate spread lies and falsehoods.

Please go do laboratory test first to know the root cause before medication.
Go see a physician.

Lead, Environmental Health Officer

86698BR

Job Description

To supervises the public health unit and employees engaged in the work of public health services in SPDC, assure food and drinking Water safety in SPDC operations and assure compliance with applicable and binding directives as per public health legal instruments.

Country of Work Location

Nigeria

City, State (if applicable)

Lagos, Lagos State.

Work Location

Lagos

Company Description

Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) is the pioneer and a leader in the oil and gas industry in Nigeria. We invest heavily in our employees, which is reflected in our industry-leading development programmes.

Requirements

Minimum of 5 years post qualification experience with either B.Sc. or HND in Environmental Health, Leadership, supervisory, IT, budget management and communication/interpersonal skills

National Professional license by EHORECON

Competence:
Skilled in the Health Risk Management, Health Protocol and Guidance.

Skilled in HSE Management Systems

Skilled in analyzing and solving problems, communicating and persuading and being personally creative and innovative

Leadership skills – e.g. can deliver through others Behaviors: Good team player/resourceful Good inter-personal relationship Smart/respectful, ability to go extra mile Enterprise First.

No. of Positions

1

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