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Crime / Re: Eight Arrested Over Attempt To Blow-up Kano Patrol Team by helenobia(f): 6:09am On Dec 07, 2012
God save us 4rm d hands of dis devilish pple
NYSC / Re: A Female NYSC Member Fights Back After Being Assaulted By Her Employer by helenobia(f): 10:44am On Dec 05, 2012
[quote
author=penzino]A female National Youth Service Corps member has taken
the fight to her employer for allegedly assaulting her and plagiarising
her work.
Mary Agbo, 28 has waited for over a month for the first signs of justice
for an wrong she says no woman should ever have to face – violence
against women in the workplace.

On August 1, 2012, Agbo began her NYSC primary duty with the Garki
Gazette, an Abuja-based weekly lifestyle and events publication, located
within the premises of Eddy-Vic Hotels on Ahmadu Bello Way, Garki II,
Abuja. By August 17, Emmanuel Abanah, the magazine’s publisher and owner
of Eddy-Vic Hotels confirmed her as the Editor of the publication
“having satisfied preliminary conditions for the job”, he wrote in her
letter of engagement.

But on November 1, she filed a complaint at the Garki Police station
against Abanah, 35, for allegedly assaulting her after she requested a
Performance Certificate, the necessary documentation corps members must
obtain from their employers monthly, and mandatorily submit to the NYSC
to be entitled to their government allowance. She reported the assault
to the NYSC on the same day and asked to be reposted from Garki Gazette
citing fear for her life and an unsafe work conditions.

“He slapped me and pushed me, I hit my ear hard on an iron fence by his
garden. He started dragging my top (white NYSC vest) and my breast came
out,” Agbo told the Police. “He brought out his hand again and slapped
me. He called his manager and assistant to send me out of the premises
which they did”.

Agbo explained the events of November 1. In the morning while attending
her Community Development group meeting, she was advised to submit her
PC the same day as NYSC officials would be busy with the new batch of
corps members resuming the following week. Back at the office which was
locked, both Ada, Abanah’s assistant, and Sharks, the magazine’s
production manager advised she call the publisher. After several
unanswered calls and an SMS, Abanah alighted from his hotel room rude
and shouting at her for disturbing him. As she tried explaining herself,
he began beating her in anger, Agbo said.

A medical report from the Asokoro General Hospital signed by Dr. C.N
Okoli stated Agbo “presented with generalized body pain, headache,
earache, dizziness, and tinge of blood in the right eye”.

The Garki Police went to Abanah’s office that same day, but met his
absence. It however became clear he had gone into hiding after he failed
to turn up following several other visits to his office and calls
inviting him to the station. A warrant for his arrest was subsequently
obtained.

Two reasons are at the root of the assault, Agbo says. She had severally
asked Abanah to pay her salary and that of the magazine’s contributing
journalists being owed months in arrears. This displeased him
tremendously. Also, her refusal to concede to her employer’s sexual
advances irked him further, she said.

The NYSC at a zonal level launched an investigation. A source within the
NYSC who asked not to be named provided the internal report with the
findings from the investigation. Though Abanah had refused to see the
investigating officer, staff of Garki Gazette and Eddy-Vic Hotels
confided “he [Abanah] has been treating them the same that he pays them
salary whenever he feels like and they do not have the right to ask
him”.

“Based on the information about this man, shows that he is a very
irresponsible man,” The NYSC investigating officer reported. “I advise
that the corper should be withdrawn from serving in this establishment
and be reposted, and all possible measures should be taken to make him
for his reactions. He has no right to treat her this way.”

Abanah on his own then petitioned the NYSC State Coordinator on November
12 accusing Agbo in a four-page letter of “poor parental upbringing”
and being “desperate, devious, and dubious and a calculated and cold
liar that thinks everybody wants to flirt with her”. He added he has no
regards for the Garki Police station and was therefore taking his case
against Agbo to the Commissioner of Police of the Federal Capital
Territory.

“The publisher did not want a heehaw affair with a desperate woman whom
he has been feeding in a local police station,” Abanah said.
“Miss Agbo has been given a fair option of proceeding to a court of law
with her claims, but will not be granted the excessiveness of a shouting
match with her employer at a local police station.”

dis is barbaric

Family / Re: Did Your Parent Teach Sex Education by helenobia(f): 10:32am On Dec 05, 2012
[quote
author=ihedioramma]IS GOOD TO TEACH THEM SO DAY WILL NOT GO INTO IT
HAVEING SEX . SEX IS FOR TWO MARRYD, PEOPLE ONLY . [/quote] tru talk, u're very ryt bt dis generation tins jst seems 2 bad.
Food / Re: Narrate How A Tough Meat Has Embarrassed You! by helenobia(f): 12:29pm On Oct 27, 2012
mtcheew

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