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Travel / Re: Lets Talk About Estonia by Suplexx: 8:55pm On Nov 10, 2018 |
LadyHeaven: Try to narrow down your questions. However, you can do a research online or read this thread from the start. |
Politics / Staff Of Atiku’s Media Outfit Cry Over Unpaid Entitlements, Harsh Working Condit by Suplexx: 8:02pm On Nov 10, 2018 |
October 8, 2018 The staff of the multimedia organisation, Gotel Communications, owned by former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, are currently in distress over owed severance benefits and delays in payment of salaries. The Yola, Adamawa State based media organisation, which has a television channel and two radio stations, has also scaled down its operational hours due to challenges associated with finances and management. Uncertainty is brewing among staff who the company owes over N97 million in unpaid entitlements, due to disengagement of their previous appointments. Insiders blamed the situation on what they called a “sit-tight and overbearing committee” which Mr Abubakar set up to reposition the company three years ago, and the former vice president’s carefree attitude to the business. The indebtedness started in 2016 after the committee appointed to re-organise the station sacked all staffers and re-engaged some of them in fresh appointments. Those who were asked to go were reportedly paid promptly while those re-absolved in the organisation are yet to get their pay despite issuance of disengagement letters bearing what every staff was due to receive. Staff retrenchment Insiders at the station told PREMIUM TIMES the business became distressed with the economic recession of 2015, leading to a series of reorganisation measures. To coordinate the reorganisation, Mr Abubakar, who on Sunday emerged the presidential candidate of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2019 elections. appointed a seven-member committee named Gotel Communications Restructuring Committee (GCRC). The committee is headed by Adamu Modibbo, a retired banker and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in Adamawa State. Others in the committee are Babakura Jatau; a son of Mr Abubakar, Abba Abubakar; Timaus Mathias; Abdullahi Nyako; and Abdullahi Babalele. The organisation’s acting managing director, Mohammed El-Yakub is the secretary of the committee. In October 2016, the committee took the decision to cut down staff strength of the station. PREMIUM TIMES had reported how the workforce was scaled down in the wake of the reforms, which brought down staff number from 306 to 125. The disengagement and re-absorption were initially carried out verbally before local unions pushed for formal communication. It took almost a year before the management issued letters dated August 2017, backdating the actions to October 2016. One staff who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of victimisation, said the reduction in staff strength was so sharp that current staff are being overworked. PREMIUM TIMES learnt that apart from those retrenched, some staff also resigned their posts due to the situation at the stations. One staff alleged that a few staffers later hired by the controversial committee were not as competent as those sacked, and therefore unable to cope. “For example, I work for almost seven days a week running from one task to another, something that ought to be done by nothing less than three staff. I hardly get a day off, throughout the week,” he said. There has also not been a new condition of service and salary scale in place, despite the spirited effort of the local chapter of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) and the National Radio, Television and Theatre Workers Union (RATTAWU). A November resolution of the combined sittings of the two unions seen by our reporter catalogued the issues and appealed to the reorganisation committee for redress. The company’s managing director, Mohammed El-Yakub, said his management team is pushing for the settlement of the owed benefits through the restructuring committee. But speaking to PREMIUM TIMES, chairperson of the Gotel Chapel of the NUJ, Muhammad Mustapha, said almost a year since the November 2017 submission to the management, the issues are yet to be addressed. Rather than attending to contending issues, in line with the purported reforms sought to be implemented, the committee is overseeing what one staff called “strangulation” of the radio and television channels. “As I speak to you, we don’t have internet connection. We use modem, and even the modems are inadequate that some of us have to provide for ourselves,” one source, a presenter at one of the radio stations said. The radio station on AM frequency, which used to operate for 24 hours has scaled down hours of operations, and insiders said even in those active hours, the stations often go off air due to short supply of fuel. “Sometimes, if there is no electricity, we have to be off air as diesel is not always available to power the stations. Finances are now controlled by the committee and the managing director is just there, helpless,” on operation staff said. Committee reacts When contacted, chairman of the restructuring committee, Adamu Modibbo, denied charges of mismanaging the stations. He admitted that staff were being owed benefits from the retrenchment but, contrary to the promises his committee made to the staff about payment, Mr Modibbo told PREMIUM TIMES they are not paying anytime soon. Mr Modibbo, who initially said the new system has written off the old condition of service which “was not contributory pension system” however, said under the new contributory pension arrangement, the company cannot pay those benefits until those staff are unemployed. Reminded that the old system was different, by his own admission, and that beneficiaries were already issued with letters of engagement bearing the amount they are each entitled to, Mr Modibbo maintained his grounds. “Those that are not paid are those that were asked to continue to work. We reabsorbed them,” he said. “In other words, the reason why we said they were disengaged and reabsorbed is that is the nature of the new condition of service because it is the contributory pension scheme. “We disengaged them under the former system but reabsorbed them under the new condition of service which is contributory pension scheme. How do you expect us to pay them entitlement when they are still working? Can you pay someone pension when he is still getting salary?” https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/289103-staff-of-atikus-media-outfit-cry-over-unpaid-entitlements.html?fbclid=IwAR2G6-my-x_Gm3GE9Y5UUtniyNtwCjC-adUbxGXYVrgQZVEHEGHtJvmHyXI#.W-afd-E0iIc.facebook 1 Like 1 Share |
Politics / Re: What Really Happened Between Shiite And Army- IMN by Suplexx: 4:03pm On Oct 31, 2018 |
SmartMindsFx: Thanks |
Politics / Re: What Really Happened Between Shiite And Army- IMN by Suplexx: 3:27pm On Oct 31, 2018 |
SmartMindsFx: Please I have been looking for someone to interpret that video. What did he say? |
Celebrities / Re: Actress Moyo Lawal Posts Sexy Photo With Severe Warning, Fans React by Suplexx: 4:59am On Oct 31, 2018 |
I see nothing interesting here. 2 Likes |
Travel / Re: Lets Talk About Estonia by Suplexx: 4:51am On Oct 31, 2018 |
shezpwiti: Second class upper |
Travel / Re: Lets Talk About Estonia by Suplexx: 3:57pm On Oct 30, 2018 |
shezpwiti: Calculation of cost of flight, accommodation, visa, etc are not that straight forward because you will need to visit a transit country to get Schengen visa. The cost depends on the transit country you visit as well as whether you will have to return to Nigeria after you are issued your Schengen visa. |
Politics / Re: Why The North Are Not Atikulating YET by Suplexx: 3:13pm On Oct 14, 2018 |
Nowenuse: Same NC states that went gaga when Buhari visited? 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Why The North Are Not Atikulating YET by Suplexx: 1:24pm On Oct 14, 2018 |
PMB holds NE for all eternity PMB will win NC and increase his margin in SW Athiefkuloot-it is dead on arrival . 7 Likes 1 Share |
Celebrities / Re: Ini Edo Hangs Out With Uche Jombo (PHOTOS) by Suplexx: 6:11am On Oct 13, 2018 |
sLentlover7778: 1 Like |
Travel / Re: Lets Talk About Estonia by Suplexx: 2:19pm On Sep 26, 2018 |
[quote author=Jidris post=71540879][/quote] Did you get South Africa? |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Stormy Daniels Describes Donald Trump's Manhood, Size, Likens It To A Toad by Suplexx: 5:32am On Sep 19, 2018 |
This woman who has her nude vagina all over the net is mocking another person's private part. Porn star with multiple body enhancing surgery and still not beautiful. By the way, what size is average to a porn star? 1 Like |
Travel / Re: Lets Talk About Estonia by Suplexx: 12:51am On Sep 18, 2018 |
buzuazi: Apply with your school documents and do it early, Egyptian embassy in Abuja will give you visa before your resumption date is near. |
Religion / Re: Why Did The Catholic Church Decide That Priests Should Be Celibate? by Suplexx: 8:19am On Sep 11, 2018 |
TolaTosin: I have done that since centuries ago |
Crime / Re: Woman Devastated After Her Nude Picture Was Released On Social Media. by Suplexx: 10:52am On Sep 10, 2018 |
CynthiaChi: May be for a price. |
Religion / Re: Why Did The Catholic Church Decide That Priests Should Be Celibate? by Suplexx: 10:39am On Sep 10, 2018 |
TolaTosin: How is it not related? I quoted the bible verbatim, so what do you mean by upside down? Jesus taught celibacy for the sake of the Kingdom. So it is part of the reasons the Catholic Church adopted it. |
Religion / Re: Why Did The Catholic Church Decide That Priests Should Be Celibate? by Suplexx: 11:06am On Sep 09, 2018 |
Mathew 19:10-12 The disciples said to him, “If this is the situation between a husband and wife, it is better not to marry.” 11 Jesus replied, “Not everyone can accept this word, but only those to whom it has been given. 12 For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others—and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.” 53 Likes 2 Shares |
Business / Re: When The Naira Was Stronger Than US Dollar (Throwback) by Suplexx: 8:13am On Aug 28, 2018 |
abokibuhari: How did he destroy it when in his time the naira was still stronger than the US dollars? The black market is another thing totally because it was always twice the rate of the official peg. |
Politics / Re: N50bn 'Disappeared', N4trn Unremitted By NNPC... Damning 2016 Audit Of FG's Book by Suplexx: 6:05am On Aug 28, 2018 |
Impossible. Our total revenue from crude oil in 2016 was not up to 4trillion The report mentioned 50 million and not billion. Much ado about nothing |
Education / Re: Any Beneficiary Of Stipedium Hungaricum Scholarship In The House? by Suplexx: 8:22am On Aug 24, 2018 |
Ayodele92: I like to know more about schooling in Hungary. What are the requirements? Are there student Jobs for English speakers? |
Travel / Re: Lets Talk About Estonia by Suplexx: 8:12am On Aug 24, 2018 |
Ayodele92: Euroacademy is a school in Estonia. He wasn't talking about schools in Europe. |
Politics / Re: Imo Magistrates’ Court Set On Fire By Youths by Suplexx: 11:41am On Aug 22, 2018 |
I pity these misguided youths. 3 Likes |
Crime / Re: Female Soldier Brutalizes Her Househelp In Ikeja (Pics) by Suplexx: 1:02pm On Aug 19, 2018 |
tiredoflife: The stress of modern life. On the topic, it is very bad. Some people don't have human love. But some of these housemaids are evil too. I know one Madam who kept four such housemaids, all about 13 years, but one of of them behaved like a witch. One day quarrel bursted among the girls, and they exposed one of them as always spitting on her Madam's husband food. Just because the man sometimes shouts on them. The worst she would use water to rinse her mouth and mix it with her Madam's baby food. An18 months old baby. The Madam and her husband didn't touch her because they didn't want trouble, but when they invited the housemaid's people, they dealt with her in the presence of her Madam before taking her away. |
NYSC / Re: Female Corper Sexually Harasses Male Corper At Lagos NYSC Camp, Touches His Dick by Suplexx: 3:00pm On Aug 09, 2018 |
The girl was wrong, and she didn’t manage the situation well. |
Travel / Re: Lets Talk About Estonia by Suplexx: 10:34am On Aug 06, 2018 |
slysite4real: Hmmm, there is a way. One can be lucky |
Travel / Re: Lets Talk About Estonia by Suplexx: 8:00am On Aug 06, 2018 |
Chisense, You might want to try Turkey too. |
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