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The scale or progression of Kidnapping and banditry in Nigeria is at its worst high as every now and then, national news headlines are splashed with stories of hundreds of school children being kidnapped with the federal government negotiating their release with millions of naira that would have refurbished the country’s degrading infrastructure or settled arrears of salaries owed civil servants.

The tales of national woes from these Kidnapping gangs are not sweet sounding. From April 2014 to December 2020, government has paid Ransome to kidnappers for the release of an estimated 1,200 persons, mostly school children.



Individuals who have encountered these dare-devil gangs have narrated their gruesome and harrowing experiences. Some who were kidnapped on highways, others in their farms while the remaining were picked from their homes.Thankful that they made it back to friends and family, it is also heartbreaking that some lost their lives during those encounters.

It is a mixed reaction for Mark Amechi Emmanuel who was kidnapped in broad day light on the Benin By enroute Delta state on Friday 19th February,2021.
He recounted his “… battling between life and death in the hands of Fulani Kidnappers, the most dreaded experience in Nigeria today”



“ON MY WAY TO WARRI
Friday 19th, February. It was just a very normal early morning, but with a little bit of excitement in the air. I and my family just moved in to our new apartment after making all necessary financial and legal agreements, clean ups and unpacking. As a matter of fact, Thursday night was the first night we slept together in the new apartment. So I was supposed to stay much much longer in bed so as to catch up with my strength. But I had to make this one necessary trip to Warri.

A lot of people who know me didn’t know I have relocated to lagos. Having secured a new apartment, I needed to go back to Warri to pick up some of my household stuff, return, settle and get back to work.



THE JOURNEY
In Nigeria, When you are about to hit the highway on a trip, especially with your own car, alone, you want to first settle in your subconscious that you will be meeting over 20 police, FRSC, Army and Customs check points. So your particulars must be in tact, or else…

As early as 5:30am I was already on lekki Epe express way. The moment I made it ed Ijebu Ode, like role calls, I had already gone ed 3 check points, and faced with the ones ahead. As I made it through the last one, where I was delayed for over 20 minutes, I just called my wife and informed her that I’m entering the Benin By.



FULANI KIDNAPPERS
About 1:15pm. For those who know the Benin by area well, I have barely made the round turn coming from Benin Ore express way to settle on my speed ahead, when I heard what seemed like a car tyre burst. It sounded quiet but repeatedly so I looked at my rear mirror and in front to be sure. I also observed the other cars in front of me hitting the breaks in very swift succession. So I knew we all heard the sound. I had to also apply my break thinking something is happening up ahead. But no, it’s already happening in my very before. As I looked to my left I just saw 4 gunmen coming out of the bushes, heavily armed with sharp machetes and AK47s. Several rounds where shot in the air. There were two of them already in our front and back with 4 cars: mine, a Mercedes in my front and two trucks, trapped in the middle. As the gunmen came close, the Mercedes car just picked up acceleration and made a swerve into the Bush on the right. Immediately I heard a voice that ordered one to follow the car, as if they knew he had no where to run to. As one of them was coming close to me I could see the one that seemed to be the leader speaking with the drivers of the two trucks in Hausa language. He then told his men to let them go. By now I was out of my car with both my hands raised up and one entered into my car and was just searching everywhere.



OK, everything was just happening very fast that I wasn’t able to first comprehend the entire situation. I just knew at that moment that I was out of my car, lying face down on the road with a machine gun pointed at me, and someone else is in my car searching it. In my mind I just assumed that these guys will just search my car, maybe take whatever they want and let me go. What was I thinking? What can I even think at that moment. As my mind was going through this confusion, I just heard the leader say “take this one inside, he has family; they’ll pay for him”. What?! Did I just hear “take him inside…., pay for him”? Immediately I heard the tall one close to me saying I should get up or he’ll shoot me. So quickly replied in Hausa language that he shouldn’t shoot me that I’ll cooperate. He then asked me to put my hands slowly inside my pocket and empty it. As I was about to do that, he warned me that if I make a foul move, “one bullet to your head”. He took the money with me and threw away my wallet without considering anything else inside. He then faced the gun at me and in a very malicious tone, said: “oya, dey go inside now or I fire you!”. Turning towards the forest where he’s directing me to enter, I just said to myself, “that’s Fulani accent!”. It was at this point it became dawn on me that I have been Kidnapped by Fulani bandits.

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The Governor of Kebbi State, Senator Abubakar Atiku Bagudu has told Governor Bello Mohammad Matawalle that he has the intention to end the long dominated banditry and economic backwardness in his state but forces against him have always been the setback.

Governor Bagudu made this remark when the APC Governors forum visited him in Gusau, the state capital where the forum donated the sum of N50 million to the state government over the inferno that consumed 63 shops in Tudun Wada market in Gusau, the state capital.

According to him, the many sad events faced by Governor Matawalle, which have affected him psychologically, have turned his attention away from his plans.

“You can never be a man until you have solved the problem much larger than his life. The difficulty is the test of manhood,” he lamented.

He noted that the sad events were brought by God to test his faith and to strengthen him for the tasks ahead of him, saying that if he relaxes, he has failed in his constitutional responsibility.

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President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a new acting Inspector General of Police.

Minister of Police Affairs, Maigari Dingyadi, disclosed this Tuesday in Abuja, stating that the appointment was with immediate effect.

The appointment of Usman Alkali Baba, a Deputy Inspector General of Police, implies that IGP Mohammed Adamu will have to proceed on his retirement leave.

Buhari had on Feb. 4 extended the tenure of Mohammed Adamu as the Inspector General of Police for three months.

Adamu spent two months and three days during the extended period.

A suspected kidnapper Abubakar Musa aged 27 was arrested after the Police raided a house in Rurum village at Tudun Wada local Government Area, Kano State.

According to The police spokesperson in Kano, Abdullahi Kiyawa, who confirmed the arrest on Sunday, the Kidnapper was arrested after the abduction of his uncle for N1m ransom.

He said the suspect was arrested with two AK 47 riffles which he affirmed using for his criminal operations and also one of the bandits operating in Kano, Birnin Gwari in Kaduna state and other northern states.

The suspect said he borrowed the guns found in his possession from Muhammadu Bakanoma in Zamfara state to confront another bandit he called Malam at Birnin Gwari, whom he accused of abducting his wife and daughter.

The Police force has reaffirmed its commitment to ensure the protection of the citizens and that these Kidnappers would be put to justice.

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Fire destroyed 14 of the 46 rooms in a family house at Onibata Compound, Alore Area in Ilorin, Kwara.

A statement issued on Monday in Ilorin by Mr Hakeem Hassan, Public Relations Officer of the Kwara Fire Service, said the outbreak occured in the early hours of Monday at about 12.02 a.m.

”The Brigade was summoned to the scene through a telephone call by one Mr Abdulganiyu, and on getting to the incident, we discovered that the fire was still very much raging and had already destroyed many rooms in the burning building, owing to their lateness in alerting us.

”However, our firemen were able to perform excellently well because of their technical knowledge of fire fighting, and in no time the ravaging fire was totally extinguished.

”The inferno was suspected to have been caused by power surge,” Hassan said.

He also quoted the Director of Kwara Fire Service, Mr John Falade, as urging the general public to cultivate the habit of calling the fire service on time whenever there is any emergency in their areas.

The Kaduna State Government has announced the release of five out of the 39 students kidnapped from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization in Kaduna.

The students, 23 female and 16 male, were abducted from their hostel on March 11, 2021.



A statement issued in Kaduna Monday by the state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, said that the five students are undergoing medical checks.

“The Nigerian military has informed the Kaduna State Government that five of the many kidnapped students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, Afaka, Kaduna were recovered this afternoon.

“And are presently in a military facility where they are undergoing a thorough medical check-up.”

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The Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Justice Danladi Umar while speaking over his altercation with security guards at Banex Plaza, Abuja said that the mob that attacked was “chanting secessionist and sectional slogan.”

Umar told PRNigeria that the assault has left him traumatised and disappointed.



A viral video on social media had showed that Umar ordered his security details to attack a security guard after a brawl over a breach of parking space.

The CCT chairman was also caught on in the video hitting the security man who had told him his vehicle was parked in the wrong space.

In his defence, Ibraheem Al-Hassan, CCT spokesperson, said the guard was rude and that some “Biafran boys” also harassed his boss.

He also said it was Umar who asked him to use “Biafran boys” to describe the mob — a description which Femi Falana, human rights lawyer, said could land the CCT chairman in jail.

However, the spokesperson has also tendered a public apology over his poorly written press release which he said was an unedited draft he shared with few friends for corrections.

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Watch Nigerians reacting to question about marrying a virgin, interesting!!!


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Nigeria today reminds one of the George Orwell book Animal Farm in so many ways. Apart from the sacred Cows, there’s also how much discomfort we face because of the actions of the many, who for narcissistic reasons are committed to putting the cart before the horse. One of such actions happened over the last week of February, but this event quietly slipped through the cracks because of a slew of high-profile school kidnappings. It bears looking at, however.

On February 28, the Chief Strategy Officer of Dangote Group, Aliyu Suleiman said that the importation rights for petrol should be awarded only to licensed and active refineries in Nigeria. This demand was in his speech to of the National Assembly’s t committee on the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) who paid a visit to the site of the Dangote Refinery, which is under construction, and slated to be soon finished.

Suleiman insisted that any need to supplement shortfalls in the local production of petroleum products, due to maintenance procedures or whatever else, should be legally limited to the companies with active refining licences. This means that they should be the ones to benefit from their own failure to do what they were licensed and partly subsidised to deliver to the marketplace. This idea could also prevent the forces of demand and supply from determining market trends, with imports not being allowed to compete with local supply and hopefully get us a truly competitive pricing regime.

The very fact that demands like this can be made openly and to of a National Assembly that should be made up of people who look out for their respective constituencies, shows us how unbalanced things are. For starters, we ought to understand that Nigeria will not move forward just by virtue of Dangote being made wealthier. You do not lift a society by taking from everyone so you can make one person a god. The deification of an individual at the expense of the majority is not useful.


We really should not have to remind people who have spent almost half a century in and around government that the personalisation of government policy is a flawed approach that’s responsible for much of the damage associated with less balanced government models like monarchies and theocracies.

A public policy is a course or principle of action chosen by a government for the achievement of specific goals that should ideally favour as much of the society as possible.

Policies are abstract vehicles that take you from one point to another and vehicles can only perform their primary function of providing mobility when the components responsible for the drive are placed in the right positions, relative to the other parts of the system, hence the idiom about carts being positioned in front of horses.

It is amazing to see the extent to which Nigeria’s macroeconomic policies are tweaked to give Dangote’s companies favourable treatment that doesn’t translate into cost-effective benefits for the rest of the nation. Macroeconomic policy should help create a stable economic environment for the majority. Nigeria goes too far with how its fiscal policy, industrial policy, and exchange rate policy are bent to accommodate Dangote’s business interests.

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Meghan accuses British royals of racism, says they pushed her to brink of suicide

Meghan, the wife of Prince Harry, accused the British royal family of racism, lying and pushing her to the brink of suicide, in an explosive televised interview that looks set to shake the monarchy to its core.

The 39-year-old, whose mother is Black and father is white, said she had been naive before she married into the family in 2018, but that she ended up having suicidal thoughts and considering self-harm after pleading for help but getting none.

She added that her son Archie, now aged one, had been denied the title of prince because there were concerns within the royal family about how dark his skin might be.

“They didn’t want him to be a prince,” Meghan said in an interview with Oprah Winfrey aired on CBS late on Sunday.

She said there had been “conversations about how dark his skin might be when he’s born.”

Meghan declined to say who had aired such concerns, as did Harry, who said his family had cut them off financially and that his father Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, had let him down and refused to take his calls at one point.

Buckingham Palace has yet to comment publicly on the interview, which aired in the early hours of Monday morning in Britain.

Meghan cast the British royal family as uncaring and mendacious; and accused Kate – the wife of her husband’s brother Prince William – of making her cry before her wedding.

While the family including Prince Charles came in for open criticism, neither Harry nor Meghan attacked Queen Elizabeth directly.

Still, Meghan said she had been silenced by “the Firm” – which Elizabeth heads – and that her pleas for help while in distress at racist reporting and her predicament had fallen on deaf ears.

“I just didn’t want to be alive any more. And that was a very clear and real and frightening constant thought. And I how he (Harry) just cradled me,” Meghan said, wiping away tears.

Harry and Meghan’s announcement in January, 2020, that they intended to step down from their royal roles plunged the family into crisis.

Last month, Buckingham Palace confirmed the split would be permanent, as the couple looks to forge an independent life in the United States.

Harry, 36, said they had stepped back from royal duties because of a lack of understanding and that he was worried about history repeating itself – a reference to the 1997 death of his mother Diana.

“I feel really let down,” Harry said of his father. “My family literally cut me off financially.”

Harry denied blindsiding Queen Elizabeth, his grandmother, with his decision to shun life within the monarchy, but added that his father stopped taking his calls at one point.

“I had three conversations with my grandmother, and two conversations with my father before he stopped taking my calls. And then he said, can you put this all in writing?”

Their detractors say the couple want the glamour of their privileged positions without the dedication it requires or scrutiny it brings.

To their ers, their treatment shows how an outdated British institution has lashed out against a modern, biracial woman, with undertones of racism.

There have also been allegations of bullying against Meghan which first appeared in The Times newspaper in the buildup to the couple’s appearance.

Buckingham Palace said it would investigate the claims, adding it was “very concerned.”

In response to the report, a spokeswoman for Meghan said she was “saddened by this latest attack on her character, particularly as someone who has been the target of bullying herself.”

Meghan told Winfrey that people within the royal institution not only failed to protect her against malicious claims but lied to protect others.

“It was only once we were married and everything started to really worsen that I came to understand that not only was I not being protected but that they were willing to lie to protect other of the family,” Meghan said.

“There’s the family, and then there’s the people that are running the institution, those are two separate things and it’s important to be able to compartmentalise that because the queen, for example, has always been wonderful to me.”

Meghan denied a newspaper story that she had made Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, cry before the wedding and said it was a turning point in her relations with the media.

Asked if she made Kate cry, Meghan replied: “The reverse happened.

“A few days before the wedding she (Kate) was upset about something, pertaining to yes the issue was correct about the flower girl dresses, and it made me cry. And it really hurt my feelings.”

Meghan said she had not realised what she was marrying into when she ed the British monarchy.

“I will say I went into it naively because I didn’t grow up knowing much about the royal family,” Meghan said.

She explained she was not being paid for the interview.

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Former Nigeria president, Goodluck Jonathan, has addressed speculation that he will run again for the position during the 2023 general elections.

According to him, it is all a speculation.

Jonathan stated this when he paid a condolence visit to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa at the Government House in Asaba, over the recent death of Sir Okorie Okowa.

He pledged to continue to serve God, humanity, Africa to the best of his ability.



Jonathan said, “On the rumour of my interest in the 2023 presidential election, it was mere speculation.



“I will continue to serve God, humanity, Africa, and the world to the best of my ability and with all sense of commitment and sincerity.”

Jonathan was president from 2010 to 2015, losing the presidential election in 2015 to the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari.

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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has commended Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi on his efforts in providing security, good governance, and infrastructure building in the state.

The Chief Press Secretary to Kogi governor, Mohammed Onogwu, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.

Onogwu, who quoted Obasanjo as making the commendation when he met with the governor on Sunday in Abuja, added that the former president urged him to sustain the efforts.



He stated that the meeting between Bello and the former president ended with fruitful discussion.



Obasanjo while commending Bello for successfully tackling insecurity in the state, said Kogi was central to the nation’s development.

He urged the governor to sustain his efforts in providing security for his state, noting that Kogi was central to the nation’s peace and development.

The former president noted that the fight against insecurity should have everybody on board, stressing that governors should involve everyone to ensure insecurity is curtailed in Nigeria.

Obasanjo appreciated the governor for his developmental efforts in the state especially in the areas of youth and women inclusion in politics and governance, infrastructure, health and education.



He further urged the governor to continue to be an advocate for youth involvement in governance.



Responding, Bello thanked the former president for his statesman’s role, fatherly disposition and wealth of wisdom which the young leaders are privileged to tap from.

The governor noted that though his state was surrounded by 10 other states and the FCT making it the nexus between the South and North, West and East of Nigeria, Kogi, one of the 19 Northern States, stands in stoic defence against criminal elements.

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The 317 kidnapped schoolgirls of Government Secondary School in Jangebe, Zamfara have been freed.

According to the Nation, the girls kidnapped at midnight Friday are now in the palace of the Emir of Anka for onward transportation to Gusau, the state capital.

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Nigeria’s Jihadist group, Boko Haram, has released a new video showing child terrorists undergoing religious and combat training in a camp.

The images, according to report on HumAngle, show relatively young children dressed in combat-style clothing and balaclava participating in martial arts training, weapon handling training and religious education class.


At least two instructors and one child, the report said, had what appeared to be the Zastava M21, likely captured from Cameroonian security forces.

The Zastava M21, built based on the Kalashnikov design, has appeared in previous pictures shared by Boko Haram factions or reported to have been recovered by security forces.



Some children were also shown holding different Kalashnikov pattern assault rifles with under folding, side-folding and fixed wooden stocks.


A section of the 16 minutes and 40 seconds video in Hausa and Arabic showed religious education and indoctrination sessions.

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Mass-kidnapping that has become a trend up Northern part of Nigeria is worrying and part of the Federal Government’s latest response unwittingly cast light on the root of the problem.

The Federal Government asserted, in his response to the trending abduction of school children, that “State Governments must review their policy of rewarding bandits with money and vehicles.

Such a policy, the FG added, may backfire with disastrous consequences.

“States and Local Governments must also play their part by being proactive in improving security in & around schools.”

Now, the very fact that state governments found it acceptable to reward kidnappers with cash and vehicles instead of intense police action and punishment for the act of murder and kidnapping, is problematic. Unfortunately, right now we are going to have to look at the way FG has asked the State and Local Governments to step up security within their space and ask exactly how this is supposed to be accomplished.

The Federal Government has reserved unto itself the right to own a police force. As far as the national constitution goes, the State Governments and the Local Government authorities don’t have a legal foundation that allows them to set up armed security organizations or even buy weapons.

There are no state police colleges.

The States that have set up security organizations have done so largely in defiance of the Federal Government and have political capital situations that let them get away with it and that’s why an Anambra state for example can’t have something like the Kano State Hisbah.

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Waist beads are a traditional African accessory that consists of small glass beads on a string or wire worn around the waist or hips.

Waist beads are popular across Africa, The Yoruba’s call it the “ileke” and they come in different colors and shapes and may also include decorative stones, and crystals.



The best thing about waist beads is how individual they are. You can wear as many strands of beads as you like; they’re a powerful means of self-expression.



Although some people may have some bias towards waist beads and grows suspicious at the sight of them on a woman’s waist because they deem it fetish, No thanks to the online vendors who keep promoting the belief. But here are some general reasons women put on a waist bead.

Body Ornament/ Beautification
Like many other accessories such as earrings, necklaces or bracelets that people wear on their bodies, a lot of women wear waist beads to beautify and adorn their body. Waist beads are simple accessory that can make a woman feel self aware, beautiful and grounded.

Weight control
Waist beads are used by women to keep track of their weight, most especially to keep track of the size of their waist. When weight is gained, the beads sit higher on the waist and feel tight. And with weight lose, the beads will feel loose and fall further down to the hips thus making waist bead a good gauge for weight control.



Sexual attraction
Some women wear waist beads because it adds to their femininity, it is believed to attract the opposite sex and that waist beads stir up deep emotional responses. Weed beads makes the female body beautiful and more attractive to her partner. Among the Ashante and Krobo cultures in Ghana, larger beads or bells are added to a woman’s waist beads once she’s fertile so she makes noise when she walks to alert potential suitors nearby.

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Foodstuff and cattle dealers across the Northern part of the country have started diverting their goods and all consumables to the neigbouring countries of Niger Republic and Cameroon.

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Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo Monday lamented the inability of Nigeria to leverage on the engineering and technological ingenuity that emanated from the defunct Republic of Biafra during the civil war.

He expressed the regret at a town hall meeting at the National Museum, Umuahia organised by the Ken Nnamani Centre for Leadership and Development to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of Nigeria civil war.

The vice-president noted that there was an attempt to harness the Biafra technology by establishing the Project Development Agency (PRODA), Enugu to replicate and improve on the Biafra technological feats exhibited during the war.

However, he said that the objective was not achieved but did not explain the reasons why PRODA was allowed to collapse.

Prof. Osinbajo, who was accompanied to the War Museum by the host governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma and Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Mr. Uche Ogah, harped on the need to forge national unity and cohesion.

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The family of Christian teenage schoolgirl Leah Sharibu, abducted by Boko Haram terrorists in 2018, has described reports that she had a baby boy in captivity as a rumour.

A senior lecturer at the Department of Political Science, University of Jos, Dr. Gloria Puldu, who speaks for the family, also told the Punch Saturday that all they wanted was to have Leah home alive, with or without a baby.

It was earlier reported according to sources close to Boko Haram that Leah had a baby for a commander of the Islamists terrorists in Niger Republic and that she would have been released some months ago but for her pregnancy.

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The Guninea-Bissau is seeking assistance from Nigeria in rice production to enable the foreign nation to meet its food sufficiency, food security and nutrition targets.

This was made public at the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s headquarters in Abuja when the Minister Sabo Nanono, received the Guinean Ambassador to Nigeria, Henrique Adriano Da Silva.

Da Silva, according to a statement from the FMARD, was at the ministry alongside the Country Representative of the Food and Agricultural Organisation, Suffyan Koroma.

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Elder Statesman, Tanko Yakasai, has said that the Southwest security network, code-named, ‘Operation Amotekun’, is a private army in the making.

The founding member of Arewa Consultative Forum, in an interview with Sunnews, urged the Yoruba to drop the security outfit and embrace the federal government’s initiative on national security.

He warned that the idea is capable of encouraging the secession agenda of some elements in the Southwest, Southeast and South- South geo-political areas of the country. He equally warned Amotekun operatives and those promoting them not to dare the nation’s security forces.

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Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has lashed out at the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Buhari, Femi Adesina, over the statement he issued in defence of President Muhammadu Buhari on the eventual beheading of Rev Lawan Andimi, Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Michika Local Government, Adamawa State by Boko Haram.

He had been abducted by terrorists earlier this month.

Femi Adeshina had issued a statement on Friday after CAN, in its condolence message after Lawan Andimi’s decapitation challenged the president to purge himself of the allegations of nepotism and religious favoritism.

Adesina had said the statement by CAN on the death of Andimi is hint that the leadership of the Christian body still harbors some of the old narratives that have been discredited, and from which majority of people have purged themselves, except the willfully irredeemable.
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Apostle Suleman Johnson, a Nigerian televangelist and the senior pastor and general overseer of Omega Fire Ministries International has dragged an aide to Muhammadu Buhari, Femi Adesina for lambasting the Christian Association of Nigeria(CAN) of mixing bias and sympathy” following the recent beheading of Reverend Lawan Andimi, the Chairman of CAN in Michika Local government area of Adamawa state by Boko Haram insurgents.

Adesina in a post on his Facebook page on Friday accused CAN of painting Buhari as an ”anti-christian” stating that “security is number one on the priorities of the Buhari istration”.

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Nigerian workers and contract staff of Samsung Heavy Industries Mega Construction and Integration Free Zone Enterprise, Nigeria (SHI-MCI FZE) protesting over the ill-treatment and little or no welfare packages they get from their Korean employers, have been asked by the company to sign an agreement before they are ferried to the site at Total Egina FPSO project for resumption of work.

The workers who listed their demands during the protest, which lasted from Tuesday to better part of Friday were shocked that they were prevented from boarding the boat at the early hour of Monday, Feb 19, until an agreement is signed with the management, which includes the 1% annual increment on their salary, without risk allowance contrary to the initial agreement before they resume work.

Speaking with our reporter at the point of convergence, Kirikiri jetty at Apapa, Lagos, the workers pointed out and agreed to the risky and demanding nature of the job, but at the management over the exclusion of the risk allowance and other benefits which the management agreed to before they left the site after the protest.

The workers who refused to sign the new agreement placed before them are still at the Kirikiri jetty, while others are at Masha jetty in Keffi Awolowo.

One of the workers who refused to be named for security reasons said everything about the job is risky, including the everyday ride on a boat to the site, climbing module, the radiograph testing and hydro testing, and so deserve better pay and treatment form their employer.

"We have been stopped from boarding the boat until we sign the agreement, which is not in anyway favourable to us, the Nigerian workers, Nigerian authorities need to look into this," one of the workers said.

After embarking on almost 82 hours protest the employers reached an agreement with the workers that their demands will be met after 2 weeks and also agreeing that no worker will be sacked on the basis of the protest.

Hence, the workers agreed to return to work but were shocked by the recent development.

Attempt to reach the management of the company was to no avail, as none of the management was ready to speak with the press at press time.

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Nigerian workers and contract staff of Samsung Heavy Industries Mega Construction and Integration Free Zone Enterprise, Nigeria (SHI-MCI FZE) have downed tools at the Total Egina FPSO project, which they are currently working on, over an alleged ill-treatment and little or no welfare packages they get from their Korean employers.

Some of the workers, according to report gathered, have been working on the site since the Total Egina FPSO project kicked off in 2014.

The Egina FPSO (Floating Production, Storage, and Offloading Unit) project is ranked one of the biggest FPSO project in the world with an estimated storage capacity of over 2.3million barrels of crude oil and a daily production capacity of over 200 thousand barrel of crude.

According to a worker who preferred to remain anonymous for security reasons said it is quite unfortunate how they, Nigerian workers are being victimized and maltreated by foreigners in their own country.

Such issue could be overlooked if a Nigerian is ill-treated abroad, but not in Nigeria, he said.

He further called on Nigerian authorities to see to the matter of the injustice done to us (Nigerian workers), as foreigners in Nigeria are oppressing them, while no one is doing anything about it.

A worker who also refused to be named quoted the contract signed with the Nigerian Local Content Law that the ratio of workers ought to be 10 Nigerians to two Koreans, but in SHI-MCI nothing of such, as the ratio of Nigerians to Koreans are almost the same. Due to this, some Koreans are hidden in a container to reduce their number anytime dignitaries like ministers or senators visit the site, so that the visitors don't know the Koreans flooded the yard.

According to the protesting workers, what led to the recent protest is that the present Koreans who head the company for the project refused to give workers who have worked on the project payoff before they are discharged, which is the normal practice in projects. This is not the case with any of the Korean workers in the same project, as they are said to be well paid and also enjoy other benefits, which the Nigerian workers are denied.

It was also alleged that the Koreans at the Production and management level head all the department/disciplines as the Nigerian workers are usually reminded by the Koreans that they (Koreans) come first before Nigerians.

However, all Nigerians, including graduates, masters holders and skilled workers are rated below the least Korean, irrespective of their skills or qualification, who are in most cases barely educated and can not communicate in English, the official language for the project. The Nigerians are said to carry out all the hard labours and the Koreans are meant to give instructions that the workers are expected to follow even if it means carrying out the task that could harm them.

One of the workers said that they were instructed to refer to the Koreans as master.

The protesting workers also highlighted other reasons for their grievances, including the salary and entitlements, which they said the margin between the Nigerians’ and Koreans’ is incomparable. The workers are paid meager, despite the risk of going to work via boat, as the work site is located Ladol Free Zone an island in the middle of the sea. The Koreans receive milestone bonuses and the Nigerians that do the hard labour don’t.

The Koreans are reportedly chauffeured from their accommodation to the work base and with meals three times daily. They are also paid monthly stipend and entitled to airtime for their phones, aside their monthly salary, the Nigerians are left to find their ways to the jetty point regardless of where they are coming from and are expected to be in the work yard on or before 7:30 am in other to attend toolbox talk, as late coming attracts query (warning letter) and subsequently dismissal.

There are also no welfare packages for the Nigerian staff at the Samsung Heavy Industries. The Koreans maltreat and abuse the Nigerians physically, which when any of the Nigerian staff attempt to speak against could lead to a sack.

The Koreans have their separate canteen from the Nigerians, where all they need are made available for them, while the Nigerian's are served in an unhealthy manner. And because of the poor hygiene and the poor quality of food, a lot of Nigerians don't bother to go for lunch. The boat situation is such that the Nigerians struggle to leave the work site early after work because of the unavailability of a boat. Some of the Nigerians even stay at the jetty till 7 pm after the close of work waiting for a boat to take them out of the base and finally get home as late as 10 pm because of traffic situation whereas the Koreans are already well rested in their accommodation and dinner already awaiting them. And most of the  Nigerians are up again by 4 am the next day to continue the daily routine. 


One of the staff said that "I understand that this is the price to pay for having a job, but my grievances are why don't the Koreans even want to make little efforts to alleviate the suffering of their Nigerian staff. They can afford to get staff buses to different locations for the Nigerians like they do for the Koreans and like other companies do, but they don't even care. 


"The same company gives 6months maternity leave to their female workers in Korea but here in Nigeria you are entitled to only 3 months maternity leave and after that, you are not expected to go for any kind of leave, whether annual or sick leave," a female staff said.


A female staff whose job is majorly in the office talked on the payoff, saying that, "Normal practice in the same sector is that at the end of the project there should be payoff for all the staff and one will think that a project of this magnitude the payoff is going to be mind-blowing, but unfortunately, the Nigerians are not entitled to payoffs while the Koreans are. 


"All these and more inhumane treatment melted on the Nigerians have caused them to cry out today in a peaceful protest at the work site," she said.


The workers hence called on the Koreans and all the Nigerians representative and those in authority, including The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC to look into all the issues, so as to see to the end of maltreatment melted on the Nigerian workers, especially in foreign-owned companies.

Attempt to speak with Ikechkwu Ugbaja, the Human Resource Manager of the company, proved abortive as he refused to talk with the press, saying, “this was not the best time to talk, I am in a meeting at the moment”.  His number was switched off at the second attempt after two hours.

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