Imo State Government has finally put to rest the problems of arrears of pensions as all pensioners in the state have been automated and pensions paid now as at when due.
Imo state chief of staff Nnamdi Anyaehie disclosed this while interacting with Imo based Newspaper publishers in his office, at the Government House.
According to Anyaehie, the state Government has cleared all the arrears of pensions in Imo pointing out that those who have not received their pensions are the ones that have not assessed theirs or those who with one problem or the other.
This is even as he frowned at the fraudulent attitude of the pensioners who according to him retired in the education sector and worked their way to Health, where they receive higher pensions at the detriment of the state Government.
Some of the pensioners who relatives of the publishers who were called confirmed that indeed, they had received their pensions.
The confirmation of the pensioners before the Imo publishers however confirmed Bishop Obinna’s thank-you message to Uzodinma last Sunday when he during the eucharis said that some pensioners and civil servants informed him that they had received some months of arrears of pensions and salaries.
Bishop Obinna, who at the said mass, described Uzodinma as a man of his words, however, blamed civil servants for causing a delay in the ongoing verification exercise.
Speaking with publishers at the said meeting, Anyaehie while describing Uzodinma as a man who is ever prepared to move the state to an enviable height, challenged any pensioner owed to come up with evidence pointing out that all have been paid.
He further used the medium to appeal with publishers who he described as stakeholders in Imo to assist the State Government by ensuring that only the truth is reported while assuring to work with them.
Police command in Kano has affirmed the arrest of a 20-year-old housewife, Suwaiba Shuaibu, for purportedly stabbing one Aisha Kabirto death few days to her wedding.
Aisha was said to have
accepted a proposal for union with Malam Shahrehu Alhaji Ali, the spouse of the suspect, before her abhorrent
homicide by her to-be co-wife on
January 1 at Gimawa village, Doguwa Local Government Area of Kano State.
The spokesman, Kano
police command, DSP Abdullahion Haruna Kiyawa, who affirmed
the incident in a statement issued early Tuesday,
said the deceased was pronounced missing on January 1st and her corpse was found the next day in an uncompleted building within her
neighbourhood.
According to the statement; “On 02/01/2021, at about 1030hrs, a complaint was received from one Kabiru Jafaru, ‘m,’ of Gimawa Village, Doguwa LGA of Kano State, that the body of his 17-year-old daughter, Aisha Kabir, ‘f,’ who got missing on 01/01/2021 was found in an uncompleted building in their area of residence.
“The complainant said the casualty
was suspected to have been stabbed on her neck by
her killer(s).
“After getting the grievance, the scene was
visited and the body was evacuated to
Tudun Wada General Hospital for assessment by a Medical Doctor.
“The Commissioner of
Police Kano State Command, CP Habu A. Sani, psc further raised and
instructed a team of detectives, led by Divisional Police Officer Doguwa,
CSP Bala Shuaibu, to capture the culprit(s).
“The team promptly
got the ball rolling and apprehended
one Suwaiba Shuaibu, ‘f,’ 20 years old, of the same address with the complainant,
who is a second wife to one Shahrehu Alhaji Ali, ‘m,’ also of a similar
location.
“Investigations revealed
the deceased and the husband of the suspect have been in proposed relationship
for over six years and they were to tie the nuptial knot on 9th January, 2021.
Kiyawa said during
interrogation, the suspect uninhibitedly admitted that; “she had called the casualty
on phone, tricked and lured her to an uncompleted building in their
neighborhood where she used a sharp knife to stab her on her neck, chest and
other parts of her body.
“She revealed
she murdered the victim out of jealousy, because her husband
proposed to wed her.”
He said the case has been transferred to the Command’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Homicide Section, for discrete investigation, adding that the suspect will be charged to court once the investigation is completed.
A formal split between Kim Kardashian West and Kanye
West might be quick drawing closer, a source discloses to PEOPLE magazine.
As indicated by the source, the stars, who got married
in May 2014, have “totally” quit going to marriage counselling. A
different insider had revealed to PEOPLE recently that the couple was in
conjugal treatment with an end goal to rescue their cracked relationship.
“He is conversing with divorce lawyers this week,”
the source adds of the 43-year-old Grammy champ.
Delegates of Kardashian and West have not reacted to
demands for comment.
The news comes under about fourteen days after various sources had said that the Keeping Up with The Kardashians star, 40, plans to seek legal separation from West and has been working with a prominent divorce attorney, Laura Wasser.
“They are only not in the same spot with regards to their future as a family and Kim approves of it,” an insider uncovered.
Kardashian and West offer little girls North, 7, and
Chicago, 3, and children Saint, 5, and Psalm, who turns 2 in May. As the truth
star pursues her law degree and keeps on battling for criminal equity reform,
she needs to maintain her focus on her youngsters and her vocation career
“Kim understands how she needs to manage her
life. She needs to continue to live in L.A., make the best life for the
children and focus on her work interests,” said the insider
As indicated by sources, following almost seven years
of marriage, Kardashian feels her future doesn’t line up with West’s,
particularly following his 2020 presidential run and questionable Twitter rants.
“Kim has gotten freer and has become upset with his
antics, rants, the presidential campaign and tweets. The romantic tale between
Kim and Kanye has been over for quite a while. They adored each other but have an
excessive number of differences,” a TV industry source said
The Senator representing Imo West and former governor of Imo State, Chief Rochas Okorocha, on Monday took a swipe at the All Progressives Congress, saying the party was formed in a hurry with the motive of hijacking power from the Peoples Democratic Party in 2015.
Okorocha,
in an interview with journalists in Abuja, said he and other politicians who
are progress-minded were perfecting a plan to form a new political party.
But
the PDP pleaded with the former governor to return to the opposition party
instead of going the wrong way as he did in 2014.
According
to the Ex-governor, the body language of the Nigerians, speaks volume of the
fact that they are not pleased with what is going on in Nigeria.
The Senator who is a founding member of the All Progressive Congress (APC), last week launched a project of the Rivers State Government on the invitation of the state Governor, Nyesom Wike.
At the event, he beckoned on the good people in the APC and the PDP to come together and rescue the nation in 2023.
On
Monday he said there was a pressing need for the regrouping of the ‘good
politicians’ to bring back restore public confidence in governance and remedy
the country.
“The
movement for a new Nigeria has commenced and we must come join forces, I mean progressive
Nigerians, to make the country work”, Okorocha stated.
Asked
if the promise of the new political movement for a new Nigeria would not be in
like manner to that of the APC in 2015, he stated that the APC was formed in a
hurry in order to take power from the PDP without much emphasis on the
character of those leading the movement.
The ex-governor said, “The APC was a hasty arrangement. It was hurriedly set up to take power when the then government was drifting. The APC would have been better until individuals who were not its members; individuals who came for congratulatory messages, hijacked the party and became lords.”
In
PDP’s reaction to this, it said it was not a part of those worried by the plan
by Okorocha and a few of his friends to form a new political party.
National Publicity Secretary of the party, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a telephone interview with a correspondent, in Abuja, on Monday, explained that the PDP was happy that more Nigerians especially individuals like the former Imo State governor had seen the deceit the APC represented.
Ologbondiyan
said, “Our advice to people like Okorocha is for him to say no to making the
same mistake more than once, any party hastily put together like the APC
because of the polls are bound to be victims of the same errors.
“He
should instead come over to the PDP, a party structured properly with a
pedigree of performance. We’ve made some mistakes before now and we’ve learnt our
lessons. Nigerians now know the disparity between a well-structured political
party which is very much concerned about them and an association of unhappy men
who only formed group to grab power for power sake.”
When reached out to, the National Secretary of the Caretaker/ Extra-Ordinary Convention Planning Committee of the APC, Senator John Akpan Udoedeghe, turned down comments on Okorocha’s pronouncement on plans to float a new political party.
He
stated, “The Senator is an honored member of our great party, I have nothing to
say.”
Be
that as it may, a high-ranking member of the APC who is closely familiar with
the thinking within the party leadership said the party did not accommodate any
fears.
The
source stated, “Politics is a game of numbers as much as it is a game of
interests. So, if a number of individuals want to converge and go through the
process of birthing a new political party, can anyone succeed in stopping them.”