BSc degree, HIV test required to join Ogun Amotekun corps

 

As the Ogun State Government begins recruitment of officers for its Amotekun corps, interested applicants are to meet some requirements to be qualified for the job.

DAILY POST reports that the requirements were seen in the state’s job portal.

The state government said that a BSc degree or its equivalent is required for those applying for the ranks of AMT Asst. Commander of Corps, AMT Asst. Supt. of Corps and AMT Supt of Corps.

In the same vein, those applying as AMT Field Corps (Operatives) must be Primary Leaving Certificate holders or local vigilantes, hunters and others with the ability to read and write.

It was gathered that NCE, ND or similar qualifications are required to be AMT Inspector of Corps.

Aside from academic qualifications, applicants for the rank of AMT Asst. Supt. of Corps should preferably be ex-servicemen with the minimum rank of full Lieutenant in the Army and/or its equivalent in other security agencies.

AMT Supt of Corps are required to be ex-servicemen with minimum rank of Captain in the Army and/or its equivalent in other Security Agencies.

Likewise, AMT Asst. Commander of Corps must be an Ex-Servicemen with the minimum rank of Chief Superintendent of Police and its equivalent in the Military and other Security services.

It was said that applicants must be between the ages of 18 and 50 (Except for hunters).

They must pass an Oral Board Interview and must have valid birth certificates or declaration of age.

An Ogun Amotekun corps officer must be physically fit and must not have any form of physical deformity.

As a result, there will be medical examination – HIV test, TB test, Blood test, X-ray and other necessary tests.

Also required are letters of recommendation from two guarantors, one traditional ruler or a notable person from the applicant’s community as well as an attestation by the applicant’s Local Government (Acting) Chairman or Secretary.

DAILY POST reports that the application closes on Friday, February 19.

- DAILY POST

FG’s meeting with SSANU, NASU ends in deadlock

 The meeting between the Federal Government and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU), has ended in a deadlock.

It is the second meeting that the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige is holding with the striking university workers, in an attempt to resolve the issues leading to the labour unrest in the universities.

At the beginning of the meeting, the minister lampooned the two unions, describing their industrial action as illegal and unknown to labour laws.

He said: “You asked for an adjournment, we gave an adjournment and you used the period of adjournment to go on full-blown strike. That is not right. It is not social dialoguing.

“It is against ILO statutes. The ILO statute says you have a right to go on strike and your employer has a right not to pay you and use the same money to keep the enterprise going.

“A lot of water went under the ground and I asked our ministry to write you officially and let you know that what you did is not in conformity with the Trade Dispute norms and as in our labour laws. You have replied too and the Permanent Secretary has brought to my attention your reply and I am not very happy about it.

“Example of why I am not happy is that you were given instances that ASUU while on this table, declared strike. You don’t use a bad example to showcase what is the norm.

“Why should you as a union that is labour-friendly and has experienced people in trade dispute management, toe that line?

“You want me to start applying to Mr President for a compassionate waiver against Section 43 of the Trade Dispute Act. That is not fair.

“We are permitted by Law to stop payment of wages during the period of the strike. It is in the labour laws. I didn’t make the law and President Buhari didn’t make the law. These are laws we made here in 2004, ‘the Trade Dispute act’.

“That is why I am insistent that no matter what happens today, I must do this conciliation with you. But if you opt out, there are options left for me. I can transfer this conciliation.

“There are levels. I can transfer to National Industrial Court suo moto (direct) or Industrial Arbitration Panel. That is the second level.

“But if you come here for conciliation, don’t take me for a ride. Don’t take the conciliator for a ride at any level because we don’t have judicial powers like IAP or NIC. But this is our first level of conciliation and the rules of conciliation must be observed by all. The rule must be observed by all and that rule is that if there is an apprehension following your notice, you finish the discussion.

“At our last meeting we had a 7-point agenda, we discussed two of them and you asked for an adjournment to come back to negotiation table.

“That adjournment is not a period for you to go on strike. I want us to finish the rest if you wish. If don’t wish, then I refer you to IAP or NIC. When you finish, the judgment will be transmitted for me for execution.”

General Secretary of NASU, Peter Adeyemi, said that the unions repose their confidence in him.

Adeyemi said the unions have supported the government and they should not be compensated with the denial of the rights of their members.

“How do you explain that you gave N40 billion to a sector and N10 billion was given to three unions. You cannot beat us and tell us not to cry,” he told the Minister.

At the first meeting with the Federal Government last Tuesday, the striking university workers said the government had failed to address their critical demands, which included unpaid earned allowances of members, delisting of members from the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS) and the arrears of the new minimum wage.

The joint action committee of SSANU and NASU had on Friday last week directed all their members to down tools pending when these demands are met.

- PM NEWS

UNN lecturer arrested for allegedly impregnating, threatening student

 

A senior lecturer at the Archeology Department of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, has been arrested by the police for allegedly impregnating a student and going ahead to threaten her life.

The lecturer, Dr. Chigozie Odum, was alleged to have put the female student, Onah Chinyere in a family way after coercing her into a sexual intercourse.

DAILY POST gathered that following a petition from the family lawyer of the female student, men of the Crack Squad, Enugu State Police Command picked the lecturer up in Nsukka from where he was moved to Enugu.

According to the petition, “It is our client’s instruction that she has been a student in the Archeology and Tourism Department, Faculty of Arts, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

“According to her instructions, Dr. Odum Chigozie Jude is one of the lecturers in the said department.

“Our brief further showed that the said Dr. Odum Jude went and approached our client and demanded to be sleeping with her and threatened our client that if she refuses, she will never graduate from the said department.

“He further threatened her that he was a cultist while in school and that up till today he still has a good number of them under his payroll. He, therefore, warned our client to comply with his demands and requests in her own interest.

“Our information further showed that he called our client to his house and forcefully had sexual intercourse with her,” the petition signed by Barr. F. C. Ugwuama read.

Meanwhile, the lawyer at a press briefing disclosed that though the family had written to the authorities of the UNN over the matter, they were yet to get any response.

DAILY POST learnt that though the petition was copied to the UNN VC, the HOD of the lecturer’s department, as well as Servicom, there was no response until the ultimatum given by the family elapsed. This was said to have prompted the petition to the police.

A source claimed that the UNN authority was shielding the lecturer, an indigene of Anambra State.

Ugwuama added that “We will also go for civil claims to ensure that this girl’s rights are remedied. He is trying to claim the child by force, threatening every member of the family, but we are not going to let that happen.”

As of the time of filing this report, it was gathered that there is continuous pressure on the female student, as well as her family to drop the matter.

The family and the lecturer, as well as his lawyer, have also held a series of meetings with the police, but DAILY POST is yet to know the outcome.

But when contacted by journalists, the embattled lecturer claimed unaware of any petition against him.

The conversation went thus: “Hello Dr…good evening Sir…(he coughs repeatedly). It’s like you are having a cough, sorry.

Lecturer: Yes

Journalist: I have actually called severally in the afternoon, but you did not pick your call.

Lecturer, Yes, ok, arapuru m phone m n’uno we je school so, I used the other one (I left my phone at home and went to school, I used the other one).

Journalist: There is an issue I want to confirm from you. Can we continue?

Lecturer: yes, proceed.

Journalist: There is an allegation against your person over sexual misconduct. I hope I am speaking with Dr. Chigozie

Lecturer: yes, ok

Journalist: There is an issue before us, I want to get your own reaction. You are a lecturer and there are allegations of sexual misconduct against you.

Lecturer: I’m not aware of it. I am not aware of such matter.

Journalist: But we were together at crack squad yesterday, and we saw you with your lawyer, you cannot say that you are not aware of it.

Lecturer: You asked me a question and I responded, so I don’t know.

Journalist: I said I was at the crack squad yesterday, it is just about the confirmation of the true nature of it.

Lecturer: That is what I am saying, I am not aware of anything of such please, I am not.

Journalist: Ok, who sent the lawyer that represented you?

Lecturer: Aaa, crosscheck the number please, check your facts well, I have not heard this. I don’t know about this please.

Journalist: But I asked whether you are the lecturer, Chigozie, you said yes, and I am telling you…

Lecturer: You asked me a question, is it so so and so name, I said yes, but I am not aware of what you are saying. Don’t be offended please, I have not heard about it, ok.

Journalist: But your lawyer was there at the police, who sent him?

Lecturer: Ends the call abruptly…

- DAILY POST

LAND OF MADNESS !!! Pantami: NIN mandatory for bank account opening, voter registration

 

Isa Pantami, minister of communications and digital economy, says the national identification number (NIN) is compulsory for transactions such as bank account opening, payment of taxes and voter registration.

Speaking in Abuja on Thursday, he said the government is determined to ensure that all citizens have NIN.

Pantami quoted section 27 of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) act as stating that benefitting from government services as a citizen without NIN is an offence punishable by imprisonment.

“This is most important in the area of NIN, which is a mandatory number, based on the NIMC order of 2007 that has actively been neglected for years, ” he said.

“It is key to our national planning, budget, security, social development and many more. But it was neglected despite being a mandatory number.

“So we’ve come up with so many policies trying to ensure that our citizens obtain the number. It is important beyond SIM registration. It is important for whatever you do because it is the primary identity of our citizens.

“There’s no identity that will define you as a citizen more than that number. It is mandatory. And it is mandatory for transactions such as opening bank accounts, paying tax, voter registration and many more.”

The minister had said the government may replace the bank verification number (BVN) with the NIN.

There is currently an April 6 deadline for all telecommunication network subscribers to link their SIM cards with their NIN or get disconnected.

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) recently announced that the NIN is compulsory for all categories of vehicle registration.

- THECABLE

MAD MAN !!! Bauchi Governor defends Ak-47 carrying Fulani herdsmen, blasts Ortom, others

 

Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, has said Fulani herdsmen who have been indicted in criminal activities across the country have no option but to carry arms because of the insecurity they are confronted with in the course of herding their cattle through forests in Nigeria.

According to the Governor Fulani herders carry AK-47 for self-defence because they are being attacked by cattle rustlers.

He spoke at the closing ceremony of the 2021 Press Week of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Bauchi State Council on Thursday

Aside defending the rights of Fulani herdsmen to carry weapons, Mohammed also condemned the attitude of Samuel Ortom, his Benue State counterpart and some governors in the southern states over their handling of the issues of criminality and farmers/ herders conflict.

The Governor added that the forests in Nigeria belong to everybody and not a particular tribe in an obevious refrnce to the order given by Governor Rotimi Akeredolu to herders to vacate Ondo forest reserves some weeks ago.

He said, “The Fulani man is practicing the tradition of trans-human, pastoralism, he has been exposed to the dangers of the forests, the animals, and now, the cattle rustlers, who carry guns, kill him and take away his commonwealth, his cows, he had no option than to carry Ak-47 and defend himself because the society and the government are not protecting him.

“It is not his fault, it is the fault of the government and the people; you don’t criminalise all of them because in every tribe there are criminals. You should be very sensitive.”

“On the herders-farmers clashes, you have seen what our colleagues in the South-West are doing and some of them in South-East. Some of us told them with all modesty and humility – you are wrong.

“But the person that is most wrong is the Governor of Benue State, my brother and my colleague, Governor (Samuel) Ortom; he started all these. If you don’t accommodate other tribes we are also accommodating your people in Bauchi and other places.

“We have so many Tiv people working and farming in Alkaleri, farming in Tafawa Balewa, farming in Bogoro Local Government Area of Bauchi; has anyone asked them to go? We have not, because it is their constitutional rights to be there.

“We have Yoruba people in Bauchi for over 150 years, even before the birth of Nigeria. Nobody has told them to go; some of them have risen to become permanent secretaries in Bauchi, Gombe and Borno.

- PM NEWS

Insecurity: We will rake, profile everyone in our forest – Osun Govt

 

The Osun State government has given a matching order to the Western Nigeria Security Network, codenamed “Amotekun” to stop any act of criminality in all the forests across the State.

Some of the government officials, who spoke exclusively with DAILY POST on Thursday, maintained that the State would deal with criminal elements generally and not a particular ethnic extraction.

DAILY POST reports that there have been incessant kidnappings in the State. Not long ago, three Chinese expatriates were abducted. They regained freedom after a week.

Another six passengers and the driver of a Toyota Sienna bus were on Monday, kidnapped along Ilesa- Akure expressway. Three persons escaped from the abductors, while the rest are still in the captives of the kidnappers.

In an exclusive interview with DAILY POST on Thursday, the commander of Amotekun in the State, Comrade Amitolu Shittu said that the Governor of Osun State, Gboyega Oyetola yesterday summoned him and the Special Adviser to the Governor on Security over the incessant kidnapping.

He noted that the governor during the meeting on Wednesday gave the marching order to stop banditry and kidnapping in the State.

Omitolu disclosed that Amotekun will rake the Osun forest and sweep it from end to end in search of the hoodlums penetrating evil in the district.

He added that the State government will profile all the herdsmen in the forest, saying all Nigerians have the constitutional right to leave anywhere in the nation.

“Governor Gboyega Oyetola is passionate about the security of the people. We cannot go against the constitution of Nigeria which allows any citizen to leave anywhere in the country. He said, whoever has a lawful business running in the State, wherever they are from will be protected. And I don’t think the criminals have liberty under the law.

“The Special Adviser on security to the governor, Abiodun Ige, has set up a Joint Task Force in the border to stop kidnapping, banditry and all other crimes.

“There is no ethnic colouration to crime, crime is crime. Anybody who commits crime will be dealt with no matter where you come from,” he said.

- DAILY POST

FULANI TERRORIST !! ‘Herders’ kill two, set Amotekun vehicle ablaze in Ondo

 

At least two people lost their lives on Thursday when suspected herders attacked operatives of the Ondo State Security Network Agency, also known as Amotekun Corps.

The incident occurred at Ago Sanusi, along Ute Road, Owo local government area (LGA) of the state.

TheCable gathered that a farmer whose name was given as Lanre had earlier been abducted by the suspected herders and his corpse was later found with his right and left hands cut off.

After discovering Lanre’s corpse, farmers in the area called on Amotekun operatives for intervention.

Operatives of the security outfit got to the scene and were also attacked by the suspected herdsmen.

A source told TheCable that a member of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria who joined the Amotekun in the operation was shot in the head.

Also, the head of operations of security outfit in Owo, identified as Oluwasesan Adebayo, was reported missing after the attack.

Adebayo Ayeni, public relations officer of the Amotekun Corps, confirmed the incident in a statement.

He said: “Men of Ondo State Security Network Agency has again made another major breakthrough in their strive to get rid of criminal elements in Ondo State.

“This cartel were piling up arms and ammunition to invade the entire state while masquerading as herders and using the forest as kidnappers den for negotiation and ransom, illegal mining activities and cultivation of Indian hemp.

“The security outfits in conjunction with the police, the army and other security agencies in the state however smoked them out of the forest, after it was discovered that the bandits had killed a farmer and a member of the vigilante group in the area.

“They also went to the village where an Amotekun vehicle was parked and set it ablaze.”

- THECABLE