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Commercial Activities Grounded In Benin As Pensioner Protest, Demand Payment Of Gratuities

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Pensioners in their hundreds on Wednesday took over the Benin City Centre popularly called Ring Road to protest the non-payment of their gratuities since they retired from active service.

The protest led to heavy gridlock in the City centre and major adjoining roads.

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Dressed in all black attire, the senior citizens said the current administration did not continue the payment of their gratuities from 2012 where the last administration of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole stopped.

INFO DAILY reports that the Oshiomhole government started the payment of gratuities from 1998 till 2012 as at the time he left office in 2016.

Speaking on behalf of the protesters, Amadin Okoro said: “We are aggrieved; a lot of us are dying. A lot of us are not well, many of them are supposed to go for operations, no money. Besides gratuity, local government retirees are owed arrears and their gratuities since 2008. But for the state, it has not paid since 2012 till date.

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“Our appeal to the governor is that he should pay us so that we can enjoy the fruits of our labour, which we suffered for 35 years.

“In fairness we receive our pensions monthly but the crux of the matter is our gratuity.”

Another protester, Esther Ehigie said she retired in 2012, adding that she and others were screened and invited for a meeting in 2017 where the authority for payment which is called yellow paper was collected from them but their money was not paid.

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Reacting to the development, the Commissioner for Communication and Orientation, Chris Nehikhare said the government of Governor Godwin Obaseki has been paying the gratuities of all those who have retired since he became governor and that provision has already been made to clear the backlog.

He said: “We have gone very far to tackle the backlog, we made promises to the pensioners that they we will be paid their arrears, which we have done. We made promise that they will get their pensions as at when due, that we have done, the third leg of that is to clear the gratuity arrears, which is a huge sum of money, we have a plan in place which is coming to fruition, in the 2023 budget.

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“We made provision to clear some of these gratuities and those pensioners have been put in batches so that they can be paid and very soon this will be effected.

“We implore our pensioners to exercise more patience and restraint while the issues are being sorted out.”

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I Will Not Move Out Of My Husband’s House, Divorced Woman Tells Court

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A mother of six, Latinate Sanusi, has told a Shari’a court in Magajin Gari, Kaduna, Kaduna State, that she cannot leave her former husband’s house after three pronouncement of divorce.

Latinate stated this in response to Abdulrazak Yunusa’s prayer to confirm the three pronouncement of divorce he made to her and compel her to leave his house.

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“My children are all girls and I intend to stay so that I can take care of them; after all he does not provide most of their needs,” she said.

READ ALSO:‘I Found Out That My Husband Was A Cultist, Drug Addict One Month Into Our Marriage’

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the complainant told the court that he takes care of his family adding that he divorced her because she was not submissive.

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The judge, Malam Kabir Muhammad after listening to both parties confirmed the three pronouncement of divorce between the couple.

He explained that there was no marriage between the couple until the woman remarries.

What is before me is a suit on confirmation of divorce; the issue of children custody can be filed as a fresh case,” he said.

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Court Dissolves Marriage On Couple’s Agreement

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An Area Court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State, has dissolved the Islamic marriage between one Mujidat Abdullahi and Muyideen Raji based on mutual agreement.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the presiding judge, Toyin Aluko, in his ruling said that the husband sent a letter to the court, saying that he has agreed to the divorce application of his wife.

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Aluko said that since the two parties have agreed to divorce, there was no need to prolong the case.

He added that marriage should not be forced on anyone.

Aluko, therefore, dissolved their marriage and awarded custody of the only child of their marriage to the wife, due to the child’s young age.

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The court ordered that the woman should observe the iddah (waiting) period before she could remarry again.

It also ordered that a copy of the ruling be made available to the husband.

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Raji was ordered to pay the sum of N10,000 monthly for the child’s feeding and upkeep.

He was also granted the opportunity to have unlimited access to the child, but at a reasonable time.

Earlier, the wife had told the court that she was tired of the marriage due to lack of love and care, adding that she wanted divorce.

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My Ex-wife Wants To Kill Me, Man Cries To Court

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A businessman, Abdulrazak Yunusa on Monday dragged his former wife, Latifat Sanusi, before a Sharia court sitting at Magajin Gari, Kaduna State, alleging that she is threatening to kill him.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the counsel to Yunusa, Faham Ahmad, told the court that she threatened to stab him.

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She sometimes threatens my client with a pestle. I am afraid she wants to kill him”, he said.

READ ALSO:My Wife Arrested Me With Amotekun ‘For Owing Bank N500,000’ —Husband

He requested an order mandating Latifat to go back to her parent’s house pending when the case was finalised.

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On her part, the accused denied the claim, saying she had no intention of killing the father of her children.

The judge, Malam Muhammad Kabir, referred the case to the police for investigation and adjourned the case.

 

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