The
Executive Chairman Cross River State Universal Basic Education Board,
Dr Stephen Odey locked out staff of the State Universal Basic Education
Board (SUBEB) for coming late to work today, Friday 28th July 2017.
Expressing
his disappointment Dr Odey said he was displeased with the attitude of
staff towards work and that the action was to instill discipline among
staff and ensure quick service delivery to all stakeholders “I was
not impressed when I got here by 8 o’clock and most offices were locked,
nobody should force us to do our work. People are looking for this job,
you have it and you are taking it for granted,” he said.
He
advised staff to be punctual and remain committed, while warning that
those who go against the rules will face disciplinary action.
According to Dr Odey “I
will pardon you today without query because this is the first time,
next time would not be the same, we should all try to support government
efforts by showing commitment to work and being at our duty post at all
times” He warned.
Stressing
the need to enthrone commitment and efficiency, he said all civil
servants are to be at their duty post from 8.am to 4pm daily.
It
was gathered that, upon the SUBEB Chairman’s arrival only 2 out of 20
staff in directorate cadre and 26 staff out of 75 on salary grade level 7
to 13 had reported for duty, while 10 out of 15 junior staff were
present.
A grandmother has bared all to show that 'beauty is
beyond skin' after learning to embrace the vitiligo which will one day
turn her skin completely white and previously left her suicidal.
Model, business owner, and mother-of-four Iomikoe Johnson, 37, from Lake
Charles, Louisiana first noticed a tiny spot of white skin under her
arm 12-years ago.
At first, she thought she had cancer but it then spread to her eyes and genital area.
At just 25-years-old, Iomikoe was scared that she would be bullied for
being 'two different colours' after spending her childhood being taunted
for having dark skin.
Iomikoe contemplated taking her own life as strangers would stare at her
in the streets with some even refusing to shake her hand.
She would spend up to an hour a day on her makeup to cover up and would only wear long sleeved clothes.
It wasn't until her fiancé Phillip told her that he loved her no matter what that she decided to ditch the makeup bag.
'I got vitiligo when I was twenty-five-years-old and I'll never forget
it, I was devastated, I felt like my world had been shattered,' she
said.
'My first spot was under my arm where no one could see. When I was a
kid, I used to get bullied for having dark skin and now I'm two
different colours, so I feared I would have to re-live that experience
all over again.
'It was painful and devastating I even thought of taking my own life many times, but I had kids which kept me going.
'People used to look at my hands and not want to touch me and they
didn't want to shake my hand. People stared and said very mean,
disrespectful things to me and children were afraid of me.
I didn't know what this was, I thought it was cancer at first. I was
scared and very emotionally depressed I didn't know what was going on
with my body, my parents were also concerned but told me no matter what
they will always love me and they told me not to worry.'
Iomikoe has four children and two grandchildren and says that despite
initially being petrified of her vitiligo, she loves being different and
wouldn't be able to exist without it.
She admits that her family encouraged her to embrace it and she's now a
model and wants the world to see her body as art, walking human art.
'Well it would take me forty-five minutes to an hour to put makeup on to
cover spots and it was becoming very tiring,' she explained.
'My fiancé told me that I didn't need to do it anymore because he loves
me no matter if I wore makeup or not. One day I woke up and I saw this
picture on my Facebook of Winnie Harlow, the vitiligo model and I was
like oh my god she's so beautiful.
'She has the same skin disease as me and she embraced her beauty so I thought why shouldn't I do the same.
'I woke up one day and I didn't put on any makeup and since that day I
haven't worn makeup I was tired of people defining what they think is
beautiful and it was my job to show them that beauty is beyond skin.
'I want people to be empowered by my story and for them to remove the mask of feeling judged.
'I want them to know that I'm cheering them on and that they are freaking beautiful creatures and "spotted with a purpose".
'Vitiligo can appear at any time in your life and all races can get it,
vitiligo is not prejudiced anyone can get it at any time at any age.'
Akeelah and the bee child actress, Keke Palmer has come for Kylie Jenner for bowing to societal pressure to be beautiful!
Speaking to Yahoo Beauty, the Scream Queens star said the internet
has become so judgmental that people will either beat trolls to the
punch and put themselves down, or conform to the societal version of
perfection so that nobody can criticize.
She said;
“In
the sense of the Kardashians, it’s like I’m going to show you so much
perfect and be everything a woman should be or everything a man would
like or love,’ she said. ‘And I’m going to be exactly that so you can’t
bully me anymore.
Specifically in the situation with Kylie, where
you’ve had a young girl people have seen on television since she was a
kid and they literally told her she was so ugly … the ugly person in the
family. She went and did apparently everything the world deems as
beautiful. The even crazier part is that everybody loves her for it.
What I find interesting is that this is something that is being
displayed to my generation — showing young girls, young guys that if you
do everything that society wants you to be, not only will you be
praised for it but you will make money for it. You can be profitable for
not being who you truly are.
I would just say always be real with
yourself, because at the end of the day that’s all we got. There’s
nothing more important in life than being true to ourselves and being
100 percent loving to ourselves. Putting our feelings [first] and how we
wanna feel and do that above what anybody thinks no matter how
impossible, selfish, weird, scary. or embarrassing that may seem.
When I realized that, I realized that’s what it means to be confident. Confidence is me making choices that empower me.”
The Nri community in Anambra State, believed to be the ancestral home of
the Igbo, has threatened to jail the leader of the Indigenous People of
Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, for allegedly invading the area and desecrating
sacred places.
The community said it had concluded arrangements to drag the pro-Biafran
agitator to court in that respect. The traditional of Nri, Igwe Eze
Obidiegwu Onyeso, said this on Thursday while chatting with newsmen in
Awka, the Anambra State capital.
Speaking through his personal aunchssistant, Chief Ifeanyi Onyeso, the
monarch said Kanu and his IPOB’s ‘army of occupation’ invaded his
community on July 18 with impunity, without recourse to obeisance to the
palace.
The monarch said, “My people are highly angry about this misconduct of
these intruders. Nri as an ancient kingdom and the cradle of Igbo
people and her culture and tradition is highly revered among the Igbo.
He added, “On July18, 2017, a day before Kanu came to Nri, 12 youths
came to the palace of Eze Nri requesting an appointment with the
traditional ruler for Kanu.
“They were received and told to go and come back with a written letter
so that they will get official reply from the palace since the
delegation looked unusual, in that there was no titled person among
them.
“The people of Nri and their traditional ruler are not against Nnamdi
Kanu and his agitation, but what we cannot take is for Kanu to come and
mess up the Nri culture and tradition under whatever motive.
“The community will drag him to court and make sure we jail him to serve as a deterrent to others,” Onyeso stated.
It appears singer, 9ice's ex-wife, Toni Payne has found love again. In a
series of tweets, she talked about not giving up on love despite the
mishap from her first marriage.
Her tweets below...
The German Government has donated six trained sniffer dogs and a Mercedes bus to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to boost the country’s capacity to detect concealed drugs.
German
Deputy Consul General, Alexandra Herr made the presentation in Lagos to
the Director of Operations and General Investigation of the Agency, Mr
Olugbenga Mabo.
Herr noted that Germany committed to assisting NDLEA officials with the tools to work.
She said,
“It
is important to have the right tools to work and I commend the
cooperation between Germany and Nigeria in combating drug trafficking
through the aid of sniffer dogs. I am eager to see positive results in
the canine operations of the Agency”.
Mabo
disclosed that the agency made 20 major arrests and seizures of banned
substances with a combined weight of 17,432kg with the assistance of
sniffer dogs since 2009.
He commended the German Government for
the support and assured that the investment would translate into the
dismantling of more drug trafficking syndicates in the country.
He said,
“Twenty
major arrests and seizures of narcotic drugs comprising cocaine,
heroin, methamphetamine, ephedrine, and cannabis with a combined weight
of 17,432kg were made with the assistance of the sniffer dogs since
2009. The contribution of Germany government has made a tremendous
impact on the operations of the Agency at the airport, seaport and land
borders. This additional support will ensure that more drug trafficking
syndicates are dislodged” Mabo stated.
A statement by the NDLEA spokesman, Mitchell Ofoyeju said under the
German canine support project to Nigeria, three officers recently
completed a 16-week basic course at the Police Dog School Neustadt,
Saxony Germany.
This current batch brings the total number of
donated dogs since 2009 to fourteen and trained officers in dog handling
proficiency to nine.
Two Toyota Hiace buses currently being used
to convey the dogs to operations areas as well as training materials
were also donated by the German Government.
Burglars stole an 'eye watering' £400,000 worth of designer bags and
jewellery from former England captain John Terry's mansion after he
posted a picture of himself enjoying a ski trip on Instagram.
The footballer, who now captains Championship side Aston Villa, posed
for pictures on the slopes of the French Alps with his wife Toni, 35,
boasting to his 3.4million followers on the social media site that he
was having a 'great few days away skiing with the family'.
But while the couple happily shared photos and videos of their lavish
holiday, they didn't realise the posts had attracted the attention of a
ruthless gang of prolific burglars, who broke into their £5million
mansion in Oxshott, Surrey, and spent hours ransacking the property,
swiping designer handbags worth £126,000 and rare signed first edition
Harry Potter books valued at £18,000.
Knowing that no one was home, the audacious gang took their time
strolling around his property armed with axes. They spent 45 minutes
plundering the master bedroom before returning later that night to break
into a safe.
On Thursday, Kingston Crown Court heard how an 'eye watering' collection
of designer jewellery and handbags were looted from the 'vast'
collection of Mrs Terry, who loves designer handbags so much that her
36-year-old husband had a handbag shaped cake made for her birthday last
year, which she proudly shared on Instagram.
The raiders discovered that the footballer's wife had so many handbags,
they were unable to carry them all and instead plumped only for the 28
most valuable items including a £42,000 snakeskin Hermes bag, Chanel
bags worth £8,000 and others from Gucci, Louis Vuitton and Yves Saint
Laurent.
Details of the raid on February 25 this year emerged for the first time yesterday.
All five people involved are due to be sentenced tomorrow.
