Aba Tricycle Riders Protest Against Police and Army Extortion

Aba has always known to be a no nonsense town perhaps that's is why on Tuesday, tricycle riders stage a protest against the police and army which they have alleged to be extorting them.
During the protest, placards that reads “No more N50 for police and N100 for army,”  “Monkey dey work, Baboon dey chop must stop,” were seen carried by anger protests

They said that they pay N100 as security levy at army checkpoints while the police collect N50 at their checkpoints from them.

The protesters alleged that the police and army personnel were arresting them and disturbing their business if they refused to part with the amount.

One of the tricycle operators, Mr Cletus said "We have kept quite under their act and we  are tired of it. By the time we finish settling them we are left with nothing for the owner of the keke and a lot of us have lost our keke because we couldn't pay up to our owners"
Another rider, Eme Udo said " Everyday they make it a rule that we must pay and when we don't we are delayed in our business and punish us in any means they find suitable. We wonder if we are working for them or ourselves"

The Chairman of the association, Mr Eugene Eze, said that his team had worked hard to sustain a good rapport with the police in Aba but the effort seemed not to work.

He said that the association would seek audience with Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu and the commissioner of police on their plight.

Eze promised to effect the release of those arrested by the police and urged members of the association to remain peaceful while he made effort to resolve the problem.

Rio 2016:Quadri knocked Out

Aruna Quadri, Nigeria and African champion on table tennis early on Wednesday morning crashed out of the Rio Olympics 2016 after suffering a 4-0 defeat to China’s star and world number one Ma Long, in the Men’s Singles category.
Quadri became the first African to reach the quarterfinals of men’s singles event at Rio 2016 Olympic game. Quadri, in a thrilling encounter, beat his German opponent, Boll Timo, 4-2 to seal a historic berth in the quarter finals of men’s single table tennis event.
His wonderful journey in the singles tournament came to an end with a dominant defeat (11-4, 11-2, 11-6, 11-7)

Photo: Burnaboy's Baby Mama Spotted With No Baby Bump.

Burna boy may soon be out of his hook as his baby mama has been spotted by one of Burna Boy's fan in a supermake in lekki. The fan has it that Uju Stella has no baby bump and this is confusing  because as of May June she posted  a test result and picture of her baby bump on social media. To make issues worst again she recently posted a photo of her with no bump and people have critically reacted to it.

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FG BANS PTA FEES IN UNITY SCHOOLS.

Following the complaints of parents concerning the ridiculousness of Unity Schools fees. The Federal Government has put a halt to PTA fees and reduce development fees  to N5000 in all Unity Schools. The Minister of Education, Malam Amadu Amadu on Tuesday disclosed that the new measures were aimed to  reducing school fees and managing the situation where  PTA and development fees are more than the school fees. The Minister made an example with Kings College, Lagos and the Federal Science and Technical College, Yaba where the fees charged by government for JSS1 in the first term is N69, 400, while the PTA collections stand at N70,000 and N74,000, respectively per child for the same first term, totalling to 139,490 and N143,400 respectively. Adamu Adamu said "Government views with grave concerning the activities of PTAs in unity colleges which have even formed themselves into national associations, instead of limiting themselves to the schools where their children attend”. The statement added that any project that should be carried out by PTA Should be written to and approved by the Ministry of Education



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