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  • 403 soldiers to retire next week – Official

    A total of 403 military personnel would retire from the armed forces next week, Austine Jekenu, an air vice marshal, Commandant, Nigerian Armed Forces Resettlement Centre, NAFRC, has said.

    He told journalists on Thursday in Lagos that the retiring soldiers were drawn from the Army, the Air Force and the Navy.

    “A total of 403 servicemen comprising of 281 from the Nigerian Army, 17 from the Nigerian Navy and 105 from the Nigerian Air Force would be graduating from the NAFRC,’’ he said.

    Represented by his deputy, Edward Nze, Mr. Jekennu, an air vice marshal, said that the retiring servicemen went through months of intensive training on skill acquisition and entrepreneurship at NAFRC.

    He said the training was to prepare the retirees for life after military service as civilians.

    According to him, the initiative is to enable the beneficiaries adjust and appropriately blend with the peculiarities of retirement.

    He urged all the retiring servicemen to continue to positively contribute to the achievement of national objectives in whatever business they engaged in.

    “It is on record that over 41,400 ex-servicemen of the Nigerian Armed Forces have been trained in this centre since its inception,” he said.

    The commandant said the passing out ceremony for the course participants would hold on December 15, adding that the Minister for Defence, Mansur Ali, is expected to grace the occasion.

     

    NAN

  • ‘I have done everything I wanted to do in sports’, Bolt confirms retirement

    ‘I have done everything I wanted to do in sports’, Bolt confirms retirement

    The world’s fastest man, Usain Bolt, has confirmed that he will retire from athletics in August this year.

    Bolt says he has achieved everything he dreamt of and has no reason to continue running.

    The Jamaican sprinter was speaking on the red carpet at the Laureus World Sports Awards in Monaco.

    “I’ve just done everything I wanted to do in the sport,” Bolt told Reuters.

    “I asked (former U.S. sprinter) Michael Johnson the same question, ‘why did you retire when you were on top?’. He said the same — he had done everything he had wanted to do in athletics so there was no reason to stay in the sport. Now I understand what he means.

    “I just wanted to run and to be part of it. I had to take it easy because I wasn’t at the level I would usually be. It was the first time I had competed at this time of the year.”

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that Bolt was recently stripped of his 2008 Olympics relay gold after a trace of banned substance was found in team mate Nesta Carter’s re-tested sample, damaging his ‘treble treble’ record.

  • Exclusive : How Adeboye dropped bombshell of new RCCG structure

    …Not just me, Oyedepo, Kumuyi, Okonkwo will also have to retire, Adeboye says

    The entire process of how Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) announced his retirement and installed a successor took less than thirty minutes, while stressing that fellow Pastors like Bishop Oyedepo, Pastor Kumuyi will also have to go.

    In a report by TheNewsGuru’s special correspondent, Adeboye in his prophesies for 2017, released during the new year watch night service, which is an annual ritual of the respected cleric for over two decades, when he usually announce to the world what God told him will happen in the new year, Pastor ADEBOYE had talked about God having surprises for the people.

    However, nothing prepared his body of Ministers, whom he had gathered to give thanks to God this Saturday morning, another annual ritual in RCCG, for the surprise they got.

    He began by telling the crowd that the federal government of Nigeria under President Buhari has, lately, formed the habit of interfering in the affairs of the Church.

    He recounted how the government forced the RCCG to abandoned the robust retirement package for their Pastors, where full time Pastors who retired from the employ of the Church collects their full salary and benefits till death, to adopt a statutory contributory pension scheme which has resulted in Pastors, both those in active service and retirees, earning far less than they should have earned under the old scheme.

    He now dwelt on the issue of how Christians are not taking advantage of their numerical strength to determine who becomes a political leader. He explained that the apathetic attitude of Christians has led to a situation where leaders are now imposed on them. His solution: “When you get home, tell every member of the Redeemed Christian Church of God to go and register for a Political Party. I want every member to be a Card carrying member of a political party.”

    “You can register for any party of your choice, but by all means, register. If you register, you will have to attend your party meetings at the Ward level. That way you will be part of those to nominate the party delegates who will decide who will run for elections and be our leaders at the national level”.There was a roar of approval of this directive from the audience.

    But there was a sharp contrast in the reaction of his ministers to what he has to say next. Tried as he did to downplay the impact and import of what he was to divulge, you could hear a pin drop in the large auditorium, which is three kilometers in length by three kilometers in breadth, reputed to be the largest in the world

    “You are going to have a new General Overseer”, he began with that his low, firm, almost angelic voice. The ministers looked sharply at each other, wondering if they heard their revered leader correctly. “Yes! You heard me well”, he continued.

    “Part of government interest in Churches is that they have made a law that says General Overseers and Superintendents must not stay in office beyond a certain number of years. In obedience to that law, I am stepping down as the general overseer!”.

    This time, the Ministers who initially thought they did not hear him clearly the first time were jolted to a live nightmare. And the whispers and murmurs of protests to this strange news were growing louder all over the auditorium.

    But Pastor ADEBOYE was not done yet. “By the provisions of the law, I am not the only one affected. Fellow Pastors like Bishop Oyedepo, Pastor Kumuyi, Bishop Mike Okonkwo and others will also have to go”. By this revelation, most of the Pastors where now praying to God to wake them up and end this nightmare.

    Adeboye continued: “So I am going to call on the new general overseer to step out so that you can pray for him. Pastor Obayemi, please step forward. The law also stipulated that every church must have a secretary and a treasurer.

    So Pastor Odeyemi, step forward as well. We had a treasurer before only that we have never referred to him as such. Pastor Adeyokunu, please step forward. Three of you, kneel down and let the Church pray for you”.

    In less than five minutes, the prayers were over and the three gentlemen were congratulated and asked to go back to their seats.

    Welcome Pastor Joseph Obayemi, the new general overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Nigeria.

    Pastor ADEBOYE was later to explain that he still remain the General Overseer of the Church outside Nigeria and that he will still conduct all the programs that the Church has been. Known for. Whether this will calm the nerves of the millions of the Church members worldwide, only time will tell.

     

  • Brazil moves to increase retirement age to 65

    Brazil moves to increase retirement age to 65

    President Michel Temer of Brazil has on Tuesday submitted a bill to Congress that would raise the age of retirement in the country to 65.

    The draft bill, part of a pension reform plan, would apply to all men under 50 and women under 45, following 25 years of contributing to social security.

    “Men over 50 and women over 45 will be included in a transitional system, under which they will be subjected to a 50 per cent increase on their remaining contribution time,” according to the government news website.

    Government figures show the average age of retirement in Brazil is 58, among the lowest in the world.

    Those who have already retired and are receiving a pension will not be affected if the bill passes.

    “The first core principle (of the reform) is totally respect for all acquired rights,” Marcelo Caetano, the Finance Ministry’s Secretary of Social Security said.

    The bill includes automatic adjustment of the retirement age if life expectancy in Brazil, which is now 83, rises, with the government foreseeing two such adjustments by 2060.

    Pension reform is expected to reduce the country’s “social security costs by 700 billion reals in the first 10 years after approval,” or 205 billion U.S. dollars.