I got actual goosebumps at my desk just now watching this one. I simply don’t understand how people can see a sport that can do this to an entire nation and ignore it completely.
I’m just as fed up with the trajectory of our club and the life under the ownership as he is. I said before that I wouldn’t begrudge him a move, because I completely understand it. This ownership has ruined this football club. There is only one difference.
UPDATE on my father’s story.
Life of a contract staff in Nigeria Pt 2.
So many of you asked us to keep pushing. We did. I wish I had better news.
We finally got access to his RSA pin and logged into his pension portal.
₦3.1 million.
28 years of work. ₦3.1 million in pension 😢
We stared at the screen for a long time without speaking.
But that wasn’t even the worst part.
The contribution history showed his employer only started remitting pension 10 years ago. Before that? Nothing. 18 years of blank entries. 18 years my father assumed someone was keeping his future safe.
Nobody was.
We went to the pension fund administrator’s office in Victoria Island. Sat in their waiting room for hours. The customer service officer was polite. Professional but completely unbothered.
She explained that he cannot access the full ₦3.1 million.
He gets 25% now as a lump sum, which is a little over 750k. The rest will be paid monthly. She quoted figures. Something around ₦18,000 to ₦22,000 per month depending on final calculations.
My father is 56 years old.
₦18,000 a month in this present economy?!
He didn’t say anything in the office. Just nodded slowly the way men of his generation do when they are dying quietly inside. I felt terrible.
On the way out he asked me if we could stop to get something to munch as we were famished.
We sat in the hot car and ate the rice we bought from mama put and didn’t talk about any of it, me wondering what’s going through his mind and him taking deep breaths every minute.
Then we started making calls about the NHF, his office helpline rang out the first four times. On the fifth attempt someone picked, asked for his NHF number; which we couldn’t provide, put us on hold for 11 minutes and the call dropped.
We went in person to his former office, which he was reluctant to go but I persuaded him. They searched the system. His name appeared but his contributions showed zero remittance. The officer suggested his primary employer may have deducted the NHF from his salary without remitting it.
As if this is a minor clerical possibility and not theft.
NSITF was the same story. The office confirmed his employer was registered but contributions under his name were inconsistent and incomplete. They gave us a form to fill.
So this is where we are.
18 years of pension contributions stolen or ignored. NHF deducted from his salary, destination unknown. NSITF contributions, missing. The company that took 28 years of his life and the MD is probably still in Dubai.
And my father is filling forms.
He worked every single day so that this moment, this difficult moment, would be cushioned. That was the deal. That was the promise of showing up.
They collected his loyalty and left him with paperwork and ₦18,000 a month.
If this happened to your parent, your uncle, your family member, please check their RSA portal today. Check their NHF number. Don’t wait until it’s too late.
Because the system is not going to tell you it failed you.
You have to find out yourself.
Make this too loud to ignore.
I am so sad that I ever made Etisalat/9 mobile my main line. It has been a disaster
I can't receive calls, get SMS, Bank alerts, OTPs. A useless network
The crazy part is trying to pay for things online and you literally won't get OTP.
9mobile is such a terrible network
Dear @officialEFCC come out o.
Here is Tompolo mutilating the Naira.
I know the eyes of that your eagle will suddenly go blind but I am bringing this to your attention publicly so the whole world will see you are a shameless agency with double standards.
https://t.co/ys8HJir3Jf
He said Mr. Obi did not build a single school or a stand alone hospital throughout his eight-year tenure as Governor of Anambra.
Here is a sitting governor parroting the talking points of APC online urchins as facts. You have to be sick in the head to believe what you wrote.
The reason why Nigerian Politicians are so corrupt and reprehensible is because they know that the people would never hold them accountable. Nigerians adapt to any situation. The politicians know this and continue to exploit it.
We all must come together as one! Celebrity or not, irrespective of our tribal and religious sentiments. We must unite and hold our Leaders to account.
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