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LMAO: By Next Year Igbos Will Take Over From Fashola – APGA Leader Umeh

<strong>In a brave and controversial statement, All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) leader Chief <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_7">Victor</span> Umeh told reporters that come 2015, <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_3">Lagos</span> will be under the APGA flag.</strong><br /><br /><br /> <img alt="APGA Chief Victor Umeh" border="0" data-x-src="http://img.naij.com/n/00/9/apga-chief-victor-umeh.jpg" data-zoom="1" height="320" hspace="5" src="http://img.naij.com/n/00/9/apga-chief-victor-umeh.jpg" vspace="5" width="586" /><br /><br /><br /> <strong>APGA Chief Victor Umeh </strong><br /> Umeh, who gave an interview to The Punch <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_9">reporters</span>, said in 2015 Lagos <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_8">elections</span> only 2 million votes are needed to gain the gubernatorial position,  and, with over 10 million Igbos and half that number sympathetic with  the APGA cause, there is more than a high chance of this becoming a  reality.<br /> More excerpts of the discussion are below:<br /><a name='more'></a>POLI<br /> <br />You talk about capacity; how many supporters does APGA have in Lagos?<br /> <em>If democracy is about the electorate, APGA has what it takes to <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_6">win</span> elections in Lagos. The Igbo in Lagos today are more than 10 million,  not to talk of other non-indigenes, who are not loyal to the APC.  Although not every Igbo man will vote for APGA, but those who we know as  our potential supporters and sympathisers are more than five million.  If what is required to get to Alausa is about two million votes, which  no one has surpassed, APGA will get it. Election is not about the elite;  it’s about the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_5">ordinary people</span> who will go out and cast their votes.</em><br /><div id="article_end"><br />Do the victories of APGA in Anambra and Imo states automatically translate into victory for the party in Lagos?<br /> <br /><em>I’ve told you that the population of the Igbo in Lagos is more  than the population of any state in the South-East because they are  combined here. But this is not an Igbo agenda; I’m only saying it  because every party has its sympathy base. The APC has Yoruba sympathy.  However, a Yoruba man can also run on the platform of APGA. We also have  the sympathy of those who believe that one man cannot control Lagos  because it’s a cosmopolitan state.</em><br /> <br />Do you really believe an Igbo man can become a governor in Lagos State?<br /> <br /><em>I believe it 100 per cent. I was born and raised in Lagos. If you  are born and bred in a place and you see that the place is not well  run, what do you do? You go for the government. That was why I ran in  2003. It was my candidacy that made them pick two Igbo people to be part  of the government in Lagos – Ben Akabueze and Joe Igbokwe. It was just  to deceive novices that Igbo people are in government. Except the Awori,  nobody owns Lagos. Most of the people claiming Lagos came from nearby  Yoruba states.</em><br /> </div>

LMAO: By Next Year Igbos Will Take Over From Fashola – APGA Leader Umeh

In a brave and controversial statement, All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) leader Chief Victor Umeh told reporters that come 2015, Lago...

Mikel Obi To Rescue Kidnapped Chibok Girls If He Knows Where They Are

<strong>Footballer Mikel Obi says his <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_11">thoughts</span> are with the families of abducted <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_4">Chibok</span> girls who have been held by <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_3">Boko Haram</span> for more than three months in the Sambisa Forest.</strong><br /> <br /><br />According to Nigeria midfielder Mikel Obi, he is praying for the release and <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_6">safe return</span> of the kidnapped girls.<br /> <br />In May, the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_7">Chelsea star</span> joined #BringBackOurGirls campaign by posting his picture where he  carries a cardboard with the popular #BringBackOurGirls hash tag, but he  spoke about the issue publicly for the first time on Monday, July 14.<br /><a name='more'></a><br /> <br />"I wish I knew where those girls are, I would go there, pick them up  and bring them back but it’s out of my hands," Mikel said, while <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_17">responding</span> to a question at a soiree by Amstel Malta in Lagos.<br /> In August 2011, Mikel’s dad was <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_10">kidnapped</span> in Jos but released after about 10 days in captivity. Thus, he hopes the same will happen to the girls of Chibok.<br /> <br />"We will keep praying and keep hoping that [the girls] are all safe and they will return to their <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_12">families</span>," said the midfielder.<br /> <br />The 27-year-old helped Nigeria reach the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_8">second round</span> of the World Cup in Brazil before losing 2-0 to France.<br /> <br />He was named man of the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_13">match</span> in their <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_9">first game</span> against Iran but came under criticism after the final match against  France where he struggled to impose himself on the encounter.

Mikel Obi To Rescue Kidnapped Chibok Girls If He Knows Where They Are

Footballer Mikel Obi says his thoughts are with the families of abducted Chibok girls who have been held by Boko Haram for more than thre...

Why Boko Haram May Never End

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<b>With the current insecurity in the country and the </b><b>incessant</b><b> attacks by <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_3">Boko Haram</span> sect, there are different opinions on when there would be an end to the  violence. A behavioural analyst, Olokode, has written the article below  from Ibadan, sharing his opinion on why Boko Haram insurgency may never  end.</b><br />
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Read more on his <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_4">point of view</span> below:<br />
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Truth is bitter. The piece I am set to write already gives me a  foretaste of bitterness. A signal of the sure surge of fury, resentment  and provocation its caption is likely to provoke in most readers, at  least, at first sight. This seemingly pessimistic and, probably,  outwardly ill-wishing title may even, compel some, in a rage of  rashness, to cast me off as a Boko Haram apologist or even an outright  Boko Haramite. Whatever name you call me, I patriotically acquiesce.<br />
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And, before I get crucified, let me quickly reiterate that my seeming hopelessness came from the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_8">n*ked</span> dehumanisation of the masses I sighted as this overloaded six-<span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_7">passenger bus</span> sn*ked its way through some city-based ‘villages’ on a domestic  journey. Nothing in all I saw, left and right, suggested the presence of  a government, monarchy or leadership of any sort that cared for the  basic human needs that would ensure that natural humans get nurtured  into social humans.<br />
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The adage, man is a product of his environment, thus, asked me a  painful rhetorical question: Can these hostile-living conditions produce  socially-responsible masses filled with blood of love for fellow  citizens of ‘strange’ origin, religion, education<br />
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Why Boko Haram May Never End

With the current insecurity in the country and the incessant attacks by Boko Haram sect, there are different opinions on when there woul...

#REAL: Three-Year-Old Girl Rises From Dead At Her Own Funeral

<img alt="Photo - MIRACLE: 3-Year-Old Girl Rises From Dead At Her Own Funeral" border="0" data-x-src="http://img.naij.com/n/0b/2/3-year-old-girl-awakened-at-her-own-funeral-zamboanga-620x315.png" data-zoom="1" height="254" hspace="5" src="http://img.naij.com/n/0b/2/3-year-old-girl-awakened-at-her-own-funeral-zamboanga-620x315.png" vspace="5" width="500" /><br /> <strong>A three-year-old <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_9">girl</span>, who was pronounced dead on Saturday after being taken to <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_7">hospital</span> the day before suffering from a fever for several days, woke up during preparations for her own funeral.</strong><br /> <em>Scroll down for the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_2">video</span></em><br /> <br /><br /><br />This incredible moment was captured on video. When the girl started breathing again, her father <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_16">lifted</span> her out of the coffin in the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_4">church</span> in Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur, in the Philippines, and took her to hospital.<br /> According to <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_11">Inspector</span> Heidil Teelan,<em> "the attending <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_8">clinic</span> personnel and physician confirmed that the young patient had no more pulse and was clinically dead last <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_6">Saturday morning</span> about 9am."</em><br /><a name='more'></a><br /> <br />When one of her parents’ neighbours removed the lid of the coffin to  arrange the girl’s remains, she saw the three-year-old move.<br /> <br />Teelan added: <em>"We really cannot make confirmation on the status of the girl but based on the observation of the police <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_12">personnel</span> I deployed it appeared the girl remained in a state of comatose in their house."</em><br /> \<br />After being lifted out of the coffin she was given <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_10">water</span> and taken to the hospital before returning home with her parents.<br />

#REAL: Three-Year-Old Girl Rises From Dead At Her Own Funeral

A three-year-old girl , who was pronounced dead on Saturday after being taken to hospital the day before suffering from a fever for severa...

#Brazil 2014: Arsenal Manager Reveals Why Super Eagles Failed

<div><strong><span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_3">Arsenal</span> Football Club manager, Arsene Wenger, at the weekend revealed what, in  his opinion, caused the Super Eagles’ failure at the just concluded FIFA  World Cup hosted by Brazil. </strong></div><div> </div><div><span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_12">Speaking</span> to Beinsport, <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_11">Wenger</span>, who revealed he has been doing an examination of the African champions’ display in <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_4">Brazil</span>, stated that it was <em>“not <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_17">lack</span> of <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_16">talent</span>”</em> that affected the team but rather, it was <em>“<span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_9">poor</span> organisation”</em>.</div><div> </div>He said the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_6">Super Eagles</span> would have gone beyond the round of 16 in the competition, if conditions were ideal. <div> </div><div><em>“Nigeria had no solidarity. They showed the whole world the  problems they had before the World Cup and it was the same with  Cameroun. The problem was not lack of talent but with poor  organization,” </em>Wenger said.<a name='more'></a></div><div> </div><div>The Arsenal manger, however, commended the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_10">Eagles</span>’ first half display against eventual victors, <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_5">France</span>.</div><div> </div><div><strong> </strong></div><div> </div><div><em>“Nigeria was not too bad against France. They had a good first half but could not maintain the momentum in the second half,” </em>he said.</div><div> </div><div>Meanwhile, the Super Eagles have never been able to go beyond the round of 16 in any of the previous <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_8">World Cups</span>. The attempts were made in 1994, 1998 and 2014.</div>

#Brazil 2014: Arsenal Manager Reveals Why Super Eagles Failed

Arsenal Football Club manager, Arsene Wenger, at the weekend revealed what, in his opinion, caused the Super Eagles’ failure at the just c...

LMAO: Suarez To Lose N830,000,000 From His Wages If He Bites Again

<br /><img alt="Photo - Suarez To Lose N830,000 From His Barcelona Wages If He Bites Again" border="0" data-x-src="http://img.naij.com/n/04/0/luis_suarez_0923.jpg" data-zoom="1" height="347" hspace="5" src="http://img.naij.com/n/04/0/luis_suarez_0923.jpg" vspace="5" width="500" /><br /><br /><br /> <span style="color: grey;"><span style="font-size: smaller;"><span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_6">Luis Suarez</span></span></span><br /> <strong>Footballer Luis <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_10">Suarez</span> will see his £10million-a-year (about N3billion) <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_3">Barcelona</span> pay packet slashed by up to £3m (N830,000,000) if he tries to bite another opponent.</strong><br /> <br /><br />The Uruguayan became the most expensive signing in the Catalan giants’ history when he <br /><div data-cid="2378" data-kw="completed" style="border-bottom: 1px solid; color: #f35b00; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: auto; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration: underline; width: auto;">completed</div>his move from <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_5">Liverpool</span> on Friday, agreeing a £200,000-a-week (N55m), five-year deal at the Nou Camp.<a name='more'></a><br />Liverpool say Barcelona paid the £75m (over N20billion) they wanted  for the 27-year-old, but the La Liga side claim the figure was 80m  Euros.<br /> <br /><br />His <em><strong>salary makes Suarez the fourth highest-paid player</strong></em><em><strong> at the club</strong></em> behind <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_7">Lionel Messi</span>,  Neymar and Andres Iniesta, but he will drop a long way behind if there  is any repeat of the shameful biting antics that have landed him in hot  water three times.<br /> <br />Suarez’s contract at Barca is littered with clauses which will hit him hard if he errs again and, according to Sunday People <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_9">Sport</span>, he could be docked as much as 15 to 30 per cent of his wages.<br /> <br />The club intend to pursue an appeal to have his four-month ban from all <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_4">football</span>-related activities reduced and are hopeful they will succeed.<br /> <br />Suarez is expected in Barcelona on July 15, 2014, Tuesday, and is set to be <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_16">unveiled</span> on Wednesday at the city’s L’Auditori <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_12">building</span> before going on <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_11">holiday</span>.<br /> <br />Sources close to the Catalan giants briefed <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_2">local</span> media that they were delighted to have landed Suarez for less than the  100m Euro – N22billion – they would have had to pay under normal  circumstances.

LMAO: Suarez To Lose N830,000,000 From His Wages If He Bites Again

Luis Suarez Footballer Luis Suarez will see his £10million-a-year (about N3billion) Barcelona pay packet...

CAN THIS BE TRUE? :Meet Cheerful 17-Months-Old Baby Girl Born Without A Nose (PHOTOS)

<strong>Meet an <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_9">adorable</span> 17-month-<span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_5">old baby</span>, Tessa Evans, who was born with a rare congenital disorder, arhinia, which means the girl does not have a nose.</strong><br /><br /><br /> <strong><img alt=" Meet Cheerful 17-Months-Old Baby Girl Born Without A Nose" border="0" data-x-src="http://img.naij.com/n/00/a/tessa_evans_girl_with_no_nose4.jpg" data-zoom="1" height="269" hspace="5" src="http://img.naij.com/n/00/a/tessa_evans_girl_with_no_nose4.jpg" vspace="5" width="500" /></strong><br /><strong><br /></strong><strong><br /></strong> Arihnia could lead to a partial or complete absence of the nose at  birth. It is an extremely rare condition, with few reported cases in the  <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_3">history of modern</span> medicine. Tessa’s parents were notified about their baby’s condition  during the 20-week scan which showed an abnormally flat facial profile.  However, the next several tests revealed stable development of the  healthy fetus.<br /><a name='more'></a><br /> <br /> <img alt=" Meet Cheerful 17-Months-Old Baby Girl Born Without A Nose" border="0" data-x-src="http://img.naij.com/n/08/d/tessa_evans_girl_with_no_nose1.jpg" data-zoom="1" height="333" hspace="5" src="http://img.naij.com/n/08/d/tessa_evans_girl_with_no_nose1.jpg" vspace="5" width="500" /><br /><br /> While talking to journalist, <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_6">baby mother</span>, Gráinne Evans, said she had no idea about Tessa’s problem until the girl draw the first breath. She said: <em> </em><br /><br /><br /><em>"I was so excited to have a <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_8">natural birth</span> for the first time, but as soon as I saw her face I knew something was  wrong. I was in shock and I just froze. The midwife cut the cord before I  could even say anything and whisked her away from me. There were <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_4">alarm bells</span> ringing and I was so frightened I couldn’t stand without fainting."</em>

CAN THIS BE TRUE? :Meet Cheerful 17-Months-Old Baby Girl Born Without A Nose (PHOTOS)

Meet an adorable 17-month- old baby , Tessa Evans, who was born with a rare congenital disorder, arhinia, which means the girl does not hav...

READ Atiku Reacts To Governor Nyako's Impeachment

<strong>Following the impeachment Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State, <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_11">former</span> Vice President <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_3">Atiku Abubakar</span> has warned the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led federal government against excessive use of power.</strong><br /><br /> <strong><img alt="Atiku Abubakar" border="0" data-x-src="http://img.naij.com/n/05/e/atiku-abubakar-71.jpg" data-zoom="1" height="330" hspace="5" src="http://img.naij.com/n/05/e/atiku-abubakar-71.jpg" vspace="5" width="495" /> </strong><br /><br /><br /> <span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span><br /> In a statement by his media <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_10">office</span> in <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_8">Abuja</span>, Atiku said impeaching elected public office holders to settle scores would only build tension in the country.<br /> <br />He explained that the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_18">excessive</span> use of power is not good for decent democratic practice, saying triumphalism in the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_16">suppression</span> of opponents is a bad omen for democracy.<br /><a name='more'></a><br /> <br />According to PM report, Atiku decried the use of <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_7">impeachment</span> to settle scores by the PDP-led <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_5">federal government</span>,  saying the the frequency with which elected officials were being  removed from office by impeachment would destroy the whole purpose of  inserting the impeachment clause in the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_4">Constitution</span>, adding that it could not have been the intention of the framers of the 1999 Constitution.<br /> <br />He said the impeachment clause in the constitution was not put there  to provide ammo to anybody to harass and humiliate opponents or <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_15">force</span> them out of office.<span class="open-news__jsreadmore">Continue <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_12">reading</span></span>

READ Atiku Reacts To Governor Nyako's Impeachment

Following the impeachment Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has warned the Peoples Democratic ...

BIG TROUBLE: President Jonathan Playing With Serious Fire

<br /><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwR535okqOoZRrgkxqELPEoGvQ05gQpvG0sjUxnM2LGzHcndd_oVXljY_yZBQSZS9as1EgVWNs48gpcO_a_pCmV8DyuKu-s2Ej12jYSUVw_vHbOGnOS8Tt5KhpfMvNoQZCnaQ46z6so4zX/s1600/1+a+made+in+naija+by+Innoson+Group+1.jpg" width="400" /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div>Early this year, the newly selected National Chairman of the Peoples <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_8">Democratic Party</span>,  Alhaji Adamu Muazu, described his party as master poachers. What he  meant then is crystallizing: instigate (read bribe) troublemakers to  pester the opposition, induce opposition members to cross over to the  ruling party, and suborn state lawmakers to remove opposition governors  and install PDP governors. The steamroller is on.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">It seems most strange that a government that has failed on all fronts  and buffeted by terrorists is opening up more war fronts. Has it come to  this? Has the destruction of Nigeria become state policy? </blockquote><div>This madness must stop...<a name='more'></a>POLIT</div><div><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1273158107245326844" name="more"></a>The world should see the hand of tyranny in the  impeachment of Adamawa State governor Murtala Nyako and the forced  resignation of his deputy Bala James Ngilari yesterday. Only on Monday,  the Nasarawa State House of Assembly began impeachment proceedings  against Governor Tanko Al-Makura. Edo State governor Adams Oshiomhole  has been in the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_1">line of fire</span> because some APC House members have been bought over and the minority  PDP members are said to be dangling the impeachment threat. Rivers State  governor Chibuike Amaechi knows that some of the state’s lawmakers are  ganging up against him. Rochas Okorocha of Imo State is also facing a  benign threat of impeachment. These five governors have one thing in  common: they are APC members. There are fears that Kano, another APC  state, may also have its governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, dragged to the  execution range soon.<br /><br />Anyone who doubts the motive behind the destabilisation plot should consider that the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_24">governors</span> have six months to face the electorate again or about a year to leave <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_19">office</span> after <div data-cid="2378" data-kw="completing" style="border-bottom: 1px solid; color: #f35b00; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: auto; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration: underline; width: auto;">completing</div>two terms. Which impeachment offences remained hidden for seven years but were discovered only towards the end of their tenure?<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">And why is it that vestiges of trouble only begin to emerge in non-PDP states after their governors <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_25">defect</span></span>? Is it a coincidence that terrorists <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_20">discover</span> a state only when its governor leaves the PDP and joins the opposition  party? And why is it that whenever a scandal is about to be unearthed –  like the missing $20billion and the chartered jet saga – terrorist  activities intensify to divert the people’s attention? It is about time  these questions are answered.<br /><br />But <span style="color: #cc0000;">those who seek to destroy Nigeria through non-tolerance of the opposition should read the handwriting on the wall of history</span>. There is no doubt that a good number of the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_12">evil people</span> that have held the nation hostage operate freely under the umbrella of the ruling party. It is the same <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_3">kind of people</span> that wrecked the First, <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_2">Second and Third</span> republics. And, after the first round of elections in the Fourth  Republic, they all found shelter under one umbrella, because they  couldn’t play or stand opposition politics.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">The <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_18">Jonathan</span> government is jittery because a mega party that could defeat the PDP in next year’s elections has been formed</span>.  Apparently unable to stop the wind of change and acting in desperation,  the government has found a leeway by destroying everything and everyone  associated with the APC.<br /><br />Left to the PDP government, there should be no elections in 2015. After  eliminating all the APC governors and replacing them with PDP stooges,  for instance, the coast would be clear for a repeat of the Ekiti “magic”  in other states.<br /><br />Yet, there is nothing strange about what has happened in Adamawa, <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_4">what is happening</span> in Nasarawa and what could happen in Edo, Rivers, Imo and Kwara states.  Party stalwarts are directed to dip their hands into nest-bags of money  stolen from public funds; they gather members of a state assembly and  haul scores of millions of naira on those willing to swear to an oath of  trust. After Ghana-must-go bags have changed hands, it is time to  gather impeachment offences.<br /><br />Can the lawmakers in Adamawa look the public straight in the eye and swear that the impeachment of Nyako was done in the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_7">best interest</span> of the state; that it was an altruistic exercise?<br /><br />As the steamroller turns to Nasarawa, the lawmakers may find it  convenient to argue that in a democracy the majority must have its way.  But we know that their action is hardly in defence of democracy. Is  there a relationship between the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_17">bond</span> that the Nasarawa State governor has raised and the impeachment threat?  At a time of serious national crisis brought on by the incompetence of  the Jonathan-led government, politicians must stop <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_5">playing with fire</span>. They must stop playing with the future of the country. The madness must stop.<br /><br />From the missing Chibok girls to the general insecurity in the country  and from the unaccounted for $20billion to the troves of unattended  reports on stolen funds, there’s more than enough serious work to be  done. It beggars belief that at a time when the government should  double-down on <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_22">retrieving</span> the country from the jaws of terrorists and thieves, it is very busy plotting to silence the opposition.<br /><br />And we must say that we are worried by the deafening silence of elder  statesmen, who only on July 8, 2014, met Jonathan on the state of the  nation. Their continuous silence not only emboldens this government it  gives the impression that the unfolding tragedy carries their stamp of  approval.<br /><br />It was Adamawa yesterday, Nasarawa today, where next? If we are serious  about keeping this country together – as we believe we should – then  it’s time to pay more than <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_13">lip service</span> to the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_6">ties that bind</span> us.<br /><br />We must stop the bull in the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_14">china shop</span> now, or risk losing the shop, the wares and the bull as well. We advise  the Presidency and the PDP against starting another fire. Nobody knows  how it will end.</div><div><br /><b>By Leadership Editors</b></div></div>

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This is not a rumor, it’s been verified by numerous personal contacts  who are current ‘opposition’ Party law makers in Nigeria. The ruling  Party is paying out sums of at least N50 million to purchase any law  maker they can, most especially in opposition states. Kwara, Edo,  Rivers, Nasarawa and the like.<br />
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People are being bought for $380,000, one of the tallest sums ever  widely offered to buy people. These are people being bought to help  frustrate the opposition states and Party. Also, every sharp opposition  Party youth who possibly does not have a spot in the highly competitive  opposition is being offered sweet sums to be bought by the ruling Party  and contest on their platform.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6589160015449763735" name="more"></a>POI<br />
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At the rate of N50 million per head, just $1 billion of the missing  $20-127 billion buys 2000! Of course some more stubborn lawmakers will  be bought for larger sums, N100 million plus. That considered, 1-2  billion of the missing billions, or the amount Diezani still makes per  year – as tolerated and permitted by our senators – from the kerosene   subsidy scam, can buy over 1000 law makers and ‘opponents’ in different  states.<br />
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Those mentioned above, being bought for these delicious sums of stolen  money, are the ‘fine girls.’ These are their bride prices. Notice the  numbers quoted – 1000-2000 to be bought for sure. But who are the ‘ugly  girls?’ You guessed right: me and you. Who will pay our bride price?  Will we be offered $380,000 too? Of course not, the most they will use  to try to get our hand in marriage will be a 10kg bag of branded rice.  Intelligent and progressive people in Ekiti wouldn’t be bothered to  waste their vote and thus with the billions to spare, the accused,  indicted thief won. This is the risk Nigeria faces. To rescue and  restore hope to Nigerian(s), we need a bigger commitment.<br />
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So wetin we go do? Ugly girls, are we going to unite and harvest the  collective wealth of our numbers? Over 168 million of us, versus the  2-3,000 max, total number of fine girls (senators, Reps, chiefs, authors  and tabloids) who are buying and selling themselves with the ‘missing’  or as Bab-angida’s David Mark rebranded it, ‘unaccounted-for’  billions($)?<br />
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Are we going to band together and coordinate ourselves behind some well  known, tested and trusted open activist youth leaders and altruistic,  idealistic patriots, the likes of Omojuwa, the Kuti’s, Oby Ezekwesili  and Sowore or the progressive, fearless, incorruptible northern Sheikhs,  the Gumi’s and Jingir’s, and work together on open web and social media  platforms to defend our dignity and salvage our nation made up of great  nations and kingdoms that deserve our nobility and sacrifice?<br />
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If we band together we will be wealthier than those who stole and steal  our billions and buy and sell each other. This is our only chance, any  other thing and we will be fools forever in continuation of the the  fools we have been for most of 53 years.<br />
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Fellow ugly girls, do you remember 1993 and how we banded together and  kicked out Bab-angida? How we prayed together 5 years later and Abacha  died? Now we have those who celebrate Abacha and free his thieving,  laundering children to empower them over us. We have those who gather us  in millions in immigration job scams and kill us. We have those in  power now who sponsor terror over us and leave our daughters at the  mercy of ‘Shekau’ who they arm and give cover for in his convoy  operations in which he uses our army vehicles they have given him on our  own people. We have those who rather buy senators, or rather, sinators  for hundreds of thousands of dollars, than spend a few hundred to assist  with our nation’s security and with the securing the freedom and better  life of our abducted daughters and their families. These are perilous  times, the devil is awake all night and very busy plotting our death.  Ugly girls, shall we band together or continue to perish?<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;">Dr. Peregrino Brimah</span></b></div>
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A MUST READ: Ugly Girls, Who Will Pay Your Bride Price?

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EXPOSED: Jonathan's Secret Agenda Against 5 APC Governors

<img border="0" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi82dQ77BFrNL4Zt9xU94L0RBBC-pLINFzfyFbFaVlTzfTyezh6WqudtxkyGrLTj1GqweF-yDjFNdPs-mL2EWXhxDVLwRaP9UG_tuKFmnxkrCzQ4stf85RAjXJ40CDFMaw4pe3WRUayRcR_/s1600/jonathan-ny.jpg" width="400" /><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">The Presidency and PDP <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_9">leadership</span> have concluded that the only way President Goodluck Jonathan could make  any appreciable impact against Muhammadu Buhari in 2015, if he emerges  as the APC candidate, is for the government to use federal power to  remove about 5 APC <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_4">governors</span> from office at all cost.<br /><br /><span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_6">Former</span> Minister of Federal Capital Territory and key member of the APC, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, has revealed that the Presidency <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_3">indeed</span> orchestrated the impeachment of Governor Murtala Nyako.<br /><br />Fuming few minutes after the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_11">news</span> of Nyako’s removal by the Adamawa State House of <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_10">Assembly</span> <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_7">filtered</span> in, El-Rufai stated that the development was capable of “endangering the nation.”<a name='more'></a><br /><br />Nasarawa, Edo, Borno and <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_12">Rivers</span> are next on the Jonathan <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_8">roadmap</span>...<br /><div><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1273158107245326844" name="more"></a></div><div>Writing on his Facebook page on Tuesday, the former minister said the scheming by the Presidency to <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_5">deal</span> with the APC was not over. He said they have uncovered plots by the  Presidency to perfect the impeachment of three more governors from the  opposition party.<br /><br />He listed the governors as:</div><div>Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State; Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and Umaru Al-Makura of Nasarawa.<br /><br />“Jonathan’s impunity is endangering the nation. Adamawa APC governor  Murtala Nyako was impeached to pave the way for a PDP man to become  governor. Nasarawa is next. Then, Rivers and Edo. And President Jonathan  thinks that all will be well while he violates the constitution and the  law. We will see how it all ends. We have been there before!” he wrote  in a post on his Facebook page.<br /><br />A message on the official Twitter page of a former Kwara State Governor,  Bukola Saraki, stated that with the impeachment of Nyako, it seemed as  if Nigeria was “<span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_13">heading</span> towards a one-party state.”<br /><br />Also, Rukaiya, a native of Adamawa State and daughter of former  Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, blamed the impeached governor, Nyako, for  his travails. She described Nyako as being “the worst of them all”,  adding that it was unfortunate that he could not “handle” the members of  the state <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_14">legislature</span><br /><br />“Nyako could not handle the legislators in his own state, he was never a politician in the first instance. <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_2">Good riddance</span> to bad rubbish! Nyako has really been the worst of them all!” Rukaiya wrote on her Twitter page.</div></div>

EXPOSED: Jonathan's Secret Agenda Against 5 APC Governors

The Presidency and PDP leadership have concluded that the only way President Goodluck Jonathan could make any appreciable impact against M...

OMG!!:Female Student of Babcock University Killed In A Hotel In Lagos

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A female undergraduate of Babcock University, Ms Busayo Ogunkoya, has  been killed by one Azeez Ibrahim during a birthday party in a hotel in   the Ikorodu area of Lagos. Immediately the incident happened, there was  confusion in the vicinity as many of the invited guests fled the hotel.<br />
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"Ibrahim, the security man, who was holding a gun which he claimed he  had seized from some robbers, mishandled the gun and fired a bullet  which hit Busayo. The guard was said to be drunk.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6589160015449763735" name="more"></a></blockquote>
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According to Punch, the incident took place on Saturday evening, July 5,  2014, at Mambillah Hotel, when the guard fired a shot that killed  Busayo. The bullet lodged in the neck region of the victim.<br />
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She was rushed to a private hospital in the area where she was confirmed  dead. Policemen from the Owutu Police Division were said to have  arrived at the scene and arrested the guard, the assistant manager of  the hotel and the victim’s boyfriend.<br />
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Mambillah, which is one of the popular hotels in the Ikorodu area of  Lagos, bore a gloomy look all through. A resident confided in Punch that  since the tragedy, the hotel had been shut to guests and no music had  been played during the daytime as was the practice.<br />
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A large number of security officials was also said to have been deployed  in the hotel to prevent attack from some aggrieved youths in the area.<br />
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A young boy, who did not identify himself for security reason, said the  incident left a bl*ody trail. He said, “On Sunday morning when I wanted  to do something in the hotel, I noticed bl*od on the ground. I cannot  say exactly how the incident happened, but I learnt a lady was killed  the previous night.”<br />
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Ibrahim, the guard who fired the killer shot, owned a house in Ikorodu.  Punch spoke with one of his tenants, who pleaded anonymity for security  reasons. The tenant described Ibrahim as a caring landlord who was only a  victim of some “forces.”<br />
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She said, “He is such a nice and caring landlord. I have been living in  his house for a long time and he has never made any trouble with me. I  know he is just a victim of some forces beyond his control. He could not  have deliberately killed the girl and I hope the police authorities  would have mercy on him.”<br />
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When contacted, the manager of the hotel said he had nothing to say.<br />
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The Deputy Police Public Relations Officer, Lelma Kolle, an ASP,  however, confirmed the incident. The case has been transferred to the  State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba, for investigation.</div>
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OMG!!:Female Student of Babcock University Killed In A Hotel In Lagos

A female undergraduate of Babcock University, Ms Busayo Ogunkoya, has been killed by one Azeez Ibrahim during a birthday party in a...

Atlast Gov. Nyako Impeached By Adamawa Assembly

<br /><br /><img alt="Adamawa State Governor, Alhaji Muritala Nyako" class="attachment-bigstoryimage" height="225" src="http://www.punchng.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Adamawa-State-Governor-Alhaji-Muritala-Nyako-360x225.jpg" width="360" /><br /><br />Embattled Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako, has been impeached.<br /><blockquote><br />The  governor was removed a while ago as the state House of Assembly  deliberated on the report of an investigative panel that probed  allegations of financial misconducts against him.<br /><br />Earlier, the state Deputy Governor, Bala Ngilari, resigned from office to avoid being impeached.<br /><br />Mr.  Ngilari’s resignation letter was read at plenary by the speaker of the  Assembly, Umaru Fintiri, after which the lawmakers approved it.<a name='more'></a><br /><br />The  House is sitting today to consider the report of the seven-member  investigative panel, appointed to probe allegations of financial  impropriety against the governor and his deputy.<br /><br />The committee submitted its report to the House on Monday.<br /><br />There is high security presence on the road leading to the Assembly and inside the complex.<br /><br />A source, who works with the Assembly, told PREMIUM TIMES only staff and journalists are being allowed access into the Assembly.<br /><br />The source requested not to be named because he had no permission to speak to journalists on the matter.<br /></blockquote> Source: TV Gotel<br /><br />Details later….

Atlast Gov. Nyako Impeached By Adamawa Assembly

Embattled Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako, has been impeached. The governor was removed a while ago as the state House of Assembly d...

Unilorin 2014 Post UTME Form Is Out, See Screening-Instructions & Eligiblity Info

<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="unilorin Unilorin 2014 Post UTME Form Is Out, See Screening Instructions & Eligiblity Info" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-22117" src="http://i1.wp.com/www.naijaloaded.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/unilorin.jpg?resize=288%2C337" title="Unilorin 2014 Post UTME Form Is Out, See Screening Instructions & Eligiblity Info" /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>1. The University of Ilorin invites all candidates who have applied  for admission into the University as First Choice either through UTME or  Direct Entry, to visit the University of Ilorin website, <a href="http://www.unilorin.edu.ng/" target="_blank"><strong>www.unilorin.edu.ng</strong></a>, for details of the procedure for the Pre- Admission Screening Exercise.<br /> <br />2. Registration for the Pre-admission screening will commence on <strong>Sunday 13th</strong> July and end <strong>Wednesday 23rd July</strong>, 2014.<br /> <br />3. The Pre-admission Screening Exercise is scheduled to take place from <strong>Monday, 21st</strong> to <strong>Saturday 26th</strong> July, 2014 using Computer Based Test (CBT) platform at Ilorin and Lagos Centres.<br /><a name='more'></a><br /> <br />4. The deadline for the online registration is <strong>23rd July, 2014</strong>. However, candidates awaiting results but who have registered on or before <strong>23rd July</strong>, 2014 have the opportunity to submit their results online on or before <strong>15th August</strong>, 2014 when the portal will be closed.<br /> <br />5. <strong>2013/2014 Remedial Students</strong> should await further instructions for their registrations.<br /> <h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>ELIGIBILITY</strong></span></h3>Candidates must have:<br /> <br />> Scored a minimum of 180 marks in the 2014 UTME for all courses  except those for which higher cut off marks have been specified on the  University website;<br /> <br />> Made the University of Ilorin their first choice either at UTME or Direct Entry (DE) and;<br /> <br />> Obtained Five (5) Credits in relevant ‘O ’ Level subjects, at  not more than two sittings except in MB;BS where only one sitting is  acceptable.<br /> <br />Eligible candidates should visit the University website <a href="http://www.unilorin.edu.ng/" target="_blank"><strong>www.unilorin.edu.ng</strong></a> to complete their registration online. Assessing the University website  through any of search engines may lead to redirection to other websites  not associated with the University.<br /> <br />For further enquiries, candidates should contact <a href="http://www.naijaloaded.com.ng/2014/07/14/unilorin-2014-post-utme-form-see-screening-instructions-eligiblity-info/preadmission2014@unilorin.edu.ng%20" target="_blank">preadmission2014@unilorin.edu.ng</a>.<br /> The University charges N1,000.00 (One thousand Naira) only for the  CBT exercise and N2,000.00 (Two thousand Naira) only for the University  processing fee.<br /> <br />Details on the step- by- step registration procedure are available on the University website <a href="http://www.unilorin.edu.ng/" target="_blank">www.unilorin.edu.ng</a>.<br /> <h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>NOTE</strong></span></h3>> Candidates for the pre-admission screening exercise are advised  to be decently dressed. Candidates with indecent dressing will not be  allowed into the screening premises<br /> <br />> Phones and all other forms of mobile communication, electronic  devices, bags and luggage are not allowed within the screening premises.<br /> <br />> Only registered candidates for the screening exercise will be allowed into the screening premises.<br /><br /><br /><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><strong><a href="http://uilugportal.unilorin.edu.ng/putme_instruction.php" target="_blank">CLICK HERE TO START REGISTRATION</a></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>E. D. Obafemi<br />Registrar<br />

Unilorin 2014 Post UTME Form Is Out, See Screening-Instructions & Eligiblity Info

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Mourinho Defends Messi’s World Cup Performance – See What He Said here

<br /><img alt="Mourinho defends Messi Unbelievable!!! Mourinho Defends Messi’s World Cup Performance   See What He Said" class="size-full wp-image-22133 aligncenter" src="http://i0.wp.com/www.naijaloaded.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Mourinho-defends-Messi.jpg?resize=600%2C350" title="Unbelievable!!! Mourinho Defends Messi’s World Cup Performance   See What He Said" /><br /><br /> It is not news that people have defended Lionel Messi’s subdued  performances at the 2014 World Cup that ended on Sunday with Germany  beating Argentina 1-0.<br /> But when the name of Messi’s defender is Jose Mourinho – then it is news.<br /> <br />Mourinho, who was an ESPN analyst in Brazil said: “He [Messi] sacrificed himself for the good of the team.<br /> “He was more focused on winning the tournament than being its best  player. I saw him playing in areas of the pitch where he doesn’t usually  play. “He dropped deep and picked up the ball a long way from the  opposition’s goal.<br /><a name='more'></a><br /> <br />It is baffling because almost all of the Portuguese’s career, he has  called Barcelona players actors and not shown them any respect at all.<br /> <br />“Messi has my utmost respect for what he did at the World Cup”, Mourinho added.<br /> “Playing football for your country is different to playing for your  club. If he’d wanted to show just how good he is he’d have played tucked  in behind HiguaIn, waiting for that moment to change the game,” he  concluded.

Mourinho Defends Messi’s World Cup Performance – See What He Said here

It is not news that people have defended Lionel Messi’s subdued performances at the 2014 World Cup that ended on Sunday with Germany b...

The Nigerian Health Sector; Just Before The Waterloo

<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><br /> </h3><div class="post-header"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzSUF8HgngrNOY9h9V8huP93PvcswoNQwRmAfyZ1RvIDShLGliQDIiMaSLIhmBI_KUe8tY4kAnR4PrFew6Tn7ShLdJ1PhHiLzncFZG5ZHHky0a0YuWrwRqk7l_pCV6wGdV4OAwzDcikuEP/s1600/DOCTORS+STRIKE.jpg" width="400" /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><b>By Dr. Tque Majolagbe</b><br />It’s been over two weeks now since the Nigerian Medical Association  pulled her members away from work throughout the country making a lot of  the common Nigerians groan under the agony of seeing their loved ones  suffer from illnesses without getting proper care and some even loosing  precious lives in the process. <br /><br />Much as many may feel that the worst has come, it is instructive that we  take a critical look of the present predicament and understand that the  worst is yet to come. Judging by the facts of the issues that has led  to the present action of the NMA, it is clear to me that if urgent and  decisive steps are not taken then the Nigerian Health sector is just  about to meet its waterloo.<a name='more'></a><br /><br />No doubt NMA and her doctors have received the worst bashing from the  general public; which has been fueled by the support of the Union of the  Joint health workers under the aegis of an amorphous body called  JOHESU. This situation is so because people lack dept into the issues  that has caused the present action of the doctors and of course the fact  that they cannot phantom why the doctors would appear so callous as to  abandon their patients.<br /><br />If we must avoid impending doom it is imperative that we take a critical  impartial analysis of the present issues, so that we can take decisive  steps to avoid the worst coming to being...<br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1273158107245326844" name="more"></a><br />Rather than just always criticize the doctors for withdrawing services,  it is better to first understand the issues dispassionately; next we can  then query the decision of the doctors to have taken withdrawal of  service as the option to pursue their agitation.<br /><br />For all those who have good knowledge of the goings-on in the health  sector of Nigeria, it would be clear that whatever crisis we are  witnessing now is a result of conflict that has long bedeviled the  sector and has been brewing for over two decades ago.<br /><br />Without prejudice to any of the disputing sides, i make bold to say that  health service requires the collaborative efforts of various  professionals and other allied workers whose only goal is to come to a  positive outcome of patient care. Every part of this whole has its  integral role that it plays and one part may not claim superiority over  the others.<br /><br />However, in any scenario where we have different people coming together  to achieve a single goal, there must be direction and this direction  must be provided by leadership. The problem in the Nigerian health  sector is that leadership has been misconstrued as superiority and as  noted earlier, this problem has been on for decades. I also make bold to  say that both sides are guilty of this misnomer.<br /><br />Much as we try to have a clear understanding of the distinction between  leadership and superiority, we must however also have a clear mind as to  who to Captain the ship. It is commonsensical that only one captain is  needed to direct this Ship, and anything other than that leads to chaos;  which is exactly what we must avoid.<br /><br />It is also commonsensical that the best person to captain the ship is  the most knowledgeable person about the entire process and without doubt  that positions falls to the doctor. That the doctor is the one with the  most knowledge of the patient is what the other health professionals  find discordant to their ears and this has been the bane of the long  standing conflict.  But no one gets annoyed or argue when the lawyer  says that he is the only learned person. Why should this concept be a  problem within the health sector.<br /><br />The common man may however find it petty that such issues should be  taken so seriously by the doctors and more so resulting in such serious  action as withdrawal of services. I must however paint the full  implication of the issues as it affects the medical profession and  ultimately how it affects the care of the patients too.<br /><br />What the other health workers are asking for is not just a name, but to  use and be accorded what is due to the term consultant. Other than that  they also believe that it is their right to also head the health team.  (Using the term health team gives a clearer implication of this  request.)<br /><br />Let us all be clear that the term consultant may refer simply to an  advisory role between a professional and its client. Within the hospital  setting however this is not so. The term consultant refers to a  specific role which describes a relationship between a patient and a  physician who has <div data-cid="2378" data-kw="completed" style="border-bottom: 1px solid; color: #f35b00; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: auto; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration: underline; width: auto;">completed</div>his specialization in a particular part of medicine. It is a position of responsibility as well as authority.<br /><br />The implication is that if a doctor does not become a specialist,  irrespective of many years of practice or getting to the highest  position in service, it still does not confer on him the title  consultant. What do we then make of a Nurse or pharmacist who wants to  attain the same status. It has been believed that because these other  health workers now pursue postgraduate degrees up to attaining a PhD it  is therefore expected that it is okay for them to receive such status.  But pursuing an academic career is completely different from  specialization. Even a medical doctor who decided to attain a PhD does  not get the title consultant.<br /><br />The implication of having other health workers attain the status and  role of consultant is that it provides more than one captain to direct  the ship. For instance the consultant pharmacist may believe that he is a  specialist in the field of drugs and therefore may decide on what drug a  patient may or may not be given. Everyone else including nurses and  laboratory scientist may decide on themselves what they want or do not  want for the patient. There exists no other word for this other than  chaos!!<br /><br />How would a patient get well with conflicting orders? Indeed who would  be ready to get on board a ship with more than one captain. Well I  wouldn’t, even if the ride is for free. Let it be clear that the  scenarios painted above are not just suppositions, they are realities  that already exist even before the conferment of this title. The doctors  have however been able to save the situations in the past by referring  the other team members to their specific roles and responsibilities. Now  that the title has been conferred on other health workers it has been  impossible to get proper direction for patients’ care in places where  this happened and patients have been at the receiving end of it all.<br /><br />With respect to the issue of headship, a clear distinction must be made  between the head of administration of a hospital and the Chief Operating  Officer. The position of the head of administration of the hospital has  been occupied by people other than medical doctors. The NMA has no  issue with anyone with the requisite skills to occupy that position. But  when it comes to the chief operation officer of the hospital; by  whatever name it is called, Medical Director, CMD, CEO of CFO, that  position we maintain should be headed by a Medical doctor.<br /><br />This is a position of high responsibility and one in which the officer  has to make judgment call that is not based on just administrative  matters but that is based on the clinical responsibility of the  hospital. We must have at the back of us our minds that the goal of the  hospital is patient centered. It is ONLY (note emphasis) the doctor that  has the COMPLETE knowledge of the patient and can take most  responsibility regarding patient care. It is therefore a desideratum  that the doctor only can occupy this position in other to deliver on the  expected goal of the hospital and health systems.<br /><br />One cannot but be puzzled and amazed at the rate at which other health  workers have jostled for the top post. These are people who are indeed  very protective of their position and roles. Would the pharmacist allow  the pharmacy department to he headed by a pharmacy technician? Would the  laboratory scientist prefer to take instruction form the technicians?  We know the answer to these questions. I also know as a matter of fact  that there is a law in this country that bars non radiographers from  using radiological equipments even the technician within that department  is not allowed.<br /><br />It is dismal that while these group of health officials are highly   engaged in professional territorial protection, they are also agitating  for the job, authority and responsibility of the doctor. This and the  chaos that may arise from it is what the doctors are protecting for  engaging in the current industrial action.<br /><br />Haven understood the basis of the industrial disharmony one must still  ponder why the option of withdrawal of services has been taken by the  doctors; especially when the grave consequences are well known.<br /><br />In any reasonable society doctors are not to be allowed to go on strike  under whatever condition. The onus however is not left to the doctors  alone but also to the government and the general public. We must  remember that the doctors are also a part of the society and become  subjected to the same factors affecting everyone. The physician oath  indeed recognizes this fact and provides that a physician should be well  treated by the society as long as he plays the role of dedicating his  time to patients care.<br /><br />While one cannot take away the option of the doctors to agitating for  their well being amongst other things, it is a terrible thing for  doctors to withdraw services especially in a large scale. I believe that  other methods must be available for the NMA to pursue its demands. We  know that dialogue do fail but even when pushed to the wall the option  of strike is very grave.<br /><br />The organized labor NLC, TUC, etc and civil society groups should rather  come to the aid of the doctors and serve as pressure groups to pursue  the clear demands and aspirations of the doctors. But what would you  have NMA do when those who we believe are supposed to be the  intercessors are the ones who actually worked against the NMA.<br /><br />As a matter of fact, while JOHESU had gone on strike a couple of times  over this issue in the last one year, NMA has averted the same course by  postponing an industrial action at least four times last year alone.  NMA had continued to embrace the part of dialogue to pursue its demands.  The game changer was the point when the Nigerian Labour Congress teamed  up with the other health workers and threatened the federal government  to sign the agreement with JOHESU even without prior fair hearing from  NMA.<br /><br />With the Federal government haven signed an agreement with JOHESU which  is the complete reverse of the understanding with the doctors, NMA is  left with no other choice than to take her destiny into her own hands.  This is the reason for the current action of NMA and I sincerely await a  dispassionate suggestion as to what other methods NMA could have  adopted. The ultimatum given to the Federal government was a public  document which was put on the pages of the news paper, Nigerians;  including the civil society group did not deem it wise to intercede  during that time frame and we all allowed the NMA to proceed on the  withdrawal of services.<br /><br />We all have a blame in this. The NLC, TUC and civil society groups have  failed the country. We do not just claim to be a sane society without  living up to such responsibilities. Up till today members of the civil  society groups have not deem it fit to come into this present imbroglio.<br /><br />As noted earlier, worse times are coming. How do we expect to achieve  the team spirit with so much passion and acrimony. This is only a  forbearer to unending disharmony. There is no team that can deliver  without harmony, and there is no way the health sector can deliver on  its goals without a team spirit. We must not wait to get to the end of  the line. We must all act fast and decisively to forestall this grave  consequence.<br /><br />In other to move forward, the government must first find a way for the  NMA to suspend its industrial action. One way is to ask that the whole  team return to status quo ante. It is clear that only in settled waters  do things mirror themselves, undistorted. Only in settled waters can we  find a lasting solution to the problem at hand. No half measures.<br /><br />The NMA as the rightful leader of the health sector must understand what  leadership truly confers. It is a responsibility not only to the  doctors but to everyone within the health sector. This is a role NMA has  not truly delivered over the years. Only when the NMA assume this  rightful responsibility can the other members of the team be ready to  follow her leadership.<br /><br />NMA and other health workers must come to a round table with a no winner  no vanquish spirit. Together they can plot a future for the health  system of this country. A future that cater for the needs and  responsibilities of every member of the team, a future that is patient  centered, geared towards improving quality in health care and elevation  of the various professionals and allied groups within the health  workforce.<br /><br />This is the only dream that is truly positive. The only vision that can  be pursued and lead to a positive future. Lets all swallow our pride and  act wisely. Posterity be our judge.<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Dr. Tque Majolagbe</span></b>

The Nigerian Health Sector; Just Before The Waterloo

By Dr. Tque Majolagbe It’s been over two weeks now since the Nigerian Medical Association pulled her members away from work throughou...

GBAM : This Is The Solution To The Madness---- Boko Haram

<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><br /></h3><div class="post-header"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFZRNkY59onUC0RRySVd3Db2WTAAviDCdr86CUkUnHr1A2Q16zTZgIlnwSvpmaj0_5KEeGaE6NzZgSLfH_TknUaPk2CaLUuHmLjhAdNIZoRqWx3C8UQxtwwNDz0iuTgQ4GxtSzXeUgm99t/s1600/1+a+made+in+naija+1A.jpg" /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><b>Terror: Arrest them or Arrest Anyone That Accuses Them, We’ve had Enough!</b><br />We are tired of hearing it. The world is tired of hearing this same  pathetic song – that some elements against the current (in a series of  many minority president’s Nigeria has had) ruler’s administration are  behind Boko Haram terror. For God sake, enough already! Minister of  (dis)information, Labran Maku repeated this pathetic narrative again  this weekend.<br /><div></div><div>Since Abuja was bombed by MEND (as they admitted to ‘under directive to  do so from Goodluck Jonathan, to accuse his opponents as a means to  political victory’) in 2010, the presidency has concocted, encouraged  and patronized terror as a means of political smearing and survival. It  has been five harrowing years of this same song; will this ever get  phased out like cassettes? <a name='more'></a><br /><br />Dear presidency, do you realize that it is your duty to arrest these so-called, anti-Jo terror elements? </div><div>You have had five years to do so, do you require more time to arrest a <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_8">single</span> of these phantom elements who ‘continue to bomb and destroy us to bring you down?’ <span style="color: #cc0000;">Not one single one of them have you arrested, yet you do not know that it is to your shame that you keep repeating this lame <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_12">accusation</span> that these well known individuals are behind Boko Haram, yet with the 25% of the nation’s <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_11">budget</span> now allocated to supposedly combat terror and five years you have had,  you cannot track their phones and spy on them to get a single ounce of  credible evidence to arrest and disgrace them</span>? </div><div><br />Do you think we are a nation of drop-<span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_15">outs</span> and sophomoric’s?</div><div><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1273158107245326844" name="more"></a></div><div>Where such retarded excuse can continue to be played and re-played, as you continue to permit and tolerate terror and a <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_7">terrorist organization</span> that utilizes vehicles and ammunitions from the nation’s military –  under your command – to terrorize the poor of Nigeria’s north? The only  incontrovertible sponsors of Boko Haram today are the nation’s army  under your minister of defense, office of <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_4"><div data-cid="2378" data-kw="national security" style="border-bottom: 1px solid; color: #f35b00; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: auto; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration: underline; width: auto;">National Security</div></span>, oNSA, chief’s of the army and your <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_2">executive office</span>,  who give Boko Haram the nation’s weapons, tanks, APC’s and $20 billion  in fund reserves and provide them helicopter and air force jet cover to  drive freely in 40 car convoy’s devastate local farming communities of  the north for hours on end, displacing the third largest number in  recent recorded history (3+million) while never being able to check  their reign of limitless kidnapping, incendiarism, and extermination. <br /><br />Do you think that any other civilized or uncivilized nation on earth  other than Nigeria the world BS capital you have made it, would tolerate  this senseless excuse more than once with no follow-up <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_3">security service</span> arrest of the’ implicated’ individuals… talk less tolerate the rubbish  for five full years? If it is Buhari, arrest him, if it is Tinubu,  arrest him. Do you think we do not know that when Buhari dragged your  behind to court, your spokesperson, Reuben Abati who first manufactured  and launched this puerile libelous, lame excuse, was forced to apologize  and together with Guardian where his demonic concoction was published,  published an apology to Buhari’s person in the Guardian of Thursday 11th  July, 2013, captioned ‘Re: For the attention of General Buhari?’ <br /><br />You are lucky the opposition ‘officials’ in Nigeria are nearly as hopeless as you, else you would have been in local and <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_5">international court</span> along with all your friends who keep terrorizing Nigeria with this  garbage every day for the past five years.  Arrest them or forever zip  it. And if you want to know people, terrorist candidates with clear  evidence who should be arrested already, look beside you at Abba Moro,  the self confessed agent of Satan, who terrorized millions of your  youths and killed two dozen. Why is he still walking free rather than in  jail, and worse yet, still at the head of our ministry? And your  beloved Bamanga Tukur, who openly promoted Boko Haram, stating that the  sect was fighting for; your justice; and ‘another name for justice;’ why  is he still free and employed by you to head the Nigerian Railway  corporation? </div><div></div><div>To plant bombs in the tracks? And return al Mustapha to the jail you dug  him out of. Now, these are real terrorists with open evidence against  them. The only enemy you have is yourself. After all, when Boko Haram  disturbed Yar’Adua, he dealt with them, no bickering, while  simultaneously <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_14">dealing</span> with MEND. We are tired of a death riddled insane society. Do your <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_10">job</span>, stop <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_1">aiding and abetting</span> Boko Haram, stop financing them and giving them ammunition, arms and  aerial cover to continue their genocide in the north, and please and  please, put a ban on dim-witted excuses for Boko Haram from your  friends. </div><div></div>It is not <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_13">selling</span>. We have had enough, seriously! We need some element of sanity and decency in this society, <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_9">haba</span>. Na from where this one waka come? <br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Dr. Peregrino Brimah</span></b>

GBAM : This Is The Solution To The Madness---- Boko Haram

Terror: Arrest them or Arrest Anyone That Accuses Them, We’ve had Enough! We are tired of hearing it. The world is tired of hearing t...

A MUST READ: Here's What The PDP Is Fighting Hard To Do To The APC

<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><br /> </h3><div class="post-header"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW-DXH6CunVbaw3Y1WTjzE9DHgfCIoaAHG7QeLZo0rBB3_nRowIvnOTEsYa7UiVwpIlRMe7EdX8onRgKxl2H8VXzN3FFnEH-aXkgU3whFeEGiuQBcXS_oo4KbWzWxvXisPzagN8etqaIPH/s1600/APC+1.jpg" width="400" /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div><b>APC: Giving A Dog A Bad Name, by Joe Igbokwe</b></div>In the cause of the presidential <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_21">campaigns</span> in 1992/1993 the handlers of Alhaji Bashir Tofa, the <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_4">Presidential candidate</span> of the <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_1">National Republican Convention</span>,  NRC knew very well that Tofa was no match to Chief MKO Abiola, the  candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP. These obvious and painful  self-evident truths gave them goose pimples. At every angle the  organization was dazed with the weighty and heavy credentials of Chief  MKO Abiola. In every issue, Tofa could not get it and had no answer to  any question thrown to him. Devastation, embarrassment and confusion hit  the organization and there was no solution in sight. Suddenly an idea  came to the campaign organization.<br /><br /><b> What did the campaign organization headed by Dr Doyin Okupe do? </b><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">They told themselves that since they cannot match Abiola’s moving train  on capacity, experience, boldness, wealth, education, character,  charisma, local, national and international connections, intelligence,  common sense etc the <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_8">best thing</span> to do is to try as much as possible to pull down Chief MKO Abiola by  any means possible from his towering height to Tofa’s Lilliputian level.<a name='more'></a></blockquote><div><b>But did they succeed?</b></div><div><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1273158107245326844" name="more"></a></div><div>They never did. It was an <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_12">exercise</span> in futility, all noise and no substance, a tale told by some nitwits full of <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_2">sound and fury</span>, signifying nothing. Chief MKO Abiola won a land slide victory.<br /><br />22 years after, history is repeating itself in Nigeria. The All  Progressives Congress, APC was formed last year to challenge the ruling  Party PDP whose leaders had claimed that it will rule Nigeria for  60years. Realizing that if nothing tangible is done to stop Nigeria from  becoming a one party state and consequently turning into a <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_10">full blown</span> dictatorship, the ANPP, ACN, CPC and a faction of APGA came together to  form APC after an excruciating and daunting exercise. Nigerians are  living witnesses of how these legacy parties walked through the mines,  drilled the deepest well, bite bullets, and faced many battles with  bruises and pains to achieve this feat. From when the idea was mooted  till when it held its successful national convention last month, the PDP  and its supporters manufactured, sold and cultivated the notion that  the APC will never come to be. To their chagrin, at every turn, the APC  walks away intact, growing from strength to strength and buoyed each day  by the support of Nigerians who are frustrated that in sixteen years of  misrule. </div><div></div><div>PDP has ruled Nigeria for 16 awful years and what better report of its  stewardship than that  life has practically screeched to a halt as  nothing works in a country of estimated 160 million which <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_7">international economic</span> experts project will have the largest number of poor people in 2015.  Yes, Nigeria is being projected to have more poor people than India,  with 1.1 billion people and China, with 1.3 billion people! These are  the three top nations habouring the largest number of poor people  globally. You can understand with China and India, with their over one  billion people, but with Nigeria? It is a shame! This was the PDP legacy  that informed the birth of APC.<br /><br />Despite the doomsday prophecies and wishes of the PDP and its supporters, APC was registered as a <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_9">political Party</span> and it immediately became the biggest opposition party in Nigeria. Few  months after registration some governors moved from PDP to APC and  instantly took control of 16 states in Nigeria and PDP was left with 18  states. For a party that once controlled 33 states but now tentatively  holding to 18 states, it was a real and potent danger and it had to  fight back by every dirty means at its disposal. This is the straw that  broke the camel’s back. Anxiety, panic, confusion, fear gripped PDP  right, left and centre. Not knowing how to deal with the enormity of the  challenges facing them and the imminent danger of collapse of the party  the leaders of the party including President Dr Goodluck Jonathan have  resorted to blackmail, intimidation, subterfuge, harassment, religious  politics, propaganda, bribery, influence peddling, and <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_6">name calling</span>.<br /><br />First they said APC is made up of failed politicians and rascals. When  APC began to wax stronger despite their gambit and lies, they started  insinuating that APC has links with Boko Haram. Infact, they claim that  APC is funding Boko Haram. Soon and in their own very eyes  they tagged  APC a Boko Haram party. Now this is the greatest danger. If you tell a  lies a thousand times, some ignorant people will begin to see it as  true. Now these lies must stop.<br /><br />Let us start with the history of kidnapping and hostage taking in Nigeria. It all started when PDP governors in the Niger <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_16">Delta</span> started arming gangs and cults to steal elections for them. After  election, these gangsters used the guns to start a ferocious act of  insecurity that blossomed into general insecurity that has crippled many  states in Nigeria today.<br /><br />On Boko Haram, let us recall it started during the tenure of late  President Yar’Adua when PDP boasted of having an unlimited control of  the country with a vast number of states in its control. Then, there was  no APC and PDP rumbled from one end of the country to another. As this  became worrisome, Yar’Adua rounded up the leader of Boko Haram and  killed and this led to a declaration of war by Boko Haram. Because  Jonathan and his handlers believed that it can con sympathy from  Nigerians, it did nothing and allowed Boko Haram to overwhelm the  country’s <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_19">security</span>. Meanwhile, Nigerians still recall the advent of bombing in Abuja when an <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_11">Independence Day</span> bomb incidence shattered the peace of Abuja. Jonathan and his handlers,  playing desperately to its deadly politics of benefitting from the woes  of the country, blamed it on its opponents, even when MEND claimed  responsibility for the incidence. Later, Raymond Dokpesi was alleged to  be behind the bombing. Today, Nigerians still ask what happened to the  investigation on  that incidence or had it been buried in PDP’s deep  labyrinth of conspiracy?<br /><br />The late General Azazi, <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_20">former</span> <div data-cid="2378" data-kw="national security" style="border-bottom: 1px solid; color: #f35b00; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: auto; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration: underline; width: auto;">National Security</div>Adviser to the president told Nigerians at the beginning that Boko  Haram was a product of PDP’s infighting and struggle for political <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_18">office</span> and supremacy. As the National Security Adviser and a kinsman of  Jonathan and a retired five star General, the late Azazi knew his  terrain and domain very well. He understood the game very well, he was  familiar with this kind of movements and struggles, he understood the <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_15">job</span> and he had information from above and below. So when he said that Boko Haram was a product of PDP’s craze for <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_14">power</span> was that accusation investigated? Did anybody take him serious? Was he  given the chance to prove his case? No they did not. They sacked him as  NSA and the man eventually died under questionable circumstances in a <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_3">plane crash</span>.<br /><br />Have we recalled that Senator Ali Ndume a PDP senator was once quizzed  for Boko Haram allegations and he swore to an affidavit that Vice  President Namadi Sambo approved his contacts with Boko Haram. Pray what  had a government that steals trillions of Naira every year on the guise  of security votes but which believes that its opponents must carry its  cross, do about this grievous allegation?<br /><br />We have seen this type of game plan before in the days of the locust.  The late General Abacha threw bombs in Lagos and went ahead to arrest  the Yoruba leaders and accused them of being responsible for the crime.  When Alhaja Kudirat Abiola was murdered also by Abacha agents of death,  the same Abacha gave orders that some prominent Yoruba leaders for the  heinous crime. This is the way of dictators all over the world.<br /><br />The man died and so were his findings and reports. APC offered solutions  but was ignored by the powers that be. Today a party that went through  many troubles to be where it is now is being given a bad name in order  to destroy it, and some Nigerians are ignorantly buying the idea hook,  line and sinker. Initially when Boko Haram was targeting Churches, motor  parks, government buildings many Nigerians including this writer  thought the war was targeted on Southerners and Christians only until  they started attacking everybody including their own brothers, sisters,  school girls and even some traditional leaders in the North. Right now,  nobody is safe anywhere in Nigeria. Everybody, every institution, every  market, every school is now a target.<br /><br />Boko Haram is no longer a threat to Northern Nigeria only; it is now a  threat to Nigeria. It is no longer a Northern affair because nobody is  safe. To me I think it is now a global scourge. They came to Mali and  France forced them out. They are in Kenya, they are in Cameroun etc. But  what do the government ran by PDP do in the face of this ruinous threat  on the entire Nigerian polity? It signs off trillions of Naira as  security votes every year and makes a song of its opponents sponsoring  Boko Haram. As a party in government, the onus falls on PDP to prove its  case but it is not doing so because they want these to remain fables to  be used to shore up their politics after failing woefully in  governance. For a party that met 40 million <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_13">poor</span> people in 1999 and has grown the figure to 130 million (World Bank  statistics), it is right and fitting to use Boko Haram to tarnish its  opponents and rip off Nigerians with continued stay in power.<br /><br />I think APC leaders must roll-up their sleeves as it did when the legacy  parties came together. They must fight as they did before the  registration of the great party. <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_17">Yes</span> APC must fight back and those who know must also stand up to be  counted. If APC and well informed Nigerians allow PDP to continue to  sell this bad news to Nigeria and the world, then the real danger is  here.<br /><br />The world must know also that President Goodluck Jonathan has not helped  matters in the fight against Boko Haram. He spends more time in the  Churches these days as if he is a president of Christians in Nigeria  only. This is dangerous. He is the president of 150million Nigerians. He  and his party have polarized Nigerians so badly along religious lines  and this continues to conflate the Boko Haram crisis. Mr. President  controls the Army, Navy, Police, Airforce, DMI, SSS, NDLEA, Mobile  Police etc. but APC control nothing. Now if APC funds Boko Haram and the  President and PDP that control all the machineries of law enforcement  agencies cannot discover Boko Haram base and who are behind them, then  something is wrong. </div><div></div><div>APC has invited the world to investigate Boko Haram activities and their  sponsors in order to put to rest these allegations. We have called on  credible international investigative agencies to dip deep and unravel  the real sponsors of Boko Haram for the world to see that the suspicion  that PDP is responsible for the origin of Boko Haram and tactically  contributes to its present intractable nature because in its thinking,  it will help its very bad electoral standing and it will give them  enough grounds to continue pillaging security funds as we have seen in  Nigeria today. </div><div></div><div>This is the way to go, and Nigerians need this investigation to unravel  the misery of Boko Haram. We expect the PDP to take up this challenge  and join us to call for credible international probe of Boko Haram  origin, sponsors and sources of strength.</div></div>

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<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><br /> </h3><div class="post-header"></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-926389948930766712" itemprop="description articleBody"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGNL4ZrfloqSUSk07NzFPBjMzOL1hzHGjGxPFzOSgiuorL80AKfNeU6IKE83HhdoQphCuMi0_gbGDe6ygamIZXlQvcGwrKf1r4r1eHgoVk6-8J0rcdj1aDUOMkkOFJ-bybxqvfRA_FAUBd/s1600/Boko+Haram+SHEKAU+1.jpg" /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>If you hide it from people you can’t hide it from Allah. I ordered the  bombing of Lagos; says Shekau. Leader of the deadly Islamic sect, Boko  Haram, has claimed responsibility for June 25 bomb <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_23">attacks</span> in Lagos and Abuja which claimed several lives and caused serious <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_18">damage</span>.<br /><br />Five persons died in the Lagos explosion which occurred very close to  Folawiyo tank farm while that of Abuja which went off in a <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_14">shopping mall</span> killed 22 persons.<br /><a name='more'></a><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, in a 16-minute <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_2">video</span> obtained by AFP  also mocks the social media and protest campaign,  #BringBackOurGirls, which emerged after the Islamists kidnapped more  than 200 schoolgirls on April 14 from Chibok. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">The girls, whose abduction has drawn unprecedented attention to Boko  Haram’s five-year rebellion, are not pictured in the video, which was  given to AFP through similar channels as past messages...</blockquote><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1273158107245326844" name="more"></a><br />One previous recording showed more than 100 of the hostages, some of  whom are Christian, reciting Muslim prayers. Shekau also said his  loyalists carried out twin car bombings in May in Jos and a June attack  at a college in Kano.<br /><br /><b>Shekau claims Abuja, Lagos bomb attacks</b><br />“We were the ones who detonated the bomb in filthy Abuja,” Shekau said  in the video referring to a June 25 attack on a popular shopping centre  in Abuja that killed at least 22 people. Later <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_11">that day</span> a huge explosion also rocked the Apapa, which the authorities blamed on a cooking <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_6">gas explosion</span>, with no casualties.<br /><br />“A bomb went off in Lagos. I ordered the bomber who went and detonated  it,” Shekau says in the video, which shows him flanked by at least 10  gunmen in front of two armoured personnel carriers and two pick-up  trucks. “You said it was a <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_4">fire incident</span>,” he added. “Well, if you hide it from people you can’t hide it from Allah.”<br /><br />Shekau, in boasting about the Lagos attack, incorrectly identifies the  Governor of Lagos State, taunting Adams Oshiomhole, who is in fact the  Governor of Edo State. Lagos State is governed by Babatunde Fashola.<br /><br />Declared a global terrorist by the <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_3">United States</span> and sanctioned by the UN Security Council, Shekau is thought to have  previously claimed credit for attacks that he did not directly order.<br /><br />Near the beginning of the video, Shekau calls several of the world’s most prominent Islamist extremists his “brethren.”<br /><br />“May Allah protect you,” he said, listing IS chief, Abu Bakr  al-Baghdadi, Al-Qaeda head Ayman al-Zawahiri, Taliban leader Mullah Omar  and several others.<br /><br /><span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_21">Speaking</span> in English, Shekau recited the BringBackOurGirls slogan used by activists to press for the release of schoolgirls.<br /><br />“BringBackOurGirls… bring back our army,” he says, in what may be  reference to a previous offer that the hostages could be freed if the  Goodluck Jonathan governor releases Boko Haram fighters held in custody.</div></div>

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