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Residents of Ile-Ife have been warned to remain indoors as traditionalists wrap up the funeral rites for the immediate past Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuade. The final rites are to be performed by the Oro deity. Town criers went from street to street on Friday asking residents especially commercial drivers and motorcyclists to keep off the roads between 7am and 6pm. Head of the Oro cult in the town and the Awara of Iwara, Oba Layi Adereti, warned that anyone who flouts the order irrespective of age or gender would face its consequences. Many residents rushed to the few available markets to get essentials that would last them for the day. Major markets in the town have been shut since penultimate Friday when the burial rites started. As a result of the curfew, some Heads of Departments at the Obafemi Awolowo University located in the town, cancelled the continuous assessment tests for their students scheduled for yesterday. Some students, who reside off campus, were advised to remain indoors in compliance with the Oro cult order. Also, hundreds of commercial motorcyclists, popularly known as Okada, were seen on Friday distributing a handbill to their colleagues, warning them against operating in Ife yesterday.

Chairman of the Code of Conduct Bureau, Mr.
Sam Saba, in this interview with ADE ADESOMOJU,
speaks on the assets declared by President
Muhammadu Buhari, Vice-President Yemi
Osinbajo, and other public officers
Nigerians want to have access to the details of assets declared by
public officers. What is the bureau doing about it?
Yes, it is true and the issue is not just starting now. The issue of
having access to assets declaration of public officers was reviewed
by the Code of Conduct Bureau and the Code of Conduct Tribunal
as far back as 2003. We sat jointly to discuss the need for us to
ensure that we give some guidelines as a way of suggesting to the
National Assembly, because the National Assembly is supposed to
be the one to give guidelines that will give access to information on
assets declared by public officers. But since that was not
forthcoming, people believe that it is the Code of Conduct Bureau
that does not want to give out any of these (completed assets
declaration) forms.
We took the initiative: Whatever we do, we have to consult with the
tribunal and that was why we came together and then worked
separately; then we came together again to finalise the guidelines.
When we did that and finalised it, we also invited the civil society
organisations and they gladly came. We sat down together and we
went over everything together. They felt that some of the guidelines
we gave were too stringent and they modified it, and we agreed.
Can you mention some specific modifications that were made to the
guidelines based on the CSOs’ suggestions?
For example, they felt the amount of money to be paid to gain
access (to the information) was too much, so they reduced it. They
also felt that the requirement that one must swear to an affidavit
before one can gain access could serve as a stumbling block. That
was also removed.
What about the issue of tax clearance?
Tax clearance is okay, because if you want to know what other
people are doing, you too have to live above board. You have to
live above board when trying to pry into somebody’s assets
declaration.
There is an aspect of the proposed guideline that prohibits publication
of the content of the assets declared in the media.
Yes, you cannot publish it. You can only use it for the exact thing
you want to use it for and not to publish it. Since this thing has
not been forwarded to the National Assembly or even to the
Ministry of Justice, it will be wrong to discuss the details.
At what stage is the proposed legislation on the guideline now?
Now, we have finalised it (the modifications). The United Nations
Office on Drugs and Crime has sent it to us and I have in turn
given it to the body that has been charged by the UNODC with the
legislation on prevention (of corruption) — as you may know, this
is more of prevention (of corruption) — so that they can now look
at it for the final time. They are looking at it and as soon as they
are through with it and are satisfied with it, I will submit it with a
cover letter to the UNODC, because the UNODC sponsored this one.
The previous one was sponsored by the CBB and CCT and that
was used as a framework for developing this one.
So when will it be sent to the National Assembly?
It will be difficult to say because we will still have to send it to
the Ministry of Justice. The Ministry of Justice will look at it and
see the merits and the demerits of it. Once the ministry agrees to
the amendments, it will send it to the National Assembly as an
executive bill.
Nigerians seem not to recognise the contribution of assets declaration
to the fight against corruption. How do you think the concept has
fared over the years?
It has helped in fighting corruption. First of all, you know that
those who aspire to public office fill certain forms – from Mr.
President, to his vice, members of his cabinet, governors, deputy
governors and local government area chairmen. They fill these forms
before they take oath of office and swearr the oath of allegiance.
None of these categories of people takes office or begins to
perform functions of the office without first declaring their assets.
They know that this is what they have declared and they know that
it is going to be verified.
How do you carry out the verification?
We verify in two ways. First is the conference verification which is
the preliminary one where you come with all your papers, for
example your statements of bank accounts, tax clearance, evidence
of ownership of vehicles and property which you say you have. For
instance, if you say you have three vehicles, let us see the
registration numbers. We don’t have to see all the details. Once we
are able to see the receipt of the purchase of the vehicle or the
registration documents, we are satisfied. But we still have to see it
physically and that is the second stage which we call field
verification. So, we have conference verification during which you
bring these papers. We accept the papers and we agree with you.
We come to you on a fixed date when it is convenient for you to
verify it physically. That is the second stage, which is the field
verification. That has helped enormously. We don’t have any
problems with the politically exposed people or persons because they
know they cannot even take the oath of office until they have done
this. It is an obligation.
But you were recently quoted in the media as saying some
governors had not declared their assets even after they had been
sworn in to office. Is that not a breach of the law?
The reporter was rushing too fast. I said I would get back to him.
He asked that question and I said some of the responses I was
getting did not show that some of them (the governors) had done
so, but that I was not too sure until the time my commissioners
would give me feedback. Each commissioner has a zone and some
of the zones have six states or four states. When they come and
tell me that they have finished collecting all the forms, then I would
be able to say categorically that it is so and so.
So, I said he should hold on, that when we get the results, we
would get back to him and he just went ahead to publish it. I mean
he (the reporter) could do away with that aspect of the story
because what was the most important thing was that most of them
had complied; I could not say all, because the results had not come
to me. I think it was too early. So, for now, from what my
commissioners have told me, all of them (governors) declared on
time. Some of them even declared about a month before the time
(their swearing–in). So we don’t have any problem with them; the
same goes for their deputies.
We have not seen a former governor brought to the tribunal for
failing to declare his assets. Does this mean that they always
comply all the time?
They comply and verifications are ongoing. The outgoing governors
have up to 90 days to declare their assets at the end of their
tenure. The new ones don’t have that liberty and they know that
they have to fill it (the assets declaration form) before even
entering the office, and they do it. There is no way by which any of
them can be a defaulter. What we normally do, as a reminder is
that our state directors in all offices across the states will meet
with the chief judge of each state and tell him, “Remember that no
governor or his deputy will be sworn in until they fill this form.”
And the chief judge will remind the governor-elect and his deputy
that they have to fill the Code of Conduct Bureau form before they
take the oath of allegiance and the oath of office. And they will
comply.
The same goes for the National Assembly; no member of the
National Assembly will take the oath of office without filling the
form. For instance, when these current set (of legislators) came in,
we even moved the forms there (the National Assembly Complex).
There was a small place where we had the forms and those who did
not collect from the Clerk of the National Assembly would just go
over to the bureau’s desk, collect the form, fill it and return it or
they return it to the Clerk, who would submit the completed forms
to the CCB. The various commissioners in charge would then deal
with them (the completed forms). So we have no problems with them
(lawmakers).
If politicians rarely breach the declaration, have you ever discovered
any breach in the information provided by them during the
verification exercises?
Speaking of verification, we cannot verify everybody. But at least,
we do that for governors and principal officers. We never had
problems with them. I remember that we had problems in the late
80s up till the early 90s. People were not willing to declare (their
assets). But with a lot of public enlightenment, with a lot of
programmes on television and radio, with the coverage that
journalists like you are giving it in your various newspapers, people
have begun to understand. And today, we don’t have that problem.
People are filling the forms willingly.
We also request for nominal roll call from various Ministries,
Departments and Agencies and they send it to us. So, from it
(information received), we send the number of forms to permanent
secretaries who will then distribute them. When they finish completing
the forms, they (the forms) are sent back to us. For those who
don’t fill it, we get in touch with them because we go through our
nominal roll to find out the person that has not submitted or we go
through the Director of Administration of MDAs to make the
observation.
President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo have
declared their assets to the CCB and they said they would only
make their declarations public voluntarily after the bureau has
completed its verification exercise. Has the verification exercise
started?
That is pending now.
Which of the two stages of verification is pending – conference or
field verification?
Both the conference and the field verification exercises are pending.
When is the first stage going to start?
Any moment from now
What is delaying it?
We are waiting for when it is convenient for Mr. President and his
vice for us to go and do it.
Some observers believe that politicians make anticipatory declarations
of assets, yet we don’t see any of them taken to the tribunal.
It is not rampant. I will say it is not rampant. I remember that
when I was secretary (of the bureau) a long time ago, we had only
one case. It was discovered and it was rectified.
What kind of rectification was done?
He didn’t say it was at foundation level, whereas what he declared
was that it was completed.
But was the person charged or is that not an offence?
You see, these things are gradual. You correct somebody; it is a
preventive measure. It’s only when the person is proving difficult
that you will deal with it (the situation). He was willing, since he
saw that he was discovered. Certain things, we overlook, because the
person has done the right thing. At that time, we were trying to
get people agree to fill these forms. They should not be coerced
into filling it; they should just do it as responsible public officers.
The one that we frown at now is when it is done with impunity.
You know that you are supposed to fill this form, you have 90
days to do it, but you don’t. Of course, your name will go to the
tribunal.
If at the end of the verification exercise, anyone of the incumbent
president, vice president, governors, their deputies and other public
officers is found to have declared false assets, does it mean the
bureau will overlook it again?
Definitely, it will go to the tribunal because it will be a breach.
Why is it that more public officers in the lower cadre like the
council chairmen are charged by CCB for asset declaration offences,
while the those regarded as the ‘big fishes’ are rarely charged?
Like I told you at the beginning of this interview, we don’t have
problems with the ‘big fishes’ because they comply. The ‘small
fishes’ are the ones that don’t comply. For example, now,
governors and their deputies have declared; the commissioners coming
in have declared; the legislators, both at the federal and state
levels, have declared; the local government area chairmen and
councillors have declared. Those are the big people in the society and
they have declared.
Then, what work is left for the bureau and the tribunal to do?
There are many people who have committed breaches. There are many
people who have collected the forms and they have not returned
them and that is a breach; after 90 days that the public officers
left office.
What category of public officers are you talking about; do they
include former or serving governors?
Not governors. You were asking me about the ‘big fishes’ and I
said all the ‘big fishes’ comply.
But which kinds of breaches does the bureau discover during the
assets verification exercise that it overlooks when it involves the so-
called ‘big fishes,’ which the ‘small fishes’ may not get away with?
We don’t overlook. The governors come here for verification. They
go to our Asokoro office that houses the three assets departments
– federal political office, federal public service and state/local
government. They go and they are cooperative beyond what you will
even expect. We don’t have problems with them.
Why are many of your cases filed before the tribunal end up being
struck out either because they are not diligently prosecuted or that
the charges are poorly drafted?
It was so because in some cases, to be honest with you, at that
time, we lacked capacity.
But it still happens.
No, it’s not still happening. Where it happens, it is because
witnesses fail to turn up. Of course, any judge will tell you that if
you don’t have a witness, it means you don’t have a case. Who is
going to buttress the allegation you have levelled against the
suspect? Sometimes, the culprits collude with the witnesses, settle
them, and on that day, they will not come; they will refuse to turn
up. And some other times, witnesses don’t have the funds to be
able to come. In some other cases, some members of our staff
don’t have the Duty Tour Allowance to be able to take care of
them when they come here; to transport them, stay in the hotel and
be able to be witnesses. In some cases, we don’t have the funds
to do it.
There are also some instances where charges are incompetently
drafted such that they do not spell out offences that are known to
the relevant laws.
That is part of what I told you when I said we lacked capacities as
of that time. But now, our capacities are being developed by both
the Department for International Development and the UNODC. They
are both helping us.
So, was it a case of incompetence or problems associated with
witnesses that was responsible for the striking out of the case of
breach of the code of conduct instituted at the Code of Conduct
Tribunal in 2000 against the former Minister of the Federal
Capital Territory under the late Sani Abacha military regime, Lt.-
Gen. Jeremiah Useni (retd.)?
Gen. Useni’s case is a special case. The then Attorney General of
the Federation filed the charges himself and handled the case
personally with some officers in his chamber. In the course of trial,
the case was adjourned indefinitely. Recently, it came up because
Useni wanted to enforce his fundamental human rights and asked the
tribunal to grant some orders; the prosecutor asked for adjournment
to brief the AGF and get further instruction on the matter. But the
defence lawyer asked the tribunal to strike it out and it was struck
out.
Is there any possibility of refilling the charges?
I cannot say with certainty that we want to do that because, like I
told you, the case did not originally come from the CCB.
At what point did the CCB take over the case?
The CCB really did not take over the case as such because even
the then AGF robed on that particular day to appear for the case.
I don’t know what actually happened because I was outside the
country. I was made to understand that he was unable to appear.
Is it true that the CCB is helpless in ensuring that the personnel
of military and paramilitary outfits in the country declare their
assets like civilians?
Some of the military personnel declare but most of them are not
declaring. They used to declare in the early 90s but, somehow, they
just stopped. Only some of them who are service chiefs declare but
the remaining of them don’t fill the form. I have had cause to go
and meet the Chief of Defence Staff and I raised the issue with
him that his men have not been declaring their assets. And he said
yes but that he needed to get the permission of the Commander-in-
Chief —the President – before they could declare their assets. I
said no, it doesn’t have to be. I said it is in the constitution, the
Fifth Schedule Part II of the Constitution, which lists the concerned
public officers. The military is there. Though the provision is not
exhaustive, the military is there. He said ‘But I have declared my
own.’ I said, ‘I’m not talking about you now; I’m talking about the
remaining members of the Armed Forces.’ So, the issue was that I
should take it up with (former President Goodluck) Jonathan before
the military would declare. So, we’ll take it up with the new
President anytime we appear before him to give an account of what
we are doing. The men of the Police and other paramilitary outfits
do declare their assets. We only have problems with the military.
Is there any platform for collaboration between the bureau and other
anti-corruption agencies?
There is cooperation between us and other anti-corruption agencies.
We have even signed a memorandum of understanding. For example,
if the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission) has a case that
involves any public officer, they (EFCC) request for the (completed
assets declaration) forms from us and we give them; the same
goes for the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related
Offences Commission and the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit.
And when we need help, we also ask them. For example, I have
just said we should draft a letter to the NFIU, requesting the
financial profile of the immediate past and incumbent governors so
that we can make comparison in our verification exercise.
Is that a new development?
Yes, it is a new development that came into being about a year
ago. http://www.punchng.com/feature/interview/why-ccb-hasnt-verified-buhari-osinbajos-assets-chairman-saba/

Stakeholders react to the policy by the Oyo
State government to stop the payment of the
West African Secondary School Certificate
Examination fee for public school candidates,
OLUFEMI ATOYEBI writes
Last Wednesday, there was an announcement by the Oyo State
government that it would stop sponsoring candidates for the West
Africa Secondary School Certificate Examinations.
It cited paucity of fund and the need to address abysmal
performance of candidates from the state in the examination.
Apart from stopping payment of the fee, the government also
announced that each pupil would start paying N3000 Education
Development Levy per session, which would be paid in three
installments spread over each of the three terms.
Further explanation of the new policy indicates that promotional
examination would be re-introduced while mock examinations would
also be conducted before the final secondary school examination.
All these, the government explained, would prepare the candidates for
WASSCE and put a stop to the poor performance of the state
candidates.
On Thursday, the Oyo State governor, Abiola Ajimobi, told our
correspondent that the decision was temporary, adding that as soon
as the state finance improves, his government would revert to the
old order.
He also said the decision to introduce the levy was taken after it
was discovered that parents were no longer involved in the
educational development of their children. Ajimobi said the Parents
Teachers Association, community leaders and individual parents were
engaged in a discussion before arriving at the decision.
“The state government studied all the aspects of education and we
asked ourselves questions on what could be responsible for the
abysmal performance of our candidates in the WASSCE. We found
out that among other things, many of the parents did not bother to
care for their children.
“Training of children is not a sole responsibility of government or
teachers, parents must play their roles too. We discussed with the
parents and realised that since parents were not in anyway involved
in the education of their children, they did not bother about what
happened to them.
“Parents should show concern about their children’s education. We
set up a committee to discuss with PTA, community leaders,
individual parents and so on. Interestingly, many of the parents felt
that if they were also contributing by paying a token, they would
pay attention to the education of their children.
“With the paucity of fund for the state, we had to face the reality
that we cannot continue to sponsor children without involving their
parents in a way. This was why we introduced the developmental
levy but it’s just for a period of time, as soon as things improve
for the state financially, we will put it down. It is an emergency
situation that we must address,” the governor added.
However, the policy has received backlash from various sectors in
the state with some calling on government to reduce its spending on
less important ventures in order to help indigent students who cannot
afford to pay WASSCE fee. Others are of the opinion that the
state’s education policy of shouldering responsibilities of parents
would not offer quality education in the short and long run.
Parents, who spoke to our correspondent on the development, gave
diverse opinions that supported and opposed the government’s new
policy.
Isaac Akinade, who has two children at Olivet Baptist High School,
Oyo, said the state government was caught in its own political game
and gimmick but praised it for having the will to reverse the old
policy which he described as destructive.
He said, “Over the years, the state government has always made
political policies to ensure it won a second term in office and I
think it worked only on one end. It was a policy that destroyed
values in our secondary schools. When you sweat to pay for a
commodity, you will value it. Government has nothing to do with the
payment of WASSCE fee; it’s the role of parents. That way, they
will monitor the progress of their children.
“I am also happy that promotional examination has been re-
introduced. I once failed a class and after repeating it, I came out
better. If you promote poor and excellent pupils to the next class,
quality and class are eroded and the poor ones will never be
better.”
A trader in second-hand clothes at Alesinloye Market, Ibadan, Mrs.
Atitebi Aofolaju, whose husband works at a confectionary company
in Ring Road, Ibadan, said the cancellation of payment and
introduction of fee is elitist.
“We are not all the same. We had relief with the government paying
fees. Instead of stopping the payment, there are many other areas
that the government can review to save more money. The future of
our children relies on how much the government can help. I don’t
make N1, 000 daily as profit and there are days when I go home
without anything. If you refuse to sell on credit, customers will go
elsewhere. My two daughters, who are twins, will write their final
examinations next year at the same time. Imagine how hard that will
be on me and my husband,” she lamented.
Some of the pupils who spoke to our correspondent on Friday were
more concerned about having to face real promotional examinations
after evading it for some years. Some of them, however, said their
parents would have to fund their education if government hands off
offering full free education.
Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress in the state, Waheed
Olojede, told our correspondent on the telephone that government had
acted on the advice of the Nigeria Union of Teachers in the state
for the benefit of quality education.
He said, “Free education should not extend to payment of external
examination fee for candidates. What we are saying is, now that the
government has come out to hold the bull by the horn, it has taken
the advice offered by the Nigeria Union of Teachers over the years.
Such fund used for WASSCE fee payment should have been
committed to strengthen and improve the quality of instructional
materials and infrastructural facilities; such that our schools will
wear the look we are used to in those days. Schools must be pupil-
and-teacher friendly.”
Olojede added that the government should use the money it is saving
to equip laboratories, libraries and prioritise the welfare of teachers.
He said the principle and practice of education recognise parents as
major stakeholders.
“They should be allowed to take responsibility and be committed.
When the results are released, students and parents do not bother
about the results because they have no stake in it. If parents take
responsibility, they will be concerned about their children’s
preparations and results. It’s a laudable decision,” Olojede said,
while also urging parents to face the reality of the state poor
finance and pay the EDL of N3000 per session towards education
of their children.
Chairman of the PTA in the state, Jimoh Abiodun, said the state
carried it along before taking the decision. He also appealed to other
parents to consider the poor finance of the state.
He said, “The government called us to several meetings explaining
the current situation and how it had to adjust its spending. We
cannot do anything about it. The government is the owner of the
schools and the children belong to the parents. We have to
cooperate to give the children good education. All we can do is to
urge the parents to pay the levy and their children WASSCE fee.
We have to adjust to the new situation.” source http://www.punchng.com/education/wassce-mixed-reactions-as-oyo-govt-stops-payment/

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Friday, stated that there was no alternative to democracy, as he almost lost his life to a dictator under a military rule. He said this on Friday at his Presidential Hilltop residence in Abeokuta, when officials of the National Association of Nigerian Students and some students union leaders from various institutions paid him a visit. Obasanjo and some other retired military officers and civilians were jailed in 1995 by the military government of the late Gen. Sani Abacha, after he was found guilty by a military tribunal of allegedly plotting to overthrow Abacha’s administration. They were released after the dictator’s death in 1998. Narrating his near-death experience under Abacha’s regime, the former President said he would support the current democratic dispensation led by President Muhammadu Buhari to succeed. He said, “I will work for the success of this current dispensation. There is no excuse, because there is no alternative to democracy. “The alternative to democracy is worse than democracy. I experienced that. Abacha put me in prison and I was about to be killed. If it was under democracy (democratic rule), that would not happen.” Obasanjo further said no matter what critics of President Buhari might be saying, Nigerians had started to witness a Nigeria of their dreams in the last two and half months. He noted that the country had tottered toward the precipice so many times, but God had not allowed it to tumble. Obasanjo said, “When one takes a look at everything, the most crucial and vital conclusion is that God loves Nigeria. The nation has gone towards the precipice many times and Nigeria did not tumble, this shows God is a Nigerian. “Many had thought after the 2015 general elections Nigeria will be no more. Some had sent their families abroad. Some know the National Democratic Coalition route; I don’t know the NADECO route. “I don’t have anywhere to go. But to the surprise of many of them, God did it in a miraculous way. The election took place, though some did not want it to take place. But let us thank God it took place. We must also thank those who conducted the elections. “We thank God for peace even after the election. No single individual is a paragon of perfection. There is no Messiah except Jesus Christ. But there are people who still stick out their necks for the good of Nigerians. “Thank God we have such as a leader now. What we have witnessed in the last two and a half months is that our dreams are coming true. We must give unalloyed support to the government. Criticisms that are objective and positive are welcome where necessary.” Responding to a question on whether President Buhari took a right decision by giving the military a November deadline to end Boko Haram insurgency, the former president said it was a right decision. He said setting a target was part of military war strategy to measure the success or failure of a particular operation. Obasanjo said, “President Muhammadu Buhari took a right decision by telling the military to quash the Boko Haram insurgents by November. “It is not good to just leave everything open-ended. It is a strategy in the military to set a target for any operation. This will enable those concerned to work hard. Having a target is necessary. Even if that target was not met, the people concerned would have something to work with.” Obasanjo cited the Nigerian Civil War as an example, saying the military had set a six-month target to crush the Biafran renegades, but the war extended to 30 months.

back in the days

One year ago, Ameyo Stella Adadevoh died, killed by the Ebola Virus Disease. A much admired consultant endocrinologist, Ameyo led the team that managed the index patient, Patrick Sawyer, who brought the EVD into Nigeria from Liberia. She was one of the 20 persons who caught the virus in Nigeria and one of the eight that it killed. In a tribute published in October 2014, The Guardian in London described her as “an Ebola victim and everyday hero.” The newspaper acknowledged that “Without her dedication, it is quite possible that the World Health Organisation would not have declared Nigeria – the most populous country in Africa – Ebola-free”, adding that “the significance of her actions, and those of her hospital colleagues, cannot be overstated.” Ameyo walked an improbable path to heroism. A second generation medical professional, her chosen path was the care of her patients (amongst whom the present writer counts as one) who in turn, swore by her. But her remarkable professionalism also made her a natural frontline for the care patients with serious infections in Nigeria’s entry point, Lagos. With her colleague and Chief Medical Director, Benjamin Ohiaeri, Ameyo built the First Consultants Medical Centre in Lagos into one of the most trusted centres of care in the country and beyond. When the Liberian diplomat, Patrick Sawyer, walked into the country late on July 20, 2014, he was already terminally infected with the EVD. From the airport, Sawyer (who arrived with serious symptoms of ill-health) could have had a choice of any number of hospitals or clinics in or around Ikeja, the location of the international airport in Lagos. He could also easily have ended up in a hospital anywhere in the Lagos Mainland. Yet, he ended up at the First Consultants where he would become patient to Ameyo and her valiant team of carers. Upon admission, Sawyer “denied having been in contact with any person with EVD at home, in any hospital or at any burial.” This was false. Sawyer’s sister, it turned out, had died of the EVD two weeks before his fateful trip to Nigeria. By the following day, July 21, Sawyer’s employers, the Economic Commission of West African States, were putting the hospital under pressure to release him so he could fly to a meeting in Calabar, in the South-South of Nigeria. Ada Igono, Ameyo’s younger colleague on the team that cared for Sawyer (and who would go on to survive the EVD), wrote that upon learning of this, Ameyo “instructed me to write very boldly on his chart that on no account should Sawyer be allowed out of the hospital premises without the permission of Dr. Ohiaeri, our Chief Medical Consultant. All nurses and doctors were duly informed. During our early morning ward round with Dr. Adadevoh, we concluded that this was not malaria and that the patient needed to be screened for Ebola Viral Disease. She immediately started calling laboratories to find out where the test could be carried out.” Ameyo herself testified that once this became apparent, she “immediately isolated/quarantined the patient, commenced barrier nursing and simultaneously contacted the Lagos State Ministry of Health and the Federal Ministry of Health to enquire where further laboratory tests could be performed as we had a high index of suspicion of possible EVD. We refused for him to be let out of the hospital in spite of intense pressure.” Two days later, the diagnosis of the EVD on Sawyer was confirmed. On July 25, he was dead. Well before this time, however, he had exposed a member of staff and patients at the hospital to the deadly virus. Eschewing recourse to the default mode of panic, Ameyo was methodical in responding to this crisis. She worked with the Lagos State Government to manage the discharge of all her patients and decontamination of the hospital and to set up identification and monitoring of all patients who had passed through the hospital during the period since Sawyer’s admission. But for the determined and proactive measures led by Ameyo and her team, the consequence would have been catastrophic. In the then Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, Ameyo found a willing and committed partner against the EVD in Nigeria. From the difficulties of the encounter with the EVD and with the loyalty of patients for whom memories of Ameyo remain a rallying point, First Consultants have been rebuilt. Ameyo made the ultimate price to prevent the spread of the EVD in Nigeria and preclude a much wider global public health crisis. For this, Nigerians were united in gratitude at her passing and the world offered admiration and thanks too. Left without a headstone to lay any bouquets in her memory, Ameyo’s family, including her son, siblings, and aged mother, as well as the many patients who owe their lives to her, are left with testimonies of an exceptional person and professional who lives on in the lives for whose sustenance she gave up hers. In death, Ameyo achieved heroic immortality. On this anniversary of her passing, we remember all the medical professionals who made the ultimate price in fighting the Ebola Virus Disease, especially, our very own Ameyo Stella Adadevoh. At a very well-attended memorial Mass for Ameyo at the Holy Cross Cathedral in Lagos on September 12, 2014, the officiating priest provided perhaps the most fitting epitaph to Ameyo: “Her name is Stella. She was a star even unto death. She deserves to be honoured, immortalised.” Our tears are still fresh; our gratitude is eternal.

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Earlier today Wizkid changed his profile picture to a cool picture
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This shows that the two hot celebs are very much in a good
relationship, no Quarels, no beef. #Peace!!!
Or what do you think?