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This piece is a hard one for me to write, hard and very difficult. As I write this, I am filled with deep sorrow for what could have been that was not. This piece is not intended to do anything but to warn unsuspecting members of the public. A warning that is necessary at this time because “evil deeds thrive when good men do nothing”

My discourse is centred on the level of mismanagement, inefficiency and a total lack of respect for life exhibited by management and staff of EKO Hospital on Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, Ikeja.
My friend’s wife, Dolapo, a young mother of 2 boys , with a promising banking career, pregnant with the 3rd child had complained of leg pains to her husband on Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Her husband took her to the EKO Hospital for treatment (their registered HMO provider), they were told that the leg pains were normal for pregnant women at her stage and were subsequently given some paracetamol tablets to use.

Getting home, the pains did not subside, in fact, it grew worse. It got to a point that she could not walk with the legs on her own. The husband had no choice but to return to the hospital on Friday April 3, 2015 at around 3pm when it was obvious things were not getting better. At that point, The doctor on duty advised them to wait for the consultant and Dolapo was made to sit out the ‘’wait’’ in a wheelchair as her legs could no longer support and carry her, in any case the consultant did not show up until Saturday afternoon being 04/04/1. She repeatedly beckoned on the staff on duty to perform a CS and safely get the baby out as she could sense and feel that something was ominously wrong. The pregnancy was well into 8 months. Some scan were recommended and the person to conduct the scan had reportedly closed for the day and only surfaced at about 9pm on Friday and the wait dragged well into the night

Dolapo was in pains on the wheel chair, she was being moved from her ward to the scanning room when the head of the baby came out on the wheel chair, her husband screamed and rushed her quickly into the elevator, yes, ELEVATOR!!. The baby could not stand the trauma, he came out in transit, right there in the elevator. A nurse had to hold the baby’s head, supporting it while the elevator goes to labour theatre, the baby was pulled out before they could make it to the theatre. This was at 9.30pm on Friday. The baby became the centre of attention for the hospital staff of Duty while neglecting Dolapo all alone for more than 1 hr 30 mins while they attended to the baby to revive him.
She was left unattended to, in pains, right there in the theatre. She was eventually moved back to her ward . The consultant eventually turned up around 4pm on Saturday. The husband engaged him and he requested that some tests be done to ascertain what level of treatment or care to give. He was told she (the wife) would be fine and the test results would be ready by Tuesday because of the holidays.
On Sunday, April 5, 2015, at about 8am in the morning, I visited her in the hospital and sat beside her on the bed offering words of encouragements. She was still in pains, and she was hardly audible, she could only answer in nods and made attempts at a faint smile to reassure myself and her husband that she would be fine.

It came as a rude shock when I called the husband at about 12 pm and he was crying profusely, saying Dolapo is lying down lifeless and that I should please pray. I was to say the least devastated, I was asking loads and loads of questions and he kept saying please pray, pray.
I got to the hospital to meet the lifeless body on the bed, she was dead! What happened? How did this happen? Nobody could offer any explanation. There was no doctor around, I asked the nurse on duty and she just said she is dead. I recalled she was eating when I left earlier, how could she have gone from eating to being dead in less than 3 hrs?

The husband told me she was given an injection to suppress the pains on her leg and immediately started gasping for breath, oxygen tanks were brought in to revive her but it was too late. She was gone before anything could be done.
The body was left in the room for more than 24 hours, several prayer sessions were held to bring her back to life. In the more than 24 hrs period after her death, no doctor from EKO Hospital came out to say this was what happened. No personnel came around to ask people to leave the room, the body was not covered nor washed. It was simply business as usual for them.

It was normal for someone to give birth and die? The Medical Director of the hospital did not deem it fit to offer explanation or even try to prevail on the family to leave the body so that necessary medical procedures could be done.
I will leave my readers to ask questions from this write up, perhaps, I am being too expectant, maybe too optimistic about my expectations from a Hospital as reputable as EKO Hospital!

The family has accepted their fate and decided to move on…. But should we move on? Should we just accept this as normal? I was talking to a friend in my office yesterday and was shocked when he informed me that his wife also died in this same EKO Hospital some 6 years back and the same treatment was meted out on him!
Please pass this story around, let people know what is going on, don’t stop until it gets to the right quarters where something could be done to save others and for the doctors and hospitals to be more responsive to their duties of saving lives and not taking lives. Dolapo is gone but who knows who will be next??

RIP Dolapo


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We were all one Nigeria until race disconnected us, religion separated us, politics divided us, and wealth classified us

Soe wrote;

Truth be told....until JK started his campaign, Lagos didnt have Igbos, Yorubas or Hausas. All she had were Lagosians. The hussles and buzzles...the hard life...the struggle for survival...from the bus conductors..to the bus drivers...passengers...commuters...agbero...bla bla bla...they all spoke a common Lagos language...with the common Lagos sharpness...common Lagos alertness and a common Lagos vision...the vision for a better developed, peaceful and greater opportunities Lagos. This bond had built their drive for prosperity...from Tinubu to Fashola...working hand in hand with a very ethnic rich cabinet...made of pat utomu, joe igbokwe, ben akabueze, and a host of others, lagosians had always been lagosians. But like I said...that was until JK started his campaign.
Just like PDP is known..taking devilish advantage of our differences... Religious differences on a national level, ethnic differences on a local level..and even academic differences on certain occasions...this has been the hallmark of pdp.
Lagosians should look beyond these difference as always...vote for the party that has always offered the best. Feel free to vote Ambode or JK ... But keep tribal diff out of the way...because at the end of the day...everyone shares the same struggle.

For those who say Fashola repatriated some Igbos...I ask...What abt the mad men repatriated to ibadan? And the beggars sent back to the north. Let us stop seeing things from a tribal perspective.

"I am a Yoruba man. Let us start from there. the whole South is indeed shortsighted. When I talk about the South, that includes SW,SS, SE. It is very important, that we realize that the North Hausa/Fulani are very smart and broad picturistic minded people, who have exerted their harmonious political dominance on the South for more than forty years. The South in question has shown how gullible she is in accepting the ideology of "One Nigeria" despite the glaring ethnicity that has pervaded the country. The fact that each ethnic group in Nigeria has her own political community cannot be emphasized.

The various ethnic groups have also glaring cultural differences so profound that you won't help but wonder why there isn't any push by these ethnic groups to secede from the geo-political frame work called Nigeria. This is because if we want to be honest with ourselves we can see that the Northern Nigeria while in power has an overreaching tendency to marginalize Southerners especially Christians whom they view as "infidels". Isn't it appropriate then that we come to terms with reality by saying the cultural differences of the various ethnic groups and their political ideologies that differ does make an argument for the seceding of these ethnic groups as they mark their territories or boundaries as allowed by the majority all within the confines of the right to self determination as procured by democracy. Thus, it is necessary that we understand that some ethnic groups are being over exploited by others all in the guise of Federalism.

The South is particularly exploited by the North that seems to have huge interest in the Crude Oil resource located in the South. One may then wonder what glue holds Nigeria together , I mean what glue that holds the North and South together, the appropriate response is Crude Oil. Thus, the North's reliance on Crude Oil money has continually made them shout one Nigeria. Don't be surprised that the day the North discovers oil in Kano or Kaduna, she will be the one clamoring for secession. In the face of all these deceits, it is a shame and disgrace that the South lost the presidential powers in 2015, because of her inability to unite and strategize. Hence, they should not complain to the world when the Slave - Master relationship of the South and North continues in retrospect.

All within the confines of the right to self determination as procured by democracy. Thus, it is necessary that we understand that some ethnic groups are being over exploited by others all in the guise of Federalism. The South is particularly exploited by the North that seems to have huge interest in the Crude Oil resource located in the South. One may then wonder what glue holds Nigeria together , I mean what glue that holds the North and South together, the appropriate response is Crude Oil. Thus, the North's reliance on Crude Oil money has continually made them shout one Nigeria. Don't be surprised that the day the North discovers oil in Kano or Kaduna, she will be the one clamoring for secession. In the face of all these deceits, it is a shame and disgrace that the South lost the presidential powers in 2015, because of her inability to unite and strategize. Hence, they should not complain to the world when the Slave - Master relationship of the South and North continues in retrospect.

"CHANGE", a very powerful word indeed. Who doesn't desire positive "CHANGE". However, if this "CHANGE" masks an agenda of marginalization and exploitation or this "CHANGE" in question is driven by the quest to retain power by a particular ethnic group or this "CHANGE" has been backed up by covertly carried out negative events that scuffle democracy, then it is no longer deserving to be called "CHANGE", hence better called " EVIL MANIPULATION".

The fact is that the Union of the Northern and Southern protectorates of Nigeria rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in the Nigerian civil war of 1967 - 1970. If it can not live in the affections of the people, it must one day perish. The federal Government of Nigeria possesses many means of preserving it by conciliation, but the sword was not placed in their hand to preserve it by force. We the "South" must secede from the political community called "Nigeria".


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PDP buried themselves when they appointed FFK.

Fayose, Bode George, Doyin Okupe, and Reno Omokri do the final right

Absence, it is said, makes the heart grow fonder. Already, even before they pack their bags and head for Otuoke, President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Dame Patience, have altered the chemistry of our turbulent and irrepressible relationship with the First Couple. President Jonathan has just lost the presidential election to Muhammadu Buhari, a retired general and former military head of state, by a margin that put the election beyond dispute, notwithstanding the antics of Godsday Orubebe, a former minister of the republic.

Of the two colourful personalities, the president and his wife, Dame Patience is the more irreverent, excitable, insouciant and domineering. Her qualities, if diplomatic scruples will not allow us call them vices, are so remarkable and unmistakable that she has achieved domestic and international renown. She is the queen of malapropism, and the poster child of verbal indiscretion, not to say executive interference. But her reputation was sealed not by any of her constant malapropian eruptions, as memorable as many of them are and have remained, but by her catastrophic meddling in the now famous case of the 219 Chibok secondary schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram militants about a year ago.

In that famous case, and about 10 days after the girls were abducted, she took on the responsibilities of the president and began summoning school and state officials to shed light on a crime she felt was either overstated or contrived to undermine her husband. Whatever she had a hand in, she boasted before doting officials and pressmen, she did fulsomely and efficiently. She would get to the bottom of the case, and she would do it briskly, she grimaced. Amidst great histrionics and tears cascading down her luxuriant face, she thundered one eruption after another of inimitable malapropisms. Unsure whether to stick to pidgin, with which she was perfectly at home, or something more First Lady-like, she would wander into proper English now and again, until the inconveniences of good grammar got in her way, and she would relapse into the more comfortable but inelegant style of her childhood.

In the end, she of course failed, for the outcry that greeted her blunders, not to talk of the multiple fallacies she committed that made her seem insensitive, were enough to roast the best of statesmen. And she was not even a statesman. Her abrasive style, of which there are thousands of examples, would also be missed. Who could forget the sundering of relationships between her and the equally brusque Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi? He had been conducting her on a tour of development projects in the state, and had got to somewhere near her hometown of Okrika. There he gloated about the demolition he was about to carry out to make way for more fitting and noble edifices. Not only did she perform the huge and open indiscretion of snatching the microphone from him, she proceeded to denigrate his efforts, caution his exuberance, and ticked him off so peremptorily that the tour ended abruptly. For a governor who himself did not take prisoners, it was humiliating that protocol did not allow him to respond.



If Dame Patience’s reputation was sealed with the Chibok abductions, she entered into Valhalla and into immortality with her resonating performances in the closing weeks of her husband’s presidential campaign. It is not clear why President Jonathan permitted her error-prone wife to mount the soapbox, for as it was, even his own gaffes were unmanageable and destructive of his political goals. But there she was, prancing, dancing, coaxing and cajoling from one state to another, selling her husband’s puny talents, and exhibiting great impertinence and mouthing insufferable mendacities. To her, everything was permissible and expedient.

Her husband’s opponent in the March 28 election, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Gen Buhari, was dead in the brain, not brain dead, as many thought she said, for the two obviously do not mean the same. It was not enough that she denigrated age, she also lampooned and scorned cultures. The North, she hissed, was irresponsible in family planning and training of children. It is not known why she had little or nothing against the Yoruba or the Igbo; but for the brethren across the Niger River, she was acerbic and unsparing. In return, the northern brethren promised to respond to her tirade on election date and doom her husband’s reelection chances.

With the departure of the Jonathans, and the assumption of office of a new pair so stately but taciturn, the pleasures, excitement and verbal and policy flourish that we took for granted for so many years, unpaid for and unsolicited, would be lost, perhaps for all time. Sic transit gloria mundi, say the Latin. Thus passes the glory of the world.


Source: http://thenationonlineng.net/new/buhari-victory-dame-patience-will-be-sorely-missed/

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Change. It was the word printed on Nigerian billboards, shouted at rallies and uttered in greeting among supporters of Muhammadu Buhari and his All Progressives Congress party. Nigeria’s election may have ended with a winner and a loser, but it was more about the process than the candidates. And there, great gains were made. For the first time in the country’s short electoral history, an incumbent lost. By holding a politician accountable, Nigerians have made it more likely that their leaders will be responsive in the future. President-elect General Muhammadu Buhari can build on this progress by appointing a cabinet that reflects Nigeria’s ethnic diversity, making good on his reputation as an anti-corruption crusader, and providing quick signals about economic policy to shore up his credibility with investors.


Now comes the hard part: making good on promises he made on the campaign trail.

The president-elect's slogan was a powerful rhetorical tool, a striking alternative to Jonathan’s appeal to continue his “transformation agenda,” political commentator Chris Ngwodo said.

"There was no doubt about the argument for change, in terms of juxtaposing the incumbent president with the president-elect," Ngwodo said. "… Buhari certainly represented a departure from him" in style, substance "and in temperament as well."

Cabinet appointing

The parties that merged to form APC are the Action Congress of Nigeria, All Nigeria Peoples Party and the Congress for Progressive Change. Buhari has been head of state before, as a military dictator from December 1983 to August 1985. He won praise then for appointing a cabinet of technocrats, but that was a different time. Under the current constitution, Buhari must appoint a minister from each of the 36 states, and there are plenty of state governors and party lieutenants that he will need to reward for their loyalty and campaign efforts.

Time to follow through

Now he has to deliver. Buhari’s promises include an end to the Boko Haram insurgency, which has ravaged the country’s northeast in its quest to impose strict Islamic law. He also campaigned on cutting down corruption and implementing universal healthcare.

But when he takes office in May, Buhari will inherit a government that is borrowing to pay its bills and still has not passed a 2015 budget. Chuba Ezekwesili, a research analyst at the Nigeria Economic Summit Group, said promises of spending on social programs, such as universal health care, may end up on the back burner.

Ezekwesili said most of Nigeria’s budget goes toward "recurrent expenditure," covering salaries and expenses but not capital costs. "If we’re already at the point where we’re borrowing money from the World Bank to pay for the 2015 salary," he added, "then it shows that we are in a dire situation."

Boko Haram a priority

Much of Buhari’s campaign centered on snuffing out Boko Haram, but the militant group is perhaps at its lowest point in years. Over the past few weeks, the Nigerian military, with help from foreign mercenaries and troops from neighboring countries, has chased the militants out of almost all of the towns they overran in the northeast.

Dawn Dimowo, a Nigeria-based analyst for the Africa Practice consultancy, said it will be up to Buhari to figure out how to put the group down for good.

She said it might mean creating something like the Niger Delta Development Commission, a federal program with a stated goal of regional growth "that is economically prosperous, socially stable, ecologically regenerative and politically peaceful," as its website says.

Any proposal will have to tackle the social and economic problems fueling the insurgency, Dimowo said. It must “address specific issues in that part of the country … [and] the hostile environment that would allow that kind of radical ideology to foster and develop to the point that this group to be able to take over a part of the country.”

But because cash is short, Dimowo said, tackling those problems may have to wait.

Economic policy

In economic policy, one area in which the Jonathan administration made progress was the privatization of the state’s electricity sector. Power plants and local utility companies have been sold off, but state commitment to regulatory reforms and to facilitating sufficient supply of natural gas to power plants is needed to spur investment. The electricity shortage is one of the country’s chief problems, and Jonathan might have kept his job had the reform process gone faster.

NNPC missing funds

Buhari was known in his military-dictator years for fighting corruption, and in a region that has some experience with that problem, Jonathan’s administration was widely perceived as worse than most. In 2014, former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi accused the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. of illegally hoarding between $10 billion and $50 billion that should have been sent to the national treasury. That led to an independent audit of the state oil company, but few details of it were ever shared with the public. Buhari will face pressure to share the results as soon as possible and to force change within the company.



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http://www.voanews.com/content/buhari-may-find-it-hard-to-change-nigeria/2704259.html
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/143522/matt-mossman/goodlucks-run-out

“It is the loser who finds the horrors of war on his very doorstep.”—Phocion, 402-317 BC, Athenian General.

(VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS p 139).

“Politicians are their own grave diggers.” Will Rogers, 1879-1935.

(VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 191).

Outgoing President Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan, GCFR, should now start preparing for the longest journey he had ever undertaken in his life. He is going home. Although, given any of the fleet of ten aircrafts at his disposal, and a military helicopter, the trip should not last more than one hour. But, to a Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces, of any country, who has just been defeated in an election, every nautical mile will appear like ten thousand miles. Each will be filled with unpleasant sensations. And, arrival at the destination will bring more pain – unlike previous visits to the small community which were joyful.

To be sure, there will be people there to welcome him. But, even the returning native son knows that the atmosphere, instead of being fun-filled, will be the opposite. The reason is simple. They don’t really want him back; at least not in 2015. And, they don’t want him returning like a beaten cock its feathers drooping and head bloodied. But, go he must; and receive him back, they must – for he has no place else to go. As Poet Robert Frost, 1874-1963, had told us, “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” (VBQ p 93).
One of the major differences between this trip and others before it soon becomes manifest. Until now, the pilots and motorcades dropped him at home and waited for further instructions about where to go and what to do. This time, they off-load him and Patience, their luggage and give him a final salute and they depart – to take instructions from the new Commander-in-Chief, Buhari. The era of GEJ has come to a close.
Since this is only a prelude to other articles that will follow on the RISE AND FALL OF GOODLUCK JONATHAN, permit me to stop there for now. At least one book will come out of this from me. It has taken four years longer, but I predicted this in 2011.

GEJ AS SELF-CONFESSED POLITICAL UNDERTAKER -1

“You have given me your assurances of support but some of you are secretly campaigning for Atiku Abubakar. I can’t stand to be humiliated by you. I am the Captain of this boat. I am not going down alone. I am going to sink this boat and go down with all that are in it.
President Jonathan at the 55th National Executive Committee Meeting of the PDP in 2011.
That was Jonathan in 2011 and, those gathered there at the convention to dig their own graves with him, were not sagacious enough to understand that, like the pilot bent on committing suicide, given a plane to fly, he will take as many people as possible down with him. Many, whose political careers are in ruins today, should have had the wisdom to disembark from the plane. After all, an Area Boy like me, not even a professional politician could read the danger signals involved in flying with a captain who threatens to go down with everybody. But, what are Nigerian politicians if not grave diggers. They went on board anyway. Even some, who were not initially on the flight, squeezed themselves in at the last minute. Permit me to list, not necessarily in order of importance, all the individuals and organizations which went down with
“Captain Goodluck”.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was an accident waiting to happen – right from the day one Chief Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo, newly released from prison, was admitted as a member in 1998. The real surprise to me was how long it took…More on this later. The grand old men of Afenifere, AWOISTS, and their new young recruits, went into partial oblivion when they agreed that the Alliance for Democracy, AD, would present no Presidential candidate in 2003, in exchange for OBJ letting them keep their states.
They kept their promise; I warned them; then OBJ betrayed them. GEJ lured them into their own political coffins; Afenifere is now in the graveyard for sure; so is OPC… Niger Delta Militants, as well as their “god-father”, Chief Edwin Clark, have a new battle on their hands. Most of the militants are still young; but if they want to live to be as old as Chief Clark, they better now eschew violence. It’s a new ball game.

Finally, at least for now, Mrs Patience Jonathan can go home with her crude words and uncouth behavior. The office of wife of President had never been brought so low. Character can never be hidden. She called herself “Mother of Nigeria”.
My mother would never have insulted any person older than her as Patience did to Buhari. God had saved us from having to suffer through four more years of such a “mother”. She can now go and be a mother to her own children and grandchildren anyway she likes. My kids will never emulate her and they are teaching their kids not to even try…Bad manners will never be fashionable in decent society.

LAST LINE: Regards to Fayose, Fani-Kayode, my co-columnists who said it could never happen. Now everybody knows who is prophetic.


Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/jonathans-long-trip-back-to-otuoke/#sthash.sJMEDxsV.evBTheMx.dpuf

A survivor of Kenya's university massacre who hid in a wardrobe for two days too terrified to come out was rescued safely Saturday, dehydrated but apparently unharmed, Kenya Red Cross said.

"A survivor has been discovered, she was hiding in a wardrobe," Kenya Red Cross spokeswoman Arnolda Shiundu told AFP.

"She has been taken to hospital and she's currently undergoing assessment by doctors."

The 19-year old woman was initially too scared to come out until a university lecturer she knew came to convince her that the police officers were not the Shebab gunmen who carried out the killing of nearly 150 of her fellow students, police said.

"She is the latest survivor, she has been hiding in a wardrobe for two days," a police officer involved in the security operation said, who asked not to be name. "That is when she came out of the wardrobe and rushed to hospital."

The student, who was rescued on Saturday morning, some 50 hours after the attack began. The gunmen were killed on Thursday evening.

The BBC said she told them she drank "body lotion when she felt hungry."

Kenyan troops searching the building were alarmed when they heard sounds coming from inside a wardrobe.

"She kept asking for reassurance from the security forces they were not Al-Shebab before she could come out," the police officer said.

"She was given milk and rushed to the Garissa hospital, where she is being observed before being given counselling."

Four survivors were also found on Friday, Shiundu said.


Source: http://news.yahoo.com/survivor-kenya-massacre-emerges-two-days-wardrobe-113908018.html

I have just been wondering where Femi Aribisala is with all his election results permutation.

Changeable

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I was on a bike yesterday and the Abokii guy asked me who did I vote for, buhari or GEJ , I said buhari. I asked him who is he going to vote for in Lagos governorship election, he said all okada association and northerners have had a meeting that they can't be deceive by APC for the third time. that they have agreed to vote for JIMI AGBAJE. it's amazing that Lagos state presidential vote was 700 and something to 600 and something thousand mind you half of those who voted for buhari have plans to vote for JIMI AGBAJE. So imagine the North, SS and SE voting for JIMI AGBAJE in dis kinda free and fair elections, then I'm sorry for tinubu , fashola and co. there will be shock in Lagos state in few days time.1,000,000 vote for JIMI AGBAJE dis coming election. am pleading to all Northerners , southerners and Easterners to come out in our millions to vote for the rightful man for Lagos state. let's all vote for JIMI AGBAJE because he's the right man. LIKE IF YOU WILL VOTE FOR JIMI AGBAJE and share if you will vote for ambode.

Hausa voting for PDP in Lagos?

In which documentary?

They want federal post..

Politrics

The massacre that killed 147 people and wounded scores of others at a Kenyan university lasted for hours Thursday before the terror was over.

"It is a very sad day for Kenya," Interior Ministry Joseph Nkaissery said of the carnage at Garissa University College.

The death toll is the highest in a terror attack on Kenyan soil since the U.S. Embassy was bombed in 1998. More than 200 people died in the Nairobi blast.

A total of 147 people were killed Thursday, according to the official Twitter account of Kenya's National Disaster Operation Centre and Kenyan media reports. The agency also said 79 people were injured and 587 people were evacuated.

Four gunmen were killed, officials said.

The Somalia-based Al-Shabaab militant group claimed responsibility for the assault.

Awaking to terror: 'I am lucky to be alive'

Islamist gunmen burst into the university before dawn Thursday, shooting students and taking hostages during early morning prayer services.

At one point, the attackers cornered a building in which 360 students live, but some of the students escaped, Nkaissery said.

Kenyan forces cleared three of four dormitories and had cornered the militants in the last one, the Interior Ministry explained.

"This is a moment for everyone throughout the country to be vigilant as we continue to confront and defeat our enemies," Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said.

There are usually four guards at the campus gates overnight, Jackstone Kweyu, dean of students, told Kenya's Citizen TV.

The attack was deadlier than an Al-Shabaab attack on the Westgate shopping center in Nairobi in September 2013 that left 67 people dead.

What is Al-Shabaab, and what does it want?

Witness: Gunmen shot non-Muslims
Joel Ayora, who was on the campus and witnessed the attack, said gunmen burst into a Christian service. Taking hostages from the service, they then "proceeded to the hostels, shooting anybody they came across except their fellows, the Muslims."

The attackers separated students by religion, allowing Muslims to leave and keeping an unknown number of Christians hostage, Agence France-Presse reported.

"We were sleeping when we heard a loud explosion that was followed by gunshots and everyone started running for safety," student Japhet Mwala told AFP.

"There are those who were not able to leave the hostels where the gunmen headed and started firing. I am lucky to be alive because I jumped through the fence with other students."

For hours after the attack began, heavy gunfire and explosions continued, said Dennis Okari of CNN affiliate NTV.

Okari said he was told to take cover as hundreds of students fled, some crawling.

The gunmen are holed up inside the upper hostel section. I can hear gunfire from the other end @ntvkenya pic.twitter.com/6A3fXOzP0t

— Dennis Okari (@DennisOkari) April 2, 2015
Photo of wanted man released
The ministry posted a "Most Wanted" notice for a man in connection with the attack. The notice offers a reward of 20 million Kenyan shillings, which is about $215,000.

The name listed is Mohamed Mohamud, who also goes by the aliases Dulyadin and Gamadhere. "We appeal to anyone with any info on #Gamadhere to share with relevant authorities and security agencies," the Interior Ministry posted on Twitter.

The post does not say what role the man may have played in the attack, if any.

It includes the words "Kaa Chonjo," which means to be on the lookout.

President: Kenya suffering from police shortage
Garissa is about 145 kilometers (90 miles) from the border with Somalia. Al-Shabaab militants have often launched attacks inside Kenya since the Kenyan government sent troops across the border to fight the group.

Kenyatta called on the inspector-general of police "to take urgent steps" to ensure that 10,000 recruits whose enrollment is pending "promptly report for training at the Kenya Police College, Kiganjo. I take full responsibility for this directive. We have suffered unnecessarily due to a shortage of security personnel. Kenya badly needs additional officers, and I will not keep the nation waiting."

The U.S. Embassy in Nairobi condemned the attack.

Police declared a curfew for the next several days in the region from 6:30 p.m. to 6:30 a.m.


Garissa University College, which has 815 students, was established in 2011 and is the only public university in the region.

The Kenyan Red Cross and the country's health ministry organized a blood drive to help the victims.

Al-Shabaab's carnage in Kenya
The dangerously porous border between Somalia and Kenya has made it easy for Al-Shabaab militants to cross over and carry out attacks.

In a December attack on a quarry, Al-Shabaab militants separated Muslims and executed the non-Muslims, a spokesman for the group said.

Last month, the U.S. Embassy warned of possible attacks "throughout Kenya in the near-term" after the reported death of a key al-Shabaab leader, Adan Garaar.

"Although there is no information about a specific location in Kenya for an attack, U.S. citizens are reminded that the potential for terrorism exists," the warning said.


Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/02/africa/kenya-university-attack/

ud4u:
i pity some unreasonable fellows like you

@ Roum:

good post there, b/c jonathan has all it takes to shun free and fair election but he considered the blood on nigerians which these aboki has been wasting and bowed out and instead on commending him u are posting nonsense, will he be president for ever?. well iam sorry for gsm that gaves every body room to pass anything across the web

some unreasonable fellows

you must be talking to yourself

A baby boy born without a nose in early March got to go home on Monday.

Eli Thompson was born on March 4 at South Baldwin Hospital in Foley, Ala. But as soon as he was placed on his mother’s chest, she noticed he had no nose. “I pulled back and said, ‘Something’s wrong!’ And the doctor said, ‘No, he’s perfectly fine.’ Then I shouted, ‘He doesn’t have a nose!’” Brandi McGlathery told Al.com. It was a shock for both her and her husband Troy Thompson, as well as the doctor who placed Eli on her chest, Dr. Craig Brown. Ultrasounds prior to Eli’s birth had never shown any defects.

Doctors quickly took Eli out of the room to figure out what was going on. When they returned, he was wearing an oxygen mask, and he was able to breathe normally through his mouth. The fact he didn’t have a nose “didn’t faze him at all,” McGlathery said. Eli was diagnosed with congenital arhinia, a rare disorder that has only appeared 43 times since first reported in 1931 — doctors said the condition occurs in one of every 197 million babies. Congenital arhinia can make it hard for babies to breathe and feed, however, there have been cases in which people with the condition live into adulthood. Eli doesn’t have a nasal cavity of olfactory system either.

Eli underwent a tracheotomy five days after birth in order to help him breathe easier, and he’s been a lot happier since, McGlathery said. However, they don’t expect to put him through any reconstructive surgeries until he’s well into puberty — the condition also affects his pituitary gland, which synthesizes and secretes many of the hormones involved with puberty.

Over the last month, friends of Eli’s family have set up a Facebook page to keep everyone up to date on his progress. McGlathery also started a GoFundMe page to raise funds for travel and medical expenses, which her and her husband expect will continue to pour in as Eli faces years of tests, scans, and other procedures. So far, it’s surpassed its $5,000 goal.

Source: http://www.gbam.tv/latest-news/articles?aid=6001&title=The%20Rare%20Case%20Of%20A%20Baby%20Born%20Without%20A%20Nose

Chai, so you mean Jonathan would soon become ex-president?

I can't believe it

The ruling Peoples Democratic Party has congratulated its flagbearer in last Saturday’s election, President Goodluck Jonathan, for conceding defeat to his main challenger, Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress.
The party said it will channel its grievances to the appropriate quarters, but assured it will respect the wishes of Nigerians in the elections.
The PDP in a statement by its chairman, Adamu Mu’azu, Thursday, said the party had done well in nurturing democracy in the country and also overseeing the development of the nation from a pariah state to a important player in the comity of nations within the 16 years it was in power.

“It is in this light that we as a party commend our flag bearer, President Goodluck Jonathan, for his heroic act in conceding to the voice of the people, an action that stands him out as a true democrat and a statesman,” the party said.
“We also congratulate the APC flagbearer, Gen. Mohammadu Buhari, for his resilience and victory in this election while wishing him success in the onerous task of leading our nation once again.”

Full text of the statement:

Position Of The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) On The Outcome of The 2015 Presidential Election.
Sixteen years ago, Nigerians gave our great party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) the mandate to build, nurture and deepen democracy after three decades of military rule in our country.

That historic mandate was freely given in recognition of the courageous and patriotic role of the founding fathers of our party whose resilience and doggedness championed the return of democracy and the personal freedom we all enjoy today.
Within this period, our party worked very hard in rebuilding and strengthening democratic institutions, tenets and norms while lifting our status as the leading democracy in Africa and one of the best in the world.
It is incontrovertible that under the PDP-led government, our nation moved from a near-pariah status to a strong actor in the international democratic arena, a product of various electoral reforms and our iron-cast commitment to transparent, free and fair electoral process at all levels.

Even in the midst of obvious threats to our democracy, the PDP and the government it sponsored continued to stabilize the polity through strict adherence to rule of law and liberalization of the political and economic space.
In the last 16 years the PDP-led administration achieved significant milestones in our social and economic lives. We moved Nigeria from a debtor nation to Africa’s largest economy and one of the fastest growing in the world, a feat, which is accompanied with unprecedented expansion of the private sector as well as multi-sectorial infrastructural development, all, great legacies we achieved for our nation.
Presently, our nation is at the threshold of history and its defining moment for the future. As you are aware, in the early hours of Wednesday, April 1, 2015, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) returned the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari as winner of the 2015 presidential election.

However, we have received reports of serious irregularities that characterized the conduct of the election and we shall channel our protests to the appropriate quarters in line with our profound respect for the rule of law and democratic ethos.
Our party comes with great values and tradition and we will adhere to them and ensure that nothing is done to truncate our democracy, which we have proudly worked so hard to nurture and sustain to maturity.
Therefore, if the outcome of the election is truly the reflection of the wishes and aspirations of our citizens, the PDP will most willingly respect that wish.

What is paramount to us is the survival of our democracy, the unity, peace and progress of our dear nation and the happiness of all our people. Nigeria is bigger than any political party, individual or group and her overall interest must be our priority at all times.
It is in this light that we as a party commend our flag bearer, President Goodluck Jonathan for his heroic act in conceding to the voice of the people, an action that stands him out as a true democrat and a statesman.

“We also congratulate the APC flagbearer, Gen. Mohammadu Buhari for his resilience and victory in this election while wishing him success in the onerous task of leading our nation once again.
On the same note, we wish to also commend the electorate for the peaceful manner with which they conducted themselves in the course of this election.

For us in the PDP, we want to state in very clear terms that we are not down. We are only at our redefining moment. Rather than demoralize us, this election has afforded us great lessons and we are now more than ever before reinvigorated for the race ahead.
As we return to the electorate for the April 11, 2015 governorship and state assembly elections, we go recharged with faith in our heart. We assure all our candidates in the remaining elections that the party will stand with you, campaign with you and work vigourously to ensure your total victory at the polls.


Finally, we call on our party faithful to remain steadfast in our renewed effort to deliver our flag bearers in the remaining elections.



Source: Source: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/180477-well-challenge-buharis-win-but-pdp.html

Wonderful analysis

Btw, some people can reason sha..

9ja, I hail thee

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, said he would not serve another term, in the same capacity, even if his tenure was renewed.
Jega who spoke in Abuja last night, said another person should be given the opportunity to serve after his (Jega) tenure ends in June.
“I am grateful to God. I was asked to come and contribute my own quota to the national development and I have done my bit to the best of my ability. Whatever assignment one will do for five years – just like this difficult one, to me if one is able to successfully accomplish the task, someone else should be given the opportunity, because for me I am not interested and if I am requested to serve again, I will not do it, by God’s grace,” Jega said.
Jega, who anchored the March 28 presidential election, admitted that the INEC task was a difficult one, adding that he was not interested in tenure renewal and would not accept an offer of extension.

Source: http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/i-am-no-longer-interested-in-inec-job-jega/

THE Niger Delta People Salvation Front/Niger Delta People Volunteer Force, NDPSF/NDPVF, led by Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, has described General Muhammadu Buhari’s victory in the presidential election as a conspiracy by the North and South-West against the Niger Delta, South-East and Middle Belt geo-political regions.

Similarly, a Niger Delta activist, Mr. Austin Ozobo, has said that the just concluded presidential election was a manipulation and a scam against President Goodluck Jonathan and people of the Niger Delta by a section of the country.
Ozobo said in Warri, yesterday: “What happened was that they submitted cooked up results from their bedrooms to favour their Muslim brother, Gen. Buhari and Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC chairman, Professor Jega was evidently biased in his assignment.
“We can no longer exist in a country full of injustice and manipulation. We are tired of being called infidels and second-class citizens. Every successive president in this country was given the privilege to rule two terms but our turn was different.
“Why was that same privilege not extended to us? We have been cheated and that is very dangerous. Since independence, Jonathan’s tenure is the first time we have produced a president in this country and he has been barred from a second term. This is callous.”
NDPSF/NDPVF in a statement by Mr Rex Anighoro, said: “It is not a victory of the people, but a victory of regional conspiracy and supremacy. It clearly reinforces the fact of self determination and the truth that Nigeria remains a very divided and separated entity whose claim to unity remains a fraud of gargantuan proportion.
“The voting pattern has clearly shown that the Hausa/Fulani North and the Yorubas are united in the conquest of the Niger Deltans and the Igbos of defunct Biafra with the Middle Belt now used as pawns. We remain a people separated by our ideologies and interests. We are not integrated or reconciled.
“The conditions that advanced the need to embrace the creeks have been sadly re -energised. It is clear that a vicious government who may maim and murder the voice of the so-called minorities may have just been birthed. Indeed integration is nonexistent as regional gang ups and supremacy are symbolic with this victory.”


Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/north-s-west-ganged-up-against-n-delta-dokubo/#sthash.0UODIeV0.AGP7SLEk.dpuf

Kenyan Police are deporting Nigerians in masses on a daily basis.. Which business relationship are you talking about?

Two guards were killed and several people injured after gunmen attacked Garissa University College in northeast Kenya on Thursday morning.

Kenya Red Cross officials say at least 30 people, including two policemen were injured by the attackers and have been rushed to hospital.

The gunmen are said to have attacked the institution around 5.30am Thursday.

Unconfirmed reports state that students may have been taken hostage.

Nation.co.ke reporter Abdimalik Hajir said he saw the bodies of the guards near the university's main gate.

Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinnet said there was a shootout between attackers and police officers who were guarding the students’ hostels.

"The attackers shot indiscriminately while inside the university compound.

“However, the attackers retreated and gained entry into the hostels….a joint force composed of NPS officers and other security agencies arrived and are engaged in an elaborative process of flushing out the gunmen from the hostels,” he said in a statement posted on his Twitter account.

KDF and police have entered the university’s compound.

Source: http://www.nation.co.ke/counties/Garissa-University-College-under-attack/-/1107872/2673506/-/13a5c3i/-/index.html

Enclopedia

New dictionary indeed

Crispus Mukosi wrote;

"From Kenya we are quite impressed by the way Nigerians have conducted themselves in the ballot. You are truly the pride of Africa. Those who associate african elections with violence must begin to re-write their scripts. Whether it's Jonathan or Buhari, I believe Nigeria will be united even more than before. Keep the peace!"


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President Goodluck Jonathan will concede defeat and congratulate General Muhammadu Buhari, THEWILL has been told by a top adviser and strategist to the presidency, who asked to remain anonymous.

“Nigeria is bigger than the interest of any individual or a group. President Jonathan will concede defeat and congratulate Buhari and the APC despite his reservations with the electoral process,” the source said.

With the national electoral commission on the verge of concluding collation of results from Nigeria’s 36 states and Abuja, the federal capital, General Buhari of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) is ahead of Jonathan by over 2 million votes. It will be impossible for Jonathan to close the gap going by exit poll numbers.

The APC has declared victory in the poll through its spokesman, Mr. Lai Mohammed even though the PDP insists there were irregularities in at least four states in northern Nigeria, where Buhari is from.


Source: http://thewillnigeria.com/news/breaking-president-jonathan-to-concede-defeat-congratulate-buhari-source/

Dancing shoki

Iya Tawa, abeg serve me the burukutu..

GEJ straight to Otuoke
GMB straight to Aso rock


Wind of change!!!

Ladies is this true?