he should resign and continue watching his football now, *hiss* nonsense and ingredients

Aminchi, who was answering questions from the Hausa Section of the Voice of America yesterday, said, "The truth is that the President is getting better in the King Faisal Hospital here in Jeddah. He is yet to be taken to his presidential lodge because the doctor said he needs to rest in the hospital because if he is out of the hospital the demand to see him will be much because everybody would want to go and see him, and instead of him to rest he would be disturbed. And there will be no rest. It is because of this that he is still in the special ward in this hospital.

"The doctor has said that if he is satisfied with his improvement he will discharge him to his lodge, by God's grace."


When asked about the authenticity of the reports that Yar'Adua's health had deteriorated in the past two days, the envoy said, "I am telling you the truth because every day I see the President, me, his wife and his staff are always with him. In fact, he is improving every day and now he is moving and watching football on the Saudi television. He is watching football so much because he loves the game. So, you see, for him to be watching football you should know that he is recovering

There is news on the internet about a US swine flu spray plane shot down in China.

Giayong, Have you ever heard of someone who used $16b to purchase darkness, OBJ did that!!!1

Camerounian gendarmes kill 17 Nigerians in Bakassi
From Anietie Akpan, Calabar

NO fewer than 17 Nigerians have reportedly been killed by the Camerounian gendarmes in Bakassi, following the sacking of Nigerians in the peninsula.

To date, over 2000 Nigerians have been sent packing from the peninsula by Camerounian authorities.

According to the spokesman of the Cross River State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Mr. David Akate, "16 of the Nigerians were killed in the high seas while one died at the weekend at the returnee camp as a result of injuries sustained in the hands of the gendarmes through beatings and torture."

The treatment by Camerounians in Bakassi has been termed a violation of the Green Tree Agreement which says that Nigerians are free to remain where they are in Bakassi without any molestation.

Quoting the Secretary General of the Nigerian Union in Cameroun, Mr. Aston Arung, the SEMA spokesman said: "The Nigerians were killed by the gendarmes between September and November this year" and many more are being hunted down as they flee Abana, Atabong East /West and other areas in the crisis-torn peninsula.

Akate said one of the returnees, Mr. Okon Edet Okon, 45, died as a result of alleged brutality meted out to him by Camerounian gendarmes at Abana in the ceded area of Bakassi Peninsula to the Camerounians.

He said: "The deceased, who was among the hundreds recently harassed out of the peninsula, came to the camp with several joint dislocations and other complicated cases resulting from the inhuman treatment of the gendarmes."

According to Akate, shortly on arrival at the returnee camp at Ekpri Ikang in the new Bakassi about a month ago, Okon, who was a fisherman, said that he had escaped from the peninsula through the creeks leaving his wife and three children behind because the gendarmes sought his life for no just cause.

He said a gendarmes patrol team had accosted him at sea and demanded N10,000, which he did not have, following which the officers tore his fishing nets, removed his 40Hp engine, sank his boat and later beat him and abandoned him thinking he was dead. The wife, Nkoyo, and his three children joined him at the camp few days later having been assisted by some fishermen.

Akate, who was with the Director-General of SEMA, Mr. Vincent Aquah, said: "The deceased was interred at Obutong village in the new Bakassi. The burial ceremony which was at a very low key event was attended by the Director General of SEMA, the DPO Bakassi, as well as the Chairman of the Nigeria Union in Cameroun who was represented by the Secretary General, Prince Aston Arung, and some returnees."

Meanwhile, the wife of one of the people allegedly tortured to death by the gendarmes, Mrs. Atim Okon Asam, has given birth to a set of twins. Mrs. Asam, whose husband died when she was about nine months pregnant, is currently nursing the children at the returnee camp alongside other four children.

Reacting to the sacking and killing of Nigerians in the peninsula, Bakassi Freedom Front leader, Franklin Dukuku, had recently told The Guardian that they would go back and defend their people if the Federal Government could not.

"We found out that our struggle has no meaning because the Federal Government promised us that as soon as we withdraw our arms they were going to give adequate security for the waterways, but they did nothing. Everyday our people cry, complaining of having nowhere to stay; so it's a pity. Someday, if it continues like this for the next three months, I don't think we will remain in the city. We will go back to the creeks to defend our people from the hands of the Camerounians," he declared.

According to him, "the Camerounians always wrong our people, destroy their houses, they put fire and burn their houses, raped our wives, killed most of them, and about 250 of them are now in the displaced people estate in Ekpri Ikang.

"To me, I don't have to say anything, I will only give time to the Federal Government. If they cannot react or protect the people, we are going back to the creeks because I cannot see my people suffering while the Federal Government will say amnesty and they will not react. They are not doing anything definitely, it will draw me back to the creek and start the normal job as I was doing."

Mrs. Kuye came to Britain from Nigeria in 1961 with her husband, who died in 1984. She had eight children, including the defendant, and 20 grandchildren.

Wow this is serious. . .
But then relocating to the UK and Canada isnt really good timing unless the affected peeps wanna work in carehomes or kebab houses!

Speaking at the Global Guest on Voice of Nigeria (VON) where he interacted with newsmen, Anyaoku insisted that the structure of 36 federating states was a great drain on the nation.

Three American crew members were killed when a Zimbabwe-registered cargo plane crashed and caught fire on take-off at Shanghai's Pudong airport.

The plane left the runway and crashed into a storage building, sending thick black smoke billowing across the scene.

State media reported the tail of the plane - which was en route to the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek - struck the ground during take-off.

The four remaining crew members were taken to hospital.

China's official Xinhua news agency reported that one of the four was in a critical condition, with the other three said to be seriously injured.

The US embassy in China confirmed that the three dead were American citizens and said one of the injured crew was also American.

Shanghai television reported that the tail of the plane had broken into two or three parts, and that hundreds of firefighters were sent to the scene.

Fashola Advocates Accurate Census Figure As Bases For Good Governance.

In fact, only two in 10 of the soldiers who fought in Burma were white.

The role of Indians and Gurkhas is known. But when Allied commander General William Slim thanked his 14th army at the end of the campaign, he did not even mention the Africans.

The policeman who was alleged to have killed two children in retaliation of the death of his daughter at Oni Memorial Children Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo State, has been dismissed from the force, the Oyo State Police Commissioner, Adisa Bolanta, has said. He will also face trial for misconduct. But Bolanta, who spoke with THISDAY on the phone yesterday, insisted that no child was killed, contrary to media reports. The policeman attached to Iyaganku Central Police Station, Ibadan, Mr. Raymond Egbongbonwuyi, with service number 303529, was reported to have removed drips from recuperating children on admission in the hospital and thereafter tear gased the ward where children, relatives and medical personnel were, leading to the death of two of the children. His frustration reportedly stemmed out of the loss of another of his children at the University College Hospital (UCH) in similar circumstances a fortnight ago. The intervention of policemen from the nearby Oluyole Police Division brought the situation under control. Parents of the affected children fought back tears over the development and demanded justice. One of the parent, who gave her name as Mrs. Rukayat Lawal and whose child was in critical condition, said that her child was receiving treatment when the policeman stormed the ward and teargased the children on their beds. One of the medical personnel decried the insecurity at the hospital and called on the state government to protect the employees and patients in the hospital. The police chief stated: “It was sheer sensationalism. I have been briefed of the development in the hospital. The action of the said policeman was unfortunate but nobody and no child or children were killed in the incident. The children from my reports are still responding to treatment. “I have ordered the immediate arrest of the policeman who has since been dismissed. He has by that conduct attempted to rubbish the image of the force and to portray the force as a nest of killers either irrational or otherwise. His action negates the new image the force is trying to court for itself.” The erring policeman was said to have beaten up the nurses and told them that they were lucky that he was not carrying a gun, if not he would have killed them. His daughter, Destiny, was said to have been diagnosed with acute malaria, burns and chest infection.

this time the ids wuld be used to segregate and isolate targets for ethnic discrimination, that plagued nigeria all this years. afterall, i thought we were all nigerians.

Gas is highly subsidized in Venezuela.

Sorry, how much is a litre of petrol in Naija now? N80?
I used to drive a land cruiser with its fuel tank capacity at 90L. Filliing that tank at N80 will come up to 7200. Maybe the ambassador is buying fuel at black market rates!!!

You never hear? Better a living goat than a dead lion. Our problem go self correct eventually. We will all be here to enjoy the benefits

We need basic amenities in Nigeria even if it's at the expense of the Paris club. Who cares, after all, all the G8 nations are owing them. This idea of rushing to pay off our debts beats me. Obj would have used the $36Bn to provide these things and fund the interests from the oil dividends.

The office conveys to the holder not only international status but an unrivalled information about our economy, the top bankers, and a slew of information which may be of such sensitive nature that it is dishonest for any holder to want to be in the political arena. His candidature will now force people to look at all he did from a jaundiced political standard. Most people dealing with the Governor of Central Bank would have looked at his action as governed by fairness, dignity, impartiality and governed by nothing short of the national interest. If the person who holds that post is suspected to have political ambitions then the reaction to his activities would be looked at entirely differently. How can we prove that his action when he was in office was not guided by his now revealed political ambitions?

that is Venezuela, not Nigeria, and what kind of car does he fill with 12000?