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m0r0n. Maku shall be fired so as to free up funds for the poor and vulnerable in our society. He has employed a m0r0n like you and it is a waste of scarce resources.

Rest In Peace Labaran Maku, 1988 to 2012

All these people without brains will tell you if Sanusi Lamido is qualified or not.

This is a case of Clifford Orji being an X-factor judge.

If you had any knowledge, you will understand what a Credit Risk analysts role is. It takes intelligence, it takes having an analytic skill, making optimal decisions.

So someone who analyses credit risk on bank assets does not understand monetary policy? Most of you do not even have a level of knowledge so how do you assess? Based on hate?

None of you have the brain to assess the man. So you all should go and get a life first and stop hating the man.

Elueme: I can understand your problem to be lack of information and as such you spew ignorance with all affronts. If you belittle the Man's pedigree because you must work for your money, I may as well show some understanding by pitying your life of penury but that said even the nematodes you are working for know the class and style possessed by this Iroko who is seen as a threat to their philandering and deceit. I may not have had more respect and ovation for Mr Labaran Maku until recent media attacks as disseminated by your sahara lies. I want to ask you what is wasteful about the good governance tour? I can see your likes have a motive to cover the ineptitude of your accolades which your biased media has unduly blown their achievement over the mask and so they have to discredit this great innovation inorder for their deceit not to be exposed. Sorry Mr, the tour ll continue at the right time and all the states toured so nigerians can judge. In the meantime, keep drooling why the man you are developing high B.P for is touring the globe on the invitation of great minds who appreciate his worths doing what he knows best

Another m0r0n who has a bigger m0r0n like Maku as his role model. Dispute the facts of my post or shut up. You do not need lies if Maku is indeed working. Tell Maku to channel his energy and lies into making NTA a world class TV station. Can NTA not transmit in High Definition quality?

Of course it can, however, with a dullard like Maku at the 'misinformation ministry' , there is no hope for that organisation.

Countryman93: lol ballabriggs i can see you are trying hard to ignore me with the way you have been quoting me everyhwere. i know how bitter it feels to be reduced by a fellow nairalander to a nonentity and and a street hawker of lies, hatred, biterness and falsehood. may sango and thunder join and fire your silly life. idiot

Quite unlike you who Maku has put a chain on your neck and made to sit in front of the computer all day, I have a job, I have a life, I am a professional to the core. If you had any brain, you will not be working for a m0r0n like Maku. So go and get a life, live a life away from drinking Maku's left-over 'fura de nunu'.

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You see another mumu wey Maku employ. A waste of public funds!!! That is the definition of you and your Oga Maku.

Dispute the fact that Maku is not a waste and a fraud, I am waiting.

acidtalk: Will the workers lose their jobs?

Dem say person catch fire, you dey ask whether in bear bear follow am burn.

This Maku's CV that I am being shown is because I said Jona should fire the m0r0n.

Abacha don die now, everybody was a "part of the struggle". Even Maku wey dey village dey drink 'fura de nunu' was a "part of the struggle". When Abacha dey we did not see any of them.

But why not fire Maku? Maku has spent billions on a useless "Good Governance Tour", going around the country to tell lies and drink 'fura de nunu' but has barely had 1% of the impact of a Sahara Reporters reporting all the way from New York. Now he did not end there, because of the seeming low impact of this fradulent tour, he has decided to be condescending and call the good people of Nigeria names as they refused to believe his lies but will rather believe what they see on ground.

Can you now see how dull he is? The money Maku has spent on that fraudulent tour will have been better used in providing water for those people suffering from poor sanitary conditions in Nasarrawa, those suffering from guinea worm in the northern part of Nigeria.

This is what Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has called for but m0r0ns like Maku and the dolts he has employed to troll the internet have decided to crucify him. How can a leadership be so wasteful and fraudulent yet we expect development? You do not need a "Good Governance Tour" to show people what is on ground, when they feel the impact of good governance, they will tell you.

Jona fire Maku now!!! This should be a starting point to reforming the public sector by removing a redundant 'Minister of disinformation'. When you fire him, these other m0r0ns who are wasting what should be used in providing development needs for the vulnerable in the society will go with him.

Rest In Peace Labaran Maku, you do not have a conscience. Rest In Peace I must say.

Ileke, are those photos really of Nigeria?

Why are we deceiving ourselves now? We are living dangerously and you have to worry about people wanting to deny there is a deep issue. I don't care what Kenya looks like, I'm interested in the vulnerable in Nigeria and some denying their existence.

Problem solving, you don't identify, you don't solve.

Dollarman101: Fool, you keep on making a public show of your stupidity inspite of entreaties to the contrary. In your low warped mind and I.mbecilic thinking, cultural integration entails the abdication of one's nationality? SMH. You are such a far gone retarded slave. Nigeria will never have the misfortune of your return to its shores.

There is only one Nationality in my World, humanity rules. Now you bore off with Maku and continue drinking your 'Fura de nunu' in your cave. Muheheheheheh Cave Men

Dollarman101: Finally, the Zombie is evolving and laying his intentions bare. You can't even intelligently clothe your sinister motives in the garb of objectivity. If you want Maku out, there are better ways to go about it than these shameless lying spree.

Your animosity for Maku is so poorly veiled. Next time they send you to bring down Maku on social media, tell them to give you proper briefing. You have displayed total naivety right from the heading to your gradual descent to mudslinging,
This can't fly. Try another trick. SLAVE!

Bring down a low life? Muhehehehehe. Now compare Maku to all other Information Ministers before him. You know the result, he is the dumbest of them all. From Ofonagoro, to Jerry Gana, to Nwodo, to Nweke, to Akunyili and even to Chukwumerije he does not match any even by half.

Now you see it, he is a weak point in Jona's administration and Jona will do well to fire the dullard.

Maku wants to go to Harvard. Them tell am say na 'Fura de Nunu' dem dey serve there? Muhehehehehehe

Jona fire Maku now!!!

Dollarman101: I just realized I'm talking with liars with a slave mentality. "home is United states". I pity your low life and second class slavery in a white Man's land.
You are Just a big disappointment to our generation.
Any wonder you are content working as an Internet mole to a guerrilla online journal with a reputation for falsehood. You have become so accustomed to slavery.
Your mates are doing well down here and taking advantage of the enormous opportunities that the Jonathan administration holds for them.
You are there as an Internet errand liar.

A low life that is what you are. What if he calls the US home? The World is moving beyond defensive low brains like you, breaking boundaries, integrating races and cultures. We are getting to the stage where you will see a Chinese Nigerian. This is what progressives want and not the defensive approach to humanity you and Labaran Maku from your cave wish us all.

Chai see the low lives wey Maku dey employ O!!! I even dey curse Oronto and Omokri before say dem no sabi work, now this one na lowest of the lowest lives.

Jona fire Maku now!!! He is useless to your regime.

BTW Maku say e go compete with Harvard graduate. With that in empty head, my grandmama sef e no reach. Is it in how to carry propaganda and lies?

If an idi0t like Maku can actually pay trolls on the internet, then there is no hope. See how Maku has used hunger to control the life of young men who should be doing better things with their lives. RIP all you dolts

To compound Maku’s problems, the mainstream media has lost its control over what people read, view or hear. While Maku’s predecessors could buy up the media, it is hard to bribe millions of citizen reporters who are busy on their cell phones snapping pictures and twitting away. Poor rankings of Nigerian in healthcare, education, life expectancy and infant mortality are not just statistics. There are people behind the figures. And these people now have a means to have their say about what they feel. In a connected world the expectations of these people are increasing. Just the same way President Jonathan was entertained in Ethiopia with beautiful cutleries and he came back and added hundreds of millions to Aso Rock budget for kitchen wares, Nigerians are becoming aware of the standard of life in other parts of the world and they want a piece of it.

I am waiting for you dolts to dispute all these but just like Maku the Chief dolt, they cannot.

Dollarman101: Mr FOOL, Shame no dey catch you? Are you not tired of doing this dirty job for your paymaster-SAHARA LIARS. The same liars told us that protesters disrupted the Rally and prevented Maku from presenting his speech. E never reach 3 months when una blow dis lie finish. Today, una don go find way amend am come out. That's your stock in trade. Nigerians don see una finish.

Another dolt employed by the Chief dolt, Maku. Where you in New York with Maku? Dispute what Rudolf wrote or take your gayness into Maku's office and continue the romance, animal!!!

Arobam: Lol. You just shot yourself in the foot. I'm sure you didn't even play the YouTube video you posted. Look at how you have come to embarrass yourself publicly.
Shebi you said Maku did not address the public? But that video clearly shows that he indeed address the public and left the stage to a thunderous applause by the joyous crowd.
Shame on you. This job of blackmail will not get you anywhere. It will only lead you to the path of more ridicule.

You are still a low life, that is why you cannot read, lower than Maku who employed all you dolts. When an idi0t employs idi0ts, you have a disaster. Dispute the fact that he was not booed when he made those claims.

Arobam: And you are such an I.mbecile like the writer who wrote a piece bereft of any form of logic, facts and figures.

Bore off!!! Who has time for a low life like you.

Rest In Peace to all you dolts in Maku's office. Here is the video go to 57:27 and listen. All you shameless liars will go with Maku one by one. This is an ipod age and not an NTA age.

Did Rudolf lie when he said this

Maku was full of passionate intensity that day. But it did not rub off on his audience. At times he was booed for making outrageous claims. It happened when he claimed that electricity supply in Nigeria had improved so much that some places enjoyed 24-hour power. It happened again when he claimed that great trains were running again in Nigeria.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT7x5GUv93Y

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Mr man crawl back into Maku's room and continue butt licking him fast, animal!!!

Did Sonala give Maku the mediocre address he read to the people in New York?

Those guys have a life, you go and get a life away from butt licking.

If you had any brain, you will know Maku is a big idi0t. Yes he is, when everyone thinks you are because an idi0t like David Mark says you are a big idi0t, then sorry Mr, Maku can't be helped.

Maku has the right to use his life-long mastery of the language of compliant to feign ignorance and self-righteousness. He does so while he tortures the truth, sacrifices the wretched and flatters the corrupt. It is falsehood that demands spin. Truth ascends to the surface no matter how many heavyweights fighters are holding it down. Haunted by a dark desire to keep the irony of his existence private, Maku is left to marvel at his unflinching failure to convince.

They find it difficult to understand why people will not buy their lies anymore. They have blamed Tinubu, at a time they said it was Buhari and El-Rufai, now they blame it on OBJ. They have even gone to the extent of using what Sonala Olumhense calls "condescension as an instrument of state policy", "Shut up! We are making progress", you see it everyday on Nairaland. Jona even went on air to say "Nigerians are always looking for negatives", President of the Federal Republic?

However you can't suppress the truth, young people are becoming more and more aware of happenings around the World and they can benchmark what should be as against what Maku and Co want them to believe.

Labaran Maku’s Funeral By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo
Posted: December 5, 2012 - 16:21

If you want to kill a politician, make him or her the minister of information.

At this year’s Nigerian Independence Parade in New York City, I listened to Nigeria’s Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, as he addressed Nigerians. The drama of his experience at the podium reminded me of that line in William Butler Yeats’ famous poem, The Second Coming.

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are full of passionate intensity.”

Maku was full of passionate intensity that day. But it did not rub off on his audience. At times he was booed for making outrageous claims. It happened when he claimed that electricity supply in Nigeria had improved so much that some places enjoyed 24-hour power. It happened again when he claimed that great trains were running again in Nigeria.

He was talking to a special audience. Gathered there were patriotic and optimistic Nigerians. They were not whiners. They were not Nigerians who hated their country. Many of them were very young, boiling with enthusiasm. In their protected innocence about the Nigerian project, this group was itching to forge ahead and do great things in spite of the challenges. They could take bad news as long as they could sense a genuine focus on the dream.

But Maku was more interested in fooling them. He was ignorant of his audience’s sophistication. He was unaware of his audience’s deep network inside Nigeria and their clear understanding of the ‘situation on the ground.’ He deployed old-fashioned propaganda in an ipod age.

You don’t tell people who stepped out of the New York subway that the second hand trains Nigeria has been picking up from junkyards of the world would amount to the best train system in Africa. You do not tell people who had not experienced power outage once in ten years that some parts of Nigeria now enjoy 24-hour power supply and expect them to clap for you. Certainly not when many of them spent their summer holidays in Nigeria and did not experience such anywhere.

Maku had the best audience he could find anywhere in the world -boys and girls who wore green and white attires, painted their faces the color of the Nigerian flag. And he blew it. And right there, I lost hope in his ability to make it anywhere.

I was, therefore, not surprised that, while hanging out in London with the former British Minister for Africa, Lynda Chalker, Mr. Labaran Maku declared, "The Nigeria media is so negative about the country. They are not interested in believing the progress being made in the country. They are running the country down".

Mr. Maku is a child of the media. He surely knows something about how the press works. He knows that “the only countries where newspapers are full of good news are those countries where the prisons are full of good people.” Maku is just not letting it out. Or maybe not. Maybe he was living a lie all these years that he was a Student Union activist and reporter. Maku, a former editor, knows that editors worship the devil. And politicians do everything in their power to keep the devil around the political arena. It is a symbiotic relationship.

Mr. Maku, in case you have forgotten, this is how the press works -the press reports the news. In a developing country like ours, the bulk of the news comes from the government- in this case, your government. The rest comes from what members of the press see around them.

Here are your typical news story headlines of each week:

Boko Haram bombs this church killing this number of people.
This international organization ranks Nigeria last in this or that development index.
Kidnappers pick up this prominent Nigerian and are demanding tens of millions
An investigative committee unearths billions of naira stolen from this government agency
Nigeria borrows this millions of dollars from China for development
Police officer kills bus driver for refusing to give N20 naira bribe
A pregnant woman dies at the hospital because she couldn’t pay N20,000 deposit
“90% of rape cases is self-inflicted,” says this state Attorney-general
Former government official buys billions of naira home in Abuja
Youth unemployment rises to 75%
Government official flown to Europe for medical treatment

Maku, these are the typical news story of every week in your Nigeria. Which of them makes the media negative? Which of them do you want the media to underreport? Wait, wait, wait, don’t tell me. I know what your answer will be. None. All you want is for the media to balance it up. Publish the good news as well as the bad news.

Ok, lets go through your typical good news of each week.

The eight wonder of the world, the Eko Atlantic Project, is in progress.
JTF has killed another Boko Haram commander
Nigeria’s GDP grows by 7.8%
Bank ABC has declared a profit of hundreds of billions
Another pastor buys a private jet.
Nigeria’s foreign reserve grows

Maku’s job of selling good news is made difficult not by the cynicism of the Nigerian people but by the epic river of corruption swelling around the government he defends. In Nigeria, bad news does not interrupt good news, instead it is good news that interrupts a stream of bad news. People feel the pulse of the nation based on what they see in their family and their corner of the country. It is not based on GDP figure.

To compound Maku’s problems, the mainstream media has lost its control over what people read, view or hear. While Maku’s predecessors could buy up the media, it is hard to bribe millions of citizen reporters who are busy on their cell phones snapping pictures and twitting away. Poor rankings of Nigerian in healthcare, education, life expectancy and infant mortality are not just statistics. There are people behind the figures. And these people now have a means to have their say about what they feel. In a connected world the expectations of these people are increasing. Just the same way President Jonathan was entertained in Ethiopia with beautiful cutleries and he came back and added hundreds of millions to Aso Rock budget for kitchen wares, Nigerians are becoming aware of the standard of life in other parts of the world and they want a piece of it.

In a government full of tragic individuals, Maku is the most tragic of them all. He spent years fighting the establishment. But once he became part of the establishment he finds himself screaming at the top of his voice that there is no establishment anymore.

Maku has the right to use his life-long mastery of the language of compliant to feign ignorance and self-righteousness. He does so while he tortures the truth, sacrifices the wretched and flatters the corrupt. It is falsehood that demands spin. Truth ascends to the surface no matter how many heavyweights fighters are holding it down. Haunted by a dark desire to keep the irony of his existence private, Maku is left to marvel at his unflinching failure to convince.

Maku is already guilty of intellectual dishonesty. He is capable of much more. But not to worry, it is his own funeral.

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omenka: The western societies find themselves in the enviable positions they occupy in the commity of nations not because their citizens sing praises of their governments for doing what is required of them to do by law. They are where they are because they constantly criticize, albiet constructively, the deeds and misdeeds of their governments. Their insatiable craving and relentless demend for pace settin performance from their leaders kept their leaders on the grindstone 247 producing unbelievably remarkable results.
It is quite disheartenin to hear jingles of praises for our government when they manage to build some housing estate, or construct some road.. It is such crass bootlickin and mediocrity that has brought this country to her knees cos once the leaders are comended, especially openly, all they assume is that they've finished the job and its now time to rest and enjoy!
Im not one of such who go dancing on their tail like circus chimps just cos the government has done what WE empowered them to do.
I see no good in them 'exposing' the thieves if they can't go the full hog of prosecutin and incarcerating them...
I'd always be critical until we get to that spot when we can take some deep breath of fresh air and exclaim 'Alas, We Have Arrived!'

WHO ARE YOU?

You deserve a national honour for this post. You are thinker, a problem solver and you also have the mind of a change agent.

Never mind, they are shameless people that is why they will celebrate a so-called "improvement" that is of negligible significance. 2.4 to 2.7

Which normal human being does that.

I hear people talk trash about Nigerians always criticizing. You have to know before you even criticize. Nigerians don't know and they barely criticize leadership. Come to the UK let me show you people that criticize leadership.

This people are shameless that is the bottom line.

From 2.4 to 2.7, hahahaha shameless people. You are still very corrupt is the issue, there is nothing to celebrate.

What the m0r0ns did not mention is that the CPI score wast at 2.7 in 2010 before it dropped to 2.4.

On a lighter note, my colleague at work tells me Nigerians are smart people because of the scam e-mails he receives.

If it is by these photos, then every country in the World is a rising "international tourist and business destination".

toluene12: I'm sure nobody is giving excuses for what went wrong, instead we are looking at a permanent panacea to this reccuring crisis in out healthcare sector and to put a stop to this cash out of pocket health care delivery.
Expecting doctors to play santa claus every now n then is not the solution, we can only appeal to their conscience.
Most nations have moved beyond all these awkward practices decades ago, and its high time nigeria takes that step in the right direction vis a vis universal healthcare coverage.
Nobody should insist we remain in the cave age.

You have spoken well with a lot of sense. It calls for reflection on the way we live our lives as Nigerians.

How can people be so wicked to their country that everything that should have been used in building a sound system has been stolen and used in buying houses in Dubai.

I find it most odd that people glorify such cannibals, Nigerians have to wake up.

Kill corruption before corruption kills you. Corruption distorts development entirely that is why everything looks mad in the country. The NHS would not have grown if the money meant to fund it was stolen.

coogar: and i am sure NHS would have treated her if organs were available.......she was just unfortunate - and her case was far from being an emergency. she must have known of he heart condition way before it became a problem.

Organs were scarce was the main thing. Call the UK names, however, when it comes to human life they don't joke with it. Health and Safety? lol, I need not ask you how many of such training you received since you started working. Me done tire for the thing sef.

In this case there were also people who needed it as much as she did and priority had to be given to those who pay for the service. I am sure if it was not scarce she would have been treated.

coogar: thank you very much o
it wasn't even because she had no money - she was on a fücking waiting list - the only snag was the priority given to her? hahahahaha - and this is what baby mama wants to compare to a pregnant woman needing an emergency treatment?

o........k!

It was an attempt to cheat the system which they knew quite alright- abi dem think say oyibo no get sense. But even at that she was still placed on a waiting list. Make dem leave their own people that pay for the service to die? Priority had to be given ahead of her.

CORRUPTION GO KILL NIGERIANS FINISH O!!!

KILL CORRUPTION BEFORE CORRUPTION KILLS YOU.

Healthcare? Giant of Africa? Meanwhile una dey drive SUV, dey live fake life.

Nigerian dies amid heart battle

A Nigerian woman visiting the UK has died during a legal battle to have her moved up the NHS heart transplant list.
Mother of three Ese Elizabeth Alabi, 29, who had to overstay her visa after falling ill, had been given lower priority as a non-EU citizen.

Her lawyer said she was a victim of rules discouraging "health tourism".

The Department of Health said it was a "tragic case" but that priority had to be given to those who were entitled to NHS treatment.

'Fair and reasonable'

Ms Alabi came to Britain in September while pregnant with twins but had a return ticket to go home to have the babies, said her partner and father of the children Abiodun Abe.

But she fell ill and had to give birth in Britain, in February, after which her condition worsened. During this time, her visa expired.

She was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy, which causes the heart to become enlarged, and was told a heart transplant was her only hope of survival.

Under new NHS rules Ms Alabi could only be placed on the priority "group two" list, with scores of people ahead of her in the queue.

Mr Abe, of Grays, Essex said he was angry she was not given the support she needed, saying he believed the authorities were "playing with her heart like playing cards".

"I didn't believe something like this could happen in the UK, the country I love so much, " said Mr Abe, who has lawfully lived in Britain for six years.

He told BBC News he was "trying to cope" with what had happened as well as caring for the couple's twin boys Jamal and Jazar, now three months old.

Ms Alabi also has a two-year-old son from a previous relationship, who is being cared for in Nigeria.

"Before Ese died she asked me to have him brought over here. If that could happen I would take care of him too," said Mr Abe.

Allocating organs

A DoH spokesman expressed sympathy for Ms Alabi and her family, calling the case an "extremely sad and difficult process".

He said: "Organs for transplant, and hearts in particular, are extremely scarce and it is necessary to have clear rules to establish priorities in their allocation.

"Whilst no person is wholly excluded from receiving an organ, priority is given to those who are entitled to NHS treatment.

"We believe this to be a lawful, fair and reasonable way of allocating organs and it is clearly supported by those who work in the field."

In a High Court case which began on 6 May, lawyers representing Ms Alabi argued she should be placed on the NHS's priority "group one" transplant list, citing her unusual circumstances.

Her lawyers sought a judicial review of the rules but the case was adjourned pending a request to the Home Office to first allow her exceptional leave to remain in the UK.

Doctors, who had in the meantime assessed her case as urgent, said she would need three years in the UK for follow up treatment to have the best chance of success.

Before the Home Office decision was made her condition deteriorated and doctors said she could not withstand a transplant even if she were to be given a heart. She died in Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, on 15 May.

'Clinical need'

Solicitor Jamie Beagent, of Leigh Day & Co solicitors, who represented Ms Alabi, questioned the lawfulness of the rules that he said discriminated against those not from the EU or from a country with a reciprocal agreement with the UK.

"If Ms Alabi had been from Azerbaijan, for example, she would have been fine but as she was from Nigeria, she was put onto the group two list.

"Clearly the political reasoning behind creating the group two list is to put off health tourism and it's clearly working because she was the only person on the list, even though she would have been considered in the top two or three in the country in terms of clinical need."

He said Ms Alabi was not a so-called health tourist.

"She happened to be here visiting when she fell ill, she was told a heart transplant was the only way of keeping her alive and still the regulations blocked her."

Mr Abe added that he hoped the system could be changed.

"No matter whether people are black or white, if they are dying they should be given the support they need."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4994026.stm

She was placed on a waiting list and there were people before her. I doubt she did not know she needed a heart transplant before coming to the UK. Before it degenerates to that stage signals suppose done dey now.

Look right now, I don't care if the Doctor was at fault, the family of the deceased or even the government. However, as people we ought to reflect and ask ourselves, how did someone die in our country because of N20,000 or £70?

This is tragic