₦airaland Forum

We have been shouting this since his days as assistant governor - That the man knows nothing about leadership and service delivery. The way GEJ spends money is scary.  if we dont change course nigeria will go bankrupt when OIL is at the all time highest

To be surprised is an under statement.

75% recurrent expenses

25% capital projects.

On top of that - GEJ made the following promises

$200 Mill - nollywood
500billion for SE
500Billion for aviation fund.

350billion agric fund


abeg help me ask where all this money go come from.

pipeline security consultants


ye pa my head don scatter - is that the best these oil companies can do - yet they bring oyinbo man to come take the better paying jobs

lol

haba - what insults

oya spit out the bait and lets have a real conservation.

isale_gan2:
What are you talking about? Beavis and Butthead were awesome. Which was the leader? hahaha.

yup, I am fearless! What are you gonna do? Beat me up?

What party were you talking about? You better fess up now before people get the wrong idea about you.

No wonder you write like a drunk most time - this one that b and b are your role models

Na exclusive party no gate crashers required.

isale_gan2:
Hey!  Beavis and Butthead!  Don't push me.  Ya hear? 

U-hum, what party?  Boys only party? 

Na your uncles you dey call beavis and butthead  - u no fear

omo yi ko ni respect 

baboon country -

how many list INEC get sef - today one list - tomorrow another list

why is everything is politicised.

becomerich is now Igbo na wa ooo

debosky:
Me sef no go oh. . . .e just pain me say I no fit block one babe wey I dey scope.

The show was good jare, laff wan burst my belle especially with that snoring joke.

Imagine allowing Ayo to sing but not ice?? Basket don craze finish

It is was my first time at any of the comedy shows - Any time i remember that snoring joke - i just dey laff

How can one get the dvd.

Lies, Lies

I am Yoruba and married to Rivers woman.  Yorubas are more open minded when it comes to choosing a partner.

Lagos state has it shown that the south west can survive without federal allocations.

South West remains the economic power house of Nigeria

so i dont know what trash you are talking about.


it is not by force to start a thread.

debosky:
Since this is an offtopic thread, make I add my own jare.

@ blacksta

You go the after parry?

Bigman - how far - for where when work dey the next day.

how u see the show.

^^

The above is what you call a people oriented leader and not the nonsense we have in Nigeria who are happy to maintain the  corrupt and evil status quo.


read this

Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado is one smart damn cookie. With BA, MA, and PhDs in Economics, this Correa cat is well versed in all things financial, and he is using his skills to strike a new path forward for his otherwise standardly under-developed state. He is worldly-wise too: having traveled and studied in Europe and the United States, he has a savvy global perspective and knows how the system works form both sides of the economic feeding chain.


I thought they said GEJ has a PHD . absolute useless in context to the Nigerian situation.

fstranger3:
If you come back here one more time, mo ma ti owo bo idi shepe fun e

he goat -

to ba to wo bo idi - just put it straight into your mouth

hen hen

Another bash them thread -

All the best.

2 ODe's in one

follow follow - like flies looking for sh it to eat.

Ma_J_Blige:
Apart from more noise on NairaLand and choosing Bros Tunde Bakare as running mate, and cross carpeting from one party to another - a sign of desperation, and close to 70 years of age - what makes Bros Buhari thinks the third time coming will be anything different?

Nsiman:
@ op, there are many ways to create history, check out that US former president, how he fail multiple times, buhari is immitating him forgeting that the former US president was young then. Let buhari create history nigeria and may in the world as the only presidential contestant that contested multiple times without success. Lol

more fluff

The hope of victims of the 1996 Trovan Clinical Trial in Kano conducted by Pfizer to get appropriate compensation continues to grow dim, as the multinational pharmaceutical company, with the support of some self-serving Nigerian elite, has not relented in its efforts to prolong the suffering of the mostly impoverished victims.

The multinational pharmaceutical company, which admitted to the Federal Government Trovan Investigative Panel in 2001 that it had not taken proper records of the 200 victims it admittedly used in their experiment, is now claiming that it has the DNA samples of those used as guinea pigs in the trial.

Throughout the negotiations leading up to its settlement with the Kano State government, even while appearing before the investigative panel set up by the federal government in 2001, at no time did Pfizer mention that it had taken DNA samples of those illegally recruited for its trial. Pfizer, which unfortunately, has been calling the shots throughout the negotiations, now requires victims to present their DNA samples as a mean of authenticating that they were actually subjects in the trial before any form of compensation is paid to them.

According to excerpts of what we believe is a copy of a secretive settlement agreement Pfizer reached with the Nigerian government, the company, which entered the settlement on the basis of “no admission of liability”, is asking “any person submitting a claim form to the Fund must provide a saliva sample for DNA testing purposes, and must consent and submit to a medical examination if requested.”

Improper Identification

However, the victims’ lawyers have questioned Pfizer’s demand for the victims’ DNA samples. They contend that in the first place, the company didn’t even have proper identification of the trial subjects. In 1996, Pfizer, capitalizing on the support of corrupt government officials, flew in their doctors in the middle of an outbreak of a tripod of measles, cholera and cerebrospinal meningitis epidemic, to conduct an illegal clinical trial on sick infants in Kano. Apparently trying to cover up all traces of the clinical trial it was conducting in a room with newspaper-covered windows, the company did not bother to properly identify the sick children they were using as “laboratory animals”. The victims were simply identified by serial numbers and initials written on tiny pink cards.

“Let us assume that Pfizer collected the DNA samples of the victims, how are they going to link the correct DNA sample with some initials appearing more than one time?”, asked Kunle Omitimirin, a member of the victims’ legal team.

“The victims were treated worse than guinea pigs”, said Mr. Ishola, a member of the victims’ legal team. “In a laboratory, guinea pigs are better identified.”

Further, throughout the negotiation leading to the settlement with the Kano State, at no time did Pfizer mention that it was in possession of DNA samples of those it used for the clinical trial. The multinational, which earns upwards of $18 billion annually, only came up with the issue of DNA tests when it was time to compensate the victims.

Legality of collecting DNA samples

Counsel to the victims have also argued that it is illegal to collect a person’s DNA samples without their consent. Pfizer, so far, has been unable to present any documentary evidence that the victims consented that samples of their DNA should be collected. Even Aliyu Umar, the attorney general of Kano State, admitted to NEXT that it was not legal to do a DNA test without the consent of the person to whom the test was being administered.

Mr. Ishola further argued that judging the short time Pfizer spent in Kano in 1996 before they hurriedly left in the middle of the epidemic, it was almost impossible for Pfizer to have completed the DNA tests of the 200 children it claimed it used in the trial.

“How are we sure that Pfizer will not provide the DNAs of Ugandans just to show the world that most of the claims were false”, said a lawyer who pleaded anonymity.

Counsel to the victims are expressing serious doubts as to the motives behind the call for DNA testing by Pfizer at this point in time. Mr. Ishola claims that his studies on clinical trials show that the DNA of the subjects is mostly required when concluding a trial. According to him, he suspects that Pfizer might be requesting for the DNA samples of the victims so as to use them to complete information already collected on the test.

Meningitis Fund Board of Trustees

The composition of a Meningitis Fund Board of Trustees has stirred up further controversy leading to the settlement. The board of trustees, which draws its funding from the Kano State government’s $30 million (N4.5 billion) share of the $75 million (N11.25 billion) compensation paid by Pfizer, comprises of Abubakar Wali, the former Supreme Court justice as chairman; Alfa Belgore, the former chief justice of Nigeria; David Odiwo as executive secretary; Muataseer Ibrahim, the vice chancellor of the Katsina State University; Isa Hashim (who has been sacked from the board by the Kano State government) and Musa Borodo.

According to the agreement reached with the Kano State government, Pfizer is required to appoint three members of the board and the Kano State government, the other three members. Counsel to the victims have argued that the composition of the board is faulty. According to them, the victims should have been represented on the board. They averred that what Pfizer and the Kano State government have done is appoint themselves as judges in a case where they are the accused. The victims’ counsel are of the position that there is no way the victims are going to get justice form this board.

Next also learnt that apart from the Toyota Prado Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV) given to each member of the board, they were also paid N1 million each at every sitting. According to our source, who asked not be named, the committee had sat for about 15 times at the luxurious The Prince Hotel in Kano.

“Any member of the committee who has a conscience seeing the plight of the victims should have immediately resigned from the committee,” said Mr. Ishola.

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/National/5665126-146/pfizer_victims_unlikely_to_get_compensation.csp

Pfizer victims unlikely to get compensation soon
By Nicholas Ibekwe
January 23, 2011 08:23AM
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The hope of victims of the 1996 Trovan Clinical Trial in Kano conducted by Pfizer to get appropriate compensation continues to grow dim, as the multinational pharmaceutical company, with the support of some self-serving Nigerian elite, has not relented in its efforts to prolong the suffering of the mostly impoverished victims.

The multinational pharmaceutical company, which admitted to the Federal Government Trovan Investigative Panel in 2001 that it had not taken proper records of the 200 victims it admittedly used in their experiment, is now claiming that it has the DNA samples of those used as guinea pigs in the trial.

Throughout the negotiations leading up to its settlement with the Kano State government, even while appearing before the investigative panel set up by the federal government in 2001, at no time did Pfizer mention that it had taken DNA samples of those illegally recruited for its trial. Pfizer, which unfortunately, has been calling the shots throughout the negotiations, now requires victims to present their DNA samples as a mean of authenticating that they were actually subjects in the trial before any form of compensation is paid to them.

According to excerpts of what we believe is a copy of a secretive settlement agreement Pfizer reached with the Nigerian government, the company, which entered the settlement on the basis of “no admission of liability”, is asking “any person submitting a claim form to the Fund must provide a saliva sample for DNA testing purposes, and must consent and submit to a medical examination if requested.”

Improper Identification

However, the victims’ lawyers have questioned Pfizer’s demand for the victims’ DNA samples. They contend that in the first place, the company didn’t even have proper identification of the trial subjects. In 1996, Pfizer, capitalizing on the support of corrupt government officials, flew in their doctors in the middle of an outbreak of a tripod of measles, cholera and cerebrospinal meningitis epidemic, to conduct an illegal clinical trial on sick infants in Kano. Apparently trying to cover up all traces of the clinical trial it was conducting in a room with newspaper-covered windows, the company did not bother to properly identify the sick children they were using as “laboratory animals”. The victims were simply identified by serial numbers and initials written on tiny pink cards.

“Let us assume that Pfizer collected the DNA samples of the victims, how are they going to link the correct DNA sample with some initials appearing more than one time?”, asked Kunle Omitimirin, a member of the victims’ legal team.

“The victims were treated worse than guinea pigs”, said Mr. Ishola, a member of the victims’ legal team. “In a laboratory, guinea pigs are better identified.”

Further, throughout the negotiation leading to the settlement with the Kano State, at no time did Pfizer mention that it was in possession of DNA samples of those it used for the clinical trial. The multinational, which earns upwards of $18 billion annually, only came up with the issue of DNA tests when it was time to compensate the victims.

Legality of collecting DNA samples

Counsel to the victims have also argued that it is illegal to collect a person’s DNA samples without their consent. Pfizer, so far, has been unable to present any documentary evidence that the victims consented that samples of their DNA should be collected. Even Aliyu Umar, the attorney general of Kano State, admitted to NEXT that it was not legal to do a DNA test without the consent of the person to whom the test was being administered.

Mr. Ishola further argued that judging the short time Pfizer spent in Kano in 1996 before they hurriedly left in the middle of the epidemic, it was almost impossible for Pfizer to have completed the DNA tests of the 200 children it claimed it used in the trial.

“How are we sure that Pfizer will not provide the DNAs of Ugandans just to show the world that most of the claims were false”, said a lawyer who pleaded anonymity.

Counsel to the victims are expressing serious doubts as to the motives behind the call for DNA testing by Pfizer at this point in time. Mr. Ishola claims that his studies on clinical trials show that the DNA of the subjects is mostly required when concluding a trial. According to him, he suspects that Pfizer might be requesting for the DNA samples of the victims so as to use them to complete information already collected on the test.

Meningitis Fund Board of Trustees

The composition of a Meningitis Fund Board of Trustees has stirred up further controversy leading to the settlement. The board of trustees, which draws its funding from the Kano State government’s $30 million (N4.5 billion) share of the $75 million (N11.25 billion) compensation paid by Pfizer, comprises of Abubakar Wali, the former Supreme Court justice as chairman; Alfa Belgore, the former chief justice of Nigeria; David Odiwo as executive secretary; Muataseer Ibrahim, the vice chancellor of the Katsina State University; Isa Hashim (who has been sacked from the board by the Kano State government) and Musa Borodo.

According to the agreement reached with the Kano State government, Pfizer is required to appoint three members of the board and the Kano State government, the other three members. Counsel to the victims have argued that the composition of the board is faulty. According to them, the victims should have been represented on the board. They averred that what Pfizer and the Kano State government have done is appoint themselves as judges in a case where they are the accused. The victims’ counsel are of the position that there is no way the victims are going to get justice form this board.

Next also learnt that apart from the Toyota Prado Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV) given to each member of the board, they were also paid N1 million each at every sitting. According to our source, who asked not be named, the committee had sat for about 15 times at the luxurious The Prince Hotel in Kano.

“Any member of the committee who has a conscience seeing the plight of the victims should have immediately resigned from the committee,” said Mr. Ishola.

eku_bear:
Communities in the ND should be watching this case.

Them go watch tire  - You need strong institutions to deliver such legal landslides in favour of the masses but unfortunately such does not exist in Nigeria.  The Nigerian leaders is so highly compromised and inept.  You have a case where Yakubu Gowon was in collision with prifzer to hamper efforts in securing compensation for the persons used as guinea pigs.

According to Kayode


Jonathan no sabi English anymore -   He says Jonathan cant differientiate between Rascals and Radicals


See how them they yab  Mr Presido  - haba this no fair

THE Ekiti State government has said the statement credited to President Goodluck Jonathan that insinuated that South-West governors are rascals must have been a slip of tongue.

Addressing journalists in Ado Ekiti, the Special Adviser to Governor Kayode Fayemi on Media, Alhaji Mojeed Jamiu, described President Jonathan as an intelligent man, stressing that he must have been quoted out of context.

“The statement by the president, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, in Ibadan while kicking off his presidential campaign where he allegedly called South-West governors rascals was a mistake.

“But then to us, we feel they quoted him out of context because the president is an intelligent man. What he meant was actually that those guys are radicals, not rascal,” Jamiu posited.

“You know there is a similarity when you want to call somebody a radical, you may mispronounce and say rascal,”  he explained.

According to him, “the Peoples Democratic Party is afraid of the positive changes, the positive development happening in the South-West,” emphasising that, “it was difficult to fathom how anybody could describe intellectuals with good pedigree as rascals.”

Jamiu described Dr. Fayemi as a governor of international repute, saying that the influx of development partners including international bodies such as UNDP and DFID to the state was a testimony of his capability to rescue the state from its deplorable state of under-development.

“With what has happened within the first 100days of the Fayemi’s administration,

it is as if the governor has been in power for more than three and a half years. What the ousted and ancient regime could not achieve in three and a half years,
we were able to achieve in less than 100days.

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/17499-jonathans-statement-on-rascals-a-slip-of-tongue-ekiti-govt

i laugh in hausa

una no dey inner circle together

for your next meeting for mama efe joint - feel free to asK gej direct


edddddddddddiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiooooooooooooootttttttttttttttttttttt - - NA love i take say am.

wesley80:
Another dumb thread destined for the front page!

By grace of the Almighty God - The ineptitude of GEJ and the rest of the clowns must be glaring for all to see


to prove a point - i actually registered twice.

yawns

and goes back to sleeps

ddc machine:
@blacksta, govt projects don't finish in a year, so even if N1trln is allocated to a project it may take 2,3-4yrs and that's how appropriations will be alloted to it till completion

No ya wa

I pray by Vision 202020 they would be able to access this mighty funds - hopefully many of them would not have gone under.

Have airlines started accessing the N500 billion intervention fund?

The puzzle remained unresolved, at the weekend, following conflicting statements by the airlines and the Minister of Aviation, Mrs Fidelia Njeze.

Mrs Njeze said some airlines have started accessing the cash, with a promise to use the money to defray their debts to the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), and Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA).

But the Chairman of Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON), Dr Steve Mahonwu, said more of the airlines had started accessing the money.

Mrs Njeze spoke at the ground breaking ceremony of the Lagos Hilton Hotel and Servair Kitchen.

She said: "I am sure that you know that the government has approved for the first time an aviation intervention fund and I want to tell you and let you know that some airlines have started accessing this fund. It will help to assist them in clearing the backlog.

"They have actually made a lot of commitment towards settling the arrears of debts owed the industry. I want to assure you that there will be a lot of improvement soon. They met with FAAN and NCAA and they assured them of their commitment to start paying. We know that it is not an easy business. It is a risky one and the industry requires a lot of intervention on the part of the government and for the first time, the government is showing that commitment and they are trying to fulfil it."

In a telephone interview, Mahonwu said: "None of the airlines that I know of have started accessing the intervention fund. They may be making political statements but where is the fund? We requested for it. The airlines had complained last year that we needed an intervention and the minister, thereafter, told us that the fund had been approved by the Federal Government, but ever since, we have not seen the money."

Also speaking, the Public Affairs Manager of Dana Airline, Mr Tony Usidamen, said: "To the best of my knowledge, Dana has not accessed the fund. But I do believe the modalities are still being worked out. We are interested, but are yet to get the money. The conditions are really very stringent."

$76m airports fund lies idle in CBN

By Adetutu Folasade-Koyi Assistant Editor, Abuja

Despite outcry over the parlous state of the nation’s airports, a whopping $76 million provided for upgrade of infrastructure in such facilities lie unused with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
Officials of the Federal Ministry of Aviation on Tuesday told the Senate Aviation Committee that the $76 million Bilateral Air Service Agreement (BASA) Fund meant for provision of infrastructure at the airports is still in the coffers of CBN.
Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Aviation, Ann Etta, and Director General of the Nigerian Airport, Harold Dumuren, are signatories to the account.
Dumuren, who spoke during an interactive session with the Sylvester Anyanwu-led committee, disclosed that none of the airline operators have so far expressed interest in accessing the fund.
“We have $76 million in that account with Central Bank of Nigeria and nobody has touched it, the money is intact.”

I hail

$200 Million for Nollywod

500billion for South East

500 billion - for agriculture

any many more newspaper advertised projects

the latest 550bill for auto


The last time i checked - The budget was 4.7 trillion Naira - for the same bugdet we go borrow $500 Million

75% of the budget is recurrent expenses.

All these big big figures sef without detailed plans of where the money is coming from or how person go access am - i think Aso rock get tree money for back yard

Baboon country.

The only way GEj can win this election is by rigging - fact

He has no integrity and not credible enough to win a free and fair election anywhere in the world - fact no 2

Unprepared leaders who stumble to presidential postS have never made any impact that would benefit the masses - I am sure it is not

going start with GEJ. fact no 3

The last Nine months of GEJ admistration has revealed everything that is wrong with Nigeria - retrogression - Fact No 4

Sorry


What is the point of this thread - hence

Thread Locked.

yoruba thread


where is the foreign issue