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If Biafra be made of people who talk before comprehending or listening, Biafra will be needing another country as soon as Biafra is achieved. Very likely another (Aburi) accord or constitution will be signed/promulgated without reasoning.

“The loss of life from starvation continues at more than 10,000 persons per day over 1,000,000 lives in recent months. Without emergency measures now, the number will climb to 25,000 per day, within a month and 2,000,000 deaths by the end of the year. The New Year will only bring greater disaster to people caught in the passion of fratricidal war; we can’t allow this to continue or those responsible to go free”

Senator Kennedy appeals to Americans Sunday November 17, 1968.

Consequently, the rich and the concerned people of the world trooped into Biafra to organize and contribute to saving the starving and the dying children of war. One of the blue bloods and the distinguished beautiful Princess, sister to the pretenders of the Spanish Throne, Cecile de Bourbon Parma took her visit and experience in Biafra to the United States Congress. “In one of the Refugees camps, I had a little girl in my arms, I think she was 10 and I was very anxious and looking forward to taking her along with me to Europe. She was very sick and completely mal-nourished. In-between her gasps, she was also anxious to join me and asked me when the plane will arrive to take her away from Biafra. I promised the plane would come, and when the plane landed, the little girl smiled and died in my arms!”

The Princess, who was testifying for the first time before the US Senate Committee with Senator Ted Kennedy as Chairman, did not live the Congress until she was promised American support aid for the starving children of Biafra. After that harrowing and sobering testimony, Senator Ted Kennedy and many prominent Americans including the then First Lady Patricia Nixon were pulling in many directions to move America to recognize the human carnage that was taking place in the first black on black genocide during the Nigeria civil war.

For the Blacks according to Herbert Gold, in Goodbye Biafra, Two Windows Press, San Francisco 1970, “American Blacks if they are interested at all is in to support Nigeria because they think we are like Katanga, the creature of someone else. Because they don’t know how the Arab hates the Africa and they fancy themselves Moslems and we are Christians. The highest level Washington decision is to follow political rather than humanitarian motives. Oil and spheres of influence rather than Biafran lives.”

Last week, we revealed to you the munificent response of the Jesus People of Canada in the face of the Biafran tragedy. In Europe, the Scandinavians as usual led Europe’s anti genocide charge to ameliorate the sufferings and the annihilation of the Biafran children. When they tried to fly in the relief materials and were being shot into the Atlantic by satanic Sudanese and Egyptian fighter Pilots, aided by evil Nigerian fighter Pilots like Gbadamosi King, Captain Dickson etc. there emerged on the scene a Swiss noble gentleman Carl Gustaf von Rosen, who decided on his own to build his own airforce in defense of Biafra relief flights.

Assembled and mainly built up of mini flying civilian aircrafts, Rosen employed Biafran scientists led by the astute improvising genius Onitsha born Achikwu, to equip and give his new array of flying mini aircrafts some offensive guns and teeth. Until his war planes were gradually decimated by either lack of parts or cremated by the more roundly equipped modern Russian fighter jets, Carl Rosen gave the Nigerian savage airforce a run for their money.

Indeed, Norway which is presently the most happy and boosting of the best organized government in the world ensured more than any other country the survival of the Biafrans in the face of the most callous blitz targeted against an African group since the end of the second world war. Norway in order to be effective employed subtly the services of the Norwegian Church Aid Group, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, NRK, Norsk Riks Kringkasting, Norwegian Labour Party…. Arbeide Partiet, and made the most humanitarian impact in Biafra and in those critical days following the end of the shooting war. The former Ebonyi State Governor Elechi, former Senator, Ofia Nwali who qualified as the first Computer PhD graduate in Africa were amongst the prominent beneficiaries of these Norwegian Christian relief group after the war. Significantly, the Norwegian leading political family the Stoltenbergs, fought the Biafran cause like nobody else. In fact it was the father of the Prime Minister, Thorvald Stoltenberg, who led the massive international food, medical and relief aid coming from Norway and Biafra during the dark days of the war. At the last meeting of the European Leaders, I tried to whisper my prayers and gratitude to Jens Stoltenberg, the present Prime Minister of Norway on a CNN montage. From Norway, we recount the sacrifices of the Swedish Churches, and the Swedish Lutheran Church, Uppsala.

Recently, I was in direct phone communications with the Church and the head of that powerful Christian Church confirmed its readiness to participate in our program and in fact they have published the Biafran war literature in the different Scandinavian mother languages which detailed those people’s sacrifices, their humanitarian efforts through their Churches and their people that ensured the survival of the Biafran children. In fact the most strategically important civilian in the Biafran experiment was Eze Onwuna, the first Governor of the Eastern Nigeria, Dr. Akanu Ibiam. He was the one who as the first Black President of the World Council of Churches coordinated, persuaded the World Christian groups to fall in line against genocide. Dr. Ibiam, when there was no food, no medical aid, no doctors, no money inside the besieged Biafran enclave, called on the Christian world to come to the aid of the starving humanity and the Churches of Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Germany responded.

Fifty years after, no Biafran living or dead, have thought it worthwhile to acknowledge these martyrs some of who perished in the air, shot into the Atlantic, or were killed just landing relief at the bomb infested Uli airport. In our program for the Fifty Years Anniversary for the Asaba/Anioma/Biafran genocide memorial, we are going to kneel in prayers with other genocide victims of Armenia, Aleppo, Rwanda, Darfur, Israel, Odi, Agatu, Zaki Biam, Southern Kaduna and for the first time, openly say our gratitude to the following: The Caritas, World Council of Churches, The Red Cross, the Jesus People, Doctors Without Borders, Swedish Churches, Swedish Lutheran Church, Uppsala, the Prime Minister of Norway, Jens Stoltenberg and his father Thorvald Stoltenberg, the Norwegian Church Aid Group, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, NRK, Norsk Riks Kringkasting, Norwegian Labour Party…. Arbeide Partiet, Carl Gustaf von Rosen, Bojrn Ryman, Jewish brothers, Ezra Melamed, Samuel Karniely, Josef, Shimony and Arnon Barak for their unprecedented courage, flying in darkness to bring food and succor to the starving children of Biafra.

http://sunnewsonline.com/doctors-without-borders-and-50-years-of-biafras-ingratitude/

There are many ways to interpret Biafra – a struggle, a movement for emancipation, an expression of collective injury and victimisation, et cetera. Depending on where you stand, these different interpretations of Biafra could either resonate with you or push you away from the agenda. As such, Biafra is simultaneously attractive and repelling.

For some reason, it is this inherent tension in Biafra that makes it appealing. This is especially so, if one positions Biafra as a metaphor – “a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else”.
Seen as a metaphor, Biafra can act as a good hook for introspection and critical thinking for the Igbo people, in particular. They seem to be at the fore front of Biafra for obvious reasons including structural injustices and marginalisation. The purpose is not to rehearse these here. Simon Kolawole’s recent “Biafra is not a dirty word” did that brilliantly.

While the focus, of late, has been so much on the
poor relationship between the Igbos and the presidency, it is important to resist the total seduction of this narrative and refocus attention on the immense opportunities from within, which Biafra as a metaphor can offer.

First and foremost, the South East is full of potentials. These potentials can be unlocked and harnessed through good governance, which is often in short supply. Anambra State, through massive investments in education and road infrastructure recently, appears to have a foretaste of what good governance can achieve.

Secondly, there is no need for the Igbo people to be overly obsessed about the centre. They do not necessarily need an Igbo President for the potential opportunities in the zone to be harnessed. All they need to pray and ask for is a good Nigerian leader who can see and treat every part of Nigeria as equal and important. An Igbo President, which seems to be often orchestrated by some self-centred politicians, is not necessarily a panacea to myriad development challenges in the region. However, there is every need for the Igbo people to look inwards and draw strength from within.

Thirdly, secession, as glamorous as it may sound, may not be the solution to the needs and pains of the Igbo people. There are many examples in the world, where secession has failed woefully. Agitating for secession without a good plan and strategy, as it seemingly looks at the moment, is a grand recipe for disaster.

Based on these reasons, Biafra, as a metaphor, should afford the Igbo people the opportunity to ask tough questions: “What sort of society are they and would they like to be? What sort of economy will fit this ideal society they aspire to be? What sort of governance will make this ideal society feasible?” These are some of the pressing questions, which should preoccupy the Igbo elites and intelligentsia at this point in time. This is an opportunity to revisit Igbo philosophy and worldview in contemporary Nigeria. It will take more than placards and sit-at-home strategies to address these questions.

The worst mistake the Igbo people can make with Biafra is to allow it to be hijacked by thugs and rogues. And these abound. Biafra, as a metaphor, should offer the opportunity to re-assess political leadership and governance in the South East. No South East State is governed by an outsider. Biafra, as a metaphor, should offer an opportunity to hold current leadership at the State level accountable. It should also offer an opportunity to set leadership and governance benchmarks for the future.

Igbo people need to come together in a meaningful and strategic manner. The region needs a lot more inter-state collaboration to unlock and harness the development opportunities in the region. The Igbo people are known for entrepreneurship. There is a readily available energy and human capital waiting to be gainfully exploited and employed here.

It is obvious that there is no significant Federal Government presence in the South East in the scale of what the Federal Government did in Lagos and what it does in Abuja today. But instead of expending negative energy on the failures of the Federal Government to recreate a Lagos or an Abuja in the South East, the zone can choose to focus positive energy on how to make the best of what it gets from the centre and can generate from within. This is, again, where the entrepreneurial and enterprising characteristics of the region should make a visible difference to the situations on ground.

Recognising the land-lock nature of the South East, Biafra as a metaphor should also afford Igbo people the opportunity to explore and fine-tune their relationships with their neighbours. This has, unfortunately, not always been smooth – especially, after the civil war. But the prospects of good neighbourliness are there. As such, Biafra as a metaphor is also about being a good neighbour.

Igbo people and their neighbours can focus on developing a viable entrepreneurial ecosystem to support the human ingenuity the zones are known for. Imagine a situation where Aba, Nnewi, Onitsha, Abakaliki, Port Harcourt, and Calabar are strategically organised to form a solid cluster. This will, amongst others, involve the universities, professional services firms, venture capitalists and financiers of innovation. It will not only enhance the production and export of commodities abundant in these zones, it will also create jobs, reduce brain drain, and enhance the wealth in the zones. Unfortunately, such ideas and thoughts are blatantly and worryingly absent.

Finally, Biafra as a metaphor is an opportunity that shouldn’t be lost in the midst of agitations, struggles, and sit-at-home strategies. Biafra as a metaphor can be a source of positive energy for the Igbo people and the Nigerian leadership – for, according to Holderlin – a German poet – “where danger lies, also lies the saving power”. And particularly for the Igbo people: “Onye ajuru aju, anaghi aju onwe ya” (a man forsaken by others, doesn’t need to forsake himself, as well).
May the souls of those who paid the ultimate price during the civil war continue to rest in peace!

https://www.thecable.ng/biafra-metaphor-implications-igbos-nigerian-leadership

No fewer than 23 Nigerian banks received inflows amounting to N28.7 billion executed in 460,000 transactions through the Mavrodi Mondial Moneybox (MMM) Ponzi scheme within six months, the 2016 annual report of the Nigeria Electronic Fraud Forum (NeFF) has revealed.

The amount, which was moved between June and December 2016, is 61 per cent higher than the budget of the Federal Ministry of Education and almost six times over the budget of the Nigerian Defence Headquarters (DHQ) in the 2017 budget, the report erroneously stated.

A quick fact-check by THISDAY of the 2017 budget, as passed by the National Assembly, showed that N139.3 billion was allocated to the Ministry of Defence for its capital spending programme for the year, while N330.54 billion was allocated for recurrent expenditure.

In the case of the budget of the education ministry, the National Assembly passed a provision of N398.70 billion for recurrent spending and N56.72 billion for capital expenditure for the year.

The report disclosed that by the time the scheme “crashed” on December 13, 2016, over N11.9 billion had been lost by gullible subscribers.
The NeFF report, which was unveiled in Abuja Tuesday at a stakeholders workshop on cybercrime, organised by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), disclosed that since the MMM scheme had a 30-day cycle before return-on-investment (RoI) was realised, everyone who put money into it after November 12, 2016 did not get their money out.
“No fewer than 23 banks received inflows amounting to N28.7 billion executed in 460,000 transactions through the MMM Ponzi scheme. The amount put into the scheme between November 13th and December 15th, 2016 (through interbank transactions) totals over NGN11.9bn. This amount was largely not recovered.

“To put this amount into perspective, the 2017 budget for Defence Headquarters is N4.7 billion. This implies that the amount transferred by Nigerians under the MMM Ponzi scheme would have funded the Nigerian Defence HQ almost six times over.
“Majority of the transfers made by customers of banks that participated in the MMM Ponzi scheme were made through the account-to-account transfer platform.
“This was followed by the mobile channel, and lastly, through the web channels of other transfer platforms in the industry,” the report said.

It added that 34 financial institutions paid out money for investments into the MMM Nigeria Ponzi scheme, adding that the customers included those of commercial banks, mobile payment operators as well as mortgage banks.
“By the side are the amounts, in terms of volume and value for each financial institution that money was paid out from. Fewer banks received inflows of MMM transactions than the number of banks from which outflows occurred,” the NeFF report stressed.

It also stated that MMM followed the usual pattern of Ponzi schemes, pointing out that “they continue to build momentum and crash when the maximum amounts are already invested in the scheme”.

The NeFF report added that the peak of the MMM investment was in November 2016, when over N13 billion was transferred among the participants, pointing out that the CBN had in the middle of 2016 warned about the dangers of the scheme.

In a related development, the volume of fraud reported in 2016 indicated an 82 per cent increase in reported cases, with an estimated N2.19 billion losses.
The NeFF 2016 annual report titled, “A Changing Payments Ecosystem: The Security,” said the financial industry recorded an 82 per cent rise when compared to 2015 and over 1,200 per cent rise when juxtaposed with the situation in 2014.

According to the report, despite the 82 per cent increase in reported fraud cases, the industry was able to reduce fraud by 2.7 per cent when compared to the 2015 figure.
“Comparing the attempted fraud against the actual losses, the industry was able to salvage 49.7 per cent of the total amount attempted by these fraudsters within the year.

“These figures informed us that there are more attempts on a yearly basis with different innovation tricks or modus operandi to take advantage of the system,” the NeFF report said.
The report also noted that 2016 witnessed a significant transaction increase across all payment channels in both volume and value in spite of the economic recession.
“In contrast with 2015, there was a 71.43 per cent spike in the volume of transactions processed through the NCS (Nigeria Central Switch),” it said.

In his address at the unveiling of the NeFF 2016 annual report, CBN’s Director, Banking and Payments System and NeFF Chairman, Mr. Dipo Fatokun, stated that the Nigeria Interbank Settlement System (NIBSS) report of the Nigeria fraud landscape for 2016 indicated that fraud cases grew by 82 per cent over the 2015 figures, attributing the trend to the increased usage of new payment platforms.

Meanwhile, the CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, has called on stakeholders to ensure that the Cybercrime Act is effectively enforced, to serve as a deterrent and constant reminder to those who may wish to engage in illicit activities targeting the financial technology infrastructure.
“It is now about two years into the commencement of the Act, and so it is not too early to conduct a holistic review of its implementation, hence the theme of this workshop: ‘Tackling Enforcement Challenges under the Cybercrime Act’,” Emefiele said.

He noted that as the regulator of the financial sector, the CBN is constantly confronted with issues raised by operators who occupy the unenviable position of first line of defence against cyber attacks on the systems, networks and infrastructure through which financial services are carried out in the country.
“While the issue about cyber security is not wholly legal in nature, and while considerable efforts have been made by the CBN and banking operators, especially through the Bankers’ Committee and other bodies, leading to reduced incidents of fraud on the one hand, and very high consumer confidence in our payment system on the other, we are nevertheless desirous that the Cybercrime Act is effectively enforced, to serve as a deterrent and constant reminder to those who may wish to engage in illicit activities targeting our financial technology infrastructures,” he said.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2017/05/31/23-banks-got-n28-7bn-inflows-from-dubious-mmm-transactions/

Hmmmm.....
My CRS. How did we even lose serenity and cleanliness?
A fool argued that industrialization comes with dirty street and all what not. And I just had to ask what he knows about the country China.
We have 2 professors as governors, yet no clear blueprint like Donald gave us.
All we see from Ben is top notch display of "Baba Sala’s Alawada Kerikeri bofoonery" that should be left for carnival day alone. 2019 is drawing closer, and there is no president for caucus members to obey.

This governor is too playful to be taken serious. My state have suffered since Donald left.

Enough of the Obanliku.
Geographically the ranch and some on the list are in Obanliku, but the government reports it in Obudu, for whatever reason we may not know.
Even Tinapa isn't in wholly Calabar.

Is the ranch really in Obudu LGA? ...or Obanliku LGA?

funfemitte:
When did you get the invite? I'm in Sales by the way.

Today.

I received invite for medicals scheduled for this Friday. (Engineering)

...and yet their telecast is still very vintage.

Total confusion on this matter.

...and everyone is just missing the most important one: Average Turnover. N1.5 million for Classic Saving for most banks. N2 million for Corporate account.

Was he their headmaster? He look like one sef. Its okay.

Hmmm...
You said if you don't win, blood will flow.
Now, its you who's losing blood daily and traveling every quarter.
I never really supported this president, but there's a level your enemy conditions will degenerate to, you begin to pray for them.
I pray you get better sir.

Na so. Suffering and smiling.

Well done for speaking up.
The (cold) war has already started and its just a matter of time before snowballs into a civil war.

500 take exams to relocate in 2017

700 doctors leave every year –NMA

Stakeholders lament brain drain

Doctors protest 22 months unpaid salaries

No fewer than 15,000 medical doctors have left Nigeria for overseas in search of greener pastures. A reliable source at the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) told New Telegraph that “over 15,000 doctors have travelled out of Nigeria to developed countries where they are now practising medicine.”

President of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Dr. Mike Ogirima, confirmed that between 10,000 and 15,000 Nigerian doctors are working outside the country. Ogirima told New Telegraph that about 90 per cent of those working outside the country are trained in Nigeria where they acquired their capacity.

The NMA President noted that between 40,000 and 60,000 doctors are working in the country.

Ogirima said: “Nigeria has trained these doctors while other countries are making use of them. That is a sad thing. Of course in a country where the working environment is not conducive, what do you expect? “So, we expect the government to improve the working environment, provide the necessary tools for the doctors to work with and give them needed welfare to encourage them to stay in the country.”

Just last month, over 500 doctors took examination for possible recruitment placement abroad.
For Nigerian doctors looking for employment in the United States, they write the United States Medical Licensing Examination, while those seeking employment opportunities in the United Kingdom write examination with the Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board (PLAB). Unfortunately, the conditions driving the migration have worsened with more doctors working for several months in the country without salaries.

While providing an insight into the trend, a top member of the NMA told New Telegraph that in 2015, a total number of 715 doctors departed the shores of Nigeria, seeking greener pastures in foreign countries.
“Annually, the number of Nigerian doctors departing the country to work abroad ranges between 500 to 700,” a top NMA official told our correspondent. Giving details of the doctor’s migration, a medical doctor who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said more Nigerian doctors move to the UK while a fewer number go to Canada.

“Their final destination is, however, the United States (U.S.), which offers them better remuneration and welfare package. “For these Nigerian doctors, working in the UK, Canada and other countries, including the Caribbean, working in these foreign nations is a stepping stone,” he said.

The source added that foreign doctors, including the ones from Nigeria, don’t enter the U.S. directly. According to the source, “Migrating doctors have to go through UK, Canada and later enter the U.S. It’s easier to go to the UK, but the population of Nigerian doctors in the U.S. is more.

“The final destination of majority of doctors leaving Nigeria for greener pastures is the U.S., because that is the country that pays more.” Explaining the migration, the member of NMA said going to the Caribbean to practice has been on with Nigerian doctors for a long time, but usually, that is not their final destination. When these doctors want to settle down, they usually move further to the U.S. and Canada.

The source noted that not all the doctors in the country, an estimated 40,000, practice medicine. Some have since left the medical field to venture into other areas, some don’t renew their registration while some are dead.

The doctors’ migration to overseas countries has, however resulted in huge workload for the medical practitioners that are left behind. Presently, the doctor-patient ratio in Nigeria is one doctor to 4,250 patients, which is far below the World Health Organisation (WHO), recommended one doctor to not more than 600 patients.

On the contrary, Dr. Adeyeye Arigbabuwo, immediate past chairman, Association of General Private Medical Practitioners of Nigeria (AGPMPN), Lagos State Chapter said some countries have achieved better doctor-patient ratio. “Cuba has the best doctorpatient ratio – one to 170; that of the United States (U.S.) is one doctor to 390 patients; while in Australia, the ratio is one doctor to 400 patients,” he asserted.

According to Arigbabuwo, Africa especially south of the Sahara, is mainly vulnerable to poor doctorpatient ratio. “It is where we have bad doctor-patient ratio,” he added.

Stakeholders have raised the alarm over the continued mass exodus of Nigerian medical doctors from the country for greener pastures abroad. The stakeholders are also calling for a better welfare and improved working conditions to check the dangerous trend. Prof. Mosto Onuoha, the president of the Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS), described the migration of medical doctors abroad as “a real problem.”

Highlighting the enormity of the challenge, he related the experience of a young frustrated Nigerian doctor, who decided to go for an examination, a prerequisite for Nigerian doctors to practice medicine in the United Kingdom.

“This doctor went for this examination last month and the first surprise he had was that there were over 500 Nigerian doctors that came for it. “So, it is a serious problem and it is one that we at the NAS, and even me as the President of NAS, are concerned about,” Onuoha told New Telegraph. Speaking on the menace, the president of the NAS lamented that the medical doctors that are leaving Nigeria to practice abroad are the young ones, especially those that are very intelligent.

“They are the ones that are capable of passing the prerequisite examinations. We are losing most of the brightest doctors that we have,” he said.
The other group that Nigeria is losing, according to him, is the affluent doctors whose parents are wealthy, because they can afford to send their doctor sons and daughters for educational programmes in developed countries.

Highlighting other factors driving this migration, Onuoha stated that many doctors who graduated for the past three to four years cannot get health facilities as placement for Residency training. “Most of the state hospitals available are not accredited for Residency Programmes,” he lamented.

Residency is a stage of graduate medical training. A resident is one who holds the degree of MBBS, who practices medicine usually in a hospital or clinic under the direct or indirect supervision of an attending physician. During the six-year period of the Residency training, the Residents specialise in a particular field of medicine such as orthopaedics, cardiology, ophthalmology, etc.

Another category of doctors the nation is losing are consultants, most of whom get frustrated because they just watch their patients die as a result of poor working environment and dilapidated working tools.

Furthermore, Onuoha blamed the problem on limited hospitals that employ doctors. Federal Government is their major employer, he said, adding that although private hospitals are thriving, many of them in Abuja and Lagos are not employing many doctors. He lamented that some of the few facilities that employ doctors in Nigeria owe salaries for several months.
Onuoha said: “As I speak with you, I know teaching hospitals that are paying employed doctors fractions of their salary, ranging from 70 per cent to 80 per cent. Many doctors in Nigeria work for several months without salaries.” Highlighting factors driving the migration, Dr. Arigbabuwo attributed the trend mainly to economic interest, saying those working in Nigeria do not have good incentives.

“There are no incentives for the doctors to go to the rural areas and practice,” Arigbabuwo told New Telegraph. A Consultant Paediatric Haematologic Oncologist and former Chairman of Lagos NMA, Prof. Edamisan Temiye, blamed the migration of Nigerian doctors abroad on the hostile working environment in Nigeria. He said: “There are no amenities to work with. It starts with electricity, water supply to the provision of equipment to carry out treatment on patients.”
What is happening, according to the former Chairman of Lagos NMA, is that the Nigerian doctors are well trained, but not given equipment to work with.

Temiye noted that another reason for the migration is that everybody in Nigeria “wants to be the doctor,” adding that the competition is unhealthy and it is only in Nigeria that such competition is seen. On measures to halt this trend, the president of NAS called for the harmonisation of Residency training in Nigeria. According to Onuoha, most of the time, some Resident Doctors in Nigeria write the examinations to qualify them as consultants four to five times without passing and end up getting frustrated.
“You find them leaving the country to go and practice abroad. Something needs to be done about their training.

That is why often times, the resident doctors are on strike,” he said. He urged the government to pay doctors salaries as and when due as well as look into the various agreements it signed with different professional associations in the health sector with a view to addressing their problems.

“We cannot continue to have the Nigerian doctors’ exodus that is on now; it is not healthy for any country,” the NAS President stated. Speaking in similar vein, the immediate former 2nd Vice Chairman of the NMA in Lagos State, Dr. Olusegun Akinwotu, urged government and stakeholders to ensure the provision of adequate remuneration for doctors in the country.

“This (remuneration) is the most attractive factor driving Nigerian doctors to emigrate abroad,” he said. Akinwotu called for improved training for Nigerian doctors so that they can work with their contemporaries anywhere in the world.

https://newtelegraphonline.com/news/health/15000-doctors-dump-nigeria-overseas/

Yet no visible improvement, not even on paper. Our records and reputation have sunk below and beyond what intellect can comprehend or discuss. Now, nobody's talking, only them.

House of Representatives has proposed N100,000 fine as penalty for the abuse of the Nigerian National Flag.
This was contained in a bill, which scaled second reading on the floor of the House, yesterday.

Sponsor of the bill, Hon. Sam Onuigbo while leading debate on its general principles said it was designed to amend Flag and Coat of Arms Act 2004, to make further provisions to preserve the country’s national heritage, expressing concerns that there had been clandestine effort to change the national flag, as many public offices construct the Coat-of Arms on it, “especially the official photographs of many governors, ministers and even National Assembly members”.

The lawmaker said it was important to declare that any addition, subtraction or super imposition outside the version designed by Pa Michael Akinkunmi in 1959, was not the Nigerian Flag, pointing out that the bill intended to amend section 7 of the principal Act, by inserting new paragraphs to provide for stiffer penalties for offenders.

According to him, Section 10 of the principal Act is amended by removing the fine of N100, and replacing same with the sum of N100, 000. “Also any person who flies or exhibits the national flag which is deconstructed, thereby creating an impression of using the national flag, where actually the flag is deconstructed shall be guilty of an offence against the Act.

“Similarly, any person who uses the national coat and inserts same into the national flag thereby creating an illegal form of our national flag shall be guilty of an offence against this act,’’ the lawmaker said.

http://www.blueprint.ng/reps-place-n100-000-fine-on-national-flag-abusers/

Finally...
You try.

This is not breaking news. Its expected.

Damn!!! People get mind o...

Return to work?
Is it not same Aso Rock or does he take taxi to office wey we go use know say he returned to work?
Almost anywhere can be his office. There's even an office in his jet.

A whole MTN have an overall 1,800 staff strength? Hmmmm....well subsidiaries should make up.

I thought he was been investigated. If not, I see why he has mouth to talk.

This is not necessary. Its politics, and especially in Nigeria, mudslinging is the new normal.

Better blame hunger. Even if there are 5 presidents if I earn 200k, I'm not concerned, the only ones that'll be concerned are the political minded and egoistic ones.

As you put Yakuku Gowon, why haven't you put Paul Kagame of Rwanda?

The write up is not necessary because you're telling the obvious.
Have IPOBs said its not political? Its has always been and will always be a struggle for (political) self-determination.

So they wanna confine him to a space like Buhari?
Its not gonna work.
Its open season.
Things are spinning outta their control now.