[quote author=Nursepepeye post=128236919] you are not normal, Americans and Isreal are not scared of IRAN, they are just looking for every evidence to justify military action in IRAN. Donald trump openly ordered assassination of Solemani publicly, what did Iran do? Isreal successfully strike and killed Iranian general, what did Iran do in response till today? IRAN know very well America and Isreal plan that's why he switched to proxy attacks and the last one that killed 3American troops will end IRAN stupidity in few days.

why do you think US is announcing when and how they going to strike Iran interests. But not in Iran soil. Plus US is already lost middle east politically.
Also Iran is strong ally to Russia. The whole west fight with Russia and they failed. When was was the last time they donated weapons to Ukraine?

jonnyjustcome22:
Foolish terrorist country why dey no wait make Israel kill all there general.

War need to buy time

sweetjohn:
And some foolish Nigerians terrorist are still saying Iran is stronger. Dead brain people. Israel has killed how many Iran top MILITARY personnel and yet they can still do nothing. Iran knows Israel very well. Na beg the world dey beg Israel to stop war. Starting a war with Israel is very easy and not a problem but the problem is in ending the war as it will involved the whole world on their kneel begging Israel to stop. This is the main reason Iran are afraid of the Israelites. ending it.

Israel greatest prayer is for Iran to buy war with them, they want to end terrorism sponsor in the middle east for ever. Thats Israel main target. Iran knows and they are avoiding Israel by all means. Never again, according to the Israelites also means ending the roots (Iran) of Islamic terrorism.

For 3mnts and days, they can not achieve a single them thing than destruction. Remember they are not fight with a country.. there is no winner in a war.. plus Israel has to seek support from west

bestman09:

The fear of Israel is the beginning of wisdom. Person wey no know who pass am na dead man #pidgin proverb

The country of Israel is fighting a war with just a state in Palestine and they can not achieve a single thing other than destruction. They are unable to resque just one hostages.. Israel have a nuclear arsenal but they can not use plus Israel large depends on US power..

FalseProphet1:
I see Iran getting attacked by American backed terrorists, I see Iran becoming like Syria and Iraq.

This I have seen.

do you why America government is announcing that they will strike Iran interest because they don't want to go to war with Iran.

olaolulazio:
Israel go level dem to the ground since wahala no deh tire them

The country of Israel is fighting a war with just a state in Palestine and they can not achieve a single thing other than destruction. They are unable to resque just one hostages.. Israel have a nuclear arsenal but they can not use plus Israel large depends on US power..

Daguccizgreat:
Israel no be their mate

The country of Israel is fighting a war with just a state in Palestine and they can not achieve a single thing other than destruction. They are unable to resque just one hostages.. Israel have a nuclear arsenal but they can not use plus Israel large depends on US power..

Government helps those that help them self.. My God have mercy on us.. We are all need to seek more forgiveness from Allah the Almighty and repent from our sins

We have high hope in Allah.. We believe in you.
Togetherness we most build our Kwara S

Nigeria has a mental health problem
One in four Nigerians suffers from mental illness, but help is hampered by tight budgets and a lack of skilled staff.

by Socrates Mbamalu
Among Nigeria's healthcare woes is the emigration of its physicians. Nine out of every ten doctors in Nigeria are seeking to leave the country and find work elsewhere - including the Nigerian doctor who is pictured here and signing paperwork to become a German citizen [Thomas Peter/Reuters]
Among Nigeria's healthcare woes is the emigration of its physicians. Nine out of every ten doctors in Nigeria are seeking to leave the country and find work elsewhere - including the Nigerian doctor who is pictured here and signing paperwork to become a German citizen [Thomas Peter/Reuters]
Lagos, Nigeria - On the outside, the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital Yaba seems tranquil.

But on the inside of this century-old facility - one of only a half-dozen psychiatric centres in Lagos, and the only one run by the federal government of Nigeria - tensions are running high.

At the outpatient clinic, the crowd of people waiting to consult with doctors is so thick that it spills into the hallway.

The workload is so overwhelming that Dr Dapo Adegbaju, a psychiatrist rushing to attend to an agitated patient, has slept in the hospital for the past two nights.

In the emergency ward, a patient named Jide languishes in a queue where he has been waiting since 7am.

It is not yet noon at Yaba hospital, but this is business as usual. The hospital saw a 22 percent increase in the number of new patients with different types of mental illnesses in 2018 - along with a 50 percent increase in the number of patients struggling with substance abuse.

One in four Nigerians - some 50 million people - are suffering from some sort of mental illness, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Today - World Mental Health Day - finds the country nowhere near equipped to tackle the problem.

There are only eight neuropsychiatric hospitals in Nigeria. With dire budget and staffing shortfalls prompting doctors to go on strike, leave the country, or quit the medical profession altogether, the prognosis looks as grim for psychiatric care at Yaba hospital as it does for Nigeria's healthcare system as a whole.

Mental health crisis
The seventh-largest country in the world, Nigeria has Africa's highest rate of depression, and ranks fifth in the world in the frequency of suicide, according to WHO. There are less than 150 psychiatrists in this country of 200 million, and WHO estimates that fewer than 10 percent of mentally ill Nigerians have access to the care they need.

The stark difference between Nigeria's need for better psychiatric care - and the resources available - is illustrated by the healthcare gaps at Yaba psychiatric hospital, which had a 2018 budget of 133 million naira ($372,000) - but only 13 million naira ($36,000) or less than 10 percent of that amount released by the federal government.

As a result of financial deficits and other challenges, Yaba hospital lost 25 - roughly half of its resident psychiatrists over the past four years. Some left to find work in other countries. Some went to private hospitals. Others simply quit. The facility now has 33 resident doctors and 22 consultants scrambling to address the needs of the more than 5,000 patients that they treat every year.

Each doctor now tends to 50 to 80 patients per day - including the 535 who fill the inpatient beds, and the 100 or more emergency cases who are rushed to the hospital each week.

Yaba's psychiatric clinic, once open from 9am to 1:30pm, is now open until 5pm so its doctors can try to catch up on their backlog of patients.

Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital Yaba
The Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital Yaba is facing a 22 percent increase in the number of new patients with different types of mental illnesses - while only 10 percent of its allocated budget has been released by the federal government [Socrates Mbamalu/Al Jazeera]


Critics say Yaba's shortfalls are not only affecting the quality of its services, but the bottom lines of its patients and their families, too.

A father sitting next to his teenage daughter in the queue of patients tells Al Jazeera that he has spent 1,440 naira ($4, or half the average daily pay in Nigeria) to bring the girl in for that day's treatment. Because the journey - and the more-than-four-hour wait to see a doctor - are both so time-consuming, the exhausted-looking father has taken a full day off work - putting his family at financial risk - to give his daughter the psychiatric care that she needs.

Despite the long wait, the girl - who comes to Yaba about twice a month - will have only a short time to consult with her psychiatrist.

"A patient ought to spend between 25 and 30 minutes with the doctor, but ends up spending between four and five minutes," Yaba psychiatrist Dr. Afeez Enifeni tells Al Jazeera.

The father says he is determined to make the most of what the hospital can offer his daughter.

"Health," he insists, "is more important than anything else."

'Bearing the burden'
This past summer, Yaba hospital's Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) held a four-week strike to protest the conditions facing the facility's practitioners and patients.

"We could not continue bearing the moral burden of rendering below-par mental health services to our teeming patient population," ARD said in a statement it issued at the start of the strike.

ARD president Dr Enifeni told Al Jazeera that a main goal of the strike - which halted the admission of new patients for a month, required that emergency cases be turned away, and ended in promises to hospital employees that the facility has yet to fulfill - was to spur the hospital to hire more doctors.

Between 2014 and 2018, 40 doctors completed their six-year training at Yaba hospital - then sought employment elsewhere. Some may have left for financial reasons: Yaba doctors can face two-to-three month delays in being paid their wages. And due to a no-work, no-pay policy implemented by the Nigerian government, those who went on strike this summer may not receive the salaries they would have earned during the month that they were protesting.

Enifeni says the workload has become "unbearable" for the 33 psychiatrists and resident doctors who are still working at the hospital - one of a growing number of healthcare facilities in Nigeria where workers are going on strike.

Yaba spokeswoman Philomena Omoike said that though the hospital wrote to the Ministry of Health in June and requested 15 more doctors, that request had yet to be filled.

"The constant leaving of the doctors," she said, "makes recruitment harder."

It’s better to be a medical officer in a system that works than a psychiatrist in a system that doesn’t.
DR DEMOLA ALALADE, NIGERIAN PSYCHIATRY RESIDENT WHO EMIGRATED TO THE UNITED KINGDOM

Physician exodus
Roughly nine out of every ten doctors in Nigeria are seeking to leave the country and find work elsewhere, according to a 2017 poll by the nonprofit organisation Nigeria Health Watch.

The desire for better opportunities - improved pay, facilities, work environments, professional satisfaction, tax breaks and career progression - were among the reasons that psychiatrists and other doctors surveyed said they were hoping to emigrate.

Every week, reports the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom, at least 12 doctors leave Nigeria to seek employment in the UK, where they can earn twice as much as they do at home - and where the number of practicing doctors from Nigeria has more than doubled in the past 13 years.

As Demola Alalade - a doctor who won a psychiatric residency slot in Nigeria but chose to emigrate to the UK - told Al Jazeera: "It's better to be a medical officer in a system that works than a psychiatrist in a system that doesn't."

'No funding from the government'
In part due to the migration of doctors to other countries, Nigeria has an estimated physician-patient ratio of one doctor to every 4,000 to 5,000 patients - six times smaller than the physician-patient ratio (one physician to every 600 doctors) that is recommended by WHO.

Nigeria Health Watch projects that with Nigeria's population on the rise (it is slated to double by 2050, according to the United Nations), the country will need to stop losing doctors and instead start bringing more in - at a rate of 10,605 per year - to keep pace with overall patient demand.

Nigeria's former Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, said in April that the country had "more than enough" doctors.

But practitioners at Yaba - and their patients - disagree.

They say Nigeria needs to start spending the money it has pledged to devote to psychiatry services and other forms of healthcare, too.

Along with 20 other member nations of the African Union, Nigeria signed the 2001 Abuja Declaration that promised to earmark 15 percent of its federal budgets for healthcare.

A 2011 WHO report found Nigeria had made "insufficient progress" towards that target. And by 2018, the country had allocated just 3.95 percent of its budget to funding its Ministry of Health.

In Nigeria's recently proposed 2020 budget, President Muhammadu Buhari allocated just 4.3 percent of the total budget for health.

For the physicians, residents, and patients of Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital Yaba, the money and support for which they have been long been waiting cannot come too soon.

"There has been an increase in patients," says Omoike, "but no funding from the government."

With additional reporting by Molly M. Ginty
Source: Aljazeer news

Facebook removes accounts from UAE, Nigeria, Egypt and Indonesia
Hundreds of pages accused of 'coordinated inauthentic behaviour' and misleading millions of users worldwide.

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The accounts on Facebook and Instagram that where taken down had a cumulative 7.5 million followers [File: Jon Elswick/AP]
The accounts on Facebook and Instagram that where taken down had a cumulative 7.5 million followers [File: Jon Elswick/AP]
Facebook has removed several pages, groups and accounts on its platforms from the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia, citing "coordinated inauthentic behaviour" aimed at misleading social media users.

A total of 443 Facebook accounts, 200 pages and 76 groups, as well as 125 Instagram accounts, were removed, the social media platform said on Thursday.

They were traced to three separate and "unconnected" operations, one of which was operating in three countries, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Nigeria; and two others in Indonesia and Egypt, to spread misleading posts and news articles.

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Facebook, which owns one-time rivals Instagram and WhatsApp, said the accounts were engaged in spreading content on topics like UAE's activity in Yemen, the Iran nuclear deal and criticism of Qatar, Turkey and Iran.

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Those operations created "networks of accounts to mislead others about who they were, and what they were doing," Nathaniel Gleicher, head of cybersecurity policy said in the statement.

In all, the accounts on Facebook and Instagram commanded an estimated 7.5 million followers.

The company added that it is taking down the accounts "based on their behaviour, not the content they posted".

"In each of these cases, the people behind this activity coordinated with one another and used fake accounts to misrepresent themselves."

Facebook defines coordinated inauthentic behaviour as "when groups of pages or people work together to mislead others about who they are or what they are doing."

One account called USA Thoughts posted false information about Qatar developing a "Hate App".

In Indonesia, accounts involved in "domestic-focused" issues were accused of spreading news about the deadly protests in the West Papua region.

"Although the people behind this activity attempted to conceal their identities, our investigation found links to an Indonesia media firm InsightID."

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg visits members of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been criticised for the company's response to the rise of accounts spreading fake news and propaganda [File: Joshua Roberts/Reuters]
As much as $300,000 was reportedly spent on Facebook ads paid in the Indonesian currency, rupiah.

Al Jazeera was not immediately able to contact InsightID.

During the April 2019 national elections, President Joko Widodo, who was seeking re-election, was also targeted with disinformation on social media, with some accusing him of being a communist and an underground Christian.

Sluggish response
The social media giant has recently cracked down on such accounts after its founder Mark Zuckerberg came under fire in the last few years for sluggishness in developing tools to combat "extremist" content and propaganda operations.

"We are making progress rooting out this abuse, but as we’ve said before, it’s an ongoing challenge," the statement on Thursday said.

Is Facebook ruining the world? | UpFront
Earlier this year, Facebook removed accounts from Iraq, Ukraine, China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Thailand, Honduras and Israel.

Facebook is also making attempts to prevent online abuses and spread of misinformation, including in political election campaigns.

In March, it removed 200 pages, groups and accounts linked to the former social media manager of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte for misleading people.

The accounts and posts in question posted about local news, elections and alleged misconduct by political candidates opposed to the Duterte administration.

Facebook said the accounts administrators tried to hide their identity but were linked to a network organised by Duterte's 2016 campaign operative.

The spread of fake news and propaganda, however, is not limited to individuals and private companies.

According to a study conducted by the University of Oxford and published in late September, a "handful of sophisticated state actors" are using social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to influence a global audience.

It listed China, India, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela for using Facebook and Twitter for "foreign influence operations".

The report said that most recently, China has been "aggressively using" Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in a "global disinformation" campaign related to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong.

SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES

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God bless Nigeria
God bless Mr president

saaron:
IPOB is really making International waves this year. It looks like something is about to cook up.
The good thing about buhari's illegitimate regime is that it will lead to the desolution of the fraud Nigeria.
Nigeria was never, is never and will never be a nation with fulani terrorist holding sway.

Hope they r gonna give a speech also... I cant wait to read their speech on climate change.. .

This is not yanga but oppressing..
This man should have be a role model to the youth but... Not showing any leadership

God bless Nigeria
God bless Mr president

Good for him

Chain, professooooooor? Modaku oooo

God bless Nigeria
God bless Mr president
God bless EFCC
Hope better Nigeria .
The next generation most never suffer

We shall get there one day not long.. Never loss hope
Nigeria go better no for mouth

[quote author=APCHaram post=81809242]Pure lies.

This is just another desperate attempt to pin this scam on Jonathan.

Alison Maduake was not the minister of Petroleum when this contract was signed. She was minister of Mines and Solid Minerals under Yar'adua and was only appointed minister of Petroleum by Jonathan in July 20


I have written already that the cabal which drafted this contract with a forged Yar'adua signature and who are now embedded in Buhari's shadow govt will desperately try and pin this on the PDP govt of Yar'adua and Jonathan.

The labour of our good heroes past shall not be 8n vain
I can't wait to see a better nigeria

I cant wait to see a better day in Nigeria my country.
Nigeria shall be better for next generation insha Allah
And the labour of our good heroes past, shall never go in vain..

Not efcc but you...
I pray for Nigeria next generation. The shall have better Nigeria insha Allah

Dont mind him cause he not there at the point to the arrestment

Jonathan39:
Are you trying to defend criminals or what actually are you trying to say.... don't defend criminals whether they are from your region or not, because you won't know when they will channel their radar at your. Except you are one of them.... what do i know

To serve Nigeria with all my strength.
God bless Nigeria
God bless Mr president
God bless EFCC and honorable me Magic

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To serve Nigeria with all my strength.. God bless Nigeria
God bless Mr President

Even the whole of his has dual citizenship

PrecisionFx:


Amy proof to that?

If in case, i stand with you.
A leader with dual citizenship should never be allowed.
This is very bad for poor nigerians

Flyingngel:
Will we ever have a better country?

We need their faces causing dont this 100p

Obason22:
pls, take note No igbo man's name appear here