₦airaland Forum

iterator24:
I believe we got enough

oduastates:
The solution is the opposite of the problem.your dumbo would not be able to identify a problem if it were staring at him in the bedroom.

Rawani:
Jonathan's cluelessness is a cancer which is spreading to different arms of government. What kind of irresponsible labelling of an independent news organisation is this? Doesn't it portray the NA as a toothless bulldog by identifying SR as a proponent of terrorism within its domain and doing nothing about it apart from getting emotional and hoping that 'the collective goodwill' of Nigerians will do the trick? If this is the reasoning at the top of our military structure then its no wonder why BH are doing shoki all over the place.

ofiafuluego:
D fact speak for itself. Northerners &some parts of SW are living below poverty level cos of laziness. How can a full grown man take to d streets and roads begging for alms &even impregnanting her female accomplices (sry wives) their by raising an army of beggars all in d name of religion.Govt built special schls for dem to liberate dem from poverty yet dey are lazying&lousing abt. Is there any Southerner dat can not boost of at least two meals in a day

Don't mind my grammar pls

eseosa77:
Clueless govt.if they can use an aerial drone to catch a video of a rail project of the FG,why cant they use d same drone to fiind boko haram hideout in sambisa forest.ths clearly shows they are not ready to fight those boko boy,SMH.

GBTYO:
[size=18pt]Under intense public pressure, the Shehu Shagari government, which shortly took over thereafter from the military, set up a Senate probe which traced the money to a London Midland Bank account belonging to Buhari from where the money again got missing.[/size]

Ikengawo:
extreme ly underated. If we focused on blessings like this and not politicians we would be the happiest nation on earth

MOBJECTIVE:
the landscape is so beautiful...

hansad:
[b]IMPLICATIONS OF THE ABOVE:

1, It has always been better to have the devil you know than having the angel you do not know. This time, there is hardly any Nigerian and foreigners that closely watch Nigeria who do not know that Buhari is an Islamic extremist. That in 2001, Buhari charged Muslims to ensure that extreme sharia laws already adopted by 12 northern states be implemented in all over Nigeria. Immediately after that, Boko Haram appeared and has maintained that it is fighting for a country governed with extreme sharia laws.

2, That Nigeria's debt remains low compared to those of the developed world; this signifies that a good economic team is handling Nigeria's economy which became the most lively economy in Africa during the administration of President Jonathan.

3, Nigeria with low debt and more liquid markets stands the chance of increasing borrowing, but Jonathan's government has since resisted excess borrowing, despite financing a war wittingly or unwittingly waged against Nigeria by a group which wants apex political leadership of Nigeria at all costs.

What other way to give pass mark to a credible and focused government like the incumbent govt of Nigeria?

GEJ till 2019!!![/b]

ahizih:
Prof. Wole Soyinka Endorses Goodluck Jonathan For 2015

"Even though I have said it time and time again that the president should control his wife but there is something significant about Mr. President.

He is the first president without any ties to the military mafia. All his children are in schools here in Nigeria. You cannot come across a skyscraper in any corner of Nigeria and people will tell you it belongs to him; even a seven storey building.

I strongly believe that GEJ is a phenomenal change from before and if we cannot find a better, young alternative, then we must remain with him until we can groom someone better.

This is no time to go back to the military mafia and go back to our vomit"

Source NewsDay Reporters

OrlandoOwoh:
Do you expect him to put everything in it?

The management of Scoa Nigeria plc has said it will commence assembling of automobile trucks in Nigeria from January 2015 in line with the federal government’s auto policy. The agreement for the commencement of production was signed in Lagos, recently between the company and MAN Truck and Bus AG. The Chief Executive Officer of Scoa Nigeria Plc, Dr. Massad Boulos said the plant will have the capacity to assemble 3, 000 units per annum, of trucks in the country. He said: “This is indeed a high point for our company, not only are we celebrating the signature of CKD agreement, but we will be the first European truck assembled in Nigeria under the current dispensation. We are privileged to have the best product and to be the first European brand to be assembled under the new policy.” In addition, he said Scoa would provide the utmost professional product-support and customer service to its customers in Nigeria with the support of MAN Diesel.

Read full story here: http://www.today.ng/business/scoa-plant-to-commence-truck-assembling-in-nigeria/

Yamaha Motor Co has announced that it has formed a joint agreement with CFAO S.A. to set up a motorcycle manufacturing and sales company in Nigeria. Factory operation and commencement are scheduled to commence in mid- 2015.
The new company is to be named CFAO Yamaha Motor Nigeria Ltd. (CYMNG), and Yamaha Motor and CFAO (a French company, specialized in distribution of major international brands in Africa in the Toyota Tsusho Group) are to make equal investment contributions toward a start-up capital of one million dollars (Rs 6.18 crore)

The CYMNG factory, which is to cover an area of 2,790 square metres, will be constructed on a site owned by CFAO in Lagos, Nigeria's biggest city. Scheduled to commence operation in summer 2015, the factory has a production target of 70,000 motorcycles by 2018, the final year in the next medium-term plan.
In 1980, Yamaha Motor established a motorcycle factory in Nigeria that carried out manufacture and sale of motorcycles; however, in 2005 Yamaha pulled out of production at the factory due to a decline in the market, and have since been selling motorcycles imported from Japan or India through local dealerships. This joint venture represents Yamaha Motor’s second foray into the Nigerian market.
The population of Nigeria is currently 170 million, and explosive growth in the population and economy have contributed to growth of the motorcycle market to reach 1.3 million units in 2013. Moreover, the market is anticipated to grow in scale to 1.8 million units by 2020 as individual demand increases to supplement use of taxis, which currently accounts for 70 percent of demand.
The setting up of a new company marks Yamaha Motor's re-entry into Nigeria – the market with the greatest motorcycle demand in Africa – and represents a step toward the realization of business scale expansion, a goal of the new medium-term plan.
- See more at: http://www.autocarpro.in/news-international/yamaha-set-motorcycle-plant-nigeria-manufacturing-base-africa-7097#sthash.DpPM8rDi.dpuf

Nigeria has reached a deal with Russian authorities as Western nations refuse to sell the country much needed weapons.
World Bulletin/News Desk

Nigeria will buy arms from Russia to compensate for western nations' refusal to sell the African country much-needed weapons.
"Nigeria has officially reached an arms deal with Russian authorities," a senior military officer told The Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to the media on the subject.
According to the officer, a high-level Nigerian delegation led by the air force chief and national security adviser travelled to Russia last week to negotiate the deal.
"Our team returned to Nigeria on Thursday after a four-day trip," he said.
"Russia has now agreed to supply us with arms," asserted the officer. "Henceforth, we are hopeful of getting arms from Russia."
Nigeria is battling a five-year insurgency by the Boko Haram militant group in the country's northeastern region, where more than 13,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed and the local economy brought to its knees.
An emboldened Boko Haram recently stepped up its deadly attacks and seized several areas across Adamawa, Borno and Yobe – the three states worst hit by the insurgency – declaring them part of a self-styled "Islamic caliphate."
There have been complaints that Nigerian troops are using "obsolete" arms while insurgents employ sophisticated weapons.
The Nigerian military is reportedly seeking fighter jets and modern arms to tilt the balance in its favor.
"Basically, what we are buying from Russia are fighter jets," said the army officer.
"Light arms, especially guns of varying powers, can be procured from the black market; but you cannot buy fighter jets from the black market," he explained.
"A war can last many years, if not decades, if both sides rely solely on light arms, which you can get from the black market. In modern warfare, you need air power to establish superiority," said the officer.
Nigerian defense spokesman Chris Olukolade did not respond to AA's requests for comment.
Boko Haram, which first emerged in the early 2000s preaching against government misrule and corruption, became violent after the death of its leader in 2009 while in police custody.
The notorious group has been officially outlawed in Nigeria, Turkey and the United States.
Old allies
Nigeria turned to Russia after failing for months to convince western countries, especially the U.S., to supply it with arms.
"We had to turn to Russia for arms since the U.S. refuses to sell us arms anymore," the senior military officer told AA.
"No country will be allowed to hold us for ransom," he said.
In a recent interview with AA, Nigerian presidential spokesman Reuben Abati said his country was ready to seal a counterinsurgency cooperation deal with any country willing to help its battle against Boko Haram.
It is not the first time Russia and Nigeria have had a defense arrangement.
The now-defunct Soviet Union had supplied arms to Nigeria during the country's 30-month civil war with renegade Biafra soldiers.
Most western nations sat on the fence during the conflict.
The U.S. a few days ago announced it was discontinuing training for the Nigerian military, a decision Washington said had come at Nigeria's request.
The U.S. described the Nigerian decision as "regrettable."
Nigeria-U.S. relations have foundered recently following American criticisms of Nigeria's handling of the ongoing Boko Haram insurgency.
U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria James Entwistle exacerbated the problem three months ago when he publicly said his country would not sell arms to Nigeria due to fears of human rights abuses by the country's security agencies.
Tempers flared again in November when a top Nigerian envoy to the U.S. brazenly accused Washington of sabotaging Nigeria's counterinsurgency efforts by refusing to sell it much-needed

When the World Health Organization declared Nigeria officially Ebola-free in October, most of the fanfare centred on how Africa’s most populous country had managed to keep the virus from spreading.

But there was another, less heralded aspect of Nigeria’s success story that a Canadian doctor and her colleagues wanted to explore in more depth: How had 12 of Nigeria’s 20 Ebola patients beaten the virus?

“The hospitals in Nigeria weren’t maybe to the standards of a Western hospital in terms of equipment, but the staff were phenomenal. They managed to get a very high survival rate,” said Eilish Cleary, a New Brunswick chief medical officer of health who travelled to Nigeria to provide epidemiological support to the World Health Organization during the outbreak. “Case fatality rate for Ebola can be up to 70 to 90 per cent. In Nigeria, it was 40 per cent.”

Dr. Cleary conducted detailed, videotaped interviews with six of the Nigerian patients to learn more about their treatment and recovery. The key to their survival seemed to be guzzling a stunning amount of water with oral rehydration solution [ORS] to fend off the cascade of internal failures typically caused by the virus.

Some of the survivors drank as much as five or six litres of ORS a day, an impressive feat considering Ebola can cause persistent vomiting and leave patients too weak to lift a bottle to their lips.

Only one of the six interviewed patients received intravenous fluids, another intervention that has been shown to increase the odds of survival, but which is not always available at poorly resourced treatment centres in West Africa where patients often arrive too late in the course of the disease for ORS to be effective.

“I was really encouraged to drink,” nurse Tochi Anunobi, one of the survivors, told Dr. Cleary in an interview shared with The Globe and Mail. “I was even drinking if I was sleeping. When I wake up to urinate, I will drink.”

Although the sample size is small, Nigeria’s experience is part of a larger body of treatment evidence that is growing – sadly – because of the sheer volume of cases and starkly varied health-care settings in which patients have been treated during the worst Ebola outbreak in history, which has killed more than 6,200 mostly West Africans, according to the WHO’s most recent official figures.

This outbreak marks the first time Ebola has been tackled outside of poor, remote pockets of Africa, and the results have shown the wider world that Ebola need not be a death sentence.

Of at least 22 Ebola patients cared for in the United States and Europe so far, five have died, a death rate of just 23 per cent. (Some of the surviving patients are, however, still in treatment, including an Italian doctor who was airlifted out of Sierra Leone late last month.)

Some of those patients received experimental therapies, and all received intensive care that is not available on a wide scale in Africa.

But the irony, experts say, is that the Western cases appear to reinforce what veterans of past Ebola outbreaks already knew about what works and what does not in helping patients defeat the virus.

The keys are still intervening as soon as possible after symptoms start, keeping patients hydrated, and keeping electrolytes in balance, all basic treatments that could be delivered in West Africa with adequate staff.

“The feedback I get from them [doctors in the West] is their big intervention is the delivery of IV crystalloid and management of the electrolytes,” said Armand Sprecher, a hemorhaggic fever specialist with Médecins sans frontières (Doctors Without Borders.) “There’s been a little bit of dialysis, a little bit of ventilator therapy … things we’re not able to deliver in the field [in West Africa] right now. None of them have said that that makes a big difference.”

Rob Fowler, a critical care physician at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto who has worked for the WHO in West Africa during the outbreak, echoed that.

“For the most part,” he said, “most patients are able to be adequately treated with IV fluids and commonly available medications. If we can prevent the complications that can often arise because of the inability to treat supportively, then I think most patients would not get critically ill and the survival rate, I think, would be much higher.”

A commentary in The Lancet last week made that point more sharply. “It is often stated that there are no proven therapies for Ebola virus disease but that potential treatments, including blood products, immune therapies, and antiviral drugs, are being evaluated. This view is inaccurate,” the authors wrote, before urging that clinical trials be conducted in the field to better determine what regimen of fluid and electrolyte replacement saves the most lives.

The trick for doctors and relief agencies has been figuring out how best to deliver that supportive care in the field, where conditions are far from ideal.

In a paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine last month, Dr. Sprecher and his colleagues described how difficult it was to deliver basic supportive care at Liberia’s largest treatment centre, which saw more than 700 moderate to severely sick patients between Aug. 23 and Oct. 4.

Responsible for 30 to 50 patients each, physicians confined to personal protective equipment in stifling temperatures could devote just one to two minutes per patient to “evaluate needs and establish a care plan.”

The sick had to be divided into three categories: Patients with organ failure who could not be saved; patients with low blood volume who were not in shock but could no longer care for themselves; and patients with low blood volume who were not in shock and could still care themselves.

The outlook was brightest for the last group, whose members had a good shot at recovery if they took anti-nausea and anti-diarrheal medications and, like the Nigerian patients, drank four to five litres of oral electrolyte solutions per day, ideally beginning the moment fever set in.

Dr. Sprecher said MSF’s treatment centres are already achieving a case fatality rate of roughly 50 per cent; Dr. Fowler said the WHO’s more recent internal figures show the overall case fatality of 70 per cent released earlier in this outbreak is beginning to come down as well.

“Simple, but rigorous supportive measures have a disproportionate impact on disease if you can apply them early enough,” said Simon Mardel, a British relief physician who helped arrange Dr. Cleary’s interviews with the Nigerian survivors.

“When we say drink ORS, I don’t mean, did they have some ORS that day? What quantity did they get down? If they just drank a cupful, a few cups, I’m sorry, that’s not treatment.”

The WHO’s guidelines on this are unsparing. Ebola patients need to drink four to five litres of ORS a day or, by day five of the illness, it will be too late to drink – they’ll require IV support to keep their organs from collapsing.

Drinking so much fluid while stricken with Ebola was extraordinarily difficult, the survivors told Dr. Cleary.

She marvelled at their will to live.

“I was careful to try not to prompt any of the responses and the two things that amazed me [were] the fact that all of them identified for us – they brought it up themselves – the determination to survive,” she said. “They recognized that they could survive and they would … the second thing was the rehydration and how it was hard to take it. But they knew they had to take it.”

Caseless:
show us where buhari asked people to go out and fight, before u come here to tell us why he should have called for peace.

laimo:
we should tell Jonathan to do that.

Eziachi:
You meant he refused to say that he armed them and then his wife served them dinner afterwards?
How disappointed you must felt not hearing that.

eaglechild:
Buhari seeking to be a democratically elected president says
| why should i be sorry for toppling a democratically elected government....

What this means is if given the chance he will do it again.

On a muslim-muslim ticket
|my party will decide

Why did you sign an undertaking?
|my part said so

How will you tackle insurgency?
|Gowon did not borrow a kobo during the civil war and they are asking for 1 billion to tackle insurgency.

How do you intend to manage the economy in the face of dwindling oil price
|We will stabilize the oil market and run an accountable govt.