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 Crime › Re: How Thousands Dig UP, Eat And Sell Condemned Chicken In Rivers-tell Magazine by donodion(m): 11:26am On Nov 03, 2015 |
HungerBAD:Dear God...restore this nation I beg you.. |
| Phones › Re: MTN Agrees To Pay N1.04trn Fine by donodion(m): 7:24pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
SLIDEwaxie:  ojigbi jigbi jigbi.....boy o...u get talent I swear..... I dey laff so tey phone fall commot for my hand.CHANGE is here my people...ride with the train or get crushed..your choice. Meanwhile.....have you read over 400 custom officers are to be sacked? All those Cessna jet flying pot bellied barawos ... . oya grab your copy...http://dailypost.ng/2015/11/02/customs-to-sack-400-more-officers/ 1 Share
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| Politics › Re: How Corruption Shut Down Nigerias Refineries For 15 Years- Punch News by donodion(op): 6:57pm On Nov 01, 2015 |
Jesusloveyou:in all sincerity we as s Nigerians should blame ourselves We elected people into critical positions based on sentiments..; Religion and Tribalism. Remove these two, allow logical reasoning to prevail and I can assure you Nigeria would be a heaven on earth. We are just tooooooo damn corrupt. |
| Politics › Re: The Border Patrol Aircraft Of The Nigeria Customs Service (photos) by donodion(m): 6:02pm On Nov 01, 2015 |
aresa:Consistent Bullock!!! Look here stop wasting my time with your pointless article.The jet is fitted with state of art equipment? Prove it. If not shut your gob. You are not addressing an almajiri. I deal with facts and I stand by same that's nothing but a luxury jet. Prove me wrong..I dare you!!! |
| Politics › Re: How Corruption Shut Down Nigerias Refineries For 15 Years- Punch News by donodion(op): 1:41pm On Nov 01, 2015 |
BALLOSKI:More like wicked fat vultures in power ..... Nigerians are in huuuuuuge trouble if we allow ourselves to be continues ruled by the set of wicked individuals directing the affairs of our fatherland. |
| Politics › Re: How Corruption Shut Down Nigerias Refineries For 15 Years- Punch News by donodion(op): 1:35pm On Nov 01, 2015 |
*********** Nigeria must be saved from the grip of saboteurs***** Should Buhari privatise refineries? Over the past few years, there has been debate over whether the refineries should be privatised or not. “Obviously, the refineries should be removed from government ownership but done transparently,” said Oshodi. He said the current government should encourage more private and foreign investment into the refining business, adding, “This can only be done with the removal of the subsidy or special concession as granted to the Dangote Group at a free trade zone.” But the PHRC MD disagreed with him. “I will be disappointed. The reason being that I think the right sorts of resources are in place. The workers are very eager. They want to prove themselves, and they have the capacity. There is no doubt in my mind that Nigerians will be able to deliver on this and even beyond. It is a viable business. “We have made profit in PHRC and I really don’t see why you should give it to a private owner. They can take a cue from Dangote. He wouldn’t go into a business that is not viable. So whoever is interested can go into it. But I am not sure privatising the existing ones is the best way to go,” he said. Oni, the Ecobank analyst, believes privatisation is good if it is done in a competitive bidding process and good, technically experienced companies are selected. “Ideally, that would be the best way to go. However, they can also be managed under concessionary terms. I think the ultimate step is to privatise the refineries. “However, pending that, more transparency is required on the operation of the refineries to better understand their problems, and this could require frequent independent technical audit. The feedstock pipelines that supply the refineries and the evacuation pipelines also need better security,” he said. The NNPC GMD during an interactive session with newsmen in Lagos stated that any of the refineries that fail to work optimally by the expiration of the 90-day ultimatum would be sold. Kachikwu was quoted by the News Agency of Nigeria on September 25 as saying, “By the end of December when the 90-day ultimatum will expire, any refinery that does not work optimally will be sold. “We are losing N2.2tn monthly to refinery inefficiency. As at today, the average refining performance is 30 per cent.” The TUC chairman, Onuegbu, believes that for privatisation to be effective, it must go alongside other reforms. “Some of those reforms must ensure that the institutions of governance must be effective to show that the privatisation in itself is not a fraudulent process.” He said Labour unions believed the NLNG model should be adopted to run the refineries efficiently, stressing the need for enabling environment that will encourage private investors to build refineries. The way to create the enabling environment is not difficult; it is for government to be first and foremost sincere and committed, Onuegbu said. |
| Politics › Re: How Corruption Shut Down Nigerias Refineries For 15 Years- Punch News by donodion(op): 1:33pm On Nov 01, 2015 |
Botched attempt to sell the refineries In November 2013, the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, had, in an interview with Bloomberg TV Africa in London, said the four refineries would be sold in 2014. But the announcement was greeted by stiff opposition from labour unions, especially the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers. NUPENG argued that the refineries “should remain in the control of government for security and strategic reasons,” threatening to embark on a nationwide strike if the refineries were privatised. The government, apparently in response to the proposed strike, in January, denied that it planned to sell the refineries. The Chairman, Trade Union Congress, Rivers State Chapter, Mr. Chika Onuegbu, told our correspondent that at the time the government was planning to sell the refineries, they discovered that 80 per cent of the long-lead raw materials for the turnaround maintenance of the refineries were already on ground. Onuegbu said, “In the case of Port Harcourt, they were in Onne. And so we said, what is government up to? How can you get 80 per cent of TAM items and then you refuse to do the turnaround maintenance, but instead want to sell the refineries? We requested that government should use those materials to do the turnaround maintenance.” In 2012, the NNPC had earmarked N251bn ($1.6bn) for a new round of turnaround maintenance at the four refineries, to be conducted by the original contractors and completed by late 2014. Neyin, who is the current chairman of Board of Trustees, Society of Petroleum Engineers, Nigeria Council, lamented that the President Jonathan administration did not fix the refineries. He said, “He was there for six years. Let’s assume everything had broken down, what does it take to fix refineries? Do you know how much money the NNPC squandered? That money would have been enough to fix the refineries. “Even people who were given licences to build refineries were allowed to lift crude through NNPC’s corrupt mechanism when they did not build refineries. This is high-level corruption.” Rehabilitation to the rescue It was in May this year, just about 15 days to the end of Jonathan’s administration after losing the election, that rehabilitation work commenced at the Port Harcourt refinery. The rehabilitation was carried out by four indigenous contractors and the technical crew of the PHRC, as the original refinery builders were said to have declined coming for the turnaround maintenance due to security and health concerns. The 150, 000 bpsd refinery resumed production of refined petroleum products in late July. “Because of the long years of neglect, the degeneration had become enormous; that was what we discovered. In most of the places we opened up, the scope of the job was more than we thought. But all the same, we are up to the challenge,” the Chairman of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PHRC branch, Mr. Fidelis Ighodaye, said. The Managing Director, PHRC, Mr. Bafred Enjugu, who spoke with our correspondent in Port Harcourt, also said, “Turnaround maintenance happens every two years or 26 months. Now that hasn’t happened and because it has not happened, our facility was subject to a state of deterioration that is normally not tolerable in the industry worldwide. “The components have reached the point where they have to be replaced as opposed to what we call the turnaround maintenance, which is basically servicing. We have gone beyond servicing to replacement because we have stayed for so long without doing it. “The last time we had routine intervention on this facility was in the year 2000. That’s quite a long while.” Enjugu said they were also working on the old refinery and planned to complete the work on it by the end of the year or beginning of first quarter 2016. “There is a little caveat to that. Because it is such an old plant, we are having difficulties getting some of the components. We can’t find some of the old manufacturing companies again. You have to re-engineer with new manufacturers to fill that gap. “Also, when you are going to commission it, you will need a lot of crude supply which the existing marine vessel arrangement cannot handle just yet. We will need to get back to the pipelines,” he added. Noting that if the country’s refineries could produce 60 per cent of the domestic fuel needs, Enjugu said, “In terms of value, that is a lot of money on a daily basis turning the economy around. The economic activities in the country should actually skyrocket.” At the Port Harcourt refinery, he said they would “cautiously start at 60 per cent which is the barest minimum” and then increase it to about 80 per cent. According to Oni, the country’s refineries post-repairs could produce about 30 per cent of domestic consumption. “This is probably not the best at this time, considering the weakness of the naira and oil export challenges. We need to be aiming for over 70 per cent capacity,” he stated. Crude supply, a major challenge Following the incessant vandalism of pipelines conveying crude to the refineries, the government introduced the use of marine vessels to supply crude to the refineries. But the supply of crude through the vessels was halted at a point with no reason given by the Jonathan government. It was gathered that the government was diverting the crude meant for the refineries to oil traders, who were involved in crude oil swap and offshore processing arrangement. “The biggest problem this refinery has faced in the past is the vandalism of the pipelines for supply of crude,” the Port Harcourt refinery MD said. “The top management sought the consent of the Federal Government who provided an alternative means, that is, through marine vessels. Now, that has its own limitations. “First of all, the jetty facility can only take a certain tonnage of vessels. So that limits how much it can bring at any point in time, as opposed to the pipelines which are largely vandalised,” he said. As of July this year, he said the last supply of crude they received was on December 11, 2014, which was processed that month and in March this year. On why crude supply was discontinued in December, the PHRC boss couldn’t tell precisely why the refinery did not receive crude, saying, “But we were in a position to receive crude. That much I can tell you.” Commenting on the abrupt stoppage of crude supply to the Port Harcourt refinery, Onuegbu said, “Why would you have a refinery that is producing and that has made profit and then you stopped supplying crude to it? But you preferred instead to import or do all kinds of oil swap. It means that there is something we don’t understand.” President Muhammadu Buhari on August 4 announced the appointment of Kachikwu as the new Group Managing Director of the NNPC. Early September, Kachikwu made an official tour of the nation’s refineries, starting with the Port Harcourt refinery. At the PHRC on September 2, the GMD noted that the ongoing phased rehabilitation of all the state-owned refineries would be given an accelerated vigour with the aim of reducing petroleum products importation into the country. The PHRC MD then said the ongoing phased rehabilitation of the company cost a little less than $10m. The NNPC GMD, while also speaking at the Warri refinery, gave a 90-day ultimatum to the management of the WRPC to commence full production at the facility. On September 9, Kachikwu was at the Kaduna refinery, where he said, “We must make the Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit and the fuel section work in the next three months so that Nigerians will continue to enjoy uninterrupted supply of petroleum products ****** one more page to add ****** |
| Politics › Re: How Corruption Shut Down Nigerias Refineries For 15 Years- Punch News by donodion(op): 1:30pm On Nov 01, 2015 |
********** read on************ Huge losses to decades of fuel importation Analysts say the country’s increasing reliance on importation, over the years, for its fuel needs has led to massive capital flight, loss of job creation opportunities and reduction in the contribution of the oil and gas industry to economic growth and development. The Head of Energy Research, Ecobank Capital, Mr. Dolapo Oni, said, “The key thing is that the funds we made during the years of $100 oil, we spent so much of it importing fuel.” He said the refineries were at an average 20 per cent capacity and imports also rose considerably, with PMS consumption soaring from 13.5 million litres a day in 2012 to 43 million litres in 2013. The country earned $424bn oil export revenues from 2010 to 2014, the Energy Information Administration, the statistical arm of the United States’ Department of Energy, said in the report ‘OPEC Revenues Fact Sheet.’ Oni said, “We spent a lot of money that should have gone into repairing the refineries on subsidies. We lost an opportunity to domesticate our downstream segment and depend on local refined products sold entirely in naira. These could have reduced the pressures we are currently feeling on the naira. “I think corruption is a reality in every sphere, from the truck driver having to pay extra to lift fuel from the refineries to the frequency of fire incidences due to installation of poor safety controls and other reasons.” A policy analyst on governance, Mr. Ademola Oshodi, said the country had lost decades of potential development due to the enormous cost of imported refined fuel products, diverted crude meant for processing and continuous and massive repair expenditure on derelict structures. Similarly, the President, Nigerian Association for Energy Economics, Prof. Wumi Iledare, stated that it was greed, elite capture and poverty of the mind that brought the refineries to the state of disrepair. “We have lost the technological transfer of knowledge; we have lost significant sector contribution of the industry to the Gross Domestic Product. We lost significant contribution of the industry to employment generation. We have lost man-hours looking for petrol during periods of scarcity,” he stated. Highlighting the corruption in the petroleum products sub-sector, Iledare, said, “Do you know how much money has been claimed for petroleum products that were not delivered? “Think about the capital flight for not having enough refining capacity and for importing petroleum products.” The NNPC had on August 26, 2015 announced the cancellation of the Offshore Processing Agreement entered into with three companies in January 2015, describing it as “skewed in favour of the companies such that the value of product delivered is significantly lower than the equivalent crude oil allocated for the programme.” Iledare said, “It doesn’t make economic sense, or even political sense, to continue to import petroleum products into the country the way we are doing now. “When you are spending a quarter of your budget to subsidise petroleum products, which consumers don’t benefit from, the economy will not grow.” A marketer, who spoke on condition of anonymity at the Warri refinery in July, gave an insight into what the shutdown of the refinery had caused them and other businesses. “For more than eight months now, the refinery has not come up. It has adversely affected us. We can’t even pay our children’s school fees. If you want to look for house to rent now, the landlord would ask you about where you work. If you say refinery, he won’t give you the house. That is how it has affected lives here.” No turnaround maintenance for 15 years For 15 years, the country’s two refineries located in Port Harcourt, with combined capacity of 210,000 bpd, were left to rot by successive governments, until a few months ago when phased rehabilitation commenced at the facility. Our correspondent gathered that the last time turnaround maintenance was carried out on the refineries was in 2000. The latest turnaround maintenance of the Warri and Kaduna refineries was in 2008, after which they ran at roughly 25 per cent of their capacity, according to the NNPC. Turnaround maintenance, which is supposed to be done every two years, was said to have been stalled by successive governments who either preferred to continue with crude oil swaps and offshore processing arrangement or to sell off the refineries to favour mostly their cronies. The crude oil swap meant that the NNPC allocated a certain quantity of its domestic crude oil to oil traders, who in turn sold the crude oil in the international market and imported petroleum products, on behalf of the NNPC for domestic consumption. For an OPA, the contract holder — either a refiner or trading company— is supposed to lift a certain amount of crude, refine it abroad, and deliver the resulting products back to the NNPC. The past few years saw an increase in crude swaps and OPAs, which limited the volume of crude made available for the country’s refineries to process. It was gathered that in 2012, President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration had kicked off the procurement of materials for the turnaround maintenance of the refineries. But even when most of the materials were brought into the country, they were not made available to the refineries. “The reality is that for over 10-15 years, no serious maintenance has been done on the plants. If you ride a car for 10 years and you don’t maintain it, nobody needs to tell you what will happen to it,” the Group Managing Director, NNPC, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, said recently while commenting on why the Warri refinery was shut down in late August, a couple of weeks after it resumed operation. |
| Politics › Re: How Corruption Shut Down Nigerias Refineries For 15 Years- Punch News by donodion(op): 1:28pm On Nov 01, 2015 |
********** continuation********* From refined products exporter to importer The Chief Executive Officer, Gacmork Nigeria Limited, Mr. Alex Neyin, said it was sad that Nigeria, which used to refine and sell to other countries, now relies heavily on importation. Neyin said the current rot can be traced to corruption. “It was caused by corruption and it started with the government. The government people in the NNPC destroyed the industry. The importation and subsidy scheme is a racket masterminded by the NNPC and the so-called importers,” he said. Neyin, a former Chevron executive, said, “Every refinery is supposed to have a maintenance schedule, but those schedules were not carried out because people wanted to import. “So, they let the refineries run down to the point that they cannot produce to meet local demand. We therefore continue to import, and when they import, that is another business for some people. “Refining is a business that is lucrative if it is properly maintained,” he said, adding that companies such as Shell and Chevron have refineries in other countries, but have decided to stay out of it in Nigeria. According to Olorunfemi and other analysts, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who governed from 1999 to 2006, at the onset of his administration, specifically charged the NNPC to speedily attend to the ailing refineries and bring them into full production capacity in the shortest possible time. Obasanjo had offered to provide the NNPC management with all the resources it would need for this purpose. He further directed that the performance of the NNPC management would be measured by the performance level of these refineries. “A laudable idea indeed, but a few months into the administration, NNPC management sold a new concept to the president, that given his election promise to bring an end to the queues at the filling stations within a short period of time, the quickest way to achieve this was by flooding the market with imported products while the refineries were being repaired,” Olorunfemi said. According to the experts, the blue print for this new approach was to expand the products storage and reception facilities of Atlas Cove Depot, which was originally constructed to serve as a modest intervention storage facility for specific products that were briefly in short supply, most especially aviation fuel. “A consequence of the idea of scaling it up to a huge bulk storage depot was that most of the resources earmarked for the rehabilitation of the refineries were diverted to the depot project. “Although at the completion of this project and with the additional provision of resources to finance importation, as expected, the queues were wiped out, but the refineries continued to perform dismally since the president’s focus had been redirected. The final outcome would be the queues which have become a permanent feature in the country,” they said. Before the end of his administration, Obasanjo sold the Port Harcourt and Kaduna refineries, but the sale was later revoked by his successor, late President Umaru Yar’Adua. The decision by Yar’Adua came after negotiations with the Nigerian Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress, which had served a two-week ultimatum on the day he assumed office. ********* go on to final report ********** |
| Politics › How Corruption Shut Down Nigerias Refineries For 15 Years- Punch News by donodion(op): 1:26pm On Nov 01, 2015 |
The expansive premises that house three of the country’s refineries looked like a ghost town. While the Port Harcourt Refinery Company Ltd, which was visited on July 1, 2015, boasted a sprinkling of people engaging in some business and economic activities, the Warri Refinery and Petrochemical Company Ltd was almost empty and devoid of activity on July 3. Some parts of the refineries had rotted away, symbolic of the decay that had befallen them over the years. Right from the first entry point, manned by stern-looking soldiers who would not have you into the premises without an identity card, the state of inactivity at Warri refinery was glaring. Since the refinery was not functioning, most businesses in the premises had closed shop. “This place used to be very busy when the refinery was working,” a worker at the Warri refinery, Mr. Mike Okpo, told our correspondent with a sense of disappointment. “It used to be like a marketplace. You would see a lot of trucks coming from Niger Cat to load products. Small businesses were also going very well. But nothing is happening now.” The very lively state of the premises then must have lured a number of banks such as UBA, Fidelity, Diamond, First Bank, Zenith and Ecobank there. But the banks too took a beating from the lull in activity, as marketers no longer patronised them as before. At the Port Harcourt refinery, the business of some independent marketers had been crippled by the erratic operation of the refinery over the past few years. Last year, each of the Kaduna, Port Harcourt and Warri refineries operated at less than 20 per cent of their installed capacity, according to data obtained from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. Port Harcourt refinery had the lowest average capacity utilisation in 2014 at 12 per cent, with zero capacity utilisation in January, March, July, October and November. In 2013, it was a mere 6.63 per cent. Kaduna refinery had an average capacity utilisation of 12.87 per cent last year, with no production in June, September, October, November and just 4.19 per cent in December. It recorded 29.22 per cent capacity utilisation in 2013. At the Warri refinery, there was no processing of crude in January, September, November and December last year, making its capacity utilisation to fall to 19.32 per cent from 35.22 per cent in 2013. Only 1.42 per cent of the refinery’s capacity was utilised in October 2014. This year, the refineries did not process any crude oil, condensate or slop from February to June. In January, Kaduna and Warri refineries recorded capacity utilisation of 8.12 per cent and 33.04 per cent, respectively, while that of the Port Harcourt refinery was zero, according to the NNPC. The refining complex at Port Harcourt is comprised of two refineries. The Old Port Harcourt Refinery has a processing capacity of 60,000 barrels per stream day, while the New Port Harcourt Refinery has a capacity of 150,000 bpd. The company produces Liquefied Petroleum Gas (cooking gas), Premium Motor Spirit (petrol), dual purpose kerosene, Automotive Gas Oil (diesel) and fuel oils. It was gathered that the old refinery in Port Harcourt had not been operational since seven years ago, with many of its parts corroded by the chemical left in the refinery after it was abruptly shut down. The refinery in Warri, which was built in 1978 to handle 125,000 bpd, is a complex refinery with an associated, but now moribund, petrochemical plant designed to produce polypropylene and carbon black. The Kaduna refinery, which was inaugurated in 1980, can process 110,000 bpd supplied by a 600-km pipeline from the Delta and is designed to handle imported heavy crudes. The plant produces fuels, lubes and linear alkyl benzene. In the beginning Shell and BP in 1965 established the first refinery in Nigeria, in keeping with one of the conditions of Oil Mining Lease granted to Shell-BP at that time, which mandated them to establish a refinery on the attainment of oil production capacity of 500,000 barrels per day. The two companies incorporated a company named Nigerian Petroleum Refining Company which was owned on a 50/50 basis. The refinery had an output capacity of 38,000 bpd. According to ex-top NNPC executives, Messrs Mike Olorunfemi, Akin Adetunji and Ade Olaiya, following the indigenisation exercise of the early seventies, the Federal Government acquired 60 per cent of the NPRC. The remaining 40 per cent equity of the refinery was acquired by the government in 1978 and vested in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. By 1973, post-war reconstruction and increasing demand prompted the expansion of the capacity of the Port Harcourt refinery to 60,000 bpd. The Federal Government also approved the establishment of two refineries, with one to be sited in the hinterland and the second in the coastal area of the country. Kaduna and Warri were chosen. By 1974, Nigeria required additional refining capacity in excess of 200,000 bpd. The government therefore approved the debottlenecking of Warri refinery to increase its capacity from 100,000 bpd to 125,000 bpd and the fuel plant of the Kaduna refinery from 50,000 bpd to 60,000 bpd. The establishment of a new 150,000bpd Port Harcourt refinery was also approved, with designed facilities to export products in excess of domestic needs. *********** to be continued *********** Source :-http://punchng.com/2015/11/2934 1 Like 1 Share |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Alcohol: good Or Evil. What The Bible Really Says. by donodion(m): 11:30am On Nov 01, 2015 |
Op that's a good article. You took time to outline all your points nd I salute your patience. Wine is very good and nothing wrong in consuming, its usually the excess comsuptiom that isn't healthy. As for the over the over religious, its their cup of tea.idrink.my wine and my milk stout whenever it pleases my soul withing my capacity.No priest or pastor would tell me otherwise. 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: The Border Patrol Aircraft Of The Nigeria Customs Service (photos) by donodion(m): 9:16am On Nov 01, 2015 |
aresa:Aresa,which ever way you chose to twist or read meaning to my opinion is OK by me regardless how pissed you seem. I'm not bothered really. I admit I didn't see the logo on that Cessna tail with the NCS Inscription and for that I withdraw the ' diversion of fund' aspect. However , the 2012 article you kept posting to support the purchase and use of a Cessna luxury jet for border patrol placed the joke on you. You can sing that you rhyme " US and Australia" uses Cessna for border patrol all you want but it won't fly. Clearly that Cessna jet been used by NCS " top brasses" is no more than a luxurious jet. Give us facts with particular to that jets accessories supporting it been designed and remodelled for border patrol and surveillance to buttress your pointers and not corrupt government statement releases. Until then..... |
| Politics › Re: The Border Patrol Aircraft Of The Nigeria Customs Service (photos) by donodion(m): 6:52pm On Oct 31, 2015 |
Kreamie:I bet the mone that was meant for helicopter purchase were diverted to personal accounts and the private jet was one of the proceeds.Remember theres big shakeup happening in Customs right through asset declaration...The thief is onl trying to cover his with this publiity stunt... A property of Nigeria Customs yet no emblem or Logo to show it is... Barawo shege....Baba Buhari....pls nab and jail everyone involve in this charade. 1 Like |
| Events › Re: White People Dress As Blacks And Carry Nigerian Flag For Halloween (Pic) by donodion(m): 8:04am On Oct 31, 2015 |
EmekaBlue:Correct!. |
| Events › Re: White People Dress As Blacks And Carry Nigerian Flag For Halloween (Pic) by donodion(m): 8:03am On Oct 31, 2015 |
Rubbish!!! Check the image on your computer screen, zoom in on the so called flag, its not real. And if it were to be a flag, it would be hanging downward not sideways. |
| Crime › Re: Teacher Flogs Student To Death In Ibadan by donodion(m): 7:24pm On Oct 29, 2015 |
Hmmm 1993 I would never ever forget.We once had this principal,besides being a disciplinarian, he had a penchant for flogging. Three hot strokes on your lower back I promise you won't sit or walk properly for 2 days at least. If you come late,na flogging, you not properly dressed or groomed na flogging, girl report you for writing her letter flogging don start, teacher report you for unruly behavior your own don done. suddenly for 2 months, the man was absent and on his return he look so emaciated. We later heard he was struck with strange illness doctors couldn't diagnose. Since then, the principal hardly verbally reproach a pupil nor touch cane till he died. Na suspension letter straight. .. you come late..na suspension, you cheat for class test and caught na suspension, you no greet teacher well na suspension ...he won't even argue with you...the letters were typed standby.....Naija...we get wicked witchcraft walai. 1 Like 1 Share |
| Politics › Re: FLOOD: Road To Jonathan’s Hometown Submerged In Bayelsa by donodion(m): 8:22am On Oct 29, 2015 |
phemmyutd:  clap for Jonathan their Hero after 6 years RULE.....clap clap clap clap clap clap clap!!!!!! |
| Health › Re: Must Read For Doctors And Health Care Practitioners- By Dr Richard Teo by donodion(op): 6:19pm On Oct 28, 2015 |
*********** last part*********** A lot of times we forget, whom we are supposed to be serving. We become so lost that we serve nobody else but just ourselves. That was what happened to me. Whether it is in the medical, the dental fraternity, I can tell you, right now in the private practice, sometimes we just advise patients on treatment that is not indicated. Grey areas. And even though it is not necessary, we kind of advocate it. Even at this point, I know who are my friends and who genuinely cared for me and who are the ones who try to make money out of me by selling me "hope". We kind of lose our moral compass along the way. Because we just want to make money. Worse, I can tell you, over the last few years, we bad mouth our fellow colleagues, our fellow competitors in the industry. We have no qualms about it. So if we can put them down to give ourselves an advantage, we do it. And that's what happening right now, medical, dental everywhere. My challenge to you is not to lose that moral compass. I learnt it the hard way, I hope you don't ever have to do it. Secondly, a lot of us will start to get numb to our patients as we start to practise. Whether is it government hospitals, private practice, I can tell you when I was in the hospital, with stacks of patient folders, I can't wait to get rid of those folders as soon as possible; I can't wait to get patients out of my consultation room as soon as possible because there is just so many, and that's a reality. Because it becomes a job, a very routine job. And this is just part of it. Do I truly know how the patient feels back then? No, I don't. The fears and anxiety and all, do I truly understand what they are going through? I don't, not until when this happens to me and I think that is one of the biggest flaws in our system. We’re being trained to be healthcare providers, professional, and all and yet we don't know how exactly they feel. I'm not asking you to get involved emotionally, I don't think that is professional but do we actually make a real effort to understand their pain and all? Most of us won’t, alright, I can assure you. So don't lose it, my challenge to you is to always be able to put yourself in your patient's shoes. Because the pain, the anxiety, the fear are very real even though it's not real to you, it's real to them. So don't lose it and you know, right now I'm in the midst of my 5th cycle of my chemotherapy. I can tell you it’s a terrible feeling. Chemotherapy is one of those things that you don't wish even your enemies to go through because it's just suffering, lousy feeling, throwing out, you don't even know if you can retain your meals or not. Terrible feeling! And even with whatever little energy now I have, I try to reach out to other cancer patients because I truly understand what pain and suffering is like. But it's kind of little too late and too little. You guys have a bright future ahead of you with all the resource and energy, so I’m going to challenge you to go beyond your immediate patients. To understand that there are people out there who are truly in pain, truly in hardship. Don’t get the idea that only poor people suffer. It is not true. A lot of these poor people do not have much in the first place, they are easily contented. for all you know they are happier than you and me but there are out there, people who are suffering mentally, physically, hardship, emotionally, financially and so on and so forth, and they are real. We choose to ignore them or we just don't want to know that they exist. So do think about it alright, even as you go on to become professionals and dental surgeons and all. That you can reach out to these people who are in need. Whatever you do can make a large difference to them. I'm now at the receiving end so I know how it feels, someone who genuinely care for you, encourage and all. It makes a lot of difference to me. That’s what happens after treatment. I had a treatment recently, but I’ll leave this for another day. A lot of things happened along the way, that's why I am still able to talk to you today. I'll just end of with this quote here, it's from this book called Tuesdays with Morris, and some of you may have read it. Everyone knows that they are going to die; every one of us knows that. The truth is, none of us believe it because if we did, we will do things differently. When I faced death, when I had to, I stripped myself off all stuff totally and I focused only on what is essential. The irony is that a lot of times, only when we learn how to die then we learn how to live. I know it sounds very morbid for this morning but it's the truth, this is what I’m going through. Don’t let society tell you how to live. Don’t let the media tell you what you're supposed to do. Those things happened to me. And I led this life thinking that these are going to bring me happiness. I hope that you will think about it and decide for yourself how you want to live your own life. Not according to what other people tell you to do, and you have to decide whether you want to serve yourself, whether you are going to make a difference in somebody else's life. Because true happiness doesn't come from serving yourself. I thought it was but it didn't turn out that way. Also most importantly, I think true joy comes from knowing God. Not knowing about God – I mean, you can read the bible and know about God – but knowing God personally; getting a relationship with God. I think that’s the most important. That’s what I’ve learnt. So if I were to sum it up, I’d say that the earlier we sort out the priorities in our lives, the better it is. Don’t be like me – I had no other way. I had to learn it through the hard way. I had to come back to God to thank Him for this opportunity because I’ve had 3 major accidents in my past – car accidents. You know, these sports car accidents – I was always speeding , but somehow I always came out alive, even with the car almost being overturned. And I wouldn’t have had a chance. Who knows, I don’t know where else I’d be going to! Even though I was baptised it was just a show, but the fact that this has happened, it gave me a chance to come back to God. Few things I’d learnt though: 1. Trust in the Lord your God with all your heart – this is so important. 2. Is to love and serve others, not just ourselves. There is nothing wrong with being rich or wealthy. I think it’s absolutely alright, cos God has blessed. So many people are blessed with good wealth, but the trouble is I think a lot of us can’t handle it. The more we have, the more we want. I’ve gone through it, the deeper the hole we dig, the more we get sucked into it, so much so that we worship wealth and lose focus. Instead of worshipping God, we worship wealth. It’s just a human instinct. It’s just so difficult to get out of it. We are all professionals, and when we go into private practise, we start to build up our wealth – inevitably. So my thought are, when you start to build up wealth and when the opportunity comes, do remember that all these things don’t belong to us. We don’t really own it nor have rights to this wealth. It’s actually God’s gift to us. Remember that it’s more important to further His Kingdom rather than to further ourselves. Anyway I think that I’ve gone through it, and I know that wealth without God is empty. It is more important that you fill up the wealth, as you build it up subsequently, as professionals and all, you need to fill it up with the wealth of God. Thank you 1 Share
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| Health › Re: Must Read For Doctors And Health Care Practitioners- By Dr Richard Teo by donodion(op): 6:15pm On Oct 28, 2015 |
*****************Continuation***************** About last year March, I started to develop backache in the middle of nowhere. I thought maybe it was all the heavy squats I was doing. So I went to SGH, saw my classmate to do an MRI, to make sure it's not a slipped disc or anything. And that evening, he called me up and said that we found bone marrow replacement in your spine. I said, sorry what does that mean? I mean I know what it means, but I couldn't accept that. I was like “Are you serious?” I was still running around going to the gym you know. But we had more scans the next day, PET scans - positrons emission scans, they found that actually I have stage 4 terminal lung cancer. I was like "Whoa where did that come from?” It has already spread to the brain, the spine, the liver and the adrenals. And you know one moment I was there, totally thinking that I have everything under control, thinking that I've reached the pinnacle of my life. But the next moment, I have just lost it. This is a CT scan of the lungs itself. If you look at it, every single dot there is a tumour. We call this miliaries tumour. And in fact, I have tens of thousands of them in the lungs. So, I was told that even with chemotherapy, that I'll have about 3-4months at most. Did my life come crushing on, of course it did, who wouldn't? I went into depression, of course, severe depression and I thought I had everything. See the irony is that all these things that I have, the success, the trophies, my cars, my house and all. I thought that brought me happiness. But i was feeling really down, having severe depression. Having all these thoughts of my possessions, they brought me no joy. The thought of... You know, I can hug my Ferrari to sleep, no... No, it is not going to happen. It brought not a single comfort during my last ten months. And I thought they were, but they were not true happiness. But it wasn't. What really brought me joy in the last ten months was interaction with people, my loved ones, friends, people who genuinely care about me, they laugh and cry with me, and they are able to identify the pain and suffering I was going through. That brought joy to me, happiness. None of the things I have, all the possessions, and I thought those were supposed to bring me happiness. But it didn't, because if it did, I would have felt happy think about it, when I was feeling most down.. You know the classical Chinese New Year that is coming up. In the past, what do I do? Well, I will usually drive my flashy car to do my rounds, visit my relatives, to show it off to my friends. And I thought that was joy, you know. I thought that was really joy. But do you really think that my relatives and friends, whom some of them have difficulty trying to make ends meet, that will truly share the joy with me? Seeing me driving my flashy car and showing off to them? No, no way. They won’t be sharing joy with me. They were having problems trying to make ends meet, taking public transport. In fact i think, what I have done is more like you know, making them envious, jealous of all I have. In fact, sometimes even hatred. Those are what we call objects of envy. I have them, I show them off to them and I feel it can fill my own pride and ego. That didn't bring any joy to these people, to my friends and relatives, and I thought they were real joy. Well, let me just share another story with you. You know when I was about your age, I stayed in king Edward VII hall. I had this friend whom I thought was strange. Her name is Jennifer, we're still good friends. And as I walk along the path, she would, if she sees a snail, she would actually pick up the snail and put it along the grass patch. I was like why do you need to do that? Why dirty your hands? It’s just a snail. The truth is she could feel for the snail. The thought of being crushed to death is real to her, but to me it's just a snail. If you can't get out of the pathway of humans then you deserve to be crushed, it’s part of evolution isn't it? What an irony isn't it? There I was being trained as a doctor, to be compassionate, to be able to empathise; but I couldn't. As a house officer, I graduated from medical school, posted to the oncology department at NUH. And, every day, every other day I witness death in the cancer department. When I see how they suffered, I see all the pain they went through. I see all the morphine they have to press every few minutes just to relieve their pain. I see them struggling with their oxygen breathing their last breath and all. But it was just a job. When I went to clinic every day, to the wards every day, take blood, give the medication but was the patient real to me? They weren't real to me. It was just a job, I do it, I get out of the ward, I can't wait to get home, I do my own stuff. Was the pain, was the suffering the patients went through real? No. Of course I know all the medical terms to describe how they feel, all the suffering they went through. But in truth, I did not know how they feel, not until I became a patient. It is until now; I truly understand how they feel. And, if you ask me, would I have been a very different doctor if I were to re-live my life now, I can tell you yes I will. Because I truly understand how the patients feel now. And sometimes, you have to learn it the hard way. Even as you start just your first year, and you embark this journey to become dental surgeons, let me just challenge you on two fronts. Inevitably, all of you here will start to go into private practice. You will start to accumulate wealth. I can guarantee you. Just doing an implant can bring you thousands of dollars, it's fantastic money. And actually there is nothing wrong with being successful, with being rich or wealthy, absolutely nothing wrong. The only trouble is that a lot of us like myself couldn't handle it. Why do I say that? Because when I start to accumulate, the more I have, the more I want. The more I wanted, the more obsessed I became. Like what I showed you earlier on, all I can was basically to get more possessions, to reach the pinnacle of what society did to us, of what society wants us to be. I became so obsessed that nothing else really mattered to me. Patients were just a source of income, and I tried to squeeze every single cent out of these patients. ******** final part to be continued********** lth 1 Like 1 Share
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| Health › Must Read For Doctors And Health Care Practitioners- By Dr Richard Teo by donodion(op): 6:03pm On Oct 28, 2015*. Modified: 6:51pm On Oct 28, 2015 |
MUST READ FOR ALL DOCTORS..!!!!!!!! I have re-read this a few times and each time, there is something different I have learned. Spend the next 15 mins of your time to read it. It may be one of best thing you have read about concerning your life journey. Below is the transcript of the talk of Dr. Richard Teo, who is a 40-year-old millionaire and cosmetic surgeon with a stage-4 lung cancer but selflessly came to share with the D1 class his life experience on 19-Jan-2012. He has just passed away few days ago on 18 October 2012. Hi good morning to all of you. My voice is a bit hoarse, so please bear with me. I thought I'll just introduce myself. My name is Richard, I'm a medical doctor. And I thought I'll just share some thoughts of my life. It's my pleasure to be invited by prof. Hopefully, it can get you thinking about how... as you pursue this.. embarking on your training to become dental surgeons, to think about other things as well. Since young, I am a typical product of today's society. Relatively successful product that society requires.. From young, I came from a below average family. I was told by the media... and people around me that happiness is about success. And that success is about being wealthy. With this mind-set, I've always be extremely competitive, since I was young. Not only do I need to go to the top school, I need to have success in all fields. Uniform groups, track, everything. I needed to get trophies, needed to be successful, I needed to have colours award, national colours award, everything. So I was highly competitive since young. I went on to medical school, graduated as a doctor. Some of you may know that within the medical faculty, ophthalmology is one of the most highly sought after specialities. So I went after that as well. I was given a traineeship in ophthalmology, I was also given a research scholarship by NUS to develop lasers to treat the eye. So in the process, I was given 2 patents, one for the medical devices, and another for the lasers. And you know what, all this academic achievements did not bring me any wealth. So once I completed my bond with MOH, I decided that this is taking too long, the training in eye surgery is just taking too long. And there's lots of money to be made in the private sector. If you're aware, in the last few years, there is this rise in aesthetic medicine. Tons of money to be made there. So I decided, well, enough of staying in institution, it's time to leave. So I quit my training halfway and I went on to set up my aesthetic clinic... in town, together with a day surgery centre. You know the irony is that people do not make heroes out average GP (general practitioner), family physicians. They don't. They make heroes out of people who are rich and famous. People who are not happy to pay $20 to see a GP, the same person have no qualms paying ten thousand dollars for a liposuction, 15 thousand dollars for a breast augmentation, and so on and so forth. So it's a no brainer isn't? Why do you want to be a gp? Become an aesthetic physician. So instead of healing the sick and ill, I decided that I'll become a glorified beautician. So, business was good, very good. It started off with waiting of one week, then became 3weeks, then one month, then 2 months, then 3 months. I was overwhelmed; there were just too many patients. Vanities are fantastic business. I employed one doctor, the second doctor, the 3rd doctor, the 4th doctor. And within the 1st year, we're already raking in millions. Just the 1st year. But never is enough because I was so obsessed with it. I started to expand into Indonesia to get all the rich Indonesian tai-tais who wouldn't blink an eye to have a procedure done. So life was really good. So what do I do with the spare cash. How do I spend my weekends? Typically, I'll have car club gatherings. I take out my track car, with spare cash I got myself a track car. We have car club gatherings. We'll go up to Sepang in Malaysia. We'll go for car racing. And it was my life. With other spare cash, what do i do? I get myself a Ferrari. At that time, the 458 wasn't out, it's just a spider convertible, 430. This is a friend of mine, a schoolmate who is a forex trader, a banker. So he got a red one, he was wanting all along a red one, I was getting the silver one. So what do I do after getting a car? It's time to buy a house, to build our own bungalows. So we go around looking for a land to build our own bungalows, we went around hunting. So how do i live my life? Well, we all think we have to mix around with the rich and famous. This is one of the Miss Universe. So we hang around with the beautiful, rich and famous. This by the way is an internet founder. So this is how we spend our lives, with dining and all the restaurants and Michelin Chefs you know. So I reach a point in life that I got everything for my life. I was at the pinnacle of my career and all. That's me one year ago in the gym and I thought I was like, having everything under control and reaching the pinnacle. Well, I was wrong. I didn't have everything under control. *******"*** To be continued*********** 1 Share
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| Family › Re: My Horrible Experience When Living With A Relative. by donodion(m): 6:28am On Oct 25, 2015 |
Dear MissAssy... Your life story is indeed touching and most unfortunate a reality. Thank you for sharing. I have witnessed this while young and now old, sadly this vicious cycle of abuse towards dependants and benefactors continues, the slavery culture. Either towards househelps or extended relatives. I wish to advise every young folks aspiring to marry, especially the men, the need to realise how brutally territorial women could be in their domain. As responsible man you must be vigilant and assert your authority when the need arise. Many families have become sworn enemies as a result of this brutal culture of abuse,not considering the fact that the wheel of life does and always turn. Family members looking up to you today could become the very same nurturing you and your wards tomorrow. God bless those men and women who treat others regardless they are their blood relations or not,like humans with dignity and true love. Remember, the wheel of life always turn. 4 Likes 2 Shares |
| Education › Re: Pained Nigerians On Twitter Demand That Schools Owned By Churches Must Be Free by donodion(m): 7:03pm On Oct 24, 2015 |
listen people..if indeed is free and the quality of education is OK...I suggest,as I would also, direct my tithe towards that direction. Enough of free doughs ending in Pastors private accounts, giving them massive buildings and private jets. 1 Like 1 Share |
| Health › Re: Lagos Floods General Hospital With Mobile-Toilets (photo) by donodion(m): 8:37am On Oct 23, 2015 |
This is a palliative temporary measure that is not even sufficient the least General hospital should not even have such at site unless: 1. There's on going refurbishing and rehabilitation work in progress. 2. The mobile toilets are meant for the construction workers and not for the general public 3. The governor or government representative is visiting and such visit should have been a surprise on-spot inspection,not made known to the management.That use to be Fashola's style as I was told. 4. This is a publicity stunt for cover up. kudos to the media and social media platforms for spreading this. |
| Family › Letter To All Nigerian Parents - By Retie Sussie by donodion(op): 7:52pm On Oct 22, 2015 |
Dear All- Let's be real. I wish to start by adding the benefit of my time as a student and then resident in the UK. Living in Abuja now. The first thing that I discovered about UK-born, white, English undergraduates was that all of them did holiday or weekend job to support themselves – including the children of millionaires amongst them. It is the norm over there – regardless of how wealthy their parents are. And I soon discovered that virtually all other foreign students did the same – except status – conscious Nigerians. I also watched Richard Branson (owner of Virgin Airline) speaking on the Biography Channel. To my amazement, he said that his young children travel in the economy class – even when the parents (he and his wife) are in upper class. Richard Branson is a billionaire in Pound sterling. A quick survey would show you that only children from Nigeria fly business or upper class to commence their studies in the Uk. No other foreign students do this. There is no aircraft attached to the office of the Prime Minister in the UK. He travels on BA. And the same goes for the Royals. The Queen does not have an aircraft for her exclusive use. These practices simply become the culture which the next generation carries forward. Have you seen the car that Kate Middleton (the wife of Prince William) drives? VW Golf or something close to it. But there’s one core difference between them and us (generally speaking), they (even the billionaires among them) work for their money, most of us steal ours If we want our children to bring about the desired change we have been praying for on behalf of our dear country, then please, please let’s begin now and teach them to work hard so they can stand alone and most importantly be content and not having to “steal” which seems to be the norm these days. We have Nigerian Children who have never worked for 5 minutes in their lives insisting on flying “only” first or business class and using the latest cars fully paid for by their “loving “ parents. I often get calls from anxious parents”my son graduated 2 years ago and is still looking for a job, can you please assist!” “Oh really! So where exactly is “THIS CHILD?” is my usual question. “Why are you the one making this call dad/mum? I am yet to get a satisfactory answer, but between you and me, chances are that the big boy is cruising around Abuja with a babe dresses to the nines, in his dad’s spanking new SUV with enough “pocket money” to put your salary to shame. It is not at all strange to hear a 28 year old who has NEVER worked for a day in his or her life in Nigeria but “earns” a six figure “salary” from parents for doing absolutely nothing I see them in some offices once in a while, 26 years old with absolutely no skill to sell apart from a shiny CV, written by his dad’s secretary in the office. Of course, he has a driver at his beck and call and he is driven to the job interview. We have a fairly decent conversation and we get to the inevitable question- so, what salary are you looking to earn? Answer comes straight out – N250,000.00. I ask if that is per month or per annum. “Of course, it is per month” “Oh, why do you think you should be earning that much on your first job?” “Well, because my current pocket money is N200,000.00 and I feel any employer should be able to pay me more than my parents.” No wonder corruption continues to thrive. We have a society of young people who have been brought up to expect something for nothing, as if it were a birthright. Even though the examples I have given above are from parents of considerable affluence, similar patterns can be observed from Abeokuta to Adamawa. Wake up mum! Wake up dad! This syndrome – “my children will not suffer what I suffered is destroying your tomorrow. You are practically loving your child to death. I learnt the children of a former Nigeria Head of State with all the stolen(billions) monies in their custody, still go about with security escort as wrecks. They are on drugs, several time because of the drug, they collapse in public places. The escort will quickly pack them and off they go. What a life! No one wants to marry them. Henry Ford said “hard work does not kill.” We are getting everything wrong in Nigeria now, including family setting. It is time to prepare your children for tomorrow, the way the world is going, only those that are rugged, hard working and smart working that will survive. How will your ward fare? |
| Politics › Re: How Adoke Misled GEJ Into Withdrawing Assent To Amended Constitution– Ekweremadu by donodion(m): 3:16pm On Oct 20, 2015 |
mbulela:I hope they read your line.....more states also mean more local govts....imagine their thought process? |
| Health › Re: Faeces Take Over Premises Of Lagos General Hospital by donodion(m): 10:18am On Oct 20, 2015 |
| I'm so loving this. let's turn up the heat via social media at our Health Sector. CHANGE is a MUST!!!! By fire by thunder. |
| Health › Re: How St.nicholas Hospital Doctors Killed Chaz B By Chinyere Roselin Chukuma by donodion(m): 9:40am On Oct 20, 2015 |
Lagusta:Doc, I believe there are so many.You need to see how well our people perform outside our shores. The major issue here is " commitment". .Factor in the rate at which we Naijas pursues money even at the detriment of our own health. Not trying to hold brief for the senior surgeon but probable he was at a previous engagement somewhere and too exhausted. The entire health sector, from medical school to laboratory technology colleges needs total overhauling.Let the big hammer descend from the very top Ministers, Commissioners,State directors and Coordinators of health,etc, all of us will toe the line accordingly in compliance. 1 Like |
| Health › Re: How St.nicholas Hospital Doctors Killed Chaz B By Chinyere Roselin Chukuma by donodion(m): 9:29am On Oct 20, 2015 |
Sexyolori:Actually yes you can, as long as there was a witness to every telephonically given directives. 2 Likes |
| Health › Re: How St.nicholas Hospital Doctors Killed Chaz B By Chinyere Roselin Chukuma by donodion(m): 9:13am On Oct 20, 2015 |
Lagusta:I agree 100%. Our doctors still performs excellently well if you ask me....except too many ' exhaustive private practises' overshadows their commitments. |
| Health › Re: How St.nicholas Hospital Doctors Killed Chaz B By Chinyere Roselin Chukuma by donodion(m): 9:11am On Oct 20, 2015 |
 For crying out loud the deceased should have been admitted to ICU following his previous diagnosis and condition before his unfortunate demise.When a patient is nauseous or vomiting, let him or her till it subsides or stops. The last doc who came to administer NG tube came a little too late. Well trained [b] ICU nurses [/b]would have stabilized the patient pending the arrival of the doctors. No doubt this was a medico legal hazard. |
| Travel › Re: Port Harcourt International Airport Ranked Worlds Worst Airport by donodion(m): 9:20pm On Oct 19, 2015 |
angiography:Bru, sometimes I wonder if truly its Nigerians or Nigeriens that post some comments, praising looters to high heavens and debunking accusations against their corrupt practices as ' calumny'.... Haba!!!! |
| Politics › Re: Tanzanians Are Very Excited Because Jonathan Is Arriving Their Country. by donodion(m): 8:15pm On Oct 19, 2015 |
odinese:No don't say that. Remember one man's trash is another man's treasure. Despite the monument corruption that went haywire under Jonas government, yet for the singular act of towing the path of peace by honorably accepting his massive defeat at the polls, Tanzanians then must be having it pretty rough to have welcomed and regarded Jona as am an ambassador of peace. Nigeria need the current change as we have a lot of catching up to do.A lot in re-awakening the greatness we posses as a peculiar nation and people... If. And only if...we crucify " Corruption" till it breaths no more in our polity and way of life. 1 Like |
I bet with my left big toe that the good docs here in Nigeria are very few....
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