₦airaland Forum

By Demola Akinyemi

ILORIN-A senior lecturer at the department of Political Science, University of Ilorin, Dr. Lukman Saka has criticised the recent trip of president Muhammadu Buhari to United Kingdom for medical treatment on one of his ear problems. He said that, such money that would be used for that foreign medical trip could have been used to developed the nation’s health infrastructures. Checks at the presidency claimed that, the cost of the trip which includes aviation fuel, accommodation, allowances for aides and medical treatment amounts to about £6milion. The special adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina had on Sunday announced that, Buhari would be travelling to United Kingdom for medical attention due his ear problem. Adesina said that, the trip would take 10 days and that the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo would be acting as President. Speaking with journalists in Ilorin on Wednesday on the state of the nation, Dr. Saka said that,”this is the government that had been canvassing for ‎the blockage of wastage in the art of governance, now using public fund to fund foreign medical trip”. He said that, such development has exposed the ineptitude of the nation’s leadership towards the growth of health facilities in the country. Saka added that,”if the nation’s health facilities have been developed, I don’t think there is need for President Buhari to abandoned all health institutions in the country and therefore traveled to UK to seek medical attention”. Saka further pointed out that, ” I want to say that, there are many federal medical centers here in Nigeria and even the one built by former governor of Akwa Ibom state, Godswill Akpabio, it is a specialist hospital, President Buhari should have used this local hospital instead of travelling abroad for medical attention. “This shows that, our leaders are not ready to patronise our own hospitals. This is uncalled for, this is a serious problem and this will not improve health care delivery in Nigeria.” “It is high time to learn to encourage ourselves to use our own health facilities instead of traveling overs‎eas because the money that would be used for foreign medical trip could have been used here to move our health institutions forward”. On the proposed dialogue with the militants that had been bombing oil installations in the Niger Delta region of the country, the political scientists said that, the development was a good one on the part of the federal government. According to him,”it is disheartening that, some militants in the Niger Delta region have regrouped to be attacking oil installations in the region and be it as it may be I think the plan by the government to dialogue with them would reduce the economic burden being experienced due to the attacking of the oil installations”. He said, “at least, the dialogue would involve the militants and the leaders from the region and this would assist in resolving their agitation and this would improve the revenue that would be generated from the oil installations in the country”. Saka therefore advised president Buhari to shun all acts capable of affecting the health development in the country in the habit of seeking foreign medical trip, moreso that, Nigeria is blessed with well experienced medical personnel that could attend to his ear problem.

President Muhammadu Buhari has sent a list of 47 new ambassadors to the Nigerian Senate for confirmation.

This was announced by the president of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, during the sitting of the upper legislative chamber on Tuesday.

Mr. Saraki read a letter from Mr. Buhari containing the list.

Names of the nominees are yet to be made public.

Nigeria has had no ambassadors to UK, Germany, USA, China, U.N., Spain, Russia and France after previous envoys were removed by Mr. Buhari after taking office in May 2015.

what if a child decide to bounce on top without one knowing, wont that send a wrong message?

hope it will tell him when Nigeria will be ok?

na all these ones deserve front page. nor be peter drink water with glass cup. waaaaa e don land for front page.... nice one all thesame

Sasuwa:
Today is my birthday , let me get some likes pls

Them dey talk serious issue. u dey ask for likes. u dey wan chop am. some people self

na wa oo. every where accident

nor be only date! na their own be that. if she like make she date Buhari

hmm. even guiness area. dey use wolden pole. wetin them dey wait to change am?

lolz. So he believe Witches can't fly to abroad, haven't he heard of people that are remote back to their village from Abroad?

The crash of the titans

Is it going to solve the situation? pls embrace dialogue

First thing to do when such incident happens is to look at the police man's name on the uniform. sorry sha

going back to old fashion of dressing

Much better, they should extend it to the rural areas because there is high extortion by Filling stations there.

#Nice write-up, Concentrate on a specialty will make one to have more knowledge on a particular field than having little knowledge in all.

Favoye2:
Our Nigeria soldiers, working hard to conquer thier enemies... #tears

This is called Planting.

ok noted

‎Jah‬ come to break ‪downpression‬
Rule equality
Wipe away transgression
Set the ‪‎captives‬ free.

no light to dry the hair. the stylist resulted to fan the lady to dry it.

tied of spending money on the dreadlock

HMMM. after many years in the school, he died as a result of a girl!

HMMM. after many years in the school, he died as a result of a girl! [color=#006600][/color]

this is the right man who we think will move Nigerians up. At this our stage in Nigeria, we need the right President who will take decisions at the right time and stand by it.... not interested in minor things such as stove when there is no kerosene... hihihihihihihhhihiihihih

It is so bad that this time, Nigeria Government is just interested in buying stoves when kerosene is at a very high price and the worst is that it is to hard to get.... so i think buying stove is not the right thing to do know rather issues like kerosene and insecurity etc should be tackled first before any other thing!!!