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In the immortal words of our Minister of Information 4 months ago when there were rumours about an Ebola outbreak in Nigeria.
“Nigeria is ready, because the Ministry has taken every precaution, including getting the vaccines and medicines in case there was any incident in Nigeria"- Labaran Maku
In any respectable and responsible country this man would have resigned in shame immediately it was announced they a Nigerian had died of the disease 4 months later.

iamSi: In the end ... People will know who is serving God and NOT ... Should christian meddle in Politics? Best do research... You have you bible. Am just sorry for Millions of people led astray #BunchOfGoats

Should Christians meddle in politics? Is that a joke question? We should all siddon look and allow ex convicts like Omisore to govern us because we're Christians. Idiotic question.

Dullards posting on this thread including the OP. Does chikeroonlime.com sound like a real news blog? Did anyone even bother to open the link b4 commenting?

Olisa Methu will now come and blame Buhari while forgetting that Jonathan has collected $14 billion from the federal coffers since 2011 to fight boko haram with nothing to show for it. Boko haram is slowly gaining territory in the North and our commander in chief is junketing around the world, trying out new suits and laundering more money. Those of you that still see nothing wrong with Jonathan's presidency are either born mad or have deliberately chosen to be mad.

Opiosko: ..... Some people believes APC is tacitly behind the security situation in the country because they think they it will benefit them in their desperation for power. This kind of statement from BAT will only reinforce these theories.

That's an absolutely s.tupid way of thinking. The incumbent president of a country, who's the commander in chief of the armed forces, is accusing an opposition party of supporting insurgents and yet cannot point to a single arrest of an opposition politician or name a single opposition politician with links to Boko Haram. If the APC was a rebel group probably in a power sharing agreement with the incumbent party, that kind of argument would be tenable. But when you have a president that is in control of the entire Armed forces of a country, turning around to accuse armless, civilian opposition party members of complicity in an insurgency without naming a single person or collaborator, then you know you have a spineless, vindictive and a lame duck i.diot as President.

Opiosko: APC will never learn. Tinubu should have restricted his speech to development stuff.
This statement will now overshadow any other thing he said.
This is the kind of statement that made people to see APC as all about lies, desperation and propaganda.
Tinubu just reinforced that with this statement few days to an election.

APC shooting herself in the foot since 2013

And security is not part of development?

Zeus777: u are a blatant lier . I am currently at military hospital yaba (68NARHY).... It's d closest facility to mainland hospital yaba. Consultants(doctors) from lasuth and Luth are in there as we speak . U said u have acces to mainland hospital yaba?? So tell me what is the colour of the main gate of mainland hospital yaba... Lol .,, google can't help u with that!!

Who has ur time? We're here discussing serious issues and you're here throwing tantrums. Mtchewww

rman: It's politics guys.

PDP accused APC and it's leaders, especially Buhari as sponsors of Boko haram PDP supporters glady bought into it.

Now that APC is using the Chibok kidnap to score cheap political points, why are we now crying?

It is not t their fault but the fault of the gullible Nigerians that are so shallow they view everything from a religious, ethnic or political point of view.

Common people, don't blame the politicians, blame yourselves. The moment u attend rallies and don't applaud shallow speeches, or you support the candidate that offers the best logical solution devoid of sentiments, the politicians will also fall in line.

Right now, they are only serving u the meal u crave.

Exactly.

CyberWolf: Hope you can defend yourself in court when the music starts mr BAT

I hope Olisa Methu is also ready to defend himself in court for repeatedly pointing accusing fingers at the APC and accusing them of involvement in the Boko haram issue, casting aspersions at the credibility of party members

Well since Jonathan and his people have politisised this whole boko haram issue and have repeatedly, and falsely so, accused the APC of complicity, why can't Tinubu join the bandwagon in the politisization of Boko Haram. That's Tinubu's thinking.

ceaser: What d'you stand to gain from barefaced lies aimed at discrediting these men? The same propaganda you embarked upon painting 'em as wicked, selfish and inconsiderate for justifiably going on strike is what you have started on again. Did you realise there was an official statement to attend to suspected and confirmed ebola infected following a meeting that was held with the LASG? And by the way, your "Nigeria equivalent of the CDC" has doctors on the team if you must know. I'm sure the uninformed masses will not swallow your lies this time cos most of them (even the nurses among its ranks) have realised josehu's weapon of propaganda of false information and have began to ignore them.

So much thanks to modern media. I could have sworn you'll go on propaganda spree claiming the Lagos, Liberian, Serria Leonian and American doctors and nurses infected were not actually doctors but lab technicians or pharmacists with PharmD contrary to claims.

Pls be honest for a moment, haba! So much hate!!!

Nobody can be forced to attend to any suspected case of ebola irrespective of whatever meeting anybody held. The doctors are naturally scared since health care workers have a higher risk of contracting the virus and the isolation facilities at the hospital are not trustworthy. As of today, no doctor has volunteered to treat any of the patients. Only nurses are attending now

ceaser: What d'you stand to gain from barefaced lies aimed at discrediting these men? The same propaganda you embarked upon painting 'em as wicked, selfish and inconsiderate for justifiably going on strike is what you have started on again. Did you realise there was an official statement to attend to suspected and confirmed ebola infected following a meeting that was held with the LASG? And by the way, your "Nigeria equivalent of the CDC" has doctors on the team if you must know. I'm sure the uninformed masses will not swallow your lies this time cos most of them (even the nurses among its ranks) have realised josehu's weapon of propaganda of false information and have began to ignore them.

So much thanks to modern media. I could have sworn you'll go on propaganda spree claiming the Lagos, Liberian, Serria Leonian and American doctors and nurses infected were not actually doctors but lab technicians or pharmacists with PharmD contrary to claims.

Pls be honest for a moment, haba! So much hate!!!

Well i would know because i have access to the hospital. No single doctor has volunteered. I have no business with their industrial action, i'm just trying to update people on the situation with ebola in Nigeria. If u believe what you're reading in the media, goodluck to you

tochimas: Please they should stay at home oh, what exactly are they suppose to do to help Ebola patients , they should cone and compound our problems by contacting and spreading the disease . The few foreign consultants is enough to handle the few cases we have now abeg, not plenty people coming to act as Ebola distributors to family and friends and then use that as the bases for all their insatiable demands

The foreign consultants or the white man should leave his family and enjoyment in far away Europe and America and come to Nigeria to take care of idiots that haven't contributed anything to humanity in the last 1000 years?

Very false story. None of the doctors at the infectious diseases hospital, Nigeria's equivalent of the American CDC, has volunteered to treat the Ebola patients. The only confirmed case of the disease in Nigeria is currently being handled by nurses who volunteered to do so. The doctors at the hospital have bluntly refused to attend to even the suspected cases of ebola currently in isolation at the hospital.

9jawear: Where has EBOL been all this while that SUDDENLY it appears some unsurmountable catastrophy? There is always a ploy to make Africa look HELPLESS and DESTITUTE for some reasons best known to them. AND THEY ALWAYS WIN!

Talk of MALARIA! At what point did we AFRICANS become helpless victims of MALARIA in Africa that EURO-AMERICA now have to be where we must get MALARIA DRUGS from? Damn! We were living and thriving BARE-CHESTED when the first European Ship arrived on the shores of DINA (Elmina) 1471 and we have historical account of what happened to Europeans who came. For over a century they were coming and dying like sick chickens. The so-called MISSIONARIES were dying like diseased chicken on arrival from MALARIA, some as early are as two weeks! Later all they had to do was to humble their ego and allow 'NATIVE DOCTORS' to treat them with HERBS!

WE NEVER DIED FROM MALARIA!!

So, so..when did we lose our intelligence as AFRICANS and got hooked on to the CHLOROQUINE and now ATER..what-what? Aren't people now dying from these drugs?

WHY HAVEN'T I TAKEN ANY OF THESE DRUGS at age 31 (all my lfe)? I still take the herbs I saw my grandmother use and the wisdom is DON'T WAIT TO GET MALARIA before taking it.

So, there so must Media Hype and exaggeration over this ANTWERP-MADE Laboratory Virus clled EBOLA in Africa. Can someone SHUT off that and allow us some senerity of MIND to think out our solutions? No, they won't because it's all part of the MARKET CREATION PROCESS!!

It's like when you have Maths question before you to think through and ONE IS DRUMMING AND SINGING in the class!!!

IT IS NOT THE EBOLA THAT IS KILLIN PEOPLE, IT IS THE MEDIA SPIN AND NOISE THAT'S FRUSTRATING US FROM PICKING THE SOLUTION!

In ancient times, the HERBALIST took a lonely walk in the dead silence of the dawn on his search for cure. The mind requires silence in its search for solution!

ALLOW AFRICA TO THINK ON ITS OWN!!f it's food THEY CLAIM we need, they will FORCE GMO on us. If it's Security they claim we need, they'll force War and Military bases on us. If it's cure they claim we need, they'll force drugs on us!

It's no genuine desire to SOLVE AFRICA'S PROBLEM! It's a greedy QUEST to 'commodify' and commercialise our challenges FOR PROFIT!


AFRICANS AND NIGERIANS SHOULD WAKE UP

You are a disgrace. If u can channel half of the creative energy u used in concorting this conspiracy theory into something more meaningful, maybe we wouldnt have an ebola outbreak in the first place.

hilary26: The moment they decided to return the two doctors home for treatment I knew they have always had the cure.
America is the home factory of every virus. Africa is the test field. What they do is to come as tourists and infect our animals or plants and then go home to wait for results.
It is just business, just like HIV, now the nations with the epidemic will start paying them for the drugs.
In 1984, Robert Gallo filed a patent for his new invention, HIV. Today they tell us the virus got to humans from monkeys because we share certain DNA details with them.
America had the cure for Ebola way back in the 1970s when they manufactured the virus.
For every virus made, they also make the antivirus. Just like in comouters. The software companies that sells anti virus softwares are those who introduce viruses so we may buy their antivirus.

Typical response from the average African

fellis: That means those chewing gum countries are safer than Nigeria at present. No matter how poor they are.
Even Somalia is safer than Nigeria now.

I tire for Nigeria and lawlessness.
The news about ebola outbreak came out in May this year, since May!, they announced that there is ebola outbreak in Liberia and yet that Liberian minister was allowed to get into the country without being checked first. Maybe he bribed his way into Nigeria because the security and health workers are corrupt enough to take bribe and allow him enter without testing him first.

The best thing to do right now is not to leave our protection in the hands of those corrupt and incompetent civil servants. Even far away Britain held an emergency ministerial meeting last week just because of Ebola. Everyone should be alert and be responsible for their personal health.

dustydee: Our government kept saying they had put measures in place to prevent the disease from getting to the country. How on earth did they allow that passenger into Nigeria given that he showed symptoms of the disease?
This one is totally avoidable.

The idiots were supossed to ban flights from those countries immediately we became aware there was an outbreak. They waited till someone brought in the disease before banning flights. See ghana that is closer to liberia has not reported any cases because they took preemptive measures. Nigeria is just a keg of gun powder waiting to explode because the same systemic inefficiencies that have enabled minor problems in Nigeria to grow into catastrophies are likely to manifest in our handling of this Ebola outbreak. There are no jingles on air alerting people to take protective measures for themselves, no hotline to call incase suspected cases are detected, nothing! Just the rumours we hear on Nairaland and other blogs. Its a shame!

Agbaya. She should continue flaunting sagging boobs and ageing legs on d red carpet.

OP needs to travel out and see how far girls in US or UK have taken this thing. Nigerian uni girls are small girls compared to those ones. The point is as long as there are unhappy married men or single unmarried men with money, there will always be girls to meet whatever needs they have. Its not a Nigerian thing, its everywhere.

fugly pple

IMO considering the time of the accident and the state of the car, i'd say Hamza was drunk.

Obiagelli: we are in dangerous times. Politicians cooking war, citizens gathering fire wood for them, unfortunately politicians always get to eat the spoils.

Words from a wise woman

Deeman87: they have already located d girls, somewher in sambisa forest acordin to report.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/05/weve-located-abducted-chibok-girls-defence-chief/
things r not goin well...I pity 4 dis country.

Lol and you believe them? you're a dunce! i'm very sure you voted for jonathan

one of his slain children was studying chemical engineering abroad. The other was studying computer science. Wasted just like that because a certain Brigadier general didnt wasn't patient enough to wait for a peaceful procession along the street to pass by. Very sad. Nobody will be held accountable for this, same way they destroyed buses in Lagos and massacred an entire village in Bama.

As the Ebola Epidemic in parts of West African continues to claim more victims particularly in Liberia and Sierra Leone, the response from authorities in West Africa's most populous country has less than adequate. Ebola has claimed more than five hundred lives since the outbreak began more than five months ago, the worst outbreak since the disease came to prominence in the 70's. Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are the countries at the epicentre of this outbreak. While health authorities in Guinea have been able to contain the spread of the disease and reduce the number of new cases, Liberia and Sierra Leone continue to report new daily cases of infection. The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is unique because it is the first outbreak to be reported in urban cities unlike previous outbreaks which have been restricted to rural villages.
It is also the first outbreak to strike different countries simultaneously. The prevalence of the disease in urban centres has raised concerns about the likelihood of spreading to neighbouring countries. These concerns came to the fore last week when a passenger on board a flight from Monrovia, the Liberian capital to Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, came down with symptoms consistent with the Ebola virus.
Apart from a few TV appearances by Nigeria's health minister warning Nigerian's about the disease, authorities in Nigeria are doing very little to prevent a potentially catastrophic outbreak in Nigeria. An outbreak of the disease in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country would indeed be devastating. Doctors in public hospitals in Nigeria are currently on strike, increasing the likelihood of potential unreported cases. Aviation and transport authorities in Nigeria also did not deem it fit to close Nigeria,s airspace to flights from the affected countries. Arik Air, the Nigerian carrier that handles flights across West African region has announced the cancellation of flights to and from the affected countries. A voluntary measure announced by the Airline and not under the urging of Nigeria's transport and aviation authorities who have adopted the sit and look approach to the outbreak.
At a two day summit in Ghana, ministers from countries such as Mali, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Congo, Guinea, far away Uganda, and representatives from countries at the epicentre of the outbreak, resolved to increase surveillances of the disease and mobilise community and political leadership towards tackling the spread of the disease. Nigeria was conspicuously absent at the summit. Private hospitals and clinics in Nigeria are receiving very little orientation or equipment for tackling potential or suspected cases of the disease. It is currently unknown if health authorities have deployed officials to the country's borders and ports to screen incoming travellers.
An outbreak of the Ebola Virus in Nigeria would indeed be very catastrophic. Nigeria should set up an inter agency committee to mobilise its response in preventing any outbreak and immediately curbing any potential outbreak. The ministries of health, information, transport, emergency services, science and technology and communication should be part of such committee. There may also be the need to set up a National Ebola Emergency Response unit to handle any reported cases of the disease and to enable quick identification or diagnosis of infected persons. Public and Private hospitals should be mandated to immediately set up Isolation units for the treatment of any potential reported cases of the disease. Public sector doctors should immediately be called back to work from their strike and given the necessary orientation and equipment for preventing and tackling any potential outbreak. There should be massive public enlightenment on the disease.
An outbreak of the Ebola Virus in Africa's most populous country will probably have the same devastating effect as the bubonic plague in Europe and will be a potential threat to the rest of Africa.

Same way they said earrings and pencil trousers were gay. Couple of yrs down the line and they're all wearing it.

sebyluv: Personally I feel dat d masterminds behind dis Bombings do not have any religious affiliations, Yes dey may have started with some Northern leaders but ryt now, dose guys have lost control of dem and some oda forces hell bent on bringing dis country to ruins are now at force. The best we can do for dis country is to pray for it. God bless Nigeria

Oga seriously i don't understand you. Why does everything have to be about politics? Why is it hard to believe that there are Nigerians that have been indoctrinated with false Islamic teachings and that will go as far as going on suicide missions in accordance with what they've been indoctrinated with. The pattern this Jonathan administration is taking is that if anyone criticises them, it has to be because of politics. See how Jonathan disgraced Nigeria with his handling of the Chibok girls abduction. His people in the media, including Nairaland, went round trying to hoodwink the world into believing the abduction was a farce and was a creation of the APC governor in the state.
We need to be objective in the way we think and criticise and stop leaving room for this Buffon we call president to continue to mask his incompetence and cluelessness by accusing the APC of complicity. See how bombs are going off everyday and the guy is just sitting in Abuja, doing nothing but condemning and blaming the APC!

Honestly the level of incompetence and sycophancy going on in Nigeria today is unparalleled. A situation where the incumbent president accuses the opposition of plotting bomb attacks on itself to score politically is just astonishing. A president that is in control of the Army, police, Airforce, SSS, DMI, Civil defence corps, Navy, NIA and all the other apparatuses of state security, is turning around to accuse people who control nothing of planting bombs!That's not even the worst part, the worst part is that very stupid and gullible Nigerians (of the same "I voted for Jonathan and not PDP" fame) are coming out to support this Buffon of a President whose only response to the Boko Haram Insurgency as Commander in chief has been to accuse opposing politicians of complicity. Nigerians and their President are Buffons!

Ifyx: a 1st class graduate or some1 with 2:1 from Ife wouldnt say what you're saying

I'm not into hype or unnecessary flattery. I like saying it as it is. plus I've visited other schools, especially private universities and i can say without any doubt that there is more learning and research going on in private universities than public ones. Lecturers in public schools just collect their over bloated salaries, treat students like shit and go back to running their personal businesses like normal government workers in Nigeria do. Nothing is going on in public Unis and OAU is the perfect example. Nothing is going on there now, literally. The school is on strike!