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RIVERS COMMUNITY DECLARES SUPPORT FOR PDP
on july 16, 2014 at 9:56 pm in news
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Ozuaha community ward 11, in Ikwerre Local Government Area of
Rivers State, has reaffirmed its support for the ruling People’s
Democratic party, PDP.
Speaking at his palace during a courtesy call on him by PDP
stakeholders in the area, the Paramount ruler/ Nyenweli Ozuaha,
Oha Ibeneme Wosu, said that the people have decided to swim or
sink with the PDP, adding that the party appears to have a defined
manifesto that will protect and promote their interest especially with
President Goodluck Jonathan’s transformation agenda.
The monarch said that, out of frustration, they have decided to
mobilize support for all the PDP candidates to ensure their electoral
victory come 2015

www.vanguardngr.com/2014/07/rivers-community-declares-support-pdp/

I wonder how Amaechi will pull this stunt in 2015...

luvinhubby: The average Nigeian politician is like a commercial sex-worker, making his/herself available to nearest highest bidder.
Watch how they will all roll to next party that will produce whoever becomes the next state governor.

well said bro....lolzzz

Amaechi played a fast one. The fear of "Nyako treatment" is the beginning of wisdom. The guy doesn't want the "fresh air" of impeachment currently blowing ram down is throat!!! Am impressed! !!

atlwireles: Were they in the PDP all this time?

I think so...He was the only one then that defected to the APC

The 25 members of the Rivers State House of Assembly loyal to Governor Chibuike Amaechi Wednesday formally announced their defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC).


Leader of the assembly, Chidi Lloyd, made the declaration at the sitting of the assembly at the Old Government House Executive Council Chambers where the pro-Amaechi lawmakers have been sitting for about five months. Only about 13 of them were present at Wednesday's sitting.‎

He stated that they have ceased to be members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), adding that further correspondence to them should bear the APC.

Lloyd said, "The 25 pro-Amaechi lawmakers have asked me to declare our formal defection to All Progressives Congress (APC). Henceforth, 25 of us should be referred to as All Progressives Congress.

"We are telling the world today that we are all members of All Progressives Congress. All correspondence to us should describe us as APC members".

Responding to the defection, the Speaker, Otelemaba Dan-Amachree requested his colleagues to document their decision.

Details to follow

www.thisdaylive.com/articles/25-pro-amaechi-lawmakers-defect-to-apc/183765/

Nigerian singer Wizkid, who has recently professed his love for top International singer, Rihanna, revealed he has a song with her.

Wizkid confirmed it while speaking on the Beat 99.9fm via the telephone with Toolz.

He was in Los Angeles about 3 weeks ago, where he also took pictures with Rihanna.

Wizkid, who has also shared a photo of him with Chris Brown, is reportedly working on new projects.

Meanwhile, Wizkid turns 24 today (July 16), and the singer intends to turn it up as he said there’ll be 6 official parties to celebrate his birthday in different countries.

He also said he will host his friends to a birthday party on a private yacht in Miami on July 27th, a day after his Live Nation concert in New York.

RELATED: Wizkid Plans To Celebrate His 24th Birthday On Private Yacht In Miami

Wizkid has obviously gained international recognition.

Earlier this year in March, one of the most renowned English rappers, Patrick Chukwuemeka Okugwu, popularly known as Tinnie Tempah announced that Wizkid would be his special guest of several shows and he was also spotted with another top rapper, Wale, Tyrese and Akon, amongst others.

www.naij.com/69812.html

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of aiding, abetting and benefitting from the continued Boko Haram insurgency in the country.

The party said through the mismanagement of national resources, massive corruption and the incompetent handling of what started as a localised insurgency, the PDP-led federal government had been responsible for the festering of the crisis.

In a statement issued yesterday by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party also accused the federal government of using the fight against the insurgency as an excuse to persecute the opposition, trample on civil liberties and abuse national institutions on a scale that is unprecedented in the history of the country.

‘’Far from the baseless and irresponsible accusations and finger-pointing by the PDP and the government it controls at the centre, it is time to tell Nigerians that the only reason the insurgency has continued unabated is because the PDP and the Jonathan administration are benefitting massively from it.”

The party accused the PDP of profiting from the Boko Haram insurgency, adding that this was why it was always dismissive of any genuine efforts to end the crisis, preferring to continually demonise the APC as the sponsors of Boko Haram even when there was no scintilla of evidence to back the allegation up.

It said the international community was not unaware that the federal government had been the biggest cog in the wheel of efforts to tackle Boko Haram because the Jonathan administration had seen the insurgency as its surest ticket to re-election and international acceptance.

‘’That explains their quick dismissal of our call for an international inquiry to unravel the sponsors and modus operandi of the terror group, while latching on to what remains a mere conjecture on the probe of Boko Haram links by the British parliament. Which is bigger and more authentic, a probe by the British parliament or an international inquiry? If the PDP and its cohorts have nothing to hide, they would have embraced that call. We maintain that only an international inquiry can unravel those behind Boko Haram, and we thank Nigerians for their favourable response to our call,’’ the APC said.

The party called the attention of Nigerians to the testimony given by a US official at the US House Foreign Affairs Sub-committee on Africa’s hearing last Thursday in Washington, identifying the human rights abuse record and uncooperative attitude of the Nigerian government and its military authorities as factors hindering the security assistance offered to Nigeria by the US to tackle Boko Haram.

‘’The Congress was told by the Specialist at African Affairs Congressional Research Service, Lauren Blanchard, that the Nigerian government and its military had not been yielding to America’s suggestions; that the main impediment to America’s efforts to support Nigeria’s broader response to Boko Haram is ‘gross violations committed by the Nigerian forces, the Nigerian government’s resistance to adopting a more comprehensive approach to Boko Haram and the continued lack of political will’.

“The Congress also heard that the Nigerian government has appeared reticent in some cases to allow its security forces to participate in US training programmes, adding: ‘Multiple systemic factors further constrain the effectiveness of the Nigerian security force’s response to Boko Haram, notably security sector, corruption and mismanagement, and some of these factors impede US support even for units that have been cleared for assistance.’

‘’Does anyone need any more evidence of whose cluelessness and incompetence have allowed Boko Haram to fester to such a level that it has killed over 3,000 people since the beginning of this year alone? Does anyone need further evidence of whose non-cooperative attitude with the US and other foreign friends of Nigeria has been responsible for the failed and tepid efforts to tackle Boko Haram?’’ it queried.

Explaining the genesis of the blossoming insurgency, APC said it was an undisputed fact that Boko Haram emerged against the backdrop of intense poverty and political misrule by the PDP since 1999.

‘’Since the return to democratic rule in 1999, the PDP has ruled Nigeria till date, and has been responsible for mismanaging over 60 per cent of national revenue. Still, very little has changed in terms of progressive improvement in the socio-economic conditions of most Nigerians. It is hardly a coincidence that Boko Haram emerged in the North-east region of Nigeria, given that it is the poorest region with is higher than national average rates of poverty, illiteracy, mortality rates, youth unemployment and social immobility.

‘’Moreover, states in the North-east receive some of the least allocations from the national treasury individually and collectively. The North-east region, reflecting broader national and even African patterns, is experiencing a ‘youth bulge’ that accentuates the socio-economic deprivations across the region.

“Given the poor literacy rates of the region, there are millions of young people with neither formal nor Arabic education, not to talk of even vocational skills. Indeed, a majority of youth in the North-east region are unemployable, thus providing a fertile ground for the recruitment of idle youths into groups that engage in criminal acts.

‘’In short, the PDP’s failure to deliver credible democratic dividends specifically socio-economic progress (employment, social infrastructure, quality of life initiatives, regular power supply etc) and its obsession with retaining political power at all cost and a ‘do or die politics’, provide logical grounds for the horde of security challenges witnessed across Nigeria since 1999,’’ the party said.

Backing up its claims that the Jonathan administration is profiting from the Boko Haram insurgency, the opposition party said the PDP was using the crisis to launder the image of the Jonathan presidency by securing attendance and participation for President Jonathan at important international summits and meetings.

‘’Curiously, Boko Haram has become a way of getting the international community to talk and meet with President Jonathan and gain international media coverage. The PDP-led federal government is also using the Boko Haram crisis, especially the #BringBackOurGirls campaign to blackmail the main opposition party and the civil society, impose emergency rule in states and areas controlled by opposition political parties, harass and restrict media freedom (through military clampdowns), and to justify other illegal activities.

‘’The Boko Haram crisis is readily used by the PDP to rationalise the Jonathan administration’s abdication of its constitutional responsibilities, including visits and assistance to areas affected and effective response to kidnappings and abductions. For instance, the administration was silent over the Chibok girls kidnaps for over 15 days. Little wonder that it took the visit of the Pakistani girl education campaigner, Malala, to Nigeria to force President Jonathan to now promise to meet the parents of the over 200 school girls who were abducted over three months ago in Chibok.

‘’Under the guise of ensuring security, the Maiduguri Airport has been closed, hence the Borno State governor and the people of the state, including the pilgrims heading to lesser Hajj, have been forced to travel by road to Kano to board their flights. However, the reason for shutting the airport has suddenly vanished as the private plane bearing Ali Modu Sheriff was allowed to land at the airport on Monday, the same day the Governor had to travel by road to Kano to see his brother who was involved in an accident on the same road!

‘’It is also not a secret that billions of naira have been allocated to security in order to tackle the Boko Haram menace, yet our troops have not been adequately equipped to confront the insurgency. “


“One wonders what happened to the huge funds allocated to the anti-terror fight. Against the backdrop of the huge war-chest that the Jonathan administration has amassed ahead of the 2015 elections, one can easily understand who such funds have evaporated into thin air.

‘’Also, the Boko Haram crisis and the Jonathan administration’s response to it must be seen in the context of 2015 elections. The status quo favours the PDP and President Jonathan. Why? Because Boko Haram affected areas and indeed the northern region are opposition strongholds, hence the administration is hoping that the Boko Haram crisis, the declaration of emergency rule and general atmosphere of insecurity in the North will lead to the cancellation of voting in some areas and limit voters’ turnout in general, a development which the PDP believes will minimise its electoral losses in the North and enhance the likelihood of a PDP victory,’’ APC said.

The party reiterated its position on the Boko Haram crisis, saying it had no links whatsoever to the terror group and challenged anyone with contrary information and proof to present such to Nigerians without delay.
It also restated its earlier recommendations for resolving the crisis, saying any solution that would be effective must be multi-faceted, since scorched-earth military tactics alone had failed to quell the insurgency.

www.thisdaylive.com/articles/fg-aids-profits-from-boko-haram-says-apc/183747/

Nice one. ..

Hangard: I am not disturbed about who created the topic first, I am bordered about the misleading headline. Since you read the body of the article why don't you collect the misleading headline. Or is it not the same BBC that I copied the same article.

Alright thanks for the correction, noted!

drizzydrag: At last.... What heart warming news for the FCE students... Nice one from the new MOE Ibrahim Shekarau..

Shekarau is turning out to be a master - stroke for GEJ

Hangard: At Op I have already opened a thread for this. why the misleading headline. Is it Jonathan that canceled the meeting, please change your headline.

check out my source: And if u had read the first sentence on the BBC websites, it would have been obvious were my headline is coming from. And by the way I think I am the first to open a thread on the said topic.

Damilola Oyedele

The Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) has suspended in principle its eight months strike following the intervention by the Chairmen of Governing Councils of Federal Colleges of Education and assurances that the outstanding issues would be resolved.

Details to follow

www.thisdaylive.com/articles/coeasu-suspends-eight-month-strike/183686/

Nigeria's president has cancelled a meeting with parents of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls,
accusing activists of playing politics.
The #BringBackOurGirls group should be ashamed of manipulating "the victims of terrorism", he said.
Mr Jonathan had been due to hold his first meeting with some of the girls' parents on Tuesday.
Islamist group Boko Haram captured the more than 200 girls during a raid on their boarding school in
April.
Mr Jonathan had been widely criticised for failing to meet distraught parents and not doing enough to
rescue the girls.
He agreed to the meeting on Monday following an appeal by Pakistani rights campaigner Malala Yousafzai.
The girls have now spent more than three months in captivity
Mr Jonathan says his government is doing everything possible to secure their release
#BringBackOurGirls was a global campaign launched on social media to secure the release of the girls.
Mr Jonathan had planned to meet 12 parents and five girls who escaped shortly after being captured.
"Unfortunately, political forces within the Nigerian chapter of Bring Back Our Girls have decided to take
this opportunity to play politics with the situation and the grief of the parents and the girls. They should
be ashamed of their actions," he said in a statement.
"Those who would manipulate the victims of terrorism for their own benefit are engaging in a similar kind
of evil: Psychological terrorism," he added.
The BBC's Mansur Liman in the capital, Abuja, says parents withdrew from the meeting at the last minute.
No reason has still been given for the apparent snub, he says.

m.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28318259

Next on the line; Al makura of Nasarawa. PDP hitting hard!!!

It's just a matter of time. BH days are number.

leerules: the deputy is PDP member and he has resigned.this goes out to all you people that feel PDP is behind all these

I see a game plan in this. If he resigns, then it means he is in a better position to recontest the election schedule in 3 months time. But if he were impeached, that would have done damage to his reputation and candidacy. seems like a grand design by PDP to feature him in the coming elections. And note, he was exonerated of all the charges against Nyako.

Following the massive onslaught by Security Forces on the activities of the insurgent group, Boko Haram, at the Balmo Forest Bauchi State, Police detectives attached to Bauchi State Police Command on Saturday, 12/7/2014 about 2pm have arrested one Mohammed Zakari, a male of 30 years old and senior member of the Boko Haram terrorists’ organization along Darazo-Basrika Road while fleeing from the intensive counter insurgency operations going on around the Balmo Forest.

The suspect, who hails from Kaigamari Village, Daptchari in Darazo Local Government Area, #Bauchi State is the self-styled “chief butcher” of the insurgent group at the Balmo Forest Camp and is linked with the recent slaughter of seven (7) people, including women and children. Findings as well as disclosures from the suspect will assist the Law enforcement agencies in tracking down some other members of the terror cell.

The suspect whom investigation reveals was tutored in the art of insurgency at Gombe Forest under the leadership of a fleeing insurgent, one Abba Taura and moved to #Balmo Forest only three months ago, is discovered to have actively participated in the April attack against Customs officers at Kari Town, along #Maiduguri Road, Bauchi State.

Meanwhile, the Police High Command has called on the citizens in the affected areas to be on guard for any suspicious or strange character fleeing from Balmo Forest.

It also calls for the understanding and support of the public for the efforts of the Police and other Security Forces in tackling insurgency, terrorism and other related crimes headlong, noting that although the war on terrorism is unrelenting, it is certainly not insurmountable and must be won with the cooperation of all.

ACP FRANK MBA
FORCE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER,
FORCE HEADQUARTERS,
ABUJA.
PRESS RELEASE

www.dailytimes.com.ng/article/we’ve-arrested-boko-haram’s-‘chief-butcher’-–-police

Nyako is a gonna already!

There is high security presence on the road leading to the Assembly and inside the complex.

The embattled Deputy Governor of Adamawa State, Bala Ngilari, who is facing impeachment charges alongside his principal, Murtala Nyako, has resigned from office.

Mr. Ngilari’s resignation letter was read at plenary by the speaker of the Assembly, Umaru Fintiri, after which the lawmakers approved it.

The House is sitting today to consider the report of the seven-member investigative panel, appointed to probe allegations of financial impropriety against the governor and his deputy.

The committee submitted its report to the House on Monday.

There is high security presence on the road leading to the Assembly and inside the complex.

A source, who works with the Assembly, told PREMIUM TIMES only staff and journalists are being allowed access into the Assembly.

The source requested not to be named because he had no permission to speak to journalists on the matter.
Details later…

m.premiumtimesng.com/news/164955-breaking-adamawa-deputy-governor-bala-ngilari-resigns.html

The kind of news I love to hear!

Trust ffk to speak from both side of the mouth...

nice development!

Morotov1: I think you are the one who is ignorant here. Family medicine residency is three years in including internship.
The post you quoted is referring to US. You are not fully qualified to practice medicine until you do residency and family medicine is one or if not only the least in number of years.

you mean to tell me they don't have GPs ( general practitioners ) in the US.. That's new

oduastates: Hahahahaha.
The minorities realise blah blah blah ..........................
They will hate the caliphate Until the pendulum of power changes back to them and the usual suspects grovel for crumbs from their masters.
Now a proper lesson.
The minorities were not cheated .
They were part and parcel and partakers in the despoliation of their lands.just like the SE and SS .They with their own hands, voted /associated with the same people who came later to molest them.
I won't even bother to list their leaders . I can name 100 middlebelt participants in the pillaging of their own land .many of them , without as much as a village hut in their state.
the north have been speaking in one voice at conference.
For them Fulani vs southern kaduna is a smaller issue when compared to allocation vs derivation.
So spare us the lecture.

You have no idea about the deep-sitted hatered between the middle belters and the core northern Muslim. The very reason why Jonathan will win southern kaduna is not cause of any laudable achievement in the region, but simply an exercise to spit the core northern Muslims. I was so shock with the level of support ordinary uneducated people in the region have for him the last time i was home even with the daily killing of our people by the hausa/fulani mercenaries. What is playing out at the National conference is just a reflection of what is on ground. There is no song coming out of the libs of everyone in southern kaduna other than Gurara state. We await our emancipation!

tohpahz: pharmacists dispense doesn't mean they cant prescribe.. their original job description before Nigerian bullshit altered it, is to prescribe.. please do tell me the difference between dispensing nd prescribing... 2. please tell me?/if a pharmacist normal work is to dispense nd dey studied drugs. y dd dey study drugs? to sit down nd b giving drugs... haba!!!

in an orderly system, the doctor examines with d nurse. draws findings sends patient for lab tests nd xrays.. sends symptoms nd lab test to d pharmacist who reviews it. nd. mks a prescription. which d nurse administer

I think I will like to have a source to what you just typed. Cause what I got from Google is a stake contrast.

tohpahz: giving drug is not our primary responsibility. nd let me correct u.. the doctor doesn't prescribe. the pharmacist does. nd den we administer.. but it's not our primary responsibility...

Which planet did you fall from? Are you in anyway confusing "dispensing" with "prescription" cause the last time I checked doctors responsibility is to prescribe while pharmacist are to dispense. Google is your friend dear. You see why I don't trust other health workers? The hardly understand there job description.

tohpahz: i think u shud learn to read... did i say we gv different medications? No! i said we gv drugs too... meaning drug administration z part of our work...
please try getting educated nd civil...
as for d killers part. lol.. yea m here to kill u nd perform last orfice for u wen u finally die.... thanks

If I misquote you, then I am sorry about that. But saying " we gave drug too" aren't that suppose to be your primary responsibility? I thought doctors work is to prescribe while yours to administer, so what is special here? who is contesting with you about that? But if in anyway you administer medications other than does prescribe by doctors, then I am definitely right in calling you "bunch of killers". And by the way watch your spellings. I do have hard times reading short hand.

tohpahz: a medical doctors bla bla bla cant b threatened by a nurse... so y do they feel so?
what do they know... we know a lot..In my first 6months in nursing school.,i taught a houseman doctor who had obviously gone thru 6years how to pass a line (Iv) taught him to palpate. nd some other things..
for ur info.... we r bin taught how to examine... we don't just sit nd carry out d doctors order,
just dat our line of treatment differs because we have different perspectives to d whole thing...

a doctor diagnoses ulcer.. we diagnose pain.,inability to cope.. fluid volume deficit.. etc.. a doc gives drug nd other drug related therapies.... we mk use of d environment to help d patients nd also give drugs..
we see each patient as an individual dat has different problems.. dey c all patients as d same.....

so our work waheva z different nd i think d overattin shud stop.. .
If dey can have consultants. den we the nurses can have consultants too...!!

ONCE A NURSE. ALWAYS A NURSE!!!

It's these illiterate bunch that are making arguments on the doctors side more plausible. How can one spew such trash? So when a doctor prescribe sets of medications, your lousy self and Co bunch of killers have different medications to also administer right? No wonder this battle has and most be won by NMA.

elohorayodele: My friend has had pain on his left shoulder for 2weeks, Reddington diagnosed HBP, Cedarcrest said its a muscle tear, both gave him several injections, drugs n lotions to use in massaging it but the pain only grew worse. He found an indian doctor by chance who diagnosed acute Ca deficiency , gave him some drugs. Indian dr was so furious the last Nigerian doctor injected him at the back muscles that he insisted he calls him to ask why! The Naija dr could not defend himself when confronted. My friend after some hours used that arm to lift stuff for the first time in two weeks. Beware of Naija doctors and misdiagnosis.

what nonsense is this!!! No Nigerian doctor has ever claim to be arbiter of knowledge. Misdiagnosis happens every where even in the develop world that's why the have what is called malpractice insurance cause everyone Is capable of making mistakes. It's the same Nigerian doctors that diagnose Dora akunyili with cervical tumour which was subsequently misdiagnosed by London doctors resulting to her death. Did you here the Nigerian doctors castigating the London doctors?

priscaoge: They should call off this strike abeg!

Actually the don't need to, we have competent nurses "consultants" presently in the hospital that can diagnose, interpret and prescribe adequate medications and carryout surgical procedures for your personal well being. They too are train to do all that.

hydeka: Awesome! I have said this before and I will say it again. Doctors have made themselves dictators in the healthcare system who think they can hold everybody to ransome because of their selfish demands which they want us to believe is in everyone's best interest. In the hospital they act as the lords even in cases outside their jurisdiction. They want to head every department in the hospital because they claim to know everything about patients, drugs, physiotherapy, nursing care and they go about dictating to everyone. They believe their opinion should be final. And now that the other members of the healthcare team are standing up to put an end to this anomaly, they resort to blackmailing the government and the people. That is professional tyranny at it's peak. All health practitioners are stakeholders in patient care so there is no reason why a particular group should resort to an autocratic approach in the administration of such a team. If they are all needed to ensure proper healthcare delivery, then they all should have equal say in matters affecting the team.

Since both the pilot and air hostess have stakes in passengers comfort and safety while air bound. The air hostess can as well take over control of the cockpit and demand equal rights with the pilots. After all there is nothing special about going to aviation school and studying aviation pilotry since she has lots of "experience"