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Am doing the same to my airtel sim at d moment

Am doing the same to my airtel sim at d moment

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I envy people who drink – at least they know
what to blame everything on
Oscar Levant

If anyone in Nigeria still thinks we have a
performing President, such a person had
better visit a psychologist and if it persists,
visit a psychiatrist. For the 3 years that
President Goodluck Jonathan has piloted the
affairs of this country, he has displayed
governance orchestrated by drunkenness and
if he deems it fit to go to court over this
statement, he is very free. But let him be
reminded that no right thinking person will
appear before the courts in Nigeria; not me.
His mantra of transformation agenda has
turned to ‘traumatization’ agenda. This is a
man who rode on the goodwill of Nigerians,
not minding that we hated and still bitterly
hate the PDP, we gave him our votes willingly
like a virgin who has been brainwashed by the
deceptive words of his lover and after the
painful first time experience left to clean up
the blood alone. President Jonathan has raped
our collective intelligence and treasury,
enjoying the ride and ecstasy alone while we
never moaned or screamed as his lovers. Yes,
he rode us like a beast while massaging us
with sweeter words and promises. Finally he
has dumped us!
We have turned to the masturbation of our
brains to pleasure selves in order to forget
the pains inflicted on us; consoling ourselves
that if he doesn’t treat us well as we deserve,
we will give ourselves treat, which we have
continuously done. We agree that it is all
deceit of our individual selves.
Walking like a frail man who knows no evil,
with words so sweet to deceive even the
strongest of minds, he bamboozled us with ‘I
had no shoes” and we fell for it; unknown to
us he had over 400 piece of shoes as a deputy
governor. We forgot that he was held other
positions that had empowered him, but yet we
followed him blindly like a lamb led to the
slaughter and he has truly slaughtered us.
The realization is not too late that we voted
for a drunk who presides after taking shots of
whisky or any brand that gets to the table
first. If he is not a drunk, how do we explain
his actions so far by becoming a terrorist to
Journalists, taking them to court for exposing
his memo to clamp down on opposition
parties? While the case is still in court, he
issues more threat of suing another media for
daring to publish that he took shots of
‘ogogoro’ during his birthday celebration.
No one gives credit to Obasanjo and former
leaders for all the evils they committed
against Nigerian, neither have we told them,
‘well done for looting our national treasury”,
thus using them to judge President Jonathan’s
performance is foolery on anyone’s part. This
is what makes some ethnic bigots to threaten
fire and hell should GEJ not win 2015
election, simply because he comes from a
region that is regarded as the ‘golden geese
that lays the golden egg’, as if any of them
planted or stored the oil in the land. Our
carelessness as a people has given guts to
ethnic morons to always scream blue murder
when Jonathan is accused of corruption,
ranting that he be left alone, ‘after all OBJ did
worse. So what! Has OBJ become a standard
for retrogression or has IBB become a
yardstick to measuring who takes the plaque
for Nigeria most corrupt leader. Is Nigeria a
country that every ethnic leader who gets to
the throne must rape silly?
Only drunk presidents are intimidated by his
ministers, fearful of getting them sacked
despite mountains of corruption leveled
against them by the press and civil society,
simply because they funded the rigged
election that brought him to power. Only
leaders who are always drunk allow ministers
like Onyebuchi Chukwu to still remain in the
saddle as health minister when it is glaring
that he’s not fit for such a job. One would
have thought that after the sack of Ruqayat as
minister of education as a result of our calls,
and replacing her with his buddy who is a
thug, Nyesom Wike, the lingering ASUU crisis
would have been resolved, but hell no; it gets
worse. Here is a leader who has never owned
up to his failure; always putting the blame on
people and past leaders, which is a hallmark
of drunkards. If you cannot stand the heat of
the kitchen, get out.
Our drunken President has now mandated his
puppet Vice Chancellors to force our erudite
professors and lecturers to resume academic
lectures or lose their positions. What arrant
decree from a civilian president who has
successfully metamorphosed into an emperor
with title as Emperor Goodluck Jonathan
Bulldozer. Does he think we live in the time of
the military that his drafting of soldiers to the
campuses will cause the lecturers to be
frightened and resume? The military regime
did worse than this in the popular ‘Ali must
go’ and Ali did go. Jonathan should stop
beating the war drum that will consume him
and set the nation ablaze, for when it begins;
not even the safety of Aso Rock can secure
him. Only drunken Presidents dare the
academia in their country for that begins the
downfall of their regime, hence most leaders
avoid them like plagues, giving them their
dues with less confrontation.
Do we attach President’s Jonathan’s behavior
to his study of zoology, haven mingled with
animals that are lesser beings with shallow
brains? I really don’t know where to place
him. For the first time in the history of any
country, opposition parties are always coming
third in elections, in a new rigging style that
the Goodluck administration have invented.
For the first time in a country, opposition
party leaders take to the street to protest the
charade called election in Anambra States, and
the President deploys all security forces to
stop them. This is a protest where a former
head of state and retired army general
partook in! Hasn’t the president taken enough
shots of ‘ogogoro’ for him to have the
boldness to stop such constitutional process,
using the apparatus of the state, which are
funded by the generality of Nigerians?
For the very first time in our country, a
President loses grip of his political structure
in broad day light, prompting them to move
to the opposition party, thereby making the
President a minority leader; such a record he
must be happy to have broken, as the world’s
first president to come from a minority party.
For crying out loud, how did we degenerate
to this level of shame that we have a
Rehoboam as a President; a drunk who never
thinks before he acts; a leader who takes all
his most sensitive decisions from corrupt
imperialist women? Only drunks makes
certificate forgers board members of a
university and foremost corrupt ex governor
board chairman of Pension commission,
giving him access to loot the money of
pensioners, which will be used in funding the
president’s 2015 election.
Sometimes one wonders the army of deceivers
who surrounds this once innocent president,
telling him tales of Nigerians supporting his
regime. One truly cannot tell where he gets
the statement that Nigerians are asking him to
contest for second tenure. Mr. President,
please wake up from your slumber; no
Nigerian has asked you to contest and if any
has asked you, they are your ethnic group
from South South, few South West people and
minimum of South East voters and you can
hear this straight; your support base is not up
to two million voters.
Run for what? That we may continue in this
hell that you and your PDP Governor’s forum
Chairman, Godswill Akpabio has inflicted on
us? Nigerians has not given up completely on
you, for the race is still on. Most people are
not good starters in a race and you are
obviously one of such, hence the benefit of
doubt that you may just end up well and
become the most loved president in Nigeria’s
history as you have always wished; that is if
wishes were horses. Take less of alcohol and
listen less to your corrupt henchmen, for in
them lies your albatross.
We have given you a fresh start; solve all the
lingering issues in the health and education
sectors, do your best to alleviate the poverty
level of Nigerians, read and listen to critical
reports about you for that is where you will
get the true pictures of happenings in Nigeria,
not from your 419 aides. We hope to see you
at the top.
These little things matter…
Fejiro Oliver, a Journalist can be reached on
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gov. Aliyu is a coward

While Nigerians especially Anambra voters
await November 30th to go to the poll and
vote in their choice candidate for the
supplementary election, Elombah.com in
her analytic newsroom has uncovered the
hidden scores behind the election that was
held on November 16th.
Our reporters who monitored the election
reported rigging in many polling votes
visited, with the ruling All Progressive
Grand Alliance (APGA) sharing N10,000 to
voters to cast the vote. Unsure of how the
Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) came about the votes allocated by
voters, we discovered a big fraud
mathematically and statistically.
According to INEC, out of the 1,763,751
voters registered for the election, only
451,826 were accredited. Total valid votes
stood at 413,005, while the invalid ones
were 16,544. Total votes cast were 429,549,
while 113,113 votes were nullified or
cancelled as INEC used the term. This was
where our reporters acting on intelligence
scoop found the rigging blunder. With
those number of votes cancelled, the State
had only 316, 436 valid votes casted.
The electoral body told the world that the
candidates scored the following votes,
which were written against their names.
Mr.Willie Obiano of APGA got 174,710 to
finish tops
Mr. Tony Nwoye of PDP polled 94,956 to
finish runner up
Mr. Chris Ngige of APC was third with
92,300 votes
Mr. Ifeanyi Ubah of LP came fourth with
37,440
The amazing results totaled 399,406 which
were cast during the election, which we
gathered is NOT possible under any
calculation in statistics or mathematics,
bearing in mind that INEC declared 429,529
votes casted, out of which 113,113 were
nullified, with only 316,436 legitimate
votes casted.
This calculation by our reporters render
the election invalid and we can report
with all authority that the election was
rigged, as the votes allocated to the
candidates do not reflect the actual
numbers of voters who voted. The vote
given to the candidates by INEC is higher
than the number of votes casted. 82970
votes as we have always maintained were
added to the votes of the APGA candidate,
Willie Obaino, thus making the election a
scam and a sham.
An addition of the votes ‘scored’ by the
candidate and the invalid votes brings a
total 512,519 voters, thereby rendering the
429,529 votes casted as announced by INEC
fraudulent, with same wide margin of
82,970 ghost voters added. With the
removal of the ghost voters allocated to the
APGA candidate, he has a legitimate vote of
91,740.
The supplementary election has been
rejected by the APC, stating their refuse to
partake in it. We also have it on good
authority that the PDP candidate has
refused to partake in the supplementary
election, but he is under pressure from the
presidency to take part, promising him a
ministerial or ambassadorial position.
Secrets Reporters at 07:42

Donald Duke (Fmr Cross Rivers State
Governor)
“...The truth is, the Chairman of the
Independent National Electoral Commission
has little or no bearing on the success of
elections, that’s the truth. To me, it’s
actually immaterial because he is head of
the administration he takes the brunt. The
best he can do is perhaps, draw up a
blueprint but the implementation of that
blueprint is outside his control...Let me
now take you through the process of an
election.
We have a hundred and twenty thousand
booths in Nigeria. At the hierarchy, you
have the Chairman of INEC, then you have
the Zonal Commissioners, then you have
the Resident Electoral Commissioners and
they are the heads in every State; the Zone
as the name implies; we have six Zones in
Nigeria, so you have six of them. Then you
have the Resident Electoral Commissioners
and there are thirty-six of them of course,
and Abuja. Then for each Local
Government, you have an electoral officer.
Beyond that you have a hundred and
twenty thousand polling booths, headed by
Presiding Officers. The people think that at
the end of the elections, the PDP would just
decide who wins and who doesn’t and
announces the results. I think the process
is a bit more sophisticated than that.
This is what happens; the Resident
Electoral Commissioner is usually from
another State. The electoral officers, they
move around. They are usually from that
State, but for the conduct of elections itself,
you would probably move from Cross River
to Akwa Ibom or to Abia...When the
Resident Electoral Commissioner comes
before the elections are conducted- of
course when he comes to the State, usually,
he has no accommodation; monies have
not been released for the running or
conduct of the elections and all that
because we always start late. He pays a
courtesy call on the Governor. It’s usually
a televised event you know, and of course
he says all the right things. ‘Your
Excellency, I am here to ensure that we
have free and fair elections and I will
require your support.’
Now, at that courtesy call, most Governors,
at least I did, will invite the Commissioner
of Police because he is part of the action
and he sits there.
After the courtesy call, the Resident
Electoral Commissioner now moves in for
a one-on-one with the Governor and then
says, “Your Excellency, since I came, I’ve
been staying in this hotel, there is no
accommodation for me and even my
vehicle is broken down and the last
Commissioner didn’t leave the vehicle, so if
you could help me settle down quickly;’
and the Governor says, ‘Chief of Staff,
where is the Chief of Staff here?’ And the
Chief of Staff appears. Governor says:
‘Please ensure that the REC is
accommodated–put him in the Presidential
lodge, allot two cars to him, I give you
seven days to get this done. Then the
relationship has started; I am going to
share some of these things with you so that
we don’t leave here with any illusions...Let
me take you down to what happens so that
you can change it because if you don’t
change it, we here won’t suffer but I think
of our children will.
We the elite, I am one of them, we send
our kids to the best schools around the
World, when they come back they are
misfits, they cannot fit in and so ultimately
we are designing a System that would
destroy us in the end...Now, back to the
elections, once that relationship has been
established between the Governor and the
REC, if you are a Governor who is ‘A
Governor’, maybe two nights after you just
pop by at the Governors lodge and see the
REC and say ah, ‘ah REC how are you
doing? Are you OK?’ He says, ‘ah! Your
Chief of Staff has been wonderful. He has
been very nice to me; he supplied me the
vehicles and everything is Ok’.
A few weeks to the elections, the REC sees
the Governor; you probably have on the
average about three thousand five hundred,
four thousand depending on the polling
booths in every State. So, REC goes to the
Governor and says, ‘Your Excellency, could
you please give us the names of about four,
five thousand people so that we can
hurriedly train them, we need them as
Presiding Officers.’ You need experience. A
good coach is one who has played and has
lost matches in the past?
The REC now goes down and says, ‘we need
to conduct a training programme for the
Presiding Officers and em, headquarters
hasn’t sent us any money yet, you know.’
And the Governor is like: ‘How much
would that cost?’
REC replies: ‘twenty five million naira for
the first batch, we may have about three
batches.’ Governor: ‘Ok, the Chief of Staff
will see you.’ Now, the Chief of Staff, you
call him: ‘Make sure, that we arrange
twenty five million naira this week and in
two weeks time another twenty five
million naira and seventy five million
naira in all.’
Chief of Staff: ‘Your Excellency, how do we
do it?’
Governor: ‘Put it under Security Vote.’
In other words, its cash, ok, now, cash in
huge Ghana Must Go bags – some of my
colleagues will shoot me- (turns to the
audience) is any former Governor here?
(Crowd replies no!)
Good. Cash is lodged in huge Ghana Must
Go Bags for the REC and of course, to be
fair to them, they call their electoral
officers and say the Governor has been
very benevolent; he has given us this and
that. I say three batches because they have
them in Senatorial districts. So, you have
one in Calabar, you have One in Ikom and
Ogoja, those are the headquarters of the
Senatorial districts. Each one costs twenty-
five million. Of course, the sums are not
properly retired. I don’t know how much
of this twenty-five million worked. But,
there is a rapport this is going on.
The Governor now turns round and says:
‘call me the Party Chairman.’ The Party
Chairman appears and the Governor says:
‘INEC requires fifty thousand people for
conducting the elections. See to it that we
meet their needs.’ The Chairman goes and
you hear in the evening on radio and
television: There will be an urgent meeting
of all Chairmen and secretaries of XYZ
Party at the headquarters. They should
report promptly at 10am (because) matters
of urgent interest will be discussed. End of
announcement.
Now we have texts messages, so it’s easier,
in no time everyone is here.
It’s a very short meeting, please go back
and within forty-eight hours, submit from
each Local Government two hundred and
fifty names of trusted Party members. So in
a week the deed is done. The names,
sometimes even passport photographs if
required are sent to INEC.
And the training programme is carried out.
Let me pause a bit, this is at Party level.
They are usually civil servants. They may
be teachers, whatever, but they are Party
members. The remuneration, for each of
them for the elections from Abuja is ten
thousand naira for the day’s work. But the
State in its benevolence gives fifty to one
hundred thousand naira to each of these
folks right before this election.
This is even where it gets even more
interesting. So, you have each of the three
or four thousand polling booths; they are
manned by Party stalwarts. They are
usually Party stalwarts. You don’t send any
peripheral member. The remuneration
from Abuja has not arrived but that of the
State was received forty-eight hours prior.
On the day of elections, each polling booth
has no more than five hundred ballot
papers; that is standard.
There is not a polling booth that is more
than five hundred. So only two hundred
people appear here, three hundred there,
one hundred there, fifty there, four
hundred there, at the end of election what
happens. The Presiding Officer sits down
and calls a few guys and says, ‘hey, there
are a few hundred papers here, let’s
thumbprint. This is the real election. Well,
this is not a PDP thing. I am not here to
castigate the PDP; it’s a Nigerian thing.
This process may sound comical and jovial,
it happens throughout the country,
whether it’s Action Congress or APGA it’s
the same thing. We are all the same. They
start thumb-printing, some are
overzealous. So at the end of the day you
find some voting more than the number of
people that were registered to vote.
Otherwise they do it, you have ninety-five
percent turnout. You start wondering
where the voters were; I didn’t see so
many people. And the election results are
announced; XYZ Party wins and it takes a
week for this paltry ten thousand naira for
each Presiding Officer to arrive.
Listen to this before you ask your question:
Who is the most important person in an
election? – The Presiding Officer. And if
there are a hundred and twenty thousand
of them (booths) there are a hundred and
twenty thousand Presiding Officers, they
are the most important people in the
elections, not the Chairman.
So, as long as we keep applying that same
method, you will get the same results. It’s
crazy to think that because you substitute
Iwu for Jega all will change. In other
words, Iwu is a crook, Jega is a saint. Jega
is great, he has an impeccable reputation.
Iwu was great, now he seems not so great.
OK, they are both professors, they have
reached the peak of whatever discipline
that they profess. The point is that it is the
System and the personnel and the
Chairman has little or no control over
that...Sometimes, we behave as if we
invented democracy. We always want to
draw new rules. We should know the day
of elections. It should be fixed. We should
know that on so and so date I think,
America is the 4th of November or so and
if it falls on a Sunday it doesn’t make a
difference. The point I am making here is
that date is fixed, you know; because in a
democracy, election should be a norm, not
an event. In our democracy, election is an
event. It’s like, we are going to spring on to
you with fireworks, hey, we are going to
have an election, we are all running
around- I know most politicians are broke
right now, so we are all running around
the field...In a democracy, you postpone an
election? You postpone things you didn’t
plan for, not things that are there in the
Constitution that says you must do this,
that and that...We need a critical mass of
Nigerians to get out and vote. It is
important because the more ballot papers
that are legitimately used on Election Day,
the fewer available to be used to rig the
vote, that’s the truth. Don’t keep to
yourself and think that they will announce
results. They are more sophisticated than
that. And that’s why the aspirants who felt
cheated and had the resources to employ
forensic personnel, like those elections had
the elections upturned in Edo and Ondo,
because they could establish multiple
voting by thumbprint.
So, if it’s an AC State the procedure is the
same. I remember a State, that State will
remain nameless. I hear the story that the
then President was so determined that he
must change the leadership of this State
and he called the IG and said, ‘look, that
Governor is a security breach. Let's have
elections and flush the Governor out, and
the Governor knows he is under siege. A
week before the elections, a new police
Commissioner arrives. And you know if
you are a Governor and a new Police
Commissioner arrives before elections, you
know something is wrong somewhere and
he spends two, three days without going to
see the Governor, which is again a breach
of protocol. The day he decides to see the
Governor, the Governor says, I won’t be at
the office. However, if he gives him a
particular address they may discuss. Then
the chap goes there and smartly salutes
and it’s in a highbrow neighbourhood of
the city. (Shouts of Ikoyi rent the air.) ‘No!
It’s Yobe!’ (The hall explodes in loud
laughter).
The Commissioner of Police walks up to the
Governor and smartly salutes and says:
‘Your Excellency, I just came to introduce
myself. My name is Mr. So, so and so. And
the Governor goes: ‘Ah, you are welcome. I
heard you were here two or three days ago
and I was wondering whether I won’t see
you. Anyway, you are welcome. Have you
settled down?’ ‘Yes I’ve been given
accommodation and all that. And the
Governor asks, ‘where was your last
posting?’ He tells him, he says fine.
Governor: ‘That car over there, this is the
key and this is your house.
The Commissioner of Police now says:
‘Your Excellency, this Obasanjo is a very
bad man. He is a very, very bad man. If
you see all the things he has planned for
you eh Olorun maje.’
How do we move on? How do we get out of
here? What I have done is I’ve tried
graphically to paint a picture of a process.
How do we change this process?
One, I think, since we cannot change
attitudes as quickly, we must ensure mass
participation. In an election where there is
a very high turnout, the results are usually
genuine. The most celebrated election in
Nigeria, June 12, 1993 what happened?
People came out. The more people who
come out to vote the fewer–there may be
mago, mago here and there but there
wouldn’t be much in such a critical
manner to upset the will of the people.
Beyond that, if you don’t vote in an
election, you have no reason to criticize
the Government and I tell folks everywhere
that guys, I would say, I have lived my life.
You guys have not and you are all
criticizing Nigeria but did you vote in the
last election? Most of them say no then I
say, you’ve lost the moral right to criticize
what the Government does because you
were not part of the process.
Is there a way out? I think there is. I think
we need to employ technology. It's just a
suggestion and I want to share with you. I
have said this in one or two fora and I’ve
heard people say it has not been done in
America or the West why should we do it
here? I say they don’t have the attitude we
have here. Necessity is the mother of
invention. It is not necessary for us to do
what I’m about to suggest.
For the purposes of this, 3455, this number
is for a phone and that number is unique
to you and valid for that election or the set
of elections. And each Party has a
numerical equivalent. AC could be 1, the
PDP could be 5, and the Labour Party could
be 3, whatever. And on the date of
elections you decide that your number
even if you don’t have a phone, you can go
to a centre where they have a bank of
phones and once you put in your number
3455 it recognizes you, it cannot be
duplicated. It’s only you that has that
number and for that election on that date,
once it’s used it cannot be used by anyone
else. Then you can do this one from your
house or anywhere, and any time between
the hours of nine to twelve. When it says
which Party, you say 3 or 4 whatever the
number, they ask you, ‘are you sure you
say Yes’. You press it then you’ve voted.
With that, I think we can conduct election
but people say ah, it’s to technological and
I say, why do you always underestimate
the people in the rural areas? If you send
them money this way, won’t they be able
to cash it? Why is it that when it is to
conduct their civic responsibilities it
becomes high tech? I know this country, I
ran a State for eight years; I know the
nooks and crannies of my State. We are not
the most enlightened of States in the
country, but you see, I had a deal with
MTN and Glo to ensure that every
community in Cross River State has a base
station; for that I gave them sites free of
charge; so, virtually every nook and
cranny of Cross River has a base station;
even the most rural of places; even in
Bakassi when we still had control of it, and
they all use it. They still use it to call their
folks in the urban centres to say send us
money.
Why is that when it comes to civic
responsibility it is high tech?...
I am not saying this is a perfect System, it
can be fine-tuned, that will ensure that
within an hour or two everyone has voted
and the results are near perfect.
Of course, once you design a System, there
are those whose work is to un-design the
System. There are people like that and they
work backwards. Once you have that we
also think the same way. How do we work
backwards, where can this be faulted? It
can be faulted in many ways. The Service
Companies if you are able to break-through
the integrity of the System, you know, here
and there; but I think we are going to think
outside the norm.
The point I’m trying to make is we have to
think outside the box. I want to commend
the Federal Government, each time the
Government talks about elections; it keeps
on talking about credible elections with
brilliant sound bite. But it must go beyond
the sound bite and let’s not kid ourselves,
by thinking that by putting a Jega there
that all is well. With Jega there, all will be
well if he is able to design along with his
team a System that is virtually fool proof.
In other words, he himself must
understand the System of elections; he
needs to know how it works and how it’s
been holding...Where are we? We need to
get out of these holes; we need to traverse
the length and breadth of this country. We
need to recruit an army of people may be
five thousand in each State, two hundred
young men and women who will reach our
(people), give each of them a task to ensure
that he registers at least a hundred person.
That alone, will bring twenty million
people into the fold. This is what they did
in the Obama election.
Fortunately, I was monitoring the Obama
election, whether you attain voting age or
not, you are able to send text and move
around and get people to vote. It's one
thing to register, some folk tell me, and
‘how can I go to line up for hours to vote
for this person’. This is again what Pastor
Bakare was talking about, if people are not
excited about the candidates they will not
come out. ‘Look at the four people running,
they are all clowns. I’ m going to watch
television; I’m not going to vote because
either way a clown is going to win’.
So, we have to get involved in the process.
We can’t all run for offices, we all
can’t. ...”
Secrets Reporters at 14:02

Ogunleye Oladimeji wrote a new note: How
Fasting and Prayer Ends the ASUU Strike within
Three Days .
With pain and agony in my heart I see parents
on pleading to God to touch the heart of the
University lecturers and government to reach an
agreement to call off the 4-5 months on-going
strike in Nigerian University. Pastors and Imams
are leading fervent prayers in their respective
house of worship reeking out diverse prayer
points. Students are clinching to their Holy
books, putting them under their sleeping pillow
to provide comfort and hope for a better
tomorrow though the government is wasting
away their precious time.
I sympathize with The Nigeria Security and Civil
Defence Corps (NSCDC) that calls for seven days
fasting and prayer for an end to the lingering
Academic Staff of Union of Nigerian Universities
(ASUU) strike. Dr Ade Abolurin, the Commandant
General of the corps said in his statement “We
should not be ignorant of the devices of the
devil whose mission is to steal, kill and destroy;
but through prayer and fasting, the glory of this
nation shall be sustained and the much needed
success achieved,’’ What am struggling to grasp
is, whenever they reach an agreement and call
off the strike, is it really an answer to all the
prayers and fasting?
A curious search reveals the type of prayer
points going on in different churches and
mosques;
God, please touch the heart of the lecturers and
government.
Merciful God, open their eyes to see the evil and
wickedness in their actions.
Lord, provide wisdom and understanding as they
negotiate to resolve the strike.
May the life of our students never wasted
because of ASSU Strike.
Father God, send Holy Ghost fire and burn the
selfishness in their hearts…..etc.
These and many such prayers points are being
offered to God on a daily basis. These prayers
are synonymous to asking God to do the
following as well;
Lord, please help INEC to conduct free and fair
elections.
Oh God, stop the politicians from embezzling
money.
Father God, fill up all the pot holes on our
roads.
Merciful father, let there be light and
functioning air conditioning system at Muritala
Mohammed International Airport (MMIA)
Please God, stop the ceiling at MMIA not to leak
water and flood the Airport.
When we choose to abdicate our responsibility
and heap it on God shows a fundamental
problem in our thinking system and paradigm.
The minds of the people have been enslaved to
the extent that a crumb of bread from the
masters’ dining table is seen as a blessing.
I ask myself, what is the percentage of these
slave masters children that are affected by the
on-going strike? I guess they do not need fasting
and prayer to send their own children to private
and foreign schools.
There is a grand conspiracy by the Nigerian
slave masters to enslave the minds of the people
by religion and ethnicity. We must choose to
liberate ourselves. Our freedom is not their
happiness.
Let me suggest how we can end the strike by
concerted citizen effort. Specific and deliberate
Revolutionary Actions steps that will make all
the slave masters to pee in their pants. Then we
can pray. Let me reference Sonala Olumhense
and suggests the following;
What Students can do: Do you remember when
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan knelt down
for prayer before Pastor Enoch Adeboye of
Redeem Christian Church? You must have seen
several Imams performing special prayers for
the politician as well. These show that the
Religious leader knows the politicians. All
students should go on strike from attending
Church and Mosques. A total withdrawal of your
participation in all church and mosque activities
will shake the religious institutions to their
foundations. I bet it, within a month you will be
back in your classrooms.
What Concerned Citizens can do: Broadcast any
politician private numbers on social media;
twitter, BBM, Facebook etc.
What Parents can do: Provide money for phone
recharge cards.
What Students can do: Send texts to the entire
politician demanding from them to perform
their responsibility and call off the strike.
I am confident that with just three days of
fasting and prayer after these actions, God will
look down and hear the cry of Nigeria students
and tell the lecturers and Government….Let my
student return to class room and reluctantly the
doors of your class rooms will be opened.
Nigerian Students, your salvation is nearer than
you ever thought, but am afraid and scared of
what Pius Adesanmi describe as Mumudom
mentality!!!!
Oladimeji Ogunleye
Twitter:@dimejileye

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Uncut: Nigeria’s oil minister said in London,
October, that the theft of oil revenue needed
for national building, amounted to terror.
British Prime Minister, David Cameron said at
this year’s World economic forum meeting at
Davos on January 24th, 2013, that Nigeria
earned 100 billion dollars in oil revenue for
the year 2012—which is more than all the
aid given to the entire Sub-Saharan Africa—
but corruption and lack of transparency of
the civilian administration denied growth and
causes suffering to continue in the nation,
with a huge amount of Nigeria’s earned
revenue being looted ever before it reaches
the nation. One such “hole” or “massive gap”
Cameron referenced that had been
uncovered, accounted for the looting over
800 million dollars from oil revenue paid to
Nigeria. The British Prime Minister called for
global attention to the epic looting and
economic terrorism that is completely
destroying Nigeria. Presidential spokesman
Reno Omokri denied these revelations and
accusations of the British Premiere, but this
link proves:
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/
prime-minister-david-camerons-speech-to-
the-world-economic-forum-in-davos
Premium Times on the 12th of November,
published startling findings of a 7 billion
dollar hole in Nigeria’s oil revenue retrieval,
with the NNPC implicated along with Swiss oil
dealers. In the report from the Berne
Declaration, a Switzerland based anti-
corruption NGO (http://www.evb.ch/en/
p25021690.html ); it was shockingly exposed
that Nigeria’s oil was being sold below market
price in an elaborate inter-continental scam
involving the petroleum ministry and foreign
cartels, operating in financial lax Switzerland.
The harrowing report from the Berne
Declaration which includes a distressing 20
page BD Research detailed publication “Swiss
traders opaque deals in Nigeria” ( http://
issuu.com/erklaerungvbern/docs/bd-nigeria-
en-20131101?e=3524425/5474605#search ),
exposed in detail, numerous looting
operations of the Nigeria oil marketing
sector. Some issues highlighted: Nigeria is the
only major producing company that sells
100% of its oil via private intermediaries,
thus the nation loses in extra revenue
swallowed by the oil baron cabal. These
middle men, “brief-case holders” act as
“letter boxes” for PEP’s (politically exposed
persons) –the well-known and hidden
Nigerian cabal. 2. The irresponsible secret
calls for tender, a common practice in
Nigeria; this of course is a setup between
parties to get kickbacks in billions, and sell
the nation’s oil at treasonous prices. Most of
Nigeria’s oil is marketed through the
Switzerland channel. Well known is the
multibillion fuel subsidy scam which the
ministry of petroleum allowed to fester for
years, effectively robbing Nigeria of more
than N2 trillion. No one has yet been held
accountable for any of these elephantine
pilferages.
Nigeria’s minister of the economy, Ngozi
Okonjo-Iweala has stubbornly denied that the
nation is broke. This is far from the truth
and reality on the ground. Multiple sources
within all arms of the Federal government
acknowledge that Nigeria is broke and unable
to take care of it financial obligations to the
people. The budget for the fiscal year, 2012
was 5 trillion naira, this is about 30billion
dollars. The total revenue earned from oil
sales in the same year, according to British
Prime Minister David Cameron was 100
billion naira. There is a gross discrepancy in
the budget – not inclusive of actual funds
disbursed—from the total earnings in oil
revenue. This gap can only be accounted for
if Nigeria paid in amortization on its foreign
debts to the tune of 70 billion dollars.
However in this same period, Nigeria has
accumulated greater foreign debts and its
2012 repayment figure was $246,663,000
according to Index mundi. The total foreign
debt stands at $6.7 billion. Clearly, foreign
debts are not where our massive revenue
from oil is going. The government in this
period, rather also embarked on schemes to
tax the masses via removal of oil subsidies
and other schemes to supplement capital for
government expenditure. More of such are
put out almost every day. But despite
increased taxation and levying, there is no
money in the economy, as looting has
completely drained the nation’s coffer of all
wealth. Nigeria’s domestic debts have also
been catapulting as the nation awards
contracts but cannot afford to pay the
contractors. This domestic debt currently
stands at over N6.1 trillion. If not the ASUU
strike, then the recent riots over none
payment of stipend by Niger Delta Amnesty
militants in Russia, highlights the disturbing
reality of the broken state of the economy;
even pet and prized projects and national
security concerns of the administration in
which they have the most vested and regional
interests can no longer be sustained and
funded. Following the money—in this same
period of rising domestic and foreign debt,
Nigeria is making more and more
“businessmen” and oil oligarchs, billionaires
in dollars.
Compounding the acute lack of capital in the
nation, implicated on looting of oil revenue
by collaborations involving the ministry of
petroleum with its family of international
business stooges and a cartel of oil barons, is
an artificial, politically motivated capital
constriction. As is a common dirty practice in
Nigerian politics, the ruling administration
purposefully starves the nation of circulating
capital to bring the nation to its knees ahead
of elections, with aim to manage the release
of this capital through the subservient, to
influence votes. This artificial, criminal crisis
instigated two years to the next presidential
election has created a potentially
unrecoverable economic catastrophe.
At the head of Africa’s largest nation’s
financial meltdown is the oil minister, one of
the president’s , or rather, “Charlie’s angels;”
a billionaire or trillionaire, who “owns”
Nigeria’s corporate media and senate and
remains relatively insulated from
proportional castigation and arrest for gross
looting of the nation’s oil revenue. A typical
case that merits little media attention
involves the minister of oil, Diezani Alison-
Madukwe and her alleged “stooges,” one Jide
Omokore and another Kola Aluko. A case of
iniquitous misappropriation of over N58.9
trillion naira from the illegal transfer of four
oil blocks in favour of Jide Omokore`s
ATLANTIC ENERGY DRILLING CONCEPT. This
whopping sum the minister and her coterie
are accused of plundering, equals the
nation’s total earned oil revenue for four
years at the rate of $100bn or 16 trillion/
year. The case is being handled by the
Senator Emmanuel Paulker-led Committee on
Petroleum Upstream. (National Enquirer)
These “Diezani boys” who have recently been
featuring in the news, command so much
wealth, they are reported to be flying around
the world in private jets and buying up
hundreds of millions of dollars worth of
property and boats. Illustrating the authority
and audacity of Jide Omokore, he was
arrested in France with Nigeria’s presidential
jet in November of 2012 (http://
saharareporters.com/news-page/french-
police-detain-nigerian-private-jet-carrying-
president-jonathans-front-man ).
What the gross, blatant robbery and
misappropriation of Nigeria’s wealth, being
stolen before and after it reaches the nation;
accounts to is frank terrorism. The nation is
on its knees, crippled and begging for
international assistance from the ongoing
siege. The masses who pay tax and pay fuel
subsidies, only for the income to be looted in
whole, are what can be termed as “mugus,”
“fools,” as also is the nation’s military
currently dying, engaged in what the police
should have controlled (waging a war against
Boko Haram terrorists in the nation’s north
eastern borders) while in a role-reversal, the
police are occupied in fascist intimidation
campaigns, as criminal tools of the
presidency. While the drained military die to
clean up the mess of politician and police
fatuitous obliquity, the culprits and
masterminds behind Boko Haram remain free
with impunity, guzzling the nation’s wealth in
high offices.
“Tax and Transparency after the G8: Nigeria
and Beyond” revealed in London this October
that “Nigeria is the only country in the world
where illicit financial flows, which it
estimated at about 10 percent of GDP, are
larger than tax revenues levied outside the
natural resources industries.” This means,
officially more than what Nigerians suffer to
pay in taxes is being looted. Oil pollution in
the Niger Delta has already reached levels of
irreversible poisoning of the ecological
environments. And nothing has been done to
check this, as reckless looting of the oil
resource is at its highest ever with
consequential loss of revenue and dangerous
cancer causing morbid pollution. Another
form of massive and reckless looting of the
recent civilian regimes is in the privatization
craze. What one of Nigeria’s cabal who
recently part-purchased PHCN (Power assets)
coined the term “Africapitalism” to promote.
The reality is that these private sector cabal,
do not provide alternative and cost effective
service to supplement the government
failures, but rather they accentuate the
failure, then buy the nation’s assets at a tenth
of their value to then turn around and offer
the service or utility at double or triple the
global charges for these. A benefactor of
government unregulated oligopolistic service
provision, recently referred to the wealth
profiteered from the masses as “ritual-like.”
This Africapitalism is a grand scheme of
extortion of the 160 million masses and sheer
robbery. Unless something is done and done
fast, Nigeria will never recover from the
epidemic looting of its 6th republic.
Some in some quarters clamor for a
fractionation of the nation—the size of which
may actually be a factor in the impossibility
to abate the gargantuan looting—however the
next most urgent step for the nation is a
Rawlings-style, “bloody” cleaning out and
recovery of looted national assets and wealth,
or else Nigeria or the fragments of it will
never recover from the colossal looting that
has been the bane of its 6th republic.
They say that one day the masses will have
nothing left to eat but the rich. The day has
indeed come.
Written by Dr. Peregrino Brimah, Email:
drbrimah@ends.ng Twitter: @EveryNigerian

if all our politician can send dia child to our public school, use our Public hospital, travel on our public roads, nigeria will b a better place because dia family will b able to explain to the politician what they pass through daily, and not someone else in dia cabinet that will b lying to them

gsaint trinity: my brother,,, we no fit yarn for this Uduaghan matter again. e own don pass garri.
I wish him what happened to his predecessor Ibori.
I rest my case.

Amen, i just wish we could have a law in this country where anyone found guilty of stealing public fund will be jail forever to bring sanity to the society

Money and corruption are ruining the land,
crooked politicians betray the working man,
pocketing the profits and treating us like
sheep, and we are tired of hearing promises
that we know they will never keep.
Ray Davies
COLUMN: Bitter Truths By Fejiro Oliver
If Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta
State is attributing the peace he has been
enjoying in the media to his criminal cronies
in the Delta State Nigerian Union of
Journalists, led by once noble but now
corrupt Norbert Chiazor, then the governor
must be living in a fool's paradise. That he
has not been lambasted in the media is not
the handwork of the intelligence of the
Commissioner for Health, Chike Ogeah, but
it's because those in the mainstream media
have decided to let him be and not give the
impression that Delta State is a corrupt state,
after all Governor Ibori had done.
His good public rating is not the work of the
PR journalists in the Nigerian newspapers, but
deliberate silence. That Premium Times,
Elombah.com and others have not beamed
their searchlight on him does not mean his
corrupt records are not available to them.
Just when I was about reading mails from my
sources, rushes of mails came into my phone
all having the same purpose; appeals that
Uduaghan has set Kokori on fire, as he has
deployed soldiers to the town because of
Kelvin, the most wanted kingpin in the Niger
Delta, who gave the Federal Government a 60
days ultimatum.
Most of the mails accused me of playing the
fiddle while Rome burns, reporting and
writing on national issues and other states,
while my own state rots away with an
irresponsible government that don't care.
Kelvin is a creature of the society, not Kokori
and while I do not make a case for him;
whether he's an activist as he claim or an
armed robber as the government claim, the
undeniable truth is that the society gets what
they deserves and if Kelvin is a product of the
Delta State government, Uduaghan should
accept the blame. I find it laughable that
Uduaghan will castigate the mothers who
came out to dance for Kelvin, when he made
his historic appearance and declaration,
stating that he is disappointed that they are
celebrating an armed robber instead of
celebrating their children graduating from the
universities.
This governor Uduaghan is unarguably the
worst performing governor in the South
South, and yet he could send troops to Kokori
to harass innocent fathers, while they arrest
husbands and stop the poor women from
going to farms. What manner of governance is
it?
He said he has not declared a curfew, yet he
ordered sit at home from a particular time.
Can someone tell Uduaghan that Kokori is not
a war zone? At the risk of sounding
'tribalistic', I ask this woeful performing
governor how many troop of soldiers did he
send to Koko, his local government in June
this year when a serious crisis broke out, with
houses destroyed and people killed?
Absolutely none, and yet that was a war zone.
Kelvin has been captured, not even in Kokori
but in Port Harcourt, thus Uduaghan should
stop this barbaric and uncivilized military
invasion of Kokori, release all innocent
arrested men and women and appeal to them.
There is no worse armed robber than
Uduaghan in present day, Delta State. Here is
a man who has turned the entire pen he
touches in government house to defrauding
the state. This is a governor who approved a
whooping 1.2 billion Naira to the Delta State
House of Assembly for a jamboree legislative
training in California and yet could lampoon
the Kokori women for dancing for their son
Kelvin. Who wouldn't dance when they see a
liberator, which Kelvin represents to them?
Is it not this Uduaghan who budgeted a
whooping sum of N14 billion for streetlights
in Delta State, with the contract for the diesel
to his wife at the sum of N200 million
monthly? The budget of government house in
Delta State is more than that of four
ministries and yet this governor wants us to
believe that he is clean.
The Daughter, Orode Okpu-Uduaghan wedding
in 2011 was sponsored by the state
government and authoritative sources in
government told me that many of the political
figures fell over themselves to give gifts of
cars to the daughter all in the bid to get
contract from the state governor. Today,
Orode who grew up in Sido Street, Warri now
has a multi million Naira mansion in Victoria
Garden City, courtesy of her father who gave
contract to her friend handling the Oleri
Industrial Park. I truly do not know the basis
for future awards nominating Orode for
activism award. What activism and in which
state? Has she played more activist role that
Chinedu Ekeke or Japheth Omojuwa. It is time
we begin to ask the source of wealth on
people whom awards are conferred on. It's
not about owning a pink pearl foundation to
treat cancer, but source of the money. That a
lady who just finished barely three years ago
from the University of Windsor in Canada
could own such house, when people in Kokori
have no suitable home of theirs calls for the
stoning of the governor.
The Warri Park handled by Sarner PFM has
been the conduit pipe for siphoning the state
money by the governor, while no work has
been carried out in the place. I challenge the
governor to take real newsmen there, not
reporters from the traditional Nigerian
Newspapers, but from premium times,
Elombah.com, The Paradigm, Sahara
Reporters, Desert Herald, News Rescue,
Urhobotimes and Global Concord to prove me
wrong that work has begin there.
Here was a man who drove a rickety car, as a
doctor coming to see his wife in Sido, back in
those days, and cursing corrupt leaders, now
blazing the trail in the seats of world most
corrupt leaders.
What manner of governor do we have, that
have made Delta State government a family
affairs. His wife's brother, Amaju Pinnick,
who is the Delta State football association
chairman I'm reliably informed embezzled N6
billion meant for the renovation of the Warri
Township Stadium during the last U-17
tournament, while his cousin supplies all the
cars to government house.
Why is Delta cursed with political thieves as
governors when her neighbors are governing
well?
Since the advent of this administration,
Uduaghan has not done anything tangible that
has equaled one month federal allocation. All
the infrastructures in Delta are works of
former governor James Ibori; what then has
he be using the resources for.
This is one governor who has packed corrupt
persons as his commissioners, with the
exception of the transport commissioner, Ben
Igbakpa, who has turned the transport sector
around. The commissioner of Environments,
Frank Omare is noted for his failed delivery
services; a man who has gotten over N160
million, but the environment in Delta State is
as dirty as ever, with most canals still
blocked. Here is a man who used the media
in the state to showcase works he never did
and abandoned them.
What manner of governor will approve N330
million for Journalists in the states to undergo
training in Reuters, if not to gag the mouth of
the press? To even tag it 'investigative
journalism' is an insult to Deltans as a whole.
What manner of investigative journalism has
the NUJ corrupt Chairman, Chiazor, who
works with the state owned Delta
Broadcasting Service (DBS) Warri, carried out
in his entire life?
Why should a governor sponsor private media
'journalists' on such venture from our
collective coffers, when it will cost less than a
N100 million to bring any Reuters resource
persons to come and train them here in
Nigeria.
This fraud by the NUJ in the state in
collaboration with the governor deserves to
get the State NUJ council chairman impeached
and Uduaghan jailed. With N330 million, the
two state broadcast houses can be made to
broadcast wider and the state newspaper, the
pointer made better than it is; yet only few
bands of criminals who are PR writers,
masquerading as journalists lavish the
common wealth.
The IPP project for which over N16 billion
has been spent is still on the drawing paper,
as the Delta State house of Assembly speaker,
Victor Ochei, whom the contract was awarded
to has diverted the funds into his personal
pocket, in connivance with the looting
governor of Delta State, while the project site
in Oghara is overgrown with weeds. This is
not just right and though it's already late in
his tenure, he can still stop this madness of
looting and stealing the treasury blind.
That Kelvin was caught because he gave an
ultimatum shows how weak the security
system in the state is. A state where
kidnappers reign as lords and armed robbers
have field days is enough challenge to
Uduaghan, not suffering innocent citizens
whose sons took to the streets and guns, in
protection of their oil. How many of the
Kokori citizens have the kind of wealth that
Uduaghan kinsman, Ayiri Emami possess, even
though they have more oil than Koko?
Governor Uduaghan should task himself to
mending his ways and doing all his best to
make life better for the average Deltans, avoid
the selling of civil service forms for job, and
create meaningful jobs for the people, not
the micro scheme that will not stand the test
of time. Whatever reason he has for milking
Delta State coffers of her billions is not just
right, and while he may get away with it in
two years time, he should remember that
Ibori had more guts and political clout than
he thinks he has. A mere whistle from the
next governor will see me personally snapping
him picture in jail and posting the picture for
the world to see. Such poetic elegy on him
will be an award winner any day. Emmanuel
Ewetan Uduaghan, we are with the pen and
the ink is past the middle in this poetic elegy;
and this we say, spare your children the
agony that they had a father who was an ex
convict. His time for repentance starts now.
These little things matter…
Fejiro Oliver, a Columnist for The Paradigm
and Freelance Journalist can be reached on
secretsreporters@gmail.com and
+2348026797588 (sms only please). Engage
him on twitter @fejirooliver86

this is pure madness on the part FCT, cant they use dia brain, call everyone with uncompleted building those that cant complete it, should be given a mortgage loan to be paid back for certain number of years, and worst case if they fail to pay back loan the house can be put up for sale.

nigerian govt have failed in all area, they can never manage any single establishment successfully i.e NITEL, PHCN, Education to follow soon, maybe health sector also and probably privatise the legislator, judiciary and finally the executive arm of govt or what else to privatise since we are a bad manager.

NIS Recruitment: We Didn’t Charge N1,
000 Recruitment Fee, Says Ministry Of
Interior
The claim by unemployed Nigerians that the
Ministry of Interior was charging N1000 for
applications to get recruited into the Nigeria
Immigration Service (NIS) has been
vehemently denied by the ministry which said
the fee per applicant, was for the cost of
scratch card to access the recruitment portal.
It would be recalled that jobseekers, under
the aegis of the Nigeria Unemployed Youths
Vanguard had protested what they described
as exploitation by the Nigerian government
when they besieged the interior ministry’s
premises on Monday.
But the permanent secretary in the ministry
of interior, Anastasia Mabi Daniel-Nwaobia,
who stressed that the ministry does not
charge nor accept fee for jobs, advised those
peddling such rumours to desist from it, as it
was capable of denting government’s image.
Her words, “For the avoidance of doubt the
Ministry of Interior and the Nigeria
Immigration Service, do not charge and will
not accept money for jobs, and anybody that
demands and accepts money or bribes for job
will be appropriately sanctione
d in line with
extant regulations guiding discipline in the
service.”
-Leadership

Link
http://www.informationng.com/2013/09/nis-recruitment-we-didnt-charge-n1-000-recruitment-fee-says-ministry-of-interior.html

go to Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria, you maybe ask to undergo a one year intership programme before they can issue you a practicing licence

marvelling: ok here I go!

I read microbiology and the little I understand about the system operating in nigeria is that b.sc holders are not eligible for any form of clinical practice. license for practice is not given. now the issue with basic medical sciences is not really different as the "professionals" that actually run the show don't want you guys to be licensed. why? I don't know, but I think its time we put pressure on the relevant medical councils to give us chance. how? I don't know, (we should form a coalition, storm their various secretariats and demand to be taken seriously in the scheme of things ).

I was at the medical laboratory science council zonal office in lagos last year and i found out that initially, an internship program for b.sc holders in biochemistry and microbiology was being run by the council, but it was later scrapped and non of the people i asked was able to give a good reason why. [b][/b]WE NEED TO BE LICENSED OR ELSE NOTHING FOR US. datz all

but do you know that nigeria universities now offer medical laborarory scientist as a course and award BMLS (Bachelor of medical laboratory science) to MLS graduates and not Bsc, so if u will like to be one them, it will better to pick a direct entry form from UTME, or just forget about it. MLS is not microbiology it is divided into 4 area of specialization
1. Heamatolgy and blood transfusion
2. Histopathology and cytology
3. Chemical pathology
4. microbiology and parasitology
hence u will not b allow to have internship in MLS, because u will have to pass thru all d 4 listed above specialization, That is d reason MLSCN (medical laboratory science council of nigeria) scrap Bsc microbiology associate programme cos we now have university offering the programme if u want to b a MLS then put in for it from the university, and there are no shortage of MLS so y would they allow a one or two year associate programme when they are planing to have nigerian universities offering DMLS (Doctor of Medical Laboratory Science) as it is been done in UK and many countries. so how will Bsc microbiology or biochemistry fit into the system.

i swear if i am a judge, and they were brought b4 me, i will pass a death sentence on those traders, for using such a carcinogenic substance to preserve what human eat.

this is the best way to resolve the health crisis, if president jonathan will be able able to implement the committe report, and have health administrator heading our Hospitals, and all health professional are given equal right rather that what we have at the moment, that only doctors of medicine are made to head our hospitals to the detriment of other health professionals.

front page please

AGAGU DEATH: NMA GOOFED BY CALLING
FOR NATIONAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY - BY FEJIRO
OLIVER
Sometimes I just cannot imagine what is truly
Nigerian problem, since everyone seems to
have the anti-dote to solve it, yet there is no
one giving the right solution. Agagu's death
truly calls for a national reflection on how the
leadership has failed us. His death is a wakeup
call to all of us, that our time on earth is so
short and no amount of money we steal can
make us live forever. His sudden death is a
reminder that when death comes knocking, all
our money stolen from the national treasury
will not stop the cold hand of Mr. Death.
Agagu was a governor of Ondo state, who
could have used his position to build befitting
hospitals and equipped it to the benefit of the
citizenry, but he failed.
Olusegun Agagu's personal wealth if properly
looked into could have built state of the arts
health centres in all the local government of
the state that will serve as places for treatment
and check up, but I regretfully say; he blew
away the chance. And today, Nigerian Medical
Association (NMA) is using his death as a
platter to canvass for a national holiday, where
Nigerians will engage in free medical checkup.
Nice call, but a very big misadventure for my
dear president, Dr Osahon Enabulele to make.
For all we know, we have enough holidays
already and we are not ready to spare another
for a jamboree call 'free medical checkup'. For
those working in government and private
establishments, they are entitled to their
annual leave, and if they so much desire a
check up, they should use the period to do so.
This is a misguided call by NMA and like most
Nigerians who condemned it; NMA should stop
dragging us back in the issues of health, and
engage in research that will see to the
treatment of various illness.
A commentator who condemned the call
rightly noted, “Are this people (NMA) serious?
You want a holiday at every step, how will the
GDP grow? After drinking pepper soup and
beer every day, you pass the bill to the Federal
Government” all in the name of free medical
checkup, that will in one way or the other be
paid for by the government.
The check up clamored by NMA is not the
cause of the death of Nigerians, but the
hardship inflicted on them by the leaders. Let
the Medical lab scientist go into scientific
research to find the cure for HIV/AIDS. Let the
doctors of physiotherapists proffer solution to
the silent child killer called cerebral palsy and
our pharmacists' producer more efficient
drugs. Even if we decide to agree to the
holiday; I bet you that a day is not enough to
carry out such operation. A look at ante natal
clinic in the hospital shows that all the
expectant mothers are not all attended to in a
day, due to their numbers, how then when
there will be thousands who will rush in for
the free check up.
Seriously, NMA goofed by even thinking of
such idea, instead of agitating for better health
facilities. By the way, why hasn't the national
president of Nigerian Society of
Physiotherapists (NSP), Dr Taiwo and his
executives met the Taraba State government
and began treatment on Danbaba who I
reliably gathered need them to enable him
make use of his brain again? Why has everyone
kept quiet over the issue as if it doesn't exist?
Why has his seat not be declared vacant? His
illness is not a PDP affair as they want us to
believe, since they use our money in his
treatment. We need explanation.
These little things matter…
Fejiro Oliver, a Journalist can be reached on
secretsreporters@gmail.com and
+2348026797588 (sms only please). Engage us
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Tuesday at 08:07
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Adeyeye Adetunji Tam
This guy is turning out to be a torn in the flesh
of NMA. Am really feeling him. Go guy.
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Adolf Ogbebor
So much but yet so little.
Like · Tuesday at 11:00
Adeniji Tomiwa
mr fejiro.tanx for the truth being told
Like · Tuesday at 12:22
Tunji Olafeide
Fejiro u are such a forthright and well informed
jornalist. Bravo
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Ochacha Ahmed
If other Nigerian journalist can redefine
themselves into investigative journalism, Nigeria
would hv b a better place. Many only wait for
political issues instead of addressing matters of
public interest. To scientific fejiro i say BRAVO
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Osoba Ejemen
true talk, vanit bu
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Ekwebelem Iyke
Tell them if at all they listen
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Michael Dada
The truth must be told! Thank God for your life.
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Obum Chigbo
LWKM! Holiday for a members death? This is
preposterous.
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Richiez: ooops! and here I am thinking that the first deliberation should be about the lingering ASUU strike

i think d problem with d current administration is more important than ASUU

check today nigria tribune for confirmation of news

myads890: Unfortunuately, in Nigeria we are governed by idiots. They always seem to come up with an idea that's more stupid than the previous one.

guy, guy truth dey bitter

myads890: Unfortunuately, in Nigeria we are governed by idiots. They always seem to come up with an idea that's more stupid than the previous one.

guy, guy chai dis one na true talk

hi am intrested, meniola93@gmail.com inbox me.

But d truth is dat if u are a xtian in kwara, having a job will almost b impossible, since all the top officers are muslim they will prefer to give d job to muslim than xtian, untill we appoint on merit we will keep having same problem.

Nigerian ‘doctors’: An
Overhyped Profession; Yet
Insignificant
Posted On : September 9th, 2013 | Updated
On : September 9th, 2013
Doctors always think anybody doing something
they aren’t is a quack; also they think all
patients are idiots
Flannery O’Connor
Fejiro Oliver
When the gods wish to kill a man, they first
make him mad; an unfortunate theatrics that is
about and will happen to graduates of MBBS,
fondly called doctors in Nigeria soon. Like a
faded script washed away by the rain, their
relevance has been called to questions by
Nigerians, who before now accorded them the
respect they never deserved. Their relevance in
the health sector is now questionable by
Nigerians who thought every illness in
Medicine was cured by these general body
physicians.
Now, I truly did not wish to write on these
medical personnel since benevolent JOHESU
suspended their strike, yet the MBBS graduates
has taken it upon themselves to mis-inform
Nigerians. We refuse such misinformation and
barrages of lies, all aimed at restoring their
bruised ego caused by the JOHESU strike. The
coronation of their concocted misinformation
was posted on the Nigerian Medical
Association (NMA) blog titled, “Rejoinder: Of
Nigerian Doctors Other Medical Workers:
Where Fejiro Oliver Got It Wrong by Kalu
Theodore but ended with Emmanuel Esezobor
as the writer of the article. The article can be
read on fejirooliver86 Facebook timeline.
We do not wish to debate on who actually
wrote the watery article, though Emmanuel
claimed not to be physician but a teacher.
How ridiculous it sound writing to an
investigative journalist, whose finding revealed
that he’s a physician that works at Irua
Specialist Hospital, Edo State. This is where
their falsehood began.
The rejoinder claimed that these general body
physicians never gave themselves the title
‘physician’, rather the patient who saw his
work did. Amazing grace! This is one lie that
will make Lucifer ask God to change his name
from father of liars and be confirmed on this
physician who apparently does not know how
the name came about. I refuse to educate him
on it, since his medical lecturers failed to
teach him. Little wonder some get confused
when they are in the theatre.
Medicine like every other course is an art and
it remains so; the science angle linked to it is
derived from the diagnosis of the Medical
Laboratory Scientist, and the surgery which
involves various health professionals to
complete. What manner of physician exist that
relies 70 percent on his shallow brain to make
a diagnosis and 30 percent on results from the
lab test, as written by Emmanuel? Answers are
beginning to surface on why a patient goes to a
hospital/clinic and a physician opens his eyes
wide, and then concludes that the patient has
malaria, only for a rest result to prove him
wrong with a typhoid diagnosis.
“The physician is the principal manager of the
patient. his curriculum includes learning the
total body anatomy, physiology and
biochemistry; then he is taught pathology
(study of diseases including the interpretations
of laboratory parameters be it from histology
lab, haematology lab, chemical pathology lab
and microbiology lab). The physician is not
trained to do the test but to have the good 5
senses to interprete and relate the findings to
his patient”, he writes ( all mistakes in quotes
are his). Truly, it is time most of the MBBS
graduates go for a psychiatrist test. That a
general body physician owns a doctor is a
crime punishable by Haman’s gallow. What of
the patients treated by a doctor of dentistry,
doctor of physiotherapy or doctor of
optometry or even the nurse; the general body
doctors own them I guess?
Emmanuel probably lives in the moon to write
that only MBBS graduates are taught the
various courses he mentioned. For the
avoidance of his deceptive report; almost all
the medical graduates from medical school are
taught the same curriculum, till third year
when most of them begin to focus on their
main course of study. Where then lies this
omnipotence that they wish to claim over
other medical workers? Sorry, it doesn’t
happen that way. The pathology study is no
specialty that Medical Lab scientist do not
know, as it’s a known fact that doing residency
in pathology is like doing a degree in MLS.
Who then do you want to lord your pathology
certificate over?
“A medical lab scientist is trained to perform
the test on tissues gotten from living
organisms. In the hospital, he is a support
staff. His job is to churn out results from
these tissue samples for the pathologist
(trained in the art of medicine and further
6years postgraduate training). The hospitals
has a pathology dept headed by a pathologist
with 4 major branches viz haematology,
histopathology, chemical pathology and
medical microbiology. Each subspecialties have
their laboratory where the laboratory scientists
are employed to help test the tissue for the
pathologist to interprete. The present problems
in the country emanated from the fact that we
have had paucity of pathologists for so long”,
he writes again.
Can someone please wake me up from my
slumber and tell me that the six years spent by
the Medical Lab Scientist was just to collect
tissues from living organisms and hand over
the sample to a supposed ‘superior’ being
(pathologist)? You mean to tell the world how
ignorant the physician folks are, that they
don’t know that MLS do cellular pathology,
histopathology or pharmacokinetics? With such
kind of thoughts which they have fed the
patients with for years, one need not go far to
realize how brainwashed Nigerian patients have
been over the years. Not anymore; the spell is
broken and they know the truth! Sorry again
dear doctors of medicine; no one is a support
staff in the hospital; rather you all support
each other.
Did I hear him say that Nigerian problems are
due to shortage of pathologists? Brilliant
ignorant analysis! Display the ignorance of
your folks that lack of pathologist is the cause
for election rigging in Nigeria or the various
corrupt practices in the nation. Tell the world
that lack of pathologist (a specialty that is
doubled by MLS) is the cause of the political
crisis in the country. Seriously, these MBBS
graduates need a study of political science in
school.
Dear MBBS personnel, nobody sent you to go
to school for 100 years to specialize and be
called a consultant; it’s your choice. If the
nursing profession which you hate to love
choose only four years as their course of study
and then do post graduate for 1 year to be
called a consultant; the world do not care, so
long they deliver their excellent services.
Comparing a clerk to a lawyer is like
comparing a general body physician to a health
attendant.
“What the support staff in the health sector
are doing is to earn what they did not work
for. The physicians deserves our respect. You
can not make their effort, perseverance and
long suffering be unrewarded. If there are no
special incentives for them, we can as well do
without them. The question is how many of
you will like to subject your children to these
rigor only for him or her to be exactly at par
with someone who read a three years course.
Is this their purnishment for being the best in
our various elementary schools”, says
Emmanuel.
Let’s analyze. Since all medical workers are
support staff to each other; it will then be
right to say the doctors of medicine are also
over paid for work they don’t truly work for.
No one has disrespected them, instead they
have disrespected the Nigerian populace so
much, hence they have to be told the bitter
hard truth; which is: they don’t do anything
special which any other cannot do, should they
decide to go to the medical school. Before the
advent of medicine, the human race has lived
very healthy, so doing away with them is no
big deal. By the way; has traditional medicine
not taken over their roles? The question of
rigorous training is to whip up sentiment,
since no one begs a parent to send his child to
read medicine and when has it become a
punishment to get a desired education, which
benefits them individually. No journalist was
compelled to do a four year course, neither
was any MBBS graduate forced to do a six year
course. What then do we say of the aeronautic
engineers who do 8 to 9 year course, yet have
never claimed superior to a civil engineer. By
the way; where did you and your MBBS
colleagues conjure the fallacy that you are the
most brilliant during elementary days?
Definitely not in my days when we blazed the
trail while your aspiring surgeon students
followed behind. Honestly, this madness has
gone too far.
“The core working environment of a
pharmacist is the pharmaceutical companies
but now you find majority of them dispensing
drugs in the hospital. For heaven sake
dispensing is an infinitessima part of their job
specification. The nigerian pharmacists are
lazy, they have failed to develop the
pharmaceutical industry”.
If there is one lazy profession in the medical
field, the MBBS certainly top the list, not the
pharmacists who he believes should be sacked
from the hospital. The gateway to every
medical cure is the pharmacist; a profession
which can cripple all efforts of the doctor of
medicine. How pitiable it is that our MBBS
personnel do not know the workings of a
pharmacist. I elect myself to teach you that
there are various fields in pharmacy, which
dispensing happen to be a fraction of it.
” Just imagine Mr Fejiro, a journalist in the
federal republic of Nigerian telling the whole
world that the physiotherapists are the people
that treats cerebral palsy and stroke!!!!”
Dear MBBS, if it is not doctors of
physiotherapy that treats CP and stroke, I beg
to be your student. A baby that has delayed
milestone, that is; doesn’t sit, crawl or walk on
time; what role do MBBS graduates play in
getting the CP child to achieve activities of
daily living? What surgery would make that
child function well in the society? Jail term
ought to be pronounced on Emmanuel for
misleading innocent mothers whose children
have CP. The only management to CP remains
physical therapy. An MBBS graduate once
advice a CP mother who visited a private
hospital to give the child calcium to make the
baby walk. Oh heaven; what will calcium treat
in a disease of neurological origin?
In the case of cerebrovascular disease (stroke)
which physical manifestation involves paralysis
pr weakness of one side of the body
(hemiplega); what will a physician do to restore
this CVD patient to become normal again? This
MBBS lies have spread on too long and truth
must be told to them. The only cure to CVD is
entirely handled by DPT.
“I believe if the laboratory, pharmaceutical and
radiological services can be outsourced a lot of
the problems faced by the patients in the
hospitals will be gone”
This is definitely a write-up from a student
who bribed his way through his medical school
and feels threatened that the lab scientist,
pharmacists and radiographers have relegated
the MBBS to the background and thus must be
sacked from service. The reverse is the case, as
the Nigerian masses needs them more than we
need the general body physician or haven’t you
known that with good dieting, humans can be
free from complications that results in your
going to the theatre to carry out operations
which is akin to a farmer planting yam?
The nurses whom the likes of Emmanuel deride
are the bonafide owner of the wards and
patients. The nurses as the bedrock of
medicine will be discussed soon.
Certainly the Nigerian physicians have had
their ego massaged for long. A profession who
feel they top the chart of careers, when
actually they cannot stand alone as an
individual; a course which every tom, dick and
harry can read but chose to diversify, and we
say, a profession that has not contributed
much to the medical growth of the world,
rather have killed it in Nigeria. This profession
filled with the likes of Emmanuel needs
baptism and we are ready to be the priest.
These little things matter…
Fejiro Oliver, a Journalist can be reached on
secretsreporters@gmail.com and
+2348026797588 (sms only please). Follow on
twitter @fejirooliver86 and Facebook;
fejirooliver86. Like our Facebook page-
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Zenith bank

i believe some1 should check this guy call assad, how can he love power than his countrymen life, he should resign and a new regime takeover, i believe dis will end if this is done, life is been lost daily even without war and chemical weapon used on syrian citizens, what is different of what is happening now and if a war eventually brokeout, cos life is lost on daily basis.

Laalamed: Doctors head a lot of hospital in uk. Check it ou.

likewise other professional