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I think he viewed the papacy position as only a 'job title' and not a 'life title' like some of our pentecostal pastors.

Why the rush to defect now?

He should bid his time, establish a strong political base around the country and contest come 2019, then he will have a more better option to win.

Nothing last forever in Nigeria.

The police officers have to get all the money they have missed out on in the last few years, Christmas is coming!!!

It's not healthy for our political development when politicians keep jumping from one party to another party, just because of personal interest.

Why can't disillousioned politicians campaign as independent candidates if their political ideologies does not match that of their political parties.

Our political class are truly amateurs.

comos: GEJ has tried.
Fashola promise us metroline (blue/red railway). I am yet to see it, but only on pictures.

Unfortunately, all our politicians have failed this nation.
Empty promises, with little results.
PDP, ACN and other parties are just the same.

Kindly list all what GEJ has done since May 2010, when he became 'Acting President'?

Guys, this is a long article which was on another website and want to share it here. It was written by Dr. Moshood Fayemiwo.
I will give the first few paragraphs and you can continue to read more in the link attached.

In the 1970s, the World Health Organization (WHO) introduced the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) around the world, especially in Third World countries, in order to protect children and infants from communicable diseases and reduce infant mortality. The EPI was introduced in 1974 in Nigeria and most of West Africa and children under 2 years were immunized against Tuberculosis -BCG; Poliomyelitis-OPV, Measles Rubella-MCV2 and MR Vaccines, while women between 15 and 45 years were similarly protected. In my hometown of Owo, Ondo State in Western Nigeria, the EPI was experimented and discovered to be a pilot study with 100% success. Even the WHO specifically singled out my hometown for praise and plaudits but that was how far the world organization could go. I have reminded the WHO several times why the EPI shouldn't be renamed EPI-OWO but the campaign hasn't reflected this historic reality. Few years ago in Florida, I had to lecture some Americans on the success story of the EPI in my hometown when they insisted on giving me shots for these diseases. Since there were no documents to that effect, I could not argue my case. You see, as late Chinua Achebe once said, if the animals do not write their own versions of hunting expeditions, the hunters would always be the heroes.

The other day, two homosexuals gave the world the dreaded HIV-AIDS but somehow, the Western media manipulated the world and "traced the origin of HIV-AIDS to Mother Africa." I engaged a homosexual in a heated argument in Maryland few years ago who told me to my face that homosexual lifestyle originated from Africa. Every history book written by white historians have twisted and manipulated historical events to demonize African people, because our people have refused to acknowledge the veritable power of history. The positive contribution of Africans to world civilization has been confined to the limbo of forgotten things, because African leaders prefer to steal and keep the loot abroad while Western leaders shape history and thus the future.

African leaders keep women in their harems; build palaces and chateaux they will never sleep in, keep fleet of cars they don't need and billions of dollars of pilfered money they will never spend in their lifetimes, and invest little or nothing on intellectual works which will outlive them and shape the future of generations. These shortsighted African leaders have forgotten that money, valuables and such ephemerals do not endure; what endures are printed works. We still read Shakespeare, David Lawrence, Keats, George Orwell (Eric Blair) and the rest great wordsmiths of our time and as long as the world endures, the great works of great writers will endure. Those who shape today and the future are not myopic African leaders who have no sense of history and the future. Even in the spiritual realm, the True Jehovah Lord God Almighty values the power of the print works so He commanded every time He speaks that His Words must be written and documented. In Exodus 17: 14, we read: "Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven." The Lord God Almighty instructed Jeremiah in Jeremiah 36: 2 "Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah and all the other nations from the time I began speaking to you in the reign of Josiah till now." Throughout the entire Bible, we see how history shaped our world, because the Sovereign Lord of the heavens and the earth is the One making history. Any person, group of people, community, town, city, nation or race that forgets its history is doomed, for the past may have gone, yet it is the contours through which today is understood and the future is fudged.

The Lord God said in Isaiah 43: 18:"Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past" but He also told us to learn from the past in Romans 15: 4 "For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope." This power of history to understand the present and shape the future is clearly evident in the current Ebola epidemic in West Africa. For starters, Ebola is a name of a town in the Democratic Republic of Congo nestled between two other rustic villages: Etoumbi and Cuvette in the Great Lakes Region. The Ebola virus was so nicknamed for Ebola Town because that was the town the outbreak was first reported. It occurred during the internecine civil war, ethnic clashes and the political instability of the Congo in the waning years of Dictator Mobutu Sesezeko. Food and edibles were scarce, millions were displaced, children were killed, many became orphans, women were constantly gang raped and starvation was widespread. Unable to fend for themselves, rural villagers headed into the thick jungle of the Congo, the second largest nation in Africa in land mass, bigger than Western Europe.

http://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/fayemiwo/081814.html

Why can't Ribadu contest as an 'independent candidate' without any affilliation to any party, if he doesn't want to contest under the APC banner. Him going to PDP will not be good for the political aspirations.

To all those who are blinded by ethnic and religious sentiments...see your lives outside.

I'm not suprised, those people haven't commented on this thread...bunch of bigots.

I think the nurse should know better than putting other people in danger.

Most deaths recorded from ebola is from medical personnel mixing with their family members and patients.

OP...you are doing a great job highlighting the ills of our society.
All past governments and present one have consistently fail us.

Much better for the match to be postponed to another day and time.

Looking at those pictures makes my legs go weak, even though I'm sitting...those are crazy stuffs

There's no need to blame the Liberians.

Nigeria should have been more proactive by keeping its borders safe from the onset when the epidemic started way back in February.

If the necessary precautions are there, Mr Sawyer would not have come into the country.

GEJ is always slow in everything, I can't believe he's just setting up an emergency meeting? Countries like Senegal, Ivory Coast and Guinea Bissau who share border with Guinea quickly close their borders to stop any spread of the virus into their countries. Yet, all our borders are still opened. He's behaving the same way he handled the chibok saga, we hope this health risk epidemic doesn't get out of hand. At least he can't blame APC or any of his 'pacified enemies' to be behind this, by inviting Mr Sawyer into Nigeria.

Check out the links below to see how a responsible government should behave in situations such as the case of the ebola virus:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28558783

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2710416/A-new-emerging-threat-Government-convenes-Cobra-emergency-committee-respond-Ebola-outbreak.html

http://news.sky.com/story/1309883/ebola-precautions-taken-to-keep-uk-safe

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/guinea/11019804/Ebola-virus-victim-left-lying-in-Guinea-street-for-hours-over-infection-fears.html


A man lay helpless in the street for almost five hours without medical assistance in Guinea's capital Conakry while passers-by went about their daily routine due to fear of the Ebola virus.


The Ebola virus - first detected in the West African country in March - has led people to be wary of close contact with anyone who might have been infected.


But they were shocked that it took almost five hours to get medical assistance to the man who lay helpless in the street while passers-by went about their daily routine.


A local mechanic, Amidou Camara, saw the collapsed man when he arrived to open his garage on Wednesday morning.


"I called the police and when they came they said they were going to call the doctors but up till now nobody has come here," Mr Camara said.

Money which could have been used to provide basic amenities for Nigerians.

The same Abacha awarded by the govt, even his son's corruption case was dropped.

Better the US keep it, at least they will make better use of the looted money

It beyond believe how our muslims folks like to be one-sided in their views. What will be their response to the link in the article below, how the IS in Iraq and Syria are destroying lives and properties?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-28686998

NgwaManNaija4LF: Unfortunately,many Nigerians are semi illiterate and unpatriotic fools,the president and minister of health can go to hell, they are idiots. I live in Mali and something like this has not happen because their government are mean,they will never allow it to enter here even as they share border with one of the affected country,the problem with Nigerian leaders are their incompetence and half baked education.

Since this virus started,no one has taking it so serious,now that it is in,they want to act God.Hell No.

Even the doctors who attended the Liberian man are all fools,one does not need to tell you as long as he is from Liberia and show sign of sickness, you don't need to touch him right from the airport,our government should have taking the measures that they took now right from day one. Now they want to create a bad image for our dear land. My advice to you all honest and well meaning Nigerians is to vote out the clown called Jonathan from office. If he visit Mali, you all will hear the news because we are ready to disgrace him here. Idiotic president with idiotic ministers. Proudly Nigerian from Abia State.

Very good points...i'm still thinking why this ebola disease has not been recorded in Mali, Ivory Coast and even the very small country of Guinea-Bissau. All these three countries share borders with Guinea where the cases first started. It clearly shows our government are very wicked.
I read in an online news media sometimes in June, that what steps are our government taking in preventing ebola from reaching here.
Most people who read and comment castigate the online news media of giving false news that there is no way ebola will every get to Nigeria. Now, unfortunately, it is too late for fire-fighting. What a bunch of useless government officials.

Brilliant intro...waiting for the main content.

farem: [color=#990000]Why I Respect Aregbesola And Detest Jonathan For The Way He Has Treated The Yorubas – Femi Fani-Kayode
Jonathan, Aregbesola and the Yoruba nation
Jonathan, Aregbesola and the Yoruba nation
“…Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola is not only a personal friend, but he is also a man that I have always had immense respect for. Rauf was one of those that manned the ramparts in those difficult days and risked all to fight for the interests of our people and to restore our dignity, our glory and our self-respect. Unlike others, he did not compromise and do dirty deals behind closed doors with the military but instead he stood firm with an iron will and a strong resolve to face the challenge of that day and fight a good fight.
For this alone and for his marvelous works in Osun state as governor in the last three years, history and posterity will be very kind to him. I say this because never in the history of our country has the Yoruba suffered so much shame, marginalisation, humiliation, insults, contempt, aggression and disgrace as they have under the present dispensation and under the auspices of the Federal Government of President Goodluck Jonathan.
They have literally brought us to our knees and deprived and denied us, with relish, of our rightful place in
the scheme of things in the Nigerian contraption. Under this government we do not have any positions in the top twenty key positions in this country. We cannot get jobs for our teeming youths or the kind of opportunities that are freely given to others. Our businessmen cannot get a fair share of government patronage and that which they already had and that they acquired before the advent of Goodluck is being whittled down and taken away from them.
“Worst still, the President has flippantly referred to our people as “rascals” on a number of occasions. Things have never been this bad for our people at the Federal level. I am constrained to say that I have nothing but contempt for the way that the Federal government is presently being run and I have no qualms about criticising the performance. The truth is that this government is fast living up to it’s reputation of being utterly clueless and manifestly dishonest.”
“Worse still their incompetence, whether it is to do with the handling of security matters or the economy has no bounds and knows no end. Jonathan has betrayed the goodwill of the Yoruba. The man doesn’t seem to have a clue about anything. First, he has no clue about governance – it appears as if he does not even have any slightest idea of what he wants to do. He never thought of becoming President and what he would do as President. He was just talking of transformation and I don’t even think he knows the meaning of transformation. The man is just being pushed around everywhere and to anywhere.”
- Chief Femi Fani-Kayode
Short URL: http://www.osundefender.org/?p=180338[/color]

Did FFK write this article?

AkinEgba: A colleague of mine is returning from Liberia this month. I am not yet sure how to receive him at the office.

Your colleague should be quarantined for 21 days upon arrival.

Lesson 101 on dog training, quite informative.

Why don't we just end the NYSC programme altogether, what is its usefulness in to this generation?

Another Iwu-ru-wu-ru to the answer of ebola!!!

Let the tests begin.

What needs to be done firstly is to eradicate the menace and insecurity pose by boko haram insurgency, then appropriate development could start.
Most of the money raised are only on paper, i can guarantee that 10% of the whole amount will be redeemed.

Very correct depicting of our political class in nigeria.

By Rodney D. Sieh
The deadliest Ebola outbreak recorded in history is happening right now. The deadly virus has killed more than 600 people in West Africa so far.
Barely 24 hours before his death, Patrick Sawyer had a rather strange - and in the words of medical and diplomatic sources here, "Indiscipline" encounter with nurses and health workers at First Consultants Hospital in Obalende, one of the most crowded parts of Lagos, a population of some 21 million inhabitants, FrontPageAfrica has learned.
Looking to get to the bottom of Sawyer's strange ailment on the Asky Airline flight, which Sawyer transferred on in Togo, hospital officials say, he was tested for both malaria and HIV AIDS. However, when both tests came back negative, he was then asked whether he had made contact with any person with the Ebola Virus, to which Sawyer denied. Sawyer's sister, Princess had died of the deadly virus on Monday, July 7, 2014 at the Catholic Hospital in Monrovia. On Friday, July 25, 2014, 18 days later, Sawyer died in Lagos.
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) recommends that the average incubation period for suspected cases or someone who has made contact with an Ebola patient is eight to ten days from exposure to onset of symptoms. The range is from two to 21 days. "That's why we recommend that contacts of an infected person go on a fever watch for 21 days," says Stephan Monroe, deputy director of CDC's National Center for Emerging Zoonotic and Infectious Diseases, at a briefing Monday.
Since the first report surfaced in March, there have been more than 1,201 cases reported and unfortunately 672 deaths in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the CDC says. "This is the largest Ebola outbreak in history and the first in West Africa. It's a rapidly changing situation and we expect there will be more cases in these countries in the coming weeks and months. The response to this outbreak will be more of a marathon than a sprint."
Back in Lagos, authorities at the First Consultants Hospital in Obalende decided that despite Sawyer's denial, they would test him for Ebola, due to the fact that he had just arrived from Liberia, where there has been an outbreak of the disease with more than 100 deaths.
The hospital issued a statement this week stating that Sawyer was quarantined immediately after he was discovered to have been infected with the deadly virus. In addition, a barrier nursing was implemented around Sawyer and the Lagos State Ministry of Health was immediately notified. Hospital authorities also requested the Federal Ministry of Health for additional laboratory test based on its suspicion of Ebola.
FrontPageAfrica has now learned that upon being told he had Ebola, Mr. Sawyer went into a rage, denying and objecting to the opinion of the medical experts. "He was so adamant and difficult that he took the tubes from his body and took off his pants and urinated on the health workers, forcing them to flee.
The hospital would later report that it resisted immense pressure to let out Sawyer from its hospital against the insistence from some higher-ups and conference organizers that he had a key role to play at the ECOWAS convention in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. In fact, FrontPageAfrica has been informed that officials in Monrovia were in negotiations with ECOWAS to have Sawyer flown back to Liberia.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201407310920.html?aa_source=acrdn-f0

America, home of the brave indeed.
They never leave their own citizens stranded, as compared to ours.
No wonder americans can die for their country.

Instead of the 1million-man rally match, we should be having some revolution match across the nation against our politicians who are known for their idleness.

APC = PDP = same ideology, different personalities.

The question is, what will GEJ and his large entourage bring to Nigeria by attending this conference?

I guess the conference will be another show of negative press coverage for Nigeria in the hands of the foreign media.

GEJ should quietly sit down and channel his energy to finding a solution to the security problems facing the country.