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Please make a tourist visit to my village you will enjoy the experience.

What is the problem with people in authority with buying cars?
It is like buying cars is the latest fashion for those in government.

The additional money released was meant to assist with fighting the deadly disease, yet the Minister is talking nonsense about buying cars and drugs. This is a sad story if it is true.
Last week some people were complaining that the funds is not getting to them, yet PDP rabblers turned it into a political issue, blaming APC.

I am sure this government will not do anything to the Health Officer if this is true.

Comedy Central

The jet was either hired/chartered for his many trips.
Hiring a private jet is not that expensive as there are huge corporations in Nigeria offering this service.

A group of ten individuals can put a substantial amount of money together and enjoy some of the numerous air chartering services on offer from MMA2, guys it's not rocket science.

The two political parties (PDP and APC) are just the same.

There are no distinct ideologies that seperates them. One cannot compare these parties to the ones in the 1960s where the 3 main parties are known for principles and sound political manifestos.

Most of the politicians are just there for their selfish gains. They have turned the political landscape to business ventures.

Can anyone relate to one, just one achievement of Mr Ikimi since he has been in position of power in the past - nothing.

So in my opinion he has nothing to bring to either APC, PDP or Nigeria at large.

It will be a very tall task for GEJ to get maximum votes in core North West and North East states.
But if the missing $20bn can be use wisely, anything is possible.

With all the abundant resources in Kogi state, it should be one of the top five states in Nigeria.
But yet again, leadership qualities are significantly missing.

The politics of Nigerian democracy is trully a 'demostration of craze'.
Flimsy excuses to impeach the deputy governor.

Is this what moslems do to each other?

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/08/22/hamas-shoots-18-palestinians-accused-of-spying-for-israel_n_5699163.html?1408717019&utm_hp_ref=uk

What about Wesley Snipes?

To some extent, Mr Frank Mba gave the NPF a sense of good image and articulated PR work.
All the best in his next assignment.

Phlegmwash: What's the source of Jesus' income? While He may have been a carpenter before he was 30, after clocking 30 he took up ministry job full time. Please don't tell me its donations..because a good number of His followers were poor and the few rich ones were advised to give up their riches to improve their chances of making heaven.

How do you support your claim that money exchanged hands when he made a reservation for the upper room if the bible was your source..here's an excerpt from Mt.26:18-19: "...He replied, “Go into the city to a certain man and tell him, ‘The Teacher says: My appointed time is near. I am going to celebrate the Passover with my disciples at your house. So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them and prepared the Passover..." As for the expensive clothe, I hate to burst your bubbles..they weren't His..it was put on Him by Herod's soldiers before sending Him to Pilate...""Then Herod and his soldiers treated Him (Jesus) with contempt; and after mocking Him, he put a splendid robe on Him and sent Him back to Pilate."

I have repeatedly listened to teachings of this type from our pastors and i think they're wrong. Jesus is very rich but not by our world's standard be careful of pastors who says otherwise!

True words

By the time different shades of funds have been transferred, the Mallam will start to sing a different tune.
Just watch this space.

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.