₦airaland Forum

Tonto and kim.....:hmmmmm, I hope mr churchill dey hear this one o, dey say ur woman reaemble porn star.

Come up with a better reason to believe

Ab oki wey get dada...........my people perish cos......sorry to the dead.

Metuh......always sounding like a broken record............

pyyxxaro:
Sipping chilled Kerosene and lizard pepper soup

u wan kill urself? .......for this hot weather

OLUWAFUNMISE:
hope you people will not later blame Man O War.

they will soon get to that even boy scout.......useless mofos

Federal Government has commenced probe into
activities of its agencies over remittance of revenue
into the Federation Account
This was disclosed yesterday at the meeting of the
National Economic Council, NEC, by the Governor of
the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele.
Emefiele told the Council how some Federal
Government agencies short changed the country by
remitting naira into the Federation Account instead of the dollar revenue they collected.
Briefing State House correspondents at the
Presidential Villa after the meeting, Cross River State
Governor, Ben Ayade said Emefiele presented brief
report on government agencies involved in the
inappropriate remittance.
According to Ayade, the agencies include Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Nigerian
Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, and Nigerian Port Authority, NPA, among other agencies.
The Governor was in company of three other
colleagues, including Aminu Tambuwal (Sokoto),
Darius Ishaku (Taraba) and Olusegun Mimiko (Ondo).
Ayade said: “We received a brief report on how
agencies remiting dollar revenues in naira into the
Federation account given by the CBN governor.
“He said investigations are on-going. Such agencies
include but not limited to NNPC, NIMASA and NPA.”
Ayade also said NEC received briefing on the excess
crude account which stands at $2.2bn as at
yesterday.
He added: “On the provision of provisional loans to
states based on collaterisation of the excess crude
account, the CBN governor briefed that 27 states
have made request for the N10bn facility and is
currently being processed. “He has called on the
affected states to complete all necessary
documentation for the money. Not all states have
indicated interest on this ECA collaterised loan.
“On the refund of expenses incurred by state
government, the Vice President also briefed Council
on detail of this and said that for all those who have
followed the right procedure and due process in
incurring expenses, processes are being undertaken
at this time to ensure refund for such Federal
Government based road expenditure by states.”
Mimiko explained that the bailout funds from the
Federal Government would not be enough for
payment of workers’ salaries because of the
continued shortfall in revenue accruing to the
Federation Account.
He said: “Bail out is a short term measure on arrears of salaries. But the truth is that the accruals would still not be enough and final solution to the accruals shortfall in the payment of salaries still has to be found.” The governors assured that the bailout fund would not be diverted but would be judiciously used.
Meanwhile, NNPC yesterday conducted the public
opening of bids tendered by 101 Nigerian and multi-
national companies competing for the award of
Offshore Processing Arrangements, OPA.
According to a statement by the Group General
Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Ohi Alegbe,
in the OPA, NNPC undertakes to allocate a dedicated
volume of crude oil for refining at offshore locations
in exchange for petroleum products at pre-agreed
yield pattern.
The exercise, which was said to have been broadcast live on national television and conducted in the full glare of representatives of Nigerian Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative, NEITI, executives of the bidding companies and other crucial oil and gas industry stakeholders comes as a swift departure from the previous OPA award exercises which were conducted without public participation.
The statement quoted the Group Managing Director
of NNPC, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, to have noted that the
Corporation has taken the pain to make the process
leading up to the award open to public scrutiny to
demonstrate before all members of the public that
there was nothing to hide.
“At the end of this exercise, we must be able to
engage companies that are known to everybody and
not shrouded in mysteries. We must have terms that
are very transparent and comparative to terms
anywhere else in the world where OPA are being
done,” Kachikwu said.
He said while efforts were being made to ensure that refineries were re-streamed to optimal levels, NNPC would in the interim maximise the OPA in such a way as to secure the best deals possible for Nigeria.
“I hope that we should be able to build in futuristic
growth patterns in the new deal. We should be able
to come up with companies that have solid
investments in Nigeria because this is not just a
trading issue,’’ he said.
Commenting on the exercise, Mrs. Murjanatu
Gamawa, representative of NEITI commended NNPC
for the giant step taken towards transparency and
accountability. Managing Director, Pipelines and
Products Marketing Company Limited, PPMC a
subsidiary of the NNPC, Mrs. Esther Nnamdi-Ogbue,
stated that the essence of the exercise was to provide a level playing field for all industry players and to cut-off middle men who have been exploiting the system.
Mrs. Gamawa observed that this was the first time
NEITI would be invited to witness a bid process at the NNPC, noting that it was a clear indication that the Corporation takes transparency and integrity issues seriously.
www.nationalmirroronline.net/new/fg-probes-nnpc-npa-nimasa/

Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s senior adviser on media, Dr. Reuben Abati, has dismissed the widespread view that the former president lost the last election because of incompetence and
cluelessness.
Abati said in his first major interview in the October/
November edition of The Interview, that Jonathan
was “a victim of power game” and the vicious
propaganda of the opposition.
He said, “All they could focus on was trying to
discredit the president. They called him clueless; they said he was incompetent; they said he was a
drunkard!” In a separate interview also featured in the coming edition of The Interview, Mr. Femi Adesina, the senior adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on media and publicity, expressed a different view.
Adesina said he knew that Jonathan would lose and
was not surprised when it happened.
“If Jonathan had won the election, Nigeria would
have shut down”, he said, adding that the
government had run out of steam.
Abati spoke on the last days of Jonathan in the Aso
Rock Villa, his own controversial retraction of the
article against Buhari, the attitude of the moneybags
who abandoned Jonathan in his moment of need, his relationship with former first lady, Patience Jonathan, and his love-hate drama with many of his passionate fans.
Adesina was no less forthright. He spoke on Buhari’s
style, the war on corruption and Boko Haram, the
CBN’s policy of defending the naira, and his
relationship with the president.
The edition, which promises to keep the reader on
the edge of their seats, also contains interviews with
the incoming vice chancellor of the University of
Ibadan, Professor Abel Olayinka; a conversation with Corps Marshal Boboye Oyeyemi; and an insight by social entrepreneur, Chude Jideonwu on how Red
Media Africa ran Buhari’s election campaign.
www.leadership.ng/news/467523/jonathan-was-a-victim-of-power-game-abati

The scheduled screening of former Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, and Barrister Adebayo Shittu (Oyo) as well as the last batch of ministerial nominees by the Senate failed to take place on Thursday as the process was postponed till next Tuesday. Though Senate spokesman, Dino Melaye, on Thursday, linked the postponement to the desire of the leadership of the Red chamber to ensure a holistic approach to the exercise, the Daily Times can report that Amaechi’s screening in particular is being hampered by sharp division among members of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions. The Senate Committee on Ethics and Privileges headed by Sam Anyanwu had told the Senate on Wednesday that the screening of Amaechi would have to be put on hold since the report on probe of the petition filed against him was not yet ready. It was apparent that the Committee’s report was still not ready before the Senate’s sitting on Thursday owing to alleged disagreement among members. As at the time of filing this report, members of the Committee were still meeting to draft the report which would be made available to the Senate next Monday. The Daily Times also gathered that some senators elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and members of the Committee are against the screening of the former Rivers State governor. The postponement of Amaechi’s screening is also being linked to the growing opposition against him within the ranks of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Red Chamber, source told our correspondent. There were reports also on Thursday that a court injunction obtained by a member of the PDP in Rivers State to stop the screening of Amaechi was part of the reasons his screening was postponed. The Senate Committee on Ethics and Privileges is said to have been served with the court paper demanding that the screening of Amaechi should be put on hold in view of the need for him to clear the allegations of corruption levelled against him. However, the Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress on Thursday evening debunked the report. In a statement signed by the State Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mr. Chris Finebone, the party insisted that no court order was given either in Rivers State or in any other court in any part of Nigeria to that effect. Recall that Amaechi and the nominee from Oyo State, Adebayo Shittu, had been contending with litigations filed by opponents from their states against their nominations. Both nominees would have been screened on Thursday but for the resolve by the Senate to shift their screening till next Tuesday. Opposition had greeted the nomination of Shittu almost from the moment President Buhari forwarded the list of nominees to the Senate as the aggrieved parties from Oyo State took to the court in protest against his nomination. The protest against Shittu is being considered alongside that of Amaechi whereas if eventually cleared the two nominees would be sworn in next week. The Daily Times also learnt that the inability of the Department of State Security (DSS) to conclude the screening of the last batch of the ministerial nominees was one among the reasons the Senate put a hold on their screening. A Senator confided in our correspondent that the list of those cleared by the security operatives was supposed to have been submitted before Thursday’s plenary but that did not happen because some of the nominees were not able to complete the process. It was learnt also that fatigue borne out of the long stretch of screening of nominees by Senators was the reason they shifted the process till next week amid reports that Senators, most especially the leadership needed a brief period of recess to be able to face another gruelling session of screening next week. However, appearing on a Lagos based television station on Thursday, spokesman of the Senate, Senator Dino Melaye, denied that there was anything untoward about the postponement of the screening of Amaechi, Shittu and the last batch of ministerial nominees. “The leadership has decided that the screening exercise be postponed to Tuesday and Wednesday, because they want a holistic approach to the screening exercise and there is already a resolution that eight or nine would be taken on Tuesday and the rest would be taken on Wednesday. “Basically, I would want to say I’m a member of that committee and the two petitions were actually examined, and both of them, resolutions reached, and that of Amina Ibrahim has been presented on the floor. “That of Rotimi Amaechi is actually a one-line resolution because in compliance to our response to rules and regulation that any matter that is in court or that is undergoing judicial remedy cannot be presented or even looked into and that is our resolution, because the matter is still undergoing judicial remedy, we cannot look into it. Rotimi Ameachi has no problem. “I have just confirmed now that the report would be ready and be presented on the floor on Tuesday because he is going to be screened on Tuesday. The essence of the report is to clear him for screening and it has been resolved that it should come on the same day.” The Senate also on Thursday received a petition against one of the nominees, Aisha Abubakar. Presenting the petition before the Senate on Thursday, Ibrahim Gobir, the senator representing Sokoto-east, said “Sokoto people want her to be replaced with a more competent person.” He thereafter laid it before the senate, after which Senate President Bukola Saraki referred it to the committee on ethics, privileges and public petitions. Aisha, who is in the second list of ministerial nominees forwarded to the Senate on Monday, is the second woman whose nomination has been challenged through a petition. The nomination of Amina Mohammed was challenged through a petition by a group from Kaduna state, who erroneously thought she was nominated to represent Kaduna rather than her native Gombe state. However, after clarifying her state of origin with the fact-finding committee on Monday, she was screened on Tuesday and confirmed minister on Wednesday. Meanwhile, reacting to reports that a member of the PDP in Rivers State, Livingstone Wechie, had secured an injunction stopping the Senate from screening the Amaechi, the APC in the state insisted that there is no such order from any part of the country. In a statement signed by the State Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mr. Chris Finebone, the party insisted that no court order was given either in Rivers State or in any other court in any part of Nigeria to that effect. The statement said: “Our attention has been drawn to a statement being circulated in the media that Mr. Livingstone Wechie has obtained a court order restraining the Senate from screening Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi as a ministerial nominee. “Following the announcement, we have made frantic search at the Federal High Court across the country and did not find any such proceedings pending or ORDER before any court in the Country, the Federal High Court being the only Court that has jurisdiction to determine any matter in which the Senate is made a party and its duties and functions are the subject matter, in view of Section 251 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended). “Again, because we are aware of the desperation of the PDP and Mr. Livingstone Wechie on this matter, we have nonetheless carried out a search at the High Court Registry in Rivers State, and no indication that such Order exists at the High Court of Rivers State, except if such order is given to Mr. Livingstone WECHIE in the sitting room of a Judge, which we know that no right-thinking judicial officer will do so, especially at this time that the National Judicial Council is desirous of sanitising the Judiciary. “Clearly, the State High Court has no powers or jurisdiction under the Constitution to determine a matter in which the subject matter relates to the duties or functions of the Senate. “The distinguished and Honourable Judges of the Rivers State High Court are fully aware of this Constitutional provision. We strongly believe that none of them would be drawn into such level of judicial rascality or abuse of office, no matter the inducement or incentive. “We urge all good people of Rivers State to remain calm and await the Senate Report and action as has been announced by the Most Distinguished Senate President. The party called on the security agencies to investigate those behind the scam and bring them to book so as to preserve public peace. “We hereby give notice to the Directorate of State Security Services and the Nigerian Police to investigate this level of misinformation that is capable of breaching the peace. “We urge them to be vigilant and watch for any attempt to forge and criminally alter documentation at the Rivers State High Court Registry,” the party said. www.dailytimes.com.ng/untold-reasons-senate-shifted-amaechi-others-screening/

Heads-Up By Lekan Fatodu

Call him an enigma of some sort that will still situate
perfectly within varying popular views. The Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose is one politician who has, perhaps more than anyone else in Nigeria, continued to draw incredible public attention especially at the state level where he's having a second stint as governor.
Fayose, who first came to political limelight in 2003
when he was elected governor of Ekiti state, remains
a common feature in different political chat-rooms
chiefly on his involvement in several fierce political
battles and series of controversies. Unsurprisingly,
one of these numerous crises led to Fayose’s
impeachment from office in 2006.
Meanwhile, if the first coming of Fayose was
adjudged by Nigerians of different shades as riotous
and distressing, his second coming has not been any better. It has been full of tales of fights and fright; and also flights of fancy which have been well
prepped up as elixirs to the masses’ best wishes.
By a stroke of luck, which in reality has significantly
altered political permutations in Nigeria, Fayose,
having failed to clinch lesser elective positions, gave
a shot at the governorship of Ekiti again in 2014 and
defeated the incumbent, Dr. Kayode Fayemi. With
that victory, Fayose repeated the feat of beating an
incumbent as he did when he won the election
against the then governor Niyi Adebayo in 2003. But
what made his second electoral triumph more
fascinating was that he trounced a notable
incumbent.
Truly, his surprised comeback rubbished the
calculations of many political pundits, who had
placed their bets on Fayemi to return as governor
ahead of Fayose who came a distant second and,
sometimes, even third in most of the opinion polls
that preceded the gubernatorial election in the state.
Fayemi, who Fayose eventually routed at the polls,
was reputed as one of the most outstanding and
performing governors in Nigeria at the time. In
comparison to Fayose, Fayemi was said to be more
urbane, cerebral and better equipped with the
principles of good governance. But then, the Ekiti
populace voted for Fayose supposedly on the
premise of his greater understanding of their
ultimate needs for Stomach Infrastructure, a concept Fayose invented during his electioneering.
Simply put, the concept represents a method of
government that prioritises supply of the stomach’s
requirements like food items to the people above
other sustainable interventions that will eradicate
poverty and hunger. And being an adherent of the
very brutish side of the winner-takes-all approach to
governance, Fayose is never an individual with spare
time to accommodate or negotiate with a political
opponent however pleasing the intention of the
opposition may appear. The rambunctious governor
will not be forgotten in a hurry for his vicious
campaign and onslaught against President Buhari, in the run-in to the last Presidential contest.
Fayose had no scruples in his attempt to de-market
Buhari for the Presidency. For that, many Nigerians
lampooned Fayose for securing a front-page
obituary-like advertorial on Buhari in some major
newspapers, an infamous act that was criticized for
being too offensive and violating the minimum rules
of decency in electoral contest. Hence, nobody
expected him to be magnanimous to his
predecessor, Fayemi.
So it is very unusual, and particularly refreshing to
hear the same Fayose fighting for Fayemi, who has
just been nominated a minister, to have a hitch-free
moment at the senate screening for ministerial
nominees.
Fayose’s remarkably warm and familial call for
support came on the heels of a flurry of petitions
from outside and threats by some senators that
some individuals nominated by President Buhari to
work with him will face a gruelling time at the senate
screening. Former governors, Romiti Amaechi, of
Rivers State, Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State and
Kayode Fayemi were mentioned as prime targets in
the coveted national job interview.
But Fayose took a break from the norm. He rallied
support for Fayemi and quickly called his men in the
national assembly to order.
“I call on all the House of Representatives members
and senators that went to Abuja from here. Some
people petitioned the National Assembly stating how
Fayemi sunk Ekiti into heavy debts, I have told the
members not to do that. You must support him
there. They should not go to the Senate and oppose
Kayode Fayemi, no, they must never do that. An Ekiti
man is an Ekiti man. I appeal to everybody, you must
support him”, Fayose said.
Expectedly, Fayemi has appeared before the senate.
He was grilled on his stewardship as governor of Ekiti state and was asked to take "a bow, and go" having offered satisfactory answers to the senators.
Though Fayose may have fought some unnecessary,
ridiculous and incredulous battles in recent times,
rallying support for Fayemi’s ministerial nomination
which he (Fayose) has termed the “Ekiti Project” was
a smart move capable of improving his public image.
Actually, the symbolism of his latest stance is that the general public will start to appreciate him as not
absolutely dismissive.
www.thisdaylive.com/articles/fayose-s-unusual-fight-for-fayemi/222871/

Biafra........awon omo wobe.......they are the hard working criminals far from east.........imagine at your age........,name checkers association, over to you.

trapQ:
The man should be blamed for his own actions, not the woman. But every woman should study her man carefully so as to not marry a JOHNNY

let YEMI ALADE hear that you mention JONNY for your comment, you go hear am.............if I may ask what's wrong with JONNY or do you mean jonny bravo?.

US deploying about 300 military personnel to aid effort against Boko Haram in Cameroon, says administration official. White House spokesman says deployment of US troops to Cameroon is part of an effort to conduct airborne intelligence gathering, in support of ongoing regional counter extremist efforts - @ Reuters more to come. www.breakingnews.com/topic/nigeria-sect-attacks/

By Aziz El Yaakoubi
RABAT (Reuters) - A prominent Moroccan intellectual who went on hunger strike a week ago, protesting against a travel ban and police harassment, has collapsed and is in hospital, members of his support committee said on Wednesday. Critics say Morocco's king is letting slide freedoms that he promised four years ago as a concession to protesters when he approved a new constitution devolving some court powers to parliament and the government in unheralded political reforms.
It is the second time Maati Monjib, a professor of
political history and African studies at the University
of Rabat and a writer for national and international
news organizations, has been on hunger strike. He
collapsed on Tuesday night.
"He is still in the hospital, we were expecting him to
leave on Wednesday morning but doctors said that
his blood pressure is not stable," said Samad Ayach,
a member of Monjib's support committee.
Monjib started a second hunger strike last
Wednesday after authorities banned him from
boarding a plane to Norway for an international
conference on journalism in Lillehammer. He went
on three days hunger strike earlier this month when
he was banned from going to a conference in
Barcelona.
Moroccan authorities said they imposed the ban
because of an investigation into suspected financial
wrongdoing.
Monjib and many of his associates have been
interrogated by Moroccan police on allegations of
tarnishing Morocco's image abroad, getting funds
from hostile foreign organizations and destabilizing
citizens' confidence in their institutions.
"I know my health would not tolerate hunger strikes,
but better to die than live in such injustice," Monjib
told Reuters two days before he collapsed.
He is known in Morocco for supporting Moroccan
investigative journalism. He closed his Ibn Rochd
Institute (Averroes) saying authorities had banned
many of its meetings and conferences.
This and the Moroccan association of investigative
journalism (AMJI), another group in which Monjib
was involved, were funded by Netherlands-based
organizations Free Press and IMS (International
Media Support).
An interior ministry statement said Monjib was
banned from traveling because of a financial
investigation into Ibn Rochd.
The Moroccan government spokesman and
communication minister did not answer calls for a
comment.
Hicham Mansouri, an investigative reporter working
for AMJI, was sentenced to 10 months in prison on
an adultery charge last March that critics say was an
attempt to muzzle him.
Morocco television is tightly controlled and
outspoken publications have been forced out of
business, usually citing pressure on advertisers. Text reporters enjoy more freedom, but still risk being imprisoned for critical writings.
www.news.yahoo.com/moroccan-intellectual-collapses-hunger-strike-over-ban-152015060.html

Crazy people everywhere...........

Now who is fooling who.........I guess fayose must be high on sapele water.

Sorry sir

Am going there right away with my basuka

onlineadejoh:
Jamb question!

are u simi?

Is the son a footballer too just like his daddy

The blessings of GOD will never cease in our land........hapi 55th birthday to our dearest country.

Igwe must hear this.............why man no go rush go IDP camp, when u can flex with 5 girls for just 50k my weekly wardrobe allowance....chai! I don hammer o.

Firefire:
I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind...



Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.

What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?

A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.

The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises.

The wind blows to the south and goes around to the north; around and around goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns.

According to scientist, if am right the sun neither rise nor set. Its the earth that rotate round the sun.

If ongoing discussions between the World Bank
and Lagos State Government go through, there is
every likelihood that public water supply in the
state will be privatised. The exercise will entail
the handing over of public water supply in the
state to private companies. Invariably, such an
action would not only be detrimental, it is likely
to place enormous financial burdens on hepless
consumers who are already reeling from the
numerous tariffs for services not rendered.
Definitely, we raise our voice in support of those
opposed to such move. One of those opposing the
plans is Director of International Water
Campaign and Corporate Accountability, Shayda
Edwards Naficy, who noted that it is the duty of
the government to provide potable water to the
citizens, as the implementation of such World
Bank proposal would amount to a new form of
colonialism.
We totally agree with this assertion. No one is
denying the fact that the World Bank is using
Lagos State as a guinea pig for an experiment
that could later become the benchmark for other
African countries. Presently, more than 70
percent of Lagos residents have no access to
public water supply. Sadly, the few with public
water pipes in their homes usually do not get the
product sometimes for days and weeks. Water
supply in Nigeria is the responsibility of the
Federal, State and Local governments.
While the Federal Government is in charge of
water resources management, states have
primary responsibility for urban water supply,
while the local governments are responsible for
providing rural water. While advocates of
privatisation say it is a way of relieving
governments of costs associated with water
supply, it still does not vitiate their responsibility
in this regard. Given the increasing population of
Lagos, which is among the many cities in the
global South where investment on water supplies
is sorely needed, we believe that only
government can deliver this precious resource on
a scale that is vast enough to cater for the needs
of the citizens.
The shortage of potable water is responsible for
the indiscriminate construction of water
boreholes by private individuals with the
attendant risk of supplying contaminated water
to consumers. Investigations reveal that the daily
water needs of Lagos are 540 million gallons.
Unfortunately, the state Water Corporation has
capacity for only 210 gallons per day, leaving a
deficit of 300 million gallons. According to a 2010
World Bank report, water production facilities in
Nigeria are not operated optimally due to broken
down equipment, and lack of electricity for
pumping. In addition, equipment and pipes are
ill maintained, leading to intermittent supply
and high levels of non-revenue water. Surprising
also is the fact that state water agencies are
massively overstaffed with an average of 70 staff
per 1,000 customers, compared to a best practice
ratio of 3.5.
The Lagos State Government should therefore
seek out ways of harnessing the water sources
such as dams and natural aquifers for the supply
of water to the residents. In the alternative, it
should enter into partnership with renowned
private water companies to Build, Operate and
Transfer (BOT), such water schemes for some
specified numbers of years. In doing so, the state
government should be responsible for regulating
water tariffs in such a way as not to place undue
financial burdens on the consumers.
The problem of shortage of water supply in Lagos
as in other states of the federation is the result
of weak governance, inadequate capacities, and
underinvestment. Rather than privatise water
supply, the Lagos State Government should
attract more financial resources for the
construction of water plants and reticulation at
affordable costs to then citizens.
www.dailytimes.com.ng/privatisation-of-water-supply-in-lagos-state/

Story by: Iruesiri.Samson.
Something is killing Nigerian students, right in the
institutions where they are supposed to be learning
skills that will make them useful to themselves, their
families and the nation. It is not violence, cultism,
hunger, illnesses or terrorists.
The things that is killing them is the very thing that
should be keeping them alive and fit to fulfil the
purpose that brought them to the universities in the
first place – Hospitals, clinics, doctors, nurses and
the whole medical apparatus.
The most recent murder committed by these
supposed life savers was witnessed on Tuesday the 8 of September 2015, the black day on which a
potential first class graduate of the University of
Lagos (UNILAG), Miss Oluchi Anekwe, died after an
unfortunate accident involving electric cables.
The original story was that she was electrocuted to
death » after the 330 KVA cable belonging to the Eko
Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) fell on her.
First blames went to the UNILAG authorities, then the attention turned to EKEDC. No one knew that the
school medical team had something to do with the
loss of such a rare national asset as Anekwe.
She is not a lone victim, as other like Miss Kelechi
Precious » of the University of Port Harcourt
(UNIPORT), Mayowa Alaran » of the University of
Ibadan (UI) and Kolawole Fatai Morenikeji » of the
Ladoke Akintola, University of Technology
(LAUTECH) Ogbomosho, have all gone to ‘waste’ in
similar manner.
Before we go into the facts and assumptions about
their deaths, it is important to state that, speaking as
candidly as possible, Nigerian tertiary institutions are on a zero level when it comes to welfare of the
students they are set up to serve. When it comes to
health and safety, one can hardly point to one
excellent institution, more so with the State and
Federal Government owned ones.
HOW DID THEY DIE?
1. Miss Oluchi Anekwe of the University of Lagos
» (UNILAG) – electrocuted on the street in August
2. Miss Kelechi Precious of the University of Port
Harcourt » (UNIPORT) – slumped in her hostel in August
3. Kolawole Fatai Morenikeji of the Ladoke
Akintola » University of Technology (LAUTECH) – slumped at a football match in June
4. Mayowa Alaran of the University of Ibadan
» (UI) – slumped while watching a match in May
MAYOWA ALARAN, University of Ibadan (UI) –
slumped in May.
The case of Mayowa Alaran, a 200 Level student of
Human Kinetics at the University of Ibadan (UI) is
still fresh on his colleagues’ minds. The facts are not
very clear, as students and management present a
different version of events. What is certain is that
Alaran slumped while watching the UEFA Champions
League match between Barcelona and Bayern
Munich with fellow students at the Independence Hall of residence. Students allege that they rushed him to the University Health Services, known as Jaja
Hospital, where nurses on duty requested for his
clinic card and matric number instead of instantly
attending to him.
He died before the issue could be resolved. But the
university had a less damning version.
KOLAWOLE FATAI MORENIKEJI, Ladoke Akintola,
University of Technology (LAUTECH) – slumped
in June Kolawole Fatai Morenikeji died in June. He was until his death a 400 level Chemical Engineering student of the Ladoke Akintola, University of Technology (LAUTECH) Ogbomosho. His death is a tragic one. He was reported to have slumped while playing a novelty match organized by his Department and was rushed to the school clinic where he died, allegedly due to poor facilities and negligence according to one of his who spoke to Linda Ikeji.
"They gave him breathing tube and tried to cajole us
when they knew there was no oxygen in the cylinder," the student said. "It was when they knew things were getting out of hand that they told us to rush him to Bowen Hospital Ogbomosho, few miles away from the Campus. "We requested for the Health center Ambulance but we were told the driver was sent to buy food, so we hustled our way by hiring a car that conveyed us." No matter the official spin that followed, one fact remains that there were inadequate facilities at the clinic to offer the services that students pay for.
KELECHI PRECIOUS of the University of Port
Harcourt (UNIPORT) – slumped in August
On the 30 of August, a 200 level student of Theatre
Art and Film Study of the University of Port
Harcourt (UNIPORT), Miss Kelechi Precious, slumped in her bathroom and died not too long after.
According to the testimony of her roommate, one
Kainti Dauebimoere who spoke to The Nation, she
was rejected for lack of space at the university’s
teaching hospital. She died before an alternative
could be found.
"That was how we got a car around 5:45 am to take
her to UPTH at accident and emergency ward. But the doctors who were there said there was no bed
space,” Dauebimoere said.
“We pleaded that we are going to use the car as her
bed, but they refused."
Her testimony was backed by a final year student of
the same department as the deceased, Judith Oyila,
who later led student protesters to shut down the
hospital.
“She died because of neglect by the doctors and
nurses in that hospital," Oyila said.
"How could it be that a student slumped and students rushed her to UPTH but the doctors left her for over six hours without treatment and the poor girl died? Again, hospital staff indicted.
OLUCHI ANEKWE of the University of Lagos
(UNILAG) – electrocuted in August
Barely two weeks after Miss Kelechi’s passing,
Nigeria lost another promising student in the person of Miss Oluchi Anekwe, a 300l Student of the
department of Accounting at UNILAG who was
gunning for a first class degree.
She was just walking on her own when a high tension cable fell on her and electrocuted her, but she did not die on the spot according to the testimony of one Damilola Dairo which was published by Osun Defender. Dairo’s testimony indicted the medical staff, again!
“When the incident happened, she was rushed to the
school’s Medical Centre in the school.
“At the medical Centre the staff on duty asked for her student Identification card which she couldn’t
produce.
"The staff of the medical Centre left her to her Fate
which resulted in her death around 9pm that same
day. Not the lie about her been rushed to LUTH.”
What binds all these cases together is the fact that
medical staff negligence, combined with poor
facilities actually killed these students.
By implication, their lives could have been saved.
WHAT IS WRONG?
As an ordinary citizen that is not knowledgeable
about how a university or a medical center is run,
one may not be able to give precise suggestions or
solutions, but it only takes a bit of commonsense to
know that there are a lot wrong in Nigerian
universities:
1. There are inadequate medical facilities at almost
all tertiary institutions
2. Most institutions have no provision for first aid
services or trainings for students
3. Hospital staff have very poor attitude to their
patients and would be patients
4. There seems to be a belief that school health
services are free when, in actuality, students have
paid for it with their tuition
5. Acceptable safety standards are not respected,
especially in students hostels
In addition, many students are ill without even
knowing it, as is seen in three of the cases discussed
above. That three students collapsed and died
without clear reason indicates that they have been ill
for a while.
WHAT CAN BE DONE?
If progress must be made with regards to provision
of health services and a reoccurrence of such
tragedies are to be forestalled, there is a need for
deliberate steps which include:
1. Revamping university health services
2. Providing compulsory routine check-ups for all
students
3. Instructing medical staff of universities to first
provide treatment before observing protocols
4. Train students on basic first aid techniques
5. Create and maintain mini clinics/first aid centres
across the universities, especially student hubs
and hostels
6. Provide a functional university helpline that all
students can call
If we allow the death of Anekwe to fall by the
roadside of public discourse, like the three before
her, there may be many more names yet to be turned into trending hashtags amongst the student
populace.
Universities managements must be forced to protect
students and ensure that health services are up to
standard and safety procedures are followed.
Otherwise, let’s wait for the next life to be wasted.
www.pulse.ng/student/unilag-uniport-ui-lautech-murder-4-nigerian-students-killed-by-university-doctors-in-4-months-id4161204.htmlKukogho

Story by Nathan Nathaniel Ekpo
Former Kennis music artiste, Eedris Abdulkareem, is
truly not scared of any government or what might be
done to him as he believes that whenever he speaks,
he speaks the mind of the masses.
During the campaign train of the former President of
the country, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, the singer had
done a song about the good works of the then
president but all efforts to bring the president back to
office did not yield any fruit but Eedris is not
regretting this.
According to him, Jonathan is the only president who
actually brought transformation to the country but
people never saw that good side because they were
carried away by the insurgency in the country then.
He appreciated the zeal of the current administration
of President Muhammadu Buhari, but noted that he
is yet to be a fan of him yet.
Speaking with Punch, he said, “Jonathan was the
most abused president in the world yet it didn’t stop
him from being himself, he still went about doing
good. People didn’t see the good he did because of
the propaganda of Boko Haram. For me, he is my
hero. I have no regret about that album in his
honour, I will always appreciate Jonathan. As for the
current president, I admire his zeal to curb
corruption, which is what my music is all about. But
then again, he should try and develop this country.
Fighting corruption is not development. The youth
are crying; he should create employment. I am not
his fan yet. I need to see a new Nigeria and I have not
seen it yet.
www.nigeriafilms.com/news/35703/56/goodluck-ebele-jonathan-is-my-hero-eedris-abdulkar.html
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Says hope not lost on Chibok girls
Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja
Presidential aide, Mallam Garba Shehu, has
expressed confidence that the wave of Boko Haram
attacks could end before the three months given by
President Muhammadu Buhari to end the
insurgency.
He also said that hope was not yet lost on the efforts
by Nigeria’s security forces to secure the freedom of
the Chibok school girls taken hostage by Boko Haram more than a year ago.
Speaking in an interview with journalists in Abuja
yesterday, Shehu said the terrorists were now in
disarray, having lost their central command and had
been broken into splinters due to the efforts of the
Nigerian troops under the new leadership.
Responding to the criticism that the President Buhari-led administration had not done enough to stop the insurgency as promised during the election
campaigns, Shehu said on the contrary, the
administration had been working hard to cripple the
terror organisation, adding that due to intensive
military bombardments, Sambisa Forest, their
stronghold, was now being degraded.
“From my conversation with these commanders,
what they are saying to themselves is that they are
not going to wait for three months, but do their best
to beat the target given by the president.
“So there is so much going on and I can assure you
that spirits are very high. The army chief was there
with the soldiers for about nine days. That is
leadership because you see him leading the soldiers
from the front.
“If the chief himself is there, who are you to drop
your gun? A lot is happening and Boko Haram has
been degraded, they have lost central command and
are now in splinters.
“What you have now is bits and pieces carrying out
distractive action because they don't want to go down alone. So they are looking for very soft targets such as churches, mosques and markets.
“The air force is clearing this place for the ground
troops to move in. They are looking for bomb making structures and moving convoys of these insurgents.
But they are being careful about certain locations
with the hope not to harm the Chibok girls in those
locations,” he said.
Shehu, who spoke on the expectation that the
administration will do something to free the Chibok
girls, said the troops were being careful about certain locations so as not to harm the Chibok girls taken hostage by the terrorist group.
He explained that the bombings were being carried
out in a careful manner to avoid certain locations of
interest as far as the Chibok girls were concerned.
According to the president's spokesman, Sambisa
Forest was under observation 24 hours day in the
event somebody decides to move the girls and if
there was any movement that is suspicious, there are drones that fly around the place at night and during the day.
“To be fair to President Buhari, did he ever say he will bring back the girls on the second day of his
administration? What he has always said is that we
don’t even know where the girls are and that we need to go in there and get the intelligence and the
situation of things and then act.
“Without meaning to endanger what is left of those
girls, you know that the Sambisa Forest is being
degraded right now.
“In the last few days, you even saw the Chief of Army
Staff leading the troops and I am aware that in the
last few weeks, very interesting pictures have been
shown to the president on the basis of which we will
say to Nigerians, don’t lose hope on the Chibok girls.
I am not saying they have been found or that they
have been seen. But it is not yet time for Nigerians to say we have lost them,” he added.
www.thisdaylive.com/articles/presidency-boko-haram-may-fall-before-deadline/219522/

Story by Nathan Nathaniel Ekpo
Everyone seems to have gotten one memorable day
of some sorts they tend not to forget in a hurry either good or bad and Nollywood actress, Yetunde
Aderibigbe, is not an exception.
The actress recalling her sad moments at an event
explained that she had admired a particular dress
and ordered for it but did not get it on time as it was
brought to her at the venue of the event which she
had to immediately change into in her car.
She explained that while being happy with herself,
she never knew the dress had fault and as she
stepped into the event, people were starring at her
only for her to discover that her mammary glands
were on display.
Out of shame, the actress stated that she went back
into the car to change and later went home as she
could not stand the embarrassment.
According to her, “I had earlier discussed with
someone to help me get a dress but I couldn’t get my hands on the dress until the day of the event. In fact, I got the dress at the venue of the event and I had to change to the dress in my car. I remembered, it was a tube gown and I had hurriedly worn it without checking it out.”
“But when I got inside the venue, I realised everyone
was staring at me and lo and behold all my breasts
were out. I was so uncomfortable when I realised
that; I hurriedly went back into the car and I didn’t
even have the guts to go back and so from there, I
just went home,” she told Sun newspaper.
www.nigeriafilms.com/news/35574/34/i-was-ashamed-when-my-mammary-gland-popped-out-at-.html

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