₦airaland Forum

Obiagelli:
I have fought my inner self against the thought that Buhari hates any region, all through his appointments I have remained steadfast in my support for Buhari until he declared his assets.
How can the president declare assets in every region and leave the south east out? Not even one mud house.
Wailer over to you.

Very hillarious!!
But you are wrong. The president has a property in a town that they claim is part of Biafra - even though he is still trying to trace the location.

“President Buhari also has two undeveloped plots of land, one in Kano and the other in Port Harcourt. He is still trying to trace the location of the Port Harcourt land.

Mynd44:
Only 8 individuals on that list are from the "North".

Next time learn to look well before you jump the gun

Thank you. I had to re-read the list again because I thought I was the the one not seeing properly.
Besides, these are not fresh appointments. These are redeployment to another post/positions.
And to think that someone attribute this redeployment to PMb shows how inept some people are.
Na wa for wailers oo

The answer is simple.
No body is holding them!!
The moment they are serious about going, nobody can stop them.
But what we see is that:
1) They are still asking for more states in their region so they'll also have six states in Nigeria just like other regions
2) They are still asking for appointments in the country they don't want to be part of; from a man they rejected during the elections.
3) The companies of their major business men like Jim Ovia, Elumelu etc have branches all across Nigeria and these business men are not ready to let Nigeria go.

So no body is really holding them!! They are the ones holding themselves. PMB only need to give them "juicy" appointment and they will sing another song.

centje and all the docs in the house.
I have an issue I hope you all can help me with.
My child (6+ yrs) has been visiting the hospital an average of once a month for over a year. What usually take him to the hospital is his relatively heavy breathing (in most cases accompanied by cough - especially in the night). And he always has running/stuffy nose. Funny enough, ALL the doctors say they are reluctant to declare him asthmatic. That kids of his age sometimes get over the condition and live like any other person. Even a consultant said its allergy (or is it allergen?)

In all cases (i.e past trips to the hospital), the doctors place him on nebulizer (one or two rounds) after listening to his chest and he will be fine for like another 30 days or thereabout before he begins to experience heavy breathing again.

Now this is where I need help: I have been told (and I have read online) that I can buy home nebulizer kit to treat him during such very odd hours like in the middle of the night when the cough and heavy breathing become uncomfortable.
But my fear is the composition and the dosage of the drugs to put in the nebulizer. I have no idea what medicine to buy and what dosage to use for such home emergency treatment. To make matters worse, there seem to be zero information on this online.
Your help will be highly appreciated.

centje:
Thanks for your contribution. I want to make some correction, Acute severe asthma is a serious emergency, it's not time for health education, such can come when the attack is controlled. Asthma can be intermittent or persistent, the later can be mild, moderate or severe. Each of the types can have an acute exacerbation , and in long term management, each has a different approach. But doesn't involve the patient buying Nebulizer. Patient should be educated on the chronic nature of the illness, triggers, and the need to be religious with medication, The instruction to the patient is that if, while on medication (which could be SABA, LABA, inhaled or oral steroids, etc ) he develops acute severe asthma, the person should present to a hospital for proper treatment.

hello to all the docs in the house.
Nice to see this kind of thread.
I have an issue I hope you can help me with.
My child (6+ yrs) has been visiting the hospital an average of once a month for over a year. What usually take him to the hospital is his relatively heavy breathing (in most cases accompanied by cough - especially in the night). And he always has running/stuffy nose. Funny enough, ALL the doctors say they are reluctant to declaim him asthmatic. That kids of his age sometimes get over the condition and live like any other person. Even a consultant said its allergy (or is it allergen?)

In all cases, the doctors place him on nebulizer (one or two rounds) after listening to his chest and he will be fine for like another 30 days or thereabout before he begins to experience heavy breathing again.

Now this is where I need help: I have been told (and I have read online) that I can buy home nebulizer kit to treat him during such very odd hours like in the middle of the night when the cough and heavy breathing become uncomfortable.
But my fear is the composition and the dosage of the drugs to put in the nebulizer. I have no idea what medicine to buy and what dosage to use for such home emergency treatment. To make matters worse, there seem to be zero information on this online.
Your help will be highly appreciated.

The op is just acting silly.
The news came out long before apc had their national convention whre Ikimi was booted out in favour of oyegun.
To make matters worse, his source/link is fraudulent.

I have a very simple solution for those crying about equality. Just go and lobby for the cut off for Anambra and co to be reduced to 2. That way the cut off for SE and northern studenys will be the same and you all will be pacified.

Crocz:

That is not entirely true!
The entire nation is filled with greedy red-cap-wearing stubborn goats politicians.
Just take a look

I am a Yoruba and a core pro PMB supporter.
I also don't give a damn about who PMB appoints to office. In fact, as far as I am concerned, PMB can appoint mallams in sabo markets into his cabinet on the condition that the level of good governance to date is maintained.

BUT I will not subscribe to a post that "labels" an entire region as "goats"
There are people from that region that are strong supporter of this administration. They are not blinded by bigotry and are not demanding they be appointed.
There are political goats in every region. The message could have been passed without sounding like that region is the only place that goats reside.

ba7man:
There's now almost constant power supply, stealing is now corruption, and some people are more focused on appointments of their kinsmen.

My brother, I just tire for this country. Imagine someone complaining ahead of time that PMB will reserve the portfolio of "minister of state of***" to their region. At a time when we are asking for elimination of unproductive government expenditure.

Ola17:
Please please please, you guys should print more forms. I'm considering getting myself a form soon and when I do, I will wail the loudest.

OF course! No sensible person should support any government unconditionally. I will withdraw my support for PMB if/when he deviate from good governance. People used to import tooth pick, egg etc to this country to this country - effectively creating jobs abroad while our youths die trying to get into NIS. Trillion was spent on ghost of petroleum products, and these are being address. My support for PMB is not unconditional. The moment these kind of stories resurfaces, I will withdraw my support for PMB. But at the moment, let PMB go to sabo market and put all the mallams into his carbinet - he still have my support.
And wailers can hug the nearest transformer

ba7man:
There's now almost constant power supply, stealing is now corruption, and some people are more focused on appointments of their kinsmen.

My brother, I just tire for this country. Imagine someone complaining ahead of time that PMB will reserve the portfolio of "minister of state of***" to their region. At a time when we are asking for elimination of unproductive government expenditure.

I trust my people.

Passingshit:
First of all, the emboldened is not true. The increased electric power transmission we enjoy now shouldn't be credited to PMB. Buhari himself knows that GEJ started it before he left.
Secondly, the reason why the Yoruba tribe supported Buhari is because GEJ marginalized them during his tenure. It was simply a revenge mission and not because of PDP's 16 years of misrule. Who are the PDP/APC btw? Are they not not still the prostitutes jumping from one party to another? Abeg, leave story

Let's just leave GEJ out of this. All politicians are a$$holes, but GEJ happened to be the biggest of them in recent times. Sure he was running around in the twilight of his administration (re)commissioning power plants. But what does it take a "commissioned" power plant to remain in service? What we saw was a consistent decrease in output by PHCN with every (re)commissioning that GEJ did. Granted PMB has not touched the issue of electricity but you can't take away the fact that electricity supply got progressively worse before May 29 and now a lot better in 100 days after democracy day. Do I need to talk about the humuliation of the Nigerian Army in the hands of Boko Haram until it was apparent GEJ would lose election before he acted. And now we all can see the difference PMB has brought.

On the point that many APC members were former PDP members, shouldn't that be the exact reason why we should place priority on who get appointments? Shouldn't that be the reason why we should place more emphasis on performance? And this hypocritical talk of federal character, why were many of the wailers when SW was "supposedly" marginalized? Why didn't they speak up at that time? Can we then conclude that if the appointments had favoured some people in south at the detriment of other regions, these same wailers would have kept quiet.

On the Issue of SW and marginalization. This is what I posted elsewhere:

.....the Problem most westerners had with Uncle Joe was two-folds. It was a case of double jeopardy. The main issue was performance! The marginalization just compounded it and made things worse. Most westerners wouldn't have cared much if he had performed. Most would have looked beyond the marginalization if he had delivered dividends of democracy. But most people found it very difficult to point to one aspect of their lives that GEJ improved and to make things worse, he made unnecessary enemies by offending some powerful politicians who capitalized on the marginalization issue. Just listen to Fashola during the APC interactive Town Hall Meeting in the buildup to the election:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWCSenrC-UE

It because of people like this that Nigeria still has hope.
Truth is always bitter.

haul:
" a prince must know how to make use of the nature of the beast, he should choose from among the beasts the fox and the lion; for the lion cannot defend itself from traps, while the fox cannot protect itself from the wolves. It is therefore necessary to be a fox, in order to recognize the traps, and a lion, in order to frighten the wolves: those who base their behavior only on the lion do not understand things. A wise ruler, therefore, cannot and should not keep his word when such an observance would be to his disadvantage, and when the reasons that caused him to make a promise are removed"

This right here really explains a lot in politics.

Thanks for the quote from the little but might book "The Prince"
That quote is what world leaders all over the world use. Emotional and excessively religious people will strongly disagree with many of its content but if you are serious of getting desired results and remaining relevant, then you better read, digest and implement the teachings.

At the end of the day, it not about "how right" or "how moral" or "how balanced" you were (even though you need to pretend to have all these qualities). You will be judged on the basis of what you achieved without too much emphasis on the means with which you achieved it.

It also looks like Buhari now has a copy of the book

agabusta:
Buhari shocked many when he selected a relatively unknown man as his running mate, the current Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo. Interestingly, the running mate selected turned out to be a Pastor!

Dogara who emerged as the speaker is a christian.

Babachir Lawal has been appointed into the powerful position in the Federation as the Secretary to the Government of the Federation. The engine room of the government of the day. This appointment also shocked many as the man is relatively unknown.

Babachir is a Christian and also a Pastor! The implication of this is that we now have a Pastor as the Vice President and a Pastor as the Secretary to the Government of the Federation. The Speaker of the House of Representatives is also a Christian.

Can it still be said that PMB is pursuing an Islamic agenda??


I can see that most people who were shouting islamization has piped down and are now screaming "northern agenda!"

By the time the remaining appointments balances out the distribution, i'll be waiting to see what wailers will wail about next.

@ the bolded
Actually, Buhari is trying to christianize Nigeria.
Shame on PDP and TANdroids

Tinubu, the Nigerian Marchiavelli
The man you hate to love

Tinubu is just Making Use Of the Cat's-Paws.
As stated in Law 26 of the 48 Laws of Power (which is practically a derivative of Niccolo Marchiavelli's book "THE PRINCE"
You must seem a paragon of civility and efficiency: Your hands are never soiled by mistakes and nasty deeds. Maintain such a spotless appearance by using others as scapegoats and cat's-paws to disguise your involvement.

Rose2014:
So u mean there are no capable hands in the south?

Its not about availability of capable hands in the south. Everybody knows the answer is pretty obvious. It is about what is important to us. Appointment to kinsmen or delivering good governance. I hear many of the newly approved private refineries are from the south. Like I said elsewhere, even if each of those 65 refineries employs 100 people, that is a whopping 6500 jobs. I'll take 6500 jobs before considering if Ameachi or anybody from the south be given appointment.

funkybully:
[s]
Rubbish, if federal character is to b done away with, let it be all round. No consideration for north when it comes to jamb, common entrance, etc. Let's see how they will get admission with 2% into unity schools.[/s]

Simple!!
Then lobby to make the cut-off for the students from your state to be as low as that of the north! Why worry about the low cut-off from the north. People are being encouraged to go to school so they won't be readily available BH members tomorrow (and their girls married off at early age) and you are pained by that. If you are really desperate equality, then start working so the cut-off for enugu and anambra be reduced to the same level as that of yobe.

funkybully:
[s]And for ur assertion that other appointment will still be made, that is just a nonsense defense tactic.[/s] Every state is entitled to a minimum of one minister. We already know he will give SE ministers of state portfolio, [s]he deserve no accolade on that. no problem about that but the appointment has been grossly lopsided from any angle u look it.
Buhari is setting a precedence that will eventually scatter Nigeria as power will eventually leave north one day whether by divine Providence or any way.[/s]

Now the highlighted part is the type of mentality that PISSES ME OFF.
We are talking about cutting the cost of governance and you are still promoting 1 minister from each state. What has the number of ministerial portfolios got to do with the number of state? So if Ijebu and Anioma states are created tomorrow, we will have to create two extra ministerial portfolios as well. THAT IS JUST CRAP!
And again, since you mentioned it, let me ask what the hell is the minister of state doing that the main minister cannot do? For example, will the ministry of education collapse without a minister of state for education? Is this not the wastage we are talking about. So you will be pissed off if PMB chooses to run a compact gov of 20 ministries abi since obviously the potfolios will not go round to every state. You may want to read what Festus Keyamu has to say about the legality of not following the usual 1 minister per state bu1lsh!t http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/keyamo-buhari-can-appoint-less-than-37-ministers/210359/

Finally again, I read Keyamu's perfect responce to people like you on another thread on this appointment saga: https://www.nairaland.com/2560234/keyamo-blasts-politicians-against-buharis

PassingShot:
Forget about any membership or no membership form. You must understand the OP is only making fun.

The constitutional provision that appointments should take care of ethnicity, religion and geographical zones is not there for nothing. It's a deliberate attempt to foster unity, mutual respect and peaceful coexistence.

As things stand, the president has not complied with that provision in the constitution. So, he needs to make ammends without delay. If possible (I know it's a long shot), let him reverse some of these latest appointments to accommodate other regions.

First, I don't recollect where I picked up fight with the OP. I understand the fun part of the thread.
I also understand the constitutional provision. But sincerely, this is where I actually have issues with the wailers. Many of them have derided the north for being parasites, that they don't contribute and are just "there to fulfill the federal quota system". They have long called for the federal character "thing" to be abolished. Well on a light note, now that it has been "somewhat" done away with, they are still wailing. That's why they say be careful of what you wish for because you may just get it.

I said in an post earlier today and let me repeat it here. I am a Yoruba - proud one at that. But what did we gain when OBJ/Bankole were in their respective offices? Same goes for people from David Mark and Ekwerumadu's village. Now we have the VP and two slots in HOR, are we supposed to be happy just because our sons are their? Is that our dividends? OBJ our son sunk billions into PHCN without much to show. Now PMB is less than 100 days in office and we have recorded highest electricity transmission in our history. There are many more examples that I am sure you are aware of.

The point I am making is it will be nice for PMB to follow federal character but that should be a secondary requirement. The main thing is to get the job done - even if it means choosing his team from one village. Will the people of Ogoni care about having their son in power now that PMB has given the order to clean their land? A feat their son could do in six years?

We are in emergency situation to correct the rot created by 16 years of pdp misrule. we need to reduce corruption, win the war against insurgency, we need good health care, education and other social amenities. This is not the time to give federal character priority.

And BTW, there are still other appointments to made.

Rose2014:
Sorry buddy

Any attempt at wailing by new members will be resisted.

Funkybully and easternlion pls show this guy the exit door pls

Sorry my friend, I refuse to by styishly co-opted.
Why did you leave out the other part?

gists:
It will be nice if he choose his team across the country, PMB can as well choose his team from one village for all we care
Oh BTW, the OP can screw the membership form in his anus.

PassingShot:
Thanks. The last appointments are indefensible. Because of them, I couldn't place my article on PMB's three months in office as I earlier planned.

It won't make any sense to a lot of people. It wouldn't have made sense to me if I was a neutral too.

It doesn't need to be defended. As far as some of us are concerned, we will criticize PMB on the basis of stopping any laudable project started by previous administration or anything in that line. We will not criticize him on the basis of who he appoints or where such people come from - no matter how hard the wailers try. We voted for him to get the job done and not to mandate him to choose people across board.
It will be nice if he choose his team across the country, PMB can as well choose his team from one village for all we care

Oh BTW, the OP can screw the membership form in his anus.

I don't reply to blog and facebook posts.
But, I'll just say not bad.

Alero3Arubi:
http://nigerianhive..co.uk/2015/08/pmb-suspends-second-niger-bridge.html?m=1

Alero3Arubi:
I think it was a reckless move by PMB and a big waste of money too.
30 billion naira gone down the drain.
And it was already half way through too.

If this is true, this is the first time that PMB will be offending me
Anyway, the source is not reliable. I'll believe it if I see it on punch, vanguard, thisday etc. But I sincerely hope this is not true.

Wailers can continue to wail till thy kingdom come. Transformers are now working. you guys are free to hug the nearest one.
Meanwhile, at the moment, PMB keeps delivering good governance.
I will criticize him if/when he stops delivering good governance.

socialmediaman:
Meanwhile, I have been interacting with many Igbos across the country. First, they're highly disappointed that their parley with the past government did not attract Federal projects to the south, many are of the conclusion that the south east political leaders failed the region woefullly and if Buhari can deliver and execute federal projects in the region instead of compensating these failed leaders with appointments and no concrete development, then so be it.

Thank you socialmediaman
A certain fedora hat wearing son of the soil was in power for 6yrs, yet Ogoni land was not cleaned up. PMB took over and in less than 100 days, he orders a cleanup to make the life of the people better.
Yet some are still hanging on to quota system. Ironically, it is still this same people that has been hypocritically asking why the quota system has not been abolished.

cramjones:
I believe the term ‘change’ means to do things differently, and that is the reason why majority of Nigerians unanimously voted PMB at the last elections and yet he has been under unnecessary attack and criticism since his inauguration less than 100 days ago. Luckily, these critics are the minority of Nigerians mostly from certain geo political zones and disgruntled politicians who lost their meal tickets on May 29. In the last four years we entrusted our dear country to leaders with ‘years of experience’ and impressive résumés led by a highly educated, Christian minority who had no shoes…well, we all know how that ended.

Moral of the story- the proof is in the pudding and it is way too early to cry foul!! I suggest that we do our own bid to change our immediate communities and allow the people who Nigerians have entrusted with their vote to continue the business of changing Nigeria to a country that we will all be proud of.

-CramJones

Thank you jare

christinie:
Since you believe that Nigeria belongs to only those who voted for Buhari, I can authoritatively classify you as a bush animal who should not be on the same page with me, therefore gtfo.

Pele (i.e sorry if it pains so much)
we ENDURED the six harrowing years you people put this nation through with this same fo0lish religious/tribal politics.
We will not allow you to distract the president. You can wail till thy kingdom come if you so wish or hug the nearest transformer (mind you the transformers are now working)

christinie:
Another way of diverting our attention from the main issue? You forgot to acknowledge that most of the appointees from the North are NOT politicians. If Buhari couldn't trust Fashola and Amechi because people say they are corrupt, what about other people from the South? We have a lot of technocrats in the South, DON'T WE? . So why didn't our cry that Atiku and other Northern elements are corrupt stop Buhari from appointing Northerners? Stop playing with our intelligence. We are not kids.

Two questions:
1) Did you vote for PMB? If not, save us the sermon
2) If you voted PMB, did you vote him to deliver good governance or to appoint people from all regions. As for me I voted him to deliver good governance. And at the moment, he is over-delivering!

What on earth was my gain personally when OBJ was the president, Bankole was the speaker, now we have 2 principal slots at HOR and not to mention the VP from my state too.

This is what I care about:
Nigerian army establishes command in Sambisa
Nigerian airforce uproots BH
PMB orders clean up of Ogoni land
PMB approves 65 private refineries (if each refinery employs 100 people, that's a whole 6500 job!! not much but FAARRR better than compared to NIS scam that killed Nigerians)
Electricity supply hit all time high in Nigeria
Refineries working
etc....etc....

In Prof. Pat Utomi's voice:

“Let’s get serious. Let‘s get to move this country forward and away from all this small, petty issues. To me it is not an important issue and I don’t want to deal with it. The President can appoint everybody from one village. As long as the people can get the job done, let them get it done. That is what Nigerians wanted and that is what they voted for”.
http://dailypost.ng/2015/08/07/buhari-free-to-appoint-everybody-from-one-village-pat-utomi/

dayo23:
Hungerbad wrote:



I am a die hard Buharist.

But, after going through the list of his latest appointments, i have decided for now, to withdraw my support for Buhari and be an observer of his Government from the sideline.

Although, i was born in the night, i was not born blind.

I am not happy with the way the appointments into positions, of people that will take Nigeria to Uhuru is going. I come from the South- South, and will be the first to admit that it will be hard to find men of dignity there, but there are some few, like Donald Duke and a select few.

The West ironically, who fought tooth and nail in ensuring Buhari emerges as our President, is not getting any good deal, and i know for sure that there are thousands of people in the West,with integrity and are not corrupt that could fit in into Buhari's Government at any of this capacity he has been putting only people from the North.

Ogbonnaya Onu from the East is an Honorable man, and i was praying he was made the SGF.

Nobody has the monopoly of Knowledge, and there is no way Knowledge and Technocrat-ism by a select few, can be limited to the Northern part of Nigeria only.

Am i pained?yes.

But we Nigerian's, should continue to give our support to him, as i still believe one ASLEEP Buhari is still better than a THOUSAND Awake Jonathan.

I still support Buhari, but i will be at the sideline until all his Ministerial Lists is out.



[b]In addition to these: Professor Pat Utomi, Chris Ngige, Ogbonnaya Onu were far qualified for that position of SGF, I am actually very dissapointed in Mr President, I can't pretend all is well when actually is the other way round. Fellow Change agent we should deem it fit to criticise when necessary Criticism doesn't necessarily means one is an opposition.
The Only way Mr President can make amend right now is to make sure is Ministerial appointments are balanced infact should favour the state who are yet to produce any political appointment. Mr President though an honourable man full of integrity should prove is critics wrong once and for all.

I am a well thoroughbred yoruba and a strong member of the volunteer for change during campaign for Mr President, despite that I will not standby and support what is wrong, Whosoever is advising Mr President should kindly desist from doing so henceforth, he is simply dividing these country along religion and ethnic line, a bad signal is been sent, not healthy at all. For now I wish Mr President well....i know he meant well for Nigeria.



God Bless Bola Tinubu
God Bless President Buhari
God Bless VP Osinbajo
God Bless The Federal Republic Of Nigeria [/b]

I didn't vote PMB to give my kins man appointments. I voted for him to perform. This is my take as I posted on another thread:

gists:
May be you are right.
But at the moment - I DON'T GIVE A DAMN!
BTW I am Yoruba.
What on earth was my gain personally when OBJ was the president, Bankole was the speaker, now we have 2 principal slots at HOR and not to mention the VP from my state too.

This is what I care about:
Nigerian army establishes command in Sambisa
Nigerian airforce uproots BH
PMB orders clean up of Ogoni land
PMB approves 65 private refineries (if each refinery employs 100 people, that's a whole 6500 job!! not much but FAARRR better than compared to NIS scam that killed Nigerians)
Electricity supply hit all time high in Nigeria
Refineries working
etc....etc....

fulanimafia:
Exactly my point, that is the primary and core issue. However engaging his partners in progress, especially the SW, will no doubt improve the atmosphere for attaining those objectives.

May be you are right.
But at the moment - I DON'T GIVE A DAMN!
BTW I am Yoruba.
What on earth was my gain personally when OBJ was the president, Bankole was the speaker, now we have 2 principal slots at HOR and not to mention the VP from my state too.

This is what I care about:
Nigerian army establishes command in Sambisa
Nigerian airforce uproots BH
PMB orders clean up of Ogoni land
PMB approves 65 private refineries (if each refinery employs 100 people, that's a whole 6500 job!! not much but FAARRR better than compared to NIS scam that killed Nigerians)
Electricity supply hit all time high in Nigeria
Refineries working
etc....etc....