₦airaland Forum

they are full of Uncertainty

What are you thinking about again,


First time you meet him on towel,
with excuse he came to bath, with only a woman at home. that is pure trash.

Second time, you meet him on boxer, eating on the dinning table

guy, you catch someone red handed, you no do anything,


and you are here telling nairalander you are confuse.


am sure, you cnt get that opportunity to catch him red handed again.

You thief am

This one is more than Jamb Question

Former Minister of Information, Prince Tony Momoh in this interview speaks among others on the import of President Mohammadu Buhari’s visit to the United States of America and the deals high-wire politicking that landed the All Progressives Congress at the presidency.

The House voted in Ekweremadu as Deputy Senate President. We thank God that David Mark did not emerge the Senate President because they would have said that it is constitutional.

The House voted in Ekweremadu as Deputy Senate President. We thank God that David Mark did not emerge the Senate President because they would have said that it is constitutional.

We should give kudos to Tinubu because of his role in the influence that brought the PDP governors into APC. He wooed Saraki and Atiku and he knew how he went into the PDP and played all those games. I would tell you that two politicians that should be respected most in Nigeria today are Tinubu and Bisi Akande.

But I will also blame Tinubu for the crisis because having brought Saraki, Atiku and the five governors, you should know that it is not proper to think that Saraki, Dogara, Atiku, Kwankwaso will ever still be thinking of being PDP in APC. No. None of them is PDP any longer and they will ever remain APC. So, they should be so treated. What we owe Nigerians is delivery on our change mandate.

Read the full interview with the former minister on our website tomorrow…



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Question for the gods




You refuse to use your brain when in love, now you are asking Nairalander is love relly blind

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has disclosed the reasons why he allowed himself to be arrested by the Abacha regime despite many opportunities to escape and accept an offer of political asylum by the United States.

Obasanjo was among the opposition lights that were against the regime of the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, who ordered their arrest, trials and sentences but spared their lives due to international pressure.

Abacha was the most senior military officer in the illegal contraption called Interim National Government led by Chief Ernest Shonekan after the military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, was forced to resign over the historic annulment of the June 12 June, 1993 election won by Moshood Abiola, who later died in the military gulag.

In his newest controversial memoir, ‘My Watch’, he narrated his opposition to the Abacha regime which led him to the formation of National Unity Organisation which he intended to use to force Abacha to quit power.

According to his narrative, Obasanjo had been meeting with some leading politicians and non-politicians in every part of the country on the need to free the country from the jackboot of Abacha whom he said, “was so much below average as an officer that no serious attention was paid to him until he was made to announce the coup.

“I was not in doubt that Abacha would attempt to silence me. This was clear from his apparent ambition for life presidency of Nigeria in insatiable appetite for corruption; his looting directly from the Central Bank; his need to silence everyone that could oppose him in any form; his actions towards my close friends and associates and his close surveillance of me by his security both within and outside Nigeria.”

Obasanjo recalled how during his visit to Kenya for the funeral of the father of the opposition leader, Raila Odinga, where the Nigerian Embassy officials wrote a report indicting him, stating that “since Odinga was in opposition to the government of Kenya when he died, I had gone to Kenya to create problems for the Kenyan government by supporting the opposition, and the Nigerian government should restrain me from causing great problems between Nigeria and Kenya.”

Narrating further, Obasanjo said, “Rumours about Abacha taking action against me started to spread and ring louder and louder. I had no fear because I had done nothing to cause me fear or anxiety. I was about my life and my business unperturbed.”



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eleko1:
. If una dnt have skeleton in una cupboard,FEAR NOT EFCC .Thieves wailing wailers association

i wonder ooooooooo

Indications emerged on Friday that President Muhammadu Buhari would probe the Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta as part of the drives to fish out oil thieves under the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

Buhari, at an interactive session with Nigerians in the Diaspora at the Nigerian Embassy in Washington DC, the United States, during his four-day official visit to the country, accused some officials of the immediate past administration of stealing one million barrels of crude oil daily.

He said, “We have started getting documents where some of the senior people in government, former ministers, some of them operated as much as five accounts and were moving about one million barrels per day on their own. We have started getting those documents.

“I assure you that whichever documents we are able to get and subsequently trace the sale of the crude or transfer of money from ministries, departments, Central Bank of Nigeria, we will ask for the cooperation of those countries to return those monies to the Federation Accounts.

“And we will use those documents to arrest those people and prosecute them. This, I promise Nigerians.”

The Presidency and military sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told Saturday PUNCH that Buhari’s intention to probe Jonathan’s administration would be extended to the JTF in the Niger Delta.
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They said the JTF leaders during Jonathan’s administration as well as the current leadership would be interrogated with the aim of fishing out the oil thieves’ collaborators among its rank and file.

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, said the government was aware that if crude oil could be stolen in that magnitude established by the President, it could either be through connivance or through directives.

Adesina said that in an era of impunity, a directive could just be given and the commodity would be stolen.

Asked if the government would beam its searchlight on the JTF, the presidential spokesperson said everybody involved in the connivance would have questions to answer.

The JTF, which is composed of troops of the army, navy, airforce and the mobile police, was set up in 2004 to restore order in the Niger Delta.

It has metamorphosed from “Operation Flush” to “Operation Restore Hope” to the current “Operation Pulo Shield.”

It was set up to prevent oil theft, illegal refining of petroleum products and other criminal activities in the Niger Delta’s 3,014 creeks and waterways.

But there have been allegations that oil theft under the past administration was done under the watchful eyes of the JTF personnel and other agencies involved in security in the Niger Delta.

Backing the proposed probe, the Civil Liberties Organisation in Akwa Ibom State urged the Federal Government to dismantle the JTF.

The state CLO chairman, Mr. Clifford Thomas, said if the JTF personnel were found culpable, they should be punished, including their civilian collaborators.

Thomas told one of our correspondents in Uyo on Thursday that there were four sets of people that might have connived with the JTF to commit the heinous crime.

He said, “Those involved in the oil theft in the country include the military men and their boys; the politicians who aided them; the civil servants, especially those in the Nigerian Labour Congress stream, and the private profiteers (the businessmen), who are parts of the entire process. No ordinary Nigerian from all indication partakes in the mess.

“These are the criminals; they have been doing the illegal business for time immemorial. These people have been perpetuating the criminal activity against the Nigerian masses and the government.”

Thomas, however, expressed the CLO’s readiness to support Buhari in the fight against corruption in the country.

He said, “The CLO will support Buhari to ensure that all those who stole the public fund that should have been enough to build 200 industries in Akwa Ibom State and other parts of the country are punished and the money recovered.

“All the people involved in the crime, whether they are former ministers, clerics, civil servants or businessmen should be brought to justice.”

The CLO chairman urged the Federal Government not to accept plea bargaining from financial crime offenders.

“The government must recover everything they stole and still send them to jail,” he said.

In the same vein, a social commentator and rights activist, Dr. Jackson Omenazu, said it would be difficult for anybody to deny that operatives of the JTF were not involved in oil theft in the Niger Delta.

Omenazu, who is the Chancellor of the International Society for Social Justice and Human Rights, explained that there was no way oil theft would have continued in the region if the security operatives were diligent enough.

He said, “It is correct and evidence abound that the JTF operatives are involved in oil theft. I have witnessed even where the lower rank and file get money from oil deals and buy more than 15 vehicles.”

A rights activist and Coordinator, Environmental Right Action, Mr. Alagoa Morris, said multinational oil companies were also culpable in oil theft in the Niger Delta.

“It is sad to note that while the JTF operatives still compel us to raise our hands before passing wherever there is a flow station in the creeks, criminal activities such as sea piracy, illegal bunkering and kidnapping take place in the creeks.

“As for oil theft, that is a crime which the JTF and oil companies are also culpable. Even the JTF personnel will agree that they are part of this crime in two ways: aiding and abetting and setting vessels loaded with crude oil ablaze, leading to further degradation of the already battered region’s environment.

“As for the protection of lives and property in the Niger Delta are concerned, I see the JTF showing seriousness only when the officers and men are attacked. It is only then we hear how JTF would chase the criminals or alleged perpetrators to their hideouts and either kill or arrest them.”

A public affairs analyst, Mr. Igoni Davies, suggested holistic review of the JTF’s activities to minimise the oil theft.

He said, “The government’s efforts to protect major oil installations are not achieving the set goals and for the menace to be minimised, there should be a holistic review of the activities of the security agencies patrolling the waterways, particularly the oil and gas region.”

Efforts to get reactions from the JTF Commander, Maj.-Gen. Emmanuel Atewe, were futile as his mobile phone rang out. The commander also did not respond to a text message sent to his mobile phone.

But, the Coordinator, Joint Media Campaign Centre, Joint Military Task Force, Lt.-Col Ado Isa, said the JTF was not aware of any plan by Buhari to probe the outfit.

Isa said as far as JTF was concerned; it was operating within its mandate.

He said, “The JTF was established to maintain security and to fight against oil theft and other illegalities in the Niger Delta.

“Niger Delta consists of nine states and it has five sectors. We have a mandate and we operate within the mandate. The JTF declared zero tolerance for oil-related theft within the waterways.

“JTF is everywhere. It has made many arrests and those arrested were prosecuted by relevant prosecuting agencies. There is no way the JTF personnel will connive with ministers or others to perpetrate illegalities.

“But where JTF men are found culpable in any criminal activity, such person should be severely punished to serve as a deterrent to others. The one allegedly involving past ministers, JTF has nothing to do with that as we have no business with exporting crude oil.”

He said the JTF recently impounded 2000 metric tonnes vessel laden with thousands of litres of illegal products.





http://www.punchng.com/news/oil-theft-buhari-to-probe-military-jtf-in-niger-delta/

Foreign reserves hit $31.5bn following blockage of leakages
•P/Harcourt, Warri refineries resume operations, Kaduna begins August
•Locally refined petroleum products may hit 20m litres August
•CBN remains firm on monetary policies


PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-graft war has started yielding dividends. Following blockage of leakages, Nigeria’s foreign reserves have increased from $28.57 billion at the end of May to $31.53 billion as of July 22, 2015, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, disclosed, yesterday.

Also, the country will very soon reduce importation of refined petroleum products significantly because Port Harcourt and Warri refineries have started refining products and the Kadua refinery will resume operations in August.

Emefiele made the disclosures while briefing the press at the end of the Monetary Policy Committee, MPC, meeting, in Abuja.

$ 31. 5 b Foreign Reserves

The CBN governor said gross official reserves increased from $28.57 billion at the end of May to $31.53 billion as at July 22, 2015, reflecting the blockage of leakages as well as the bank’s management policies.


He declined to give details of how the leakages were blocked but said that some of the earnings from which some agencies used to make deductions for their operations before remitting the balance to the coffers were paid in full.

His words: “It is true that Mr President, based on his insistence that leakages must be blocked, there have been serious attempts to block leakages both in Naira and in dollars. Some funds have been trapped in banks and that is the reason there is a vigorous effort to ensure that we all embrace the Single Treasury Account where all revenues collected must come to the centre and after all the revenues have come to the centre, then based on the budget that has been approved for any agency of government, whatever is due to them to meet their operational expenses would be given.

“But first point is that all revenues must come to the centre. In the course of these, yes, I can confirm that there were leakages that have been blocked and as a result we have seen some funds trapped in some areas now coming into the centre and that is part of the reason you see the reserves build up.”

Refineries

Mr. Emefiele disclosed that the CBN and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, have been holding talks towards significantly reducing fuel importation which takes a lot of foreign exchange.

“Let me confirm that the CBN and the NNPC have held a couple of meetings and I am aware that Port-Harcourt and Warri have started refining petroleum products. We are expecting that in the month of August, Kaduna Refinery will begin refining petroleum products.

“Hopefully, as they ramp up production, they would be able to get to about 19 to 20 million litres that they can produce to meet our daily consumption level of about 30 million litres. Our interest as CBN is that by this act alone we are going to record a drastic reduction in the importation of petroleum products which will ultimately help our reserve position and help us in our mandate of strengthening the exchange rate”, he said

Tight monetary policy, retains 13% MPR

He said the CBN has retained the Monetary Policy Rate, MPR, at 13 Per cent and equally left the symmetric corridor of 200 basis points around it.

Emefiele added that the Cash Reserve Ratio, CRR, was retained at 31 per cent.

He said monetary policy would remain tight because of the high liquidity in the system, noting that the drivers of the current upward inflationary spiral were of a transient nature and mostly outside the direct control of monetary policy.

“Consequently, the opportunity for further policy manoeuvre remains largely constrained in the absence of supporting fiscal measures. It therefore, urged for coordination of monetary, fiscal and structural policies to stimulate output growth, and stabilize the exchange rate,” he said.

Rising inflation

On inflation, Mr. Emefiele expressed concern about “the gradual but steady increase in headline inflation up to June 2015, and noted that this reflected a rise in both the core and food components of inflation.”

Core inflation rose to 8.4 per cent in June from 8.3 per cent in May, and food inflation increased to 10.0 per cent from 9.8 per cent, over the same period.

The governor said “the up-tick in year-to-date inflation rates were traceable to transient factors such as energy, arising from scarcity of petroleum products around the country, poor electricity supply and increased demand for transportation and food, from the build-up to the general elections and the ensuing Easter and Sallah celebrations.”

Naira is well priced, no more devaluation

Addressing the issue of the value of the Naira at the foreign exchange market, the CBN boss also said that at $1- N 197, the nation’s currency was well-priced, foreclosing any new plan to devalue it.

He said that more than 95 per cent of transactions that take place in the financial system that involve procuring foreign exchange were done at the inter-bank segment of the market and that as such the Bureau de Change segment could not be relied upon for the value of the Naira.

At the BDC, Naira exchanged at about N244 -$1 at the middle of the week.

The governor said Nigeria was the only country in the world where a Central Bank was supporting BDCs.




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Senators elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party have warned the Federal Government against using the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to intimidate them, vowing to resist such attempt.

They asked President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that some people do not use his name to misuse state machinery in fighting their perceived political opponents in the guise of waging anti-corruption war.

A statement on Friday by Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, on behalf of PDP Like Mind Senators, said any attempt to unleash the anti-graft agencies on members of the National Assembly as a result of the leadership crisis rocking the legislative chamber would not only be constitutionally and lawfully resisted, but could have dire consequences on governance in the country.

The statement read, “As much as we are not against the anti-corruption agencies performing their statutory duties, the invitation by EFCC to the wife of the Senate President, Mrs. Toyin Saraki, clearly indicated that the threat by a group within the National Assembly to use all means to fight the National Assembly leadership is now being carried out.

“Nigerians should ask the EFCC what it was waiting for all this while before realising that it would need to invite Mrs. Saraki when she left the Government House with her husband in 2011. And why should the invitation come a few days after a senator threatened that his group would bring the senate president down?
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“We also think that the same witch-hunt that the wife of the senate president is suffering now is the same thing happening to his deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, who the police have been disturbing. But at the right time, we will jointly make our opinion known on the harassment of our leaders.”

The Kwara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress on Friday said the invitation of Mrs. Toyin Saraki, wife of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission was politically motivated.

But during a media briefing in Ilorin after the state APC’s executive meeting, the state APC Chairman, Alhaji Ishola Balogun-Fulani, described the EFCC’s invitation as a calculated attempt to dent the image of the senate president and his wife.

He cautioned EFCC to avoid being used for political vendetta.

Balogun-Fulani said, “The EFCC’s invitation of Mrs. Saraki was a shock to the APC in Kwara State because five years after her husband left office as the governor, the anti-graft agency thought it wise to invite his wife for questioning.”





http://www.punchng.com/news/dont-intimidate-us-with-efcc-pdp-senators-warn-fg/

Midehi:
anything trending is not my style, i always like to be different.

If you say so,

I believe you

Midehi:
i pity those that will wear this kind of pants.

MzDesire:
end time pants indeed....

By the time, this became trending,

am sure una go join, not to be left behind.

Trust very important in any relationship.

for Six years, she kept that away from you.


Men, human heart is very shallow.

Good,


Saraki go and mend fence.

No need self,

as sai baba as assure us of a level playing ground, on corruption.

even if you belong to APC, nobody will be spear when it comes to corruption.

waiting for when BAT the JAGABAN will be invited by EFCC

for real, in 24 days

Where is the remaining 5

raayah:
I tire for una oh.

Ladies are independent, working for their money .. we call them bad, they are not wife-material.

Ladies decide to stay at home while husband brings money ... we say they are gold diggers.

You people cannot be satisfied.

For the fact that a lady is working, and can afford any luxury she want in this life, does not mean she doesn't need a crown.

(CNN) It is typical for an American president to invite a nascent African head of state to the White House, especially less than one month after the latter's inauguration.

To some observers, therefore, U.S. President Barack Obama's invitation of his Nigerian counterpart, Muhammadu Buhari, for a White House parley scheduled for July 20 would seem to be an aberration and a surprise. But an analysis of both leaders' circumstances suggests that such a meeting is a no-brainer.

Economic and war legacies

Buhari and Obama were elected during a period of economic turmoil and distress. When Obama was elected in 2008 the US economy was in dire straits and reminiscent of contemporary Nigerian economy. With unemployment rate hovering around 10%, the U.S. economy was losing 800,000 jobs monthly. Budget deficits were spiraling, pushing the country's debt stock to unsustainable levels.

Like Buhari, Obama not only met an empty treasury but was also saddled with a whopping debt burden of about US$10 trillion -- or 72% of GDP.

Both presidents also inherited expensive and drawn-out wars which they pledged to end. Ending the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq was a major mantra in Obama's election campaigns in 2008. In Buhari's campaign a major platform was the promise to end the scourge of Boko Haram.

Just as Nigerians clamored for change during the last elections, Americans desperately wanted change in 2008. When people clamor for change, they're taking a big risk.

But, looking back, many Americans would say that the risk they took in 2008 was well-calculated. The U.S. economy has rebounded. Unemployment has fallen from 10% in 2009 to the current level of about 5%. The U.S. budget deficit is now less than half of what it was when Obama first took office.

Obama has also significantly reduced the presence of American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. In a sense, he has virtually fulfilled all his election promises well ahead of the end of his presidential tenure.



Stimulus versus austerity

Given the striking similarities in both leaders' circumstances, Buhari would do well to borrow Obama's economic "magic wand." If he does, he'll be surprised to learn that Obama turned the U.S. economy around not through austerity measures, but by spending more..

A few days after his election, Obama appointed Harvard economist and former Treasury secretary Larry Summers as his chief economic adviser. At the same time he announced his intention to launch an economic stimulus program at a scale never seen before in the country.

Obama justified the stimulus program by referring to the severity of the economic challenges he inherited. Despite push-backs from Republicans in Congress, he managed to implement a stimulus program worth almost US$1 trillion. His strategy was predicated on the premise that the way to resuscitate the economy is not through belt-tightening, but via expansionary fiscal and monetary policies.

Obama's stimulus strategy focused on "shovel-ready" projects that created jobs almost instantaneously, as well as on programs that delivered immediate cash to Americans. The projects and programs include infrastructure, education, health, renewable energy, tax incentives, unemployment benefits and other social welfare provisions.

Shortly after Obama's inauguration, Americans began to receive stimulus cheques in their mailboxes or get temporary tax relief. As an unapologetic proponent of "Middle Class Economics" -- the notion that a virile middle class is a sine qua non for a robust economy -- much of Obama's stimulus money went to middle-class Americans.



Buhari should resist belt-tightening

Though Buhari has yet to formally unveil his economic blueprint, he should resist the temptation of embarking on belt-tightening as an end in itself. His administration appears to be drumming-up the need to reduce the cost of governance. While this is an unassailable proposition, he should be circumspect about what he intends to cut.

In the process of cutting costs care should be taken not to jettison investments and projects needed to enhance the country's productive capacity. Buhari should consider increasing spending in sectors, projects and programs that boost the economy, generate employment and promote inclusive growth. These sectors include infrastructure, labor-intensive manufacturing, agro-processing, health and education.

Nigeria is arguably a country where a massive economic stimulus programme is urgently needed. It has a large stock of human and natural resources that are grossly underutilized. The informal sector is bloated, with millions of underemployed youths. Most of Nigeria's graduates are unemployed or engaged in menial jobs.

Meanwhile, there is a huge infrastructural deficit that can be partly filled through public works projects executed with direct labor. These projects would provide temporary employment to unskilled workers, enabling them to gain experience needed for permanent jobs.


Domestic borrowing can fund stimulus in Nigeria

Buhari has the pedigree to shepherd a massive stimulus program. He's known to abhor profligacy, which means that stimulus money will be spent prudently. He detests graft and corruption, which implies that stimulus funds won't disappear.

This depends on whether Buhari will be able to prevent those around him from corruptly enriching themselves -- something his predecessor failed to do. Like Obama, he cares deeply for the downtrodden, which suggests he'll focus stimulus spending on job creation and economic empowerment.

Some may wonder how the Buhari administration could possibly finance stimulus spending. After all, he has inherited an empty treasury and faces dwindling oil revenues and a volatile global oil market.

But Nigeria could follow the example of Asian countries that financed their stimulus programs through domestic borrowing (mainly by issuing government bonds). Borrowing money domestically in one's own currency is not nearly as problematic as external borrowing.

Financing stimulus spending via domestic borrowing comes with a price. It may crowd-out domestic private investment by raising interest rates. But this would be temporary. The increase in aggregate demand generated by stimulus spending would subsequently crowd-in investment in the production of goods and services. This ultimately will generate employment opportunities.

One of the usual concerns about stimulus spending is the risk of inflation. But unemployment, economic disempowerment and youth restiveness are bigger threats to stability than inflation in the short to medium term.

Also, given the huge slack resources in Nigeria, it is doubtful that stimulus spending would precipitate hyperinflation in the short to medium term. In any case, the Central Bank of Nigeria has the necessary monetary instruments for reigning in inflation should it become a challenge.


Obama stuck to his convictions

One other lesson Buhari should learn from Obama is that it is better for a leader to stick with his or her convictions rather than let opinion polls or emotional sentiments drive their economic policies.

Some pundits were dismissive and derisive of Obama's stimulus strategy when it was launched. The rest, as they say, is history.

Obama stuck with his stimulus strategy and eventually prevailed. At a recent rally in Minnesota organized to showcase the good news about the U.S. economy, Obama proudly proclaimed that "Middle Class Economics does work!"

It remains to be seen how history will judge the Buhari presidency, and whether he will be the quintessential Obama.


http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/20/opinions/onyeiwu-buhari-obama-conversation/index.html?sr=cnnifb

Result of Gender equality

Court Wedding contribute to it.

Ladies been forming Miss Independent.

Peer influence, major factor, they refuse to learn from our fore fathers, All in the name of Civilization.

victorels:
So he is there to do what GEJ did. Why always compare every state regarding some inappropriate act by APC, Buhari and Change Chanters with GEJ?
The president is there for change. You should advocate that rather than trying to prove that GEJ did it too.

Mr park well,

where were you guys before now,
when GEJ divide the country on ethnicity and religion.

now we have someone trying to thread softly, you are hear with your loose mouth ranting, ever since PMB have been sworn in, hw many international trip like this have he embark on, why dont you let him make three of such trip before talking carelessly.

victorels:
Nigeria is an APC affair now. This is why the President has to Pack all the APC governors to the US to negotiate with the US President and his allies.

Is their anything wrong with Going with Nyesom Wike, And other Niger Delta Governors who manage the region where our resources are mostly taped from.

Will those Governors that went with Nr. President negotiate unbehalve of the Governors that manage those regions.

Many state Governors that has nothing to do in the US are part of the entourage. What a aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Oga When GEJ was there, did he ever travel with opposition governor.


so why the rant

The Federal Ministry of Health and the American Cancer Society have unveiled the Pain-Free Hospital Initiative in four pilot federal tertiary health facilities.

The Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Mr Linus Awute, who launched the project in Abuja on Thursday, said the project would improve access to essential pain medicines in Nigeria.

Awute said the initiative was a one-year hospital-wide quality improvement intervention to integrate pain treatment into service delivery by providing education for patients and staff, raising motivation, awareness and documenting pain levels.

“It will equip staff to assess pain and provide high quality first line treatment,” Awute said.

He said the initiative targets large national referral and teaching hospitals to provide simple accessible training for physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other health care providers.

According to him, the four hospitals selected for the pilot projects are University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, University College Ibadan, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Enugu and the National Hospital Abuja.

“It is envisioned that the one-year pilot project will further refine the design of the project model for effective replication in other federal tertiary health facilities across the country,” he said.

Awute said in 2012, no fewer than 177, 000 people were estimated to have died in moderate or severe pains from HIV or cancer.

“In the same year, the utilisation of narcotic medicines such as morphine was enough to treat 266 people, representing 0.2 per cent coverage in pain treatment need.

“In response to this challenge, the ministry approved the collaboration with the American Cancer Society’s Treat the Pain Programme to improve access to essential pain medicine,” said Awute.

The permanent Secretary said morphine was now on the essential medicine list, adding that 19.2Kg of pulverized morphine was imported to treat 3000 patients in Nigeria.
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He said the American Cancer Society ‘Treat the Pain’ would provide technical support to the ministry in this regards.

In her address, the Director Food and Drug in the ministry, Dr Vera Ogbechi, said the need for the morphine-equivalent analgesics in Nigeria was 1,122Kg.

She said this was based on the annual deaths from HIV and Cancer and not including pain from other causes.

Ogbechi said the collaboration would address challenges of availability of the drugs, insufficient clinical training, and poor access to health care.





http://www.punchng.com/news/fg-unveils-pain-free-hospital-initiatives/

sotilicious:
When is there ever going to be someone that can take you out for lunch or dinner,chat with you and not want something in return??Am so bored and can't do anything about it.. I need that God sent to make my day...a lunch or dinner date won't be a bad idea....ermmm movies toooo...#justthinkingaloud#

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Funny

Everybody get price, Lolz

Lolz


he ask for the diff now, so why is he depress

are u serious.


Bros sharp guy no be thief.


turn your hand to the other side,

why are u to see the manager, for what, to report them or what.

small pikin blood still they run for your vein ba.

your friend sharp pass you jo, lolz


Next

If not for the slash in salary, it will have been better for you to move to ibadan,

again if the reduction is still not much, i will still advise you to move to ibadan.

reason
1. Far less congestion on the road
2. you dnt have to wake up by 4 or 5 to start going to work
3. return back home on time
4. Tfare compare to Lag is drastically Low
5. Food item at Ibadan cheaper compare to Lag
6. House rent very cheap compare to lag, xcept you wnt to stay in Hibrow area of ib, like Oluyole estate, Challenge, Bodija estate, Akobo, Ring road, yet they are still affordable compare to Lag.
7. You get Value for your money
8. Social life is on the increase in Ib now, so you virtually miss ntin xcept for beach alone. two Shoprite store, ventura Cinema, and many more.


My brother, you will spend far less in ib compare to lag.



for your education, you have nothing to loose,
UI PG form is out, you can go for it, if it not close yet, but am nt sure if it still on sale or not,
Again OAU Ife is jst 40Min drive from Ibadan,

and personally, i even prefer those sch to UNILAG,

OAU PG form is not out yet, kindly watch out for it,

with 70k Wages, for an average person, you will live like a KING in ibadan

elijah2u:
expecting more, cos i want wike out of that office.

Why now

Reports reaching DAILY POST has it that there has been a new twist to the power tussle in Rivers state as a National Industrial Court in Yenagoa has ordered the immediate reinstatement of elected Chairmen of 22 Local government areas in Rivers state.

The Court also ordered the Inspector General of Police to enforce the directive with immediate effect.

The 22 Local government Chairmen under the auspices of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria, ALGON had approached the National Industrial court to obtain an order restraining the Rivers state government “and its agents from dissolving” them

Recall that a Federal High court in Port Harcourt presided over by Justice Lambo Akanbi had set aside the Local government election that ushered in the 22 Chairmen.



http://dailypost.ng/2015/07/13/breaking-court-reinstates-elected-lg-chairmen-in-rivers-state/