The ratio or relativity speak for themselves in saner climes. Figures are not forged here. Other health workers earning this or that is ambiguous. Compare the ratios of doctors earnings to that of a nurses'; doctors to pharmacist and get the picture clear. Argument does not solve these problems but facts. there is no need to insult anyone, it is unbecoming. I have gone to dig this out to educate myself and both parties. It is no good comparing a doctor's earnings to a lab technician's as the basis of widened disparity.

Good day.

constructive criticisms are most welcome.

condemning people to hell if it is true. genital test cannot entirely tell if 'anything' has happened. dead on arrival.

one thing is clear herein.

many of these non- doctor comment writers have not seen the document revealing the anticipated salary and how they compare to those of doctors. most comments here are based on heresay. Get the facts and spare your energy.

The FG would do the needful. No argument.

men supposedly interact with women and anything like dogs would and sometimes eat shit


women eat any unsuspecting animal(man) dry in no time and flee

I guess your thought. it is funny though.

lazy Nigerian youth..... paid agent.
the president was right to some extent
SMH......

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one purple patch predicted the correct scores earlier. kudos.

once you are not a doctor, your thought become less pleomorphic and more pathologic whenever they are palpated. there is nothing bizarre about the purported ban. There are papillae of hospital components that need to be banned also to restore sanity. Making it monodermal is carcinomatous degeneration whose etiology may well be drawn from plexuses of hospital staff whose innervation is ophthalmologically drawn from protean pattern and abnormal anastomosis. or it may well be diversionary from FG point. to create phobia.

but the cortical matter they are stimulating will see it to the end. everyone has right to his own opinion. welcome development though. The heart will do its part, the vessels will do their bit.

congrats prof.
I served at Al-Hikma university as a youth core when he was still the VC.
He is a good man.

blame game. the man of course was wrong. because death has occurred.

an angry woman is like a wicked devil, don't argue with her, don't claim superiority over her, don't tell her I will beat u, say I'm sorry even if she was wrong, above all flee until the anger comes down. many chemicals in their body are inexplicable. to challenge them to fight is inviting trouble for yourself. she will welcome the challenge even if she will be maimed. some men are hot tempered and falls easily to this temptation. in their anger, just flee. it is not a shame, it is maturity. gently push her aside if she blocks your way and flee. after the inferno, you won't believe the same woman will be an angel.

they are special being. men and women are not just the same and can never think or act alike. remember things began to change for Adam when eve appeared. God knows why.

Respect women. find what they like and selectively do the good ones. be ready to explain why you cannot do the others.
they can bring out the goodness or the monster in you. be prudent.

may the soul of the departed rest

in as much as wife-beating is condemned, some women just desire it. if u say I will deal with u, who told u your opponent will be smiling when the deal begins.

a woman requested cash from husband which he denied because it was not for important reason, to attend a party,. early in the morning, the woman blocked the husband and refused to let him go outside until he submit the cash. the man managed to escape. next day , the woman repeated the show now holding a knife. the man now know it is a matter of life and death, dashed around like a wounded lion, collect the knife from the wife and stabbed her so hard and she bled to death. everybody around came to feast on the man.

it is easy and safe to remain on one side without asking the question what did she do.

men should know, with little apology to women folk, that most women , whether she is a pastor or prophet or president,are naturally parrots and don't want to loose any case. the prudent needs wisdom to control it and avoid anger induced irreparable damage.

may her soul rest in peace

sending him out to go to hell or heaven

what does expired drug do to the body?
can expired drug be likened to expired food?

let's thank God, the strike was nipped in the bud. the mother of all strike would have ensued this week. it is not weakness on NLC part, it is rationality. many of the notices pasted on Friday to join the strike in the north east are now null and void.

Generation that waits for prophesy in lieu of the truth , will be obese from ingesting falsehood. The only true prophesy is the word of GOD. If truly he exist that concoct the index subject, his acquaintance should show him the spelling of limitation before the law decides to take its cause.
food for thought.

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The Nigerian Medical Association on
Sunday suspended its planned strike over
alleged breach of agreement reached with
the Federal Government especially on
some health sector challenges, workplace
conditions and the conditions of service
of doctors.
The association however said it would
meet with President Goodluck Jonathan
on February 7 2014 to reappraise the
situation adding that it would resume the
strike if nothing positive was done by
government.
The association was scheduled to
commence the strike action on January 6.
The President of the NMA, Dr. Osahon
Enabulele who disclosed this during a
press briefing in Abuja directed health
practitioners especially Doctors and
Dental practitioners in government
Hospitals nationwide to suspend
withdrawal of services to pave way for the
final resolution of the crises.
According to him, the decision to suspend
the action was in appreciation of the
intervention of Delta State Governor, Dr.
Emmanuel Uduaghan; Secretary to the
Government of the Federation, Senator
Anyim Pius Anyim; Minister of Health,
Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu; Minister of
Labour and Productivity, Mr. Emeka
Nwogu and Nigerians.
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IYA NGBALI: Doctors should go ahead with their strike my landlord who is aginst me marrying his only child has just been admitted into the hospital and he is on life support,if the strike should commence as planned,definitely my landlord would not come back home alive and the coast would be cleared for me to marry his daughter and inherit his wealth. Nairalanders get ready to party with me

Doctors I know are not that bad. They are ethically bound to look for and give their patient ,on admission or in critical condition, an alternative care by referring them to private health facilities. The disadvantage here is essentially the cost of care viz a viz the conmon man.

i will buy jamb or utme form now. i want to study medicine and stop complaining about them. i heared the form is cheap. or contest for governor and stop complaining about politician or if i can merge APC and PDP, I shall contest for president. Anyhow i will try. this rivalry is protracted.

na me be me. jjohn

Dear Goodluck Jonathan
on december 31, 2013 at 1:00 am in femi
aribisala
I have decided to write you this 18-page
letter BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. If I don’t
write it now, people may start considering
you as a good president; forgetting that I
am the only good president Nigeria has
ever had. There is no one like me. As far
as Nigeria is concerned, I am the Baba of
the Babas. I am the president of the
presidents. Before me, Nigeria had no
president. After me, there will be no other
president.
I have had occasion in the past to warn
you, especially when I nominated you as
vice-president to Yar’Adua and then
campaigned for you to be president, that
under no circumstances should you
outshine me. I did not put you there to do
the things I could not do. Neither did I put
you there to succeed where I failed. I put
you there because my fourth-term agenda
failed. Therefore, I needed someone to be
a figure-head, while I continue to rule from
behind the scene.
But since you became president, you have
not been following my orders. I have
warned you again and again to desist from
this abuse of the authority I gave you. But
you have refused to listen. So you now
think you are actually the President of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria. I still de
laugh! You are not the president. I am the
president. If you continue to disobey me,
and to promulgate policies that put me in a
bad light when compared to you, I will see
to it that you don’t even complete your
first-term, how much more have a second-
term.
I am already in discussions with the APC to
see if we can have you impeached. Did you
not read in the papers that APC leaders
came to my house the other day? When
they were here, we all ate pounded yam
with egusi soup. Even Buhari had a second
helping and asked for the recipe. You
better read the writing on the wall. I notice
you have quickly returned the missing 49
billion dollars after I brought the matter to
the notice of fellow Nigerians; but that
won’t help you. I will have you know that
we are already training 1000 snipers who
will puncture all the tyres of your
supporters. Therefore, if you know what is
good for you, you better start acting as the
puppet president I put you there to be.
How dare you, Goodluck? How dare you
build almajiri schools in the North? Why
didn’t you suggest that to me while I was in
office? How dare you address the NEPA
problem when I could not? What exactly
are you trying to prove? You think you are
better than me? Don’t you know that you
would have remained a striking university
lecturer if it had not been for me? How
dare you appoint a competent man to be
Minister of Agriculture? Now the man is
going around getting awards for his
policies. Which policies? I am the one who
revolutionized the agric sector in Nigeria.
When I became president, I had only one
farm. By the time I left office, I had over
six farms in different parts of the country.
Is that not progress? How many farms do
you have?
You can never be better than me. The
corruption in my government was far more
than yours. You have nothing to compare
with my infamous Siemens and Haliburton
scandals. You don’t even have the
gumption to buy a Toyota Land Cruiser for
your mistress. Chinua Achebe said, “One of
the truest test of integrity is its blunt refusal
to be compromised.” You will soon find
that this statement cannot be applied to
me. I am above it.
How dare you release AlMustapha from
prison after 14 years when you know I want
him to stay there for the rest of his natural
life? I give you my word; you are going to
regret that decision. How dare you
convene a national conference when I
specifically refused to do so? Are you
trying to make me look bad? Did you even
get my approval before agreeing to it? You
are a very disrespectful man. Do you think
that you, a minority nonentity from the
South-South, could have risen to be
President of the country had it not been
for me? Have you forgotten so soon, the
extent I went in order to ensure that you
are where you are today? There was only
bad luck in Nigeria until I, in my infinite
wisdom, bequeathed good luck on the
country.
You ungrateful man! If you don’t stop all
these irritating policies, I will declare a
national state of emergency. Nonsense!
You are supposed to obey your elders.
Henceforth, Goodluck Jonathan, you must
obey me. Otherwise, I will show you
pepper. I will pour sand into your gari. I
will put tea in your coffee. You can no
longer be trusted; that is why you will only
get a second-term over my dead body. I
need to get someone in Aso Rock who will
do what I say. I already have your
replacement in mind. I don’t intend to
make the same mistake three times. I will
take him to a shrine under Olumo Rock to
swear an iron-clad oath to do whatever I
say. Any flagrant disregard of my authority,
and he will not be able to speak English
and Hausa again.
People close to you, if not you yourself,
have been asking: “What does Baba want?”
What a stupid question. I want to be
president of Nigeria again! I want to be
president! Half a dozen African presidents
have spoken to me and assured me that I
am the only president they recognize in
Nigeria. Half a dozen of them said their
only wish for Nigeria is that I should return
to Aso Rock. Of course, yes. Mugabe is still
there. Why not me? It is not my will but
providence has determined that the
presidency is my birthright. I fought for
this country. Single-handed, I kept Nigeria
together during the civil-war. You cannot
sideline me. I put you there: I can remove
you. I made you: I can unmake you. You
are not the Messiah of Nigeria. I am the
Messiah. Don’t you forget it! I want
nothing personally from you but that you
obey me at all times.
When I changed the constitution of our
great party, I made sure I would continue
to control things by inserting a clause which
guaranteed that I am the only one qualified
to be the Chairman of the Board of
Trustees. But as chairman, I was not given
the recognition I deserve as the father of
the party. Therefore, I tendered my
resignation. Imagine my surprise when you
had the audacity to accept it. You are such
an impudent man. If you knew your place,
you would have recognized that my
resignation was just a protest. You were
supposed to send the elders of the party to
beg me to stay on; a plea I would have
graciously accepted. But like the ungrateful
son that you are, you accepted my
resignation. And now, you have Tony
Anenih occupying a post that rightfully
belongs to me.
Your unlimited ambition became clear to
me when the National Chairman of the
party said he never does anything without
your approval. So you now see yourself as
the Leader of the party. Never! See where
it has got you now. A number of governors
have resigned from the party and taken
APC. If you don’t behave, another set will
resign and take aspirin. The PDP has lost
its majority in the House. There is talk of
impeachment; and you are no longer
sleeping at night. It serves you right. I fully
intend to teach you a lesson you will never
forget. By the time I have finished with
you, you will run out of the country and
seek political asylum in Equatorial Guinea.
It is not surprising that you have not been
able to eradicate the scourge of Boko
Haram from Nigeria. You don’t have
military experience like I have. Under my
watch, Bola Ige, Marshal Harry and others
were surgically removed from the scene.
Similarly, I would have finished Boko
Haram within three months. I understand
the violence. I am fully cognizant of the
root, stem and branches of the underlying
causes. But I will not share any of this with
you as long as you refuse to make an
unequivocal statement that you will not
pursue a second-term.
Unlike you, as president of our great
country, I was dynamic and resourceful. I
exterminated trouble-makers from Odi and
Zaki Biam. I spent $16 billion dollars
restoring NEPA to its enviable heights. I
committed 300 billion naira rebuilding all
the federal highways in the East alone. I
restored the country’s refineries. I raised
the price of petrol several times. I rigged
the most amazing election in the history of
the country. I conducted the first widely-
accepted national census. I could go on
and on but my secretary has to go home.
In short, I was the great president you can
never be. So if you think a neophyte like
you can compete with me; think again!
Stop taking me for granted. You don’t
want to be in my bad books. I don’t
forgive my enemies. You will regret this for
the rest of your life. I will show you how
much of a nuisance I can be. I will
embarrass you everywhere. I will tell as
many lies about you as I can. I will write
public letters to you every week. I will copy
the next one to the Secretary-General of the
United Nations.
Never you forget: I dey kampe!
Accept, ungrateful Mr. President, the
assurances of my highest disapproval.
Baba the Baba.
P.S. I shall be sharing the contents of this
letter with all the newspaper houses in
Nigeria and Ghana. I will also be copying
my very good friend Governor Diepreye
Alamieyeseigha.
By Femi A..

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Jonathan drags Obasanjo
to rights commission
over criminal
allegations

President Jonathan Goodluck yesterday
submitted himself to the National Human
Rights Commission, NHRC, for probe over
criminal allegations against him by former
President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Former President Obasanjo had written an
18-page open letter to Jonathan, accusing
him of incompetence, engaging in anti-
party activities, ethnicism and training
about 1,000 snipers ahead of the 2015
polls.
Jonathan, who denied the allegations in his
response, is specifically inviting the rights
commission to unravel the truth in the
allegation that his government had begun
training over 1,000 snipers to terminate his
political opponents.
In a letter to the commission, President
Jonathan is seeking for a thorough
investigation of the allegations against him,
touching on alleged human rights abuses.
The letter, signed by the Attorney-General
of the Federation, Mr. Mohammed Adoke,
SAN, on the directive of Jonathan, had
already been submitted to NHRC.
The letter dated December 23, 2013 was
submitted yesterday. Sources close to the
Presidency said that similar letters had
been written to the Independent Corrupt
Practices and Other Related Offences
Commission, ICPC, and the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
The two anti-graft agencies are to probe
allegations of economic crimes and official
corruption against the Jonathan’s
administration as contained in Obasanjo’s
letter.

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Following the release by the
Confederation of African Football (CAF)
of the list of Top 10 African players who
are in contention for the 2013 African
Footballer of the Year Award, football
pundits have been making various
permutations on who the likely winner
will be. Expectations are high on who
should be the next King of African
football with different analysts around
and beyond the continent advancing
varied justifications for their preferred
candidate. Who deserves to wear the
crown? Will it be John Mikel Obi or the
reigning African Footballer of the Year
Yaya Toure? Or will it be Asamoah
Gyan or Didier Drogba? Who out of the
ten will be unveiled as the king of the
continent’s football at the 2013 Glo CAF
Awards Gala Night holding at the
Convention Centre, Eko Hotel and
Suites, Lagos on 9 January, 2014. We
hereby present the top 10 as released
by CAF. Who really are the top ten?
Vincent Enyeama
Record-breaking Nigerian goalkeeper,
Vincent Enyeama can easily be dubbed
the shot-stopper.
He was born on August 29, 1982 and
currently plays for Lille FC in France.
The achievement of Nigeria in football
in the last decade cannot be complete
without mentioning the name of
Enyeama.
He was named the safest pair of hands
as Nigeria won the continental crown in
South Africa earlier in the year.
He also made a name for himself with
Lille in the French Ligue 1 where they
nick-named him “Jesus in goal” as he
did not concede any goal from
September 15 to December 7;
maintaining an eye-popping 11 clean
sheets from 16 games and 1035
minutes in total.
John Mikel Obi
Chelsea and Nigeria midfielder, John
Obi Mikel was born on April 22, 1987.
Mikel is enjoying probably his best
moment in football. A regular with the
star-studded Chelsea, he played an
influential role in the build-up to the
2012 UEFA Champions League crown.
He also won the Europa Cup with
Chelsea in 2013. Also, he netted a
cracker against Uruguay at the FIFA
Confederations Cup in Brazil in July.
His efforts in the season were crowned
with a gold medal with the Super Eagles
at the last Africa Cup of Nations.
He was also instrumental to Nigeria’s
qualification for the 2014 FIFA World
Cup. Indeed, football analysts say that
it is only the current African Player of
the Year Yaya Toure that can stand
between Mikel and the crown.
Didier Drogba
Born in Cote d’Ivoire on March 11,
1978, Didier Drogba plies his trade in
Turkey where he plays for Galatasaray.
He earlier played for Olympic Marseilles
in France and Chelsea FC of London
where he won the Champions League in
2012.
At 35, Drogba is yet to lose his football
skills, scoring three goals as the
Elephants reached a third successive
World Cup appearance.
The striker has bounced back from a
disappointing spell in China and has
been banging in the goals in Turkey. He
scored five in 13 appearances during
Galatasaray’s triumph in the 2012-13
season.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Gabonese Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
is currently playing for Borussia
Dortmund in Germany.
He was born on June 18, 1989. He was
on target three times for Gabon (a hat-
trick against Niger) during the 2014 FIFA
World Cup qualifiers as Les Panthers
failed to reach the playoffs.
He has however been in superb form at
club level. He emerged second top
scorer in Ligue 1 with 19 goals during
the 2012-13 season, and also guided
Saint Etienne to the Coupe de La Ligue
(French League Cup).
In July, he joined German side Borussia
Dortmund and has scored eight times
in all appearances.
Ahmed Musa
Ahmed Musa, born on 14 October 1992
in Jos, is a Nigerian player who plays as
forward for Russian club CSKA Moscow.
Musa was one of the four nominees
named for the Confederation of African
Football Most Promising Talent Award
in 2011.
However the award went to Souleymane
Coulibaly.
After an impressive outing at the Africa
Nations Cup in South Africa, Musa also
helped Nigeria to book a place at the
2014 World Cup in Brazil.
Emmanuel Emenike
Nigerian Emmanuel Emenike plays for
Fenerbahce in Turkey. He was born on
10th May, 1987. He recently played for
Shakhtar Donetsk of Ukraine before
exploring his fortune in Fenerbahce.
Emenike is currently Nigeria’s most
reliable attacker. He scored four goals
at the Africa Cup of Nations in South
Africa where the Super Eagles emerged
champions.
He also has helped Nigeria to book a
place in next year’s World Cup, scoring
thrice in the process.
Jonathan Pitroipa
Burkina Faso-born Jonathan Pitroipa is
a regular member of Stade Rennes FC of
France.
He was the star of the Burkina Faso
team that reached the final of the 2013
Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa.
He was adjudged the Most Valuable
Player of the tournament.
He also scored three times in Burkina
Faso’s run to the World Cup playoffs
and has made 10 appearances in the
current season for Stade Rennes but
yet to score.
Asamoah Gyan
Asamoah Gyan, born 22 November 1985
in Accra, is a Ghanaian footballer who
plays as a striker for Al Ain of the UAE
Pro-League.
Gyan represented Ghana at the 2006
and 2010 FIFA World Cups, scoring
three goals at the latter, and also
missing a crucial penalty kick in the last
minute of extra-time in a quarter-final
defeat by Uruguay.
Despite Ghana’s fourth place at the
2013 Africa Cup of Nations in South
Africa, Gyan made the championship’s
Best XI and he is the all-time top scorer
for Ghana.
Mohammed Aboutreika
One outstanding accomplishment of
ageless Mohamed Aboutreika is that he
is gunning for both the global African
Player of the Year and the African-
Based African Player of the Year
Awards.
He plays in Africa and has led his club
to win many continental laurels. He
was born in Egypt in November 7, 1978
and plays for Egyptian top club, Al Ahly.
Aboutreika is at the twilight of his
career, yet, he has proved again that he
is nowhere near the finish line.
With Ahly, he was the pivot as the
Egyptian giants retained the CAF
Champions League title, scoring in both
legs in the final. He scored five times in
the campaign as Ahly cruised to an
unprecedented eighth title despite the
absence of a football competition in
Egypt in two years.
Yaya Toure
Reigning African Player of the Year Yaya
Toure is from Cote d’Ivoire. He was
born on May 13, 1983.
The Manchester City of England player
won the last two editions of the African
Player of the Year Award and he is still
at his peak.
He scored two goals including a
spectacular free-kick against Tunisia at
the group stage of the last Africa Cup of
Nations.
Thoughthe Elephants failed to go past
the quarter final, he was the pillar of
the Ivorian team in the 2014 World Cup
qualifiers, netting four goals in the
process.
At Manchester City, he is a cult figure
and has been the driving force for the
club. For the current 2013-14 season,
the midfielder has found the back of
the net five times in 11 games.

Arsène Wenger
senses now is the
time to defeat José
Mourinho's
Chelsea
•
Arsenal have never beaten
Chelsea under Mourinho
•
'For a while, Chelsea were
stronger' Wenger admits
Sunday 22 December
2013 23.00 GMT
Arsenal could return to the top of the
table with a win against Chelsea on
Monday but defeat would see to fourth.
Arsène Wenger was keeping his
cards close to his chest. He had
just been asked whether this
Chelsea side is the most vulnerable
in the Roman Abramovich era,
giving him the perfect opportunity
to indulge in a spot of mind games,
but he refused to bite, choosing to
put the poker face on instead. "I
will answer that question on
Tuesday," he said, by which time
Arsenal hope to have secured the
victory they need over Chelsea to
return to the top of the league.
Yet that will be no mean feat
given Chelsea's psychological hold
over Arsenal in recent years, not to
mention the fact that Wenger is yet
to find a way of getting the better
of José Mourinho, losing five and
drawing four of their nine matches.
Wenger says this match is not
about him versus Mourinho, and
believes there is no need for him to
try to outwit the master schemer
by altering his strategy in order to
succeed at the 10th time of asking,
at the Emirates on Monday night,
but it is a statistic that is impossible
to ignore.
"Sometimes they have
equalised in the last minute at
Chelsea and that's not down to a
gameplan," Wenger said. "That just
reflects the strengths of the teams.
I must say for a while Chelsea
were stronger than us. You do not
have to accept it but it was the
reality."
Reality did bite for Arsenal.
Since Mourinho arrived at
Stamford Bridge for his first spell in
2004, they have won three of their
22 matches in all competitions
against Chelsea. Their rivalry has
been based on a clash of
philosophies, Arsenal's brilliant but
doomed fragility at odds with
Chelsea's win-at-all-costs attitude.
More often than not, it has been a
case of men against boys, Chelsea's
giants towering over Arsenal and
ruthlessly taking advantage of their
lapses in concentration. Arsenal
won plaudits, Chelsea won
trophies.
Arsenal, though, sense that this
is their time, not least because
Didier Drogba, so often their
tormentor in the past, is no longer
around to batter a defence that is
likely to be missing the injured
Laurent Koscielny. Although they
come into this match having lost
6-3 at Manchester City, they have
felt like a different side this season,
more mature and less likely to
crumble at the first sign of trouble.
Arsenal work harder as a unit and
have developed a resilience that
allows them to win without playing
well.
In the past, Arsenal have been
viewed as a soft touch but the
addition of Mathieu Flamini has
added steel to their midfield,
providing the platform for Aaron
Ramsey, Santi Cazorla, Jack
Wilshere and Mesut Özil to shine.
Where once they were easy to
bully into submission, now Arsenal
will be confident of imposing their
passing game on a Chelsea midfield
which appears ill-equipped to stop
them from bending the game to
their will.
This is not a classic Mourinho
team. His options in midfield –
Michael Essien, Frank Lampard,
Mikel John Obi and Ramires – are
underwhelming, lacking the power
to dominate teams and the
creativity to control matches, and
failing to protect a creaking
defence. Chelsea, knocked out of
the League Cup by Sunderland last
week, seem to have lost the ability
to grind. When Mourinho first won
the title with Chelsea in 2005 they
conceded 15 goals and recorded 11
victories of 1-0. They have already
conceded 18 this season, including
10 in their past five matches.
The game has changed,
though. The top sides are less
defensive than they were eight
years ago and there is a greater
emphasis on attacking. "The
offensive potential is very big and
the structure of the teams is more
offensive," Wenger said.
Perhaps Mourinho is still
adapting, seemingly caught
halfway between constructing a
defensively responsible team and
delivering the attractive style that
Abramovich craves. The
Portuguese has the players to pull
off the latter but has rarely
appeared comfortable with the idea
of letting the likes of Eden Hazard
and Juan Mata off the leash.
Yet it would be ridiculous to
write off Chelsea. For all the noises
they have made about this being a
season of transition– and it is
doubtful whether Mourinho knows
the meaning of the word – they
have won their past three matches
against Arsenal and on each of
their past two trips to the Emirates.
Victory on Monday night will
lift them up to second, behind
Liverpool on goal difference, and
leave Arsenal in fourth place.
While Wenger might have kept
his thoughts to himself, he will
know his team cannot be so
reluctant to express themselves.

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OBJ believes in baiting and murdering
He sounds greedy. what he could not achieve in 12yrs , he expects in GEJ 3yr rule.

must i think like u to live my life?

hotwax: Fool. A disgrace to Nigerian. The clueless one. We will see how your Igbo brothers will vote you in. Hausa and Yorubas are rethinking.

with little apology. GEJ. is not an IGBO or IBO. I think he is from Otuoke in Bayelsa state.

yibomustgo: The response was flat with no substance. He failed with this response. he did not address the allegations made by Obasanjo. He mentioned the allegations but failed to defend himself with facts.

read it again with patience. i read it over an hour and saw many things addressed. with little apology

OBJ ruled for 12 yrs and still want to be ruling. Greedy man.

Ur time was ominous. u believe in carrot and stick.( give them baits to come and kill them). ur own home messy.

with little apology, that is the way murderer talk. better mind ur health u are already old.

GEJ continue ur good work.
The whole world lieth in wickedness.
Every other thing shall be swept under the carpet but only the truth shall stand.

Nigerians or unions should embark on strike with caution or it back-fires.

Hair-cutters will one day embark on strike and all men will become DADA

so annoying. no way to reply. the N100 they pool from 100000 Nigerians (10M) is what they will use to pay the winner and u may not be the one.
A bari mtn kawai (d: md :mrd: rd): Ha
ignore or let them be
rapu ndi mtn (md rr :mrd): IG
efi won le jare (mr :md :dr): Yor
asu yaku tuwohi(rm: dd: rd) Ebira

ok for now.

Beemhan: i have a girlfriend i'v been datin for sometime now. each time i try to penetrate her wit a condom, she always says it hurts but when i take d condom off & go raw, she enjoys it a lot. what could be wrong

she has dyspareunia. may be due to:
-penetrating b/4 she is wet
-vaginitis
-psychopathic- faking a pain
-STI
-others(endometriosis)
review the condom and apply correctly
allow her glands to keep her wet b/4 coitus. tell her it is safe to use condom
but condom can fail too.

policeman threw
himself on a suicide bomber on
Wednesday, just as the man
made moves to detonate his
device. The 34 year old policeman was
attempting to shield dozens of Shiite
pilgrims from the deadly blast, which
took five lives.
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2013
Hundreds of thousands of Shiite
pilgrims are journeying to Karbala,
south west of Baghdad, to
commemorate Imam Hussein, the
Prophet Mohammed’s grandson. The
40-day observance has become a
common target for acts of terror.
One particular group of pilgrims was
making its way from Khales, north east
of the capital, when the suicide bomber
targeted them.
Anticipating a devastating tragedy, 34-
year-old policeman, Ayyub Khalaf,
threw himself on to the assailant,
catching him in a tight embrace, and
shielding the pilgrims from the full
impact of the blast.
Khalaf was one of the five who died as
the explosion ripped through the
bystanders.
“Ayyub was martyred while defending
pilgrims, and his name will be an
eternal symbol because he saved the
lives of dozens of innocents,” Khalaf’s
friend, Saad Naim told AFP, adding that
Khalaf himself was married with two
children.
“We will take revenge on the Al-Qaeda
terrorist organization,” he stated,
though Al-Qaeda, or any other group,
has not claimed responsibility for the
Wednesday attack.
Over 30 pilgrims dead as
violence spills over into
Thursday
Casualties from Wednesday’s assault
were fewer given the self-sacrifice. On
Thursday, however, at least 36 pilgrims
were killed in three separate suicide
bomb attacks.
One suicide bomber targeted a funeral
tent, killing 16 and wounding a further
31 in southern Baghdad's mainly Sunni
neighborhood of Doura. Nine others
were killed near Latifiya, due south of
Doura, after a similar attack on a
cluster of Shiite pilgrims traveling from
the north. Eleven were killed inside
Latifiya itself, according to Reuters.
Over 8,000 people have died in Iraq
this year, in project Iraq Body Count’s
estimates – making it the bloodiest
year for the country since 2008. In
November alone, 948 people were
killed as a result of violence in the
country.
The government places most blame
with groups linked to the Iraqi wing of
Al-Qaeda. The civil war in neighboring
Syria may have also contributed to the
violence, as Sunni rebels are acting
against a government allied to Shiite
Iran.


Published time: December 19, 2013 19:15
Edited time: December 20, 2013 10:50
Mourners cry as they hold onto the
coffin of their relative, who was killed
in an attack in the town of Yusfiya,
during a funeral in Najaf, 160 km (100
miles) south of Baghdad, December 17,
2013 .
iraq times. www.RT/news.com

can a Nigerian policeman do this?

Obasanjo/Jonathan face-
off (1)
on december 20, 2013 at 12:47 am in news
By Ebele Orakpo
“Aha, this is more like it! I like this photo of
GEJ. For once, let him be serious, no
smiling,” said a commuter, by name Akan,
in the Oshodi-bound bus as he displayed a
photo of President Jonathan in a national
daily for all to see.
“Water don pass garri nah! The allegations
by Obj are weighty so the almost
permanent smile has to disappear,” said
Charity.
“Our leaders are taking us for granted. They
see us as a bunch of nonentities so they
can do whatever they like and get away
with it because we are so passive,” stated
Chris.
“But what is Obasanjo’s problem? Is he the
only ex-president in Nigeria?” asked
George. “Everyone else is a criminal, weak,
incompetent, except him. How conceited
can one get?”
Replied Akan: “He is Nigeria’s messiah,
period! He alone knows the problems of
Nigeria and how to solve them. He thinks
he loves Nigeria more than the rest of us.”
“I think it’s the case of a relationship gone
sour. After all, GEJ was his anointed son.
He thought he would be very easy to
control, you know, pliable and malleable.
Unfortunately, the man with the quiet mien
has become his greatest nightmare,” noted
Charity.
“What are you guys talking about? Why
can’t we for once be objective and put
sentiments aside? Are the issues Obj raised
true or false? They should be addressed by
those concerned,” said Ben. Continuing he
said: “Like him or hate him; there is no
doubt he loves Nigeria passionately and
will do anything to keep it together.”
“Oh sure! Like the third term bid and all the
Ghana-Must-Go that changed hands?”
asked Chris tongue-in-cheek. “I think the
onus is on the accuser to prove his
allegations and stop beating about the
bush.”
Stated Edith: “In all honesty, I don’t think
Obj has the moral right to point accusing
fingers at GEJ. After all, he did same if not
worse things. Kettle calling the pot black.
Don’t forget he was president and
petroleum minister throughout his tenure.
Did he account for all the money? Please
give me a break! For sure, no leader ever
gets it right as far as Saint Obasanjo is
concerned.”
Replied Ben: “Whether he has the moral
right or not is immaterial here. It takes
courage for a morally bankrupt person to
condemn immorality. So we should be
praising Obj instead of upbraiding him.
Take the message and leave the
messenger.”
Said George: “We should all shine our eyes
oo. I can smell a rat in all these.
First it was Tambuwal, then Lamido and
now Obj, all attacking the GEJ
administration. Lamido said he reported
the case of a $250 million bribe to the
president and he did nothing. Is Jonathan
the EFCC? If you have such evidence or
knowledge, go to EFCC. I wouldn’t be
surprised if the military stages a comeback.
Let’s all watch and see.”
“God forbid! Military regime as in Abacha
days? That will spell doom for Nigeria and
these politicians who do not want to get
their act together, they will all end behind
bars for good,” said Charity.

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An international team has found a
genetic marker for the malaria-causing
parasites that are resistant to
artemisinin, an important drug for
treating the mosquito-borne disease.
Among the researchers, who report their
findings in a recent online issue of Nature ,
is a team from the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID),
part of the US National Institutes of Health.
The World Health Organization (WHO)
estimates that 627,000 people died of
malaria in 2012.
Artemisinin, combined with other drugs, is
an important first line of defense against
malaria. However, in recent years,
development of artemisinin resistance in
the malaria parasite Plasmodium
falciparum in southeast Asia poses a real
threat to global malaria control and
elimination.
Thus, researchers are racing to find ways to
keep the drug's effectiveness. One
important factor in the race is keeping track
of the spread of artemisinin resistance.
Mutant K 13- propeller gene
For their study, the team sequenced the
genetic information of a lab-generated
strain of artemisinin-resistant P.
falciparum , and also of two natural strains
found in the wild in Cambodia - one drug-
resistant and the other not. By comparing
the genetic information from these three
strains, they hoped to pinpoint the genetic
marker of drug resistance.
And so they did. They found that P.
falciparum carrying a mutant version of
the K13-propeller gene was more likely
to survive exposure to artemisinin in the
lab.
Plus they found, in malaria patients treated
with artemisinin, parasites carrying this
particular genetic mutation took longer to
eliminate.
And when they analyzed the geographical
distribution of the K13-propeller mutated
gene in parasites in western Cambodia,
they found it matched the distribution of
resistance among malaria patients in the
same regions.
Taking these results together, the team
concludes that the mutant K13-propeller
gene is closely tied to artemisinin
resistance and is likely to be a good
molecular marker for it.
They say further research is now needed to
find out how this mutation causes
resistance and the extent to which it affects
other geographical areas.
In another study reported earlier this year
in the The Lancet Infectious Diseases ,
another group of scientists describe how
they developed a rapid, simple way of
testing for artemisinin resistance in a lethal
form of malaria.
Written by Catharine Paddock PhD
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Super Eagles choose
Vitoria Hotel as Base
Camp


The Super eagles have chosen
Vitoria Hotel Concept Campinas as
their Team Base Camp Hotel at the
Brazil 2014 FIFA World Cup finals,
the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF)
has announced.
According to a release by the NFF,
Super Eagles’ Head Coach, Stephen
Keshi, NFF’s Director of Marketing,
Adama Idris, Assistant Director
(Media), Mr. Ademola Olajire and
Eagles’ Team Administrator, Enebi
Achor inspected the exquisite
facility the day after the final draw
of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Costa
do Sauipe, off Salvador.
Located in Campinas, a dainty city
70 minutes’ drive from the Sao
Paulo International Airport, Vitoria
Hotel Concept Campinas is an ideal
facility that will truly help the Super
Eagles concentrate on
the business of aiming for a major
impact at the FIFA World Cup finals,
Keshi said.
“I love this place. It is good for our
team and we will be able to achieve
full concentration,” Keshi said as he
looked over the hotel and
afterwards, checked out the training
site on Saturday, December 7.
Keshi added: “It is also good that
there is an airport in Campinas that
serves domestic flights, so we don’t
have to travel to Sao Paulo to fly to
our different venues.”
The Team Base Camp Hotel is
usually the base of every team at
the FIFA World Cup finals, from
where it travels to venues to
honour its fixtures, during which it
stays at Venue-Specific Team Hotel.
The African champions will be based
in Campinas and travel to Curitiba
to play Iran, to Cuiaba to play
Bosnia-Herzegovina and to Porto
Alegre to play Argentina. Only
Cuiaba is more than an hour’s flight
from Campinas.

The earlier, the better what do you think?


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