shrinkchido: In a landmark move to strengthen the relationship between the government and indigenous authorities, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has presented land allocation documents to members of the FCT Council of Chiefs.
Speaking during a meeting with the traditional rulers in Abuja on Friday, the Minister also announced a total waiver on all statutory fees for the land titles, acting on the direct instructions of the President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Wike emphasized that while the legal framework of the FCT often overlooks original ownership, the Tinubu led administration recognizes the historical presence of indigenous people.
Wike added that, "We cannot deny the fact that there are indigenous people who were here before the creation of the FCT.
"The President said we must extend a hand of fellowship to you. If those who make peace cannot be appreciated with land, who should be?".
The Minister commended the monarchs for their roles in ensuring the "most peaceful" Area Council elections in the territory’s history.
To further enhance their capacity to maintain order, Wike promised the provision of utility vehicles for traditional rulers in the FCT.
The Minister further listed several key infrastructure projects nearing completion in the satellite towns, scheduled for commissioning this June to include the completion of the Airport-Kuje road dualization, progress on the Bwari-Zuba link road, Apo/Karshi and Basan Jiwa as well as completion of the "Arab Road" network. The highlight of the event was the waiver of land processing fees, which Wike noted that it would be "unfair" to ask traditional rulers to scout for large sums of money to pay for land they have inhabited for generations.
The Ona of Abaji, Alhaji (Dr.) Adamu Baba Yunusa, who serves as the Chairman of the Council, expressed gratitude to the President and the Minister, pledging the continued support of the traditional institutions for the administration's policies.
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Dpharmacist: The unions argue that Nigeria’s healthcare system is built as a multi professional structure, where pharmacists, nurses, lab scientists, and other health workers are regulated by independent councils. According to them, merging this authority under one body risks turning the system into a doctor dominated hierarchy.
jaephoenix: I'm a doctor. Almost 20 years in the grind. This is wrong in all shades. Those are professionals ffs. I know sometimes the other healthcare practitioners try to overreach themselves but this is quite over the top by us doctors. It wont fly
How? All you have to do is reconstitute the MDCN membership to be representative of all the professions involved. This is a needless war.
OLAADEGBU: Reacting to the development, Badenoch wrote, “Russia, China and Iran vote with others to demand trillions in reparations from UK taxpayers…and the Labour government abstain!”
How Kano residents trooped to the hospital to catch a glimpse of the quintuplets (five babies) delivered by a Kano woman, Hafsatu Yusuf.
Freedom Radio Kano spoke with the father of the newborns, while the Kano State Government has immediately taken full responsibility for the… pic.twitter.com/ifgobAZ2lI
Kano woman d!es hours after delivering quintuplets
A Kano woman, Hafsatu Yusuf, has d!ed days after she gave birth to quintuplets at Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital.
The Public Relations Officer of the Kano State Ministry of Health, Nabilusi Abubakar K/Na’isa, who confirmed the incident to punch said the woman died around 2am on Thursday, March 26 at the hospital.
According to him, the woman experienced persistent bleeding after delivering the five babies, three boys and two girls, and efforts by medical personnel to stabilise her were unsuccessful.
“She had been bleeding since after delivery, and all efforts by doctors to control the situation were unsuccessful,” he said.
K/Na’isa added that the deceased had since been buried in accordance with Islamic rites at her residence in Hotoro.
“We are appealing to the public to support the babies with milk and other essential items,” he said.
He confirmed that the newborns are in stable condition and are currently receiving medical attention at the hospital.
In an earlier statement, the ministry disclosed that the quintuplets were delivered successfully and that both the mother and the newborns were placed under special care by medical personnel.
Touching words from the late Hafsa Yusuf of Kano, the woman who gave birth to quintuplets, as shared with journalists before her death. 💔😭 She said:
“When the doctors carried out the scan, they thought it was triplets. Later on, I ended up giving birth to five babies. Triplets… pic.twitter.com/uoo531HoDi
jmoore: Africans kidnapped their neighbors kids and sold them to slavery.
Why is it that you can hardly see black slave descendants in Arab countries? Because Arabs castrated the black slaves. So why is UN neglecting the Arab participation of the slave trade?
USA and European countries allowed blacks to reproduce. While Arabs castrated them.
You're going off on a tangent here. I think all the issues are important and should be talked about. Hopefully, someone will also raise the issues you're talking about sometime.
Kalulu44: If you witness or participated in any of these childhood Plays I am about to list out then I have to tell you Good evening and happy Sunday Sir/Ma, how is the children and if possible grandchildren? To have witness or participated in them means you must be in your late 30s, 40s, 50s and above. Without wasting much time, let me dig into the plays. . 1. Boju Boju. (Hide and Seek) This play is derived from Yoruba meaning covering your eyes. This play is started by covering one person's eyes and they sang the "Boju Boju" song while other kids scampered and runs to hide. The person's eyes is eventually opened and is mandated to start looking for others at their hiding place, anyone he or she caught, he screamed for others to know he has caught someone, that person caught will replace him and the circle continues. One of the favorite plays of kids back then. . 2. Ten Ten (10/10). This play is played by two people who faced each other, and starts clapping singing ten ten. One person starts the singing and clapping, at the end of the singing that person swings out his or her right leg or left leg, the other person too swings out his or her own. If the other person's swing legs correspond with the initiator's own then he has won and will take over from the initiator and 1 point will be counted for him or her. But if he fails, then 1 point will be counted for the initiator. It goes on and on till they're tired or one of them whose scores is low get replaced by another person. Another favorite play especially among girls. . 3. Suwe. I don't know which tribe originated it but, it still sound Yoruba to me. Growing up in Lagos and a Yoruba land, I guess it belongs to them. This play is played by drawing a huge line of up to 10 metres and then ruling them into boxes of to 10 or more. It's played by 2 or more people. For a start, you throw a seed or visible object into a box, you picked up the object, and then hop over that box with one leg. You continue hopping with one leg on all the boxes till the end. If you get to the end without falling, matching any of the lines, then you have won yourself a box as a house, which you then inscribe your name or signature. No other person can throw object or step on that house, if they do they have failed and the circle continues until all the boxes are owned. Who owned the majority boxes/house is declared the winner. This play is also played in multiple ways too. . 4. Kite Flying. Majority of us and including genz knows this play, no need to elaborate on it. . 5. Who Sabi Swim Water. I doubt if many people across the country knows this play. It's played by 5 or more people standing beside each other at a straight line, and another same amount of people standing opposite them, then they stretched out their hands and hold each other tightly. One person will go back and jumped into the waiting hands while everyone sang "who sabi swim water" the person jumping into the waiting hands will respond "I sabi swim water" and others chorus "show me how to swim water" he then jumps into the hands and start mimicking swimming. . 6. Koso. Another play I don't know which tribe invented it, but it sounds Igbo to me. It's played by using the cover of a pen/biro and the cover of those big radio batteries. The cover of the battery is put untop the pen cover making it look like an umbrella. You hold the bottom of the pen and twist it with your fingers, it starts rolling on the ground. While rolling, you systematically clips it to see if it will over turn and the head which is the battery cover will sit perfectly. If it does, you have scored yourself a point. . 7. My Name Sweet O! My best of them all. This is the play I enjoyed most among all my childhood Plays. This is played by 2 groups of 5 or more people sitting 10 metres away from each other. Each member of a group is giving a funny name by the group leader that's unknown to the other group. Group A leader will go over to group B, cover one of it's members eyes with his two hands tightly and then call out a name from his group, who then walks to where his leader is, pinched the person whose eyes is covered on his forehead and then go back to his group and sit with others. The person whose eyes was covered when opened will now walk to the other group to guess and identify who pinched him. While this is going on, everybody will be singing "My name sweet o, my name sweet o sweet o, my name sweet o" If the person guess right, he wins his group one man who will be added to his own group. If he fails, he's added to the other group. It goes on till one group wins majority of the other group members and is declared the winner. I so much love this play that I can't wait for night fall to organize and play it back then. . I will like to stop here, they're many others like Table/Paper Soccer, Building castle with sand using your legs, Rubber band play, Using thread to form things with your hands, Five Ten Fifteen to make me rich, e.t.c. And others I can't rmbr or don't know and will like to hear from those who played it back then. Most of if not all these childhood Plays has gone into extinction now. Our genz didn't play them and it isn't their fault, technology changed everything. But honestly, those were childhood memories and plays I don't think I will ever forget. Note I didn't mention Whot, Ludo, Ayo, Table Tennis e.t.c. we played them too back in the days and they're still in existence till date. Let me hear from the older generation who witness and participated in these plays, so I can know who I can be calling Sir or Ma, hahahaha.
Some of these are still popular with kids. I sometimes hear kids in my hood playing buju boju.
Mariangeles: As in! That is a question our mothers need to answer. Although, I think the hand peeled is neater, compared to the machine peeled that looks kinda dull and still has some husks in them.
Plus, the suffering in the hand peeling, makes the soup sweeter.
Omo! People that their mums sold ngwo ofe must've suffered. 😰
That's right. Visually, hand peeled appears slightly neater.
Image123: This is a huge distortion of facts and oversimplification to say that the Russia / Ukraine war only raised prices for a bit before things mostly returned to normal.Current price of crude is between $90 to $105 per barrel. Before the Russia / Ukraine war, it was $70 - 75. The war triggered one of the biggest global commodity shocks in decades. Energy prices (oil, gas) and food (especially wheat) surged sharply. This significantly drove global inflation, especially in 2022–2023. With time, the supply chain adjusted, as Europe reduced reliance on Russian gas. This was of course months/years later, it's a new equilibrium as it were. Prices have stabilized, meaning they’re no longer rising wildly. But many are still higher than before the war. Energy prices in Europe remain above pre-2022 levels. The cost of living in some countries may not fully normalize for years. Something jumped from 70 to 130 in weeks and you claim only raised price for a bit? What is a bit to you? Probably because you didn't feel it well here in Nigeria due to subsidy, that's why you are saying this. You refused to tell us how mch subsidy you are expecting and for how long. i'll still go to your link and answer you. In the meantime, tell us 1. how much is the excess funds you're talking about? 2. If a person owes 100k, and makes 15k on average in business. How much is the excess if he made 18k this month?
Image123: How much is this excess funds? Is it only Dangote that is selling fuel? On what basis should he be subsidized and others not subsidized? Do you think fuel price is solely dependent on crude price?
How many indigenous refiners/suppliers of PMS do you know currently? Name them. Since we're asking primary 5 questions now.
Ofunaofu: “It is as if he is above the law. And the issue is that he has a father in Israel, because he has been dropping names with the Presidency.”
He has a father in Israel. Hmm. In the Republic of Lawlessness.
Ofunaofu: “It is as if he is above the law. And the issue is that he has a father in Israel, because he has been dropping names with the Presidency.”“We note that only recently, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu spoke gloryingly about the place of the court and the rule of law as the pillars of democracy,” he said.
Powerful people only speak of the rule of law when it suits them. They don't think twice about stomping on it to get their way. That's why countries build strong institutions. Imagine the police failing to do their job and enforce a court judgement in this matter. Shame.
Image123: As an emergency, i'm looking at something that is sudden and that demands quick intervention. Except you know when the crises ends, it's not in that sense of an emergency. Same way the Russia/Ukraine thing started and it's still on after many years. No one knows how long and how far crude oil prices will go or fluctuate. There is no such extra billions that you refer to. The country is living in billions/trillions of deficit/debt. Kindly be more practicable to state how much that little you are asking for really is. You can start with realistic per day or week or month figures that you're expecting to be spent. Thanks.
A war is as sudden as it gets. But that's not the point. The point is high oil prices beyond which the economy can't cope - that's emergency I'm referring to. The war in Ukraine only raised prices for a bit before things mostly returned to normal. Again, if that doesn't happen this time and the war continues, billions will continue to roll into the excess crude account. No such billions exist? Well, oil prices have risen far beyond what's in the budget, so there's deffinitely excess funds. How much is it? That's why you should join the call for TRANSPARENCY.
Lithiumite: No pity to spare for this man....i expect him be jailed immediately.......his attoganve and impunity is nauseating.....he deserves everything that has come his way sofar.....however, the security agencies need to err on the side of caution 2 wrongs don't make a right.....rule of law must be upheld.
Yes, but EFCC must follow the law. If it's true they evicted someone from a property that is subject to ongoing litigation, they've sown seeds they will reap later by way of lost cases. They never learn, do they?
Ishilove: Don't push it, Iran. This will never happen
While I think a cessation of hostilities against Hezbollah is realistic, bolded is what I have been telling Iran lately, seeing how emboldened they have become. They better be careful.
Image123: This is not an emergency, no one can predict how long and what direction the middle east crises would go on. The FG must stay focused and disciplined. The heavens are not going to fall, we've been through worse. We've got over 200million people, that's a NO NO for subsidy. We simply can't afford it as a nation.
It's an emergency – since we didn't plan for it. We can afford it. Take a little out of the extra billions you're making from the rise in crude oil prices. That's what a proactive government would do. If the war lasts long, we'd continue to rake more money into the excess crude account, right?
jazzman7711: If he nukes Iran, they still won't surrender.
Is he going to kill 95 million people?
They are waiting for him. They will destroy all the desalination plants and oil infrastructure in the mideast and send the world back to the STONE AGE.
By the way the nuclear fallout will reach Israel, so it's such a daft idea.
A nuke doesn't kill 95 million people or necessarily reach another country. I don't know the movies you watch, but even movies don't portray it like that. Heroshima, for example, was just Heroshima. It didn't reach the next town, much less China.
I doubt Trump will nuke Iran though - his people will prevail on him not to. There are other drastic things he can do that will alter Iran forever and stop the war. Again, Trump is a mad man. You think they'd continue to fight, no matter what? Well the Japanese thought so too. Anyway, I hope common sense prevails.
God1000: Lol, drama upon drama, is it by force to accept defeat if you have not defeated me
I can't stop laughing
If I were you or Iran, I won't laugh too much. Caution is necessary in times like this. This was the exact situation with Japan in 1945. Be careful and live to fight another day. Mr Trump is a mad man. Just saying.
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