CaptainZubi:
For about 5 years now I've been battling extreme tiredness . Asides that I sleep alot most especially at afternoons. At night,nonce I sleep around 11pm and not going to work the next day, I can wake up by 10am or 11 am.

During afternoon and night sleeps, the sleep is usually very deep (REM phase or whatever you medics call it, please correct me) and usually characterized by heavy dreams.

Even during work, I'll always take the risk to create some time to have a little sleep. I've been battling this for about 5 years now. What could be wrong.

1. Check your thyroid..that is the TSA.
2. Google the word...Narcolepsy.

Phantomhilz:


Please it is no longer Orba Specialist Hospital.
It was expanded to make it a teaching hospital, the hospital currently includes four communities hence the name Igbo-ano

That's a good one.

Thanks for the info

OreMI22:


Exactly the wasteful mindset that makes Nigeria to be full of uncompleted projects.
I would have ignored this comment, but it's typical of what has helped make Nigeria such a huge mess. Biko nu, what is wrong with how our people reason?

You want a teaching hospital in Nsukka that isn't an annex of ESUT. Its not an annex of UNTH. You do not have any university in mind that the hospital will use to train doctors, but you miraculously think that other Governors will develop it for you?

Sometimes, I wonder if people just type things to help deceive the government into wasteful escapades. Nigerians are so wasteful of their resources. That is why despite our oil, other countries still manage to live better standard of living than Nigeria.

Like you said it is a mindset..
The same mindset in which citizens are cultured to believe that a school of health sciences or a university of health sciences must be attached to a UNIVERSITY to be functional...

Here's is another differing mindset.
1. The university or school can recruit students who already have a prequalification ( e.g. B.sc...Phd) in some needed science courses irrespective of school attended.
2. The the pre-qualified students can then take additional test and interviews before final admission.

Secondly, abandoned projects is a problem of individual leadership deficit not a culture...

Thirdly the issue of abandonment will not arise as it will have political consequences... Nsukka zone will demand for it as a condition for support..

There are no institutions anywhere that has all it's facilities build out before commencement..

Like I pointed out earlier it's a gradual process.

Thank you

Governor Ugwuanyi should turn the Orba specialist hospital into a full fledged School of Health Sciences... Not as an appendage to ESUT...

It's evolution will be a gradual process in order to contain costs. He does not have to pay for all the infrastructural development now..., just get it approved and functional as subsequent administrations will improve on it.

Abohboy:


Your mad my Nigeria is a democracy, and that’s final, the masterplan is for the next presidents to follow, I would make it a law thst you have to follow the masterplan, you can add to it but you cannot remove any plans from it so all presidents that come after me will complete it

you haven't defined the political landscape...I.e
what are the functions of the president.. premiers, state leadership...etc.. in order words what kind of government do you envisage.

A very bad news for sub Sahara Africa as this will be another " economic war " battle ground for resources...

Nowenuse

Thanks for the lecture... I learned a lot about the ethnic groups from adamawa, Taraba and Yola... It's one place still can't figure out...

THANK YOU..

invented the technology which is known as “Voice Over Internet Protocol” or simply called VoIP. This technology is what permits us to make a voice call and multimedia sessions over the Internet Protocol (IP) networks, on the internet. While she was in AT & T she advocated for the company to make the switch from the regular wired phone technology to the internet protocol.

She would finally leave AT & T to join Google, where she is the vice president for Engineering till date. Her stay at google has been very promising and rewarding to them as she was the one who led their expansion into emerging markets.

https://libertywritersafrica.com/meet-dr-croak-the-black-woman-who-invented-internet-voice-calls-through-voip/amp/

As a side note.. And where there are competing ethnic groups, a near total devolution of powers to the various groups as obtained in Belgium, Switzerland Canada etc.

As a side note, most developed or high income stable nations have these trajectory fundamentals

1. A dominant ethnic group
2. A dominant language
3. A dominant religion
4. A dominant culfure
5. A dominant "ethos".

budaatum:

You need to learn some history. In my post you responded to is a map that showed way more than five, in England even, and in Britain as a whole.

Britain solved its diversity issues through war and conquest. It still is an immensely diverse country but wiser now. Thankfully Nigeria has arrived at a stage when wars are not how such issues are solved, though some would wish to take us back to the dark ages.

I am from Yorubaland. Many will see us as one ethnic group, but we can still point to diversity. We Oroluans battle with our neighbours in Ilobu, and even amongst us are diverse Sango worshippers and diverse Ogun worshippers, often with neighbouring Sangos disagreeing with one another not to talk of between Sango and Ogun. All over Yorubaland is the underlying battle between the Obatalans and the Oduduwans who would love to dominate. It's a constant battle that not even many Yorubas know is being fought despite its huge effect on them.

Pity is we have no books on this so it's little known, but a reading of Greek history will fill in the lack of understanding. They were constantly at war with one another despite all being Greek, and just as we are.

If I may the map shown was pre Roman conquest.. Unification.. Rule... And governance of the british isle for over 400 years... So it doesn't really tell the story after the Roman rule... Though one must acknowledge that invaders.. From northern Europeans had a field day over the isles up until 1945....
But the fundamental structure the Roman's bequeathed... Language... Religion.. Culture judeo-chritian albeit western haven't changed... We can't say the same for post lugardian Nigeria.

For china
Dominant group.... Han
Dominant language... Mandarin
Dominant.. Culture... Chinese..

Donmedra:
European countries are more developed and among the first world countries. They are made up of the same ethnic group in a single country.

For example England is predominantly English
France is predominantly French
Netherlands is predominantly Dutch.

These people have a common language, ancestry and a common goal.

Just look at Nigeria for example where they packed Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Edo, ijaw into one country.

Like we have anything in common.

Imagine a country with Igbo people only, a country with Hausa people only, a country with Yoruba people only.

We don't have to worry which tribe is going to rule or if my ethnic group have senate President or federal appointment or not.

We'll focus on building our ethnic nation. I swear Nigeria must divide. We are not one


That's just my observation about developed and undeveloped country because a country like Nigeria can never developed

Most upper and middle income countries have these in vommon

1. A DOMINANT ethnic.. Tribal.. Racial GROUP.
2. A DOMINANT language
3. A DOMINANT Religion
4. A DOMINANT culture
5. A Dominant national rallying ethos.

Nigeria as is... Is currently too diverse to achieve much developmental strides requiring strong national cohesion.

On Saturday, an attack on a Fulani village left over 160 dead and shone a light on a serious and ongoing crisis in the region
A 10-days-old baby killed with its mother. People thrown into a ditch of burning oil before being fired upon. A village chief captured and summarily executed in front of his own mother.

Hamadoun Dicko, a Fulani leader from Mali, is speaking to Middle East Eye about the latest devastating attack on members of his ethnic group.

On Saturday, 160 people were massacred in the village of Ogossagou, in the Mopti region of central Mali. An armed militia of men belonging to the Dogon ethnic group came to inflict their terrible toll, razing huts and leaving behind the charred remains of Fulani women and children.

'There is a genocide taking place against the Fulani community in Mali'

- Hamadoun Dicko, Fulani leader from Mali

Dicko told MEE that he had lost nine members of his family at the hands of the Dan Na Ambassagou militant group, and that he is now unable to return to his village for fear of death.

The attacks, UN rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said, were "horrific".

Dicko and fellow Fulani leaders in Mali say this massacre is part of a "genocide" being waged against their community, which numbers almost three million in the African state.

It is the latest in a cycle of violence that has beset the region in recent years, increasingly focused on Fulanis, who are targeted partly because they are seen as being tied to militant groups operating in the region.

“Fulanis could be massacred everywhere in Mali,” Dicko, a spokesperson for the Mali chapter of Tabitaal Pulaaku, which represents Fulanis across the world, said.

“There is a genocide taking place against the Fulani community in Mali. The Malian nation is in danger and there is a strong probability that Fulanis could be massacred everywhere. They are no longer in security.”

The violence comes as Mali’s internationally backed military campaign against militant groups increasingly becomes a war on the Fulani, according to analysts.

According to Ibrahim Yahaya from the International Crisis Group, Dogons now perceive Fulanis as “being in bed with the jihadists” and have attacked their villages indiscriminately.

Ogossagou
A woman stands outside a house at the site of an attack by gunmen on Fulani herders in Ogossagou, Mali (Malian Presidency handout)
“The fact that these groups have recruited more Fulani than everyone else have given them a Fulani identity,” Ibrahim said.

“Sometimes the jihadists attack individuals who are Dogon and the Dogons reply by attacking Fulani villages.”

While there have historically been tensions between herders, generally from the Fulani tribe, and Dogon farmers, violence has been rare. The situation has taken a marked turn with the ascendancy in 2015 of militants inspired by jihadist ideology in the region.

Among these groups is the Macina Liberation Front (MLF), led by Amadou Koufa, a local Fulani preacher who has travelled to the Middle East and Afghanistan, and who emerged unscathed earlier this month after reportedly being killed by French forces last year.

The MLF takes its name from the Macina Empire, anchored in central Mali, one of several Fulani Jihad states to dominate West Africa in the 19th century.

Responsible for attacks on government and army positions as well as on civilians from across the ethnic divide, the MLF seeks to overthrow the Malian state and establish rule according to an extreme interpretation of Islamic law.

It fights under the banner of Nusrat al-Islam, the official branch of al-Qaeda in Mali, which brings together several like-minded militant groups operating in West Africa and the Maghreb.

Groups linked to the Islamic State group are also known to operate in the region.

'They tap into grievances'
Religious rhetoric featured little in MLF’s initial call to arms, broadcast via radio, often in the Fulani language, to remote communities.

Instead, Koufa tapped into the long-held grievances of local populations, many of whom were poor Fulani herders who felt marginalised by a government they saw as corrupt and exploitative.

“They tap into grievances to make their case that the government is corrupt, that communities are marginalised,” said Ibrahim. “Once they capture people this way they then move onto the religious side.”

A link between sub-Saharan Africa and the Arab world, Mali has long served as a crossroads of culture and trade. Ancient gold deposits have given rise to vast kingdoms. Timbuktu was once a great city of Islamic learning.

Major settlements, including Bamako and Segou, straddle the banks of the Niger, the principal river of West Africa, which cuts a crescent-like course through the landlocked country, providing a lifeline for millions.

Once a land of fabled riches, the country now ranks among the poorest in the world, coming in at 183 out of 187 countries in the UN’s Human Development Index.

Living conditions in central Mali lag well behind national averages, fuelling grievances. The poverty rate there is estimated at around 60 percent, compared to 11 percent in the capital Bamako.

Mali map
In response to the Mopti attack, the Malian government has fired military top brass and disbanded the Dan Na Ambassagou, a collection of Dogon self-defence groups made up of traditional hunters, which has been blamed for the attack.

These groups began to appear in 2016, as Dogons began to organise themselves in response to MLF attacks.

“Some Dogons became very weary of the Fulani and some militias started appearing asking for eviction of Fulanis from the whole region,” said Dougoukolo Alpha Oumar Ba-Konare, a Paris-based analyst and teacher of Fulani societies at the French National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations.

Tit-for-tat attacks left scores dead.

Two alleged Fulani militants killed two men suspected of being informants for the Malian armed forces in 2016. Retaliatory attacks left 30 people dead on both sides.

In 2017, alleged Fulani armed assailants killed a prominent member of a Dogon hunting society, sparking retaliatory attacks by armed Dogons against Fulani villages. Thirty-five were left dead, forcing the evacuation of several thousand civilians.

'There were pregnant women and elders killed and they cut some people’s throats and they burned alive others'

- Dougoukolo Alpha Oumar Ba-Konare, Fulani analyst

In 2018, the violence escalated. Human Rights Watch documented 42 incidents of communal violence in Mopti last year. A total of 202 civilians were killed, with 156 of them Fulani.

Villages burnt to the ground, the cutting of hands, feet and reproductive organs have become part of a cycle of gratuitous violence which culminated in last weekend’s attack, described by Ba-Konare as “the biggest and most nefarious”.

“There were pregnant women and elders killed and they cut some people’s throats and they burned alive others. It’s heart-rending, you can see people being set in stone because of the way they were burnt. They burnt all the animals in that village.”

On Friday, a Mali-based al-Qaeda affiliate claimed responsibility for a recent attack on a military base that left more than 20 soldiers dead.

The militants said it was revenge for attacks against Fulani herders.

One Ogossagou resident told the Reuters news agency that Saturday's violence appeared to be in retaliation for the attack on the soldiers.

And so it goes on.

https://middleeasteye.net/big-story/massacre-mali-how-war-terror-fuels-tribal-violence-sahel

Without trees and other plants this looks like a prison or a work camp...please add a touch of elegance

PassingShot:

For argument sake, if we even agree that the FG will provide the entire initial capital of $300m, does that translate to 5% of initial required capital? Would that not be 100% of the initial capital?

Is there any remote reason to suggest that the $300m needed at start up is 5% of required initial capital? So, where does the pained man get his $300m being 5% of initial capital from?


Gosh!

That's why I asserted that the details are very murky.

Nobody knows what the overall start up cost will be...estimates are what they are.. estimates

The government only informed us about how much they will invest to get the deal rolling NOT how much the overall start up cost will be. it is difficult to estimate because of the ever changing business environment.

The deal would have in my opinion be made more transparent if the government has come out with a definitive list of investors and how much they are asking and willing to contribute..there's no need for the secrecy.

Once again the onus is on the government to prove Chike obi wrong.. his argument is based solely on the scant details provided by the government

PassingShot:
I read with great shock the outright lie tweeted by Mustafa Chike-Obi and posted on the FP of Nairaland (https://www.nairaland.com/4631046/mustafa-chike-obi-former-amcom-boss) about the initial capital for the newly unveiled national carrier - Air Nigeria. The claim by the former AMCON Boss that $300m initial capital for the national carrier represents 5% of the initial capital is not only misleading but mischievous and unpatriotic.

For clarification sake, the $300M is the total initial capital required for the first three years of the airline and it is only 5% (max.) of this amount ($15m) that the FG is obliged to contribute. It's the private investors that will contribute the remaining balance of $285m.

The above position was clearly reported by Reuters here http://www.africanews.com/2018/07/20/nigeria-air-seeks-strategic-partner-to-invest-300// where it clearly stated “The initial capital is likely to be in the range of $US 150 to 300 million, invested in tranches over time from start up through the first years of operation,” a government document stated.

It was also clearly reported by Vanguard here https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/07/nigeria-air-to-gulp-8-8m-preliminary-cost-300m-as-take-off-cost/ . Punch clarifies the 5% stake of the FG in the Project by stating “The Nigerian Government will not own more than 5% (maximum) of the new National Carrier. Government will not be involved in running it or deciding who runs it,” he said http://punchng.com/breaking-nigeria-unveils-name-of-national-carrier-logo/

Now, if the man who prides himself a mathematician is to be correct with his tweet, is he now saying that the initial capital is $6bn? If $300m is 5%, surely the 100% required initial capital required must be $6bn. Chike-Obi needs to tell us where (if it exists anywhere at all) he got his own figure from.


The tweet by the Mustafa, just as that by Oby Ezekwesili should be of great concern to all patriotic citizens of our country who genuinely seek to see Nigeria develop and succeed. Their tweets are a clear indication that many Nigerians do not mind cutting their nose to spite their face! They hate the president so much and if the total failure of the country is the only thing that must happen to justify their hatred for the president, it's all well and good in their own books.

Here's the complete quote from the Africanews link the op presented

" initial capital is likely to be in the range of $US 150 to 300 million, invested in tranches over time from start up through the first years of operation,” a government document stated.

It said the government will provide initial capital but did not state the sum or give further details.


The government will “facilitate the process for opening up the capital of the airline to private sector financial investors”, the document stated.

No where was it stated that the 5% was for the initial start up cost.

Secondly, it clearly stated that the government will provide the initial capital.

Third, the estimation left rooms for cost over runs as there was no clear time frame when the government will stop the funding..

Fact remains that the proposal is still murky and lacks transparency.

Chile obi might be right in his initial assessment until the government proves otherwise.

Spyder since you are on "ground" so to speak....how about gathering a group of your business friends and talk to the state government about a

"Milliken Hill marathon"...with a cash prize from corporate sponsors like NBL

That will help promote tourism in the city...

Spyder since you are on "ground" so to say...how about gathering a group of your business friends and talk to the state government about a

"Milliken Hill marathon"...with a cash prize from corporate sponsors like NBL

That will help promote tourism in the city...

One of the symptoms of a dysfunctional political structure...non different from the state of children from dysfunctional homes that lack fundamental family structure....

Foundations are not synonymous with places of worship banning mosques does equal banning businesses
Within that context of business under discussion.
1. What percentage of Muslim legitimate businesses have been closed in Australia, Poland, Austria and other tiny European countries
2.Banning immigrants does not equate to banning businesses.
3.that Emirates, Qatar, Saudi, Turkish airlines still does a lot of business in Europe should tell you a lot.
4. Modern business does not care about the founder or founders....they can come from Mars and worship snakes...what matter to investors is potential for profit..and to the public good products and services.
5. As a side note , apple would have been a Foot note( as a result of bankruptcy) save from investors from Muslim countries.

Smart money is devoid of ethnicity, religion, gender etc

Last I checked, Moslem brotherhood and Hamas are banned in the US...so which medical facility is under their control pray inform us.

There are a thousand and one Turkish foundations pray do tell us the ones that are banned.

Of the corporations mentioned or the ones not included which ones were founded based on tribe, ethnicity, religion and race please do tell.

Here are some truism about business and medicine... they do not care about religion,tribe, ethnicity, race or family
It's all about profit and well being .

Here are few pointers
The largest foreign donors to Texas medical center Houston (arguably the largest medical facility in the world) are Muslims from the middle East
One of the largest private school in Houston.. Harmony..is owned by a Turkey foundation
One of the largest non- profit non- paying clinics in texas Ibn Sina is a Moslem foundation...the equivalent in California is Al -shifa.
Microsoft, Intel,Facebook, Toshiba,Sony Mitsubishi etc has thousands of smart people from varing backgrounds working in their research facilities....not to talk on NASA

THANKS

Op,

Is it still itchy.

How often does new itchy bumps appear since you started taking itraconazole.

The East collectively should look east, especially Japan which is essentially run by 6 major companies namely
Mitsui
Mitsubishi
Sanwa
Sumitomo
Fuyo
Daichii kangyo.

Without these companies japan would have been … just another third world country...
South Korea used this template of Japanese system of selective capitalism to develop.... Via

Samsung
Hyundai
Sk group
Lotte
LG.



But it takes a committed leadership devoid of any "petty" primordial sentiments … that understands the difference between trivial entrepreneurial ship and need for corporatization to develop a modern society.
Nothing stops the 5 governors from putting their resources together and making the likes of innoson the Mitsubishi or Hyundai of the east for example.


Then again the world view of the current leadership in igbo land is limited to abuja and their vainglories'

asha80:
that is why I used the igbo domination in quotation in that my post...

I do understand ....just that reading some of the posts from other contributors one gets the feeling that some people think that migration and domination are synonymous.. emigration historical.. irrespective of the ethnic group is driven primarily by lack of opportunities ( incl.wars) in the home "country".. swedish, french, English, Japanese Chinese etc to other places happened before they realize that with policy changes in their governance values they can improve on the economic life of the citizenry...then again it only happens with visionary leaders not "cosmeticians".. please no disrepect to beauty advisers.

asha80:
with igbo it was a unique thing..it was a settlement pattern issue..those days (and I wager to some extent till now) once you were outside your community or town you felt outside your 'home' so anywhere to thrive was game..this Aba,onitsha,enugu,warri etc you named you still get igbos who are making it ..yes the civil war and policies thereafter sort of excabated it but igbo migration to other parts of the country especially northern Nigeria is well documented..heck I have even read books of 'igbo domination' in the then cameroons that later became part of present day Cameroon.

I wouldn't go as far as claim "igbo domination"..cos those are perceptive values that has no statistical bearing..those values are based on the " other people" view of few foreigners amongst themselves..the natives.. that brought a unique way of doing things different from theirs...it does not mean that they are dominant... because population wise with the attendant culture and governance imperatives,the natives will always have the last word..so dominance is not really a factual statement .

asha80:
totally wrong..go read history of igbo migratory patterns that was occurring even before rail was built from ph to maidugiri long before Nigerian independence

The keyword from Afam is enmasse...travel is a human trait and it is not ethnic specific...it was the need for survival after the war that created the wave for mass emigrations to the west....Before the war people were making it in Aba, ph, Onitsha, sapele, Warri, Enugu...Meeting a person from the West was actually a " rarity" so to speak. The industries in then eastern Nigeria was policy ground to dust...leading to Afams enmasse

spyder880:


While I agree with your post 100%, I still don't think we have done too badly, especially when you look back to where we are coming from. I think we have more industries now than in the past 15-20 years ago. We have companies now making some household items, food processing, potable water, I think we can do well in building materials to compliment the building boom. While the few companies is a far cry from where we are supposed to be, we have made some progress. I will want the government to provide an enabling environment for production to thrive. Protect the existing companies while encouraging more to establish new production outfits. Build and maintain roads in industrial estates.

The endless wait for foreign investors to start producing while our brothers are running away to other states and countries is annoying. Why not identify Enugu state indigenes who has money and those who has brains, set them up with lands and protect the companies. We will be rewarded with jobs, and taxes when the companies are strong and profitable.

Referring to my earlier post...with two minerals found in the state in commercial quantities ...coal and limestone....ths state can innovatively incubate tens of industries without involving " the never- coming -foreign- investors" ...then again it depends on the priority of who is in authority.

ChimaAdeoye:



You are the ONLY Nigerian that does not know the 1999 constitution BANS state government or anyone to develop natural resources?
It is the exclusive prerogative of the Federal Government and they can play any politics they like with it. At the detriment of the Nigerian economy. Why do you think folks are seriously asking for restructuring of the country? Why do you think everyone wants the evil 1999 military constitution dropped and we return to our 1960 or 1963 republican constitution agreed upon as the basis for our independence? So that each state or region can develop whatever resources they have and use it to develop themselves rather than waiting forever for FG to do it and they will NEVER do it due to political bigotry of the type of leaders Nigeria produces.

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That may be true as regards the Constitution. ( Rather the words in the Constitution), but it does not belie the fact that some states are actually exploiting the resources within their domain without waiting for the federal government approval...in fact the current government could care less..as long as it brings in revenue....The federal government does not stop any state government from creating a mines ministry as enugu will benefit from such....again as I understand it..states can start their own power corporation...if your state goes into that it will have no choice but to use the abundant coal in it's domain...A Constitution no matter how flawed does not stop a smart person from accomplishing what they set out to do....that's the point of being smart.

Gentlemen and ladies, No state in Nigeria is really better or more advanced than the other for the following reasons.

1. No state can lay any claim of having or in the process of developing a basic industry
. :.... Iron and steel
:.......aluminum
:........silicon water foundry
:.......polymers
:........petroleum refinery complex ( what I mean is examplified along the st. Charles -Beaumont-Texas cty-lake Jackson axis)

2. No state has a home grown medical complex with branches all over the state that can treat 90% of diseases in the state.

3. No state can boast of food processing industries ...beyond buying and selling.
4. No state can boast of making any pharma API.
5. No state can boast of any design center or cluster for industrial products.
5. No state can boast of any machining industry
6. No state can boast of providing clean water to all their citizens.
7 No state provides free quality education for their indigenes.

Providing pancakes to cover the uglines does not solve the problem..

What to do..

1. Examine everything you have in your state and leverage upon it.

In the case of Enugu

Coal
Clay
Iron ore.
Limestone.

If you have a smart government that can leverage on just 2 of the above mentioned minerals..Enugu your state will be the Pittsburgh or chengdu of Nigeria.

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