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Can you imagine a whole British prime minister is being moved to the intensive care unit and the whole world is informed. But our own Abba Kyari, a mere chief of staff, nobody knows where he's even the health minister.
That's the difference between black man andb the white.

Food and grocery items

I Are you sure it's not Tiger Woods?

NaijaRoyalty:
Make dem kuku stay back and manage Nigeria with us .

Atleast our corrupt politicians won't run to US for treatment as it stands .

We are in this together since the useless government failed to upgrade our health care system despite billions upon billions of Naira budgeted for it since Buhari's inception as president .

Olga, argue logically and constructively. What's the state of Nigeria health system throughout the PDP's 16 years rule? Or the health system just get bad? Besides what are the state government doing particularly in your South East region?

Taeewo:
Front page don sure cus na la la sti la cla la cla sti car be the OP..


Una all supposed to set up trusted committee make them share this money for us instead of given it to AWON [b]JEGURU JERA that won't be able to account for it..

We wey get sense to do things,God no give us money...

Baba God answer my prayer,i go help people.

Je gudu jetra that"s the correct spelling

Every State in the South west has now registered on the covid19. God almighty where your face dey o. Protect and heal the land o.

Deadratgrill:
The church has been a business since the time of Christ, that was why he chased the buyers and sellers out of his temple

The business has been taking to another level particularly in Africa.

I won't be surprised if America is behind all these. They are the author of both the virus and the medicine. Just to make money people's life will be wasted.

Italy that's home of the Pope is severely affected so also is Israel.
The guy is just a layabout with very lazy intellect.

This is impact of bad decision of Donald Trump stopped the Obama Care which American citizens including the poor blacks were benefiting from. Suppose the health care programme is still available affected citizens will go to hospital for test and treatment without any fare. But American health system is now only for the rich. The issue of money sharing wouldn't have occurred.

What APC did is not different from what Jonathan and PDP did in Ekiti gubernatorial election during Fayose.

Binidefender:
Amotekun should be practiced only in yoruba states and villages
Lagos is not really a yoruba state,
We the binis are the first and original owners of lagos as documented

That's why you're in control of Lagos on the social media. Just be contended with that.

Azmanaty:
Which allah??

Stupid question? If you've problem with that you can help yourself by hug a transformer.

What's the last price?

LordAzubuike:
Most people call it leather for reasons I can't understand.

anochuko01

It's aboki people like you that call nylon leather. Leather ko, ponmo ni

Baba Buhari no even send anybody!!! If you like kill yourself finish, don't just touch his children. Baba and his family and friends just dey gbaladun the oil revenue.

CanadaOrBust:
Not at all. He said sicknesses many world leaders have been hiding will finally surface this year. No mention of China or type of illness

Besides, sickness is not the same as epidemic we have at hand now and more so nobody is hiding it.
The prophesy is more or less related to individual leader sickness and not populace as we have it now ,

what about Dasuki?
quote author=Built2last post=86947142]Can anyone name any top Northern politician who is a MUSLIM who has been convicted and sentenced by Buhari.....

Mention any former governor or federal Minister.

Before some of you will come here to rant like an ant.

I am not against jailing corrupt politicians. I dont know Metu or Orji Kalu.

I just wonder why No Northern Muslim of such status is in Jail. 2 former governors tried and jailed are christians

Note: I have no time to reply all low lives replying me. I said mention anyone convicted and people are screaming Dasuki. Was Dasuki convicted? Is Jolly Nyame a Nothern Muslim?

People are asking me if Buhari is the judge, No He is not the judge...No judge brings the accuse to court its the machinery with an agenda that charges them to those courts not the judges.

Those of you saying my post is divisive should know that Nigeria has been divided by Buhari already. Its a matter of time. Its a matter of time.[/quote]

Ccongrats Baba Oloye
Oye a mo ri o.

Stereotype!!! All those that have been killing people in the states nko? Are they muslims?

The Federal Ministry of Health’s inability to procure equipment and equip laboratories is affecting Nigeria’s preparation for a possible Coronavirus epidemic, Punch reports.

This is despite the release of N386m by the Federal Government to scale up preparation to tackle the disease.


The Presidency through the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, had in October 2018 stripped the ministry of its powers to procure anything and transferred the authority to the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The PUNCH had reported that the development was caused by a power play between the then Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, and Kyari.

Eight months after Adewole’s exit, however, Kyari it was learnt, had failed to reverse the directive.

A top official at the health ministry said attempts to get the President’s chief of staff to reverse the situation had not yielded any positive results.

The official said both the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire and the Minister of State for Health, Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora, had met with Kyari over the issue but there had been no progress yet.

He said the situation had slowed down preparations for prevention of Coronavirus, a disease which has killed more than 1,800 people and infected over 73,000 people worldwide.

The official, who is also a doctor, said items like nose masks, chemicals and equipment were being procured through the agric ministry

He said, “We can’t easily get consumables like personal protective equipment, including nose masks.


“We need to improve our capacity for quarantine and surveillance and monitor those coming (to Nigeria) especially where we have a basis for suspicion. Logistics cost more money. We need to set up more labs, we need reagents. There is no way the suspension of our procurement powers will not affect our capacity.

“Even when we have money, we cannot activate procurement because we have been stripped of our powers of procurement.”

The source further stated that the ministry needed more thermal scanners at the various points of entry and this was being delayed.


“We need to deploy more staff. We need the personnel capacity, training, logistics. All these things are important. All these things are not there when we need them.

“Even our thermal scanners at the airport, we need more at all our points of entry. So, it is affecting us seriously,” he said.

Sunday PUNCH reports that due to the friction between the former minister, Adewole, and Kyari, a directive was given to the then Permanent Secretary, Clement Uwaifo, in October 2018 that all contracts and procurement related issues must go through the ministry of agric.

Documents obtained by Sunday PUNCH showed that whenever the ministry of health wants to make procurement, the permanent secretary would raise a memo which would be sent to the permanent secretary of the agric ministry.

It was observed that in some instances, the permanent secretary would give direct approval while sometimes, he would write a memo to the Director-General of the Bureau of Public Procurement, Mamman Ahmadu, who would approve based on the Procurement Act.

When contacted on the telephone, the Permanent Secretary of the health ministry, Abdullahi Mashi, said that indeed the ministry had been barred from making procurements.

Mashi said the issues had been communicated to the appropriate authorities and the ministry of health had been asked to write a formal request asking for its procurement powers to be returned.

The permanent secretary, however, said the preventive measures put in place to tackle a potential Coronavirus outbreak were adequate despite the ministry’s procurement challenge.

He said all the major airports in Lagos, Abuja, Enugu, Kano and Port Harcourt had been placed on alert and thermal scanners deployed.

On the procurement challenge, he said, “We were asked to write on the matter and we have written
and we are expecting a response soon.

“For now, there is no gap. We have done everything within our power to secure our points of entry. It’s not true that it’s affecting coronavirus preparations. The five entry points are being properly manned by our men 24/7.”

When asked if the ministry was not worried by its inability to make procurements, he said, “I did not say the arrangement is working for us. I am the chief accounting officer and there is no way I will be comfortable with an arrangement whereby I have to approach another ministry for help. It is not working for me.”

When contacted on the telephone, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said the health ministry was stripped of its procurement powers because it exceeded its spending limits.

He said, “The Ministry of Agriculture was appointed to do procurement on their behalf arising from a problem which was brought to the attention of the government by the Bureau of Public Procurement. The health ministry was authorised to spend N2bn but they spent N7bn.”

Shehu said the officials of the ministry who were lamenting to Sunday PUNCH should write to BPP instead of trying to blackmail Kyari.

He, however, did not respond on why the arrangement was still in place eight months after the exit of those involved in the unauthorised spending.

“This arrangement has been on for over a year. They should not try to use Coronavirus to blackmail the government. Let them approach BPP if they are sure that their house is in order,” he added.

Attempts to speak with the EFCC spokesman, Mr Tony Orilade, proved abortive as he neither responded to telephone calls nor a text message on Saturday.

Obi Primary School located in Uzebba Ihuleha community in the Owan West Local Government Area of Edo State like many schools resumed for academic activities after the first-term holiday which ushered in Christmas and New Year holidays.

The school founded in 1958 had eight teachers residing in Obi camp in the area. It’s sited in a border forest between Edo and Kogi states.

But the school’s Headmaster who is also the Chairman, Nigerian Union of Teachers, Owan West LGA chapter, Mr Okun Dada, and other teachers, have abandoned the school despite their contributions to its development. An abduction case they witnessed last month made them to take the decision.

Dada told Sunday PUNCH, “Nothing can take me back to that place. If the government cannot transfer me, then they should pay me my entitlements and I will retire.”

On January 13, 2020, Fulani gunmen invaded the school when the teachers just ended the first meeting for the year. Dada said five of them were in the staff room while three were around his office that day.

He said, “There was no pupil in the school that day being the first day of resumption. Usually, it used to take one to two weeks before pupils start coming because of the distance of the school to the communities. One of the three teachers sitting outside my office was Mrs Esther Alabi. She was kidnapped by the gunmen.

“It was around 10:30am and suddenly I saw one of my teachers running. He ran across where I was sitting. Then I looked up and saw one of the gunmen shooting and everybody ran for safety. I managed to jump the window and fell into the bush not knowing that they had already surrounded the bush. They attacked me with a matchet and while I was still struggling to escape from them, I fell.

“One of them pointed a gun at me and I begged, ‘Please don’t kill me’ but the gun refused to fire. When they noticed that the gun didn’t fire, the man who held the gun tried to remove the bayonet. While he was struggling to do that, I ran towards my car. Others ran after me but I had already entered the vehicle and zoomed off to a nearby police station.”

But Alabi was not lucky even though she jumped through the window, she fell into the hands of the gunmen who took her away with them. Our correspondent gathered that the teacher was the only one seized by the gunmen and was with them for three nights moving round the bush.
She was released on the third day after a payment of N1.7m ransom and purchase of items like cigarettes, malts and soft drinks, among other things.

Alabi, a mother of two, had been teaching in the school for five years. Before the incident, the woman enjoyed good health but now on drugs for insomnia which became worse especially in the night arising from nightmare of the incident.

The teacher said, “We were in school that morning on the first day of resumption. We did normal sanitation in the school because the pupils had not resumed. We went to the camps to tell the parents of the pupils that school had opened and they promised that to let them come. I was in the headmaster’s office and he was making calls beside me when suddenly we heard shooting. That was how we started running. Three of us were together; myself, headmaster and one other teacher who uses a walking stick. I saw him trying to escape but he could not run. I also struggled to run. I managed to climb the window of my class but I fell, that was where two men met me and pointed guns on my head.’’

Alabi stated that they threatened to shoot her if she moved while one of them dragged her away.
She added, “I tried to escape but he caught up with me and shot at the ground to scare me.
Then I saw others coming to us; they were six. I was with them in the forest without food or water for three days. Luckily for me, I was not raped but I beaten. While I was with them, they asked me questions. They asked if I was aware of kidnapping, I said we have heard of it in other places but not around our community. They said I had heard of it yet still came to school. I told them that it was my place of work and I had no choice but to go there. They said their business was to kidnap for ransom and kill their victims if ransom wasn’t paid.’’

Alabi said she became frightened at that stage as she thought of where she would get the money to pay ransom.

She further said, “I understand Hausa and tried to get what they were saying but I couldn’t. In my school, herdsmen had taken over one of the classrooms with their cattle. They slept and even cooked there. The headmaster tried all he could to make them leave but they refused to go. Sometimes, we met them sleeping in the classes.

“Their cows grazed on the farms owned by us. They harvested yams and cooked them inside one of the classrooms. That was when we started nursing fears that they could attack us anytime. After closing, we would meet them there the following day. They usually occupied two classes.”

The teacher said immediately she was kidnapped, her phone which she was charging in the headmaster’s office was taken, adding that they searched through the mobile and found her brother’s number, Nelson Asenhame, whom they contacted the following day.

The development came barely two days after suspected Fulani herdsmen killed an 11-year-old boy in Sobe. Sobe is also in the Owan West LGA.

Speaking with Sunday PUNCH, Asenhame said he was in his office along Ifon road when someone told him that there was a kidnapping case at the school.

He said, “I know my sister teaches there. The moment I heard about it, I reached out to reach her via her mobile but it was not connecting.’’

Asenhame said he became apprehensive at that point and immediately stopped a motorcycle to take him to the school.

He stated, “While on the way, I noticed movement of people to the school. I stopped to ask them what was happening. I was told that suspected herdsmen came to kidnap teachers in the school. I became worried and told the motorcyclist to move ahead. On getting to the school, I met police and vigilantes there. I also saw some of the female teachers outside. Of course, the way they looked showed they escaped. Their bodies and clothes were dirty. They also had no shoes on. When they saw me, they asked for my sister, I told them I had not seen her. I was sad when one of them told me she overheard my sister begging the kidnappers and crying as they took her away. Later on, some of the teachers started coming out from hiding and I was hoping that she would be out too.

“One of the teachers was sending text messages from his hiding place but he would switch off his phone once the message was sent and we began to suspect that probably it was the kidnappers’ prank. He begged to be rescued from where he was. Later, the policemen came from Auchi and went to where he described and brought him out. Then it remained my sister and one other teacher who were not seen. Later in the day, the teacher came to the station. By that time, it dawned on me that my sister had been taken away because her mobile was off.’’

Asenhame told Sunday PUNCH that there was no communication about his sister until 9pm when his phone rang and he could hear his sister’s voice at the background begging the kidnappers for freedom.

“Someone spoke with me on the phone that I should look for money to secure her freedom. He first said N30m and I said being a teacher she couldn’t get such money. Later, they reduced it to N15m. I was careful in responding because I didn’t want to say anything that would provoke them and jeopardise my sister’s life. I also didn’t want to negotiate so I started begging him. He shouted at me and switched

PDP and it's problem. Thuggery yi na ni.

Simply owner of the car has retrieved it. Purely Face safe!!!

Many hundreds of years ago in a small Italian town, a Merchant had the misfortune of owing a large sum of Money to the Moneylender. �

The moneylender, who was Old and Ugly, fancied the merchant’s Beautiful Daughter �‍♀so he proposed a bargain.

He said he would forgo the merchant’s debt if he could marry the daughter. Both the merchant and his daughter were horrified by the proposal.

The moneylender told them that he would put a black pebble and a white pebble into an empty bag. ⚫⚪

The girl would then have to pick one pebble from the bag.
If she picked the black pebble, she would become the moneylender’s wife and her father’s debt would be forgiven.
If she picked the white pebble she need not marry him and her father’s debt would still be forgiven.
But if she refused to pick a pebble, her father would be thrown into jail.

They were standing on a pebble strewn path in the merchant’s garden.
As they talked, the moneylender bent over to pick up two pebbles.
As he picked them up, the sharp-eyed girl noticed that he had picked up two black pebbles and put them into the bag.

He then asked the girl to pick her pebble from the bag.

What would you have done if you were the girl?

If you had to advise her, what would you have told her?

Careful analysis would produce three possibilities:

1. The girl should refuse to take a pebble.

2. The girl should show that there were two black pebbles in the bag and expose the moneylender as a cheat.

3. The girl should pick a black pebble and sacrifice herself in order to save her father from his debt and imprisonment.

The above story is used with the hope that it will make us appreciate the difference between lateral and logical thinking.

The girl put her hand into the moneybag and drew out a pebble.

Without looking at it, she fumbled and let it fall onto the pebble-strewn path where it immediately became lost among all the other pebbles.

“Oh, how clumsy of me,” she said. “But never mind, if you look into the bag for the one that is left, you will be able to tell which pebble I picked.” Since the remaining pebble is black, it must be assumed that she had picked the white one.

And since the moneylender dared not admit his dishonesty, the girl changed what seemed an Impossible situation into an Advantageous one.

*MORAL OF THE STORY*:
Most Complex problems do have a Solution, sometimes we have to think about them in a Different way.

If you liked this story… please share with friends, family and children…

You might *spark* a thought, inspire and possibly change a life forever!
Thinking *"Out of the Box"*.

Operekete n'dagba inu adamo n'baje

solmus:




When Shiek Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum of Dubai said he wanted a change, it wasnt easy, he said it out loud Otoge!! back in the early 90s and his subject hissed and said dubai must remain rural for life and he was crazy, they were ok with their camels and donkeys with few Tokunbo cars telling him what isnt damage doesnt need fixing

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum went around with his crazy policies that was not similar to conservative islamic veiws and they called him prince of Saytan and unislamic, he went to Egypt Air to lease just 2 plane and started Emirate Airline, he came to Nigeria to meet Obasanjo and begged him to invest Nigerias free money in dubai and make Nigeria a great return on investment, Obasanjo bluntly told him nobody invested in a desert, while Atiku secretly siphoned his money to Dubai to own some of the best malls and towers in dubai

Now Sanwo-Olu is making a crazy move that can cost him a second term, and he wants to turn lagos around calling for private investors to join the BRT scheme and Lagosboat scheme, nobody is taking the offer, if an Atiku or a Dangote comes to Lagos and capitalize on the new oppurtunity bringing in double decker bus, people would wail and scream, while this men smile to the bank

Double decker Coaches and busses start retailing from about 30 million - to 43 million naira, Ferry boats cost similar, many celebs and yahoo boys in Lagos can buy one instead of benz and range rovers or empty mansions and join the BRT fleet managed by Lagos state Government and make money forever

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Omo forget story. Sanwo go win second term. This no be new law, Fashola promulgated and implemented the traffic law but was relaxed by Ambode.

festacman:
One key difference between Nigerian leaders and their counterparts in developed countries showing up once again. The critical issue of planning.

Why banning Okada and Keke when there is no alternative means of transportation in place? Why the haste? Obviously, nobody sat down to analyze the SWOT analysis of the policy and developed vital implementation stages. It is like Sanwo-Olu and his team never knew that Lagosians use Okada and Keke daily to go about their businesses.

By the way, did Gov. Sanwo-Olu sound out the APC members at grassroots for feedback before this ban? I hope he analyzed the political implications come 2023 elections because Jagaban wouldn't blink before throwing him under the bus and nearer the tyres for maximum impact.

Na lie. Fashola banned Okada and tri cycle and nothing happened. When Ambode that allow okada back on streets could not get second term.

The rapping spirit is in the blood not hormone. She will continue to rape male counterparts.

Welcome development. They should intensify the attack.