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jomonic:
When government policies affect over 90% of the livelihood of a particular group it needs to be revisited. The argument of punishment for importing contraband does not suffice. The Igbo was strategically targeted by placing a ban on those commodities their mercantile operations depended on. This is a part of the problem.

Oga stop this your propaganda, abeg. The Igbo were not specifically targeted by govt policies on importation. All importers who brought in contraband goods or evaded customs duties were affected, irrespective of their ethnic origins. Are you trying to make people believe that the Igbo importers are the greatest lawbreakers since you claim their goods were seized because of the ban? After all, these importers knew the goods were banned, so why did they still go ahead to import such goods?

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Danladi7:
Dont mind those igbo they way the sound very illogical with their hate,lies and tribalism is amazing!

cry cry baby tribe!

Hehehehe....!!

Jeezuzpick:
He's Igbo. From Abakaliki.

I watched an interview he gave in the eighties (yeah, some elders are on NL ) and I remember him being asked where he came from, and he said "Abakaliki".

Back then we thought he was a Cameroonian.

Is 'Mbarga' an Abakaliki name? It sounds Cross River-ish to me, o!

sisipelebe:
I use to rock this song back then as a lil girl.

Bia, how old are you? I know you definitely can't be 21 years old.

Pussitto:
Senator representing kogi west ,senator Dino malaye visited an abuja based church Shepherd house pastored by Rev. Joshua talena. The controversial senator received prayers as many thinks he is trying to seek God to enable him escape the rot of INEC and kogi state governor ,Mr yaya bello.

Source. – http://chikasom..com/2017/10/dino-malaye-visits-church-for.html?m=1

Nansense!! by the grace of Almighty God, Melaye will be recalled and nothing shall stop it. After he leaves, Yahaya Bello would then be impeached. Those clowns are the greatest architects of Kogi's problems.

Biety:
Ogun is the most industrialised state in Nigeria.

As a yoruba man when you remember lagos and ogun you just thank God for blessing us with these two states. We are not like some people who are running away from their region everyday because their states are lacking in development.

rlauncher:
The economy of SW is not based on oil. It is based on Agriculture, Manufacturing, Hospitality businesses and services.

We've always had a good economy before oil. That is not going to change should we go our separate ways. I don't foresee the break-up of Nigeria though. Most Nigerians believe we are better together than disintegrated into smaller pieces.

The Southwest has made money not just from agriculture and manufacturing, but also from ICT services, financial services and real estate, as well. Ondo State is also the 4th largest oil producing state in the federation, while oil has been found off the coast of Lagos. But wait o, I am concerned about those middle belt states. Who put Nassarawa in the 26th position, behind Kogi? Kogi should be right at the bottom, nah. Yahaya Bello has not generated anything....

BlackMbakara1:
This is what we call "Massaging of Ego"...

I no know say you sef see am. Kanu has run away for good, and his flight has now put his sureties into trouble. May God deliver Senator Abaribe from his current travails. Next time, he would not place his bets on Kanu, the cowardly hate monger.

Denko2721987:
Thank God for them both.. But this looks like Gestational surrogacy

Where is your proof??

jomonic:
People have not talked about deliberate government policies that were targeted specifically to Igbo. Some of the policy include the importation of fabrics and several other items. Igbo goods were targeted for customs seizure. This situation is a great part of the poor economic situation in the South East. Many cottage industry grew from money earned from importation.

You people have started your victim mentality again. Tell us first, why were goods targeted for customs seizure? Wasn't it because the importers had either evaded customs duties, or had imported contraband goods? Why are you trying to make it seem as if people from other tribes are not involved in importation? And why are you trying to make it seem as if only Igbo importers were the ones whose goods were seized? So the ban on various items only affected Igbo importers of such items, and not the non-Igbo importers, is that what you are trying to say?

bro4u:
bro you know nothing, Akpabio wasted a lot of money on egoistic projects yet one of his major project being the stadium is boosting the state economically, hotels are smilling to banks day by day due to his projects and you're here saying he did not priotised his projects, have you ever wondered what Akwa Ibom looked like before 2007 when Akpabio took offer?, have you reasoned the State's state of affairs prior to 2007?, i guess not instead you're typing rubbish of which you know nothing about.

You also made mention of him making noise, ofcourse you expected the man to be silent considering all his achievements?, once upon a time Akpabio was one of the most talked-about politicians in Nigeria because of the manner and speed he transformed that State into what it is now.

Apart from the toothpich, syringe and chicks hatchery that big-mouthed man in power has executed what else has he done again...your guess is as good as mine, nothing. For your information the hatchery and toothpick factory is currently experiencing issues in which the workers are threatening to strike.

The problem in this country, is lack of continuity. What stops Udom from continuing with the projects that Akpabio started, and bringing them to completion? This hospital is a classic case. It makes my heart bleed to see uncompleted projects that could have benefited the country's citizens lying abandoned, simply because those at the helm failed to manage things properly. This country does not have adequate healthcare facilities, and someone is heartless enough to let such a multimillion investment such as the Ibom Specialist Hospital, go to waste! It is very annoying, to say the least.

CeterisXVII:
You couldn’t be any more laudate if you tried.
It appears you and your friends have all been seeing Laudate in your dreams. He must have really tormented you badly. Accept my sympathy. If I run into him at the office tomorrow, I will give him your regards.

cc : Laudate, what on earth did you do to these people?? Are you haunting them or something?

Hehehe..... na wetin we take resemble, nah? Leave dat guy, abeg. He always has a vision of me, every night. If I do not give him attention, he will faint. If I do not bless his endeavours, he cannot prosper. That is why he always seeks acknowledgement from me, on NL. His 'mumu button dey my hand.... just siddon dey look! Watch how he will start quoting me now, in a bid to get me to respond to him. I know his tactics too well!

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naturalwaves:
Is this not the tiny set of duplexes at Vilac estate that is owned by the owner of Damache doors? Your description does not match the true picture of those duplexes. The supposed bq is worse than where a slave should even stay. Moreover, it seems you just advertise anything you see. The price you quoted up there does not even match with the true price of the house. This is not how to be an agent o. You need to follow due process and integrity is very important.
PS: All your adverts always reek of desperation and high handednes with the way you always shout that unserious people should keep away. You are a business person and people have the right to make enquiries even if they won't be buying the properties immediately or even when such enquiries are for knowledge sake. Calm down! This hustle thing sha.

Are you serious?? Please what is the "true price of the house?" Kindly tell us.

writetopoker:
So Oghene finally travel with that juju to itali.

When u do finish, make u com back, we they wait you

Do Edo people bear the name 'Oghene?' Isn't Oghene an Urhobo word? Just asking.

7lives:
I don taya for Kogi state matters, THESE people ASKED for this current Governor.
They even carried placards, just to make sure that FALEYE did not become their Governor.
This is what they get for bringing back a man who had already decamped to PDP.
SELFISH people, a multi ethnic state was converted to an IGBIRA property at the expense of other tribes, shame on that useless Governor, shame on IGBIRA folks.
Let them stop wailing and bear this self inflicted pains, who knows, by 2019 they may succeed in getting rid of their back door Governor, rip to the dead anyway.

Oga, it is Ebira not Igbira. As for Kogi State, the afflictions the state is going through, no be ordinary eye. There is a peculiar spirit that entrenches mediocres in the seat of governance. So everyone is now waiting on God for divine intervention. I mean how can a state be blessed with such clueless leaders and even more clueless Senators, in quick succession? Bello hid his true colours from everyone during the election, and his victory later exposed how bereft he was of ideas, plans, programmes and good governance skills. Lessons learnt: 'popularity is not a good indicator of personal effectiveness.' In Bello's case, Kogi people mistook popularity for skillfulness, they mistook youthfulness for common sense. The chickens have now come home to roost. Faleye would not even have done better if he had been elected. Don't let us kid ourselves.

Basic123:
I will have said yorubas and record breaking are like 5&6. But as a yoruba boy I was NOT brought up to be a noise maker and chestbeater like some people that make noise on little achievement.

Una no go kill person with laugh for here...!!

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And to the mod who banned me... Papa God sabi yah address! I don carry your matter go meet the Almighty. He will deal with you in His own good time, don't worry. You can't keep a good man down!! God pass una!

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The Global Women Petroleum & Energy Club Awards have been recognising excellence in oil, gas and energy every year since 2000, and one of their aims is to provide a platform for women in the upstream petroleum sector. One of the previous award winners of the 2016 Global Women Petroleum & Energy awards in Africa is Damilola Owolabi. Other past award winners have come from Morocco, Kenya and South Africa.

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25-year old Damilola Owolabi who is the Chief Executive Officer of Dreg Waters Petroleum & Logistics Limited, received the 7th Global Women Petroleum & Energy Club Award for Africa at the 23rd Africa Oil Week/Upstream Conference in October 2016 in Cape Town, South Africa.

The award is given in recognition of rising and significant role of women, in global oil, gas and energy, in key roles. Global Women Petroleum & Energy Club is part of the suit of clubs and networks of Global Pacific & Partners, a leading advisory firm in the world upstream industry, established over three decades ago, with a distinctive portfolio. The Clubs and Networks act to connect corporate and state players, to facilitate critical industry interests and deal flow in the global upstream, providing unique global networking forums and allied social programmes for companies, governments and national oil companies within the worldwide industry, and across the value chain.

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Widely known for her undaunted passion to deliver value-adding services that promote oil and gas businesses in Africa, Damilola takes pride in the capacity of her company to provide clients with all the necessary information, documentation, products and manpower labour they need for successful operation. The award conferment is coming on the heels of her efforts to make business swifter for the sector players in Nigeria. She leads a vibrant team at Dreg Waters that seamlessly ensure that all necessary documents required by sector players from the appropriate authorities are: correct, up-to-date and given priority treatment.
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“To add value to the industry, we are now supplying petroleum products offshore, leasing various marine equipment and dealing with supply of manpower labour among other services rendered to local and international companies as well.”

Owolabi added: “There will always be opportunities in crisis especially where you are solving a problem and offering value added services.”
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sonnie10:
The problem is that such venture is not profitable for third party service providers. It's not like auto repairs were you would still have millions driving a car that has been out of manufactures warranty. This is marginal business, only a handful of them within a particular area. The reason those equipment were grounded in the first place is because they were no longer sustainable in term of complying with industrial standard and regulations.

Quality control and management system is a very detail orientated discipline. To meet regulatory standard, periodic inspections are mandated. Naturally, equipment over time, due to wears tears become obsolete .

This is what they would have done. Considering the size of this hospital, the huge investment and the potential for profit making, they ought to have approached an equipment manufacturer. Companies like GE, Phillips, Toshiba, Samsung etc are ever willing to partners with others. They will provide the equipment, and technical support for as long as you are willing to work with them.

The bottom line. Less downturn and more productivity for the hospital. But most importantly patients receive quality, safe and efficient service .

Oga, my earlier response still stands. Reach out to the management of ABUAD Teaching Hospitals, and share your observations directly with them, instead of trashing their efforts online. Most of the OEM manufacturers do not have direct representatives in Nigeria, so don't be surprised if they refer you to someone in South Africa or Egypt, for further information who may not have a clue about how to meet your needs. You cannot speak for GE, Toshiba, Samsung or Phillips in this regard, except you are one of their sales specialists. We do not even know if ABUAD ever approached those manufacturers, and they were given steep conditions that could not be met? This is just speculation, though. Anyway, facts are sacred, but opinions are free. Kindly share your observations directly with ABUAD. Good day.

Chartey:
You don't get it.
I don't think you know how a teaching hospital really works.
It's not only about quality of service.
When you go to a teaching hospital as a patient, you know that you will definitely be used as a teaching tool. This is compensated for by the quality yet cheap care you get.
In this hospital, care won't be cheap. Will patients who pay lots of money accept being used to teach medical students?
Remember the most important part of the training is by the bed of the patient.

Oga, all sorts of patients can be admitted in a teaching hospital. The high-fee paying ones can have their own section, where their cases will be handled by top notch consultants who will give them VIP treatment, and five-star premium medical care. Another section can offer basic, affordable, quality care to the masses, who can be clerked by interns and used as teaching aids, by the professors. Nothing spoil. Don't underestimate the resilience of many Nigerians, who do not mind travelling for miles to get good quality medical care. In Ondo & Ekiti States, as well as the neighbouring Edo & Kwara states, most teaching hospitals lack adequate facilities to offer quality medical services, that are close to what ABUAD Teaching hospital can provide to the citizens. If the state govts are able to put in place adequate health insurance schemes for their citizens, it would go a long way in helping to offset the medical bills that the patients would incur.

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7lives:
Go and see what S.L Akintola said concerning this matter on YouTube.
I will FOREVER remain grateful to PA AWOLOWO for putting a STOP to the attempted Colonization of SW, by the USELESS one Nigerianists who are wailing secession today, because they JUST could not succeed, no matter how hard they tried.

Hmmnnn.... SLA was a man who thought deeply about many things. When soldiers stormed his house, he fought bravely and did not run away like Kanu did.

sonnie10:
This is exactly my point. There is no need for those elephant size "photocopy" machines. Those are CR equipment with more radiation does. People are getting rid of those for DR. In fact health insurance companies have greatly reduced the amount payable when images are taken with CR. This is in a bid to reduce how much radiation patients are exposed to. I will update with the picture of a detector which has long replaced these antiquated machines. How would people feel if they go in for a chest xray for something as simple as cough but few months down the line, they are diagnosed of cancer or some DNA mutation?

Guy, instead if thrashing their efforts online, why not reach out to ABUAD Teaching Hospital management with your observations, and offer to assist them? Or better still, pay a visit to the facility and give them your expert advice? Many teaching hospitals in Nigeria do not even have these 15-year old machines that you are condemning, and many patients rely on older equipment at the general hospitals for diagnosis, and even survival.

sonnie10:
You won't understand. If only you can see what I am seeing. One example, if the vacuum tube in the CR breaks, which is a common occurrence in this set up, where will they get a replacement.
Remember, that machine is more than 15years and manufacturers are no longer producing the parts, that I know. How on earth do they intend to keep up without protracted down time?

Isn't there something called after-sales maintenance programme, anymore? Or isn't training of onsite technicians, part of the deal for buying such specialised equipment? Sometimes, a manufacturer might phase out a certain piece of equipment, but 3rd party companies that have been providing technical support for such machines, might end up developing alternative options, or recycling different spare parts in order to continue offering maintenance of such equipment, in secondary markets. We have seen such things happen in the telecom industry. I don't know if the same thing occurs in the healthcare equipment sector.

dabeto:
I remembered the much celebrated Akwa Ibom hospital built by Akpabio and why it was shut down. The hospital management said because the poor who patronizes this hospital could not pay for the bill, government was subsidizing it heavily.
On why PMB and the rich don't use hospitals in Nigeria at least the few that are equipped, the Minister for health responded that these set people need their privacy.
If you factor none patronage by those who should do so to sustain the hospital, your guess is as good as mine concerning the future of this hospital. Is Afe ready and willing to subsidize treatment for the poor?
This attitude cuts across every facet of our life.
We have to change the way we do things to build our nation.

No, sir! The problem with Ibom Specialist Hospital built by Akpabio was poor management, and the new state govt administration's nonchalance towards the project. Can you imagine that the hospital was NOT connected to the power grid, and had to depend on generators for several months for power? Imagine the horrendous cost of providing electricity to power the entire complex. They did not recruit adequate fully qualified local staff and medical doctors to man the hospital and attend to patients, instead they relied on foreign medical personnel whose salaries were being paid in dollars. Critical equipment needed for diagnostics and providing medical care, was not even installed in the hospital! In fact, the list of bad management practices is just too long to be rehashed here...

Have you asked yourself why private hospitals such as Lagoon Hospital, St. Nicholas as well as Reddington all in Lagos, are thriving and making good profits annually? Yet govt owned hospitals are badly run and folding up?

Chartey:
The problem here now is this. How will students clerk a patient who pays heavy money in this kind of facility. It may end up being a nice high-end hospital but not likely going to be a good teaching hospital.

Why won't it be a good teaching hospital? It is affiliated to a university with a full-fledged college of medicine, which has fully qualified professors of medicine and consultants, in attendance. In fact, I doubt if LUTH (Lagos University Teaching Hospital) which has been in existence for over 50 years, can boast of the number of staff and equipment that ABUAD Teaching hospital currently has within its premises. So what is your point?

shoboy9:
This doesn't look too good. The basis of learning and research is numbers. If the patients are too few or general public cannot afford their services, it will not be able to fulfil the function of a teaching hospital. It will lose focus and die off.

The same thing was said when Babcock University opened its own hospital. Now, the waiting list is so long, that patients have to book appointment dates for surgery, weeks in advance. Once a good healthcare facility opens, and doctors are able to certify that it is good, the patients would come. All it takes is a referral. We do not have adequate healthcare facilities within the country, so any additional one is welcome. Please pray this initiative succeeds. Do not kill it with your pessimism.....

Drabrah:
I hope it lasts too. I know Afe Babalola is an excellent business manager, buh I'm afraid cos of d location. Ekiti state is a state of farmers & salary earners wu may not be able 2 afford d cost of service befitting d edifice I'm seeing here & I wanna bliv this is not jst a "philanthropic gesture" buh dat wt some degree of business mindset though wt hospitality in view. If it were 2 be in Lag or Abj I wudn't bother, esp considering d pedigree & hx of d founder.

@Olalekanbanky1, I tagged u along cos u seem to be frm d parent institution & may, therefore, be better informed on this.

People will come from outside the state. It is not for people of Ekiti State alone. I have seen patients travel all the way from Delta State to Lagos, just to be able to receive orthopedic treatment. Patients leave Ilorin in Kwara state to come to Lagos, just to receive chemotherapy. Patients are referred from Bayelsa to other states, simply because such patients need to access healthcare facilities that are not found within their state. I can give you real life examples. The management of ABUAD just needs to market their medical services to all the NMA Associations in every state of the federation. The problem in Nigeria has always been inadequate medical facilities, and not a lack of patients willing to use those facilities, if they have the right information and adequate funds to do so.

All ABUAD Teaching Hospital needs to do, is to establish low-cost affordable hostels and guest houses for patients that come from outside the state and their relatives, so they can have a place to stay whenever they need to go for treatment at the hospital.

Statsocial:
I pray so too but considering it is private I am sure the owners would not let it rot away. Unlike govt's property which is no man's property.

I am just excited about the fact that this is a 7 ur old university. Even UCH doctors where astounded when they came over!

Olalekanbanky1:
I'm proud to be a staff of ABUAD.... We nicknamed the founder 'Kabiyesi' (means king in Yoruba Language) cos a true king makes sure his pple are always happy. Aare Baamofin of the entire Yorubaland (means d Supreme legal icon of Yorubaland)... God bless our founder/employer/mentor/philanthropist

Does it have a helipad, where patients can be airlifted into the hospital premises by helicopter?? It would be nice if it did, because the roads are so bad and considering the distance, having to airlift a patient into the hospital maybe the best and quickest option for such a patient to get access to healthcare at ABUAD.

policy12:
He must be an Afonja...

How did you guess?