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 Politics › Christians, South-East lose out in Security Appointments "Shocking Details" by mcvities(op): 5:02pm On Mar 19, 2018 |
The Nigerian Christian population is fast disappearing from security and paramilitary establishments, according to figures released by frontline rights group, the International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law (Intersociety). A statement released on Sunday in Onitsha by the group showed “the present patterns and trends of gross lopsidedness in key appointments made since June 2015 by the current central Government of Muhammadu Buhari into the country’s top 21 security and paramilitary establishments.” Statistics release by Intersociety showed the South-East to be the worst hit in the said lopsided appointments, entirely excluded in some cases. Entitled ‘Table Statistics Of Lopsided Appointments In Security & Paramilitary Establishments-Fuelling Fulani Jihadism And Regime Aided Killings In Nigeria’, the statement was signed by Intersociety’s Board Chairman Emeka Umeagbalasi; Head, Civil Liberties & Rule of Law Programme, Barr Obianuju Joy Igboeli; Head, Democracy & Good Governance Programme, Barr Chinwe Umeche; and Head, Public Security & Safety Programme, Barr Jacinta Ezinwanne. Intersociety blamed the overwhelming dominance of the Muslim North for the country’s worsening security situation, especially the reign of terror by violent Fulani herdsmen in parts of the country. The statement reads in part: “It is recalled that we had in our last public statement, dated 14th March 2018 and titled: Government False Labeling and Lopsided Security Appointments Fuel and Escalate supporter of APC Jihadism in Nigeria; informed that lopsided appointments in security and paramilitary establishments in Nigeria particularly since June 2015 have largely been responsible for intensification and escalation of the ongoing killing spree mostly, if not all targeted at non Muslims particularly members of the Christian faith in Nigeria or any part thereof. We also rejected in totality the false labeling by the present central Government of Muhammadu Buhari and its mainstream media apologists of the killings as “Fulani Herdsmen/Farmers clashes”. “In furtherance of our intellectual, investigative and research capacity and frontiers, we have gone further by presenting below the Table Statistics and their analytical simplifications showing the present patterns and trends of gross lopsidedness in key appointments made since June 2015 by the current central Government of Muhammadu Buhari into the country’s top 21 security and paramilitary establishments. Presented too in the analytical table statistics are ethno-religious domination of the headship of Nigeria Police Force’s 29 serving AIGs, 12 Zonal Command AIGs and 37 State and FCT CPs as well as another table showing the domination of most of the key military formations in Southeast Nigeria by officers of Northern Muslim backgrounds. “As all may know; the internal security of Nigeria or traditional security of persons and properties within the country are conventionally, constitutionally and legally entrusted in the hands of the Nigeria Police Force. Owing to multi pluralistic composition of Nigeria as a country of 389 tribes with dominant three and multi religious setting-largely populated by Christians and Muslims; the old Nigerian Constitutions and its subsisting 1999 Constitution forbade and still forbid State actors from entrusting the security of the country in the hands of members of a particular ethnic or religious group. “This is to ensure, among other things, the feeling of security and security proper among all Nigerians irrespective of tribe, ethnicity, religion or gender. This is more so when the country is acutely divided along ethno-religious lines and embedded with deepened signs of divided society. It remains our firm position that any effort at tackling the current ceaseless killings or butcheries and insecurity and other unsafe conditions; without total restructuring and reversal of the present gross lopsided security and paramilitary compositions in the country in accordance with Section 14 (3) of the subsisting Constitution will be grossly counterproductive or tantamount to fire brigade approach. “In the area of composition and leadership of the Nigeria Police Force, for instance, it is saddled with a top management team called “the Nigeria Police Force Management Team”; composed of all serving DIGs, AIGs, the 12 Police Zonal Command AIGs and the Force Secretary, etc. The internal security or national policing policy directions are formulated, discussed and implemented at the level of Nigeria Police Management Team; from where they are implemented as instructed by the 37 serving State CPs and ors. “It therefore shocks and saddens our heart that the Igbo Nation as a whole; with estimated population of 40m-50m and largest Christian strong-hold in Nigeria do not have a single serving AIG among the country’s 29 serving AIGs. The Zone including its satellite extensions in South-south, and North-central also do not have a single serving Zonal Command AIG out of the country’s 12 serving AIGs. In the CPs, DCPs and ACPs’ ranks, the Southeast population is terminally diminishing; with orchestrated plans or policy to eliminate the Zone from the top command echelon of the Force. It is further appalling that out of the country’s 37 State and FCT serving CPs, only two are from the Southeast and entire Igbo Nation; with their retirement barely one year ahead. “It may most likely be correct to say that the sedentary, semi pastoral and pastoral Igbo Nation and their largely Christian faithful are at high risk of pogrom and religious cleansing in the country sooner or later. A clear case in point is the ongoing extermination of Christians and other non Muslim nationalities of Northern Nigeria; which have put estimated 30 million of them in disarray; forced over 1.5million of them to flee and resulted in the death of over 20,000 others since 2009. “It is also strongly suspected that the Igbo satellite communities in Benue and Kogi States are at high risk of extermination and religious cleansing. As a matter of research findings, there are millions of Igbo People of Benue and Kogi States including over 1million Igbo People historically referred to as “Igbo People of Umuezekaoha Clan in Benue State” (Emeka Umeagbalasi 2017); just as there are “Igbo People of Gusau” in present Zamfara State; who migrated to the area in 1600 Century AD, two hundred years before the arrival of Shehu Usman Dan Fodio of the Fula Clan (Chekwas Okorie 2017). “The ongoing butchery in Kogi State by Fulani Jihadists which started on Wednesday night, 14th March 2018, resulting in the death of not less than 50 Christians (by official and independent statistics) is a further attestation of the fact that the killings by Fulani supporters of APC are far from rift over grazing rights or the so called “Fulani Herdsmen/Farmers’ clashes”. In spite of seizing and ceding of 15,000 hectares of lands by the Governor of Kogi State and donation of same to Federal Government for onward transfer to Mr. President’s Fulani brothers; the latest round of killing is a clear indication that the killings are purely ethno-religiously intended and executed with State aiding. “In the past fifteen days of the outgoing Month of March, updated statistics from official and independent circles show that over 120 rural Christians have been hacked to death by Fulani Jihadists in Kogi (Dekina and Omala LGAs), Benue (Okpokwu) and Plateau (Zirshe Dundu in Bassa LGA and Mararaba Dare, near Rafiki Community). By Senator Atai Aidoko (Kogi East)’s account, 32 were killed as at 15th March. The death had risen to 50 as at 16th March according to media accounts on the ground. “In Benue State 22 more citizens were killed and buried in Okpokwu in the past two weeks. In Plateau State, 25 persons were killed in the last Monday night attacks in Zirshe Dundu Community in Kwali District of Bassa LGA when villagers gathered to bury four of their own earlier killed on Saturday night. The Commander of 3 Division Garrison Jos, Brig Gen Texas Chukwu also disclosed that his personnel recovered 23 fresh dead bodies who are victims of Fulani Herdsmen killings in the late night of Wednesday 14th March 2018 at Mararaba Dare village, near Rafiki Community in Plateau State. “For more details, see Guardian Newspapers of 14th and 16th March 2018 as well as the Sun Newspaper of 17th March 2018. The updated statistics of the recent Fulani Herdsmen killings bring the total number of rural Christians and other non Muslims killed by the Jihadists since December 2018, a period of less than four months or 105 days to not less than 520. Till date, no single perpetrator has been arrested and put on trial by the central Government of Muhammadu Buhari.” Intersociety backed its claims with the following statistics: ) KEY APPOINTMENTS IN SECURITY AND PARAMILITARY ESTABLISHMENTS AND THEIR REGIONAL REPRESENTATION NORTHERN TABLE NAME POSITION RELIGION Lt Gen Tukur Buratai Chief of Army Staff Muslim Musa Daura DG-SSS Muslim Retired Lt Gen A. Dambazzu Minister of Interior Muslim Air Marshal Sadique Baba Abubakar Chief of Air Staff Muslim Retired Major Gen Babagana Monguno National Security Adviser Muslim Mansur Dan Ali Minister of Defense Muslim Ibrahim Kpotum Idris Inspector Gen of Police Muslim Ahmed Rufai Abubakar Director Gen National Intelligence Agency Muslim Retired Col Hameed Ali Comptroller Gen Nigerian Custom Service Muslim Mohammed Babandede Comptroller Gen Nigerian Immigration Service Muslim Ahmed Ja’afaru Comptroller Gen Nigerian Prisons Service Muslim BOBOYE OLAYEMI OYEYEMI Corps Marshall Federal Road Safety Corps Xian or Muslim (Kwara State) Anebi Garba Joseph Controller Gen Federal Fire Service Xian Abdulahi Gana Muhammadu Commandant Gen Nigerian Security & Civil Defense Corps Muslim Abubakar Malami Attorney General of the Federation Muslim Muhammadu Buhari (Retired Maj.Gen) Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria Muslim Ibrahim Magu Chairman of EFCC Muslim Muhammad Mustapha Abdallah Chairman/CEO National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Muslim TOTAL KEY SECURITY/PARAMILITARY APPOINTMENTS NORTH 18 SOUTHERN TABLE NAME POSITION RELIGION Lt Gen Abayomi Gabriel Olanishakin Chief of Defense Staff Southwest Xian Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas Chief of Naval Staff South-south Xian Alhaji Abdul Jelili Oyewale Minister of Police Affairs Southwest Muslim TOTAL KEY SECURITY/PARAMILITARY APPOINTMENTS SOUTH 3 Summary: Total Top Security & Paramilitary Appointments=21 North=18 South=3 NW/NE/NC=18 S/W=2 S/S=1 S/E=Nil Muslims=17 Christians=3 (B) 29 SERVING POLICE AIGs IN NIGERIA NORTHWEST TABLE NAME STATE OF ORIGIN RELIGION Mohammed Musa Katsina Katsina Muslim Tili Abubakar Kebbi Muslim Umaru Shehu Sokoto Muslim Abdul Bube Kebbi Muslim Ibrahim Adamu Zamfara Muslim Abdul Dahiru Kano Muslim Salisu F. Abdulahi Kano Muslim Lawal Shehu Katsina Muslim Abubakar Marafa Kebbi Muslim Dahiru Mohammed Katsina Muslim TOTAL AIGs N/W 10 NORTH EAST TABLE NAME STATE OF ORIGIN RELIGION Mohammed Usman Sani Bauchi Muslim Aminchi Samaila Baraya Taraba Muslim Usman Ankali Baba Yobe Muslim Tijani Baba Yobe Muslim Karma Hosea Hassan Taraba Xian TOTAL AIGs N/E 5 NORTH-CENTRAL TABLE NAME STATE OF ORIGIN RELIGION Abdul Salami Ayaji Kogi Muslim Dorothy Gimba Plateau Xian Usman Yakubu Niger Muslim Abdulmajid Ali Niger Muslim Abubakar A. Mohammed Nasarawa Muslim Yakubu Jibrin Nasarawa Muslim Dan Bature Plateau Xian or Muslim Ezekiel Zang Plateau Xian TOTAL AIGs N/C 8 SOUTH WEST TABLE NAME STATE OF ORIGIN RELIGION Agboola Oshodi-Glover Lagos Xian or Muslim Kayode Aderanti Osun Xian Felix Ogundeji Ondo Xian Fredrick Taiwo Lekanu Lagos Xian Rashidi O. Akintude Ogun Muslim TOTAL AIGs S/W 5 SOUTH-SOUTH TABLE NAME STATE OF ORIGIN RELIGION Hilda Idiruro Harrison Edo Xian TOTAL AIGs S/S 1 SOUTH EAST TABLE NAME STATE OF ORIGIN RELIGION None None None TOTAL AIGs S/E Nil Summary: Total Serving Police AIGs in Nigeria=29 North= 23 South=6 Northwest=10 Northeast=5 North-Central=8 Southwest=5 South-south=1 Southeast=Nil Total Muslims=22 Total Christians=7 (C) 12 POLICE ZONAL COMMANDS IN NIGERIA AND THEIR AIGs NORTH WEST TABLE NAME STATE OF ORIGIN RELIGION PHONE NO. 1. Ibrahim Adamu: AIG Zone 2 Lagos Zamfara Muslim adamuibrahheenrd@yahoo.com 2. Abubakar Marafa : AIG Zone 6 Calaba Kebbi Muslim ab68maraf@gmail.com 3. Salisu A. Fagge: AIG Zone 7 Abuja Kano Muslim safaen@yahoo.co.uk TOTAL ZONAL COMMAND AIGs N/W 3 NORTH EAST TABLE NAME STATE OF ORIGIN RELIGION PHONE NO. 1. Karma Hosea Hassan: AIG ZONE 9 Umuahia Taraba Xian H2karma@yahoo.com 2. Tijani Baba: AIG Zone 12 Bauchi Yobe Muslim babtyjani@yahoo.com TOTAL ZONAL COMMAND AIGs N/E 2 NORTH CENTRAL TABLE NAME STATE OF ORIGIN RELIGION PHONE NO. Abubakar Adamu Mohammed: AIG Zone 5 Benin Nasarawa Muslim mail61@yahoo.com 2. Dan Bature: AIG Zone 1 Kano Plateau Xian or Muslim danbature2010@yahoo.com 3. Jibrin A. Yakubu : AIG Zone 8 Lokoja Nasarawa Muslim 08081775358 4. Usman Yakubu : AIG Zone 10 Sokoto Niger Muslim yak.usman@yahoo.com TOTAL ZONAL COMMAND AIGs N/C 4 SOUTH WEST TABLE NAME STATE OF ORIGIN RELIGION PHONE NO. 1. Kayode Aderanti : AIG Zone 3 Lagos Xian alizimbo50@yahoo.com 2. Agboola Oshodi Glover: AIG Zone 11 Oshogbo Lagos Xian or Muslim sammyglover59@yahoo.com TOTAL ZONAL COMMAND AIGs S/W 2 SOUTH-SOUTH TABLE NAME STATE OF ORIGIN RELIGION PHONE NO. 1. Ibifuro Harrison Hilda: AIG Zone 4 Makurdi Edo Xian wdharrison@yahoo.com TOTAL ZONAL COMMAND AIGs S/S 1 SOUTH EAST TABLE NAME STATE OF ORIGIN RELIGION PHONE NO. Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil TOTAL ZONAL COMMAND AIGs S/E None Summary: Total Serving Zonal Command AIGs in Nigeria=12 North=9 South=3 N/W=3 N/C=4 N/E=2 S/W=2 S/S=1 S/E=Nil Muslims=8 Christians=4 (D) 37 STATES & FCT POLICE COMMANDs AND THEIR CPs NORTH WEST TABLE NAME STATE OF ORIGIN RELIGION PHONE NO. Hafiz Mohammed Inuwa: CP Rivers Jigawa Muslim hafsab2913@gmail.com 2. Garba Umar: CP Anambra Kaduna Muslim 08035557676 3. Abdulahi Chafe Ibrahim: CP Ekiti Zamfara Muslim 08032100890 4. Dan-Malam Mohammed: CP Enugu Katsina Muslim danmalam57@gmail.com 5. Bala Zama Senchi: CP Jigawa Kebbi Muslim balazamasenche@yahoo.com 6. Bello Abubakar Sadiq: CP FCT-Abuja Kebbi Muslim sabello20@yahoo.com 7. Ibrahim M. Kabiru: CP Kebbi Kano Muslim kabirupolice@yahoo.com 8. Lawan Ado: CP Kwara Kano Muslim 08037024320 9. Ahmed Iliyasu: CP Ogun Kaduna Muslim kutkuji@gmail.com 10. Murtala U. Mani: CP Sokoto Katsina Muslim murtalaumani@gmail.com 11. Zaki M. Mohammed: CP Rivers Kebbi Muslim zakimohammed@yahoo.co.uk 12. Ali Aji Janga: CP Kogi Muslim 08034855055 TOTAL STATE CPs N/W 12 NORTH EAST TABLE NAME STATE OF ORIGIN RELIGION PHONE NO. 1. Bello Ahmed: CP Nasarawa Bauchi Muslim 08056183075 2. Wakili Mohammed: CP Katsina Gombe Muslim 08099778888 3. Rabiu Yusuf: CP Kano Taraba Muslim 08037786246 4. Mohammed A. Mustapha: CP Delta Borno Muslim muhdarge@yahoo.com 5. Abdulahi W. Ibrahim: CP Adamawa Gombe Muslim 08076681887 6. Dibal Paul Yakadi: CP Niger Borno Xian pydibal@yahoo.com 7. Titus S. Larmode: CP Ebonyi Adamawa Xian sumbatitns@yahoo.co.uk 8. Agyole Abeh: CP Kaduna Taraba Xian agyoabeh@yahoo.com TOTAL STATE CPs N/E 8 NORTH-CENTRAL TABLE NAME STATE OF ORIGIN RELIGION PHONE NO. 1. Sanusi N. Lemu: CP Bauchi Niger Muslim lemusanusi@yahoo.com 2. Sunmomonu Abdulmaliki: CP Yobe Kogi Muslim abdulmalikadeyemi@yahoo.com 3. Adeoye O. Adeniran: CP Osun Kwara Muslim fimihamadeoye@yahoo.com TOTAL STATE CPs N/C 3 SOUTH WEST TABLE NAME STATE OF ORIGIN RELIGION PHONE NO. 1. Abiodun Adekunle Odude: CP Oyo Ogun Xian aaodude@yahoo.co.uk 2. David Akinremi: CP Taraba Ogun Xian dareakinremi93@yahoo.com 3. Olukolu Adesino: CP Gombe Xian or Muslim 4. Gbenga Adeyanju: CP Oyo Xian or Muslim 09037917182 5. Johnson B. Kokumo: CP Edo Lagos Xian jbeekoks@gmail.com 6. Ajani Fatai Owoseni: CP Benue Oyo Muslim fattyjay8@yahoo.com 7. Adeyemi Ogun-Jemilusi: CP Akwa Ibom Ogun Xian or Muslim yemijemilusi@yahoo.com TOTAL STATE COMMAND CPs S/W 7 SOUTH – SOUTH TABLE NAME STATE OF ORIGIN RELIGION PHONE NO. 1. Anthony Ogbizi Michael: CP Abia Cross River Xian maogbizi@gmail.com 2. Amba Asuquo: CP Bayelsa Akwa Ibom Xian asuquo.amba@yahoo.com 3. Edgal Imohimi: CP Lagos Edo Xian 08033040870 4. Undie Adie: CP Plateau Cross River Xian undieadie1@yahoo.com 5. Kenneth Ebrimson: CP Zamfara Rivers Xian 08033311119 TOTAL STATE COMMAND CPs S/S 5 SOUTH EAST TABLE NAME STATE OF ORIGIN RELIGION PHONE NO. 1. Chris Okey Ezike: CP Imo Anambra: Retirement Date: 19-03-2019 Xian compolbenincity2015@gmail.com 2. Damian Agba Chukwu: CP Borno Imo: Retirement Date: 31/04/2019 Xian 07037080002 TOTAL STATE COMMAND CPs S/E 2 Summary: Total Serving State CPs in Nigeria=37 North=23 South=14 NW=12 N/E=8 N/C=3 S/W=7 S/S=5 S/E=2 Muslims=24 Christians=13 STATISTICS OF NORTHERN MUSLIM OFFICERS DOMINATION OF MILITARY FORMATIONS IN SOUTHEAST NAME POSITION RELIGION Major Gen Adamu Baba Abubakar GOC 82 Division, Enugu Northern Muslim Col Sagir Musa Deputy Director of Information, 82 Division Northern Muslim Lt Col C.O. Ibrahim Commanding Officer, Onitsha 302 Cantonment Military Police Northern Muslim Lt Col Sidi Kasim Umar Commanding Officer of 144 Battalion (sector), Ukwa-Ngwa of the 14 Brigade-Ohafia, Abia State Northern Muslim Source News Express Posted 19/03/2018 1:36:24 PM http://www.newsexpressngr.com/news/51322-Christians-South-East-lose-out-in-security-and-paramilitary-appointments-The-shocking-details-46 NB: Some of the information might need to be updated. 1 Like 1 Share |
| Politics › Re: Outrage In Police Over Lopsided Promotions •SE & SS Officers Send SOS by mcvities(op): 9:23pm On Mar 13, 2018 |
Headlines like this should be driving daily discussions in our nation. I can't even imagine that we have sunk this low. On daily basis, the news keep leaving Nigerians depressed. Definitely, something needs to be done because Nigerian police have been one institution that has demonstrated Nigerian unity over the years. Now that this bickering and division has set in, moral will be low for officers of the affected region hence more security risk. 9 Likes |
| Politics › Outrage In Police Over Lopsided Promotions •SE & SS Officers Send SOS by mcvities(op): 6:55pm On Mar 13, 2018 |
Outrage in police over lopsided promotions •South-East and South-South officers send SOS There is discontent among some officers and men from South-East and South-South geopolitical zones in the police over what they described as “marginalisation of our officers” from the regions in the promotion of personnel. They fear they may not have satisfactory career in the force if events continue the way they are, calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to come to their rescue. The officers alleged that they have made representations of the alleged marginalisation of their regions without success despite their qualification, hard work and dedication to duty, pointing out that there is no Assistant Inspector-General (AIGs) of police from the South-East for instance. To this end, investigations by revealed that there are about 29 Assistant Inspectors-General (AIGs) of police in the force. Out of the 29 AIGs, 27 are general duty (GD) officers while the remaining two are specialists (medical and air wing). It was further revealed that the veterinary section ought to have a specialist AIG but a GD officer is heading the section. According to the officers, even with the 29 AIGs, the South-South and the South-East are being marginalised, as only one officer from the South-South is an AIG, while there is no AIG from the South-East. It was gathered that while the South-East zone has no AIG, Niger State – where the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, comes from – and Plateau State have two and three AIGs, respectively. It was further gathered that since Ibrahim Idris took over as the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) on June 21, 2016, no Commissioner of Police (CP) from the South-East has been recommended to the Police Service Commission (PSC) for promotion to the rank of AIG. When DAILY INDEPENDENT called Jimoh Moshood, Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), he advised the newspaper to reach PSC, which, he said, is in charge of officers of that category. However, a dependable source close to the Chairman of PSC, retired IGP Mike Okiro, explained on phone that promotion to the rank of AIG was not determined by quota or the federal character principle. “Promotion from the rank of Commissioner of Police is not done on quota system or on federal character basis. “In the police, only the rank of Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG) is done on quota system or on federal character.” The source cited the Chairman of PSC who, he said, “was promoted from the rank of a CP to the rank of DIG, even when there were two AIGs senior to him.” The source added: “Another rank that is done on either quota system or on federal character is from Inspector to Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) only during recruitment exercise. “Promotion of any other rank is done on seniority basis, except on hard work – an officer who has performed an extra feat is promoted to encourage him.” Explaining why the South-East has no AIG, the source disclosed that a commissioner from the South-East may soon be promoted. “There was a CP from the South East who is number three on seniority list in the force. He will be given an AIG before the year ends,” the source assured. On Tuesday, Last week, the PSC announced the promotion of 414 officers. A breakdown shows that three Commissioners of Police (CPs) were promoted to the next rank of AIGs, four Deputy Commissioners (DCPs) to Commissioners of Police (CPs) and 12 Assistant Commissioners (ACPs) to DCPs. The three CPs promoted to the rank of AIG are CP Danjuma Ibrahim, CP Istifanus Shettima, and CP Jimoh Omeiza Ozi-Obeh. Findings revealed that promotion to a higher rank is not automatic but on availability of vacancy. “A whole zone cannot produce an AIG, yet Niger State – where the IGP comes from – produces two AIGs. This is one of the lopsidedness and oppression going on in this government. We leave everything to God,” one of the senior officers from the South-East lamented. Similarly, some officers from the South-South who spoke on strict anonymity also complained about the situation. “Apart from not giving us (the South-South) equality in the police in the areas of promotion, most of our mates are two ranks ahead of us, and when we see them we salute our juniors who are now our seniors because they are from a particular section of the country. “The IGP is showing tribalism openly, he posted only his people to juicy areas. He cannot be IGP forever, he will go one day.” Investigations further revealed that to rectify the marginalisation of South-South officers, the PSC recently promoted Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohinmi, twice within six months to meet up with his contemporaries. The AIGs and their states of origin are as follows: Musa Katsina (Katsina); Abdul Salami Ayaji (Kogi); Tilli Abubakar (Kebbi), Zone 6, Calabar; Dorothy Gimba (Plateau); Abdul Bube (Sokoto); Agboola Oshodi-Glover (Lagos); Umaru Shehu (Kebbi); Usman Yakubu (Niger); Abdulmajid Ali (Niger); Abubakar A. Mohammed (Nasarawa); Kayode Aderanti (Osun); Mohammed Usman Sani (Bauchi); Yakubu Jibrin (Nasarawa); Ibrahim Adamu (Zamfara), Zone 2; Abdul Dahiru (Kano); Salisu F. Abdullahi (Kano); Lawal Shehu (Katsina), border patrol; Aminchi Samaila Baraya (Taraba); Usman Alkali Baba (Yobe), maritime; Tijani Dada (Yobe); Abubakar Marafa (Kebbi); Dan Bature (Plateau); Karma Hosea Hassan (Taraba); Felix Ogundeji (Ondo); Frederick Taiwo Lakanu (Lagos); Hilda Idiruro Harison (Edo); Rasheed O. Akintunde (Ogun); Ezekiel Zang (Plateau), airwing; and Mohammed, medical. Source News Express http://newsexpressngr.com/news/51076-Outrage-in-police-over-lopsided-promotions-South-East-and-South-South-officers-send-SOS-46 2 Likes |
| Politics › See What President Buhari Told Governors About Cattle Routes’- Fayose Speaks by mcvities(op): 2:16pm On Mar 12, 2018 |
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari ordered state governors to ensure that people of their states do not “block cattle routes”. Speaking during a programme on Ekiti State Television, EKTV, Fayose claimed that Buhari gave the directive during a meeting “last week.” The governor also berated the president over his handling of the crisis between herdsmen and farmers. Fayose, while quoting the president, said: “People are building houses to block cattle routes. “If I were to be president of Nigeria, I will not act the way President Buhari is behaving (regarding the crisis). “The president must be courageous enough to end these mindless killings. He is the president and has what it takes. If I am the president, I will take appropriate steps and stand it down. A criminal is a criminal, whether Hausa man or Yoruba man. If you commit crime, you go in for it. “I remember when we were in a meeting last week; the president was saying that people are blocking cattle routes. Have you heard that before? How can the president say people are blocking cattle routes? There is no cattle route in Ekiti in the 21st century. “The president of Nigeria was saying governors should go and make sure they don’t block cattle routes. He said people are building houses to block cattle routes. I was laughing; I didn’t know what to say in council. I just left.” http://www..ng/news/see-what-president-buhari-told-governors-about-cattle-routes-fayose-speaks |
| Autos › Re: Shocking Transformation Of Some Crashed Cars Sold In Nigeria (Photos) by mcvities(m): 11:58am On Mar 11, 2018 |
This is very serious, what this means is that there is problem with the auto section of nairaland, if it is not lemon sold as clean title, it is overpriced car, accident and flooded cars sold as clean title or entirely non existent cars with intent to defraud. This is the same everywhere, both olx, cheki and jiji. There is need to sanitize nairaland auto section, if not we are sitting on a time bomb. I support those who have taken it upon themselves to do this and save innocent car naive Nigerians buyers of their hard earned money. I totally support and I am for this. Why can't Nigerian dealers be like this japanese car dealer beforward.com who painstakingly shows accurate pictures and stats about the cars that he is selling. It is a shame that those who have built reputation on this forum can actually be involved in this. One needs to be cautious. 1 Like |
| Autos › Re: Toks 2009 Toyota Camry For Sale by mcvities(m): 8:07am On Mar 11, 2018 |
This is very serious, what this means is that there is problem with the auto section of nairaland, if it is not lemon sold as clean title, it is overpriced car, accident and flooded cars sold as clean title or entirely non existent cars with intent to defraud. This is the same everywhere, both olx, cheki and jiji. There is need to sanitize nairaland auto section, if not we are sitting on a time bomb. I support those who have taken it upon themselves to do this and save innocent car naive Nigerians buyers of their hard earned money. I totally support and I am for this. Why can't Nigerian dealers be like this japanese car dealer beforward.com who painstakingly shows accurate pictures and stats about the cars that he is selling. It is a shame that those who have built reputation on this forum can actually be involved in this. One needs to be cautious. 3 Likes |
| Politics › SSS Wants Detained Nigerian Journalist To Disclose Sources Before Release by mcvities(op): 7:05pm On Mar 05, 2018 |
The State Security Service has demanded that a Nigerian journalist must disclose his sources as a precondition for his freedom. The secret police detained Tony Ezimakor in Abuja on Wednesday after honouring an invitation over a story he wrote detailing how the Buhari administration paid millions of dollars as ransom to Boko Haram for the release of some Chibok girls. Mr. Ezimakor’s story also uncovered how ransom payments have become a lucrative source of extra income for Nigerian and Swiss intelligence officers who participated in the negotiations for Boko Haram hostages. In May 2017, Boko Haram released 82 girls said to be amongst the over 270 girls abducted by insurgents in April 2014 at their school in Chibok, Borno State. The Buhari administration was tight-lipped about how the terms of the girls’ release, despite demands for transparency. Several news reports, first by the BBC and later The Wall Street Journal, detailed how the Nigerian government paid between two €2-3 million to secure the girls. The government avoided giving details about whether a ransom was paid or not, but admitted a prisoner swap deal with the terrorists. Two days after the latest mass kidnap of schoolgirls in Dapchi, Yobe State, Daily Independent ran a behind-the-scenes story about the release of the 82 Chibok girls which was written by Mr. Ezimakor, its bureau chief in Abuja. The frontpage story cited intelligence sources as saying that negotiations with Boko Haram for the release of hostages had become a “cash cow for some officials, working in concert with negotiators to squeeze scarce dollars from the government.” But now the journalist is being locked up for his revelations and might not be released unless he unmasked his sources, Don Okere, editor of Daily Independent, told PREMIUM TIMES Sunday. “They’re asking him how he got the story and want him to release his source,” Mr. Okere said by telephone based on the ongoing negotiation between their lawyers and the SSS. Mr. Okere said the SSS had also demanded that the story be retracted with an apology or the matter would be charged to court. “We asked them to charge the matter to court” because we’re not retracting our story “but they have refused to do that,” he said. The secret police first disclosed its displeasure about the story in a letter to Mr. Okere seeking the editor’s presence at its headquarters in Abuja. “They said I should come and see the director of operations at the SSS in Abuja. But when I told them I am based in Lagos where we have our head office, they started looking for me,” he said. The editor said the SSS sent agents to look for him at the office in Lagos twice, but he was unavailable at both times. “They later asked if we have a reporter in Abuja and I told them yes. I then asked our bureau chief to honour the invitation which he did last Wednesday and was detained,” he said. Mr. Okere said based on their exchanges, it was clear that the SSS operatives did not know that the story carried Mr. Ezimakor’s byline. The SSS has not issued any statement about Mr. Ezimakor’s arrest, and PREMIUM TIMES could not reach the agency for comments because it has declined to name a spokesperson since September 2016 when Marilyn Ogar left the service. Text messages sent to Lawal Daura, head of the SSS, on Sunday afternoon were not replied as at the time of filing this report Sunday night. Similarly, Lai Mohammed, Nigeria’s Information Minister, did not respond to PREMIUM TIMES’ requests for comments about the journalist’s detention. Mr. Okere said the SSS had also demanded that the story be retracted with an apology or the matter would be charged to court. “We asked them to charge the matter to court” because we’re not retracting our story “but they have refused to do that,” he said. The secret police first disclosed its displeasure about the story in a letter to Mr. Okere seeking the editor’s presence at its headquarters in Abuja. “They said I should come and see the director of operations at the SSS in Abuja. But when I told them I am based in Lagos where we have our head office, they started looking for me,” he said. The editor said the SSS sent agents to look for him at the office in Lagos twice, but he was unavailable at both times. “They later asked if we have a reporter in Abuja and I told them yes. I then asked our bureau chief to honour the invitation which he did last Wednesday and was detained,” he said. Mr. Okere said based on their exchanges, it was clear that the SSS operatives did not know that the story carried Mr. Ezimakor’s byline. The SSS has not issued any statement about Mr. Ezimakor’s arrest, and PREMIUM TIMES could not reach the agency for comments because it has declined to name a spokesperson since September 2016 when Marilyn Ogar left the service. Text messages sent to Lawal Daura, head of the SSS, on Sunday afternoon were not replied as at the time of filing this report Sunday night. Similarly, Lai Mohammed, Nigeria’s Information Minister, did not respond to PREMIUM TIMES’ requests for comments about the journalist’s detention. Mr. Okere said Daily Independent and Mr. Ezimakor’s family are worried about his health. He is said to be treating hypertension and ulcer. He demanded an immediate release of his colleague. The Citizens Advocacy for Social & Economic Rights (CASER) said the SSS has violated the Nigerian Constitution by holding Mr. Ezimakor in its custody for more then 48 hours without filing charges. If Mr. Ezimakor “is not charged to court after four days of detention and a needless raid on his house by armed state security men, it would then be clear that he has become a victim of government tyranny and official intimidation,” the group said in a statement signed by Frank Tietie, its executive director. “It is in the interest of all Nigerian citizens, including the officials of State Security Service and, a progressive future, to adhere to the clear principles of law and justice as contained in the Nigerian Constitution, in order to guarantee freedom, liberty and a sustained practice of democracy in Nigeria,” the group said. The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) described continued detention of Mr. Ezimakor without trial as “draconian, tyrannical, illegal, unlawful and unconstitutional.” “We, therefore, demand his immediate and unconditional release,” MURIC said adding that the SSS had violated the Nigerian constitution and international charter on human rights. The group said the Buhari administration may suffer credibility and human rights issues if it failed to rein in the SSS as the agency carries out “maltreatment of journalists” which could amount to “stifling of sources of information, undue censor, repression of activists and suppression of freedom of speech.” The SSS has gone after journalists under successive Nigerian administrations for the past three decades. In the 1990s, the military governments cracked down on journalists using the SSS, a tradition that continued under civilian governments. Since July 2016, the SSS has detained Jones Abiri, a journalist based in the Niger-Delta, for alleged ties to militants. But the agency has neither charged nor allowed the journalist access to his lawyers and family members In December 2017, Mr. Abiri was one of the two Nigerian journalists that the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said were part the 262 journalists detained across the world in 2017. A month before in November 2017, the CPJ launched a major push to compel President Muhammadu Buhari to prevail on the SSS to release Mr. Abiri, whose detention would soon hit 600 days. https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/260695-sss-wants-detained-nigerian-journalist-disclose-sources-release.html |
| Car Talk › Re: Toyota Camry 2001(gold) @#600,000 by mcvities(m): 10:17pm On Feb 21, 2018 |
350k, serious buyer |
| Jobs/Vacancies › Re: An Urgent Need Of A Job For My Dad by mcvities(m): 11:43pm On Feb 18, 2018 |
| Jobs/Vacancies › Re: An Urgent Need Of A Job For My Dad by mcvities(m): 11:39pm On Feb 18, 2018 |
| Romance › Re: Women, How Do You Feel When You Love A Man But Can't Tell Him? by mcvities(m): 2:21pm On Feb 17, 2018 |
There are a lot of things surrounding this question, a friend had a girl give him signs and later approached, they started a relationship and even when they have issues, the girl will be the one to apologise. There was even a time the girl contacted an STD, the guy came to me and I gave him some recommendation which took care of it, I didn't ask whether he was sure the girl is not seeing another guy since he didn't have the disease too. It later turned out that the girl was into an intimate relationship with another guy. My friend felt so bad and ended the relationship. That's why I don't blame guys who are skeptical when confronted with such. I have my own experiences too both the verbal and non verbal ones and currently facing one now, I didn't act on them then because I wasn't ready to build and nurture any relationship. Other things occupied my mind then and it fetched me a lot of enemies. I had to adjust and became friends with some of them. I think what I will be doing now is if I am interested in you too, I will act but carefully so as not end up as my friend. 2 Likes |
| Crime › Re: Nigerians Smuggling Bags Of Rice From Niger Republic With Motorcycles (Photos) by mcvities(m): 11:37am On Feb 17, 2018 |
I went to the market and a painter of foreign rice is 1600 naira and Local rice 1500 naira. I now ask the question, what is the difference?. Let the local rice be cheap and see smuggling stop or reduced to barest minimum. What you have is the price of local rice competing with that of foreign and I still wonder what sense is in it. |
| Politics › Re: Umahi Authorizes Creation Of Cattle Grazing Areas In Ebonyi by mcvities(m): 4:19pm On Feb 10, 2018 |
Dave Umahi, so rewarding killing and maiming of innocent civilians by Fulani Herdsmen is the way to go. Instead of demanding justice for those killed and confronting bad behaviour, you have chosen to reward it. Ebonyians, the after effect of this ill thought decision is not now but in the future, if this man refuses to back down on this senseless move, mobilize, gather your PVC and do the needful. |
| Crime › Fresh Attacks Reported In Benue Communities by mcvities(op): 11:23am On Feb 09, 2018 |
Armed persons on Thursday night attacked villages around Anyiin, a major town in Logo Local Government Area, LGA, that serves as a base for special forces and has one of the biggest IDP camps. Residents in Anyiin reported heavy gunshots from attacks in nearby villages Thursday night. At least five persons were in critical condition from gunshot wounds in the attacks by suspected herdsmen, according to residents accounts to PREMIUM TIMES. Four residents informed PREMIUM TIMES in separate exchanges that residents in Anyiin are panicked and are on the run. Residents said Nigerian soldiers who were alerted about the attacks brought five villagers who were critically wounded to the hospital in Anyiin. “They’re at NKST Hospital now in Anyiin,” Terkura Suswam, a politician and founder of Ashi Polytechnic in Anyiin, told PREMIUM TIMES by telephone. One of the villages is Tsukwa, which was amongst those attacked on January 1. The village recorded up to 10 casualties in that attack, according to residents who spoke with PREMIUM TIMES two weeks ago. Tsukwa is about a mile from Anyiin, which has a police special forces unit and one of the biggest camps for the internally displaced persons in Benue State. The commander of the special forces, Ibrahim Ignatius, told PREMIUM TIMES he was not aware of the attack because he is in Makurdi, the state capital. The Divisional Police Officer of Anyiin Division, Celestine Utim, told PREMIUM TIMES he is trying to find out what is going on. Another Anyiin resident who confirmed the attack to PREMIUM TIMES was Alijah Auna, the secretary of the IDP camp there. “Yes, they’ve been attacking villages around Anyiin this night,” Mr. Auna said. “Many people at the camp here have started running away.” “But I am still at the camp,” he added. It was not immediately clear the number of villages that were attacked Thursday night. Witnesses said the attackers had fled before soldiers arrived at some of the villages. Scores of villagers were killed in the January 1 attacks in Logo LGA. Survivors have remained largely at various IDP camps in the local government because their villages are still not safe for their return, despite the police’s assertions that the areas had been secured. When PREMIUM TIMES visited Logo LGA last month, Tsukwa, where at least two persons were reportedly short tonight, was the only village that was accessible out of the seven that were attacked on January 1. https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/258055-fresh-attacks-reported-benue-communities.html |
| Politics › Re: Osinbajo: The Fulani House Boy By Charles Ogbu by mcvities(m): 4:26pm On Feb 07, 2018 |
Haganah:Are you an insider? Has it always been like this with every vice president of past governments or it started with this government? For an elected Vice President to get clearance from appointed (and can be fired) Chief of Staff or Director of SSS before he can have access to the president is to say the least preposterous and should be unheard of. |
| Politics › Babangida Letter Saga: Police Detain PREMIUM TIMES Reporter, Confiscate Phone by mcvities(op): 4:01pm On Feb 07, 2018 |
The police briefly detained a PREMIUM TIMES reporter who arrived at the Force Headquarters with Kassim Afegbua on Wednesday morning. Mr. Afegbua, a longtime spokesperson for a former head of state, Ibrahim Babangida, turned himself in two days after he was declared wanted on allegations that he made “false statements, injurious falsehood, defamation of character and for an act capable of inciting public disturbance throughout the country.” Mr. Babangida had openly stated that he authorised the statement , which was critical of President Muhammadu Buhari, on Sunday night, but the police moved against Mr. Afegbua nonetheless. Mr. Afegbua arrived at the Force Headquarters in Abuja, accompanied by his lawyers and four journalists, including Samuel Ogundipe, a general assignment reporter for PREMIUM TIMES. Mr. Ogundipe, who was assigned to run live updates of the event , was filming the arrival of Mr. Afegbua and his legal team, led by Kayode Ajulo, when the police officers on duty at the reception confiscated his phone. The major part of Mr. Afegbua’s arrival that was captured by the reporter was when police officers were asking a man that had been declared wanted to introduce himself. Mr. Afegbua told the officers that he was declared wanted and some of them asked: “by who”? He then said it was the force public relations officer, Jimoh Moshood, that made the announcement. Some of the officers then asked if he was on an appointment, and Mr. Ajulo interjected that if Mr. Moshood was not ready to receive his client, “then everyone should go back home.” It was at this point that the police started demanding that PREMIUM TIMES reporter’s phone be confiscated and he must not be “allowed to leave the building.” When Mr. Afegbua arrived, he was interviewed by a battery of reporters near the parking area of the headquarters. But they were all prevented from following him into the building, leaving only Mr. Ogundipe as the only reporter capturing Mr. Afegbua’s move from the parking area into the reception. Several officers, including two, whose uniforms identified as James Oyibo and Daniel James, demanded that Mr. Ogundipe must delete the video he had captured of Mr. Afegbua’s arrival and it took several minutes and explanations for the police to understand the reason he was at their headquarters. “I insisted that I will not delete the video and they prevented me from going out of the reception,” Mr. Ogundipe said. After delaying him for several minutes, he was asked to go after a female officer told the male officers of Mr. Ogundipe: “He’s a PREMIUM TIMES press man.” When approached about the development, Mr. Moshood said he could not immediately retrieve the reporter’s phone. “All the reporters that came here with Kassim Afegbua today did not ask for my permission,” Mr. Moshood said. “So I don’t know how I could help for now.” Mr. Moshood said Mr. Ogundipe was wrong to have taken his phone into the premises of the Force Headquarters, much less using the device to film activities inside. “You should have dropped your phone at the gate and collect a tag,” Mr. Moshood said. Nonetheless, he promised to help return the phone within a few minutes. But after the reporter spent 20 minutes without seeing Mr. Moshood, he decided to return to the office. Several calls and text messages to Mr. Moshood seeking the latest about the reporter’s phone were neither answered nor returned as at the time of filing this report. The police have been criticised for declaring Mr. Afegbua wanted following a contradictory statement that was released after the one he distributed to the media for Mr. Babangida. The emergence of the second statement, which PRNigeria said was also signed by Mr. Babangida but which was less critical of Mr. Buhari, threw the public into confusion on Sunday night. Femi Falana, a senior lawyer and human rights advocate, said in a statement Tuesday that it was clear “that it is the Inspector General of Police who has defamed Mr. Afegbua by portraying him as a fugitive from the law.” “Therefore, Mr. (Ibrahim) Idris is advised to withdraw the offensive declaration without any further delay,” Mr. Falana added. Despite repeated requests, the police have not told PREMIUM TIMES which aspects of the statement Mr. Afegbua released on behalf of his principal were capable of “inciting the public into violence.” Mr. Babangida himself has not spoken about the controversy since he confirmed to THISDAY on Sunday that the statement emanated from him. Mr. Afegbua, however, told PREMIUM TIMES shortly before he turned himself in to the police Wednesday morning that the former military leader was “fully behind him and he had been in touch with him.” “There’s no need for him to say anything more than he had already said,” Mr. Afegbua said of his principal. Mr. Ajulo said he advised Mr. Afegbua to turn himself in to show Nigerians that “his client was not on the run as the police stated.” Mr. Afegbua was still at the Force Headquarters as at the time of filing this report. https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/257816-babangida-letter-saga-police-detain-premium-times-reporter-confiscate-phone.html 7 Likes |
| Politics › Benue Killings: Senate Rejects Committee Report by mcvities(op): 3:46pm On Feb 07, 2018 |
The Senate has rejected report of a joint committee on Police Affairs and National Security and Intelligence.https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/north-central/257808-benue-killings-senate-rejects-committee-report.html 2 Likes 1 Share
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| Politics › Buhari Changes Mode Of Prayers At FEC Meeting by mcvities(op): 3:19pm On Feb 07, 2018 |
President Muhammadu Buhari this Wedenesday, altered the mode of prayers at his weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting. Usually, Buhari would ask one Muslim and one Christian Minister to say the opening prayers. But today, the president allowed two Christian Ministers do so. They were the Ministers of Agriculture and Labour, Audu Ogbeh and Chris Ngige respectively. After Ogbeh prayed, Buhari called for the Minister of State for Environment, Jubril Ibrahim, who was absent. He then asked Ngige to pray. Ngige reminded Buhari that he is also a Christian, but the president still gave him the go-ahead. http://dailypost.ng/2018/02/07/buhari-changes-mode-prayers-wednesdays-fec-meeting/amp/ 11 Likes
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| Politics › Re: Buhari Reinstates Usman Yusuf, Suspended NHIS Chief by mcvities(op): 11:21am On Feb 07, 2018 |
Ammyluv2003:The genesis of the case is worth taking a look at. |
| Health › How Shadowy Procurement Has Robbed This Small Niger Delta Town Of Healthcare by mcvities(op): 9:13pm On Feb 06, 2018 |
by Mercy Abang Down the muddy drive to Mgbele from Oguta Local Government Area sits a dilapidated building with fallen rusty brown roof, cracked walls and flaky, peeling paint and open windows obscured by overgrown weed and plants. This abandoned building is the only Primary Healthcare Center that served Mgbele, a 5000 people populated rural community in the oil producing Imo State in Nigeria’s Niger Delta and seven other villages adjoining it. The building serves as a thriving habitat to reptiles and other animals who have found their abode and leaving the people who need care without help. The situation has left dozens of people, mostly women, dead as a result of inability to access healthcare services, while the survivors, hundreds of them, brave about 386km journey to the capital for medical attention. “I gave birth by the roadside”, Mrs Nkemakola Okorie, 32, one of the luckier ones told me. The teary mother narrated her experience birthing her first child as she took a trip to Owerri, the state capital on a pothole infested “notorious highway” as she lamented the fact that the PHC within her proximity has been closed. Pregnant Mrs Mercy Nnamdi, told me would likely give birth at home and had never attended antenatal care, “I am unable to afford going far from the community to access healthcare.”. I entered the Mgbele PHC and observed that the labour room had an open roof, the structure had no electrical wirings and was neither landscaped or fenced. Sitting on this structure post with the bold inscription: Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) – this was/is part of the Agency’s 2017 Capital Projects appropriated by the Federal Government of Nigeria. Though the structure had long been erected, it lacked beds and functional wards, basic medical equipment, vaccines and commodities which are the essentials for a Primary health centre. The two nurses expected to care for the patients at the PHC can be found attending to patients at the community’s town square outside the health facility. Public procurement in Nigeria is shrouded in secrecy and the Mgbele PHC is no exception. Not even the efforts by a team of transparency “Follow the money” to obtain information using the mechanism of the Freedom of Information act (FOI), has yielded any results. Ifollowthemoney, a grassroots transparency movement had sought to know more about the project – the actual project amount, bills of quantity, identity of the contractor and project status of the Mgbele PHC project to no avail. “This is January 2018, and this project was to be implemented in 2017, yet, implementation has not started, and the agency has still not provided key data post the tender process of this project”, said Hamza Lawal, an activist who leads the team wailed. “It has now become very important that NDDC transparently implements the project and gets the PHC functional.” But Hamza’s concern is a far cry from most of the people who simply want the government services to work. Mrs Chinyere Odika, 48, the community woman leader told me that in spite of several promises in the past, the NDDC has failed to make the PHC functional. “we are yet to see them,” and then she makes a passionate plea: “We are calling on government, NDDC to please pity us and come to our aid so we all don’t die”. The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has come under a lot of public scrutiny since recent reports revealed an alleged 2.7 billion Naira scam involving the board members, top management staff of the agency and their cronies. For residents of Mgbele, the deaths and the highway births can be stopped if agencies like the NDDC use the already allocated resources for projects assigned. http://newswirengr.com/2018/02/02/how-shadowy-procurement-has-robbed-this-small-niger-delta-town-of-healthcare/ |
| Politics › Buhari Reinstates Usman Yusuf, Suspended NHIS Chief by mcvities(op): 8:57pm On Feb 06, 2018 |
President Muhammadu Buhari has reinstated the suspended Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Usman Yusuf.https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/257775-breaking-buhari-ignores-health-minister-reinstates-suspended-nhis-chief.html 2 Likes 1 Share
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| Politics › Re: I Stopped Kingibe, Abba Kyari, Rufai Abubakar From Stealing $44m- Acting D-G NIA by mcvities(m): 8:04pm On Feb 06, 2018*. Modified: 8:20pm On Feb 06, 2018 |
We have a very big problem in this nation. People are getting unnecessarily wealthy overnight because they are privileged to occupy certain positions. This is absurd The president should peruse carefully any document, recommendation brought to him before assenting. If possible he should employ an unofficial, secretive, unbiased and upright personal assistance that will help him to take a second look and be his spy, bringing information to him from unofficial sources so that he will be abreast of situations and have forehand knowledge so as to avoid underhand tactics by his kitchen cabinet who seem to be ahead of him in every of their plot. You can imagine Babagana Kingibe claiming to have written the letter which the president assented to that authorised EFCC to hands off the NIA case. Imagine people requesting and getting $50,000 (15 million naira based on 305 naira to dollar) and $20,000 and some of us are negotiating for a job of 1,600,000 naira per annum. The youth need to rise and save this nation. These men are quietly replacing themselves with their children and stockpiling wealth for their unborn generations and we are still roaming about in penury. If there is anytime to rise, it is now Unfortunately like every other thing that has to do with this current government, nothing will come out of this, it will be swept under the carpet. It seems Abba Kyari officially is the chief of staff in this government but unofficially the guy employed to do all the dirty jobs. He seems to identify with anything wrong in this government. The earlier Buhari gets rid of him, the better for his government. 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Health › PRESS RELEASE: “chemist” Accused Of Molesting 8-year Old Girl! by mcvities(op): 3:30pm On Feb 03, 2018 |
The attention of Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) was called to a story published on www.nationalhelm.co and Facebook timeline of “The Helm of Information “on February 1, 2018 with the title, “8 Year-old Girl Sexually Assaulted By A Pharmacist While Receiving Treatment” After this publication, we directed PSN Anambra Branch to investigate the matter and report their findings to PSN National Headquarters. PSN Anambra Branch went to work and found out at Otuocha Police station that the incident never involved a Pharmacist but a Patent Medicine Vendor-so called “Chemist” who never claimed to be a Pharmacist. This was also confirmed by Punch Newspaper accurate reporting of the incident. PSN Anambra Branch also visited the said Premises and confirmed that it is a Patent Medicine Shop and not even registered, running illegally and got it sealed with PCN seal and padlock. It is quite important for media houses especially the online ones to be objective in reporting sensitive issues that can tarnish the good image of a noble profession like pharmacy and our country. Therefore, it is unacceptable for www.nationalhelm.co or “The Helm of Information” to share false information with the general public that can tarnish the image of our noble profession. In this light, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria calls on www.nationalhelm.co and “The Helm of Information” to make necessary corrections about the story published on their website and timeline immediately and also publicly apologize for misinformation and fake news. It is also pertinent to use this medium to reiterate our commitment to work with all media houses to promote safe and efficacious use of drugs, public health and informing the general public about the activities and contributions of Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria. However, PSN frowns at any media house that wants to spoil the good image of our noble profession that has been built for close to a century through misinformation and inaccurate reportage. Finally, our heart goes to the 8 Year-old Girl that was sexually assaulted. We hope justice will be done as soon as possible. Pharmacists are men of honour. God bless pharmacy profession and pharmacists! Thank you. Pharm. Ahmed I. Yakasai, FPSN, FNIM, FNAPharm President, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) https://aiyakasai./2018/02/03/press-release-chemist-accused-of-molesting-8-year-old-girl/ CC: Seun, Lalasticala, Health Section Mod - A story with an incorrect headline was put on front page about a day ago. This should serve as a correction
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| Crime › Re: 8-Year-Old Girl Sexually Abused By Pharmacist In Anambra (Photos) by mcvities(m): 8:19pm On Feb 01, 2018 |
This title of this topic is misleading, there is a difference between a Pharmacy and Patent Medicine Shop, a Pharmacist and someone who operates a patent medicine shop (fondly called chemist shop) as can be seen in the body of the article. A Pharmacist is a professional and cannot be found in a patent medicine shop operated by people who just learnt how to sell drugs and are restricted to certain drugs known as 'over the counter medications' (OTC). The ignorance of whoever pushed this to front page without reading the body of the article is nauseating. This should be corrected. 2 Likes |
| Autos › Re: Sold! Sold! Barely Used Toyota Drop Lite 4 Sale In Ph Used By A Grand Father by mcvities(m): 5:50pm On Jan 28, 2018 |
600k, very serious buyer |
| Autos › Re: »»» Regd. Sienna 02 @ N950K Negotiable ««« by mcvities(m): 7:25pm On Jan 07, 2018 |
500K |
| Politics › Re: Reno Omokri Reacts To Efcc's Arrest Of Innoson Motors Boss, Innocent Chukwuma by mcvities(m): 12:49pm On Dec 20, 2017 |
Mrnairalandd:Can you kindly post the link so that we can read. 1 Like |
| Autos › Re: Super Duper Clean 2003/4 Lexus Es 300 Registered by mcvities(m): 6:40pm On Dec 04, 2017 |
What is the asking price? |
| Celebrities › Re: Simi, Adekunle Gold & Reekado Banks Join #EndSARS Campaign, Share Bitter Stories by mcvities(m): 12:27am On Dec 04, 2017 |
ezeagumar11:Call police public complaint unit with the number below , call the number and give them details of just where it happened (you mustn't know the name of the officer involved) give them that your phone number and other details they require. Your phone will be returned to you immediately. Do this right away and thank me later. it works
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| Autos › Re: Extremely Sharp Cars At Reasonable Prices In PHC by mcvities(m): 6:10pm On Dec 01, 2017 |
Can I get a very good Toyota Sienna for 600,000 naira which will be reliable and trouble feel. Meanwhile post more offers |
| Autos › Re: Pre-owned 2007 Hyundai Tucson Available In Port Harcourt by mcvities(m): 12:48pm On Nov 12, 2017 |
Do you have a very nice car for a budget of 600,000 - 650,000 naira |
| Travel › Re: Getting A Green Card By Adjustment Of Status: My Yankee Experience by mcvities(m): 4:01pm On Nov 04, 2017 |
mcvities:You didn't answer this, please, I need an answer. A Toyota Corolla that people cherish so much in Nigeria is what you referring to as Jalopy. Meanwhile how much did you buy it over there? 5 Likes |
