₦airaland Forum

Firefire:
And what happened ?

You didn't get your allowance or something...?

lool..its not about the allowance. Its about the performance. Are you in PDP for the allowance?

Firefire:
Is AD your party ?

PDP was..

Firefire:
Blame your ACN party. Awon Ole, olojukokoro. Alo kolohun kigbe.

ACN turned APC is doing same to all other politically aggrieved members in Lagos State. Marginalization.

I mean...

CPC and other politically deprived members in the fraudulent merger are experiencing that also in Lagos.

lol..what makes you think ACN was my party sef?

Breakfast Is ready for firefire and co

I don't blame Buhari..The CPC guys have been with him from the beginning and their loyalty has never been doubted.

The Labour Party has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to always consult the leadership of the All Progressives Congress on some critical decisions.

The party noted that Buhari had more trust in the people who came from the defunct Congress for Progressive Change than the totality of the APC.

According to LP, the President was currently giving the impression that he was bigger, greater, wiser and more knowledgeable than the APC.

The LP National Chairman, Alhaji Abdulkadir Abdulsalam, who spoke with journalists on Friday in Abuja said, “Buhari’s sense of self-supremacy will kill the APC.

“The President is giving the impression that he is bigger, greater, wiser and more knowledgeable than his political party. That is why Buhari’s sense of self-supremacy will kill the party and that attitude is dangerous for Nigeria. The President should go back to the drawing board with his political party.

“I don’t know the versatility of Buhari in reaching out to people all over the country because he was a minister, governor, head of state, General and now a President. If with all these backgrounds and pedigree, he has so many people to rely upon at the blink of an eye to produce 30 people to occupy sensitive and prominent positions, then there is problem ahead.

“I will advise the President to go back to his political party and have confidence in the party to enable him to do what he should do for Nigeria. The way I am seeing it now, Buhari has more confidence in members of the defunct CPC than the totality of APC.”

The LP called on Buhari to evolve confidence in the totality of APC members, relate and interact with them, get their advice and work out policies with them “because as of now, no party policy is working in APC”.

http://dailypost.ng/2015/09/26/buhari-likes-working-with-only-cpc-members-labour-party/

Greyworld:
Only op take full page

temitemi1:
And u believe this poo

bro, this is no poo. Why must you people call any news you don't like "poo"? My people in kwara are now wise, abeg make I rejoice

modath:
Why will you not like it?? see ya teeth!!

I join you in liking it too, LIBERATION!!



Herein lies Bukky's #1 problem, he does whatever he wants with no thought for the consequence(s).

thanks dear..

I like this

Governor Fatai didn't leave him vulnerable..Saraki had all the security men he needed, they just couldn't overpower the angry impoverished mob. So I wonder why he is blaming fatai..And mayb its because the puppet governor didn't have a taste of the stoning and "pure-watering"

Why should he even blame fatai? Saraki was never stoned #quoteMeAnywhere

Why should it in the first place?

angelTI:
Why would a mother choose Halima as her son's role model?

What is worth emulating about her biko

lool..waiting for the day Maheeda and afro candy will become someone's godmother. You know some people just worship celebrities, regardless of the kind of life they live.

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The rush for profit by the operators of the multimillion naira fast food industry has become the greatest undoing of Nigerians as hygiene and sanitation are relegated to the background, leaving Nigerians vulnerable to infections. AGBO-PAUL AUGUSTINE in this report reveals the ugly side of fast food services.

Ever wondered what happens behind your mouth watery face of a fast food? The millions of Nigerians that daily depend on the over N190 billion quick service restaurants (QSR) industry never for once pause to ask themselves, much more and jab an answer to this question.

The millions of visitors to these food places across the country have their trust put in the hands of a few men and women in these sprawling and money spinning empire.

Investigations by LEADERSHIP Weekend has revealed that QSRs are now one of Nigeria’s biggest infection centres, serving meals contaminated, and continue to land Nigerians in hospitals and clinics.

As Nigeria economy grows to a competitive global recognition as Africa’s largest economy with about 510 billion dollars come a harvest of middle and the upper classes of people with little time for homemade foods.

The implication of that growth is the high demand for ready-made food in eateries, spinning out monies to the chagrin of industry operators, who appear to have lost all sense of hygiene and public safety.

Outdoor eating method existed in Nigeria long ago but it was the United African Company (UAC) that brought social class to the sector when it ventured through its subsidiary, Mr Biggs with the opening of it first restaurant at Marina, Lagos in 1986.

Since then, like wild fire it spread to major cities and town, across Nigeria carrying with it the baggage of sweet saviours and the dangers associated with it.

[b]LEADERSHIP Weekend can authoritatively reveal that Nigerians are being served with unwholesome meals in several of these restaurants visited. Among the discoveries are filthy environment, especially areas of production where hygiene is appalling, staff condition is scaring including their health status, unsure source of food items, including meat, fish and other vital supplies and customer lavatories among others.

Other areas are the state of meals served especially those served in the early hours, state of food and raw material preservations and storage facilities, drainage and sewage leakages into boreholes and the total absence of supervision from local authorities in charge due to pervasive corruption among the spectrums of mind bugling abnormalities in the food industry.

Many visitors to fast food joints often get infected by food poisoning but mostly, had no idea of where or when they contracted the infections and these have led to many hospitalised and even death. The common bacterium in food according to medical experts is staphylococcus or E.coli. Other germs and toxins that may cause food poisoning include campylobacter enteritis, cholera, salmonella and shigella.[/b]

“I told her to stop touching her boils in the face and at the same time touching the food she was to serve me but I was shocked, the young lady simply ignored my caution and continued. As a man who has good knowledge in medicine, I knew there was danger lurking in the meal so I left without buying the meal,” says Aminu Sarki, a Zaria based medical worker.

For Sarki, thanks to his knowledge in health sciences, many other Nigerians would not mind the scenario that warranted his decision not to buy the meal, though tantalizing and wetting his appetite but the consequences according to him was high.

When LEADERSHIP Weekend visited some eateries in Kano, it appeared most of the food vendors were only interested in profit making than keeping to standard. Of particular interest was the scene at a popular eatery along Niger Street in the metropolis, where cobweb was threatening the meals displayed.

With just a few inches to the display counter, spiders had a web and restaurant staff never bothered. When LEADERSHIP Weekend called the attention of the staff on duty to the ugly scene, he simply said: ‘don’t mind them, its only money the owners are after’.

On further interrogation, he revealed that since the parent company in Lagos decided to franchise the brand to individual investors, the fortunes of the brand nosedived. According to him there are too many malpractices in the restaurant.

On assurance that his name will not be mentioned in print he said: “do you know where we get chicken? All they do is just to go to a poultry farm and buy chicken without caring if the birds are healthy or not. In fact, some poultry farmers on realising that their birds are sick will just approach fast food vendors to buy at cheap prices. Ideally, there are designated poultry companies recommended by the main company in Lagos for all franchises to patronise but these people out of greed will cut corners,” the source revealed.

“Bird Flu and Ebola is still hovering around, such practises portends a great danger to the consuming public,” said Abu Ladan, a customer who responded to LEADERSHIP Weekend.

Further investigations by LEADERSHIP Weekend showed that only a few restaurant staff adheres to their food production standard. Many avoid the specification manual of the restaurant to their personal understanding on the grounds of years of experience.

“Fresh vegetables are supposed to be blanched before it is used for salad but what you find in most of the restaurants is what some of them will call ‘sharp sharp’ just washing with water instead of blanching to kill any bacteria or germs,” says Stella Idowu, a Kaduna based former restaurant worker.

According to Idowu, many customers are infected through consuming foods that have fresh vegetables in it as they are easily contaminated.

Also in Kaduna, another former eatery staff, Peter Odangla told LEADERSHIP Weekend that many customers are victims of carelessness. Narrating his experience he said: “where I worked before, rats and other creeping animals share the kitchen spaces with staff. There was a day I met rats eating from already prepared pudding, we just chased the rat away and remoulded it and displayed for customers to eat.

“It’s a normal practice when the owners never care about fumigation and baiting to reduce rodents,” he revealed.

More so, Odangla said when one of the staff decided to apply pet control in the place over 100 dead rats were picked from the ceiling of the restaurants in two days.

“How much of washing of pots, plates and cutlery is done in the morning after rats must have stepped on them and even the raw foods, the situation is terrible,” Odangla queried.

When LEADERSHIP Weekend had rare access to some of the fast food restaurants in Kaduna and Suleja, Niger State, it was appalling as hygiene standard have been relegated to the background.

In one of the restaurants, a staff was seen leaving the toilet and heading straight to the production unit without adequate hand washing. “Since Ebola stop in Nigeria no need for hand sanitizer again,” the staff said.

While the fast vendors in Abuja appeared to be doing relatively good, less attention is paid to the health conditions of their personnel.

While document obtained from one of the area council’s environmental department saddled with the supervision, regulation of restaurants and hotel standards recommended that food handler test must be done at least once a year, many of the operators seemed to care less.

The tests are supposed to be done in a public hospitals certifying the personnel fit and recommend treatment if a staff is found to be carrying any infection. Many of the staff interacted with in Abuja are ignorant of it.

While a staff of a popular eatery in Gwarimpa told LEADERSHIP Weekend that she does not know what the test is all about and didn’t undertake it during her employment, her counterpart at Aminu Kano Crescent is aware of the test but claimed in three years, only once has she been made to take the test.

A supervisor in another eatery along the Herbert Macaulay Way in Wuse who has been working for a year has never been tested while a junior staff told LEADERSHIP Weekend that she was recently tested and certified fit.

Several other restaurants staff said owners of restaurants hardly pay attention until local inspectors comes asking for the certificate of medical fitness.

LEADERSHIP Weekend learnt that all fast food staff are supposed to submit sample of sputum, urine and faeces for testing to ascertain their fitness to serve meals to the public.

But when LEADERSHIP Weekend contacted the Environmental Health Officers Registration Council of Nigeria (EHORECON) regulatory body for environmental health inspectors in Nigeria, the immediate past registrar of the council, Mr Augustine Ebisike said EHORECON is only responsible for the training and certification of environmental health officers who are saddle with the responsibility of sanitary inspection including food vendors in their local councils.

“For food hygiene and safety, that responsibility is neither with the council nor the ministry of agriculture or health. It is with the environmental health department of the various local governments in Nigeria.

“The local governments are the closest to the people, you don’t expect a federal agency to be monitoring restaurants and eateries,” Ebisike said.

He lamented that only few officers have been employed by the local governments to conduct inspections and mostly are underequipped to do the job. He also lamented that the lack of salaries have also compounded the job of proper inspection.

Document obtained by LEADERSHIP Weekend from the council indicated that Nigeria has only 6, 271 environmental health officers (EHO) against the 24, 000 the nation required to monitor sanitation at homes, neighbourhoods, hotels, fast food and local eateries.

It also indicated that Rivers State has the highest EHOs with 619 closely followed by Lagos State with 607 with Taraba State with the lowest EHOs of just five.

With the meagre number against the millions of homes and hundreds of thousands of food centres across the federation, many experts say Nigerians are exposed to too much health risk. “With these numbers, it is not surprising that our health facilities are always flooded with the sick,” says health worker, Christopher Odeke.

Meanwhile, Abia, Bayelsa, Delta, Kebbi, Taraba and Yobe States have not employed a single sanitary inspector since their creation.

Corroborating with Ebisike, a senior environmental health worker with Gwagwalada area council in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) told LEADERSHIP Weekend that the council has only six sanitary inspectors with three in charge of food inspection in the council.

“Because of the shortage of inspectors’ the council had to contract some consultants to assist in supervising food vendors,” the source said.

Speaking to LEADERSHIP Weekend on the health implication of serving the public unwholesome product, an Abuja based medical doctor; Dr Casmir Nnaemeka said fast food restaurants have been a menace since from inception.

“Fast food is the fasted way to poison because our environmental and public health departments are not doing their jobs. They are all compromise and for the fact that they are compromised you are bound to pick up food poison,” he said.

He accused food vendors of neglecting hygiene codes and exposing Nigerians to dangers.

Also speaking on the matter, a public health consultant at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching (ABUTH) Zaria, Dr Mohammed Sani Ibrahim, said contamination of food occurs in several ways including water source, insects perching, crop manure and people producing the food.

He said eateries staff can easily contaminate food through boils and ‘boils have staphylococcus which is one of the common causes of food poisoning’.

Ibrahim also revealed that people wearing rings in kitchen are a great risk to the food they produced. “Dirt is trapped in the ring even though hands are washed with soaps and the bacteria dissolved into the next food,” he said.

He added that foods are not only poisoned in eateries but at homes too. He said a food can be poisoned if it is kept long because bacteria can produce a lot of toxins in the food.

He advised visitors to eateries to be weary of what they consume but lamented that many consumers are carried away with aesthetic beauty of fast food joints leaving them with little option than to consume whatever is served. “Go for fresh food,” Ibrahim said

In his reaction to the matter, a former head of department, Environmental Science Education, University of Abuja, Prof. Bassey Ubom said the focus should not be only on food vendors but the stages of movement of raw material to the restaurants.

According to Bassey, the stages of movement include the farmer, transporter, marketer and the user because all of them have a role to play in food hygiene.

“People take water from piggery to wash vegetables like tomatoes, the consequences are maratonic epidemic. Some of them are now pandemic where infections are transported rapidly,” he said.

He added that the consequences are glaring today with the high case of cholera, dysentery, typhoid, malaria and diarrhoea reported in hospitals.

Bassey also frowned at the way and manner by which some fast food restaurants channel their waste lines to drainages while urging the authorities to swift into action to save the general public from infections.

Also a Kaduna based food consultant, Mr Napoleon Mamman while speaking with LEADERSHIP Weekend urged Nigerians to watch out for the following whenever they visit any eatery: “if you see any brown or black trace line on the edge of the wall to the ceiling, know there are rats in that place. Nails of person serving must be short, clean shaved jaw, no long ear rings, no loosed hair, no coughing and talking while serving you and the environment must be clean.” He said.

Efforts at getting reaction from Association of Fast Foods and Confectionaries Of Nigeria (AFFCON) was not successful as calls to the secretariat failed.

http://leadership.ng/features/463289/how-fast-food-restaurants-land-nigerians-in-hospitals

Lalasticlala

Nollywood actress, Halima Abubakar, is just one favoured actress, who despite her many controversies still finds a family that still admires her courage.

Recently, an unknown mother had made the actress the Godmother of her new born son and had to send some Sallah gift items to her home.

Halima who is still happy about the award she won recently also added that she was surprised that all her gifts had to come while she was in the hospital but grateful to God for everything.

“Sometimes I get speechless saying thank you, to strangers who are kind to me. Example the mother of this beautiful baby reached out to me, to be her sons God mother and made all this as a gift. Today was his 7 days ceremony. Total stranger. Am sharing this to show you that, regardless of what you going through, you are a warrior to someone. will make sure I meet this beautiful soul and hug him big. Am just happy I officially have 8 God babies. Blessings, Mubarak,” she stated.

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http://www.nigeriafilms.com/news/36080/18/halima-abubakar-now-a-proud-mother.html

Lalasticlala

agarawu23:
cc midolian, zealot4me

lol..Boko Haram?..my hausa no too straight

May God guard and guide them.

agarawu23:
cc midolian, zealot4me

lol..Boko Haram? My hand no dey..my hausa no too straight sef

May God guard and guide them.

agarawu23:
cc midolian, zealot4me

lol..Boko Haram? My hand no dey

These are not ordinary kidnappers.. They must be "hired kidnappers".

basilo101:
what concerns saraki and unpaid salaries? is he the governor?

lol.. You won't understand.

The governor is Saraki's puppet. It is common knowledge that Saraki controls everything in the state(including the governor). There is hardly a thing the governor can do without Saraki's approval.

some guys on nairaland won't kill me with laugh o!

1.) If you were only checking the iphone out, I wonder why out of all the applications on it, your hand chose to open the watsapp app.....so tey you spent minutes reading what's not meant for your eyes.

2.) She is demanding 30k for abortion from the abuja uncle(ATM) that emptied his tank during the exercise..she never told you she was pregnant(let alone for you or anyone)..and here you are saying you don't know if you or the abuja uncle is responsible for the pregnancy

3.) Since she said she was only joking, why not believe her, since you are also a joke

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Jokes apart, everything might be a joke but she has been sleeping with the man.(On the assumtion that your story is true)

Funny enough, he is not unclad

I thought someone said he wasn't stoned.

To Saraki, speaking the truth is very easy...as easy as removing trouser through the head

Cc: chukwudi44

I never doubted it. I have always known a day like this will come.

OZAOEKPE:
"Kwara state will be liberated, I have that believe. Belgore and other progressives should brace up themselves to take over that land once saraki starts falling down. One thing you should know is that fatai is not happy at all, he knows he's not the governor and he's just puppet. I foresee a situation whereby saraki will place his son as the next governor after fatai, that will be total destruction. The only way to stop this criminal is to get him down by fire or by thunder. What do you think about it midolian.

Same, bro. The man is already going down. I see total freedom coming for Kwarans

OZAOEKPE:
"He's only an accused, wait till the court says otherwise. For the liberation of Midolian". Quote me anywhere.

Poverty! People are suffering.......Even some civil servants could not buy ram for Sallah..This is the reason Saraki and co were stoned at the Eid ground today. People are seriously battling with poverty.

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Residents of Gado-Nasko, Kubwa, Abuja, were Thursday, thrown into mourning as a 48-year-old Ondo state indigene, Abdulrazak Wasiu, hung himself for allegedly not being able to provide enough for his family on the Eid-el celebration.

DAILY POST reports that the father of six who reportedly retired to bed hale and hearty, was seen dangling from his bedroom ceiling fan at about 7 a.m on Thursday, with his entire family, wailing over the sad incident.

When DAILY POST visited the scene of the incident, the deceased’s wife, Rekiya Wasiu, in a chat with our correspondent, said she had the biggest shock of her life when her 4-year-old son beckoned on her to behold the tragic scene of her husband.

Rekiya said, “I slept in the children’s room last night because my first child was ill and it was too late to take her to the hospital, since we all believed she would get better after some self-medications.

“I told my husband to go to bed that I will join him, only for me to have slept off in the children’s room.

“Earlier yesterday, my husband had complained bitterly that we may not be able to celebrate the ‘Ileya’ in a grand style as we intended. I told him all will be well, that a miracle could happen before morning. All through yesterday, he was moody,” she sobbed.

“A neighbour called me at about 5 p.m yesterday to say he saw my husband at abattoir, where they sell rams and cows. He said my husband was probably negotiating to buy one. He said he later saw him sitting on the floor with his hand on his chin. I called my husband to please come back home but he said if he didn’t buy the biggest ram, he would rather kill himself. I thought it was just a joke. He however, came home much later empty handed and we laughed over everything.

“I don’t know what to do,” the mother of six lamented. Where do I start from? How can I bear the shame that my husband killed himself because he couldn’t provide Sallah for his family? What kind of life is this?” Rekiya quizzed rhetorically.

When asked if her husband was perhaps depressed over something else, she said, “No way. I know my husband well enough. Nothing else was bothering him. He is a truck driver and in a week, he makes enough to cater for us and keeps in the bank but throughout last week, the owner of the trucks he drives, had issues with the police and all his trucks were confiscated.”

A neighbour, who simply identified himself as Ebuka, spoke with our correspondent saying, “Oga Wasiu sabi celebrate Sallah. If he no fit do this one, e mean say he go kill himself?

“Well, it is quite unfortunate,” Ebuka added, saying a doctor in the neighbourhood said he was already dead immediately residents rushed in to the scene after his wife raised an alarm.

When contacted, Chief Superintendent Nurudeen Sabo, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) at Kubwa Police Command, confirmed the incident and said, “Wonders shall never end.”

He, however, ordered that the corpse be deposited at a nearby hospital but Rekiya debunked saying there would be no need for that.

She said, “We are Muslims and we don’t keep dead bodies for too long. I have contacted our kinsmen in the resident and they are on their way.

As at press time, however, the kinsmen were yet to arrive the scene. The corpse was wrapped with white linen in a mat and deposited at the balcony.

http://dailypost.ng/2015/09/24/tragedy-man-hangs-self-over-lack-of-money-to-buy-sallah-ram/

Macelliot:
Hey Midolian, Rilwon (Rilwayne001)

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Where are thous?

been looking for you guys since...

H@ppy Sallah Celebration!

My own share of the Sallah meat..

Hope you guys won't chase me away?

lol..you are wlcome anytime.. Your sallah meat awaits you

omenka:
Lalasticlala, Seun, I feel like screaming at the top of my voice right now. Don't Nairaland have any functional mods anymore?? What the hell is happening to this forum?? Why do you guys allow all these religious hate speeches to thrive??

If you can't ban such posters that clearly violate Rule 2, can't you at least hide such comments??

There was some form of consequence for such acts when Ishilove was still a mod but since she was laid off, these trash have been blossoming unhindered. Could it be that she was removed because of her intolerance for ethnic and religious bashing??

Today, the Muslims celebrate what is to them a major event. Much as we might resent them and their faith, let us at least show some little respect for them on this day!! Haba!! This is so disgusting!!



Barka da Salah to all Muslims on the forum.


Midolian et al, my apologies for the indiscretion of some of these so called Christians over their very unfortunate comments. There is no place in Christianity that we are admonished to hate a people for their religion- matter of fact, the Bible even encourages us to love our neighbours as we love ourselves. It is really unfortunate what these guys are doing- most of them come from very terrible backgrounds, broken homes with near zero parental love and upbringing. Not much can be expected of such people since their default state is to spread hatred and intolerance.

God bless us all, Muslims and Christians alike.

Amen..Thanks very much, bro! I really appreciate.

Richie0974:
The bible says my people perish for lack of knowledge.....

NB Am not a saraki supporter

Why should they stone him with stones and water, the man is still a leader. For crying out loud he's still the Senate President. It only shows the level of animalistic behavior some people have if they can start stoning the senate President just because he's being tried in court and has not even be found guilty yet. Even animals respect their leaders so why can't we just for the mean time respect ours.

you didn't even read the news to know why he was stoned before giving sermon. Too bad

Aminat508:
Eld Mubarak to my E-boo (Midolian)

Wishing that Allah accepts your good deeds and sacrifices, alleviates your sufferings, and forgives your transgressions. Wishing you joy and prosperity on Eid

U re a darling

Amin..I wish you the same dearie. Mwaaah

fagbalex:
It's a BIG lie! I was there, am from Kwara state and I can confirm to the world that Kwarans are tired of saraki dynasty that's y they stone and disgraced him. He's a thieve that impoverished the people of Kwara state state. It's a false press released.

Don't mind the f00ls. My family members in kwara confirmed told me all that happened. They were there at the Eid ground. These people that stoned him are his people, the people he has impoverished, cheated and wants to enslave for life. "Enough is enough"...this was the message for him today.

Aminat508:
Eld Mubarak to my Muslim brothers and sisters


Kulu ‘am wa antum bikhayr



Amin



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May we witness many more with lots of joy, bliss, good health and prosperity (Amin)

Amin..thanks dear..barka da sallah