₦airaland Forum

richybanky:
Amen.. Kube ti seren, Soco Ayolaada

Am a serving corper in Niger State, Bida Township, dats wer I learned few of d Nupe language

Kube lanzjin

richybanky:
There is Nupe in Kwara State

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A former power minister, Professor Chinedu Nebo, on Monday said the federal and state governments have not provided medical attention to about 64 million Nigerians who suffer from mental illness. 
Nebo spoke during the Second Public Lecture organised by the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Enugu, in collaboration with the West African College of Nursing.

Speaking on the theme ‘Psychiatric and mental health in Nigeria: challenges and prospects,’ Nebo noted that, according to medical scholars, out of a population of 160 million or thereabouts, “64 million Nigerians suffer from one form or the other of afflictions of mental illness,” which deserved attention. 

Nebo, a former Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, pointed out that, whereas government had done much in the area of primary health care, nothing had been done to address mental health challenges. 
He also noted that Nigerians were not adequately informed about mental health issues. 

“Nigerians still grapple with many social challenges, including poverty, high level of unemployment and other social pressures.

“The prevalence of these situations have been escalated by the fact that there is high level of poor knowledge and understanding of the malaise of mental health disorder and the positive treatments required by the growing population of mentally ill patients,” he said. 

He identified causes of mental illness to include genetic composition, neurological and psychological experiences and environmental stresses.

He faulted what he described as “the belief that many Nigerians seem to hold that mental disorder is a result of supernatural forces and, therefore, only responds to cure through traditional practices and supernatural incantations.”

Nebo urged Nigerians to give up such beliefs and “face the realities of modern conditions, which in fact, produce the stresses that lead to different levels of mental conditions.”

The former power minister called for adequate funding for research and training of mental health manpower. 

Nebo equally canvassed the provision of community based mental health care services, total integration of mental health care into the primary health care system and periodic review of legislation governing the care of the mentally ill.

The Chief Medical Director of the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Enugu, Dr. Jojo Onwukwe, said the institution has a staff strength of about 1000 workers, including eight consultant specialist psychiatrists, more than 400 psychiatric nurses and 27 resident doctors.

"when the Nigerian Military captured their bases and training camps, they never found Quran, Hadith or other Islamic literature."

"What they found were ammunitions, ... and all sort of drugs including sex enhancing drugs in their enclaves at Sambisa Forest, Borno, North Eastern Nigeria,"

ERODEDEAST:
Chief Wanking W@nker "YOU NO DEY SHAME"

Avalon316:
endowed ko. you Nigerian women don't understand the difference between fat and endowed

smuth:
Op God know sey you go soon run mad. How on earth has the NNPC become the Ministry of Finance that now approve and pay for Government contracts?...mumu dey follow mumu, your hate for Jonathan is beginning to make you lose the common sense that is freely given by God. I pity your family, keep hating while your family suffer but hear about Jonathan enjoy his vacation.

QueenEdna:
whats wrong with my Display picture? aΩ̴̩̩̩̥d̶̲̥̅̊ If i am not sure why wud i say it ?

vizkiz:
can you please stand up from that chair and turn around! We wanna investigate how endowed you are

QueenEdna:
Very indecent attire. Sadly this is wat U̶̲̥̅̊ seee in most pentecostal churches today some far worse dan this, i am well endowed down , but i always ensure my clothes are not clingy or tight fittted esp when i am going to Chruch. I dont even knw why a preacher shud be takn pics while service is on... Some Churches this days tho

chuna1985:
D dullard keeps confirming what d igbos said about him so we are not shocked. D tribe that is shocked, surprised, disappointed n etc are the people of the s waste.

chuna1985:
Daura dullakpo taking dull decisions.

mrpackager:
Still okay

christinie:
I support the dull one on this one.

INTROVERT:
juicy

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has recommended the sale of the nation’s three refineries in Port Harcourt, Warri and Kaduna due to some challenges the agency described as critical elements, which may continually hinder their effective operation in the hands of the Federal Government.

NNPC has equally finalised its position on the protracted pipeline surveillance, with a verdict that the protection of the pipelines be entrusted to the military, which it believes can effectively protect the critical facilities.

A source in the corporation, who spoke to one of our correspondents on Saturday in Abuja, said the corporation’s stance was informed by the position of the NNPC Stock Reconciliation Committee, which met last week in Abuja to assess the performance of the refineries and associated logistics.

The source, who is very close to the committee, explained that the committee concluded that the operation of the refineries could not be profitable under the current arrangements, which the panel described as unfavourable.

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, explained that the Ship-to-Ship transfer, which the corporation has employed to get crude oil to the refineries, cost between $6m and $7m per vessel and load one million metric tonnes of crude oil.

“MC COSMIC and MC JEWEL, which are engaged to transfer crude to Warri refinery because of their carrying capacities of about one million metric tonnes, collect between $12 and $14m per operation(trip). These are heavy vessels that load crude and transfer to smaller vessels. They then transport the crude to where the product can be transferred to the refineries.

“The same scenario is replayed to get the crude to the Port Harcourt refineries. If you add the amount to the already huge cost, you will realise that the nation cannot sustain the refineries on the prevailing conditions,” the source added.

The committee, it was learnt, also recommended the stoppage of the SWAP and the Offshore Processing Agreement (which had been carried out), in order to increase local availability of crude to the refineries.

“Crude business is done three months ahead. It was already concluded during the immediate past administration that the three refineries would be sold, even though the government had stocked all the materials for the turnaround maintenance of the refineries.

“So, there wouldn’t have been any crude for the local refineries if the SWAP deal and the OPA had not been cancelled; so, the quota that would have been exported was rescheduled to the three refineries,” our source said.

Disclosing that the Kaduna refinery started production from its Fractional Cracking Catalytic Unit at 11.50am on Saturday, the source, however, said the threat posed by pipeline vandalism remained the greatest challenge to the local refining of petroleum products.

“Kaduna refinery has the capacity to crack any type of crude from any part of the world, be it light or heavy. The FCCU, which produces all components of petroleum products from the crude supplied, started production at about 11.50 this morning. During the week, it was undergoing processing,” the source added.

“The fear of the committee, however, is that the number of leakages along the Warri-Kaduna pipeline will not allow the transfer of petroleum products to continue. In July, when the Kaduna refinery was about to start production, the pipeline had been breached in 78 points between Warri and Lokoja. The vandals have been able to identify the difference between the pipelines carrying crude, gas and refined petroleum product. And once there is a breach in one of the pipelines, other pipeline will be shut down.”

The source equally explained that the menace of vandals would also not allow fuel tankers to leave the nation’s highways soon, especially Lagos.

He said the NNPC had recommended to the Federal Government that the military should be directed to take over pipeline surveillance, as the agency would no longer be able to carry out the protection of the pipelines across the country.

“With about 250 points being attacked on a monthly basis, and the huge cost of putting them back in shape, there is no way the government can sustain such losses, which it had intended to stop,” he stated.

The source said owing to the challenges outlined by the committee, the panel believed the best operation for the government was to sell the refineries in their current state while holding on to a “minimal stake” in the facilities.

“The recommendation is that the government should sell the refineries as they are. The same principle applies to our cars; it gets to a point that we believe that they are no longer serving the purpose for acquiring them. The refineries have become a burden. It has been recommended that if the government will not embark on outright sale of the refineries, it should go into partnership but hold a minimal stake in the venture, especially with those who built the refineries initially,” the source added.

It was also gathered that the government had been advised to facilitate the setting up of modular refineries, which are smaller but runs on modern technology, to replace the existing facilities, which are even obsolete.

However, President Muhammadu Buhari is said to have disagreed with selling the refineries for now on the ground of what the source explained was based on “social and political” factors.

“You know the connection between the President and how he facilitated the setting up of the refineries in Port Harcourt. He is highly concerned about what the people will say. He is also said to be considering what the cost of petroleum products will be after the sales; considering what the government pays silently at the moment to make sure petroleum products are readily available,” the source said, while explaining that Buhari’s reaction had been made known to the top management of the NNPC.

Meanwhile, the NNPC has denied any plans to sell the country’s refineries at present.

According to the corporation, reforms by its new management have not suggested the sale of the three refineries located in Warri, Port Harcourt and Kaduna.

The corporation’s Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Mr. Ohi Alegbe, told our correspondent on Saturday that although the firm had undertaken series of reforms since its new management came onboard, it had not recommended the sale of the national refineries.

Alegbe said, “There is nothing like that.”

When told that there are concerns that the NNPC might not be able to protect the pipelines and that the Federal Government should take over the surveillance of the facilities, the corporation’s spokesperson replied, “It is also not true.”

On the level of vandalism and how it affects the respective capacities and outputs of the refineries, Alegbe stated that the corporation had adopted various measures to check the menace of crude oil pipelines destruction.

Explaining how the corporation had been protecting the pipelines in the interim since the cancellation of various pipelines’ protection contracts, he said the NNPC had engaged security agents of different communities where the facilities run through.

Alegbe said, “Firstly, there was no contract with the OPC (Oodua Peoples Congress) please. We have the police, the military and we also engage with community-based groups. And it is not as if the pipelines were left unprotected. We have the military, the civil defense and the police, and some leaders of communities that are bordering some of these pipelines have been involved in the protection process.”

One of the latest reforms of the NNPC’s new management, which was carried out last week, was the trimming down of the off-takers for the lifting of Nigeria’s crude oil from 43 to 16.

MizMyColi:
I was going to quote a post you made earlier.

Do you remember that popular parlance - "na for where them dey joke, them dey tok true"?

I know this because if he truly meant to take everyone for a ride, he would not connive with Mi dolian in the background to come back him up here, so he can let the world know that he was being sarcastic.

Owh well.

It's just like making a post and tagging it..." I'm madly in Love with Truckpusher!!!"
Of course everyone will think I'm kidding or just goofing around....
But those who have a knack for studying humans would know that even if I didn't mean it wholly....
A part of me did contemplate it.
For out of the abundance of the heart, speaketh the mouth.

chuna1985:
The real question is WHY ISN'T BUHARI GOING TO COURT WITH ALL THESE INFO