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This government is tired of strikes – Dr. Jide Idris

This government is tired of strikes. Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris who confirmed this in an interview with Sola Ogundipe and Chioma Obinna,  was only echoing the thoughts of millions of Lagosians and Nigerians as a whole.

Idris who said the sacking of 788 striking doctors was a difficult decision for the government, however, argued that it was in the overall interest of the health sector. Denying claims that it was a premeditated decision, he said the priority now is to reduce the negative effects of the crisis on the patients. Excerpts:

BEFORE resorting to sacking, was there no other measure government could have taken to avoid the impasse between it and the Medical Guild?


Government did everything possible. The last time the doctors went on strike, the government gave many concessions and that was what formed the basis of the agreement.

That same agreement has been implemented. Contrary to the information they have been spreading, we are paying CONMESS figure for figure within the platform of the state health policy. It was on basis of the doctors’ agitation that we published the figures. If they have anything contrary, let them bring it up.

After the last strike, it was decided by both parties to resolve matters amicably by dialogue. The governor was actually at one of their meetings in which the doctors promised never to go on strike again. It was on that basis that since the beginning of the year, we have been discussing everything with them. The first notice of the strike was a text message that took us aback. We were surprised. Three weeks before then, we had met, issues were raised and we were going to call them to a meeting. So when the text came, we called them immediately to say that was not our agreement. We even showed them all the papers to state the position of our agreement.


The doctors have been saying the publication does not reflect the true position…


Well let them bring evidence. I actually went back to confirm after the publication and it was confirmed, two sources confirmed. So let them bring evidence that it is not so. Figure for figure, we are paying CONMESS.

Has government not violated the right of the patient to health?

To the best of my knowledge, government has not violated the patient’s rights. The role of government is to provide platform for the patients to access to health but when it comes to a situation where that access to health is being impeded by those who should provide it, then government has to do something about it.

But the hospitals are still shut…

As of today, none of the hospitals is shut. I have taken stock, yes services are down, but work is not completely paralysed.

How open is government to dialogue?

Government has taken advantage of many opportunities. For instance, the governor publicly appealed to them during the 1,800 days celebration, then the House of Assembly waded in, but the doctors insulted everybody. Since all this began, we held meetings and got concerned parties to listen to our own side of the story, and then they went and listened to their own side too.

We had two meetings, Thursday, during which we gave our own side. A past president of the NMA came to a meeting with us, I gave him all the information including letters written by the NMA Lagos branch and he said he had warned them not to write the letter. They are not telling the full story, only whipping up sentiments to the public. Government has tried, but things would get to a stage where steps have to be taken to prevent further degeneration. This action bordered on what holds the fabric together which is discipline and regulations. We had to save the situation.

Is there possibility that any of the sacked doctors may be reinstated or asked to reapply?

That matter is covered by civil service regulations. We will cross the bridge when we get there. I do not want to preempt anything.

Is the dismissal of 788 doctors a premeditated act as being touted in some circles or is it a quick measure to salvage the system?

No reasonable government that has the interest of the people at heart would plan to sack 788 doctors just like that it. It was not something government was happy to do and was actually a hard but inevitable decision.

We had to make a choice between sacking and the negative effects of not sacking on the overall system. First, if a house officer is paid teaching allowance, then others in the health system and even beyond will come forward and demand to be paid as well. The cost on government would be too much. Second, the attitude of the doctors leaves much to be desired.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/05/this-government-is-tired-of-strikes-dr-jide-idris/

This government is tired of strikes – Dr. Jide Idris

This government is tired of strikes. Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris who confirmed this in an interview with Sola Ogundipe and Chioma Obinna,  was only echoing the thoughts of millions of Lagosians and Nigerians as a whole.

Idris who said the sacking of 788 striking doctors was a difficult decision for the government, however, argued that it was in the overall interest of the health sector. Denying claims that it was a premeditated decision, he said the priority now is to reduce the negative effects of the crisis on the patients. Excerpts:

BEFORE resorting to sacking, was there no other measure government could have taken to avoid the impasse between it and the Medical Guild?


Government did everything possible. The last time the doctors went on strike, the government gave many concessions and that was what formed the basis of the agreement.

That same agreement has been implemented. Contrary to the information they have been spreading, we are paying CONMESS figure for figure within the platform of the state health policy. It was on basis of the doctors’ agitation that we published the figures. If they have anything contrary, let them bring it up.

After the last strike, it was decided by both parties to resolve matters amicably by dialogue. The governor was actually at one of their meetings in which the doctors promised never to go on strike again. It was on that basis that since the beginning of the year, we have been discussing everything with them. The first notice of the strike was a text message that took us aback. We were surprised. Three weeks before then, we had met, issues were raised and we were going to call them to a meeting. So when the text came, we called them immediately to say that was not our agreement. We even showed them all the papers to state the position of our agreement.


The doctors have been saying the publication does not reflect the true position…


Well let them bring evidence. I actually went back to confirm after the publication and it was confirmed, two sources confirmed. So let them bring evidence that it is not so. Figure for figure, we are paying CONMESS.

Has government not violated the right of the patient to health?

To the best of my knowledge, government has not violated the patient’s rights. The role of government is to provide platform for the patients to access to health but when it comes to a situation where that access to health is being impeded by those who should provide it, then government has to do something about it.

But the hospitals are still shut…

As of today, none of the hospitals is shut. I have taken stock, yes services are down, but work is not completely paralysed.

How open is government to dialogue?

Government has taken advantage of many opportunities. For instance, the governor publicly appealed to them during the 1,800 days celebration, then the House of Assembly waded in, but the doctors insulted everybody. Since all this began, we held meetings and got concerned parties to listen to our own side of the story, and then they went and listened to their own side too.

We had two meetings, Thursday, during which we gave our own side. A past president of the NMA came to a meeting with us, I gave him all the information including letters written by the NMA Lagos branch and he said he had warned them not to write the letter. They are not telling the full story, only whipping up sentiments to the public. Government has tried, but things would get to a stage where steps have to be taken to prevent further degeneration. This action bordered on what holds the fabric together which is discipline and regulations. We had to save the situation.

Is there possibility that any of the sacked doctors may be reinstated or asked to reapply?

That matter is covered by civil service regulations. We will cross the bridge when we get there. I do not want to preempt anything.

Is the dismissal of 788 doctors a premeditated act as being touted in some circles or is it a quick measure to salvage the system?

No reasonable government that has the interest of the people at heart would plan to sack 788 doctors just like that it. It was not something government was happy to do and was actually a hard but inevitable decision.

We had to make a choice between sacking and the negative effects of not sacking on the overall system. First, if a house officer is paid teaching allowance, then others in the health system and even beyond will come forward and demand to be paid as well. The cost on government would be too much. Second, the attitude of the doctors leaves much to be desired.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/05/this-government-is-tired-of-strikes-dr-jide-idris/

We have fully implemented CONMESS –Health Commissioner

It’s not the best of times for the sick in Lagos state. For over three weeks, doctors and the state government have been embroiled in a battle of wits following the doctors’ indefinite strike over the implantation of the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS) in the state. Last week, the state government announced the dismissal of 788 doctors and promptly evicted them from their living quarters. The state commissioner of Health, Dr. Jide Idris in this interview by HEALTH EDITOR SAM EFERARO and ASSISTANT EDITOR SEKINAH LAWAL said the state government had fully implemented the CONMESS salary scheme saying the government did everything possible to avoid the doctors’ strike. Excerpts:

Sir, do you think the dismissal of the doctors will bring a positive end to the crisis?

Over the years we’ve been bending over backwards allowing everything to go for the sake of peace. People have developed this attitude that they can do anything they like. They can undermine the system and they go to any length to do whatever it is they want to do. This current strike, personally, I don’t know what they are striking for. What is inter-esting is that they will not tell the pub-lic the truth because they feel they have the power and nobody is going to blame them. Every single thing they ask for, the government has implemented.

But the doctors say  there’s an agree-ment which the government signed and that the government failed to  honour its own part.

They said government should pay full CONMESS.  Mind you, if you look at the history, it didn’t start today. If you look at the circular they are talking about, it was a Federal Circular affecting only federal institutions. When the argument started the first time, we said ok for the sake of peace… but again the state gov-ernment decided that “look, I’m  tired of all this back and forth,  I have a right to establish my own salary scheme,” which they did.

I cannot even tell you the story that went behind it and what it took because government got consul-tants, spent a lot of money to come up with that scheme. It was decided that nobody in this state will be at a disad-vantage. 

In the course of implementing the scheme, the health sector was given proper priority. We conceded a lot of things to them because of the peculiar-ity of that sector. When all the other sec-tors were pegged to 2 levels – even those 2 levels is a higher salary –  and that one was to correct the anomaly within the system. In the former system you could be on grade level  12 step 10 and be earn-ing more than somebody on level 13.

If you are going to another level automati-cally, your years of experience and other things were taken care of. For the health sector, we elongated that system because of their peculiarity so if they are talking about that agreement, it was fully imple-mented. But they will not tell you that in implementing that agreement they got a bonus, one month salary bonus which all the other people did not get.

Now that others have heard,  they are demanding their own, more so when they did not even go on strike.  I’m telling you this to let you how far government went. At the end of that strike we had a decision to continue to dialogue. This year alone, we’ve held at least four meetings with them. If you look at what they are complaining about, they are not enough to go on strike. The first one, they want teaching allowance for house officers and we said we will not pay because house officers do not teach.

That’s the only difference between house officers and those on grade level 12. Ev-ery other thing, we are paying figure for figure (with the Federal Scheme). Even when the salary thing was published and they were making  so much noise, I asked the DFA here to go and crosscheck again and he came yesterday to say we are paying figure for figure.

What they will not tell the public is that if you get a loan it will be deducted from your sal-ary and that’s what will reflect in your pay. If you live in government house they will not pay you housing allowance.

Those are the things they will not tell the public that showed the differences (on pay slip). Apart from the house of-ficer on grade level 12 figure for figure as in CONMESS we are paying. We’ve told them if they have anything to the contrary, they should publish it.

They will not tell you that we had to spread the bonus they got over three months because it was not planned for, all for the sake of peace. We were (still) discussing before and the issue of strike did not come up until we started seeing text messages talking about warning strike. We called them to a meeting and we told them this is not our agreement. If you have any issue, bring them and let’s discuss.

Shortly before that in the course of our discus-sion, we told them  that during imple-mentation there could be mistakes and they should bring such anomalies. They brought  the evidence  and I sent a copy to LASUTH and other hospitals.

They confirmed the anomalies and we agreed quickly to remedy them.  We went to the Ministry of Establishment and they agreed to implement the remedy which they have started doing. The other one they said some hospitals in the same level are getting different things and we said it’s an anomaly. People on the same level should earn the same thing.

We told them to bring it up because it was an error and it was only in LASUTH. The only two areas where we disagreed was the issue of house officers. There was a document that the National Wages Commission over this CONMES sent to the Minister of Health explaining the category of health workers who should benefit from teaching allowance.

Those two categories were not on that list. In any case, even if any federal institution is paying, they have the money we don’t.  Moreso, you don’t qualify for the allow-ance because you don’t teach. The second issue, they said if you are a new consultant you should be started on grade level 15 step 4.

This is a com-plex issue. It’s an establishment matter. It was even today I fully understood the whole thing. It was the Head of Service that explained it properly. Before, they had two levels for consultants one for the consultants who are not specialists who started from level 15 step 1 and those who did residents and became special-ists who are placed on grade level 15 step 4.

In the new salary scheme, all those factors have been considered in arriv-ing at the figure so any new consultant will start on grade level 15 step 1. We say if you are an old person and you still have the salary dichotomy bring it and we will rectify, which we’ve done. Their grouse is for people who are not in the system and we say how can you be fight-ing for those who have not come into the system?

Anybody coming in newly, you are the one who wants to work for Lagos state. If we tell you this is what we are paying it’s either you take it or leave it. So why must you be fighting for anyone who has not joined the system? Those are the two areas where we parted ways. When they started talking about strike we begged and appealed, moreso, when the notice of strike was given 24 hours before they went on strike.

You see when you wake up as a health personnel with all your Hippocratic oath and you can just wake up one day and say you are going on warning strike. They are used to it because they know people will come with emotions. Oh peo-ple will die, this is health sector and they know this so it’s like playing God.

They will not tell the people the truth. Now, if we pay teaching allowance to house of-ficers the nurses will come and also ask for teaching allowance for nurses in the lower level. The pharmacists will also come. The other issue now is about disci-pline in the civil service.

Once that fabric that holds the civil service is destroyed then you destroy the  service. They went on strike, the civil service regulation says first give a query to explain why he did not come to work. They said nobody should respond, we sent the second que-ry and they said nobody should respond and then the third.

The Civil service set up the PMD, the disciplinary committee. Some of them responded and they were exonorated. They had the last opportu-nity in spite of all these when the house waded in last Saturday. All these would have been resolved but they insulted many of us  at that meeting including the deputy speaker.

My question is if you continue like this, any other group of workers can say to hell with you be-cause you’ve done it for doctors. It has got to a particular level where they feel they cannot be disciplined because of the emotion often attached and they commit all sorts of atrocities.  How much will you beg? They feel they are untouchable which is a fallacy?

There are people looking for job. Ev-erybody is leaving the private sector  to come to the public sector. How many states are paying the salary we are paying? Check it, how many states? We have a huge workforce. They are so comfortable many of them don’t go to work, they run their private practices. I’m a doctor that’s why I can’t speak out be-cause I will put my  profession in jeopardy. There must be a stop to this because at the end of the day, it is the people that will keep on suffering when you just wake up one day and you say you are going on a warning strike; you don’t care about the patient. That’s not how we were trained.

You are a medical doctor. I just wonder, since they are your colleagues, is there no channel through which you could have met with them to ensure the issue does not generate to a strike and even this sack?

After that strike (last year) we made a decision that we will dialogue. As I said, I’ve held four meetings with them. Even the Governor attended one of their meet-ings  and at that meeting,  they promised they  would not go on strike again. We were talking. Some of them have access to my house and that’s why it was so surprising that you were contemplating a strike we had a meeting about three weeks before then and all these things did not come up. Unknown to me,  they went to Estab and it was based on their decision at Estab that the Permanent  Secretary,  Civil Service Commission wrote to me to go back to Estab to state our case. Upon all that, we called them to a meeting and told them that was not our agreement. So how else do you want us to dialogue?

How is the government going to resolve the issue now? Are you sure you can get up to 700 doctors

When you want to effect changes it’s not going to be easy. But these changes are very necessary now. We are going to implement different code of ethics. Yes, people will get very emotional   but if you start saying all these outside I’ll be destroying my own profession. That’s why I’ve not said much. See the salary structure that we published, they are now saying we have made them a se-curity risk because the public did not know they were getting that much. But they keep telling people that we are not paying. That we signed an agreement and we did not pay.

That’s what they are telling the public. Look at the Chairman of NMA, if you really value life, you did not even call us to find out what hap-pened. Instead, you wrote a letter saying you heard we are harassing and intimi-dating doctors and we should withdraw the query if not, they will call national strike. They are playing God. They feel they can hold everybody to ransom be-cause they are doctors.  If the nurses go on strike today, they can’t work. But it is our country they are even embarrassing.

There’s the rumour that the new doctors are fresh doctors who have no experi-ence.

That is not true. The people that are coming, some of them have been practis-ing for seven to nine years. We still have the consultants in the same hospitals.  They are not on strike  but they are un-dermining the system because by  virtue of the civil service regulation, you can’t go on strike if you are on level 14.

It will be stupid to employ all green people. That’s not the true picture. The people who are coming are of different grades and they are going to work under the consultants. More people are applying.


http://nationalmirroronline.net/health/health-news/39980.html

We have fully implemented CONMESS –Health Commissioner

It’s not the best of times for the sick in Lagos state. For over three weeks, doctors and the state government have been embroiled in a battle of wits following the doctors’ indefinite strike over the implantation of the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS) in the state. Last week, the state government announced the dismissal of 788 doctors and promptly evicted them from their living quarters. The state commissioner of Health, Dr. Jide Idris in this interview by HEALTH EDITOR SAM EFERARO and ASSISTANT EDITOR SEKINAH LAWAL said the state government had fully implemented the CONMESS salary scheme saying the government did everything possible to avoid the doctors’ strike. Excerpts:

Sir, do you think the dismissal of the doctors will bring a positive end to the crisis?

Over the years we’ve been bending over backwards allowing everything to go for the sake of peace. People have developed this attitude that they can do anything they like. They can undermine the system and they go to any length to do whatever it is they want to do. This current strike, personally, I don’t know what they are striking for. What is inter-esting is that they will not tell the pub-lic the truth because they feel they have the power and nobody is going to blame them. Every single thing they ask for, the government has implemented.

But the doctors say  there’s an agree-ment which the government signed and that the government failed to  honour its own part.

They said government should pay full CONMESS.  Mind you, if you look at the history, it didn’t start today. If you look at the circular they are talking about, it was a Federal Circular affecting only federal institutions. When the argument started the first time, we said ok for the sake of peace… but again the state gov-ernment decided that “look, I’m  tired of all this back and forth,  I have a right to establish my own salary scheme,” which they did.

I cannot even tell you the story that went behind it and what it took because government got consul-tants, spent a lot of money to come up with that scheme. It was decided that nobody in this state will be at a disad-vantage. 

In the course of implementing the scheme, the health sector was given proper priority. We conceded a lot of things to them because of the peculiar-ity of that sector. When all the other sec-tors were pegged to 2 levels – even those 2 levels is a higher salary –  and that one was to correct the anomaly within the system. In the former system you could be on grade level  12 step 10 and be earn-ing more than somebody on level 13.

If you are going to another level automati-cally, your years of experience and other things were taken care of. For the health sector, we elongated that system because of their peculiarity so if they are talking about that agreement, it was fully imple-mented. But they will not tell you that in implementing that agreement they got a bonus, one month salary bonus which all the other people did not get.

Now that others have heard,  they are demanding their own, more so when they did not even go on strike.  I’m telling you this to let you how far government went. At the end of that strike we had a decision to continue to dialogue. This year alone, we’ve held at least four meetings with them. If you look at what they are complaining about, they are not enough to go on strike. The first one, they want teaching allowance for house officers and we said we will not pay because house officers do not teach.

That’s the only difference between house officers and those on grade level 12. Ev-ery other thing, we are paying figure for figure (with the Federal Scheme). Even when the salary thing was published and they were making  so much noise, I asked the DFA here to go and crosscheck again and he came yesterday to say we are paying figure for figure.

What they will not tell the public is that if you get a loan it will be deducted from your sal-ary and that’s what will reflect in your pay. If you live in government house they will not pay you housing allowance.

Those are the things they will not tell the public that showed the differences (on pay slip). Apart from the house of-ficer on grade level 12 figure for figure as in CONMESS we are paying. We’ve told them if they have anything to the contrary, they should publish it.

They will not tell you that we had to spread the bonus they got over three months because it was not planned for, all for the sake of peace. We were (still) discussing before and the issue of strike did not come up until we started seeing text messages talking about warning strike. We called them to a meeting and we told them this is not our agreement. If you have any issue, bring them and let’s discuss.

Shortly before that in the course of our discus-sion, we told them  that during imple-mentation there could be mistakes and they should bring such anomalies. They brought  the evidence  and I sent a copy to LASUTH and other hospitals.

They confirmed the anomalies and we agreed quickly to remedy them.  We went to the Ministry of Establishment and they agreed to implement the remedy which they have started doing. The other one they said some hospitals in the same level are getting different things and we said it’s an anomaly. People on the same level should earn the same thing.

We told them to bring it up because it was an error and it was only in LASUTH. The only two areas where we disagreed was the issue of house officers. There was a document that the National Wages Commission over this CONMES sent to the Minister of Health explaining the category of health workers who should benefit from teaching allowance.

Those two categories were not on that list. In any case, even if any federal institution is paying, they have the money we don’t.  Moreso, you don’t qualify for the allow-ance because you don’t teach. The second issue, they said if you are a new consultant you should be started on grade level 15 step 4.

This is a com-plex issue. It’s an establishment matter. It was even today I fully understood the whole thing. It was the Head of Service that explained it properly. Before, they had two levels for consultants one for the consultants who are not specialists who started from level 15 step 1 and those who did residents and became special-ists who are placed on grade level 15 step 4.

In the new salary scheme, all those factors have been considered in arriv-ing at the figure so any new consultant will start on grade level 15 step 1. We say if you are an old person and you still have the salary dichotomy bring it and we will rectify, which we’ve done. Their grouse is for people who are not in the system and we say how can you be fight-ing for those who have not come into the system?

Anybody coming in newly, you are the one who wants to work for Lagos state. If we tell you this is what we are paying it’s either you take it or leave it. So why must you be fighting for anyone who has not joined the system? Those are the two areas where we parted ways. When they started talking about strike we begged and appealed, moreso, when the notice of strike was given 24 hours before they went on strike.

You see when you wake up as a health personnel with all your Hippocratic oath and you can just wake up one day and say you are going on warning strike. They are used to it because they know people will come with emotions. Oh peo-ple will die, this is health sector and they know this so it’s like playing God.

They will not tell the people the truth. Now, if we pay teaching allowance to house of-ficers the nurses will come and also ask for teaching allowance for nurses in the lower level. The pharmacists will also come. The other issue now is about disci-pline in the civil service.

Once that fabric that holds the civil service is destroyed then you destroy the  service. They went on strike, the civil service regulation says first give a query to explain why he did not come to work. They said nobody should respond, we sent the second que-ry and they said nobody should respond and then the third.

The Civil service set up the PMD, the disciplinary committee. Some of them responded and they were exonorated. They had the last opportu-nity in spite of all these when the house waded in last Saturday. All these would have been resolved but they insulted many of us  at that meeting including the deputy speaker.

My question is if you continue like this, any other group of workers can say to hell with you be-cause you’ve done it for doctors. It has got to a particular level where they feel they cannot be disciplined because of the emotion often attached and they commit all sorts of atrocities.  How much will you beg? They feel they are untouchable which is a fallacy?

There are people looking for job. Ev-erybody is leaving the private sector  to come to the public sector. How many states are paying the salary we are paying? Check it, how many states? We have a huge workforce. They are so comfortable many of them don’t go to work, they run their private practices. I’m a doctor that’s why I can’t speak out be-cause I will put my  profession in jeopardy. There must be a stop to this because at the end of the day, it is the people that will keep on suffering when you just wake up one day and you say you are going on a warning strike; you don’t care about the patient. That’s not how we were trained.

You are a medical doctor. I just wonder, since they are your colleagues, is there no channel through which you could have met with them to ensure the issue does not generate to a strike and even this sack?

After that strike (last year) we made a decision that we will dialogue. As I said, I’ve held four meetings with them. Even the Governor attended one of their meet-ings  and at that meeting,  they promised they  would not go on strike again. We were talking. Some of them have access to my house and that’s why it was so surprising that you were contemplating a strike we had a meeting about three weeks before then and all these things did not come up. Unknown to me,  they went to Estab and it was based on their decision at Estab that the Permanent  Secretary,  Civil Service Commission wrote to me to go back to Estab to state our case. Upon all that, we called them to a meeting and told them that was not our agreement. So how else do you want us to dialogue?

How is the government going to resolve the issue now? Are you sure you can get up to 700 doctors

When you want to effect changes it’s not going to be easy. But these changes are very necessary now. We are going to implement different code of ethics. Yes, people will get very emotional   but if you start saying all these outside I’ll be destroying my own profession. That’s why I’ve not said much. See the salary structure that we published, they are now saying we have made them a se-curity risk because the public did not know they were getting that much. But they keep telling people that we are not paying. That we signed an agreement and we did not pay.

That’s what they are telling the public. Look at the Chairman of NMA, if you really value life, you did not even call us to find out what hap-pened. Instead, you wrote a letter saying you heard we are harassing and intimi-dating doctors and we should withdraw the query if not, they will call national strike. They are playing God. They feel they can hold everybody to ransom be-cause they are doctors.  If the nurses go on strike today, they can’t work. But it is our country they are even embarrassing.

There’s the rumour that the new doctors are fresh doctors who have no experi-ence.

That is not true. The people that are coming, some of them have been practis-ing for seven to nine years. We still have the consultants in the same hospitals.  They are not on strike  but they are un-dermining the system because by  virtue of the civil service regulation, you can’t go on strike if you are on level 14.

It will be stupid to employ all green people. That’s not the true picture. The people who are coming are of different grades and they are going to work under the consultants. More people are applying.


http://nationalmirroronline.net/health/health-news/39980.html

I have heard doctors accuse everyone else of jealousy. Some have said that if other people want to earn what doctors are earning, then they should go and study medicine.

Therefore, if doctors want to earn what lawyers/judges are earning, they should go back to the university and study law.

The police in a federal state: the Nigerian experience
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HISTORY, CONTEXT AND CRISES OF THE POLICE IN NIGERIA

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The Constitution of The Federation of Nigeria, 1960


98. - (1) There shall be a police force for Nigeria, which shall be
styled the Nigeria Police Force.

(2) Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, the Nigeria
Police Force shall be organised and administered in accordance with
such provision as may be made in that behalf by Parliament.

(3) Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, the members of
the Nigeria Police Force shall have such powers and duties as may
be conferred upon them by any law in force in Nigeria.

(4) Subject to the provisions of this section, no police forces other
than the Nigeria Police Force shall be established for Nigeria or
any part thereof.

(5) Parliament may make provision for police forces forming part
of the armed forces of the Crown or for the protection of harbours,
waterways, railways and airfields.

(6) Parliament may make provision for the maintenance by any
local authority within the Federal territory of a police force for
employment within the Federal territory.

(7) Nothing in this section shall prevent the legislature of a Region
from making provision for the maintenance by any native authority
or local-government authority established for a province or any part
of a province of a police force for employment within that province.

( In this section "province" means any area that was a province
on the thirtieth day of September, 1954.
Control of Nigeria Police Force


http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:HNeRFP3kAc0J:www.nigeriacongress.org/resources/constitution/nig_const_60.pdf+revenue+1960+constitution+nigeriacongress.org&hl=en

Local and State police have existed in Nigeria in the past (and they still exist today). Some people advocate for the abolition of state and local government police because they could be used by politicians to oppress their opponents. I believe the need for state and local government police far outweigh these concerns and that the functions and use of state and local government police could be controlled by such instruments as the constitution and the National Assembly to ensure that these concerns are addressed. Besides, if you say state and local government police should be abolished because of misuse by politicians, then you should also agree that the federal police should be abolished because of misuse by politicians.


State and local government police existed in Nigeria prior to 1966. The Ironsi government established the Gobir panel to consider the desirability of dual (local and National) or centralized (unified) police and prisons. The panel submitted its report to the Gowon administration and recommended the abolition of local police and prison services. According to the committee, the local police forces were poorly trained, corrupt, and used for partisan political purposes, including the repression of opponents by traditional rulers and politicians in Northern Nigeria as well as by political parties and governments in power in the Northern and Western Regions.

The Tinubu administration in Lagos was a great advocate of true federalism and it thus tried, through various means, to practice federalism (an example is the attempt to generate power for the state via the AES Barge). The administration set up LASTMA (Lagos State traffic police), KAI (Lagos State environment police), The Neighbourhood watch, CBD, etc. Some northern states have the Hisbah Commission (state religious/morality police).

State and local government police are required to meet the specific needs of each state and local government. In the past, the police were poorly equiped because the various divisions, area and state commands had to look to the Federal Government in Lagos or Abuja for funding for their basic needs. The Feds did not have the time, knowledge, money and other resources to meet the needs of the various police units across the country. Where they had the resources, issues of bigotry, corruption and incompetence hampered deployment.

The state and local governments on the other hand know where the show pinches, are closer to the people and it is easier for the people to hold them to account than it is to hold the federal government in far away Abuja to account.

Therefore, in recent times, state governments have had to step in to provide armoured cars, bullet proof vests, vehicles and other equipment and logistics to their state commands, yet they do not have operational control of these commands. For example, the Lagos State Government spends a lot of money to train policemen, yet, these policemen can easily be transfered out of Lagos by the Federal Government, which means that the state loses the expertise that it paid for.

The concerns of those who are afraid of state and local government police can be adressed if the role and functions of these police forces are regulated by the constitution and the national assembly. For example, there could be a law specifying the kind of arms that the state and local government police can use. These arms would be inferior to the arms borne by the federal police.

The existence of Federal, State and Local Government police need not cause problems. For example, in the U.S, President Kennedy federalized the Alabama National Guard to protect African-American students who were trying to register at the University of Alabama. This was despite the fact that. Governor George Wallace was pro-segregation.

In 2005 I wrote a paper on true federalism,fiscal federalism, resource control and derivation. I planned to update it, expand it and publish it on nairaland, but I just haven't found the time.

However, I would implore everybody to get a copy of the 1960 constitution and read what it says about local police, the funds of the federation and state symbols such as state constitutions, state flags and state coat of arms.

I've quickly typed out my thoughts on state police and I shall posts links to the 1960 and 1963 constitutions.

GboyegaD: Have you ever read any article on education and wage rate? All over the world, doctors are well paid compared to any other profession because of the value they add to lives. Do not beef them because you chose not to study medicine so let them earn whatever they earn. If you feel they earn too much, then go back to school to study medicine.

This is the kind of arrogance that turns the masses against the doctors.

We had state police in Nigeria in the past and we currently have state police

If Fashola agrees to this, then other health workers (pharmacists, etc) will go on strike. Once he increases the salaries of other health workers, the doctors will then go on strike. It's time to take a stand.

Unions became very powerful during the military era. They were one of the ways in which the people held the government in check.

However, I think the power they had has gone to their heads. The unions believe that the people will back them no matter what. Unions put their selfish interests ahead of the interests of the people and it is the duty of the government and the people to curb the excesses of the unions.

Tanker drivers park on the expressway, causing traffic jams and endangering the lives of the people. Whenever the government acts to dislodge them they go on strike, causing fuel scarcity and hardship for the masses. Because the government is always seen as an evil entity (reputation gained due to military dictators & corrupt politicians), the people side with the unions and pressure the government to back down.


Doctors go on "solidarity strike", endangering the lives of patients, although the doctors are being paid, etc. I believe it is one of such strikes, held a few years ago, in which state doctors went on "solidarity strike" with the federal counterparts, that finally turned Fashola against the doctors.

"Nigeria is broke" https://www.nairaland.com/938309/nigeria-cash-strapped%2Ccant-pay-monthly-state

Thank God they've gotten over their fear. In 2002 when SABMiller acquired a stake in Kenya Breweries, the SAB Chairman was asked, on the BBC, when they would invest in Nigeria (Africa's biggest market).

He said Nigerian Breweries and Guinness had pretty much sewn up the Nigerian market, but that they's have to invest in Nigeria sometime in the future if they want to make inroads into the West African market.


It is a welcome development.

I wish I had a video clip of the Silverbird Man of The Year Awards so that I can post it on nairaland. It seems the newspapers have picked out sound-bites, taken them out of context and sensationalised them.

One of the reasons why Nigeria is a prime target. It's so easy to divide and conquer. It took the tribes of Afghanistan some time to realise this. I wonder how long it will take Nigerians to realise.

Finger and fast food

Click on this thread for more info https://www.nairaland.com/928464/need-caterers-we-provide-sumptious

Read the wikipedia article for AQIM here http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda_Organization_in_the_Islamic_Maghreb


Part of the article reads - "In November 2007 Nigerian authorities arrested five men for alleged possession of seven sticks of dynamite and other explosives. Nigerian prosecutors alleged that three of the accused had trained for two years with the then Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat in Algeria.[27] In January 2008 the Dakar Rally was cancelled due to threats made by associated terrorist organizations."

THE TELEGRAPH

Al-Qaeda’s hand in Boko Haram's deadly Nigerian attacks



A victim of a bomb blast that ripped through the United Nations offices in the Nigerian capital of Abuja is loaded into an ambulance. Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the attack

Picture: REUTERS

By David Blair, Abuja

Last Updated: 8:23AM GMT 06/02/2012

Al-Qaeda operatives in North Africa have helped to transform Boko Haram into a terrorist group capable of killing hundreds in sophisticated attacks.

The radical Islamist group, based in northern Nigeria, once specialised in robbing banks and attacking defenceless Christian congregations. In the past month, however, its gunmen or suicide bombers have struck 21 times, killing at least 253 people.

The Daily Telegraph understands this transformation has come about partly because of the help Boko Haram has received from al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), a branch of the international terrorist network based in the Saharan states of Mali, Niger and Algeria.

Boko Haram demonstrated its new potency on Jan 20, when at least 100 of the movement's fighters executed eight assaults in Nigeria's northern city of Kano, overwhelming the security forces and killing 185 people.

This operation bore all the hallmarks of al-Qaeda: a mixture of suicide bombers and gunmen, some in police or army uniform, carried out multiple, carefully coordinated attacks on hard targets.

Boko Haram destroyed two police stations and the regional police headquarters, and damaged the local office of the State Security Service, Nigeria's version of MI5.

Al-Qaeda's influence was also evident from the choice of weapons: car bombs exploded outside some targets, while police found caches of "improvised explosive devices", with detonators and shrapnel packed into soft drinks cans.

Since then, Boko Haram has kept up the momentum, launching night raids on two more police stations in Kano.

Officials and experts in the Nigerian capital of Abuja believe Boko Haram has learnt its new capabilities from AQIM. Niger, a key operating theatre for AQIM, shares a largely unmarked frontier with Nigeria, spanning 900 miles of desert and scrub.

Boko Haram probably has little need for weapons or money as its fighters are accomplished bank robbers and whenever they raid a police station, they usually empty the armoury. AQIM's contribution is most likely to be in tactics and expertise, with Boko Haram fighters taken out of Nigeria for training.

While the country has a long history of political and religious violence, experts point to the novelty of Boko Haram's techniques.

"Suicide bombing was, until recently, something we saw in the movies," said Chinedu Nwagu, a security analyst from the Cleen Foundation, which monitors Nigeria's justice system.

"People never thought that anybody here would do that."

The Kano attacks, he added, showed a degree of "coordination that you would not just pick up without very specialised training".

Abubakar Tsav, a former Nigerian police commissioner, said: "They [Boko Haram] clearly have some connections with outsiders."

Once, Boko Haram would steer clear of the security forces and strike largely undefended targets. Today, its fighters frequently outclass and outgun their opponents. "Their weapons and tactics are clearly superior to those used by the Nigerian police," said Yahaya Ibrahim Shinko, a retired Nigerian army officer and security analyst.

If AQIM has passed on training and expertise, it may also transmit al-Qaeda's world view and its international targets. Britain, which is home to an estimated 150,000 Nigerians, could be vulnerable.

So far Boko Haram's agenda has been entirely domestic and there is no evidence the leadership aims to strike outside the country.

Mr Nwagu said: "Boko Haram is very inviting for whatever influences there might be out there."


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/al-qaeda/9062825/Al-Qaedas-hand-in-Boko-Harams-deadly-Nigerian-attacks.html

Probably Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)

The user smallgod appears to be a spambot and it is currently spamming the politics section.

Day Area Boys became ‘graduates’





July 7, 2009 | 8:36 pm

Metro

By Olasunkanmi Akoni & Monsur Olowopejo

For  45 miscreants popularly called “Area Boysâ€, June 25, 2009 was a day they became ‘re-branded’ with a new lease of life.

They can now boast of becoming graduates and several days after they are still basking in the euphoria of having at last  shed their unenviable status as notorious rough-necks that many love to hate.

Their change of status came courtesy of their graduation from the Rehabilitation and Skill Acquisition Centre in Tekunle, Lekki area of Lagos State where they were privileged to acquire various skills and vocations.

They were the third batch of trainees to graduate from the Centre, bringing the total number of graduates of the centre since inception in November 2005 to 120.

The breakdown of the graduands show that four graduated in carpentry, seven in electrical installations, seven in vulcanizing, five in tailoring, seven in shoe making, four in cane and fibre, four in barbing and six in agricultural practices.


Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon Adeyemi Ikuforiji in his address at the event organised by  the  state Ministry of Youth, Sports and Social Development, explained that the programme was aimed at making social miscreants  better persons who would be useful to themselves in particular and the nation at large.

His words: “Today marks another milestone in the state government’s effort in addressing the challenge of the disappointed human capital minds as envisioned by the dysfunctional activities of social miscreants otherwise known as Area Boys on our major streets.

“I am happy to note that report from the after care service of our rehabilitation through the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Social Development have been encouraging as many of the past graduands are now settled and integrated back to the society.â€

According to Ikuforiji, in addition to giving adequate training to the graduands, the state government has concluded arrangement to empower them by giving relevant equipment and seed capital which would assist them in settling down in earnest after graduation.

“These gestures are designed at practically giving them a good resettlement programme intended to make them less dependent on their parents, self-sustainable and in the expectation that they will be able to contribute their quota to the development of the state and the country,†he said.

While appealing to the parents to keep the milk of kindness demonstrated effortlessly in the past in remolding the beneficiaries, Ikuforiji assured that the Centre will continue to exist to produce worthy ambassadors.

The Speaker, therefore, urged corporate bodies, philanthropist, NGO’s, private sector and other well-meaning Nigerians to generously support the state government in rehabilitating challenged youths.

Commissioner for Youth, Sports and Social Development, Prince Ademola Adeniji Adele said: “This occasion has once again demonstrated the genuine determination of the state government to absorb people with deviant behaviour, turn them around and empower them to be useful to themselves and the society at largeâ€.

The duration of the training proper is a minimum of nine months and maximum of one year.

However, some spent more than a year due to the fact that they have no where to go. Officers at the centre help in home tracing  for such so that they can be connected with their relatives.

The first prize winner of the training went to Mr Austine Agana, who learned vulcanising; the second prize was  won by Mr. Seun Kalejaiye, while the third prize went to Donald Uzor.

Speaking to Vanguard Metro after their graduation, some of the former area boys expressed happiness at all that they learnt in the course of the training, just as they praised the Lagos State government for giving them another opportunity in life to become responsible members of the society.

According to Abiodun Adelani: “The training is very good and it is a life changing arena because I do not believe that my character can change from bad to goodâ€, adding that he was into video coverage of events before he became a drug addict and was hooked to marijuana also known as Indian Hemp.

‘I thank the Lagos State government for setting up the rehabilitation centre but I will like them to please upgrade the facilities at the centre and also establish factories and workshops thereâ€.

Ismail Pareira, another graduating training spoke more or less in the same vein.  “I feel happy today that I have changed from my bad character and I am now a new born person.

Also, I’m happy that the Lagos State government will empower me with the equipment that will make me become a professional in the my chosen fieldâ€.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/day-area-boys-became-‘graduates’/

I can't remember very well, but I think 2nd Republic politicians (Jakande, etc) were detained here when Buhari took over.

Print version ‘Area Boys’ Burn Rehabilitation Centre
February 17, 2010 17:16, 105 views

By Kazeem Ugbodaga

The multi-million naira Lagos State Rehabilitation and Skills Acquisition Centre, Tekunle, Lagos State has been burnt by area boys taken to the centre for rehabilitation.

The centre was built by former Governor Bola Tinubu about six years ago to rehabilitate area boys and drug addicts arrested on the streets of Lagos.

Tekunle is an Island at a remote area of Lekki and has often been described as a ‘place of no return’ because of its inaccessibility.

Area boys taken to the Island, after sometime adjust to the environment and learn useful skills such as tailoring, carpentry, vulcanizing, among others for a period of nine months after which they are sent back into the society to live meaningful lives.

However, P.M.NEWS gathered that scores of area boys sent for rehabilitation went on the rampage recently and razed the centre.

Equipment bought with millions of naira and the buildings in the centre were burnt by the area boys, bringing to an end the rehabilitation programme of the Lagos State Government for social miscreants.

It could not be ascertain why the area boys went on the rampage.

P.M.NEWS gathered, however, that the trainees revolted when they were being flogged for refusing to carry out certain instruction.

Officers of the Lagos State Taskforce on Environment and Special Offences unit, it was further learnt, saved the day as they stormed the centre and arrested scores of the area boys who carried out the act.

Chairman of the Task Force, Bayo Sulaiman, when contacted told P.M.NEWS that those arrested had been charged to the Tapa Customary Court, Lagos Island for arson.

He disclosed that the suspects were currently being remanded at the Ikoyi Prisons, adding that the state’s Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Supo Sasore, was handling the case for the government.

When asked to give details on how the area boys burnt the centre, he declined, saying that our reporter should go to the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Social Development to get such information.

When contacted, the Permanent Secretary, Mr. Kamal Junaid said: “I don’t know anything about it; you can contact the Public Relations Officer or the Special Adviser to the Governor on Youth, Sports and Social Development.”

Special Adviser to the Governor on Youth, Sports and Social Development, Dr. Dolapo Badru, could not be reached.

One of his aides who picked the call said his boss was in a meeting and that we should call later.

Since the inception of the centre, about four sets of area boys had been rehabilitated and empowered to live meaningful lives in the society.

Some of them had told stories of their wretched past and how their lives changed when they were rehabilitated at the training centre.

With the burning of the centre, it appears the laudable plan of the state government to rehabilitate the notorious area boys has been dealt a mortal blow.

I actually read it on hard copy newspapers & heard it on the radio (the commissioner threatened to prosecute those responsible), but trust good old nairaland. It was discussed here and a link provided. Pls ignore the bigotry.


https://www.nairaland.com/400138/area-boys-lagos-ibadan-action

This is Segun Odegbami's article I read almost a month ago. The supersports link is also below it.


RASHIDI YEKINI IS BACK!!!

You better believe it – Rashidi Yekini is back!

I doubt if there is any African with any interest in African football that will not be familiar with that name. He is that footballer that scored Nigeria’s first ever World Cup goal and tore at the net behind the Bulgarian goalkeeper in a scream that reverberated around the world.
Only Lauren Pokou before him (with 14 goals) and Samuel Eto (with 15 goals) after him, have scored more goals than him (with 12 goals) at the African Cup of Nations. So good was Rashidi Yekini that he became the first Nigerian to be awarded CAF’s African Player of the Year in 1994.

With such an awesome reputation in football it is not understood why since he retired from the game almost 10 years ago, very little has been heard about him or seen of him. Interestingly, it is entirely his choice that he remained as he had been, shunning all social events, never granting interviews, and avoiding any interactions that could bring him in contact with the public outside the football field.

Many major media houses around the world had, at one time or the other, sought to work with him, or document him, or even just showcase him. Many business organisations would do anything to get him to be their face. He was, perhaps, Africa’s most sought-after football figure until time took its toll and he started to recede in the minds of the public, to be replaced by newer but not bigger stars. All Rashidi needed to do was cough loudly and the football media would come scrambling to cover it. He never did! This has created a mystique around him, plus all manner of speculation about his life, his state of mind and his activities in recent years, some of which have been worrisome enough for even respected Nigerian journalist and Sunday Tribune columnist, Uncle Fabio Lanipekun, to raise a public alarm some time ago. Yet, the mystery deepened with Rashidi choosing to maintain a stoic silence and to continue to live his life in the quietude of his own narrow interest.

To say that he is an enigma is an understatement. Only a handful of people have access to him, so only fewer still can penetrate his cocooned existence. For those of us that knew him from the very beginning none of this sounds or looks too strange. Outside of the football field he had always been that way – elusive, reclusive, timid and innocent! For some reason he respected and trusted me to the extent that we maintained a relationship of occasional communication through the years. We also did one or two things together like his return to club football at Gateway Football Club several years after his official retirement from football. Only I could have convinced him to make such a ‘come back’ and he did without hesitation or even negotiation. Part of his wages remain in the treasury of the Ogun State government till this day waiting for when he would come, ask for it and collect it. It may remain there forever. That is Rashidi. He sees the world only through his own unusual prism.

The impact of his return to domestic football was never exploited by those at the helm of Nigerian football to illuminate the path to tread in developing followership of the league and a return to the culture of weekend football as a family recreational pastime. Rashidi Yekini’s presence in the league, in that one season that he played (2006) packed stadia across the country everywhere it was reported he was going to play.

Rashidi and I relate well because we have some things in common that have cemented our relationship through the years.
He joined me in Shooting Stars FC of Ibadan in what was to become the last season of my football career. He was very comfortable with me because we both spoke the Hausa language (which was his first language having been born and bred in Northern Nigeria like me). Like me he started his football in the north and was influenced by it. Like me he played and not necessarily for the money but for his deep love for the game. Rashidi’s life was totally and completely wrapped around a foot ball. He was in his full element and expressiveness only on the field of play with a ball at his feet. All he wanted was to do was play all day long. He did not understand player-politics. He just loved football too much. The training ground was his world. On it he came alive and shone like the mid-day sun. Outside it he almost did not exist. He would retreat into his own world, a narrow impregnable world shut to all except the two friends he had (Akinsola and Aina) who had come to Shooting Stars FC with him from his Kaduna Club. He was never comfortable with the Ibadan people, the media or even supporters. Very few people knew him, understood him or could even penetrate his social shield. Thats why his family life and his business are completely shielded by him and unknown by all but one or two people.

Rashidi came to Ibadan very humble. He was coming to join a start-studded team that he could only compliment, not dominate, which was what he was doing in the little-known UNTL FC team he was coming from. In Kaduna even as a young 22 year old, he was worshipped. In Ibadan he needed to join a long queue of mega-stars including Best Ogedegbe, Mudashiru Lawal, Tunde Bamidele, Felix Owolabi, Wakilu Oyenuga, Olumide Banjo, (all national team players) and so on.

So, in coming down south to Ibadan his greatest challenge would have been me and I am not sure he knew it too, because I was his hero and he was only too delighted to be playing side by side with me in the same team. Any striker, any goalscorer coming to join Shooting Stars FC or even the national team at that time in the early 1980s would have to contend with the humble records I had set in the space of 8 years for both club and country. Rashidi walked straight into that challenge and in a few short years had surpassed them all. In the innocence of his heart and mine at the time we met neither competition nor rivalry existed in our relationship. I was a friend willing to help his game, to show him a few tricks, to supply him the crosses and passes he fed on in front of goal and to make him a master on the field – confident, focussed, comfortable and deadly. I became his unofficial, on-the-field tag-team partner in the destruction of opposing teams.
Rashidi Yekini and I, in 1984, during the African Club championship campaign, became goalscoring machines. We were unstoppable until a knee injury crippled me during the first leg semi-final match against Sekode of Togo and blunted the Shooting Stars attack. The team never recovered from my injury and Rashidi also lost that essential edge. We eventually lost in the final match to the great Zamalek of Egypt in what was to be my worst and last match for club and country. He never quite understood it himself at the time but Rashidi soon regained his cutting edge again and the rest of his career almost turned out to be that of chasing the records in Nigerian football that I had set.

Before his emergence on the scene, I had held most of the major Nigerian and African domestic records – winner of FA Cup and National league trophies, highest goalscorer in the national league for two seasons, highest goalscorer in the African Cup of Nations (6 goals in two competitions), highest goalscorer for the national team in the history of Nigerian football, first winner of a continental club competition (the Africa Cup – winners Cup), and the only Nigerian football player to have come closest to be named (there was no voting at the time) Africa’s Player of the Year (third in 1977 and second in 1980). It took 10 years to achieve it but Rashidi Yekini did well, re-wrote every single football record in the country, and did even much more – he had a very successful professional career abroad and played at two World Cup finals! For a part of his illustrious career I was there with him, a silent guide.

When I became the Team Manager of the Super Eagles (the country has not had any since then) to the 1994 African Cup of Nations and USA ’94 World Cup, I worked very closely with him guiding him through the minefield of the power-play and player-rivalry that eventually almost destroyed that great team. So, Rashidi trusted me. That relationship has sustained till now. Thats why where all others have failed to get him to open up about his life I may have done slightly better.

So, some four weeks ago, for the first time since 2006, we arranged to meet and have a conversation again. We did in Ibadan, just the two of us in the seclusion of Onireke Guest House, far from the madding crowd and away, for the first time, from the football field! What a refreshing and reassuring experience that was.

Without going into the details of our conversation (I leave that for another day) I want to say that Rashidi Yekini is likely to be back to football very soon doing what he knows best. At almost 40 you will not find him in the colours of any football club, no! But the people will have the opportunity to watch the master at play again on the field re-enacting his magical football skills amongst the youths that need to learn the art of controlling the ball in flight, shielding the ball, racing with the ball, lurking behind defences, bending the ball or shooting with both feet, and entertaining audiences all over Africa. Those were the things Rashidi Yekini did as a player. They are the same things he is going to start to do as football’s ambassador once again. Africa, watch out for this new chapter in the life of the one known as ‘Gangling’!

http://mathematical7.com/the-return-of-rashidi-yekini-the-goal-scoring-machine/


http://mobi.supersport.com/football/blogs/segun-odegbami/The_Return_of_Rashidi_Yekini