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Historians were shock to know that barely after 5 year of civil war and genocide against Igbo they started showing signs of economic survival. They are just resilient, with Awolowo's £2 policy they had to own best properties in Nigeria few years after.

Historians were shock to know that barely after 5 year of civil war and genocide against Igbo they started showing signs of economic survival.

Enugu is LION BUILDING not house
Bayelsa is CREEK HAVEN not house

Both is understandable Enugu govt. House has a relation to UNN mascot which is a lion, the seat of govt of old Easter region, the capital of defunct country of Biafra- which was declared in Princes Alexandra Auditorium UNN. Igbos see lion as a symbol of might, royalty and rulership.

Bayelsa govt house has the beautiful scenery of Yenagoa Creeks at its back yard.
Thanks

Did he get for his wife, mother, children and ministers?
Nonsense junk journalism.

What is wrong with this FG. Every time they keep on deceiving Nigerians with future tens and "future continuous tens". FG will, FG is planning to, FG shall, etc.
Let us know when the project is completed! If it is corruption they will be fast to complete the deal.
$ 9.3m seized in SA is enough to build this stuff. Isn't it?

Good news!!!
But why must the APC escape? Escape to were? From which route? Road or bush or river?
The hours this operation lasted is enough for one of NAF jet fighters to fly in for an aerial support and trace down the APC to their base since BH is withdrawing possible bomb it completely.
High caliber vehicle and ammunition is not good to be in the hands of enemy!

Congrats NA though una get saboteurs ooo, they don already tell this sharia reporters the detail of the intelligence and operation. Nawaooo!

Who gave that soldier in the middle a "permit to work" how can you be in a such deadly fontline without a bullet proof vest?
NA & FG is not sincere, you mean this toy is the morale behind the age long devastation of NE by BH. You mean all these amoured tanks and SUV convoy of Shekau can't be picked on air by surveillance jets and helicopter gunships of NAF.
Somebody does not actually want to end BH to gain what? I don't know

Add this to the deployment of 12 mi35M Russian made NAF helico.pter "monsters" , mine resistant anti aircraft "demons" and the morale of our troops; BH is a thing of history. My fear is Borno may be left in ruins.
@GEJ: after using this on BH, prepare to use it on the second enemy of Nigeria and their accomplices - APC, come 2015. Then you sit put in Aso Rock and continue with your transformation agenda.
Who said Nija is not a Military power house in Africa, save only sabotage! We have the money to purchase any hardware, we have the troops, we have the influence in UN to back our deeds.
Long live NA!!!

The local production of rice, car brands and those fish(es) has increased dramatically over this period. There is an astronomical increase in rice production in Nigeria; Ada rice, Abakaliki rice, lafia rice etc. Not only rice, Nigeria has done well in

Agriculture; the price of beans has remained the same from the begging of harvest season of last year to ending of planting season of this year in Giwa market hovering over N500 difference per bag with excess of many tones on stores causing acrimony to hoarders. #Enugu planning to export pineapple was in news the other day. Cassava (garri), yam and plantain has been fairly stable over the year.

There was a boom in fish production; with restaurants, hotels, bear joints and eateries operating their own fish ponds beside. New slogan "PIONT AND KILL" became a new other in the market. Live fishes are sold in the markets of hinterlands of SE, MB & SW as fresh fish pepper soup became a new other in our homes and eateries. Virtually every fourth home in SS has a fish pond in the back yard mostly cat fish- and the business is lucrative.

In car policy; I will not speak much, I visited a friend in Nigerian Local Content in Bayelsa and found out that all their official cars is INNOSION SUVs. Many assembling plant has been proping up lately with very cheap and standard cars.

Mean while the issue of smuggling is not peculiar to any country but FG should tighteen our boards. Re deploy corrupt boarder officials.

Don't you think the President will win in APC states like:
Imo - 80%
Lagos- 60%
Nassarawa- 60%
Edo- 70%
Rivers- 60%
Etc

Greatest Lions!!!
What are the steps to take,
Which site can one access the iTranscript.

Ok

Though he was not fair to APC and "old North" his long epistle was a delight to ready, I wish I could write better.

The problem in the health sector is not that doctors want a better package, NO!
The went on strike to protest the new package FG has for other health workers under the body JOHESU.
Have u read their demands? Hazard allowance is among the last. That other health workers should not be allowed to reach the post of director, should not be appointed as consultants, Minister of health, should not contest for CMD or CMAC , should not skip grade level 11 etc.
Selfish isn't it?
Now that ebola has killed a doctor, it killed the nurse too. What of a physiotherapist that has full body contact with all his patients, what of the Med. Lab Scientist that collect and process the blood, urine, shit, semen and other body fluids aren't there own Hazard allowance suppose to be more?

So classic gals existed those days

I think this news is sponsored by the VC Prof. Batho Okolo.
He is the tyrant, he is a monster, he is dubious and corrupt to toes, he is a crony of Nison Wike.
Before the appoint of Prof. Enejere, students had stage a riot against him, the highest protest in the history of UNN, his residence was razed, his fleet of convoy touched and other important places in UNN & Nsukka town, Benue-Enugu express way was blocked for hours. He was recommended for sack saved by some politicians from Enugu. He returned and banned SUG, expelled some ring leaders, increased acceptance fee from 6K to 25k deleted sch fee receipt from internet.
Last year student of Enugu campus force through heavily armed soldiers at the sch gate blocking their way to NTA to protest another increase of fees, yearly ICT/Afri hub fee of 5k, internet cloud 12K, virtual library ?K.
This year the host community, lecturers and some students have staged about 4 protest to remove him rather Nisom Wike suspended the Pro chancellor, for exposes him. The allegation is that VC exhibits high handedness and corruption in the school, no budget for running of the school, punitive transfer and suspension of staff, incessant increase in school fees, non payment of allowances, sale of admission bw 500K to 1M for health courses etc, siphoning UNN allocation to contest for Senate in 2015.
BATHO MUST GO!!!
##singing with placard##

The administration is just 2 yrs and 8 months agreed, but let him (GEJ) desist from APC propaganda and distraction so that all this projects awarded and others said to be at stages of completion can be completed soonest with picture backing up the claims.
I am in Zaria, those roads they mentioned are real. The problem with the NW is that some govs has refused to perform, since they are muslims no body care about them the pressure is on FG always, even as the current presido is an "unbeliver".
God bless GEJ for his good intentions.

@ d bard: Just mention any Physiotherapy department you know in Nigeria that do not run clinic daily and you win the argument.
Clinics physicians run is to ask for new complaints if not: the drugs is repeated in the folder and prescription sheet U go and buy!
For surgeons they operate at least once a week rarely do you see any team operating twice per week in any tertiary hospital else they are on call.
Physios do not run shift ask any body. Nurses job is more stressful of them all: your time can not even Nurse your sister not to talk of chronic debilitating ill strangers.

@ Kachi: yes the president has a personal doctor, just as he has a personal physiotherapist.

@ Citizenisb: Hmmm "slaves" indeed.

@ Doc Sholz: Eyaaah! Poor NMA, they have the interest of Nigerians at heart, but NRD just came back from strike nah.
After JOHESU meeting on Monday their MOU with FG go get K-leg.

@Dr OBD: you may research to find that the developed nations segregate and pay their health worker in terms of hours spent on patients irrespective of your professional alignment in the sector.
They are surgeons, nurses, physiotherapists, dentists etc not physicians.
Consultant physicians in Nigerian comes to work at average of 2days per week, do 3 for 4hrs ward round or clinic and go to their private clinic, telling residents to call whenever any thing serious comes up.
A DPT spends average of 1 to 2hrs to see a single patient.

SURGEON GENERAL? PRESIDENT JONATHAN; DO THE NEEDFUL OR TENDER YOUR RESIGNATION LETTER ASAP
Fejiro Oliver


Constant attention by a good Nurse may just be as important as a major operation by a surgeon
_Dag Hammarskjold


President Jonathan is surely a man that loves courting controversy; searching for troubles where there is none and at the end gets his fingers burnt and finally he blames his political opponents, Social Media critics and online Journalists for his woes. The regrettable thing is that haven wooed the entire problem; he gets entangled in a web of quagmire which ropes him and throws him off balance. What manner of New Year gift is this to Nigerians? Such is the type of President many of us will be regretting for standing under the scorching sun to cast our precious votes.


For the record, I am neither a media consultant to JOHESU nor any health union, neither have I defended them beyond the basic facts of the issues arising out of the current brouhaha in the health sector. I have also had cause to defend many physicians within the scope of their job and will always do. So let it be!
The crisis in the health sector is still boiling and yet our President who doesn’t give a damn has concluded plans to create an irrelevant office called ‘Surgeon General’ for Nigeria and Nigerians. This certainly is no good plan as many will think; certainly not. This is another office meant to siphon public funds by the Presidency and his band of looters. I have spent three good days consulting all over the world on who an SG is and no one has given a good reason why Nigeria should have such bogus position. Not even the majority of the physicians see any need for such apart from the elites who will fight over it.
Going through the comments in various newspapers that have their presence online; it is evident that Nigerians do not want such a position. More criminal is the clause that it is the exclusive preserve of Medical Doctors. This is where whoever constructed the bill got it wrong. This is where we know that our President must have his PhD queried if he does not know that the SG is an all inclusive position for all medical staffs that are clinically inclined. Here we go.
The SG is a position created exclusively for the military in 1798 when the US Congress established the US Marine Hospital Service. Originally, the corps was composed only of physicians. As medicine became complicated with the realization that most of the injured war victims do not always need surgery but Physiotherapy, Nurses attention or only taking of drugs provided by the pharmacists, the position of the SG was made open to any of the officers in the Medical Command (MEDCOM) who must be a lieutenant General. Thus on December 7th 2011, Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho. RN was sworn in as the first woman and first NURSE to officially be in command of the Army’s largest medical organization. That day proved to the world that the appointment was no longer based on medical first degree but most qualified among all the health workers. 

At the ceremony, Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, chief of staff of the Army, said the impact of the Army surgeon general goes well beyond the Army to the “national and international level.”
“This position requires a special officer that can lead change and achieve unity of effort in the dynamic, joint interagency and also in a multinational role working with our allies and partners around the world,” he said.
Horoho previously served simultaneously as the U.S. Army deputy surgeon general and 23rd chief of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps.
She earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master of Science in Nursing as a clinical trauma specialist from the University of Pittsburgh. She is a resident graduate of the Army’s Command and General Staff College and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, where she earned a second Master of Science degree in National Resource Strategy.


Another Nurse who served as the SG was Gale Pollock after the then Army SG, General Kevin kIley resigned due to the controversial Walter Reed Army Medical Centre Scandal in 2007
A policy change in 1996 made it possible for someone other than a physician to serve as the Army surgeon general, according to the Army Medical Command. The policy reads that “the surgeon general may be appointed from officers in any corps of the Army Medical Department and, while so serving, has the grade of lieutenant general.” The President should automatically get this policy change as soon as possible.
Mr President, it is the words of General Raymond that I bring to you today. He never said the position required a special medical doctor or a special surgeon but a “special officer”. To further prove this point, a Pharmacist is the current Deputy Surgeon General by name, Rear Admiral Scott F. Gibberson, and should the current SG resigns or exit under any circumstance; Gibberson, a Pharmacist will take over the hallowed position. The system we wish to copy must be copied completely with the position made open to all medical workers.


The arrogance of a profession who swims in delusion of self importance should not becloud the generality of Nigerians who have seen far than they do. Taking a look at the bill sent to the Senate smacks of selfishness with roles that has already render the position of the Health Minister useless. 
“He/She shall articulate scientifically based health policy analysis, and advise the President, National Assembly, and the Minister of Health on the full range of critical Public health, medical and health system issues facing the Nation.
 He/She shall elevate the quality of health practice in the professional disciplines through the advancement of appropriate standards and research priorities.
He/She shall provide leadership and management oversight in National emergency preparedness and response i. e coordinate health and medical services delivery during national disasters.
He/She shall fulfill statutory and customary functions on a wide variety of Federal Boards and Government bodies as required by appropriate representation.
He/She shall promote health and healthy life styles by adherence to norms and standards, this he shall do by providing guidelines on health matters that affect the citizenry”

“The Surgeon-General of Nigeria (SGN) shall appoint numbers of persons as Director or heads of various departments provided the appointment shall reflect the Federal Character of Nigeria” they say. Whose money will they waste for the SG to appoint his cronies as SA, PA, SSA, etc? An intern medical doctor recieves N180, thousand per month which a level 14 officer in most Federal civil service don't get. As a junior resident, his take home pay is N273 thousand which is the salary of some directors in Federal civil service; and as a senior resident officer, his pay packet is N350 thousand monthly and a consultant takes home N800,000 thousand monthly while some gets as much as N1.6 million, which is an annual pay of many senior Federal civil servants, yet someone comes to drum into our ears that it is not true. If these people collects this outrageous sum in a country where we don't pay tax on the things we spend like our counter parts abroad; how much will the SG collects monthly? N5 million or more monthly apart from the other loots that will be budgeted to run the office.
What other work does the Minister of health do other than the above listed for the proposed SGF? Whoever thought up this idea ought to be behind bar. To think that the SG will serve for tenure of six years when the President who appoints him stays for four years is certainly the works of men who wants to use the office to feather their next. Is the SG our problem in the health sector? A million of them cannot stop any Nigeria from going to seek medical treatment abroad. If I wish to go to Germany for treatment; it is my hard earned money and no SG can block the airport to stop me or any Nigerian from entering the next available plane to go to Germany. Why deceive ourselves that the SG can decide who goes abroad for medical treatment? No profession must be allowed the misadventure to ride on another like they are princes; just as no occupation should have her ego massaged for peace to reign. This attitude of masturbating the ego of all medical workers especially NMA must stop. If the SG must be created; then the sperm of justice must run through the embryo of all the clinical workers and not a selected few.
Can we stop this deception of creating this position that will further ground the health sector and focus on solving the ones on ground? The governor of Taraba State, Danbaba Suntai does not need surgery to come back on his feet today but physiotherapy. Do we then create the office of the Physiotherapy General? Do we need to remind ourselves that Obasanjo closeness to Senator Andy Uba is because he was rehabilitated by the latter who is a doctor of physiotherapy? Did he ask the then President to create a special post for his colleagues? Any attempt by Mr President to create this post will bring anarchy not just to the health sector but Nigeria as a whole. He should get ready to create the office of the tutor general, Reporter General, Engineer general, bricklayer general, Suya Man general, Banker General, Driver general, Pharmacist general, and even corruption general which will be headed by Stella Oduah, Alison Madueke or Goddey Orubebe. It is as serious as that. The President should focus on building of quality hospitals that will make our leaders get treated at home. It is a lie from the pit of abyss to tell Nigerians that medical tourism is due to the non availability of a Surgeon General. For crying out loud; only five countries arguably have the office of Surgeon General and we do not have to follow suit. Enough of this copy cat culture in us, when we have not finished copying how to practice the true democracy. It’s another sub-standard lie for NMA to Nigerians that Nigeria best brains in Medicine and Surgery are abroad. Oh my God, it means we all have been treated by quacks that are left in this country all these years. We are simply finished!
All other medical workers especially the Nurses and Physiotherapists are the worst hit as we have them practicing abroad more than the physician. There is brain drain in every sector and it is entirely not the fault of Nigeria, but personal decisions. Do we bring all the health workers registered in their various boards to confirm this claim?
We certainly do not have money to waste on this borrowed post that is coming to duplicate the minister of health. Come to think of it, which of our medical worker in the Armed Forces is up to the rank of a Lieutenant General? If we must copy anything America, we must also copy their prudent way of spending and it has to begin from the budget. Any attempt to gag the president into creating this monster position without following the Americans whom we are borrowing it from will certainly prove to the world his weakness, and a weak man cannot govern a country like Nigeria. This is worse than the current challenge of the All Progressive Congress (APC), as it will indirectly affects the masses. What are we even saying? The bill has been brought to the Senate and House of Representatives and they in their wisdom have thrown it out. It went before the Justice Abdullahi Gusau Committee on Harmony in the Health Sector and was utterly rejected. This bill will certainly not see the day without the assent of the lawmakers, and if in whatever form it succeeds; Mr President should please tender his resignation letter should the health sector goes on strike. We do not live in an animal farm despite the President being a graduate of how to take care of animals.
It is still a rumor for now and President Jonathan can still warm his way back by dousing it and reassuring us that it will never come to pass; at least not in his regime and never should it be. Do the needful. Happy New Year pals.
These little things matter…
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@ Silent_don:
easier said than done. You can't refute the fact that the health sector can not function without JOHESU.
How many private hospital can handle the conditions seen in tertiary hospitals.

@ TEAM_GEJ "The physiotherapists can all go and leak their deep wounds.."

...You did not read the post to the end. The physiotherapists, Lab. Scientists, Nurses, Pharmacists, Radiographer and other health workers are against the move... Meeting will be held on Monday at Pharmacist's house in Lagos.
The court, law makers, and various govt committees has earlier thrown out the idea of SGF because it lacks relevance in Nigerian system of health practice.
Doctor always looking for a way to LORD themselves over others but unfortunately the hospital cannot operate even for a day without this people (JOHESU).
GEJ should be careful not to shoot himself on the foot inquest for his 2015 ambitions. If he agrees to demands of every union, that means the FG will lack focus prior to 2015.

From NSP President:

Controversy trailing the recent news on President Goodluck Jonathan has jolted the Nigeria Society of Physiotherapists (NSP) into warning the government not to heat the already burning fire in the health sector.

In a press release made available to us and signed by the National President, Dr. Taiwo Oyewunmi, the society condemned the action of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) who they accuse of going through the backdoor to get such office created.

"We condemn in totality the move to accede to NMA demands by the Federal Government on the appointment of Surgeon-General and other related matters. We will fight government to a standstill and collaborate with other professional associations in the health sector. The NSP Secretariat will publish a usable information tool kit for NSP members on this matter. The NMA is trying to go through back door and manipulate government to approve what they cannot intelligently negotiate for on a round table”

He likened the current action of the President to the era when he named the University of Lagos (UNILAG) after Moshood Abiola using executive fiat without recourse to the Senate and House of Representatives. They promised a total show down of the health sector like never before should this creation take place. 

“The push has come to shove. Be on look out for a show down. It is unfortunate that the Presidency made such pronouncement without adequate consultations. This issue is similar to how President Goodluck Jonathan renamed University of Lagos without consideration for due process". The statement read.

Speaking with Dr Taiwo on phone, he expressed his unwillingness to call out members to go on strike as the patients are always the ones who suffer. “Fejiro, I hate to go on strike. It is not good as the patients are always the one who suffer, but it seems that is the only language the government understands. Nobody among us is the leader of the health team and thus the SGF is unnecessary. The patient is the leader and without them; none of us will be in the health sector”, he said.

Meanwhile the residency programme of the Doctors of Physiotherapy which was billed to kick off this year we gathered is deliberately being delayed by the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu. A highly placed source told us that he has refused to grant them audience, to enable them submit the model of the residency plan as demanded by the Ministry of Health despite writing over fifteen letters to him.

This we gathered is not unconnected with the crisis in the health sector, which he feels is fueled by JOHESU which physiotherapists belong. The residency programme is done all over the world by Doctors of Physiotherapists, thus making them specialists in a particular field of medical rehabilitation. A look at the board of the graduates reveals that less than a thousand of them are practicing in the country, which makes one DPT to see over one hundred thousand patient.
Source: Elombah.com


PART 2

From AMLSN President:

Dear Colleagues: I bring you new year greetings and wishes for momentous victories in the days and months ahead. It is indeed instructive that three days into 2014 we have been served the notice of battles ahead. 
We will not surrender our inalienable right to liberty, fairness, equity and justice under whatever circumstance. No one will be allowed to ride on us roughshod in the health sector, neither the elected President of Nigeria nor any member of the healthcare team to which we all belong will be allowed the luxury of misadventure to perpertuate tyranny, servitude and unwholesome dominion in the sector any longer.
 
The Surgeon-General bill was presented in the sixth National Assembly and was rejected and thrown out, because it was found out that it would exacerbate the accrimonious and chaotic situation in the health sector. It went before the Justice Abdullahi Gusau Committee on Harmony in the Health Sector and was rejected. How can it now come through Presidential fiat in a civilan democratic dispensation? This is the greatest joke and fraud of the century in Nigeria. It must not stand. We will teach them one or two lessions on how not to take a people for granted.
 
Court judgments have been treated with levity by the FMOH. Statutory Schemes of Service for other health professions have been trampled under feet by the FMOH, CMDs and MDs. Promotions of our members have been withheld for decades. Professional regulatory laws and Service circulars have been trampled under foot by the FMOH and her agents in hospitals. The rule of the thumb has replaced the rule of law and due process in the health sector. They claim to be wiser than the law courts, the legislature and the National Council on Establishment. They insist that their wishes and fancies must be elevated to the status of laws and schemes of sevice in the health sector. 
 
Haaba!!! Must this be allowed to continue
 
The Assembly of Healthcare Professional Associations and the JOHESU will meet on Monday to address the nation and chart the course for a sustained struggle to defeat this mindless attempt to enslave us in the 21st Century.
All hands must be on deck to comply totally and comprehensively with the directives that will be issued on Monday. Those that have the cultivated the habit of sitting on the fence and flouting our directives for our collective good should rethink and decide on the legacies they want to bequeat to unborn generations in the health sector of Nigeria.
 
Now is the time to act to break all vestiges of enslavement, injustice and reckless conduct in the health sector. 100 years of nationhood should herald professional liberty, a sense of belonging, fulfillment and actualization in the health sector in Nigeria. We must stand up to resist this flagrant assault to the very soul of our professional existence.
Thank you.
Dr. G. C. Okara
National President, AMLSN
Chairman, Assembly of Health Professional Associations (AHPA) Abuja.

Source: Medical world Nigeria

The more I read all this public letters the more I get exposed on what the entity Nigeria means.
My opinion: we can do better with pure federalism.
For OBJ, surely 2015 will be the end of your political relevance in Nigeria: APC will reject you, PDP will also reject you.
You will not survive this imminent change in the polity
##my prophesy##

ASUU:
After denting the image of this administration as sponsored by APC and Northern politicians,
After staying at home 5 months doing nothing,
After wasting 5 months of your students live and destiny,
After sacrificing the lives of some of your members,
YOU ARE NOW GLAD with SALARY ARREARS

Shame!!!
Is this what U told us Ur fighting for why contempted so soon!

I am a GEJ fan I love his style of leadership. Sublime, sober and sagacious!

I give him 60%: I need not tell you that Nija is the most difficult nation to rule in the world. Very diverse, naturally corrupt and alarmingly tribal, religiously divided.

Some people prayers and effort since inception of this administration is God/Allah let this man never succeed else we will be put to shame.

A country where bad news is celebrated. Such much effort geared towards negativity by her citizens. Haba Nigerians haha da Allah!

With out bias, GEJ has done well at present.
Not minding that some of his efforts are yet to start yielding full fruits, honestly the decay in Nigeria state needs time, consistency and sustenance to fix.
A diverse country with about 170 M people in urgent need for food, roads, railway, sea ports, airports, jobs, power, bridges etc after a neglect of about 30yrs.
No one can do better than GEJ has done amidst these ugly cabals.
The seeds of development is being planted we shall keep harvesting till 2019.
God bless GEJ

7/10 highly technical, yet assertive!

It will be hypocrite of me to pass this post with out testifying the truthfulness of GEJ's administration. Thank you GEJ, not abt hear say, I have seeing things for myself.