China should be held responsible for throwing the whole world in turmoil.

They lied and punished the doctors who raised the alarm at the very beginning of the virus spread.

Authorities in China suppressed information and hide data while the virus spreads around the world. They declined multiple offers for assistance from advanced countries at the early stage of the virus, only to come out shamefully later to attempt to blame the US military for the emergence of the virus.

China must come out to offer a public apology to the world.

Chinese authorities must be shown that becoming a global economic power is not an end in itself, it comes with responsibilities that go with utmost transparency, accountability and ethical standards that ensure adequate safeguard of human lives.

This is myopic.

The aftermath of the so-called "tactic" is horrible for China and its economy.

First, the pandemic has exposed the humongous advantage that China enjoys in the critical supply chain, especially in the pharmaceutical industry which will never remain the same after the "war".

Americans and Europeans and others serious nations have seen the serious threat posed by allowing China to dominate the supply of drugs and other health supplies. This is a real threat that won't be allowed to continue. Response to this threat is bound to devastate China's industry.

In the same vein, the importance China to the global economy, vis a vis the capacity for disruption is only being experienced. The rest of the world will do just anything to mitigate the risks to the disadvantage of the China's economy.

If at all the "war" has any favourable outcome for the Chinese as being claimed here, it is only temporary. Efforts will be intensified to significantly reduced the vulnerability of the world's economy to a single country's internal dynamics. Ultimately, the world is going to come up with robust risk diversification systems that will take money away from China.

This is the kind of fairytale that will rapidly energize the minds of we Africans.

But, did these incidents happen?

Did lightning strike Major Summerford?

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/36078/did-lightning-strike-major-summerford-three-times-and-his-gravestone-too

MrEgghead:
you're oblivious about medical field.
professors that take clinical students don't need to have Ph.Ds.
Residency is what they do and they become profs some years after..
Medicine is different from other professions.
Ph.Ds don't have any relevance in clinical medicine... Medicine is practical not theory.

Everybody understands that.

It is not only in the field of medicine. There was a time in Nigeria (not too long ago) when PhD is not a requirement to lecture in Nigerian universities. That was why people like Prof. Yemi Osinbajo and others lectured for years and became professors without having a PhD. Such is very highly unlikely under the current dispensation.

But things have changed. The NUC's regulation now makes PhD a requirement for all lecturers irrespective of their discipline. Perhaps the reason you are just knowing it is because they have limited the enforcement to other disciplines until now.

You should also bear in mind that other professions have their own certifications which lead to fellowships in their fields, and they are not equivalent to a PhD. For instance, a computer expert with a CPC certification or an accountant with an FCA or finance professionals with CFA cannot be said to have an equivalent of a PhD.

However, it should be emphasized that NUC should give medical doctors time to upgrade their academic qualifications if they choose to remain as lecturers.

Kampack:



Medicine & other fields have evolved tremendously over the years through cutting-edge research!

PhD is founded in deep research that adds novelty to existing body of knowledge. One of the reasons the field of medicine isn't really advancing much in Nigeria is due to the paucity of research. Those who lecture medicine only recycle old notes to generations of students. No research, no new knowledge, no publications with ground breaking knowledge. This lack lustre approach can not advance the field of medicine or any field for that matter.

A PhD should be made compulsory! Not only for medics in universities but for ALL lecturers. The residency programme is not equivalent to a PhD. That argument won't fly! A PhD demonstrates rigor and novelty. There's a difference between a dissertation and a thesis. Read residency dissertations and a well-written thesis. The difference is clear! If it were same, medics in advanced countries won't go back for PhD after MD. Pick up most of the medical texts and check the qualifications of the authors. You'll often see MD, PhD. Why won't they make better docs?

They actually conduct research. They do. Most of the UI's researches that give them the ranking edge over other universities in Nigeria are from the UCH. Prof Isaac Adewole alone has hundreds.

That said.

They should be told that all their "residencies", fellowships and professional qualifications are not up to masters degree. Afterall, there are academic programmes in medicine. There are medical doctors with masters and PhDs. Dr. Sunny Kuku of the EKO Hospital has 2 PhD degrees in the field of medicine, and he also did those residencies and fellowships as well.

But since they have allowed them to get away with it for so long, if there's any need for a change, it is only rational that the NUC give them a cutoff date when the current generation is expected to produce the requisite qualifications while the new policy is applied to fresh appointments.

They need time to enrol for masters first then PhD thereafter.

turkeyman:
Fed. Perm. Sec. busted for working with forged documents.

By Our Correspondent Abuja. Posted February 12, 2020.

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offenses Commission [ICPC], has launched discrete investigation into allegations of certificate forgery, falsification of employment records and earning unmerited salaries leveled against a permanent secretary in the Federal Civil Service.

Dependable sources at the ICPC disclosed that the investigation was launched following a highly-worded petition dated February 5, 2020 from a group identified as Concerned Public Servants which alleged that the federal permanent secretary has overstayed in government by making illegal changes in his employment records.

The official, who currently serves in the ministry, has allegedly worked for several years, far beyond the retirement age of public servants, with forged academic documents and falsifying the dates of birth and engagement under the protection of a powerful godfather who allegedly shielded him from prosecution over the years.

Addressed to the Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission [ICPC], Justice Emmanuel Ayoola and signed by Alhaji Umaru Ahmed, a spokesman of the group, the petition alleged that Edet Sunday Akpan started working as a state civil servant.

He allegedly transferred his service to the Federal Government in 1999 after rising to the rank of Commissioner for Finance and Industry in Akwa Ibom State.

Records showed that the official rose in the Federal Civil Service as at 2013 to the rank of director and was later promoted to the rank of Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Solid Minerals despite the clear inconsistencies and missing links in his obviously forged academic credentials.

For example, the civil servant claims to possess a Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in Economics from the University of Calabar, a Masters of Science Honours Degree in Economics from the University of Lagos and an MBA in Finance and Accounting from the University of Ibadan among other qualifications.

However, among the array of documents he tendered periodically for employment and promotions, certificates relating to his graduation in the lower academic cadre especially the primary and secondary school grades were conspicuously missing although he claimed to have attended Qua Iboc Science Secondary School, [Etinan Institute] from 1965 to 1970, College of Education, Nicvel and the University of Lagos Akoka from where he allegedly obtained a Bachelor of Science degree between 1977 and 1980.

There has been series of complaints against the Permanent Secretary over the discrepancies in his academic qualifications, the variations in his date of birth and the date of commencing employment as an employee of the Federal Civil Service Commission from concerned citizens who expressed apprehension that a public servant has been allowed not only to work with fake documents but has allegedly prolonged his stay in office illegally by the corrupt variations of appropriate dates.

Efforts made by our correspondent to contact Edet Sunday Akpan to throw light on the allegations leveled against him were ignored and text messages dispatched to him seeking audience or a public response to the allegations against him were equally thwarted.

Find attached more details;
http://www.filedropper.com/notificationofforgery

https://wetransfer.com/downloads/13753bd854afe49b352f39970a86a22a20200214170716/52b19bc0f07dcf723303bd6ea454dbfe20200214170716/f7df32

The sentence in boldface refers.

The reason for the inclusion of that aspect of the man's records is not clear.

Without prejudice to the claims of the accussers, no one rises to the "rank" of commissioner in any state as in the context. It is not a "rank" one attains based on promotion from the lower cadre.

The post of commissioner in the state government is purely based on politics and it is the prerogative of the governor to appoint any one he feels can be part of his government at the cabinet level (subject to the approval by the state legislators). The civil service rules do not apply to commissioners in the cabinet. They get hired and fired by the governor even on a whim.

The highest "rank" in the Nigerian civil service is the Permanent Secretary.

Muslims' presence along the Railway Belt of the South West can be very misleading when compared with the entire South West population.

What MURIC and his type take for large population is perhaps the congregrants for Friday prayers in Central Mosques in the said Railway Belt. Yet, Celestial Church and C&S parishioners alone - worshipping together in a single spot in those cities - will discount all those numbers.

Again, the sound of call to prayer on loud speakers on the minarets of almost empty Mosques every morning should not be confused for actual humans.

naptu2:


This is basically the issue. It's like the provision that requires "spread" in presidential, governorship and local government elections. It is not enough for a candidate for the presidency to win majority of votes in the election. He must also win 2/3rd of the votes in 2/3rd of the states. This is to ensure that no single region can determine who will be president. A candidate must win in multiple regions before he can be declared the winner.

Similarly, I told people that said that Buhari was going to "Islamise" Nigeria that it was not possible under our current constitution. You would need to get the consent of 2/3rd votes of 2/3rd of the state houses of assembly and that's impossible.

The bold face refers.

The requirement according to section 133(b) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) is one-quarter (25% or 1/4 or one-fourth) of votes in 2/3 states and Abuja.

It is not 2/3rd of votes of 2/3rd states.

Mires:
I took time to read all the comments. I smile and at some point, shake my head given the way Nigerian youths can argue authoritatively while they are wrong and ignorant.

It is important to point out that every country has guiding principles and laws. Same goes with education in various countries. Guidelines are set. And what is applicable in the United States of America for instance, might not be the same in Nigeria. For instance, in the United States of America, a faculty member with PhD can be promoted to a full professor with just two quality publications or patent in high impact journal. They are more interested in contribution to knowledge. In Nigeria, ours is "suffer head". Suffer head in the sense that we don't regard ourselves to be competent. Hence, the system allows one to be promoted to the rank of professor not only after acquiring PhD, but must published as many articles and and be promoted through the ranks (lecturer 2, lecturer 1, Senior lecturer, and reader). Each of these ranks required three years of teaching, community service and required publications
Do you know that some universities in Nigeria more especially the new federal universities promote academics to higher ranks within two years or less?

Let me quickly point out that even in Nigeria, promotion criteria differs across Senate of Universities. It is on this note that one can be a professor in University A for instance, but on applying to University B for a position, he/she will be assessed with University B criteria and might find out that he/she deserves to be in a lower rank like Senior Lecturer not even Reader. For instance, if any academic seeks to be employed in Ibadan as a professor, he/she can best be given SL. That is not really demotion to say. It's based on Ui criteria in which you can only be a professor by growing in the system. In the same vein, a senior lecturer in UNN for instance who feels he has all it takes to be promoted to a professorial chair can approached University XYZ and if he meets its criteria, can be given.

Again let me shed some light. Some academics who are privilege to be faculty members before obtaining PhD, rose to the ranks of L1 in some Universities in Nigeria. Thanks to their publications. As soon as they obtained PhDs, they were promoted to SL. I have a good number of friends who have benefitted from the largess. I wouldn't want to mention the Universities but mostly Private universities. If they decide to seek employment in University of Ibadan for instance, the criteria is irrespective of the number of years the person has taught in University or Universities, and publications in learned journals, he/she should be given a position with reference to the year he acquired PhD. For instance the the person acquired PhD in 2018 and is seeking to be a Senior Lecturer in Ui in 2020 given twelve years of teaching and publications. Ui will offer the person L2, a position for PhD without cognate experience. If PhD was obtained in 2017, Ui will offer the fellow L1 as long as he/she can boast of 8 points in publication based on Ui assessment.

Let me stop here please.

You spoke well.

DONSMITH123:


Choice of words.

Don't mind such people.

Very warped mindset.

AtikuNetwork:


Why are you getting agitated? I said that the Punch newspaper that is your source did not present its report based on the full facts. The Tinubu in question has his own newspaper where he published the full report of his statement and I presented that instead. It seems you are mischievously trying to promote a narrative that is based on a your own political position if not you won't be getting angry over nothing.

What is the meaning of full facts?

Did they say what he did not say?

They picked the ones they want to use out of the epistle he wrote, what is wrong in that?

The train has left the station and has moved very far, Oga.

Your input is irrelevant at this point.

This is a LIFE and DEATH security situation which you earlier trivialized as a happenstance.

A well meaning leader stands up for his people to any form of challenge.

Nobody takes you serious anymore.

The time has passed when people were genuinely looking up to you for leadership.

Unfortunately, you failed them. Because of your ambition.

Even this long epistle is a continuation of throwing them under the bus, to please your masters.

PassingShot:

In as much as we need a localized security outfit, our governors goofed by not taking this initiative through the various states' HOA first.

Sentiments apart, Amotekun as it stands today, has no legal backing anywhere - whether in states or at the national level. Such is dangerous even for us Yorubas.

Story

WiLdFLame:
As an Omoluabi, I’m seating down on the fence on this issue

Amotekun is good and born out of necessity but it has been bastardized the moment the governors and afenifere hijacked it.
Amotekun should be centralized!! And mode of operation well organized hence...it might be a political armed tools for the governors who are seeking second terms and also the one looking for presidency and also the Shameless Elders(Odumakin Squad) who wants to capitalize on it to make money from the federal government.
We don’t want the same thing that befall the NPF to befall this sacred institution

SLAVE

COURAGE!

People over power.

Good thing Arakunrin for standing up for the Yoruba nation.

History will be kind to you for protecting your people against terror and hegemonic machinations.

Those sitting on the fence don't realize that power is ephemeral.

They will soon realize that personal political ambition at all cost - at the cost of human lives - have consequences.

solmusdesigns:





this game is simple, North pushes for Presidency again dangling VP to SouthEast, then SouthWest Preaches Regional Policing, Restructuring and Resource control

In the End The North mostly the Fulani are pretty helpless on this issue.. whats the use of Presidency if we restructure and keep them poor? or if we police ourselves and checkmate all Fulani activities..

If Yoruba postulate the idea of regionalism we already have SouthSouth and Southeast to support that, and we know for sure 1/3 of Kogi (Okun land) and the whole of Kwara would join the idea... even Benue Pleatue and Taraba might consider the juicy offer


.

Which restructuring again?

Osinbajo: Geographical restructuring isn’t the answer to our problems

https://www.thecable.ng/osinbajo-geographical-restructuring-isnt-the-answer-to-our-problems

Lol

But there is Railway in the South West now.

Plus many other big big INFRASTRUCTURE.

With those humongous CIVIL works going on in South West who needs the presidency again?

Mr. Malami,

WHAT ABOUT THE CIVILIAN JTF IN THE NORTH EAST?

Under which law are they operating?

After destroying Nigeria's economy for five years, ehn?

This was by far the biggest signal to the global investment community that Nigeria was going back to cave economic mentality. The rest civilize business leaders had to boycott the bush for them.

Unfortunately, this was what some of their robotic wishful thinking worshippers said would give them their budget funds that year. They proclaimed "owo budget wa ti pe" very foolishly and ignorantly to their fellow ignoramuses.

Now, after destroying everything and discouraging foreigners from bringing their money for investment, even the ones made by Nigerian investors inside Nigeria are going to be shipped abroad in a signal to total lack of confidence in the economic management such as was announced by Dangote this week.

On normal situations, we have sat down to have drinks. We discussed football, family and how to move forward. He is a barman

.

A barman?

That Obasanjo cleared Nigeria's external debt - accumulated by successive governments - as president is not in doubt, though.

The whole wolrd knows that.

iluvdonjazzy:
Thank God o, at least we still hear one good news this month, am tired of bad news.

This is fake news.

It is one of the fakest news on the internet right now.

Nigeria's GDP growth is actually among the poorest in the world this year, 2019.

They need to peddle fake news to cover for the bad public image of the past week.

Here is the main IMF source.

https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/NGDP_RPCH@WEO/OEMDC/ADVEC/WEOWORLD

Check for yourself.

jahsharon:


This hatred and bitterness that your parents planted in you will choke you to death if you don't vomit it. Are you cursed with bad news? Why does good news makes you feel dizzy?

Do you mean fake news?

Well, psychiatrists are still debating how to classify people who are in love with fake news like you.

When they are done, the world would know what to call your condition.

You are ignorant.

This is fake news.

IMF did no such ranking. Nigeria is not even in the 90th position.

Ethiopia's 2019 GDP growth (projection for now) is 7.4%. Ghana is 7.5% Even Niger is almost three times that of Nigeria at 6.3%.

The Twitter source you quoted ignorantly only compares selected countries' data. It doesn't rank them.

Check the full list on the IMF site by yourself.

https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/NGDP_RPCH@WEO/OEMDC/ADVEC/WEOWORLD

When you read and you don't understand what you have read, make more findings. Don't just rush to expose your level of ignorance to people who are hitherto not aware of it.

crash12345:
am a Ghanaian and that's how those words are pronounced in English by the British native speakers .Below is the phonetics spellings in the Merriam Webster Dictionary. The fact that there's an "O" or "or" doesn't mean we should pronounced the words in "or".There's a way of pronouncing words just as Ph and knife,known,psychology etc are pronounced. Ghanaians adopted our pronunciations.Look below the word for the right phonetic spelling and pronunciation not the raw spelling.

So even with Ghana, upon all these centuries of practicing English due to the English or British being with us for over 300 years and all our forefathers and current leaders trained and schooled in England, our native language sometimes get caught up with us with the pronouncing example instead of saying "dactar" we say "doctar" and instead of saying "accemedashen" we say "accommodeshen" buh we get majority of the pronouncing right though and our accent is raw buh we break and pause words just as the British so we don't speak faster like the American.

There has been this fallacy about Ghanaians' spoken English being the correct version in Africa that has gone on for too long which is based on nothing tangible other than tales told to children to make them feel good. Many Nigerians, probably without good self-esteem, also peddle this tale around.

First of all, the Merriam Webster dictionary that you referenced is not British. It is a foremost American English dictionary. This is enough to invalidate your points above, because they are based on a false premise. The argument becomes even more watery when you make the Oxford English dictionary a reference.

Secondly, the BBC is an authority in spoken English, with many of its correspondents and news readers carefully selected across the world to make listeners understand the language. Listening to BBC anchors will quickly persuade anyone that Ghanaians' doktas (doctors), nes (nurse) are not spoken by anyone else apart from Ghanaians.

You would notice that many atimes the BBC goes into extra length to literally write the words being spoken on the screen in order to assist the viewers to make a meaning of what some non-native English speakers are saying. While this is commonly applied to speakers from countries like Liberia for instance, they have had to use the service for some Ghanaian English speakers as well. That goes to show you that the so-called Ghanaian accent may not be understood beyond Accra, Takoradi and other Ghanaian towns and villages.

Thirdly, also note that many Ghanaians that have properly assimilated into the real modern native English speaking countries (not the 14th Century colonial empire) like Britain do not have (or significantly play down) that funny accent. The late Kofi Anan spoke the English that many people understood.

It is important to state that Queen Elizabeth doesn't pronounce doctor as dokta or dakta, neither does she pronounce nurse as nes.

TO THE TOPIC

A study credited to the World Linguistic Society claims that Uganda tops the rest of the countries in Africa as the best English speaking country in the continent.

Be that as it may, whilst it may be difficult to rate the best African English speakers fairly, there are some notable Africans (Nigerians) that speak good English which the native speakers and non-native speakers can understand any day, any night. Chief Emeka Anyaoku, Prof. Wole Soyinka, Gen Yakubu Gowon and Late Premier Abubakar Tafawa Balewa are examples.

Also, you can hear and understand clearly when people from the middle-belt speak English - especially those from Plateau area - because of the activities of the English speaking missionaries and NGOs over decades.

Racoon:
There are some fights that are not worth your prestige or dignity.Emir Sanusi is too cerebral as an Oxford-trained graduate to fight with a riff raff of Gandollar status.It does not work in any sane clime.No wonder Osinbajo(sound SAN legal icon) is deputizing for an illiterate man because of political crumbs.

Please when was Sanusi trained in Oxford?

What?

Kano's multimillionaire rice farmers still struggling for "common" NDLEA jobs?

This must be Burundi in 2001.

MoIbrahim:
Many are commenting as if they have verified the information.

Naija yoot

Well, you may be right.

However, the Editor-In-Chief (may be the publisher) of the Daily Nigerian is the guy called Ja'afar Ja'afar.

You remember him right? He is the guy who leaked Ganduje's alleged bribery videos.

It's called antecedent.

Just as the Daily Trust is Arewa's the Punch, Daily Nigerian is Arewa's Premium Times (or even Arewa's Sahara Reporters)

You better pay close attention to what you see in those media.

ekerintee:
I think it's a good idea.the rich shud pay more tax.it works that way in Europe ,when you earn more ,u pay more tax.this discourages people from stealing and amassing wealth just look at Germany ,if you work too much and earn much,you have to pay much tax,nobody will tell you before you reduce your work.its not a bad idea ,the only bad thing is what to do with the tax and how to prevent stealing of such tax.If we want our country to be like Europe ,we need to pay tax like Europe .the tax makes the system work , everything is taxed.if we have billionaires ,senators etc,they shud pay huge tax to bridge gap between rich and poor







quote author=Conceptman post=84993429]Wahala wa de baayi o(problem don com start now) if you task the rich mercilessly, won't it affect the poor when the rich ones stop giving and sharing with the poor in the name of heavy Tax by government, odikwa next level indeed

The justification for taxing people ''mercilessly'' is to stop them from working hard?

What kind of thinking is this?

Punch really "mean" Major General Muhammadu Buhari o.

They are serously out for the jugular.

The Supreme Court;

The general public;

The Agents of Darkness;

Take note

What has Femi Adesina got to say about his immediate past employer's ordeal?

He was the Managing Editor of the Sun Newspaper before his current appointment.

He has been taunting Nigerians from the first day in his current job; calling NIgerians wailers etc.

It would be interesting to hear from him at this trying period in the life of his previous employer where he earned income for many years.