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Non performing ministers were replaced and Adelabu was spared because of sheer tribalism. Tell me one thing he has achieved as Power Minister??

Even Minister of Blue Economy, Oyetola is confused about his ministry.

Funny people.

It's unfortunate that the Saudi Royal family relied on UCH Ibadan for their medical treatment prior to 1966. The hospital has faced significant challenges due to mismanagement over the years. Both the University of Ibadan and University College Hospital (UCH) must explore sustainable solutions for generating their electricity.

ode na everyting dem throw this one go dey grab and swallow, ode

Racoon:
Suffering physical illnesses, then utility and infrastructural wahala. Who cursed this nation? Meanwhile, this is the abysmal state of seeking and acquiring healthcare in Nigeria today while its irresponsible and wicked leaders go abroad on health tourism.

This is Nigeria

People are steady losing alot

ogolemati:
fashola was making noise those days,having steady light is not rocket science.they made him minister of power both rocket and science we no see.a country of 60something years can't have steady light.please the criminal that build Lagos should build nigeria na

Fashola tired.
The current minister is just earning salaries

nepa bill 88m ,99m every week and yet no light !!!
tinubu and adelabu , una well done

See non-communicable diseases killing 684,000 Nigerians annually

for the WHO; they shouldn’t wait for the UN. The government needs to bring the money out.”

In her contribution, the Gatefield’s Board Co-chair, Sa’adatu Hamu-Aliyu, said the average Nigerian does not live past the age of 52 and the average African does not live past the age of 64.

She said: “Compare this to Europe, Japan, and Canada, where life expectancy exceeds 80 years. This means that an average person in the developed world is likely to live at least 20 years longer than their fellow humans in low and middle income populations.”

She said Gatefield’s health strategy outlines five key interventions aimed at reducing preventable deaths and improving life expectancy.

https://devnetworktv.com/2024/11/14/see-non-communicable-diseases-killing-684000-nigerians-annually/

TONYE001:
Sad.

The question is, does UCH have to wait for a protest to know that it needs to install alternative sources of electric power? Or, could it be that it already had these gadgets installed but due to poor maintenance culture, there are no longer operational? I'm tired of reading about reactionary implementations in our country as opposed to proactive reasoning.

When there's no electric power, both patients and hospital staff are affected. Patients, who are already dealing with the burden of their morbidities, are further saddened as they cannot enjoy services that should be very basic (to charge their phones, hand fans, torches, enjoy fan/AC which will help with mosquitoes and offensive smells, having a brightly-lit ward, water, etc). Nurses and doctors are extremely discomforted too.

I still remember my very horrible experiences as the doctor on call in the paediatrics department of my hospital in the nights when there was no power. Though my centre has got rechargeable lights, they don't last all night. Imagine the horror seeing patients with your phone's torch, giving IV medications and doing bedside procedures. Imagine the horror not being able to document on the EMS because the computers are out of power. I was forced to write on paper and transfer my documentations online once power is restored (double work). I won't even talk about the horrible night we were operating on a hepatitis B positive patient and the power suddenly went out...back up generator, for some reasons, didn't come on immediately. Theatre nurses had to provide light with their phones... visibility was not fantastic... imagine the increased risk of having needle pricks.

The lab scientists are not left out too. Once power is not steady, they cannot process their samples and these delays may expose them to harm from violent and anxious patients' relatives.

The porters, cleaners...every staff in the hospital essentially.

So, you can imagine how sad I felt when I read this....it simply brought back horrible memories that no health worker or patient should experience.

We now see that Nigeria's problems are not only resident in Aso Rock. President Tinubu is not the CMD at UCH. He is not the head of the Works Department at UCH.

We are in deep trouble in this country...as I see it, the only way out is for us to look inwards...and stop throwing all the blames to the occupants of Aso Rock.

The Truth here is that .. your brother sitting next to you doesn't give a hoot about how you feel...

Every Nigerian is obsessed with Money, affluence and Power...

No one cares about anybody..,

I appeal to any one with the means JUST RUN out of this country RUNN.

It baffles that hospitals and other healthcare institutions under the ministry of health lack adequate finances for their day-to-day activities. These institutions generate sufficient funds but where these monies go into is what I cannot tell. It's as if the government just siphon all the funds being generated by these institutions and channel them into irrelevant areas or loot the funds.

If these institutions start utilizing their IGRs and seldom remit them to government, they'll have more than enough funds to run the hospitals, hire adequate staff strength to man different units of the hospitals and take care of staff salaries and allowances. I think government should give healthcare institutions financial autonomy

Even Devil dey fear Nigerians. What a Shithole!

even gaza e no worse to this point

Listen to that Yoruba Man......I guess they have someone with the sense of Emilokan heading the sector that is defaulting.....

Kai, to be sick in naija now and without heavy money in your pocket is the worst thing you can go through. Infact it is a sentence to hell while on earth.
How for goodness sake will a hospital be without electricity and worse till water? Chisos! Even with water those teaching, government hospitals are hell holes, imagine without running water! That one na disease incubator. People weh de shit for body, vomit, have boils, abscess etc with no running water, chisos!
Anyway, with the current electricity tarrifs, there is no way those hospitals will be able to run their expenses without charging poor patients heavily. Those that have money will go to the executive wing where there is 24hrs electricity, running water, full ac, and instant access to all the consultants.

Those ones brains dey their anus.
They can't know ineptitude even if it hit them in the face.

stacyadams:
Yet clowns like hellanus will tell u the country is functioning at its full capacity

This is what Nigerians oughttave been doing years ago all over the country.
But tribalism will never allow their brains grow cells...and they keep suffering and smiling in darkness of ebinpawa..

God thank you for good health

stacyadams:
Yet clowns like hellanus will tell u the country is functioning at its full capacity

That ne na crazy man now

This is my present predicament. I'm down with typhoid and also Hungry. I can't get 5k to buy the Prescribed Drugs. Life is not too fair

EmekaA125:
Same power supply Mr Adelabu was boasting to have stabilized for 20hr/day the other time. Kai, lying on a national tv is becoming common to these people.

Receive sense! They didn't say there was no electricity available. The hospital was DISCONNECTED FOR NOT PAYING ITS BILLS!

ogolemati:
fashola was making noise those days,having steady light is not rocket science.they made him minister of power both rocket and science we no see.a country of 60something years can't have steady light.please the criminal that build Lagos should build nigeria na

I don't think Fashola understood the vested interest that has held electricity to ransom.

Recently, states in the South have decided to create their own electricity grid, yet the North is now resisting the plan to Balkanise the energy grid; Nigeria should have state and regional grid independent of TCN , with TCN acting as a backup between regional grids.

AfonjaConehead:
This is what Nigerians oughttave been doing years ago all over the country.
But tribalism will never allow their brains grow cells...and they keep suffering and smiling in darkness of ebinpawa..

It has less to do with tribalism and more to do with the docile nature of Nigeria. Only Tinubu can force Nigerians to wake up and revolt against this failed country. Very soon, Nigerians will start killing politicians and government officials.

I wonder the benefits of privatisation. Nigerians have never benefitted anything since these cancerworms have taken over our critical assets. What's stopping these fraudsters in government in reverting all the scams they have perpetrated that make life unbearable for the masses.

Racoon:
Suffering physical illnesses, then utility and infrastructural wahala. Who cursed this nation?

Meanwhile, this is the abysmal state of seeking and acquiring healthcare in Nigeria today while its irresponsible and wicked leaders go abroad on health tourism.

No one else cursed our nation apart from ourselves- doing tribesmen politics to support our own liars and hypocrites while pointing at others, to the neglect of governance principles.

Why would any sane person who is not cursing our country support someone who was in the capitalist PDP party for almost a decade before jumping to the communist LP labourers' camp because ologogoro Wike chased him out, in much the same way that his Fidelity Bank boy Obiano chased him out of APGA?

jameshankss:
Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has said he is sure the candidate of Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, would lose the 2023 presidential election. Soludo said he would not submit to the bullying of Obi’s supporters, who recently descended on him for addressing issues in the state.

The governor made the comments in a lengthy write-up personally authored, with the title, “History Beckons, and I Will Not Be Silent (Part 1).”

Soludo said Obi was inadvertently making the pathway to victory much easier for the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, and at the same time, toying with the destiny of millions of Ndigbo.

But the chief spokesperson for the Labour Party Presidential Campaign, Yunusa Tanko, accused Soludo of being sponsored by some unknown persons to weaken the base of the party in the South-east.

The former CBN governor had been under intense attack for close to a week for dismissing Obi’s investment in the state as amounting to nothing, during a television interview.

Soludo said in the write-up, “My attention has been drawn to some of the tirades on social media following my frank response during an interview on Channels TV regarding the ‘investments’ Mr. Peter Obi claimed to have made with Anambra State revenues.

“Sadly, several of the comments left the issue of the interview to probe or suggest motives, inferred from my response on ‘investment’ that I am opposed to Peter Obi’s ambition and, therefore, committed a ‘crime’ for which the punishment is internecine abuse and harassment, even to my family.

“Everyone knows that I don’t follow the winds or one to succumb to bullies, or shy away from a good fight especially, when weighty matters of principles and future of the people are involved.”

Soludo said he had urged Obi to return to his former party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), to actualise his presidential bid. He added that he had always told the LP candidate to his face that he was not capable of winning the 2023 presidential election, especially, under LP, which had neither a councillor nor a local government chairman.

Soludo said Obi was not just his friend, but also his brother, but despite that, they have their political differences.

He stated, “For full disclosure, let me state that Peter Obi and I are not just friends, we call ourselves ‘brothers’. But we have political differences: he left APGA for PDP after his tenure as governor, while I have remained in APGA since 2013.

“During the last two governorship elections in Anambra in 2017 and 2021, he led the PDP campaigns but APGA won landslide in both elections. By the way, in 2016, he visited and proposed that I defect to PDP and contest the 2017 election against the incumbent Willie Obiano, but I declined.

“After my victory in November 2021, he called to congratulate me, as I did to him in 2010. That is the Anambra way: we fight fiercely during campaigns but share drinks at the next social events. After all, it was the Great Zik of Africa, who taught us that in politics, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies but only permanent interests.”

Arguing that Obi’s presidential bid would only work in favour of Tinubu, Soludo said, “Indeed, if I were Asiwaju Tinubu, I would even give Peter Obi money as someone heading one of the departments of his campaign, because Obi is making Tinubu’s pathway to victory much easier by indirectly pulling down PDP.”

Obi, according to Soludo, would only deplete the votes of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and pave the path for an APC victory.

He stated, “The current fleeting frenzy, if not checked, will cost Ndigbo dearly for years. The South-east has the lowest number of votes of any region, but it is also the only region where the presidential race might be a four-way race (it is a two-way race in the other five regions) thereby, ensuring that our votes won’t count in the making of the next president of Nigeria.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/11/15/soludo-i-wont-succumb-to-bullies-obi-knows-he-cant-win/

OboOlora:
They should release the patients from the psychiatric wards to join lol

You must be wicked in real life!

sulaak:
I don't think Fashola understood the vested interest that has held electricity to ransom.

Recently, states in the South have decided to create their own electricity grid, yet the North is now resisting the plan to Balkanise the energy grid; Nigeria should have state and regional grid independent of TCN , with TCN acting as a backup between regional grids.

What do you gain from making excuses for the gross incompetence of overpaid politicians?
If oyinbos make similar excuses for their politicians, will we have their countries to run to since we are too clueless to fix our own country?

Did Britons not have five PMs in six years because four of them failed to do what they promised and were elected to do? From David Cameron in 2016 to Rishi Sunak in 2022

ogolemati:
fashola was making noise those days, having steady light is not rocket science. they made him minister of power both rocket and science we no see.

a country of 60something years can't have steady light.please the criminal that build Lagos should build nigeria na

You dey mind that Tinubu boy. He thought that Nigeria is like Lagos where you can just use propaganda to ruin the 20 million smart residents of the state. The same thing that his godfather is sweating over in Aso Rock now after scamming Lagosians for 25 years plus.

Judge hands out prison time in Enron barge scam

Ex-Enron, Merrill execs sentenced. A repentant Boyle gets nearly four years for his involvement in barge scandal

May 13, 2005

Former Enron executive Dan Boyle was sentenced to nearly four years in prison Thursday, while Robert Furst and William Fuhs, both former Merrill Lynch bankers, received more than three years — all for their roles in the Enron Nigerian barge scam.

Boyle, sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison and fined $320,000, was the only one who appeared repentant about pushing through a sham sale of energy-generating barges to the bank so Enron could pump its earnings and bolster its stock price.

"I'm the only one responsible for my actions and omissions and for the pain I caused each and every person I affected," the Clear Lake resident told the judge. "I'm truly sorry."

https://www.chron.com/business/enron/article/Judge-hands-out-prison-time-in-Enron-barge-scam-1942569.php

The truth is that UCH is more like a private hospital now and become a shadow of itself.

I have been waiting for them to call me for my drugs for the past two weeks, but nothing is available because of the light.

anonimi:
What do you gain from making excuses for the gross incompetence of overpaid politicians?
If oyinbos make similar excuses for their politicians, will we have their countries to run to since we are too clueless to fix our own country?

Did Britons not have five PMs in six years because four of them failed to do what they promised and were elected to do? From David Cameron in 2016 to Rishi Sunak in 2022

Fighting me will not solve the problem. Nigeria has had an acute electricity problem since the 1970s, and the government has continued with the same solution of building a national grid system that is beyond Nigeria's capability.

The patients' raising their voices forced the hospital to react to what they had been doing for 17 days. Praying in the night, Virgil.

In 2022, Buhari signed a law allowing states to build electricity infrastructure to generate, transmit, and distribute electricity within their state. Nothing happened until this year when the grid collapsed 11 times. My point is that blaming the politicians when the people are docile is a waste of time;

I would rather blame the people who are not protesting against the hopeless service. I live in the UK, where electricity started in regions such as Northern Electricity and Scottish and then grew into national electricity.

Nigeria has been importing refined oil for 40 years at the expense of investing and developing local electricity. In 2012, the NLC and opposition politicians protested against removing fuel subsidies.

The only way Nigeria will fix it electricity is when there is no electricity to supply as bad as Tinubu is, his hopeless leadership will force Nigerians to standup or die