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The Senate President Farouk Lawan, describes careful annotation of the various killings by BH mostly perpetuated in his home state as hate speech...

What a time to be alive...

Going forward,
1. Senator Abaribe has belled the cat, the ball is now in our court.

2. The NLC which used to be the umbrella body under which Nigerians rallied to express organized dissent, has now been destroyed by ethnic considerations and greed. Nigerians need a new aegis for popular mobilization against this incompetent and surprised dictatorship.

3. Whether we agree or not, the senate has largely outlived its usefulness - if a matter of national significance can be made to look as trivial as this by a quota system senate president and his illiterate and greedy kinsmen and collaborators, then we the people if concerned enough, could respectfully ask them to stop
pretending representing us. Let every man represent himself.

4. On Abaribe, he has always proved his mettle as a genius in the midst of brigands, it should be made known that the government cannot take any action against him, whether legislatively or via the executive goons, because his office as a legislator means he answers to his constituents alone.

Good morning.. There's a guy PhysicsQED, also owner of the accounts PhysicsHD and Physics MHD, he contributed a trove of resources here on nairaland in the 2000s and early 2010s.

He has been missing for a long while, a topic he wrote extensively on here from his personal experience has become useful for my PhD work. I'd love to correspond with him directly..

Anyone has any ideas on how he can be reached? Your suggestions are appreciated..

Na pterygium excision Mike dey write long epistle about?

Anyway, a smart Ophthalmologist somewhere dun cashout and is heading to the bank right away..

Three pages, no knowledge passed, no cover story on the picture, no additional info from users...

Nigeria has become progressively illiterate in recent years.

TheWrita:
Doesn't look like a cobra.

That's a forest cobra

dexla:
Learnt it's a common krait specie known to be found in Asia, a twitter user actually mentioned its impossible to find such snakes in Africa, might have been smuggled in by some Asians living within that vicinity just the same way a lion was smuggled in.
Asians, especially Indians are known to keep snakes as pet so it wouldnt come as a surprise if her neighbor was an Indian.
Also, theres no correlation between the first picture and second picture. The original poster on twitter didnt post the 1st picture, I guess the OP just wanted to depict the imagery of a snake in a toilet.

All the symptoms mentioned are known to be caused by krait's venom; blindness, deafness, swelling of the affected area and stomach cramp after several hours of being bitten. The pain from the bite is said to be like a mosquito bite or ant bite so it's possible not to pay attention when bitten, especially if you have no idea what bit you.

That's not a krait.. It's a west African forest cobra.. Very dangerous, neurotoxins in its venom kill faster than that in kraits.. You should google it up

This made front page from 2017?

nervorum:
Are you sure he committed fraud or you read it somewhere? The reality maybe different (i'm not his church member).

Obviously, leaders need to up their games with respect to administration, accountability and governance compliance, in church business.

Its not very easy to run a big church in the UK, especially cos they are registered as charities and the Charity commission has regulatory oversight. Some churches are facing a tough time with the govt, in a society that is happily non-religious. No doubt some churches are 'for-the-money', thgh many genuine ones have been caught up, and cast in the light of fraud. A few instances are, where, even muslims have been appointed to manage churches, just cos they fail to comply with governance guidelines, some of which frankly speaking, may not be fit for churches, since they are not companies per se.

Govt control over churches (and invariably a potentially persecutory tool) , is subtle. UK church leaders who are genuine servants of God need to adapt. The era of founding fathers being the 'emperor' is over.

This is the only reasonable comment on this thread...
In the first paragraph of the story, it says they found evidence that the church, MAY/MIGHT have laundered money.. I find this rather confusing, how do you become 100% sure that you're not 100% sure?? How do you generate evidence and conclude with a probability

They also claimed the independent manager had to pay a churchgoer who sustained an injury in church, "an undisclosed amount as compensation", due to the church lacking 3rd party insurance cover.. I find this extremely hard to believe, it is an attempt to give a dog a bad name..

Like you rightly pointed out, secularism is on the rise, and the UK now prides itself as being irreligious, thus tools like the Charities Act could become persecutory. Following the story, there's no direct evidence of wrongdoing asides the obvious shortage of relevant paperwork.. There was even part where the report casted aspersions on Christ Embassy's preference for LoveWorld media as broadcaster instead of other broadcasters.. I feel a simple contractual agreement could have prevented that..

All these being said, the crux of the matter is that Christ Embassy tries to use her shell companies to handle her services, paying them and reducing taxable income. IMO this is unnecessary, just pay Caesar his due and move on.. And get a good lawyer too. Jesus Christ paid tax, I don't see the point in registering as a religious charity in the first place, it puts them in the line of fire

Judeerons32:
Old man without shame. This is the same Charles who took advert in a national daily to resign his membership of APC in 2018 because Obaseki was not respectful to elders. It was this same Oshiomhole he now insults who invited him to his house and Obaseki and advised Obaseki to accommodate him.here he is.running down the same Oshiomhole.
I honestly am glad the Binis can now see those working against their interest. An Oshiomhole who nominated Odubu or and Obaseki who is fighting tooth and nail to pull him down. With the hole Obaseki has dug for himself he cannot come out. His people have seen him for what he is.

Don't mind the slowpoke.. And for his information, Aisha's brother lost at the primaries..

ijustdey:
https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2019/11/12/fight-back-or-resign-arewa-youths-tell-osinbajo/

This was the same person who said " the north would hold on to power at all costs in 2023"

Today he's claiming Osinbajo should fight back his detractors who are trying to remove him from the presidential game now and in 2023.

What I can infer from shitty man's statement, is that he's goading Osinbajo to retaliate and get emasculated once and for all..

We know friends and we know enemies

NGOs deal directly with the people. The govt's desire for a cash transfer policy means that political actors want a cut from the monies NGOs are dashing out.
.it is also a fact that NGOs spy for their parent countries, however that claim is often overstretched, residents of border areas in the north often hold multiple nationalities, and their allegiances tend towards tribe than country. Aren't these spies already!?

[quote author= post=83580362]We had not seen each other for about 30 years. The Lord has been kind to me. When I saw him again - this time at a hotel lobby - he was looking simple. He wore simple Ankara attire. I felt touched. He walked up to me and was glad to see me again. But deep within me I was not impressed with his status compared to mine and poor me, I couldn't hide it. We exchanged contact details and I could see the joy in him as he collected mine.

I told him I will drop him home in my brand new Range Rover and I pointed it to him. He declined and said he had already called for his car. It looked old, a 2001 Honda Accord.

I invited him the next day for lunch at my house. A part of me wanted to impress him - To show off my success and affluence to him, while another was to discuss opportunities and possibly help him.

He drove to Parkview where I lived. He looked impressed with my home. I had taken a heavy mortgage. In fact I was heavily in debt. We had lunch. He told me he was into small business and particularly real estate. I brought up more business discussions, but he didn't sound too interested. I asked him how I could help him. He said he was fine. I even told him if he was interested, I could help him secure some loans... He looked at me and smiled.

He told me he would invite me over soon to his place. His old car came for him. I was grateful to God for what I had. “Fingers are not all equal”, I thought to myself...I was lucky. I worked in a good place.

Two weeks later, we went to see him in Ikeja. My wife and I. She was reluctant to go because she was not impressed with the man's status as to warrant our visiting him in his house. I was able to convince her that we were close friends in college. We saw the Estate. *Wuraola Estate.* We asked for directions to his home. Those leading us spoke his name with deference.

It was a simple but lovely home. A 4 bedroom bungalow. I saw 4 cars parked in front. We entered his home. It was simply elegant with a touch of class inside. He welcomed us warmly.

Lunch was well served. His wife called him Baba Wuraola

During lunch, he asked about my MD. He said they were friends. I saw a company gift on one of his tables nearby. That company owned about 38% shares where I worked. I enquired from him about it. He smiled. He told me he owned the company. He also owned the estate.

I did not know when I called him sir... I was in awe of him too.

I had learnt a lesson in humility - A big one. Appearances are deceptive. He noticed my discomfort.

Driving back home, I was very quiet. My wife was humbled and extremely calm. I could perceive the thoughts in her mind. I looked at myself. Living on loans, heavy loans and showing off while someone who pays my salary is quite modest and living a simple life!
Indeed Deeper Rivers Flow In Majestic Silence![/quote]Bearing in mind that ass-licking the govt is what characterizes the majority of your posts, it didn't come as a surprise that this reasonable one was stolen..

Please post the author's name at the top, in CAPS... Post thief

There's a problem.

The govt cannot deregulate and regulate at the same time. If the govt wants to regulate rice production, she must do it up to the point of sale.

The story claims that there's low demand for local rice, yet the price has skyrocketed.. Even when you factor in the absence of its close substitute (foreign rice), the price hike still doesn't make sense economically, it doesn't obey laws of demand-supply-rice equilibrium.
As it stands, the unregulated price millers, retailers and govt are looking to starve Nigerians into submission. Or we might as well have commodity boards and go back to 1984 proper

Officially, Medical Doctors starting on level 12 is due to the difficulty of their profession and the number of years to study medicine. IMO the major reason is due to the bargaining/blackmailing power of their labour union, the NMA.

Awol1:
I smell Red Haring.

Finally, someone who has a brain!!! *herring* btw

lastmanstandn:
My take.

As a core member and follower of APC, I find the OP knowledgeable to even put this topic up for debate. Mr President could still have emerged the winner in a better organized election. However, everything about this election suggested that INEC could have been manipulated from the election itself to local and state collation processes.

# of Accredited Voters should remain constant across the three elections more so since voting only starts after accreditation. Indeed some might have returned home frustrated at the process without voting, yet they should still have been accounted for either as rejected votes or invalid votes.

Also no one seem to be talking about the lack of an automated collation systems that would’ve made collation faster, safer and more transparent.

In a centralized electoral system with only the minimum efforts and technology, every Nigerian should be able to see the results from every wards and unit in the country.

War torn territories have voters too, but what explains their lower voter apathy compared to peaceful states? Perhaps it is the case that electoral monitoring is a little harder in places like Borno and Yobe. In places where monitoring is high, the race appeared tighter with more acceptable outcomes (Buhari still won but not with such margin).

INEC needs 21th century administrators. Way too many brilliant young Nigerians for the country to rely on such expensive piece of sh*t.

If you voted, you would have known that accreditation and voting was done simultaneously.

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theNOISEmaker:
Has anyone here had cataract surgery or knows anybody who had it?
And how much does cataracts surgery and ioL lens implant cost in Nigeria?

The cheapest reliable cataract surgery is done at FMC Katsina and FMC Yola... N12,000 only. Surgery done by consultants. The procedure is small incision cataract surgery.

The cheapest reliable Phacoemulsufication Cataract surgery is at ECWA eye hospital, Kano.

Buhari and conductors have one thing in common... They don't like giving people their change

optm:
I do not think it's right to change his docs RX here . after all they are same class of antibiotics fluoroquinolone. it would be better you guide than recommend tx here. he should go bk to his doc if there re no improvements fr a reevaluation and if not satisfied, seek treatment somewhere else

I weighed the risks vs benefits.
Moxifloxacin is a 4th generation fluoroquinolone, less bacterial resistance, has better tissue penetration and is the preferred drug for managing corneal ulcers clinically. I don't see why a 'doctor' would give ofloxacin for bacterial corneal ulcer in 2018.
A doctor would have added a cycloplegic and maybe a fungal cover except a fungal infection is highly unlikely. And a good doctor would do an MCS

I admit it is unethical, but with poor care, the patient would definitely lose his vision.

theNOISEmaker:
okay the name is "ofloxacin"

Go to the pharmacy and get Moxifloxacin.. Instill one drop every 4 hours.
It is more effective and more suitable

thunder74:
This people will kill Tinubu untimely for calling him the Jagaban of universe. God said "my glory I will share with no man"

"Instantly, an angel of the Lord struck Herod with a sickness, because he accepted the people's worship instead of giving the glory to God. So he was consumed with worms and died" Acts 12:23.

Where in the Bible did God say " I am the JAGABAN" ?

theNOISEmaker:
i met an eye doctor who told its corneal ulcer.. he gave me two eye drops namely "zeenat" and "dicloeye* i dont know if its steroid or not.. but will that white spot on my eyes ever heal? now my vision has increased alil bit but I'm always having that feeling of smokes around me.

Zeenat is the company name... The name of the drug should be under zeenat ... Check and gimme feedback. Your vision could improve but it depends on the management instituted and the timeliness

Delta (PDP), Imo (5% + APC figurehead gov), Benue (PDP), Rivers (PDP) and Osun (INCONCLUSIVE)!

The writer and interested people could request for the UTME scores of candidates given Medicine and Law in the last 5years from select federal schools. The request would be made citing the FOI act. The findings would obviously be shocking, then we could have a senate hearing or move straight to court

Zombie way na 1-way.

The author is right, it is baffling the way poor, downtrodden, impoverished and dehumanized Nigerians rise up in defense of their oppressors at every given opportunity. Their fervor is almost diabolical. That's why it is hard to have a french-style social revolution in Nigeria, because your poor neighbour would shield the Governor even without the latter asking

Even if Abba Kyari were to own up today, some Nigerians would still defend him.

We have been blinded by party politics and we cannot handle simple issues of morality anymore.

Nigeria is not ripe for democracy. The political party system is eroding the remnants of our value system, and destroying our future - the youth

Monfrini would not lie. He has his reputation to protect.

Malami on the other hand, has no reputation nor integrity whatsoever. Barring the SAN attached to his name, is there any landmark case Malami won? Or any brilliant research he has carried out?

As usual, the presidency would turn a blind eye... If APC can be this insensitive when they have a second term at stake, how would the second term be when there's nothing at stake??

CHoccolaTE:
You're a doctor ba?
I just tire for those shouting cataract and glaucoma upandan.
Cloudy vision must always be cataract in some people's minds.

Yeah... I think the foreign body that entered his eye scratched the cornea or inadvertently while trying to remove it, and the eye drop he was given exacerbated it or it got infected outright!

@thenoisemaker should see a doctor first thing tomorrow morning or today if possible

That's neither cataract nor glaucoma.

That is a corneal infiltrate/Corneal ulcer as a result of Keratitis, and yes it is potentially blinding if not managed urgently and it extends to cover your pupil.

It is an emergency, you should see an eye specialist as soon as possible.

Is there any discharge? What is the name of the eye drop you used? A steroid?

THE COUP SPEECH THAT OVERTHREW BUHARI

I, Brigadier Joshua Nimyel Dogonyaro, of the Nigerian Army, hereby make the following declaration on behalf of my colleagues and members of the Nigerian Armed Forces.

Fellow country men, the intervention of the military at the end of 1983 was welcomed by the nation with unprecedented enthusiasm. Nigerians were unified in accepting the intervention and looked forward hopefully to progressive changes for the better. Almost two years later, it has become clear that the fulfillment of expectations is not forthcoming.

Because this generation of Nigerians and indeed future generations have no other country but Nigeria, we could not stay passive and watch a small group of individuals misuse power to the detriment of our national aspirations and interest.

No nation can ever achieve meaningful strides in its development where there is an absence of cohesion in the hierarchy of government; where it has become clear that positive action by the policy makers is hindered because as a body it lacks a unity of purpose.

It is evident that the nation would be endangered with the risk of continuous misdirection. We are presently confronted with that danger. In such a situation, if action can be taken to arrest further damage, it should and must be taken. This is precisely what we have done.

The Nigerian public has been made to believe that the slow pace of action of the Federal Government headed by Major-General Muhammadu Buhari was due to the enormity of the problems left by the last civilian administration.

Although it is true that a lot of problems were left behind by the last civilian government, the real reason, however, for the very slow pace of action is due to lack of unanimity of purpose among the ruling body; subsequently, the business of governance has gradually been subjected to ill-motivated power play considerations. The ruling body, the Supreme Military Council, has, therefore, progressively been made redundant by the actions of a select few members charged with the day-to-day implementation of the SMC’s policies and decision.

The concept of collective leadership has been substituted by stubborn and illadvised unilateral actions, thereby destroying the principles upon which the government came to power. Any effort made to advise the leadership, met with stubborn resistance and was viewed as a challenge to authority or disloyalty.

Thus, the scene was being set for systematic elimination of what, was termed oppositions. All the energies of the rulership were directed at this imaginary opposition rather than to effective leadership.

The result of this misdirected effort is now very evident in the country as a whole. The government has started to drift. The economy does not seem to be getting any better as we witness daily increased inflation.

The nation’s meager resources are once again being wasted on unproductive ventures. Government has distanced itself from the people and the yearnings and aspirations of the people as constantly reflected in the media have been ignored.

This is because a few people have arrogated to themselves the right to make the decisions for the larger part of the ruling body. All these events have shown that the present composition of our country’s leadership cannot, therefore, justify its continued occupation of that position.

Furthermore, the initial objectives and programmes of action which were meant to have been implemented since the ascension to power of the Buhari Administration in January 1984 have been betrayed and discarded. The present state of uncertainty and stagnation cannot be permitted to degenerate into suppression and retrogression.

We feel duty bound to use the resources and means at our disposal to restore hope in the minds of Nigerians and renew aspirations for a better future. We are no prophets of doom for our beloved country, Nigeria. We, therefore, count on everyone’s cooperation and assistance.

I appeal to you, fellow countrymen, particularly my colleagues in arms to refrain from any act that will lead to unnecessary violence and bloodshed among us. Rest assured that our action is in the interest of the nation and the armed forces.

In order to enable a new order to be introduced, the following bodies are dissolved forthwith pending further announcements: (a) The Supreme Military Council (b) The Federal Executive Council (c) The National Council of States. All seaports and airports are closed, all borders remain closed.

Finally, a dusk to dawn curfew is hereby imposed in Lagos and all state capitals until further notice. All military commanders will ensure effective maintenance of law and order. Further announcements will be made in due course. God bless Nigeria.

With the civilian population powerless to terminate military rule, it was clear that only the military could do away with Buhari. From this perspective, the Chief of Army Staff, Major-General Ibrahim Babangida was his greatest threat. Babangida was a contrast to Buhari. While Buhari was stern, serious and resolute, Babangida was deft, tactical and extremely devious. He had systematically cultivated a loyal following of sycophantic mid-ranking officers over the years by making grandiose gestures and buying lavish presents for officers junior to him. These officers now owed allegiance to him rather than to their nation, institution, or to the Head of State Buhari. Babangida had managed to create a mini-personality cult within the military. It is amazing that Buhari, knowing Babangida’s ambition and propensity for coup plotting allowed him to sit with his finger on the trigger as the Chief of Army Staff for so long.



As the net of Buhari’s anti-corruption drive widened, the trail of investigations led back to the Ministry of Defence. There were allegations that senior army officers were involved in drug dealing and rumours of some suspicious financial dealings at the Defence Ministry. Some accusatory fingers were pointed at Babangida. Nigerians never did get to find out the extent or nature of the allegations as a coup led by Babangida swept Buhari away before matters could proceed further. Not long after Buhari was replaced by Babangida, a senior and well respected journalist (Dele Giwa) was killed by a parcel bomb while he was working on a story that accused senior army officers of involvement in drug dealing. Giwa’s murderers have never been found, although attempts have been made to prosecute Babangida, and two military intelligence officers: Colonel Tunde Togun and Brigadier Halilu Akilu, for his murder.