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TayserMahiri:
And some rookie says Nigeria health care is good

And you will spend 95% less money on healthcare if nigeria were your home instead of USA.


Seriously guy there is no more hope for you.

http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/compare/NG/US

Eko Atlantic City, one of the world’s most advanced new cities being built adjacent to Victoria Island in Lagos, Nigeria, has announced the on-going construction of its ultra- modern centralized 24/7 water system designed to simultaneously supply phases 1&2 of the city.

The water system construction satisfies “stringent international standards for construction of water treatment centers”, supplied by Degrémont, Suez- environment, a reputable company known for its worldwide supply of water treatment equipment. The Eko Atlantic City Water system will extract raw water from deep groundwater aquifers via a borehole providing an estimated initial daily supply of 10,000m3.

The daily supply of water will continue to increase as the city grows. To add further protection to the aquifers, the borehole will be lined with stainless steel and cement grouted along its entire length to prevent contamination. The raw water will undergo filtration to remove the impurities and iron from it.

The Water System will also disinfect the extracted water before storing it in water reservoirs ready for consumption (WHO guidelines). The water will then be pumped to a 47m high water tower that will supply the entire water network of phases 1 & 2.

This will insure a residual pressure in the network of 1.5 bar. In addition to this distribution network, the developers of Eko Atlantic, as advised by infrastructure consultants, will be providing ground water storage for a minimum of 2 days. This storage capacity will be independent from the required firewater reserve. The systemic treatment technology offers the most ecological and cost effective way to produce public water supply since groundwater is often more convenient and less vulnerable to pollution than surface water.

Mr Ronald Chagoury Jr, Vice Chairman of South Energyx Nigeria Limited, a subsidiary of the Chagoury Group, notes that the EAC water system is provided according to the high standards of the World Health Organization by ensuring reliable quality of sustainable water system at Eko Atlantic city.

The city will not only boast of adequate power supply and a good road network, but also a water purification and distribution network that produces potable water for its residential and office use,” Mr Ronald Chagoury Jr added. The company also recently announced the completion of all the 14 bridges projected for the city in Phase 1 & 2. In November last year, the city also unveiled the first of the Eko Pearl Towers, a residential building in its Marina District.

The commissioning of the Tower which was done by the Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode came some months after the commissioning of the city’s Eko Boulevard, Nigeria’s first eight-lane city road.

mtis:
So everything is above 200% eh..how are we gonna get those Ethiopian Chic's..dang it they are expensive.. I'll go to naija its much cheaper there with the current value of naira ...you know many Kenyans are actually millionaire s if they were in Nigeria

No the arent , they will actually be poorer.

The cost of living is high.

freshest4live:
That's why Nigerians here consider them as hypocrites.

Their level of hypocracy is truly astounding.

Isahalbash:
Un- Islamic or sheer ignorance cos those saying that don't even know anytin about Islam.

Exactly.

Religion is no excuse for ignorance.

Just take a look at Qatar, UAE, BAHRAIN.

ednited:
hehe lol

I know right.

But what to do.

The kenya are mocking us for what they themselves are guilty of.


Former President Mwai Kibaki flown to South Africa for treatment


https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000212863/former-president-mwai-kibaki-flown-to-south-africa-for-treatment

Muafrika better come and rent some space in EAC before it is all sold out.

Eko atlantic city.

Eko atlantic city looking up.

We running things.


FG, China to Finalise $11bn Lagos-Calabar Rail Deal in June.


The acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Tuesday said the federal government and the People’s Republic of China would round off negotiations on the Lagos-Calabar rail project estimated at $11.117 billion in June.

Osinbajo also disclosed that the federal government had already provided its portion for funding the rail project and promised that the negation would be concluded in the next three months.

He said this at the unveiling of Lagos-Ibadan rail project at the Nigerian Railway Corporation compound, Ebute-Metta, Tuesday, noting that the national rail project would create 500,000 jobs.
On behalf of the federal government, President Muhammadu Buhari had in June 2016 signed an agreement with the China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC) for the construction of the Lagos-Calabar coastal railway line at $11.117 billion.

Under the agreement, the federal government was able to negotiate the price of the contract downwards by $800 million, stressing that although the contract was initially valued at $11.917 billion, it would now to cost $11.117 billion.
The first segment of the rail line comprises Calabar, Uyo, Aba and Port Harcourt. Other segments of the Lagos Calabar coastal rail line such as Otueke, Yenagoa, Ughelli, Warri, Sapele, Benin, Agbor, Asaba, Onitsha, Ijebu Ode, Lagos, would be ready also within another two years.

Osinbajo, however, unveiled the Lagos-Ibadan rail project alongside the state governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, his Oyo State counterpart, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, Senate Chief Whip, Senator Olusola Adeyeye and Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, among others.

At the unveiling, the acting president disclosed that the federal government “has already provided our portion for funding for the Lagos-Calabar route as well. We expect that negotiations with the foreign component of the funding will be finalised within the next three months”.

He, therefore, assured Nigerians that a vibrant railway system “will confer many benefits on the society. Our ultimate goal is to restore a railway using culture for both commercial and personal transportation. We are confident that the national rail project will create up to 500,000 jobs. Aside, it will facilitate the movement of up to 3.2 million tonnes of cargo per annum.”

He explained that the ground breaking “reflects the federal government’s to build a globally competitive economy with first grade infrastructure. Railway, in our strategy, is underscored by our economic recovery and growth plan as well as incorporated 2016 and 2017 budgets”.

“We made provision for matching funds in 2016 budget to complement the concession loans obtained from the People Republic of China. The Chinese Government and Chinese Exim Bank have always proved to be a reliable partner to the Nigeria Government. We have the entire Lagos Kano rail track as well as the Lagos Calabar railway track in the 2017 budget, he added.”

Osinbajo disclosed that negotiation on the Kaduna –Kano portion of the track would soon be completed, noting that when completed the rail projects “will reduce the burden on national high ways. It will also reduce deterioration of the road network and increasing the life span of our roads”.

He explained that railway network would support efforts “to diversify the economy and enhance our export potentials. Several of our cities will become known as railway towns will boost economic activities within the railway lines that will eventually cut across the entire country”.

He, therefore, said the new approach to rail project development explained why the federal government “supports the replacement of the 1964 railway acts with a legal frame work that open railway projects in the country to greater private sector participation.

“We expect to ensure that the resources to manage efficient modern and reliable train services. We will see the same zeal in the project construction so that the railway lines we be completed on schedule. We are looking forward to a fast and efficient service between Lagos and Ibadan within the projected time frame which is on or before December 2018”.

Also speaking, Ambode commended the federal government for approving the right of way for the proposed Lagos Light Rail (Red Line) project, thereby asking the Nigeria Railway Corporation “to cooperate with the state government during the construction of the red line”.

He said the proposed extension of the Lagos-Ibadan Rail Project would go a long way to open up the economy of the South-west as well as facilitate regional integration and growth.

He said the project also marked a new dawn in the transformation of the nation’s transport infrastructure, especially for the South-west, thereby expressing delight that the take-off had become a reality.

Ambode added that aside boosting regional integration, the agricultural sector would receive the long awaited boost as the rail line “will be a fast and convenient means of transporting farm produce from the hinterland to the city thereby increasing the economies of the states”.

“A direct benefit of this project is that containers and goods from the Apapa Port will now be transported by rail thereby reducing the number of trailers and other heavy duty vehicles on our roads.

“A direct consequence of this project would be less productive man hours wasted on the roads due to gridlock and bad roads due to heavy duty vehicles. In addition, we expect government to expend fewer resources on road repair and maintenance once the rail line takes off and reduce the pressure of articulated vehicles on our roads,” the governor said.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2017/03/08/fg-china-to-finalise-11bn-lagos-calabar-rail-deal-in-june/

Africa oh my Africa..


How Kenya could deal with its politics of ethnicity



In 1992 Kenya held its first multi-party election in 26 years. Since this re-introduction of
multipartism , the “ politics of tribe ” has been blamed for the country’s political tribulations.

This has led to a system under which leaders channel government resources to their ethnic supporters to ensure their political survival. In turn, their supporters begin to feel entitled to government resources.

The politics of ethnicity therefore becomes an inter-community competition, not merely for representation in governance, but for resources.
This isn’t a problem exclusive to Kenya. Studies show that many African countries are finding it difficult to manage diversity, and particularly ethnicity.
In other parts of the world such as Yugoslavia,
Burma , and Sri Lanka , ethnicity has been politicised and has consequently played a major role in triggering violence.

In Kenya, tribal politics has given rise to rampant corruption, marginalisation, disenfranchisement of entire communities, and
full-blown violence .

As the country goes into another general election this August, two questions are frequently being asked. Has anything changed since 2007 when violence broke out after a disputed election? And are there any real ideological differences between Kenya’s two main coalitions?

A stock take of the present ethnic reality shows that tribalism is more entrenched than ever. The two coalitions are a cluster of parties that represent regional ethnic blocs.

In fact they have split the country down the middle along a clear tribal fault line, with the populous Kikuyu and Kalenjin tribes on one side and the Luo, Luhya and Kamba on the other.

The history of ethnic loyalties
But why are there such bitter contests every election cycle? It has everything to do with the possibility of attaining control of state resources and being in charge of their allocation.

Kenya has been governed by four presidents from two ethnic communities since independence: the Kikuyu and the Kalenjin. The 40 other communities now believe that it’s their turn to hold the presidency.

Kenya is home to 42 ethnic groups. The major ones are the Kikuyu, Luhya, Kalenjin, Luo, and Kamba. Combined, they form 66% of the country’s population.

The behaviour of Kenyan voters has remained largely consistent over the past five multi-party elections. Regardless of where they reside,
ethnic allegiance has been the most influential motivator at the ballot.

This pattern of political allegiance based on ethnicity has a long history dating back to Kenya’s colonial past.

In Kenya’s first independent general election in May 1963, the two largest indigenous parties
KANU, formed in May 1960, and KADU, formed a month later, both assumed an ethnic DNA.

KANU represented the populous Kikuyu and Luo tribes and KADU represented the smaller Masai, Kalenjin, Luhya and Mijikenda communities.
This was partly because colonial policy barred the formation of nationwide political movements. It only allowed the formation of district political associations.

The effect was to encourage ethnically homogeneous political associations to emerge across the country. As a result, parties have drawn their political legitimacy and capital from their respective ethnic bases since independence.

At Lancaster House – where Kenyan delegates held a series of meetings to negotiate Kenya’s independence constitution – KANU and KADU leaders wore their ethnic hats.

And in 1966 when Vice President Jaramogi Oginga Odinga left KANU he retreated to his ethnic backyard and formed the Kenya People’s Union.
So historically speaking, political parties have never really been divorced from tribal affiliations.
But the problem runs much deeper than tribal politics. In Kenya an ethnically diverse society is responding to an imposed political configuration which, thanks to its colonial heritage , is a democratic competition for resources.

Fixing the problem

If we regard democracy as elastic rather than rigid, it allows us to recognise that it can be forced – or negotiated. Negotiated democracy can lead to stability whereas forced democracy can lead to instability and violence.

A case in point is Zimbabwe where a power-sharing deal was reached between Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe Africa National Union-Patriotic Front and Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change in 2008.

At the time, the deal brought the country’s political and economic crisis to an end. Other African examples of negotiated democracies include South Africa and Rwanda .

In Kenya, negotiated democracy can be reached by creating more executive positions beyond the president and deputy president to accommodate feuding tribes: mainly the Kikuyu, Kalenjin, Luo and Luhya.

Kenya has tried this model before, and it worked. The power sharing model put in place after the 2007 election quelled the post-election violence.
The new structure , guided by the peace accord , created three new executive positions – a prime minister, and two deputy prime ministers. This created a more ethnically inclusive leadership.

Constitutionally, a power-sharing agreement may not be as simple to effect as the 2008
National Accord and Reconciliation Act .

In that case, a simple Act of Parliament was passed to create the positions of a prime minister and his two deputies. Today the government would need to call a referendum to create substantive positions.

But that shouldn’t be a deterrent. Changes like this could lead to a realignment of political parties. If representatives of a majority of Kenya’s ethnic groups were guaranteed senior positions in government, politicians would gradually move away from ethnicity as a tool for political mobilisation, and towards ideological campaigns that prioritise socioeconomic development.


https://www.cnbcafrica.com/zdnl-mc/2017/06/26/kenya-elections-3/#comment-72

Africa’s Richest Man, Aliko Dangote over the weekend took a group made up of key media houses and MBA graduates from the Lagos Business School for a tour around his latest business venture, the largest single train petroleum refinery in the world with a production capacity of about 650,000 barrels per day, see images below.


The $12 billion Dangote Oil Refinery which is scheduled to open in 2019 will be 40 per cent larger than the current largest refinery which only has a capacity of 450, 000 barrels per day. The plant will also house Africa’s largest urea plant with a capacity of 3 million tons per annum as well as 1,100kms of sub sea pipeline infrastructure to handle 3 billion SCF of gas per day.


“We are bullish on Africa, the Dangote group is driving six major projects which will create about 250, 000 jobs and provide FX earnings and savings of $15 billion. This refinery will create 60,000 jobs with 20,000 of them onsite”, says Dangote.
Located in the Lekki Free Trade Zone, the site occupies about 2100 hectares of land, which is about six times the size of Victoria Island, Nigeria’s sprawling cosmopolitan town with the highest concentration of high net worth individuals in the country.


“We believe the best time to invest is during a downturn and it is our goal to diversify the Nigerian economy and as a result we have also increased our investment in agriculture and agro processing with projections of producing 1 million MT of milled and parboiled rice”, says Dangote.
The refinery will create its own power which will run on natural gas with a projected supply of 12, 000 MW of power which will be readily available for commercial use and also meet the demand for petrochemical products in Nigeria.


https://www.cnbcafrica.com/featured/2017/06/27/inside-billionaire-aliko-dangotes-12bn-dangote-oil-refinery/

mtis:
Now ya from Polio to Ebola...dude stop with ya shenanigans

Dude, why are you disturbed by Nigeria Success story?
Shey Na ma Fault you no get one.
Now run along and go sin no more.

We run things.

How Did Nigeria Quash Its Ebola

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-did-nigeria-quash-its-ebola-outbreak-so-quickly/

PissedYagami:
Talks about Nigeria at some point, and partly about other African countries a bit. About future clean energy and stuff. I am surprised that the whole of Sub Sahara Africa consumes less electricity than the state of Alabama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiQ874ZuIno?t=546

Dont be.

We run things.
We dont make mouth.
ACTIONS speak Louder than Word.

http://time.com/3971057/nigeria-polio-eradication/

chkil0:
TOP 10 CAUSES OF DEATH KENYA
1. Influenza and Pneumonia 2. HIV/AIDS 3. Stroke Cerebrovascular Accident 4. Diarrhoeal diseases 5. Malnutrition 6. Coronary Heart Disease 7. Tuberculosis 8. Diabetes Mellitus 9. Prostate Cancer 10. Malaria
TOP 10 CAUSES OF DEATH in nigeria
1. Influenza and Pneumonia 2. HIV/AIDS 3. Stroke Cerebrovascular Accident 4. Coronary Heart Disease 5. Diarrhoeal diseases 6. Malaria 7. Diabetes Mellitus 8. Meningitis 9. Prostate Cancer 10. Liver Disease
TOP 10 CAUSES OF DEATH in Algeria
1. Stroke Cerebrovascular Accident 2. Coronary Heart Disease 3. Diabetes Mellitus 4. Hypertension 5. Influenza and Pneumonia 6. Kidney Disease 7. Endocrine Disorders 8. Tuberculosis 9. Road Traffic Accidents 10. Breast Cancer

Geographic location also comes into play.
Almost half of nigeria lies on the meningitis belts.

Almost half

ednited:
It's a great achivement that you guys controlled Ebola fast. But Nigeria need to work on the health section more. There is a huge difference between Ethiopia and Nigeria on this

Nigeria actually has one of the best healthcare sysytem in africa.

But many factors are on play here, which are but not limited to:

Religion.
Population.
Education.

E.g During a polio vaccination in some states in northern nigeria, people where actually refusing to be vaccinated because they believe it is unislamic.

NAIJA i hail theee



Indian writer and human rights activist Arundathi Roy once said, "there is no such thing as the voiceless, only the deliberately silenced or the preferably unheard". Indeed, narratives about African ingenuity, African agency, and African heroism in the age of Ebola have been preferably unheard. As an African proverb aptly puts it: "Until the lion learns to write, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter."


Most recently Nigeria positioned itself as a lion that completely unsettled the narrative around Ebola and the white saviour complex. As the regional West African hegemon and Africa's fastest growing economy, Nigeria contained Ebola in three months without foreign intervention.


While the US has been scrambling to address the few cases of Ebola on its shores with a series of policy missteps, Nigeria showed that it could be done by an African country on its own terms.


With 31 percent of overall healthcare spending accounted for by the federal government in 2012 alone, Nigeria used infrastructure and systems already in place to fight polio, to contain Ebola. Institutions such as the Nigerian Center for Disease Control, the Nigerian Field Epidemiology Training Program, and the Lagos State Ministry of Health responded quickly by quarantining and treating suspected Ebola patients, tracing the contacts of those infected, and launching a massive public awareness campaign about how to avoid further transmission of the virus. With more doctors than Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone combined, Nigeria also galvanised the support of healthcare workers who had previously been on strike.


Beyond Nigeria's technical expertise and rapid response, equally important is the country's unique brand of superiority that fundamentally challenges the white saviour complex.


Quite naturally, detractors attempted to undermine Nigeria's success. When the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the country Ebola-free a few weeks ago, the fanfare around this feat was short-lived. I even sensed some unspoken incredulity. Folks were quick to react that Nigeria wasn't completely out of the woods yet, that there could be a resurgence of Ebola .

Local, not international efforts
Some narratives erroneously attributed Nigeria's success to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the WHO, and the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Yet, Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie responded with a sharp smack-down of this "lie". She openly criticised The Washington Post and The New York Times for deliberating concealing the fact that local, not international efforts, had contained Ebola. For instance, it was a Nigerian woman, Dr Ameyo Adadevoh, who insisted on isolating the country's first Ebola patient before eventually succumbing to the virus herself .

Less incredulous individuals praised Nigeria, wondering why they weren't being consulted about the do's and don'ts of Ebola containment. Consultations with Nigerians were largely shirked to the side because they invalidated the white saviour complex.

One thing Ebola has exposed about the white saviour complex is that it is voracious and unapologetic. It simplifies complexity, appropriates ideas without crediting the source, upstages local efforts that preceded it, thrives on "I" statements, and soaks up media attention.

In her celebrated essay, "Can the subaltern speak?", Gayatri Spivak rails against the problematic narrative of "white men saving brown women from brown men". In actuality, no one has the capacity to "save" another human being. Believing that one can is the greatest form of self-delusion and narcissism.

Contrary to the dominant Ebola foreign intervention narrative, Liberians, Guineans, and Sierra Leoneans are not waiting around idle, eager to be rescued by white saviours. While we welcome genuine collaboration, we remain our own heroes and heroines. The fact that more than 200 local healthcare workers died from Ebola is a testament to that heroism. They risked their lives long before international actors woke up from their slumber.
No externally driven intervention narrative can change that fact, as Nigeria has proven. So, thank you, Nigeria, for completely exposing the white saviour complex for being a figment of western imagination. Like other psychological disorders, it must be treated with regular doses of reality, now and after Ebola.

Robtel Neajai Pailey is a Liberian academic, activist, and author based at SOAS, University of London.
The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial policy.


http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/11/nigeria-ebola-myth-white-saviours-201411654947478.html

freshest4live:
See Nigeria is the foremost third world country with by far the largest population, so it's not a surprise to have these statistics that have to do with the human index on average. But when you take average for Somalia, or Kenya, it's a different context for taking average for Nigeria, it doesn't mean Nigeria is now a war torn poverty stricken country worse than somalia.

Considering the facts that both Nigeria and Somalia are both fighting an unconventional war and yet kenya average is not much higher than them is mind blogging.

Very pitifull.

ednited:
Back then,
Ethiopian Airlines was flying to Nigeria. Even when there was Ebola. Many people opposed the Airlines but still everything went good

True Africanism.

mtis:
man stick to ya level which is less than Somali please..

It is a pity.
Somalia at war is almost better than kenya at peace.
Very pitifull.

us medical experts arrive nigeria.


https://www.naij.com/299475-evd-us-medical-experts-arrive-nigeria.html&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwjrhJ7s6t3UAhWEvRoKHS-3AhUQFggOMAE&usg=AFQjCNEMNIjn1_js_I2V1KRdfTsmzDjEpQ

mtis:
its not like the Nigerians were doing it alone

" About 170 Kenyan health workers are set to leave for Sierra Leone and Liberia on Friday as part of the African Union (AU) mission to contain Ebola in West Africa.

The volunteer health workers, drawn across the 47 counties, will be in West Africa for six months. "

Are you Naturally blind?



" About 170 Kenyan health workers are set to leave for Sierra Leone and Liberia on Friday as part of the African Union (AU) mission to contain Ebola in West Africa.

US sends medical experts to study how Nigeria tamed Ebola

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/10/us-sends-medical-experts-study-nigeria-tamed-ebola/

mtis:
so ya average is worse than somali

And considering your small population ya average is not much higher than that of somalia.

An Ebola Outbreak Contained: What U.S. And Other Nations Can Learn From Nigeria

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkroll/2014/10/20/what-can-africas-ebola-containment-successes-teach-other-nations/#28c8c8e6214b

How Nigeria defeated Ebola.
https://qz.com/278819/talking-to-the-doctor-who-helped-stop-ebola-in-nigeria/

How Nigeria defeated Ebola.
https://qz.com/278819/talking-to-the-doctor-who-helped-stop-ebola-in-nigeria/

Hbuyosh:
It is undisputable fact that Nigeria has the biggest economy in Africa. However, the crux of the debate here is, why then isnt Nigeria a highly developed country? Why is it still exhibiting a lot of those challenges characteristic of underdeveloped economies, and that should a much smaller economy like Kenya pip it in some, if not most of the aspects indicating quality living standards?

Oh, u are going to say it is because of the difference in population size, but again Nigeria has a bigger Gdp pc than Kenya!

Btw, London has a much larger Gdp than Sweden.

No nigeria is not an underdeveloped country(you need to be slapped for even suggesting this),it a
Developing country.

By "highly developed countries " you meant this, Right?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Bank_high-income_economy

I hope you know that for a population of 200 million a 415 billion dollar GDP isnt exactly somethibg to brag about.

One of the main problem of nigeria is it undervisified economy, For a sector that accounts for only avout 20% of the total GDP, the Nigerian government has relied too much on the oil and gas sector, marginalizing other sector of the economy, and this was as a result of having clueless, guillible people, people who belongs to the barrack , peoople who have no business in politics. And this bring me to the second point.

Military Dictatorship, and this my friend is the cause of the problems of nigeria, If not for democracy god knows where nigeria will be by now(probably with the likes of UGANDA).

To me Nigeria only started developing 17 years ago, and considering where it is today i think you need to cut us some slack, we know we are not where we should be, but what we do know is we are on the right path.

Hati13:
Is this during yesterday Muslim festival?

Yes