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Shameful!!! Going to play mediator in chief in another country while failing woefully as commander in chief in your own country. Can somebody tell this man that terrorist now own and administer towns in the territory of Nigeria. A country which he leads?

Omololu007: alsisi was not a field marshall(5 star general),he was a general(4 star general).

upon his retirement abdel fattah elsisi was a field marshal. He became one following the retirement of field marshal tantawi. Read his wikipedia page to know more.

Thinking of all the hungry nigerian families that lavish dubai wedding could have fed.

homesteady: is presiding over the reps meetings not his main job? why is he always absent?

he is not always absent, he is absent at times just like every human on earth who holds an official position, that's why we have a deputy speaker,deputy senate president, vice president,etc...

It's clownish! We get it that he is commander in chief!! But he is a CIVILIAN commander in chief. Our constitution as copied from the u.s constitution ensured "civilian control of the military"...it's ridiculous seeing a man that has never served a day in the armed forces playing dress up with funny looking medals, it blurs the line between our military and civilian president. We have a lot of commanders in chief in africa, zuma, mahama,kagame,etc even al sisi of egypt who was a field marshall but now a civilian president of egypt he has gotten rid of his uniform, even quasi dictator robert mugabe has never worn a uniform, it's ridiculous and it should stop.

Joy83: You have just said nothing in relation to the topic. Try to put sentiment apart and address issue accordingly. In fact, you are somehow outdated.
If you are conversant with what is going on at the house of rep, he is not always punctual, being represented by his deputy always every time in a recent.
As a number citizen of a country, there are some occasions that he will need to respect the wishes of the people to elect by attending functions that concern Nigeria. Even if it is just to see his face only, that people can say, that is my speaker.

That's why I always like Sen David Mark, despite his accomplishment(served as military governor and more than 8 years as senator, compare to newcomer Aminu Tambuwal), David Mark will always be present in issues concerning Nigerians. During Doctors strike, ASUU strike, national award ceremony, and the like, he was always there to represent Nigeria even with smiling face as if all is well.
Maybe, maturity and sense of responsibility is affecting Tambuwal sha.

very funny!! Go check national assembly records, david mark has been away from his job much longer than tambuwal, at times a full month. Tambuwal has no explanation for not being at any event the executive organises, so far as it does not negate his duties. For christ sake david mark is a partisan hack, he goes around the country campaigning with jonathan and bashing the party of a minority of the members of the house he presides over, funny enough, he was even at the kano campaign a day after the bombings which jonathan was criticised for! Once again tambuwal does his job as house speaker, has never missed a council of state meeting and attends state get togethers when he can, e.g nigeria centenary dinner and award night when he can't attend others, it's no one's buisness.

He owes nobody any explanation for not attending the never ending jamborees that the executive puts together, nigeria is the only country I have seen where the entire federal government meets probably every month for one nonsense or the other, one, it is very dangerous, if a terrorist attack materializes in one of this venues we're gonna have a constitutional crisis, second, the blurs the line between the three arms of government, imagine the chief judge of the federation attending jonathan's two years in office forum, what is her buisness there? The entire u.s govt only meets once in a year and that's during the state of the union address. Aminu tambuwal does his job as speaker of the house and has never failed to attend a council of state meeting, that is what he was elected for so he owes no one an apology or explanation.

From a bold, calculating leader with an astute command of the english language addressing the UN with all boldness, the queen,jfk,etc to a stammering, scared, uninspiring leader 54 years down the road.

54 years my foot! The sooner we stop this idiotic false patriotism of "no matter how nigeria is it's our country" and realize we have real problems, work hard to bequeath a better nation for the next generation, the better for us least we keep draging out this failure called nigeria into a century. And the longer it takes the more painful it gets! Enjoy your celebrations.

And let me assure all the demented celebrants here that no single person will die of ebola in texas, even the index case! Be assured.

The u.s has infected itself with the disease it created so that nobody will suspect them of creating it. Were are all my brainless conspiracy theorist nairalanders? I'm waiting for your best shot at this.

I will pay this man to drill him.

"If you can beat them, pay for them to be beaten"

barcanista: I don't understand this. The man entered into a competition, he won #100,000, which should be about N50m-N60m as at that time. He worked in the Civil Service and retired honorably. he recieves his pension and other benefits, so what else do the government owe him financially? Yes he deserves a National Award and Nothing more. We need to spend on important issues and leave these trivial issues for Corporate Bodies and NGOs.

what else does government owe him? Seriously, but the same government maintains a mansion in abuja and their home state for thieving billionaire former heads of states, changed 5 cars regularly for them, give them furnishing allowance quarterly, a sizable pension and hundreds of other allowance, healthcare, govt covers all their travel expenses. We owe these scum all this but nothing to an honest patriot.

One of the best things jonathan has done during his presidency. It's shameful the neglect this man has suffered in the hands of our government since 1960. The man is in the final phase of his life so that pension won't be paid for long...the govt should calculate everything owed this man since 1960 and pay it to his family.

presido1: Check your first post and the word you started it with. You are the first person to use an offensive word. So don't deny u started the abuse.

I HAVE APOLOGISED.

Evathyst: Minus d 'abusive' words, u made a very good point

my apologies to you and everyone else offended by it, that guy started and I wanted to show his he does'nt have a monopoly on abuse. One again, sorry all.

kastonkastrol: dumb fvckhead..... You first presented america as the saviour of the world to us, so why are you now giving us some lame excuses for their failures? Is obvious you are high on some shunk and ediots like you are to be ignored...

Pathetic fiend....

;Dthought I was talking to a sensible person, what a waste of time, energy and mb. So sad!!

Idrismusty97: China helps Africa fight against Ebola epidemic
http://english.cntv.cn/2014/08/13/VIDE1407884520284920.shtml

China vows again to help fight Ebola virus in W/A
http://dailyindependentnig.com/2014/09/china-vows-help-fight-ebola-virus-wa/

CHINA SEEKS INFLUENCE IN AFRICA, PLEDGES EXTRA $32 MILLION TO EBOLA FIGHT
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/09/19/China-Seeking-Influence-in-Africa-Pledges-an-Extra-32-Million-to-Ebola-Fight

China Gives Green Light To Mass Produce Ebola Test Kits.
https://www.nairaland.com/1870160/ebola-china-gives-green-light



Russia, Sierra Leone Agree to Cooperate in Fight Against Ebola
http://en.ria.ru/world/20140912/192892294/Russia-Sierra-Leone-Agree-to-Cooperate-in-Fight-Against-Ebola.html

Russian Scientists to Deploy Laboratory in Africa to Fight Ebola Virus
http://en.ria.ru/russia/20140820/192180567/Russian-Scientists-to-Deploy-Laboratory-in-Africa-to-Fight-Ebola.html

despite all they get from minning? Let's go through this again, 1 billion dollars of u.s taxpayers money, tripple that of china and others, 3,000 u.s troops in harms way. Enough said.

kastonkastrol: u are the dumb person here..

Why is your almighty america not rendering their humanitarian services in countries like;

congo
mali
palestian
ukrain
liberia
etc

Has your almighty america who claim she is a good friend of Nigeria rescue the kidnapped chibok girls for us or even help us in fighting boko harams?

the same americans were the same people promoting apartheid in south africa in the 60s even when they entire world was against it?

why are they(americans) not helping their closest neigbour(mexico) in fighting the drug lords in that country?

So mr man you cant feed anybody with that "america is the good nation while russia and china are the evil nations" pooo...

And talking about ebola virus disease, was it not the same america that refused to help west african nations suffering from the virus with their stvpid ZMAPP bullshiit? They(america) only did render their help when they saw Nigeria has also discovered a vaccine and many strategies that will minimize the spread of the virus and finally send ebola to the nether.

Keep deceiving yourself that america is the saviour of the world when that is not the case.

idiotic plonker!!

Congo- rape capital of the world, where govt troops are raping women indiscriminately and the govt turns a blind eye, who wants to be part of such a human rights abuse party.

Mali- mali is a french colony, there are french troops there and america is even flying drones in the north.

Palestine- the palestinian people should denouce terrorist like hamas that launch rocket daily into isreal and the u.s will be more than ready to negociate a two states solution.

Ukraine-it is russia that is supporting rebels in the east of ukraine and sending it's troops to disstabilize ukraine. The u.s and nato is helping keiv keep the peace and tame russia.

Liberia-the u.s has sent 3,000 troops to liberia to fight ebola and pledged 1 billion dollars.

The u.s should help nigeria find girls that nigeria does not know the exact number that is missing? They should help nigeria fight criminals the nigerian govt know the sponsors?

Animal, aparthied has nothing to do with u.s, rather british prime minister margaret thatcher refused to impose sanctions of south africa for aparthied when the u.s led the way in sanctions.

Apparently you've not heard of "fast and furious" or the billions the u.s has sunk in the fight against mexican drug cartels on both sides of the borderm

I can't feed you, you're too dumb to know what is sensible or not.

Animal, the final batch of zmapp in the world was sent to liberia and right now more are in production.

Once again, idiotic simpleton.

generalissimo: You are off point man! Ur ranting clearly shows ur hatred for TB J or SCOAN, (I'm not a fan either) and ur own very president. Who is in the best position to figure out the number of the South African victims quicker other than the owners of the victims So far, have u heard that TB J. Planned the building collapse? Or just because he owned the building that collapsed he should be locked up? And about our President, did u expect him to slap him (and say u killed a lot of people) instead of shaking and consoling him? Or u interpreted that simple gesture to be ''good! Welldone''? Dont let ur hatred cloud ur judgement......TB J. should be investigated, and if found guilty, justice should be served. I'm not against that.

next time read and assimilate before launching into a debate. My arguement is that this inept government both lagos and federal have bungled the whole response to this disaster, it took them a whole day or more to start rescue operation because they claim church members send them away, so a mob can stop the nigerian government from carrying out it's duties to people in trouble? An investigation has'nt been carried out on the site but all indication is that the church illegallly built extra floors on the building yet the foolish president thought it wise to be seen with t.b joshua and consoling him? Why do you think their is no pics of the governor of lagos state and the pastor even though he also visited the place? You nigerians don't grasp the importance of "optics".... In cases like these what causes an international crisis is not the event itself but the actions and inactions following it.

viczing: Story for the Gods..... Fool ya self

simpleton!! If you have nothing to say don't F****ing quote me!!

Fools above me!! America wants their resources? China that has been minning gold as hell in guinea where are they now ebola has come? Where is russia? It is the u.s that is pledging 1 billion dollars and sending 3000 of it's troop to help in countries where dogs now eat peoples dead body on the streets. The u.s is 16 trillion dollars in debt and it's troops are streached thin in the middle east but they still squeezed out money and troops to help, where is china with it's booming economy and the largest land army in the world? Why are'nt they helping? They are waiting for ebola to go so they can return to mine. Dumb africans don't know who their friends are and who the real thief is. Waiting for some stack raving made nairalander to come and tell me the CIA and FBI created ebola!! Plonkers!

This is the scene in one of the most advanced cities in the world, hong kong...the most expensive city in the world, but they are on the street for days, why? China says before hong kong elect their chief executive he will have to be approved by them, now they are raising hell, in nigeria our leaders have feeding our shit for years yet for a few wards of cash or rice we sell our soul to them. That's the hallmark of a lazy and inept man.

Well deserved!! The number of south africans who died in that church collapse is the most south africans to die on foreign soil. Think about that! And our inept government is showing no sign of urgency to get answers or justice for the families, heck, south africa from their country figured out how many of their citizens died before we on the ground could, let's not talk of the airhead president who was shaking hands and consoling a suspect in the whole catastrophe. And tomorrow nigeria will demand respect from other countries and demand that our citizens abroad be treated better, just look at how we have fumbled this tragedy. Rubbish!!

When is this charlatan going to be arrested and tried for manslaughter? Has an investigation been launched into the whole building collapse? Or is this lagos state government gradually contracting the stupidity that consumes the federal government. Apparently our idiotic leaders don't know what it means when our country hosts the highest number of death for a country's citizens abroad. And we are slower than snails and tortoise to get answers and justice.

Wasted politician!! Let me see if the APC is dumb enough to give their presidential ticket to this idiot who jonathan roasted in the 2011 PDP presidential primaries, winning him even in his state, adamawa. They better think or they'll make this election a selection of the better of two evils, and we all know who is more evil.

This is the same idiot thinking that has made them the worse hit ebola country. Ignorance is rampant and now it is being worsened by garbage journalism like this from news outlet. Instend of the govt to work with the media to desensitized people of their conspiracy theorist and primitive beliefs, they are confirming it and sending more people to the grave, and all this rubbish is coming as the u.s is sending troops and medical teams to liberia to help, violence against them by the locals will rise...if liberia don't get their act together and be serious about this disease in every aspect of their society, IT WILL WIPE THEM OUT!!!

The much-anticipated U.N. Climate Summit,
which began today in New York, is
ostensibly a platform for world leaders to
leap frog debates over whether climate
change is real, and skip straight to
discussions centered around how to
overcome the challenges it poses. But it's
also an impetus for those beyond the
sessions' panels to illuminate troubling
patterns of behavior that are contributing
to our collective carbon footprint--and food
waste is without question one of the most
egregious, especially in the United States.
In 2012, the most recent year for which
estimates are available, Americans threw
out roughly 35 million tons of food,
according to the Environmental Protection
Agency. That's almost 20 percent more food
than the United States tossed out in 2000, 50
percent more than in 1990, and
nearly three times what Americans
discarded in 1960, when the country threw
out a now seemingly paltry 12.2 million
tons.
In 1980, food waste accounted for less than
10 percent of total waste; today, it makes up
well over a fifth of the country's garbage.
Americans, as it is, now throw out more
food than plastic, paper, metal, or glass—
and by a long shot.
"Food waste is an incredible and absurd
issue for the world today," Jose Lopez,
Nestle's head of operations said of the issue
earlier this month.
Roughly a third of the food produced
worldwide never gets eaten. The problem
is particularly egregious in developed
countries, where food is seen as being more
expendable than it is elsewhere. "Every
year, consumers in rich countries waste
almost as much food (222 million tonnes) as
the entire net food production of sub-
Saharan Africa (230 million tonnes)," the
U.N. notes on its website.
This country is one of the worst offenders:
a 2012 paper by the Natural Resources
Defense Council estimated that as much as
40 percent of America's food supply ends
up in a dumpster.
The most obvious problem with this waste is
that while Americans are throwing out their
food, an estimated one in every nine people
in the world still suffers from chronic
hunger—that is, insufficient food—including
more than 200 million in Sub-Saharan
Africa and more than 500 million Asia. Even
in the United States, where that number is
significantly lower, some 14 percent of U.S.
households still struggled to put food on the
table for a portion of last year, according to
the USDA.
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The level of food waste suggests that
curbing hunger isn't a matter of producing
more food so much as better preserving
and distributing the food currently being
produced. As the United Nations noted in its
report on world hunger last week, there is
actually enough food to feed all seven
billion people living in the world today.
But there's another less apparent problem
with food waste: the threat to the
environment. Landfills full of decomposing
food release methane, which is said to be at
least 20 times more lethal a greenhouse gas
than carbon dioxide. And America's landfills
are full of food—organic waste is the second
largest contributor to the country's
landfills. Those same landfills are the single
largest producer of methane emissions in
the United States—they produce almost a
quarter of the country's total methane
emissions, according to the NRDC.
The environmental cost of food waste goes
further than just methane emissions.
Producing food is a costly affair for the
environment—an estimated one third of
global carbon emissions come from
agriculture—but it's one society pays to
feed itself.
The price for producing food that never
ends up in someone's mouth is much more
—it includes both the resources and
environmental decay sacrificed for its
making. The livestock industry contributes
more than 15 percent of global carbon
emissions, according to the U.N, which
means that when Americans throw out
meat, they are wasting some of the most
environmentally costly food available.
A number of initiatives, both domestic and
international, have surfaced to curb the
amount of food that never makes it to
people's plates. The FAO's Save Food
program centers around four pillars—
awareness, collaboration, policy
development, and investment—and focuses
on the need for improved food channels;
the USDA, for its part, has hosted a number
of talks, panels, and initiatives. The
department is holding a webinar on
Wednesday that will specifically
address food waste at supermarkets,
restaurants, and other food establishments.
There are also many localized examples of
programs working to diminish food waste,
including D.C. Central Kitchen in
Washington D.C., which repurposes roughly
a million pounds of recovered food each
year.
Significantly curbing food waste nationally,
let alone internationally, however, will
likely prove a daunting task. The problem,
after all, is a systemic one. "Our best
estimates are that about 40-50 percent of
food waste comes from consumers and
50-60 percent from businesses," Ashley
Zanolli, who addresses food waste at the
EPA, told NPR on Monday. Food is wasted at
virtually every stage of its production,
which means that it's up to food producers,
distributors, retailers, and eaters to fix the
problem.

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