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BlackMerchant:
Serving judges, as a matter of professional conduct and ethics, do not grant interviews to the press. So this purported interview is a HOAX. PDP and Wike trying to justify the travesty that was the Supreme Court judgment on Rivers State.

this so called interview was waaaay before the supreme court judgement

I was in Anambra for a project during the Christmas period, was really impressed with what I saw there

This is not a matter of any mafia, we've been hearing one new excuse for each and every week of this administration. There were specific people tasked with drafting this budget, Buhari should invite/arrest those people for "undermining" the integrity of his government. The only reason he'll refuse to do so is except he's complicit in the padding process or.











He's very very afraid of those that did/authorized the padding i.e."real ogas of aso rock"

I won't support impeachment, he must complete his tenure if for nothing else at least for the peace of this nation. Unfortunately his lackeys divided this country along ethnic and partisan lines (I dare say religious also) so he should stay there let peace reign but he should also start using his head properly

Why did Obasanjo allow this man get so powerful in the first place ?

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The name is Learn Excel

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BeardedMeat:
Budget mafia my black ass! All I see are ministers burning misdnight candles together with their permsecs delibrating and padding the budget to accomodate their interests which is why they are in politics in the first place.

Has anybody wondered why Udo Udoma is yet to say anything on the matter, He knows that if he opens his mouth on what truly transpired, heads would roll!

BTW, these civil servants that this administration so wants to be the fall guys, are they not the same people Buhari trusted and would rather work with instead of noise makers, The ministers of the different ministries are responsible for the gigantic silo of yams in the 2016 budget with the collaboration of Buhari.

thank you very much, I always believed that budget mafia crap was nonsense. As a leader, you're supposed to take responsibility at all times. These ministers and even the president have PA's, SA's etc who could have gone through the drafts for them as they're "so busy" and pointed out errors. Sad fact of the matter is Buhari and his cohorts were not ready for government

sunnyb0b0:
They now view topics like this as guests.

how can anybody defend this travesty without being mad ?

Can she change car tire and put on the generator when I'm not around ?

chriskosherbal:
Pls let's try and get things going will need that budget to passed, signed and implemented, Nigerian's need it.

not the way it presently is, the criminality in it is mind boggling

chinchum:
No budget was missing, stop allowing the media sensationalise to the point you can't think for your self. Your opinion does not have to be medias opinion. Beyond the media noise, i can unferstand what the problem was. The fact still remains the budget is a draft and not yet an appropriation act.. The budget draft must be defended by ministers and respective agencies and parastaltals, at the committee level of national assembly and corrections will be made. There has never been a time the budget draft always end up unchanged at the national assembly .

the budget actually went missing and this particular one is different from the original one Buhari presented in December

arresa:
[s]lol @ wailers and ipoD pain, sorrow and lamentation thread...

Losers..[/s]

villager, you can exit the thread if you like

Karlovich:
Buhari has no knowledge about running an economy, all he knows is kworoption, worst part is that he has surrounded himself with thieves

nobody is an epitome of knowledge and that's why wise leaders surround themselves with experts in various fields to handle set tasks. You can see from examples given in the article how Clinton, Obj, GEJ etc assembled sound minds immediately they got into power just to steer this ship properly. I had warned severally during the first few months of this administration that the lethargy shown towards the appointment of a cabinet would come back to haunt us but APC minions came attacking me like rabid dogs. No matter what they say online here, the situation is biting everybody now irrespective of party affiliations. Security wise, I had expected a few heads to roll when at inception of this govt, military road blocks were banned for some days, time enough for anybody to get into formation ave strike when word is given instead there were shameful denials that no such order was made. I witnessed the dismounting of the road blocks so nobody can lie to me. Question is how will a government leadership with military background be so clueless on directives/orders ? I have an ugly feeling but don't want to say it because of its implications

President Muhammadu Buhari; Vice President Yemi Osinbajo; advisers and ministers still operate in the belief that good intentions and reputations are all you need to run a new government successfully. Buhari, especially, must still be thinking that his former reputation as a tough guy will cow all those who had cooperated with previous governments in wrecking the nation’s economy. Little did the old general realise that with three military Heads of State succeeding him and a recycled former military ruler returning as civilian President, Nigerians are now as scared of the men in khaki as before. He is just now beginning to realise as late President Harry Truman, 1884-1972, remarked when General Dwight Eisenhower, 1890-1969, was elected President in 1952, “You give an order as President and nothing happens”; nothing, unless you virtually sit on the necks of the officials who are supposed to get the work done and the way you want it done.

Buhari, imbued with the innocence associated with having served as a military Head of State, gave orders that a budget be prepared, in one month in November 2015. And sure enough, there was a budget before the National Assembly, NASS, proceeded on its Christmas break in December.

The Federal Government congratulated itself on a feat almost equivalent to using mere words to move mountains. But, by the second week in January 2016, there was a mild drama about a missing budget. This was followed by arguments about two budgets and doubts about which was the authentic one. The President was forced to write a letter apologising to the NASS for the confusion created by the Executive branch. For a while, everything appeared settled.

The first week of February brought more problems for Buhari and the budget he solemnly presented to the NASS. Various committees of the NASS discovered discrepancies in the budget presented to them for verification and alarm bells were ringing all over the nation.

Buhari-Central AfricaThen, on February 8, 2016, the Federal Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole, went before the Senate Committee on Health and made history. He almost totally disclaimed his Ministry’s budget when he declared that the original budget of his Ministry had been distorted. His words: “We have to look into the details of the budget and re-submit it to the committee. This was not what we submitted. We will submit another one.” With that statement, Adewole confirmed the alarm raised a few days before that a mafia had taken control of the Federal budget and distorted it.The Buhari administration is finally waking up to the reality that long entrenched interests in the civil service and collaborators among long serving NASS members are not about to allow the changes the government desires to occur so quickly because it threatens their selfish interests.

One example will illustrate the point.

When late Chief Bola Ige assumed office as the Federal Minister of Power and Steel in 1999, he promised to bring an end to power failure by December of that year. Long term watchers of the Federal Civil Service establishment warned the Minister not to repeat the statement or risk tarnishing his reputation as a performer. Ige was adamant – power failure must end by December 31, 1999. On January 1, 2000, as several Nigerian communities were covered in darkness, Nigerians started grumbling. They did not stop until Ige was removed from the Ministry. What went wrong? Ige himself provided the answer – the Civil Servants working with him. His redeployment to Ministry of Justice was a relief. But, he had learned his lessons. The first thing his enemies within did to undermine him was to distort his budget proposal. But given our new experience with civilian rule, the NASS, in 1999, rubber-stamped everything presented as budget. Later, Ige discovered that what was approved by the NASS was totally different from what he sent for typing. It could not be implemented.

Fast forward to 2015 and how a new mafia took over from the gang of 1999. The first discovery is that President Buhari provided the mafia with the best opportunity in years to operate on account of two decisions he made, before and after he was declared winner of the 2015 presidential elections.

Every modern President is called upon to manage two primary areas of governance very well – the economy and security of the state. Other functions, though important, are totally dependent on how well the first two are managed. Some, like former President Clinton of the United States, even start early to consider how to handle those two key aspects of governance. The very day Clinton decided to run for President, he posted on the door of his campaign office a notice about his top priority stating JOBS STUPID! For him, the economy was going to be number one. He then proceeded to assemble a team of economic advisers who eventually developed a road map for his economic policy if he eventually got elected; and he was. Among his first three appointments were the Secretary of State and the Treasury Secretary (Minister of Finance). This was followed by the establishment of an economic policy team to address the first budget Clinton was going to present to Congress. It took almost five months of back breaking work for that document to emerge – after going through about four drafts.

No mafia can smuggle anything into that budget because all the framers had all the relevant facts in the budget at their finger-tips.

In case anybody wants to dismiss the Clinton example, by saying, as we often do in Nigeria, that “that is America”, there is a local example to consider.

President-elect Obasanjo, in 1999, before his inauguration made two appointments first. He appointed a Chief of Staff and Chief Philip Asiodu as the Chief Economic Adviser. Then, he appointed a National Security Adviser. That immediately sent a clear message to the world that his priorities were the economy and security; and each sector had a Field Commander.

Umar Musa YarÁdua and Jonathan also appointed, very quickly, the people who would manage the economy on their behalf. That is the global standard. Even the President of war-torn Syria had managed to keep the economy of the country relatively untouched because he knows that economic chaos is another war by itself; and perhaps the biggest one.

By contrast, Buhari was declared President on May 29, 2015, and on that day he had no Economic Road Map to work with.

Most of the twaddle that was pronounced during the short campaign by the APC cannot constitute an economic blue print in any serious country. Certainly, there was no Council of Economic Advisers assembled to start preliminary work on the outlines of the first budget of this government immediately the results were announced and Jonathan accepted defeat.

Buhari compounded that error by taking almost five months to assemble his cabinet. Even for a country under siege, five months is a world record, and not one should be proud to claim, to form a cabinet.

Encouraged by the flatterers of everyone in power, Buhari proclaimed that he was doing it to avoid making mistakes.

Meanwhile, he was making a monumental one. National budgets are very serious businesses; they affect the lives of nationals and foreigners alike. If no serious multi-national business enterprise can expect to produce a credible budget in one month, how on earth could Buhari and his praise-singers have expected to deliver a national budget, with foreign operations components, in one month?

Clearly, if the blame for the current budget fiasco is to be laid on one table, it must be Buhari’s. Given his reputation for integrity, amply demonstrated by his first apology to the NASS, he should issue another apology to Nigerians. He gave those charged with writing the budget an impossible task and the nation is now faced with a budget crisis. Even, the intrusion of the saboteurs was made possible and easy because given the rushed work, the new Ministers were no match for the long-term civil servants ready to undermine the budget process. A normal budget process, allowing for first, second and third drafts,would have been more difficult to infiltrate because by then every Minister or head of agency would have gone through the documents more than once.

Even now, there is no Chief Economic Adviser; no Council of Economic Advisers; no Minister is solely responsible for implementation of the budget. The Vice-President had intervened several times but his role is not clear. Incidentally, it was the Vice-President who announced five months ago that the government was considering an N8trillion budget for 2016. That figure represented about 85% more than the 2015 budget and 110% over the projected actual figure for last year. The figure was alarming; yet, a call to the Presidency confirmed that indeed the government was thinking of N7-8 trillion according to the source. Given the rapidly declining price of crude, most economists and budget experts regarded the figure as totally unrealistic. Still, the figure was defended strongly at every fora. The figure for the 2016 budget turned out to be N6 trillion. The same VP announced that the 2016 budget would be based on the Zero Sum platform. He ignored warnings that budgets using zero sum model take months to prepare; not one month. Today, ignorance about the application of zero sum budgeting is being advanced as one of the causes of the mess in which we find ourselves. Who is responsible? This government has yet to learn that its VP is not an economist, but, he can do a lot of damage with his utterances on the economy.

Yes, the mafia is striking back; and it has drawn its first blood by getting the Federal Government into this horrible budget embarrassment. But, government has provided the rope with which it is now hanging because of errors made in the presidency.

Clearly, two steps need to be taken urgently. Unlike those asking for the budget to be withdrawn, the best advice would caution something different. First, make amendments as necessary to the budget because there is no time to write a new one. Then, urgently assemble an Economic Management Team with a leader to take charge of the situation before government’s credibility is further damaged. Neither Buhari nor Osinbajo is an economist. The sooner they realise that the better for us all.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/02/abuja-mafia-and-budget-2016-how-buharis-inaction-aided-a-crooked-process/

This is what you get when a two bit journalist is made education minister ahead of a professor. Gaffes upon gaffes administration, kindergarten presidency

That's why they have aides to do the dirty work for them or are the so called aides mere furniture ? Silly excuse

Evathyst:
There he goes again! The twitter Senator!


He never makes his common sense on the floor of the Senate, but disturbs our peace here on twitter. Little wonder someone said he looks like Obama but reasons like Obanikoro.

cry baby, when last did you watch senate proceedings live or on tv to know what he does there

chinchum:
The errors are not beyond redemption, some wailing zombies are crying more than the bereaved. The budget is still a DRAFT and not yet an ACT. Any error discovered now can be corrected , it is a good thing ministers have disowned some of these paddings and are willing to make corrections; that shows integrity. The ministers had less than 30 days to oversee the budget. What the budget errors also shows is that there are still several stubborn goats, mostly civil servants (Dgs,permsecs, Directors, e.t.c) who still want to have a taste of yams from Nigeria's barn. I believe by the second week of March, that is less than a month from now, the budget will be passed, the current government is suffering from teething issues, which is clear , but the wailing zombies always pray for the failure of the current government, so they can wail as they were predestined on March 28, 2015.

the problem right now is that ministers can't present a budget different from what the president presented. Buhari will have to officially withdraw this one with shoulder pad

EternalTruths:
Even lie Mohammed had to take cover.

Mark my words

PEOPLE ARE READY TO EXPOSE BUHARI IF HE STEALS ONE KOBO.

UNKOWN EYES ARE WATCHING HIM

Lie Mohammed has to be investigated for the way they allowed Buhari present a budget they knew they would disown. They're embarrassing the poor man

EternalTruths:
Buhari wanted to steal.

Unfortunately for him , Nigerians caught him.

red handed sef, his advisers promised him that Nigerians don't read but it was a fat lie

Op please start wearing bongo trousers, cloggs and afro hairstyles or better still be on wrapper 24/7 as a true African. Yeye dey stank

oganology33:
'He Who Dances With The Surughede, Does Not Know That The Surughede Is A Dance Of The Spirit'.
After Flying Round The Entire Country With Corrupt Politicians Loots From Their Various States, You Honestly Don't Expect Them Not 2 Have A Hold On You.
Our Dear President Is In A Political Labyrinth. A Famished Road Which Was Once A River. And Because It Was Once A River. . .It Will Always Be Hungry.
In Short. . .Mr. President Don Enta One Chance.

Buhari needs a reality check, I would have added prayers but there's enough prayers already. This rigmarole must stop before even Zimbabweans start making fun of our economy

OZAOEKPE:
THEY HAVE NOTHING TO SAY, LEMME CALL ON THEIR 'DADDY' AGBAYA GBAWE, THE KING OF EPISTLE??

Gbawe has gone to learn how to summarize, he's a good boy now

For every single day the budget is not passed, avenues for looting the treasury are being created and utilized. Congrats to change, I don't see a budget till the middle of this year at the earliest meaning developmental activities for 2016 would go down the drain and the year would be wasted like last year. During the buffoons tenure, impeachment proceedings would have been instigated against him.

BY – CHARLES OHIA


When all that is impossible has been removed, the remaining however improbable must be the truth’’ – Sherlock Holmes

On the morning of the 22nd of December 2015, Nigerians were glued to their television sets watching their President, Muhammadu Buhari make a presentation of the 2016 budget to a joint session of the National Assembly. At the end of it all, the presentation was applauded by a number of Nigerians as one of the finest hours of Buhari’s seven month old Presidency. But as it is with football, after the applause has died and the last fan has departed, the stadium is left in a mess. And that is exactly what the Buhari led government has left Nigerians with; a mess. At least going by the revelations so far. But first, the genesis.

Many had expected Buhari to hit the ground running immediately after his inauguration, but instead he became subsumed in a befuddling gale of lethargy as epitomised by his questionable decision that constituting a cabinet could wait. A wait the country is finding increasingly arduous to recover from. One would have thought that the circumstance of his coming into power was all the impetus he needed to constitute a competent economic team as well as appoint a substantive Minister of Finance. But no! Instead, as has become custom, Nigerians were suffused with justifications as to why Permanent Secretaries were the best things to have happened to governance in Nigeria, by those Reuben Abati famously described as the “new stars and celebrities who though not necessarily the most educated or knowledgeable, but who populate the social media space with their fast-food type intellectualism”.

This is spite of the fact that the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) was losing billions with each passing week. This was in spite of the fact that jobs were being cut. This was in spite of the fact that instead of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), we were witnessing huge capital flight, since no one except Buhari had the vaguest idea of the economic thrust of his government. This was in spite of the fact that the Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) which is a precursor to the budget was constitutionally due in August. This was in spite of the fact that our foreign reserves were dwindling in response to rapidly falling oil prices and a foreign exchange (FX) regime that made sense only to the formulators of our monetary policy.

Eventually, when the Ministers were appointed amidst all the drama that came with it, the disappointment was profound. It was inconceivable that these men and women were the reason why we had lost six months of a semblance of governance. However, we are a people of resilience and so we accepted our fate with a mixture of humility, equanimity and righteous decibel levels of wailing. Isn’t that why in spite of being one of the lowest ranked countries on the Human Development Index and having the worst energy efficiency per capita in the world, Nigerians were adjudged as the happiest people on earth? Nevertheless, our collective expectation of these Ministers was to drive the policy of the new government through their various ministries. Their first major task was the development of an economic blueprint in form of a budget. It turns out that their collective effort is an epic fail.

They failed in colours so fly that Joseph’s famed coat of many colours will go green with envy.

Or how else do you explain the atrocious proposal of N1Billion by the Federal Ministry of Communication Technology for the purchase of chairs and tables? How else do you explain that it was proposed for rents to be paid for the Presidential villa? How do you explain that the Power, Works and Housing Minister proposed to spend N500 million on attending ‘statutory meetings’? How else do you explain that the Minister of Interior proposed to spend an amount 2,500% higher from last year on refurbishing his office? How else do you explain that a Unity School under the Ministry of Education budgeted twenty different unrelated items for the exact same sum of N400, 237? I can go on and on through the dizzying labyrinth of frivolities.

On the surface, it does seem like a genuine arrant display of ineptitude and incompetence. However, on closer scrutiny, what strikes any discerning mind is the fact that this document was deliberately cobbled together as a special purpose vehicle to hoodwink Nigerians and in the process blindly pillage whatever is left of our collective patrimony beyond whatever palliatives medical science or miracle can render. But there is a limit to which Nigerians can be taken for a jolly good ride and this is exactly what galvanized well-meaning Nigerians to condemn the 2016 budget in its entirety. The results are as ubiquitous as they are effective.

First it was the Minister of Education; Adamu Adamu who stated in unambiguous terms that he was unaware of the hidden N10B that was discovered by the NASS members during their review of the budget.

This was followed strangely but not unexpectedly by the Minister of Health; Professor Isaac Adewole who declared a few days ago in very shocking fashion that the figures attributed to his Ministry were not what was submitted by him. He took it to comical heights by asserting that he was going to submit his own version of the budget to the National Assembly; definitely ignorant that the Fiscal Responsibility Act prohibits Ministers from individually handing in their budgets to NASS. Of course, when it comes to repudiation, The Information Minister, Lai Mohammed cannot be outdone. He too refuted his ministry’s budget. As has become custom to the APC led government, they all had a barrage of excuses. This time the icing on the excuse cake was preposterously splashed by the FG in a failed attempt to exonerate itself from the disgrace that is the 2016 budget.

A statement issued by the FG’s spokesman revealed to a bewildered nation, that a budget mafia was responsible for inserting all the frivolous and duplicitous figures in the budget. The devil must be seething with rage at the nerve to tell such blatant lies of elephantine proportions.

From it being missing, to it being withdrawn and only recently being out rightly denied by the very people who put together it’s duplicitous component parts, the 2016 budget has been enmeshed in all shades of hilarity and shown for exactly what it is; a carefully crafted plot to defraud the Nigerian people. If the APC led government is worth the ballot paper through which it was voted into power, the least it should do as a matter of national importance is to summarily withdraw the scandalous document from the National Assembly forthwith. That is the minimum expectation from Nigerians who are still shocked at their effrontery.

In the great words of Sherlock Homes, when all that is impossible has been removed, the remaining however improbable must be the truth. The impossibility that the 2016 wrote itself is already established. It is improbable that Buhari and his Ministers were unaware of what they signed off on. That our national budget has been treated in such a shambolic, scruffy and scornful manner, the only inference that can be drawn from this whole nauseating episode therefore is that Buhari and the government he leads, has shown a contemptible level of irresponsibility and incompetence.

And that is the truth!

http://www.opinionriver.com/the-2016-budget-1800-pages-of-putrid-mess/

A report from the Argentine doctors’ organisation, Physicians in the Crop-Sprayed Towns,[1] challenges the theory that the Zika virus epidemic in Brazil is the cause of the increase in the birth defect microcephaly among newborns.

The increase in this birth defect, in which the baby is born with an abnormally small head and often has brain damage, was quickly linked to the Zika virus by the Brazilian Ministry of Health. However, according to the Physicians in the Crop-Sprayed Towns, the Ministry failed to recognise that in the area where most sick people live, a chemical larvicide that produces malformations in mosquitoes was introduced into the drinking water supply in 2014. This poison, Pyriproxyfen, is used in a State-controlled programme aimed at eradicating disease-carrying mosquitoes.

The Physicians added that the Pyriproxyfen is manufactured by Sumitomo Chemical, a Japanese "strategic partner" of Monsanto. Pyriproxyfen is a growth inhibitor of mosquito larvae, which alters the development process from larva to pupa to adult, thus generating malformations in developing mosquitoes and killing or disabling them. It acts as an insect juvenile hormone or juvenoid, and has the effect of inhibiting the development of adult insect characteristics (for example, wings and mature external Instruments) and reproductive development. It is an endocrine disruptor and is teratogenic (causes birth defects), according to the Physicians.

The Physicians commented: “Malformations detected in thousands of children from pregnant women living in areas where the Brazilian state added Pyriproxyfen to drinking water are not a coincidence, even though the Ministry of Health places a direct blame on the Zika virus for this damage.”

They also noted that Zika has traditionally been held to be a relatively benign disease that has never before been associated with birth defects, even in areas where it infects 75% of the population.

Larvicide the most likely culprit in birth defects

Pyriproxyfen is a relatively new introduction to the Brazilian environment; the microcephaly increase is a relatively new phenomenon. So the larvicide seems a plausible causative factor in microcephaly – far more so than GM mosquitoes, which some have blamed for the Zika epidemic and thus for the birth defects. There is no sound evidence to support the notion promoted by some sources that GM mosquitoes can cause Zika, which in turn can cause microcephaly. In fact, out of 404 confirmed microcephaly cases in Brazil, only 17 (4.2%) tested positive for the Zika virus.

Brazilian health experts agree Pyriproxyfen is chief suspect

The Argentine Physicians’ report, which also addresses the Dengue fever epidemic in Brazil, concurs with the findings of a separate report on the Zika outbreak by the Brazilian doctors’ and public health researchers’ organisation, Abrasco.[2]

Abrasco also names Pyriproxyfen as a likely cause of the microcephaly. It condemns the strategy of chemical control of Zika-carrying mosquitoes, which it says is contaminating the environment as well as people and is not decreasing the numbers of mosquitoes. Abrasco suggests that this strategy is in fact driven by the commercial interests of the chemical industry, which it says is deeply integrated into the Latin American ministries of health, as well as the World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organisation.

Abrasco names the British GM insect company Oxitec as part of the corporate lobby that is distorting the facts about Zika to suit its own profit-making agenda. Oxitec sells GM mosquitoes engineered for sterility and markets them as a disease-combatting product – a strategy condemned by the Argentine Physicians as “a total failure, except for the company supplying mosquitoes”.

The poor suffer most

Both the Brazilian and Argentine doctors’ and researchers' associations agree that poverty is a key neglected factor in the Zika epidemic. Abrasco condemned the Brazilian government for its "deliberate concealment” of economic and social causes: “In Argentina and across America the poorest populations with the least access to sanitation and safe water suffer most from the outbreak.” The Argentine Physicians agreed, stating, “The basis of the progress of the disease lies in inequality and poverty.”

Abrasco added that the disease is closely linked to environmental degradation: floods caused by logging and the massive use of herbicides on (GM) herbicide-tolerant soy crops – in short, “the impacts of extractive industries”.

The notion that environmental degradation may a factor in the spread of Zika finds backing in the view of Dino Martins, PhD, a Kenyan entomologist. Martins said that “the explosion of mosquitoes in urban areas, which is driving the Zika crisis” is caused by “a lack of natural diversity that would otherwise keep mosquito populations under control, and the proliferation of waste and lack of disposal in some areas which provide artificial habitat for breeding mosquitoes”.

Community-based actions

The Argentine Physicians believe that the best defence against Zika is “community-based actions”. An example of such actions is featured in a BBC News report on the Dengue virus in El Salvador. A favourite breeding place for disease-carrying mosquitoes is storage containers of standing water. El Salvadorians have started keeping fish in the water containers, and the fish eat the mosquito larvae. Dengue has vanished along with the mosquitoes that transmit the disease. And so far, the locals don’t have any Zika cases either.

Simple yet effective programmes like this are in danger of being neglected in Brazil in favour of the corporate-backed programmes of pesticide spraying and releasing GM mosquitoes. The latter is completely unproven and the former may be causing far more serious harm than the mosquitoes that are being targeted.

Notes

1. Report from Physicians in the Crop-Sprayed Towns regarding Dengue-Zika, microcephaly, and mass-spraying with chemical poisons. 2016. Physicians in the Crop-Sprayed Towns. http://www.reduas.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=109
2. Nota técnica e carta aberta à população: Microcefalia e doenças vetoriais relacionadas ao Aedes aegypti: os perigos das abordagens com larvicidas e nebulização química – fumacê. January 2016. GT Salud y Ambiente. Asociación Brasileña de Salud Colectiva. ABRASCO. https://www.abrasco.org.br/site/2016/02/nota-tecnica-sobre-microcefalia-e-doencas-vetoriais-relacionadas-ao-aedes-aegypti-os-perigos-das-abordagens-com-larvicidas-e-nebulizacoes-quimicas-fumace/

I don't know why outsiders dey take Panadol for our headache. Wike you are karid o jare

MAROC:
Damian Dodo... I know him as the youngest SAN...

Obasanjo must be shaking on hearing this because if Halliburton is investigated without OBJ and Tesla's names popping up, it's not Halliburton.

for the EFCC to start with this man means they've sidestepped Obj and other prime players. Small fries and fresh names expected to keep us busy the next few weeks

Eddygourdo:
I Really Did Something Very Wrong

The sight of seeing dogs eaten, slaughtered or kept in cages on their way to pepper soup joints and markets makes me depressed every time. Today, I did the unthinkable, a neighbour in my new area is a middle man for the purchase of these cages of dogs. Sometimes he leaves them outside In the cold, with no proper shelter or food, till he is ready to go to the devil's market with them. The glare of those dogs in the overcrowded cages breaks my heart each time. . Therefore today, without anyone looking I cut the ropes and released the dogs. About nine of them. Some took off at full speed while the foolish ones stayed back in shock and confusion. I quickly dropped the seven thousand Compensation into the cage and ran away. I really feel happy at my criminal behaviour and also bad as that man has been raining curses on the street. I need to park out be that. Cheers

the only wrong thing you did was dropping that 7k

Okijajuju1:
FREE IBRAHIM!!


He acted in self-defense.

Nicole is a cockblocking 27 year old biitchaass Nigga who still lives at home with his mum and wouldnt allow his mum get her groove pn.

Ibrahim should have split his head open,

#Ibrahim should get a lawyer and sue that Nicole c-unt for damages.

see mumu