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nuelzy:
The most stupid advice ever... So what if it was maybe the kid played with gas in the kitchen and it exploded... What will it be nw??



Fence ur kitchen..



What happened has happened.. It was fate and no ones fault.. I'm pretty sure dbanj never wished his child death.. So all dis ppl shouting negligence should just shove it up their inner a$$

WHAT WILL GAS CYLINDER BE LOOKING FOR IN THE KITCHEN?

sexdoll:
so you think someone like dangote cannot just buy the power bike for yusuf as a gift?

do you know how many people who are using any means possible such as buying presents and gifts for the president's kids just to warm their ways into the heart of the president?

no dey speak like say you no dey naija again, abeg.

And you dont think that accepting such gifts is corruption. We should let mama peace off the hook since her monies were also gifts

PierreAbutu:
Man of integrity who cannot tell Nigerians where his 'jobless' son got N52,000,000 to buy an exotic powerbike from

Man of integrity who cannot answer all the allegations of fraud in the PTF, where he was chairman

Man of integrity who cannot show his certificate, but instead hires 20 hungry SANs to defend him

Man of integrity who swore to make dogs and baboons soak in their blood

Man of integrity whose Chief of Staff collects N500,000,000 bribe from MTN under his nose

Man of integrity whose who asked Yar'adua to resign because of ill-health, but spent over a month in a UK Hospital

Man of integrity who promised to give unemployed graduates N5,000 monthly stipend, but denied ever making such a promise

Man of integrity who re-instated and promoted a corrupt fugitive - Abdulrasheed Maina, yet claimed to be fighting corruption


........u wan make I continue?

Integrity indeed

YOU OMITTED THE MAJOR ONE- man of integrity who increased fuel price and still double subsidy ( now called under recovery ))
Man of integrity who refuses to open nnpc books to auditors.

Bishop4real:
PMB assented to it bcoz of his love for the masses. Obviously, budget delays affect economy & it's the common man on the streets that bears the brunt of economic woes most of the time. Furthermore, further delay in signing wouldn't have thrown him in good light to the suffering masses. They definitely won't understand the President. Hungry man is an angry man!

But there are many ways to kill a rat. It's not written in stone that budget implementation must be 100%. So, Mr President can sign & carefully implement the ones very dear to his aspirations. He can starve these ridiculous insertions of funds. Interestingly, he promised to send supplementary budget to them & I strongly believe that the exclusions will be gracefully accommodated this time around.

So the gluttons can insert whatever they feel like inserting while Mr President will implement the ones most dear to the Nigerian populace.

WHY SEND SUPPLEMENTARY BUDGET WHEN WE KNOW THE FIGURES FOR THE PROJECT ARE ALREADY HYPER INFLATED

If Buhari's minister kemi does not release the money, how will they get the money for the project? Truth is buhari was just playing to the gallery. Was it not this same buhari that release 10billion to saraki and dogara to buy cars through fictitious companies? Please let us rest. He will make noise for the masses and then go and do something else at the back. Why is he not shouting about his 1 billion feeding money

UNSCHEDULED YET THERE WAS A BRANDED MARCOPOLO BUS WITH HIS SUPPORTERS!BELIEVE THIS AT YOUR PERIL. ANY HAUSA MAN THAT PRAYS ON A PRAYER MAT WITH BUHARI PICTURE IS NOT A MUSLIM. THIS STUNT WAS PULLED BY BUHARI TO SCARE HIS OPPOSITION. I WISH THIS WILL EMBOLDEN THEM AND MAKE THEM UNITED. THE ONLY REASON BUHARI WILL NOT BE REMOVED IS IF THE OPPOSITION IS NOT UNITED. THOSE BAUCHI PEOPLE ARE IDLE, THEY WILL TROOP OUT TO WELCOME ANYBODY WITH SIREN

Masama:
Oh, so u can prosecute members of the opposition in public and in the media but members of your government will be taken care of backstage? Really? I am still waiting for u to provide me the link where babachir returned the money he stole. As for your PDP corruption claim, I look back at PDP's corrupt sixteen years and I see a lot of those in those PDP governments are the same ones in APC now e.g Ortom, Akume, Gemade, amaechi, boss Mustapha, el rufai, Saraki, Dogara, kwankwaso, tambuwal, aliyu wamako e.t.c more than half of those running the present APC government were the same people that ran THE corrupt PDP government

EVEN THE INEC CHAIRMAN IS PDP. WITH ALL THIS NOISE BUBU MAKES ABOUT CORRUPTION, HE MADE INEC CHAIR OF ALL PEOPLE PDP. AND SOME PEOPLE ARE GOING TO GET PVC TO WASTE THEIR VOTE. 2019 ELECTION HAS ALREADY BEEN RIGGED

His predecessor Wada returned to his house that he built before government, the same kogi people cursed him . Now bello is building mansions they are cursing him. What do they even want?

Bello has all these cars and more. If you see the customized bentley he cruises at night, then you will know that the boy has taste. Kogi sorry is your name

Total noise. She just wants to be noticed. See english? That boy's father should better carry his son away from this ho before she infect the poor boy with stupidity

Makarfi another buhari mole in pdp. What this one will do to pdp will make sheriff drama look like child play. Pdp are real fools

How difficult is it for PMB to just name the people who they recovered loot from!!! All these years no names just fictitious dollars recovered on paper.

talk2percy:
Nonsense. Na the money dey me important, hr should return the money.but if he returns it, will it be used for the massed

It will be relooted like all the other returned loot. I pray God can expose buhari . The looting and relooting going on now is amazing and shocking

ONE OF THE FIRST COMMANDS, BUHARI GAVE WAS FOR SERVICE CHIEFS TO RELOCATE TO BORNO AND LEAD THE WAR. IS BURATAI NOT SUPOOSED TO BE THE COMMANDER OF THE WAR? WHICH ONE IS ATTAHIRU AGAIN

Buhari has truly failed. He needs to be returned and placed in a museum in daura because he is an ancient relic

I will say it again that bello is kogi punishment for what they did to wada. Wada handed kogi as the least indebted state with a human approach to taking care of its workers. Yet, kogi were very ungrateful. Today here we are, bello is has mortgaged the future of generations yet unborn

YOU COULD NOT REMOVE HIM BECAUSE HE WAS SUPPLYING THE CABAL WITH DOLLARS AT SPECIAL RATE WHICH THEYWERE SELLING TO NIGERIANS AT EXORBITANT RATES. REASON WHY WE ENTERED THE WORST RECESSION EVER. IF NOT FOR YOUR INTEREST AND THAT OF THE CABAL, YOU WILL HAVE ARREST HIM FOR OPENING THE VAULT FOR SAMBO DASUKI.

Buhari ‘pockets’ N1.3 trillion oil revenue
June 9, 2018Bassey Udo
Since President Muhammadu Buhari assumed office, Nigeria’s state oil firm, NNPC, has withheld over 25 per cent of revenues realised from domestic crude oil sales, refusing to pay same into the Federation Account, a PREMIUM TIMES investigation shows.


The hefty deductions, a longstanding controversial practice, has continued despite the Buhari administration’s declared commitment to transparency and accountability, and reform initiatives at the corporation.

Oil and gas industry experts well briefed on NNPC operations have condemned the provision in the NNPC enabling Act, which allows the corporation to first recover its operational cost from oil sales before remitting whatever is left to the Federation Account.

The Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) in one of its Occasional Paper series on “Review of NNPC’s Monthly Financial and Operations Report” noted that such a practice, which does not set the limit for such cost recovery was “not transparent and fraught with corruption.”


A review of documents prepared by the Federal Ministry of Finance for members of the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) shows that between June 1, 2015 and April 30, 2018, the NNPC earned about N4.7 trillion from domestic crude oil sales.

However, out of that figure, the corporation remitted about N3.4 trillion, or 72.3 per cent into the Federation Account, pocketing a whopping N1.3 trillion (about 27.7 per cent) in less than two years.

The records showed that no other amount was paid into the Federation Account by the NNPC despite continued liftings and sales of Nigeria’s crude oil over the period.


Practice pre-dates Buhari

The documents revealed that the practice pre-dated the Buhari administration.

Out of over N8 trillion realised from domestic crude oil sales between May 30, 2012 and May 30, 2015, the document showed only N4.57 trillion (about 57.13 per cent) was paid into the Federation Account. About N3.4 trillion was withheld by the NNPC.

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Besides, the Office of the Auditor General of the Federation in its 2014 Accounts report said the corporation was also owing about N4.9 trillion between January 2011 and December 2015.


In 2017, NEITI urged the Nigerian government to take steps to recover over $21.8 billion (about N7.2 trillion) unremitted oil revenue from the NNPC.

The latest revelation is in stark contrast with last Thursday’s claim by the Group Managing Director of the corporation, Maikanti Baru, that the state-owned oil firm has been remitting “faithfully” all revenues from its operations to the federation account.

Mr Baru told members of the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Upstream) who visited him in his office in Abuja that accusations of non-remittance of revenue to the federation against the NNPC were wrong.

In a statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES later, the NNPC spokesperson, Ndu Ughamadu, quoted Mr Baru as saying such accusations were bound to happen due to the nature of NNPC’s business, which involved credit lines requiring constant audits and reconciliations.

“While the process of audit and reconciliation of accounts is ongoing, a lot of accusations of short payments and non-remittances are usually traded. We endeavour to keep our cool on these allegations, because we know we remit whatever is due to the Federation Account,” the statement quoted Mr Baru as saying.

The NNPC GMD said such allegations usually arose from disagreements over expenses borne by NNPC on behalf of the federal government, particularly with the Joint Venture (JV) and Production Sharing Contract (PSC) partners.

NNPC GMD, Maikanti Baru in a brief interview with State House Correspondents today (Photo taken by Sani Tukur, 29/12/2017)
NNPC GMD, Maikanti Baru in a recent interview with State House Correspondents (Photo taken by Sani Tukur, 29/12/2017)
The president, Nigerian Association of Energy Economics (NAEE), Wumi Iledare, said the NNPC should not be blamed, as the NNPC Act allows the corporation to undertake certain business practices and recover cost.

Although the law allows the NNPC to operate and recover cost, the NEITI report said the challenge has been the limit and how transparent the process of that cost recovery is.

“Apart from selling government’s equity crude (about 445,000 barrels allocated every day for local refining), the NNPC also lifts and sells statutory crude oil allocations for Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) and Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS).

“Beyond that, after allocations for local refining, NNPC also lifts crude oil under various schemes, including the (now defunct) Offshore Processing Agreements (OPA) and Direct Sales/Direct Purchase (DSDP) scheme,” the NEITI report noted.

However, a senior official of the corporation who agreed to speak on anonymity said the challenge was in making returns from such sales, as the corporation would always take into consideration different the costs of providing services to the different parties, which could not be verified.

These cost elements, he said, range from technical cost of operations, to under-recovery for subsidy, operational losses, pipelines maintenance and repairs.

A member of the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB) of the Nigerian Natural Resource Charter (NNRC) who spoke with PREMIUM TIMES on Thursday also on condition of anonymity said although there was nothing illegal about cost recovery, for transparency and accountability, there must be a process to verify and agree on what is deductible.

“We can adopt the current arrangement with DPR and FIRS, which are granted specified percentage for cost of revenue collection. Similarly, NNPC could be allowed a certain percentage from the revenue it realizes from domestic crude sales for cost recovery,” the official said.

NNPC claims $6.85bn against FAAC

Curiously, the NNPC has continued to claim the federation account was owing it almost $6.9 billion (about N2.1 trillion at N306/$1) either as arrears of cash call obligations to its JV partners, or for services it said it rendered on behalf of government.

The corporation said the $6.9 billion covered arrears of government portion of the cash call obligations by the government to its JV partners for the period between January 2000 and December 2015.

However, details of some of the other debts are still subjects of huge debates among FAAC members, who frown at the continued deductions from revenues the NNPC should pay into the federation account.

The deductions mean funds available every month for sharing among the three tiers of government would continue to shrink to the detriment of development and the people.

A source close to the FAAC secretariat told PREMIUM TIMES the amount was later cut to about $5 billion following a negotiated settlement between the government and the NNPC JV partners.

The source, who is familiar with the details of the negotiations, said part of the resolutions was for the federation account to repay the under-funding cash call arrears to the NNPC JVs through incremental crude oil and gas outputs.

The source, who requested that his name should not be revealed, as he was not authorised to speak on the issue, confirmed implementation of the repayment plan has since January this year commenced.

Under the plan, NNPC and its JV partners lifted the first consignment of about 807,539 barrels of crude oil worth about $55 million.

Such lifting is expected to continue till the full value of the alleged indebtedness was exhausted. The exact outstanding arrears remain debatable as the latest figure has not been published since last February.

Source of constant friction with States

Apart from the JV cash call arrears, NNPC also claims various costs incurred on behalf of the federal government.

At the moment, one major cost the NNPC says it is bearing on behalf of the federal government is “under-recovery” (fuel subsidy) on petroleum products supply.

With petrol landing cost almost double of government fixed retail pump price of N145 per litre, the NNPC says it spends billions to sustain imports and guarantee stability in supply.

Deduction to defray such costs has always been a source of friction betwen NNPC and representatives of the state governments.

Prior to last month’s FAAC meeting, two previous meetings in March and April ended in a stalemate due to unreconciled revenue issues.

In March, members walked out in protest after they observed discrepancies in NNPC’s revenue remittance to the federation account.

The chairman, Commissioners of Finance Forum in FAAC, Mahmoud Yunusa, told reporters in Abuja the amount presented by NNPC fell far short of what was actually realised from crude oil sales for the month.

The committee only agreed to return the following day to share about N647.39 billion after Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, and some governors and members of the National Economic Council (NEC) intervened.

Pic.4. FAAC meeting concluded in Abuja, FG, States, LGs share N647.39bn
FROM LEFT: Director of Funds, Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), Mr Alexander Adeyemi; AGF, Alhaji Ahmed Idris; Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun; and Chairman, Forum of Federal Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) Commissioners/Adamawa Commissioner of Finance, Alhaji Muhamoud Yanusa, during a crucial meeting of FAAC on Wednesday (28/3/18). The monthly FAAC meeting, which began on Tuesday, was inconclusive due to discrepancies of about N37.76 billion in revenue presented by the NNPC. FG, States, LGs Share N647.39bn. 01799/28/3/2018/Jones Bamidele/NAN
Although the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Finance, Mahmoud Isa-Dutse, said during last FAAC meeting that discussions were ongoing to reconcile the records, PREMIUM TIMES learnt members expect NNPC to bring additional N12 billion as revenue for that month.

NNPC Reacts

In his reaction, Mr Ughamadu insisted the NNPC has been remitting its portion of revenue into the federation account at the end of every period.

“If we (NNPC) have been withholding the revenues that should be remitted to the federation account, how come the FAAC has been sharing money every month? From where do they always have the money to share every month?” Mr Ughamadu asked.

Reminded that the amount shared by FAAC could have been more if all revenues realised by NNPC were paid into the federation account, Mr Ughamadu said the “NNPC’s remittances are only a portion in a basket that also includes the contribution of other agencies




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" *Kingibe is a slave of money. The day I picked him as my Deputy, I started paying him the salary and allowances of a Vice President. Still, he dumped the struggle and become Foreign Affairs Minister under the beneficiary of injustice done to us....a man like that can sell his mother for cash*...."
...... *MKO Abiola*.....

Babangana Kingibe is now a National Merit recipient for his 'sacrifice' over 12th June annulled Election !

and so called MKO comrades like dele are falling over themselves because their lord n master has given them a greek gift. SHAME!

Now you know that it will take only angels. Why not use the same harsh language you used to insult diezani to attack the people that are benefiting from a subsidy scam that they claimed never existed?

Shame!

TINUBU ODE! this award only shows the rising profile of babagana KINGIBE- an influential member of the cabal. The only living being who stands to gain from this awards! And the next president after buhari- if the plan of the CABAL goes well!

THE MOVE OF A DESPERATE PRESIDENT
By
Umar Ardo, Ph.D

The desperation of President Buhari to retain power at all costs has again manifested itself in his illegal act of both changing the National Democracy Day and the investiture of National Honours of GCFR posthumously to late MKO Abiola and GCON to Amb. Babagana Kingibe. Having realized that he has lost public support across the country as a result of his dismal performance in office, and poor handling of issues affecting his Political Party, the NASS, the Judiciary and key stakeholders of the country, particularly the Senate President, the Speaker, Presidents Obasanjo and Babangida, the president ill-advisedly came up with the so-called idea of making June 12 as Nigeria's �� Democracy Day and giving National Honours to Abiola and Kingibe.

There're two issues wrong with this move - i.e. legal and moral. Legally, the president has no powers to confer National Honours on anyone without the deliberation and advice of the National Council of States. The Third Schedule of the Constitution of Nigeria (as amended) at Section 6(a)iii confers on the NCS the powers to advise the president on the award of national honours. The fact is that the NCS didn't meet to deliberate and advise on this so-called investiture.

Secondly, the National Public Holidays Act has listed 29 May as a National Holiday being the country's Democracy Day. This means that the president can only change the Democracy Day if the Act is duly amended. And to the best of my knowledge this Act has not been amended. Therefore the president's pronouncement is unlawful and of no moment. The only thing is that his action has but further affirmed the president as a no-respecter of due process of law and constitutionalism.

On the moral side, the president cannot honour Babagana Kingibe on the basis of June 12 because Kingibe had abandoned Chief Abiola and the June 12 mandate when he joined his kinsman, General Abacha, and took a ministerial appointment in that regime. It's morally repugnant to now honour him for such an unsalutary act.

Besides, June 12 had never featured in Buhari's politics. He worked with Abacha who incarcerated Abiola and denied the actualization of the mandate and he never raised the issue of June 12. In his electioneering campaigns in 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015, June 12 was never in Buhari's political lexicon. For 3yrs as president he never uttered the phrase June 12. Even last week when he addressed the nation on May 29, June 12 was not mentioned. So how come all of a sudden, like a bolt out of the blue, June 12 became the new political darling of the president? There're three answers to it that I can harzard:-
1. President Buhari has realized that he has lost the support of the Nigerian people, particularly in the Southwest, and so he was tricked into making this palliative in the vein hope of reganering support to his fledging presidency;
2. That he is now at opened war with IBB who annulled the June 12 election and OBJ who is the main beneficiary of the resolution of the June 12 imbroglio, he is made to believe that with this move he would regain his support in the Southwest at the same time rubbish the two former presidents; and
3. Unknown to him, he's playing the political script of Babagana Kingibe and his kinsman, the COS to the president. To all intents and purposes, the two are scheming a succession move to Buhari himself where, in the event of Buhari's leaving office, Kingibe would've been well positioned to succeed him as president. Clearly, in the Northeast, no politician has Kingibe's profile. He was a Permanent Secretary, Ambassador, National Chairman of the SDP, Abiola's Running mate, Minister of Internal and External Affairs and Secretary to the Federal Government. Already, through their scheming, Kingibe has taken over the DNI, SSS and the villa. All they need is to resuscitate the spirit of June 12 to which Kingibe would be the major beneficiary. With the GCON conferred on him, the benefits have started dropping. This is a highly sophisticated political scheming that President Buhari wouldn't perceive.

Nevertheless, the president is so engrossed with the trapping of power and its retention that he could fall for anything. And how big has he fallen! What a great pity for Nigeria ��!! What a great pity!!!

BECAUSE KINGIBE- A KINGPIN OF THE CABAL IS BEING POSITIONED TO BECOME THE PRESIDENT AFTER BUHARI.

THE MOVE OF A DESPERATE PRESIDENT
By
Umar Ardo, Ph.D

The desperation of President Buhari to retain power at all costs has again manifested itself in his illegal act of both changing the National Democracy Day and the investiture of National Honours of GCFR posthumously to late MKO Abiola and GCON to Amb. Babagana Kingibe. Having realized that he has lost public support across the country as a result of his dismal performance in office, and poor handling of issues affecting his Political Party, the NASS, the Judiciary and key stakeholders of the country, particularly the Senate President, the Speaker, Presidents Obasanjo and Babangida, the president ill-advisedly came up with the so-called idea of making June 12 as Nigeria's �� Democracy Day and giving National Honours to Abiola and Kingibe.

There're two issues wrong with this move - i.e. legal and moral. Legally, the president has no powers to confer National Honours on anyone without the deliberation and advice of the National Council of States. The Third Schedule of the Constitution of Nigeria (as amended) at Section 6(a)iii confers on the NCS the powers to advise the president on the award of national honours. The fact is that the NCS didn't meet to deliberate and advise on this so-called investiture.

Secondly, the National Public Holidays Act has listed 29 May as a National Holiday being the country's Democracy Day. This means that the president can only change the Democracy Day if the Act is duly amended. And to the best of my knowledge this Act has not been amended. Therefore the president's pronouncement is unlawful and of no moment. The only thing is that his action has but further affirmed the president as a no-respecter of due process of law and constitutionalism.

On the moral side, the president cannot honour Babagana Kingibe on the basis of June 12 because Kingibe had abandoned Chief Abiola and the June 12 mandate when he joined his kinsman, General Abacha, and took a ministerial appointment in that regime. It's morally repugnant to now honour him for such an unsalutary act.

Besides, June 12 had never featured in Buhari's politics. He worked with Abacha who incarcerated Abiola and denied the actualization of the mandate and he never raised the issue of June 12. In his electioneering campaigns in 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015, June 12 was never in Buhari's political lexicon. For 3yrs as president he never uttered the phrase June 12. Even last week when he addressed the nation on May 29, June 12 was not mentioned. So how come all of a sudden, like a bolt out of the blue, June 12 became the new political darling of the president? There're three answers to it that I can harzard:-
1. President Buhari has realized that he has lost the support of the Nigerian people, particularly in the Southwest, and so he was tricked into making this palliative in the vein hope of reganering support to his fledging presidency;
2. That he is now at opened war with IBB who annulled the June 12 election and OBJ who is the main beneficiary of the resolution of the June 12 imbroglio, he is made to believe that with this move he would regain his support in the Southwest at the same time rubbish the two former presidents; and
3. Unknown to him, he's playing the political script of Babagana Kingibe and his kinsman, the COS to the president. To all intents and purposes, the two are scheming a succession move to Buhari himself where, in the event of Buhari's leaving office, Kingibe would've been well positioned to succeed him as president. Clearly, in the Northeast, no politician has Kingibe's profile. He was a Permanent Secretary, Ambassador, National Chairman of the SDP, Abiola's Running mate, Minister of Internal and External Affairs and Secretary to the Federal Government. Already, through their scheming, Kingibe has taken over the DNI, SSS and the villa. All they need is to resuscitate the spirit of June 12 to which Kingibe would be the major beneficiary. With the GCON conferred on him, the benefits have started dropping. This is a highly sophisticated political scheming that President Buhari wouldn't perceive.

Nevertheless, the president is so engrossed with the trapping of power and its retention that he could fall for anything. And how big has he fallen! What a great pity for Nigeria ��!! What a great pity!!!

For The Records ....

REJECTION OF NATIONAL AWARD

Press Statement on the published National Honour of Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR) on me:

My Reaction

At the weekend, notably on Friday, 12th December, 2008, it was published in most of the newspapers in Nigeria that the Federal Government of Nigeria has honoured me with the Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR).

I have had time after the publication to think deeply whether to accept or reject the honour.

I thank the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Alhaji Umam Musa Yar'Adua. I thank the Federal Government Nigeria and I am very grateful to the Council of State which approved the honour of Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR) given to me by the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

I wish to express my gratitude to numerous Nigerians who through telephone calls, mobile text messages and some by personal visits, congratulated me on the award of the honour of Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR).

This is the first government in Nigeria to honour me with the national award. Obviously, this government must have considered my activities in the last fortythree years before deciding to give the national award of Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR). From my own standpoint and perception, my struggles and crusades include:

1. The abolition of poverty from the face of our country.
2. The unqualified need to preserve, defend and protect the fundamental human rights.
3. The governance of our country through democratic processes.
4. The subjection of everybody and everything to and under the Rule of Law.
5. The right of the people to free and qualitative education at all levels.
6. The right of the people to free and qualitative health services and facilities.
7. The strengthening of our economy through sound development of infrastructures including power generation (electricity), good roads, good and modern rail system across the length and breadth of Nigeria, good water way transportation system.
8. The overall duties of all Nigerians and governments (local, states and federal) to make Nigeria a corruption free country by fighting corruption with all our might and mind.

In the course of my struggles over the decades for the above ideals, I have been subjected by various governments to all traumatic travails and persecutions including:
(a) Series of detentions in several prisons across Nigeria notably Ikoyi Prison (three times), Kaduna Prison, Gombe Prison, Gashua Prison, Kuje Prison (two times), Bauchi Prison, etc, etc.
(b) Twenty three (23) police detentions between 1969 and 1998 at Police Headquarters, Kaduna, Jos Police Station, llorin Police Station, Police Headquarters, Lagos C.I.D., Alagbon, Lagos, InterCentre Detention Outpost, Lagos, Ikoyi Police Station, Panti Police Station, Lagos, Police Station, Wuse, Abuja, Police Station, Ikeja, Police Headquarters, Abuja, etc, etc.
(c) Arrested 32 (thirtytwo) times between 1969 and 1998 which led to the series of detentions and trials.
(d) My Chambers (Gani Fawehinmi Chambers) at Anthony Village, Lagos was attacked by security men under various governments sixteen times, culminating in the attack on Friday, 26lh August, 1994 when security men under General Sani Abacha regime at 4 am turned my Chambers into a pool of blood.
(e) Thousands of copies of my books notably on the murder of Dele Giwa were forcibly removed and seized by security agents under General Ibrahim Babangida regime and despite court orders to return my books, the military government at that time refused to obey the court orders.
(f) My International Passport was seized more than fifteen times between 1966 and 1998.
(g) 1 was charged to court eighteen times for politically motivated criminal offences including treason and I was jailed once and became Prisoner J60 before my imprisonment was terminated by the Court of Appeal.

Today, I am seventy years and eight months old and 1 am struck down by lung cancer for which I have been receiving medical treatment outside my country because my country Nigeria has one of the poorest medical services in the world but one of the richest countries in the world in terms of oil revenue.

My decision to either accept or reject the national honour of the award of Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR) will depend on how far the Nigerian nation through Nigerian governments tried to achieve any of the eight goals 1 set out below.
1. The Abolition of poverty from the face of our country.
Nobody can contest or dispute the fact that poverty in Nigeria today is more pervasive, humiliating, dehumanizing than fortythree years ago despite our ] mounting and skyrocketing billions upon billions of 1 dollars of revenue from oil and gas exploration. In I this respect, the nation has failed to use the resources j to abolish poverty. This is an indictment against all Governments in Nigeria including the present. government that awarded the honour of Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR) to me.

2. The unqualified need to preserve, defend and protect the fundamental human rights.

In the last fortythree years, all governments, military and civilian have been guilty of abuses of the fundamental rights of the Nigerian people.

The present government that awarded this honour of Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR) to me has been guilty of abuses of human rights. For example, the closure of Channels Television Stations in Lagos and Abuja on Tuesday, 16th September, 2008. The man who helped to catapult this regime into office, General Olusegun Obasanjo committed some of the worst abuses of human rights as a civilian leader between 1999 and 2007 namely: he sent troops to murder 2,999 innocent Nigerians in Odi, Bayelsa State of Nigeria in November 1999. He also shutdown African Independent Television (AIT) on Sunday, 23Kl October, 2005 and Bayelsa Radio Station on Wednesday, 30th November, 2005. Some of the most atrocious human rights abuses were also committed by the military regimes.

3. The governance of our country through democratic processes.

Democracy is the best form of governance. However, Nigerians have never been allowed to usher in a truly democratic government with their ballots. Rigging has been the order of the day in every election in this country. We have never had a truly elected leader with the ballots of the people. Several thousands have died at every election. Only recently in Jos, Plateau State, more than 500 Nigerians were killed including three (3) National Youths Service Corps graduates, one of whom was a lawyer. In this country most election results have ended up in the law courts. The 2007 General Elections of which the present government that awarded me Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR) emerged were characterized by blood letting, rigging and all forms of malpractices at all levels including the elections of some of the Governors who are members of the National Council of State that approved my Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR) were not known or elected by the electorate as they were imposed by the court. For example, Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State.

4. The subjection of everybody and everything to and under the Rule of Law.

The most fundamental Rule of Law can be found in the Constitutions of Nigeria, the current one being that of 1999. All the relevant sections of the Constitution that will promote the wellbeing and welfare of the people of Nigeria have been ignored and dispensed with since the making of that Constitution in 1999 and they are still being ignored by the present regime. I refer to one of them i.e. section 16, which provides in subsections 1 (a), (b) and 2(d) as follows:

"16(1) The Stale shall, within the context of the ideals and objectives for which provisions are made in this Constitution
(a) Harness the resources of the nation and promote national prosperity and an efficient, a dynamic and selfreliant economy;

(b) Control the national economy in such manner as to secure the maximum welfare, freedom and happiness of every citizen on the basis of social justice and equality of status and opportunity;

(2) The State shall direct its policy towards ensuring

(d) that suitable and adequate shelter, suitable and adequate food, reasonable national minimum living wage, old age care and pensions, and unemployment, sick benefits and welfare of the disabled are provided for all citizens. "

Take for example, the National Minimum Wage in Nigeria today is N5,500.00 (Five thousand, Five hundred Naira) monthly which is N183 per day. This cannot buy a bottle of palm oil and no national minimum wage in "Nigeria today can buy one tuber of yam.

The leaders of the country in the Executive and the Legislature are swimming in splendor of wealth while the masses are wallowing in and agonizing in abject poverty. Today, the judicial workers in the country are on strike because of poor wages which are not living wages as enjoined by section 16 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999.

5. The right of the people to free and qualitative education at all levels.

The standard of education in our country is at its lowest ebb. The infrastructures for the promotion of education are the worst ever. Teachers, lecturers, professors many at times use 'okada' as a form of transport. Today, of the first 500 educational universities in the world, Nigeria is not included. In most educational institutions, text books are not available; students depend on handouts.

6. The right of people to free and qualitative health services and facilities.

All universities teaching hospitals in Nigeria lack modern health facilities. All General Hospitals across the country lack modern health facilities. Modern diagnostic equipment cannot be found in most parts of Nigeria. It's difficult to treat a patient without knowing what is wrong with him or her. Hardly a month passes without a Nigerian going abroad for proper medical treatment not because we do not have qualified medical personnel but because those that chose to remain in Nigeria among them work virtually with their bare hands. I am a living victim of the failure of medical services in Nigeria and yet I am an awardee of Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR).

7. The strengthening of our economy through sound development of infrastructures.

Without doubt, all our infrastructures are decadent and: no effort has been made by this regime to improve on the infrastructures. Under this regime, power generation is next to zero and everyday the country is thrown into darkness. The manufacturers and domestic users of power are at the mercy of generating sets. Waterway transportation has not been harnessed. Our railway system has not appreciably improved from what the British left behind on 1st October, 1960.

8. Corruption
Corruption is one single, fundamental factor that has retarded the progress of the nation and its socioeconomic development.

The issue of corruption is fundamental in the governance of any nation. It affects the economy in its entirety. No country can effectively and properly develop if corruption holds sway as all aspects of human existence will be negatively affected where government encourages corruption.

It is generally agreed, nationally and internationally, that Mallam Nuhu Ribadu did a lot to retard the inhibitive progress of corruption. 419 crimes were on the decline. Gross misuse of public funds by public officers was on the downward trend. Looting at the top became minimized. As Nigerians were breathing a sigh of relief, the government of Alhaji Umaru Yar'Adua threw Mallam Nuhu Ribadu out of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The removal of Nuhu Ribadu as Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chairman happened at a time Nigerians were saying 'the fear of EFCC is the beginning of wisdom' as far as corruption was concerned.

I went to court to challenge Nuhu Ribadu's illegal removal from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). I thought Yar'Adua's government would allow the court to do its work. But alas, Nuhu Ribadu was sent to National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru for a oneyear course. While undergoing the oneyear course in Kuru, on 5th August, 2008, the Federal Government of Nigeria presided over President Umaru Yar'Adua demoted Nuhu Ribadu from the rank of Assistant InspectorGeneral of Police to Deputy Commissioner of Police.

Mallam Nuhu Ribadu rightly approached a court of law by instituting an action to challenge the obnoxious demotion. Whilst the suit was pending, security agents physically removed him from the ceremony on 22ndd November 2008 where he was to be awarded his certificate for success at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru.

Today, the architect of the unprecedented anticorruption war, unprecedented in the annals of Nigeria since 1914, is now literally roaming the streets of Nigeria without official car, without official status, without any form of security, and yet he is still being subjected to hounding, haunting and all forms of dehumanizing vilification by the Federal Government.

His only 'offence" is that he used the instrumentality of a public institution, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate, arrest, charge, and in some cases, to convict through the law courts some public officers in various corridors of power throughout the length and breadth of Nigeria people who were otherwise called the untouchables.

By the performance of his duties, Nigeria and Nigerians gained integrity, honour and recovery of their looted wealth. But Nuhu Ribadu did not make any personal gain. He only waged a war against corruption, graft, stealing, money laundering, etc, etc, in the corridors of power. In return, the regime of President Umar Yar' Adua decided to wage unrelenting war against antigraft war.

Instead of the Federal Government to publicly acknowledge the unprecedented good Ribadu has done to the psyche of "Nigerians by awarding him the greatest National Honour, the Government has decided to continuously prosecute this young man. It was therefore the greatest embarrassment for me, when at the weekend, it was announced that I was one of those 275 Nigerians honoured with National Honours and in my case the Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR).

Yes, 1 have done my best for this country in various fields and 1 still want to continue to do my best. But we live in a situation where the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 provides in section 15(5) that: "The State shall abolish all corrupt practices and abuse of power" and a young man emerged to do what the Constitution enjoins and he is being persecuted for carrying out the provisions of the Constitution. Yet, the President swore to observe, preserve and defend the same Constitution. I find it extremely difficult to accept that President Yar’ Adua's government has the honour to dispense honour.

In the light of the above, I cannot accept the "honour' of Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR). Whether now or in the life beyond, how can I wake up in the morning and look at the insignia of honour bestowed on me under a government that persecutes anticorruption efforts, particularly those of Nuhu Ribadu?

At the time the Nigerian Bar Association wrote the letter 10 my office that my name would be forwarded for national honour while I was in London receiving medical treatment for lung cancer, the Government of President Yar'Adua had not begun in earnest the war against anticorruption war and the harrowing persecution of Nuhu Ribadu had not reached its crescendo. I do not blame the Nigeria Bar Association for sending my name at the time it did for national honour.

However, events from August 2008 to this day are so bizarre, unbelievably barbaric in their intensity, in terms of persecuting those fighting against corruption and the singling out of Nuhu Ribadu for persecution, all for giving honour and dignity to this country and for recovering for our treasury, billions of Naira and other forms of wealth looted by public officers.

A government that covertly and overtly encourages corruption has no honour in its arsenal of power to dispense honour. Consequently, I reject the dishonour of officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR) termed 'honour' given to me by the Federal Government.

The Plight of the masses of our people

Nobody can dispute the fact that since this regime came to power the plight of the masses has worsened as I have shown in items 1 7 above. But I wish to reiterate that in all ramifications of human existence, the masses have found themselves in the doldrum of pain occasioned by gross misgovemance of the country.

Furthermore, since the President came to power on 29th May, 2007, the masses of our country have been groaning in unprecedented poverty as a result of lack of direction.

The directionlessness of the Federal Government has been characterized by the following, amongst others: collapsed infrastructure, total paralysis of the health
sector at all levels, constant nationwide power failure and the attendant negative effects on all sectors of the economy; pervasive unemployment, thereby generating increased armed robbery cutting across all ages of our people; debilitating homelessness; retrogressive educational programmes and policies, which have made no Nigerian university to be ranked within the first 500 universities in the world, and no effort is being made by the regime to improve on the humiliating situation.
Put simply, the Federal Government is a total failure, worsened by lack of direction and leadership. Is this the atmosphere for the award of national honours? Certainly Not!

Clarion call to the suffering masses

Unite and fight for your legitimate Right to the abolition of poverty. Why should you continue to suffer while your leaders and their families continue to enjoy the best at your expense?

In addition to my rejection of the honour of Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR) on the grounds of Federal Government's conscious war against anticorruption war, the decadent socioeconomic situation does not engender the well being of ordinary people and there is no hope in sight. In view of the foregoing, I reject the award of Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR).

CHIEF GANI FAWEHINMI, LL.D. SAN
Monday, December 15, 2008

IF GANI WERE ALIVE, HE WOULD MOST LIKELY BE LOCKED UP IN ONE OF BUHARIS GALLOWS DENIED BAIL AND FAIR HEARING BECAUSE THERE IS NO WAY GANI WILL KEEP QUIET IN THE FACE OF THE TYRANNY WE ARE EXPERIENCING NOW.

Gliding:
I strongly believe that if PMB decides to prosecute the perpetrators, they would be members of the ousted PDP.
And I know for a fact that people would shout and say he is being partial. I know very well how people said he should leave corruption and face economy. As if the economy can survive in rampant corruption.
IPPIS alone has saved this country billions. Why do you think a govt that is contesting would leave an almost complete project like Abuja Kaduna rail uncompleted. Simply because of the extraordinary looting. What would it have cost to finish it?. The same govt that failed to install cCTV in Abuja (for their own protection oo) despite having released funds for it?

I'm yet to meet anyone who is using this stove, but I have met many people who are on N-power etc.
PMB is not the best, but he's far better than his predecessor

AND BUHARI'S SUCCESSOR WILL BE FAR BETTER THAN HIM. THANK GOD GEJ IS NOT CONTESTING. LET US SEE WHETHER IT IS GEJ BLAME BUHARI WILL USE TO CAMPAIGN

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THE QUESTION WE SHD BE ASKING BUHARI IS WHAT HAS HE DONE WITH THE 12 TRILLION HE BORROWED? IF I HEAR NPOWER EHN? THANK GOD GEJ DID NOT EVEN SAVE THAT MONEY FOR HIM TO COME AND USE TO BARB HIS NON EXISTENT HAIR. BUHARI THAT IS STILL USING 1 BILLION TO FEED IN ASO ROCK HAS NO MORAL JUSTIFICATION TO CONDEMN ANYONE!

nobilis:
SMH.

This is incredible.

Nigerians and their sense of judgment sef.
Una well done.

Please, pay very rapt attention to what I will say now.
And you can cross-check it with what is obtainable in every other part of the world.
Don't come here and be celebrating your ignorance.

If you bring someone to a hospital in an emergency or he is unconscious, and you're the person's next of kin/emergency contact, it is your duty and responsibility to make decisions concerning that patient.

What the doctor will do is to do an initial analysis and stabilize the patient.
That's the first thing.
For any other steps to be taken have, you, as the next of kin/emergency contact, are the one that will make the decision to take those steps.

The only thing that the doctor will do is to lay out the different courses of action that could be taken and the probable consequences of each course of action.
And then, you will be the one to decide which one to choose, not the doctor.
This is called "INFORMED CONSENT" and it is a very important part of Medical Ethics.

The doctor cannot override the decision of a patient's next of kin/emergency contact unless he can prove that the next of kin/emergency contact is not mentally fit at that point in time to make such decisions and this has to be done in a court of law or if the patient is a minor (even when the patient is a minor, you still need a court injunction to override the decision of the patient's next of kin)

The only time that the doctor will make a decision to treat without recourse to any of the patient's relatives is if they are not there with the patient or if they could not be contacted as at the time the patient is presenting to the hospital.

The person you're calling non-medical personnel is the patient's wife. She is the one that decides the type of care the patient is going to receive. You don't touch a patient when the next of kin/emergency contact says you should not do so.

For example, you don't see a Jehovah's witness who was brought unconscious to the hospital by her husband and you know she needs blood transfusion to be able survive and then you proceed to transfuse her even when the husband refuses.

The doctor in this case, tried to do the right thing, but there is no way he can go against the decision of the wife. And he even went ahead to try to find out what was influencing the wife's decisions and tried to reach the pastor to reason with him and that didn't work out.

There was once a patient who came to a hospital with Diabetes and needed insulin injections but his religious leader warned him that he should not allow himself to be injected with anything, if not he will die. Doctors couldn't do anything even though his condition wasn't getting better. The doctors kept on counseling him and his family for several days before they finally agreed. And the injections were started and then he started improving.

There have been pregnant women who come to deliver in the hospital. When labor is not progressing and doctors tell them about CS, they refuse saying that their pastors told them that they will deliver like the Hebrew women. There is nothing else the doctor can do except to keep counseling them and keep hoping that they change their minds.

As for you saying hospitals are not being sued in Nigeria, I think you need to get your facts straight.
That it doesn't make news headlines doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
I know several hospitals and doctors that have been sued in this Nigeria.

Common sense is not really common sha.

What you're calling DNR is obtainable when the patient is going into cardiac arrest and will need resuscitation. If he signed a DNR, that means he won't be resuscitated. He will just be allowed to die.
This is not the case here.
Please learn when things are applicable in medicine.
Don't watch medical movies and then start claiming that you know all about it.

Everything is the fault of the doctor.
When the doctor does what he is supposed to do and something goes wrong, it is the doctor's fault.

Had it been that the doctor didn't pay attention to the wife's decision and went ahead to give the man drugs and the man eventually dies, the woman will now write a long epistle on Facebook about how the doctor killed his husband and it is still you people that will still come here to blame the doctor.

You people are sick with your half-baked knowledge.
People who don't know and don't know that they don't know.
It's a pity.

MR FULL BAKED KNOWLEDGE- GO AND READ ABOUT EXCEPTIONS TO INFORMED CONSENT AND THERAPEUTIC PRIVILEDGE before you come here and call people names. - below is a guide that can help increase your knowledge.

"Following legal developments in the United States, there are certain well recognized types of situations where informed consent need not be solicited from the patient. The exception based on the incompetence of the patient has already been discussed in the previous chapter. Aside from patient incompetence, there are three other legally sanctioned types of exceptions: (1) in an “emergency”, when there is insufficient time to pursue an informed consent, at least if one is to avoid significant morbidity and mortality to the patient in the interim; (2) when a competent patient “waives” the right to an informed consent for some reason, and consents to what the physician wants to do without further information; and (3) when the physician claims the “therapeutic privilege” not to inform the patient on the ground that the informing process itself would likely harm the patient in an unacceptable way. We will deal with each of these possible exceptions in this chapter, being particularly concerned to state their sense and justifying conditions as specifically as possible, lest such exceptions come to undermine the rule of gaining informed consent."

COMPETENCE of the patient is a prerequisite of gaining informed consent. If you decide to get consent from the next of kin in an emergency situation- you have to ensure the person is COMPETENT! Can a woman who decides to follow a pastor whom the dr himself says does not sound like someone with a WAEC certificate be adjudged COMPETENT to make that kind of decision?

Your doctor friend went on to tell us how he tried to revive the patient- why didnt he wait for the wife to consult the pastor before he did that. Negliegence unfortunately is becoming a way of life for doctors. The way the dr reported the incident shows that he was nonchalant and could not be bothered about the outcome. If he worked in a system where every death is subjected to an inquest- i bet you his approach would have been different

poseidon12:
You should not be making excuses for the Doctor. This was an emergency and no DNAR was presented. Just the wife telling the Doctor to wait for an approval from the Pastor. Doesn't make sense at all. That's a case of negligence right there.
How many times do you hear of hospitals or Doctors getting sued in Nigeria? And hospitals in Nigeria generally pick and choose which cases to treat. We have heard a lot of cases of accident victims being refused treatment and subsequently dying.
In Nigeria, people just act with impunity. No consequences at all. That is what is in play here. And the Doctor is even narrating the event as if it was a sports event.

Narrating it and saying how he did not feel pity when the man died. Thank God that dr is in Nigeria- if not he wil be counting years in jail.l

EsotericMonk:
You need to visit civilized climes to clear off your ignorance.

You mr advanced climes should know that DNR is different from taking orders from a pastor or his wife. This was an emergency for God's sake and this doctor was chatting with a pastor. Your doctor friend should just thank God he is in Nigeria where bufoons reign

nobilis:
Hahahahahahaha.
You see what I'm talking about?

Was the doctor taking instructions from the pastor?
Did you read the article very well?

The patient's wife was the one making decisions concerning the treatment of her husband based on instructions she was receiving from the pastor.

Or you want the doctor to go against what the patient's wife is demanding so that if anything goes wrong, the doctor will still be blamed and then be sued??

You see?
You didn't bother reading the article.
And you're already blaming the doctor.

If the doctor goes against the decision of the wife to do what he knows is right for the patient and the patient doesn't make it, you will still come here and say the doctor should not have gone against the wife's decision and even call him a quack.

But he followed due process and actually treated according to the decisions the wife was making, yet you are still blaming the doctor.

What exactly is wrong with you Nigerians?

WHAT EXACTLY IS WRONG WITH YOU- WHICH DOCTOR TAKES INSTRUCTION FROM A NON MEDICAL PERSONNEL IN AN EMERGENCY. CONTINUE CELEBRATING QUACKS. ANY BODY THAT KNOWS A BIT OF MEDICINE KNOWS THAT DOCTOR SHOULD BE FACING A PANEL NOW FOR MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE

Which kind of doctor takes instructions from a pastor in n emergency. In civilized climes, this doctor would have lost his license. The doctor killed the patient not the pastor.