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Was there any time in the past when PDP controlled 36 states in this country? Okowa or whatever he is called should go and sleep somewhere jo o.

Good development!

onatisi:
We always knew this but majority of Nigerians didnt

The tight fiscal policy and tightfistness nature of PMB are the saving grace of this country. If the yester years culture of wastefulness has been maintained; Nigeria would have totally collapsed. You guys think there is a magic wand any one can employ that would have turned things around in a mono-economy heavily import depended nation like Nigeria? Things are tough but the reason why we are still "breathing" is courtesy of no nonsense strong president we have in PMB. The guy always come around to clean the mess of unserious Nigerian president. He did it as a military head of state he is now doing it as democratically elected president.

If I was Hauwa, I would not marry this man. A man who could do this on himself would not think twice before inflicting pains on his wife "Hauwa".

Bestinstinct:
By their clothe, we shall know them...

By their TAN you shall know them.....

Won tun ti bere. Awon olosi. Won ni ironu miran laye ayafi eleyameya. God is watching you 1diots.

If you really want to meet your God at and with ease, run very fast away from any thing traditional chieftaincy title.

What is he now? A past leader or what?

I have high confidence in God with the leadership of PMB/PYO. If these had not been the one on that seats saddled with the responsibility of leadership; Nigeria would have entered a comatose mode from which she might not recover. I am, as a person, solidly behind you guys. Ride on.

@op, you didn't get that right. The helipad actually cost $500b not $500,000. I wonder if some people really go school.

@op, don't go into a profession because of its lucrativeness rather consider the love you have for the profession lest you enter into disappointment mode when money fails to spin.

Why did people gather to watch what could kill or maim them?

Thank God no live was lost.

No wonder he hired 80 SAN, not for justice but to throw clog in the wheel of Justice.

APRIL 28, 2016 LEAVE A COMMENT
The attention of the Federal Road Safety Corps has been drawn to the reactions of a member of the Nigerian Medical Association, Ekiti State through a publication in thisdaylive.com of 28th May 2016, over the root causes of the fatal road traffic crash which claimed the lives of six medical Doctors and a driver from Ekiti State.

Following the statements credited to Dr. Ekundare Folu and one of his colleagues alleging that over speeding, being the reason FRSC attributed to the cause of the crash, is unfounded, the Head, Media Relations and Strategy of the Corps, Bisi Kazeem, hereby wish to clear the air and put the facts straight. First and foremost we wish to convey FRSC sincere condolence to the families and friends of the victims of the road crash. However, it should be noted that pronouncement made by the Corps on any crash, is always based on Technical Investigation carried out by a unit of Safety Engineers domiciled in every Command of the FRSC spread nationwide.

Under the present circumstances, it is unfair for Dr Ekundare to describe the genuine intent of the Corps to establish the remote and immediate causes of the fatal crash, in partial fulfilment of its statutory mandate, as “distasteful and derogatory given the helplessness of the victims at the scene of the accident”.

As the nation’s lead agency on road safety management and traffic administration, the onus lies on the FRSC to immediately investigate any road traffic crash and come up with recommendations which could assist in forestalling future occurrence. It will be recalled that the Corps has undertaken similar exercise after previous road traffic crashes such as the recent fatal crash which claimed the lives of Former Minister of State for Labour and members of his family, Late Mr. James Ocholi.

Findings from the same fatal crash also threw up the need for the Nigerian motoring public to strictly adhere to road traffic regulations bordering on compulsory use of rear seat belts by occupants of a moving vehicle, in line with the National Road Traffic Regulations, 2016.
This investigation which is in line contemporary global standards, seek to establish some factors such as mechanical status of the vehicle, tyres, road condition and possibly, the psychological state of the driver prior to the auto crash.

It is also unfair to assert that the Corps’ operatives arrive late at the scene of the road crash but were also reluctant to take the victims to the hospital. The Corps has always lived up to its resolve to prioritize rescue operations in the event of a road crash. It is also on record that the FRSC has through its Call Centre, maintained seamless interface with road users and has reduced its response time to road crashes and other traffic-related matters to 15 minutes.

For avoidance of doubt, our nearest Unit Command to the scene of the crash, Katari Unit, got a distress call about the fatal auto crash on 24th April 2016 at 16.32 hrs ( 6.32pm) and our rescue team from Katari arrived the scene at exactly 16.42hrs (6.42pm), thus our men arrived there 10 minutes after the crash and was supported by another team at Doka to assist in taking the victims ( dead and injured) to St. Gerald Hospital in Kaduna where the Kaduna state Sector Command immediately took over the matter.

The Kaduna state Sector Commander, Corps Commander, Francis Ugboma also visited the hospital to monitor the status of the injured victims and condole with the bereaved. It was at the hospital that the Sector Commander put a call through to the FRSC Corps Marshal who also spoke to Dr. Akinbote, the Chairman of Ekiti state Medical Association and commiserated with the NMA and bereaved families.
From the words of Dr Ekundare, he was consistently monitoring the acceleration of the driver whenever he hits 110km/hr, “I was in the same vehicle, sitting in the row behind the driver and I checked the speedometer from time to time. The bus also makes a beeping sound once the speed exceeds 110km/hr. Let me state categorically that the bus driver was not speeding.” It is rather unfortunate for him to conclude that a bus which was consistently exceeding the recommended 90km/hr was not on a high speed.

Much as we do not wish to join issues with Dr Ekundayo on his submissions, It is instructive to disclose at this juncture that our investigations revealed that while the vehicle was in motion, the right rear tyre which was a Bridgestone brand manufactured in 2008, blew up, indicating that the tyre which has expired since 2012, was not roadworthy. The remaining two tyres were manufactured in 2014 while one tyre was churned out this year. It was also discovered that out of the 3 tyres, one had patch marks. It is obvious that the driver’s acceleration rate constituted to excessive speeding, sudden tyre burst and somersault of the bus.

In the same vein, we frown at Dr Ekundare’s assertion that the FRSC uses road crashes of this nature to further propagate its on-going initiative on the speed limiting device. It is already a global knowledge that speed limiting device plays vital role in reducing road traffic crashes associated with speed limit violation and this underscores the position of the United Nations on the need for concrete but decisive steps to be taken by member nations to address the menace of speed induced road traffic crashes as we march towards realizing the UN decade of action on road safety 2011 – 2020.

Disturbed by this unfortunate development, the FRSC Corps Marshal had after commiserating with the Ekiti state Executive Governor, convened a stakeholders summit on tyre with a commitment to re-launch a nationwide tyre awareness campaign as part of measures to reinvigorate public consciousness on the tyre care, routine checks, avoidance of tokumbo tyres and to organize training sessions for Vulcanizers to further inject order and decorum in their activities.

While we still commiserate with bereaved families, the Nigerian Medical Association and the people of Ekiti state over the unfortunate incident, we wish to reiterate our commitment to enthrone safer road culture for the Nigerian motoring public.

http://frsc.gov.ng/re-nma-frsc-in-war-of-words-over-death-of-ekiti-doctors

Cc: Lalasticlala

What impact would Fayose's presence has on the deliberations at the meeting?

Either way, some set of people are locked with gworo chewing president at least for the next 7 years. However, they can float a new party since the one identified with them has been traded off for their adopted son in the past.

"Illegally taken" is even weightier than "looted". When you loot you loot but when you illegally took something you might have killed people in doing so.

Politicians loot and they get followership while arm robbers illegally take your property and nobody wants to be identified with them.

I thought they said the meeting was inconclusive. I knew they were hiding something. Useless people in government.

Delusion of grandiose .


Hahahahahahahahahahahah..........

Those cables must be under high tension to be able to hold the pole in place.

Meanwhile, @op should work in to a nearest PHCN (or whatever they are called now) office and lodge complaint. This is not about Fasola, it is your responsibility as a responsible citizen.

Umar should bow down for Saraki who has yet to resigned his seat in the senate in the face of heavy corruption allegations and charges against him. This is one of the ways the elite has been decimating our judiciary. This time around, this is not going to work.

Dr. Ekundare Folu, Chairman of National Association of Government and General Medical and Dental Practitioners in Ekiti, has accused policemen of demanding N4,000 to move the corpses of the six doctors who died in a road accident.

Ekiti State was thrown into mourning following the death of six doctors in a road accident which occurred on Sunday a few kilometres to Kaduna on their way to Sokoto for a free medical mission organised by the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA).

In his report, Salisu Galadunci, Sector Head of Operations, Deputy Corps Commander, attributed the accident to over-speeding.

“Twelve medical doctors and a driver were in an 18-seater bus travelling to Sokoto for Nigeria Medical Association (NMA)’s annual conference and had a tyre burst due to over-speeding,” he said.

“The vehicle overturned with the occupants and six of the doctors died along with the driver while six others survived with various degrees of injuries. Bodies of the victim were evacuated to St. Gerard Hospital for depositing and medical attention.”

However, Folu, one of the six survivors of the accident, on Wednesday, denied that the driver over-sped, saying that no FRSC official could have given an accurate picture of the accident, as they arrived 40 minutes late.

In a message posted on social media, he added that he personally offered to give N3,000 to the policemen which was rebuffed until after another doctor added N1,500.

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The comment credited to the Sector Head of Operations, Deputy Corps Commander, Salisu Galadunci, of the FRSC is very unfortunate.

This is an FRSC that got to scene of the accident more than 40minutes after the accident.

This is an FRSC that were reluctant to take us to the hospital claiming they don’t have fuel and didn’t budge until one of the injured promised to buy fuel for them.

The Deputy Corps Commander was not at the scene of the accident.

Neither himself nor any representative of his spoke to any of the people in the vehicle, 6 of whom myself included survived.

The Deputy Corps Commander did not even see the vehicle either at the scene of the accident or at the police station.

How he jumped to that conclusion is beyond me. The comments is an insult to my dead colleagues and a slap on those of us that survived.

For his information this is not a driver we picked off the road to take us for the journey. This is a man that has been working with us for more than 4 years. He is indirectly telling the world that a bus of 12 doctors including several senior consultants could not control a driver we employed and pay salaries to.

I was in the same vehicle sitting in the row behind the driver and I checked the speedometer from time to time. The bus also makes a beeping sound once the speed exceeds 110km/hr. Let me state categorically that the bus driver was not speeding.

The FRSC are probably only trying to justify their intention to sell their speed limiting device to Nigerians hence associating every possible accident to excessive speeding. And it is sad that they would even attempt to use such a sad event to do such.

Even the police would not convey the bodies to the mortuary in their van until we parted with 4000naira. I personally dropped 3000naira but the police officer rejected it, dropping the money on their vehicle until the NMA Chairman, Dr Akinbote, added N1500.

The second police vehicle that conveyed those of us unhurt and our luggage to join the others to the hospital also had to be topped with N3500 black market fuel paid for by me.

Gov Ayodele Fayose. God bless you for your care and support.

Special thanks to the Senator representing Doka LG in Kaduna for deeming it fit to visit us in the hospital.

The NMA Kaduna was also wonderful. Thank you so much. CMD neuropsychiatric hospital God bless you. All others who helped, assisted or visited us in Kaduna thank you.

Dr. Ekundare Folu, NAGGMDP Chairman Ekiti State.

http://thewillnigeria.com/news/police-requested-for-for-bribe-to-rescue-ekiti-doctors-survivor-debunks-over-speeding-report/

Police are indeed your friend.

Brb

This Rotimi Jacob is a brilliant lawyer taking on 80 SANs no be small job o.

When illegality persist unabated for so long it would come a time when the right step and norm become strangers and even tagged illegal. Nepotism has killed civil service.

77Trumpet:
FOR SUPPORTING SARAKI. YOU ARE ALSO A CRIMINAL. YOU SHOULD BE ARRESTED AND SENT TO PRISON ANOTHER BASTARD LIKE SARAKI!!!!!!

Go back and read my comment again. It's either you quoted a wrong comment or you have difficulty in understanding my comment. The honorable thing is for you to apologize for quoting me out of context.

Do you now see why Oyinbos were so surprised that GEJ conceded election defeat to PMB last year? The Oyinbos know us more than ourselves. They know norm is not part of the rule of our daily engagement. They believe we are programmed to get it wrong always and should be celebrated when we put up a semblance of good behavior. In fact, they would decorate us and shout our names to all planets if they find out we are reasoning like human being. When they saw what GEJ did, they thought he must be a superman among the black race. They then started patronizing him making him feel important not minding his numerous sins while in government.

Saraki alleged opposition wanted to remove him from the very seat he should have vacated a long time ago. What fu<k is he smoking? Does he need the opposition to do the simplest of right thing?

Ranches creation is the way to go. The Fulanis must be forced to abandon their normadic culture. Government need to know where they are and how many livestocks they have in their farm. They need to start paying taxes like every responsible businessman. Enough of this carnage, senseless killing and destruction of their hosts properties.

God bless them. Docility is not the way to move this country forward.

Megaideas:
What do you mean? I don't like it when adults reason like infants; you people whip unnecessary sentiments. How can adults allow emotions to becloud reason?

Pushing aside your abusive stance, I've kissed that stuff goodbye a long time ago.

Now to the issue, politics is all about image. APC was able to win last election not only because Nigerians were tired of PDP and GEJ but also PMB who was the APC candidate has a sterling image before majority of Nigerians. Ribadu is a king, image-wise, compare to Okonjo who majority believed, and rightly so, has helped GEJ in destroying our economy. Her joint ticket with Ribadu would definitely spoil the show for Ribadu because people would use it as a payback time. Nigerians don't reward failure and mediocrity.

In case you still want to throw more tantrums, look forward, I'm a wrong candidate for that.

Yes, you are right. That pic is old.

Meanwhile, what about the one below. A picture reverse search didn't return any result which meat it might be a new pic.