Brandnew2:

I use the Diamond yello account and it's quiet safe cuz it requests for a PIN and easy too. Daily limit is about 20k or so and 3k per transaction..

More of a pocket money kind of account.

Wema Bank Mobile banking is seamless and maintains 2 factor authentication (password and Token) it is not tied to a particular phone , easy to use and gives you exactly the same features as their internet banking. I was impressed using it.

This letter was writting by an Immigrant Woman in England and being a dual natiinalienable myself, I could feel her pain. Let's have your view on this....

An Open Letter to UK Politicians From an Immigrant Woman


Dear UK politicians,
I've been meaning to write this for a long time but every time I stop myself thinking who will ever listen to me - an immigrant woman? However, the "I am an immigrant" campaign by the Movement Against Xenophobia has given me some courage to speak out. You might have seen some of the posters, comprising ethnic minority of various professions proudly proclaiming that they are immigrants.

This campaign makes me both happy and sad. Happy because, as much as you hate us, immigration and immigrants are the reality of globalisation. Sad because you have systematically vilified us. The fact that we need such a campaign in this day and age speaks volumes about your divisive politics.

The election campaign is heating up and I have been following all the debates. Truth be told, I am slightly tired by the way you have made villains out of us. The message you are sending out is wrong in so many levels: NHS is in crisis? Blame the immigrants. Recession? blame the immigrants. Jobs have been cut? Blame the immigrants, The world is ending? Yes, yes let's blame the immigrants.

I ask you: WHY? Why such vitriol against people like me? Why are you still making discriminatory policies? What have we done wrong? Recession was the fault of few greedy bankers and poor financial regulations - job cuts happened due to it. We did not come here to steal jobs, there was a scheme called the highly skilled migrant programme which attracted people like us. And to be here we pay through our nose. You accuse us of putting a strain on NHS but the fact is most of us rarely use it except in case of emergencies.

A simple Google search will till you that around ten million people in UK are over 65 years old. An ageing population means an over-worked health care system. There are numerous other reasons for NHS crisis but all I hear from you lot is that it is the fault of immigrants, especially those like me, from non-EU countries.

Since 6 April you started another scheme: a health surcharge for migrants. Non EU migrants - although Australian and New Zealand nationals have been exempted - have to pay £200 per year for the NHS. This on top of usual fees. So a family of three will be shelling out £600 every year for a service they rarely use. May I ask why such a scheme for tax-paying, hard-working immigrants?

In 2011-12, the NHS officially spent £12million, or 0.01% of the health service's £109billion annual budget, on foreigners' health.  The number is small because immigrants tend to be younger (there is an age limit) and more economically active - thus less requiring NHS services.

You paint immigrants as lazy, benefit thieves so let's do some maths, I've been in this country for little over three years. So far, we have spent around £8,000 on our visa fees. For our daughter's visa, we are spending £1,030 as application fees plus a £600 surcharge (for three years).

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that this is a huge sum. To make this kind of money, we have to work really, really hard. I like this country, its culture and even the weather but I really wish you would realise that people like me are a force to be reckoned with too.

As a writer and journalism student I have learned a concept called balance reporting. Hence whenever I hear your lot, I wonder why when you claim that immigrants strain the NHS, you never even for once state that we contribute a lot to the economy via taxes and visa fees.

The timing of this scheme is brilliant. Clearly, you want to appease to a certain section of the society. But with such policies, you are actually alienating another big group. More than 14% of UK population comprise BAME communities. Yet, your policies continue to discriminate us.

As an hard working immigrant, all I want is a fair opportunity to live here but given your racist policies, I am inclined to think that I might as well hope for utopia.

Kind Regards,
An immigrant woman

EKO HOSPITAL, A BUILDING OF DEATHS?

This piece is a hard one for me to write, hard and very difficult. As I write this, I am filled with deep sorrow for what could have been that was not. This piece is not intended to do anything but to warn unsuspecting members of the public. A warning that is necessary at this time because “evil deeds thrive when good men do nothing”

My discourse is centred on the level of mismanagement, inefficiency and a total lack of respect for life exhibited by management and staff of EKO Hospital on Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, Ikeja.

My friend’s wife, Dolapo, a young mother of 2 boys , with a promising banking career, pregnant with the 3rd child had complained of leg pains to her husband on Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Her husband took her to the EKO Hospital for treatment (their registered HMO provider), they were told that the leg pains were normal for pregnant women at her stage and were subsequently given some paracetamol tablets to use.

Getting home, the pains did not subside, in fact, it grew worse. It got to a point that she could not walk with the legs on her own. The husband had no choice but to return to the hospital on Friday April 3, 2015 at around 3pm when it was obvious things were not getting better.  At that point, The doctor on duty advised them to wait for the consultant and Dolapo was made to sit out the ‘’wait’’ in a wheelchair as her legs could no longer support and carry her, in any case the consultant did not show up until Saturday afternoon being 04/04/1. She repeatedly beckoned on the staff on duty to perform a CS and safely get the baby out as she could sense and feel that something was ominously wrong.  The pregnancy was well into 8 months. Some scan were recommended and the person to conduct the scan had reportedly closed for the day and  only surfaced at about 9pm on Friday and the wait dragged well into the night  

Dolapo was in pains on the wheel chair, she was being moved from her ward to the scanning room when the head of the baby came out on the wheel chair, her husband screamed and rushed her quickly into the elevator, yes, ELEVATOR!!. The baby could not stand the trauma, he came out in transit, right there in the elevator. A nurse had to hold the baby’s head, supporting it while the elevator goes to labour theatre, the baby was pulled out before they could make it to the theatre. This was at 9.30pm on Friday. The baby became the centre of attention for the hospital staff of Duty while neglecting  Dolapo all alone for more than 1 hr 30 mins while they attended to the baby to revive him.

She was left unattended to, in pains, right there in the theatre. She was eventually moved back to her ward . The consultant eventually turned up around 4pm on Saturday. The husband engaged him and he requested that some tests be done to ascertain what level of treatment or care to give. He was told she (the wife) would be fine and the test results would be ready by Tuesday because of the holidays.

 On Sunday, April 5, 2015,  at about 8am in the morning, I visited her in the hospital and sat beside her on the bed offering words of encouragements. She was still in pains, and she was hardly audible, she could only answer in nods and made attempts at a faint smile to reassure myself and her husband that she would be fine.

It came as a rude shock when I called the husband at about 12 pm and he was crying profusely, saying Dolapo is lying down lifeless and that I should please pray. I was to say the least devastated, I was asking loads and loads of questions and he kept saying please pray, pray.

I got to the hospital to meet the lifeless body on the bed, she was dead! What happened? How did this happen? Nobody could offer any explanation. There was no doctor around, I asked the nurse on duty and she just said she is dead. I recalled she was eating when I left earlier, how could she have gone from eating to being dead in less than 3 hrs?

The husband told me she was given an injection to suppress the pains on her leg and immediately started gasping for breath, oxygen tanks were brought in to revive her but it was too late. She was gone before anything could be done.

The body was left in the room for more than 24 hours, several prayer sessions were held to bring her back to life. In the more than 24 hrs period after her death, no doctor from EKO Hospital came out to say this was what happened. No personnel came around to ask people to leave the room, the body was not covered nor washed. It was simply business as usual for them.

It was normal for someone to give birth and die? The Medical Director of the hospital did not deem it fit to offer explanation or even try to prevail on the family to leave the body so that necessary medical procedures could be done.

I will leave my readers to ask questions from this write up, perhaps, I am being too expectant, maybe too optimistic about my expectations from a Hospital as reputable as EKO Hospital!

The family has accepted their fate and decided to move on…. But should we move on? Should we just accept this as normal? I was talking to a friend in my office yesterday and was shocked when he informed me that his wife also died in this same EKO Hospital some 6 years back and the same treatment was meted out on him!

Please pass this story around, let people know what is going on, don’t stop until it gets to the right quarters where something could be done to save others and get doctors and hospitals to be more responsive to their duties of saving lives and not taking lives. Dolapo is gone but who knows who will be next??

There is a difference between a Tram (mono rail) and a train. A tram is powered by electricity and it is within the metropolis. compensations are paid to home owners and in some instances are built across seas or oceans just like in Lagos. The cost of constructing those large stockpiles across the sea will surely make the cost to skyrocket. Trains are different and technology of a Tram or mono rail is a bit complex than a train or rail.

crisycent:


You are even more clueless. How come he got A1 in Igbo language but C5 in his own Hausa language? Tiefnubu go die for this one. His attempt to become a political demigod has collapsed. GEJ until GMB write waec.

Stop making the matter worse for yourself, he didnt write igbo language, that was a mere crossing out of the unwritten papers. If your position is correct, that means he wrote all available subjects with plenty A1......shine your eyes

fyneguy:
Op is an illiterate. A certificate is different from a statement of result.

Absolutely so. An illeterate comparing a statement of result and a certificate.....what a shame. Statememt of result can be issued at any time, it is a confirmation of your grades.

cozimo:
Jonathan and him friends be like say them come from Somalia

But GEJ claimed he never had a shoe, but I could see him with a boot like shoe in that picture #Deceitsince1884

OtunbaJega:
Nairalander

what is wrong with this picture?

There is only one thing wrong with the picture, and that is the amateur photographer that failed to arrange them as appropriate. This is not OBJ's fault.

mooremadu:
In as much as d manifesto is interesting nd enticing, d only prblm I ve is most dis politician deviate frm their manifesto wen voted.... But specifically I thnk how to stop the marginalisation of the non lagosian esp the IGBOs shld also b included in dis manifesto... Anyway our fingers re crossed as we wait 4 Jimi's (PDP) nd other political parties manifesto..... But give it a tout of the igbo, it would project ur winning d election or not.... Good morning..

Throughout the manifesto he made reference to irrespective of age, gender, religion or tribe and I think that should suffice. If he mentioned Igbo specifically , then he must mention all other tribes like Hausa etc.

This is a well writting manifesto, we should only pray for the will power for him to implement it to the letter when and if he's elected to run the affair of the state.

Absolutely

Toktee:
Thank you sweetheart,you said it all,if the lady is nt afraid of you nw that you cn walk out of the relationship,what will happen when you finally say "i do"
WARNING....don't marry some1 out of pity.
A lady that will shout when you shout and even asked you to pay 4 sexx is a prostitute,run 4 ur life.

[quote author=kahal29 post=29408995]Thats the hard copy of the video Its already in circulation in the market. Bought mine yst, its a must watch.[/quote

This the link to the video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UR5g69sx9E

This isn't even a matter of spoiling his market, it is a matter of saying the truth about him

Chanchit:
When people like this don dey spoil market for you, make u knw say Ur own don dey mayan.