More Nigerians need to wear cameras and such spyware. That's one way to sanitise this system.

The MHR was "right" and would have gotten away with his obstreperous physical harassment of the gentleman if the was no video evidence to show.

adenigga:

Source: https://dailytrust.com/N14m-I-earn-monthly-as-senator-not-enough-orji-Kalu

On both counts, I understand and I agree with Mr Kalu.

Kalu might be a crook of some sort, yes. He might have been jailed in the past, yes BUT he is right on this one.

No politician of his status can survive on merely 14 million naira every month. That's about £7000 or so? Those who beg him for cash and the amount he has to spend to keep himself politically relevant each month is certainly more than that.

Secondly, he is right about the 6 year single term. This current style is not working. 4 years isn't enough to make any significant difference in office. The desperation for a second term as well as to install a successor often robs our politicians and political institutions of the necessary input to make our society move at the pace we need it to go.

Kalu is entirely right on the foregoing, in my opinion.

The IWO joke is on the people of Iwo, as well as all the leaders of Yorubaland.

The joke is on us Yorubas.

I do not blame the Oluwo, as well as the Ooni, for anything. It tells of the quality of our traditional institutions and instruments, generally.

People claiming that Westernisation destroyed our culture have a lot to learn. This one was an adjudged criminal in the Western World and summarily deported home, only to be made King - and is causing a lot of problems to thr throne.

I mean, where is "Imperial Majesty" in Yorùbá or Iwo Culture? Would the King of England be concerned as to how his office is described in Yorùbá Language, beside the Yorùbá word for King "Oba", please?

It, to me, is inferiority complex - and the shame is on all of the Yorubas, including me.

Was that branch the one at OAU?

WEMA was the only Commercial Bank on Campus back then, the only other one being OAU Microfinance Bank - before the 25B Naira capitalisations opened up the banking sector...

Like you, WEMA was my first bank account, in my first year as an undergraduate. The difference is that although I do not withdraw from the account anymore, I have a very negligible amount that is automatically deposited into it every month to keep the account alive.

brain54:
Oldest bank in Nigeria is first bank...

Oldest indegenous is wema.

Wema bank was the first commercial bank account I operated(my first ever was a micro finance bank)

It was my school account.

I hated the bank so much because of their archaic ways of transaction.

I later abandoned the account when other new generation banks started coming to the vicinity of my school. I still have some money abandoned in that account sef, although not much. (maybe one day I will walk in and request to close the account. Even though I can't remember the account number again. Maybe the money would have yielded a sizable interest . Very unlikely though)

I don't know if they changed or modernized their banking systems. As I can't remember using that bank ever since. But I just have the impression and bias they haven't.

Ironically, I have hardly had any transaction carried out with the bank since then.

And when I pass through any branch the thought that comes to my mind is "people still use this bank"?

I guess they do!

It is sad, what has happened to MKO's family and legacy.

naptu2:
Making of Champions @MakingOfChamps

Hi Nap! Good morning Brother.

Just this small clarification:

I believe the context matters. Journalists, whose duties it is to inform the public, must update themselves with current trends in the area of their practice.

How can he say Igali is not seeking to be reelected when Igali, even before he contested for his third term, has been STATUS BARRED from recontesting?

This information has been in the public space for almost FOUR years!

IGALI RESPONDS:

When I see sensational write ups of this nature, it makes me understand why people are reticent to speak to the press.

I had a chat with journalists yesterday (Wednesday, 18th September) in Asaba. I explained that one of the reasons sports has not done as well as it ought to in Nigeria, is because federations don’t have budgets for development of the various sports. Nigeria and the federal ministry of sports development funds some competitions, mostly Games and some percentage of continental championships. But what is lacking is the zero allocation to federations for the development of coaches, referees and programs of the federations.

Comparatively, wrestling has been fared better than 80% of sports when it comes to funding for competitions. That’s not what I told the press yesterday.

I felt I should make this clarification.

I have even seen a publication that said I am bowing out as federation president because the ministry has not given me a kobo in 12 years. That’s patently false.

I have maintained a very good relationship with all ministers and perm secs over the past 12 years of my reign as president of the federation. My tenure expires next year and I cannot seek re election for the same reason presidents obasanjo or Gen. buhari could not go for another term.




Daniel Igali.

lebete3000:


What's up fellow great Ife product. Okeniyi of Paediatrics WGH Ilesha

I'm fine Doc. It's good to connect with another Great Ife Dr on this platform.

Dr (now Professor) Okeniyi certainly leaves impressions everywhere. His intentions are clearly good, but this way he has handled it leaves a little more to be desired.

There are certainly better, less crude ways, to address the subject of sexual harassment - which affects both genders - in the 21st century.

Blitzking:

Prof okeniyi words sometimes amazes me I enjoyed seeing him do his echo on patients with congenital heart disease.. sometimes he held meeting with the ct surgeon in his echo room..a very brilliant paediatric cardiologist.

As a clinician, Prof Okeniyi was sui generis.

However, it is apparently a different thing as a Manager of a major public organisation, or the media handling of same.

I have always pointed out that Clinical acumen doesn't necessarily translate to managerial capacity. I believe that while Medical Doctors are the heads of the medical team, super specialist medical doctors should be heads of the clinical aspect of the profession while management should be left for Generalist Medical Doctors who have acquired managerial education and work experience, with their opportunity cost of taking specialist postgraduate education in place of administrative education even as Doctors.

This gentleman was my teacher, and I am particularly embarrassed by this words, coming from a Teaching Hospital CEO.

They are completely unnecessary in a press conference as this. It looks to me that he got carried away by the moment. The United Nations has policies to ensure Protection from Sexual Exploitation, Sexual Abuse and Sexual Harassment.

However, you wouldn't find such proper leaders make statements like this.

Rest on General.

Many Nigerians may not understand the extent of Gen. Khobe's valiant efforts until they relate with Sierra Leone and Liberia, especially Sierra Leone.

Generals Khobe and Sani Abacha have streets named after them in Freetown and the City of Bo in Sierra Leone, if I'm not mistaken.

Our soldiers who fought gallantly in the Airport island of Lungi (where Gen Khobe was said to have been caught unawares), at Makeni, in Kanema, and the bloodiest ones in Freetown, would never be forgotten.

May the Almighty God rest their souls.

We have to be careful as a people.

Already, our health workers are already greatly overworked. The conventional health workers we have left in this country are about the more patriotic ones who have chosen to stay back to help the system.

In a situation where we make claims like this against them because a relative "spent millions" despite being abroad, we may find health workers taking more steps to see fewer patients per time so as to give maximal attention.

You cannot be abroad and claim that health workers in Oghara were on social media when they should be attending to your recently deceased relative. You cannot be blaming them for performing last office rites and moving a corpse to the morgue as soon as certified dead.

This was a patient that spent two months in the hospital, according to you, and had a tracheostomy tube inserted, amongst other care. Clearly, that medical team was not quite negligent. No medical team can do all of that while being negligent.

A patient on a Tracheostomy tube is a Specialist/Consultant's responsibility, working in conjunction with a large team of other doctors who may also be specialists, alongside doctors in various levels of postgraduate training, aside undergraduate medical students. That's aside the Nurses and all other allied health workers that play a lot of roles.

It is not enough to make allusion to those cases that ended up as mortality and not make reference to the many cases that are treated and discharged. Indeed, cases that go to Teaching Hospitals are usually very bad cases that cannot be managed at Secondary level medical facilities, as demonstrated by the referral from the hospital in Sapele to the Teaching Hospital in Oghara.

While there may be indeed cases of negligence, the continued media, physical and verbal harassment of medical practitioners at various levels of practice in Nigeria doesn't bode well for our already friable medical structure.

As it is, many citizens present at the hospital very late, and in very bad conditions, after taking all manners of harmful substances over the years in that name of herbal concoctions as well as unhealthy lifestyles before presenting late in the hospital where the medical staff now have to undo the deed.

We must realise that the best way to treat any disease condition is to prevent it. Where matters are already very bad, regardless of how much is spent, the chances are not assured - not anywhere in the world, but especially worse in third world countries.

We should all be careful.

Rossikk:


You're talking CRAP.

Chelsea were offering him £130,000 a week, a gross insult for a player of his calibre, and less than HALF of his current salary at Napoli.

If that was a white guy they would pay him ANY MONEY he asked, like Haaland.

FCK ALL OF THEM.

OSIMHEN WILL SIT IN NAPOLI AND COLLECT HIS £325,OOO A WEEK JEJELY TILL 2026.

When he's finished he can retire and go into real estate business.

FUCKING WHITE IDIOTS.

ANYTHING 'NIGERIA' THREATENS THEM.

THEY WILL GANG UP TO FRUSTRATE YOU BY REFUSING TO PAY YOUR WORTH.

SAME THING THEY DID WITH OKOCHA. A MAN THAT WAS THREE TIMES MORE SKILFUL THAN RONALDINHO, YET ENDED UP AT BOLTON BECAUSE THESE ANIMALS CALLED ''BIG EUROPEAN CLUBS'' COULDN'T STAND A NIGERIAN BEING THE BEST PLAYER ON THE PLANET.

While I take exception to the extreme language which borders on hate, I think some of the content here may be true.

However, what it should do is not to hate the rich, but to work hard to develop ourselves to make wealth for ourselves.

We should think of developing the Nigerian football leagues, for example, to levels that can attract the best players in the World. Nobody was keen on doing to play in England 30 years ago. There was barely an EPL at the time. The British decided to create football wealth, like the Saudis are trying to do, after the Chinese failure to achieve similar.

Why shouldn't we try to develop and market the Nigerian league to such standards? We steal all our money and stash out in the same Europe and America or use it to import luxury items from Europe and America, creating employment chains for those countries via their export to us, but leaving us poorer by our dependence on importation, including European football television rights, using a lot of our currency to chase a few of theirs.

Have we wondered why very few South African National team players ply their football trade abroad/outside South Africa? How about the Egyptian Pharaohs who won 3 AFCON titles back to back between 2006 & 2010? The Aboutrika set...

I'll not blame Chelsea. They don't care about Osimhen or Nigeria. It is business and personal interest. Nigeria and Osimhen should develop ourselves to levels where the best English players would try to play for Enyimba or Rangers or Remo Stars. If Ivan Toney can go to Saudi today, everything is possible...

greggng:


Are you aware that this post is not I'm front page .Guess what they prefer to be in front page ...ethnic bashing of each other .

I believe that the moderator has explained the reason for that somewhere on this thread.

He/she replied that Nairaland has to wait for an official confirmation of his demise from a relative of his before it can be moved to the Front page/Feature Page of this website - and I think that stands to reason.

I was here in this country when Nnamdi Azikiwe was rumoured to be dead several times before he did. His family had to debunk that news several times until he ultimately passed on in 1996.

Let's respect the dead, as we are doing, and solemnly reflect on our own lives before our individual transitions at different times. All of us would eventually die someday.

GAZZUZZ moniker was in capital letters.

He wrote, traditionally, in red ink.

May his soul rest in peace.

He would never be forgotten, not for very many years to come.

Continue to rest in power brother. To live in the hearts and minds of people is not to have died at all. Gazzuzz left indelible marks here.

Go well, brother.

Still on page 1.

Big Brother failed woefully this year. Really, they were always going to struggle.

I think the World missed Russia badly at the Olympics. The medal table would CLEARLY have been remarkably different if Russia as a global super power that they are, were present at the Paris Olympics.

The situation where USA beat China to top the medals table by only the number of silver and bronze medals won certainly wouldn't have happened as Russia would have "split" a number of "votes" both ways...

naptu2:


Hahahahahaha

You've shown your hand. I simply said go back and look at the first sentence on the thread and look at all you've written! You clearly came here for a fight and I have none to give you.

Goodbye.

No vex. You be senior. We respect you. Me, I respect you. No vex Bros.

Na the same side we dey. Na say people no go read pass the headline before dem bin dey comment as per say na wetin dey NL front-page be dat.

Once again, no vex.

naptu2:


Go back and read the headline on the first post (it is the first sentence on this thread).

Mr 'Go Back',

Shalaye no need. What most visitors on the front page of this popular website would see and respond to IS NOT the word 'qualifiers'.

You should take a look at the comments beneath your original post on this thread.

No be everything be quarrel.
(Not everything should be taken as an attack on your otherwise good self).

naptu2:
Edo Queens Defeats Hassacas Ladies 3-0 In African Women's Champions League Qualifiers

Highlights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h8foCQI3jY?si=g4ZwMInu7XPBNtp5



https://dailypost.ng/2024/08/14/cafwcl-edo-queens-outclass-hassacas-ladies-3-0-through-to-semis/

Naptu2,

This is the WAFU B qualifier for the CAF Women Champions League.

It is like winning a match against South Africa or Lesotho in an African World Cup qualifier match and headlining "Nigeria beats South Africa or Lesotho in FIFA World Cup" when Nigeria may not make the World Cup finals if they do not top the group.

Edo Queens need to win the competition in Bouake before qualifying for the main CAF Women Champions League...

Trendtips:


But remember it's a game
Being decent is awesome but add a touch of creativity to it

Creativity like WhiteMoney has demonstrated outside the house, or Mercy, or Miracle, or Efe or which other ultimate winner of the "game", please?

Just asking politely, to learn. 🙏

Watching for the first time this year.

NNE & CHINWE, a first-class holder niece and her Aunt looked to me as a decent twosome, much unlike the breast-exposing twins and others there.

Sadly, Nigeria's Big brother show doesn't appreciate responsible people that can be proper role models for our younger generation.

That's the moral lesson for me, as I have always known. They shouldn't have gone on into the show in the first place. I would never think of it.

Thank God!

Bob was UNFAIRLY treated. They scapegoated the poor boy because they didn't understand his style.

Welcome back Bob, our own MUMMY of Lagos.

Tension them very well on your return. We are firmly behind you.

That a group of people do not understand the orientation of another person doesn't mean that the person is wrong. We should all live and let live.

For me, this is very simple.

If she has had a rape kit done, then the DNA analysis should be conducted on the specimen taken from her vagina. If the accused indeed slept with her, his ejaculate would be inside her.

However, if he had used a condom, that wouldn't be the case.

Mr Onigbogi would then have to explain his own whereabouts.

In court, a man is not guilty but circumstantial evidence, no. Rather, it is by irrefutable evidence. All that I see here, with the "evidences" our a lack of it as presented by the woman, seems like a huge smear campaign with the intention to bury Mr Onigbogi by circumstantial evidence and media trial.

If there was intercourse, even with a condom, there are medical forensic manners - purely scientific - to establish that; and not a one-sided accusation like this against her boss, who is innocent in the eye of the law until determined as guilty by a court of competent jurisdiction.

I do submit.


P.S: I have no knowledge of Mr Onigbogi or his history. I have however seen many a man literally die in the hands of women who make accusations like this which are later found to be untrue. Many cases have been established in court like this, including but not limited to Mr Benjamin Mendy of Manchester City and the French National team whose life was virtually destroyed by this type of outlandish claims.

It took years, a loss of his contract and time and his squad position with his club before he was vindicated.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-66201526

Wishing her the best.

BTO was praised because he made the process of obtaining International Passports much less bottlenecked for Nigerians who wanted to depart from the country.

However, that was a low hanging fruit 🍑 that made him very popular.

However, leading a group of people, especially in LMICs like Nigeria, is like Moses leading the Israelites in the wilderness.

It is more likely to have such a leader fail the higher expectations, often due to unending, sometimes with unrealistic timelines in the face of current bureaucratic, socio-economic, administrative and cultural limitations that we are collectively beleaguered by.

As a leader, I would adopt the most modest of options in office, because I know these things can quite change overnight...

KingOfAllIgbos:
I was in Burkina Faso 2x for work this year alone .. 3x last year, even in the middle of a coup that was quietly squashed.

I can confidently tell you this guy is just super good on propaganda. An expert at blowing hot air.

Believe less 20% of what you see here.

Let me dig pictures of Monument of Martyrs (wouldn't post this one - will use a stock) & Thomas Sankara Monument that I took without me in it.... to prove it.

I laugh everytime he's praised. 🤣 The media there is tightly regulated to say only what Government wants.

Go to Guinea Conakry too, yes cleaner & more disciplined BUT no Internet without VPN for EVERYONE

Youth in Burkina Faso who criticise him or disprove his lies are sent immediately to the war front.

Most French colonies are small, easy to manage, everyone has ID cards so if you write nonsense online, it takes authorities a very short time to pick you up.

PS : last picture is a stock picture, not mine. Monument of Martyrs.

Thanks for sharing

casualobserver:



I am in no way suggesting that government should set up and manage industries. IMHO government should set up an annual fund of $2b a year to startup new industries around the country in partnership with competent private sector partners in whatever partnership or management form is applicable. For example govt can set up plantations and associate processing industries and once they are up and running, take them public on the stock exchange, retain a minority stake of no more than 20% and reserve a percentage for the public, recoup their money even if at a loss,put it into the fund for establishing other industries, rinse repeat. The lesson we have learnt is that government is a bad manager of businesses not that they shouldn’t participate in the creation or ownership. Government must also not be hesitant to wield the high tarrif stick to protect strategically important industries.

I think that the Government is already moving in thr direction of many things which you have suggested above.

There are no foreign companies that are allowed to import fruit juices for public sale in Nigeria, for a solitary example. When I am abroad, I like to take Libby's Mango drink. It isn't readily available anywhere in Nigeria.

However, the bigger crisis with "government" is that we focus on the Federal, when the States and Local Governments, collectively make more money than what the Federal makes. There's a lot of wastage at all three tiers of government. We must accept our culpability as a people in the mess that our society has become.

casualobserver:


Actually you shouldn’t take offense. It’s the harsh reality that although the colonialist have left, the institutions they left behind were designed to enslave us mentally. In that respect we are all Uncle Toms…we have been programmed to be such. From giving our children foreign names to the education we receive, to the struggle to speak in fake foreign accents, to the fact that we judge ourselves and consider development based on what obtains in the west. It’s not your fault or mine, it’s who we are it’s what we are programmed to be. Enlightenment comes from understanding that the systems left behind by the west were not designed to lift us out of poverty or undevelopment and have not but to keep us subdued and a source of raw material and a market for their industries. It is that ingrained programmed desire to be like the west that is the source of our misery….and will continue to be.

Back to the topic, the quicker Nigeria and indeed Africa realizes that parroting the west or following their prescriptions (which were designed to favour them and keep us subservient) will never take us t9 the promised land is the day that we start to make progress. You cannot be signing up to agreements that you had no voice at the table or are not in your interests. The same west are the ones imposing punitive tariffs on China regarding chips and EVs. Let who has ears hear. You don’t kill your industries to appease your enemies..and yes they are our enemies. Tha same west pay huge subsidies to their farmers to continue to produce at above market prices and dump the excess on us. Put or farmers to work, impose heavy tariffs on imported alternatives and create industries to process the raw materials. Liberties your economy when we have matured and are competitive. Simple!

The quicker we realize the west are not our friends the better.

I honestly took no offence. My previous response was not sarcastic.

That written, I believe we must consider a HYBRID approach to these things, and that's what has happened at NLNG & Dangote Refinery.

Government should not own overarching shares in industries. We should encourage PPP Models.

I am not dwelling on whether the West is or East are our friends. Both ends are selfish, including Russia. We would ourselves do same, as we have shown from our terrible corrupt tendencies to steal everything of our commonwealth.

The Yoruba people say that there is nobody who would give a hoe who wouldn't raise heaps into the person's self. What we should do is to have consequences for corruption.

themanderon:


This is not about drainage. Lagos lies below sea level so it always experiences this during rainy season irrespective of drainage or not.

Lavor234, here is someone who believes the incorrect information earlier put forth, which I briefly addressed.

Indeed, when I joined Nairaland nearly 2 decades ago, it was a place to source for and receive some of the finest information about Nigeria...

Lavor234:


Where is Lagos Dyke Map, you forgot to add that Amsterdam fortified its city against flooding by building dykes and they even have a dyke map.
Selective knowledge is pompous ignorance

I wrote 'let's be factual' in a very short comment. Humility is agreeing that a foreground, which was corrected, was wrong.

That written, the Dutch infrastructure you have described is some of what Lagos can key into. I didn't write that much earlier on because it was not necessary that I wrote a dissertation, besides calling attention to something that was not exactly correct.