OMG!
This is so disheartening!!!

Nigerians and the Nigeria government should please offer to help ameliorate the sufferings of the Liberians with food and fund.

Liberia is Nigeria's little brother.
Please fellow Nigerians, don't abandon your brothers in need.

bright499: voted cast during governorship election was just for d candidate not for pdp. U will surprise during presidential election, jonathan is a goner.

I see....
And the "voted cast" for David Umar during the senatorial by-election was for the party chairman, right?

kbabajide: I paticipated in d election apc won the election but pdp rigged d election at my polling unit pdp offer us 100k to accredit 100 who did not register at our unit but we refused.

Really

Eyaah....so, other opposition party agents were all sleeping at the polling unit after enough dose of shekpe and kparaga
?

What a touching story for the gods!!!

sleekymag: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. — Genesis 1:1 (KJV)
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. — Genesis 1:2 (KJV)

Wetin dey for Sokoto dey for your sokoto trousers. The earth was without form and void (empty), save for the endless wave of waters.

1 The world and all that is in it belong to the LORD;
the earth and all who live on it are his.
2 He built it on the deep waters beneath the earth
and laid its foundations in the ocean depths.
PSALM 24 (GNT)

lakpalakpa: Mr President who doesn't know where Gwoza is...

Jona-daft till 2015..

Just like many of his predecessors who knew not where Aramoko is...

2015? That's a done deal

lakpalakpa: Some of the killers are now friends with Goodluck Jonathan...

IBB - Killer of Dele Giwa

Omisore - Killer of Bola Ige

Mustapha - Killer of Kudirat Abiola

Fayose - Killer of Daramola

Obanikoro - Killer of Funsho Williams

Etc Etc.......

PDP = Killer Party

Jona-daft till 2015



http://www.informationng.com/2013/10/pdp-is-a-party-of-killers-former-chairman-reveals.html

Wow! no wonder most of these "political high profile assassination" cases were all recorded during his tenure

Ezyp:

Your point is clearly understood..but bro read the write up again and u will see that the story is sketchy...NO NAMES OF THOSE DISCHARGED, UNKNOWN TREATMENT USED, AT LEAST PICTURES OF THE DISCHARGED.. looks like the minister wants to ease tensions..why can't they come out plain..

But all the same I pray this is true and we should stop bothering ourselves what the west think.

Like seriously U expected their names published, knowing Nigerians and Africans in general with their discriminatory proclivity?

Btw, you didn't ask for names when you heard that eleven Nigerians were infected with EVD? You just BELIEVED! Because, you're a Believer as far as it has to do with evil report, right?

Hypocrisy of America’s experimental Ebola drug

These days, nothing strikes a bout of panic and paranoia than the thought of Ebola Virus Disease. It’s been decades since a disease or calamity of such proportions threatened our relationships, businesses, sports and our very existence. In the midst of all the trepidation came a ray of hope – an experimental secret serum, manufactured by California based Biopharmaceutical giant, Mapp. It has been administered to two Americans and a Spanish Priest (first European), all infected in Liberia. The Priest lost the battle against Ebola despite receiving the experimental solution after he was flown back to his country, Spain. However, the health of Dr Kent Brantly and missionary aid worker, Nancy Writebol, has improved tremendously to reinforce the efficacy of the drug, ZMapp. After the malady had claimed the lives of over a 1000 people in Africa with just about the same number presently inflicted with the disease, the American government in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO), on compassionate grounds, sent experimental samples to Liberia for trials on Ebola patients. It is puzzling why over a thousand Africans had to die before talks of a vaccine hit the airwaves. It is safe to conclude that had the two Americans not contracted the virus we won’t be close to any drug of any sort. Before now, the research for a cure has been shrouded in secrecy by the Americans. That the ailment had no cure and is a fast moving outbreak gives a technical knockout to the argument of ethics – that the vaccine should first be tested on compatriots of the researchers and manufacturers in America. The laboratories of American pharmaceutical companies were not short of promising research experiments of vaccines or drugs. They weren’t eager to develop a vaccine if they aren’t sure who would buy it. With just over a thousand deaths, it’s just a blip compared to the mortality rate of other diseases. For instance, Malaria kills a child every minute. Compare the death rate of Malaria with other deadly diseases you’ll discover why GlaxoSmithKline and other Pharmaceutical giants are making billion dollar investments, researching and working day and night for vaccines for malaria. Ebola is horrifying, but it’s also sporadic — between the big 2001 outbreak and this one, only a few dozen people have gotten sick every year or two.

The current outbreak has spread among a handful of poor countries that all have weak health infrastructure. America and the rest of the developed world knew the deadly disease had no known cure but since it has mainly being affecting only Africans in several outbreaks since 1976 it wasn’t worth any serious research investment. Ebola vaccine not the answer? But even if any of the drugs on trial works, it would be a stretch to say we could confidently use it to prevent another Ebola outbreak. The experimental Ebola vaccine, ZMapp, or any other one for that matter, it appears might not even be the answer to the ravaging strain of the virus. A well-funded and researched vaccine would have done the magic like it was the case for smallpox and polio which put an abrupt end to outbreaks. The exigency of a cure for the scourge has made relevant authorities approve the use of some experiment solutions on compassionate grounds. Anyone receiving a rushed mass vaccine like this is putting an enormous amount of trust in Pharmaceutical companies and the government because there is no way to know the long term effects of the disease. It can’t be easily ascertained at the moment. The fears of its long term effect exist no matter how infinitesimal it might seem. The memory of all the kids, who now suffer from a severe form of narcolepsy due to the swine flu vaccine that was hurriedly created a few years ago, remains evergreen. Before we can say uhuru, the efficacy of such a drug should cut across the various strains of Ebola. The current outbreak is the Zaire virus, but previous outbreaks were Sudan and Cote d'Ivoire strains. The drugs being bandied about might not be the quintessential Ebola elixir that we crave. Most of the experimental drugs are solutions to fight the Zaire virus strain. These experimental drugs can kill the present virus in the body system and prevent it from infecting others but it does not in any way make us completely immune from the virus, that is, another outbreak. Containing the scourge would have been much easier with vaccination at the early stage of the outbreak; it is difficult to stop the epidemic in fast moving diseases like Ebola.

According to Community Health professionals, most vaccines take a few weeks to provide immunity, and even then, they don’t always control the disease spread. A recent WHO statement submitted that even if any of the drug or vaccine is successful, it will take at least six months to contain the outbreak. During the early weeks of the pestilence, villagers in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea blocked streets, preventing doctors and health workers from gaining access to Ebola patients. This will pose a problem to vaccination if it eventually becomes available. We heard on good report that at a point, soldiers were deployed to hospitals to prevent locals from forcefully taking away Ebola patients. There are still remote villages and communities in Nigeria that resist polio vaccination. They see it as an unwarranted intrusion from the ‘white man’. Imagine what would happen if we tried to pre-emptively vaccinate thousands of people who not only are skeptical of Western medicine but have never heard of Ebola. Fighting the epidemic must involve a multi-pronged drug. ZMapp serum, other drugs from Canada and the one by some Nigerian doctors in the diaspora, focuses on eradicating the disease after infection. What the global community needs is a vaccine to prevent the infection from getting into the body, that is the development of antibodies within the subject rather than injecting them from outside the body. The serum is by no means the end of Ebola but it leads us away from ineffective containment of the deadly virus disease. The use of vaccine or drug might not be the fastest way we bring the spread of this highly infectious malady to a stop.

Nevertheless, the Ebola story is not all gloomy as 40 percent of victims are surviving.
For now, Ebola patients will jump at the chance to live free of the virus than worry about any side effects in the long term or another outbreak in the future. This is hoping that these limited doses of the vaccine will not distract and ultimately derail effort to curb the frenzied outbreak using tried, tested and true methods like rapid identification and isolation of the sick and providing basic supportive care for patients, finding and educating who’s been in contact with them and strict hospital infection control. With these, Ebola can slowly but surely be driven away.

Please follow the writer on twitter @tilevbare.


Source: Theophilus Ilevbare

Hope the Spanish team was quarantined as well?

That means one country's map in Europe will also be painted red by CNN as an ebola troubled country, just like they did to Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and NIGER....ia

RIP to the dead

GodMode:

Only a fool knows how a fool speaks.

Yeah!!!
Just like you have to be a very good footballer to know that L. Messi is a good player.

Jose Mourinho must have been a world class player in the past

GodMode:

Only a fool knows how a fool speaks.

Yeah!!!
Just like you have to be a very good footballer to know that L. Messi is a good player.

Jose Mourinho must have been a world class player

CFCfan: If both the Men's 4x100 and 4x400 relay teams had won medals, Team Nigeria would have broken their 37-medal haul in Victoria 1994.

But this year's 36 medal performance is an improvement on the 32 medal haul of 2010

If only the men had done just half of what the women did

AFRICA TOP THREE

------------gold---silver---bronze-----total
7 RSA-----13------10--------16----------39
8 NIG------11------11--------14---------36
9 KEN-----10------10---------5----------25

datribune:


Ha-ha-ha! Lol. Akpan107 ar u always dis clueless?. Israelis are judaists who don't giv a damn 4 ur xtian prayer..They ar probably mocking u right now because to dem Jesus is no messiah & xtianity is idolatry. Rather as a xtian Pray 4 humanity & condemn d genocide perpetrated by a nation whose guiding ideology is racism, zionism & apartheid.

I thought Akpan107 said "May God give victory to Israel..."

Glad to know from you that the Christian God is different from other religions gods including Judaism ("whose guiding ideology is racism, zionism & apartheid" and izlam (whose guiding ideology is forceful conversion, child bride & terrorism).

Was there ever at any point in time an INEC-REGISTERED political party known as nPDP?

Dear Friend,

Before you accuse me of finding nothing worth praising about you and yours, let me quickly empathise with you, and of course myself, over the killings in Gaza. You, as a humanist, one whose empathy has no border, are a citizen of the world, one of the reasons the earth is still habitable by the sane. It would be morally irresponsible for anyone to frown at your frantic advocacy which seeks an end to the killings in Gaza, only that common sense demands a man whose house is on fire to rush for the extinguisher for his own dwelling first, before attending to a similar fire elsewhere.

London stands up for Gaza, because London is not bereaved. New York stands up for Gaza because New York isn’t being threatened by hurricane-at least now. Palestine would not stand up for Chibok girls because they also have a strip of misery in which they are just as worthless: Gaza. And the young Malala Yousafzai who came and roused the conscience of her fathers in Nigeria, was not here as a Pakistani as you have announced in defending your geographically insensitive activism from my “secular advocacy”. She was here as a Birmingham, England-based NGO owner, to stand with the girls of Nigeria in whose education Malala Fund has invested thousands of dollars. She has, as the news says, even “offered to partner with the UN efforts to mitigate the impacts of the abduction and help the girls (whose welfare is a responsibility of her NGO) return to school.”

You see, it’s not the way you internationalise your empathies that disturbs me, it’s this seeming pretence that all is well in your backyard while you weep over the blazing fire in faraway Gaza. If you, and others like you, had been half as passionate and emotional in your reaction to local tragedies as you are over the killings in Palestine, the troubles in the northeastern Nigeria wouldn’t have escalated to its present extent. The Palestinians, and their global solidarity soldiers, have gone berserk over the burning of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khudair, their citizen, and you, amnesiac activist of a burning nation, have also been losing sleep over Khudair, ignoring the tens of Khudairs who die in your backyard every day!

It’s not the internationalisation of your empathies that disturbs me, it’s your lack of wisdom to understand that Khudair has his fighters — and he’s fully named, his age too revealed –while all the killed and abducted Dantalas and Asma’us and Johns and Naomis of Yobe and Borno are seen as mere statistics, unworthy of collective advocacy by you.

Ours is not a criticism of the northern establishment, but that of its hypocritical allegiance to “brotherhood of faith”, which is what you say in your solidarity with the Palestinians, ignoring that we’re just as bereaved here, and unknowing that Palestine is also a home for non-Muslims. But, wait, what sort of a human being is responsive to the tragedies that fall upon just the people of his faith?

Ours is a criticism of the collective, not of a specific group. This is a reminder that we have not done enough, not a declaration that we have not done anything at all. It’s a criticism of me and you who, safe from the bullets of Boko Haram, have not done anything comparable to the emotions shown in the sensitivity of our countrymen to the happening in Gaza. Are you, my dear global citizen, trying to say that we, especially resident northerners, need CNN and Aljazeera to remind us that there are carnages going on in our backyard before we acknowledge them?

Haven’t we all lost friends and friends of friends and relatives and relatives of relatives in this madness? What media is more effective than being actually bereaved? The most effective media is our emotions, and on this I dare say that we haven’t shown and done enough. My participation in #BringBackOurGirls shows me the hypocrisy of our Muslim brothers and sisters who, dismissing our hashtags as a gimmick, are now loud champions of #FreePalestine.

See, we are as bereaved as the people of Palestine and it’s quite ironic that, instead of gathering our lots to empathise with ourselves first and demand solutions and justice, we pretend as though all’s well in our house. Why are the people of Palestine not empathising with the people of Borno if our “brotherhood of faith” is actually reciprocal? Why? I repeat: why aren’t the people of Palestine extending their “brotherhood of faith” to us in the hours of our bereavements? The Palestinians have never stopped fighting. They have their men up and running against oppression. Who’s up fighting for us, especially for Chibok and the larger northeast? Why leaving these campaigns against Boko Haram’s terrors to just the members of Civilian JTF and #BringBackOurGirls campaigners?

You even said that no atrocity is more than that going on in Gaza, and I ask: is there an experience worse than having minors abducted, savagely raped and impregnated by terrorists? Saying that no atrocity is as bad as that in Gaza means that the sanctity of a Palestinian’s life is higher than that of a Nigerian’s. And that, fellow countryman, is an unfortunate and disturbing utterance.

Similarly, you have to be really careful in your advocacy. At least get relevant history books to properly understand the religious and political complexity of the territorial conflicts that have turned Gaza into a prison-mortuary. Your alignment with the Palestinians, your brothers-in-faith, may lead you into something called anti-Semitism. And you also need to understand that it’s the peak of such misguided hatred that resulted into the formation of a racist ideology that once sought to promote the “Aryan” German race as the best of humans. Nazism, consequently, championed the killings of the innocent Jews, who were considered threats to proposed German nationalism.

In your analyses of the happenings in Gaza, you have, quite sadly, pandered to a way of the Hitler-led Aryan racists who considered the Jewish race abolishable pests.

Do have restraint in understanding that the happenings in Israel is not a crime perpetrated, and supported, by the whole of Jews. It’s a crime perpetrated by a monstrous ideology championed by a people of Jewish identity, just the way Nazism was not supported by the whole of Germans, but by a small but powerful National Socialist party clique. If you’re to adopt this form of flawed thinking in portraying ethnic or religious groups, obviously the whole of Muslims should be similarly persecuted for the crimes of Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabbab, the Taliban and even Boko Haram who all pretend to be advocates of rights for the Muslim!

Hate the Israelis who, under Zionism, did to Palestinians what the Nazis did to the Jews, but do not go close to hating the whole of Jews. Saying I hate the Jews means I hate some significant figures that shaped me, mine and the larger world. Saying I hate the Jews means I hate Jesus, who in my theology is Isah (AS), needed to authenticate my belief; saying I hate the Jews means I hate Moses (AS), similarly needed; saying I hate the Jews is an ingratitude to Albert Einstein’s contribution to science; saying I hate the Jews is an ingratitude to Sergey Brin, the founder of Google, whose invention has redeemed me in ways I’m incapable of repaying; saying I hate the Jews is also an ingratitude to Mark Zuckerberg whose innovation is the reason you and I are “friends” – even though we’ve never met – sharing thoughts on the ways of the world.

As long as you’re on Facebook, and employ Google to aid your quests for knowledge, both creations of inventors of Jewish identity, declaring that you hate the Jews is a contradiction, a joke clearly on you. And, as Muslims, your faith is threatened the moment you withhold your love for Jesus and Moses.

Don’t let a criminal be a representative of his race, religion and nationality. This approach, this dangerous stereotyping, has been the reason for these many conflicts we are still unable to resolve in this damned world. We must embrace our humanity, the only thing we all have in common, if we’re indeed interested in resolving our racial, religious, political, regional, territorial and ethnic conflicts!

Unlike you, whenever I see a group of people, the first identity that strikes me is the human, not the religious, not the political, not the racial, and obviously not the ethnic. Aside from my immediate family, my next closest family are the righteous people, people always in pursuit of Justice without discrimination, and of their other identities I’m unmindful.

I’ve long overcome the naiveté of hating a people based on the crimes of a group of which they are non-compliant members, just the way I don’t owe any non-Muslim and southerner apology for the atrocities of the Boko Haram. I only owe them explanation, defence, solidarity and empathy. My seeming silence over the killings in Gaza is simply because I’ve also been mourning, and also holed up in a mess of immeasurable depth. The Palestinians, I know, have global solidarity soldiers fighting for them. But, beyond hashtags, who are actually fighting for the redemptions of this place in which we don’t need a visa to reside?

This week, at our Abuja’s #BringBackOurGirls sit-in, as I listened to Oby Ezekwesili, a woman whose public service records never really attracted my curiosity, but I’ve come to like as a humanist and patriot of impressive resilience, lament on the fate and conditions of the abducted girls and the dysfunctionality of the system in charge of our safety, something within me collapsed. So I withdrew from the crowd, hoping that could stem it, but I still couldn’t fight the tears. And that was how I left the sit-in, broken. This is because, in the cruel politics of migrations in this century, I have no home other than Nigeria, and the tragedy that befalls a fellow countryman, irrespective of his/her religious and ethnic and regional affiliations, is a shared grief.

I’m not inconsiderate to your reference to “brotherhood of faith” in standing for the people of Gaza, but I will never ever stand for them simply because we’re of the same religion. My own version of that excuse of yours is: “faith in the universal brotherhood of Man.” I only empathise with them because of a shared humanity. As for those who rightly explain that humanity has no border, which I also endorse, my belief in yours may only be confirmed if you also recognise the conditions of the Iraqi Christians who’re now fleeing Mosul, for they have been told by the ISIS animals to convert to Islam or lose their lives. Many of you are in Abuja, but participating in #BringBackOurGirls is seen as a “waste of time”, insulting those who defy the tasks of their 9-to-5 daily to be a part of the campaign, ignorant of the impending dangers, the danger of becoming refugees in your own city!

Yet, some of you have sought to typify my refusal to label corpses in order to know which deserves my empathy as simply a bid to earn a medal from the non-Muslims I’ve been struggling so hard, according to you, to impress; some of the same non-Muslims who, in a spark of mischief, have in their turn called me an “Islamic propagandist”, whatever that is, for condemning the profiling of northerners in the East, for endorsing a Muslim as presidential candidate… But I’m indifferent to their malicious labeling just as I’ve been to yours because you’re both incapable of denying me the rights to such expressions.

Humanity is still a joke because of this army of cerebrally malfunctioned brothers and sisters to whom we’re seen as hypocrites merely trying to impress the non-members of our group, for exposing a form of oppressive hypocrisy. Well, my dear friend, I don’t write to influence or change you; my writing is a sport that seeks to prove that I don’t think the way you do, and that the way I think is independent of yours. I hope this would be taken in good faith. May God save us from us!

Follow Gimba Kakanda on Twitter using @gimbakakanda

HARDUBUY:
Frankly speaking, points hold no water as they are all fallacies....the people that protestes in UK,US, SOUTH AFRICA, etc are neither related to the chibok girls nor are they Nigerian...the location doesnt mean! its very much allowed to protest an injustice where ever in the world(even if they are of different locations) as far as its peace full. infact, it is part of The UN code of conduct....dont give me the trash saying Nigeria is not palestine...even if they blocked the road for 2hrs..what a sensible persons(soldiers) should have done is to monitor the process as events unfolds during the protest...or follow somewhere else...afterall, similar protests took place simutaneously in other Northern states....why weren't they killed in cold blood?...well, that's because it possess no harm...just like the one in Zaria...one can not in any manner justify what they (soldiers) did....unless if that person is wicked and probably a heartless christain or even religious bigot!....In summary, of which is a fact, that was an act of oppression on the fundamental human rights of the innocent citizens that were killed...of which is has gone down to history.
May ALLAH Almight forgive them their sins & grant them Eternal rest!

My brother, nobody supports killing of innocent citizens.
But, I think it was very much in order for countries like US and UK who are relatively PEACEFUL and more organised compare to Nigeria to have conducted demo protest over the Chibok girls. But, you wouldn't have expected countries like Syria, Libya, Iraq and Ukrain etc who are in similar or deeper shiit to have done likewise.
I hope you understand why most people think it is absolute stupidity for any group in Nigeria (especially Northern Nigeria) that has been experiencing spate of bomb and wanton killings, and considering Kaduna state of all place that's yet to recover from the tension of the bomb blast barely two days ago to try carrying out a protest match over whatever is happening in far away gaza. It doesn't in anyway make sense.
Bottom line is, put out the fire in your bedroom first before crying over the smoke in your neighbor's house.
It's like Somalians protesting over the piracy issues in the niger-delta of Nigeria.

sameer1212: i am nt taking side of any one, i dont engage myself wit any type of fight, eda online or physicaly. because of my personality n famly. u dont no who i am, so pls dont push me too far. because i swear to god, i hv wat it take to get u were eva u r.

And what exactly are you going to do when you get him?
I wonder who's worst between the two of you...
Smh

akanbiaa: what if the wicked continue to be in power and they have unhindered access to wealth and money in which they pay off the boys perpetuating all these evil?

The end of Gen. Sani Abacha comes to mind

kmariko:

how do you know

Maybe he's omniscient!
...and he can even tell how many poor people are in my family

Panter215: Is 55m not still much. 55m poor people is like saying everybody in Ghana are poor. The whole of people living in Togo, Benin, Niger plus Chad are poor. My people wake up.

Oga, how many poor people do we have in India, China, and Brazil respectively?
Maybe you're the one who needs to wake up to reality.

Niseamaka:


what he said is not crap. The Jews killed Jesus our lord and saviour and we christians support the jews blindly. Address that.

Jews killing Jesus was actually the mind of God

Btw, the death of Jesus "by the Jew" did more good than harm to Christians, and every "true" Christian celebrates it.
In other word, every "true" Christian should thank the Jews instead of condemning them lol. Verily verily I say unto you, Christianity was given birth to as a result of the DEATH and resurrection of Jesus. For by His death came redemption, propitiation, justification, sanctification, and glorification.

You see my friend, any "true" Christian that reads your post will just shake his/her head at your abysmal ignorance.

Finally, a "BIG THANK YOU" to the Jews for allowing the Lord used them to do the needful. Lol

Considering the numbers of Igbos in other parts of the country, I had always thought nothing meaningful is happening in the SE.
I'm sure so many people shares this same view. But, all that changes in 2009 when i started visiting that region. Don't get deceived by the influx Igbos in other regions of the country and outside. I can unblushingly tell you that massive activities are going on in the SE.
One of the things that shocked me is that those from the far north are more acquainted with the SE region when compared to their closest fellow southern neighbors. Could this be as a result of having been fed with the wrong information regarding the SE people? Though some of us just possessed a myopic view about our closest neighbor. Yet others are just simply mischievous, and will prefer to live in complete denial.
Whether or not we accept it, the bitter truth is that, a lot of developmental activities are going on outside our beloved region.

ella.b:
bye mellish

Eyaah...