Comment: ...the first UN world hepatitis day
Source: The Punch
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Giving a hand to ailing medical sector in Nigeria
Comment: The NHIS has not been able to resolve a number of questions and the health bill is already laced with controversies from onset. How could the masses get services with the present constraints.
Source: The Punch
''75% Primary School Teachers In Kano Unqualified''
Comment: This is the real problem behind dwindling standard of education in Nigeria. Why are are they unqualified? Poorly trained.
Islamic Banking: A time bomb in Nigeria.
Comment: A lot of disharmonious commentaries on Islamic banking in Nigeria. Nigeria is polarised along many lines but the most violent is religion. Boko Haram is very fresh with us. This is definitely a wrong time to introduce Islamic banking in Nigeria. The CBN governor should have called it non-interest banking from onset but he was very aggressive about it. He urged anyone who has contrary view to go to court. This explains that there is a bad motive that is yet to be revealed.
Source: The Punch
''Nigerian Jailed in UK for Human Trafficking''
Comment: I was on a flight to Nigeria (mostly Nigerians on-board) from Joburg South Africa and sited beside me was a white young man who was working with his phone. I noticed that each time I looked at his direction he turns the screen away, apparently to prevent me from seeing what he was doing. I do not blame him because he was doing so because of what he probably have heard about Nigerians. This is another news that may 'help' this kind of people.
Source: PMNews
Friday, July 22, 2011
Thursday, July 21, 2011
''Chinese Cocaine Importer Convicted''
Comment: I hope Nigerian National Drug Laws Enforcement Agency will see this as a wake up call. Nigeria is gradaully growing as a destination for illicit drug trade.
Source: PM News
Friday, July 15, 2011
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
UNFPA's programs
http://www.pathfind.org/site/R?i=uQ6JVY8bqBpCG-kUe3YP4g
Comment: ''UNFPA's programs help women deliver healthy babies and survive
delivery, enable couples to determine the number and spacing of their
children, and prevents the spread of HIV and AIDS and other sexually
transmitted infections. It also promotes gender equality and combats
violence against women.''
You are encouraged to help safe the women from HIV and AIDS etc. Please view the link above for further details.
Comment: ''UNFPA's programs help women deliver healthy babies and survive
delivery, enable couples to determine the number and spacing of their
children, and prevents the spread of HIV and AIDS and other sexually
transmitted infections. It also promotes gender equality and combats
violence against women.''
You are encouraged to help safe the women from HIV and AIDS etc. Please view the link above for further details.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Comment: When I read about Doctors in Nigeria not having facilities to work with the question that keep coming to my mind is how were the Nigerian doctors trained? If there are no facilities to work with where are the facilities used in training them in the first place since most of our teaching hospitals where they work are the best places for training and treatment. The rich still run to India for treatment but the poor has no option. I find these claims difficult to fit into my understanding
Source: The Punch.
''UN to send 7,000 peacekeepers to S. Sudan''
Comment: We just hope this will work out and congratulations to the UN and all that worked to make this happen 'peacefully'.
Source: The Punch
Friday, July 8, 2011
''75%Primary School Teachers in Kano unqualified''
Comment: In Nigeria each state has what is called State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB). Among other things this body is responsible for regulation of education standards across schools in each state. The above report asserted the fact that education standard in Nigerian schools is fallen and the 13% budgetary allocation to education in the present 2011 government spending is not only inadequate but will not help the country out of her present level.
Source: PM News
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Dual Sims: Do we need them?
Comment: I read in a Nigerian press that the Ghanian are pushing for a 'universal' sim which will enable users to migrate to any network i.e. service provider of his choice at will. What happens that we could not have same in Nigeria rather than two sims that continue to tie us to GSM service providers?
Source: The Punch
Security: ''Monitor your home with motion-sensing bulbs''
Comment: Recently Nigeria has had a number of bomb explosions which has posed a lot of questions. Suddenly security matters that were once treated with levity now receive attention. The attitude of our leaders at almost all levels of government is to allow some problems to arise and escalate before they could gain attention.
Source: The Punch
Can Nigeria National Health Insurance Scheme help poor diabetes patients?
Comment: Yes Nigeria may not be hardest hit but the few number still suffer pains of negligence from a health system that does not consider the poor.
Source: The Punch
Electricity Tariff: When it becomes convenient to ignore the yearning of the people
Comment: It is very conveneint for governent in Nigeria to ignore the yearnings and pains of the people. At last the new hiked electricity tariff which the director described as routine will take effect this month(July2011). In our homes there is no electricity but bills keep come every month for what we did not use.
Source: The Punch
''The Abiye Programme: From Akure to Washington''
Comment:This article highlighted important factors that will help Abiye programme survive and serve its purposes namely: 'visionary leadership, political will... clear job description etc. One big factor is missing- The health workers which include the doctors are not cohesive. There is no unity within the medical and dental teams. A lot of intrigues pervade the whole place. This is an in-house thing and it is killing the system. Until government takes time to study the health system and desist from divide and rule approach the health system will continue to fail no matter the billion of dollar money pumped into it. Does this exist in American system?
Source: The Punch
Nigerian Bottling Company, Bottler of Coca-cola soft drink brand employs casual workers and pay less than $3/day
Comment: I have some questions. Does this complies with international labour law which a multinational company like NBC suppose to know? Can Nigerian government claim ignorance, if no what have they done since this report. The practice here in this part of Africa is for government to look the other way while foreign companies exploit the poor populace.
Source: The Punch
''2.5 Million Somalis need emergency humanitarian aid-UN''
Comment: News of war pervades the world today as if there is no end to it. Poor Somalis are in no doubt the hardest hit by all of this. How could the world leaders help bring an end to wars everywhere? The middle east is indeed a troubled region as at today. The United Nations is indeed overwhelmed by all these humanitarian needs although doing its best but... I just hope the wars will stop.
Source: The Punch
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
''Butchers return to filthy ways''
Comment: When the present government in Lagos State in Nigeria came to power in over four years ago the use of motor bike to convey beef meat from slaughter spots to the market was replaced by meat van. Unfortunately, butchers have returned to their old practice. How could healthy foods reach the populace because this is how other farm produces are conveyed to the end users. There is a tradition of unhealthy handling of products meant for human consumption in Nigeria especially in the cities.
Source: PM News
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
''At 40, Is email's Grip Coming To An End?''
Comment:''With more than 500 million active Facebook users spending 700 billion minutes per month on the site, and more than 200 million people tweeting, email's grip on our personal lives may well be coming to an end''
Source: PM News
Monday, July 4, 2011
Nigerian government will create ministry for ICTs
Comment: I hope this will see to the full integration of ICTs in the process of governance.
Source:The Punch
Poverty!!!!!!!!!!
Comment: For as little as less than $3000 this Nigerian agreed to pull down the whole police headquarters of his country with a bomb. Poverty! Poverty!! poverty!!!.
Source: PM News
''Despite meltdown, the rich are getting richer'' At least it is better for those in developed countries where these rich men are giving out to help the poor.
Comment: Those in developed worlds will not find it difficult to cheer the energy and knowledge these men invested to have to keep their wealth because in one way or another there are little ways something is coming back as help to the poor. For Africa, it is a different story. The poor are further impoverished for the rich to continue to get richer. The game is give to those in government in order to continue to get government contracts and enjoy doing businesses even at the expense of the poor.
Source: The Punch
''Hubby used two knives, hammer to kill banker wife''
Comment: Another case of domestic violence. We are watching as the investigation unfolds the real reason behind the heinous act.
Source: The Punch
Friday, July 1, 2011
Education: Nigeria Budget for education is still poor
Comment: With looming strike by University lecturers is there any hope for the growth of education in Nigeria?
Source: The Punch
''Our man-made desaster''
Comment: Sometimes I wondered if Nigerian government reads this type of article. If they do I think they ignore them.
They have better listen before it is late. Nobody expect the wave of change in the middle east this soon, but here we are face to face with it.
Source: The Punch
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