COVID-19 IN NIGERIA: WE SAY NO TO CHINA INTERVENTION

Can the world ever trust China again? Would Nigeria romance with the prime suspect of the current global crisis (COVID-19)? How can we? In 2012 China handed over a fully funded and built headquarters building in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to the African Union (AU). A great gesture of friendship and solidarity, perhaps. But not long after, it was alleged to have been bugged, leaking vital, confidential information of the Union to China in faraway Shanghai! True or false, the Union had to change its computer servers to check the alleged mischief. But issues of health are different. Misfiring means losing a life, or even lives. On a national scale, that can amount to thousands. Painful loss. Avoidable loss. The authorities must tread with caution here. Face masks, test kits, ventilators, vaccine and doctors - all from or of China. Hmmmm, caution we must exercise. Until now we have been using our indigenous doctors, and they have been doing well. WHY CHANGE THE WINNING TEAM? Please let us DISCARD this idea of Chinese intervention. WE DON'T NEED IT. Let us stay safe Stay indigenous. Stay Nigerian We shall overcome

Monday, 17 February 2014

Boko Haram attacks have become abnormal – Northern Govs

Kaduna – The Northern Governor’s Forum (NGF) on Monday said the incessant attacks by the Boko Haram sect has gone beyond the traditional pattern of their attacks.
The Chairman of the forum, Gov.Babangida Aliyu of Niger, expressed the concern, when he spoke to newsmen on the agenda of the one-day general meeting held in Kaduna.
“The situation has gone beyond the normal pattern that we gave to Boko Haram and I think we need to really appreciate the gravity of the situation,” he stressed.

File Photo: TERROR ATTACK – Gov. Kashim Shettima of Borno State, inspecting a burnt mosque and some houses in Kawuri, Konduga LGA of the state, where about 85 persons died and 300 houses were destroyed.
Aliyu decried the spate of attacks in the northern region, particularly in Borno and other north eastern states, stressing the need for the Federal Government to take measures to curtail it.
“But it appears that we are becoming a little callous that we don’t seem to care much about what is happening. We must continue to encourage the federal government to really do what it is supposed to do.
He stressed the need for the region to create a position and engender the political will that would address 
issues affecting the region.
“And we must take a position so that we create, if it is lack of political will on our part, we must create that political will so that from our own political will, it transcends to the federal government and to the people of Nigeria.”
According to him, the forum would also discuss ways to coordinate and regulate the operation of cattle dealers, cattle traders ans abattoir operation as well as agriculture and the activities of nomadic herdsmen.
The forum would also discuss the NNDC’s five year development plans, its investment in oil and gas, and the transformation of the Almajiri system of education, he added.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Governors at the meeting included those of Kaduna, Kano, Kebbi, Niger, Kwara, Benue and Zamfara, while deputy governors of Jigawa, Kogi, Gombe and Katsina represented their bosses. (NAN)

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