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Cashless System Service increasing misappropriation of funds – UPTH CMD

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The Chief Medical Director, CMD, of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, UPTH, Prof Henry Ugboma, has disclosed that the Cashless System Service, CSS, introduced for patients by the management of the hospital was energising misappropriation of fund.

Ugboma said this during his maiden staff briefing at the hospital premises on Wednesday.

He said that the hospital has reverted to the usual physical payment which has helped the hospital to generate more funds and added that the CSS has affected the hospital in no small measures.

The CMD, however, warned all staff members of the hospital to maintain integrity and professionalism in the discharge of their duties, saying that anyone caught involving in any form of sharp practices would be sacked.

He said: “I appreciate President Muhammadu Buhari for this appointment. As the Chief Executive of this teaching hospital, I wish to, on behalf of the management and staff assure members of the public that their concern and complaints are already receiving management’s serious attention.

“I have ordered the immediate suspension of the Cashless Payment System introduced nearly three years ago, to enable an evaluation of critical aspects of the payment mode and so members of the public will for now, pay cash for service, while service charges are also being reviewed downwards ahead of a comprehensive pocket friendly, swift response to patient system to be unveiled in a few months’ time.

“I suspended the cashless system because when I came and did a review of the system we discovered that the hospital is losing millions through it. When we brought direct payment we are generating more fund. We will bring a new technology that will checkmate the system before we can restore it.”

He called on families that have abandoned remains of their relations at the UPTH mortuary for more than two years to urgently come to claim theirs, stressing that the hospital would conduct mass burial for corpses that were not evacuated in two weeks’ time.

“Most corpses have been abandoned in our mortuary for many years. We have been using our resources in taking care of them. He have made announcement that people who have corpses that have stayed for more than three years, should come and evacuate them.

“We are giving the grace of two weeks for their owners to come and pick them else we will carry out mass burial for all the corpses”.

RIVERS STATE: A RESOURCE CURSE

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Rivers state, the wealth of our nation is blessed with agricultural and natural resources. Prior to exploration for oil, Rivers state was known for her agricultural activities which include; crops farming and fishery. After the discovery of crude oil and natural gas in the mid 20th century, agricultural activities began to decline as a result of government neglect on the sector and focus on oil and gas exploration.

These have further lead to other negativities of environmental pollution, thereby degrading the environment that supports agriculture.

Today, residents of Rivers state are experiencing the effect of government choices which has lead to a not only degraded environment that used to support agriculture but also, an unhealthy atmosphere for her residents.

The black sooth that is being experienced today across Rivers state is in a perspective, a sign of industrial activities. However, activities that have to lead to this unhealthy environment are being carried out in an unsafe manner.

These activities are done by companies, organizations, and individuals operating within rivers state. Criminals and government looters have seized the opportunity to indulge in illegal activities that have further degraded the environment and place the lives of residents at risk.

Development experienced in Rivers state in recent years has been unsustainable (i.e. degrading human lives and environment, as such undermine the future of generations to come). The government in her duties should revert and focus on sustainable development in order to secure future generations.

These can be achieved by enforcing environmental and health policies especially as it affects operations of companies, organizations, and individuals.

Also, illegal activities such as crude oil theft, an illegal distillation of crude oil, unsafe disposal of waste must be discouraged and strict penalties placed on environmental and health offenders for proper regulation.

Revenue derived from industrial activities must first be used to mitigate environmental and health effects before it is used for other developmental purposes.

Government units, ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) directly involved in the enforcement of environmental and health policies should act now to secure the oil-rich state or risk her total degradation.

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Nubari Saatah: All these pollution for 13%?

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The issue of environmental pollution (air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, etc) that has plagued the Niger Delta since the beginning of oil exploration is one that has turned a lot of voices hoarse, which is good, when compared to the many unfortunate others who have been hung and their already hoarse voices permanently silenced (extra)judicially by the government.
Let me add that all these atrocious environmental happenings, that the overtly accommodating Niger Delta people have had to endure for decades from the government and its conniving multi-national oil corporations most especially Shell, have been for 13%. Just 13%.

“One of the worst gas flares in the Niger Delta is at a former Shell facility at Oben, on the border of Delta and Edo states. They have been roaring and crackling non-stop for over 30 years, since Shell first lit them”

This is the opening sentence of world renowned environmental activist, @Nnimo Bassey in his book, To Cook a Continent. The devastation of the Niger Delta environment goes from coast to rivers to streams to groundwater to rainwater to land, and to air, and varies from location to location. The full extent of this is yet to be studied and made public, which brings me to the next statement of fact.
That Ogoni, today, is been touted as the most environmentally devastated habitat on the continent, is only true because we are yet to study or embark on an EIA for the hundreds of communities in the Niger Delta that have played host to oil exploration activities.

Bear in mind that oil exploration in Ogoni ceased in 1993, whereas oil exploration have continued in numerous other communities till date. I am certain that, the day we decide to implement an EIA on all host communities in the Niger Delta, the entire world will be in shock of the magnitude of devastation caused by oil exploration here.

In 2017, Anna Bruederle and Roland Hodler, both scholars from Switzerland did a research on the impact of oil spills on infant mortality, and Nigeria was used as a case study.

I have been unfortunate enough to have viewed the very few oil related studies that have been done on the Niger Delta or with the Niger Delta as a case study, and each time, it leaves me sadder than I was.

The UNEP report on Ogoniland was one of those reports, and deep down I knew there were worse things yet to be known about the Niger Delta people in relation to oil exploration activities.

The research document, which I was sent a copy by Roland, shows that, in 2012 alone, 16,000 Niger Delta children died in their first month of being born. 16,000 children who have no idea what oil is, died in their first month due to the effects of oil spills that occurred prior to their conception.

Now that is not all. The report went further to add that had there been no oil spill within the 10km radius of where these children were conceived, 11,000 of them would have survived their first month, that is 70%.

That is not even all. The researchers feel they might have underestimated the figures due to our poor record of oil spills, as their results depended a lot on the details gotten from the Nigerian Oil Spill Monitor.
The report also states that the spills left a lot of Niger Delta children stunted. All these for 13%?

Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics in 2017 released data on crude oil production, and it revealed that Nigeria has earned N118.4 Trillion from oil, or have sold 32.7 billion barrels of crude oil since our independence in 1960.

Assuming this N118.4 Trillion was not affected by the different Joint Venture agreements between Nigeria and the numerous oil companies, the Niger Delta, which has been a source of every single kobo of that amount, have earned just N15 Trillion in general.

UNEP’s report on Ogoniland which is almost eight years old, and which nothing tangible is being done about, discloses that there are communities in Ogoni that drink groundwater polluted with hydrocarbons — most especially Benzene — 900 time above WHO guidelines.

Benzene is a widely known cancer causing agent, and if it is contained in the groundwater that the Ogoni people of the Niger Delta drink, then it is most definitely contained in the groundwater of the Ijaws, the Efiks, the Urobhos, the Itsekiris and other oil producing ethnic nationalities that now unfortunately inhabit the Niger Delta. Yet, yet, there exist no large scale water treatment health facility in any of these places.

There is no cancer treatment or research health facility in the Niger Delta capable of treating the people from this region for diseases and illnesses not caused by them, but caused by their own government in collaboration with foreign oil companies, who would not be able to operate the way they operate in the Niger Delta, in their various countries outside the continent.

Today the Niger Delta which from all indication is single-handedly responsible for the economic and geographical existence of Nigeria, has the highest rate of unemployment, Has the highest Misery Index in the country, Is one of the most restive and violent places to live in in the country. The ND is the worst place to practice agriculture in the country today because the land is so badly polluted that harvests are meager and poisonous to our health.

Today the aquatic life in the Niger Delta has reduced drastically, and where aquatic life does exist, they have been badly affected by spills and hydrocarbons that eating them is as harmful as even breathing.

Today the Niger Delta is the most infrastructurally disadvantaged region in this country in comparison with the resources it has contributed to the development and continued existence of this country.

Today the air the people of Rivers State breathe every single day is pitch-black from oil related activities and so are our lungs and that of our children who have miraculously survived the first month of their lives.

The air in the Niger delta is poisonous, and so is the water and land. And all these are for a 13% derivation which is very much incapable of making meaningful impact on the Niger Delta and her people due to its terrain and other factors.

But in all these, the Nigerian government somehow does not feel interested in the plight of the Niger Delta people.

An example, out of many others, is the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB) which was split into four parts just because members of the National Assembly not from the Niger Delta did not feel it was necessary to set aside something as small as 10% for Host Communities who bore the brunt of oil exploration activities. As the entire world makes plans to get rid of their dependence on oil, the people of the Niger Delta are left dangling on the edge of this survival cliff, so close to falling off.

The 13% derivation as is currently practiced is not acceptable and should not be allowed to last any longer.

The Niger Delta people will either be allowed to harness her resources — taking 87% and paying 13% tax to the Nigerian government — and make the government backed, and foreign oil companies financed damaged life of the people inhabiting the region more bearable or oil exploration will have to cease to ensure our survival.

By the end of 2018, going by research data, the Niger Delta would have lost 100,000 of her children in their first month of birth, since 2012, and would have had many more stunted and impaired surviving children.
All due to the effects of oil exploration where 13% is what we get. The present arrangement cannot continue, as a mater of urgency.

I want to thank my Father, my Mother and my Parents.

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That year sha! My father can flog the devil out of you with his belts and koboko. He expresses his displeasure towards your “mumurity” today and forgets the whole thing the next day. A nice and hardworking man who, despite all obstacles that life threw his way, made sure my siblings and I had University education.

My mother! She won’t talk to you whenever you misbehave. No ooo! She will let you run around, dodge the whole day and fall back into the net.
You know! That guilty conscience hide and seek games! She was never tired of watching you play it out. She will give you food once you are back in the evening. You will go to sleep and feel like all have been taken care of, that you have technically maneuvered the whole thing only for her to wake you up in the middle of the night and treat your fuck ups.

If my Mother flogs you, you will know that Papa is the best friend you can have in this life.

We actually nicknamed her “behave well”, My younger brother and I . We were terror that the house couldn’t deal with. I miss those days with concentrated nostalgia.

Those days, I will hang out with my younger brother looking for things to spoil in the house, that is after multiple fight between us. His other hubby was challenging my authority. He never believed that he should be loyal same way that I refused to be to my older siblings.

When my mother comes back, my younger brother will shout “behave well”. That word alone will induce instant sleep in you and we snored away our sorrows in pretense.

I remember the day she caught me with other boys playing with cigarette. In her characteristic manner, she didn’t say a word. Not even my father was told.

After dinner and prayers, I went to the room I shared with my brothers and wore 3 jean shorts, then covered them with a thick Jean trouser. I spent the whole night awake, not wanting to be taken unawares.

She came with her cane around 12 am. Nothing was too small to be overlooked. Not even a sneer on your seniors. Discipline was always physical and it helped to curtail the madness of ghettohood.

Once the cane landed on my buttocks, the sound it made was so strange to her. It was not the sound she was used to. Then she burst into wide raging laughter and inspected the crime scene with the fine eyes of a perturbed physician.

She told me to remove the whole thing. I was flogged that night bare skin for cheating.

Ohh! the day we got high; my younger brother and I. He was my partner in crime and and a competitor too. We drank PASTIS, that drink that changes color when diluted with water.
We had gotten high and left the drink open on the table, then went to sleep. When I woke up, my mother was already back and was taking care of the mess.

I greeted her, she answered, then said with a ghostly smile ” I can see two of you have been enjoying yourselves”. I didn’t want to be told what will happen at night. So I ran to my aunt’s house.
After confessing my sins, She volunteered to take me back home, promising me that she will make sure I won’t be flogged. I agreed but only temporarily.

I know the house more than she does or won’t she go to her house that night to cook for her family?

I disengaged my hand from hers and ran towards another direction, to my friend’s house who shares the same name with me, despite her calling me back and her assurances.

Who wan die?

Those flogging saved me sha, I must tell you. Because there are things that when I want to do them, my mind races to my mother’s thick cane and my father’s belts. Although, I won’t whip my kids, I consider mine an integral part of growing up in the 20th century Nigeria.

Last year in Jos, with Yakubu, Obi, Salisu and Co, the cold became unbearable. I have had my boots on for 3 days.

I removed them only when I wanted to take my bath. I actually slept with them cause we were in a tent.

Obi had his cigarettes and was not on the same level of suffering with the rest of the boys. He was actually laughing at us. Then Yakubu Gyiang took a stick of cigarette from him, then Salisu, then the other boy from Kano – I have forgotten his name – all in a bid to keep warm.

“Behave well” raced to my mind with the speed of light. “I won’t” I muttered while my lips danced like a flame disturbed by the wind. “Don’t die here” they said! “I won’t” I replied again!

They probably didn’t live under the dictates of “behave well”.
You don’t repeat a bad behavior again after she had dealt with you. Till date, I still fear my mother’s cane

Ebuehi gets applause from Barcelona legend.

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Super Eagles defender Tyronne Ebuehi has been applauded by FC Barcelona legend Ronald de Boer for his recent dazzling displays for ADO Den Haag in the Eredivisie.

Ebuehi has been a key figure in the Hague’s push for a spot in Europe in the Dutch league this season and his feats are not just going unnoticed as Ronald de Boer seems to have been left amazed by the right-back’s defensive and offensive capabilities.

In a post-match reaction to the 22-year-old’s performance in their away league clash against Ajax at the Amsterdam Arena, the former Barcelona midfielder stated that Ebuehi oozes talent and he displayed this in the league clash as the Nigerian had Ajax posterboy Justin Kluivert completely in check in the game.

”He played in a big stadium, against Ajax, that everyone was watching him. He knew that all the attention was focused on him and survived in a very complicated situation,” the Ajax legendary forward told O Jogo.

”He’s a very talented kid. He has speed, but he also has intelligence. He was good against Ajax, especially against Kluivert, who is a very technical player.

”I remember just a dribble from Justin. But as he is very fast, Ebuehi managed to recover and lock Justin. We did not see Kluivert during the whole game, so we can say that he did a great job.”

Ronald, 47, also opined that the Dutch-born defender, who is linked with a free transfer to Benfica in the summer, will be a good buy for the Portuguese giants.

”It shows his character. It can be a good contract for Benfica, good value and an added value.

Ebuehi is in line to make the squad list of the Super Eagles for their friendly games against Poland and Serbia in March.

8 years after, Okah gets convicted.

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The Federal High Court has convicted Charles Okah and Obi Nwabueze for their role in the October 1st, 2010 bomb blast in Abuja.

In a 4 hour, 30 minutes judgment, Justice Kolawole found the defendants guilty as charged for being responsible for March 15, 2010, bomb blast which claimed one life in Warri, Delta State and the October 1st, 2010 bomb blast near Eagle Square in Abuja which claimed several lives.

The judge notes that the second defendant, Obi Nwabueze particularly made himself available to run illegal errands for Henry Okah who provided N1.2m used to purchase five fairly used cars deployed for the Warri blast while Charles Okah provided the sum of N2m used for the purchase of the four cars deployed for the Independence Day blast in Abuja.

The court had earlier sentenced a third defendant, Edmund Ebiware to life imprisonment on July 27, 2017, for his role also in the Abuja bomb blast.

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Portharcourt: Millions of people risk developing lung cancer and other forms of respiratory problems. These tweets tell you all that you need to know.

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Kachikwu :Nigeria has lost US oil export market forever

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OPEC should keep crude price stable

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, has declared that Nigeria has forever lost the United States as a significant crude export market.

Up until the early 2000s, the US was Nigeria’s top crude importer, buying around 700,000 b/d of the commodity from Africa’s biggest producer, and climbed as high as 1.31 million b/d in February 2006, according to the US Energy Information Administration.

This volume has, however, been dropping since then, reaching zero import level by June 2015 following a surge in production of shale oil.

“That’s gone,” Kachikwu said at CERAWeek Energy Conference in Houston, USA.

CERAWeek conference continues outreach between the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and shale producers.

The minister observed that the Light sweet Nigerian crude is very similar to the light oil produced in US shale, adding that as US shale production has grown, the appetite for Nigerian crude in the US has dropped dramatically.

Nigerian crude is now favorites for the Asian markets led by India.

Nigeria’s oil output averaged 2.07 million in February this year, 20,000 b/d up from January, according to federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources estimates.

Meanwhile, Kachikwu has said that oil producers that operate in U.S. shale fields and OPEC member nations should do more to help stabilize crude prices.

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries plans a “company-based workshop” with companies that operate in both areas, Kachikwu said on the sidelines of the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston.

Exxon Mobil Corp, Chevron Corp, and Royal Dutch Shell Plc have large U.S. shale operations and also operate in Nigeria.

“Some of the same companies that are working in shale are the same companies working in OPEC,” Kachikwu said. “We need to begin to look at companies that are very active in these areas and begin to get them to take some responsibilities in terms of stability of oil prices.”

Good Food.

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Have you ever heard this saying…… you are what you eat?

Well I know you look fabulous, so your meals should always look the same. Here is what I mean, Professor Charles Spence, the Oxford University gastrophysicist (making waves in the food industry) has proven beyond doubt that making something look good makes it effectively taste better too. check this out ( I know you want to have some!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Tension as stakeholders disagree on resumption of oil exploration in Ogoni Land.

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Twenty-five years after oil exploration activities were stopped in Ogoni land following environmental issues that led to the intense crisis by the locals against the Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, and the federal military government of that time, a fresh crisis is looming in Ogoni over the planned resumption of oil activities in the area.

This time, the tension is coming following the bid of two indigenous oil companies – RoboMicheal Limited and Belemaoil Producing Nigeria Limited – for the operating license of Oil Mining Lease, OML,11, Ogoni oil fields.

Stoking the tension, the Supreme Council of Ogoni Tradition Rulers, the Oil-bearing Communities’ Traditional Rulers in Ogoni land, the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, MOSOP, and the Ken Saro-Wiwa Associates are all in disagreement over the planned resumption of oil exploration and the endorsement of the two indigenous oil companies for operatorship of the Ogoni oil fields.

Recently, the Supreme Council of Ogoni Tradition Rulers endorsed RoboMicheal Limited to commence operation in the Ogoni oilfield while the Oil-bearing Communities’ Traditional Rulers in Ogoniland, on their part, endorsed Belemaoil Producing Nigeria Limited for operatorship of the oil mining lease, which originally belonged to SPDC.

While MOSOP says the endorsement of any oil firm to come into Ogoniland does not in any way represent the wishes of the people, Ken Saro-Wiwa Associates, which allegedly is pushing the agenda of Belemaoil, has accused the leadership of MOSOP of failing the people of Ogoni.

Spokesperson of the Supreme Council of Ogoni Traditional Rulers and Paramount Ruler of Kpite Community, HRH King Samuel Nnee, said the decision to endorse RoboMicheal was a sequel to the issuance of a license to the company by the Federal Government through the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.

Nnee explained that the resumption of oil exploration activities in Ogoniland by RoboMicheal will generate wealth, provide employment for Ogoni indigenes, and also open up the area, which has been impoverished by endless years of environmental degradation, to further investment opportunities.

But in a swift reaction, the Oil-bearing Communities’ Traditional Rulers in Ogoniland, which said it was acting on behalf of all the oil-bearing communities in Ogoni, have disagreed with the Supreme Council of Ogoni Traditional Rulers, over the endorsement of RoboMicheal Limited.

A resolution reached by the group said that the Supreme Council of Ogoni Traditional Rulers cannot impose RoboMichael on them since the issuance of an all-embracing license for oil exploration and exploitation was totally out of their reach.

The oil-bearing communities, which affirmed their support for Belemaoil Producing Limited, noted that the unanimous acceptance of Belemaoil in Ogoniland in 2014 was the reason for the issuance of various recommendation letters of the company to various authorities concerned with the oil business.

The resolution signed by the president of the oil-bearing communities, Chief Donald Gberesu, further said the communities would reject any intrusion from any quarters in their domestic affairs.

“We, the paramount rulers of oil-bearing communities in Ogoniland are saying in clear terms that we are the landlords of our communities.

We hereby resolved that no one has the right to discuss, negotiate with any investor, be it public or private, without our consent,” Gberesu.

Meanwhile, the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, MOSOP, and the Ken Saro-Wiwa Associates is also on the war path over the planned commencement of oil exploration in Ogoni.

MOSOP is not in support of endorsement of any oil firm to come into Ogoniland, but, Ken Saro-Wiwa Associates, which, according to MOSOP, is pushing the agenda of Belemaoil, has accused the leadership of MOSOP of failing the people of Ogoni.

MOSOP President, Mr. Legborsi Pyagbara, says the group “has not and will not endorse any oil company, be it RoboMichael, BelemaOil, NPDC (Nigerian Petroleum Development Company), NNPC (Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation), Shell or any other for the purpose of resuming oil production in Ogoniland, until the issues raised by the Ogoni people are addressed through dialogue”.

Pyagbara called on President Muhammadu Buhari to avert a possible breakdown of the peace in Ogoniland by putting a check to the activities of oil firms scrambling to gain access to resume oil exploration in Ogoni.

But for the Ken Saro-Wiwa Associates, KSWA, the current leadership of MOSOP, led by Pyagbara, has failed the people of Ogoni by not protecting the legacies of late environmentalist, Ken Saro Wiwa.

National Coordinator of KSWA, Chief Gani Topba, alleges that RoboMichael Nigeria Limited and NPDC are proxies of SPDC and should, therefore, steer clear of Ogoniland in the interest of peace. According to MOSOP, however, Topba is pushing the agenda of Belemaoil.

The KSWA leader has not come out to declare support for any of the two indigenous companies. Topba said at the 2018 Ogoni General Assembly: “SPDC’s subsisting lease over OML 11 should be revoked immediately to pave the way for discussions with Ogoni elders and leaders of thought on the demands of the Ogoni people as articulated in the Ogoni Bill of Rights, before the resumption of oil production.

“Also, the unilateral decision of the NNPC to grant approval and operatorship licence to RoboMichael Nigeria Limited to resume oil production in OML 11 on behalf of SPDC without the free, prior and informed consent of the Ogoni people as guaranteed by international law, is brazen and undemocratic as it is capable of igniting fresh crisis in the area,”

It should be noted that Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria left Ogoni in 1993 and has, since then, maintained that it had no plans to return to the area for oil exploration and production.

Sources: sweetcrude

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