November 26, 2017 was the day we endorsed ATIKU ABUBAKAR for PRESIDENT it appears we were not wrong Nigeria needs an entrepreneur like WAZIRIN ADAMAWA to turn things around. FROM IMPERATIVES OF CHANGE Whilst the elites live pampered lives, the vast majority of the population is trapped in poverty and underdevelopment. The middle class has crumbled under the weight of a rent-seeking economic environment. Few can hope for a decent education; there are not enough jobs; infrastructure and public services are inadequate while basic social security has no real meaning. Too many Nigerians live in fear of violent crimes, communal clashes, and savage acts of terrorism. Most feel betrayed by the very institutions that were set up to serve and protect them and by corrupt and self-serving politicians. Indifferent, ill-equipped, and often brutal security forces and a weak legal and judicial system fuel public distrust of the state and feed into the widely held belief that in...

AN Egyptian, dubbed the world’s heaviest woman, has left her home for the first time in 25 years for life-saving surgery. Eman Ahmed, 36, who tips the scales at 78 stone, was flown from her home in Alexandria on a specially modified cargo plane to India to undergo a series of operations to help her lose weight. Eman Ahmed, who weighs 78 stone, has been bed-ridden at her home in Alexandria, Egypt, for 25 years earlier today, she arrived in Mumbai where she was greeted by a team of doctors who will perform surgery to shrink her stomach to save her life. The wall of her room reportedly had to be knocked down to bring her out before she was was lifted out of her bed by a crane and placed in an Egypt Air cargo plane. After a seven-hour long flight, she was placed in a mini-truck at Chhatrapati Shivaji International airport and transported to Saifee Hospital in Mumbai in western India, where she will undergo treatment She was accompa...

The Doctors, who spoke in reaction to Buhari’ request for further stay in London for medical tests and results, stressed that non-disclosure of the president’s ailment was generating confusion, suspicion and distrust among Nigerians. Speaking, National President of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Prof. Mike Ogirima, called for openness on the issue. Admitting that nobody was above sickness, Ogirima said transparency on the part of the presidency would lay to rest doubt, “speculation and confusion surrounding the matter”. “Nigerians deserve to know the nature of the sickness afflicting their president,” he told New Telegraph. Also reacting, National President, National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), Dr. John Onyebueze said keeping Buhari’s ailment secret, had already created suspicion in the mind of the public. His words: “In a family where a father or mother is sick and the circumstance surrounding the illness is hidden from the children, this creates susp...

There had been so many miss conceptions about valentine. Some say it’s about a famous Roman Catholic priest who gave his life for people he loved. While some believe it’s all about the Agape love Jesus Christ has for us. Well, am not here to condemn any believe but whatsoever is yours let it be absolutely positive. Though some have turned the day to “sin day.” Many atrocities are committed this day which is not supposed. Valentine is not only about romantic love. Romantic love can certainly be wonderful, and there’s no shame in aspiring to it. But there are other kinds of love and relationships that too often get ignored. I think our mindset should be changed which is a first step in changing the world. Celebration valentine is not only showing love to spouse. There other ways to celebrate valentine. Here are 8 ways You can Touch the lives of people while being unique and special this valentine season Love yourself : You must show yourself love first before you can l...

Our letter dated 7 th November, 2016 requesting for courtesy call to the office of the Adamawa State Speaker, Commissioner for Health and Commissioner for Environment as gone mortal. The letter which was written 7 th November, 2016 with the below objectives is believed to have gone mortal and the group keeps wondering. Is the government now frowning at voluntary work? 1. We have noticed how our metropolitan city Jimeta is becoming dirty day by day due to poor maintenance of the streets by human activities, refuse these days are dumped beside or on the streets growing grasses are seen growing on our express ways, You could be by the road side or driving only for you to notice things being thrown out of moving vehicles. The nature does not know how to use waste bins either so she just clears it off her path and delivers it to the nearest gutter or canal. This leads to all the floods we experience on the streets of Adamawa every time it rains a great place for malaria breed...

German news magazine Der Spiegel sparked controversy Saturday with a cover depicting US President Donald Trump holding the severed head of the Statue of Liberty in one hand and a bloodied knife in the other. The weekly used for its front page an image by US-Cuban artist and political refugee Edel Rodriguez with the Trumpian slogan “America first” next to it. “On our cover the American president beheads the symbol which has welcomed migrants and refugees to the United States since 1886, and with democracy and freedom,” Spiegel’s chief editor Klaus Brinkbaeumer told German news agency DPA. The image, which shows an orange face featureless save for a wide-open mouth, was seized upon for discussion by other media outlets in Germany and beyond. Bild tabloid saw a direct parallel with Mohammed Emwazi, the British national known by the pseudonym “Jihadi John”, who was seen in several videos showing the beheading of Islamic State hostages. Speaking to Bild, the vice-president of the E...

The chartered Airbus 330 aircraft that brought them landed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport at about 8am. It was learnt that they were deported for alleged immigration offences. Before their arrival, the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, had informed that about 83 deportees were being expected, and that some of them who had not completed their prison sentences would be handed over to the Nigeria Prison Service to complete the terms. However, eight females and 33 males, mostly Yoruba, Edo and Igbo, were received by Dr. Bandele Onimode, Deputy Director, Search and Rescue, who represented NEMA Director General. On arrival, the deportees were served breakfast and later interrogated to determine their states of origin so that they can be assisted to locate their relatives where necessary. Nigerian deportees from Uk, on their arrival at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos…yesterday. Photo Lamidi Bamidele The Nigeria Immigration Service was sa...