EXCLUSIVE: Jonathan violates Nigerian laws, corners N3billion general hospital for own town, Otuoke

Otuoke General Hospital. What should be the responsibility of the Bayelsa state government was built by the federal government

The Federal Government does not build general hospitals. But PREMIUM TIMES can report today that President Goodluck Jonathan has waived two vital rules to establish a princely N2.8 billion new general hospital for his hometown, Otuoke, effectively placing the coastal community as an exclusive beneficiary of a strange largesse not known to federal laws.

It is not clear how and when the federal government first conceived the hospital project, as it was not listed in federal budgets between 2009 and 2011, and even after.

Physically challenged people in Delta shut down SURE-P secretariat, council chairman flees

Physically challenged people in Delta state shut down the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) secretariat on Friday to protest their alleged exclusion from the programme by the chairman of Ughelli North Local Government Area Transition Committee, Delta State, Friday Akpoyibo.
The chairman of the Ughelli North Local Government Area chapter of the association, Ernest Igbuzor, said: “The council chairman has reneged on various promises he made to us.  Our group is under the supervision of the State Ministry of Women Affairs and we have presented a proposal which is keyed into by the council’s administration”.
According to reports, eyewitness said Akpoyibo fled his office before the aggrieved disabled persons arrived the council’s secretariat adding that a bus belonging to the National Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, was nearly vandalised.

Uyo 2013 Summit: Nobody is Jonathan’s enemy – Briggs

By Wale Odunsi 

 

Conveners of the National Political Summit on the future of Nigeria, tagged, Uyo 2013, have dismissed the recent comments credited to elder statesman, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, that those billed to attend the event were against the progress of President Goodluck Jonathan.

Reacting to the statement yesterday, Ms Ankio Briggs, one of the South-South coordinators of the summit, said Clark’s words were harsh and unacceptable.

She said, “How can calling for this summit of Nigerians from different sectors and parts of the country to discuss the future of Nigeria, call for a Sovereign National Conference, people’s constitution and true federalism amount to being unpatriotic, undemocratic and enemy of President Jonathan? I find it difficult to believe that my elder and leader, Chief E.K Clark feel that when people sit down to discuss the future of Nigeria, they are unpatriotic and undemocratic. It is harsh.