First Lady’s Health: Can We Have Something Else, Please!

The world woke up to yet another distraction from Sahara Reporters, which has since carved its own image as a comprehensive smear machine.
Again, it’s about the First Lady of Nigeria and her state of health.

It should be established upfront here that the nation has since moved on from the last mass distraction of the nation and her good people over whether the First Lady was ill or not.

Of course SaharaReporters has continued to jubilate over its “leadership” of that last campaign.
Whatever may be the case, and this was obviously a mixture of truths, half-truths and outright irresponsible lies, plus a presidential handling that many people took exception to, Dame Jonathan has since returned.

Expectedly, everyone, especially the media, has turned its focus to more pressing personal and public matters.
These include crucial issues in the life and development of the nation. Here, the media is back at its traditional role as agenda-setter for growth and development of society.

Right now, the concern of all well-meaning Nigerians and well-wishers should be how to free the nation from the shackles that keep her down.

For instance, we are on the brink of losing an opportunity to bring order to the much-abused petroleum industry, by the controversy assailing the Ribadu Report; the seemingly intractable fuel queues are back and biting hard; public engagements are on-going towards a review of the constitution with the attendant need to assist the people to understand that this is an opportunity to turn the focus of the constitution to their own welfare; the issues of safety and security are still here, and many other such.

It is therefore worrisome and suspicious that some young Nigerians will, in the midst of all these, devote themselves to mundane matters, such as whether the First Lady travels with the husband and how often. Is that a constitutional requirement? Or how far will that go to free the neck of Nigerians from petrol scarcity or crime-breeding youth unemployment?

Besides all above, outfits like SaharaReporters should begin to show concern for the collective integrity and honour of the media which they all inherited and are enjoying.

Or would the young men at SR say this is the legacy of patriots and fore-runners like Ernest Ikoli, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Babatunde Jose, Lateef Jakande, Adamu Ciroma, Segun Osoba, Dele Giwa, Sam Amuka, and others too many to mention?

One can’t but wonder if such glorious virtues of the media which these notable icons represent were built out of mud-slinging traditions that outfits like SaharaReporters have committed themselves to, such as the proverbial greedy fly and the corpse.

Doesn’t it occur to them that pull-him-down and smear-campaigns like these further the unfortunate public impression of “cash-and-carry journalism”?

As a matter of fact, if SR cannot join the rest of the positive media to set constructive agenda of national development for the country, it should at least stop distracting well-meaning people from their focus on private and public good!

All said and done, if SR can’t find more beneficial social, economic and political things to form their focus other than “First Lady is sick, First Lady is not sick’’, then let them and their sponsors be told that Nigerians are tired and would like to have issues of development on the plate.
I beg!
CLETUS SOGA
Marina, Lagos
 

 

The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of SaharaReporters

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Mrs Umblella

latest news from the (American) hospital in Wiesbaden (Germany):

most doctors there are diasporitic (no disease!) doctors from Nigeria!

too bad if Stella went to Spain and the other Missus went to the US!!!

Prof-of-penkele-diasporas

(or is it diasporae ???

My Latin... too old!)

must ask the PIOUS one,

since Kperogi is into

Naija neologisms ...

@CLETUS SOGA @Stanley igwe

@CLETUS SOGA:: Or would the young men at SR say this is the legacy of patriots and fore-runners like Ernest Ikoli, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Babatunde Jose, Lateef Jakande, Adamu Ciroma, Segun Osoba, Dele Giwa, Sam Amuka, and others too many to mention

WHat a mundane writer. CLETUS SOGA, Why would you list Adamu Ciroma name among our great national leaders?

@Stanley igwe:
You sounded more angry than those "angry" folks at (SR) whom you are tagging. I will call GEJ to increase your pay.... LOL

Moron Stanley igwe

You obviously are benefitting somehow from the corruption in Nigeria, that is why you are not angry. The most despicable people in the world are hypocrites, and that is what you are. People who will not only embezzle public funds and help impoverish and murder thousands of Nigerians but also want to feel they are doing no wrong while at it. You will all die shameful, painful deaths.

Cletus - You are far from Reality 3

Contd.

Don't you think it would have been honourable for the government to simply tell the nation that she is not well, and doctors are working on here wellness while at the same time enjoining the whole Nation to pray for her...I tell you the good people of Nigeria would have done exactly that, because we are still good, and considerate.

Cletus, you are indeed far from reality, and you need to face things the way they are...you and Deri seem to be living in a different world...the Stone Age!

Cletus -You are far from reality 2

Contd.
Annual vacation should not be more than one month, if she indeed went to Germany to rest as reported by the Government last time...in this case, she has bridged the labour law, if anything of such exist in Nigeria.

Also note that she holds the office of the First Lady, which is against the constitution...hence she is doubled as a public figure, and must be treated as such until we do the right thing.

Why do they have to run to overseas for shroud treatments (Stella, Mariam, Yar'Dua), if they are doing the right thing...does that mean that Germany, Dubai, Saudi, US, UK doctors are better than the doctors for African descent? Go and check the quality of Nigerians in those stated countries and see how they are pulling strings in their various disciplines.

Cletus - you are far from Reality1

Cletus,

For the fact that google translate has given some people opportunities to translate their local dialect to English does not make them a writer. You did not carry out any fact before jumping on the Internet! If you don't want to be transparent, then do not take such a sensitive position.

Some of us fought for Jonathan when he was being treated as a relegated dog, during Yar'Dua saga!

Having said that, you missed out big time on the issues of discourse here: madam Jonathan is a public figure and her whereabouts should not be hidden from the public. The last time we checked, she was the Perm Sec for Bayelsa, which means she has been AWOL, yet being paid on daily basis.

Besides, she is not supposed to be staying in Abuja, but rather where her salary is coming from...in this case Bayelsa.

@CHIEF CLETUS WAHALA to marry buhari daughter @ABAGANA

The big monkey in wahala is out on the streets of Mushin in search of an Okada rider to take him home! They love to criticise people but when we give it back to them in their own coins, u see dem scamper into ther smelly regional holes, to hide their ugly filthy faces. After shamelessly telling u to bass off-if we dont like the face Buharis wife whom we have never seen in public b4. But they never do same when asked to leave the first lady alone-Obama it was who told the press n d USA, never to touch his wife--here ppl who can hardly tell the difference between Turai and the wife of buhari asking us not to read materials on SR any more-if we feel offended by the type of watery gossips they splash here for us to read-well somebody should be sane enough to tell the wahalas that we will never go away-we shall be here to chase the demonic forces working to arm boko haram here-the SS, owns 9ja more than the parasites who depend on their resources 4 survival!

FREEDOM TO CHOOSE WHAT NEWS TO CONSUME,MUST YOU BE ON SR?

If you don't want to read about the First Lady,then just go to some other website,our press is a free democratic one,nobody has the right to restrict or dictate what is published.
Having made my point,the first Lady is fair game in any country with free press,if the government would come up with accurate reports about the first lady,speculations would end,however all we get is a cocktail of lies about the health of the First Lady.Even when she was clearly admitted in hospital she denied being ill at all,in the face of such open insensitivity the press must keep seeking out for the truth,the same happened to us during the Yar'adua illness saga and it nearly plunged the country into anarchy.

Cletus Soga (a.k.a. DERI)

Cletus Soga is a pseudonym for DERI, Stanley Igwe and other paid agents of President GEJ administration that rely on Sahara Reporters for accurate news reporting about Nigeria.

@ Cletus Soga : Simple, stop reading SR !

@ Cletus Soga : I bet your day is incomplete without visiting SaharaReporters. The site has numerous stories to choose from, you're definitely 'out of place' to dictate what/who they should write about. And, who are you to speak for Nigerians? Where were you when Eko City was closed so the illitrate could "Thank South-South women" who made the mistake of voting for her clown to be our presido. If it was appropriate for them to stage that boisterous return from Germany Clement, it is right, just, and the responsibility of news organizations to keep us abrest with her whereabout. Since she's nowhere to be found after claiming "hail & hearty", it becomes imperative that SR feeds our curiousity with regular updates. She's a public figure with a staff and budget, she has a 'history' of Ghost worker antics, SR is only making sure they're not ripping us off by paying a ghost First Lady cum Perm Sec. Clement, Kapisch?

Well Done

Dr Okupe, you don try.

Lol. Don't shoot the messanger.

@Cletus Soga

I hope you not from that family at Mushin in Lagos because this is ghetto bullshit. Rubbish article! It does not make sense at all. Were you writing for her school 'childrens'? Ha ha ha! I dey laff... Are you one of her widowers? Hehehe! Get her a teacher and stop feeding us with dung.

@Cletus Soga (2)

Have you read today's newsapapers? Was SR the one quoted on the First Lady's illness? Read The Nation. A lawyer, Mr. Ikimi has said the same thing. How will you defend the first lady now? If you are jobless, please find a job to do. If you have a job, you need extra jibs to keep you busy. Get a life! Nigerians have a right to know about the lame dame.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/online-special/evening-e...

Vote Buhari President 2015 To Stop Corruption And Looting!!!

If we must have something else aside from Mrs Jonathan's ill health - then, let Jonathan declare his asset publicly. That one would be a soothing alternative.

The entire idea concerning

The entire idea concerning the SNG, CPC and ACN sponsored articles on boko haram is geared towards unseating or replacing Jonathan in 2015-El rufai (ati) Sanusi-or perhaps with the likes of Ribadu and Buhari from the Fulani kindred. Jonathan is not going to remain in aso rock for the next 52yrs.He will be gone after his tenure expires.Not even with the oil wells which has not benefitted anybody from the SS. But to have the socalled opposition which cannot even solve the problem they are having with okada riders in Lagos state, not to talk of handling their crisis with doctors attempt to control abuja, its like asking a 5yrs old kid to carry an elephants on his shoulders-if the vision is to impose buhari on us, hence the need to rubbish the first lady, then they have failed-buhari should confine his thoughts to boko haram instead of the presidency-cause its all over for him and bakare

DIRTY FAT DOG.....

Dirty Fat (Attack) Dog, DOYIN OKUPE, so your name now is CLETUS SOGA and your new address is MARINA with no house address and number?

Godluck to you, The Attack Dog of Aso Rock.

You cannot enjoy public limelight and despise public scrutiny

"All said and done, if SR can’t find more beneficial social, economic and political things to form their focus other than “First Lady is sick, First Lady is not sick’’, then let them and their sponsors be told that Nigerians are tired and would like to have issues of development on the plate". (Cletus Soga)

When did this clown conduct an opinion poll of Nigerians to reach his "jankara" conclusion? Who are the Nigerians in reference? Is it of those in Aso Rock or of Deri & 'eweku ewele' band? It is only in Nigeria that people want to eat their cake and have it also.

Once you choose to become a goldfish by taking public office, yours amd family affairs have no hiding place. Were we not intimidated with a show off in full public glare of the arrival of Madam Pat from her "overseas rest" taken at public expense. It is only an idiot that will pick a quarell about the public knowing about the welfare of our "public property" until they move out of Aso Rock.

DIRTY FAT DOG.....

Dirty Fat (Attack) Dog, DOYIN OKUPE, so your name now is CLETUS SOGA and your new address is MARINA with no house address and number?

Godluck to you, The Attack Dog of Aso Rock.

First Lady's Health

Mr. Cletus Soga, thanks for your write up. I am of the opinion that you should speak for yourself and that of your household,that is, if you are their voice. If blatant lie by the presidency to you is not huge enough to warrant being reported by SR or any other media house for that matter, then, I must wish you goodluck. Just so you know, I am a Nigerian and I am not tired of reading the expose of our clueless leaders who has continue to triumph because people like you have refused to see anything wrong in the way they lead. By the way, must you read SR that in your words "has since carved its own image as a comprehensive smear machine", must you?

You cannot enjoy public limelight and despise public scrutiny

"If SR can’t find more beneficial social, economic and political things to form their focus other than “First Lady is sick, First Lady is not sick’’, then let them and their sponsors be told that Nigerians are tired and would like to have issues of development on the plate". (Cletus Soga)

When did this clown conduct an opinion poll to reach his "jankara" conclusion about the view of Nigerians? Who are the Nigerians in reference? Those in Aso Rock or the ones in the figment of his imagination. It is only in Nigeria that people wants to eat their cake and have it also.

Once you decide to become a goldfish by being elected into public office, yours amd family affairs becomes a public knowledge. Were we not intimidated with a show off in full public glare of the arrival of Madam Pat from her "overseas rest" raken at public expense. It is only an idiot that will pick a quarell about the public knowing about the progress of our "public property" until they move out of Aso Rock.

Stupid Clatus

Stupid Man!!

@Stanley Igwe

You must be feeding fat from Aso Rock. You need to be walloped back to reality. Nonsense.

As for the writer of this `childrens` gimmick writer Cletus Soga, are you looking for a contract via Doyin or Abati? Get a life! If they cannot stand the heat, they should get out of Aso Rock.

SR is not a media outfit

I get offended when SR is being referred to as a media outfit. SR is a bunch of 'children of anger', aggrieved young men with nuisance value. As smart as they seems to be they have created themselves a web-based make believe news business which they are using to pay their bills and survive abroad. May be you did not understand it when GEJ said that criticizing him is now a big business.This is internet business and SR have created a niche for themselves, many Nigerians abroad do see them as the only credible source of news. My brother there is nothing you can do and please do accept my sympathy in advance for insults that their disciples will pour on you.

Patience Jonathan is a Public Figure

Ms. Jonathan is a public figure and thus the general public deserves to know how she is doing. Can you imagine what would happen in the U.S. if Ms. Obama goes incommunicado for an extended period? Americans will be in uproar? I wish Ms. Jonathan well but we do need to know!