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Response to Emmanuel Onwubiko - Pfizer victims and the monkey story

Written by Yaro Danusa Wednesday, 10 March 2010 12:54

Emmanuel Onwubiko’s article on Saharareporters that berated Pfizer for their humanitarian role that turned soar, could have been commended, but it came out at the wrong time in the protracted fight for settlement. Onwubiko’s writing at present seems belated and I wonder where he had been all these years as the head of Human Rights Writers’ Association of Nigeria, when all credible nongovernmental organizations where being asked to come out and help seek for solution to the saga.

Kolade-Otitoju, Foxcroft and the Helen Ukpabio’s Scam

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Written by Patrick Naagbanton Wednesday, 10 March 2010 08:43

Public Relations is a vocation I dislike this days because of what its practitioners present to us on daily basis. The picture they paint of their line of business, is that they can make an image out of what do not have any image. Their major motivation and drive is always money. They are also called reputation managers or image-makers. In truth, there is no difference between its practitioners and those in the British historian and journalist, Anthony Mockler’s much-publicized book, Mercenaries (1969).

Democracy in Crisis: How China And IMF Crowned Eduardo Dos Santos As The King of Angola

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Written by Ademola Bello Wednesday, 10 March 2010 00:57

According to the 2009 Transparency International Corruption Perceptions index table, Angola is ranked number 162, one of the most brazenly corrupt countries in the world, tied with Venezuela and countries that media often neglect in global news cycles like Kyrgystan, Congo Brazzaville, Guinea Bissau, and the Democratic Republic of Congo and ranked one or two points better above Somalia, and Sudan at the bottom of the table. Interestingly, Nigeria, a country where corruption is the order of the day, ranked better this time around than Angola at number 130.

Response to Bishara John Goni - Plateau, the Middle Belt and the myth of "One North"

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Written by Emeka Chukwudi Monday, 08 March 2010 22:37

“The scales shall fall from your eyes.”It was indeed a grand delusion – the decision of the Middle Belt and some elements in the Niger Delta to align with the Hausa/Fulani oligarchs and the Sokoto Caliphate. But Mr. Goni how are you sure that your folks including you are still not laboring under the yoke of that grand delusion even as you write?

Pfizer Victims and the monkey story

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Written by Emmanuel Onwubiko Monday, 08 March 2010 22:27

In 1996, a meningitis epidemic broke out in Kano, leaving thousands dead, and thousands more permanently disabled. The infectious Diseases hospital, where the aid organization- medicines Sans Frontiers (msf) (Doctors without Borders) was providing free emergency treatment became a “Mecca” of sorts. Thousands of affected children were taken there for treatment. At the hospital, doctors of msf dispensed approved antibiotics to combat the often deadly meningitis. Doctors at Pfizer too thought they had an antibiotic that could probably save the lives of some of those children.