meandmytots: October 2019

Presidential Election Tribunal Appeal Update:

PRESS RELEASE

Supreme Court Judgement, Part of our Democratic Challenges

It is said that the Supreme Court is not final because it is infallible, but that it is infallible because it is final. While I believe that only God is infallible everywhere, and only Nigerians are infallible in our democracy, I must accept that the judicial route I chose to take, as a democrat, has come to a conclusion.

Whether justice was done, is left to the Nigerian people to decide. As a democrat, I fought a good fight for the Nigerian people. I will keep on fighting for Nigeria and for democracy, and also for justice.
I thank all Nigerians who have stayed the course since the commencement of trial in the petition on the February 23 presidential election.

The judgement is part of democratic challenges we must face as a nation.

The Nigerian judiciary, just like every estate of our realm, has been sabotaged and undermined by an overreaching and dictatorial cabal, who have undone almost all the democratic progress the Peoples Democratic Party and its administrations nurtured for sixteen years, up until 2015.

Can Nigeria continue like this? Recently, former United States Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, averred that Nigeria had rolled back the democratic gains she made in 2015. When democracy is rolled back, the economy, the society and the judiciary will not be far behind. Today, the nail has been put on the coffin and the gains we collectively made since 1999 are evaporating, and a requiem is at hand.

In a democracy, you need a strong judiciary, a free press and an impartial electoral umpire. Nigeria has none of those three elements as at today.
One man, one woman, one youth, one vote, should be the only way to make gains in a democracy. And when that is thwarted, the clock starts to tick.

Two and a half millennia ago, Sophocles said “If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: “Thou shalt not ration justice.” Nigeria will do well to observe this warning.

To those who think they have broken my spirit, I am sorry to disappoint you. I am too focused on Nigeria to think about myself. I gave up that luxury twenty years ago. The question is not if I am broken. The question is if Nigeria is whole?

This is not a time for too many words. It will suffice for me to remind Nigeria of this - we are an independent nation and we are the architects of our fate. If we do not build a free Nigeria, we may end up destroying her, and God forbid that that should be the case.
I was a democrat, I am a democrat, and I will always continue to be a democrat. May God bless Nigeria.

30th October 2019
Atiku Abubakar

STRIKE LOOMS IN GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS IN ANAMBRA STATE

MEDICAL AND DENTAL CONSULTANTS' ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (MDCAN) CHUKWUEMEKA ODUMEGWU TEACHING HOSPITAL, AMAKU-AWKA ISSUES A 7 DAY ULTIMATUM TO THE GOVERNMENT OF ANAMBRA STATE

Wednesday 30th October 2019 the chairman of the association Dr Chukwudi Okani gave the warning at a press briefing after an emergency meeting of the group.

The chairman said that the association may commence indefinite strike if the State government do not heed the call.

The Chairman and his team expressed dismay at the higher salaries being earned by House Officers in Federal Medical Centres (FMC) across the South - Eastern States of Nigeria whilst medical consultants at Amaku were paid much lower salaries.

According to Dr. Okani, he has been a consultant for over 6 years but his salary is nothing compared to that being earned by House Officers in FMCs in the South East of Nigeria.

He further explained that the ultimatum given to the State Government by the Association had become necessary because the State Government of Anambra has so far failed to implement the agreement reached between both parties sometime in June 2018. Part of the agreement reached with the State Government after the 2018 strike was that the salary paid Consultants at the hospital should be at par with that paid Consultants in Teaching Hospitals.

Lending his voice on the matter, Dr. Amaechi Nwachukwu emphasised that the Association is not asking for a salary increase. Rather they are asking for equity and fairness to the extent that their salary should be same as that paid Consultants in other hospitals.

Dr. Donald Eneh and Abuja based medical practitioner is of the view that except there is some form of denial of remuneration, it would be an abberation for a House Officer to earn more than a Consultant in a hospital. He stated that salaries and allowances of medical doctors are graded according to levels.

Difference between an House Officer and a Consultant.

Whereas a Consultant is a senior doctor who has overall responsibility for the care of patients in a hospital, a House Officer is a qualified doctor practising under supervision in a hospital in the first year after graduation from medical school.

Presidential Election Appeal: PDP's Appeal, Dismissed

The Supreme Court of Nigeria has on Wednesday 27th October 2019 dismissed the appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

The appeal challengied the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari in the February 23, 2019 presidential election.

This decision was announced a few hours after the apex court commenced the hearing of the appeal.

The panel ked by the Chief Justice of Nigeria Tanko Mohammed, will give reasons for dismissing the petition on a date yet to be announced.

YOUR MOBILE APPS AND MALWARE

08:37, 28 OCT 2019UPDATED13:04, 28 OCT 2019

1_The-Latest-Mobile-Apps-At-The-App-World-Multi-Platform-Developer-Show.jpg — Android logo(Image: Bloomberg)

From Samsung to Huawei, Android smartphones are some of the most popular devices on the market.

But if you use an Android device, you may want to double-check which apps you have installed.

Researchers from ESET have warned users about 42 dangerous apps that were previously available on the Google Play Store that contain adware - software that automatically displays adverts, even when the app is closed.

While these apps are longer available on the Google Play Store, they’ve amassed a whopping eight million downloads.

ESET has revealed the names of 21 of the apps, which include Free Radio FM Online, Flat Music Player and Heroes Jump (scroll down for list).

Worryingly, these apps have their code hidden under a package name ‘com.google.xxx’.

In a blog about the dangerous apps, Lukas Stefanko, a researcher at ESET, explained: “This trick – posing as a part of a legitimate Google service – may help avoid scrutiny. Some detection mechanisms and sandboxes may whitelist such package names, in an effort to prevent wasting resources.”

Thankfully, Google has now removed these apps from the Google Play Store, after ESET reported the issue.

Mr Stefanko added: “Sneaking unwanted or harmful functionality into popular, benign apps is a common practice among “bad” developers, and we are committed to tracking down such apps.

“We report them to Google and take other steps to disrupt malicious campaigns we discover.”