Chad President Idriss Deby has fired his armed forces chief of staff following the latest bout of unrest which culminated in a Boko Haram attack that left 23 dead.
Deby fired Brahim Seid Mahamat and his two deputies by presidential decree after six years in the post on Friday night just hours after the attack in the southwest of the country.
The soldiers were killed after coming under attack from jihadists in the early hours of Friday morning in the deadliest attack on the Chadian military by Boko Haram, which launched an insurgency in Nigeria a decade ago.
The unrest has spread to neighbouring Niger and Chad with the Boko Haram revolt to date claiming more than 27,000 lives and uprooting more than 1.7 million people.
Friday’s attack took place at Dangdala, on the northeastern bank of Lake Chad.
Thursday had seen another attack by the group kill eight civilians at Karidi in southeastern Niger in the Diffa region bordering Lake Chad, The area is one of the worst-hit areas for jihadist attacks in Niger.
Troops from Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria have been grouped into a multi-national force to fight Boko Haram.
Deby’s reorganisation of security — which included the suspension of the air force chief and his deputy — saw army chief of staff Taher Erda take the top job with a general from the northeastern region of Tibesti made chief advisor on national defence issues.
Erda is a Deby loyalist and former police chief who fought alongside the president before he took power in 1990.
The air force suspensions followed the discovery of debris from an helicopter which went missing more than a week ago in the north.
The sparsely populated, mainly desert region near the border with Sudan, Libya and Niger is volatile prone to attack from Chadian rebel groups based across the Libyan border.
In late January, France pounded Chadian rebels who had crossed back into their country from Libya to halt their incursion.
A shocking trending video making the rounds online has called for caution among Nigerians to be very careful when employing house maids. Two boys who disguised perfectly as girls were recently apprehended by the authorities after they were discovered to be what they are not.After they were arrested and taken to the station, the boys allegedly confessed that they pretended to be girls in order to be employed.
Imagine what they would have done to the female children left in their care.
They were asked to show their private parts (including the fake breasts) right there in the station as they were filmed.
A Facebook user who posted the video online urged people to thoroughly check housemaids before employing them.
The Catholic Archbishop of Abuja Province, Most Rev.Dr. Ignatius Kaigama has called for Social integration of members of the church in their various activities. He made this call in his office when delegates of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Africa paid him a courtesy call.
The delegation which led by the Coordinator of the Renewal in Nigeria Bro Uche Manu KSJI who also is the Chairman of the planning Committee of the 5th Pan African Congress taking place from 14th to 20th of August at Chida Event Centre Utako Abuja, told the Archbishop that they came to bring him to up to speed on activities lined up for the Congress.
According to Bro. Manu the visit was a follow up to that of last year. Bro. Manu also used the opportunity to invite Archbishop Kaigama to officiate the opening Mass of the Congress. Speaking during the courtesy visit some of the officers from the Continental and National Service Communion of Communion of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal and CHARIS raised issues on the need for the church to create more formation opportunities on deliverance and healing. This according to them will avail renewal members to get more training which would reduce unnecessary conflicts with the church’s authority . The delegates also highlighted the necessity of the members of the Church to be more conscious of the social development of their environment, getting involved in other aspects of life apart of engaging in religious activities.They reiterated the posture of the renewal on church’s doctrines and dogmas which they said is cordial, reflecting the mind of God.
Responding to these remarks His Grace Archbishop Kaigama commended the cordial posturing of the renewal members to the unity of the church . He reminded them on the delicate nature of exorcism and the need for members to be well trained to avoid swimming against the doctrinal current of the church.
According to the prelate , when it comes to healing and deliverance the church is always very careful and skeptical because of abuse and plethora of fakeness and manipulation that go with it in this present age. He further gave Renewal members thumps up for their mindset towards building Social capacity that will expose them beyond flourishing spiritually but also materially.
Earlier in the day, their was a press briefing where Bro .Uche Manu KSJI Chairman CCRN who is also the Chairman Planning Committee of the 5th Pan African Congress, Jean Christophe Anani of Togo, Fred Mawanda of Uganda, Alphonse Bertin of Cameroon who are continental officers of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal and CHARIS and Fr. Sebastian Sani, Chaplain of the Abuja Catholic Charismatic Renewal briefed the media on the importance of the Congress which among other things were to bring Christ to Africa, encourage Christians to arise from their slumber and shine with the glory of God.For them the Congress will further renew hope for a more peaceful situation and unity in Africa especially this period when some African countries are passing through security challenges. In their words “we have come to bring fire to the hearts of Africa, words to their lips, making them an unending pentecost or Prophets of Modern time, who will reveal the hidden presence of Christ in our life, church and country”.
The Pan African Congress would host more than three thousand participants across Africa and beyond. Christ is passing through Abuja and other African countries through this Congress, his influence and transformation will make the continent a nest for godly influence and manifestation. Other people on the courtesy call delegation were His Lordship Most Rev. Eusebius Chinekezie Maduagwu Ogbonna , a Nigerian but a bishop in Gabon, Bro. Emmanuel Mobikwu National Vice Chairman CCRN, Bro Vitus Chukwudolue Chairman CCR Abuja, Bro Mathews Otalike, Chairman publicity sub-committee of the conference among others. The highlight of the courtesy call was the presentation of Congress bag to his Grace by bro. Uche Manu KSJI Jarlath
The Catholic Archbishop of Abuja Archdiocese His Grace Most Rev.Dr. Ignatius Kaigama has called for Social integration of members of the church in their various activities. He made this call recently in his office when delegates of members of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Africa paid him a courtesy call.
The delegation which was led by the Cordinator of the Renewal in Nigeria Bro Uche Manu KSJI who also is the Chairman of the planning Committee of the 5th Pan African Congress taking place from 14th to 20th of August at Chida Event Centre Utako Abuja intimated the Archbishop on the need for the courtesy call which was to bring him to spead on the program of the event.
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According to bro.Manu it was a follow up on the courtesy visit done last year where his grace was informed of this Congress. Bro. Manu also used the opportunity to invite Archbishop Kaigama to officiate the opening Mass of the Congress.
Speaking during the courtesy visit some of the officers from the Continental and National Service Communion of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal and CHARIS raised issues on the need for the church to create more formation opportunities on deliverance and healing. This according to them will avail renewal members to get more training which would reduce unnecessary conflicts with the church’s authority . The delegates also highlighted the necessity of the members of the Church to be more conscious of the social development of their environment, getting involved in other aspects of life apart of engaging in religious activities.
They reiterated the posture of the renewal on church’s doctrines and dogmas which they said is cordial, reflecting the mind of God. Responding to these remarks his grace commended the cordial posturing of the renewal members to the unity of the church . He reminded them on the delicate nature of exorcism and the need for members to be well trained to avoid swimming against the doctrinal current of the church. According to the prelate , when it comes to healing and deliverance the church is always very careful and skeptical because of abuse and plethora of fakeness and manipulation that go with it in this present age. He further gave Renewal members thumps up for their mindset towards building Social capacity that will expose them beyond flourishing spiritual but also materially.
Earlier in the day, their was a press briefing where Bro .Uche Manu KSJI Chairman CCRN who is also the Chairman Planning Committee of the 5th Pan African Congress, Jean Christophe Anani of Togo, Fred Mawanda of Uganda,Alphonse Bertin of Cameroon who are continental and National officers of the African Service of Communion of Catholic Charismatic Renewal and CHARIS and Fr. Sebastian Sani Chaplain of the Abuja Catholic Charismatic Renewal briefed the media on the importance of the Congress which among other things were to bring Christ to Africa, encourage Christians to a
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It was indeed an amazing experience for all the African countries at Chida Event, Abuja during the opening Mass of the 5th Pan African Congress. Dressed in their cultural attires with their flags, each country delegates walked through the aisles of the Congress Auditorium in a manner so resplendent, expressing not only their culture but the hunger and zeal to arise from the shallow of their spiritual life to a height that will make them shine, illuminating with such a light of Christ that all the dark aspects of their lives will be made bright enough to change the face of Africa for good.Addressing the delegates His Grace Rev. Fr .Ignatius Kaigama the metropolitan Archbishop of Abuja welcomed them to Nigeria and to Abuja precisely and wished them a successful 5th Pan African Congress. The prelate reiterated the need for Africans to see themselves as one not allowing language and cultural differences to divide them. In his words “see how you are seated in this place like you were in heaven, united by one faith, with no difference between a Lesotho person and a Nigeria, a Ghanaian and Niger, a South African and Benin Republic.You should not allow the division of the colonial masters to put us at dagger’ drawn at each other. African has become a dumping ground for colonial ideology, we are gradually getting whitewashed by the ideology from the West , jettisoning ours. We should arise and shine. Those who say there is no God are those who have either read too much books or influenced by certain ideologies that are uncharitable to the belief of God’s existence, Africa is a blessed continent. It was in Africa that Jesus ran to for safety, same continent that civilization first came. Think about the martyrs of Uganda and other great and amazing values of Africans. We are blessed and shouldn’t allow such values to be destroyed by ideological colonialization. Africa is blessed, our passion for religion is still unequalled unlike other places their churches have been turned into museumsThe prelate called on them to be Charismatic and Catholics or Catholic and Charismatic. He challenged them to continue to live out their Charismatic spirituality within the boundaries of Catholic doctrines and dogmas.Welcoming delegates to the event the Chairman of the Renewal in Nigeria who also is the chairman planning Committee of the Congress, bro Uche Manu KSJI said that Jesus is the real and genuine light who changes things. He is the light to everyone who has the need of super human. He called on the participants to be feel at home and enjoy the blessings that come with the Congress with the theme Arise and Shine for your light has come.The high point of the event was the declaration of the Congress open by His Grace Most Rev Dr Ignatius Ayau Kaigama.
El-Rufai was betrayed by Tinubu whom he helped to get elected as president, but betrayal of benefactors is the lifeblood of El-Rufai’s own politics. Plus, how did Nigeria end up with a sadistic, inept buffoon like Akpabio as senate president: El-Rufai’s Betrayal and Akpabio’s BuffooneryBy Farooq A. KperogiTwitter: @farooqkperogiFormer Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai’s rumored withdrawal from consideration as a minister in President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government because high-tensile inter-elite intrigues torpedoed his senate confirmation and caused the president to sour on him is the bluntest, crudest, most double-dyed political treachery I’ve seen in a long time.Sure, El-Rufai is a detestable, self-important, unfeeling, overweening, and divisive political villain whom I once called the most dangerous Nigerian politician alive, but he is more central to Tinubu’s emergence as president than the people on whose behalf Tinubu has thrown him under the bus. El-Rufai left everything aside to galvanize support for Tinubu among northern governors, which was crucial to Tinubu’s win in APC’s primary election. He stood up to Muhammadu Buhari’s cabal on Tinubu’s behalf at a time when few people within the circles of power were willing to stick out their necks for a presidential wannabe.When the Central Bank of Nigeria rolled out its damagingly birdbrained naira recoloring policy to stymie Tinubu’s chances at the polls, El-Rufai launched an all-out, scorched-earth, no-holds-barred rhetorical blitzkrieg against the CBN and honchos of the Buhari regime. Tinubu got tremendous sympathy and persuasive mileage from the knowledge that the hurt Nigerians were undergoing in the days leading up to the election was engineered to get at him, and no one enabled this awareness more than El-Rufai.Additionally, Tinubu himself visited Kaduna and publicly implored El-Rufai to shelve his planned doctoral studies abroad and work with him. During his public appeal, Tinubu infamously said El-Rufai had the uncanny competence to turn “a rotten situation into a bad one.” At the time I wondered if it was a Freudian slip (which means he unintentionally let out what was in his mind), a targeted missile, or an innocent verbal mishap. Now, that description of El-Rufai has assumed a whole new meaning, especially if you recall that Bayo Onanuga, celebrated journalist and former spokesman for the Tinubu presidential campaign, had said that Tinubu’s unflattering characterization of El-Rufai was “a mere Freudian slip.” Given his level of education and exposure, it’s unlikely that Onanuga doesn’t know what a Freudian slip is.A Freudian slip, as I pointed out earlier, is a mistake that unintentionally reveals an uncomfortable truth that we wish to suppress. In other words, Onanuga said Tinubu actually secretly thought El-Rufai had a special knack for transforming rotten situations into bad ones but only unconsciously revealed this unpleasant truth in an unguarded moment. Maybe Onanuga’s revelation that Tinubu’s statement was a “mere Freudian slip” was itself a Freudian slip. That means even Onanuga believed Tinubu’s horrid character portrait of El-Rufai, and inadvertently betrayed it in his statement defending his boss.Anyway, because I cherish the virtues of honor and integrity, betrayal even to a scoundrel activates vicarious unease in me. Public humiliation isn’t a just reward for the efforts El-Rufai invested in contributing to Tinubu’s ascendancy to the presidency.Nonetheless, truth be told, as a person, El-Rufai doesn’t deserve anyone’s pity. What he is going through now is mere karmic payback. Treachery is the currency of his politics.Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar brought El-Rufai from obscurity to the national limelight by giving him a job as the DG of the Bureau of Public Enterprises. But he turned against Atiku and publicly denied any debt to him for his political rise. But in cables WikiLeaks exposed, he confessed to American embassy officials that Atiku indeed gave him his first public service job. In a 2006 cable, Ambassador John Campbell quoted El-Rufai as telling him that “he had entered government service by working for the Vice President.”On December 31, 2002, according to U.S. Embassy in Nigeria cables published by WikiLeaks, El-Rufai ran to US officials to give them foreknowledge of his plan to resign as DG of BPE in early 2003. He spoke approvingly of Atiku and was severely censorious of Obasanjo during the meeting. “El-Rufai said the VP (chair of the National Council on Privatization, the policy-making body that oversees BPE) had pressed for further information on why he wanted to return to the private sector. El-Rufai responded that President Obasanjo’s commitment to privatization and greater transparency had collapsed under the pressures of politics,” Ambassador John Cambell wrote. “Trying too hard to please those who could never be placated, Obasanjo was sacrificing the precepts of a sensible economic agenda in the interest of getting re- elected.” El-Rufai later betrayed Atiku about whom he spoke glowingly in meetings with U.S. officials. He found a new benefactor in Obasanjo whose unethical practices he’d said compelled his resignation as DG of BPE. On September 21, 2006, for instance, El-Rufai went to meet with the U.S. ambassador to Nigeria and the UK High Commissioner “under instruction” from President Obasanjo to inform them of and seek their blessing to deny Atiku Abubakar the chance to succeed his Obasanjo. That’s a wild change of loyalties.“After opening pleasantries in which el-Rufai noted that one of his children is an American citizen, the Minister emphasized that his call was at the explicit instruction of the President; he would also be seeing the British High Commissioner, similarly on instruction,” Campbell wrote. “The President’s purpose is to brief the representatives of Nigeria’s ‘closest allies’ on his strategy for ensuring that the Vice President may not run for the presidency in 2007. Rather than seeking the Vice President’s impeachment for corruption by the National Assembly, El-Rufai continued, the President had appointed an administrative panel of his close political allies (El-Rufai was a member, as was Minister of Education Obi Ezekwesili, Attorney General Bayo Ojo and Minister of Finance Nenadi Usman) to investigate charges of corruption against Atiku.”Of course, El-Rufai later betrayed Obasanjo—and everybody else that has propelled his career or extended favors to him. Obasanjo himself would later write about El-Rufai’s compulsive treachery and duplicity. Given his history, there is no question that El-Rufai would have been treacherous to Tinubu, too, in due course. He would have made Tinubu’s “a rotten situation into a bad one.”El-Rufai seems congenitally incapable of being loyal to people who feather his aspirations. What’s happening to El-Rufai now actually pales in comparison to the depth of his serial betrayal of his benefactors. It’s a case of live by the sword, die by the sword.Akpabio: A Buffoon as Senate PresidentIt’s now obvious that Godswill Akpabio is a dimwitted, cognitively vacant man-child who holds a position that’s lightyears above his intellectual and emotional paygrade. He is a total airhead who has no business being in the senate, much less being the head of it. How did we get to the point that someone who is that nescient, that brainless, and that imbecilic is senate president?The other day, he outraged the sensibilities of a hurting nation when he mocked the poor by ridiculing the phrase “Let the poor breathe,” an earnest, intense mantra that encapsulates the dire existential desperation of the vast majority of our people who are suffocating under the weight of hard-hearted, paralyzing economic policies.Then this week, he was caught on live TV informing senators that the clerk of the senate had sent them unspecified sums of money to facilitate the enjoyment of their forthcoming parliamentary break at a time the poor are stripped of every subsidy and told to die by instalment in the interest of a “better” tomorrow that many won’t live to see—and that won’t materialize even if they manage to survive the ongoing crunch.When smarter crooks in the senate alerted him to the callousness of his unsolicited assault on the psyche of the poor, he took back what he said and lied that he meant that he had sent prayers to the mailboxes of senators! How do you send prayers to mailboxes? Does Akpabio think everyone is a rude, crude, buffoonish, and vulgar rube like him?
As you plan to give effect to your ultimatum to the military junta in Niger republic, beware of the consequences. Niger maybe a member of ECOWAS, yet it’s an independent nation. I thought all member states of ECOWAS enjoy the principles of sovereign equality of member states.
Four African states, most of them in West Africa have come under military rule. Heads of ECOWAS governments should know the reason(s) informing the ousting of civilian administrations. Effort should have been geared towards examining and addressing those concerns bothering the people of those countries.
Giving the junta ultimatum and prepping to oust group through military intervention is unhealthy and to say the least preposterous.
Caution is necessary. There are instances that acceding to the desire of western nations to suppress dissenting Africans on poverty, corruption and maladministration led to devastating consequences.
Very near to remember is Libya. America demonized Gaddafi and whipped up opposition against him, using Africans and Libyans who thought America’s interest was on democracy. The situation of Libya today is anything but peaceful.
France propped up Jean Bedel Bokassa against his own people. It’s the same with Laurent Gbagbo in Cote d’Ivoire. Belgium sowed a similar seed through Mobutu Sese Sekou. ECOWAS leaders should beware the ‘Ides of March’.
Come to think of it – America and France have military bases in Niger republic. Their operatives are there. What moves have they made? What overture did they make to the military leaders? Why should ECOWAS first approach be ultimatum?
As to what it is in the beautiful object that is responsible for eliciting the affective response in the individual, Thomas lists the three objective properties of beauty—integrity, proportion, and clarity—touched on at the end of the last chapter.[1] By integrity or perfection, Thomas means something close to what Tolkien has in mind in his requirement that sub-created, secondary world’s exhibit the “inner consistency of reality.” Integrity, in other words, refers to a thing’s completeness, wholeness, or togetherness, its having and displaying the structure and requisite parts proper to a thing of that particular essence or nature. The second aesthetic property of proportion, sometimes referred to as harmony or consonance, is of Pythagorean extraction and designates in Thomas’s usage a sense of qualitative proportion that he calls convenientia, or what Liberato Santoro-Brienza describes as an “intrinsic attunement” or “correspondence between inner…
During the first weeks of the COVID-19 “pandemic” in 2020, when nationwide protocols were setup to be used in hospital settings, some frontline doctors began to question the practice of putting COVID-19 positive patients on ventilators, because so many of them were dying, and these doctors made it clear that they were dying from being wrongly placed on these ventilators.
In other words, the ventilators were actually killing them, in many cases by collapsing their lungs.
Dr. Cameron Kyle-Sidell was one of the first to speak out on this issue, as he had setup a COVID ICU center in New York City. He made it clear that the hospital protocols that called for putting these patients on ventilators was wrong, and addressed the issue in a YouTube video that went viral.
Other doctors beside Dr. Kyle-Sidell also began speaking out about placing COVID patients on ventilators, stating that about 80% of those vented were dying, and that it was the wrong procedure.
As health officials around the world push to get more ventilators to treat coronavirus patients, some doctors are moving away from using the breathing machines when they can.
The reason: Some hospitals have reported unusually high death rates for coronavirus patients on ventilators, and some doctors worry that the machines could be harming certain patients.
The evolving treatments highlight the fact that doctors are still learning the best way to manage a virus that emerged only months ago. They are relying on anecdotal, real-time data amid a crush of patients and shortages of basic supplies.
Mechanical ventilators push oxygen into patients whose lungs are failing. Using the machines involves sedating a patient and sticking a tube into the throat. Deaths in such sick patients are common, no matter the reason they need the breathing help.
Generally speaking, 40% to 50% of patients with severe respiratory distress die while on ventilators, experts say. But 80% or more of coronavirus patients placed on the machines in New York City have died, state and city officials say. (Full article.)
A young nurse from Nevada volunteered her services to treat COVID patients in New York City, and was appalled at how patients were dying in these hospitals, NOT from COVID, but from hospital mistreatment, including the wrong use of ventilators. I included a clip from her whistleblower testimony in the video I produced a few days ago, The Greatest Lie Ever Told.
Here is her entire testimony which was originally posted on Facebook. (Warning – graphic language.)
Another clip I included in The Greatest Lie Ever Told was from a respiratory therapist who also exposed the ventilator scandal.
I am a respiratory therapist and I’ve been doing this for 21 years.
I wanted to show you our equipment room.
The first thing I want to say is, does it look like there is a ventilator shortage? There’s not. As a matter of fact, we’re running less ventilators now than we would normally run, and that’s because people are just staying home. They’re not having elective surgery.
Any patient that came in with a respiratory problem was labeled as “Covid.” It doesn’t matter if you have Stage 4 lung cancer, pancreatitis or heart disease, liver failure and everything else.
Because you come in with breathing problems, you’re labeled a Covid patient.
You have to recognize that if every single patient is under investigation as Covid… and dies, then that goes into a Covid death. And they’re showing the numbers like a football game, to scare you.
They’re showing you loading bodies into a tractor trailer to scare you.
I’ve never in my career ever seen bodies loaded into a tractor trailer. It just doesn’t happen. I wonder if those were even bodies – I really don’t believe it. All this stuff is fake.
Let’s talk about ventilators and why there would be a shortage of ventilators. Well, this (pointing) is non-invasive ventilation here, CPAP or BiPAP. This is a mask that gets strapped on you and we can help you breath with that.
We’re not allowed to use those.
For the most part, since Covid came out they said “absolutely not,” that’s going to cause the virus to spread all over the place by spraying aerosols everywhere. And so we can’t use it.
You have to let the patient crash and go straight to a ventilator.
Traditionally, that’s not the way we would treat a patient.
We also have aerosolized medication, bronchol dilators, but we’re not allowed to use those either.
So everything we would traditionally do, we’re not allowed to do.
Every patient that comes in, no matter what their history, is labeled Covid under investigation. So if that patient dies, that becomes a Covid death.
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