NARD: We Will Begin A nationwide Strike Tomorrow

According to President of the Association, National Association of Resident
Doctors of Nigeria (NARD) Muhammad Askira, he said that they will be
going on a nationwide strike starting from Thursday
June 9th.
According to him, they are taking the painful decision
of embarking on the strike action following the failure of
the federal government to meet its demands of better
working condition and better remuneration.

He added that the decision to go on strike was taken at
the associations ordinary general meeting in Jos .
He
Made
the announcement on Tuesday, June 7th.

“Sixteen out of 58 federal tertiary
institutions or centres were
exempted from the initial centre
based strike for the commitment of
the chief medical director of the
hospitals to implement the federal
government’s directives. If by
midnight on Sunday, June 19, our
demands are not met, all the
members of the association,
including those exempted, would join
the indefinite nationwide strike. Due
to the failure of the government to
address the demands of NARD, it
has declared a total and indefinite
strike. NARD has to take this painful
decision in order to highlight the
plight of our hardworking members
who have had to endure a long
period of deprivation and
disenfranchisement.”he said

The Indian Government Should Ban Nigerians From Coming To Our Country

According to Times of India, A former Minister in India, Ravi Naik, has asked the
Indian Central government to “ban” Nigerians from
entering India, saying his country does not need
Nigerian tourists.
 Naik stated this while
speaking to some reporters recently
“Nigerians come here and do ‘dadagiri’ in Delhi,
Bengaluru and the entire country. We should move
Nigerians out of here… Have they come here to study?
Are they really studying? Are they really going to
college, schools? This has to be probed. It is very
important,” he said We do not want
Nigerian tourists. “They create problems everywhere…The Central government should ban
Nigerians.

Referring to Nigerians as “Negroes”,

Naik who is also a
senior Congress leader, told the reporters that
Nigerians have been causing “problems” in Goa, a
western state in India as well other places.

Breaking News: Keshi's Death Is Umtimely

Former Nigerian football team Captain and coach,
Stephen Keshi, is dead.
His family announced that he died of cardiac
arrest early hours of today, Wednesday June 8.
Stephen OkechukwuKeshi CON was 54 year old at the
time of his death. This is contained in a statement by
the family, signed by Emmanuel Ado.
“With thanksgiving to God, the Ogbuenyi Fredrick Keshi
family of Illah in Oshimili North Local Government Area
of Delta State, announces the death of Mr. Stephen
Okechukwu Chinedu Keshi,” Mr. Ado said in the
statement.
He continued “Our son, brother, father, father-in-law,
brother-in-law, has gone to be with his wife of 35
years (Nkem ), Mrs. Kate Keshi, who passed on,on 9th
December 2015.
“Since her death, Keshi has been in mourning. He came
back to Nigeria to be with her. He had planned to fly
back today Wednesday, before he suffered a cardiac
arrest. He has found rest.”
“He was not ill at all, never showed any signs of
illness, but we suspect he never got over the death of
his wife,” a friend in Benin said.
He is survived by four children and his mother.
Keshi, the only Nigerian coach to have won the Africa
Cup of Nations, achieved that feat in 2013 by becoming
the only second person to win the trophy both as a
player and a coach.
The other person to have achieved the feat is Egypt’s
Mahmoud El-Gohary.
Keshi, a product of St. Finbarr’s College, Akoka, Lagos,
started his playing career at a very young age at ACB
Football Club, and later played for New Nigeria Bank,
Stade d’Abidjan, Africa Sports, Lokeren, Anderlecht, RC
Strasbourg, and a host of other clubs.
He represented Nigeria from 1982, at age 20, till 1994,
most of the time captaining the Super Eagles and
scoring vital goals from his position as a central
defender.
He also coached Togo and Nigeria at the World Cup, as
well as Mali.
Keshi, nicknamed the “Big Boss” for his leadership
skills, is the fifth member of the all-conquering 1994
team to die, following Uche Okafor, Thompson Oliha,
Rashidi Yekini and Wilfred Agbonavbare.
Though deeply mourning the shock exit, Mr. Emmanuel
Ado said the family remained grateful to God for the life
spent by the Big Boss.