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Ebola is a dreadful disease that once ravaged the West African coast, leaving in its trail sorrow, tears and blood. According to a World Health Organisation (WHO) data, at its peak, Ebola had over 10,000 victims inAfter weeks of scary Ebola episode, Nigerians were understandably over-joyous to hear the news that the country was certified Ebola-free. While the Ebola trauma lasted, 19 cases were recorded out of which eight died and 11 survived. Aside the number of lives it claimed and attendant psychological trauma, the Ebola ordeal came with lots of economic losses.
West Africa.
The WHO records further reveals that 9,936 people in Guinea,
Liberia and
contracted the disease. Sierra Leone
also had her own share of the Ebola brouhaha, no thanks to the dastardly
escapade of late American-Liberian, Patrick Sawyer. Nigeria
Thursday, May 31, 2018
As Ebola Returns!
By Tayo Ogunbiyi
Arabisation Of The Nigeria Police?
By Paul Onomuakpokpo
As though to prove the sceptics wrong, the country suffers no deficit of evidence of its descent into anomie. This is underscored by the fact that what seems only plausible in the provenance of macabre fantasy easily becomes reality.
It sounds implausible that a country and its leaders would do nothing while citizens are being killed and pillaged. But this is the reality in
- Fulani herdsmen are busy raping, maiming and killing citizens. Nigeria
Even places of worship that should have served as refuge from bloodlust and plunder have become the prized targets of the herdsmen.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Security Under President Buhari's Watch
By Kolawole Anthony
was literally and
practically handcuffed by subsisting, budding, consuming and persistently
explosive acts of terrorism, local armed conflicts, militancy, violent
separatists' agitations, ethno-religious conflagrations and other
insurrections. They did not only disturbingly assail and crippled Nigeria , but
had morphed into threats to regional insecurity threats. Nigeria
The first official covenant a leader makes with the people, on the first day of official function is security of lives and property of the citizenry. It is neither negotiable nor subject to compromise under any guise.
A law abiding and peaceful nation is the panacea to uninhibited development and prosperity. It is the primary essence of governance. And the capacity of the Armed Forces anywhere in the world is gauged by its capacity and competencies to assist the President to defray internal and external aggressions against its country. But the military abdicated on this basic constitutional responsibility under the last administration.
And the consequences were quite grave. No Nigerian can agree less that
was on a
precarious cliff of total breakdown of law and order, by May 2015, when
President Muhammedu Buhari took the reins of office. Nigeria
Burdened by an extremely weak Military, prior to the ascension of the Buhari Presidency,
replaced its peaceful soul with almost everyday violence, deaths and agonies
from terrorism. Dominantly at the home front, Boko Haram Terrorists (BHTs)
obstinately pulled the cord of disunity and disintegration of Nigeria . It
went paranoid and regrettably unchallenged in the organized atrocious acts and
heinous crimes against Nigerians. But Buhari has smothered the fire. Nigeria
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Why Federalism, Confederalism Or Restructuring Is Not Enough
By Chinweizu
The Federalism of the
First Republic,
of the 1963 Constitution, is being demanded by some as the solution to 's
problems. The proponents of this view seem to think that once Nigeria returns
to that constitution, with possibly some slight modifications, they and their
interests will be protected, and their cherished "One Nigeria" can go on. Nigeria
But they are mistaken, I think.
They haven't considered why that constitution failed them. If it failed them before, can't it fail them again?
Like the 1963 constitution, the 1960 Constitution limited the powers of the Federal Government to Defence, Foreign Affairs, and a few other items.
Monday, May 28, 2018
2019: Why We Must Vote In Young Nigerians
By Dan Amor
At the dawn of civil rule in 1999, after about fifteen years of uninterrupted military gangsterism, rapacity and greed, there emerged on the nation's political firmament, an assembly of politicians and professionals under the age bracket of 50 years, the National Integration Group (NIG). The group's aim was ostensibly to re-engineer the Nigerian public life and take over the mantle of political leadership from the old brigade. There were, indeed, conflicting reactions to the development.
|*Gov Yahaya Bello of Kogi State:
Nigeria's youngest governor
While some Nigerians believed that the group had ulterior motives, and therefore its mission preposterous, many believed and still believe that amidst the despair that has enveloped the nation, there is an obvious need to call to question the desirability of continuing with business as usual. This issue has remained prominent in the upper reaches of our national discourse especially given the woeful failure of the old generation of politicians to improve the standard of living of the people and engender positive development in the country since independence.
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Paradoxica Nigeriana
By Dan Amor
is a beautiful
edifice built with bricks of contradictions. Somewhere between the idea and the
reality hovers a huge geographical abstraction that beguiles the imagination.
Situated at the Eastern end of the Nigeria Gulf
of Guinea, between the 4th and the
14th Parallels, Nigeria
occupies a total area of 923,768 square kilometres, slightly more than the
combined areas of France and
From Germany Lagos in the South-west to Maiduguri
in the North-east is the distance between London
and . Warsaw
|*President Buhari
Its population estimated at about 190 million, exceeds the combined population of all other countries in the West African sub-region of the
Sahara. Endowed with enormous wealth, a
dynamic population and an enviable talent for political compromise, Nigeria stood out in the 1960s as the potential
leader of Africa, a continent in dire need of
guidance. For, it was widely thought that was immune from the
wasteful diseases of tribalism, disunity and instability that remorselessly
attacked so many other new African states. But when bursts of machine gunfire
shattered the pre-dawn calm of Nigeria Lagos its
erstwhile Federal Capital in January 1966, it was now clear that Nigeria was no exception to Africa's
common post-independence experience.
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Nigeria: Gen Gowon's Desecration Of History
By Sunny Awhefeada
's history has been so
abused and distorted that there is hardly a consensus on what constitutes a
genuine national narrative. Nigerian rulers have had to manipulate the history
of their record in office to suit their whim. History ought to be sacred as the
ultimate guide of a people. It is the unseen, but powerful propelling force
from which a nation derives inspiration in the tortuous odyssey of national
evolution. But when the history of a nation is subjected to deliberate
distortions then such a nation is bound to be moored to the past with the
people as captives. This has been Nigeria 's lot. Nigeria
Nigeria hosted the 8th
Commonwealth Regional Conference for Heads of Anti-Corruption Agencies in Africa last week. It was at that forum that 's
former military ruler, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd) did what amounted to a
desecration of history. Hear him: "During
our time, we did not know anything like corruption". Nigeria
|*Gen Gowon
He went a great length to buttress his assertion. Let us dream up an apotheosis for Gowon so that even in his lifetime he could become Saint Yakubu Gowon! What Gowon told his audience was far from the truth. The government he led from the hurly-burly of 1966 to the sedate ambience of 1975 was one of massive corruption.
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If President Buhari Were A Patriot…
By Benjamin Obiajulu Aduba
President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) is one of only two people who have ruled
both as a military dictator and as an elected president. In a country of about
100 million citizens, this is not an insignificant accomplishment. In Maslow's Hierarchy
of Needs, President Buhari should be at the top, Self-Actualization
level. He should not have any more needs. If he were a patriot he should quit
right here and right now. Nigeria
But he is not.
If he were a patriot he should read the warning signs.
1. His most ardent supporters are showing signs of weariness. They still offer some defense and protection for him but they seem tepid. Mr. Lai Mohammed can lie on his behalf for only so much as his integrity begins to deteriorate. Even Professor Aluko is now willing to accept that some of PMB's actions/lack or actions are mistakes. Mr. Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma (former Defense Minister), one of his richer and early backers has openly called for the North Central (NC) citizens to buy arms to protect themselves as the government is unable to do so.
2. The massive demonstrations by Christians in
a few days ago show how deep the disgust of Christians with his administration
is. Christians constitute about 50% of Nigerians. When a leader loses the
support of most his nation, patriotism demands that he, the leader, steps
aside. Abuja
Nigeria: APC Congresses Of Blood, Tears And Sorrow
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Beleaguered Senator Din Melaye got a mischievous dig in at his own political party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Saturday May, 2018. Shortly after a contentious state congresses of the party, Melaye tweeted, "Congratultions tot he 72 new state chairmen of APC. Everywhere na double double. What a blessed party!!!!"As at the time I stumbled on the tweet on Sunday morning, it had been retweeted 968 times with 2,103 likes.
Dr. Doyin Okupe, a chieftain of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), re-echoed Melaye's tweet three hours later.
"36 states, 72 chairmen. APC! Going! Going. Who is d bastard now?" Okupe tweeted.
Friday, May 25, 2018
For The Sake Of Nigeria, Our Nation!
By Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie
For the sake of our nation exposed to insecurity by absence of governance, the time has come for us to differentiate between a political jobber and a statesman. A political jobber is a merchant who buys and sells loyalty in order to be in power. He does not care about the morality of his means. He would, therefore, do everything to win an election or be declared the winner. His sole and ultimate objective is access to power and to the perks of office.
But the ultimate aim of a
statesman is not power. It is service of the common
good. And even if he plans to win an election, he does not
transgress the boundaries of morality. He is fair in running for
office and fair in running the office. He works for the good
of the nation and for the good of its citizens. Rather than use or
threaten to use violence, he shares his vision with the citizens, respects
their right to share or repudiate the vision, and their right to decide through
an electoral process free of fraud or coercion. Political jobbers
manipulate the electoral process. Statesmen respect its
integrity. The choice before Nigerians in the 2019 elections,
therefore, is that of choosing between political jobbers and
statesmen. And, for the sake of our nation, we must make a right
choice this time around.
|Cardinal Okogie
Electricity: Unending Rip-Off Of Customers By Distribution Companies!
By Godwin Ijediogor
Some may call it cheating, while others may see it as smart billing but it is nothing less than fraud. The system of billing some electricity consumers, otherwise known as estimated billing, adopted by the Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) in Nigeria, is a clear case of extortion of consumers without metres, whether prepaid or the old order. Ironically, the DisCos are unconcerned and unrepentant, instead they are passing the buck concerning metering to customers. Imagine living in a compound with four three-bedroom flats and while three metred three flats get billed about N2, 500 each, the remaining one is slammed N10, 000 estimated bill, just for one month, by Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (IKEDC).Yet, the DisCos are reluctant to provide prepaid meters or at least minimise the incidence of over billing or crazy bills; just promises and no action. And the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC), Adeoye Fadeyibi, tried to justify the action of the DisCos while speaking at a town hall with residents of Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos (its customers), saying the 'crazy bill' was because distribution companies take the reading of electricity consumption of customers who are not metered directly from the transformer.
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Gov Rochas Okorocha's Swan Song
Cos Nnadi
Its last notable civilian governor remains the late Samuel Onunaka Mbakwe, who ruled the old
State comprising the present-day Imo State, Abia State
and parts of . Since that
seasoned administrator, whose concern for the down trodden earned him the
appellation of 'weeping governor,' left the saddle 35 years ago, the state has
been unable to fill the vacuum. Those who succeeded him all failed to display a
similar sense of responsibility, intellectual depth, and social empathy. Ebonyi
The political rivalry in
is reminiscent of a dramatic form which depicts the circumstances surrounding
the fall of despots. The state has been in dire need of such a dramatic
conflict, blighted by a long history of poor leadership. Imo State
Thursday, May 24, 2018
Nigeria: The Past As President Buhari's Utopia
By Paul Onomuakpokpo
Whenever President Muhammadu Buhari lifts the façade and allows us a glimpse into the convictions that propel him, he leaves no room for doubt that he is out of depth with the demands of his high office. At that moment of supposed candour, Buhari rather recommends himself to us as a relic of an antediluvian era that is far removed from the nuances of democracy and the challenges and possibilities of contemporary life.
Buhari is fixated on
the valourisation of the past as an irreplaceable era that was full of glories
that neither the present nor the future can yield. Thus, Buhari yearns for that
past. He wants us to exhume that past because it held the secrets of an
Eldorado that are elusive to the present.Yet it is a past that the majority of
the citizens would like to consign to eternal oblivion because it only afflicts
them with searing memories. Indeed, the past that in the imagination of Buhari
provided a utopian state is in the reckoning of the citizens a dystopia that he
is recreating in the present.
|*President Buhari
Mad Rush For Expensive Rags!
Before now, these 'clothes' should have been found at a madman's corner at some dirty, disused spot in Lagos, for instance; or used as rags in various homes – by people who no longer find them useful since they can no longer be considered suitable attire for anyone still in possession of a stable mind.
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Nigeria: The Impending Implosion Of APC
By Reuben Abati
Just take the phrase: "impending" in the title above with a pinch of salt. I use the word because in politics as in life, things happen – as seemingly absolute situations become redeemable and what originally appears impossible could be the catalyst for fresh opportunities.
Just take the phrase: "impending" in the title above with a pinch of salt. I use the word because in politics as in life, things happen – as seemingly absolute situations become redeemable and what originally appears impossible could be the catalyst for fresh opportunities.
Otherwise, the truth is that the ruling Nigerian political party, the All Progressives Congress is already imploding, it has in fact imploded; the party is in the throes of a debilitating illness. The implosion began almost as soon as the party assumed power in 2015.
The APC emerged as a special purpose vehicle – composed almost entirely from second hand, used groups from the CPC, the ACN, APGA, ANPP, and a break away faction of the PDP, known as new PDP (nPDP) – even if there was nothing new about it, with the sole objective of taking power from the then ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and the then incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan.
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart' Listed Among Ten Top Stories That Shaped The World
A recent poll conducted by the British Broadcasting Service (BBC) among "writers, critics and academics" yielded the verdict that Chinua Achebe's classic, Things Fall Apart, published in June 1958 – which turns 60 this year – qualifies as No 5 on the list of "ten top stories that shaped the world."
Other works on the list are: The Odyssey by Homer (8th Century BC), Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1952), Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818), Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949), One Thousand And One Nights by Various Authors (8th – 18th Century), Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (1605 – 1615), Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1603), One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1967) and The Iliad by Homer (8th Century BC)
In a recent release, the BBC said that the writers, critics and academics who participated in the opinion poll voted these works "as the most influential and enduring works of fiction" ever published.
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The 1985 Coup In Nigeria
By Ray Ekpu
The August 1985 coup in
was regarded as a palace coup, a smooth changing of the guards. I have no idea
if anyone died in the operation but the event itself has refused to die, thanks
to President Muhammadu Buhari. The victim of that coup, Buhari, has reminded us
from time to time that he was unfairly removed as the head of state and kept in
detention for three years by the Ibrahim Babangida boys. Let us roll back the
tape a little bit. On December 31, 1983 as Nigerians were at various prayer
venues asking God to make Nigeria 1984
a better year than 1983, they had no idea that Buhari
and his co-conspirators were on the verge of removing a legitimately elected
civilian government headed by President Shehu Shagari.
|*President Buhari
Many Nigerians may have been amazed at the scale of rigging in the October 1983 Presidential elections but may not have expected a return of the military to the presidential podium after 13 years of brutal military dictatorship. Nigerians woke up on January 1 not knowing whether to say to each other a 'Happy New Year' or a 'Happy New Government' since they were uncertain what was in the belly of the coup. One year and eight months later, Buhari was overthrown by the same Babangida Boys who put him on the throne. Babangida now took over the presidential chair and kept Buhari in detention for about three years. Apparently, Buhari has not been able to bring himself to forgive or forget since then.
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Monday, May 21, 2018
Nigeria: The Igbo Are Speaking!
By Humphrey C. Nsofor
The 40 million Igbo people resident in
and elsewhere, represented by Ohaneze
Ndigbo and the South East Governors Forum, will on Monday, May 21, command
global attention as they take a stand on how can achieve a more perfect
union and consequently regain its manifest destiny. It promises a galaxy of
Igbo stars in politics and leadership. The promise of the gathering has been
accentuated by the fact that it is hosted by Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra
State whom former Senate President Ken Nnamani rightly describes as the Star of
the East. No one doubts that Nigeria ,
as currently configured, needs a better design. Nigeria
The ruling All
Progressives Congress (APC) set up a powerful committee headed by Kaduna State
Governor Nasir el-Rufai to fashion out a more realistic and effective
Constitution. President Muhammadu Buhari has stated categorically that he is
not opposed to rearranging the country's administrative structure. Ex-Vice
President Atiku Abubakar has become one of the greatest proponents, after
initially opposing it because of his mistaken ideas about it. In other words,
the call for
rebirth is popular and patriotic. All of us desire—and are deserving of— a
better Nigeria .
In the moving and wise language of the late Vice President Alex Ekwueme, Nigeria is a
miracle waiting to happen. Nigeria
|*Nwodo, Ohaneze President-General
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Nigeria: A Hard Lesson For Gov Rochas Okorocha
By Olusegun Adeniyi
On 24th March 2012, Chief Rochas Okorocha, then less than a year in office as Imo State Governor, was in Kosovo where he signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for an independent power plant, an agro processing plant and several other industries that he promised would be established in his state. There were neither feasibility studies nor any clear ideas as to where the money to finance these projects would come from but those sorts of things never really worry the ebullient governor.
A few weeks before the trip to the
Balkan Peninsular, Okorocha had declared a four-day holiday for workers in
so they could partake in the take-off of the Community Council Government (CCG)
he instituted. And for this extra-constitutional fourth-tier of government, the
governor approved the disbursement of N5 million to each of the communities in
the 27 local councils from a subvention of N3 billion that was not captured in
the 2012 Imo State Appropriation Bill.. He also declared free education at all
levels in the state after announcing that he would be paying salaries to all
the primary school pupils (yes, pupils, not teachers alone). And to be sure,
Okorocha actually went to some primary schools where the pupils were lined up
for him to hand them N100 each! Imo State
|*Gov Rochas Okorocha
Nigeria: Is There Any Democracy Here?
By Lewis Obi
The last fortnight has been dominated by the miserable stories emanating mostly from the All Progressives Congress (APC), its local congresses, its attempts to select officials for its grassroots, choose delegates to attend the all-important party convention next month, and conduct primaries for its governorship contests.
It is hard to know where the sordid tales should begin. But I watched two contending officials of the River State APC trade blames on TV. The
headquarters of the party was eventually set ablaze, and the High Court of justice attacked and for a while was seized by a faction to prevent the other side from seeking an injunction by the court to stop the local government congress. Port Harcourt
The last fortnight has been dominated by the miserable stories emanating mostly from the All Progressives Congress (APC), its local congresses, its attempts to select officials for its grassroots, choose delegates to attend the all-important party convention next month, and conduct primaries for its governorship contests.
|*President Buhari
It is hard to know where the sordid tales should begin. But I watched two contending officials of the River State APC trade blames on TV. The
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Nigeria: A Dying State In The Of An Ineffectual Government
By Obi Ebuka Onochie
"People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel." ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The above line from Fyodor is truer of Nigerian situation today which leaves one to wonder if we will ever come out of this pit. The killings are no longer fluid but continuously stable that many of them go unreported.Kidnapping is now a mass business and every detail about these kidnappings are questionable raising debate if they were real or staged.
We are so deeply torn apart that evil is triumphing not only within our boarders but the psyche, mind, heart, ability and competence of those entrusted to govern presently.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Nigeria: Banning Codeine In APC
By Owei Lakemfa
Following a codeine-propelled high drug addiction problem, the Federal Government in a swift reaction, banned the production and importation of codeine containing cough syrup. The syrup usually taken by millions of youths who mix it with soft drinks, alcohol or illegal drugs, leads to physical and mental reliance on the drug and can be fatal.
Five days after the welcome ban, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on May 5, held its Ward congresses across the country. In most of the thirty six states, they were characterized by thuggery, manipulation, imposition, and in at least two cases, murder. In Rivers State, a member was shot dead right in the party secretariat while in Ughelli, Delta State, a party chairmanship aspirant, Mr. Jeremiah Oghoveta was stabbed to death. In
, supporters of
Governor Isiaka Abiola Ajimobi and those of Communication Minister,
Adebayo Shittu, were engaged in a mini Civil War with the Governor
accusing the Honourable Minister and some members of the House of
Representatives of perpetuating the violence and threatening arson. Oyo
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Nigeria: Sweet Codeine, Bitter Consequences
By Wale Sokunbi
Nigeria is on the global hotspot on account of a crisis brought into bold relief by an investigative documentary trending in the media. The documentary entitled Sweet Sweet Codeine, made by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Africa Eye undercover reporters, featured some workers of three Nigerian pharmaceutical companies – Emzor Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. Lagos; Bioraj Pharmaceuticals Ltd. and Peace Standard Pharmaceutical Ltd., in
Ilorin, .
Kwara State
One of the workers featured in the documentary openly admitted his company's massive sales of codeine cough syrup in the country, and boasted that he could sell a million cartons of the syrup in a week. The sales representative has since been fired by the company concerned.
One of the workers featured in the documentary openly admitted his company's massive sales of codeine cough syrup in the country, and boasted that he could sell a million cartons of the syrup in a week. The sales representative has since been fired by the company concerned.
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
APC: The Broom Of A Broken Family
By Dan Onwukwe
It's all about the outcome of the recent APC Ward and local government Congresses across the states. From South East, to South South,South west to
and North East, there were unprecedented disputations. Some party faithful were
reported killed, many injured. Yes, politics has been described as "hardball"
sometimes, but the fractious and parallel Congresses we saw a few days ago
across the state chapters of APC foretell a more dangerous consequences nine
months before the general elections next year. North west
This has been a dizzying season in Nigerian politics. In the ruling All Congress(APC), the crisis, the divisiveness and mud throwing that have racked the party, indeed should trouble the mind and hurt the hearts. It's like the forklore called the 'Witches' Dance' that has made shame a sort of passé to the party members. Nigerians are watching in astonishment: what's going on?
|*President Buhari wields APC broom in Anambra
Monday, May 14, 2018
Kaduna Council Polls: Highly Provocative, Indefensible Fraud – PDP
Press Statement
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rejects as highly provocative, fraudulent and completely indefensible the alteration of final results and declaration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as winner in areas clearly won by the PDP in the
state local council elections held on Saturday. Kaduna
From the reports of results at the polling centers, it is clear that the PDP defeated the APC in most of the areas where elections held across the state, including Governor Nasir el-Rufai's ward where the PDP led with over 90% percent of the votes cast.
Nigeria: A Culture Of Substandard Living
By Passy Amaraegbu
"All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, (suicide) losing, cheating, and mediocrity are easy. Stay away from ease."
– Scott Alexander
One major way to measure the degree of development in any society is the value she placed on human life. Even animals operate with the instinct that human life is sacred. This is the reason they initially exhibit fear and flight when they encounter human beings.
Consequently, every progressive human society focuses on the double task of preserving and improving the lives of mortals. Some European and even Asian nations have perfected in this crucial task to a high degree that the elderly cohort (65 and above) form a significant part of their population. In other words, the life expectancy of such nations is high. For instance, the UN 2015 world life expectancy of Nigerian is 52.29 years,
UK is 80.45, and is 83.74. The main reason for
this divergent disparity in the life expectancy of nations is based on the
different values these nations place on the lives of their citizens. Japan
Saturday, May 12, 2018
State Of The Nation: Open Letter To President Buhari
By Olasupo Abideen Opeyemi
Dear Mr. President
Dear Mr. President
It is with a heavy heart that I sit down to write Your Eminence. As a conscious, patriotic and progressive youth, I could not help but register my dissatisfaction with my country's plight alongside a volley of plea to your administration to rescue this dire situation. Excuse the curtness of my manners. The intensity of my pain has almost robbed me entirely of formality. My passionate plea is not for a personal gain but for a revision of government's position on issues of health, poverty and education, the individual components forming the fulcrum around which our collective development and glory as a nation revolve.Sir, I read the disapproving remarks you made at the 58th general conference of the Nigeria Medial Association (NMA) concerning the unpleasant effects of various strike actions embarked upon by the country's health professionals on the nation's health. With a commensurate level of concern – and perhaps more, I have found myself under the onus of speaking on this trend with a view to achieving an impressive turn in events.
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Friday, May 11, 2018
Liberia: Social Revolution Or Barbarism—A State On The Edge Of An Explosion
By Alfred P. B. Kiadii
No victory is worth winning without a bit of sacrifice or suffering. So we accept the evolving processes in the Homeland, as we prepare ourselves for the task of nation-building. The vulgar minds suppose we are wishful thinkers, but beyond their noses and the abstraction of common sense they understand not complicated processes and see not the simmering contradictions, driven by molecular movement that lies beneath the surface. Such sterility preclude them from understanding that under certain conditions everything changes into its opposite.
|*President George Weah of Liberia
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My Cry As A Drug Addict!
By Suntaa Abudu Ibrahim
I also started just like how many people started. At first, I chose to take drugs because of how it made me feel. I used to think I could control how much I take and how often I used it but however it changed how my brain works which led to some physical changes in me and it finally made me loose self-control and took over my whole life. I used to take these drugs just to feel good, ease stress, or avoid reality but now it has changed my entire health habits. And now it has put me in health dangers, financial difficulties, and other problems between me and my loved ones. Yes I know it is dangerous using drugs, I know all the dangers involved in using it. I don't also feel comfortable using it for it has caused me more than enough harm already.The use of these drugs have made me look inferior among my colleagues, family members and other relatives, even some people I am better than always show me disrespect in many ways. I certainly know my family doesn't feel comfortable in public to announce I am part of them and I also don't feel comfortable with that because I also need love and companionship from them but since I have subjected myself to these drugs and they have now overtaken me, yes I know I am the cause of their shying away from me. Sometimes when I look into my mother's eyes I see the pain in her heart but I usually find it difficult to make her happy because I am not always happy myself. All that I always say is that she shouldn't worry everything is going to be alright for there are many others involved in it.
Thursday, May 10, 2018
As Imo APC Chieftains Defang Okorocha
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, who prides himself as a political colossus was taught "Politics
101" last
Saturday. It didn't come as a surprise, though. To any discerning political observer,
it was only a matter of time. While he was clowning and punching way above his
political weight, his opponents were waiting for the auspicious time.
And when that time came, the man who claims to
have conquered
and dominated its hapless
people himself was left high and dry. Sublime political intrigue at its best. Imo
|*Rochas Okorocha
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Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Nigeria: At A Pro-Propaganda Rally
By Dan Amor
Yet, since January this year (2018), I have occasionally squeezed a few minutes of my limited time in my little room to watch CHANNELS Television's flagship programme,
DAILY. On occasions, viewers are treated to a crossfire which usually features
a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and another of the
opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who are made to argue on a topical
issue of public concern in a moderated atmosphere. SUNRISE
I'm not your run-of-the-mills television freak or enthusiast. Due largely to the nature of my job, which is basically guided by the need to beat deadlines, I hardly have time for over-indulgence in leisure and other niceties. Whereas my wife and kids occasionally feast on the television screen for either of their usual sops- Zee World, or Nickelodeon, yours sincerely would always lock himself up in the study writing an editorial or a column.
Nigeria: Defectors As Jesters
By Dan Amor
It is a sickening reality in Nigeria that defection, the act of leaving one political party for another, also known as carpet –crossing or what the eminent poet and humorist, Uzor Maxim-Uzoatu called "Jumpology" (the political act of jumping from party to party), has been elevated to the height of a national ideology.
This glamourisation of political prostitution by Nigerian politicians signals the death of commonsense. Before the December 2013 defection of 37 members of the House of Representatives elected on the platform of the then ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the then opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) in an open show and fanfare, four PDP governors had led the way in a much more rehearsed, media pampered braggadocio in November 2013.
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Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Pini Jason – A Date Still Fresh
By Kanayo Esinulo
It happened in the morning of May 4, 2013. Pini Jason was already beginning to recover from surgery which his doctor considered necessary and urgent. He had no choice but to submit himself in obedience. But days before he left Abuja for Lagos, we kept talking not just about the impending medical tour to Lagos, we also discussed the rampage of Boko Haram in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, a city he said he visited a number of times and developed so much love "for its streets lined with trees and flowers, but which these rascals are now destroying." He told me how beautiful and peaceful
was each time he visited the city either on official duty or on holiday. Maiduguri
talked of other things like Jonathan's response to the terror group, and then
we would return to his health. "I am not feeling too well," he said repeatedly,
but kept assuring me that his doctor was certain that the surgery would come
off pretty well.
|*Pini Jason
Monday, May 7, 2018
How Nigerians Consume Poison Daily
Dr. F. Abayomi Oguntoye
I promised to write about what is killing people in
today. Nigerians should be focused on solving this problem which are causing most of the
cancer going around now: Nigeria
1.) Ripening agent for banana and plantain. Because people are in a hurry to harvest their bananas and plantain, they spray it with Calcium Carbide. This is a ripening agent which makes the plantain to ripen very quietly. It is extremely hazardous to the human body as it contains traces of arsenic and phosphorus.
Sexual Immorality And Social Decay
By Promise Adiele
Isidore Okpewho's novel, The Last Duty illustrates the grim demand for sex in exchange for money and sundry items of survival in a war situation. In the novel, Toje, the conceited, narcissist Urukpe chief, in a dire demonstration of callousness, incriminates his business rival Oshevire for allegedly conspiring with rebel soldiers. While Oshevire is in detention leaving his wife Aku and only son Oghenovo, Toje unconscionably takes advantage of his absence, offers Aku food and money in exchange for sexual gratification to revive his infirm manhood.Faced with hunger and starvation, Aku gives in to Toje's morbid sexual request much against her own convictions. In the same vein, the sub-plot of Festus Iyayi's novel, Violence recounts how Adisa, Idemudia's wife succumbs to Obofun's sexual demands in order to raise money to pay her husband's hospital bills. Her immoral act becomes inconsequential as the hospital bill is paid by her husband's friends Osaro and Omoifo by the time she arrives at the hospital with the filthy lucre.
Friday, May 4, 2018
Abraham Adesanya And His Unfinished Business
By Dare Babarinsa
Papa Abraham Aderibigbe Adesanya cherished his role as the leader of the Yoruba. He knew it meant danger and sacrifice but he embraced his assignment with enthusiasm. Now that he has been with the ancestors for a decade, it is fitting to ponder on his ministry and the main assignments that dominated the final years of his crowded and productive life. Papa Adesanya was trained as a lawyer and pursued a career in politics, but his real vocation was leadership.
Adesanya was one of
main leaders of Afenifere, the mainstream political and cultural movement of
the Yoruba people which came into existence after the demise of Chief Obafemi
Awolowo, the first Premier of the defunct Western Region and leader of the
Yoruba nation. In the roaring 1950s, Awolowo became the first leader to govern
almost the entire Yoruba country since the time the princes departed from
Ile-Ife at the dawn of time. He made efforts to bring the Yoruba of the North,
then in what was called the
Ilorin and ,
(now Kogi and Kwara states) into the West. His effort was frustrated by the
combined forces of the Northern Peoples Congress, NPC, and the National Council
of Nigeria and the Kabba Provinces ,
NCNC. At the London Constitutional Conference of 1958, both the NPC and the
NCNC preferred that the issues of new regions and the adjustment of regional
boundaries be deferred till independence. Cameroun
|*Abraham Adesanya
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Week 14: at New Orleans Saints
FBG says: Tough matchup. As expected, the 49ers' run-dominant approach severely handcuffs the upside of its passing game. Jimmy Garoppolo has been passable as a Super Bowl-contending quarterback, completing 69% of his throws in full-on game manager mode. He's only topped 300 yards twice, though, with both coming against the Cardinals' awful pass defense. Through 12 games, those 2 matchups have accounted for 26% of his yardage and 38% of his touchdowns. There's some truly explosive talent mixed into this attack, particularly on the inside of the formation. Tight end George Kittle remains a matchup-proof fantasy star, and rookie slot man Deebo Samuel continues to make at least two or three splash plays a week. He put up 112 and 134 yards in Weeks 10 and 11, then caught long touchdowns in each of the last two. Emmanuel Sanders looms, as well, even though Samuel has cut deeply into his role. But without consistent volume in a conservative attack, their expectations need to be held in check. Game flow and gameplan will tell the tale; it's rare to see two or more erupt in the same week. The New Orleans pass defense is generally a strong one, boasting a true shutdown cornerback and a handful of rising stars around him. Last week, they recorded 9 sacks and allowed Matt Ryan just 6.2 yards per attempt. The Saints have allowed big raw yardage in a handful of games, but much of it has been boosted by garbage time. And with top cornerback Marshon Lattimore back in the lineup, this is again a daunting matchup for opponents' No. 1 wideouts. Lattimore has done fantastic recent work against the likes of Amari Cooper (48 yards), D.J. Chark (43), and Mike Evans (69 over 2 games). On the other side, Eli Apple is fresh off one of his worst games as a pro, losing repeatedly to the Falcons' Calvin Ridley. It's unclear just how much impact they'll have Sunday, though, as the 49ers work the slots much more often than the boundaries. The burden will be on safeties Marcus Williams and Vonn Bell to control the seams and keep Jimmy Garoppolo's slot targets from producing after the catch.
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Intel has admitted that they were late to the mobile game. Very, very late. But in recent years, they have begun to make up for that. ASUS is one of the main manufacturers that have put their processors into their smartphones. Namely the Zenfone 2. If you've used the Zenfone 2 then you'll know that thing is no slouch at all, and the Intel chip inside is pretty powerful. The same goes for Dell's Venue 8 7000 and 10 7000 tablets. With a few others also looking to Intel, it's time they got serious. Today, at Intel's IFA press conference, the company announced that they are testing Core M processors in smartphones.
While Intel did say they were testing Core M processors in smartphones, they gave little information about these chips. Now their Core M chips are in devices like the new Macbook from Apple, which has a clockspeed of around 1.3GHz, pretty powerful right? Intel's Core M chips are typically found in "cheaper" laptops and hybrids or 2-in-1's. What's important to note here is that Intel is optimizing their silicon for Windows 10, so this could be for Windows 10 smartphones and tablets, and not necessarily be for Android smartphones and tablets, at least not yet.
The issue for Intel here is fitting their processor into a device that requires a battery. Now they've already created USB sticks that can run Windows 10 using their Core M chips, and they work quite well. But when it comes to a smartphone, the battery and cooling tech are still far behind. And that's not just Intel that's having that problem. Just look at Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon offerings in the 615, 808 and 810. Hopefully Intel will be able to figure something out there.
Intel's been working hard to up their mobile game, and we should see more products with their processors inside them in the near future. At least we hope we do. Intel is a trusted name in the processor world. After having much success with desktop processors. Now they just need to make the transition to the mobile world. Which has proved to be a hard one for the company.


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Here we take a look at how To Write A Blog Post The Critical Success Factors to getting your post read and syndicated to grow your audience.
So you have an idea about what to write and your certain that your audience will love it.
But how to make the most of your idea.
It all comes down to how you convey your idea into the content of your blog.
I say content because we have not only the written word but for example video, images, podcasts and webinars.
The salient point or if you prefer the golden rule is to always keep your audience (your Target Market and existing followers - "Your Tribe") at the fore front of your mind when creating content and in the delivery of that content; how your audience likes to receive your content.
So I assume that you are doing that and now you have your idea that will be of immense interest to your audience.
So point two is how to present your content, what are the Critical Success Factors (CSF) that will ensure your audience will eagerly and ecstatically consume your content and share it widely so that "Your Tribe" will grow.
Crafting Your Blog Post
As we are Search Engine Optimization (SEO) specialists I will also be providing "SEO Tips" throughout this article (I hope this helps).
The Post Title (see also Meta Description below)
The "Post Title" is the most crucial part of actually getting readers to start reading your post when they see it in an RSS reader, email, social media, or the search engine results page.
Those few words at the beginning of your blog post can be the difference between the post being read and shared throughout the web and it remaining unread in your archives; or in SEO terminology "Nowhere to be found".
The "Post Title" then is a critical juncture, a decision point for your audience.
The title may only be a few words but they are the most critical words that you will write because for most of your audience the decision as to whether to read your post rests on the Post Title.
Your Blog Post will appear here:
- Search engine results
- RSS feeds
- Links from other bloggers
- Social media sites
- On your archive pages
In each of these locations the Post Title can be the only thing that people (your audience and prospect audience) see and the sole criteria that they will make in deciding to open and read your post or not.
The sole purpose of your Post Title then is to get your audience to open your post as David Ogilvy who in "Oglivy on Advertising" (a great copywriting book and a recommend read) states:
"The purpose of a title is to get potential readers to read the first line of your content"
The following are approaches to writing such a Post Title, although you would not necessarily use all of them at the same time, in the same post title.
State The Benefit
"Top Weight Loss Program"
Solve A Problem
Google (and your audience) really likes problem solving content tiles for example "How To Pass Your Driving Test".
The Controversial Statement
"STOP FREE School Dinners"
Always put your "Keywords) in your page title – always (more on this later).
Make It Personal
"YOU Need to READ THIS"
Power Words
Some words are powerful and invoke emotion, these words are called "Power Words" for example FREE, Sale, Secret, Discover, Learn More, Top, Best, Expert.
The Bold Claim
"Best Anti-Wrinkle Cream Available Today"
"Never Stand In The Way Of A Dog and A Fire Hydrant"
SEO Tip: Google ranks Post Titles (and H title tags – more on this later) in the form of a question very highly especially in the "Featured Snippets" position on page 1 of the Google SERPS for example titles beginning with How, What, Where, and When; also Google likes "Lists" so for example a "List Of Top Soup Recipes".
SEO Tip: Regarding your post title always if possible (as the title should always make sense to your audience and not just be stuffed with Keywords) place your most important words (perhaps your keywords) first for example Keywords followed by one of the points above so we may have "Reduce Weight With The Top Weight Loss Program".
The Opening Line
Once you've got someone past your post's title and they have opened your post.
Clearly the second most important words in your blog post are those that follow the title – your opening line.
The opening lines purpose is to get your audience to read the next line drawing them deep within your post and compelling them to read further.
Here is how we approach our opening lines.
Identify A Need Or Problem
"Having problems with your relationships, we show you how to get back on track".
Ask A Question
What would you do to solve this problem.
Say Something Unexpected
"Went to my local café for my daily fix and guess what it taught me about blogging".
A Personal Revelation
I woke up at the age of 50 poorly equipt to a world I did not recognize...
"I began my journey learning about making money online at the age of 50 with no prior experience or knowledge
I mention this of course to emphasise that if I can learn how to make money on line then anybody can"
Gary Williams
A Story
Become a story teller and your post and blog will become a success.
We (humans) prefer to communicate with stories and storytelling, so become a great story teller.
Start With A Quotation
"Hard Work and Disciple are the great equalizers".
Make A Promise or Guarantee
We promise not to waste your time and we guarantee that after reading this article you will be able to write great posts (content).
Make A Controversial Statement
"Dogs are the UK favourite pet"
Paint A Picture
Open with "Picture this" and immediately you will have noticed that you go to your mind were you can "Picture this" and your audience will too.
This allows you to take you audience where you want them to go immediately and set the scene for your post – its very powerful.
Use Statistics
Can be useful; make sure it to relevant to the post and striking or controversial for example "95% of people say Abba are better than the Beatles"
An Image
OK you know the saying but its true "A picture paints a thousand words".
The key is to find an image that is on topic and creates emotion for the audience.
A Video
Yes thats right a Video, and nothing can be more powerful than a video.
This is because it appeals to our sight and sound senses.
Get the right on topic and emotional video and your post will be both read and shared widely (more on this later)
You can see that the "The Opening Line" supports the "Page Title" and should be on topic while creating emotion with your audience.
Post Content
You post needs a point and a point of view (preferably yours) if your audience is to read past the opening sentence, and even more so to get shared.
Or to put it another way:
- What's the point of your post?
- What am I trying to communicate in the content?
- What impact do I want to have on my reader?
- How will this benefit my reader from reading my post content?
All of your hard work in choosing topics, titles and opening lines will go to waste if your post content is weak for example it is poorly written with no real point to it and the content doesn't really matter or benefit your audience.
It goes without saying that the content should be relevant to the post tiles and opening sentences.
More importantly it should be directed at and be extremely relevant to your target audience.
Always try and incorporate relevant image(s) and video(s) in your content especially in long content as it helps to break up the lines of text and importantly adds the visual learning element to the post.
For post content construction (see the SEO section later).
Call To Action
OK you wrote you post with a great title, opening sentence and killer content now what.
Well you probably want your audience to do something and we do this with a Call To Action (CTA) like this one:
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Here are some top tips to creating your own CTAs
Know What Action You Want Your Audience To Take
And ask them to take it, for example:
- If you want people to subscribe ask them.
- If you want people to buy something – show them how to.
- If you want people to watch your Webinar, show them how to sign up
- If you want a share on Facebook – ask for it.
- If you want people to comment, invite them to do so.
In designing your CTAs ask yourself the following:
- What's the purpose of your post?
- What do you want readers to do as a result of reading the post?
Search Engine Optimization For Your Blog Content
While we are here, lets also take a quick look at Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
We specialize in SEO so please bear in mind the following when you are constructing your blog content.
When it comes to on-page optimization, certain places are more valuable to have your keywords in than others. Based our tests, and in the order of impact, from the most valuable keyword real-estate to the least valuable:
- SEO Title Tag (i.e.: <TITLE></TITLE>)
- H1 (i.e.: Page title)
- Content
We can use this knowledge to our advantage, if we have multiple keywords that we want to target on a single page, which should typically always be the case.
Let's say we have the following keywords we want to target on the homepage in order of importance:
- Cat Training
- Cat Obedience
- Cat School
- Litter Training For Cats
- Cat Ball Training
The Blog URL
Let's start with our URL, making a branded domain, with an inner page targeting. How many keywords can we fit in the URL without looking spammy. The following URL covers our two most important keywords.
URL: http://felineexpert.com/cat-training-and-obedience
Now for the SEO title tag. Again, let's try to get as many keywords as possible in there, remembering the rules we read about before.
SEO Title Tag: Cat Training And Obedience School | Feline Expert
Feline Expert is included in the Tile Tag for Branding purposes – not for generic ranking purposes.
The Blog Title
Next comes our Page Title and we definitely will want to get our top keywords in here, and let's also try to include some of the words that we have not used so far. Additionally, we'll use a synonym "Kittens" to get some semantic advantage.
The H1 Title Tag
Try to include your target keyword only once in one <h1> tag. And to try and make it a part of a larger phrase, and not just the exact keyword.
Remember each page should only have one <h1> tag. Most themes have it setup to automatically create a <h1> tag from your page title, so be sure that you do not create two.
Each <h1> tag can have other <h2> tags underneath it, and the <h3> tags go underneath those <h2> tags.
SEOs debate over how many words per page is optimal. No one has the exact number, because it pertains on a per-niche and per-keyword basis. For example, pages in the Life Insurance niche typically require more words per page to rank than others.
However, based on our testing experience and recent third party studies, the minimum amount of words you want on a page is:
Regular page: 500+ words
Web 2.0 page: 1000+ words
To be safe, we recommend writing any page you want to rank for with 1000+ words or more.
It's just going to make your life easier. This however cannot always be achieved, especially if your site is highly graphical, so in those circumstances, stick to the minimum recommendations above.
Google is always looking for highly relevant content and for some niches this requires lengthy articles.
Try always to include video(s) embedded within your content, Google owns YouTube and video is a ranking factor to content on the SERPS.
Try always to include image(s) embedded within your content and also include the alt text.
Meta Description
The pages Meta Description is no longer considered by Google as a ranking factor in its Search Engine Results Pages (SERPS).
Never the less it is a very important piece of real estate in its support of the content "Page title".
So use the Meta Description in support of the content "Page title" and add a "Sales hook" for example:
- Learn more here
- FREE Guide
- You and get FREE.... (last allowable entry)
The sales hook as with the page title is and should be designed to encourage the audience to open the post.
For more information on Search Engine Optimization for your content your can download your FREE Guide here Ultimate Guide To Website Search Engine Optimization.
Hope this helps...
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Most of the photographs in Annette Kelm's show "In the Realm of" depict displays or exhibits of one kind or another, some already existing, others constructed by the artist in her studio. She gives in to the pleasure of letting herself be seduced by the epiphanies that daily life presents, allowing herself to be transported by the phenomenology of the everyday. Consider, for example, Soles, LOL!, C U SOON, XO, STUFF 2 DO, 2013: It began when, walking down the street in New York, she noticed a small sampling of shoe soles of various colors, arranged in a framed rectangle in the window of a repair shop. She then acquired the framed piece and incorporated it into a set she created in her studio, which also included wallpaper purchased on eBay that featured the repeated acronym LOL along with other words. The fabric covering installed on one wall and on a portion of the studio floor
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|Assembly Actions - Lowercase
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|May 14, 2018
|referred to housing, construction and community development
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|Feb 12, 2018
|referred to housing
assembly Bill A9815
2017-2018 Legislative Session
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A9815 (ACTIVE) - Details
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- New York City Administrative Code
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- Rpld §26-511 sub c ¶5-a, amd §§26-512 & 26-403.2, NYC Ad Cd; rpld §10 sub (a-1), amd §6, Emerg Ten Prot Act of 1974; amd §5, Emerg Hous Rent Cont L; amd §1, Chap 21 of 1962
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S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 9815 I N A S S E M B L Y February 12, 2018 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PICHARDO, CYMBROWITZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four, the emergen- cy housing rent control law and the local emergency rent control act, in relation to rent increases after vacancy of a housing accommo- dation; and to repeal certain provisions of the administrative code of the city of New York and the emergency tenant protection act of nine- teen seventy-four relating thereto THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Paragraph 5-a of subdivision c of section 26-511 of the administrative code of the city of New York is REPEALED. § 2. Subdivision (a-1) of section 10 of section 4 of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974, constituting the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four is REPEALED. § 3. Subdivision f of section 26-512 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by chapter 116 of the laws of 1997, is amended to read as follows: f. Notwithstanding any provision of this law to the contrary in the case where all tenants named in a lease have permanently vacated a hous- ing accommodation and a family member of such tenant or tenants is enti- tled to and executes a renewal lease for the housing accommodation if such accommodation continues to be subject to this law after such family member vacates, on the occurrence of such vacancy the legal regulated rent shall be increased by a sum equal to the allowance then in effect for vacancy leases[, including the amount allowed by paragraph (five-a) of subdivision c of section 26-511 of this law]. Such increase shall be in addition to any other increases provided for in this law including an adjustment based upon a major capital improvement, or a substantial modification or increase of dwelling space or services, or installation of new equipment or improvements or new furniture or furnishings provided in or to the housing accommodation pursuant to section 26-511 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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The IMA Data Store - Citrix MetaFrame XP
Let's take a look at the components of a MetaFrame XP server farm that maintain information that does not change frequently. This information is stored in a database called the IMA data store.
Now that we've seen how zone data collectors are responsible for tracking and maintaining server information that changes frequently, let's take a look at the components of a MetaFrame XP server farm that maintain information that does not change frequently. This information is stored in a database called the IMA data store.
The IMA data store is not the same as the zone or the Zone Data Collector. (In fact, the two aren't related at all.) The IMA data store is an ODBC-compliant database containing persistent configuration information, whereas the zone data collectors contain dynamic information that changes frequently. To view or change configurations stored in the IMA data store, you use the Citrix Management Console. Any information that it displays is pulled from the IMA data store, and when you click the "OK" button after making a change, that information is written to the IMA data store.
All server farm configuration information is saved in the IMA data store, as opposed to being saved on individual MetaFrame XP servers. Whenever a MetaFrame XP server starts up, it contacts the IMA data store and downloads its configuration information. (Actually, this contact occurs whenever the IMA Service is started, which usually coincides with the server starting up, but not always.)
MetaFrame XP servers always know where the data store is because they each have a local file-based DSN called mf20.dsn. This DSN contains the information for connecting to the IMA data store. (More on this file in Chapters 12 and 16.)
After a MetaFrame XP server initially contacts the IMA data store and downloads its configuration information, the server will check for changes every 10 minutes. This default interval can be changed via the following registry key:
Key: HKLM\Software\Citrix\IMA
Value: DCNChangePollingInterval
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: The interval in milliseconds, entered in hex notation. (The 600 second default would be 600,000 milliseconds, or 0x927C0 in hex.)
Local Host Cache
As previously stated, every MetaFrame XP server downloads its configuration information from the server farm's IMA data store. Each server is smart enough to only download information from the IMA data store that is relevant to it. Information about other servers is ignored and not downloaded. Once the information is downloaded, it is saved locally in a Microsoft Access-style database known as the "Local Host Cache." This local host cache is maintained on every MetaFrame XP server. It serves two purposes:
- Increased Redundancy. If communication with the IMA data store is lost, the MetaFrame XP server continues to function for up to 48 hours (96 hours with Feature Release 2) because the vital configuration information it needs is available in its local host cache.
- Increased Speed. The local host cache contains information that the MetaFrame XP server needs to refer to often. By maintaining the information locally, the MetaFrame XP server does not have to access the IMA data store across the network every time any bit of information is needed.
Even though all application publishing information, domain trust rights, and application user rights are retained locally at each MetaFrame XP server in its local host cache, the Zone Data Collector is still contacted whenever a user launches an application. This contact is made so that the ZDC can keep an accurate count of each server's user load.
You can manually refresh a MetaFrame XP server's local host cache with the command dsmaint refreshlc. Real world experience shows that this manual refresh is something you'll do more often than you care to; particularly if you are testing new applications and do not want to wait for the changes to be propagated down to every MetaFrame XP server.
IMA Data Store Database Type
The IMA data store can be in one of four database formats: Microsoft Access (MS Jet), Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, or IBM DB2. (IBM DB2 requires Feature Release 2 for MetaFrame XP.) The IMA data store works like any standard database, which means that the best performance, reliability, and scalability will be found when SQL Server, Oracle, or DB2 is used. Of course in order to get these benefits you need to address the additional management, hardware, and licensing requirements of these databases.
IMA Data Store Access Mode
Every MetaFrame XP server must belong to a server farm and have access to that farm's IMA data store. MetaFrame XP is designed to be able to access the data store in either "direct" or "indirect" mode.
When direct mode is used, a MetaFrame XP server connects directly to the database server that is running the IMA data store. A MetaFrame XP server that accesses the IMA data store via indirect mode accesses the database by connecting to another MetaFrame XP server. That other server then forwards the requests directly to the database, and then sends the information back to the original server.
If the IMA data store is a Microsoft Access database, it must be accessed via indirect mode. IMA data stores running on SQL, Oracle, or DB2 platforms can be accessed via direct or indirect mode.
IMA Data Store Replication
MetaFrame XP servers need to have regular communication with the IMA data store to ensure that they always have the current configuration information for the server farm. (Even though we say "regular" communication to describe the communication between a MetaFrame XP server and the IMA data store, keep in mind that this communication is not nearly as frequent as the communication between a MetaFrame XP server and its zone data collector.)
Because of this regular communication, slow network links between MetaFrame XP servers and the IMA data store can cause problems, such as extremely long IMA service start times and timeouts during sequential reads from the data store.
Obviously, this is a situation that should be avoided. One way to avoid this is to split the server farm into multiple, smaller farms. While this would technically solve the problem of MetaFrame XP servers having a slow connection to the data store, it would introduce the complexities and additional management requirements associated with multiple server farms.
Alternately, the IMA data store can be replicated throughout your network environment, so that multiple database copies exist in different locations for various MetaFrame XP servers to access. This data store replication is not a feature of MetaFrame XP; rather, database replication is a native feature of Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle.
Microsoft Access-based data stores do not support replication, because Microsoft Access itself does not support replication. This should not be a problem for you, because if your environment is big enough that you need data store replication, then you shouldn't be using Microsoft Access to run your data store anyway.
Also, IBM DB2 databases cannot be used for IMA data stores if you plan to replicate the database. This is because MetaFrame XP uses the binary large object data type to store information in DB2 databases, and DB2 does not support the use of that data type for replication.
One of the downsides of database replication in general is that the multiple replicas of the database must stay synchronized with the master copy. This can get to be a problem if many changes occur to the database simultaneously. Fortunately, MetaFrame XP servers only read data from the IMA data store. The only time that information is written to the data store is when a configuration change is made through the Citrix Management Console. Because these changes are manually performed by administrators, there is no risk that too many will occur simultaneously. In fact, in many cases, only one change will be made at a time.
Advantages of Replicating the IMA Data Store
- Increased performance in large server farms.
Disadvantages of Replicating the IMA Data Store
- You need multiple database servers.
- Adding MetaFrame servers to the farm is more complex.
- Only SQL and Oracle data stores can be replicated.
How to Configure IMA Data Store Replication
Detailed step-by-step procedures for replicating an IMA data store can be found in the "MetaFrame XP Advanced Concepts Guide" available for free at www.citrix.com/support. Ultimately, you need to configure one database so that it is the "master" copy of the data store. Changes made to the master copy are replicated to read-only copies throughout your environment. All MetaFrame XP servers are then configured, via their local mf20.dsn files, to point to the nearest replica of the data store.
The only caveat to replicating the IMA data store is that in order to make any changes to the farm or publish new applications, you must use a CMC that is connected to the read/write master copy of the data store. The easiest way to do this is to configure the CMC as a published application on one of the servers that connects to the master copy.
More details about configuring the DSN that a MetaFrame XP server uses and publishing the CMC can be found in Chapter 16.
How to Add a New Server to a Replicated Environment
When you add a new MetaFrame XP server to an environment with a replicated data store, you will need to point it to the read/write master copy of the data store during the installation process. Once MetaFrame is completely installed, you can configure the server (as described in Chapter 16) to use a closer read-only copy of the data store.
IMA Data Store Size
Regardless of the mode of access or the database platform, the IMA data store will require approximately 200 KB for each MetaFrame XP server in the farm. This will vary slightly based on the number of applications published, how print drivers are used, and the exact configuration of the farm. The good news is that the database will always be relatively small. Even the largest environments only have data stores that are around 50 MB or so.
Why should you care about IMA data store design?
As you have seen, there are many technical components that you need to understand when designing the IMA data store for your server farm. Based on these components, it's easy to see that the design of the IMA data store has the potential to impact several areas of your MetaFrame XP environment, including:
- WAN bandwidth.
- IMA service startup times.
- Server farm reliability.
- Scalability.
WAN Bandwidth
Because each MetaFrame XP server needs to read from the IMA data store, your WAN bandwidth can be adversely affected if you do not adequately plan for the location of the data store and its replicas. You want to make sure that you know how and when these database reads will occur.
Speed for the IMA Service to Start
Every time the IMA service is started on a MetaFrame XP server, the IMA data store is queried and the necessary information is downloaded to the MetaFrame XP server's local host cache. If the nearest copy of the IMA data store is across a slow network link, the IMA service could take a long time to start as it downloads its information. No users can log on until the IMA service is fully started, after the IMA data store read is complete.
If the IMA data store is not available, MetaFrame XP servers default to their local host cached copies. If this occurs, you will not be able to make any configuration changes to the farm or to any published applications. Also, after 48 hours (or 96 hours with MetaFrame XP Service Pack 2) without contact with the IMA data store, local MetaFrame XP servers' license service will fail and users will not be able to log on. This 48 or 96 hour limit is an artificial cut-off built into the product and cannot be changed.
All servers in a server farm need to contact the single IMA data store. If you want your farm to grow to several hundred servers, you'll need to scale your IMA data store to support the large number of data requests and consider the location of local data store replicas to service all of those requests.
What are the IMA data store options?
When it comes down to actually designing your data store, there are really two different areas to look at that can be matrixed into three options. For your IMA data store, you can have:
- A Microsoft Access database in indirect mode, accessed through one server.
- SQL, Oracle, or DB2 database in indirect mode, accessed through one server.
- SQL, Oracle, or DB2 database in direct mode, accessed directly via the database server.
If you have existing SQL, Oracle, or DB2 servers in your environment then you can put the IMA data store on them. SQL Servers must be at least SQL Server 7.0 with Service Pack 2, and Oracle servers must be version 7.3.4. In order to use IBM's DB2 database for your data store, your MetaFrame XP servers must use Feature Release 2, and you must use at least DB2 version 7.2 with FixPak 5.
If you use a database other than Microsoft Access, you should know that the MetaFrame XP installation process cannot automatically create the database for you. You will need to manually create the empty database using the native database tools and specify that database during the MetaFrame XP installation. The installation program will automatically create and configure the tables it needs.
Option 1. Access Database IMA Data Store
Using the Microsoft Access database platform for your IMA data store is cheap and can be run on one of your MetaFrame XP servers. Access-based data stores are designed for small or test environments. The database cannot scale too large, and even if it could, other MetaFrame XP servers must always access the data store through the server that hosts it (via "indirect" mode).
Realize that even though we call this solution a "Microsoft Access" solution, it doesn't actually mean that you have a copy of Access installed on your MetaFrame XP server. Technically, this solution uses a "Microsoft Jet" database. The drivers and support files needed to read and write Jet databases are included as part of the Windows operating system. Microsoft Access is an application that also just "happens" to use the Jet database format.
Advantages of MS Access-based Data Stores
- Inexpensive.
- No dedicated database hardware. (It can be run on a MetaFrame XP server.)
Disadvantages of MS Access-based Data Stores
- Single point of failure.
- Limited to 50 servers (for performance reasons).
- Slow.
- Data store cannot be replicated.
- The IMA data store often gets corrupted when Access is used.
Option 2. SQL, Oracle, or DB2 via Indirect Mode
A data store hosted by a SQL, Oracle, or DB2 server will be fast and reliable. However, just because the data store is on one of these platforms doesn't automatically mean that all MetaFrame XP servers in the farm are accessing the database via "direct" mode.
For example, if you have five MetaFrame XP servers that all access a Microsoft Access-based IMA data store via indirect mode hosted on one server, at any time you could convert the database from Microsoft Access to SQL Server. The MetaFrame XP server that previously hosted the Access database would then connect directly to the SQL Server. However, the other four servers would continue to connect to the first server where the database was previously located. Technically, this configuration would work, but you would not realize the full benefits of the SQL Server and would still have a single point of failure.
In this case, you would still be accessing the IMA data store via "indirect mode," connecting through one MetaFrame XP server. You would lose most of your potential gains over keeping with an Access database. (In this scenario, it would be easy to configure the other MetaFrame XP servers to access the new data store directly. See Chapter 16 for details.)
Advantages of SQL, Oracle, or DB2 via Indirect Mode
- Stable database.
- Scalable database.
- For Oracle and DB2, you wouldn't have to install any custom database drivers on all your MetaFrame XP servers. (They would only be needed on the server that is accessing the database via direct mode.)
Disadvantages of SQL, Oracle, or DB2 via Indirect Mode
- Single point of failure.
- A database server is needed.
- Performance bottleneck.
Option 3. SQL, Oracle, or DB2 via Direct Mode
An IMA data store running on a Microsoft SQL, Oracle, or DB2 server connected directly to all the MetaFrame XP servers in the farm is really the way to go for an enterprise-wide environment. It will be fast, reliable, and scalable. Also keep in mind that you can configure native database replication for SQL or Oracle so that there is a local copy of the IMA data store near each group of MetaFrame XP servers. The only downside to using SQL, Oracle, or DB2 via direct mode is the potential cost associated with the database software and servers. However, if you're using this type of data store and you have MetaFrame XP servers through your enterprise, a few thousand dollars spent to ensure that the IMA data store is done right is money well spent.
Advantages of SQL or Oracle in Direct Mode
- Quick, reliable access.
- Stable database.
- Scalable database.
- No single point of failure.
- For SQL or Oracle, database replication keeps copies of the database near MetaFrame XP servers.
Disadvantages of SQL or Oracle in Direct Mode
- A database server is needed.
- One more server to purchase.
- One more server to manage.
Considerations when Designing your Data Store
Because there are very different designs and strategies for an IMA data store, it's important that you determine which is right for you. Answering the following questions about your environment will help to make your decision as to what IMA data store options you should use:
- What is the WAN distribution of your MetaFrame XP servers?
- How many MetaFrame XP servers will there be?
- How crucial are the applications running on the MetaFrame XP servers?
- What is the budget?
- Is there already a database server that you can use?
- What is your tolerance for pain?
WAN Distribution of Servers
If your MetaFrame XP servers in a single server farm are located on opposite sides of a WAN, then you should consider database replication. This means that you would have to use SQL or Oracle for your data store. With servers in one location, database replication becomes less important (and your choice of database platform becomes less important).
Number of MetaFrame XP Servers
A Microsoft Access-based data store can support up to about 50 servers before performance bottlenecks would dictate moving it to a real database (i.e. SQL, Oracle, or DB2). If your MetaFrame XP environment will just be a handful of servers, then you can get away with choosing Microsoft Access for your data store platform.
Importance of your MetaFrame XP Environment
If MetaFrame XP is not mission critical in your environment, then it's probably not worth spending the extra money to build a dedicated SQL, Oracle, or DB2 server to host the IMA data store. On the other hand, if your applications are mission critical, you probably don't want to risk the single point of failure nature of a Microsoft Access-based data store.
If you do not have the budget for an IMA data store then your design is simple: use MS Access. The Microsoft Access data store option is free. It requires no additional hardware or software. Then again, if you have the money, you should opt for the more reliable and efficient solution.
Existing Database Server
If you are lucky enough to work in a large environment there may already be a SQL, Oracle, or DB2 database server that you can use for your IMA data store. If you are really lucky, someone else might be responsible for administering that server, which would be one less thing for you to worry about.
Pain Tolerance
There have been numerous problems with IMA data stores based on Microsoft Access. Many administrators spend time repairing and restoring their data stores that are Microsoft Access-based. This is most likely due in part to bugs in the MetaFrame XP software and part to the fact that Microsoft Access is a desktop database. It is much more suited to track kitchen recipes than it is enterprise data stores. If you want the "real" solution then you need to use SQL Server, Oracle, or DB2.