Man Pulls A Gun On Political Activist During Live Talk Show(Video)

After trading insults with activist, parliamentarian first throws a shoe and then points a gun at adversary. Host tries to break up brawl. No shots fired

A Jordanian member of parliament pulled a gun on a political activist during a furious debate live on Jordanian TV on Friday.

The MP, named in a YouTube clip of the confrontation as Mohammed Shawabka, was debating a political activist named in the clip as Mansour Sayf al-Din Murad, discussing aspects of Jordanian politics including attitudes surrounding the uprising in Syria.

As the discussion became more heated, each of the men accused the other of various crimes and deviancies, including working for the Israeli Mossad intelligence agency. "You're a Mossad agent," said one. "You're a big crook," said the other.

The MP stood up and began screaming and pointing at the activist, who was sitting opposite him, while the host of the program, Mohammed Habashneh, seated in the center, desperately urged his guests to "calm down."

Instead, the MP sat back down, bent over and took off his right shoe, and threw it at the activist, who ducked behind his desk, knocking it over.

Then the MP pulled a gun — a silver pistol — out of his waistband and briefly brandished it toward the activist, who walked toward him. The MP kept holding the gun, but was no longer pointing it at his critic.

The two men struggled, with the parliamentarian again careful now not to point the gun at his adversary, while the panicked host circumnavigated the strewn furniture to try to break up the fight.

But the two men would not be easily separated, and the brawl continued for some time before the program cut to the credits.

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This is a great revelation of: How One Man Developed His Country By Changing It From One Of Most Corrupt To Amongst Least Corrupt Between 2003 - 2011

After reading this piece, we believe that the solution to Nigeria's problem can be solved within four (4) years. Anyone who tells you something different is, most probably, lying!

How long do you think it will take to repair Nigeria?

Our rulers usually say 52 years of independence is not enough, and that this generation can't achieve it. They tell us that "we will get there someday" meaning in future unborn generation.

But, is that actually true? Well, check out how a president did it in 8 years incidentally at the same period when OBJ, GEJ and PDP were busy retrogressing Nigeria, and make up your minds. If only we can have someone replicate this in Nigeria:

When Nika Gilauri, the premier of Georgia, tells you that the prosperity of his country has been achieved because it has become one of the “least corrupt” countries in the world, you, the investor, take note.

But it wasn’t always like that. After the demise of the USSR, Georgia was not only one of the most corrupt of the former-Soviet Republics, it was one of the most corrupt countries in the world. Bribe-to-drive was the norm; police stopped cars at least twice an hour to extort a non-trivial sum of money. The then interior minister infamously quipped: “Give me petrol only. My people will take care of their own salaries.”

Being a traffic cop was so lucrative that you had to pay a bribe of between $2,000 and $20,000 to get the job in the first place. Graft was endemic. Georgians passed more envelopes to bent officials than the post office does letters. Meanwhile the economy crumbled and the state was left bankrupt and powerless.

The election of Mikhail Saakashvili changed everything. A bold reformer, he was swept to power in the “Rose Revolution” at the end of 2003 by the overwhelming desire for radical change. His closely-knit team is unified by a common vision and supported by a compliant parliament and judiciary.

The new government wasn’t just radical - it shocked and awed. Ministers, oligarchs and officials were sacked or arrested. Those who resisted were dealt with decisively, sometimes brutally. The state confiscated $1bn worth of property. Custom officials bore collective responsibility; an entire shift would be punished if one officer was caught accepting bribes. Corrupt professors were kicked out with a lifetime ban from academia.

But the piece de la resistance was Saakashvili’s order to sack the entire 16,000-strong police force on a single day, to replace them with some of the best and brightest university graduates. Today, Georgia ranks alongside Finland as having the least corrupt police force in the world and their standout uniforms are rumoured to have been designed by Armani.

The campaign expanded irresistibly. Tax offices were equipped with CCTV; university exam papers were printed in the UK and held in bank vaults until needed; and officials were constantly tested in sting operations. The proactive assault on graft was accompanied by a PR campaign to undermine respect for criminal groups and introduce respect for the law.

The campaign then turned to the sectors. First up was the power sector that was widely used as a cash cow for well-connected oligarchs. In less than a year, Georgia went from net importer to exporter of electricity and the sector became the target of long-term foreign investment.

Tax collection followed. Georgia’s tax base consisted of just 80,000 companies in 2003 and tax collection was a mere 12% of GDP. Saakashvili slashed red tape and introduced flat personal and corporate taxes. Eight years later over 250,000 companies are on the register, and pay the equivalent of 25% of GDP. Georgia now boasts one of the most liberal tax regimes in the world, on par with the Gulf states and Hong Kong.

Lastly came deregulation, with many rules and agencies simply abolished, removing channels of corruption in the process. Among other things, car registration became so easy that used cars became the largest export item in 2011. Georgia moved swiftly from the bottom of the World Bank’s Doing Business ranking (112) into the top 20 (16) by 2012. Foreign investment followed and fuelled a multi-year surge.

But perhaps, the most lucrative Georgian export would be the fight against corruption itself – from which many states mired in graft could benefit. The Georgians patented a process whose steps are replicable: establish early reform credibility by radical action, launch a frontal assault excluding no sacred cows, attract new blood, limit the role of the state via privatisation and deregulation, use technology and communication to maximum effect, and above all, be bold and purposeful.

Georgia’s close and distant neighbours should take heed. Their prime ministers and presidents have got their job cut out for them.

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Hypertension: Causes, Effects and Management

Michael Oketunmbi (real names withheld) is a man in his mid-40s and a director in a top notch insurance firm. He has always been a busy man who felt he was hale and hearty and has no need to go for regular medical checkup. Lately he has been having consistent headaches and dizzy spells that refused to go even after taking some analgesics. Unfortunately, he ignored those warning signals until it was almost too late. One day, climbing the staircase leading to his office, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his heart region and almost collapsed if some security agents had not come to his rescue. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was diagnosed with high blood pressure that almost caused him a heart attack.

Michael is just minuscule of adult Nigerians who go about their daily routine without a thought to the state of their health unless they have a visible symptom that will make them to visit the hospital for checkup. Unfortunately, more often than not, they arrive as corpses when they should have taken earlier precautions.

When someone suffers a heart attack, what does it really mean? Dr Obiroa Orji, a medical practitioner with the Military Hospital, Ikoyi and also a member of a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) known as Doctors Reach out Initiative who spoke with Sunday Mirror on this issue described heart attack as “a disease condition of the heart. It is a life threatening condition in the sense that the blood vessel to the heart is compromised.  Between stroke and a heart attack, there is the underlying medical condition called hypertension or high blood pressure which can predispose a person to these problems. If there is high blood pressure as a lay man usually calls it, it can cause a narrowing of the vessels sup-plying blood either to the brain which can lead to stoke or to the heart on the other side causing a heart attack.”

Hypertension, commonly called high blood pressure (HBP) means high tension in the arteries. Arteries are vessels that carry blood from the pumping heart to all the tissues and organs of the body. With every heart beat, the heart pumps blood through the arteries to the rest of the body. Blood pressure is the force of blood that is pushing up against the walls of the blood vessels. If the pressure is too high, the heart has to work harder to pump, and this could lead to organ damage and several illnesses such as heart attack, stroke, heart failure, aneurysm, or renal failure.

Dr. Orji explained that his NGO bridges the gap between the people who are sick and in their homes and those who have sought medical help and are in between the next medical appointment.

The medical expert said high blood pres-sure occurs when a patient has an elevated blood pressure, where the systolic pres-sure is greater than 160 and the diastolic is greater than 90. Normal blood pressure is below 120/80 while blood pressure of 140/90 or above is considered high.

The top number, the systolic blood pres-sure, corresponds to the pressure in the arteries as the heart contracts and pumps blood forward into the arteries. The bottom number, the diastolic pressure, rep-resents the pressure in the arteries as the heart relaxes after the contraction. The diastolic pressure reflects the lowest pres-sure to which the arteries are exposed.

Medical research reveals that an elevation of the systolic and/or diastolic blood pressure increases the risk of developing heart (cardiac) disease, kidney (renal) disease, eye damage, and stroke (brain dam-age). These complications of hypertension are often referred to as end-organ damage because damage to these organs is the end result of chronic (long duration) high blood pressure. For that reason, the diagnosis of high blood pressure is important so efforts can be made to normalise blood pressure and prevent complications.

Hypertension has been dubbed the silent killer by many medical experts be-cause it comes with little or no symptoms to warn the victim.  Most of the time, it may seem as if a heart attack comes out of the blue, but there are numerous symptoms that can sound the alert, if you ob-serve the changes in your body.

  According to a recent Harvard study, only 25 per cent of heart attack victims had no prior symptoms. Some of those symptoms include:

• Fatigue or confusion

• Dizziness

• Nausea

• Problems with vision

• Chest pains

• Breathing problems

• Irregular heartbeat

• Blood in the urine

• Palpitation or increase in heartbeat

• Severe headaches

Dr Orji explained that although the exact causes of hypertension are usually unknown, there are several factors that have been highly associated with the condition. “Hypertension is the most popular black disease. There is what we call risk factors for hypertension if someone is said to be hypertensive.

These include:

• Smoking

• Obesity or being overweight

• Diabetes 

• Sedentary lifestyle 

• Lack of physical activity

• High levels of salt intake (sodium sensitivity)

• Vitamin D deficiency

• High levels of alcohol consumption

• Stress

• Aging

• Medicines such as birth control pills

• Genetics and a family history of hypertension

• Statistics in the USA indicate that African Americans have a higher incidence of hypertension than other ethnicities.

Dr Orji advises that people should be careful of their salt intake as it aggravates the blood pressure. “Salt has an osmotic pull that tend to retain water and when this occurs, there is rate pressure. It’s not that you shouldn’t take salt but excessive intake is what we have to guard against. The correct advice is that you should not eat salt in excess in addition to what has been added when the food was cooked,” he advised.

Following the silent nature of the symptoms associated with this disease, medical experts advocate prevention of this problem rather than treatment. This is because hypertension actually does not have a cure but it is a disease condition that is man-aged throughout the person’s lifetime.

According to the medical expert, “this is a disease condition you must have to manage for the rest of your life once it is diagnosed. It’s not like malaria you treat and then expect it to go. You must take your drugs, monitor your BP and in partnership with your doctor, who will know when to add some drugs or reduce the dosage if need be.

“Hypertension can best be prevented by adjusting your lifestyle so that proper diet and exercise are key components. It is important to maintain a healthy weight, reduce salt intake, reduce alcohol intake, and reduce stress.”

Dr Orji stressed, “It is really important that people appreciate that being diagnosed as hypertensive is not a death sentence, what it requires is your cooperation with your physician to make sure that you control this sickness. That your blood pressure is normal today does not mean it would not soar again tomorrow. Proper control and medication are essential. It is important that you keep taking your drugs and consulting your doctor to help put it under control.

“I think it would be wise for every adult to check their BP once in three months at worse once in six months. For people above 40 years, that’s where the risk of hypertension actually comes into play. Below 40 years, we have juvenile hypertension coming up once in a while. You can never tell. But if you are hypertensive, it is some-thing you should check every week or fort-nightly depending on the control. 

So in all, hypertension is the trigger for all these life threatening diseases or conditions. If you can control hypertension, then chances are that you can avoid having any of these conditions,” he said.

VANESSA OKWARA/NatMir.

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We’ll recover subsidy overpayment, Okonjo-Iweala vows

Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said yesterday that the Federal Government would recover the excess payments made to petroleum marketers, as soon as the Aigboje  Aig-Imoukhuede committee completes its assignment.

She revealed this in an interview after delivering a lec-ture at the second Prof. Barth Nnaji Lecture, at the Enugu State University of Technology, Enugu. 

President Goodluck Jonathan established the new Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede Committee, last Thursday, to verify and reconcile the findings of the Technical Committee set up by the Federal Ministry of Finance to conduct a detailed review of all subsidy claims and payments made in 2011.

According to the minister, the Presidential Committee, which had been given a deadline of one week, would enable marketers who may doubt the findings of the Com-mittee to come forward and be confronted with the bare facts of the earlier panel’s findings.

Okonjo-Iweala explained that although over 50 per cent of the N888 billion fuel subsidy budgeted for 2012 had been utilised owing to the heavy 2011 arrears, she was hopeful that a substantial recovery would be made from the excess payments which would augment the current balance.  

“In terms of the subsidy, it is true that we budgeted N 888 billion for the year.  We have used N451 billion of that.  We still have N370 billion left that we are working on.  So it is not like all the money is finished and we will be working on that,” she said.

“As you know, there was a recent report to verify 2011 arrears, that with the sup-port of Mr. President, I set up, chaired by Aig-Imokhuede.  We set it up in the Ministry of Finance and they have worked.  They used over 20 forensic accountants and bank examiners.  As a result, Mr. President two days ago constituted a Presidential Task Force also chaired by Mr. Aig-Imokhuede to try and just complete work on the verifica-tion and then begin the recovery,” the minister added.

“The verification is to give a chance to any of those marketers who say, ‘oh, maybe you got it wrong here or there’ to come forward.  And the President has given them a very tight deadline of about a week. When we finish with that then the next stage will be for us to try and get our money back.  

“We must get some of those resources back.  Let’s wait for the resources to come back.  I am sure Nigerians will like that and then we can take it from there,” said Dr Iweala.“President Jonathan has directed the 15-member committee headed by Mr. Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede to begin work immediately and conclude its assignment by 1700 hours on Friday, July 13, 2012 as a prelude to immediate ac-tion on all identified cases of fraud.

Earlier in her lecture, the minister noted that Science and Technology held the key to the much needed rapid development and therefore must be accorded a place of priority by both governments at all levels, on the one hand and the private sector on the other.

She lamented that abysmal attention that Science and Tech current suffers in both sectors and therefore called for a closer collaboration between the two with a view to creating the needed, that would transform research findings in the laboratories of universities and research in-stitutes to increase industry production, in the country.

The minister also called for concerted efforts toward diversifying the nation’s economy, which currently depends on only oil as its major foreign exchange earner. Sectors that require immediate attention, according to her, include: agriculture, solid minerals, and services, among others.

JOE AGU of Nat.Mirror

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