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President
Muhammadu Buhari on Monday acknowledged that 2017 was tough for Nigeria
but said he was hopeful the coming year would be more prosperous for
the country.<br />
Buhari made stated this when the Minister of the
Federal Capital Territory, Muhammed Bello, visited him on Christmas Day
at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.<br />
President Buhari was joined by
some state governors and other top government officials when Bello and
his delegation visited him.<br />
He said, “It has been a tough year for Nigeria and I hope next year will be a much more prosperous one.<br />
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“But
those listening to the press and the majority of us know that the rainy
season was very good and some states have got very good information
from home.<br />
“I never knew that the people from Kano, who are more
resourceful , used to go to my area and hire farms. This year , nobody
hired farms, and nobody regretted it.<br />
“The second one is that the
governor of Sokoto State said all the people that really used to go to
Mecca were farmers but he didn’ t tell me if they took additional
wives,” he said.<br />
The president said that he thought he was 74 only to be told that he is now 75 years old.<br />
Buhari, said to have been born on December 17, 1942, recently celebrated his 75th birthday.<br />
Interacting
with his visitors Buhari said, “I am very grateful (to you ) for taking
time out on a very important day to come out and spend it with us.<br />
“It has been a tumultuous year. I am thinking I am 75. I thought I was 74 but I was told I’m 75.<br />
“I have never been so sick , not even during the 30 – month civil war that I was stumbling under farm of yams or cassava.<br />
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“But
this sickness … I don ’t know, but I came out better. All those who saw
me before said I looked much better when I came back .<br />
“But I
have explained it to the public that as a General, I used to give orders
. But now, I take orders. The doctors told me to feed my stomach and
sleep for longer hours. That is why I am looking much better.”<br />
Earlier,
the FCT minister spoke on how his administration put a stop, a crisis
that would have left this year’s Christmas celebration a bleak one for
FCT residents.<br />
According to him, if not for the urgent
intervention of security operatives in the FCT, a clash between some
youths in the Bwari Area Council in the course of celebrating the
Yuletide would have become something serious.Clemsdebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17296802113257672673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889448904341188306.post-30401146171762478822017-02-06T04:09:00.000-08:002017-02-06T04:09:10.668-08:00HOME CAS ONLINE<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Umeh also used the rally to recognize Ojukwu’s son, Emeka Ojukwu jnr as APGA’s candidate for Nnewi NorthI Nnewi SouthIEkwusigo federal constituency in the House of Representatives.</div>
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Addressing party supporters at the rally, Umeh noted that with himself at the senate and Ojukwu Jnr in the house of representatives, nobody will tell our opponents that Ndigbo have arrived.</div>
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Umeh further noted that with then in the national assembly, Ojukwu’s spirit would continue to bubble in happiness and be resting in peace.</div>
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“We are going to have quality representation. We will ensure truth. Anybody who used Ojukwu,s name to win election and later derail will surely be pursued by the land of Ndigbo”, Umeh stated.</div>
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In his speech, Ojukwu Jnr declared; “my father lived life of servitude and I will follow his foot step. I will never let you down. Some people used our platform and dropped us”.</div>
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The FCT Area Court at Lugbe in Abuja on Friday remanded in prison custody a 35-year-old driver, Ibeabuchi Chimezie, who was charged with betrayal of trust.</div>
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Chimezie, who lives at Uzuakoli Ngwu in Abia, is standing trial on a two-count charge of criminal breach of trust and cheating, after absconding with his employer’s bus.</div>
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The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the accused pleaded not guilty to the offence and also prayed the court to grant him bail.</div>
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However, the presiding officer, Senior Judge Gambo Garbo, refused to take Chimezie’s plea and ordered that he should be remanded in Kuje prison till Nov. 10.</div>
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Earlier, the prosecutor, Anigbo Paul, had told the court that the case was reported by one Ekeh Chukwuemeke at the Lugbe Police Station on Oct. 11.</div>
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“The accused ran away with the complainant’s Sienna bus meant for commercial purpose since Sept. 23 without remitting the N10,000 per trip which they agreed on,’’ Paul said.</div>
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He alleged that during police investigation, the accused had refused to give reasonable explanation as to the whereabouts of the bus.</div>
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“Right now the bus in question is missing.’’ the prosecutor told the court.</div>
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Paul, who said the case was still under investigation, noted that the offence contravened sections 312 and 322 of the Penal</div>
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A bomb concealed in a black plastic bag killed several people at a cash point in north Nigeria’s Bauchi state on Friday near the scene of a recent bus station attack blamed on Boko Haram, witnesses said.</div>
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Multiple residents of the targeted town of Azare told AFP that the bomber approached people who had queued up outside a First Bank branch at roughly 10:30 am (0930 GMT).</div>
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“A man came on foot to this ATM where a large crowd was taking turns to withdraw money,” said Lamara Ibrahim, who was at the scene.</div>
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The man tried to leave a black plastic bag on a parked motorcycle nearby but was stopped before he could leave by locals who said leaving parcels unaccompanied was prohibited following recent unrest in the area.</div>
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“It was while they were talking to him that the bomb exploded. I saw at least 10 people that looked dead,” said Ibrahim, noting that he was not in a position to authoritatively confirm a death toll.</div>
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Musa Usman, who was also nearby, gave an identical account of the attack and estimated that several people were killed.</div>
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A bomb blast at a bus station in Azare killed at least five people on October 23, with many in the city pointing the finger at Boko Haram, which is waging a five-year uprising against the Nigerian state.</div>
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The bus station is just 100 metres (330 feet) from the cash machine.</div>
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An official at the depot, who asked to remain anonymous, said he rushed down the road after hearing a “huge blast” and helped evacuate the victims from the scene to a hospital.</div>
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He also estimated that 10 people were killed and several others were injured.</div>
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Police in Bauchi did not answer calls and messages seeking comment.</div>
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Ishola Micheal, the spokesman for Bauchi’s Governor Isha Yuguda, said he was aware of an incident in Azare but declined to confirm any details.</div>
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Bauchi borders Yobe state, one of three northeast states under emergency rule since May of last year because of Boko Haram violence.</div>
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The area has been attacked repeatedly through the uprising, which is estimated to have killed more than 10,000 people.</div>
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Some violence in the north blamed on Boko Haram has been the work of separate criminal groups.</div>
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While there was no immediate claim of responsibility, the targeted bombing in Azare resembled scores of other Boko Haram attacks.</div>
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He soon began to threaten me with a knife to have sex with him and when I refused, he brought out his gun, warning that he would kill me if I shouted.</div>
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“Then he began to rape me every night … I had never had sex before; it was very painful and I cried bitterly because I was bleeding afterwards.”</div>
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These were the words of a 15-year-old girl, who was abducted by Boko Haram and forcibly married to one of its commanders in a camp in the Sambisa Forest, Borno State.</div>
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The girl, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, was abducted in 2013 but she escaped after four weeks in captivity.</div>
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The teenager is one of the five girls that personally recounted their ordeals in the publication which was made public on Monday. She said that after her marriage to the commander who was in his early 30s, she was ordered to live with him in cave.</div>
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The experiences of three others who suffered sexual violence were narrated by witnesses in the 63-page HRW report titled, Those Terrible Weeks in Their Camp: Boko Haram Violence against Women and Girls in North-East Nigeria.’</div>
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The publication provides details of how hundreds of girls and women aged between 15 and 22 were being made to suffer other forms of abuses and used for ambushes.</div>
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The HRW said in the report that it spoke to 47 witnesses and victims, including some of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped from their hostel in April this year.</div>
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The group also described how some of the Christian abductees were ordered to convert to Islam or be executed.</div>
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It claimed that four of the eight sexual assaults it recorded occurred after the girls and women were forced to marry Boko Haram combatants.</div>
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According to the HRW, before “marriage,” the commanders appeared to make some efforts to protect the women and girls from sexual assault.</div>
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It said that in two cases, the insurgents took advantage of the absence of a commander and sexually abused abductees who had yet to be “married.”</div>
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An 18-year-old victim also described how an insurgent sexually abused her when she went to use the bathroom.</div>
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She said, “I did not know he followed me when I walked a short distance away from the tree under which we slept. He grabbed me from behind, roughly fondling me while trying to take off his pants. I screamed in fright and he hurriedly left me as I continued to shout for help.”</div>
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Another woman, who was raped in 2013 in one of the militants’ camps near Gwoza, described how a commander’s wife seemed to encourage the crime.</div>
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“I was lying down in the cave pretending to be ill because I did not want the marriage the commander planned to conduct for me with another insurgent on his return from the Sambisa camp. When the insurgent who had paid my dowry came in to force himself on me, the commander’s wife blocked the cave entrance and watched as the man raped me.”</div>
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Another woman aged 19, who was married and had children, described how she and one other woman were raped after having been abducted in April 2014.</div>
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She said, “When we arrived at the camp, they left us under a tree. I managed to sleep. I was exhausted and afraid. Late in the night, two insurgents woke me and another woman, saying their leader wanted to see us.</div>
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“We had no choice but to follow them; but as soon as we moved deep into the bush, one of them dragged me away, while his partner took the other woman to another direction.</div>
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“I guessed what they had in mind and I began to cry. I begged him, telling him I was a married woman. He ignored my pleas, flung me on the ground, and raped me. I could not tell anyone what happened, not even my husband.</div>
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“I still feel so ashamed and cheated. The other woman told me she was also raped but vowed never to speak of it as she was single and believes that news of her rape would foreclose her chances of marriage.”</div>
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The HRW had previously documented the widespread abuses carried out by the Nigerian security forces in responding to the attacks by Boko Haram.</div>
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However, the rights organisation asserted that few members of the security forces implicated in “serious violations of humanitarian and human rights law, including violations against girls and women, have been prosecuted.”</div>
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It advised that “to ensure accountability, Nigerian authorities should investigate and prosecute, based on international fair trial standards, those who committed serious crimes in violation of national and international laws during the conflict, including members of Boko Haram, security forces, and pro-government vigilante groups.”</div>
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The group said that “in addition, the government should provide adequate measures to protect schools and the right to education, and ensure access to medical and mental health services to victims of abduction and other violence.</div>
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“The government should also ensure that hospitals and clinics treating civilian victims are equipped with medical supplies to treat survivors of sexual and gender-based violence.”</div>
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Having served in the Nigeria Police Force for about 30 years, the plan of ASP Emmanuel Mbilla was to retire in 2018 after which he would set up his own private security firm.</div>
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However, Emmanuel’s dream was cut short on February 22, 2014 after a life-changing encounter with a naval rating, Warrant officer Unaji Enejor, in the Kirikiri area of Lagos State.</div>
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<em>PUNCH Metro </em>learnt that the 50-year-old victim was attacked in the eye by the naval rating, causing him to lose his sight completely.</div>
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It was learnt that prior to the attack, Emmanuel’s left eye had already been damaged by Glaucoma.</div>
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The victim’s landlady, Mrs. Olasumbo Agunbiade, who witnessed the incident, told our correspondent that trouble started after Enejor drove recklessly and rammed into Emmanuel’s wife’s shop.</div>
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She said, “I am the landlady of the property at 25, Agunbiade Street, Kirikiri Town, Apapa. Emmanuel’s wife, Caroline, sells drinks right in front of the house. Around 3.30pm on February 22, Emmanuel and his wife were seated in front of the shop when a man in a red Honda car rammed into their shop.</div>
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“When Emmanuel accosted the driver, the man alighted from the vehicle and identified himself as a navy man and Emmanuel in turn, identified himself as a police officer. The man wanted to leave but Emmanuel told him that he could not leave without at least apologising and the navy man just used his car key to poke Emmanuel in the eye.</div>
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“Emmanuel fell to the floor and started screaming, ‘I have lost my sight’. When the navy man saw the severity of the injury he had inflicted on Emmanuel, he jumped into his car and sped off. However, as residents were chasing him, he drove into a gutter and we arrested him.”</div>
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Our correspondent learnt that as residents were attempting to take Enejor to the Kirikiri Police Station, two of his colleagues on a motorcycle, arrived the scene and started beating the residents in a bid to rescue their colleague.</div>
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It was learnt that a few minutes later, the crowd was able to overwhelm the navy men and the suspect was taken to the Kirikiri Police Division but was later released.</div>
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However, there was no respite for Emmanuel who was taken to about four hospitals where he was told that he may never see again.</div>
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A medical report issued by the Eye Foundation Hospital and signed by Dr. Olufemi Oderinlo, the Consultant Opthalmic surgeon/Vitereoretinal specialist on March 3, stated that the victim would need to be flown abroad for treatment for any hope of regaining his sight.</div>
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The report read in part, “At his (Emmanuel’s) first visit, visual acuity in the right eye was light perception with poor projection and no perception of light in the left eye. Examination of the ocular adnexae revealed severe lid oedema, moderate ptosis, severe sub-conjuctiva haemorrhage and chemosis with sustured multiple scleral lacerations.</div>
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“Anterior segment examination revealed a deep anterior chamber found with air, sutured cornea laceration and hyphema in the right eye.</div>
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“The prognosis for vision following retina attachment surgery was adjudged very poor and he was advised accordingly. He desires to seek a second opinion abroad.”</div>
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The victim’s older wife, Patience, told <em>PUNCH Metro </em>that life had been hard since her husband went blind.</div>
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Patience said her husband, who is attached to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba, required 24-hour monitoring and this had affected the family.</div>
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She called on well-meaning Nigerians and the government to come to their aid.</div>
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She said, “I am asking Nigerians, the government, and especially that of Abia State to come to our aid. We are asking Senator Uche Chukwumerije, who represents Abia-North, to help us. We have been seriously affected and we have spent so much on my husband’s treatment. Also, we are demanding for justice for my husband.</div>
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“The Commissioner of Police is aware of the matter. Nobody is above the law. My husband did not fight the navy man but is now completely blind as a result of a savage and brutal yet unprovoked attack. Unfortunately, he was released while my husband was still in the hospital.”</div>
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<em>PUNCH Metro</em> learnt that the assailant, who works at the Obisesan Naval Medical Centre as a radiographer, was released following a request letter signed by Captain J.N. Manman for the Beecroft Naval Base, Apapa.</div>
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In a request letter dated February 26, the navy requested that the errant rating be released as the matter was an “internal affair”.</div>
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Meanwhile, our correspondent learnt that the police had concluded investigations into the matter and sent the case file to the Directorate of Public Prosecutions.</div>
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The DPP, in its report, stated that Enejor, with number M4351, had a case to answer. However, the naval authorities have yet to hand him over to the police.</div>
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When contacted, the Information Officer, Western Naval Command, Lt. Commander, Abdulsalam Sani, said investigations into the matter had commenced.</div>
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He said, “A report was made by the Nigeria Police in February and a board of inquiry was set up to make its findings on the matter and the culpability of the person. If the person is culpable, he will be tried and an appropriate punishment will be given to him.”</div>
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Source: Punchnews.com</div>
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According to Pauw, author of Profit of Doom, an expose on Joshua’s church, the preacher once tried to bribe his entire television crew after he accompanied the late Blue Bulls lock Wium Basson to Lagos for healing. Basson died in April 2001 aged 25 and here’s Pauw’s <a href="http://www.citypress.co.za/news/inside-tb-joshuas-broken-temple/" style="-webkit-transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear; border: 0px; color: #0b14be; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">story</a>.</div>
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Ruben Kruger, a veteran of 36 tests in the green and gold, returned after a week in Nigeria and declared that a Pentecostal preacher he called the Prophet had healed his brain cancer. Temitope Balogun “TB” Joshua prayed for him in the Synagogue Church of All Nations compound while thousands of people sang, danced and wailed, Kruger said.</div>
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As Joshua bent over him and implored the demon to be gone from his body, Kruger felt <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="-webkit-transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear; border: 0px; color: #0b14be; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: background-color, color 0.2s linear; vertical-align: baseline;"></a>the tumour leaving him. He was cured, Joshua declared, handing him oil to rub on his head.</div>
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“I no longer have to drink my chemo pills,” Kruger said on his return. “You cannot describe the feeling to anyone who has not experienced it. It was an unbelievable – or should I say believable – experience.”</div>
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The floodgates opened and the Prophet’s newest converts were white, mostly Afrikaans and relatively conservative. They swopped the NG and Hervormde churches for a Nigerian “turn-or-burn” approach to redemption.</div>
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It took me some time to understand why the Afrikaner psyche found Joshua so irresistible. Why were they prepared to seek salvation in a country they perceived to be drowning in greed, political rot and economic decay? Christianity Nigerian-style was worlds apart from the chains and shackles of Calvinism. Joshua unchained them. He allowed them to worship with a gusto and fervour previously thought unseemly. That the new messiah was black and his church in Africa’s biggest and maddest metropolis only added to the allure.</div>
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A year or two after Kruger returned from Lagos, I made the same journey. On the plane was another Springbok rugby player, 25-year-old lock Wium Basson, who was dying of liver cancer. He was accompanied by his mother, Cloeté Geldenhuys, and had to get special permission from SAA to make the journey.</div>
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I was making a TV documentary and my challenge to Joshua was straightforward: allow me to film how you heal Basson. If you succeed, I promise I will show it to the world.</div>
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When we arrived at Joshua’s compound, the TV team and I were in effect incarcerated. For two weeks, we were forbidden to leave the grounds. We were told we could not drink or smoke, and had to attend services and events with the pilgrims.</div>
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While I stayed in a dormitory with other pilgrims, Wium and Cloeté set up camp in a private room. The church took away the young man’s morphine and pain pills.</div>
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During our first interview, a softly spoken, affable Joshua said it would be easy to heal Wium because he had nothing but a “little sore” on his liver. At Sunday sermons, the afflicted lined up with placards stating what condition they needed healed.</div>
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There were lines of people seeking a cure for HIV/Aids, cancer and heart conditions, business failures, wandering spouses and dull brains. A festive, almost joyous atmosphere filled the compound as churchgoers sang, clapped and danced. Evil spirits were cast out and those set free by the Prophet writhed in the dirt while vomiting out the demons. Joshua prayed for every person in the line and declared them all healed. He ordered them to stop using any medication and trust in God.</div>
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Among the pilgrims was Capetonian John Rindel, who was suffering from full-blown Aids and already had dementia. He had arrived at the church several weeks before we did, was prayed for by Joshua and declared completely healed. He had stopped taking his medicine and showed remarkable improvement. Scientists refer to this as the “placebo effect” of faith healing. A patient can experience genuine pain relief and other symptomatic alleviation after being prayed for. The relief is short-lived and the patient soon returns to his original condition.</div>
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The internet is filled with reports from organisations like the American Cancer Society and the British Medical Journal that found no evidence faith healing can cure physical ailments.</div>
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On my request, Rindel agreed to go for two independent HIV/Aids tests when he returned to South Africa. Both showed he was still positive. He died a short while later. The BBC recently investigated the London branch of the church and reported that three women had died after being “healed” and told to stop taking their HIV/Aids medication. I challenged the pilgrims to provide me with medical proof that they had been healed. None did. Ruben Kruger died in 2010 just before his 40th birthday.</div>
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Joshua never prayed for him. He said God had not sent him a message to do so. The young man left the church broken, disillusioned and at death’s door. He died a few days after returning to South Africa.</div>
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Before I left the church, Joshua handed me, and the camera and sound people, thick envelopes full of hundred dollar notes. He wanted to be sure we’d produce a positive programme. We gave the envelopes back.</div>
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A year or so after the programme aired – and generated a massive response from people who called us accusing Joshua of all sorts of misdeeds – the preacher produced a video of a 76-year-old South African man named Moses he said he’d brought back from the dead. Moses was among a group of South African pilgrims in Lagos when he had a heart attack in the dining room. Videos distributed around the world showed three pilgrims, one a doctor from Bloemfontein, trying to resuscitate Moses. They failed, the videos reported, and Moses was carried into another room. Joshua walked in, bent over him and commanded: “In the name of Jesus, rise!”</div>
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Moses opened his eyes. It later emerged that Moses had been both alive and breathing when he was carried from the dining hall. He’d been resuscitated, not resurrected, and clever editing created a fake miracle.</div>
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I understand the despair of terminally ill people and why they grasp at final straws. My father died of lung cancer and might well have made the journey to Lagos. I am just glad he is not here any more to become a victim of a ravenous tick that feasts on the blood of the ignorant, gullible and desperate.</div>
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Source: deccatech.comClemsdebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17296802113257672673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889448904341188306.post-85595941216344267292014-10-06T10:01:00.000-07:002014-10-06T10:01:01.780-07:00THE MOTHER-IN-LAW FROM HELL!<div class="p" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.5519990921021px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
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<strong>Umamazala wam ukhohla-kele.</strong></div>
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That means mamazala is evil, and these are the words that come from a makoti’s mouth.</div>
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And in many cases there is good reason for these words.</div>
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Mamazalas often make the lives of their daughters-in-law a living hell as they try and turn them into their personal slaves.</div>
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It’s one thing if they ask the makoti to help out with something here and there around the house, but it’s another to make her wake up at dawn to sweep the yard, make the tea, make the beds and do the washing for whole family as well.</div>
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Some mamazalas even go as far as insulting or disrespecting their makotis all the time.</div>
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Maybe the plan is to frustrate her and drive her out of her son’s life – and t hat’s simply evil!</div>
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These mothers-in-law carry out all sorts of tricks to push the makotis out of the way because they see them as the women who stole their sons.</div>
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Mamazalas are often worried sons will stop giving them money and – worst of all, stop visiting!</div>
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Please, mawe, let go! Your boy is now a man and he has to take care of his woman and their kids.</div>
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And, mamazala, difficult as it is, you must get used to the idea that the poor makoti didn’t steal your son away from you – he went willingly!</div>
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She loves him and he loves her. Yes, you might see her as the woman he will spend all his money on, but you have to stop competing with your daughter-in-law.</div>
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There is no competition. If it was a competition he would probably choose his woman over you.</div>
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I know that sounds cruel and you can claim that you carried him for nine months and raised him so that some other woman would want him but the fact remains, the makoti stole his heart.</div>
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Your baby-boy is now all grown up and has a woman in his life. Your evil ways will only push your son away and make your makoti hate you even more.</div>
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Get a life, mama! Accept the fact that your boy is a man. If you don’t, you’ll end up chasing him away and you will never see him and lose out on seeing your grandkids. Embrace your makoti, mama, ngiyaxela.</div>
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The groom hid his face in shame as she spoke.</div>
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These words from Thobile Cele (29) interrupted the wedding of Richard Cele (39) and his makhwapeni, Fikile Dube (29).</div>
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It happened in an open field in Umbilo Park, south of Durban on Saturday.</div>
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Fikile stood there in shock and guests got to their feet in disbelief. Thobile walked straight to the pastor and showed him a marriage certificate and a letter from Home Affairs, proving that she was married to Richard.</div>
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“Sorry, pastor, but this wedding is illegal and it can’t continue,” Thobile said.</div>
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“Richard can’t marry another woman while he has not divorced me.” There was chaos and a lot of noise as the pastor tried to calm down the situation.</div>
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“You stole Richard from Fikile and now you are crying that she has won Richard back,” shouted one woman.</div>
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A fight broke out as the bride’s relatives tried to attack Thobile and her two sisters. The pastor said it was up to Richard to decide whether the wedding should continue.</div>
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“The court process will take place later, so he must decide,” the pastor said. An embarrassed Richard announced that the wedding would go on.</div>
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“Thobile and I will get divorced,” he said. Fikile’s relatives chased Thobile away and the wedding continued.</div>
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Daily Sun was told that Richard used to go out with Fikile, until he dumped her to marry Thobile in 2012.</div>
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But late last year Fikile and Richard started seeing each other again, and allegedly planned to marry without Thobile knowing.</div>
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Thobile said she and Richard have a two-year-old baby boy and a house in Phoenix, north of Durban.<br />“Two weeks ago someone told me that Richard was going to marry this weekend,” Thobile said.</div>
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“I pretended I would be in Joburg, because I wanted to come and see for myself if he was really that heartless.”</div>
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Richard’s sister, Elsie Cele (35), said the family was only invited to the wedding on Friday.</div>
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Richard first denied that there was chaos at his wedding, and said he has already divorced Thobile.</div>
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“I sent her divorce papers but maybe the sheriff got delayed,” he said.</div>
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Advocate Sifiso Sithole of Sithole and Associates Attorneys told the People’s Paper that Richard’s marriage to Fikile is invalid.</div>
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“He should have waited for the divorce to finish before marrying his new wife,” Sifiso said.</div>
Clemsdebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17296802113257672673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889448904341188306.post-17521070657515743152014-10-06T03:45:00.000-07:002014-10-06T03:45:00.607-07:00Pastor, others hijack truck with N25m goods<br /><div class="story-featured-image" style="width: 368px;">
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The pastor(middle); and other suspects<br /><small><em> | credits: Photo: Olaleye Aluko</em></small></div>
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The
Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Adeniji Adele, Lagos, has arrested a
pastor, Peter Iyasele, and two others for allegedly hijacking a truck
with N25m worth of goods in the Ijora area of Lagos.</div>
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PUNCH Metro learnt that while the two
other suspects ─ Anthony Ibiade and Amas Debar ─ were arrested in Ijora,
the 56-year-old clergy was arrested in Igando, Lagos.</div>
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Our correspondent gathered from the
police that the hijacked truck, which contained 25 heavy duty outdoor
airconditioners, belonging to a company based in Apapa, Lagos.</div>
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According to the police, the market value of the heavy duty air conditioners is about N25m.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<em>PUNCH Metro</em> gathered that the
suspects were arrested after information got to DCP Chris Ejike. He
subsequently directed his men to trail the suspects who were on the move
to sell the products.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Our correspondent learnt that after the
truck, which was initially heading for Ikeja, was hijacked by the
suspects, the airconditioners were taken to a warehouse in Ibadan, Oyo
State.</div>
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However, after the police swooped on the
suspects, 22 units of the products were recovered, while one had been
vandalised. The remaining two were said to have been sold.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
It was gathered that two members of the
syndicate ─ Oliver and another whose name had yet to be known ─ were
still at large and were believed to have sold the two air conditioners.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The police said the suspects were experts
in hijacking and diverting trucks containing electronic appliances and
other household items.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
In his statement to the police, the
pastor said he was working as a transporter before he took to hijacking
trucks. He added that the new job was to “source for funds to sustain my
church.”</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Iyasele, an indigene of Edo State, said
in his statement that he heard a call from God, but there was no money
to pursue it. Hence, he had to source for funds to be able “to survive
in the ministry”.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<em>PUNCH Metro</em> gathered that
38-year-old Debar and Ibiade, 53, were the first to be arrested by the
police before they led detectives to the pastor.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Our correspondent learnt that Iyasele’s church is situated along the Lagos-Badagry Expressway.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Ibiade, in his own statement, confessed
to the police that he was the one who arranged for the driver who took
the hijacked truck from Lagos to the warehouse in Ibadan.</div>
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A source at the Federal SARS told <em>PUNCH Metro </em>that the suspects, who were apprehended on Wednesday, September 10, had been charged to court.</div>
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Source: PUNCH.COM </div>
Clemsdebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17296802113257672673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889448904341188306.post-12399932647648356742014-10-06T03:41:00.000-07:002014-10-06T03:41:12.775-07:00Army extends travel ban on embattled Borno, Yobe<br /><div class="story-featured-image" style="width: 368px;">
<img alt="Ekiti State Governor-elect, Ayo Fayose" class="attachment-bigstoryimage" height="225" src="http://www.punchng.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Fayose-360x225.jpg" width="360" /><div class="featured-image-caption">
Ekiti State Governor-elect, Ayo Fayose</div>
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Two
Senior Advocates of Nigeria- Norrisom Quakers and M.J. Onigbanjo- have
dragged the Peoples Democratic Party and Ekiti State-governor-elect,
Ayodele Fayose, to the National Human Rights Commission over alleged
violation of their rights to practise as lawyers.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
In a petition dated September 29 and
jointly signed by them, they claimed that the September 22 and 25
attacks on the Ekiti High Court by some suspected political thugs
constituted threats to their lives.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Quakers and Onigbanjo, who are the
lawyers to the litigants challenging Fayose’s eligibility to contest
in the June 21 governorship election, addressed their petition to the
Executive Secretary of the NHRC, Prof. Bem Angwe.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The National Judicial Council had at its
emergency meeting on September 16 asked the Inspector-General of Police,
Suleiman Abbah,to investigate the attacks on the court and prosecute
those behind it.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The Nigerian Bar Association had also
said it would send an investigative team to the state to unravel those
behind the incident and bring them to justice.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
In their petition, Quakers and
Onigbanjo urged the rights commission to use its wherewithal to
investigate the attacks on the court.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
They said the NHRC should unearth “those
behind this shameful display of banditry and gross violation of human
rights with a view to prosecuting and bringing them to justice.”</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The petitioners accused the PDP of
organising the political thugs that invaded the high court premises on
September 22 and attacked Justice Olusegun Ogunyemi.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The attackers reportedly regrouped on September 25 to disrupt the hearing of a petition challenging the election of Fayose.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Quakers and Onigbanjo described the
September 22 incident as “barbaric and barefaced violation of the
constitutionally guaranteed rights of the claimants (litigants),
claimants’ counsel, the judge and other officers of the court by thugs
who were organised by the PDP.”</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Part of the petition reads, “We are
therefore apprehensive for our safety and that of our legal team’s
lives, the dignity of our human persons, our right to practise our
profession and our clients’ rights as citizens of Nigeria to seek
redress in the court of law.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
“All the foregoing rights mentioned
above clearly violated by the instigated mob, whose objectives
included ensuring that the court did not deliver its scheduled ruling at
12 noon and or conduct any other business thereafter and to bully,
intimidate and instill fear in the court in an attempt to obstruct
justice to the point where the court would be too apprehensive to
subsequently hear the case prior to the swearing in of Fayose on
October 16,2014.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
“Should this unfortunate display of
desecration of the hallowed temple of justice which is supposed to the
last hope of the common man be allowed to persist unprosecuted, we all
would be recorded for posterity as the people who sat with arms folded
while miscreants and hooligans took over and controlled the
administration of justice and overall balance of the society.”</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<strong>PDP writes CJN over Ekiti crisis</strong></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Meanwhile, the PDP in Ekiti State has
accused the Chief Judge, Justice Ayodeji Daramola, of plotting with
Governor Kayode Fayemi to stop the inauguration of Fayose.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The party made the allegation in a letter to the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mariam Aloma-Mukhtar.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The letter titled, “Another judicial coup
plotted to avert the swearing in of the governor-elect of Ekiti State,”
was signed by the state Secretary of the PDP, Dr. Tope Aluko and
the Publicity Secretary, Kola Oluwawole.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
But Fayemi described the allegation as
another tissue of lies by the PDP.He therefore challenged the PDP in
the state to prove its allegation.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
In the letter the PDP claimed that it
was aware of plans by Daramola to give accelerated hearing to some
suits challenging the eligibility of Fayose for the June 21 governorship
election despite the notice of appeal and the stay of proceedings filed
in respect of the suits.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Fayose had challenged the assumption of
jurisdiction by Justice Olusegun Ogunyemi of an Ado-Ekiti High Court on
the matter. He also sought a stay of proceedings on the hearing of the
substantive suit.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The letter to the CJN read, “On
September 28, 2014, the governor-elect of Ekiti State personally wrote a
letter to you, raising fears about the attempts of the CJ of Ekiti
State to frustrate his inauguration.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
“This was done in view of Section 185 (2)
of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), which empowers only the CJ of
Ekiti State to inaugurate the governor-elect as the new governor of the
state, as Ekiti State presently has no Grand Khadi of the Sharia Court
of Appeal, or the President of the Customary Court of Appeal that can
perform similar function, in case the Chief Judge decline to do so.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
“To our knowledge, you are yet to react
to that letter. Meanwhile, we are authoritatively informed of another
desperate move to obtain a “black market injunction” from an Ekiti State
High Court, restraining the CJ from inaugurating the governor-elect
on October 16, 2014.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
“Our source authoritatively informed us
that the E-11 case in suits HAD/51/2014 and HAD/52/2014 are to be
given accelerated hearing between Wednesday, 8/10/14 and Friday,
10/10/14, or thereabout, in a way that a “black market injunction” will
be secured to restrain the CJ from inaugurating the governor-elect,
after the court might have been re-opened following the NJC directive.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
“The outgoing governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, and Justice Daramola had finalised arrangement to actualise this diabolical plan.”</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The PDP therefore called on the CJN to
call Daramola to order and allow due process to be followed in all the
cases before his court.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
It said, “These two cases or any other
case that may be concocted are not time bound or perishable items that
injunction would be necessary to preserve ex-parte or otherwise, before
the swearing-in of the governor-elect on October 16,2014.’’</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
“The law allows appeal from one court of first instance to the Supreme Court. Why before the inauguaration?</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
“There is no doubt that this dangerous
game if allowed to germinate into fruition will cause a constitutional
crisis, and indeed, anarchy in the already volatile state.”</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
But the state Commissioner for Information, Tayo Ekundayo, said it was another lie by the PDP.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
He said, “We don’t control the judiciary.
The three arms of government have their role to play without
interference. I do not know how the governor will ask the CJ to scuttle
the inauguration. It is not in our character.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
“The PDP has been telling a lot of lies,
accusing us of so many things. There is nothing they have said in the
last three months that is true. It is just another of their lies. We are
not in any discussion with the CJ on how he runs the judiciary.”</div>
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Army extends travel ban on embattled Borno, Yobe</div>
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<span style="color: #262626;">Nigerian
army extended by 24 hours, yesterday a travel ban imposed on Borno, the
restive northeastern state worst hit by Boko Haram attacks.</span><br />
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Both
Borno and neighbouring Yobe state had on Friday imposed a travel ban
through the Muslim Eid holiday weekend to Monday to guard against Boko
Haram attacks.</div>
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But now the “embargo on all
vehicular movement in 7 Division area of responsibility has been
extended till 7.00am (0600 GMT) on Tuesday, 7th October, 2014,” said the
army statement, without giving further details.</div>
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The army’s 7 Division covers Borno and its surroundings.</div>
<div style="color: #262626;">
When
it announced the initial weekend travel ban, the military had said a
security report indicated that Boko Haram militants have made plans to
launch “multiple bomb explosions” in Maiduguri and other major towns in
the state during the Muslim festival.</div>
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They
planned to use motor vehicles, tri-cycles, among others, and their
main targets include Muslim praying grounds, markets and other public
places, the army said.</div>
The two states and Adamawa have been under a
state of emergency since May last year because of the Boko Haram
conflict and the Islamists have typically carried out strikes on Muslim
holidays.<br />
The militants are thought to be in control of more than
two dozen towns and villages in the northeast, but the military insists
that lost ground can be regained.<br />
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/10/army-extends-travel-ban-embattled-borno-yobe/#sthash.XdectTWO.dpuf</div>
Clemsdebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17296802113257672673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889448904341188306.post-68115043925604762852014-10-06T01:00:00.000-07:002014-10-06T01:00:15.479-07:005th October match United 2 Everton 1<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Manchester United head into the latest international break on
a high after second consecutive 2-1 home victory, secured against
Everton, a side that did the double over the Reds last season.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">New
boys Angel Di Maria and Radamel Falcao grabbed the goals to overcome
Steven Naismith's reply for the Merseysiders and David De Gea saved a
Leighton Baines penalty at the end of the first half in an entertaining
encounter.</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Reds were quickly on the front foot with Falcao's
diving header from a Luke Shaw cross well saved by Tim Howard and
another delivery from the left, by Di Maria, sent over the bar by Robin
van Persie.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The shots continued to rain in on goal from Daley
Blind, Falcao and Di Maria and the pressure told when the excellent
Rafael's cross was dealt with unconvincingly by Phil Jagielka. Juan Mata
pounced to intelligently roll an inviting ball into the path of Di
Maria and the Argentinian supplied an immaculate finish out of Howard's
reach.</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">September's Player of the Month was denied a second by
Howard's fine save when a free-kick flicked off the wall and headed for
the corner of the net as United remained in control. However, Rafael
needed to make a vital clearance from a corner and Romelu Lukaku escaped
Paddy McNair to flash a warning sign wide.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">There still appeared
to be no huge threat to the lead until deep into first-half stoppage
time when Shaw was adjudged to have fouled Tony Hibbert.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Source: Mutd.co </span></span></div>
Clemsdebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17296802113257672673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889448904341188306.post-27763571782802461122014-10-06T00:54:00.000-07:002014-10-06T00:54:00.305-07:00Why I walked out of my marriage — Ini Edo<div class="post-thumbnail">
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Why I walked out of my marriage — Ini Edo</h1>
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It is no more news that Nollywood diva and producer, Ini Edo’s marriage to her US-based <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD10">husband</span>,
Philip Ehiagwina, has crashed. The marriage was said to have crashed a
few weeks ago, but the couple decided to keep the news away from the
public.</div>
While the marriage lasted, there were reports that Ini Edo was not enjoying her marriage mainly because her husband did not reside in Nigeria.<br />
The stress of going over to the US <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2">to check</span> on her ex-husband was said to have contributed largely to the eventual break <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3">up the</span> marriage suffered.<br />
Ini
Edo, in an interview sometime ago, managed to keep her marital problems
away from the media and preying eyes, but apparently she could not <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD11">continue</span> to deny that things had gone bad with her marriage when news filtered into town that she had concluded plans to <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD12">break up</span> with <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD9">his husband</span> after marrying for five years.<br />
Since the news of the crashed marriage surfaced on major social media platforms during the week, there <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7">have been</span> accusations and counter accusations from Ini Edo and her husband, with one accussing another of infidelity and distrust.<br />
The confirmation of the break up
was rife during the week when Ini Edo decided to remove her husband’s
name from her social media accounts and also removed wife from her bio
on Instagram.<br />
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“A
close friend of the actress squealed that the marriage broke down due
to very strong allegations of ‘serial cheating with evidence’ but that
the couple who are pretending to still be in talking terms might cite
irreconcilable differences”.<br />
It will be recalled that weeks ago, Nollywood actor, Desmond Eliot was said to have posted on his <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4">Facebook</span> fan page ‘Pray for Ini Edo’. Some people alleged that the post may have angered the actress’s husband.<br />
Reacting to the news of the break up
on social media, the actress denied that her marriage ended because of
infidelity on her part. “I asked for a divorce from my ex-husband because of irreconcilable differences. I never cheated on my husband.
There is a conscious and malicious attempt at tarnishing my image. This
whole saga is familiar, let’s not forget the past. Thanks and God
bless”.Clemsdebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17296802113257672673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889448904341188306.post-62683111785404842922014-10-06T00:49:00.002-07:002014-10-06T00:49:55.691-07:00Ji-sung Park returns to Old Trafford<strong>Former Manchester United player to become Club Ambassador</strong><strong>Former Manchester United midfielder Ji-sung Park will make a return to the club as he takes up his post as Club Ambassador.</strong><br />
To
celebrate his appointment, Park will be invited to tread Old Trafford’s
hallowed turf once again, with former manager Sir Alex Ferguson
before kick-off at the team’s home fixture against Everton on Sunday 5
October.<br />
As part of his role, the highly decorated player will
attend various events and functions on behalf of the club, promoting the
work it does within the community and with its partners, sharing
anecdotes from his time at Old Trafford.<br />
Park played for United
for seven years, from 2005 to 2012, winning an array of accolades,
including four Premier League titles, three League Cups, one UEFA
Champions League and one FIFA Club World Cup.<br />
He is recognised as
the most decorated Asian footballer in history as well as the first
Asian player to have won the UEFA Champions League and the FIFA Club
World Cup.<br />
Speaking about his appointment, Ji-sung Park comments:<br />
"I have fond memories of my time at Manchester United and I am delighted and honoured to have become an ambassador for the club.<br />
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ABUJA. — Heavy fighting between troops of the Nigerian Military and heavily armed terrorists of the Boko Haram sect fighting to retain control of Gwoza town in Borno State, was on-going last night with Airforce attack helicopters providing air cover as the insurgents remained recalcitrant in the battle.</div>
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In fact, a top military source, who spoke to Vanguard last night, said the insurgents’ fire-power in being able to withstand the fire-power<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />of the military forces was a source of concern to the military command in the epicentre of the war on terror.<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />There were reports of casualties from both the military and the terrorists while the sheer number of the insurgents and the fact that<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />they were heavily armed prompted the ground troops to request for reinforcements from the air force to provide air bombardments.</div>
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Units of the 213 battalion Task Force and 234 Special Operations battalion both based in Mubi which attempted to retake Gwoza Township from Islamist militant Boko Haram were said to have retreated and sent signals for air support as a result of unrelenting gun fire from the insurgents.</div>
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While a source said using the word defeat of Nigerian soldiers fighting to retake Gwoza town from the grip of Boko Haram insurgents<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />was childish, he noted that the commanders on ground were only making strategies for more effective offensive.<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Reports from the battle-field had indicated that following three days of fighting over 100 civilians and several soldiers were killed</div>
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Vanguard gathered that some officers (names withheld) who led the attempt to recapture Gwoza and other towns from the terrorists were feared either dead or captured by the insurgents and their whereabouts was a source of concern to the military authorities.<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Vanguard was told that due to the worrisome terrain of the battle area, the terrorists were able to ambush some of the soldiers and<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />demobilise some of their equipment.</div>
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There were conflicting figures on the casualty figures on the part of soldiers killed, but it was not possible to get confirmation.<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Recall that the Nigerian military at the weekend recaptured Damboa town after Boko Haram overran the town and planted its flag.<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />As at the time of sending this report, Vanguard was expecting the Director of Defence Information, Maj General Chris Olukolade to reply a text questionnaire on the situation of the fighting in Gwoza.</div>
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Clemsdebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17296802113257672673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889448904341188306.post-75408975228903742552014-09-06T08:51:00.001-07:002014-09-06T08:51:18.170-07:00Flicks: Strange things are happening<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
These are not the best of times!. For Nigerians who are still in the World Cup, very weird and strange things are beginning to happen out here. Perhaps, the kicking out of the Super Eagles could as well be said to be responsible for men and women to get other ideas.</div>
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: Fans Arlete (L) and Vana pose with a Brazilian flag prior to the 2014 FIFA World Cup opening match Brazil vs Croatia in Heilbronn, Germany, on June 12, 2014. AFP PHOTO</div>
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Back home, most parents complain that moral standards have fallen with the open relationships of boys and girls, men and women. But, they are nothing to be compared with the brazen and weird things that happen in the open here.</div>
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Interestingly, these things happen right before the noses of enforcement agencies, Policia. Man and woman kissing for endless hours, woman and woman kissing and caressing, man and man kissing. It is strange to us, if not abominable. These are regular things especially in parks, trains, etc. It is irritating.</div>
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But it is their way of life here. The elderly are not left out. Anyway, a Nigerian who has been left in the cold since the beating of Super Eagles by France decided to explore the land and went downtown in search of the now famous ‘’body nobi wood”. At the beginning of the World Cup, prices of everything skyrocketed.</div>
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But with the defeats of many teams who have gone home, sanity is prevailing, even in the markets. It was based on this trend that made our man to go quench his appetite. He selected the most alluring, beautiful girl with the now famous Brazilian bum-bum with her Brazilian hair flowing down to her hips.</div>
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Language is not an inhibition to love. Seconds later, surprisingly, our guy ran back panting. He was totally washed out in shock, with his hand on his head while his heart-beat pounded like a faulty engine without oil. ‘’ Yepa! M’okuo” he exclaimed, still panting. ‘’Okunrin ni mogbe”, meaning ‘’it’s a man I carried”.</div>
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Glances exchanged. I burst into laughter. He did not take kindly to it. But it is a common thing to see pretty girls who you think are girls not knowing they have gone through the knife to become prettier women.</div>
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It could be embarrassing to go in with a woman and she begins to remove her plastic bum-bum and breasts for those who carry it or you end up realizing that the woman is a man(shemale) with her instrument of labour and production dangling. They have a name; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender, LGBT. A strange world, indeed! No place like home.</div>
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South American Correspondent<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />With all the offensive information emanating from home, one is even afraid to come home. Same home they say there is no place like. Home where my heart is. Imagine coming home to abandon my car because of the endless traffic on Mile 2 – Apapa road, at the risk of being chased like a common thief in the night, harassed in the day while other hapless people watch, grope in the night because of no electricity, no water; develop waist problem because of deep holes on the road; shout with the conductor to give me my change etc. I hear it is raining in Nigeria.</div>
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Oh rain! It brings pain to us. All these and many more hardships. What if I tell Eze Anaba and Mideno Bayagbon, Deputy Editor and Editor respectively of Vanguard to allow me become the Brazilian Correspondent in-charge of South American countries? It won’t be a bad idea. Vanguard is an international Newspaper of repute. After all, a reporter once asked to be made Vanguard’s correspondent in Japan.</div>
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Dead or alive?<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Thanks to all who have written, called to find out if all is well with me. Indeed, I am good and kicking in the land of 3S – Soccer, Sex and Samba. The (Whore) Cup is on while the fireworks at the different stadia are frightening at the real World Cup. The men are being separated from the weaklings, who go home with rehearsed excuses.</div>
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Many showed concern after a flyover collapsed on vehicles in the World Cup host city of Belo Horizonte, killing two people. The concrete and steel bridge, which was under construction, fell on the road on a busy highway. A commuter bus was crushed, killing the driver, along with two unoccupied trucks.</div>
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A body was also recovered from a car trapped beneath the rubble. The south-eastern Brazilian city is due to host a football World Cup semi-final match next week. Many called to find out if I was dead or alive! What if I told them I was dead? My parents, living and dead prayed that while it’s happening in front, I would be at the rear. And when it is happening from the rear, I would be at the front. That prayer is working. I Never knew many love and care for me. Thanks.</div>
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Anyway, some of those who showed concern were those I am owing. You must have heard of a man who was owed and on hearing of the death of his debtor wept uncontrollably saying ‘’he shouldn’t have died now”. When asked why he was saying that, he retorted ‘’don’t you know he is owing me N1,000 and promised to pay back next week. Oh, why did he die now”?</div>
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Clemsdebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17296802113257672673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889448904341188306.post-37263712530489238442014-09-06T08:42:00.003-07:002014-09-06T08:42:44.511-07:00Scientist invents ‘robot’ that kills Ebola virus<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
RECENTLY, in effort to eliminate Ebola at the source, through use of innovative disinfection technology, two “germ-killing robots” were deployed from the US to the JFK Hospital and ELWA Hospital both in Monrovia, Republic of Liberia, both hotspots of the Ebola disease outbreak.</div>
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The robots, technically known as TRU-D SmartUVC, were used to disinfect health care environments where Ebola patients are being treated. Good Health Weekly gathered that TRU-D is the only portable UV disinfection device on the market with Sensor360 technology, which calculates the time needed to react to room variables such as size, geometry, surface reflectivity and the amount and location of equipment in the room and effectively deliver a lethal dose of UV-C light during a single cycle from a single, central location in the room.</div>
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Ultraviolet light<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />“It works by generating ultraviolet light energy that modifies the DNA structure of viral pathogens, like Ebola, so that they cannot reproduce. Viruses that cannot reproduce cannot colonise and harm patients,” the inventor, a tropical disease expert and medical anthropologist Dr. Jeffery L. Deal noted in an interview.</div>
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Deal and his colleague, Chuck Dunn, President and CEO of TRU-D LLC, respectively, spoke about the importance of TRU-D to environmental disinfection in</div>
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“TRU-D has been validated by more than 10 studies to be 99.99 percent effective in eliminating the most common pathogens that can use health care-associated infections.</div>
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After deploying germ-killing robots to Liberia to aid in battle against the Ebola Virus Disease, TRU-D SmartUVC inventor traveled to the Ebola hotspots with UV disinfection devices</div>
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TRU-D guarantees a pathogen-free environment for patients and health care staff. Deal, a Fellow in the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, has been training hospital staff to operate the devices in a number of hospital environments and monitor progress for successful disinfection.</div>
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“We developed TRU-D SmartUVC technology to combat the devastating effects ofhospital acquired infections,” Deal said.</div>
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“Unlike many diseases, Ebola strikes hospital workers more than any other group, making it the ultimate hospital acquired infection.”</div>
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With TRU-D, health care leaders in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Saudi Arabia are eliminating pathogens like Ebola, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, MERS, influenza, norovirus, Clostridium difficile, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, MRSA, etc., in all types of health care settings, including isolation wards, patient rooms, operating rooms, surgical suites, intensive care units, emergency rooms, public areas and ambulances.</div>
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“We know through extensive CDC-funded research specific to TRU-D conducted by thought leaders in epidemiology and infection prevention that TRU-D is effective at eliminating anypathogen by delivering a precisely measured UVC dose.</div>
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“As soon as we knew we could aid struggling hospitals in Liberia, our team came together and formulated a plan to get TRU-D on the ground. More than 200 TRU-Ds have been deployed to disinfect hospitals across the U.S. and internationally.</div>
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Significance<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Between 10 and 15 percent of Ebola cases have been among health care workers. While most of this stems from contact with the patient, concerns exist that the physical environment can retain active microbes and be a risk. This device is used in the US to eliminate the organisms that may still reside on the walls, knobs, rails or any other exposed surface in health care settings. The robotic technology is capable of making the Liberian hospitals safer for the staff and for new patients.</div>
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Development<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />It was developed by a team of engineers, physicians and industrial hygienists with the purpose of decontaminating entire rooms automatically and eliminating concerns that a contaminated surface was missed during routine cleaning.<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />We use an ultra-efficient narrow wavelength called UVC to flood the room with germicidal energy. UVC dosage is accurately measured and automatically adapts to kill organisms, even in shadowed areas.</div>
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UV disinfection technology and EVD control<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />This technology is designed to prevent the spread of the disease transmitted via contaminated surfaces in health care environments and is not a treatment or a cure. We believe that prevention is the best medicine.</div>
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The U.S. Army tested this particular wavelength against Ebola and found that the measured dose TRU-D delivers results in incredibly rapid destruction of the virus with its pathogen-specific dosing options.. We know it is perfect for use in this critical setting.</div>
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LONDON (AFP) – Wayne Rooney admits England can’t afford a slow start to their Euro 2016 qualifying campaign against Switzerland on Monday.</div>
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Roy Hodgson’s team head to Basel desperately in need of a strong performance and result to erase the bitter taste of their miserable World Cup campaign.</div>
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The road to the Euros in France starts with a potentially tricky clash with the Swiss, who are likely to be England’s only serious rivals to win Group E.</div>
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Switzerland — who only lost to an Angel di Maria goal for Argentina in the dying minutes of extra-time of their last 16 World Cup clash — are ranked ninth in the world and are the bookmakers favourites to win Monday’s encounter at St Jakob-Park against an England team still suffering from a World Cup hangover.</div>
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After a lacklustre 1-0 friendly win over Norway in midweek was greeted with criticism, England boss Hodgson cut a tetchy figure as he swore at reporters who questioned his team’s lack of shots on target.</div>
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Against that depressing backdrop, England captain Rooney knows his side can’t afford to let the post-World Cup negativity linger any longer.</div>
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“It is important to start the qualifying campaign off with a good result,” Rooney said.</div>
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“It is important to try and win the game, but I think not to get beat and give Switzerland the upper hand from the first game is vital.”</div>
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The English public’s apathy in the wake of the World Cup was highlighted by the fact Wednesday’s friendly against Norway attracted Wembley’s lowest crowd for an international since the stadium’s opening in 2007.</div>
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To make matters worse, the 40,181 that did turn up were hardly wowed as England’s display lacked inspiration and quality.</div>
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However, Manchester United striker Rooney is confident that good times are around the corner, pointing to the spirit and excitement brought by the performance in the World Cup opener against Italy, even if the game in Manaus ended in defeat.</div>
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“It’s exciting times,” he said. “The Italy and Uruguay games were disappointing results, but I thought we did well in both games.</div>
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“It could have gone either way, but we lost and we’re out. We played some great attacking football.</div>
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“The lads who were at that tournament have gained vital experience from the tournament.”</div>
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By Kingsley Omonobi (With agency reports)<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Nigerian warplanes are carrying out air strikes against Boko Haram militant bases at Bama, Borno State, a senior official said yesterday, in a government counter-attack against Boko Haram’s drive to create an Islamist enclave.</div>
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The official, who asked not to be named, told Reuters Nigeria’s military was battling Boko Haram fighters at Bama, 70 km (45 miles) southeast of the Borno state capital Maiduguri.<a href="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/05/boko-haram-armed-forces-police-handicapped/army-jonathan/" rel="attachment wp-att-447904" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.2s linear, border-top-color; border: 0px; color: #0a67b3; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color 0.2s linear, border-top-color; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Army-Jonathan" class="alignright size-full wp-image-447904" height="250" src="http://dvsl3w2q45hb8.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Army-Jonathan.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow; border: none; display: inline; float: right; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow;" width="412" /></a></div>
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Air strikes have been carried out “on all the Boko Haram bases”, the official said, adding this reflected President Goodluck Jonathan’s order for a “fully-fledged war” against the group which has waged a bloody insurgency since 2009.</div>
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“Bama today is the centre of the military battle with the terrorists … Boko Haram is being repelled by the Nigerian troops as we are talking now,” the government official said, without giving details of the operations or casualties.</div>
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The battle over Bama, and Boko Haram’s storming of towns and villages to the north, east and south of Maiduguri in recent weeks, has raised fears of an attack on the Borno state capital, prompting hundreds of civilians to flee.</div>
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“Even today, we can see so many people leaving … the buses are going out plenty now,” Musa Sumail, a human rights activist in Maiduguri who reports on the violence in the northeast, told Reuters. He said he had seen at least one or two Nigerian government fighter jets in the skies above Maiduguri.</div>
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Indeed, the Defence Headquarters said the armed forces will do everything to defend the nation’s sovereignty.</div>
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In a statement by Major General Chris Olukolade, Director of Defence Information said, the armed forces said: “DHQ wishes to reiterate the pledge and commitment it made while briefing the Joint Committee on Defence of the National Assembly to the effect that everything will be done to reverse the situation and defeat the rampaging terrorists.</div>
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“While welcoming all the concerns shown by Nigerians and a section of the international community following the increased menace and activities of terrorists, it is necessary to reassure all that the Nigerian Armed Forces is more than ever determined and committed to the defence of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Nigeria, regardless of any odd.</div>
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“It is not only the pride and reputation of the military that is at stake but that of the entire nation. We therefore urge our citizens not to lose hope or be disenchanted but to remain steadfast and supportive of the military as all steps are being taken to ensure the success of the counter-insurgency operations, especially at this crucial time when our sovereignty is being challenged.</div>
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“With this in mind, it is important to reiterate that the Nigerian military is fully conscious of its obligations to the Nigerian state and remains willing and ready to perform its duties with utmost diligence. Therefore, what the military requires at this critical period in the nation’s history is not pillories but continued support from all stakeholders and comity of nations.</div>
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“Indeed, this is not the time to despair or shift blames. Rather it calls for concerted effort by all and sundry to stop the agents of darkness who seek to destroy our country and civilization. On its part, the Nigerian military as a fighting force, assures Nigerians once again that this battle will be won.”</div>
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Sharing this view, former Air Officer Commanding Logistics Command of the Nigerian Airforce, Air Vice Marshall Chris Marizu (rtd), yesterday, cautioned politicians against utterances that were capable of pitching the armed forces against the citizens they were supposed to protect noting that the military forces have killed 1200 Boko Haram insurgents in the battle for Bama, Borno State.</div>
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He spoke in the light of the current challenges in the counter-terrorism efforts in the North east which has understandably elicited a sense of apprehension among citizens and even foreign allies, as</div>
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He made the disclosure just as the President of Course 18 participants of the Nigeria Defence Academy, Air Commodore Olufemi Agbetuyi warned that it was high time the nation stopped mixing politics with security issues.</div>
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Speaking at the 18th regular course re-union in Abuja yesterday, AVM Marizu said, “People should know that some persons who have done so much for this country and the military institution cannot just be rubbished on the altar of politics.</div>
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“Some unscrupulous citizens of this country are using the advantages that they enjoy under democracy to malign the military with innuendos and statements without facts. All the things that Mr. Davies said for instance, there was nothing in it and no facts to buttress anything. The angle of aircraft for instance, was Ihejirika the Chief of Air Staff?</div>
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“It shows there are undemocratic elements working in tandem with outsiders trying to destroy this country. For instance, the last few days, the media has been awash with reports that Boko Haram has over-run Bama and taken over the city whereas, the reverse is the case. We have troops there and we are in touch on a daily basis” “The truth is that as at Tuesday, our soldiers had killed over 700 Boko Haram insurgents during the battle. The following day, another 500 terrorists were killed.</div>
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What is happening is not what is being reported in the newspapers and sometimes I wonder if the media are Nigerian media or what they seek to gain by running our soldiers down” In his contribution, Air Commodore Agbetuyi cautioned politicians in the country against trying to bring the name of the military into disrepute warning that doing so will amount bringing down the military. On allegation against General Azubuike Ihejirika, he said, “Some political elites do not understand what the man went through as COAS, the sleepless nights, the sacrifices General Ihejirika made for the country.</div>
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I recall how he was tackling the security challenge in the country and some Nigerians who do not understand or pretending not to, or some enemies of Nigeria said the army was killing people indiscriminately. The same people today are saying he sponsors Boko Haram. Does it make sense?”</div>
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Clemsdebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17296802113257672673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889448904341188306.post-91260205664559549562014-09-06T08:11:00.002-07:002014-09-06T08:11:59.136-07:00How Cameroun arrested, released Sheriff – Falana<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
By Olasunkanmi Akoni and Monsur Olowoopejo<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Lagos based human Rights Lawyer, Femi Falana, yesterday, revealed how Former Governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff was arrested in 2012 by the Cameroonian government for the crime committed by the deadly Boko Haram sect.</div>
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Meantime, ahead of the 2015 election, former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Professor Tam David-West, Professor Akin Oyebode and Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, have, unanimously, urged Nigerians to wake up from their slumber and use the next year’s election to bring relief to their unwholesome circumstances.</div>
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Falana and other eminent personalities spoke at the 5th Gani Fawehinmi Memorial Lecture, titled; ‘State of the Nation and 2015 general elections: Issues, posers and challenges before us, held in Lagos.</div>
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“In October 2012, Sheriff was arrested in Cameroun on crime committed by the Boko Haram he sponsored. The state government pleaded with the Camerounian government to release him because he is a well known man here and he cannot be arrested.” Falana stated.</div>
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The Lagos based lawyer said that the former governor was not sincere in his relationship with the Boko Haram sect in the country.</div>
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He however, asked Sheriff to sue him rather than planning to seek redress in court by suing the Australian negotiator, Dr. Stephen Davies, even as he reaffirmed that Sheriff sponsored of the Boko Haram activities.</div>
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This came few days after Sheriff said he would seek redress in court by suing the Australian negotiator, Dr. Stephen Davies, who recently fingered him as one of the sponsors of the Boko Haram insurgency. According to Falana, “I am expecting Senator Ali Madu Sheriff to sue me. I heard that he wanted to sue an Australian (Dr. Steven Davies). He doesn’t need that. He should sue me. I am waiting for him to sue me. Not only did he fund that organization (Boko Haram), he also had a deal with them.” He noted that Sheriff cannot denial all the allegations made against him, saying. “In 2003, he had a deal with the Boko Haram leaders to help him win the election and that if he wins his re-election, he will compensate the organization.</div>
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\When he won the election, he appointed one of them as Commissioner for Religious Affairs to implement Sharia in that state.”</div>
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He however, accused the Federal Government of shielding certain facts from its citizens.</div>
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Falana said “The Federal Government is yet to react to the statement by Dr. Stephen Davies against Sheriff. I expect the central government to have made its position known on the issue.”</div>
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The lawyer therefore, called for concerted effort to tackle the menace of Boko Haram, saying, “People’s Democratic Party, PDP and All Progressives Congress, APC should stop politicizing the Boko Haram issue but what is important is unity to tackle the menace”</div>
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In his remarks, David-West lamented the nefarious activities of Boko Haram sect in the country, saying, “We do not have a nation. If we have a nation, the problem confronting the country will have been resolved earlier than now.”</div>
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He added, “In fact, we are not at crossroad but we have missed the road. There is no road at the moment for the country to attain greatness.”</div>
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Explaining the reason for the longevity of the challenges facing the country, David-West said, “What do you expect from a country ruled by a Ph.d holder who said that 16 is greater than 19. The country when the president budget N1 billion for food in a year and cannot pay N18, 000 minimum wage. Daily I have begun to lose faith in our election and leadership.</div>
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ON 2015 ELECTION</div>
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David -West dispelled the claim that the country will fail to exist after 2015 election, saying, “we will not break in 2015.”</div>
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But he said “The citizens need to wake up from their slumber. We are too complacent and this was the reason why the current public office holders take the citizens for granted.</div>
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He continued; “Election affords citizens the opportunity to change government which they do not like. I do not believe in revolution but the citizens must go on the street to stop bad government. If 2015 election will be selection rather than election, Nigerians must rise up to stop it. It has to be election and not selection.”</div>
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Oyebode while delivering his lecture said the power to change any government resides in the citizens. “And this they can do through their vote.”.</div>
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According to him, “The 2015 election constitute yet another opportunity for Nigerians to see themselves as master in the political game rather than servants of the governing class.”</div>
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Source: Vanguard</div>
Clemsdebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17296802113257672673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889448904341188306.post-71356082108317252172014-08-28T01:21:00.000-07:002014-08-28T01:21:05.227-07:00PORT HARCOURT: Official Confirms Ebola Death<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-top: 9px; padding: 0px;">
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A highly placed official of the Rivers state Government has confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES that a suspected case of the Ebola Virus Disease has been detected in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital.<br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The official, who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to discuss the development with journalists, simply said, “Yes, there was a case of Ebola death. We are tracking everybody.”<br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Seventy people suspected to have had contact with the case have been tracked and quarantined, the official said.<br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The official spoke to this newspaper following reports that a doctor in the Rivers state capital had died from what appeared to be Ebola.<br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The Rivers state Commissioner for Information, Ibim Semenitari, could not be reached for comments last night as she was said to be outside the country.<br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The unnamed doctor, according to news website, Sahara Reporters, secretly treated a diplomat who had contact with Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American, who brought the virus to Nigeria.<br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The doctor reportedly died on Friday, while his wife had also taken ill and now quarantined in Port Harcourt.<br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The diplomat treated by the doctor is still alive, the report said.<br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The diplomat is believed to be among those who met Mr. Sawyer on his arrival in Lagos. He then flew to Port Harcourt where he took ill.<br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />He was treated at an unnamed hotel in the Rivers state capital, an official said.<br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The doctor’s hospital, Good Heart Hospital, as well as the hotel where he treated the diplomat, have been shut down, reports say.<br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />This development, if confirmed will be a big blow to Nigeria’s effort to contain the deadly virus.<br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />With only one case being treated in Lagos, the Minister of Health had declared Tuesday that Nigeria had succeeded in checkmating the spread of the virus in the country.<br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />“Ebola has been curtailed,” an excited Mr. Chukwu said with glee on Tuesday. “All 129 people under surveillance have completed the 21-day observation period and only a person is symptomatic and is being observed.”<br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />However on Wednesday, the minister became a bit measured in his celebration, downgrading his earlier message of euphoria to that of cautious optimism.<br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />He hinted that it was still early for Nigeria to claim to be free of the Ebola Virus Disease.<br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Mr. Chukwu said Nigeria was still at risk of the Ebola virus despite having only one confirmed case.<br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Saying the country had only succeeded in taming the virus, the minister said between one to three new cases might surface from people currently under surveillance.<br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />“I don’t want us to move from panic to euphoria which may be a problem,” the minister said. “Nigeria is doing well on containment, all the disease in Nigeria were all traced to Patrick Sawyer. We have not eliminated the disease because we still have a case we are managing which may have had a third party contact. As long as there is a case of ebola disease, Nigeria is still at risk. So we have done well on containment but the problem is not over.”<br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />He said Nigeria remained at risk of Ebola and that that would only change “when the very last case of Ebola virus disease under this current epidemic has gone”.<br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />“As we speak, there is a case we are still managing. And even that case we are still managing must also have had her own third degree contacts, many of whom are part of this number of people that are under surveillance. “So until we give a clean bill of health to every contact, we cannot even say we have eliminated the disease,” Mr. Chukwu said.<br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />It is not clear whether the minister had a hint of the development in Rivers when he spoke on Wednesday.<br style="border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div>
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Source: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/167383-rivers-official-confirms-suspected-ebola-death-in-port-harcourt.html</div>
Clemsdebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17296802113257672673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889448904341188306.post-67375827064296706972014-08-28T01:14:00.001-07:002014-08-28T01:14:56.878-07:00Boko Haram Militants Chasing Soldiers<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-top: 9px; padding: 0px;">
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Many Nigerians have expressed shock & anger after watching the dramatic take over of Gwoza town by Boko Haram extremists, all recorded by Boko Haram cameraman.</div>
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This video captured Nigerian Soldiers running on top of the hill, one of the soldiers fell down in his desperate bid to escape being killed.</div>
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Also, a very tired man with arms wearing a Nigerian Military Uniform was seen limping. These Soldiers from all account may have been killed by Boko Haram extremists.</div>
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While this drama was going on, the Nigerian honorable Minister of information was seen yesterday saying that no part of Nigeria has fallen into the hands of this terror group called -Boko Haram!</div>
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Boko Haram insurgents are actually fighting like trained soldiers. They have sophisticated fighting gears, above all, this deadly group appears more organized and well funded.</div>
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Who is actually providing them with these modern fighting weapons?</div>
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Nigerian Army must do more to flush Boko Haram out. Right now, Goodluck Jonathan and his advisers are grappling with fries!</div>
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Watch the video below.</div>
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Clemsdebesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17296802113257672673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889448904341188306.post-43073291651633819342014-08-26T04:59:00.000-07:002014-08-26T04:59:49.877-07:00Photos: GEJ leads other dignitaries to late Prof. Akunyili’s Requiem Mass - See more at: http://www.nollywoodmagazine.com/2014/08/photos-gej-leads-other-dignitaries-to-late-prof-akunyilis-requiem-mass.html?fb_action_ids=683309521738807&fb_action_types=news.publishes&fb_ref=pub-standard#sthash.XVHYeGsr.dpuf<br />
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Here are photos from the Requiem Mass at Pro-Cathedral Catholic Church, Garki Abuja held in honor of late Prof Dora Akunyili this morning. President Jonathan, Dame Patience Jonathan, many government officials and prominent personalities were in attendance. I screened grabbed from the TV so pardon the quality..:-). See more photos after the cut…</div>
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