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I recently notice this offensive mouth odour and I need your your advice on this. if I may ask, can STD cause this? kindly educate me on the causes and remedies..

Many Thanks in advance.

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Realfavour: Hi doc,i suddenly began to notice that my tongue colour is gradually becoming white instead of red,what could be d cause and what should i do? Plss i need ur help.

apmis: @ACM10: Grea work you are doing here. looking forward to lend a helping hand....

femijeffadeyemi: Hi doctor, I sometime feel itch ahcne pains on my stomach skin somtim up around d ribs almost, for 5yrs bck, and when am ill 'malaria' I feel it d most. I once went _ hospital, I was givin proton, smtm,vit. Bco ad antibiotic amoxin ad co. Pls dr, wot is d good medication to this. What is really responsible 4 ds, d name of ds infection

lokobam: Hi doc..which of d stds is more serious nxt to HIV/AIDS?

iceberg54: Hi doc, Pls i need ur help. I felt sick about 3months back. Symptoms were severe headache, feverish feeling, general weakness etc. I felt it was malaria so i took an antimalaria drug. 1 or 2 wks after that, it resurfaced so i went to do medical test(MP and Widal). MP was negative Widal was positive(Significant titre). So the doctor prescribed Augmentin. I used it and felt better. About a month ago, the same symptoms resurfaced. Went to do test. MP was negative, Widal was still positive but the doctor said it wasnt too significant. I was asked to take CIPROTAB which i did. 2wks ago, felt the same symptoms again. Went back to do the doctor. Was asked to do MP, Widal and Blood Culture or sensitivity(cant remember the exact name). MP was +1, widal was negative but i had to wait for 7days for the blood culture result. Doctor asked me to take an anti malaria pending the release of the other result. I took an antimalaria, felt okay for some days but symptoms resurfaced again last week thursday or fri. Blood culture result came out and this was the result "Gram positive cocci culture yielded growth of staph aureus after 2hrs of incubation at 37 degrees centigrade. resistant to augmentine. sensitive to gentamicin, offloxacin, levastat, cyprosan"

So doctor prescribed offloxacin which i completed yesterday. However am still feeling the same way(high body temp, body weakness, feverish feeling, headache etc)
Am so confused rite now. pls ur urgent response is required.
my email is icelander54@yahoo.com

Stevecares: Hello doctor. Am responding quite well on Hypertensive and palpitation medication(for two weeks now). My high blood pressure and bounding heart beat is gradually coming down. But often i have headache, change in vision sometimes, dizziness and weakness, stuffy nose(right nostril), cough sensation, feeling of tight or blocked sensation in my throat sometimes. Have complained about these to the doctor, but no satisfactory reply(a public hospital). I feel so helpless

femijeffadeyemi: Can jaundice liver disease be heal totaly? Is it transferable thru intercourse? Is it safe for someone to marry a lady with ds infection? What is its medicati
on. Tnks.

Cool83: Helo doc,i was treated of tb spine in 1999,but recently i started having severe pains at waist,i went to hospital,i did blood test(wider) i was told that i didnt have tb,but within me i feel like am stil havn it,the tb spine was detected through xray,and my new doctor(white man) didnt ask me to do xray.someone told me that someone might have tb and it will not be in the blood.i need your advise

Ovularia: [s]Obafemi Awolowo and Chinua Achebe’s tale of fantasy


Posted by: Femi Fani-Kayode Posted date: October 08, 2012

I am a historian and I have always believed that if we want to talk history, we must be dispassionate, objective and factual. We must take the emotion out of it and we must always tell the truth. The worst thing that anyone can do is to try to re-write history and indulge in historical revisionism. This is especially so when the person is a reverred figure and a literary icon. Sadly it is in the light of such historical revisionism that I view Professor Chinua Achebe’s assertion (which is reflected in his latest and highly celebrated book titled ‘’There Was A Country’) that Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the late and much-loved Leader of the Yoruba, was responsible for the genocide that the igbos suffered during the civil war. This claim is not only false but it is also, frankly speaking, utterly absurd. Not only is Professor Achebe indulging in perfidy, not only is he being utterly dishonest and disengenious but he is also turning history upside down and indulging in what I would describe as ethnic chauvinism.

I am one of those that has always had tremendous sympathy for the igbo cause during the civil war. I am also an admirer of Colonel Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu who stood up for his people when it mattered the most and when they were being slaughtered by rampaging mobs in the northern part of our country. At least 100,000 igbos were killed in those northern pogroms which took place before the civil war and which indeed led directly to it. This was not only an outrage but it was also a tragedy of monuemental proportions.Yet we must not allow our emotion or our sympathy for the suffering of the igbo at the hands of northern mobs before the war started to becloud our sense of reasoning as regards what actually happened during the prosecution of the war itself. It is important to set the record straight and not to be selective in our application and recollection of the facts when considering what actually led to the starvation of hundreds of thousands of igbo women, children and civilians during that war. And, unlike others, I do not deny the fact that hundreds of thousands were starved to death as a consequence of the blockade that was imposed on Biafra by the Nigerian Federal Government. To deny that this actually happened would a lie. It is a historical fact. Again I do not deny the fact that Awolowo publically defended the blockade and indeed told the world that it was perfectly legitimate for any government to impose such a blockade on the territory of their enemies in times of war. Awolowo said it, this is a matter of historical record and he was qouted in a number of British newspapers as having said so at the time. Yet he spoke nothing but the truth. And whether anyone likes to hear it or not he was absolutely right in what he said. Let me give you an example. During the Second World War a blockade was imposed on Germany, Japan and Italy by the Allied Forces and this was very effective. It weakened the Axis powers considerably and this was one of the reasons why the war ended at the time that it did. If there had been no blockade the Second World War would have gone on for considerably longer. In the case of the Nigerian civil war though the story did not stop at the fact that a blockade was imposed by the Federal Government which led to the suffering, starvation, pain, death and hardship of the civilian igbo population or that Awolowo defended it. That is only half the story.

There was a lot more to it and the fact that Achebe and most of our igbo brothers and sisters always conveniently forget to mention the other half of the story is something that causes some of us from outside igboland considerable concern and never ceases to amaze us. The bitter truth is that if anyone is to be blamed for the hundreds of thousands of igbos that died from starvation during the civil war it was not Chief Awolowo or even General Yakubu Gowon but rather it was Colonel Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu himself. I say this because it is a matter of public record and a historical fact that the Federal Government of Nigeria made a very generous offer to Ojukwu and the Biafrans to open a road corridor for food to be ferried to the igbos and to lessen the suffering of their civilian population. This was as a consequence of a deal that was brokered by the international community who were concerned about the suffering of the igbo civilian population and the death and hardship that the blockade was causing to them. Unfortunately Ojukwu turned this down flatly and instead insisted that the food should be flown into Biafra by air in the dead of the night. This was unacceptable to the Federal Government because it meant that the Biafrans could, and indeed would, have used such night flights to smuggle badly needed arms and ammunition into their country for usage by their soldiers. That was where the problem came from and that was the issue. Quite apart from that Ojukwu found it expedient and convenient to allow his people to starve to death and to broadcast it on television screens all over the world in order to attract sympathy for the igbo cause and for propaganda purposes. And this worked beautifully for him.

Ambassador Ralph Uweche, who was the Special Envoy to France for the Biafran Government during the civil war and who is the leader of Ohaeneze, the leading igbo political and socio-cultural organisation today, attested to this in his excellent book titled ‘’Reflections On The Nigerian Civil War’’. That book was factual and honest and I would urge people like Achebe to go and read it well. The self-serving role of Ojukwu and many of the Biafran intelligensia and elites and their insensitivity to the suffering of their own people during the course of the war was well enunciated in that book. The fact of the matter is that the starvation and suffering of hundreds of thousands of igbo men, women and children during the civil war was seen and used as a convenient tool of propaganda by Ojukwu and that is precisely why he rejected the offer of a food corridor by the Nigerian Government. When those that belong to the post civil war generation of the igbo are wondering who was responsible for the genocide and mass starvation of their forefathers during the war they must firstly look within themselves and point their fingers at their own past leaders and certainly not Awolowo or Gowon. The person that was solely responsible for that suffering, for that starvation and for those slow and painful deaths was none other than Colonel Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, the leader of Biafra, himself.

I have written many good things about Ojukwu on many occassions in the past and I stand by every word that I have ever said or written about him. In my view he was a man of courage and immense fortitude, he stood against the mass murder of his people in the north and he brought them home and created a safe haven for them in the east. For him, and indeed the whole of Biafra, the war was an attempt to exercise their legitimate right of self-determination and leave Nigeria due to the atrocities that they had been subjected to in the north. I cannot blame him or his people for that and frankly I have always admired his stand. However he was not infallible and he also made some terrible mistakes, just as all great leaders do from time to time. The fact that he rejected the Nigerian Federal Government’s offer of a food corridor was one of those terrible mistakes and this cost him and his people dearly. Professor Chinua Achebe surely ought to have reflected that in his book as well. When it comes to the Nigerian civil war there were no villains or angels. During that brutal conflict no less than two million Nigerians and Biafrans died and the yoruba who, unlike others, did not ever discriminate or attack any non-yorubas that lived in their in their territory before the civil war or carry out any coups or attempted coups, suffered at every point as well. For example prominent yoruba sons and daughters were killed on the night of the first igbo coup of January 1966 and again in the northern ‘’revenge’’ coup of July 1966. Many of our people were also killed in the north before the outbreak of the civil war and again in the mid-west and the east during the course and prosecution of the war itself. It was indeed the predominantly yoruba Third Marine Commando, under the command of General Benjamin Adekunle (the ‘’Black Scorpion”) and later General Olusegun Obasanjo, that not only liberated the mid-west and drove the Biafrans out of there but they also marched into igboland itself, occupied it, defeated the Biafran Army in battle, captured all their major towns and forced the igbo to surrender. Third Marine Commando was made up of yoruba soldiers and I can say without any fear of contradiction that we the yoruba therefore paid a terrible and heavy price as well during the war because many of our boys were killed on the war front by the Biafrans.

The sacrifice of these proud sons of the south-west that died in battle to keep Nigeria one must not be belittled, mocked or ignored. Clearly it was not only the igbo that suffered during the civil war. Neither does it auger well for the unity of our nation for Achebe and the igbo intelligensia that are hailing his self-serving book to caste aspertions on the character, role and noble intentions of the late and reverred Leader of the Yoruba, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, during the civil war. The man may have made one or two mistakes in the past like every other great leader and of course there was a deep and bitter political division in yorubaland itself just before the civil war started and throughout the early ‘60’s. Yet by no stretch of the imagination can Awolowo be described as an igbo-hating genocidal maniac and he most certainly did not delight in the starvation of millions of igbo men, women and children as Achebe has tried to suggest. My advice to this respected author is that he should leave Chief Awolowo alone and allow him to continue to rest in peace. This subtle attempt to denigrate the yoruba and their past leaders, to place a question mark on their noble and selfless role in the war and to belittle their efforts and sacrifice to keep Nigeria together as one will always be vigorously resisted by those of us that have the good fortune of still being alive and who are aware of the facts. We will not remain silent and allow anyone, no matter how respected or reverred, to re-write history. Simply put by writing this book and making some of these baseless and nonsensical assertions, Achebe was simply indulging in the greatest mendacity of Nigerian modern history and his crude distortion of the facts has no basis in reality or rationality. We must not mistake fiction and story telling for historical fact. The two are completely different. The truth is that Professor Chinua Achebe owes the Awolowo family and the yoruba people a big apology for his tale of pure fantasy.
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Katsumoto: What tribe would that be? Did I tell you my tribe or should I say ethnic group, race, etc?

1. Yes the video is doctored; why are we not surprised?

2. Please name one country that charges aid agencies for food distribution. In any case St. Jorre stated that agencies used the huge network of churches and schools. If so, what logistics was Ojukwu charging for?

3. Unfettered access to aid agencies bringing in free food after Biafra cried to the world that its children were starving to that. So the red cross and YMCA were spies?

4. He gave excuses for charging fees, whether you want to call it landing fees or logistical fees. Money was collected from aid agencies.

5. Yes, they wanted to discredit Ojukwu

Katsumoto: You just need to lay low sometimes. Are you watching a different video from the rest of us?

You have been demanding proof with regards to Biafra charging landing fees to charities. You refused to accept the names of the charities arguing ignorantly that you have never heard of charities such as YMCA.

In the video provided by Eko ile, one can hear Ojukwu justifying the collection of landing fees from charities who were bringing in free food for starving Biafrans. One can also hear Sir Hunt saying that the Biafrans wouldn't accept the aid without the landing fees. One can see how insensitive the Biafran high command were towards the people they were claiming to be protecting. Little wonder, Ojukwu took off in the middle of the night, taking the places of little girls that were being rescued, and killing a few girls in the ensuing drama.

ACM10: Just like I remarked in my previous post, I'm unsure if Awolowo had indigenization policy in mind when £20 policy was enforced. Awo woke up after £20 policy to discover that the economic backbone of his rival tribe has been broken. He decided to make a kill by promulgating indigenization policy knowing fully well that it will mostly benefit his kinsmen cos he's well aware that his kinsmen has displaced their rival tribe from the apex of the economic pyramid in the country. He made the time so short so that the easterners will not recover to fully participate in the indigenisation policy. Remember that it's been 12yrs since independence, so why the mad rush to nationalize foreign companies? Why wont a provision be made for the people who are still recovering from the war to participate in the process? Can you see that the policy was "opportunistic"? Though Awolowo may/may not have the policy in mind when he set out to reduce Igbo millionaires to £20 owners, but at the end of the day, he achieved his aim of fatally weakening his rival tribe, then displacing them for good from the upper echelon of the economic pyramid. So he killed two birds with one stone. So his policy can be labelled "subtle opportunistic conspiracy".

ACM10: I might not argue convincinly that the Indigenization/nationalization policy was a "deliberate conspiracy", but I can say that it is a "subtle opportunistic conspiracy". You might use "bad timing" to refer to the policy, but I choose "opportunism". Awolowo decided to kill two birds with one stone by enforcing the policy when his rival tribe was economically incapacitated. I can't say for sure that Awolowo had indigenisation policy in mind when he enacted the £20 policy. I will defend my use of "subtle opportunistic conspiracy" by starting with £20 policy.







1. The 20 pound policy was crafted in the context of the power struggles that wrecked our nation. These power struggles had, above all, an ETHNIC coloration, especially between the Hausa-Fulani, the Yoruba and the Igbo. That struggles were the reason, above all, why the Biafran war of brother against brother was fought in such an utterly barbaric and wicked way. When the war ended, the players did not change. They did not convert into saints overnight. Ethnic warlords merely pursued their Power agenda in different ways, using, for example, the 20 pound policy and the indigenization decree.







2. Biafra was NOT a Banana Republic. It may have lost the war, but it was not a lawless entity. It had a functional Government. It had functional institutions. It had an Economic and Monetary Framework. Above all, it had a Central Bank that issued and controlled legal tender. Before they announced the 20 pound policy, they DID ask people to deposit ALL the money -including Biafran Pounds, in banks, abi? This were now Nigerian Banks, not Biafran banks, remember? So they know how much money that was in circulation. Remember that they insisted on only exchanging the money in the banks deposited before the deadline.







3. Biafran currency was NOT printed inside Biafra. They were printed in Portugal and Switzerland. The same way that Nigeria prints Naira in France. Therefore there was no rogue money in circulation.



Biafran money was a SCARCE commodity in Biafra! Sometimes, Biafran Banks were closed for days on end , because, they had no Biafran cash to dispense. When they did open, they often had to ration withdrawals. Everybody knew this. The Economists on the Federal side knew this







4. Awolowo's argument that Biafran money will overwhelm the Nigerian economy does not hold water. When the war ended, the Nigerian nation acquired another 16 million citizens -who were already using some form of money. Its like the EU absorbing Greece or Turkey. You do a straightforward currency exchange, however determined. Is it rocket science ?? This fake difficulty was invented by Awolowo and his gangs to justify £20 policy.







5. At the end of the war, people DID expect Nigeria to exchange the Biafran Pound with the Nigerian Pound. Now, most people thought that the Feds would use some ridiculous exchange -something like 20 Biafran Pounds to one Nigerian Pound. Greedy and opportunistic speculators expected the Government to be wicked, but even they, they prepared to make a kill, and in anticipation of an exchange, they purchased Biafran Pounds at the rate of £50 Biafran Pounds to £1 Nigerian Pound. Guess what? Awolowo and his Economists broke the ALL the record and expectations - even the one set by uber-greedy speculators!!! They delivered a fiat 20 pound policy to the priviledged few who had bank accounts!!! Even the speculators went broke!







(to be continued)

Professor
Achebe had displayed his deep-rooted
hatred for Awolowo and the Yoruba race
with his comments.

baqina: Na wa ooo, this thing is still trending. Please let us forget this Biafra issue and move on with our lives..biko..enough is enough.

With all modesty and fairness, Achebe ought not to have made that statement, wat is wrong is wrong. He is an elder state man and of international repute for that matter, he (Achebe) can't make that statement and expect the people concerned not to talk despite the fact that Awolowo had cleared himself before he died. Why is Achebe saying all this after d death of Ojukwu and 45 yrs after d war?...haba.

ABEG...LET THE SLEEPING DOG LIES...#my2cents.

Eko Ile: Oloshi, think next time before you challenge people for proof because you might get that proof and not like it.


The idiot is not even talking about the proof he asked for, instead he's mad and upset that somebody called his bluff and provided the proof. Your village warlord denied your people food for money to go fcukkkkk ashawo in Ivory coast. It's in the video and he did not deny it...dumb sheeps..


Typical son of old aas.....ss ibo disgruntled and Zero nobel winning ashebe the failure ibo logic..lmao

ndo

Keep it up, while I run and escape to Ivory Coast:= Ojukwu..

Awake9ja: @Acm
any human bein wit conscience will be wit tears after reading your post on baifran war.i hope ibos learnt their lessons.

it keep me wondering why yorubas keep moving via destructive route. you dont remind a war victim how you decimated him.

even northerners does not recount the war to ibos only yorubas does it on daily bases.i hope the yorubas knew the seed they are sowing.

yes every war victim will remind himself about his war looses. ie: china. they keep talking about japanese invasion while japanese keep mute. that is the way.

but yorubas wit loud mouth speaks more than us the beltans who fought the war.

yorubas s learn before it is too late

Awake9ja: eko ile pls becareful you are completely doing the yorubas a big hurt unknowingly.

you dont make jest of your victims else you will become one very soon. ask hitler

nl yorubas maybe few pple but wat may come tru ds nonsense you guys are posting might be too damaging to your tribe. pls lock your mouths on this war issue.

the yorubas did not fight the war alone. the ibos also complain about us and we keep mute pls be warn.

do you guys think that Achebe only write about awo in the said book. others involve are not challenging anytin. why you?

no possition is permanent wat if tins changes tomoro and you be on the mercy of ibos do u not tink how they respond. ask the british had they know future if they will ever fought america in the time past.

an advice from a neutral person

Eko Ile: Olodo son of disgruntled and hate filled ashebe.....



Here is your proof...fast forward to 2:22. Ojuku spoke after and he did not deny it..



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSqhqP3U-t4&playnext=1&list=PL673224D81863E03C&feature=results_video


The clown said don't bring food for my people to eat unless you pay landing fee. It's even sad listening to the fool saying the fee was for currency change and some idiotic nonsense while his people are dying. What a scum bag...


Keep up the good work, I'm running off to Ivory coast.:- Ojukwu.

Eko Ile: Olodo son of disgruntled and hate filled ashebe.....



Here is your proof...fast forward to 2:22. Ojuku spoke after and he did not deny it..



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSqhqP3U-t4&playnext=1&list=PL673224D81863E03C&feature=results_video


The clown said don't bring food for my people to eat unless you pay landing fee. It's even sad listening to the fool saying the fee was for currency change and some idiotic nonsense while his people are dying. What a scum bag...


Keep up the good work, I'm running off to Ivory coast.:- Ojukwu.

ekt_bear: Is currency backed by a defunct government (the Biafran government) legal tender after said government has surrendered and ceased to exist

ekt_bear: Brainless fellow! Economists do NOTTTTTTT determine market movements! People do! Traders, people buying and selling, etc.

The market determines the price of goods, not economists.

Are you so stupid that you don't get this point, despite me having said it over and over?

Did you not pick up my sarcasm with the village economist jibes, that no such formula exists?

If an economist comes up with a formula saying that oil should be sold at $95.00 tomorrow but I can find someone willing to pay more, do you think I will listen to that economist, or the buyer I have found?

You are the scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz...a man without a brain.

ekt_bear: This is getting sad now. I am feeling bad for you.

Suppose that there are 10 million Nigerian pounds in total.



Suppose that there are 5 million Biafran pounds in total.



Suppose Awolowo had said, "Let me do 1:1 exchange rate between Nigerian pound and Biafran pound."



As this post argues (https://www.nairaland.com/1068292/own-words-how-awolowo-defended/1#12484779), Biafran pounds were worthless.



Isn't it clear that this would decrease the value of Nigerian pounds, and cause inflation?



There is no difference between this and Awolowo deciding to print out 5 million more Nigerian pounds.



It would also be a massive transfer of wealth from Nigeria to Biafrans.



This is elementary and obvious. Awolowo recognized it, and probably most high school students would also recognize it too.

ekt_bear: So, kindly explain how macroeconomics can be used to set the price of currency. And while you are at it, also use it to explain how it can be used to set the price of potatoes.

ekt_bear: Macroeconomics cannot be used to set the price of a currency. That is my point.

No. My point is, "value" is possibly vague. I may value my car more than the street price actually is. Or the watch that say an ex-girlfriend bought for me for at $50, perhaps i value it at $500 myself...or view it as priceless. But we can make things precise in the way I said.

1. The Biafran pound was the currency of a state which declared independence and then capitulated. Given that the currency wasn't accepted or recognized anywhere aside from Biafra while the country was alive, it certainly wasn't accepted or recognized anywhere after surrender.

2. Given this, temporarily ignoring any settlement by the Nigerian government, the demand for the Biafran pound was zero.

3. Anything for which there is zero demand, logically it makes sense to pay 0 for it (paying anything more than 0 decreases your utility, essentially)

4. Given this, the total value of the Biafran pounds available was zero.

5. Thus, Awolowo vastly overpayed by offering anything for it.

ekt_bear: I am still waiting for this village economist formula that determines exchange rate, ACM10.

Then perhaps you can ask the economist from your village to tell us what the price of potatoes, oil, gold, etc should be

Btw, what happens if there is a discrepancy between your village economists prices and what people are actually willing to pay (as evidenced by the market)?

ekt_bear: Lord Almighty.
You are possibly one of the dumbest people I have met in my life. How you were given a medical license, I do not know