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Meanwhile, confusion and lull took over at the General Hospital, Badagry, on Tuesday following the sacking of the 788 striking doctors by the Lagos State government.

A News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent in Badagry reported that the doctors were unavailable at the hospital to be served their letters.

Only nurses and health officials were seen at their duty posts providing skeletal services to some patients.

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By SaharaReporters, New York

The Joint Action Front (JAF) a pro-labour welfare organization, has described the action of the Lagos State Government in the sacking of 788 doctors in its employ as ‘a grave violation of labour laws and international conventions’, citing the 661, 662 and 663 mandates of the International Labour Organization (ILO) laws.

In a press statement signed by its secretary, Abiodun Aremu, today, the group heaped responsibility for the casualties in the state’s hospitals on the Raji Fashola’s Administration in Lagos State for his refusal to implement the Consolidated Medical Salary (CONMESS), which is the approved basic minimum wage for all the doctors across the federation.

On Monday, the Lagos State Government, through its Head of Service, Adesegun Ogunlewe, announced that it had sacked 788 doctors, 316 of whom were working with the Lagos State Teaching Hospital and another 472 in other hospitals in the state. It also announced that it had employed 373 new doctors, while advertisements have been placed inviting more applicants to fill the remaining positions of the sacked doctors.

Also reacting to this development, the President of the Resident Doctors, Lagos State Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Dr. Saheed Babajide, said in a phone conversation that the Lagos State Government was only on a mission to increase the rate of casualties in the state by employing inexperienced graduates to handle critical health issues while being insincere with the agreement it had signed with the employed doctors on the CONMESS.

The doctors commenced their indefinite strike on 16th of April, 2012, following the refusal of the Raji Fashola administration to fulfill its part of the CONMESS agreement with them.

In a recent conference in Lagos, JAF had said that the Lagos State Government was on an anti-human mission to silence all groups from challenging its move to turn government affairs into a private business for himself and those whose interest it is serving, citing the examples of the recent Lagos State University, crisis and the use of party thugs to confront and battle with those challenging the imposition of the unpopular Toll on Lekki residents in the State.
“They have now turned Lagos State University into a private school”, some members of the group said during the last conference by JAF.
Joint Action Front supported the striking Lagos Doctors and had called a conference recently to that effect

Eko Ile: About time. Good riddance to bad rubbish. They can all waka to Abuja and let GEJ pay them federal wages.

Pastor AIO: Is this based on religious belief or on Scientific investigation or on some other means?

Pastor AIO: I would question the assertion that time was linear.

Both the Rig Veda and Brahmanda Purana describe a universe that is cyclical or oscillating and infinite in time. The universe is described as a cosmic egg that cycles between expansion and total collapse. It expanded from a concentrated form — a point called a Bindu. The universe, as a living entity, is bound to the perpetual cycle of birth, death, and rebirth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_cosmology

Pastor AIO:
The greatest weight.-- What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: "This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!"
Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus?... Or how well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal?

from Nietzsche's The Gay Science, s.341, Walter Kaufmann transl.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_return

Pastor AIO: ps. I'm not sure that I believe the 2nd law of thermodynamics. But let me first look into Shannon's etc

Pastor AIO: The question then is, does the history of the cosmos have a limit to the events that can occur in it, or will History be one day bound to repeat itself.

luckyCO: Brothers & Sisters!
I have heard from 2 MEN OF GOD preach that we have a prayer said by Jesus that we are not allowed to prayer except Jesus.
'Father forgive them for they don't know what they do, even at the face of death'
They recommend that Christ has died that we might live so we are not expected to keep quite while witches and wizard destroy our happiness and our future.


Please I want best explanation that can come from you!

Thanks

wirinet: Of course there is a finite number of possible or conceivable sounds. First of all sounds are mechanical disturbance of air that our ears are sensitive to. And the human ear is sensitive to a limited range of frequencies, from about 20hz to 20MHz. We cannot perceive lower and higher frequencies.

Then there are no infinite graduation of sounds between notes, in its fundamental state all energy is not continuous but quantized, so only specific basic unit of graduation is allowed. Light is also emitted and absorbed in quanta.

Deep Sight: Is there really a finite number of possible or conceivable sounds?

Deep Sight: @ Alethiea: infact, you should probably also address this separately with respect to all sound since you have referred to sound waves, et all. In the day that mankind reaches the "very large number" of all possible sound as you put it: do you think mankind will never be able to create any new sound.

Do you think there is a limit to the words that mankind may create?

Deep Sight: The creation of music rests in combinations. Do you really think that there is a possible limit to to sorts of sounds and combinations thereof possible?

Deep Sight: Do you think there are not sorts of sound as yet undiscovered?

Deep Sight: Do you think that this places a ceiling on the amount of musincal tunes that could ever be conceived?

Pastor AIO: The only relation to Zeno would be in the mention of an infinitely divisible continuum. Otherwise I am talking about something else entirely.
My Piano is out of tune. My C is not 256HZ. In fact it is 155.567239172836HZ. But it still plays beautifully because Music is not about the absolute pitch but rather the relation between the pitches. As long as my C remains a perfect fifth away from my G then it doesn't matter what actual pitch it is.

fork adict: OK. Let me tell you a few things wrong with slavery:
1. Slavery is all about holding the slave and making the slave do things against his will normally.
2. There is usually a physical and psychological and in some instances emotional pain inflicted on the slave to gurantee obedience from the lsave at all times.
3. Slavery involves taking undue advantage of someone's situation and exploiting same to the fullest. This explains why many slave owners would NEVER allow their kids to do a hundredth of the tasks they assign to their slaves.
4. It is a crime in most countries.
So with these points raised, do you agree OR DO YOU NOT that there are many things wrong with slavery? I need a YES OR NO ANSWER FROM YOU. NO STORY PLEASE.

logicboy: Wow, you keep exposing yourself as an arrogant douchebag who knows nothing;

1) You were defending biblical slavery = christian apologist.

aletheia: Go and do some thinking and reading, then perhaps you will realize what exactly is wrong with slavery --- and it is not the mutilation or beating that some slaves endure.

logicboy: 2) The treatment of slaves is what differentiates a slave and a servant. A slave is not paid or whipped or mutilated etc. "Humane slavery" is an oxymoron and since you mention "humane slavery", you're a slowpoke. What is humane about hard labour without pay or whipping. How can slavery be humane in the first place?

logicboy: 3) The bible says the slave master will be punished only if he kills the slave. Is that a punishment or a loophole for beating a slave? Dont be foolish.

logicboy: 4) Both the biblical slavery and Transatlantic slavery were economical as well as racist.

logicboy: 5) Verse 26 and 27 focus on the hitting the slaves eye and tooth. So that's acceptable to you? You flog the back of your slave, pierce the slave as long as you dont touch the eye or teeth? What difference does that make? You believe in the flogging on the back and legs?

s[/i]s. Stop going round in circles. Refer to my earlier post:

aletheia: Moreover, you dishonest fool are deliberately silent on verses 26 and 27 of the same chapter: which show that the intent and spirit of God's commands do forbid mutilation and force.

logicboy: 6) If God is a good God then he would have stopped slavery rather than regulate it. I wouldnt wish slavery on my enemy.

He is not obliged to act according to your expectations. While you are it, petition him to abolish today's cut-throat mercantilist economic system that leaves you no better than an indentured servant.

logicboy: 7) You are a slavery apologist and a sick, perverse person

Failing to [i]logically

Deep Sight: Again, what does this tell us about the nature of reality?

fork adict: I AM NOT AN ATHEIST. I NEVER WILL BE. NO DISRESPECT TO THOSE WHO ARE.

But @ aletheia. Are you forking kidding me? So to you. Slavery is so good and there is nothing wrong with slavery right?

logicboy: Lol....you think your christian apologist theories amount to an education

logicboy: 1) The treamtent of slaves is what is wrong with slavery. No one desrves to work under such conditions (mutilation and beatings)

logicboy: 2) You foolishly believe that slavery over 3000 years ago (in the bible) was much more civilized than 500 years ago. The bible in Exodus allows you to beat a slave as long as he can survive it for 2 days;
When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod so hard that the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished. If, however, the slave survives for a day or two, he is not to be punished, since the slave is his own property. (Exodus 21:20-21 NAB)

logicboy: 3) Nowhere in the bible doe it condemn slavery, it condemns only kidnappers. Slaves came from other cities and tribes. Slavery and kidnapping are twi different things in Jewish times in the bible. Taking people as spoils of war from other cities was accepted and not kidnapping.

Pastor AIO: Because there are an infinite number of gradations between one pitch and another. A Continuum in fact.

and secondly, because there are an infinite number of gradations of time between one moment and another. A continuum in fact.

logicboy: You are clearly not OK.

Did you ignore the part about whipping, mutilation etc? Tell me, how do you get someoene to work for you without paying the person?

Whipping was necessary for hard labour. Not all slaves would be maltreated but most were. You want to deny that

logicboy: ??

What do you think happens to slaves?


BTW, what are we if not our emotions? Robots?

logicboy: Please, let your family get whipped, chained and mutilated.

logicboy: 2) Jesus never talked about slavery in the bible like a coward because slavery was all around him.

afam4eva: Who drinks alcohol to get drunk?

Avicenna: I was born into a deeply Islamic family. I am regarded as a sort of Alfa in my area. I had my wolimat early so I know all about this. The very concept of Allah is what I do not agree with which I have therefore shunned. One thing I have realized during clinicals,is that cadaver remains cadaver just useful for medical research. I took solace in that their 'soul' is in a better place but the concept of soul itself remains unproven. I no longer believe in a Book that I was forced to accept as the truth. For instance,you quoted parts of the Quran. I do not believe in Allah from whom it came from,so I do not regard it anymore.
As for my medical studies,actually it helped reach my conclusion. Nothing has changed. I remain my kind and compassionate self.

While he was imprisoned in the castle of Fardajan near Hamadhan, Avicenna wrote his famous "Floating Man" thought experiment to demonstrate human self-awareness and the substantiality and immateriality of the soul. Avicenna believed his "Floating Man" thought experiment demonstrated that the soul is a substance, and claimed humans cannot doubt their own consciousness, even in a situation that prevents all sensory data input. The thought experiment told its readers to imagine themselves created all at once while suspended in the air, isolated from all sensations, which includes no sensory contact with even their own bodies. He argued that, in this scenario, one would still have self-consciousness. Because it is conceivable that a person, suspended in air while cut off from sense experience, would still be capable of determining his own existence, the thought experiment points to the conclusions that the soul is a perfection, independent of the body, and an immaterial substance. The conceivability of this “Floating Man” indicates that the soul is perceived intellectually, which entails the soul’s separateness from the body. Avicenna referred to the living human intelligence, particularly the active intellect, which he believed to be the hypostasis by which God communicates truth to the human mind and imparts order and intelligibility to nature. However, Avicenna posited the brain as the place where reason interacts with sensation. Sensation prepares the soul to receive rational concepts from the universal Agent Intellect. The first knowledge of the flying person would be “I am,” affirming his or her essence. That essence could not be the body, obviously, as the flying person has no sensation. Thus, the knowledge that “I am” is the core of a human being: the soul exists and is self-aware.[40] Avicenna thus concluded that the idea of the self is not logically dependent on any physical thing, and that the soul should not be seen in relative terms, but as a primary given, a substance. The body is unnecessary; in relation to it, the soul is its perfection.[41][42][43] In itself, the soul is an immaterial substance.[44]
Source: Wikipedia

Image123: Yeske, OP you deserve to be embarrassed and even slapped by Oyedepo. You're insensitive to the people around you.

Image123: The pastor is not the odd one out in his church, he's the leader. In his case, people'd want to copy him not 'embarrass' him. You're a dirty, ordinary jatijati only member na, know your level, lol. Condescend to men of low estate? Ever seen that in your phone Bible?

pDude: Mtschewww! I almost jumped for joy until I realized it was LiTRES. I initially thought it was barrels.

Some filling stations pump that much in a day.

As of 15 November 2009 the United States held 16.4% of total votes, Japan 7.9%, Germany 4.5%, the United Kingdom 4.3%, and France 4.3%.

India will have a larger say in the affairs of the World Bank as it has become the seventh largest shareholder in the multilateral lender with 2.91% voting rights.

China has overtaken Germany, France and the UK to become the third largest shareholder in the Bank with 4.42% voting rights. Both India and China hitherto enjoyed an identical 2.77% voting rights.

Membership
There are 184 member countries that are shareholders in the IBRD, which is the primary arm of the WBG. To become a member, however, a country must first join the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The size of the World Bank's shareholders, like that of the IMF's shareholders, depends on the size of a country's economy. Thus, the cost of a subscription to the World Bank is a factor of the quota paid to the IMF.

There is an obligatory subscription fee, which is equivalent to 88.29% of the quota that a country has to pay to the IMF. In addition, a country is obligated to buy 195 World Bank shares (US$120,635 per share, reflecting a capital increase made in 1988). Of these 195 shares, 0.60% must be paid in cash in U.S. dollars while 5.40% can be paid in a country's local currency, in U.S. dollars, or in non-negotiable non-interest bearing notes. The balance of the 195 shares is left as "callable capital," meaning the World Bank reserves the right to ask for the monetary value of these shares when and if necessary. A country can subscribe a further 250 shares, which do not require payment at the time of membership but are left as "callable capital."

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