freakcin: High school student already carying out research in medicine field! Undergraduates in Nigeria are occupied with ASUU strike and all what not. . . GMB really got his work cut out.
Abeg tell us na which American president send this high school student for go do research
Did you rad about COMMUNITY mentoring etc? How much have you contributed to your former school & community? I get it, you are waiting for a know-all, do-all messiah to do the work ALONE wey you don cut out for am, not so
BTW, what is your Buhari's track record on education?
How many almajiri, primary, secondary schools and universities did he build?
ilugunboy: What would GEJ gain or lose with Fayose as governor post May 29th?
What would ilugunboy gain or lose believing FAKE stories from an incredible sauce for mind games towards Saturday's Ekiti legislative elections that APC will lose
omenka: Abegi. Stop talking already. It is not like we don't remember all you did to hurt our democracy especially the HoR saga.
- How many SINate presidents did OBJ have in his second chance of civilian presidency? - How many Speakers did OBJ have? - How many governors were impeached by OBJ in state assemblies held in covens, practically? - How many political assassinations happened under former Baba Iyabo, a useless old man that is disowned by even his biological children?
Is this not Buhari and APC's navigator
Perhaps one of the most corrupt leaders in our country!
...F A C T.. C H E C K ...
'Obasanjo and Atiku in 8 years built one UNIVERSITY each for themselves....Bells and ABTI. They built NONE for Nigerians.
Jonathan and Sambo in 4 years built 14 (FOURTEEN) new universities for all Nigerians. NONE for themselves.
NOTE: OBJ and ATIKU are now consultants/sponsors/piloters/members of APC.... They too are seeking CHANGE!!!
anonimi: In this interview with MOTUNRAYO JOEL, the National Chairman, Association of Public Health Physicians of Nigeria, Dr. Tanimola Akande, talks about cholera and the current outbreak affecting some parts of the country
What are the symptoms of cholera?
Cholera is a form of gastroenteritis caused by Vibrio Cholera bacteria. The patients with cholera present with profuse passing of watery faeces and vomiting which may be accompanied with fever. Such patients lose body fluids rapidly and become dehydrated and therefore have body weakness. The first case may not be recognised as cholera since some other gastroenteritis can present that way but as soon as many more cases are recorded within a short time, a high suspicion of cholera should be made.
What leads to cholera transmission?
Cholera is transmitted through the faeco-oral route. That means the bacteria are shed in the patient’s faeces and it gets into another person by mouth from water or food that is contaminated with the bacteria.
Is Nigeria susceptible to a cholera epidemic and why?
Nigeria is highly susceptible to cholera epidemics and there have been several ones in the past in the country. Currently there are epidemics of cholera in various parts of the country. This is because of poor basic hygiene and sanitation. Only about three-quarter of households living in urban areas have access to improved source of drinking water. The situation is worse in rural areas where less than half of the households have access to improved source of drinking water. In some of these communities people have their drinking water from polluted streams or rivers. In the same vein only about 40 per cent of the urban population have non-shared improved toilet or latrines and it is as low as about 30 per cent in rural areas. Surveys show that about three in 10 households in Nigeria use an improved toilet facility.
A situation where people still pass stool in the open makes the population vulnerable to epidemics of cholera. Such faeces are often washed by rain into streams and rivers that serve as drinking water for some people. In addition a high proportion visit toilets and will not wash their hands, this practice unfortunately is not uncommon among food handlers.
More states in Nigeria have recorded cholera outbreak, why is this happening?
The reason for the spread of cases of cholera in more states is not farfetched in view of the sanitary and water supply situation described earlier. Government and households are not doing enough to improve water supply and provide improved sanitary facilities. Whilst some people may have improved sanitary facilities in their homes, this may not be the case in their places of work particularly those in the informal sector. In most cities and towns public toilet facilities are not either not available or grossly inadequate. Some brands of packaged water (often called pure water) are also sources of cholera spread because of the poor sanitary condition of the factories where they were produced.
Why hasn’t Nigeria been able to curb cholera outbreak?
Nigeria has not been able to curb this epidemic because we have not been able provide all citizens with safe drinking water and improved sanitary facilities both in the homes and public places. People are probably also not well informed about cholera and the preventive measures they can put in place to curb it. Imagine that some people managed to build houses with about four – six rooms (the face-me-I-face-you type) but they find it difficult to go the extra mile to provide a toilet or latrine. It is a shame to find houses in cities and towns without toilets. You want to therefore ask what those in charge of approving plans or inspecting houses are doing if this simple measure cannot be enforced. It was not until recently when my area of residence got crowded with houses, that the dwellers stopped passing faeces all around the open spaces. Now we are luckier they have to move a little further. The houseflies that hover around such faeces are not discriminatory; they fly anywhere and land on anyone’s exposed food.
Does boiling of water prevent cholera?
The way cholera spreads is through contaminated food and water but particularly water. Boiling water, of course, is quite helpful in preventing cholera. Some other measures of disinfecting water through urban water supply chlorination and domestic water chlorination are also helpful.
What is the recommended treatment in patients who have developed cholera?
Patients who have developed cholera need to be quickly rehydrated since they would have lost some fluid. The rehydration (replacement of the lost fluid) could be though oral salt and sugar solution or the packaged oral rehydration salt (ORS). In severe cases the rehydration will be though intravenous fluid (drips). In addition the patients are given antibiotics to take care of the cholera bacteria.
Could a cholera outbreak occur in developed countries?
Cholera outbreak is not impossible in developed countries, but will be quite unlikely. Some people can have cholera and may not show symptoms. If such people travel to such developed countries and practised poor sanitary hygiene, they may infect a few people. This situation, even though it affects a few people, will still be considered an outbreak. It is unlikely to affect many people because of the good water supply, sanitary facilities and personal hygiene of citizens of developed countries.
Not much surprise there since most of us drink our own sh'it from boreholes in the same compound as our septic tank/soakaway pits as our STATE governors have ABANDONED their constitutional RESPONSIBILITY to provide all of us something as basic as TAP water.
The LGAs can also not be bothered about ensuring hygiene in individual homes (just a few decades ago, we had Sanitary Inspectors aka Wole Woles in the South west) and businesses in their areas talk less of undertaking activities for public sanitation.
I am a 26 year old lady and will be getting married in June. Unfortunately for me I found about two months ago that my dad is cheating on my mum. I didn't say anything cuz I do not want my family to break up. Before it was one lady but now I have found out that they are two. It seems like as the days go deeper he gets more and more into it.
Yesterday he told me to put a password for him on his phone. I tried avoiding doing it but he was persistent and at the end I ended up putting it for him but my conscience has really started disturbing me. I dont know if I should tell her because I don't want my family to break up and at the same time I don't want to see my mother hurt. She loves and adores him, although everyone has his/her shortcomings.
He is a well respected man and my fiancee respects him more than anything. I feel like I am suffocating.
Please what should I do? I really need good advice
Thanks
You did not mention if your dad also loves and adores your mum as well as adequately fulfill his role as a husband to her and daddy to his children.
Given that you said he is getting "more and more into it", you may have to find CREATIVE ways of providing clues to your mum that do NOT come from you after you have ascertained that there is a REAL danger to your mum & family. Difficult, almost impossible, I know. And that is the challenge.
It will be pointless letting your mum know and give her unnecessary stress if the affairs are just flings, irrespective of how they seem involving now. It may be useful to note that he has TWO women outside at the same time. Cheers!
Unarguably tap water is one of the very basic features of modern life. For 16 years, the provision of tap water in Lagos has gotten worse in most parts of the state as more people turn to boreholes in their compounds, sometimes not far from shit-holes aka soak-away pits leading to even the elites drinking traces of their own faeces while the not so fortunate rely on mairuwas for their daily water needs. This is the situation despite some N20 billion annual budget for the Lagos State Water Corporation, LSWC. Surely we deserve better in the state of excellence.
Lawmaker scores Lagos Water Corporation low
A Lagos State lawmaker, Mr Saka Fafunmi, on Thursday expressed dissatisfaction at the performance of the state Water Corporation.
Fafunmi, a member of the Lagos State House of Assembly (LAHA), said in Ikeja that the corporation had not been able to justify statutory allocations to it.
The lawmaker, who represents Ifako-Ijaiye Constituency 1 at the assembly, spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
He said that the corporation had the capacity to generate much fund internally through water rates but had relied solely on government funding because of poor performance.
'' Anyone that is using water will be willing to pay for it; the corporation has not been giving us water.
"Is there any new community that Water Corporation has given water? People depend on boreholes; even government estates have industrial boreholes.
"Why do we keep pumping money into an agency that does not give us the desired results?'' he asked.
He noted that the Adiyan Waterworks was located at Ifako-Ijaiye, where many of the residents had resorted to digging boreholes as a means of getting water.
''A lot of people are falling sick because they don't drink clean water.
''In the same compound, where you have sewage, is where you have a borehole.
''There is no way you can manage the sewage that it will not leak and pollute the water; everyone drinking such is drinking contaminated water,'' he said.
The lawmaker urged the corporation to increase water reticulation and supply to residents.
MIKOLOWISKA: intellectually inferior no,patriotically inferior yes. Our judiciary is not independent so executive can lean on them to get speedy trials and convictions
Based on the experience we have had for five years under Jonathan's federal administration, the judiciary has grown significantly more independent at the federal level. Do you dispute that fact
hardywaltz: In every other state across the Federation, the were exit polls in each polling unit, even the Huasas that u guys claim are not educated posted their exit polls from polling unit to ward level to LGA level to State level, However in Rivers and most of the Eastern and Southern States there was not 1 exit poll. Clap for urself...
Rivers State, Bayelsa State and Akwa Ibom were the 3 highest state in terms of percentage turnout of voters 76%, 68% and 65% respectively while Kano, Katsina and Lagos States had the following 53%, 56% and 39%. From a statistical point of view i don't need magic to tell those who cheated.
Either those who cheated or those who MOBILISED their supporters massively to come out & vote.
BTW, can you share with us the 2011 turnout for the same areas Thanks.
In just six years (1954-1960) as Premier of the Western region, Chief Obafemi Awolowo transformed the region through FREE primary education and scholarships for secondary and tertiary education to our bright forebears while building Liberty stadium, WNTV-WNBS, Cocoa House, Obisesan Hall, laying the ground work for the establishment of University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo university). All these was achieved WITHOUT Niger Delta oil revenue rather mainly on cocoa revenue based on the 50/50 retention/contribution formula then.
In just four years (1979-1983), Alhaji Lateef Jakande transformed Lagos state by reviving Awo's FREE education policy and extending it to secondary schools with even free textbooks. He ensured PUBLIC primary and secondary schools were available for all residents of the state, running multiple shifts as necessary while RECRUITING and training teachers by setting up LACOED and other Teacher Training Institutes!
In addition he established LASU, LTV, ferry services and started construction of the metro among other laudable achievements despite a shoe string budget from low crude oil price at the time. That metro project was cancelled by Buhari after his coup and locking up Jakande
In 16 years (1999-2015) the JagbaJantis crew has been ruining Lagos state education with only 2,000 public schools today out of a total 14,000 in the state. The 12,000 private schools are largely UNSUPERVISED and not monitored.
This ruinous record of the Thief'nubu cabal has been our lamentable lot despite:
- Annual budget increased over 10 times from N42 billion in 2000 to N489.69 billion in 2015. The state budget has been consistently above N450 billion since 2011. - Annual IGR increased over 53 times from N7.2 billion in 1999 to N384.26 billion in 2013.
-World Bank $90 million education loan for which Fashola said no FoI in Lagos when requested how he spent the money on the 2,000 public schools. Understandably so
How did we proud inheritors of Awo's sterling legacy allow ourselves to be enslaved by this cabal? Why did we let our INDIVIDUAL selfishness and greed bring us so low that we are content with PRIVILEDGE crumbs from Bourdillon rather than our rights to COLLECTIVE well being?
roxell120: Our people say 'a good product sells itself'. I wish he was able to deliver on electricity only, he would have been sleeping in Aso rock while the masses Campaigning for him. He just lost an opportunity to write his name in gold. Scavengers surrounded him telling him wat he would love to hear. He is just a natural good man with poor leadership qualities which Nigeria doesn't deserve. I supported blindly cos Buhari was not an option for me for reasons best known to me.
I would rather be LENIENT and simply say he was too trusting of people.
Thanks for sharing the post. It however does not negate the fact that he lost becauee his campaign was mismanaged from the get-go. Rather than focus it on his much better achievements in all sectors it allowed APC dictate the focus on corruption & insecurity where messaging the FACTS about his performance is more difficult.
The NE & NW alone cannot make a president of Nigeria. Buhari knows that hence his alliance with Tinubu. QED!!!
We have many crime fighting and institutions to do all that and unlike the crooked , corrupt and incompetent GEJ, he ll put competent and credible people in place to do the job. He won't be hiring crooks and corrupt people under efcc investigation like GEJ.
Where are we heading as a nation when the president hires only people with questionable characters, under effcc investigation, even his own campaign spokesman is still under efcc investigation and on trial by the same government, the same government prosecuting him gave him police escort and protection at taxpayers expence. This is the government sabotaging and jundermining his own law enforcement, even the pdp chairman is still under efcc investigation for corruption.
Everything about GEJ spells corruption and incompetence.
And everything about Buhari spells sainthood and competence not so?
bokohalal: Jonathan did not deserve to win re election. Spending that stupendous amount of money and yet losing to the opposition shows how much the people wanted change.
Did you not read how his campaign was MISMANAGED by those entrusted with roles to play?
Could it be a comprehension problem?
BTW, are you saying APC did not spend stupendous amount of money including hiring AKPD Media
I said as far back as January 25 that FFK was a negative impact on the president's campaign in addition to cementing the wrong impression that the administration condones corruption which was a major platform for Buhari's messaging. Hope the PDP learnt its lesson going forward.
anonimi: Here comes the double agent, scamjones aka FFK.
When will he be sacked from the president's campaign team as his utterances even as FFK cause as much damages as good
It can be recalled that the the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Muhammadu Buhari, last month called on the government to implement immediate price reduction on fuel products to reflect the downscaling in global oil prices.
Speaking through his campaign organization, the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, Mr. Buhari asked the government to “stop stealing from Nigerians and allow them enjoy the relief that has come to consumers of petroleum products globally”.
The APC candidate had said, “The price of diesel which has been deregulated since 2009 still sells at the pump price of N150 and N170 per litre, the same pump price when the international benchmark per barrel of crude was over $100. Now that the international benchmark has dropped to $47.5 (USD) per barrel as at Monday, we ask: where is the deregulation and the relief which it ought to bring to local consumers of diesel?
“For the Nigerian consumers, unfortunately the collapse of crude oil price since October 2014 has not translated into any change in diesel, kerosene and PMS prices across the country.
“We challenge the federal government to reconcile the information on the website of the Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency, indicating the maximum open market price of diesel per litre in December 2014 as being at N111.6 and the fact that the price has come down to less than $50 (USD) as at Monday.
“We want to posit that that the maximum indicative benchmark open consumers of diesel should pay is at a margin below N100 per litre. Therefore, Nigerians are being short-changed by about N50 to N70 on every litre of diesel sold by government.
Buhari promises allowances for unemployed corps members, free meal for pupils January 05, 2015
All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has promised to provide allowances to discharged but unemployed Youth Corps members for Twelve (12) months while in the skills and entrepreneurial development programmes, if elected in 2015. There is also the pledge to provide One Meal a day for all Primary school pupils. Buhari/Osibanjo administration also vow to create a Social Welfare Program of at least Five Thousand Naira (N5000) that will cater for the 25 million poorest and most vulnerable citizens upon the demonstration of children’s enrolment in school and evidence of immunisation to help promote family stability. “As a nation and the Sub Saharan Africa’s leading energy producer, we had in the past squandered the opportunity to build functional infrastructure to better the lives of the average Nigerian. We can no longer afford this luxury of inactivity. We must revive our public and private sectors in order to provide functional services and secure the good of the individual Nigerian and his or her family,” Buhari said in a document that reveals some of his plans for 2015.
It can be recalled that the the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Muhammadu Buhari, last month called on the government to implement immediate price reduction on fuel products to reflect the downscaling in global oil prices.
Speaking through his campaign organization, the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, Mr. Buhari asked the government to “stop stealing from Nigerians and allow them enjoy the relief that has come to consumers of petroleum products globally”.
The APC candidate had said, “The price of diesel which has been deregulated since 2009 still sells at the pump price of N150 and N170 per litre, the same pump price when the international benchmark per barrel of crude was over $100. Now that the international benchmark has dropped to $47.5 (USD) per barrel as at Monday, we ask: where is the deregulation and the relief which it ought to bring to local consumers of diesel?
“For the Nigerian consumers, unfortunately the collapse of crude oil price since October 2014 has not translated into any change in diesel, kerosene and PMS prices across the country.
“We challenge the federal government to reconcile the information on the website of the Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency, indicating the maximum open market price of diesel per litre in December 2014 as being at N111.6 and the fact that the price has come down to less than $50 (USD) as at Monday.
“We want to posit that that the maximum indicative benchmark open consumers of diesel should pay is at a margin below N100 per litre. Therefore, Nigerians are being short-changed by about N50 to N70 on every litre of diesel sold by government.
Buhari promises allowances for unemployed corps members, free meal for pupils January 05, 2015
All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has promised to provide allowances to discharged but unemployed Youth Corps members for Twelve (12) months while in the skills and entrepreneurial development programmes, if elected in 2015. There is also the pledge to provide One Meal a day for all Primary school pupils. Buhari/Osibanjo administration also vow to create a Social Welfare Program of at least Five Thousand Naira (N5000) that will cater for the 25 million poorest and most vulnerable citizens upon the demonstration of children’s enrolment in school and evidence of immunisation to help promote family stability. “As a nation and the Sub Saharan Africa’s leading energy producer, we had in the past squandered the opportunity to build functional infrastructure to better the lives of the average Nigerian. We can no longer afford this luxury of inactivity. We must revive our public and private sectors in order to provide functional services and secure the good of the individual Nigerian and his or her family,” Buhari said in a document that reveals some of his plans for 2015.
MIKOLOWISKA: He has power to prosecute(essentially jail) ppl with evidence of corruption(expensive cars and properties with govt salary) or contractors who did not deliver or delivered substandard service or product. Plenty of power(police,rss,efcc,code of conduct,son,nafdac,custom,immigration) ask tafa balogun,bode george and alamieaseigha
He has power to prosecute via the Ministry of Justice, Police, EFCC, ICPC etc. The INDEPENDENT judiciary has the power to jail based on the evidence AND arguments of the lawyers to the SUSPECT and the prosecutor.
That is what happens in a democracy as opposed to an OPPRESSIVE military dictatorship of arbitrary arrests, detention and arranged justice via court martial that do not respect human rights and the principle that one is INNOCENT until adjudged guilty by a COMPETENT court of law.
Is this not how they do it in all those obodo oyinbo places that we love running to as voluntary SLAVES Why should it be different with us? Do you think we are intellectually INFERIOR to our longer nosed fellow homo sapiens and should endure whatever RACISTS bullshiit that flows from that assumption?
silami: Asemota said, “No doubt, President Jonathan had an assignment God wanted him to fulfill. I believe he has fulfilled that assignment and the President-elect also has a specific assignment from God.
Does anyone know of any human being on this earth who is not fulfilling/has fulfilled the assignment God wanted him to fulfill
If there is any such person it means God is not who these charlatans in cassock claim He is? Or is Almighty God no longer in full control of everything? They will say and do anything to SCAM the gullible folks among us - those whom Christ described as "Poor in the spirit"
bjt: Where is the ever rugged Nokia 3310? The collections is not complete without it.
Quite impressive that he even has a collection that is NOT quite antique but memorable nevertheless.
Seun or some other tech geek can actually think of setting up a private pay-to-visit museum for ICT products in our country from the 18th or 19th century. Our lack of a sense of HISTORY needs to be bridged somehow.
@ OP, thanks but abeg take care of those your potentially handsome nails
olawale3525: Kerozene is nt that price, that wot GEJ coz before he left, he instruct all Depot and filling station to post fake prices through PPRA, fooling himself thought he was fooln us........ Hope GMB turns tnz around for good
Has GEJ left? 29 May don pass already?
Or you are just as dumb & daft as the agunmaniye Buhari wey you dey follow like mumu cow
Buhari has NO power to jail anyone as a democratic president! FACT!!!
Instead of these baseless rumours he should prepare to fulfil the socio-economic change promises he made to which he will be held accountable except he is truly the agunmaniye- tall but dull!
Kentrasso: She looks beautiful! I wish that people would stop hating on plus size ladies...Some try so hard to slim down even to the point of starvation and get treated like they have some disease. So not cool
Finishing a big bottle of coke in your dp doesn't exactly llok like starvation oh!
They need to do more of this sharp, witty & PROMPT response to each & every slip & lapse of APC people. That is the way to be stronger and displace the pretenders!
Education › Re: Harold Ekeh - A Nigerian - Accepted By 8 Ivy League Schools (And 5 Others) by anonimi: 3:06am On Apr 06, 2015
