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Reflecting on some major achievements of GEJ administration, from electricity, transportation, Health, banking industry, manufacturing and Business investment....

I wonder why people will not see all these and appreciate this innocent man for once. Though, am not a fan of GEJ or any Political office holder but the truth must be told.

#MyOpinion

[quote author=purplesummer]An Anti-Ebola vaccine is a sure hope for those not yet infected.

Once again, America will take all the credit! *smh*[/quote


Yea, America always love to take credit

Members of the Christ Embassy are divided over
a divorce suit filed against the Senior Pastor of
the church, Chris Oyakhilome, by wife, Anita, in a
London court.
Oyakhilome is the President of the Believers’
Love World Incorporated, the registered name of
the Christian ministry, while his wife is the Vice
President.
Some members of the church on a Facebook
page, ‘Where is Rev. Anita Oyakhilome,’ which is
believed to have been opened by Anita’s fans,
expressed differing opinions on the matter.
On Saturday, one of the church members, Ijeoma
Olive Ehirim said, “I am a Christ Embassy
member. I hate one thing there: How can a
pastor be working together with a lady hand in
hand, attending meetings and lodging in a hotel
for days. My girlfriend travels with our branch
pastor annually for PPCF which holds in Lagos.
Only God knows.”
Sharing a similar view, Samantha Iwowo,
described adultery as one of the grounds for
divorce.
Iwowo said, “Pastor Chris Oyakhilome must have
been discovered compromising his marital bed
business. It is what it is. God says judgement
will start from His house. ‘Touch not my
anointed’ is God’s instruction regarding all His
children, not an individual nicking, scheming,
threatening monies off people’s purses and
telling them that salvation is tied to tithes and
that seed sowing is only money donation to the
church/pastor’s coffers. One down, more to roll.
Christ be praised.”
In her post, Chinyere Okechukwu-George,
claimed to have left the church when she
observed some irregularities.
“I and my family left Christ Embassy for our own
good after worshiping there for three years plus
and seeing all the things going on under the
disguise of church. And I can comfortably say
that for over a year now, we have had so much
peace in our Christian lives. I don’t care how you
view my comment but truth must be told.”
Joseph Osagiede, however, responded saying the
Oyakhilomes were still together.
He said, “I have been in Christ Embassy for 12
years. All is totally well with thier marriage. All
those wishing them to split and also those going
about saying nasty things about the church, be
careful.”
Faith Ebunoluwa Adetayo also said, “I have been
in Christ Embassy since 1990s and I can
authoritatively say some things: I have seen the
power of God work, demonstrated in healings and
many other things. I have seen how that Pastor
Chris is less concerned about mistakes we make.
“He believes that these sins of the flesh will
disappear, only if we listen to the word of God.
Rather than condemning us, he speaks words of
encouragement. And for your information, Pastor
Anita is still very much in the ministry and she’s
with her darling husband.”
Meanwhile, the Christ Embassy has kept mum on
the divorce case.
A woman, who picked SUNDAY PUNCH’s call to
the Nigerian office of the church on Saturday,
said she had no information to give on the
matter.
When asked to confirm if the divorce suit was
true or not, she simply said, “I have no
information to give on the matter.”
When another call was made to the church
thorough another number, the respondent, who
identified herself as Pastor Christabel, said the
church had no information about the case.
“No, we have no information on the matter,” she
said.
An online newspaper, The Cable , had reported on
Friday that the divorce case, with Suit No
FD14D01650, was filed on April 9, 2014 at the
Divorce Section A, Central Family Court, First
Avenue House, High Holborn, London, the United
Kingdom, on Anita’s behalf by Attwaters
Jameson Hill Solicitors.
Anita reportedly filed for dissolution of the
marriage between her and her pastor husband,
which produced two teenage daughters – Sharon
and Charlyn – on the grounds of “unreasonable
behaviour” and “adultery.”

The United States health officials have said they
are considering a trial test of the recently
launched Ebola vaccine in Nigeria, as they also
prepare to test the vaccine in The Gambia and
Mali in mid-September.
The US National Institutes of Health announced
in a statement on Thursday that it would launch
the safety trial on the vaccine developed by the
agency’s National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases and GlaxoSmithKline.
The testing is expected to start on Tuesday with
20 volunteers to see if the virus is safe for use
on humans.
The statement said in part, “The US Centres for
Disease Control and Prevention has initiated
discussions with Ministry of Health officials in
Nigeria about the prospects for conducting a
Phase 1 safety study of the vaccine among
healthy adults in that country. The pace of
human safety testing for experimental Ebola
vaccines has been expedited in response to the
ongoing Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa.”
Testing of the vaccine will be at NIH’s campus
and involve a mixture that uses both the current
Zaire strain and another strain, Sudan. In the
second week of September, NIH and a British
team will test that vaccine on 100 volunteers in
the United Kingdom.
“Initial human testing of an investigational
vaccine to prevent Ebola virus disease will begin
next week by the National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the
National Institutes of Health.
“The early-stage trial will begin initial human
testing of a vaccine co-developed by NIAID and
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and will evaluate the
experimental vaccine’s safety and ability to
generate an immune system response in healthy
adults. Testing will take place at the NIH Clinical
Center in Bethesda, Maryland,” the NIH noted.
The study is the first of several Phase 1 clinical
trials that will examine the investigational NIAID/
GSK Ebola vaccine and an experimental Ebola
vaccine developed by the Public Health Agency of
Canada.
According to the statement, these trials are
conducted in healthy adults who are not infected
with Ebola virus to determine if the vaccine is
safe and induces an adequate immune response.
“There is an urgent need for a protective Ebola
vaccine, and it is important to establish that a
vaccine is safe and spurs the immune system to
react in a way necessary to protect against
infection,” the NIAID Director, Anthony Fauci,
said.
He added, “We know the best way to prevent the
spread of Ebola infection is through public health
measures, including good infection control
practices, isolation, contact tracing, quarantine,
and provision of personal protective equipment.
“However, a vaccine will ultimately be an
important tool in the prevention effort. The
launch of Phase 1 Ebola vaccine studies is the
first step in a long process.”

bankyblue: instead of that id*ot that called him self ROTIME to face his work all this past time, he was busy driving elrufie, running into Ekiti to vote, busy flexing power with the centra.

can u imagine now, in this our time and age u could not give them ROAD, even life jacket that cost so little you couldnt made it available.

RIP TO THE DEAD.

I can't just imagine some people comment like that of Rat.... Na Amechi cause the mishap

maybe you are right...

Fresh hope appears in the horizon for Ebola
patients as Japan on Monday expressed its
readiness to provide its anti-influenza drug as
treatment for the deadly virus.
Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary, Yoshihide Suga,
made the offer hours after a group of scientist in
the United Kingdom said it had discovered that
the largest outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease
was caused by an infected fruit bat that bit a
toddler.
Briefing journalists in Tokyo on Monday, Suga
said Japan was ready to offer the drug,
Favipiravir, which was developed by Toyama
Chemical, a subsidiary of Fujifilm, any time the
World Health Organisation requested it.
Approved by the Japanese health ministry in
March, Favipiravir is a tablet developed for the
treatment of novel and re-emerging influenza
viruses.
Suga, according to the Agence France Presse,
said Japan was waiting for WHO’s decision on
further details over the use of untested drugs.
He however said that “in case of an emergency,
Japan may respond to individual requests before
any further decision by the WHO.”
The spokesperson for the company, Takao Aoki,
said Fujifilm had initiated talks with the United
States on how the drug could be adopted in
treating EVD.
He said, “Fujifilm is in talks with the US Food
and Drug Administration on clinical testing of the
drug in treating Ebola, The company has
Favipiravir stock for more than 20,000 patients.
Ebola and influenza viruses are the same type
and theoretically similar effects can be expected
on Ebola,” he said.
It was however not known as of Thursday last
week if Favipiravir is the drug the Federal
Ministry of Health had said it had requested from
a foreign country.
The ministry which turned down a trial drug,
Nano Silver, had applied for ZMapp which was
administered on two US aid workers who
contracted the virus in Liberia.
The two were discharged last Thursday, a few
days after Washington said it did not have
enough XMapp to send to countries in need of it.
ZMapp fails Liberian doctor
However, a Liberian doctor , Abraham Borbor,
has died despite taking ZMapp, according to a
statement by the Liberia’s information minister,
Lewis Brown.
Borbor was one of three doctors in Liberia who
had been given ZMapp and was showing signs
of recovery.
“Borbor was showing signs of improvement but
on Sunday, he took a turn for the worse,”
Brown told the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Meanwhile, the Federal Government on Monday
reversed the number of confirmed EVD cases in
Nigeria from 14 to 13.
Health Minister, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu, said
while briefing journalists in Abuja that the
development followed the outcome of a further
confirmation test conducted on the 14th case,
which turned out to be negative.
He also said another patient in the isolation
centre in Lagos had after receiving treatment
tested negative.
The patient, according to him, will be dicharged
before Wednesday.
He said the development would bring from four
to two, the number of patients still in the
isolation ward.
The minister added that the number of deaths
recorded so far in the country as a result of the
disease still remained five, including the Late
Patrick Sawyer, who brought the EVD to Nigeria
from Liberia.
Chukwu said, “We have been able to manage
and discharge five persons who had tested
positive to the deadly virus, while the sixth
person would be dicharged within the next 48
hours.
“For each case that tested negative, we run
further confirmatory tests to make sure that
anybody that is labelled as EVD victim, is truly
having the disease.
“The 14th case has turned out to be negative in
terms of anaemia and symptoms, so that has
now reversed number of EVD cases in Nigeria
from 14 to 13 and that includes the index case
(Sawyer).
“As of today (Monday), we have three patients
receiving treatment in the isolation ward in
Lagos but certainly, before Wednesday, one of
them would be discharged because he has
tested negative and we are now concluding his
discharge process.”
The ministry also denied reports ( The PUNCH
not included) which claimed that the younger
sister of the late Dr. Stella Adadevoh, had tested
positive to the EVD.
The minister’s Special Adviser on Media and
Communications, Dan Nwomeh, said on Monday
that no new patient had been admitted into the
treatment centre in Lagos.
He said, “We are not aware of that development,
but to avoid any confusion, Minister of Health
reiterates that he has the sole authority to
announce confirmed and discharged EVD cases.
“Any doubtful information on the outbreak of EVD
should be verified from the office of the minister ,
we are on all social media platforms.”
A group of 17 UK-based European and African
scientists have found out that the largest
outbreak of the EVD was caused by an infected
fruit bats that bit a toddler.
The tropical disease researchers, ecologists and
anthropologists had spent three weeks
investigating the outbreak of the disease in
Nigeria, Guinea, Liberia and Ivory Coast.
According to the Daily Mail, the scientists
captured some bats and other creatures near the
village of Meliandoua in Guinea, where the
present epidemic began last year in December.
According to the scientists, the toddler, who
was bitten by a fruit bat passed the infection
on to his mother and both died within a week.
The disease was then spread far and wide by
mourners who attended their funeral.
Scientists have long believed that bats are the
main carriers for the disease but it is rare for
them to pass it on to man.
Most of the previous outbreaks have been
caused by meat from dead infected animals
collected by hunters who then sell it on.
Fruit bats, however, are widely eaten in some
rural areas of West Africa – either smoked,
grilled or in a spicy soup.
The team led by epidemiologist Fabian
Leendertz, a disease ecologist at the Robert Koch
Institute in Berlin, are expected to publish their
results in a major journal soon.
Initial research believed that a new strain of
Ebola had emerged in West Africa but according
to Herr Leendertz, the strain of the disease is
one related to Zaire ebolavirus, identified more
than 10 years ago in the Congo.

ilotriouzAY: i wont want to start a war of words wit u bt truths do hurt...

No need of trade of words... just on a lighter mood. Chelsea will start making unbreakable records soon..

You shut up!!!!

2-0

@op e be like say u dey overdose... how u go dey compare Lagos with warri ??

jbaur24: No wonder the ailment is so much in that side of the country!

Cite one case of Ebola in Ibadan ever since.... Opo'nu

Abducted Chibok girls

BRITAIN’s Royal Air Force plans to send three
fighter jets to help in locating the more than
200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram
insurgents on April 14 this year.
The RAF Tornado GR4s equipped with
surveillance facilities, according to Daily Mail on
Wednesday, will undertake “reconnaissance
missions” over the Sambissa Forest where the
girls are believed to be held.
A British government source told The Times
that the jets would help the Nigerian authorities
in tracking the movements of the insurgents.
The report however added that the mission was
dependent on a nearby nation giving the British
government the nod to use its runway.
A Ministry of Defence spokesman did not deny
the report about the deployment of the planes.
He said, “The United Kingdom continues to work
with the United States and France as well as
Nigeria’s neighbours and international partners
to provide advice and assistance to the Nigerian
government.
“Together with our allies we have provided
continuous surveillance support to the Nigerian
authorities, including satellite imagery. We are
still in discussion with partners on the
deployment of further surveillance capability.”
Last Friday, Britain’s Minister for Africa, James
Duddridge, had condemned the abduction of over
100 people in Nigeria and had pledged that the
UK would continue to support in the fight against
Boko Haram.
He said, “I am appalled to see reports of another
large abduction by terrorists in the North- East
of Nigeria. Officials at the British High
Commission in Abuja are urgently looking into
the details. The UK stands firmly with Nigeria as
it faces the scourge of Boko Haram.”
The group on Monday killed at least three people
and kidnapped 15 others in a fresh cross-border
attack in northern Cameroon.
“The attack took place on Monday afternoon
when at least 20 armed men tried to get food
supplies, stealing all the [food] stocks found in
the Cameroonian village of Greya,” the source
told Anadolu Agency on Tuesday.
The source added, “Boko Haram militants killed
at least three civilians and abducted a dozen
others – presumably all Cameroonians.’’

Copyright PUNCH.

A good development.... at least youth that has all is takes should be encouraged rather then all these big belle 'never wan die politicians'..
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QUIET TIME WITH GOD

Quiet Time is the period we spend alone in the presence of our Creator to seek His face in all our endeavours.

Why do we need quiet time with God?

1. We needs God's power to go with our daily activities
2. Allows us to pattern our life. (1 peter 2:9)
3. To cultivate a personal habit of worshipping the Lord
4. It create personal adjustment to the teachings from the Bible.
5. It create a right reaction to trials and tribulations that comes our way.

Finally, always make it a point of duty to observe quiet time.

@AusterTee.

Patiently waiting for today...

Having recently relocated to this area, I can authoritatively confirm a minimum of 20hours stable power supply... My area is Alade- Igbeyinadun-Bolade-Church Street area of Oshodi. Can you confirm same in your area?

I swear, I can confirm 20-22 hours in my current area. Alade/Igbeyinadun Street, Oshodi Lagos. the bill is high tho.

booked...

Nice Shot from the President .

PassingShot: I think i should be the one telling you this. So all 100 plus on the opposition side (APC) arrested have something to explain and not a single person from any other party has anything to explain? Plus some were actually arrested by masked men.

It may also interest you that those arrested were released immediately after the election without charging them for any offense.

We all need to unite against oppression and intimidation of opposition if we want to get any good outcome from this democracy.

Yea Sir!

flyingdutchman: BROS, FORGET THAT THING! WERE IT NOT FOR THE MILITARY, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A STORY OF PDP-APC RIGGING. I THINK IT IS NOW CLEAR THAT IF THE PRESIDENT HAD ULTERIOR MOTIVES BEHIND USING MILITARY, THEN HE WOULD NOT HAVE ALLOWED INEC TO DECLARE HIS RIVAL PARTY VICTOR. NIGERIA IS A COUNTRY WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE THIEVES- ROBBERS IN EVERY SENSE OF IT. SOMETIMES, WE NEED A LITTLE KOBOKO TO STRAIGHTEN OUR BRAIN. RIGGING IS EVIL! SAY NO TO IT!

Thank you

wizzy11: If you were to ask me, I would suggest Elections should be conducted this way in this Country.
Since there are 36 states, Then INEC should cut out 4 Saturday's, and break the states into 9 states each Saturday.

Thus it becomes easy for every one (the entire country) to zoom in on the various 9 states per Saturday, with enough Security/ Observers to oversee The election, hence there won't be so much chances of rigging or falsifying election results.

Well for the Presidential election, INEC can come up with another formula.

With Osun and Ekiti attracting so much attention from Observers around the country, we all can see the outcome.
If Elections are being conducted with less Security on ground, and not so many observers, to oversee the remote areas.

Election would no doubt be manipulated.

I am not a party supporter, or a fan of any of these politicians because they are all the same water boiling in different kettle.
But i would give credit to The president, because i can remember vividly the experience i had during OBJ's tenure.
I can tell you that then, It was a forceful leadership. You either take it or leave it as the ruling party would win.
After that, they head to the tribunal and then it takes another two years for the true winner to be declared (if he is lucky).

You are a Genius!!!

Cybermugu1: @op.. To me, it was okay.. You know say nigerians like iron hand abi how una see am na?

U are just accurate. those guys that were contesting are thugs

DIVINE78: Thugs clad in military uniform with ninja like face covering material under the supervision of ex militants is definitely a scourge in any election.
Why will you bring ex militants to Osun state in the name of security during election?
Shame on PDP.

Ur source?

PassingShot: And where are the facts about the mass arrest of opposition leaders and agents on the eve of the election and on election day?

Check it... Those arrested must have gotten something to explain .. let's not be bias.

EkoIle1: [s][/s]


Election is not a military affair or act of war, Osun state was not under emergency rule or in a state of war so there was no need for the military and all the faceless and nameless masked men imported to intimidate the electorate. I just wonder if we still have the Nigerian police because this is their job and the military's job is to protect Nigerians and defend the country against external aggression and even BH that's still holding on to a portion of Nigeria that the same useless military can not defend or take back from common terrorists.

It was nothing but federal instrument of intimidation, thank God the people of Osun ignored that nonsense and instead kept their eyes on the ball/their votes.

I just wonder why you people defend illegalities that's not in your collective interests...

Bros, I am not a politician either a fan to any party... the military is always there for external and internal aggression that can lead the country into chaos. Election is one of this internal agreesions .

The military will not harass u if u are going polling unit to excise ur civic duty be it for APC or PDP...

tomakint: Even if you hold a koboko and write it on a slate for the clown you quoted to say it loud after you, he still won't get it. Janjaweedians here are packaged with thick skulls

hahahahha.... bros, Wetin the guy do u nau

bbello28: U av ur pt... Buh d Whole issue boomerang tho' ........dey never expected d ppl 2 turn out...

u still don't get it... not about who u voted for... just putting high level of security consciousness into consideration