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Here is another one for technical maintenance manager at the same hotel.


Skills

Level of Education
Bachelor / Licence
Areas of study
Technical & Maintenance
Professional experiences
2 years
Languages essential
English

Essential requirements

SKILLS / QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED
• OND/HND/BSc in Electrical Engineering or any other engineering course
• Trainings and certifications in engineering or maintenance management
• Minimum of 2 years work experience as a maintenance Manager or technician in a reputable hotel or organization
• Extensive knowledge of electrical and plumbing systems
• Ability to work well and without supervision
• Good management skills
• Ability to work over extensive time periods
• Ability to respond to guest complaints in a timely manner
• Excellent listening and communication skills

source : https://jobs.accor.com/Job-vacancy/Technicalmaintenance-manager+Ibis-lagos-ikeja,j,3,140545,en.html

SKILLS
Level of Education
Bachelor / Licence
Areas of study
Hospitality Management
Professional experiences
2 years
Languages essential
English
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS
SKILLS / QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED
• Minimum of OND/HND/Bachelor’s degree or any other relevant degree in Hotel/ Hospitality Management
• Certifications and trainings in Housekeeping Management
• Minimum of 2 years working experience as a housekeeper in a hotel
• Physical staying power and the ability to lift, push, pull or carry a minimum weight of 5lb (five pounds)
• Team leader
• Attention to detail and hygiene standards
• Guest oriented and outgoing
• Proficiency in the use of the computer
• Knowledge of cleaning agents and materials
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Source : https://jobs.accor.com/Job-vacancy/Housekeeping-team-leader+Ibis-lagos-ikeja,j,3,140481,en.html

Three women have been "rescued" from a south London house as police investigate claims they were held as slaves for 30 years.

Police arrested a 67-year-old man and a 67-year-old woman in Lambeth.

Last month officers were contacted by Freedom Charity after it received a call from a woman saying she had been held against her will for decades.

......

Source : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-25040741

Really very sad!

What a great and terrible loss!.

RIP Deji Falae. Your legacy endures.....

May God in his infinite mercies grant those you left behind the fortitude to bear your loss.

Essential Responsibilities:
- Assembly and test of equipment ensuring policies and procedures are stringently adhered to prevent EHS issues which should be carried out in a timely manner as per the work order routings
...

Qualifications/Requirements:
- Time served with C&G or Modern Apprenticeship with HNC. Alternatively NVQ Level 3 in a relevant Engineering discipline

see here for full details

http://jobs.gecareers.com/job/Mechanical-Fitter-Calabar-Job/20392100/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W_RSS

Here is a list of pharmacies selling Nicosan in Lagos, Rivers and Delta states. If you dont live in these areas and you need Nicosan you can call the company (08066042108, 08072310655, 08057347443) to ask directly.

LIST OF PHARMACIES WHERE NICOSAN™ IS AVAILABLE


RIVERS STATE

PORT HARCOURT LOCAL GOVERTNMENT BONNY LOCAL GOVERMENT

1. Barata Pharmacy 1. NLNG Clinic
#416 Ikwere Road,
Rumuokwuta Junction, 2. Mephar Pharmacy
Port Harourt, Akiama.
Rivers State.

2. Ebus Pharmacy AHOADA EAST/WEST
#5 Eastern Bypass,
Off Ogbunabali, 1. General Hospital
Port Harcourt, Pharmacy Department,
Rivers State. Ahoada.

3. C-Whyte Pharmacy 2. Ceecare Pharmacy
#110 Aggrey Road, Hospital Road,
Town, Port Harcourt, Ahoada Town.
Rivers State.

4. Capino Pharmacy
#3 Rumuokoro Street,
Port Harcourt,
Rivers State.

5. B. M. H. Pharmacy
#5 Hadley Street,
Off Government Drive,
Old G.R.A.,
Port Harcourt,
Rivers State.

6. Medicine Smart
#55 Evo Road,
G.R.A. Phase II,
Port Harcourt,
Rivers State.

7. New Mile 1 Hospital
Pharmacy Department
Port Harcourt,
Rivers State.

8. Niger Clinic
Emenike Street,
Diobu,
Port Harcourt,
Rivers State.

THE NAME OF OUR SALES REPRESENTATIVE FOR RIVERS STATE IS OGWO NGOZI
MOBILE PHONE #: +234-(0)-80-6465-5588 OR +234(0)-80-6522-0652
DELTA STATE

UGHELLI NORTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT

1. Onomere Pharmacy
Market Road,
Ughelli,
Delta State.

2. Double Chemist
PT 1 Road,
Ughelli,
Delta State.

3. Gaph Pharmacy,
Udu Road,
Warri,
Delta State.

WARRI SOUTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Rhokyn Pharmacy
Robert Road,
Warri,
Delta State.

WARRI CENTRAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT

1. Clinton Medicals,
By Hausa Quarters,
Warri,
Delta State.

2. Samtex Pharmacy
Omenta Street,
Warri,
Delta State.

3. Erimo Pharmacy
Hospital Road,
Ekpan.

4. Jon-Rose Pharmacy
After Community Bank
Ekpan.
LAGOS STATE

AMUWO-ODOFIN LOCAL GOVERNMENT

1. Pharmacare Pharmacy
51 Road, Opposite NITEL Gate,
Festac,
Lagos.

2. OSBUD Pharmacy
5th Avenue, G Close
Lagos Island.

EPE LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Bola Chemist
51 Campbell Street,
Lagos Island.

IBEJU / LEKKI LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Bola Chemist
51 Campbell Street,
Lagos Island.

OJO LOCAL GOVERNMENT
1. Bola Chemist
Bola Babs Animashaun Street,
Surulere,
Lagos.

2. Nemitt Pharmacy,
99, Western Avenue,
Opposite Abalti Barracks,
Ojuelegba,
Surulere, Lagos.


THE NAME OF OUR SALES REPRESENTATIVE FOR LAGOS STATE IS EMMANUEL KAYODE
MOBILE PHONE #: +234-(0)-80-3605-4898

Here are some answers to my earlier question :-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6646289.stm

"My son has sickle cell. It is a terrible thing to experience or witness. Whenever he is in crisis, I feel so sorry for him and cry with him. The pains are very severe. In Nigeria, a drug was discovered which I have been using since I got to know about it. For me, it is very effective indeed! But one has to take it every day. It is very expensive considering the low standard of living in Nigeria. The government should assist sickle cell sufferers just as they assist HIV/AIDS patients. Godwin
Godwin Ondoma, Abuja, Nigeria"

If anyone cares to share their experiences that would be great for the benefit of all who suffer from this difficult disease.

Read the full transcript here

http://blaxchillaxin.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11

Black Hope

I was told Xechem is constructing a factory in Abuja. Prior to this Nicosan(sickle cell drug manufactured by Xechem) was scarce. Is nicocan more readily available now.?

blackhope

Hey 216?,

I am surprised no-one responded to your question all this while. Perhaps a new topic discussing about sickle cell/Nicosan is in order.

Per your question, I heard you only need to take a capsule a day. Adults require a 350mg capsule and for children it is 250mg.

You may be able to find more information here :-

http://www.xechemnigeria.com/products.htm

By the way where do you get Nicosan from.? I may be mistaken, But from all indications it is currently only available in Abuja.

If anyone has the phone number of an Abuja pharmacy that has it in stock please post it here. That would be most hepful for anyone needing Nicosan.

cheers,

BlackHope

***Warning***.
Read this entire message carefully and completely. Do not sign up with this organization (www.cdtforever.com) or other similar Multi-level Marketing (MLM) organization.

A friend of mine asked me to help evaluate an investment opportunity provided by an MLM company(www.cdtforever.com) to see if they were genuine. It didn't take me long to conclude that they were far from genuine. I thought I should also share my thoughts with anyone else requiring similar information - so here goes :-

Beware of MLM schemes in general. Case in point is Canadian Diamond Trade Inc. a business opportunity that purports to generate generous returns (money and diamonds) when you invest in tranches of $100, $500, etc.

Read details on their unscrupulous offer here :-

http://www.pinkcks.com/CDT.html

In my humble opinion, Canadian Diamond Trade is an elaborate illegal MLM scheme created to defraud vulnerable innocent victims of their hard earned financial resources.

To find out more about them do a google search with the phrase "cdtforever scam" - you will hit a plethora of damning matches.

There are a few veiled attempts to refute the allegations that it is indeed a scam, but the sheer volume of allegations are staggering and far outweight the scant rebuttals.

Anyone promoting this fraudulent investment opportunity should be able to render credible answers to a few simple questions :-

1. Who are the company officers - i.e. president, CFO, etc and where is their contact information (coy address, mailing address, etc).?

2. What is the companies business model? I.e. how does the company make money and what is its competitive edge over other competitors.?

3. Who indeed are their competitors and what industry do they operate in?

4. Ask for audited financial statements - after all you need audited financial statements in order to make a sound business/investment decision.?

5. References - you can ask for references but they would likely provided paid references - take with a grain of salt any recommendations from references.

There are many more questions you can ask in order to satisfy yourself about the authenticity or otherwise of this suspect opportunity.

Here is an extract of someones actual experience with this fraudulent "investment" opportunity :-

http://mishkazena./2006/11/14/illegal-pyramid-scheme-targeted-at-md-deaf-people/

I found this at MLM blog and felt that I had to copy and paste this on your website.

“Thomas said on October 16th, 2006 at 11:47 pm:

Canadian Diamond Traders, Inc. founder discovered.

Last Spring I heard about Canadian Diamond Traders, Inc. through my deaf friends and visited their website. The diamond table explained on the website looked kind of authentic to me. I communicated with this deaf person, “Arnold” from Toronto through e-mail. He stated he worked for that company. I asked him who the founder was, and he said there was no founder. The company was founded by a deaf team.

He made such statements as:

* If you have $100 to invest and you know two other people with $100 to invest, you can make $3,000 over and over again;

* You earn commissions by referring other members to the program. When they make a purchase, you get credit for the sales; and

* The more people you directly sponsor, the faster you will cycle out and the more frequently you will cycle. The ideal is to sponsor at least two members as soon as possible.

I invested $100 without two people under me and got $250 in return. My excitement went through the roof. I sent a thank-you note to Arnold, and he said that week would be the hottest week for me if I got 2-4 people under me and invested more. If I invested $1,000 with 2-4 people under me, I would possibly get around $10,000. My temptation increased uncontrolably, and I invested more than that.

For a few weeks after my large investment to the company, I have not received one cent in return from the company. My concerns grew, and I sent over 50 e-mail messages to them. Not one word came to my mailbox from them. I lost my $15,000 to Canadian Diamond Traders, Inc.

My anger of being tricked grew. It took me 5 months to gather deaf victims and work together to trace Arnold and other people who worked at Canadian Diamond Traders, Inc.

I received from several “anonymous” informants that there was no Arnold.

The real person is ARTHUR WIESBLATT. He is deaf.

Wiesblatt was a founder of Canadian Diamond Traders, Inc. He recruited some people to be on the board to collect over $500,000 from the diamond table. None of them got a cut from him. They have no idea where he is now.

It’s a scam. It’s a pyramid scheme. I am now posting warnings all over the net and taking Arthur Wiesblatt to court and reporting their little scam to deaf victims.

Please do not invest your money to Canadian Diamond Traders, Inc. or Arthur Wiesblatt. If you are a victim, join us www.crimebustersnow.com, we will also prepare to file a complaint against Wiesblatt for a very minimal disperment cost with no fees unless you win.

Thomas D.”

BlackHope

See below URL for a NY times story about Kayode Fayemi.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/24/world/africa/24nigeria.html

ADO EKITI, Nigeria — Early one Sunday morning in June, a mysterious text message flashed across Kayode Fayemi’s cellphone.
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At local levels, in cities like Ado Ekiti, democracy is in trouble.

“Since you continue to oppose Governor Fayose, we shall kill you,” the message read, referring to the bare-knuckled incumbent at the time, Ayo Fayose. It was signed, “THE FAYOSE M SQUAD.”

Mr. Fayemi, a candidate for governor in this tiny state in southwest Nigeria, tried to brush off the threat. But if there was any doubt what the M in the message stood for, it evaporated six weeks later, when another candidate for governor, a World Bank consultant, was stabbed and bludgeoned to death in his bed.

So lucrative is public office here that even in a backwater like Ekiti, a state of only 2 million people in a nation of 130 million, the state house and the spoils that come with it are apparently worth killing for. Of Nigeria’s 36 governors, 31 are under federal investigation, mostly on suspicion of corruption, and 5 have already been impeached, including Mr. Fayose in October. He is now in hiding.

“This is democracy at work in Nigeria,” Mr. Fayemi muttered as he drove between campaign stops in Ekiti in early November. “Murder and money, violence and fraud.”

It has been seven boisterous years since Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation and an anchor for the entire region, shed its military rule and ostensibly became a democracy. But the transformation has been slow and stumbling, hobbled by a political culture of graft and intimidation that has led to widespread neglect and disillusionment.

Despite some progress by the government of President Olusegun Obasanjo in fighting corruption and improving the economy, Nigerians are deeply disappointed with how their country has turned out. In 2000, suffused with the euphoria of new freedoms, 84 percent of Nigerians said they were satisfied with the state of their new democracy, according to the Afrobarometer public opinion survey. But six years later, the same survey found that just 25 percent of Nigerians felt that way.

New democracies naturally suffer from the letdown of high expectations, but the drop in Nigeria is virtually unparalleled on the continent. Of the 12 African countries surveyed in 2005, only Zimbabwe, which the Bush administration has called an “outpost of tyranny,” had a lower score.

“Confidence in the new democracy has crashed,” said Peter Lewis, director of the African Studies program at Johns Hopkins University, who was among the researchers who conducted the survey. “Nigerians expected a democratic dividend in 1999. They expected more economic opportunity and better governance.”

In small states like Ekiti, it is plain to see why confidence in democracy has fallen so far, so fast. Nowhere is Nigeria’s democracy in deeper trouble than at the state and local levels, where the most bruising contests for power take place in a bloody, winner-take-all system in which the voters are all but superfluous.

“Greedy politicians are literally killing their own people by stealing the money for health care, for schools, for clean water, for everything the state should provide its people,” said Sola Adeyeye, a member of Nigeria’s national assembly who once served as a local government chairman.

In April, Nigeria is to hold its next election, choosing a president, governors and legislators in its third contest since making the transition to civilian rule in 1999, after 16 years of military domination. Though the election is still months away, political chaos and electoral violence are already gripping the nation.

The main political parties hold primaries in December, and the ruling People’s Democratic Party may splinter over its nominee. The wave of impeachments has left statehouses in disarray and sparked violence that has killed dozens.

If Mr. Obasanjo, who is barred from running again by the Constitution, successfully passes the baton to an elected president next spring, it will be the first time this troubled giant of a nation has handed over power from one civilian government to another. That would cement its place in the growing family of democratic nations in Africa and further stabilize an uneasy corner of the globe.

But if the election fails — and there are indications that it might, given the political chaos, electoral violence and lagging voter registration — analysts worry that a number of grim possibilities could play out, including a military takeover that could steer the country back toward despotism.

Failure would have broad consequences. One in six Africans is Nigerian. Nigeria is the fifth largest supplier of oil to the United States. It is the economic, social and political fulcrum on which West Africa balances.

I am curios to know who was on tthe manifest.



Blackhope

Your specific body metabolism (the rate at which your body burns calories ) and lifestyle (sedentary or active) and other factors determine your net weight gain or loss. For details on other factors see the below URL :-

http://menshealth.about.com/cs/diet/a/metabolism_faq.htm

and JIC you are accessing this forum from a mobile phone, here are some tidbits from the article :-

What affects metabolism?
What do you think has the biggest impact on your metabolism? Activity levels, thyroid function, and age do affect metabolism but not nearly as much as muscle tissue. The more muscle you have the more calories you burn regardless of how active you are, how old you are, etc. Muscle is metabolic reactive which means muscle burns calories even when you are doing nothing - 24 hours a day.

Here's a list of some of the factors affecting metabolism in order of greatest impact to least:

# 1. Muscle tissue.

# 2. Meal frequency. The longer you go between meals the more your metabolism slows down to conserve energy.

# 3. Activity level. activity is important but doesn't make any difference if you don't match your eating to your expenditure.

# 4. Food choices. Except low-fat diets which tend to result in poor hormone production which leads to a slower metabolism.

# 5. Hdyration. Over 70% of bodily functions take place in water - not enough water causes all your systems to slow down and causes unnecessary stress.

# 6. Genetics. Some people have higher metabolisms than others.

# 7. Hormone production and function.

# 8. Stress. Stress also can slow metabolism by placing extra strain on numerous systems. Many people tend to over eat when "stressed out"

03/21/2006

I lost quite some weight (65 pounds and counting) by going on a low carbohydrate diet. For that reason I would hate to advise anyone on how to GAIN weight!. But if you really have to (i.e for medical reasons, etc), perhaps you can try doing the opposite ;-

1. eat a lot of carbohydrates (garri, bread, pounded yam, etc)
2. eat high calorie foods.
3. eat very late at night
4. live a sedentary lifestyle
5. etc.

Good luck,

Black Hope

Hey Doc,

What is your opinion about nicosan (or is it niprisan). Apparently it is used to treat sickle cell in Nigeria. Here is my previous post about it.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-22744.0.html

Does it effectively treat sickle cell? How about siklavit? Are there other options for sickle cell treatment apart from these?.

Here is another story about the other drug sicklavit.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200609010326.html

please get back.

black hope

Here are a couple of interesting/promising articles about a new sickle cell drug developed in Nigeria called nicosan (aka niprisan) :-

Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo Launches Xechem's Sickle Cell Drug, NICOSAN(TM), in Nigeria
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060711/20060711005212.html?.v=1

Demand for New Sickle Cell Drug NICOSAN(TM) Far Exceeds Supply
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060726/20060726005261.html?.v=1

If these articles are anything to go by then this is a huge breakthough for Nigerian scientists and more importantly for sickle cell sufferers worldwide.

Is this for real or mere hype?

I am curios to know how effective this drug is?

Does anyone have any relevant information from personal experience or hear-say?. I would also be particularly interested in hearing from anyone who may have participated in the clinical trials leading to the NAFDAC approval.

Holler,

BlackHope