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Nigeria’s U-20 Women national team star, Courtney Dike, has explained why she rejected bonus payments at the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup finals in Canada.

The Oklahoma State University student wrote in a mail: “I would like to respond to what I have been reading on the internet about rejecting bonuses.

“I am delighted to play for Nigeria whenever called upon. I knew before leaving for the U-20 World Cup that I would not accept any bonuses. Acceptance of prize money is against NCAA regulations (the division 1 collegiate governing body) here in the US, so that is the main reason for rejecting it.

“Knowing this beforehand, I still chose to represent the country because I believed the experience would be more valuable than the money, and I was right.”

Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/11/dike-clears-air-bonus-issue/

Good to know that Nigeria foreign reserve would be used to buy cosmetics if her husband is elected.

APC is indeed a party of noise makers!

This should be in the joke section please moderator.

Students are often keen to exercise their rights but recently there has been an interesting twist - some in India are talking about their right to cheat in university exams.

"It is our democratic right!" a thin, addled-looking man named Pratap Singh once said to me as he stood, chai in hand, outside his university in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.

"Cheating is our birthright."

Corruption in the university exam system is common in this part of India.

The rich can bribe their way to examination success. There's even a whole subset of the youth population who are brokers between desperate students and avaricious administrators.

Then there's another class of student altogether, who are so well known locally - so renowned for their political links - invigilators dare not touch them. I've heard that these local thugs sometimes leave daggers on their desk in the exam hall.

It's a sign to invigilators: "Leave me alone... or else."So if those with money or political influence can cheat, poorer students ask, why shouldn't they?

They make other arguments too.

When I was working in western Uttar Pradesh, Singh ushered me into the bowels of a smoky canteen in the middle of his campus. Kicking a stray dog off a chair, he took out a packet of cigarettes.

"India's university system is in crisis," he began, lighting up and blowing the smoke towards the ceiling.

"Cheating happens at every level. Students bribe to get admission and good results. Research students get professors to write their dissertations. And the professors cheat too, publishing articles in bogus journals.

"I sympathised with Singh. On one occasion, the registrar at a college in Uttar Pradesh sent masters students' dissertations to be graded by students at another college. This type of thing is common, but in this case, school pupils ended up marking masters-level work."I honestly don't know whether to laugh or cry," he said, hunched over the Formica table in the canteen and shooing away the flies.

"The equipment in our science labs should be ripped out and thrown down a well," he added.

"It is like universities were in the 1950s in Britain."

A while back, I brought up the topic with Pinki Singh, in the female hostel of a prominent college in Uttar Pradesh. We were sitting in a space that was half study area and half courtyard for urban livestock.

"I will tell you about education," she said.

"The curriculum is poor,and when lecturers won't teach properly, you have to get private tutorials or just memorise from textbooks."

"If you really want to know the truth," she added, "there's no point in studying properly. You just need to buy one of the cheat books sold in the bazaar and learn the answers."

"In my first year doing history I tried to study properly, but my seniors just told me: 'Buy the cheat books.'

"Some of the new private universities are no better. She told me about one that was established recently, calling itself Zap University.Students paid large sums of money to enrol online, but then the university just disappeared from the internet. It had no physical location and no trace could be found on the web. Pinki Singh told me: "It just went 'zap'".

As I think back to these conversations, I conjure up in my mind an image of the universities I've seen in Uttar Pradesh. Etchedin my memory are mouldering books, leaky hostels and bare lawns.And then I remember the signs of opulence that surround some of this decay. The expensive SUVs and three-storey houses of the principals, the fancy shopping malls and the few universities in the region that are genuinely offering world class education - their flashy signboards and glass fronts mocking the ordinary colleges.

The question is, what's the solution?

When pro-cheating rallies were held in Uttar Pradeshin the early 1990s, the state's chief minister gave in to demands and repealed an anti-copying act -he actually allowed students to cheat.

Prime Minister Modi's approach is different. He's trying to change things. There is a new regulation system for higher education. Funding for universities increased by about a fifth in the most recent Five Year Plan from central government.But such reforms are like a cuminseed in a camel's mouth. And anyway, delivering education is the job of Indian states rather than central government, and states like Uttar Pradesh are not investing properly in provincial universities.This leaves many students marooned by modernity, clinging to the sinking ship of an outdated university education.

The right to cheat agitation is no oddity - it is an ironic comment on India today.

Source: http://m.bbc.com/news/magazine-29950843

Like seriously?

any webmaster in akure? I need a physical tutorial on this.

Interesting!

WebHostingPal:
Sounds like someone is asking for a free hosting... If this is true, you will probably loose your site. I think web hosting is now fairly cheap in Nigeria.

https://www.hostnigeria.com.ng

No, always read previous comments and make sure you understand it fully before dropping comment next time.

I just wanted the code and host it with Hostgator cos most Nigerian hosts are unreliable but he told me he will charge me 2x but if I host it with him with the conditions above,he will charge me x amount.His host is bluehost and I later understood he wanted to play smart because he knew I was a novice.

WebHostingPal:
Sounds like someone is asking for a free hosting... If this is true, you will probably loose your site. I think web hosting is now fairly cheap in Nigeria.

https://www.hostnigeria.com.ng

No, always read previous comments and make sure you understand it fully before dropping comment next time.

I just wanted the code and host it with Hostgator cos most Nigerian hosts are unreliable but he told me he will charge me 2x but if I host it with him with the conditions above,he will charge me x amount.His host is bluehost and I later understood he wanted to play smart because he knew I was a novice.

bedfordng:
you are financing everything and yet you still want to be an admin for what you are paying for.i don't know maybe there is still somethings you guys have agreed uppon but this is not worth the stress.if you don't pay for it, who will

Like I said in my earlier post,I'M A NOVICE that was why I asked for the advice earlier on.

Thanks all for this,I won't then.

Cutehector4u and cbrass, I have the idea and was looking for a person to help me develop the forum. I'm also responsible for the finance,I only contacted him to help me design it and I will pay him for the service.

How the above conditions came to be is on the issue of his charges. He said if I just want the script, he will give me at 2x but if I want him to host it for him using his host,he will give me the total package at half of that amount plus the above conditions. I have not seen him before nor know him in person.

Cutehector4u:
Seems like u want to be like the d co founder of facebook who lost his rights ..

Thanks friend.although I don't FULLY understand your submission,what do you suggest I do or ask for in this case?

Good evening programmers and computer gurus in the house.

I'm interested in starting a forum just like nairaland with a focus on a narrow niche. I contacted someone who promised to help me out with the following conditions:

1. That I host it with him.
2. That I will not have access to the hosting account but will have access only to the ADMIN section only.
3. That he won't transfer the script to me until after sometime.

Do you think it's a good thing? What are the disadvantages of this deal? I'm a novice but won't want to make a mistake I will regret later.

Bamako, Mali (CNN)-- A 2-year-old girl in Mali has been diagnosed with Ebola, making her the West African country's first confirmed case, health officials said Thursday.

The girl was brought to Mali from neighboring Guinea, where the outbreak this year is believed to have started, World Health Organization spokeswoman Yvette Bivigou said.


The girl, whose father died of Ebola,was taken to the hospital in Kayes after a nurse noticed she was suffering from what appeared to be Ebola-like symptoms.

A test confirmed the girl has Ebola, Health Ministry spokeswoman Markatie Daou said."The girl is still in the hospital in Kayes together with members of her family who might have been exposed to the virus," she said.

The confirmed case in Mali makes it the sixth West African country to be hit by the virus, which the WHO reported has killed more than 4,800 people.


Ousmane Kone, Mali's minister for public health, called for people in Kayes, west of the capital city of Bamako, to "stay calm" and observe"hygiene measures."

"We identified the first contacts of the patient," he said. Even so, he asked anyone who had contact with the girl to contact authorities.

The news comes just days after the WHO announced that vaccine trials are expected to begin in January in West Africa.The initial vaccine tests are being given to volunteers in countries such as Mali, the United States and England.

Source: CNNhttp://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/23/world/africa/ebola-mali/

Nice but this is an old news posted in punch newspaper since June 2012. Never knew old news could make front-page here.

Thanks for this op

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, where the first Ebola patient diagnosed on US soil is currently in isolation.

An employee of a Dallas hospital has tested positive forthe Ebola virus, NBC News reports.

The employee works for Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital,where an Ebola patient from Liberia died earlier this week.

Texas Department of State Health Services Commissioner David Lakey told NBC News:"We knew a second case couldbe a reality, and we've been preparing for this possibility. We are broadening our team in Dallas and working with extreme diligence to prevent further spread."

Developing...

source: http://www.businessinsider.com/dallas-hospital-employee-tests-positive-for-ebola-2014-10?utm_content=bufferb5cd8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Is there a formula for lasting love?

The formula for the perfect first date, well that's easy;

Candlelit dinner + kissing = a call back.

The perfect relationship?

Timing + communication x mutual attraction – emotional baggage = intimacy.

Pen.is + pulse = One night stand.

Relationships seem simple when you put them like that.And yet we've all had those romances where the sums seem to add up, where the right boxes were ticked and the scores were even... but somehow it doesn't add up to love.

Love is frustrating, elusive, intangible. It starts in that sweet spot between intimacy and excitement which is impossible to manufacture and tiring to maintain.

Can the algorithms of online dating sites or indeed the long odds of stumbling upon your perfect partner down the local pub ever predict where, when or for how long cupid will strike?

Whilst science has not yet manufactured the perfect partner, mathematicians are claiming to have found the formula that predicts how long love will last.

Research commissioned by MSN has revealed a new love equation that determines the key ingredients to a successful, long-lasting relationship – with factors such as a good sense of humor ranking in importance alongside a person's number of previous sexual partners.

According to the 2,000 males and females surveyed, 25 per cent of both men and women believe their partner should have had four sexual partners before them (with one in five men clinging to the traditional belief that they should be their ideal woman’s “first”).

The survey also found that men prioritize looks over intelligence and are twice as likely as women to believe that good sex is important for a happy, enduring relationship.

The biggest surprise for me was that the number one trait we're all apparently after is wit.

So there you go, it's not sex-appeal but sparkling banter that'll make you a hit with the opposite sex.It is claimed that the resulting formula (L = 8 + .5Y - .2P +.9Hm + .3Mf + J - .3G - .5(Sm - Sf)2 + I + 1.5C - see key below) can determine how long a potential or current relationship can be expected to last.

Does it really work? I decided to test the hypothesis through extremely scientific means (in other words, by broadcasting to the world, via Twitter, that I am single and ready to mingle in a mathematically-approved fashion).

I applied the formula to various unsuspecting male friends and volunteers over the course of an afternoon, and eventually found a man with whom love would apparently last 12.9 years.Only trouble is... I don't fancy him.

And despite the 12.9 happy years I could offer him, he doesn't particularly fancy giving it a go either. That's science for you. Back to the drawing board.


The formula explained:

L = 8 + .5Y - .2P + .9Hm + .3Mf+ J - .3G - .5(Sm - Sf)2 + I + 1.5C

L: The predicted length in years of the relationship

Y: The number of years the two people knew each other before the relationship became serious

P: The number of previous partners of both people added together

Hm: The importance the male partner attaches to honesty in the relationship

Mf : The importance the female attaches to money in the relationship

J: The importance both attach to humor (added together)

G: The importance both attach to good looks (added together)

Sm and Sf = The importance male and female attach to sex

I = The importance attached to having good in-laws (added together)

C= The importance attached to children in the relationship (added together)

Note: All 'importance' measures can be scaled from 1 to 5 where 1 is not important at all and 5 is very important.

Research findings for same sex couples differed slightly from heterosexual couples and so the formula changes slightly in light of this to L = 8+ .5Y - .2P + 2J - .3G - .5(S1 - S2)2 - I + 1.5C (where S1 and S2 are the two partner’s ratings for the importance of sex).

Source:http://www.businessinsider.com/mathematicians-claim-to-have-discovered-the-formula-for-love-2014-3?utm_content=buffer4f126&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

(CNN)-- His family is devastated. The woman he planned to marry haunted by the "what ifs." And many are wondering why Thomas Eric Duncan died when several other Ebola patients treated in the United States survived.

Duncan was hospitalized eight days after he arrived from Liberia, and later tested positive for Ebola. He died Wednesday.

Here are six ways his case differs from other patients in the U.S.:

Duncan wasn't hospitalizedright away

Unlike the American patients, who were quickly tested and quarantined at the first sign of Ebola, Duncan wasn't.

Duncan arrived in Dallas from Liberia on September 20, and made his initial visit to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital on September 25.He was treated for a fever, vomiting and abdominal pain -- all symptomsof Ebola. But he was sent home with antibiotics and was not screened for the virus.

Relatives say he told hospital staff he'd come from Liberia.Three days later, he was hospitalized in worse condition, andwas quickly isolated. He became the first case of the deadly virus diagnosed on American soil.

"What if they had taken him right away? And what if they had been able to get treatment to him earlier?" said Pastor George Mason of Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas

He didn't get anexperimental drug immediately

Duncan received experimental medicine on October 4 -- six days after admission to hospital. It was a far longer wait than four other Ebola patients treated in the United States.

Those patients -- two each at Atlanta's Emory University Hospital and the University of Nebraska Medical Center -- got experimental medicine immediately. They're all U.S. citizens;

Duncan was a Liberian.

His family is claiming bias.

"We feel he didn't get the medicine and treatment for the disease because he's African and they don't consider him as important as the other three," said Josephus Weeks, his nephew.

Not so, the hospital says.

Since the drugs are still experimental, individual hospitals have to file the paperwork with the Food and Drug Administration for permission to use it. The hospital declined to tell CNN when it filed for permission.

He was given a different experimental drug

Duncan got the experimental drug, Brincidofovir.Three patients who survived after treatment in the U.S. received a different drug, ZMapp.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said ZMapp has since been depleted.

"There is, as far as we understand, no more of it in the world. And while people are working hard to manufacture more, it takes a long time to develop," said Dr. Tom Frieden, the CDC director.

A fourth patient, NBC cameraman Ashoka Mukpo, who got infected in Liberia and was airlifted to Nebraska on Sunday, got the same drug as Duncan.

The hospital treating him had no advance notice

The Atlanta and Nebraska facilities knew in advance they were expecting Ebola patients, a crucial element for a disease so rare in the United States.

Hospitals that took care of the four are also among the most well-equipped nationwide to battle the deadly virus.Despite lack of notification, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital said Duncan got top-notch care and his medical team consulted daily with the CDC and Emory.

Information on his case has been muddled

Details on Duncan's background have not been as clear-cut.His relatives said he made it clear to the hospital that he had just come from Liberia. His symptoms pointed at Ebola, they said.

Initially, the hospital said Duncan was "not exhibiting symptoms specific to Ebola" when he first went to the hospital. And, they said,details about his travel history weren't communicated to doctors.

But later, the hospital said a flaw in electronic records had kept doctors from seeing his travel history. Then they said his travel history had been documented and was available to his care team.

Family believes his insurance status played a role

Duncan had just arrived from Liberia to visit his girlfriend and son, and probably had no insurance.The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who's serving as a spokesman for the family, said that was a concern.

"I would tend to think that those who do not have insurance, those who do not have Medicaid do not have the same priorities as those who do," the civil rights leader said.But the hospital denied the claim.

Duncan was treated like everyone else "regardless of nationality or ability to pay for care," the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital said.

Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/09/health/ebola-duncan-death-cause/index.html

Do you think Eric Duncan would have died if he was an American? Have your say.

The Ebola patient in an isolation unit in a Texas hosptial, Thomas Eric Duncan, has died, officials said today.

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/texas-ebola-patient-thomas-eric-duncan-died/story?id=26045360

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Great

Hmmm

I said it then that the Prof was paid by National Association of Ewedu seller in order to promote their product; immediate arrest and prosecution will be fine But I trust my country,this is Just an empty threat.