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mrkel:
The Nigerian military authority came up with a code of conduct/ethics some months back , which seeks to restrain soldiers from posting pictures of themselves in uniform on Facebook. Am sure the young man will face disciplinary action, if not outright dismissal for going contrary to the policy and also bringing the Army authority into disrepute .

Would you say this same thing if u have lost a dear relative in the army who died fighting bh without sufficient weapons. Just asking?

Akwasi:
No wonder the Boko Haram guys are killing these people. There is no discipline at all. How can you address such issues on social media as a soldier when you have superiors?

I suspect they do as they please and that is why they are being slaughtered by the Boko Haram

Would you say this same thing if u have lost a dear relative in the army who died fighting bh without sufficient weapons. Just asking?

A scientist in China claims to have created the world’s first genetically edited babies, in a potentially ground-breaking and controversial medical first.

If true, it would be a profound leap of science and ethics. This kind of gene editing is banned in most countries as the technology is still experimental and DNA changes can pass to future generations, potentially with unforeseen side-effects.

Many mainstream scientists think it is too unsafe to try, and some denounced the Chinese report as human experimentation
The researcher, He Jiankui of Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, said he altered embryos for seven couples during fertility treatments, with one pregnancy resulting so far. He said his goal was not to cure or prevent an inherited disease, but to try to bestow a trait that few people naturally have: an ability to resist possible future infection with HIV.

He revealed it on Monday in Hong Kong to one of the organisers of an international conference on gene editing that is due to begin on Tuesday, and earlier in interviews with the Associated Press.

“I feel a strong responsibility that it’s not just to make a first, but also make it an example,” He said. “Society will decide what to do next” in terms of allowing or forbidding such science.

Some scientists were astounded to hear of the claim and strongly condemned it. It was “unconscionable … an experiment on human beings that is not morally or ethically defensible,” said Dr Kiran Musunuru, a University of Pennsylvania gene-editing expert.

“If true, this experiment is monstrous,” said Julian Savulescu, a professor of practical ethics at the University of Oxford. “The embryos were healthy. No known diseases. Gene editing itself is experimental and is still associated with off-target mutations, capable of causing genetic problems early and later in life, including the development of cancer.”

In recent years, scientists have discovered a relatively easy way to edit genes, the strands of DNA that govern the body. The tool, called Crispr-Cas9, makes it possible to operate on DNA to supply a needed gene or disable one that is causing problems.

It has only recently been tried in adults to treat deadly diseases, and the changes are confined to that person. If sperm, eggs or embryos were to be edited, the changes could then be inherited.

He Jiankui studied at Rice and Stanford universities in the US before returning to his homeland to open a lab at Southern University of Science and Technology of China in Shenzhen, where he also has two genetics companies.

He said he practised editing mice, monkey and human embryos in the lab for several years and has applied for patents on his methods. He said he chose embryo gene editing for HIV because these infections are a major problem in China. He sought to disable a gene called CCR5 that forms a protein doorway that allows HIV, the virus that causes Aids, to enter a cell.

All of the men in the project had HIV and all of the women did not, but the gene editing was not aimed at preventing the small risk of transmission, he said. The fathers had their infections deeply suppressed by standard HIV medicines and there are simple ways to keep them from infecting offspring that do not involve altering genes. Instead, the appeal was to offer couples affected by HIV a chance to have a child that might be protected from a similar fate.

He said the gene editing occurred during in vitro fertilisation. First, sperm was “washed” to separate it from semen, in which HIV can lurk. A single sperm was placed into a single egg to create an embryo. Then the gene-editing tool was added. When the embryos were three to five days old, a few cells were removed and checked for editing. Couples could choose whether to use edited or unedited embryos for pregnancy attempts. In all, 16 of 22 embryos were edited, and 11 embryos were used in six implant attempts before the twin pregnancy was achieved, He said.


There also are questions about the way He said he proceeded. He gave official notice of his work long after he said he started it, on 8 November. It is also unclear whether participants fully understood the purpose and potential risks and benefits; for example, consent forms called the project an Aids vaccine development programme.

He said he personally made the goals clear and told participants that embryo gene editing had never been tried before and carried risks. He said he also would provide insurance coverage for any children conceived through the project and plans medical follow-up until the children are 18, and longer if they agree once they are adults.

“I believe this is going to help the families and their children,” He said. If it caused unwanted side-effects or harm, “I would feel the same pain as they do and it’s going to be my own responsibility”.

https://www.google.com.ng/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/26/worlds-first-gene-edited-babies-created-in-china-claims-scientist

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The problem with Nigerians.
That's how GEJ was showered with much love only for him to come and mess up.

PMB was seen as an impeccable solution to clear GEJ's mess only for him to come and worsen the mess.
Everybody is shouting Aticulated now I sincerely hope we don't end up shockulated is he wins.
The bitter truth is that Atiku like many other power hungry Northerners has nothing to offer aside personal interest. His selling point is Peter Obi. I just wish he doesn't end up ruining Peter Obi's pedigree like PMB ruined Osinbanjo's.
Nigerians quickly forgot Atiku's antecedents and Political harlotry and started chanting 'Articulated' immediately he wittingly chose Peter Obi as running mate.
The problem of this country will never end if:
1. we don't rise up and stop recycling these old men.
2. Employment into government establishments are still seen as testimony jobs over skill acquisition, entrepreneurship and industrialization.
3. Political offices whether elective or appointive are not made as unattractive as possible by limiting the exercise of absolute power associated with each respective portfolio.
4.the sharp religious and ethno tribal division lines are still in existence.
5. The government keep promoting and sponsoring religious activities and pilgrimages as well as integrating religious activities into issues of National interest.
6. If it's only Lagos seaports that are fully functional for commercial activities.
7. If the rate of imports remain higher than the rate of exports.
8. If all public office holders and political office holders are not ABSOLUTELY BANNNED from embarking on any form of medical trip or vacation abroad.
9. The government keep patronizing manufacturers that don't have production plants in Nigeria.
10. If the remuneration of all political office holders especially NASS members, Governors and ministers are still mysterious.
11. NASS members are still being given funds to handle projects in their constituencies.
12. If the executive at both state level and federal level keep appeasing their respective legislators with outrageous offers like cash, houses, cars and 'monetization' of properties that ought to have been strictly for incumbent office holders only.
To mention but a few.

63million doesn't sound like a distress sale call for this property.

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The story is so sketchy

Oh gosh. Just hope that this madness doesn't start amongst Nigerian youths

October18:
who gave this idiot license to nairaland?

Since u can't air your view without insults now go home and fvck the slimy snail poocy of your wh0re of a mother with savage goat's dick and and have your m0ron of a father lick it's cum since he can't give account of your birth. I won't honour you with further replies and I dedicate your future insults to your parents, household and future generations.

October18:
who gave this idiot license to nairaland?

Since u can't air your view without insults now go home and fvck the slimy snail poocy of your wh0re of a mother with savage goat's dick and and have your m0ron of a father lick it's cum since he can't give account of your birth. I won't honour you with further replies and I dedicate your future insults to your parents, household and future generations

How cute guys go after wowo girls

Whats the distance of the reconstructed area

Stay away from the links. Those are malware designed for identity theft and cause your phone to malfunction. . Be warned. I repeat don't click any of the links

Liliyann:
Your mates are spending more than that on their girl and you are here crying coz of 500k!!!

If you are truly in love with that girl, everything about her should come first!!
I can't date someone that doesn't have the welfare of my family at heart!!
So, you allowed her to use the money to settle family issues when you could have done it as her boyfriend!!

You are such a pathetic broke ass guy!
Free that girl so that she can be with someone that loves and value her!!

baffles me how ladies think their pussy is an investment. Reasonable ladies have values and are hardworking and are asserts to their men. My sisters are good examples. Thank God Wh0res are revealing themselves

Pureety:
Op you said she used the money in settling family issues? Its not like she used it to go shopping for herself or on frivolous things!!

To her, family comes first, probably she didn't want to be selfish and use the money on herself while her family are in pressing need of money!!

If this is your reason for breaking up then you were never in love with that lady!!

Na wao. Would you say the same thing if your brother was the guy in question. The kind of things people put in their homes as wives sha

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You didn't mention their salary structure and you are asking

What a happy country. His inability is taking him higher

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Afonja and sex

Monkey Assassins. Bothers me how the monkeys throw without missing.

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She's living with a disorder, I don't see any need in people making derogatory remarks about the challenge she's facing. I tell you most solemnly even with her uncommon hairs she looks more beautiful than most girls and the wives/girlfriends of many people ranting facelessly on nairaland.