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NEW SPECIE OF EBOLA VIRUS FOUND IN SIERRA LEONE


The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the “massive destruction of 788 health facilities in North East by Boko Haram insurgents has weakened health system in the region.”

A new specie of Ebola virus has been found in bats in Sierra Leone, two years after the end of an outbreak that killed over 11,000 across West Africa, the government said on Thursday.

It is not yet known whether the new Bombali species of the virus — which researchers say could be transmitted to humans — can develop into the deadly Ebola disease.

“At this time, it is not yet known if the Bombali Ebola virus has been transmitted to people or if it causes disease in people but it has the potential to infect human cells,” Amara Jambai, a senior ministry of health official, told AFP.

“This is early stages of the findings,” Jambai added, calling on the public to remain calm while awaiting further research.

A health ministry spokesman and a researcher who worked on the discovery confirmed the findings to AFP.

Researchers who found the new virus in the northern Bombali region are now working with the Sierra Leone government to determine whether any humans were infected.

“As precautionary measures, people should refrain from eating bats,” Harold Thomas, health ministry spokesman told AFP.

The worst-ever Ebola outbreak started in December 2013 in southern Guinea before spreading to two neighbouring west African countries, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

The West African outbreak was caused by the Zaire species, which has historically been the most deadly in humans since it was first identified in 1976.

That outbreak killed more than 11,300 people out of nearly 29,000 registered cases, according to World Health Organization estimates. The WHO formally declared the epidemic over in 2016.

By AFP


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MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS BEFORE FOR REGISTRATION AND CERTIFICATION OF PEST CONTROL AGENTS

(as contained in the environmental Health Practice Regulation 2016)

EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS:
Minimum requirements to start operations includes:

i. Knapsack Sprayer (3)

ii. Fogging Machine (2)

iii. Swing fog Machine (1)

iv. PPEs (Coveralls sets, safety boots, nose masks, safety eye googles, etc)

v. Chemical formulations intended for use... including rat baits, rodenticide, anti snake, weed killers, and all pesticides

1.) OFFICE AND FACILITIES LAYOUT:

i. Adequate office space

ii. Bath room/toilet:

iii. Cloakroom: Check to ensure there is provision for adequate cloakroom where spray men are expected to keep there clothes and other personal belongings.

iv. Adequate water supply:- Check to see if there is adequate water supply source

v.) Chemical storage room: This must be adequately lighted and ventilated.
All chemicals must not be on stored on bare ground. Chemicals must be properly labeled.

vi) Chemicals storage rooms must be out of bounds to untrained personnel and visitors.

2.) PERSONNEL:

Any pest control outfit to be registered shall have a minimum of 2 spray men.

Note: The head of operations of the pest control company must be registered by the Council (EHORECON)

TRAINING OF EMPLOYEES:

The registered head of the pest control outfit who may also be the lead pest control operator, shall ensure that all his/her personnel are fully briefed and trained so that they are conversant with the following:

i. The requirements of this regulation and such other similar regulations.

ii. Safe handling of pesticides and equipment

iii. Safe use of Personal Protective devices such as face mask, hand gloves, eye goggles, boots, overall, nose mask, ear muffs, helmet.

iv. List of approved pesticides. This is very crucial such that the registered pest control outfits would be conversant with extant approved chemicals for pest control.

It is the mandatory responsibility of the Environmental Health Authority to carry out periodic training, workshops, seminars with requisite certifications etc to update all registered pest control outfits and also ensure that only approved chemicals are employed. In the same vein, the supervising environmental Health Officers must ensure that the final chemical formulations to be employed are not overly diluted and the potency not compromised during mixing.

NOTE: You may face prosecution for applying banned chemicals in your pest control practice.

5.) HANDLING OF PESTICIDES AND SAFETY OF SPRAY MEN:

i. In addition to provisions of section 10 of the Policy Guidelines on Pest and Vector control issued by Federal Ministry of Environment, 2005, the use of all chemical pesticides for pest control shall be done with extreme caution.

ii. All chemicals to be used shall conform with specification as contained in section 8.3 of the Policy Guideline on Pest and Vector control issued by Federal Ministry of Environment, 2005 and in Schedule X of this regulation.

iii. No pesticides as contained in Schedule XI of this regulation shall be used for pest control. They are banned.

iv. Facilities must be provided for first aid treatment of spray men and cases of accident or for prompt medical attention to a recognized hospital.

v. Spray men and the head of operation must produce medical report of fitness once every six (6) months from a recognized medical practitioners.

vi. All equipment used for formulation of pesticides shall be properly washed and cleansed, and stored in such a way that would not constitute danger of health of the public or pets.

DO NOT ALLOW UNTRAINED PERSONS TO ENTER CHEMICALS STORAGE ROOM OR GET INVOLVED IN THE PEST CONTROL EXCERCISE, UNLESS THEY HAVE BEEN TRAINED AND CERTIFIED.

DISPOSAL OF KILLED PEST

i. Killed pests shall not be disposed of as part of the domestic wastes but shall be considered as special wastes and be disposed of as such.

ii. Killed pests including rodents, cockroaches, etc shall be disposed of by burial under the ground or incinerated

iii. Such disposal shall not be done within a distance of 30m to a source of ground or surface supply.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF CLIENTS

1. Owners of premises infested with pest of public health importance must report such infestation to the Environmental Health Authority.

Below are chemical formulations approved by WHO as domestic pesticides. Theses are pesticides that are recommended forresidential/office applications for best results


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He did some boxing. That's why his face is strong-looking

Plastics, if not recycled, could take an average of seven hundred years for a single plastic bottle to decompose, according to the most recent report of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

The Lagos Waste Management Agency, LAWMA, reported that Lagosians generate 9,000 tonnes of waste daily and recycling is one of the best ways of managing waste, as it does less harm to the environment.

However, UNEP’s concern is that the high demand for plastic bottles is not commensurate with the effort put into recycling and most clog water ways, gutters and eventually transported into seas and oceans, where they can become hazardous to marine life and humans who feed on sea fish.

The managing director of LAWMA, Ola Oresanya, said Lagosians, especially those living in low income areas have poor waste management habits.
According to him, waste is supposed to be sorted from the home. “Sorting of waste is the key to the reuse, recycle and reduce campaign.

That is why we have introduced a LAWMA Recycling Bank, which shall be situated in every estate within the metropolis, to serve as a storehouse for recyclable materials such as cans, glass, plastics and paper.” He however is not too impressed at the culture of Nigerians towards wastes sorting.

A lot of people do have prolonged contact with their refuse, especially, at the point of collection. The sorting is supposed to be done at home, which is the generation point such that it makes it easier, then every waste will go through the right channel and recycling will be made easier.

A LAWMA official, who preferred to speak off-the-record at Olusosun, said the bottles brought to the recycling site are recycled, but he cannot vouch for LAWMA’s ability to reach everywhere in Lagos due to the huge population.

That means in the areas which cannot be reached, these bottles can either clog waterways, gutters, sit on landfill sites, or end up in rivers and oceans posing dangers to fish and other marine life, which often mistaken it for food as UNEP had reported.

TREE FELLING
In another visit to Okobaba Sawmill, Ebute Metta, Lagos, which is said to be the biggest sawmill in West Africa, elegant trees, once were the glory of the forest canopy, lay as dead logs on the floor of the mill.

Mr. O. Adebiyi, an exco member of the Sawmillers Association, said: “Everyday we bring in logs of wood from Ogun, and Ondo states. Wood is hot cake here and a plank of wood at the mill sells for N700 and there is a high demand for wood.”

Wood is often used for almost everything: furniture, building, energy, cooking fuel. When trees are felled, they are transported through the river to Okobaba for milling. Ironically, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change campaign for over a decade now frowns at deforestation of this kind.

Tree felling speeds up the process of deforestation, which in turn increases global warming. Since trees take away carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, cutting down trees means this gas, (which is the chief cause of global warming) remains there, and the process of burning during cooking stockpiles more carbon in the atmosphere.

“What these sawmillers do, is an offence punishable by planting 10 trees for every tree cut,” said Shabi Adebola, General Manager of the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA). “But these trees are not cut in Lagos, they are brought into Lagos,” he argued.

Notably, the Food and Agriculture Organization, (FAO) reports that every year, about three to six billion trees are felled worldwide. This demand for wood as fuel is reported to have led to an alarming rate of deforestation as the FAO estimates the net annual forest loss to be about 4 million hectares for the period 2000–2005.

The FAO report shows that trees are felled for the chief purpose of wood fuel. A similar report, ‘State of the World’s Forests’, shows that almost 90 percent of the wood removals in Africa are used for fuel, compared with less than 40 percent in the world at large.

Salisu Dahiru, coordinator of National REDD+ Programme, (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), said there is an alternative for the demand for wood, which is by planting bamboo tree.
“Bamboo can be grown, harvested and processed to serve the same purpose. It also takes three years to grow a bamboo tree, but it can take up to 100 years to grow a tall and mature timber tree.

But in Nigeria, bamboo is growing in the wild and people just clear it away when they want to use the land, not knowing that it is a good alternative,” he explained On the international scale, the Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR), an intergovernmental group based in Beijing, China, have also found bamboo and rattan to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals, since bamboo grows quickly and also absorbs carbon quickly.

Governments are urged to see it as a strategic forest resource in the battle against climate change.

A garbage heap


DIAPERS AND SANITARY TOWELS
Another consumer product leaving huge ecological footprint are diapers and sanitary towels. Just like plastic, experts have said that it takes 700 years for sanitary towels and 250-500 years for diapers to decompose, if they ever do.

The high demand for these products makes it of serious environmental concern.
Diapers are considerably more convenient than cloth nappies. Mothers say it is affordable, handy, easy to use, keeps baby buttocks dry thus preventing rashes, unlike the traditional cloth nappies which, although more environment- friendly, are launder-intensive and not so convinient especially when wet.

Oresanya, could not categorically tell the scale of diaper waste generated, but the largest manufacturer of diapers, Procter and Gamble, is reported to make an annual sale of USD8 billion worldwide. Studies have also shown that an average child will use between 5000-7000 diapers before becoming potty-trained at age two.

A diaper is made of an outer waterproof layer, polypropylene and an inner layer made of wood pulp, while the fluff decomposes easily, the outer takes between 250-500 years to degrade.

Oresanya said LAWMA is a major collector of waste for Procter and Gamble and is working on disinfecting their waste and recycling the fibre content. “We have a problem in this country and that is lack of waste sorting. All the waste is co-mingled.”

An environmentalist and director for the Basel Convention Regional Coordinating Center for Africa, Oladele Osinbajo, said: “We don’t manage waste in this country. We just dump waste. There is a difference between the two.”

He added that if not disinfected before dumping, the excreta on the pampers can form a leachate that can pollute ground surface water, thus leading to disease outbreak such as chiolera, dysentery and typhoid.

Sanitary towels / pads are made of super absorbent polymer and plastic that makes it hard to decompose. Similarly the cotton wool in the towel is bleached with chlorine, which releases toxic by-products, dioxin and furans, which are known to cause cancer in humans.

Worldwide, women of child bearing age are higher in population than menopausal women. For instance an average woman starts her menstrual period between ages 11-13 years and stops around 48-52.

Furthermore, data from the United Nations Aids for International Development (UNAIDS), show that Nigeria has more younger people than older people.
An average woman menstruates for about 3-5 days and uses an average of 2-3 sanitary towels a day.

In a year, therefore, she uses around 180 pads. In her fertile lifetime, which could be approximately 27 years, she uses a total of 6,500-7,000 pads. This figure tallies with a study conducted in India, where it has be shown that an average woman consumes 10,000 to 15,000 sanitary towles in her life time.

As with other wastes earlier identified, majority of these wastes are not sorted. Some clog waterways, block toilets, while several are sent to landfills, sewage treatment plants or end up in rivers or ocean killing fish and other marine life.

A study was conducted by the United States Center for Marine Conservation. The research shows that over 170,000 tampoon applicators were collected along US Coastal areas between 1998-1999.Similarly in Canada, over 12 billion sanitary pads and tampoons are disposed of each year. In Australia and New Zealand, the figure is well over 700 million tampoons and one billion pads. Daily in the UK, approximately 25 million tampoons, 1.4 million pads, 0.7 million panty liners are dumped in toilets

However, Teni Majekodunmi, an environmental lawyer and activist, believes there are no alternatives to sanitary towels.
“What we can do is to arrange proper disposable channels so they don’t clog water ways and to employ a sanitary disposal system.

Another thing that can be done is to make the sanitary pads smaller in size so we use less energy and also to get a machine that can shred it to pieces, leaving them as sanitary as possible,” she reasoned.

According to her, the government should make a law that allows the sanitary disposal of pads, diapers, etc from hotels, hospital and other public places such that it leaves no mark at all.

But the director of Transformation Centre (an NGO), Olutosin Oladosu- Adebowale, is providing alternatives to women through the rewashable sanitary towels, which she handmakes.
“We use loads of pads and we don’t dispose them well. But this one is rewashable, just add a little salt and dry and keep till next month and they are environmentally friendlier.

Let us examine some of the reusable / rewashable pads and diapers :
1.) Reusable Interlabial Pads:
“Interlabial” pads or “demi-pads” are made from the same washable materials as cloth pads, however serve “almost like a pad, almost like a tampon”. They are compact tubes, rectangular or oval-shaped material absorbent pads which are placed in between the labial folds and catch immediate flow. They have an absorbency similar to a regular tampon and are washed akin to cloth pads.

The Pros and Cons Of Using Reusable Menstruation Products | Stay At Home Mum

2.) Reusable Cloth Pads
Cloth pads are becoming a highly-popular option. They offer the convenience of a regular pad but with some suggested extra benefits. Cloth liners and pads come in a variety of shapes, styles, absorbency level, with or without waterproofing, with or without wings, even for postpartum use. They are used just like a disposable pad except without the “throw away at the end” final step. Instead, pads are washed, either by hand or by machine. Some users opt to soak in a lidded bucket to reduce or eliminate staining and wash in one lot. Others wash them day by day with the usual washing. There are many variations of how to launder cloth pads and it’s a case of finding what’s most convenient and suitable to you.

The Pros and Cons Of Using Reusable Menstruation Products | Stay At Home Mum


3.) Menstrual Cups
Made from healthcare-grade silicone, these devices are used to be inserted, collect menstrual blood, then emptied and washed before being reused. They come in two different sizes, for women who have and women who have not been through childbirth and can last for years. They come in a variety of styles and brands, but the general idea is they are a leak-proof funnel-shaped with a stem for removal.

The Pros and Cons Of Using Reusable Menstruation Products | Stay At Home Mum
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4.) Sea Sponges
Not entirely re-usable, but still more sustainable than disposable tampons, sea sponges can be used for 3-5 cycles. They are used like a tampon. You moisten them with clean water before use, insert, leave for 4-6 hours akin to a regular tampon, and then remove and rinse out with water before reinserting.

The Pros and Cons Of Using Reusable Menstruation Products | Stay At Home Mum


GOVERNMENT POLICIES
Oresanya concluded that public awareness and government policies will go along way in helping Nigerians embrace a healthy attitude to disposing their waste. “We are doing a lot, but there is still so much to be done,” he said.

On the other hand, Doyin Odubanjo, a public health practitioner and secretary of the Nigeria Academy of Science, said environmental sustainability is not an option. “Nigerians as well as the government should take climate change and environmental issues seriously,” he advised.

He remarked that the awareness is currently low. “It is because the government has not yet seen the importance. If the government continues to ignore these things, it is not that new diseases will emerge, but it will worsen the current diseases we are dealing with.

For example, malaria will worsen, cholera outbreak will worsen, cancers and respiratory diseases will be on the rise and all these will put pressure on the already existing weak health systems,” Odubanjo warned.

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wildernessVoice:
THE MOVE OF A DESPERATE PRESIDENT
By
Umar Ardo, Ph.D

The desperation of President Buhari to retain power at all costs has again manifested itself in his illegal act of both changing the National Democracy Day and the investiture of National Honours of GCFR posthumously to late MKO Abiola and GCON to Amb. Babagana Kingibe. Having realized that he has lost public support across the country as a result of his dismal performance in office, and poor handling of issues affecting his Political Party, the NASS, the Judiciary and key stakeholders of the country, particularly the Senate President, the Speaker, Presidents Obasanjo and Babangida, the president ill-advisedly came up with the so-called idea of making June 12 as Nigeria's �� Democracy Day and giving National Honours to Abiola and Kingibe.

There're two issues wrong with this move - i.e. legal and moral. Legally, the president has no powers to confer National Honours on anyone without the deliberation and advice of the National Council of States. The Third Schedule of the Constitution of Nigeria (as amended) at Section 6(a)iii confers on the NCS the powers to advise the president on the award of national honours. The fact is that the NCS didn't meet to deliberate and advise on this so-called investiture.

Secondly, the National Public Holidays Act has listed 29 May as a National Holiday being the country's Democracy Day. This means that the president can only change the Democracy Day if the Act is duly amended. And to the best of my knowledge this Act has not been amended. Therefore the president's pronouncement is unlawful and of no moment. The only thing is that his action has but further affirmed the president as a no-respecter of due process of law and constitutionalism.

On the moral side, the president cannot honour Babagana Kingibe on the basis of June 12 because Kingibe had abandoned Chief Abiola and the June 12 mandate when he joined his kinsman, General Abacha, and took a ministerial appointment in that regime. It's morally repugnant to now honour him for such an unsalutary act.

Besides, June 12 had never featured in Buhari's politics. He worked with Abacha who incarcerated Abiola and denied the actualization of the mandate and he never raised the issue of June 12. In his electioneering campaigns in 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015, June 12 was never in Buhari's political lexicon. For 3yrs as president he never uttered the phrase June 12. Even last week when he addressed the nation on May 29, June 12 was not mentioned. So how come all of a sudden, like a bolt out of the blue, June 12 became the new political darling of the president? There're three answers to it that I can harzard:-
1. President Buhari has realized that he has lost the support of the Nigerian people, particularly in the Southwest, and so he was tricked into making this palliative in the vein hope of reganering support to his fledging presidency;
2. That he is now at opened war with IBB who annulled the June 12 election and OBJ who is the main beneficiary of the resolution of the June 12 imbroglio, he is made to believe that with this move he would regain his support in the Southwest at the same time rubbish the two former presidents; and
3. Unknown to him, he's playing the political script of Babagana Kingibe and his kinsman, the COS to the president. To all intents and purposes, the two are scheming a succession move to Buhari himself where, in the event of Buhari's leaving office, Kingibe would've been well positioned to succeed him as president. Clearly, in the Northeast, no politician has Kingibe's profile. He was a Permanent Secretary, Ambassador, National Chairman of the SDP, Abiola's Running mate, Minister of Internal and External Affairs and Secretary to the Federal Government. Already, through their scheming, Kingibe has taken over the DNI, SSS and the villa. All they need is to resuscitate the spirit of June 12 to which Kingibe would be the major beneficiary. With the GCON conferred on him, the benefits have started dropping. This is a highly sophisticated political scheming that President Buhari wouldn't perceive.

Nevertheless, the president is so engrossed with the trapping of power and its retention that he could fall for anything. And how big has he fallen! What a great pity for Nigeria ��!! What a great pity!!!

Wake up from your slumber and self deceit.

Penalty82:
The African Democratic Congress , which has been adopted by Obasanjo , has warned the Federal Government that it will shut down the Presidential Villa if Obasanjo is harmed.
The Chairman of the ADC, Chief Okey Nwosu, said this during a telephone interview with our correspondent on Friday.
Nwosu said having failed to deliver on its campaign promises , the Buhari - led government had resorted to hounding opposition members into submission.
He said when Obasanjo was supporting Buhari during the run- up to the 2015 general elections; he was described as an advocate of change by Buhari and his supporters, but the same man was now being treated as a criminal because he was speaking against the government.

The ADC chairman said, “ What we are witnessing is the desperation of a failed government. When you have mediocre persons that are not focused on handling state power , they often go to dictatorial levels to try to achieve their aim but this time, the people of Nigeria and God are on our side and we will do what our country needs.

“ President Obasanjo cannot be touched. When in 2014 and 2015, he was in the vanguard of trying to effect change because of the situation then, they were applauding him as the champion of a new Nigeria .
“ Now that things have gone wrong in the area of security and economy and he is speaking out, they are now chasing the champion of new Nigeria . We will mobilise the whole of Nigeria to take over Aso Rock Villa if the government steps out of line.”
But two civil society organisations, Socio- Economic Rights and Accountability Project and the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, said Obasanjo should be ready to face trial if there was any evidence of financial mismanagement traced to his administration .


The SERAP Director , Adetokunbo Mumuni, said the former President ’s alarm of a witch- hunt by President Buhari was unnecessary as the anti -graft agencies must carry out their statutory responsibilities .
Mumuni said, “ The truth of the matter is that Buhari should not be the one to set the EFCC against anybody; the anti -graft agency should do its job , investigate allegations of crime against anybody and begin prosecution. That Obasanjo is crying foul will not stop the agencies from going after him , if indeed there are admissible evidences against him .

“ I don ’t think we should listen to Obasanjo . Rather , we should let the EFCC do what is legally appropriate and prosecute anyone who is supposed to be prosecuted . If Obasanjo has a case to answer , he should be ready to have his day in court under the due process.”
Also the CDHR President , Malachy Ugwummadu , said, “ Obasanjo should not play to the gallery. For me, it will be a huge positive development if this government can muster enough courage to take on Obasanjo .
“ If the government has credible information or evidence to take on Obasanjo , it will clearly show that all the people in the league of former presidents can be taken up .”



http://punchng.com/well-shutdown-aso-rock-if-obasanjo-is-touched-adc/

You can not. I mean you can not shutdown Aso Rock for even a minute. Reckless talk.

Oya Rivers state Governor Wike (Mr Project) over to you!

Abi is Xmas bonus illegal and unconstitutional? Or Amaechi don carry Xmas bonus go?

Well.. Lets hear you naa...
Over to you Gov Wike. How much you go pay?

Emmm...when, Gov Fayose of Ekiti, how much you go pay?
You nko Gov Yahaya Bello? Any hope?...lol

Nigerian Senator representing Ekiti State, Sylvester Ayodele Arise, has been reportedly kidnapped by unknown gunmen.

According to the Sun, the APC chieftain was reported by a very close and reliable source to have been abducted on his way to Abuja from Akure on Sunday night.

It was gathered that not much has been heard about his safety or likely release as the kidnappers are said to have gotten in touch with his family demanding a ransom of N80m.

We shall bring you details as they unfold later…

-The SUN

Please check your headline. ASUU is not mentioned in your story naa. Wetin come bring ASUU inside your headline?
Why not say :

SSANU, NASU, NAT TO RESUME INDEFINITE STRIKE ON MONDAY.??

[quote author post=62394170]useless VP, of what use is the picture now. people are suffering and u r posing for aerial pictures. I wish that jet can just crash so u enjoy d fun of hell as well. corrupt pastor

Disrespect / incessant insults to elders is a naked,
Evidence of poor home training / parental upbringing.
Its so sad.[/quote

magmack:
useless VP, of what use is the picture now. people are suffering and u r posing for aerial pictures. I wish that jet can just crash so u enjoy d fun of hell as well. corrupt pastor

Disrespect / incessant insults to elders is an
evidence of poor home training / parental upbringing.
Its so sad.

helobabe:
@GISTMORE

An elderly Man who wears double bra and disguises and himself as a woman, to lure people was forced to walk round town, after he was caught in Shanu Village, Minna, Niger state.

SOURCE https://www.gistmore.com/man-wears-double-bra-disguise-woman-caught-paraded-minna

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This na Hausa Bob Risky.....lol.

Cashio:
..no profitable reason bro.the drug is actually for cough but when taken in excess,it causes enough highing jst like alcohol and weed..so the exact reason why guys take it is merely to high

Please don't miss inform people. Sizzup or whatever its called is not the same thing as Codeine cough syrup.
Sizzup is a mixture of codeine cough syrup with promethazine and/or other substances. Sizzup is an abuse of drug itself.
Codeine cough syrup is a legitimate effective medicine formulation for strong chesty cough.
When taken in normal recommended dosage, codeine cough syrup is always very useful/helpful as far as chesty cough is concerned.
Are you aware that people sniff septic tanks to get high? So are you going to ban septic tanks in houses?

Let's do things right pls.

DONT BLAME CODEINE SYRUP, BLAME THOSE ABUSE IT:

Codeine syrup is not a bad medicine when taken in normal recommended dose. But the abuse is what is causing problems and remains alarming till date. It is worse when taken with alcohol and/or other psychotropics.

Why do people mix high dosage of codeine syrup with tramadol + alcohol? Its crazy and insane. Some even mix Indian hemp + strong alcohol + tramadol + overly high dosage of codeine syrup and later, even, take smoke cigarette as icing on the cake.

Its crazy, stupid and largely uninformed to take more than necessary . We must discourage the midsets of those who abuse the medicine and inadvertently kill themselves slowly in the guise of "highness".

Such mixtures are dangerous to health. You are killing yourself slowiy.

So people should stop accusing codeine syrup as the culprit, NO!
Codeine syrup is very active against chesty stubborn cough. People need it in our pharmacies for good health.

Making codeine syrup scarce to find is antisocial, and capable worsening cough attacks.
Ordinary cough syrup in linctus or expectorant forms may not always be effective in curing serious, protracted chesty coughs as codeine syrup would.

Its worse that codeine syrup is now very expensive to buy by the common man with chesty cough, but to also make it scarce is worst of it that could be done against the innocent majority and humanity as a whole.

Also it is very imperative at this point to let you know that not all codeine syrups contains promethazine as claimed by a Nairalander.
Promethazine itself is an antihistamine which is used clinically for the temporary relief of coughs and upper respiratory symptoms associated with allergy or the common cold. Further, prescription-strength promethazine combined with codeine cough syrup is legitimately used to treat allergies, bronchitis, the common cold, influenza, and sinusitis. The three main characteristics of promethazine include:
1. sedative effects
2. the ability to treat allergies
3. prevention or alleviation of nausea and vomiting (antiemetic)

So, its not the medicine that is a problem but those who abuse it by taking excess dossage or by mixing it with alcohol , Indian hemp etc just for the purpose of getting high. Its wrong.

Government and NGOs should establish rehabilitation centers to help those who wish to withdraw from addiction before making the codeine syrup out of reach else a lot of persons may die.

DEXTROVERT:
okay ooookay ooo



Op is high on cheapest liquor
how's Rivers 85billion less than Ogun 72b

meanwhile
lala and mynd4,
come and see something

Lol..... Asking the same question too o.....

kc2hansome:
I was as annoyed as you as I was reading their comments. GEJ initiated the probe that yielded the results. This how gullible some Nigerians are. APC has really technically brainwashed people. They can't read think independently again.

You must learn to put things in perspectives so as to help your understanding. If you keep politicizing everything, you wouldn't grow.
The report said GEJ did the probe, yes. But why not ask why GEJ never worked on the report findings and kept it away from Nigerians?
We are talking serious national issues, you are talking APC/PDP. Are you a learner?
WAKE UP YOUR UNDERSTANDING O!
#OURMUMUDONDO

nwabobo:
1.492 billion barrels of crude oil stolen? That is 678 days of Nigeria's total oil production at 2.2m barrels a day. I know Zombies are incapable of critical reasoning and they are all over this Lai generated post masturbating.

1.492 billion barrels of crude oil is almost 2 years of Nigeria's total oil production AT FULL CAPACITY guys. Learn to scrutinise and ask questions people, don't loan your brain to Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

What do you see as lies? You politicize any and everything in naija, why?
Why mention Lai Mohammed when the said report made no mention of him?
Next you would say its APC this or that.
Please grow up and let's rescue naija from these marauders that call themselves political leaders.
STOP POLITICIZING EVERYTHING!

fallout87:
APC has been the biggest mistake of Nigerians in recent memory.

It is a wonder they voted to bring this plague upon themselves.

The main problem of Nigeria is the poor /politicized mentality of youths especially.
Can't you discuss real issues without mentioning APC / PDP ?
When you get employed in an oil company, and they ask your report about their challenge (s), you would say it was caused by APC / PDP people? That's why they say Nigerian youths/graduates are UNEMPLOYABLE.
Very low mental reasoning!

rifasenate11:
this is the joke that this APC-led government has brought upon this country. we encounter stupid things each day.

What has APC or PDP got to do with this? Illiteracy and stark gullibility is really eating you up. Was it APC that bought the alcohol for him? He has enough money for alcohol and you blame APC .....

This writer is obviously contradicting himself at several points.
You just the looter is INNOCENT TILL PROVEN GUILTY. why then do you expect the EFCC to name public and detain such looters without final judgment from court?
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Oh! Fayose and PDP Why not advise yourselves (political class especially) to stop stealing the people's money.
Because you stole our money you shall be
humiliated all your life.
I urge PDP to also do the same when they reclaim power back in Nigeria if they live Nigeria better.
In fact, Why can't the PDP states prosecute the past APC governors that squandered state money in their states now? PDP governors tlak and make noise too much just to cover and protect looters.
Always , only APC prosecuting PDP thieves?
NA WA O. WAKE UP PDP GOVS. CLOSE MOUTH FAYOSE. DO THE RIGHT THING.

Bhol28:
They wont listen."Once a Maga,will always be a Maga"

Guy you are the real olodo maga. Your IQ is far below normal. Your stupidity is unequalled in the wide world.
You are abusing MMM participants as magas why? I am a participant of mmm Nigeria. I started MMM with just 500k in March, 2016 and I've made over 7.5m naira as at 1st week of December, 2016.
So haven't I benefited enough from MMM?
There are others too that earned even more than what I got. I'm happy today. You are wasting energy struggling to discredit and bring down mmm while I was busy using the MMM community to get so much cash that no bank can give me for saving that 500k in my account, just like you may be possibly doing.
Hey! Grow up! MMM will not crash. Frozen MARVROs for a month is purely administrative.
WAKE UP FROM YOUR SLUMBER.

SADISTS, HATERS AND MMM ENEMIES :
MMM WILL NOT CRASH! YES! LET ME DISAPPOINT YOU WITH THE INFORMATION THAT MMM WILL NOT CRASH.
What is wrong with some of you? So because marvros were frozen for a month you now interpret it as CRASHED? Please you people should give me a break. Is that how shallow your IQs are? I'm so shocked that you people would twist the mmm's one month frozen marvros information for a month.

Besides, if any MMM participant was fortunate enough to earn and withdraw 6m what is wrong? STOP BEING JEALOUS. WHY DISSEMINATE FAULSHOODS ABOUT MMM? IN OCTOBER, 2016, I WITHDREW 3.6 MILLION AFTER CLICKING THE GH BUTTON. WHATS WRONG WITH THAT?

PLEASE DONT BE IN A HURRY TO SEND WRONG SIGNALS TO PEOPLE. PLEASE BE PATIENT AND WAIT TILL THE ONE MONTH FROZEN PERIOD EXPIRES BEFORE YOU START RUNNING INTO DECEITFUL CONCLUSION.
MMM HAS NOT CRASHED AND WONT CRASH UNLESS FG TAKES SUCH STEPS TO CRASH IT.
HAVE YOU THOUGHT OUT HOW MUCH TRAFFIC THE MMM WEBSITES USE TO HAVE AND HOW MUCH IS EARNED FROM THAT TRAFFIC WORLDWIDE?
IF MMM NIGERIA IS FRUSTRATED BY THE FG AND YOUR LIKES, MMM WOULD STILL EXIST IN SOUTH AFRICA AND SO MANY OTHER COUNTRIES.
I ADVICE YOU NOT TO BE TOO HASTY IN YOUR CONCLUSIONS ABOUT MMM SET TO CRASH OR ALREADY CRASHED SO YOU DONT SOUND LIKE T. B. JOSHUA AND HIS FAILED USA ELECTION .
PREDICTION.
MMM IS NOT GOING TO CRASH.
IF MMM IS TRULY A PONZY THEY WOULDN'T HAVE SENT THAT INFORMATION ABOUT FROZEN MARVROs FOR A MONTH AND NOT INDEFINITELY.
PLEASE LEAVE MMM ALONE. MMM WILL NOT CRASH.

I can assure you all, naira landers, that PROJECT 1-9-90 is very real and lucrative. It has a lot of platforms to make cool and less risky cash in foreign currency (dollars).
Pls waste no time any more. Sign up now.

Naija na wa o! Any animal wey una see for bush na kill and chop. Una no dey rescue wild animal and relocate dam to their wild abode/habitat?
If na oyibo people now, dem for save the specie and relocate dem to their kinds safely. My naija brothers/ sisters this "eat all mentality " is not civilized at all.
Please change your orientation now before una go end up eating the last of a rare and endangered species...

From CRUNCHES? OMG!

This time Gov FAYOSE is really on point and I'm with him fully.

Great! Thanks.

Kullant:
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It's unfortunate you are not even human. From your response it's clear you are a chipmunk. So ship up when humans are talking...

[quote author=reverendfather post=46326793]ehya get well soon
but, was I so blind to have voted this old man into power[/quote is old age a sin now? If so you shall not grow to old age.
You just only responded like a child! ] I'm sure you are a student (child) in school. Grow up!

I jump and pass...