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EducationRe: Unizik by Drdonald4(m): 3:15pm On Dec 12, 2010
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CrimeRe: Imsu Now Evan Enwerem University Undergraduate Is Dead,caused By A Nurse by Drdonald4(op): 10:54am On Dec 11, 2010
Thessy did not have that amount of money. Ugwum could stay with the hospital until the following morning when the debt would be cleared. That did not impress the hospital. All the pleading fell on deaf ears. She had to call her brother, Chidi, in Owerri to bring the money.

By the time Chidi arrived to pay the money, it was about 11 pm and Chika was gradually passing away. After the payment of the money, the family was permitted to take Chika. It was not until about 12.30 am that they reached the Federal Medical Centre, Owerri.

At the FMC, there was no space. Accident victims that were strong enough were even receiving treatment in the corridor. They referred the case to the General Hospital, Umuguma.

By the time they arrived at the General Hospital, it was about 2 am and Chika had given up. The doctor pronounced her dead on arrival.

At Mbano, Thessy’s maternal home, where family members had gathered to put finishing touches to the preparations for Eucharia’s wedding, the news of the accident was devastating.

The meeting turned into a vigil of prayers, where they battled till about 2 am when they heard that Chika was dead.

For Eucharia, the wedding was over. She insisted that she was no longer interested in the wedding. Everybody had to do their best to talk her into rescinding the decision.

From the mother of the dead came the shout on the phone, “Eucharia, you will kill me finally if you don’t go ahead with the wedding.”

“Why are you all here?” Thessy asked family members who had gathered around her on Saturday morning. “That is Eucharia is saying she was no longer wedding. Please go and stay with her,” she said amidst sobbing.

“Now I have washed my hands to crack palm kernel for fowl. When others were dressing well, I decided to train my children. Now, the good thing coming my way is gone. Where is Chika? Where is Chika?” Thessy, who retired as a school principal earlier in the year lamented.

Amidst sobbing, the marriage ceremony held. Eucharia, whose face had swollen, summed her experience, “When others wed, they are told congratulations; now my own is sorry or how are you?”

Ugwum insisted that some hospitals must have some unwholesome relationship with the FRSC that would make the agency to take accident victims to them even when it was obvious that they lacked the capacity to handle the cases.

According to him, while in the search for Chika, he found accident victims in hospitals that had nothing to write home about.

When our correspondent contacted the Corps Marshal and Chief Executive of the FRSC, Mr. Osita Chidoka, he said proximity was a very important factor in determining where accident victims were taken to.

He said it was the responsibility of hospitals to stabilise the patients and refer them to better hospitals if they lacked the capacity to handle them.

He demanded to get the particulars of the case, hinting that the incident could lead the commission to begin the certification of hospitals nationwide.

Chidoka said beyond certification, the lack of a comprehensive National Health Insurance Scheme was a major obstacle on the way of accident victims receiving adequate medical attention.

According to him, some hospitals do not give adequate care to accident victims until relatives are around to pay or guarantee the payment even when the commission tells them that it was an offence to do so.

The FRSC boss added that a comprehensive health insurance with everybody on the scheme would remove that impediment and ensure adequate medical care for victims of road accidents.

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CrimeImsu Now Evan Enwerem University Undergraduate Is Dead,caused By A Nurse by Drdonald4(op): 10:43am On Dec 11, 2010
For Chika Okoro and her family, there was no premonition that anything would go wrong that day. On the contrary, celebration was in the air. Her aunt – Eucharia – whose marriage had long been awaited was going to hold the following day.

Since her school, the Imo State University, Owerri, had been on forced vacation, as a result of the impasse between the state government and lecturers, she had been in one of her uncle’s houses in Aba. She had also explored the opportunity to extend her industrial training at Star Mills, an Aba-based company.

Eucharia’s wedding in Owerri that Saturday would afford Chika the opportunity to travel to home to reunite with her immediate family and members of the larger family, who would come from far and wide to attend the ceremony.

She would use the opportunity to pick her flash disk, where she had stored some information that she needed for her final year project in microbiology. Should the school remain closed, she would return to Aba after the wedding and begin work on her project.

So on the eve of the wedding, Chika woke up excitedly at about 5 am to prepare for the marriage and the trip from Aba to Owerri. At about 10 am, she called her mum, Thessy, to inform her that she was about to leave Aba for Owerri.

The family was expectant. Chika was not only the tallest and fairest member of the family of four children; she was also the most cheerful, always beaming with infectious smiles that others did not have any option than to share in.

In fact, her presence in the family was always electrifying. While the two other daughters of the family took after their average height and dark-complexioned mother, Chika took after her paternal grandfather – tall and fair.

So the announcement that Chika was coming home was enough to provoke anticipation, especially on the part of the mum, whose husband was far away in Ibadan, where he serves in the Scripture Union and her only son, Obinna, a corps member in Benin, who was attending a national executive committee meeting of the Nigerian Christian Corps Members Fellowship meeting in Jos.

Their absence would be compensated this weekend by the presence of Chika and you could bank on her laughter, joy, endless stories and jokes.

But by 3 pm, the anticipation had given way to anxiety. Chika was not yet around. The journey, at worst, should not last more than two hours. The situation was made worse by the fact that she could not be reached on her cell phone. Several attempts that were made failed. Something must be amiss, Thessy concluded.

She contacted Aba to let them know that Chika had not yet arrived. They confirmed that Chika left for Owerri at about 10 am. “Please find out what has happened to Chika,” she pleaded, “I know she normally takes ITC (Imo Transport Company) busses,” she added.

Time was ticking away. At about 6 pm, she got confirmation that an ITC bus was involved in an accident between Owerri and Aba. The tyre of the bus had removed, triggering a somersault that eventually made the vehicle to land in a ditch.

Good enough, the Federal Road Safety Corps officials came to the rescue of the victims. Chika was one of the three victims they thought did not sustain any serious injury. Although she was unconscious, there was no visible bleeding.

Bad enough, however, while the rest of the victims were rushed to the Federal Medical Centre Owerri, Chika was taken to a nearby Umuowa Cottage Hospital in Ngor Okpalla, near Owerri. When the message came to her mum, she was told Chika was taken to the Ngor Okpalla Cottage Hospital.

She quickly left for Ngor Okpalla with her first daughter, Amarachi, an accounting graduate who had just concluded her youth service and a cousin, Ugwumsinachi. At Ngor Okpalla Cottage Hospital, there was no trace of Chika. Then the search was extended to most of the hospitals in Ngor Okpalla.

It was at the time they were fainting from the search that somebody mentioned that there was another cottage hospital – the Umuowa Cottage Hospital. Then they rushed to the place and met Chika almost dead at 9.11 pm.

In fact, the hospital had given up on Chika. Her body was already covered. And the light in the room she had been put was already switched off. There was no doctor around. The nurse on duty claimed that she gave up at 8.30 pm. She claimed that that the doctor had closed for the day.

But Ugwum touched the ankle and found the pulse to be still beating. Besides, the body was still warm. They decided to move her to the town where she could get better medical attention. The nurse refused to release her without the payment of N15, 000.
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CelebritiesRe: Nneka Egbuna-nigerian-german Hip Hop/soul Singer & Songwriter.born 24 December by Drdonald4(op): 3:41pm On Dec 10, 2010
Even though Nneka sings more than raps, she names hip hop as her primary musical root and most important source of inspiration, while citing artists such as Fela Kuti and Bob Marley as well as contemporary rappers Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and Lauryn Hill as key influences in her own pursuit of musical recognition[2].

Her lyrics reflect much of her history and life in Nigeria as well as her time spent in Western Europe. Her songs stress the issues of capitalism, poverty and war and are often loaded with moral and biblical messages and references, with some music commentators comparing her to Erykah Badu, Neneh Cherry[10] and Floetry[11].

CelebritiesRe: Nneka Egbuna-nigerian-german Hip Hop/soul Singer & Songwriter.born 24 December by Drdonald4(op): 3:39pm On Dec 10, 2010
Since 2003 Nneka has been working closely with the hip hop beatmaker DJ Farhot, a producer living in Hamburg. As a young singer she first gained public attention in 2004 while performing as an opening act for dancehall reggae star Sean Paul at Hamburg Stadtpark. After much acclaim, Nneka was given a green light to record her first album.

After releasing her debut EP 'The Uncomfortable Truth' with the music label Yo Mama's Recording Company, she performed on her first tour with Patrice Bart-Williams in April 2005, playing shows in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

She finished recording her first album in the autumn of 2005. Entitled 'Victim of Truth', it was released not only in Germany but also in England, France, Netherlands, Nigeria and Japan. Garnering rave reviews from the media, the UK's Sunday Times later declared it “the year’s most criminally overlooked album”, comparing it favourably to 'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill'[4].

Following the release of the album, Nneka enjoyed a sustained and successful period of touring, performing at festivals such as Chiemsee Reggae Summer, Haarlem (BevrijdingsPop), Den Haag (Park Pop) and Saint-Brieuc (Art Rock Festival) as well as in respected venues like La Maroquinerie and New Morning in Paris, Tivoli in Utrecht, Paradiso in Amsterdam and Cargo and ULU in London. She has also supported artists such as Femi Kuti, Bilal, Seeed, and Gnarls Barkley.

In February 2008 she released her second album, 'No Longer at Ease'. The title of the album is taken from a novel of the same name by Chinua Achebe and reflects the lyrical content of the record. Most of the songs are political, talking about the plight of the Niger Delta and the corruption in Nneka’s homeland. “No Longer at Ease” combines the political and the personal in “a winning mix of soul, hip-hop an reggae”[5]. The lead single from it, 'Heartbeat', became her first song to break into the German Top 50[6]. In September 2009, the song entered the UK Singles Chart at number twenty.[7]

The following months saw tours in France, Italy and Portugal, while she also supported Lenny Kravitz on his French tour in April 2009.

Nneka has been nominated in three categories for the 2009 Channel O Music Video Awards[8], and won an award for Best African Act at the 2009 MOBO Awards.

In late 2009, she was chosen as of one Beyond Race Magazine's "50 Emerging Artists," resulting in a spot in the publication's #11 issue (with Bodega Girls and J. Cole on the cover), as well as an exclusive Q&A for the magazine's site.[9]

In November 2009, Nneka staged her first concert tour of the United States where she performed shows in New York City, Vienna (Washington DC), Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Furthermore she was a special guest on The Roots Jam session. Her first US release Concrete Jungle is set for 2 February 2010.

Her track 'Kangpe' is also featured as a soundtrack on the EA Sports FIFA 2010 video game.

In January 2010, Nneka appeared in Late Show with David Letterman in New York before getting her US tour underway.

In June 2010, she won the reggae category of the Museke Online Africa Music Award 2010 with her hit song, Africans.

She agreed to go on tour with Nas and Damien Marley to help them promote their 'distant relatives' album. She has done a remix of her highly rated track, 'heartbeat' with Nas which is expected to be made public soon.

She has also agreed to participate in this year's Lilith Fair Concert (2010) where the likes of Tegan & Sara, Sarah McLachlan, Kelly Clarkson, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Corinne Bailey Rae, Mary J. Blige, Rihanna and others will be performing. She will be performing in Washington, Raleigh and Charlotte (United States). She recorded a song for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa called "Viva Africa". It is a tribute to the premier mundial on African soil.

She won the award for best indigeneous artist in Nigeria at the Nigerian Entertainment Awards 2010 which was held in New York, U.S.A.
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Even though Nneka sings more than raps, she names hip hop as her primary musical root and most important source of inspiration, while citing artists such as Fela Kuti and Bob Marley as well as contemporary rappers Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and Lauryn Hill as key influences in her own pursuit of musical recognition[2].

Her lyrics reflect much of her history and life in Nigeria as well as her time spent in Western Europe. Her songs stress the issues of capitalism, poverty and war and are often loaded with moral and biblical messages and references, with some music commentators comparing her to Erykah Badu, Neneh Cherry[10] and Floetry[11].
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CelebritiesNneka Egbuna-nigerian-german Hip Hop/soul Singer & Songwriter.born 24 December by Drdonald4(op): 3:30pm On Dec 10, 2010
Nneka Egbuna (born 24 December 1981) is a Nigerian-German hip hop/soul singer and songwriter. She sings in both English and Igbo.Nneka is the daughter of an Anambra state- Igbo Nigerian father and a German mother[1]. She was born and raised in Warri, in the Delta region of Nigeria, and went to the primary school of the Delta Steel Company, then the secondary school at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. Nneka relished the experience of singing from an early age in her school and in the church choir. After relocating to Hamburg, Germany, at the age of 18, she pursued a career in singing alongside a degree in Anthropology[2]. She now divides her time between Nigeria and Hamburg[3]
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