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How can human beings thrive in such conditions.

What will it take to erect permanent structures across all states for NYSC members?

This is one aspect I will say the northern states are better, their camps seem to be the most habitable.
They have gone ahead to improve the condition of the schools used as camps and some have erected permanent sites.

As for Oyo state, I am not surprised cause you cannot give what you do not have.

okparaugo: Service is only done once in Nigeria.

Are you from Liberia ?

Lol!

I was only being figurative, you should be smart enough to understand.

Unless you are just being sarcastic.

The reportage on Ebola cases from our media houses have been abysmal.
The public also needs to understand certain terminologies that are used which may sound like simple English but convey a specific meaning when used by a healthcare professional.

Suspected cases and laboratory confirmed cases are different.
There are also alert cases, contacts (primary, secondary)


Who is a suspected Ebola Case?

SUSPECTED CASE (During an outbreak):
Any person, alive
or dead, suffering or having suffered from a sudden onset of high fever and having
had contact with:
-
a suspected, probable or confirmed Ebola
case;
-
a dead or sick animal (for Ebola)

OR:
any person
with sudden onset of
high fever and at least three of the following symptoms:
• headaches
• vomiting
• anorexia / loss of appetite
• diarrhoea
• lethargy
• stomach pain
• aching muscles or joints
• difficulty swallowing
• breathing difficulties
• hiccup
OR:
any person with inexplicable bleeding
OR:
any sudden, inexplicable death.



LABORATORY CONFIRMED CASE:
Any suspected or probably cases with a positive laboratory result.

who.int/csr/resources/.../ebola/ebola-case-definition-contact-en.pdf

Just want to add

The term suspected case is broad and maybe misunderstood by the lay person, but should be taken very seriously esp contacts, However the persons may NOT have Ebola.

OP your source is EXTREMELY unreliable.

And no right thinking doctor can make such pronouncements to the media without authority from the ministry which will definitely not be to a senior registrar on strike.
The person may well lose his licence.

Waiting for a real source.

APC witches are here already.
FG has tried but the ministry of health needs to be on her toes.

Who is a suspected Ebola Case?

SUSPECTED CASE (During an outbreak):
Any person, alive
or dead, suffering or having suffered from a sudden onset of high fever and having
had contact with:
-
a suspected, probable or confirmed Ebola
case;
-
a dead or sick animal (for Ebola)

OR:
any person
with sudden onset of
high fever and at least three of the following symptoms:
• headaches
• vomiting
• anorexia / loss of appetite
• diarrhoea
• lethargy
• stomach pain
• aching muscles or joints
• difficulty swallowing
• breathing difficulties
• hiccup
OR:
any person with inexplicable bleeding
OR:
any sudden, inexplicable death.



LABORATORY CONFIRMED CASE:
Any suspected or probably cases with a positive laboratory result.

who.int/csr/resources/.../ebola/ebola-case-definition-contact-en.pdf

Just want to add

The term suspected case is broad and maybe misunderstood by the lay person, but should be taken very seriously esp contacts, However the persons may NOT have Ebola.

The way these media houses have been headlining Ebola stories is misleading.

These cases have been under surveillance all along.

Besides one new suspected case.

In any case i wonder what it will take to do confirmatory test on all the contacts.

The media needs to be CLEAR in its reportage.

The ministry of health needs to give accurate unambiguous information.

They are contacts that have been under surveillance.

And a new suspected case.

The way these media houses have been headlining Ebola stories have been so misleading.

220billion!!!
Is that what he is going to use and seal his ambition to get into the senate ?
Or as backup in case he doesn't.

omicron: In terms of commerce and developments, onitsha has always been the bigger horse. Commercially, is it true and right that onitsha has expanded to Asaba, but never in terms of geography (which was what your earlier assertion appeared to suggest).

Before being the state capital, Asaba was a 'village town'. Its development infrastructurally as it is today is because of its status as state capital. Socially and commercially, its development is derived in part due to its proximity to onitsha.

Although, there is still the argument that Onitsha is under-commercialising Asaba, but that is a different arguement all together.

I believe you now understand me.

On the bolded, I think it is the other way round(Onitsha is boosting and sustaining Asaba even industrially).
But it is a chicken and egg kind of argument that can be right both ways.

Just picture a hypothetical transposition of Enugu with AIIA the hotels, malls and all in the place of Asaba.

What would be the outcome?

Or more realistically a 20 minute bullet train commute.

omicron: I thought you understood the correction Afam tried to give you.

You cannot say Onitsha is expanding to Okpanam, Ibusa and co. It is wrong and somewhat arrogant to say that, with all due respect.

None of Asaba or Ontisha is expanding to or being taken up by the other, in geographical sense. Each is a town on its own right with different history and potentials. Onitsha can not 'expand' westwards more than it has already done, and Asaba has 'expanded' eastwards as much as it is....

Asaba is the town expanding to Ibusa, Okpanam and co, not Onitsha!

I know we all like to praise our towns and re-emphasise their potentials and glories, but we should also not appear to be over-doing it.

You are partly right but i think i understand his perspective.
Asaba before it was made the state capital owes its economic relevance to Onitsha.

If not for Onitsha, Asaba's economic relevance will be comparable to Awka, there is no arrogance in that.

Asaba gained additional influence when it was made a state capital, before then it was grossly overshadowed by Onitsha and even considered a suburb.

This happened not only to Asaba but other surrounding towns, and they too may not be happy about it but it is a fact.


These towns have somewhat merged.

Asaba by virtue of being made the state capital however became revived once again.

Akmarshal: that's very disrespectful of u! just say wat u want to say without insulting these people! I don't like their kind of politics either! can we revolutionalise dis site by dishing out better comments n observations while we aspire to grow ourselves n d nation?

If only you felt this bad when GEJ and others are cursed then I would not have called you a hypocrite.

They have all been "flushed out".

But the clear and present danger is that the most corrupt coalition between a frog eyed looting midget and an asthenic jihadist, wants to seize power at all cost and this we must resist.

borga112: Whats the population of Ghana and Nigeria?

Common sense

24million people - 20% penetration

200million people - 29% penetration

I give up

You should give up.

We are talking about percentages here.

20% for Ghana means 20 out of 100 people have internet access in Ghana

29% for Nigeria means 29 out of 100 people have internet access in Nigeria

Evergreen123: That's why he went tO fetch a better deal for enugu.

Nne e be like say na your brother

You know he was very controversial.

OP
This is 2014

How long did you keep them
They would have finished serving again by now.

doctokwus: How can a senior registrar make dat kind of announcement.Meanwhile govt doctors are on strike and clueless fg has suspended d residency programme,so which hosp was dis dr working in wen he discovered dis case and given d authority he doesn't av to make it public?
Op,try again,dis ur story luks fake,despite d blog-like source.

Exactly!

The story is full of holes.

T. A. Orji has always been the worst governor in the world.

So the the topic should read " Apart from T.A. Orji who is the worst performing governor?"

abagoro: Knowledge is very important for any one to make useful contribution. Based on old census from the 60s Ogbomosho was then one of the largest cities in Nigeria but it has dropped today as evidenced from the last 2006 census. This is the NPC ranking of Nigerian cities and urban areas by population. Onitsha for example has a much smaller city population when compared with urban population which if included pushes it up to the 7th position.

City Population Urban Area Population
1.Lagos. 8029200. 9123200
2.Kano. 3248700. 3519500
3.Ibadan. 3078400. 3670400
4.Kaduna. 1458900. 1458900
5.Port Harcourt. 1053900. 1190600
6.Benin. 1051600. 1051600
7.Maiduguri. 971700. 971700
8.Zaria. 898900. 898900
9.Aba. 784500. 899100
10.Ilorin. 756400. 756400
11.Jos. 742100. 742100
12.Ogbomosho. 726300. 985600
13.Oyo. 620400. 620400
14.Enugu. 593300. 662800
15.Abeokuta. 529700. 698100
16.Onitsha. 509500. 1001000
17.Warri. 500900. 500900
18.Sokoto. 500500. 500500

This is exactly the same very controversial census figures we are talking about.

Yes Kano is by far bigger than Enugu but you cannot tell me Onitsha and Ogbomosho have almost the same population and Oyo town is more populated than Enugu that is just ludicrous.

Afam4eva: Haba bros, how can Onitsha comprise of a city outside the state of Anambra. Where's that done? Asaba and Onitsha are two different cities irrespective nof how intertwined they are. Asaba is the capital of another state and has nothing to do with Onitsha save for the closeness. let's stop this delusion.

Yes that is exactly what cornubations are different towns/cities merging with one or two being dominant in this case Onitsha and Asaba.

Gbawe: "Shabby" only to a semi-illiterate and pitiful ignoramus like you. You are a disgrace to your nation with how, before non-Nigerians reading, you are not ashamed to display myopic bad belle which exposes hideous ignorance and pathetic lack of knowledge. You are an example of a youth worthless to Nigeria because of your preference for blind hatred of others instead of embracing the path of enlightenment/personal development and a dedication to being part of the solution through knowledge acquisition.

Do you even know what water treatment plants look like to note they are not tall skyscrapers made of glass? Mumu, I have taken the liberty of supplying the pictures of a water treatment plants to disabuse you of your ignorance. Kindly go and do something worthwhile with your life instead of coming here to just automatically attempt to belittle laudable initiatives of others out of nothing other than ignorant prejudice and hate.



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Don't get yourself all worked up.

I have been to water treatment plants and the pictures I see their remain shabby.

Maybe it is camera but I am simply not impressed.

cjrane: I have been to both Kano and Enugu and I know Kano is definitely bigger than Enugu in landmass. That is where the advantages end.Aside from roads put there by successive military juntas, it is more of comparing a huge slum to a proper city. Everything else is a hype!
Nigeria is a nation full of BIG lies and hypes told repeatedly in the hope that repeating it somehow makes it truthful. Officially, Nigeria's 5 biggest cities from biggest to smallest is Lagos,Ibadan, Ogbomoso, Kano and PH. Now we know ain't no way this order is true! So stop telling us crap about Nigeria and statistics. It is one area Nigeria can never tell the truth.

That Ogbomosho lie always makes me wonder aloud.
We need to update our statistics.

With problems that stem from census in Nigeria, we maybe living with such lies for a long time.

Afam4eva: You are indirectly belaboring my point. Why should Asaba be a surburb of Onitsha. Can't Onitsha itself have surbubs within? That's my point. Asaba can be a surburb of Onitsha but it will never be counted as Onitsha. Some parts of Maryland, USA are called surburbs of Washington DC but they're never counted as DC.

Present day Onitsha is not actually just Onitsha it is actually more of a cornubation comprising Onitsha, Mkpor, Obosi, Oba, Umuoji, Asaba etc

The actual Onitsha has a very small landmass and will better support an industrial district with the other small towns serving as residential suburbs.

Gbawe: You make a good point actually in relation to Nigeria today. It is indeed a section of Nigerians who automatically and ignorantly attempt to dismiss and ridicule the achievements of others, no matter how laudable or innovatively effective such is, because of primitive bad belle. This project, for example, is the sort any educated mind will praise. Yet, below is the contribution of the sort of Nigerians you talk about who is only too happy to speak ignorantly.

The ignoramus has no information at all on the project, beyond what he sees, and has no interest in obtaining said information that can make him a productive contributor to discussion. Instead he is happy to speak ignorantly to satisfy his caveman-like backwardness. This is a superb project being handled by an expert international construction group handling several projects in Nigeria currently. Yet the worthless human resources, from "a section of Nigerians" can only contribute the usual bad belle-driven idiocy. Shameful really. Laughable the ignoramus below is talking about "standard" when he does not even appreciate how ignorant he sounds judging a project with a relatively small amount of pictures and virtually nil relevant data or even a project rendering to base his talk of "standard" on.

Your epistle will not make the project any less shabby.

The article tried desperately to paint a picture of doom putting the 2012 debt in billions of dollars and the present one in trillions of naira.

Giving us the present debt GDP ratio while not bothering to provide the previous one for comparison.

A better analysis should have been to provide a percentage increased in debt over the years as well as the change in debt GDP ratio rather than gross debt figures.

Colourful

I didn't know some words were even still used literally.

IGBOSON1: ^^^That's the type of grass the Akwata embankment area needs!

Exactly, imagine how beautiful it will look.

CFCfan: *singing*

Chimaroke
Ebeano
Okwa nke Nnamani
Ebeano
E luru high tension
Ebeano
Akwata Road o
Ebeano
Ha ncha bu ebeano
Ebeano

And his Akwata Road collapsed after one rainy season.

Chimaroke had some very controversial dealings.

This is also Lagos?

Hmm thank goodness for FG

Why can't we do anything standard in Lagos?

What is this shabby contraption I'm seeing?

Weird stuff happening in weird places by weird people.

Much of this change has occurred in the south.