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omicron:
Low normal count
Sub-normal quality
You may do m/c/s of sperm
The urine analysis is unremarkable

Should see a doctor to ascertain possible causes of the low normal count and explore medical options to boost count.
Should stop smoking and alcohol drinking!
Should consider vitamin c, e and zinc supplementation
Should optimise his weight if overweight and generally maintain active lifestyle (exercises)!
Should monitor the sperm every 3 months to track any increase or othetwise

Should be able to conceive though, all other things being favorable.

For the man the most important factor for fertility is quality (motility); should be above 50%

For the woman it is age. The lower the more favorable.

Doc, pls what do you mean by m/c/s of sperm and unremarkable about urine analysis?

Pls docs in the house. Help interprets and recommend for a couple who is TTC for about 1 year now.

URINE
UBG Normal 3.4umo1/L
BIL. Neg
KET Neg
BLD Neg
PRO Neg
NIT Neg
LEU. Neg
GLU Neg
SG 1.015
pH. <= 5.0
MALB. Neg

S ANALYSIS

Appearance- creamy white
FH - 7.0
Viscosity - hypervisied
Volume - 2.2ml
Count: 23.0 x 10 6/ml
Abnormality
Motility - 40% actively motility, 5% sugglish, 55% non motilie
Pus Cells - 1 - 2 /hpf
Culture
Epithetical cell - 1-2/hpf
Red cell - 2 - 3/hpf

I am beginning to believe what Fayose is doing is campaigning and strategically supporting APC. With this comment I believe what he meant to achieve is to revitalize Atiku and Northern leaders support for Buhari. PDP should investigate this man properly.

kblisious:
Hi Nairalanders
i want to apply for the US visa but i do not have a travel experience, am currently working and single. kindly advise me on what to do cuz i had made my research from asking people about der experience and the first thing dey tell me is you have no travel experience you wont be gra
nt the visa. Pls help....

I can tell you emphatically that I know a person who was given a US visa as a single, no travel experience, and told them he earns 25K salary per month.
so don't let anyone negative comment stop u.

A lame report!

It is not statutory duty of NUC to confirm if a certificate is fraudulent or not. The statutory of NUC is rather to regulate and Accredit (or not) the University she attended and the course she claimed to have studied, while it is the school statutory duty to confirm if truly she was a student and graduate of their school or not.

Japhet04:
it is the most expensive but it is not the most beautiful

click like of you are with me

Show us the pics of the one yo consider to be the most beautiful. As for me o, this is the most beautiful and expensive building I have seen in Nigeria so far.

I smell lies/half-truth in this report and the pics to it.

Those who voted Mr. GEJ in 2011 has done a great disservice to this nation because of their sympathetic vote for the man, instead of competency vote. I would not mind if they apologise for their choice of Mr. GEJ that time.

However, from this Washington Post Journal, I can rightly establish that the Mr. President questions at the last presidential media chat was leaked to him or he was over prepared to answer questions on the nation's pertinent questions. However, the Washington Post interview asked him questions he was not prepared for and we can see Mr. GEJ blabbing again.

This president (Mr GEJ) is a sting on Nigeria and Nigerians skin.

tit:
army is not an educational institution.
so they cannot give you any certificate.
produce the certificate from the institutions you attended.
no need for all this dogon turenchi.

Laughed in Swahili. If army is not an educational institution, why did they have Nigerian Defence Academy? That is to tell you that they have educational institutions which include colleges, training and vocational institutions.

As if the collapse in crude prices, forthcoming elections and an Islamist insurgency weren’t enough, investors in Nigeria have another matter to worry about: deciding whether the new central banker is his own man.

Godwin Emefiele, appointed in June after President Goodluck Jonathan suspended predecessor Lamido Sanusi almost a year ago, has focused on stemming currency declines that could damage the government of Africa’s biggest oil producer and economy ahead of Feb. 14 elections. Emefiele is “putting off painful and inevitable adjustments” in the exchange rate until after the vote, Bank of America Corp. economists Oyin Anubi and Turker Hamzaoglu in London wrote in a Jan. 21 report.

“It’s only natural to think there’s less independence at the central bank,” Kevin Daly, a fund manager overseeing $13 billion of developing-market debt at Aberdeen Asset Management Plc, said by phone from London on Jan. 27. “He replaced arguably the most effective and outspoken central bank governor that we’ve seen in African emerging markets for some time.”

Daly said he hasn’t held government bonds in naira since about October, partly because of concern he might not be able to easily sell assets in the currency.

Emefiele, 53, said that politics doesn’t affect any of his decisions.

“The central bank remains a very independent institution, just like it was under my predecessor,” he said by phone from Abuja on Thursday. “We have never been influenced by any political consideration. No politician talks to us to try and influence us.”
JPMorgan Warning

Still, the naira has become a campaign issue, with opposition leader Muhammadu Buhari’s team pointing to the weakening purchasing power of the currency under Jonathan. While oil producers with falling exchange rates from Russia to Malaysia have avoided imposing currency controls, Emefiele’s measures cut daily trading of the naira to less than a tenth of previous levels last month, according to Standard Chartered Plc.

The restrictions prompted JPMorgan Chase & Co. to warn Jan. 16 that it may remove Nigeria from bond indexes tracked by more than $200 billion of funds. Foreign holdings of domestic debt have fallen by half since 2013, according to Standard Chartered.

“It’s difficult for policy makers to ignore that political backdrop,” Ayodele Salami, who oversees about $200 million of Nigerian equities as chief investment officer of Duet Asset Management, said by phone from London on Feb. 4.

Investor caution has helped drive yields on local government bonds to 15.4 percent, the highest since August 2012 and steepest among 31 emerging markets tracked by Bloomberg. The stock market is posting the world’s worst losses this year.
Jonathan’s Showdown

The naira weakened 0.7 percent to 193.82 per dollar as of 2:07 p.m. in Lagos, a record low on a closing basis, to increase losses over the past six months to 17 percent, the most among 24 African currencies tracked by Bloomberg. The exchange rate could still tumble to 255, prices on 12-month forward contracts show.

Jonathan, 57, a Christian from the south, faces Buhari, a 72-year-old northern Muslim and former military ruler, in Nigeria’s tightest election since army rule ended in 1999.

Tensions are rising with the Islamist militants Boko Haram declaring a caliphate in northeastern Nigeria that’s the size of Belgium. The group killed more than 4,700 people last year, double the number of deaths during 2013, according to Bath, U.K.-based risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft.

Jonathan ousted Sanusi last February, accusing him of “financial recklessness and misconduct.” Now the Emir of Kano, Nigeria’s second-most important Islamic ruler, Sanusi had called on Jonathan to investigate billions of dollars of oil revenue he said were unaccounted for.
Speculative Demand

Emefiele took over in June, days before crude prices began their 50 percent plunge. Oil provides about 90 percent of Nigerian export earnings and 70 percent of government revenue.

The central bank spent $5 billion defending the exchange rate in the last three months of 2014, reducing reserves to a three-year low of $34 billion, while devaluing the midpoint of the official exchange rate to 168 per dollar from 155 and raising the benchmark borrowing cost to a record 13 percent.

Trading restrictions introduced in December were needed to cut “spurious or speculative demand” for dollars, Emefiele said in an interview last month. “Any investor that wants to go out is able to do so freely, without any hindrance.”

While Sanusi cut the the amount of foreign currency banks can hold without assigned buyers to 1 percent of shareholders’ funds from 5 percent, Emefiele set the amount at zero on Dec. 17, before allowing a 0.1 percent so-called net open position on Jan. 13.
Trading Crushed

The effect was to reduce daily trading to less than $30 million from $300 million to $500 million and foreign holdings of government bonds in naira to 14 percent of the total from as much as 27 percent in 2013, according to Samir Gadio, Standard Chartered’s head of African strategy.

By contrast, Sanusi liberalized Nigeria’s markets by lifting a requirement for foreign investors to hold local-currency debt for at least one year. That resulted in JPMorgan adding the nation’s bonds to its GBI-EM local-currency indexes in 2012. Foreigners increased their holdings of the securities almost fivefold in the next year, according to Bank of America.

“Sanusi had high credibility in the international markets and both the nature of his exit and the context resulted in an increase in Nigerian risk premium, which has remained,” Jim O’Neill, the former chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, who now works as a Bloomberg View columnist, said in e-mailed comments from London on Jan. 28.
Negative Watch

JPMorgan, placing Nigeria on “index watch negative,” said the drop in currency and bond trading “challenges the ability of foreign investors to replicate the benchmark.” The New York-based lender will make a decision within five months. Craig Macdonald, a spokesman for JPMorgan in London, declined to comment.

The central bank’s decision to boost the net-open position limit to 0.5 percent of funds on Jan. 22, shortly after JPMorgan’s warning, increased daily trading volumes to about $250 million to $300 million, Emefiele said on Thursday.

“We are confident we will remain in the index based on the decision,” Emefiele said. “The main issue was liquidity and we are convinced that liquidity has come up to the level they desire.”

For the market to “unfreeze,” the exchange rate probably needs to weaken to 220 per dollar, Antoon de Klerk, who helps oversee $18 billion of emerging market debt at Investec Asset Management Plc, said by phone from London Feb. 2.

Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-05/nigeria-woes-deepen-as-jpmorgan-hits-emefiele-with-debt-warning

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan's rise to the top of his country's ruthless political world has been described as accidental -- or simply a matter of luck.

The 57-year-old southern Christian, the first head of state from the oil-producing Niger Delta, was thrust into the presidency in 2010 following the death of his predecessor Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, a Muslim from the north.

The mild-mannered Jonathan, rarely seen without his trademark fedora traditionally worn by Niger Delta natives, is from a family of canoe makers. He became a zoology lecturer and worked on environmental issues before joining politics in 1998.

"I personally call him the accidental president. It was chance, good luck," said Adewale Maja-Pearce, a Lagos-based writer and contributing columnist for the New York Times.

"He was plucked from obscurity because he was considered pliable."

- Right place, right time -

As for his distinctive name, his late father was quoted as saying in a biography of the president that he "called him Goodluck because although life was hard for me when he was born, I had this feeling that this boy would bring me good luck".

His mother, Eunice, said although she had a history of lengthy labour in childbirth stretching for several days, Goodluck was born in record time -- the very day she went into labour.

Fortune certainly seems to have favoured Jonathan as he grew older.
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A supporter wearing a mask representing Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan attends a campaign …

An unconfirmed report long circulated in local media that Jonathan, elected assistant senior prefect at his secondary school, grabbed the top post when the head prefect was expelled.

His rise to the top was similarly fortuitous, becoming governor of his native Bayelsa state in 2005 after his predecessor was impeached over money-laundering charges in Britain.

The night he was nominated by his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as Yar'Adua's running mate before 2007 polls, many Nigerians had never heard of Jonathan.

In one of the US diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks, Jonathan purportedly acknowledged his inexperience in a meeting with the US ambassador while he served as acting president during Yar'Adua's illness.

"I was not chosen to be vice-president because I had good political experience," Jonathan says. "There were a lot more qualified people around to be vice-president."

A magazine once described the Nigerian leader as "hardly a man to set the pulse racing".

- Lack of clarity -

Though calm at public appearances, Jonathan heads a nation plagued by a range of crises.

Nigeria is consistently ranked as one of the world's most corrupt nations and the north is wracked by the brutal Boko Haram Islamist insurgency.

The main opposition All Progressives Congress, which is seen as mounting a strong challenge to the PDP, has made Jonathan's perceived failure to tackle both problems a central plank of its campaign.

Jonathan has earned praise however for staffing his cabinet with internationally-regarded technocrats, notably ex-World Bank managing director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who is his finance minister.

But despite living in Africa's top oil producer, most of the country's 173 million people live on less than $2 a day and only receive a paltry supply of electricity.

Jonathan has been accused of failing to seriously take on such endemic problems.

"He has always said 'oh yes, we will take care of that'," said Pat Utomi, a professor at Lagos Business School and prominent political commentator.

"I think he meant to do well... but it seems there was never clarity in his head of where he wanted Nigeria to be."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/goodluck-jonathan-nigerias-fortunate-leader-003733587.html

Its neither love nor madness. it is a joke. Its neither love nor madness. it is a joke.

sbaks:
See the big baba wey get sense. Old papa youngie? So hawking "bons (not buns )" in dubai is your dream job? Too bad for you "OLD AGE" chaiiiiiiieeeee. Goodluck has succeeded in improving our economy hence people don't have to go to dubai. Smh. Btw, mtn gives free 10 mb? Hmmmmm! You seem to know much. First bons now 10mb. Next may be ghetto life. What is the meaning pf the Arabic writing on our naira note? We don't want it? Nigeria is not an islamic country! No to islamization JESUS CHRIST MUST REIGN WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT! HE IS YOUR GOD WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT! YOU CANNOT STOP OUR WORSHIPPING HIM. YOU TOO SMALL. I SOAK MYSELF WITH THE "BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST". AMEN!! FIRE! ANYTHING YOU ARE YOUR EVIL COHORTS WISH ME BACK TO SENDER IN JESUS CHRIST NAME. AMEN! YOU CANNOT HARM ME WITH YOUR EVIL ENCHANTMENTS. IT WOULD ONLY BOUNCE ON YOUR OWN HEAD IN JESUS CHRIST NAME. AMEN. NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST ME SHALL PROSPER IN JESUS CHRIST NAME AMEN. I'm NOT IGNORANT OF THE DEVICES OF THE ENEMY THAT'S WHY I SAY THIS

With the comment of this poster, the poster that asked for your age was damn right and the poster that talked about Techno phone and MTN free 10mb was right too. Poster (sbaks), no doubt, you be baby with no exposure. Apologies if my comment hurts but no apologies for telling you the truth.

For Mr. President not to have setup a committee on this report, then he has a sinister motive which I suspect is to get sympathy vote come this Valentine becos this is very very usual of Mr. GEJ to make/work - a/on - report/available - to the public within 5 days after its submission.

Mr president this is not you!

@ Topic

This news is not a surprise to me. abi, what do you expect from my Yoruba tribe OPC, who is having a multi-billion naira pipeline security contract at the moment under the GEJ. Wetin dem go chop, dey make dem not to reason well.

hyfr:
Lol why is her condition like this. A whole former head of state's daughter ? Please drop the fvcking broom and get yourself a vacuum cleaner. Your dad will be disappointed you still use a broom in this modern dispensation. WOw this thread HIT LALASTICLALA after all

@OP
Chief Obafemi Awolowo was never a head of state but South West regional governor then. Your type skip history classes only to come show ignorance on public forum like this.

hmmm, story for the gods

I don't trust this acclaimed Boko Haram twitter handle. my instinct tells me it is some desperate e-political touts that is brain child of this handle to discredit others. To speak with all mouth, I suspect PDP e-touts behind this. Apologies if I am wrong.

Those posters and banners are what PDP demanded for when they asked for issue based campaign.

@op: Go figure that out with PDP

@op and reno
Please kini big deal? Father/Mother no dey forget their pikin/child name for a moment?
Abeg tell me something better than this.

According to this report, what the board want is for the church to get an approval for the building to avoid demolitions. Let the church respect itself and apply for the approval first before crying foul.

NB: This comment is from a Christian.

Sir,

Please, I sometimes have reoccurring stomach ulcer pains which I am not really experiencing for now. However, I discover I frequented going to toilet these day mostly after eating or at morning { very unusual of me) after little stomach discomfort. This makes me to go lean {I guess as most people complain this about me these days}. I don't have appetite for food and gets tired of eating after some food intakes. I go hungry again after going to toilet in the middle of eating.

Please doctor in the house help me out as your advise and prescription would help. Thanks

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Please, Visaofficer, I am a Nigerian, who resides in Nigeria. I have been to US about 3ce and never overstayed my period. I LOVE USA and dream to contribute my best to the development of the country and possibly be a Permanent residence/citizen of the country someday soon. However, I don't want to rush into marriage (although I am of marriageable age) because of getting a permanent residence (although I genuinely want to be in love with an american but I never had time to hang out whenever I am in States because my visit is always occupied and I keep it to my intended time frame) and i didn't have family in US to file for me neither do I have money to qualify me for the investors migrant visa and have tried DV lottery time without number but no luck. I would like to know if it is possible a non-family can file (immigrant status) for me or how I can get a immigrant status based on my skills or anything legal to grant me immigrant status in US without doing anything contrary to the Law of USA because I love the country and I have always tried to live my life not to go against the law of the states but to respect it with utmost me.