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The Federal Government is said to be charging N200,000 to train school teachers on the Ebola Virus Disease.

The government has also postponed a workshop on EVD earlier designed to train teachers of Federal Government-owned secondary schools before the September 22, 2014 schools resumption date.

Investigations by our correspondent revealed that the director in charge of Basic and Secondary Education in the Federal Ministry of Education, was said to have instructed all principals of secondary schools to send N200,000 to the Federal Government’s Ebola Response Team as charges for the training of two teachers from each of the schools.

The dates for the training on Ebola is between September 18 and September 20, 2014, two days to the Federal Government’s approved school resumption date of September 22, 2014, and the venues are the Federal Government College, Benin for schools in the South and the Federal Government College, Minna for schools in the North.

Apart from the training fee of N200,000, the schools were also expected to provide two hand-held thermometers, two protective kits, two medical reflective jackets, two facemasks and kits, one drum of wall liquid soap/soap solution dispenser, 10 litres of izal, and 10 litres of Dettol. Other items expected to be provided by the principals of the unity schools include 10 litres of methylated spirit, 10 litres of hands sanitisers, a drum of bleach solution and 300 packs of disposable hand gloves.

The principals were directed to liaise with the various states Ministries of Health to ensure the purchase of the listed items considered vital to the reopening of the schools in view of the spreading fear over the EVD.

However, there are fears that the principals might not be able to provide the N200,000 training fee demanded by the Federal Ministry of Education as some of them claimed they had not got budgetary releases since July, 2014.

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President Jonathan Emerges PDP Consensus Presidential Candidate.

The Leadership and Governors of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has unanimously adopted President Goodluck Jonathan as their presidential candidate in the February 14, 2015 election.

The party agreed on this in principle, as they claimed that no member of the party as at today has the chance to beat the opposition than President Jonathan.
They added that their main motive agreeing to Re-Elect President Goodluck Jonathan is to keep the PDP united as the party confronts the opposition in 2015.

One of the rumoured aspirants, Governor Sule Lamido's ambition has been shelved as the party believes that the Jigawa state chief executive has little chance against any of the APC Northern aspiring presidential candidates.
Party secretariat claimed that the governors baggage will ultimately undermine his chances at the polls.

PDP believes that President Goodluck Jonathan strategically delayed the date announcing date for his intention to run for the position of the President of Nigeria. - Hope For Nigeria.
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lSouth African police are investigating two Nigerians and an Israeli citizen who tried to bring $9.3m in cash into the country illegally, a spokesman said on Monday.

There were suspicions that the money could be meant for arms. The Nigerians, coming from Abuja, were not identified, according to a report by Reuters.



The plane, a Bombardier Challenger 600, had a Nigerian flight crew on board. It was piloted by Captain Tunde Ojongbede, according to City Press.

Adrian Lackay, spokesperson for the SA Revenue Service, confirmed that customs officers became suspicious when the passengers’ luggage was unloaded and put through the scanners just after 7pm. The officers then investigated and found three suitcases full of cash.

The passengers apparently told officials they were acting on behalf of the Nigerian intelligence service.

They provided documentation confirming they had come to South Africa to buy weapons. It is not clear whether the Israeli passenger was an intelligence operative or an arms dealer.

The National Conventional Arms Control Committee, which has to approve the import and export of any weapons as well as issue permits for such transactions, was not aware of any applications in this case.

The South African Revenue Service seized the funds at Lanseria airport, northwest of Johannesburg, on Sept. 5, 2014. The funds are being held at the central bank as police investigate, SARS spokeswoman Marika Muller said.

“The passengers’ luggage was searched after Customs officials detected irregularities. The money was detained as it was undisclosed/undeclared and above the prescribed legal limit,” Muller said in a statement

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The Minister of Education, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, on Monday said the 2014 West African Examination Council results of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls were ready.

The over 200 girls were abducted in April when members of the Boko Haram sect invaded Government Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State.

Their whereabouts remain unknown more than 150 days after the sad incident.

The students were writing their examinations when the sect members interrupted the exercise.

Shekarau, who appeared before the House of Representatives Committee on Education in Abuja, informed the lawmakers that the Ministry of Education was reviewing the results.

He stated that a review was necessary because the examinations became “haphazard” as a result of the abduction.

He was responding to a question by a member of the committee, who sought to know the fate of the girls.

The minister, who assured the committee that the‎ Federal Government had not lost hope in its bid to secure the release of the girls, added that efforts were also being made to improve on girls’ education generally in the North-East zone.

Shekarau added, “By 1pm today (Monday), the President (Goodluck Jonathan) has scheduled a meeting in which I am attending, specifically to address some of the issues of girl education in that troubled zone.

“In fact, this morning, I got a communication from the West African Examinations Council; the result of the Chibok Secondary School is out. We (ministry) have to look at it (result) via-a-viz the security situation and implication before the formal release.

“It is right now in my possession. Because when the abduction took place, some remained, completed their examinations, some were taking examinations and they were abducted.

“So, the result is haphazard. So we are addressing that this afternoon.

“This is just for the information of the Honourable members.

“It is also a matter of great concern to us. I am sure by 1pm, four, five of us will be sitting with Mr. President to address this issue.
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The people of Ubima in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State have been thrown into mourning following the murder of Mr. Sabinus Odu, an uncle to the state governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi.

Odu, the Vice-Principal of Community Secondary School, Aluu, was killed earlier in the week by some suspected assassins.

The deceased, whose pastime was hunting, had gone to the bush to check on a trap before he was killed.

The state Commissioner for Information and Communication, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, told journalists on Friday that though the government would not want to be presumptuous on the matter, the killing might have been politically motivated.

Semenitari said though the late Odu was not a card-carrying member of any political party, he had sympathy for the state governor.

Pointing out that Odu and Amaechi were from the same grandparents, Semenitari described the deceased as a humble man.

She said, “On Monday, the governor’s uncle came back from school in the evening. He later went to the farm to check his trap. But when they could not see him after several hours, a search party was conducted.

“The search party later saw his motorbike by the side of the bush before his body was later found with several machete cuts.

“The matter was immediately reported to the Elele Police Station. Mr. Sabinus Odu was a humble citizen. He was not a contractor. His only crime is that he is related to the governor.”

She, however, called on the police to ensure that no stone was left unturned in apprehending the suspects.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ahmad Mohammad, said the state police command had received a report on the incident.

Mohammad, however, said that investigation had begun on the matter with a view to apprehending those behind it.

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Americans rally in NYC for 9/11 truth
On the 13th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, hundreds of Americans rallied near the site of the former Twin Towers demanding the whole truth behind the tragedy.


Washington says the attacks were a series of coordinated strikes in which four passenger airliners were hijacked and rammed into their targets.


However, the official story of the incident continues to be disputed by many scholars and researchers to this date.


Around the corner from the official commemoration ceremony in New York City on Thursday, there was a crowd of several hundred people who called for the whole story, Press TV's Caleb Maupin reports from New York.


“I think it was orchestrated, no doubt. I don’t believe the official story one bit. You know the way the towers fell, how they fell straight down the path of most resistance, free-fall speed,” Joe Spoto, a Marine Corp veteran, told Press TV.


“If you are sending our military to fight for oil or the puppy fields of Afghanistan you know then it’s not good to go,” he added.


Others said corporations representing the US military industrial complex were benefiting from 9/11 and the ensuing wars in the Middle East.


“Major corporations in the arms industry, in the oil industry, the media, the insurance industry, banking industry, have benefited enormously from 9/11,” said Richard Gage, a scholar and member of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth.


“We encourage everybody to look and see who runs those corporations, who runs those industries, what are their ties to government,” Gage continued.


The activist group says evidence regarding the destruction of the World Trade Center towers shows pre-set explosives were used in the demolition of the buildings.


The protesters also demanded the release of 28 pages from the 9/11 Commission Report which still remain classified.


The administration of former president George W. Bush blamed al-Qaeda for the attacks and declared the so-called “war on terrorism.” As part of that strategy, the US attacked Afghanistan and later invaded Iraq.

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The National Examinations Council on Wednesday released the June/July 2014 results with remarkable improvement of candidates performance in key subjects.



The candidates recorded 72.58 per cent credit pass in English Language and 69.49 per cent credit pass in Mathematics.

The Registrar and the Chief Executive Officer of the body, Prof. Nwackukwu Okpala, while announcing the results in Minna, noted that the results showed marked improvement on the previous exams conducted between 2012 and 2013.

He pointed out that 989, 622 registered for the examinations, out of whom, 978,886 actually sat for the papers.

An analysis of other core subjects indicated that 783,975 sat for Biology with 531,784 pass at credit level, representing 67.83 per cent; Chemistry had 418,785 candidates with 305,120 pass at credit level, representing 72.86 per cent; 418,440 sat for Physics with 290,310 pass at credit level, representing 69.38 per cent.

Also, 19,067 sat for Further Mathematics while12,827 passed at credit level, representing 67.27 per cent; Agricultural Science had 500,897 candidates with 347,834 pass at credit level, representing 69.44 per cent .

Okpala stated that an analysis of the examination showed that only 0.44 per cent of those who sat for the examination were involved in malpractice.
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The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Attahiru Jega on Wednesday explained why the commission has allocated more polling units to the geo-political zones in the North, than those in the South, saying the plan is based on the existing number of registered voters in the country, which he put at 70,383,427. 

Ahead of the 2015 election, the electoral body has proposed to allocate more than 21,000 new polling units to the north, while the south will receive about 8,000.

 The plan is not yet finalized. But the ratio has angered the three geopolitical zones in the south, with some calling for Mr. Jega’s resignation, accusing him of bias. At a press conference Wednesday, Mr. Jega vowed not to resign, and said those asking him to quit lack adequate information on the exercise and are being mischievous. The Commission had last month announced its plan to create additional PUs before the general elections next year to bring the number of units in the country to 150,000 from the original 119,973.

According to the proposal, the three geo-political zones in the North will have about 21, 000, which is 70% of the new units, while the three zones in the south got about 8,000 units. The state-by-state analysis shows that while Lagos will have the highest number of the PUs with 3,159 PUs, while Imo State will have the least with 42. However, fierce criticisms have trailed the exercise with some groups alleging that it was aimed at foisting the dominance of one section of the country over the others for political advantage.

 The South-South Peoples Assembly, SSPA, went a step further by demanding the resignation of the INEC Chairman and should not be allowed to conduct the 2015 general elections. Mr. Jega, an indigene of Kebbi State in the North West zone, said the Commission’s plan is “sincere and well-intentioned,” and not designed to confer any political advantage on any individual, political party or region.

He said though the outcry was understandable, but regrettable given the low level of public trust in governance institutions in Nigeria, the decision of the Commission to re-configure the structure of the PUs and create additional ones was “driven by our collective aspirations as Nigerians to reform and improve upon the electoral process for free, fair, peaceful and credible elections in 2015 and beyond”.


Stating that there was no sectional or parochial agenda in this decision, the INEC chairman stressed that it was aimed at easing the access of voters to the ballot box by decongesting over crowded PUs and dispersing voters as evenly as possible among all the PUs. The “need factor” more than political sentiments, informed the patterns of distribution of the PUs being proposed,” Mr Jega added. “Still, the Commission has not been unmindful of the political nature of the exercise; and that is why it took the decision that (1) no state will lose any PUs from its stock of existing units, no matter the statistical outlook when voter population is exaggerated into units of 500 persons; and (ii) every state will get some additional polling units from 15% of the total being newly created on the basis of ‘equality principle’ regardless of the number of PUs already existing in each state in comparison to the voter population,” he said.


“We have already made the computed figures in this regard public. Contrary to the argument by critics, the Commission is not working on imaginary population sizes based on perceived patterns of migration by potential voters, rather, it is working with the documented register of voters as we have it at the moment.”


 He expressed worry that critics seemed to focus on the allocation of the proposed units and urged them to compare the total allocations state by state. Explaining further the methodology used in arriving at the new arrangement, Mr. Jega said since PUs are created to service registered voters, “the fairest and most logical criterion to use in distributing the 150,000 PUs nationwide is the number of registered voters.” He stressed, “At present the post-AFIS (i.e. after removing duplicate registrants) figure of registered voters is the most appropriate figure of registered voters that is available nationwide, to use; hence the decision to use post-AFIS figures, as the basis for distributing the 150,000 polling units.


 “The simplest way to distribute the 150,000 polling units is to divide the number of registered voters in each state by 500 (maximum of registered per polling unit.) He explained that the present structure of PUs was created in 1996 by the defunct National Electoral Commission of Nigeria, NECOM, which created 120,000 PUs and 8,809 wards (registration areas). According to him, the structure of the polling units had been used for the 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2011 general elections and that there had been exponential growth in Nigeria’s populations as well as severe demographic shifts resulting from new settlements in major urban areas since 1996.

Mr. Jega further explained that the rise in population with corresponding increase in the number of eligible voters was clearly manifested during the 2011 fresh voter registration exercise. According to him, in order to ameliorate the challenges of managing polling units with large number of voters, INEC introduced the concept of “Voting Points’ where polling units with large numbers of voters were subdivided into multiple of manageable numbers of about 300, with a maximum of 450 registered voters. “About 150,000 polling units are required to ensure right-sizing of our polling units based on the number of registered voters,” he said. No reversal The INEC chairman said the Commission had no plan to reverse the decision, stressing “We have taken a decision; we have not yet implemented that decision. People, because they don’t have enough information misunderstood it, some perhaps mischievously. But we are hoping that the information we are providing will make people understand.

“I cannot sit down here and tell you whether we will reverse or we will not reverse. What is clear is that many people are taking hard position on the issue when they are ill-informed and they are very passionate and emotive about it.” On how the Commission would manage the creation of polling units in the areas of the country ravaged by insurgency, he said though the development was “unfortunate and regrettable” the situation would soon be addressed and that those displaced would return. He said, “The hope of everybody is that normalcy will return and people will come back to their places. So the displacement of people in any of these places is a temporary phenomenon.


You cannot say we should create polling units when we have information that people have registered in that area because they are temporary dislocated. The displacement is temporary.” Mr. Jega said he was not bothered about the calls for his resignation over the proposed creation of the PUs because he and the Commission’s staff were convinced of what they were doing. He said, “Anybody can say anything and they are entitled to do so. This is not the first time people are calling for my removal or resigning or being fired.

That doesn’t bother me. I do my best and all the commissioners are doing their best. “Forget about removal. Any of us here can fall and die tomorrow. So long as we are here we will do what we believe is right. We did not lobby anybody to come here.

We were brought here because people knew we will do the right thing and we will continue to do it as long as we have the opportunity to continue to do it. “So, don’t worry. I myself I won’t wait until I am fired. The day I know myself I can’t do this job to satisfy my conscience I will leave. I am here in INEC to do national service and I believe I am making sacrifices, not only myself but also the national commissioners.”http://www.nigerianeye.com/2014/09/why-were-giving-more-polling-units-to.

Heathcote Williams 08 September 2014. Posted in News
Joan Rivers was "utterly irreplaceable", said Prince Charles, not noticing that most of her had been replaced by plastic.

JOAN RIVERS died in an endoscopy clinic
Where she was having her vocal chords examined.

Her voice had been getting raspier and raspier,
And recently she'd berated an interviewer
On leaving LAX, Los Angeles airport,
Who'd had the impudence to solicit her opinion
On the then current massacres in Gaza.

She turned on him angrily screaming
That she had "zero sympathy
For the civilians killed in Gaza"
Because "they had fair warning to get out, and they didn't ...
"So they deserve to die. They were told to get out.
"They didn't get out. You don't get out? you are an idiot.
"Hamas," she continued, "was re-elected
By a lot of stupid people who don't even own a pencil.
"At least the ones that were killed," she added with a savage relish,
"Were the ones with very low I.Q.s."

She then praised World War Two being ended by Hiroshima and Nagasaki
And she continued hoarsely shouting
At the interviewer who'd had the gall to ask her,
In view of her uncritical support for the Israeli State,
What were her feelings about the deaths of 1400 people:
"They started it. We now don't count who's dead.
"You're dead, you deserve to be dead."

In her snarling triumphalism
She was suggesting
That three hundred and seventy three children,
Killed by Israel's 'Protective Edge',
Had brought their own deaths
Upon themselves.
"You're dead, you deserve to be dead."

However karma is also a bitch,
And shortly afterwards Rivers
Would lose her voice
And, worse still, upon her entering the endoscopy clinic
And being given an anaesthetic
She fell into a coma and died.

The friend of Nancy Reagan, the friend of Netanyahu,
And the friend and favoured wedding guest of Prince Charles,
She would dance attendance upon the rich and powerful
And make it clear that she held political opinions
That matched theirs. She'd play court jester
And then growl, "We must bomb the shit out of Iran".

Her friend, the Prince, said that he was 'deeply saddened'
By the comedian's death 
And, keen to identify himself with outpourings of showbiz grief,
He added that, "Joan Rivers was an extraordinary woman
"With an original and indefatigable spirit,
"An unstoppable sense of humour and an enormous zest for life.
"She will be hugely missed and utterly irreplaceable."

In his dull insouciance the hapless Prince
Had overlooked the fact that his heroine,
Fawned upon in Hollywood as the 'Duchess of Dirt',
'Queen Wise-Arse', and the 'Goddess of Snark',
Had advised his future daughter-in-law, Kate Middleton,
'If you ever want to go to Paris, fly, don't take the tunnel.'

But perhaps he hadn't really forgotten it –
Perhaps he'd perversely savoured Rivers' sick reference
To his ex-wife's untimely death…
And nor did Charles seem aware that,
Far from her being "irreplaceable",
Much of Joan Rivers had been replaced by plastic.

Thanks to nearly three hundred operations
She'd become a smooth skinned gargoyle
Coated by a lustrous chemical sheen;
A reflective veneer on her tautened pink skin.

In 2010 she tweeted, "With all the plastic surgery I've had,
I'm worried when I die God won't recognize me."

The historian Alan Hart responded,
"If she was still alive today, I would say to her something like,
'If he does recognize you, perhaps you should worry
About whether he will forgive you for saying
That, because they voted for Hamas,
The Palestinians of the Gaza Strip prison camp
Deserved what they were getting
When Israel was delivering them
More death and destruction."

Others disobligingly wondered whether
Those disposing of her body would cremate her
Or would recycle her plastic corpse.

"I've had so much plastic surgery," she'd declare,
"When I die they will donate my body to Tupperware."
Although sadly, Tupperware might not think it served their brand –
Devoted to keeping food fresh in a hygienic fashion.

Most tragically of all, despite her surgery she was wistfully to confess,
"No man has ever, ever told me I'm beautiful."

Maybe that was because there was an inner ugliness
That couldn't be concealed by cosmetics:
The inner ugliness of a woman who'd often complain
How much she was inconvenienced by children on 'planes
By saying "where is Casey Anthony when you need her?"
Casey Anthony being an infamous mother
Accused of killing her two-year-old daughter
By suffocating her with parcel tape;
Ugliest of all perhaps, Rivers took a hideous pride
In doing anything for money:
"For $500, I'll write for Hitler," she said.

There is now a new face in hell,
With its mouth made of collagen
And a voice that may mercifully be silent
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The Nigerian Medical Association on Monday faulted the Federal Government’s directive to schools to resume on September 22 as against October 12.


It said through its National Secretary-General, Dr. Olawunmi Alayaki, that all schools ought to remain shut till all those under surveillance for the Ebola Virus Disease in the country had been certified free.

“We are not happy with this decision on the resumption of schools. Schools should be shut till the last suspected case or patient is certified free of the virus,” the NMA said.

Before the association made this known the Rivers State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Sampson Parker, had disclosed that an 18 month-old baby had been quarantined in the state for showing symptoms of the deadly virus.

The NMA suggested that the resumption of schools could be shifted till December or early part of next year because if Ebola should spread to any school, it would “assume another dimension.”

It said, “ We can shift the resumption date till next year or in the next three months if that is the time it will take. Government should have enough time to follow the standard procedure for containing the virus.

“Parents have no reason to be in a hurry because if Ebola should enter any school, it will assume another dimension. Children cannot survive isolation like adults.

“Nigeria is peculiar because of her large population and we should be pragmatic and proactive. It will not augur well for the country if we have another outbreak due to carelessness.”

Also, the Lagos State chapter of NMA said that the Federal Government should have postponed the resumption date till the completion of surveillance and monitoring of contacts in the affected states.

It said through its chairman, Dr. Tope Ojo, that many of the public and private schools in the country lacked basic hygiene and sanitary facilities that could help prevent the spread of the EVD by pupils.

It stated, “It would not have cost the Federal Government anything to have waited till those under surveillance have completed the 21 days in all the states where they are being monitored.

“The government knows that it takes a longer time for children to get used to the idea of hygiene and sanitation. They are even more vulnerable because they would play with each other whether they are sick or not.

“How many children know that they should use hand sanitisers or avoid contact with anybody that has fever?

“Waiting till October when at least the situations in Rivers and Lagos states would have been conclusively managed is another safety measure the government should have taken . These kids are not studying to get a degree, so we are sure it would not have affected schools’ curricula.”

Also the immediate president of the NMA, Dr. Osahon Enabulele, expressed concern about the September 22 resumption date, wondered about the safety parameters government used in fixing the date.

Enabulele said that the grouse of many parents with the resumption date stemmed from the fact that they were not convinced that schools had met the safety standards for the prevention of Ebola.

He added that if the government was bent on schools adhering to the date, it should begin now to check the sanitary facilities put in place by their proprietors to ensure the safety of pupils.

Enabulele said, “We must know the parameters that the Federal Government used to arrive at the resumption date in the first place. Has the Federal Government carried out a safety assessment in registered schools in the country? There should be a checklist and only those who meet it should be certified fit to reopen.

“The minimum standard is that all schools should have a dispensary, a sick bay where sick children, especially those with fever, are properly managed and tested.”

Saying that he knew that such facilities were not available in many schools, he asked: So, why the rush for their resumption?”

Also, a consultant paediatrician with the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi- Araba, Prof. Edamisan Temiye, called on the three tiers of government to ensure that schools had access to water on their premises.

The former Lagos NMA chairman, also warned parents not to force sick children to go to school as this could expose them to infections.

Temiye said, “Governments must ensure that clean water flows on schools’ premises so that children can wash their hands regularly. Water is important for sanitation and it is the duty of government to ensure that citizens have access to it.

“Also, parents should take sick children to hospital. Don’t give them drugs and force them to go to school. Ebola can only be caught from a sick person. School authorities should watch out for and isolate sick children from others.

“Again school owners should give hand sanitisers to their pupils before allowing them into their premises. They should also have thermal thermometers to check the temperatures of their pupils before allowing them into their school premises.”

The Minister of Health had before the doctors spoke with one of our correspondents in Lagos, said that there was nothing to fear over the directive to schools to resume on September 22.

Chukwu, who gave an update of EVD in Nigeria, said, “We have contained the situation. Ebola is no longer in the streets anywhere in Nigeria.

“We are working with the Federal Ministry of Education and we made it clear that in institutions having students returning from outside Nigeria, they should let us know.

“We will work with them and we have questionnaires which we are already using on airlines and ships coming into Nigeria as well as other means of transport. They will fill questionnaires. We will ask questions and conduct tests to see that they don’t have fever.”

The minister also revealed that a fiancé of one of Patrick Sawyer’s contacts who was confirmed positive for EVD had since recovered.

He added, “So far, all the cases that have been confirmed in Nigeria are traceable to the index case (Sawyer). As of this (Monday) morning, the total number of confirmed cases of EVD in Nigeria is 19. Fifteen were in Lagos and four in Port Harcourt.

“The 19th case is the fiancé of one of the primary contacts of Mr. Sawyer who died of the disease. The test results were equivocal but further tests established the disease. He had only mild symptoms and he has since recovered from the illness. He was quarantined but because of the equivocal test result he was not placed on active treatment.

“The total number of deaths from EVD in Nigeria stands at seven . Five of them died in Lagos, one in a private hospital, the index case, and the other four in the isolation ward in Lagos State.

“Two of the seven died in Port Harcourt, the medical doctor who died in a private hospital and the contact, a patient in the hospital at the time the doctor was also on admission, who died in the isolation ward in Rivers State.”

According to him, the total number of patients who have been successfully managed and discharged stands at nine.

He added that the latest was the sister (Chinyere) of the late Port Harcourt doctor who was discharged from the isolation ward in Rivers State on Sunday.

“It should be noted that the nine patients successfully managed and discharged are among the total number of 11 survivors of EVD in Nigeria. At the moment, only one person, the wife of the late Port Harcourt doctor, is on treatment at the isolation ward in Lagos.

“She no longer has any symptoms and is undergoing a series of tests preparatory to her discharge from the isolation ward this week.

“Regarding contacts currently under surveillance, Lagos has 27 contacts surveillance as of now. A total of 339 contacts who were previously on surveillance have been discharged having completed the 21 days of observation. Port Harcourt has 477 contacts under surveillance. It is a mixed group consisting of tertiary and quaternary contacts of Sawyer. Five contacts have already been discharged from surveillance in Port Harcourt having completed the 21 days of observation.”

In Port Harcourt, the Health commissioner, Parker, also confirmed that Chinyere had been discharged. But as journalists expressed joy over Chinyere’s recovery, he announced that an 18 month-old baby, who showed symptoms of Ebola had been quarantined for observation.

The commissioner however did not provide further information as he returned to Chinyere’s recovery and discharge.

“I am cheerful today because we have successfully treated an Ebola patient. She (Chinyere) has been effectively treated, cleared and discharged from our isolation treatment centre. She deserves to be celebrated as a success story,” he said.

Parker, who explained that the state government had reached about 479 contacts, said, “I can assure you that the disease has been covered. People should not cause panic. The number of deaths from Ebola is lower than deaths from road accidents.”
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Those decoders are piracy and illegal. Nigerian Communications Commission frequently raid and arrest those involved in the importation and distribution of such products. Beware.

The Secretary to Borno State Government, Amb. Baba Jidda, has raised the alarm over the activities of the members of Boko Haram sect in the state.
He said most parts of the state are now being occupied by the members of the dreaded sect.

He said because of this, the state and its people should be silent on any discussion concerning 2015 elections for now.

Apart from this, he said politicians across political divide in the country should also de-emphasize discussions on 2015 in the state or anywhere in the country in the face of rampaging onslaught by the Boko Haram insurgents.

Jidda, who stated this while addressing a press conference in Abuja on Sunday, regretted that normal governmental, economic, social and political activities have been dislocated in his state.

Boko Haram

He also said huge numbers of displaced persons are now living in refugee camps in Maiduguri, neighbouring states as well as Niger, Chad and Cameroon.

Jidda regretted that in spite of the security challenge facing the state, the Independent National Electoral Commission has fixed October 3 for a bye-election for Jere LG House of Assembly Constituency in the state.

In his prepared speech titled, “Imperatives of Peace before Politicking,’’ he appealed to all well-meaning sons and daughters of the state to jettison politicking for now for the sake of the continued existence of Nigeria and survival of democracy.

He said it would be callous for anyone to be scheming for any political office in the state in the precarious security situation in the state.

He said, “At this very moment, most parts of Borno State are being occupied by Boko Haram insurgents. Government presence and administration is minimal or non-existent across many parts of the state, with economic, commercial and social services totally subdued. Schools and clinics remain closed.

“Most settlements in the affected areas in the state have either been deserted or access to them practically impossible, thus majority of the political stakeholders cannot, in real fact reach their constituencies.

‘’So, the threat of insecurity affects everybody irrespective of political differences. The enabling environment for politics and electioneering campaign is simply not obtainable at present in Borno State. In the view of many, the thought about politics and pursuit of political interest in this environment appears absurd, callous and
morally repulsive.’’

The SSG called for a stakeholders summit of eminent citizens of North-east zone, irrespective of ethnic , political and religious affiliations, to articulate a broad-based solutions to the threat posed by the insurgents.

http://www.nigerianeye.com/2014/09/most-parts-of-borno-now-occupied

For nearly thirty years, he was only a legend in small towns – a ghost that slunk into homes at night and surviving on whatever food he could steal without being noticed by scared residents. Such a phantom couldn’t possibly live in the nearby forest.

Well, that phantom was finally arrested for stealing last year, and he’s being called the last true hermit.

When he was captured, the hermit was out for a late night raid at the Pine Trees Summer Camp near North Pond in central Maine. While searching through the kitchen for food, he unknowingly set off an alarm that led to his arrest at the hands of Sergeant Terry Hughes, a warden that had become obsessed with capturing the man, known as the North Pond Hermit in the surrounding community.

Hughes, with the help of some Maine state police, apprehended the burglar and asked him his name. He didn’t say a word, and he had no identification on him. He admitted to the state trooper, Diane Perkins-Vance, saying in a broken voice that he was ashamed to ask questions.

His name, the trooper learned, was Christopher Thomas Knight. He was born in 1965, had no address, and had no vehicle. He lived in the woods, alone. He had gone to live in the woods when he was only 20 years old — now, he was 47.

His way of life is truly remarkable. He never lit a fire, as he was afraid of being detected, and moved only at night, sleeping in a tent during the day. When he was captured, he had no idea if his parents were alive, and had lived without money, car, and phone — he’d never even heard anything of the internet. He admitted to committing about 40 break-ins a year to keep himself well-fed.

Before that night — April 4 of last year — Knight had only said one word to another human being in the last 27 years. He said “hi” to a passing hiker.

The man had long been a legend in the nearby town of North Pond, where residents had suffered break-ins for so long. But most claim they didn’t really believe that such a thing could be true — after all, what man could survive in the woods through the freezing cold of a Northeast winter?

Knight, somehow, managed it. Unfortunately, he didn’t keep a journal or snap any photos to document his long time alone. He had pledged, after all, to live his entire life in secret after he went to the forest as a young man, just out of high school.

While, many have tried to contact him since to hear his story, he hasn’t been saying much. A writer over at GQ managed to get a short response letter from Knight, staying in prison, the two of them bonding over a shared love of literature — Knight had stolen many books during his time in the woods.

They exchanged more and more letters, Knight offering his regrets on a life of crime and reflections on the differences between the two ways of life he had led. One fascinating, surprisingly literate, tidbit:

Solitude did increase my perception. But here’s the tricky thing—when I applied my increased perception to myself, I lost my identity. With no audience, no one to perform for, I was just there. There was no need to define myself; I became irrelevant. The moon was the minute hand, the seasons the hour hand. I didn’t even have a name. I never felt lonely. To put it romantically: I was completely free.

http://firsttoknow.com/north-pond-hermit/

A usually overloaded Ibanise boat capsizes and sank this morning on its way from Bonny to Port Harcourt. The boat sailed out this morning loaded with 35 passengers including women and children. I am at the beach and so far only 9 survivors have been rescued. The Ibanise boat is a covered double engine speed boat owned and operated by community is subsidized.
The safety record along the ever busy Bonny-PHC waterway is poor.

Authorities of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Niger State, northcentral Nigeria, have thrown 281 fake corps members out of the orientation camp.

Mr. Steven Ehoda-adi, the state’s coordinator of NYSC, disclosed this Tuesday while speaking to journalists shortly after the closing ceremony of the 2014 Batch B orientation exercise in Paiko.



He said the 281 fake corps members identified at the state orientation camp were sent out of the camp after they failed to present their call-up letters.
Ehoda-adi said those affected had nothing to show as having qualified for admission into the camp.


According to him, some of them said they lost their letters when they were attacked by armed robbers on their way to Minna, others claimed to have misplaced them, while some presented photocopies of the letters which he said was not acceptable.

Only 3,259 batch B corps members on Tuesday successfully completed their three weeks orientation in the state.

Also, another 230 corps members comprising pregnant and nursing mothers were disallowed from taking part in the normal routine during the three weeks orientation exercise.

Declaring the orientation camp closed, Governor Mua’zu Babangida Aliyu of Niger State said despite the insecurity in the country occasioned by the activities of the Boko Haram, the unity of the country was not negotiable.

He said though insurgency was threatening the relative peace in some parts of the country, the activities of the Boko Haram sects would soon be brought to an end

www.nigerianeye.com

Readers of the prominent Israeli news site Mako have overwhelmingly voted in favor of sending President Barack Obama an envelope containing the Ebola virus for his birthday.

The site, which belongs to the Channel 2 company “Keshet” (the most widely watched broadcasting network in Israel), posted a survey in August 2014asking readers what they would like to give the president for his 53rd birthday. The options were as follows:

A) Peace in the Middle East (22%)
B) Golf clubs (11%)
C) A box set of Israeli television series Prisoners of War (9%)
D) A remix by Noi Alush (local video artist) of Netanyahu's now-famous “Don't ever second guess me again” line (10%)
E) An envelope with the Ebola virus (48%)

The results did not cause Mako to reconsider the list of options, or remove the survey. It was only a month after that Mako declared it would enact a new policy of filtering hate speech in its comments section. Doesn't seem to be working, does it?

http://972mag.com/nstt_feeditem/popular-news-site-reveals-israelis-wish-president-obama-death-by-ebola

Readers of the prominent Israeli news site Mako have overwhelmingly voted in favor of sending President Barack Obama an envelope containing the Ebola virus for his birthday.

The site, which belongs to the Channel 2 company “Keshet” (the most widely watched broadcasting network in Israel), posted a survey in August 2014asking readers what they would like to give the president for his 53rd birthday. The options were as follows:

A) Peace in the Middle East (22%)
B) Golf clubs (11%)
C) A box set of Israeli television series Prisoners of War (9%)
D) A remix by Noi Alush (local video artist) of Netanyahu's now-famous “Don't ever second guess me again” line (10%)
E) An envelope with the Ebola virus (48%)

The results did not cause Mako to reconsider the list of options, or remove the survey. It was only a month after that Mako declared it would enact a new policy of filtering hate speech in its comments section. Doesn't seem to be working, does it?

http://972mag.com/nstt_feeditm/popular-news-site-reveals-israelis-wish-president-obama-death-by-ebola

Readers of the prominent Israeli news site Mako have overwhelmingly voted in favor of sending President Barack Obama an envelope containing the Ebola virus for his birthday.

The site, which belongs to the Channel 2 company “Keshet” (the most widely watched broadcasting network in Israel), posted a survey in August 2014asking readers what they would like to give the president for his 53rd birthday. The options were as follows:

A) Peace in the Middle East (22%)
B) Golf clubs (11%)
C) A box set of Israeli television series Prisoners of War (9%)
D) A remix by Noi Alush (local video artist) of Netanyahu's now-famous “Don't ever second guess me again” line (10%)
E) An envelope with the Ebola virus (48%)

The results did not cause Mako to reconsider the list of options, or remove the survey. It was only a month after that Mako declared it would enact a new policy of filtering hate speech in its comments section. Doesn't seem to be working, does it?

http://972mag.com/nstt_feeditm/popular-news-site-reveals-israelis-wish-president-obama-death-by-ebola

Here is a list of 15 things which, if you give up on them, will make your life a lot easier and much, much happier. We hold on to so many things that cause us a great deal of pain, stress and suffering – and instead of letting them all go, instead of allowing ourselves to be stress free and happy – we cling on to them. Not anymore. Starting today we will give up on all those things that no longer serve us, and we will embrace change. Ready? Here we go:

1. GIVE UP YOUR NEED TO ALWAYS BE RIGHT

 There are so many of us who can’t stand the idea of being wrong – wanting to always be right – even at the risk of ending great relationships or causing a great deal of stress and pain, for us and for others. It’s just not worth it. Whenever you feel the ‘urgent’ need to jump into a fight over who is right and who is wrong, ask yourself this question: “Would I rather be right, or would I rather be kind?” Wayne Dyer. What difference will that make? Is your ego really that big?

2. GIVE UP YOUR NEED FOR CONTROL

 Be willing to give up your need to always control everything that happens to you and around you – situations, events, people, etc. Whether they are loved ones, coworkers, or just strangers you meet on the street – just allow them to be. Allow everything and everyone to be just as they are and you will see how much better will that make you feel. 

“By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond winning.” Lao Tzu

3. GIVE UP ON BLAME

 Give up on your need to blame others for what you have or don’t have, for what you feel or don’t feel. Stop giving your powers away and start taking responsibility for your life.

4. GIVE UP YOUR SELF-DEFEATING SELF-TALK

Oh my. How many people are hurting themselves because of their negative, polluted and repetitive self-defeating mindset? Don’t believe everything that your mind is telling you – especially if it’s negative and self-defeating. You are better than that.

“The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive.” Eckhart Tolle

5. GIVE UP YOUR LIMITING BELIEFS

about what you can or cannot do, about what is possible or impossible. From now on, you are no longer going to allow your limiting beliefs to keep you stuck in the wrong place. Spread your wings and fly!

“A belief is not an idea held by the mind, it is an idea that holds the mind” Elly Roselle

6. GIVE UP COMPLAINING

 Give up your constant need to complain about those many, many, maaany things – people, situations, events that make you unhappy, sad and depressed. Nobody can make you unhappy, no situation can make you sad or miserable unless you allow it to. It’s not the situation that triggers those feelings in you, but how you choose to look at it. Never underestimate the power of positive thinking.

7. GIVE UP THE LUXURY OF CRITICISM

Give up your need to criticize things, events or people that are different than you. We are all different, yet we are all the same. We all want to be happy, we all want to love and be loved and we all want to be understood. We all want something, and something is wished by us all.

8. GIVE UP YOUR NEED TO IMPRESS OTHERS

Stop trying so hard to be something that you’re not just to make others like you. It doesn’t work this way. The moment you stop trying so hard to be something that you’re not, the moment you take off all your masks, the moment you accept and embrace the real you, you will find people will be drawn to you, effortlessly.

9. GIVE UP YOUR RESISTANCE TO CHANGE

 Change is good. Change will help you move from A to B. Change will help you make improvements in your life and also the lives of those around you. Follow your bliss, embrace change – don’t resist it.“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls” Joseph Campbell

10. GIVE UP LABELS

 Stop labeling those things, people or events that you don’t understand as being weird or different and try opening your mind, little by little. Minds only work when open. “The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.” Wayne Dyer

11. GIVE UP ON YOUR FEARS

Fear is just an illusion, it doesn’t exist – you created it. It’s all in your mind. Correct the inside and the outside will fall into place.“The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.” Franklin D. Roosevelt

12. GIVE UP YOUR EXCUSES

Send them packing and tell them they’re fired. You no longer need them. A lot of times we limit ourselves because of the many excuses we use. Instead of growing and working on improving ourselves and our lives, we get stuck, lying to ourselves, using all kind of excuses – excuses that 99.9% of the time are not even real.

13. GIVE UP THE PAST

I know, I know. It’s hard. Especially when the past looks so much better than the present and the future looks so frightening, but you have to take into consideration the fact that the present moment is all you have and all you will ever have. The past you are now longing for – the past that you are now dreaming about – was ignored by you when it was present. Stop deluding yourself. Be present in everything you do and enjoy life. After all life is a journey not a destination. Have a clear vision for the future, prepare yourself, but always be present in the now.

14. GIVE UP ATTACHMENT

This is a concept that, for most of us is so hard to grasp and I have to tell you that it was for me too, (it still is) but it’s not something impossible. You get better and better at with time and practice. The moment you detach yourself from all things, (and that doesn’t mean you give up your love for them – because love and attachment have nothing to do with one another,  attachment comes from a place of fear, while love… well, real love is pure, kind, and self less, where there is love there can’t be fear, and because of that, attachment and love cannot coexist) you become so peaceful, so tolerant, so kind, and so serene. You will get to a place where you will be able to understand all things without even trying. A state beyond words.

15. GIVE UP LIVING YOUR LIFE TO OTHER PEOPLE’S EXPECTATIONS

Way too many people are living a life that is not theirs to live. They live their lives according to what others think is best for them, they live their lives according to what their parents think is best for them, to what their friends, their enemies and their teachers, their government and the media think is best for them. They ignore their inner voice, that inner calling. They are so busy with pleasing everybody, with living up to other people’s expectations, that they lose control over their lives. They forget what makes them happy, what they want, what they need….and eventually they forget about themselves.  You have one life – this one right now – you must live it, own it, and especially don’t let other people’s opinions distract you from your path

www.worldobserveronline.com-15-things-you-should-give-up-to-be-happy-3/

With the ubiquity and easy access of porn these days, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that people are beginning to study the effects of it on our sex lives. According to a website called projectknow.com, 420 million web pages are dedicated to porn, meaning the non-porn Internet roughly consists of..well, Wikipedia. Scientists at Cambridge University recently studied the brain scans of porn addicts and found that they looked exactly like those of drug addicts. With such an inexhaustible supply of porn at our disposal, there is a growing concern that it is beginning to effect our brains, our relationships, and even our bodies (beyond, of course, your mother’s idle threats of blindness and hairy palms). A recent survey of a Reddit community called NoFap, which is committed to abstaining from porn and masturbation, has helped researchers open the door to a better understanding of the effects of pornography on our lives. While none of the results are conclusive, there are certainly some statistics that should give a moment’s pause. Here are some of the highlights of why it may be a good idea to stick to Netflix next time you open up your laptop:

1. For those addicted to porn, arousal actually declined with the same mate, while those who regularly found different mates were able to continual their arousal. It’s known as the Coolidge Effect, or novelty-seeking behavior. Porn, after all, trains the viewer to expect constant newness.

2. One in five people who regularly watch porn admitted to feeling controlled by their own sexual desires.

3. 12 percent of NoFappers report watching 5 or more hours of Internet porn every week. 59 percent report watching between 4 and 15(!!) hours of porn every week.

4. Almost 50 percent of those on NoFap have never had sex in their lives, meaning their only experience with intimacy is purely digital.

5. 42 percent of male college students report visiting porn sites regularly.

6. 53 percent of the NoFappers developed a regular porn habit between the ages of 12 and 14. An alarming 16 percent said they started watching before they were 12.

7. 64 percent report that their tastes in porn have become more extreme or deviant.

8. Among 27-31 year olds on NoFap: 19 percent suffer from premature ejaculation, 25 percent are disinterested in sex with their partner, 31 percent have difficulty reaching orgasm, and 34 percent experience erectile dysfunction.

9. After committing to no masturbation/porn, 60 percent of those on NoFap felt that their sexual functions had improved.

10. And 67 percent had an increase in energy levels as well as productivity.

So there it is men. While the evidence may not be scientifically thorough, there’s certainly enough to suggest that porn has a negative impact on our lives. It might be a good time to give that overworked hand some rest, or, at the very least, use it to dial the phone number of a real live human woman and ask her out on a date

www.worldobserveronline.com/2013/11/22/10-reasons-quit-watching-porn/

Renegade147: . So Israel is now a terror state. What's the problem with all this muslims sef,hamas messed up with israel nd dey got spanked. If Israel is now a terror state,what is the ISIS movement of Iraq going to be called,defender of the islam faith i guess. Muslims are the problem of this world.

There is virtually no single problem in the Muslim/Arab world that is not caused by Christians and their Jewish masters. From slave trade to the middle passage massacres and drowning of millions of Africans, from the annihilation of nearly a million native American Indians, from the genocide and murder of hundreds of thousands native Australian Pygmies, from the Nazi genocide of the 1940s, from the murder of hundreds of thousands as a result of atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, from the genocide committed during the Korean wars, from the invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, from the genocide in palestine to the so called war on terror history has shown that Christians are the most violent peopleon earth. Their violence has robbed this this earth of over a hundred million people. The ISIS you mentioned came as a result of the destabilization of Iraq and now Syria by the same westerners who equally enslaved your grand parents and colonized your land. Israel is not only a terror state but a rogue and an illegitimate entity established on a stolen land that has single handedly disobeyed and disreregarded more international laws and United Nations resolutions than than all other countries of the world put together. No past Israeli leader that has never been convicted of a crime by an Israeli court. These idiots are even proud that they killed Jesus.
The entire world went to war to save these guys from Hitler but the genocide in Gaza has proved Hitler as a merciful killer. The right for self determination is enshrined in the UN charter. Gaza is a refugee camp populated by people whose villages were destroyed by the criminal and border less state of Israel and they have been under blockade for years. Tens of thousands of Palestinian youths are languishing in Israeli jails without trial for decades. They have been barred from travelling for studies or medical purposes and those who went out are banned from coming back. All their infrastructure has been destroyed. So what more reasons does one need to see that Palestinians are marked for extermination.

deeobserver209: When Israel engaged Hamas about two years ago Hamas where like, yes we're re winning the war. Soon after the conflict Hamas suffered thousands of casualties and Israel lost 23 people. Even after the conflict Hamas believed they won the war.
That's sort of how Terrorist go about their diabolical acts. They employ the use of Violence and Media propaganda to cause Terror in the minds of the people. Remember the number one aim of terrorist world wide is to create fear. It becomes easier for them to manipulate people into submission. That's exactly what Boko Haram terrorist are doing. To make people believe they're are winning.

Hamas are not terrorists but victims of a terror state called Israel. The world now has many alternative news sources to judge for ourself who is actually the oppressor and the oppressed.

It serves him right. He is a Zionists agent .

Cityofdavid: Dear Allah, it's me David. I perceive you may not know me too well but I have heard so much about you from my Muslim friends. Some of the reasons I feel you may not know me include: first, I am not a Muslim. Therefore, naturally, I'm guilty of not observing some of the main pillars of Islam especially the ones that are alien to my inherited faith - Christianity.

Particularly, I do not pray five times daily - it is either I pray less or more than fives daily. I also do not fast during Ramadan, though I partake in the feast with my Muslim friends. And finally, dear Allah, I have never been to Mecca either as a pilgrim or a businessman. I have, however, seen Mecca on the television and I should tell you that I love the crowd and the elephantine black box, which is always being flocked around by the faithfuls. I hope to visit it someday, by your grace.

Dear Allah, while I believe you may not know me very well because of the aforelisted reasons, your friend or, perhaps, your brother, Jehovah, the God of the Christians, knows me very well. It was his servants, I was told, that named me 'David' on the seventh day I was born. I was dedicated to him in the temple, and I have remained in his tent to this day. He knows me quite well. Perhaps, with due respect, you may, through your winged angels, send Jehovah a correspondence to verify my claims.

Before I go into the main subject of this letter, dear Allah, I strongly apologize for not writing in Arabic, the language with which you dictated the Holy Qur'an to your dignified servant Prophet Muhammed (peace be unto him). This is because my country was colonized by Great Britain and, consequently, I was educated in English. But, dear Allah, I have no single fear that, being the inventor of the human language and the several intricate writing systems in the world, you will completely understand this letter; even beyond what I lack words to express.

Dear Allah, it is an unusual thing for a mere mortal like me, who, making matters worse, is also not a Muslim, to write you a letter. I beg your pardon. I know that you are a gracious and peaceful and well-meaning God and will not discriminate against me. This said, I also know you are a very busy God. So, let me swiftly bring to your attention, although as an omniscient you already know, the reasons why this letter has become necessary.

I write this letter chiefly because of the security situation in my dear country Nigeria. Beloved Allah, you already know; the hazy smokes are rising into the high heavens where you reside. Beloved Allah, you already know; most of the persons that are knocking the gate of Hades these days are poor Nigerians, with splattered or missing body parts. Dear Allah, you already know; Boko Haram has unleashed naked terror upon Nigeria, especially northeastern Nigeria where bomb blasts have become more frequent than farts.

I should have directed this letter to Jehovah, your brother, who knows me very well and whom am familiar with. But I didn't, apparently because Boko Haram has yet to involve him. All the way, however, Boko Haramists have been claiming to be your loyalists; something I very much doubt. Claiming responsibility for some heart-rending attacks, Abubakar Shekau who had become the most wanted man in Nigerian history had alleged, very frequently, that it was you who gave him the licence to kill infidels, including me. Dear Allah, is it true?

No. It can't be true! You are a peace-loving God, my Muslim friends have kept insisting. I believe they are right, anyway. Nevertheless, beloved Allah, many people have assumed that you're too quiet on this matter. What have you been doing to earn the trust of Nigerians all over the world to indeed prove that Abubakar Shekau is merely a beast and not your boy? I perceive that you are doing something to bring Shekau to judgement; please, whatever it is, do it fast.

As I write, I believe that, long before now, news must have gotten to your desk that some hundred days ago Boko Haram abducted over 200 girls at Chibok area of Borno State. Dear Allah, the thoughts of the trauma the girls would have gone through during this period have given numberless Nigerians and other global citizens strong headache. A few days after these girls were abducted, dear Allah, Abubakar Shekau released a shocking video, which I believe must have been watched in the parlour of heaven, wherein he indicted you. Yes, you.

Shekau, ranting like a wild dog (I am sorry I have to refer to my fellow man as a dog), said you asked him to sell the girls. Here are Shekau's words quoted verbatim: “I abducted your girls. I will sell them in the market, by ALLAH. There is a market for selling humans. ALLAH says I should sell. He commands me to sell. I will sell women. I sell women."

Now, Almighty Allah, the above statements have misled so many people globally, making them to think you are a violent, bloodthirsty God. But I strongly doubt these insinuations. However, dear Allah, my personal opinion about you is not sufficient to change the dwindling minds of millions of people across the globe. You need to do something, and, whatever it is, please do it very fast.

Terrorism, timeless Allah, is new to Nigeria but it is not new to you, the almighty. There was a time, my Muslim friends told me, that Satanam tried to terrorize the peace of the kingdom of heavens, attempting to subvert your flawless throne. You waged a war against Satanam and his cohorts, defeating them outrightly. You, it was said, sent him to the earth, where he has remained to this day. Afterwards, peace has reigned in your kingdom. Please, do the same thing in Africa; send Boko Haram outside Africa: may be to the the red sea.

One of the ways of doing this, if it will not sound rude for a mere mortal like me to advice you, is to collaborate with Jehovah. Both of you may have your differences, but please put it aside for the sake of Nigeria, for the sake of Africa. Jehovah, too, has a wealth of experience in handling terrorism, because the Devil had also attempted to overthrow him in ancient times. If both of you should combine your strength and pool of experience, it is my humble view that Boko Haram would be wiped out in less than a second. Please, take no offence. It is just my humble opinion.

If you and Jehovah eventually agree to hold a summit, please I suggest you talk about the ceaseless and senseless strife between your followers and the followers of Jehovah. Many Governments in Nigeria have tried to make peace in the past but the peace pacts have always failed on each occasion. I trust that both of you will come up with a new treaty that would ensure perpetual peace between the Muslims and the Christians in Nigeria and the whole world. Let the bloodshed in Nigeria stop; let the bloodshed in Gaza stop. Let Christians and Muslims unite and live like bread and butter.

I presently do not keep beards because I may be suspected as a terrorist. I admire beards, anyway, and I think I have fertile cheeks to grow it. And I make a promise to you today, dear Allah, that as soon as Boko Haram becomes history in Nigeria, I will start growing beards. Ultimately, I shall convert to Islam, wallowing in the solace of sitting on the prayer mat, of fiddling the prayer beads, and humming sweet Arabic words.

I trust you will use your mighty and everlasting office to attend to the issues I have raised in this letter. Dear Allah, it's me David. Please have mercy on Nigeria, and have mercy on me, too.

Gandhi Green, a student of human society, writes from Lagos.
daviddenigma@gmail.com

The answers to all your questions and more have already been answered by Allah. Refer to the Quran and count out whatever is not written there. In it you'll find salvation and the fact that Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh or God is one- as only Him is worthy of being worshipped.

Walashilad: Hello I am in tanzania I have set my dish and I have got almost all channels but I can not get mbc1 and abudhabisports what could be the problem

Blind scan your decoder to get all available channels

I have already made up my mind to dump my Techno Phantom for BB Z10. I spend up to N6000 monthly on etisalat data. Am tired

The Bible is a unique book, as there
hasn't been a book like this ever written
before. Written over a period of 1500
years, it has been written over 40
generations by over 40 authors, from
different walks of life like poets,
fishermen, kings, shepherds, peasants
and scholars, under the inspiration of
the Holy Spirit. This shows how God
does not call the equipped, but equips
the called.
This shows that the bible is just a history book.

Donmams: The presidency yesterday openly challenged the supporters of President Goodluck Jonathan all over the country and in the diaspora to use social media platforms to discuss President Goodluck Jonathan’s achievements, ahead of the 2015 general elections.

Special assistant to the president on Political Affairs, Prof. Rufa’i Ahmed Alkali, who spoke at the official inauguration of Friends Of Goodluck (FOG) yesterday in Abuja, said the president’s supporters were not supporting him enough on social media.

“When we go on social media we hardly see responses of Friends of Goodluck, what are we doing?” he asked, adding: “Friends of Goodluck should talk more positively about Nigeria, because Nigeria is our country and we have to defend it.”

Prof. Alkali who described FOG as the first group to approach him to be a member of the group, even before he was appointed as special adviser, assured them of recognition.

Also speaking, special assistant to the president on Ethics and Values, Dr Sarah Jubril, said in her keynote address, that the name of the organisation connotes that good Nigerians who believe in the dream of the present administration will always support Jonathan.

While making his remarks, chairman board of trustees of FOG, Col. Theophilus Bamigboye told the gathering that he was yet to fail at anything, thus he believes the present task of ensuring President Jonathan is re-elected, will be successful.

In his welcome address, director-general of the FOG, Hon. Tom Itua, said the mandate of the organisation is to help in building and reinforcing a solid core of support and goodwill for President Jonathan throughout the country, to actualise his re-election in 2015.

He revealed that FOG has put in place structures in all the 36 states and FCT, including the 109 senatorial districts, 774 local government areas and 8,809 registration areas throughout the country, that will enable the group focus on the electorate.

http://leadership.ng/news/381193/occupy-social-media-presidency-tells-supporters

The GEJ social media lot have constituted themselves into a nuisance as they are achieving the direct opposite of what they aim to achieve. They only know how to hurl insults and abuses on any voice of dissent. Logical argument on topics is not in their dictionary as most of them are half baked graduates and I'll informed psychopaths.

gen2briz: http://thenationonlineng.net/new/ebola-nysc-suspends-orientation-in-six-
states/

The title of this report contradict its content. This is a report about states affected by Boko Haram insurgency.

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