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haibe: get the focal point of her post, Only two pastors can afford a lot not to talk of our leaders and you are talking of no moneyI never said anything about Nigeria not having the money to improve medical research. Our leaders will rather embezzle the money. About your focus on religious bodies not aiding medical advancement, Pastors didn't build the research facilities in the US. Nobody had to sell their private property or drop their religion in the western nations to make breakthroughs in medicine. Stop singling out pastors! |
haibe: You don't have facilities because you embezzle them, Nigeria has lots of money. Even the little that is let go are not used well, what about knowledge and experience? why are they medical practitioners without knowledge? you think it's theory we need them for? See this guy oo. Just close your eye in shame for saying this.Then why did you call Nigerian medical professionals illiterates and heaped the blame on them when you are aware that our lack of medical innovation is due to bad leadership? You are not even coherent. |
nora544: the new laboratory for the University of marburg which is for searchin for the marburgvirus and his sister ebola was 15 Million USD.So pastors are to fund medical research while the leaders keep looting our treasury? Not too long ago, the naira had more value than the British pound. Maybe you also blame our currency depreciation on religion too. |
wikiman: We need to really get serious with research in this country and stop focusing on frivolous things asMr Atheist, Africans are not as religious as Indians yet Hindus are the majority among the great players in the field of medicine. We don't have the same military, economy, development and a whole lot of other things with the West. You think that's because we pray a lot? Take your religion-bashing campaign somewhere else. |
haibe: The only problem I have with Nigeria now is the fact that we invest more on religion than helpful research. Despite having at least a church in almost every street in Lagos, Lagos remains the first to inhabit ebola, despite Nigeria being one of the most religious countries in the world, we are still among the most dangerous, corrupt and soon poorest countries in the world. Where are those medical practitioners that claim they know it all, those useless medical professors that have no job than oppressing students thinking they are intelligent, where are they let them prove what they have got. But No!! They won't stand up and act now but later say they are not inferior to the oyibo man.What do you want the medical experts to do, perform magic? How do you think medical researches are conducted? It takes a lot of money, knowledge and experience to manufacture drugs and discover therapeutic methods for curing diseases. How many research centers are in Nigeria? How much is the government funneling into medical and pharmaceutical research? We're not inferior to any country. We don't just have the facilities, funding and know-how they've got. |
It’s the end of another busy week and MaryMargret Williams is shuttling her brood home from school. She drives an enormous SUV, but her six children and their coats and bags and snacks manage to fill every inch. The three big kids are bouncing in the very back. Sophia, 10, with a mouth of new braces, is complaining about a boy- crazy friend. She sits next to Anthony, seven, and Aleena, five, who are glued to something on their mother’s iPhone. The three little kids squirm in three car seats across the middle row. Myah, two, is mining a cherry slushy, and Luke, one, is pawing a bag of fresh crickets bought for the family gecko. Finally there’s Gabrielle, who’s the smallest child, and the second oldest, at nine years old. She has long, skinny legs and a long, skinny ponytail, both of which spill out over the edges of her car seat. While her siblings giggle and squeal, Gabby’s dusty-blue eyes roll up towards the ceiling. By the calendar, she’s almost an adolescent. But she has the buttery skin, tightly clenched fingers and hazy awareness of a newborn. Back in 2004, when MaryMargret and her husband, John, went to the hospital to deliver Gabby, they had no idea anything was wrong. They knew from an ultrasound that she would have clubbed feet, but so had their other daughter, Sophia, who was otherwise healthy. And because MaryMargret was a week early, they knew Gabby would be small, but not abnormally so. “So it was such a shock to us when she was born,” MaryMargret says. Gabby came out purple and limp. Doctors stabilised her in the neonatal intensive care unit and then began a battery of tests. Within days the Williamses knew their new baby had lost the genetic lottery. Her brain’s frontal lobe was smooth, lacking the folds and grooves that allow neurons to pack in tightly. Her optic nerve, which runs between the eyes and the brain, was atrophied, which would probably leave her blind. She had two heart defects. Her tiny fists couldn’t be pried open. She had a cleft palate and an abnormal swallowing reflex, which meant she had to be fed through a tube in her nose. “They started trying to prepare us that she probably wouldn’t come home with us,” John says. Their family priest came by to baptise her. Day after day, MaryMargret and John shuttled between Gabby in the hospital and 13-month-old Sophia at home. The doctors tested for a few known genetic syndromes, but they all came back negative. Nobody had a clue what was in store for her. Her strong Catholic family put their faith in God. “MaryMargret just kept saying, ‘She’s coming home, she’s coming home’,” recalls her sister, Jennie Hansen. And after 40 days, she did. Gabby cried a lot, loved to be held, and ate every three hours, just like any other newborn. But of course she wasn’t. Her arms would stiffen and fly up to her ears, in a pose that the family nicknamed her “Harley-Davidson”. At four months old she started having seizures. Most puzzling and problematic, she still wasn’t growing. John and MaryMargret took her to specialist after specialist: a cardiologist, a gastroenterologist, a geneticist, a neurologist, an ophthalmologist and an orthopaedist. “You almost get your hopes up a little – ’This is exciting! We’re going to the gastro doctor, and maybe he’ll have some answers’,” MaryMargret says. But the experts always said the same thing: nothing could be done. While Gabby’s hair and nails grew, her body wasn’t getting bigger. She was developing in subtle ways, but at her own pace. MaryMargret vividly remembers a day at work when she was pushing Gabby’s stroller down a hallway with skylights in the ceiling. She looked down at Gabby and was shocked to see her eyes reacting to the sunlight. “I thought, ‘Well, you’re seeing that light!’” MaryMargret says. Gabby wasn’t blind, after all. Despite the hardships, the couple decided they wanted more children. In 2007 MaryMargret had Anthony, and the following year she had Aleena. By this time, the Williamses had stopped trudging to specialists, accepting that Gabby was never going to be fixed. “At some point we just decided,” John recalls, “it’s time to make our peace.” http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140520-the-girls-who-never-age |
It's caution. |
INFORMATION: US STATE DEPARTMENT EBOLA ALERT In order to help our Embassy Community better understand some key points about Ebola virus we consulted with our medical specialists at the US State Department and assembled this list below, worded in plain language for easy understanding. • The suspected reservoirs for Ebola are fruit bats. • Transmission to humans is thought to originate from infected bats or primates that have become infected by bats. Undercooked infected bat and primate (bush) meat transmits the virus to humans. • Human to human transmission is only achieved by physical contact with a person who is acutely and gravely ill from Ebola virus or their body fluids. • Transmission among humans is almost exclusively among caregiver family members or health care workers tending to the very ill. • The virus is easily killed by contact with soap, bleach, sunlight, or drying. A washing machine will kill the virus in clothing saturated with infected body fluids. • A person can incubate the virus without symptoms for 2-21 days, the average being 5-8 days before becoming ill. THEY ARE NOT CONTAGIOUS until they are acutely ill. • Only when ill does the viral load express itself first in the blood and other bodily fluids (e.g vomit, feaces, urine, breast milk, semen and sweat). • If you are walking around you are not infectious to others. • There are documented cases from Kikwit, DRC of an Ebola outbreak in a village that had the custom of children never touching an ill adult. Children living for days in one room huts with parents who died from Ebola did not become infected. • You cant contract Ebola by handling money or swimming in a pool. •There's no medical reason to stop flights, close borders, restrict travel or close embassies, businesses or schools. • Always practice good hand washing techniques,you will not contract Ebola if you do not touch a dying person. Pls share this information and try not to spread panic on social media. Stay safe! |
Ok. Recently, CNN has been making a lot of mistakes in both their online and TV channels. If this mistake was done by NTA, Nigerians would have insulted the news agency, Nigerian press, federal government, GEJ and PDP or APC. |
If she actually refused to be quarantined then she should be charged to court and sentenced to a very long time in prison if she comes out negative. Risking the lives of millions is not something to be played with. |
While the war in Gaza has received global recognition and Muslims, Christians and atheists across the planet are condemning the killings there, the violence against Christians in the middle east and almost all the countries with a Muslim majority has gone unnoticed and poorly reported. The same pro-hamas activists and extremists screaming blue murder and demonizing Israel, beating up Jews in Europe, resigning from political offices and shaking the online media have kept mum about what ISIS is doing to Christians in Iraq. The stench of the hypocrisy and religious bias is overly appalling! |
Once there were an estimated 30,000 of them. The Christians of Mosul in Iraq are now gone. They know the time had come to depart or to suffer harm. The new rulers, murderous thugs who call themselves the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) told Christians, who had lived in that part of the world since near to the time of Jesus, to leave. Even the often morally blinded United Nations issued a report noting the facts: ISIS is killing or expelling Christians and other smaller religious sects. Why? ISIS wants to make their territory Christian-free. ISIS soldiers pull over the cars containing fleeing members of religious sects and do what they are know how to do. They kill them. ISIS zealotry has resulted thus far in the destruction of the tomb believed to contain the remains of Jonah the prophet and the bombing of places. The ISIS new twists: make sure the occupants are at work at the time the explosion occurs. Mannequins faces are now covered and it is no false conclusion to believe that the future of women in ISIS-controlled territory will be brutal, demeaning, at the whim of men and often shortened by violence. Christians are not welcome in much of the Islamic world. Expulsions and persecutions are not new, but certainly under-reported. Murders of churchgoers as they leave house of sanctuaries has been occurring for some time. What is astounding however, is the silence. Yes, there are news stories here and there. But there is a general silence. There are no protests, no government resolutions and no sanctions against those who murder others who do not share the same religious beliefs. It is state-sanctioned homicide for the crime of a different belief in the Almighty, and the punishment by the world at large is silence as these crimes are committed. The West is making a terrible mistake by its silence, its failure to condemn these attacks on religious freedom and the murder and expulsion of those who choose to believe. Maybe this hardly heard reaction, which seems to have no outrage with it, is another step in Western historical failure to understand that the abolition of religious freedom has often been a factor leading to the deaths of millions. Maybe the Western world has amnesia when it comes to its own history, and maybe the intellectual stream that has dictated our morality by saying religion is the problem itself has won this skirmish. However, the victims are losing not only their homes as they often are murdered, tried and convicted by automatic weapon for the crime of belief. The smug reaction of silence is one for which we will pay. Not because there will be a predictable heavenly response. No. That would be all too easy to dismiss. The price will be paid because we are allowing by our silence demons to run large portions of this planet. It has happened before. Once the beast awakens, his hunger often cannot be extinguished. That is what demons do. They will travel anywhere to feed. That is our problem, not theirs. http://www.newsmax.com/HankSheinkopf/Iraq-Iraq-In-Crisis/2014/07/24/id/584692/ |
Today, Boko haram seizes a town in Borno, tomorrow the military will recapture it. Boko haram then storms another town and the cycle continues. Please, is there no everlasting solution to the carnage wrecking the northern part of this country? I'm tired of the current sequence. |
anago90: the hand of god travel for 06 when Hezbollah whop their @ss. humour me more mass murderers.Casualty figure of Israel-Lebanon war of 2006. Lebanese:- According to various media, between 1,000 and 1,200 people were reported dead. Additionally, there were between 480 and 1100 people wounded, and over 1,000,000 were temporarily made refugees, with an unknown number of missing civilians in the south. Israeli:- A total of 121 IDF soldiers were killed in the war, including the two soldiers whose bodies were seized in the Zar'it-Shtula incident that started the war, whose fates weren't confirmed until their bodies were exchanged for Lebanese prisoners in 2008. According to Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 43 civilians have been killed, out of which 18 were Israeli Arabs. How exactly did Hezbollah whip Israel's ass, my friend? |
ghostofsparta: I am beginning to think the west or some equally quasi-government group have initiated operation [size=18pt]Negronihilation[/size] - The end of the Negro raceAsk yourself, what will they gain from that? This mentality you exhibited is why the disease has surged to this level. Locals attacking health workers cos of baseless assumptions. |
I want to see officials in Saudi Arabia and Sudan resign too over the government's policy towards the death sentence for Apostasy. Hypocrites! Israel is already pulling out of Gaza and has ceased all airstrikes and artillery fire also. Let's just hope Hamas won't send more rockets after this ceasefire deal. But I'll also like to see how pro-hamas supporters around the world will react if eventually they launch more rockets towards Israel. |
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Andyblaze:Tell her to take a loan from the bank and pay up the misplaced cash. |
anonimi: The problem with the North as it is with Nigeria and black people as a whole is not that we do not have INDIVIDUAL bright spots & stars.It's all about sentiments and disparities. In Africa, most people will only help you if you are related to them. That mindset has infiltrated the government and that's the main reason we are backward. A case of people getting top positions in government not because of their exceptional talents, skill or performance but because they know people in authority. The end result is a crowd of charlatans and unqualified persons managing our country. |
So many billionaires from the north. Let them work more in helping their fellow northerners and bridge the steep gap between the rich and the poor in that region. If a huge percentage of people there get formal education plus worthwhile and steady jobs, nobody will have the time to join terrorist groups. |
donnypool: In a bid to address the shortfall of electricity supply being experienced in the country, the Federal Government has developed short term interventionFixed. |
Missy89: The tactic of trying to deflect from the garbage you wrote earlier isn't working. The issue isn't the charter of Hamas because that is subjective and you just proved my point with this write up again. what do you mean by the land doesn't belong to them? who does it belong to and are you going to refer me to the bible as prove? or what other evidence do u have as regards the owner of the land?The area of land that is now the state of Israel doesn't belong to either Jews or Palestinians. It belongs to the Canaanites that dwelt there before the Israelites expelled them thousands of years ago. Palestinians can't claim ownership of the land because they stole it when the Romans exiled the Jews living there and the Arabs (Palestinians) settled in Jerusalem after Saladin took over the city. The land now belongs to Israel and Palestinians should recognize the state of Israel, lay down their arms, make peace with Israel and elect a credible non-terrorist government then the blockade in Gaza will be lifted, West bank settlements will be halted and they can have their own country. |
Missy89: The tactic of trying to deflect from the garbage you wrote earlier isn't working. The issue isn't the charter of Hamas because that is subjective and you just proved my point with this write up again. what do you mean by the land doesn't belong to them? who does it belong to and are you going to refer me to the bible as prove? or what other evidence do u have as regards the owner of the land?What do you want Israel to do in this current conflict? Withdraw unconditionally? |
Missy89: Nope!You're not making any sense. Hamas has been firing rockets into Israel, bombing buses, kidnapping and killing Israelis since they took over power. I even applaud Israel for their restraint from using excessive force to wipe Hamas out. Have you read the Hamas charter? Their major aim is to wipe out every Jew in Israel and reclaim their stolen lands (Insha allah). Lands that don't belong to them. Palestinians are Jordanians. Israel has been illegally encroaching on the West bank and I condemn them for that but Hamas is a terrorist organization bent on killing Jews. The same Jews that supply them water, electricity and various aids. So tell me, what do you want Israelis to do? Vanish and leave the country for Hamas? |
What's the common denominator here... for the people that can't see the sense in this article? It will always be and still remain ISLAM! That's the only thing that unites the supporters of Hamas. I don't support the bombardment of civilian sites and facilities but Hamas left Israel no choice by constantly sending rockets into Israel. 5 good times, Israel agreed to a ceasefire to allow humanitarian aid but guess how Hamas replied— more rockets into Israel! What is so hard for the anti-semitic Moslems to understand? They want Israel to sit back and do nothing while hundreds of rockets are launched against them? FYI, the iron dome costs billions of dollars to manage and Israel will be dragged into recession if they let it sort out the conflict. |
Na only you waka come? Video of the guy telling you that he doesn't want you anymore or.... you know the rest. |
Oklander: ...Really?I'm not a fan of the US and I know they've messed up in some areas but the problem in Iraq and Syria wasn't caused by the US. It happened when Sunni Muslims from around the world started moving into Syria to fight the Assad regime and became recruits of the IS. IS got most of their arms from the catchments abandoned by fleeing Iraqi soldiers. Let me make it simple for you. The moderate rebels that were armed are fighting with IS in Syria, yes or no? |
Oklander: ...Obviously you can't fault my assertion.Most Muslims are hypocrites. So we should blame the US for every Islamic terrorism wrecking our modern civilization. The US never armed the terrorists in the Syria. They are still deliberating on whether or not to arm the moderate rebels. (that are currently fighting with IS in Syria) So bloke, your assertion is not only false but also extremely preposterous! |
There was a country! |
Oklander: If this is true, then you brainless US 'asslickers' should direct ur garbages to ur master terrorists; the US of A who supplied this same group with weapon when they were in Syria before moving to Iraq. Take a look around the world, many of these terrorist groups are connected to US in one way or the other. Alqaeda, Taliban both created by US, Hillary Clinton clearly said that, the video is there on YouTube, ISIS funded and supplied weapons by US in Syria...Typical of you Muslims. The mindset is 'When in doubt, blame USA' |
Jakumo: There is nothing fundamentalist Muslims love to do more than to peer up women's skirts, so as to become inebriated with lust that is channeled into aggression and repression of women at every turn.I think the IS has heard you and they've already set up a committee to look into your accusations and find ways to fix the scandal and bad image. News flash, Charlie. They are bloody terrorists and words don't hurt them. Sadly, they'll do more heinous acts, institute hurtful repressions and pull off their violent carnage because nobody wants to take down the tough guys of the IS. |
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