vuduchild:

na wa OOOOOOO, hahahahahahaha, is this a school or a mental facility ?

alj_harem:

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
Chinua Achebe

Reference:

One of the better threads I tell you. Guys please remind me of this PDP stalwart who accused a turncoat that 'its bad manners to talk while you're eating.' Poignant indeed.

remark D:

, and you indeed have time to go around correcting people's spelling? (Whilst mispelling "Igbo" yourself?)

remark D:

Did you mean to say "Birds of the same feather?"

meonbooty:

You cant see the connection? LOL


The AMA already know the meaning of doctor to mean 'to teach.'

Below is an article from AMA :

The only ignorant person here is Mumu4life, and I will teach you by force, no matter how belligerent you get. It is because of people like you that people like me exist on NL. This is my own way of giving back to the society that has produced many mumus like you. I am here to do debunktion junction on you.

You are confusing doctor with physician. A physician trains to become a medical doctor after spending years at the medical school. A doctor on the other hand is first and foremost a teacher. And yes, medical doctors are above everything else teachers. They teach patients, their colleagues, subodinates and the general public at large.

[size=18pt]All Physicians are doctors ( teachers), but not all doctors are physicians. Geddit?[/size]




How did we go from:

Now you've added medical to your Dr. Phil is not a 'real doctor' gaffe;

So why add 'medical since Dr. Phil never claimed to me a medical doctor. No one ever said he was a medical doctor. That said, I hope I have educated you as to the real-ness of Dr. phils doctorate degree. He is a real doctor. Period.

Again, you said up there that Psychology isnt  real science, well, I dont think you actually know what Science is. Science is a method, not a subject. It is a way of finding the truth, and since most psychological research follow scientific methodology, I make bold to say here that psychology is indeed a science. Dont believe anything I say, try spending some time with a real Psychologist in their lab and judge for yourself. But before you do that, try learning about the real meaning of science. There is more to science that Biology, chemistry and Physics, noobie.

No need to explain yourself. I am used to people like you. I only engage people like you when I am about to head out to the club, ego booster kind of.  

Aigbofa:

Autonov1 was a brilliant invention by an equally brilliant Nigerian, the late prof. Ayodele Awojobi. It was a vehicle that could run in both forward and backward directions (wow! dis prof. na genius o) . This is real innovation, something real. If ogbunigwe can now be reffered to as anti aircraft missile, I wonder what we should call the Autonov 1

May the great prof. rest in peace.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonov_1

astronp8:



VS


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BY BOB MIMS
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 7, 2006 12:01 AM
This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2006, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
Researchers, including a BYU scientist, believe they have found a new compound that could finally kill the HIV/AIDS virus, not just slow it down as current treatments do.
And, unlike the expensive, drug cocktails 25 years of research have produced for those with the deadly virus, the compound invented by Paul D. Savage of Brigham Young University appears to hunt down and kill HIV.

Although so far limited to early test tube studies, CSA-54, one of a family of compounds called Ceragenins (or CSAs), mimics the disease-fighting characteristics of anti-microbial and anti-viral agents produced naturally by a healthy human immune system.

Under a study sponsored by Ceragenix Pharmaceuticals, Savage and his colleagues developed and synthesized the compound for Vanderbilt University's School of Medicine. In his Nashville, Tenn., laboratories, Derya Unutmaz, an associate professor of Microbiology and Immunology, tested several CSAs for their ability to kill HIV.

While issuing a cautious caveat about his early results, Unutmaz acknowledged Monday that CSAs could be the breakthrough HIV/AIDS researchers have sought for so long.

"We received these agents [from BYU] in early October and our initial results began to culminate by November 2005. We have since reproduced all our results many times," he said. "We have some preliminary but very exciting results [but] we would like to formally show this before making any claims that would cause unwanted hype."

What studies to date show is a compound that attacks HIV at its molecular membrane level, disrupting the virus from interacting with their primary targets, the "T-helper" class white blood cells that comprise and direct the human immune system. Further, CSAs appear to be deadly to all known strains of HIV.

That would be a welcome development for the estimated 40.3 million people now living with HIV/AIDS globally, including nearly 5 million newly infected in the past year alone.

"We have devoted considerable resources to understand the mechanism of these compounds. We think this knowledge will enable us in collaboration with Dr. Savage to design even better compounds," Unutmaz said.

In addition to being a potential checkmate to HIV, the compounds show indications of being just as effective against other diseases plaguing humankind - among them influenza, possibly even the dread bird flu, along with smallpox and herpes.

Savage said he and his BYU research team had been studying CSAs for eight years, noting the compounds' value against microbial and bacteria infections. It was only a year ago they saw that CSAs killed viruses, too.

"They kill viruses very effectively and in a way paralleling our own, natural defenses," Savage said, noting that beyond the obvious use as a weapon against the AIDS pandemic, CSAs could help many others with non-HIV immune deficiencies.

Further, the compounds appear to have few limits on how they are delivered to patients. Although early indications are for application of CSAs with an ointment or cream, pills or injections may also be developed - if the compound gets to market.

BYU and Vanderbilt have jointly filed a patent on CSA technology, which has been licensed exclusively to Ceragenix.

Ceragenix CEO and Chairman Steven Porter said only further research will tell, but he was optimistic about the application of CSAs in the war on HIV/AIDS. There are indications that it could help battle antibiotic- and antiviral-resistance strains of disease as they manifest themselves.

"We are encouraged . . . that CSAs may provide a completely unique family of anti-infectives, potentially active against a wide range of viral, fungal and bacterial targets, including those resistant to current therapies," he said.

Assuming continued positive test results in animal and eventual human trials, Porter estimates it could be three to seven years before the compound is available by prescription. That transition could be accelerated, however, if the Food and Drug Administration should decide to fast-track the drug.

That day is still a long way off, though. First, researchers plan to publish their results in scientific journals, seeking peer review and independent confirmation of their findings. Assuming no flaws are found, several rounds of testing would follow.

Most of the nation's leading AIDS experts were attending the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Denver on Monday. The event's policies prohibits on-site news conferences or releases during the conference, and efforts to reach scientists there were not successful.

Of the few AIDS research luminaries reached, all said they preferred not to comment on the Vanderbilt tests until full results are published.

bmims@sltrib.com


l Paul Savage and his Brigham Young University research team have invented CSA-54, a chemical compound that holds the promise of killing the HIV virus.

l CSA-54 is one of a family of compounds called Ceragenins that mimic the disease-fighting characteristics of a healthy human immune system.

l Tests at Vanderbilt University indicate the BYU compound also could be effective against influenza, small pox and herpes.

l Assuming continued positive results, CSA-54 could be available in three to seven years.

I recently watched a documentary on abortion and felt terrible about the whole process. It made me wonder how ladies feel after going through an abortion. some even go as much as three to four times.

according to the footage, the process involve bursting, disemminating, crushing and flushing. All these are done within the woman's abdominal part. Would any lady on NL that has gone through the process tell us how this feels

aloy@emeka:

Wednesday, 09 November 2011 16:20
[size=14pt]ACN urges NDA to withdraw honorary degrees from Akpabio, Alison-Madueke[/size]


Madueke and Akpabio


The Action Congress of Nigeria has advised the Nigerian Defence Academy to immediately withdraw the honorary doctorate degrees it awarded to Akwa Ibom Governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio, and Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Deziani Alison-Madueke, two months ago.

The party said in a statement by its spokesman, Alhaji Lai Mohammed on Wednesday, that this would preserve the tradition of the institution and the integrity of the awards.


http://www.punchng.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=4081:acn-urges-nda-to-withdraw-honorary-degrees-from-akpabio-alison-madueke&Itemid=542

The party said it had found out that the two awardees did not deserve to be honoured by the foremost military institution.

ACN listed deserving past honorees as including Prof. Ukpabi Asika, the first provost of the NDA who oversaw the institution's transition to a degree-awarding institution in 1991; former Defence Minister, Lt.-Gen. Theophilus Danjuma; and former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

odumchi:

I've been wondering, how did we [Africans] lose our resistance to tropical diseases such as malaria and yellow fever? 200 years ago, we were virtually immune to these diseases and now they continue to claim lives.

chookudi:

It is not an issue of competition but drawing the boundaries of one's profession.for example,we all know that when it comes to anything relating to drugs,the pharmacist is king same as when it comes to investigation concerning the body physiology,the med lab scientist has the best knowledge.getting a patient back 2 his/her feet requires d input of all and as long as each one of them is largely involved in dis,they have a shot at being the CMD or health minister or wateva post is being vied 4.when it comes 2 specific health institutions,u can't expect a nurse 2 head association of resident doctors or a doctor 2 head the pharmaceutical society of nigeria but wen a bigger umbrella is involved lyk health ministry or hospitals,any1 of them has a right, 

Inked_Nerd:


I'm quite sure you'd be really happy when you have a child and you child is in need of medical help. Because a child was born with a condition that may lead to their death doesn't mean that the parents or nurse should abandon their duties--that is by far one of the dumbest things I have heard. By the way, the twin boy involved in the incident, although he has made a full recovery from the incident, he is still totally dependent on others for his care. When you find yourself in such a situation, be sure to kindly take a step to the side so your child's doctor or nurse can throw their hands in the air and yell out the names of random religious figures. If she cannot handle basic stressful situations then she, nurse Abayomi shouldn't be involved in a profession that requires her to compose herself when helping someone. Were would be all be in every doctor in an emergency room were to throw their hands in the air and start shouting out the names of religious figures when faced with a stressful situation?

cogitoErgo:

D nurse don watch too much nigerian home videos, were sombdy go jst shout 'JEeeSUuuSsss' and a computer efect wil come and solve d prblm! LOL! They shuld depot her wit imediate alacrity, she wil be welcomed to call Jesus at UCH!

kurlarday:

Faith + Action= Miracle.
The nurse stood by her faith while the helpless mum took to ACTION and the result was miracle(to the nurse) but I guess that wasn't the same with the boy's mum.

kurlarday:

I'm very sure that if it were to be in Nigeria, the boy's mum would have joined the nurse in shouting JESUS! JESUS! JESUS! Or even calling down fire, (All the same,praise to God that the boy didn't die)

Pukkah:

Religion, rather than liberate Nigerians, has become a problem to them. The more religious they become, the less godly they get.

BootyOnMe:

My grand pa was blown out of his bed in one place called called Otu-Ogwu!
My momma and grand momma ran to Benin. NA BINI PEOPLE SAVE MY MAMA O!
My parents were sooooooooo jobless, they kept phocking and phocking. . . THEREBY PRODUCING 5 CHILDREN IN LESS THAN 4 YEARS! I think only 10 months and 2 weeks separated sibling #2 from sibling #3! My poor mom did not see a period for ALL 4 years! NO PADS! My last sibling was born in 1971! Then they stopped!!!

I suspect the native doctors had opened up their 'abortion' clinics to help my parents out. . . MY MOMMA WAS A STAUNCH CATHOLIC(STILL IZZZZ). . . EWWWW!!!

Thank God one of us quench! (Not my portion sha. . . na boy!)
My 5 uncles ran to Biafra land and were eating dead people and smoking Igbo endlessly with Ndi-Igbo across the Niger!
Thank God ALL of them are still alive and well.

Nor be small tin o!

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — At least 67 people died in a wave of bombings and shootings carried out in northeast Nigeria overnight, officials said Saturday, as frightened mourners left their homes to begin burying their dead.
A radical Muslim sect known locally as Boko Haram claimed responsibility Saturday for the attacks, which represent the most coordinated and wide-ranging assault yet in their increasingly bloody sectarian fight with Nigeria's weak central government. The sect, which wants the strict implementation of Shariah law across the nation of more than 160 million people, promised to carry out more attacks.
The fighting centered around Damaturu, the capital of Yobe state, Nigerian Red Cross official Ibrahim Bulama said. The attack started Friday with a car bomb exploding outside a three-story building used as a military office and barracks in the city, with many uniformed security agents dying in the blast, Bulama said.
Gunmen then went through the town, blowing up a First Bank PLC branch and attacking at least three police stations and some churches, leaving them in rubble, he said. Gunfire continued through the night and gunmen raided the village of Potiskum near the capital as well, witnesses said, leaving at least two people dead there.
On Saturday morning, people began hesitantly leaving their homes, seeing the destruction left behind, including military and police vehicles burned by the gunmen, with the burned corpses of the drivers who died in their seats.
Bulama spoke to The Associated Press by telephone Saturday morning from a common Muslim burial ground in the city as his family buried a relative and friend, a police officer who died after suffering a gunshot wound to the head in the fighting.
"There's that fear that something might possibly happen again," he said.
State government officials did not respond to repeated requests for comment Saturday.
The attacks around Damaturu came after four separate bombings struck Maiduguri, about 80 miles (130 kilometers) east. One blast detonated around noon outside the El-Kanemi Theological College where parents had gathered. Police said others had entered the college grounds to attend Friday prayers at a mosque located on its campus.
Witnesses who spoke to the AP said they saw ambulances carry away at least six wounded people from the site. Another bombing alongside a road in Maiduguri killed four people, local police commissioner Simeon Midenda said.
A short time later, suicide bombers driving a black SUV attempted to enter a base for the military unit charged with protecting the city from Boko Haram fighters, military spokesman Lt. Col. Hassan Ifijeh Mohammed said. The SUV couldn't enter the gate and the explosives were detonated outside of the base, which damaged several buildings in the military's compound, Mohammed said.
Mohammed said blasts occurred at three other places in Maiduguri besides the base, with no one being killed. However, government officials routinely downplay such attacks in Nigeria over political considerations.
On Saturday, a Boko Haram spokesman claimed responsibility for the attacks in an interview with The Daily Trust, the newspaper of record across Nigeria's Muslim north. A Boko Haram spokesman using the nom de guerre Abul-Qaqa promised that "more attacks are on the way."
"We will continue attacking federal government formations until security forces stop their excesses on our members and vulnerable civilians," the spokesman said.
His comments come as human rights activists say soldiers have beaten and killed civilians while trying to search for the sect in Maiduguri.
Boko Haram's attacks occurred ahead of Eid al-Adha, or the feast of sacrifice, when Muslims around the world slaughter sheep and cattle in remembrance of Abraham's near-sacrifice of his son. Police elsewhere in the country had warned of violence ahead of the celebration in Nigeria, a country largely split between a Christian south and a Muslim north. On Wednesday, police in Maiduguri had said they broke up a plot to bomb the city over the holiday.
Boko Haram apparently has split into three factions, increasing the danger for Nigeria, the AP has learned. One faction remains moderate and welcomes an end to the violence, another wants a peace agreement with rewards similar to those offered to a different militant group in 2009.
The third faction, though, refuses to negotiate and remains the most radical. This faction is in contact with al-Qaida's North Africa branch and likely the Somalia-based terror group al-Shabab, a diplomat said on condition of anonymity according to embassy orders.
That sect likely is responsible for the increasingly violent and sophisticated attacks carried out in the sect's name. In August, Boko Haram claimed responsibility for a suicide car bombing at the United Nations headquarters in Nigeria's capital, which killed 24 people and left another 116 wounded.
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Njadvara Musa reported from Maiduguri, Nigeria.
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Jon Gambrell can be reached at www.twitter.com/jongambrellAP.

hbrednic:

God forbid,the worst president ever in the white house.
promising HOPE,delivering NOTHING.

maki:

uniport is one d best in studing medicine in nigeria, but they will drill d hell out of u,  [size=18pt]a 3rd class student in medicine[/size] in uniport is a 1st class material in most other universities in and otherside the country,

odiaero:

@ OP, Why Hiv/Aid is getting more attentions is because u will contact it when u Be Intimate with somebody that have it, but u cant contact cancer when u sex somebody that hv cancer, that is just the reason

~Bluetooth:

Cancer is worse than HIV but malaria kills faster than both.I just think maybe some people make more money from hiv than cancer;you know condom,anti-retrovirals and others yield more for HIv:

afam4eva:

. All the people i know that had cancer ended up dieing. From Tina Onwudiwe to one Celebrity Big brother contestant(can't remember her name) to Nelly's sister and so many other people. So, why's this disease not getting the kind of publicity that AIDS is getting? Btw, Magic Johnson has been living with HIV for 21 years and he still looks healthy.

So, what do you guys think. Which disease deserved more publicity?

afam4eva:

There's been a lot of publicity on HIV/Aids for so many years now. These publicity have imbibed fear in the minds of people who have taken per-cautionery measures to avoid contracting this deadly killer disease like it's often referred to. But i've come to realize that HIV is not the number 1 killer disease but Cancer. All the people i know that had cancer ended up dieing. From Tina Onwudiwe to one Celebrity Big brother contestant(can't remember her name) to Nelly's sister and so many other people. So, why's this disease not getting the kind of publicity that AIDS is getting? Btw, Magic Johnson has been living with HIV for 21 years and he still looks healthy.

So, what do you guys think. Which disease deserved more publicity?

all4naija:

I think Northern Nigeria is getting worse than Iraq.