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I smell a rat in this incident. *Just thinking aloud* It could be an arrangee crash for Azazzi (cause he knows too much) and Yakowa made collateral damage. God dey.

By the looks of their home, Tony and Christine Clark are raising two rambunctious 7-year-old boys. Model train tracks and Monopoly pieces are scattered on tables and cartoons flicker on the TV set.

But the Clarks' two sons are grown men who share only the same interests and emotional fluctuations of little boys. Like the character portrayed by Brad Pitt in the 2008 film "The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons," Matthew, 39, and Michael, 42, are aging backwards.

Diagnosed with a terminal form of leukodystrophy, one of a group of extremely rare genetic disorders that attack the Myelin, or white matter, in the nervous system, spinal cord, and brain. In the Clarks' case, the condition has not only eroded their physical capacities, but their emotional and mental states as well.
Only six years ago, both brothers were holding down jobs and growing their families. Today, they spend their days in the care of their parents, both in their sixties, playing with Mr. Potato Head, fighting over Monopoly, and in rare lucid moments, struggling to understand why their lives have changed so dramatically.

Before the Clark Brothers were diagnosed, they were living independent lives. Michael served in the Royal Air Force and later became a cabinet maker. Matthew worked in a factory and was raising a teenage daughter. Tony and Christine, meanwhile, had retired and moved from the UK to Spain. Then in 2007, both of their sons fell off the radar. They stopped returning their parents' calls and texts, and as the Clark brothers' conditions developed, their lives fell apart.


Should parents get their kids' genome sequenced?

Michael surfaced in a soup kitchen, and was referred to medical experts by social workers. After an MRI scan, he was diagnosed with the incurable degenerative disorder. Soon after Matthew received the same news. In the U.S. alone, about 1 in 40,000 children are born with a form of the neurodegenerative disease, according to Dr. William Kintner, President of the United Leukodystrophy Foundation. While some forms of the disorder are potentially treatable if discovered in the earliest stages and not all cause an emotional regression, the brothers are unlikely to be cured. "It's very difficult to do anything once progression has occurred," Dr. Kintner tells Yahoo! Shine.
[With their train set.(Courtesy of Channel4)] With their train set.(Courtesy of Channel4)

As of April, when the Clarks were first written about in the British press, their mental age was 10.

"We will be out walking and things which might interest a toddler interest them, the other day we were walking home when Michael saw a balloon and pointed it out to us," father Tony Clark, told The Telegraph last spring.

Today, the brothers are even younger mentally.

"Just like small children, they wake up a lot during the night," mom Christine said in an interview published in The Independent this week. "I was up seven times with them last night."

After learning of their diagnoses, Tony and Christine returned to the UK and moved in with their sons. Their daily struggles as a family have been chronicled in a British documentary, "The Curious Case of the Clark Brothers," airing Monday in the UK.

Earlier this year, Matthew became a grandfather, when his daughter had a son. But the news for the family was bittersweet, as the Clark brothers' mental age continued to creep backwards.

"There's no return to them being cute little boys," said Christine, who regularly manages their tantrums and fights over Monopoly. "They're big strong men—and that presents a quite different set of problems."

More recently, even their physical strength began deteriorating.

"A few weeks ago, they could still manage with a knife and fork, but now that's getting too difficult for them—they get the food onto their forks, but somehow it all falls off before it reaches their mouths," she said.

Donors and genetic disorders: how much do you know?

Now walking is the next hurdle; Matthew is already confined to a wheelchair.

"The likelihood that they're on a terminal course is fairly certain, but who knows?" says Dr. Kintner, who is familiar with the Clark case but didn't meet the brothers. "If they were citizens of U.S., we'd try to get them to the National Institute of Health for diagnostic work, but in the UK the system is different. There is no comparable organization with genetic diseases, so it's a little more difficult there."

Dr. Kintner estimates there are several million cases of one of the estimated 40 types of leukodystrophies in the U.S., but an exact number is hard to pinpoint. The different forms of the disorder are still being identified and tests for each known type are still being developed. "It's going to take a long time," says Dr. Kintner. "I hope in my lifetime I see a cure for some of them."
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http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/real-benjamin-buttons-brothers-matthew-michael-clark-aging-193400085.html

By the looks of their home, Tony and Christine Clark are raising two rambunctious 7-year-old boys. Model train tracks and Monopoly pieces are scattered on tables and cartoons flicker on the TV set.

But the Clarks' two sons are grown men who share only the same interests and emotional fluctuations of little boys. Like the character portrayed by Brad Pitt in the 2008 film "The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons," Matthew, 39, and Michael, 42, are aging backwards.

Diagnosed with a terminal form of leukodystrophy, one of a group of extremely rare genetic disorders that attack the Myelin, or white matter, in the nervous system, spinal cord, and brain. In the Clarks' case, the condition has not only eroded their physical capacities, but their emotional and mental states as well.
Only six years ago, both brothers were holding down jobs and growing their families. Today, they spend their days in the care of their parents, both in their sixties, playing with Mr. Potato Head, fighting over Monopoly, and in rare lucid moments, struggling to understand why their lives have changed so dramatically.

Before the Clark Brothers were diagnosed, they were living independent lives. Michael served in the Royal Air Force and later became a cabinet maker. Matthew worked in a factory and was raising a teenage daughter. Tony and Christine, meanwhile, had retired and moved from the UK to Spain. Then in 2007, both of their sons fell off the radar. They stopped returning their parents' calls and texts, and as the Clark brothers' conditions developed, their lives fell apart.


Should parents get their kids' genome sequenced?

Michael surfaced in a soup kitchen, and was referred to medical experts by social workers. After an MRI scan, he was diagnosed with the incurable degenerative disorder. Soon after Matthew received the same news. In the U.S. alone, about 1 in 40,000 children are born with a form of the neurodegenerative disease, according to Dr. William Kintner, President of the United Leukodystrophy Foundation. While some forms of the disorder are potentially treatable if discovered in the earliest stages and not all cause an emotional regression, the brothers are unlikely to be cured. "It's very difficult to do anything once progression has occurred," Dr. Kintner tells Yahoo! Shine.
[With their train set.(Courtesy of Channel4)] With their train set.(Courtesy of Channel4)

As of April, when the Clarks were first written about in the British press, their mental age was 10.

"We will be out walking and things which might interest a toddler interest them, the other day we were walking home when Michael saw a balloon and pointed it out to us," father Tony Clark, told The Telegraph last spring.

Today, the brothers are even younger mentally.

"Just like small children, they wake up a lot during the night," mom Christine said in an interview published in The Independent this week. "I was up seven times with them last night."

After learning of their diagnoses, Tony and Christine returned to the UK and moved in with their sons. Their daily struggles as a family have been chronicled in a British documentary, "The Curious Case of the Clark Brothers," airing Monday in the UK.

Earlier this year, Matthew became a grandfather, when his daughter had a son. But the news for the family was bittersweet, as the Clark brothers' mental age continued to creep backwards.

"There's no return to them being cute little boys," said Christine, who regularly manages their tantrums and fights over Monopoly. "They're big strong men—and that presents a quite different set of problems."

More recently, even their physical strength began deteriorating.

"A few weeks ago, they could still manage with a knife and fork, but now that's getting too difficult for them—they get the food onto their forks, but somehow it all falls off before it reaches their mouths," she said.

Donors and genetic disorders: how much do you know?

Now walking is the next hurdle; Matthew is already confined to a wheelchair.

"The likelihood that they're on a terminal course is fairly certain, but who knows?" says Dr. Kintner, who is familiar with the Clark case but didn't meet the brothers. "If they were citizens of U.S., we'd try to get them to the National Institute of Health for diagnostic work, but in the UK the system is different. There is no comparable organization with genetic diseases, so it's a little more difficult there."

Dr. Kintner estimates there are several million cases of one of the estimated 40 types of leukodystrophies in the U.S., but an exact number is hard to pinpoint. The different forms of the disorder are still being identified and tests for each known type are still being developed. "It's going to take a long time," says Dr. Kintner. "I hope in my lifetime I see a cure for some of them."
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http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/real-benjamin-buttons-brothers-matthew-michael-clark-aging-193400085.html

From:

PDP - The Nigerian people have spoken, the elections were free and fair.

CPC - The Nigerian people have once again been rob of the votes by the corrupt ruling party. we hereby call on the dogs and baboons not to accept defeat.

APGA - We are patiently waiting for our turn in the next elections as SS has by the re-election completed their 8 year tenure.

ACN - We are going to the tribunal for protest.

All opposition parties would be falling heads over heels to reject, protest and degrade the results.
NA WAH FOR THIS COUNTRY!

The chairman of the Petroleum Revenue Task
Force, Nuhu Ribadu, has explained why he has remained firm in spite of high-
level efforts by some members of his committee and some elements in the
Federal Government and the oil industry to sabotage the work of the panel he
led.
There was open disagreement between members of the committee during the
formal submission of their final report to President Goodluck Jonathan Friday
with Steve Oronsaye, deputy Chairman of the panel, and Bon Otti, a member,
openly discrediting the document submitted by Mr. Ribadu to the President.
They claimed that the process adopted in its compilation was flawed, saying all
members were not allowed to see the final draft before its submission.
But in an update on his Facebook Page Sunday evening, Mr. Ribadu said he
resisted all attempts to be compromised because he had taken a position to
always be on the side of the Nigerian people.
He said as far as he is concerned a good name is better than monumental
wealth.
“I have made my choice to stand with the Nigerian people, to place national
interest before any other knowing that a good name is better than silver and
gold,” the former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
told his followers.
Mr. Ribadu had after the incidence at the presidential villa on Friday left an
instructive comment on his Facebook page saying, “No matter the pressure,
don’t compromise, stand for the truth and with people of integrity.”
On Friday, no sooner had Mr. Ribadu completed the presentation of the report
to the President than Mr. Oronsaye rose to vehemently disagree with the
presentation and to dissociate himself from the exercise.
“It is true I am the Vice or deputy Chair. But, I did not start with the Committee
until much later, because I was busy with some other assignments. But when I
joined, I made certain observations,” Mr. Oronsaye said. “Let me say this, your
Excellency, this other report that was circulated for discussion was actually not
accepted by members, and that was the reason the committee was to go back
to review, modify and return.”
Mr. Ribadu, in his reaction, expressed disappointment at attempts to discredit
the report, saying Mr. Oronsaye and Mr. Otti hardly participated in the
deliberations of the committee, as they were busy lobbying to be given plum
jobs at the NNPC.
“Mr President, I wasn’t expecting this development, so please do excuse me if I
may say a few things,” he said. “This Task Force was set up in February. We
started work effectively in March. Most of the members that you have seen here
abandoned what they were doing and came here and we worked every single
day. We gave everything to it.
“For about three months, Chief Oronsanye never participated one day in the
deliberations of this committee. Not even a single day, never. The first time we
saw Chief was when at the end of the work when we were talking about
recoveries from companies that he jumped in. All the members are here, they
can bear me witness. He never participated in this work.
“While others, who were appointed from outside the industry to look at it
critically and give you an honest opinion, and ensure the independence of that
committee, Chief Oronsanye got himself appointed into the Board of the NNPC.
“The other gentleman, Otti, who spoke became the director of Finance, NNPC,
and they decided to, more or less, bully everybody and take over. “And they wanted us to write for them. Committee members refused. By the
time they were appointed (into NNPC) the most honourable thing they could
have done could have been to resign from the committee. They refused to
resign. Chief (Oronsanye) has not been in this country for a while. He flew in
this morning to come and do this before Mr. President. And I think the President
deserves more respect than you have done now.”

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Billyonaire: In every clime, there is always a room for conspiracy theorists. You are short of words but not short of lies. Congratulations for being a Prof of Corruption and lies!

Address the message not the messenger!

RIP Madam. while dose running naija down r walking free, good people kip departing to the great beyond. wat an irony.

Wahala Dey oh!
Our Politicians should wake up now. Else more unemployed graduates would follow suit. Disaster in the offing.

this one na news? abeg tell us wetin we neva no.

Shut up and pay up. Shut up and pay up.

Honourable Dr Cheif Barister Mrs Jane Doe. Na wa for naija!

c money

uzomagic: For the sake of clarity, I want to reproduce the excerpts of that report to show that Maku is right and stood by his words and just gave a political apology inorder not to cause an executive/legislative rift. Brilliant man.

"The Senate thereafter summoned Maku to appear before it to clarify his statement. The minister, while appearing before the Senate Committee on Information, had said: “I did not in any way intend to disparage or disrespect the authority of the National Assembly by my comment. ``I was just trying to explain to the journalists without having to make a declaration on behalf of the President (Goodluck Jonathan). ``If that comment has been misinterpreted, I tender my apologies to the Senate because personally, I have no reason to disrespect the National Assembly. “I was at a forum and journalists threw a question at me, as to whether the government would cancel the introduction of the N5000 note as a result of the Senate resolution. ``Now, I was pressed by the press and journalists were looking for headlines. The answer was not the position of the federal government and I took efforts to explain to my colleagues.’’

Maku, however, told the Senators that he was not misquoted by the press. On whether the resolutions of the Senate were binding or not, Maku said he was aware that if the nation was at war, the National Assembly had the power to extend the life span of a government."

If you read the bolded critically without bias, you will be convinced beyond reasonable doubt that Maku stands by his statement. He just wants to make it clear that statements credited to him should not be associated with his principal-Jonathan hence the cosmetic apology.
He never said he was sorry for saying what we all know is the truth. He stands courageously by his statement. He said clearly that the press did not misquote him meaning that he said it and stand by it.
But for the sake of Jonathan, if the statement is misinterpreted as executive slight on legislature then I apologise.

OK! Now we've heard directly from Maku's P.A. Let there be peace.

Sodiq33: .
.
.
.
Any muslim that cheats
and hides under the cloak
of religion, if we know
such person, we wont
hesitate to eliminate him.
Yes, I am saying so
because it doesn’t take 5
minutes to kill just as
we’re being killed. We
follow the teachings of the
Quran. This is what God[i][/i]
has told me to explain.
Allhamdulillah!”

What a religion?!!!

Rephrase! Corruption will fight u despite challanges.

gramci: This religion hates women.

Wrong! they adore them in secret and pornogahpic movies

caseless: BH is not hausa dominated. It started frm yobe and maiduguri whch are not purely hausa state but dominated by d kanuris,beriberi and baburawa(dis is d tribe d slain leader of d grp came from). A stand-in spokeperson was arrested and he hails from kogi st8, ibira 2 b precise. A would-be bomber arrested in kano mosque is a yoruba man. Dnt mind ppl calling islam names..they dont know right from wrong.

Ol boi anytin North and Islamic is HAUSA

little wonda y sanusi was advocating #5000 notes. Convinience 4 his BH boys to move around 4 sure.

I bet Farouk Lawan won't return a dime.

Is this country worthy of this kind of selflessness? just asking

Omo see ride! I trip die 4 ur car.

2mch: When you said pics in the title i thought we were going to see the 800million. na wa for this poster.

. don't mind the attention seeker who cannot determine his right 4rm left. pathetic!

Mr president, "BODY LANGUAGE" speaks louder than words.

Is Nigeria's capital Lagos? hop we r not stil living in the 60s.

why? Because the language of communication here is ENGLISH.

acidtalk: I earlier called for Nigerians of all ages, tribe and religion to unite and kick against the introduction of the note. Weeks later Dino Melaye led others to Abuja (CBN headquaters ) to kick against it and now we have victory on our side.

View the thread below -

https://www.nairaland.com/1030089/why-n5000-note-should-kickedi

so wat do u want from us? A standing ovasion? I tire for som people o oh!

For refusing to listen to Nigerians. IMPEACH HIM!!

If Boko Haram denies the dead man as being Abu Qaqa, then of the truth, the dead man is the real Abu Qaqa. If however they chose to confirm the dead man as their Abu Qaqa, then I will take their words with a pinch of salt

espn: Attack islam..nd u expect us to be silent..u joke!

I thought as much

espn: Attack islam..nd u expect us to be silent..u joke!

I thought as much

ballabriggs: You are blessed in the name of the most high. As Lemo said, monetary policy and currency issues is not a popularity contest. If you dolts don't understand this by now then I'm very sorry for you all.

So the CBN should also consult with you before determining which currency to hold its foreign reserves in? They should also consult with you before setting the optimum MPR? They should also consult with the council of chiefs before setting the reserve requirements of banks.

you reason like a kid.

debosky: Regardless of the nonsense that woman allegedly said, the introduction of 5,000 naira is not a driver of corruption - people have been corrupt since the days of 1 naira notes, so that is an irrelevant argument. Currency denomination is not the cause of corruption.



44bn appears excessive, but then again, if we need additional currency to be printed, it should go ahead. Whether or not the 5,000 note issued, we will need to continue printing currency to renew what is in circulation, so let's not make it sound as if we don't need to spend money on printing currencies if we shelve the 5k note.

I don't support making the highest denomination 100 naira - it is costly to print large numbers of these units so if you are really concerned about 44BN, it will cost even more to print high volumes of 100 naira to meet the needs for currency circulation.



I don't know see any reason why the senate should be consulted before currency is issued - let them face their law making responsibilities and leave currency management to the CBN. They should be informed, but that's it.

We can't wait for 150m people to agree before we move forward on any issue all in the name of 'consultation'.

UNLIKE

A little too late.