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Tannie: This scripture is usually misinterpreted. The bible didn't ask us to kill anybody. Witchcraft is an evil spirit. The bible is saying that we should deal with the witchcraft spirit in the person not that we should kill the person.

But I thought this scripture was referring to a witch, not witchcraft

In the Bible, the book of Exodus chapter 22 vs 18 enjoins us not to permit a witch to live. Is it possible in today's contemporary world to fulfill this biblical injuction?

lawrenceunaa: counter threads everywhere

BTW, a bit of things to benefit :
1) brasiallian hair
2) artificials-- eye lashes, nails
3)flirting with a rich guy and gets serviced with the other guy [/quote]Getting serviced by the other guy! Hmm, that's still sex

Ladies, what do you gain from a relationship where the only thing you get is money, and you don't experience the heavenly feelings of cloud nine that a man gives via sex?

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I never implied that a man should depend on his partner. But a relationship where the only thing the girl has to offer is sex is risible

I have seen threads on this forum that seem to suggest that a man gains in a relationship as long as he gets sex from a girl he spends his hard earned money on. With humility, I wish to controvert this notion. If I a man has sex with a girl, she is not doing him any favour because she is also deriving as much pleasure as the guy is deriving from the act, probably more. If I spend on my girl, I do it because I love her, not for sex. Mature men don't pay for sex because what they get from sex, she also gets it from it, so why should I pay for helping her to experience cloud nine? If a man is in a relationship where the only thing he gets from the girl is sex, he is not gaining at all. If a girl also has money, what religion or morality prohibits her from spending on her guy. I am not saying she should be the bread winner, but at least, buy some things for your guy once in a while, and he will even spend more on you. Guys, if you are in a relationship where the only thing you get is sex while you expend your savings on the girl, and you think you are gaining, it's an illusion.

@LifeIsGuhd: what do girls gain in a relationship without allowance or money? Girls gain a lot. Among them is sex. Or how else would you experience the heavenly feeling you girls enjoy during sex without a guy? A relationship is without allowance or money is not a parasitic relationship because the girl gains sex. And I never knew that relationships are now a source of income.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Ebola drug ZMapp was developed by a
company based in San Diego
Other companies have also been working to
develop treatments for Ebola
It's unclear whether the drug will be
administered to other Ebola patients

Two American missionary workers infected with the deadly Ebola virus were given an
experimental drug that seems to have saved their
lives.
Dr. Kent Brantly was given the medication,
ZMapp, shortly after telling his doctors he
thought he would die, according to a source
familiar with his case. Within an hour, doctors say
his symptoms -- labored breathing and a
widespread rash -- dramatically improved. Nancy
Writebol, another missionary working with
Samaritan's Purse, received two doses of the
medication and has also shown significant
improvement, sources say.
As there is no proven treatment and no vaccine
for Ebola, this experimental drug is raising lots of
questions.

Who makes the drug?

The drug was developed by the biotech firm Mapp
Biopharmaceutical Inc., which is based in San
Diego. The company was founded in 2003 "to
develop novel pharmaceuticals for the prevention
and treatment of infectious diseases, focusing on
unmet needs in global health and biodefense,"
according to its website .
Mapp Biopharmaceutical has been working with
the National Institutes of Health and the Defense
Threat Reduction Agency, an arm of the military
responsible for weapons of mass destruction, to
develop an Ebola treatment for several years.

Are there other experimental Ebola drugs out
there?

Yes. In March, the NIH awarded a five-year $28
million grant to establish a collaboration between
researchers from 15 institutions who were
working to fight Ebola.
"A whole menu of antibodies have been identified
as potentially therapeutic, and researchers are
eager to figure out which combinations are most
effective and why," a news release about the
grant said.
Tekmira, a Vancouver-based company that has a
$140 million contract with the U.S. Department of
Defense to develop an Ebola drug, began Phase 1
trials with its drug in January. But the FDA
recently halted the trial, asking for more
information.
At least one potential Ebola vaccine has been
tested in healthy human volunteers, according to
Thomas Geisbert, a leading researcher at the
University of Texas Medical Branch. And last
week, the NIH announced a safety trial of another
Ebola vaccine will start as early as September.

How does ZMapp work?

Antibodies are proteins used by the immune
system to mark and destroy foreign, or harmful,
cells. A monoclonal antibody is similar, except
it's engineered in a lab so it will attach to specific
parts of a dangerous cell, according to the Mayo
Clinic , mimicking your immune system's natural
response. Monoclonal antibodies are used to treat
many different types of conditions.
This medicine is a three-mouse monoclonal
antibody, meaning that mice were exposed to
fragments of the Ebola virus and then the
antibodies generated within the mice's blood were
harvested to create the medicine.


Why did American missionary workers get the
drug?

Many have asked why these two workers received
the experimental drug when so many -- around
1,600 -- others in West Africa also have the virus.
Samaritan's Purse reached out to an NIH
scientist who was on the ground in West Africa,
according to the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases. "The scientist was able to
informally answer some questions and referred
them to appropriate company contacts to pursue
their interest in obtaining experimental product,"
NIAID said.
The World Health Organization says it was not
involved in the decision to treat Brantly and
Writebol. Both patients had to give consent to
receive the drug, knowing it had never been tested
in humans before.
The process by which the medication was made
available to the American patients may have
fallen under the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration's "compassionate use" regulation,
which allows access to investigational drugs
outside clinical trials.

Did doctors know it would work?

No. The drug had shown promise in primates, but
even in those experiments, just eight monkeys
received the treatment. In any case, the human
immune system can react differently than
primates', which is why drugs are required to
undergo human clinical trials before being
approved by government agencies for widespread
use.
The two Americans' cases will be studied further
to determine how the drug worked with their
immune systems.

Will the drug be made available to other Ebola
patients?

It's unclear. Doctors "cannot start using untested
drugs in the middle of an outbreak, for various
reasons," World Health Organization spokesman
Gregory Hartl said.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, says
scientists have to be careful about assuming this
drug will work in other patients as it appears to
have worked in Brantly.
"Having worked with administering antibodies for
people for a really long time, that would be
distinctly unusual," he told CNN. "As we all know
in medicine ... you have to withhold judgment."

Does the company have more vials of the drug?

The company has very few doses ready for
patient use, Fauci told CNN. "Apparently the
company is trying to scale up, (but) it's not easy
to scale up to very large number of doses."

Who paid for the drug and how much did it cost?

We don't know. Samaritan's Purse covered the
cost of Brantly and Writebol's evacuations but did
not pay for the drug, according to a spokesman.
When a patient gets an experimental drug, the
drug company can donate the product under
compassionate use. Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc.
might have done that in this case.
Health insurance companies typically do not pick
up the tab for treatments that have not been
approved by the FDA. But they would usually
cover the cost of any doctor fees associated with
giving the drug and any costs associated with
monitoring how the drug is working.


Would this drug stop the Ebola epidemic?

If it were widely available, it certainly couldn't
hurt. An effective Ebola drug could help doctors
treat the deadly virus, which is killing about 60%
of the people infected in West Africa. But a
vaccine would be a much more effective tool in
stopping this, and future, epidemics.
Vaccines are given to healthy people to prevent
them from ever becoming infected. One challenge
with Ebola, experts say, is that companies don't
believe they could make much money from
developing a vaccine, so few companies show
interest.

It's a story that could have come from
a cinematic medical thriller: Two American
missionary workers contract Ebola. Their situation
is dire. Three vials containing a highly
experimental drug are flown into Liberia in a last-
ditch effort to save them.

And the drug flown in last week appears to have
worked, according to a source familiar with details
of the treatment.

Dr. Kent Brantly's and Nancy Writebol's
conditions significantly improved after receiving
the medication, sources say. Brantly was able to
walk into Emory University Hospital in Atlanta
after being evacuated to the United States last
week, and Writebol is expected to arrive in Atlanta
on Tuesday.

On July 22, Brantly woke up feeling feverish.
Fearing the worst, Brantly immediately isolated
himself. Writebol's symptoms started three days
later. A rapid field blood test confirmed the
infection in both of them after they had become ill
with fever, vomiting and diarrhea.

It's believed Brantly and Writebol, who worked
with the aid organization Samaritan's Purse,
contracted Ebola from another health care worker
at their hospital in Liberia, although the official
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention case
investigation has yet to be released.

As the Americans' conditions worsened,
Samaritan's Purse reached out to a National
Institutes of Health scientist who was on the
ground in West Africa, according to the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

"The scientist was able to informally answer some
questions and referred them to appropriate
company contacts to pursue their interest in
obtaining the experimental product," NIAID said.

The experimental drug, known as ZMapp, was
developed by the biotech firm Mapp
Biopharmaceutical Inc., which is based in San
Diego. The patients were told that the treatment
had never been tried before in a human being but
had shown promise in small experiments with monkeys.

According to company documents, four monkeys
infected with Ebola survived after being given the
therapy within 24 hours after infection. Two of
four other monkeys that started therapy within 48
hours after infection also survived. One monkey
that was not treated died within five days of
exposure to the virus.

Brantly and Writebol were aware of the risk of
taking a new, little-understood treatment and
gave informed consent, according to two sources
familiar with the care of the missionary workers.
In the monkeys, the experimental serum had been
given within 48 hours of infection. Brantly didn't
receive it until he'd been sick for nine days.

The medicine is a three-mouse monoclonal
antibody, meaning that mice were exposed to
fragments of the Ebola virus and then the
antibodies generated within the mice's blood were
harvested to create the medicine. It works by
preventing the virus from entering and infecting
new cells.

The Ebola virus causes viral hemorrhagic fever,
which refers to a group of viruses that affect
multiple organ systems in the body and are often
accompanied by bleeding.

Early symptoms include sudden onset of fever,
weakness, muscle pain, headaches and a sore
throat. They later progress to vomiting, diarrhea,
impaired kidney and liver function -- and
sometimes internal and external bleeding.

The ZMapp vials, stored at subzero temperatures,
reached the hospital in Liberia where Brantly and
Writebol were being treated Thursday morning.
Doctors were instructed to allow the serum to
thaw naturally without any additional heat. It was
expected that it would be eight to 10 hours
before the medicine could be given, according to
a source familiar with the process.

Brantly asked that Writebol be given the first dose
because he was younger and he thought he had a
better chance of fighting it, and she agreed.
However, as the first vial was still thawing,
Brantly's condition took a sudden turn for the
worse.

Brantly began to deteriorate and developed
labored breathing. He told his doctors he thought
he was dying, according to a source with
firsthand knowledge of the situation.

Knowing his dose was still frozen, Brantly asked if
he could have Writebol's now-thawed medication.
It was brought to his room and administered
through an IV. Within an hour of receiving the
medication, Brantly's condition dramatically
improved. He began breathing easier; the rash
over his trunk faded away. One of his doctors
described the events as "miraculous."

By the next morning, Brantly was able to take a
shower on his own before getting on a specially
designed Gulfstream air ambulance jet to be
evacuated to the United States.

Writebol also received a vial of the medication.
Her response was not as remarkable, according
to sources familiar with the treatment. However,
doctors on Sunday administered Writebol a
second dose of the medication, which resulted in
significant improvement.

She was stable enough to be evacuated back to
the United States.

The process by which the medication was made
available to Brantly and Writebol is highly
unusual.

World Health Organization spokesman Gregory
Hartl cautioned that health authorities "cannot
start using untested drugs in the middle of an
outbreak, for various reasons."

ZMapp has not been approved for human use and
has not even gone through the clinical trial
process, which is standard to prove the safety
and efficacy of a medication. It may have been
given under the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration's "compassionate use" regulation,
which allows access to investigational drugs
outside clinical trials.

Getting approval for compassionate use is often
long and laborious, but in the case of Brantly and
Writebol, they received the medication within
seven to 10 days of their exposure to the Ebola
virus.

On July 30, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency,
an arm of the military responsible for any
chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and
high-yield explosive threats, allotted additional
funding to MAPP Biopharmaceutical due to
"promising results."

What does putting 'Doro' before mentioning names mean?

Dia ris God o - Patience Jonathan
My Oga at the top - Shem Obafiaye
Only you waka come - Patience Jonathan
I dey kampe - Olusegun Obasanjo
I laugh - Olusegun Obasanjo
The 'eyes' have it - David Mark
Go and die - Adams Oshiomole

My fellow Nairalanders, you can add more.

Thanks for the information. God bless

I have heard that restitution makes repentance genuine. Is restitution a must when one repents. If so, what about some things you may not be able to restore e.g: a money stolen from someone about 5 years ago and you don't even know where the fellow is now. Is it possible for a repentant armed robber to restore all he has stolen, when he can't even remember all his or her victims. What about the things taken but can't be returned? For example, how can one restore a Nokia 3310 that was stolen years back from someone you don't know. Surely, even if found, the owner won't have any value for it any more.

He made history when he hit 100 caps for Nigeria. Then unfortunately, in the dying minutes of what is undoubtedly his last football match for the Super Eagles, he scored an own goal. Don't you think Yobo's own goal will affect how he will be remembered in our football history?

What is your opinion of Joseph Yobo's Own goal? Was it his fault? I think he was trying to help when he flopped

I humbly offer myself for the job. I would like to operate the generator if given the opportunity.

I am not surprised that they did not respond after writing them. It's only in Nigeria corporate bodies treat public complaints from individuals with levity. You have the right to request that correction be made, you can also claim damages. The health implications of staying close to radiation from a mast is calamitous. If you stay in Abuja, go to Sherif plaza, @ Wuse 2, ask for Brekete Family office. Report to them and they will surely take it up with passion. Brekete family will allow you to speak live on their daily reality radio program, where cases of this nature are redressed.

@ammyluv2002: thanks for your advise

@wasak: please would you mind giving me a cogent reason why you said I shouldn't marry her.

I have a lady I truly love and respect so much and I am considering proposing marriage to her and settling down with her as my wife. But I'm still ambivalent because, though I so much love and respect this lady, she was actually the one who approached me first when we first met. Though I had noticed her and admired her, I lacked the courage to approach her (I have never had the courage to approach ladies). But I didn't know she was also admiring me. She walked around my area twice looking at me. Then suddenly, she drew near me and called me to come. And we began to talk and exchanged numbers. Contrary to the common misconception that a lady who approaches a man first is wayward, I discovered that this lady is decent, virtuous, respectful, and is a wife material. But I've heard people say that it's not good to marry a woman who approached you first. Personally, I don't see anything bad in it and I love this girl so much, but people say it's not too good. So please, should I go on and propose marriage to her just as I love to do? Have you ever seen happily married couples whose relationship began with the woman being the one who made the first move?

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Basic Requirements: Degree or HND in Mechanical Engineering

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. Ability to work together with a team
. Ability to travel from one client site to another
. Magnetic personality
. Ability to use Lathe machine is an advantage
. Must be computer literate
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Computer Information

Item Value

System Manufacturer Dell Inc.
System Model Inspiron 1545
System Type 32-bit Operating System
Processor Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU T4200 @ 2.00GHz 2.00 GHz
Boot Device \Device\Hard disk Volume3
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If you are potentially interested in the Laptop, you can reach me at jiorhemen@yahoo.com
I live in Abuja

I have a fairly used sleek and glossy Laptop for sale

Computer Information

Item Value

System Manufacturer Dell Inc.
System Model Inspiron 1545
System Type 32-bit Operating System
Processor Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU T4200 @ 2.00GHz 2.00 GHz
Boot Device \Device\Hard disk Volume3
Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB

Hard Disk Drives (2)
OS (C) 250 GB Recovery 15 GB

Webcam, Bluetooth, Wide Screen, WLAN, Long Battery life

Still glossy with all systems working perfectly

Asking Price #65000(negotiable)

If you are potentially interested in the Laptop, you can reach me at jiorhemen@yahoo.com
I reside at Abuja

Asking price: #65000

I have a fairly used sleek and glossy Laptop for sale

Computer Information

Item Value

System Manufacturer Dell Inc.
System Model Inspiron 1545
System Type 32-bit Operating System
Processor Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU T4200 @ 2.00GHz 2.00 GHz
Boot Device \Device\Hard disk Volume3
Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB

Hard Disk Drives (2)
OS (C) 250 GB Recovery 15 GB

Webcam, Bluetooth, WI-Fi

If you are potentially interested in the Laptop, you can reach me at jiorhemen@yahoo.com
I reside at Abuja