funkiedipsy:

Gudmrn. Thanks for d info. I learnt airtel netwk is gud in mangu camp? Pls hw true is dis

It's virtually the same thing jare! I have all 4 lines, they're the same joor! All I know is that there is network around the parade ground, especially at the base of the flag

I am one of your most senior colleague, I'm serving at Geotess Nigeria Ltd, Tudun Wada, Jos. The distance from Lagos to Jos depends on the driver, I've spent from 14-17 hours on the road on different occasions. The Mangu camp is one of the best in the country, it boasts of interlocked roads, PVC ceiling, tiled bathrooms and toilets, aluminium windows, personal cupboard with space for your hanger,two heavy generators, standard multipurpose hall with gallery, and the mammy market Mama Vicky rocks! You're the 4th set to use the facilities so its relatively new. Jos to mangu will take you about an hour. The network in camp is bad so collect your numbers here and you can get network under the Flags at the parade ground. Meanwhile if you're posted to Jos south local government, I urge y'all to join the Extra Mural CDS! I am the president of that CD group and believe me its fun! For more inquiries and enlightenment, contact me on 07037118718. Welcome to the home of peace and tourism. But you guys plenty o not like our set that we're just 1085, VIP batch! We no dey queue for clearance, but seeing that this thread is on the 5th page already, you guys are much! Hoping to meet some of you on real person (You can whatsapp me too)

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Did you mean that you're not beautiful? I think your words are beautiful sha, and you moniker...

Forget, na naija we dey! Some even use it in the stead of flashing sef. lol! If you send me call me back you go wait tire

esmeralda1:

I understand it can be annoying u will almost not forgive urself for lookin stupid.

Honestly

Good for him. This thread has made FP before too, but wait o, why must they say he is the first black man to have a gp of 3.98 why not simply say he's the first PERSON to achieve that feat or has any of the whites score that high before?

Lmao @ the message you sent to them, 'I will curse you people o'! LO

esmeralda1:

Smiling is even still okay, i mean u can just pretend u remembered smthing or just press ur phone while smiling as if u read smthing dt made u smile

Ah! when I'm with my boss in the cubicle?? I will look foolish nah! I just pretended it nothing new, I hate that embarrassing looks on people's faces when you make a mistake

Lifts could be especially embarrassing for a first timer, remembered the first time I used one at Lekki, I really had to fight the urge to smile as the thing was carrying me up so that I won't look like a 'bush man'

MrSloan:
Yeah, its indeed a five star hotel.. actually, we were the 1st to launch the camp. Batch c 2013! And yeah, we're good to go! Will find time to upload my Mangu camp pix..

We're the Second batch to use the facilities, batch A 2014, posted to Geotess Nig. Ltd, Jos.@ Eni, I'll send an email to you

It is forbidden for a King to shed tears... and btw okete is rabbit not grasscutter, grasscutter is called Oya or Ewuju, ehoro is hare not rabbit. Informative thread all the same.

I used to say this that 'Love is found in strange places' Let her live with the consequences of her actions

Iyan ogun odun... talk about nemesis!

deneut: you're one hell of a girl. 2 digits?arghhhhhhh

I tire o! The remaining digits should be at least 3

braine: Congrats to us!! I'm loving the good news I've been hearing lately. . Shame on Patrick Sawyer

bennygreat1: If this Newz is true.... Good news... GOD Bless Nigeria.

braine: Congrats to us!! I'm loving the good news I've been hearing lately. . Shame on Patrick Sawyer

Actually, one of the times I felt proud being a Nigerian! it's good news! And considering the fact that the outside world does not wish us well on this by withholding the supposed trial drugs from us, God saw us through eventually

Nigeria Free
Of Ebola,
Final
Surveillance
Contacts Released

As the WHO Ebola Response
Team published dire predictions
of the West African outbreak in
the New England Journal of
Medicine, overnight – including
an updated 70.8% fatality rate –
the Health Minister of Nigeria
reports that his country is
completely free of active Ebola
cases and have today released
the final victim contacts from
surveillance.
In a telephone interview last
night where he was preparing
for a United Nations General
Assembly meeting in New York,
Minister of Health Onyebuchi
Chukwu, MD, said, “Presently,
there is no single case of Ebola
virus disease in Nigeria – none.”
Dr. Chukwu provided further
details, saying, “No cases are
under treatment, no suspected
cases. There are no contacts in
Lagos that are still under
surveillance, having completed a
minimum of 21 days of
observation.”
In the process of tracing
contacts of individuals infected
with Ebola, anyone showing no
symptoms after three weeks of
last known contact with a victim
is considered free of any
potential for the disease.
Rivers State, whose capital city
is Port Harcourt, had been home
to over 400 contacts under
medical surveillance. As of last
night, only 25 contacts
remained.
“None of them are showing any
symptoms. Tonight [Mon 22
Sept] will mark the end of their
21 days of observation and the
plan is to get them discharged
from surveillance tomorrow
[Tues 23 Sept].”
“Nigeria will be as clean as any
other country as far as Ebola
virus disease is concerned.”
Achievement in perspective
PBS TV reporter Fred de Sam
Lazaro wrote yesterday from
Port Harcourt, “The story of
Ebola in Nigeria is an unusual
and frankly rare one about
things going right somewhere in
Africa.”
“Indeed, the disease has now
been contained in Lagos, a city
of 21 million people, and Port
Harcourt, population 1.4
million.
Nigeria is the most populous
country on the African
continent, with 177 million
people, yet only suffered 21
Ebola cases and eight deaths. In
contrast, Liberia has just 4.3
million people yet has
experienced 2,710 reported
cases, with 1,459 deaths (as of
18 September).
Ebola virus was brought to
Nigeria when naturalized
American and Liberian Ministry
of Finance official, Patrick
Sawyer, traveled to Lagos for a
meeting of the Economic
Commission of West African
States (ECOWAS) in Calabar on
July 23.
Sawyer had symptoms of the
disease before leaving Liberia
and became very ill on the
flight, infecting others from
ECOWAS who greeted him and
at the hospital where he was
treated and died two days later.
A contact under quarantine in
Lagos for some reason took
flight to Port Harcourt, about a
seven-hour drive. There, he was
treated in secret by Dr.
Ikechukwu Enemuo. Both Dr.
Enemuo later died.

Enemuo infected others,
including his wife and sister.
Both were successfully treated
and recovered. But authorities
had to track 477 contacts in the
Port Harcourt area.
The need for cautious
communication
Dr. Chukwu told me, and has
said publicly elsewhere, that
one challenge in Nigeria has
been preventing stigmatization
of anyone under surveillance as
well as Ebola survivors.
“Three terms became part of our
lexicon: surveillance,
quarantine, and isolation.” But
these need to be clearly
explained, said Dr. Chukwu.
“Surveillance is sort of like
house arrest. You don’t
criminalize them. The person is
actually a victim, not a criminal.
We monitor their movements,
the rest of the family are
counseled about what contact
can and can’t be done. We have
contact with them everyday.
You can imagine what this effort
must’ve been like when we had
300 in Lagos and over 400 in
Port Harcourt.”
Only when those under
surveillance show symptoms – a
fever, whether it ends up being
Ebola, yellow fever, or malaria –
they are put under quarantine.
“That is the first time we are
denying that individual the
comfort of his own bed. We put
him in separately from the
isolation ward from those who
are confirmed. If malaria, we
discharge them to their doctor
to be treated for malaria.”
Credit to WHO-assigned
physicians
The Ebola survivors in Nigeria
were not treated with any
experimental drugs. Contract
tracing and early identification
of cases were managed by
isolating the patients and
replacing fluids and electrolytes.
In some cases, blood
transfusions were necessary.
Dr. Chukwu had high praise for
WHO Director General, Margaret
Chan, for sending physicians to
Nigeria. “We only knew about
Ebola virus through our medical
books. We’ve never seen a
single case of Ebola virus until
this year. So we needed
someone with practical
experience who had seen the
virus to come and train our
doctors what to do and the rest,
and then we took over.”
“It is important that we let the
world know that WHO did well
in sending us doctors with
practical experience, said Dr.
Chukwu. “But we also worked
with the CDC, UNICEF, and MSF
in managing the disease.”
Controlling the outbreak in
Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra
Leone
Dr. Chukwu said that a major
challenge is that the three
countries are contiguous and in
need of independent,
coordinated oversight. The case
in Nigeria was different because
once President Goodluck
Jonathan declared a health
emergency, he had the authority
and resources to direct the
entire national effort.
In an attempt to centralize the
West African response, the
current chairman of ECOWAS is
the president of Ghana and
convening a meeting of West
African health ministers
together with the director of the
Nigerian Center for Disease
Control.
In the rest of Africa, Dr. Chukwu
suggested that Guinea, Liberia,
Sierra Leone (as well as
Senegal) could benefit from the
expertise of doctors in Uganda
and the DRC who have
successfully treated Ebola
patients. The rest of the world
can certainly provide the aid
that is starting to grow:
emergency mobile hospitals,
supplies such as IV fluids and
personal protective equipment.
But people in these countries
are also voicing a loss of
confidence in their own
governments as their economies
fail and food and clean water
are in short supply.
And, particularly with the killing
of aid workers in Guinea last
week, the international effort
must bolster security to
encourage volunteers that they
can work safely in what are
already extremely demanding
conditions.
Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkroll/2014/09/23/nigeria-free-of-ebola-as-final-surveillance-contacts-are-released/

Nigeria Free
Of Ebola,
Final
Surveillance
Contacts Released

As the WHO Ebola Response
Team published dire predictions
of the West African outbreak in
the New England Journal of
Medicine, overnight – including
an updated 70.8% fatality rate –
the Health Minister of Nigeria
reports that his country is
completely free of active Ebola
cases and have today released
the final victim contacts from
surveillance.
In a telephone interview last
night where he was preparing
for a United Nations General
Assembly meeting in New York,
Minister of Health Onyebuchi
Chukwu, MD, said, “Presently,
there is no single case of Ebola
virus disease in Nigeria – none.”
Dr. Chukwu provided further
details, saying, “No cases are
under treatment, no suspected
cases. There are no contacts in
Lagos that are still under
surveillance, having completed a
minimum of 21 days of
observation.”
In the process of tracing
contacts of individuals infected
with Ebola, anyone showing no
symptoms after three weeks of
last known contact with a victim
is considered free of any
potential for the disease.
Rivers State, whose capital city
is Port Harcourt, had been home
to over 400 contacts under
medical surveillance. As of last
night, only 25 contacts
remained.
“None of them are showing any
symptoms. Tonight [Mon 22
Sept] will mark the end of their
21 days of observation and the
plan is to get them discharged
from surveillance tomorrow
[Tues 23 Sept].”
“Nigeria will be as clean as any
other country as far as Ebola
virus disease is concerned.”
Achievement in perspective
PBS TV reporter Fred de Sam
Lazaro wrote yesterday from
Port Harcourt, “The story of
Ebola in Nigeria is an unusual
and frankly rare one about
things going right somewhere in
Africa.”
“Indeed, the disease has now
been contained in Lagos, a city
of 21 million people, and Port
Harcourt, population 1.4
million.
Nigeria is the most populous
country on the African
continent, with 177 million
people, yet only suffered 21
Ebola cases and eight deaths. In
contrast, Liberia has just 4.3
million people yet has
experienced 2,710 reported
cases, with 1,459 deaths (as of
18 September).
Ebola virus was brought to
Nigeria when naturalized
American and Liberian Ministry
of Finance official, Patrick
Sawyer, traveled to Lagos for a
meeting of the Economic
Commission of West African
States (ECOWAS) in Calabar on
July 23.
Sawyer had symptoms of the
disease before leaving Liberia
and became very ill on the
flight, infecting others from
ECOWAS who greeted him and
at the hospital where he was
treated and died two days later.
A contact under quarantine in
Lagos for some reason took
flight to Port Harcourt, about a
seven-hour drive. There, he was
treated in secret by Dr.
Ikechukwu Enemuo. Both Dr.
Enemuo later died.

Enemuo infected others,
including his wife and sister.
Both were successfully treated
and recovered. But authorities
had to track 477 contacts in the
Port Harcourt area.
The need for cautious
communication
Dr. Chukwu told me, and has
said publicly elsewhere, that
one challenge in Nigeria has
been preventing stigmatization
of anyone under surveillance as
well as Ebola survivors.
“Three terms became part of our
lexicon: surveillance,
quarantine, and isolation.” But
these need to be clearly
explained, said Dr. Chukwu.
“Surveillance is sort of like
house arrest. You don’t
criminalize them. The person is
actually a victim, not a criminal.
We monitor their movements,
the rest of the family are
counseled about what contact
can and can’t be done. We have
contact with them everyday.
You can imagine what this effort
must’ve been like when we had
300 in Lagos and over 400 in
Port Harcourt.”
Only when those under
surveillance show symptoms – a
fever, whether it ends up being
Ebola, yellow fever, or malaria –
they are put under quarantine.
“That is the first time we are
denying that individual the
comfort of his own bed. We put
him in separately from the
isolation ward from those who
are confirmed. If malaria, we
discharge them to their doctor
to be treated for malaria.”
Credit to WHO-assigned
physicians
The Ebola survivors in Nigeria
were not treated with any
experimental drugs. Contract
tracing and early identification
of cases were managed by
isolating the patients and
replacing fluids and electrolytes.
In some cases, blood
transfusions were necessary.
Dr. Chukwu had high praise for
WHO Director General, Margaret
Chan, for sending physicians to
Nigeria. “We only knew about
Ebola virus through our medical
books. We’ve never seen a
single case of Ebola virus until
this year. So we needed
someone with practical
experience who had seen the
virus to come and train our
doctors what to do and the rest,
and then we took over.”
“It is important that we let the
world know that WHO did well
in sending us doctors with
practical experience, said Dr.
Chukwu. “But we also worked
with the CDC, UNICEF, and MSF
in managing the disease.”
Controlling the outbreak in
Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra
Leone
Dr. Chukwu said that a major
challenge is that the three
countries are contiguous and in
need of independent,
coordinated oversight. The case
in Nigeria was different because
once President Goodluck
Jonathan declared a health
emergency, he had the authority
and resources to direct the
entire national effort.
In an attempt to centralize the
West African response, the
current chairman of ECOWAS is
the president of Ghana and
convening a meeting of West
African health ministers
together with the director of the
Nigerian Center for Disease
Control.
In the rest of Africa, Dr. Chukwu
suggested that Guinea, Liberia,
Sierra Leone (as well as
Senegal) could benefit from the
expertise of doctors in Uganda
and the DRC who have
successfully treated Ebola
patients. The rest of the world
can certainly provide the aid
that is starting to grow:
emergency mobile hospitals,
supplies such as IV fluids and
personal protective equipment.
But people in these countries
are also voicing a loss of
confidence in their own
governments as their economies
fail and food and clean water
are in short supply.
And, particularly with the killing
of aid workers in Guinea last
week, the international effort
must bolster security to
encourage volunteers that they
can work safely in what are
already extremely demanding
conditions.
Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkroll/2014/09/23/nigeria-free-of-ebola-as-final-surveillance-contacts-are-released/

Ebola news everywhere, God save us o

You are indeed handsome! Although I didn't see your pics, but considering that 99% of your followers are ladies says it all!

There is no harm in trying especially as we have nothing to lose if he fails

If an Ibadan girl insults you, you'll nearly cry because they have a way of putting flavour in their insults. Something like: Olori kolobo bi kongo rodo (round head like a measurement bowl for pepper)! A guy was insulting a lady that had wet lips on and he was like: Ki ni n se'le yi to ri bi e'n t'enu b'ororo! (Said the girl lips are like she dipped them in vegetable oil)

That roofing money (especially decking) - dem no they take am play, you'll see them on bikes like 30 or more fierce looking thugs will invade the site and ask for 'our money', 'our right'. In many cases this is after you might have even paid the real family that owns the land

This one is still a younger brother to Ebola nah.

Bigsteveg:

I heard 3 hours.

3hrs + to Jos, about 4hrs to Mangu cos Mangu is like an hour journey from Jos

Bigsteveg:

U mentioned private firms, is it recently? How will someone get a very good posting also? Do i need to go with extension box? Is it always crowded? What about the social ammenities? U know what, pls for God sake, give me ur whats app number, bbm pin or anything i can use to get across to u. Pls awe need to talk b4 i embark on dis journey. God bless

And if its for me to drop my contacts, just lemme know thanks

Sorry it came late : 07037118718

sod09: I use to be a victim when I was young,since one baba gave me incision on my face....I don't convulse again

Exactly! Those incisions are the permanent cure, dem no born the pikin well make in talk say hin wan convulse again. Ta lo n j'adaku sere nibi t'aku yan-an yan-an ti n sere egele? Funnily enough, my lil Bro can minister the treatment using incisions, at least he has done it for a handful of people that I know

utopiancupid: I've bn posted to plateau too..plss add me to whatsapp group..08068115501,dats my numba

You won't be able to call each other in camp, the network is crazy there so I'll suggest all nairalanders meet at the flags stand on the parade ground at 8pm after dinner on your swearing in day (Thursday) I could only connect with just a nairalander in my set despite the fact that we have our numbers like this, even the one i connect with, we're staying in the same hostel also in the same platoon

mykel152209: I felt so bad when I heard I was posted to Plateau, it was like a death sentence and the first thing I did was to google "bomb blasts in Jos" I was shocked by the incidents dt as happened in Jos including the ones that happened May this same here, anyway I'm trusting in God for his guidiance and protection on all of us,I'm sure we're gonna laugh last. Hoping to here from more peeps dt are posted to plateau aswell.

Guys chillax! I am a batch A corp member serving in Jos Plateau state and tell you what? Being posted to Plateau is one of the best thing that will happen to your educational career. First off, you're privilege to use one of the best orientation camp in the country with interlocked roads, enough hostel, tiled floors, personal wardrobe, shower an WC, a large hall with gallery and much more, the Mangu orientation camp is a five star hotel compared to other camps. Now apart from what you've been told to bring to camp, you must get a cardigan, a duvet if possible, a head warmer, pair(s) of gloves and long thick socks or leggings for ladies. The weather in mangu is slightly colder than California, USA (for real). It averages 22-25 degrees in the morning in march. My PPA rocks (Geotess Nig Ltd, Jos) others are good too, many corpses were posted to private firms and government institutions, just relax your mind and enjoy the Plateau. I also hope to meet you guys on camp for one of the NYSC lectures. Peace out