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Science/Technology › Re: Learn How To Design Android And Ios Apps Without Writing And Codes Within 2hrs by Leopantro: 11:16pm On Sep 29, 2014
nice app. looks nice.

you can also try http://appinventor.mit.edu to create your own app for free in ten minutes in real-time
Phones › Re: Android, Anyone? Part II by Leopantro: 7:22pm On Sep 29, 2014
in other news.....

still trying to enable smart scroll in pdf books.

I know that, by default, android browser does not have the ability to view pdf files. however, I typed about: debug in the address bar and got a hidden menu in the settings of the browser. in the settings I came across a JS search bar. Have tried to insert JavaScripts into webpages but doesn't work. also downloaded some scripts and used file://mnt/sdcard to access the memory card but still can't insert the JS.

any clue anyone?
Phones › Re: Android, Anyone? Part II by Leopantro: 4:31pm On Sep 29, 2014
Smartnase: Please my SGIII shows a padlock preceeding a web address ...not all addresse thou...but when it does show, the page doesnt open with the usual speed. Look!
gringringrin. I wonder if it's a virus
Phones › Re: The iPhone 6 Plus "BendGate" Scandal by Leopantro: 1:55pm On Sep 24, 2014
Bend it like Beckham! $800+ Flexible iPhone
Phones › Re: Android, Anyone? Part II by Leopantro: 6:52pm On Sep 21, 2014
rockar: I have an application on my previous android phone. This application contain all old games (gameboy, snes, nes, psx and even some android paid games). one will launch the application, click the game u want and download (it download emulator with any game u want to play)...

But now I can't seem to remember the name, cos I want to re download it. Please does anyone remember or have this application? Thanks (it like a Chinese app, but in English I think)
Rom Finder. locates and downloads the following emulators and games.
1. PS 1
2. NDS
3. N64
4. NES
5. SNES
6. Sega Genesis
7. Sega Master system
8. Atari 2600
9. MANE
10. GB
11. GBA
12 Sega Game Gear.

but that's an old app
Phones › Re: Android, Anyone? Part II by Leopantro: 2:18pm On Sep 13, 2014
Sunymoore: So.....
i eventually sent it to puskin
Technology Market › Re: Are Android Tv Boxes Popular In Nigeria? by Leopantro: 4:56pm On Sep 12, 2014
focus on the non-internet aspect of the box. if you can get compartible pads and good HD games that work very well with it, it could sell. but i must warn you, that will not be easy.
Phones › Re: Android, Anyone? Part II by Leopantro: 1:56pm On Sep 11, 2014
blackweaver: really nice of you, i don't have your number but i just sent you a bbm request, got your pin from a mutual NL contact
you have been credited with 250mb.
Enjoy
Phones › Re: Android, Anyone? Part II by Leopantro:
after smashing the glass, destroying the battery for the Wifi and hotspot function of the phone and having a battery problem that defied even the makers, it is goodbye S2 and Hello S4. considering i just bought 20gb from MTN to start the data share and sell, can finally enjoy the womderful capabilities of an android device.

Oh yeah, as well as make and receive calls as well.

First app, FETCH

by way of celebrating and also to thank them for their various contributions to this thread, the following guys should contact me with an MTN line to get free 250MB data., if you want it.
blackweaver
LordReed
4llerbuntu
puskin
Politics › Re: GEJ Says The #bringbackgoodluck2015 Banners Should Be Brought Down by Leopantro: 4:26pm On Sep 10, 2014
[quote author=Ediskcab][b][/b][font=Lucida Sans Unicode][/font]EVEN LIGHTENING CANNOT RESTORE UR MEDULLA TO FACTORY DEFAULT.

TV/Movies › Re: What Is Wrong With DSTV? Are They Having Software Problem? by Leopantro: 8:17am On Sep 10, 2014
was thinking of taking the decoder to the Dstv office before I saw this.
Fashion › Re: Girls Who Wear Ankle-chain by Leopantro: 6:34am On Sep 08, 2014
It is not strange, therefore, to
meet an elegantly dressed
woman with aristocratic bearing
on t he streets of Havana and
note somewhere on her person
evidences of primitive beliefs
known throughout Cuba as
"santeria". You may see among
her gold jewelry and
adornments –pure gold pins and
decorations are not uncommon
in Cuba today– a golden sword,
a bow and arrow or a bracelet
of knitted leather with a core of
gold or coral. You may notice
that she is wearing seven
bracelets, or that she has a
small chain on her ankle. All are
symbols of beliey [belief] in
some African god...

http://cuban-exile.com/doc_226-250/doc0234-35.html
Fashion › Re: Girls Who Wear Ankle-chain by Leopantro: 6:31am On Sep 08, 2014
Tribal jewelry in West Africa was
traditionally used to tell a story.
Depending on the culture and
times, jewelry has been
appreciated as a status symbol
or designated as a cultural
affiliation. Anklets were used
for ritual dances, beaded belts
or waist chains were used at
wedding ceremonies and cowrie
shells have even been used as a
form of money.

http://www.unitiqueartfromafrica.com/africa/african_jewelry_history.htm
Health › I Approved N1.9bn For Ebola Alone, Jonathan Insists. No, You Didn't - Chukwu by Leopantro(op): 3:21pm On Sep 07, 2014
I approved N1.9bn for Ebola alone,
Jonathan insists

“It is not for Ebola fund. It will be
used to procure more vehicles for
working which have been ordered.
It would be used to procure more
drugs that have been ordered…and
other items - Chukwu.

President Goodluck Jonathan has insisted that the N1.9 billion he recently approved is for the containment of the Ebola Virus Disease in the country. This is contrary to the claim by Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu that the fund was meant for the overhaul of the entire health sector. The president spoke Saturday at Dutse International Airport, Jigawa State, where he flagged off the airlift of the first set of intending pilgrims to Saudi Arabia for this year’s hajj exercise. Jonathan, who was represented by Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo, explained that the Federal Government earmarked N1.9 billion as the support for states to contain the spread of the virus. Recalling that his administration had supported Lagos State with N200 million to contain the disease, the president assured that all the states of the federation would be assisted to fight the epidemic. Jonathan also disclosed that his government had extended its support to some neigbouring countries to contain the spread of the disease. The president charged all Nigeria’s pilgrims to pray for the country to surmount the current security challenges. “I believe all pilgrims are aware of the challenges facing our country. These challenges require not only dedication of the leadership but also prayers from every pilgrim. We should therefore be persistent in our prayers for peace, progress and prosperity of our beloved country”, he said. In his remarks, the Sultan of Sokoto and Permanent National Amirul Hajj, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, commended the federal government’s towards containing the spread of Ebola. The Sultan noted that the efforts had made this year’s hajj possible for Nigerian pilgrims. He, however, implored the pilgrims to present themselves for all necessary medical tests to be carried out on them. The Sultan also asked the pilgrims to pray for Nigeria to defeat all the evils in the country; while urging all Nigerians to collaborate in eliminating the current security challenges in the country.


www.nairapark.com/headline.php?news=i-approved-n1-9bn-for-ebola-alone-jonathan-insists&nav=1410094917&n=143022
Health › Nurse Kills 10-yr-old Girl by Leopantro(op):
Mrs Comfort Adeoye, popularly known as Iya  Emman, is a house hold name in Momudu Street around Iyana-Ipaja and its environs in Lagos.  Reason? She is a nurse by profession and owns a medicine store, where those who are sick normally go  for medical attention because her charges are affordable compared to what obtains in well established hospitals.
Reports say all was going smoothly for the 35-year-old mother of two until two weeks ago, when a 10-year-old girl died in the process of administering medication on her.
The primary five pupil of Alagba Primary School, Agege, identified as Esther Lawrence,  met her  untimely death after she was injected by Mrs Adeoye.
Esther’s mother , a widow, who resides in the same compound where Mrs Adeoye’s chemist shop is located, was said to have called the nurse to administer drugs to her sick daughter on July 22, 2010. The nurse on examining her, was said to have confirmed that Esther had malaria and thereafter, gave her two injections. But rather than alleviate the situation, it aggravated it, as Esther reportedly started behaving funny and breathed her last even before she could be rushed to the hospital
A mother’s lamentation
Narrating her ordeal to the police at Dopemu, the bereaved mother, Mrs Victoria Lawrence who is still recovering from the shock of the  death of her husband, lamented,  “ Where do I start from? Who do I tell my agony? That a child that promised me she would live to pay me the dividend of parenthood some day is gone..?

Late Esther Lawrence
“Esther came back home from school  on Thursday hale and hearty until the next day when she complained of being feverish. I wanted to take her to the general hospital but a neighbor suggested that I should take her to the chemist shop in front of our house since that is where majority of the residents in the area are treating their children”
Madam Adeoye had listened to what she apparently assumed to be words of wisdom but little did she know that her singular obedience to popular voice was going to open another wound in her heart.
Continuing, the staff of Blue Cross Hospital Ogba, said, “When the nurse came, she injected Esther and tried to give her the second injection when my daughter started convulsing. She went ahead and injected her again”
The visibly traumatized mother told the police that before the anti-malaria injection was given to her daughter, Esther was weak owing to her inability to eat . According to her, “ I gave her a bottle of soft drink before she took the injection .
But after the second injection, my daughter became cold and I gave her tea to drink but there was no improvement. At a point, I noticed she was stiff and I rushed to call the nurse. When she came, she said my daughter needed to take a drip and that it will cost   N1,000.  However, I  became apprehensive when she informed me that she could no longer treat my daughter and that I should take her to the hospital”.
Esther as gathered, was rushed to Popoola Hospital where she was said to have been referred to another hospital. Unknown to the widow, her daughter was rejected because she was already dead. It was gathered that it was in the process of taking her daughter to another hospital that she  noticed she had given up the ghost. Looking dejected and confused,  sympathizers quickly collected the remains of her daughter from her and took it back home.
Killer nurse flee home
The news of her demise as gathered, spread to the vicinity before the widow’s arrival, where the nurse was said to have shut her shop and fled, apparently to avoid being lynched by mob, following claims that her injection allegedly sent Esther to death.
Weeping, Esther’s mother further lamented “ Esther was a brilliant girl. A girl I was looking forward to her becoming great in life. I struggled to ensure she went to school so that her father’s family members  would not say I refused to send her to school. Her thought will forever linger in my memory”.
The arrest
Meanwhile, the intention to evade police arrest did not last for long as  Mrs Adeoye was later arrested by the Police in her hideout.  She was said to be briefing detectives at the  Homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), from where detectives said she would be charged to court if found culpable.   However,  the remains of Esther has been deposited at the Isolo General Hospital’s  mortuary for autopsy.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/08/nurse-kills-10-yr-old-girl/#sthash.lEGpqZOz.gbpl

Health › Re: Lagos Ebola Volunteers Threaten Strike Over Lack Of Payment by Leopantro(op): 1:12am On Sep 07, 2014
thepathologist: Govt has promised to pay them per day and life insurance. MSF( doctors without borders),WHO,NNNGO pay volunteers .
the guy just proved the point that intelligence can never be more than common sense. hypothetically, if HE gets Ebola ,he expects the doctors to provide oxygen for him and nurses to clean his soiled clothes for free at the risk of their lifes.

then again, what do you expect from someone that had this to say about the doctors that are risking their lives and dying from ebola

these
doctors are ingrates.
the government claimed that everything is in place to treat ebola in all government hospitals. Woe betide you if you get a high fever during this period in any hospital. you are abandoned or told to call a government number on which nobody ever picks. Nurses would not touch you because there is no PPE and no infra-red Thermometer. As you were brought in a car with the fever, you will leave in that car with the fever. in my state, you are asked to go to an isolation center which is still under construction and will not be complete till next year. while your politicians keep lying to you and gullible Nigerians keep believing
Health › Lagos Ebola Volunteers Threaten Strike Over Lack Of Payment by Leopantro(op): 8:37pm On Sep 06, 2014
Dozens of volunteers at the Infectious Disease Hospital, IDH, of the Yaba Mainland Hospital, Lagos, where patients down with Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, are receiving treatment have threatened to stop reporting to their duty posts over non-payment of their emoluments by the Nigerian government.
PREMIUM TIMES investigations revealed that the volunteers are being owed over two weeks of their daily entitlements by government.
On Friday morning, two patients were still in the hospital’s isolation ward – a clergyman who had prayed for Iyke Enemuo, the Rivers State-based medical doctor who died of the virus; and Dr. Enemuo’s wife who had contracted the virus.
By Friday evening, the clergyman was discharged from the centre after his test results returned negative, leaving Mrs. Enemuo as the only patient in the ward.
It was gathered that while medical doctors and nurses who had volunteered to attend to patients down with the Ebola virus are being paid N50,000 and N40,000 per shift respectively; the monies have not been forthcoming since a fortnight ago.
Other low cadre workers at the IDH such as the ward attendants and laundry men who take care of the patients’ laundry have also not been paid.
“The place is tough at the moment, no communication from the top to the ground, most of us have worked for two weeks without pay,” a volunteer who did not want to be named for fear of victimisation, told PREMIUM TIMES.
“And not just without pay, initially, what was agreed was that at the end of each shift, you take your pay and go home.
“Right now they are just compiling, they are not paying us, we just work and go home, and this is like over two weeks now, no pay, and nobody is addressing us whether pay is coming or not.
“The most painful aspect of this whole thing is that all of us that enter and take care of these patients, carry their shit, you know they stool a lot, clean them up, do all the necessary things, that treated these people are the people suffering now.
“But those people who call themselves the officials, the truth is that they don’t even witness how these Ebola patients look like, they’ve not even seen them. They don’t enter inside at all, they don’t go in, they don’t dress in that hood (Personal Protective Equipment). They don’t go close to the patients,” the volunteer added.
PREMIUM TIMES learnt that volunteers at the IDH are spread across three shifts daily – morning (8 a.m – 2 p.m), afternoon (2p.m – 7 p.m) and night (7 p.m – 8 a.m).
Each volunteer works two or three shifts weekly.
“Once your shift is over, you hand over to the people coming to replace you, collect your pay and go home. Sometimes they compile two or three shifts before they pay. But this time around it’s clocking two weeks and we have not heard or seen anything.
“Yesterday (Thursday) everybody was agitating. People don’t know who to complain to. Nobody is happy. They were swearing at the officials, that how will they risk their lives to do this and at the end of the day they are being victimized. Had it been that they are addressing us, it would have been a different thing.
Last month, the Lagos State government had announced that in conjunction with the federal government, it would provide life insurance to health volunteers at the IDH.
According to Jide Idris, Lagos State Health Commissioner, the insurance is part of his government’s plan to protect citizens from EVD infection and has been developed for implementation at all levels.
“To ensure the effectiveness of the response strategy, volunteers are being deployed to support several areas of work,” Mr. Idris, a medical doctor, had said.
‎
“While volunteering is usually done as a means of giving back to society, the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Lagos State Government have partnered to make available some compensation packages as a means of demonstrating our gratitude for your selfless services.
“The hazardous jobs will have hazard packages that include life insurance,” Mr. Idris had added.
But several volunteers interviewed by PREMIUM TIMES said that one month after the promise, they are yet to be briefed about their life insurance packages.
“Nobody has told us anything concerning it (life insurance),” another volunteer told PREMIUM TIMES.
“We didn’t see anything about insurance. What they did was that at a particular time they just brought one volunteer’s form and we just filled the form and gave them back. Since then nobody has mentioned anything concerning it again.
“Even when you try to approach them to find out if the pay is coming or not, they become hostile to you. And yet work is going on, we come to work, do your work, and go home,” she added.
The volunteers also accused one Dr. Abdulsalami, one of the senior officials at the IDH, of being hostile to them whenever they attempt to enquire about their emolument.
“Dr. Abdulsalam is the one that relates between us and the state. He normally brings our pay,” one volunteer said.
“He has not told us anything to hold on, rather he’ll tell us that there is no money and if you try to talk further he will be hostile to you,” he added.
Phone calls and text messages to Dr. Abdulsalami were unanswered, so also were phone calls and text messages to Dr. Idris.
But Faisal Shuaib, Head of the Ebola virus Emergency Operations Centre in Lagos told PREMIUM TIMES that the claims were untrue.
“Every documented, verified volunteer is being paid handsomely. I am sure you know this,” Dr. Shuaib said in a text message response.
“Let them show you evidence that they were engaged as volunteers and working actively for the past two weeks. If they have been working, they deserve to be paid for their sweat. If they haven’t, then they are trying to play on your intelligence,” he added.
While angry reactions trailed the unavailability of the N1.9 billion released by President Goodluck Jonathan for the management of Ebola, the Health Minister, Onyebuchi Chukwu, denied the money was for the management of the virus.
According to Prof. Chukwu, a medical doctor, the N1.9billion approved by the president was for the federal ministry of health.
“It is not for Ebola fund. It will be used to procure more vehicles for working which have been ordered. It would be used to procure more drugs that have been ordered…and other items,” he had said.
Some of the volunteers also allege that names of some selected colleagues from amongst them are being forwarded to the federal government for further remuneration.
“Among the volunteers, there seem to be a kind of list they carved out from the volunteers’ list. They are saying that the federal government promised to pay at the end of the exercise,” a volunteer told PREMIUM TIMES.
“They now selected their favourites and people they feel will trouble them and forwarded their names as people that will receive the money from federal and now claim that the rest of the people, that the state is settling them, whereas they have seen nothing. They made a new list and included those names. They have already taken their account numbers and processing their payment.
“They said they only had some people the federal have mapped that they are going to pay, that the state has claimed that they are paying us,” the volunteer added.
But Dr. Shuaib dismissed the claims, stating that he would “walk a thousand miles” to ensure that all volunteers receive their remuneration.
“Go and find out if these claims are true, and if you want to excel in journalism, be professional. Find out the right way, not by asking people if they have been paid.
“Investigate and find out that there is something that is wrong going on and then I’ll follow it up,” he added.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/headlines/167798-lagos-ebola-volunteers-threaten-strike-over-lack-of-payment.html#sthash.iDfgcRoA.dpbs
Health › Re: GTBank Checks Temperature Of Customers Entering The Banking Hall (Photo) by Leopantro: 2:54pm On Sep 06, 2014
hatux: This same thing happened yesterday to me at a bank here in Ib... Even there was this kinda basin they put infront before entering the bank, where you stretch your hands beneath it and this kind water drop from it to hands. Then after then, they point that thing towards your eyes, I was like what when the security wanted to point the stuff to my eyes because he pointed it to my eyes as if say I get eye problem. Which I tell him say 'bros easy o, u wun comot my eyes'... Lol cheesy cheesy
AND YOU ARE LAUGHING?! that device utilizes infra-red rays that can burn the retina of the eyes and can cause blindness.

DO NOT LOOK INTO THE INFRA-RED PORT OF THE DEVICE
Health › Re: GTBank Checks Temperature Of Customers Entering The Banking Hall (Photo) by Leopantro: 9:20pm On Sep 05, 2014
1. that particular infra-red Thermometer can be used at a distance of 5 to 15cm from the forehead. from the picture above the security man is beyond that range.

2. the Thermometer needs to be caliberated to the room temperature by comparing with a normal Thermometer then adjusting it to correspond to the body temperature. most people don't do that.

3. the forehead needs to be clean amd without sweat.

4. can switch from surface temperature and body temperature. Each have different values.

5. some infra-red thermometers where made in colder climates so a correction factor needs to be added to each value obtained.

i do hope such security guards are taught how to effectively use such devices.
Phones › Re: Android, Anyone? Part II by Leopantro: 11:55pm On Sep 03, 2014
gtswt: Pls, I need ur help!
My little girl touched my allwinner A13 tablet and it was loading none stop, so i switched it off and restart it but its not booting pass the android logo. I have done a factory reset (recovery mode) but i get this message...failed (Invalid Argument). I reboot the tablet but still stuck on the logo.....What can i do to restore my tab pls?
hold the power button and the volume + button for 10 -15 seconds, it should enter a recovery menu. if the menu is in English, do a factory reset. if it is in another language or that doesn't work, you have to flash a ROM.
In locating the rom, google is your friend.
Health › WHO Situation Report Of Ebola In Port Harcourt by Leopantro(op): 11:15pm On Sep 03, 2014
The Minister of Health of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, has now reported 3 confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease in Port Harcourt, the country’s oil hub. Additional suspected cases are being investigated.

Background on the Port Harcourt index case
Ebola virus was imported into Nigeria via an infected air traveller, who entered Lagos on 20 July and died 5 days later. One close contact of the Lagos case fled the city, where he was under quarantine, to seek treatment in Port Harcourt.

The close contact was treated, from 1 to 3 August, at a Port Harcourt hotel, by what would turn out to be the city’s index case. This case was a male physician who developed symptoms of weakness and fever on 11 August and died of Ebola on 22 August. His infection was confirmed on 27 August by the virology laboratory at Lagos University Teaching Hospital.

The male physician in Port Harcourt is therefore indirectly linked to Nigeria’s first case.

The case history of the index case in Port Harcourt is important, as it reveals multiple high-risk opportunities for transmission of the virus to others.

After onset of symptoms, on 11 August, and until 13 August, the physician continued to treat patients at his private clinic, and operated on at least two. On 13 August, his symptoms worsened; he stayed at home and was hospitalized on 16 August.

Prior to hospitalization, the physician had numerous contacts with the community, as relatives and friends visited his home to celebrate the birth of a baby.

Once hospitalized, he again had numerous contacts with the community, as members of his church visited to perform a healing ritual said to involve the laying on of hands. During his 6 day period of hospitalization, he was attended by the majority of the hospital’s health care staff.

On 21 August, he was taken to an ultrasound clinic, where 2 physicians performed an abdominal scan. He died the next day.

The additional 2 confirmed cases are his wife, also a doctor, and a patient at the same hospital where he was treated. Additional staff at the hospital are undergoing tests.

Given these multiple high-risk exposure opportunities, the outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Port Harcourt has the potential to grow larger and spread faster than the one in Lagos.

The response
Nigerian health workers and WHO epidemiologists are monitoring more than 200 contacts. Of these, around 60 are considered to have had high-risk or very high-risk exposure.

The highest-risk exposures occurred in family members and in health care workers and patients at the facility where the index case was hospitalized. Church members who visited the index case while he was hospitalized are also considered at high risk.

The government, supported by WHO, UNICEF, and MSF (Doctors without Borders), has introduced a number of emergency measures. More will be introduced later this week.

An Ebola Emergency Operations Centre has been activated, with support from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A mobile laboratory, with RT-PCR diagnostic capacity, is set up and functional.

A 26-bed isolation facility for the management of Ebola cases is in place, with plans for possible expansion. WHO has 15 technical experts on the ground.

Twenty-one contact-tracing teams are at work; they have good training, provided by WHO, and adequate transportation, thanks to government support. Two decontamination teams are equipped and operational, as is a burial team.

Port Harcourt is the capital of Rivers State. WHO, together with the Rivers State Port Health Service, has assessed public health measures at airport gates and other points of entry. Screening is under way at domestic and international airport gates.

Social mobilization efforts have been stepped up, initially targeting key community and religious leaders.

However, civil unrest, security issues, and public fear of Ebola create serious problems that could hamper response operations. Military escorts are needed for movements into the isolation and treatment centre.
Health › Re: Kaduna Suspects First Case Of Ebola? (ABU Student?) by Leopantro: 8:07pm On Sep 02, 2014
the case has been confirmed
to be leukemia and not Ebola
Health › Re: Panic As Rumour Of Ebola Hits LUTH by Leopantro: 6:42pm On Sep 02, 2014
so now it's Kano, Port harcourt, Jos and Lagos. The minister is on top of the situation, the FG is trying. no matter how many cases, we would still buy the cars and non-ebola materials.

bunch of lying, selfish officials

by the way, the doctors in UPTH went on protest yesterday. apparently, the hospital was yet to get a single PPE against ebola. no Infra-red Thermometer and no protocol for possible ebola cases.
Health › Re: BREAKING NEWS: Uniport Student Tests Positive For Ebola by Leopantro: 3:57pm On Sep 02, 2014
thrizzle: you realize upth is next to uniport... so the university of portharcourt teaching hospital doesn't have resources to do an ebola test? you're as stupïd as your moniker
the only centre in Nigeria that can do or confirm Ebola virus is a class 4 laboratory which is only in Lagos.
Health › Re: Funerals, Ghost Towns And Haunted Health Workers: Life In The Ebola Zone by Leopantro: 10:38am On Sep 02, 2014
wonder what would happen if the number of positive cases get to 20 in port harcourt?
Health › Re: Ebola: How Rivers Govt compromised by Leopantro: 11:38am On Sep 01, 2014
Rivers authorities are in
search for 60 more people,
who contacted Dr Ikechukwu
Sam Enemuo, the first person
to have died from Ebola in
the state.
The health worker treated
Olu-Ibukun Koye, an official
of Olu-Ibukun Koye, who
escaped quarantine in Lagos
after contacting the first
Ebola victim in the country
and fled to Port Harcourt
where he turned for help to
Enemuo. The diplomat
survived the deadly tropical
virus, however the doctor did
not, which led to immediate
isolation of his primary and
secondary contacts to avoid
further spread of the disease.
According to Rivers State
Health Commissioner, Dr
Sampson Parker, since then
some 200 primary and
secondary contacts have been
traced among those who had
contacted Enemuo,
Leadership reports. Out of
these 200, sixty are yet to be
found.
“But 50 high-risk contacts
have been identified. Quickly,
the reason why I said so is
because a lot of the news,
stigma, and all the rest, these
persons are not coming up;
we are still on them. In fact,
we are concentrating on
these names that we have
found, and still going for new
ones. Every day, it improves;
it is getting better by the
day.”
The health official also
pointed out that movement
of corpses could be carried
out in the state only under
the condition that death
certificates were attacked and
the cause of death was
known.
“So, you cannot just move
corpses here and there
without clearance from the
Ministry of Health. In fact, the
police will stop you and ask
for clearance. Before corpses
are released from the
mortuary, even the
attendants will ask for the
documents; before they come
in and before they are
released.”
It was also provided that
Governor Rotimi Amaechi
would meet with Rivers
church leaders Monday,
September 1, and with
traditional rulers the next
day.
“It is important the churches
don’t keep admission wards
in their churches; some of
them are running to churches
and groups of them are
laying hands on them without
knowing.”
Regarding the current
number of Ebola cases,
Parker said there were 3
more suspected cases of
infection in Port Harcourt:
“We now have three persons
at the treatment centre at
Edoha; a pharmacist at Sam-
Steel Hospital and doctor that
worked with Dr Enemuo at
that Sam-Steel Hospital, and
also a lady that was at the
Good Heart Hospital while Dr
Enemuo was there. However,
they have not been
confirmed; we are waiting for
the result of the
investigation. Today, we
should have them.”
Passengers Not Checked at
Port Harcourt Airport – The
Trade Union Congress (TUC)
The organization blasted the
Federal Airports Authority of
Nigeria (FAAN) and the
Nigeria Civil Aviation
Authority (NCAA) for failing to
carry out the check of
passengers travelling to and
from PH.
Shocked over such
development, TUC Chairman
Hyginus Chika Onuegbu
lamented that the airport did
not even have a temperature
check device.
Thus Onuegbu addressed
Nigeria’s Health Minister
Onyebuchi Chukwu asking
him to enable provision of all
the facilities employed at the
Murtala Muhammed
International Airport to Port
Harcourt.
The official statement reads
in part:
“We view this as callous and
irresponsible and
immediately call on the
authorities of FAAN, NCAA
and all agencies in the Port
Harcourt International
Airport to immediately
ensure that they check all
passengers entering and
leaving the airport. We are
tempted to think that if the
authorities of FAAN in Port
Harcourt were up and doing,
perhaps the diplomat that
imported Ebola from Lagos to
Port Harcourt may have been
detected. We appeal to the
hon. ministers for health and
aviation to immediately
ensure that the complete
facilities and processes
employed at the Murtala
Muhammed International
Airport, Lagos, are fully
deployed to the two airports
in Port Harcourt.”
Meanwhile it was gathered
yesterday that ECOWAS
diplomat Koye might face
manslaughter charges for
spreading the epidemic of
Ebola virus, which has already
claimed more than 1,500 lives
in West Africa. The World
Health Organization (WHO)
has recently claimed that the
ongoing outbreak might get
over 20,000 people infected.
Technology Market › Re: Are Android Tv Boxes Popular In Nigeria? by Leopantro: 10:08am On Sep 01, 2014
you are talking about XBMC. i rooted mine and installed Finless Rom then installed a VPN so all video pluggins work for, when the links are not dead. however, i use older versions of Navi as the newer ones don't allow you tp download and i prefer downloading than streaming. Also hooked up my 1TB hdd to it and connected it to my home wifi network so i can stream contents to any wifi device.

make sure you don't get a clone; they are prone to wifi issues
Health › Re: Owerri, IMO State Records New Ebola Case! by Leopantro: 9:57pm On Aug 31, 2014
wonder if he got it from this person

PLS SHARE THIS
MESSAGE.EBOLA HIGH ALERT!
HIGH ALERT!! HIGH ALERT!!!
ONE OF THE CLINICAL
DIRECTORS OF FIRST
CONSULTANTS HOSPITAL
(WHERE THE INDEX CASE
DIED) HAS DIED AT HOME.HIS
WIFE HAD BEEN HIDING HIM
FROM AUTHORITIES, TAKEN
HIM TO DIFFERENT
HOSPITALS AND SCORES OF
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN
POTENTIALLY INFECTED DUE
TO THIS ACT.SHE ALSO NOW
HAS SYMPTOMS.WE HAVE
NOT HEARD THIS ON THE
NEWS YET, BUT THIS IS
CONFIRMED.JUST TO LET US
KNOW THE WORST IS NOT
OVER YET.PLEASE EVERYONE,
ESPECIALLY HEALTHCARE
WORKERS BE VERY VERY
VIGILANT.
Health › Re: Sister Of Dead Ebola Doctor Escaped From PH To Abia But Has Been Sent Back by Leopantro: 9:52am On Aug 30, 2014
for those insulting the woman, read the following and understand the action of the woman

He and his wife-to-be had lofty
dreams of living fulfilled
lives and raising wonderful
children together. The fiance
was two months pregnant and
their traditional marriage had
been fixed for October.
His fiancee, a graduate nurse,
had just secured a job at First
Consultant Hospital, Lagos. He
too also just got a
marketing job with an oil and gas
company. She was
reluctant to go to work on the
first day she was expected to
resume on account of ‘morning
sickness’ (pregnancy
symptoms) and he encouraged
her.
She did! Lo and behold, her first
duty and first patient to
nurse on her first day at work
was the late Patrick Sawyer,
the Liberian-American, who
brought the deadly Ebola Virus
Disease (EVD) to Nigeria. And
that decision put a full stop
to the lofty dreams of a
promising family. Welcome to
the
world of Mr. Dennis Akagha, the
husband-to-be of late
Miss Justina Ejelonu, the nurse,
who contacted and died of
the Ebola disease from Mr.
Sawyer.
In an exclusive, explosive and
passionate interview with
Saturday Vanguard, Akagha, who
contracted the disease
from Miss Justina, was
quarantined, treated, cured and
discharged last week, spoke on
how and why his fiance
died, how he contacted and
survived the disease, how he
was stigmatized and abandoned
by co-workers and
neighbours, and why victims
must be given adequate care.
He said perhaps, Justina would
have survived with better
care. Read on:
---His thoughts on Ebola and late
Justina
The truth is that Justina and I
were not legally married, we
were planning for our traditional
marriage in October and
she just got this job. She was a
qualified graduate nurse
and got the job at the First
Consultant Hospital in Lagos.
She resumed duty at the
hospital on the 21st of July,
while
Patrick Sawyer was admitted at
the hospital on the 20th.
He was her first patient. She was
one of the nurses that
nursed him. She was pregnant
and so her immune system
was weak, which made it easy
for her to contract the
disease. On that first day which
was a Monday, she was
having some pregnancy
symptoms, but I just encouraged
her to go because it was her first
day at work. Sawyer was
her first patient.
The next day, Tuesday, she didn’t
work on Sawyer.
Wednesday and Thursday, she
was off. Then on Friday,
Patrick Sawyer died. They didn’t
know he had Ebola, it was
three days later that they
realized it was Ebola.
Dennis Akagha and Late Justina
Ejelonu
---When did you know that she
had contacted the Ebola virus?
It was after Sawyer died that she
told me she nursed him
but that she was on gloves. She
even thanked God that she
didn’t have direct contact with
him. The fever continued and
we thought it was just pregnancy
symptoms and even when
she went to her hospital, they
confirmed the same thing.
She took drugs and ran tests, yet
it persisted. At night, she
was usually cold and feverish and
her body temperature
was usually very high. At a point,
I began to suspect that
she had contacted the virus. I
did some research on the
disease and realised that she
was having similar
symptoms.
On the 14th of August, it became
serious, she started
stooling and vomiting. I had to
clean up everything. All of a
sudden, she started bleeding and
she started crying that
she had lost the pregnancy. I had
to call her relatives and
other people. The bleeding
persisted and I had to clean up
everything.
---While you were attending to
her did you wear gloves?
Initially I was not wearing gloves
because I felt I had
already been exposed to the
virus. But later I cautioned
myself and started wearing nylon
on my hands. But I
couldn’t stay away from her. I
kept consoling her. Even
when I took her to the hospital,
she wanted to hold me and I
told her to also consider my
safety. She managed to hold
herself and was able to find her
way out in a pool of her
blood. We chartered a taxi to the
hospital, but first, I took
her to First Consultant Hospital
because I felt they should
know more. When we got there,
I was directed to IGH, Yaba.
I told the taxi driver to take us
there. The driver wasn’t even
aware of what was going on as
he took us to Yaba.
Justina was on the floor for 30
minutes before she was
attended to. She was screaming
that she was going to die.
She was seriously bleeding, she
had to come out of the taxi
and lay on the floor. I ran
around, trying to get doctors to
attend to her. After everything,
they took her in, took her
blood samples and the following
day, the result came out
that it was Ebola. They washed
the taxi with chlorine and
also bathed the taxi driver and I
with chlorine spray.
At that point, the taxi driver
knew what was going on, he
couldn’t even take me home
because he was so scared. I
had to look for somewhere to
pass the night in the hospital.
Early the next morning, I left the
Hospital. The taxi driver is
alive today, nothing happened to
him. We have been
checking on him and the last
time we spoke he told me, he
was fine.
---So what happened after you
got exposed to the virus?
14 days after I was exposed to
Ebola, my temperature rose
from the usual 35.2 degrees
centigrade to 37.2. The Lagos
State government gave me a
thermometer the day I dropped
Justina off at the centre. It took
them two straight weeks to
visit my home and to disinfect it.
Before they came, I had
already done the much I could
do. I used bleach and
detergent to clean the whole
house, furniture and clothes
inclusive.
---After that, what happened?
We should be reminded and
educated that a healthy person
with Ebola virus cannot get
anybody infected, except if the
person is sick and totally down
with the virus like what
happened to Sawyer and to my
late wife-to-be, Justina. I
contacted the virus because
Justina was very sick and I was
taking care of her without any
appropriate protection. When
we knew what we were dealing
with it was almost too late
for me as I had already
contacted the virus.
---Since you had already visited
the centre what else was done
for you by the state?
The Lagos State government sent
health professionals to
check on me regularly to know
how l was doing or if l had
the signs of the virus
manifesting. So they used to
come
around to check on me. At some
point they created scenes
with their visits. I was
embarrassed and I was
stigmatized. I
complained severely to them
that I didn’t like what they
were doing. Then, one Saturday
they visited again, I
complained about the pains I
was beginning to experience;
excruciating pains around my
waist. I started praying and
asking people to pray for me.
Before this time, I believed in the
Holy Communion, so I
usually take it daily and do feet
washing. I was going to the
hospital daily to see late Justina.
Initially, I was seeing her
through the window and she
would say I should take her
out of the hospital. She
complained of lack of care.
Perhaps, Justina would have
survived the virus, if not for
the state she was in. Her
immune system was down
because she was pregnant. Along
the line, she had a
miscarriage and lost the baby
due to the Ebola virus
disease.
The doctors, who were supposed
to do an evacuation on
her couldn’t do it because they
claimed that an evacuation
was too risky as she was heavily
infected and may pass on
the virus to another person.
Since nothing was done even
after the bleeding had
stopped, it led to more
complications for her because
the
already dead foetus somehow
got rotten in the womb and
started a damaging process
which led to further
complication. Meanwhile, she
was still stooling and
vomiting and since nobody could
dare to touch her, she was
left on top of her excretions even
when she couldn’t do
much for herself due to her weak
state. She was given her
incisions and other drugs. I
believe if some people survived
Justina should have been one of
them. At a point, I wished I
was a doctor myself; I would
have taken the risk of doing
the evacuation because it really
affected her.
---When was the last day you
saw Justina?
The Lagos State Ebola quarantine
centre and Late Nurse Obi
Justina Ejelonu
The last day I saw her, I had to
go inside the ward because
she was so unkempt as nobody
attended to her. At that
time, the quarantined patients
were in the former facility
where there was no water and
she had messed up herself
again. I had to look for water to
clean her up, change her
pampers and arrange her
bedding. Since I was aware of
what I was dealing with, I got
myself protected while
cleaning up the place. I made
sure she looked better than
when I saw her. Justina was
shivering the last day I saw
her, one side of her stomach was
already swollen, and her
legs were also swollen. I prayed
for her. At a point, she
needed oxygen and the hospital
couldn’t provide it. Her
friends had to provide it. That
was the last day I saw her.
On Sunday Morning, I called her
line like I usually did
before visiting her, but she didn’t
pick her calls. When I got
to the hospital, I was told that
she was dead.
Was she taking your calls while
she was at the facility?
Yes, in fact she called me that
last day and I knew she was
going to give up, because she
was saying some funny
things. She said I should tell my
people to go and meet her
father so as to finalize our
marriage plans, that she’s
leaving that place.
---From what you have said,
were you not scared that you
may
die as well from the disease?
I personally don’t believe in
taking medications. I had the
mentality that I wasn’t sick. I
told the government what I
was experiencing. On the day
they came to pick me up for
treatment, all of a sudden, my
temperature went back to
normal. The shivering and pains
were all gone. So they
decided that they would be
checking on me. But it got to a
point people stopped selling
things to me. It was as if the
government got a report that I
shouldn’t be around. So, they
came and said I should go with
them that they wanted to
take my blood sample. I went
with them and they took my
blood sample, I was kept in a
ward known as the ‘suspected
ward.’
The result came out and it was
positive. I was then taken to
a confined ward. One of the
doctors from UNICEF, a white
lady told me that they were
having issues with the results
and that they would have to re-
run the tests. They did the
tests again and it was still
positive. I told them that it
wasn’t my result and that I was
healthy. I was even doing
my usual exercises (press-ups)
every morning. I kept
telling them that I wasn’t sick.
They took my blood sample
the third time. That night, they
told me that I tested negative
in the last result and that I don’t
have any reason to remain
there. That was how I was
discharged.
---While you were going through
all these at the facility what
happened to your job?
I was a marketer in an oil and
gas company. I worked on
commission basis, but at a
point, I realized that people
were not calling me and when I
called they won’t pick my
calls. Even the person that I
report directly refused to pick
my calls and also refused to
associate with me. Justina and
I just got our jobs, she got hers
at First Consultant Hospital
and I got mine as a marketer
with the oil and gas company.
Do you think that the
government or First Consultant
Hospital should compensate
Justina’s family?
Although, no amount of money
they give to the family will
bring her back I think the
government owes Justina’s
family
a lot because she died trying to
save a situation. Justina
died in active service as her
death wasn’t natural.
---So how did your status change
from positive to negative?
I was reading a book on healing
and taking of the Holy
Communion. So I learnt to take
Holy Communion morning,
afternoon and night. I also
engaged myself in feet-washing
every day before going to bed.
The Almighty God saved me;
the Holy Spirit healed me. It
wasn’t as though l didn’t fall
sick as l had direct contact with
Justina but the Almighty
God healed me. When I was
discharged, I got to my house
on Saturday evening and spent
two hours the next day,
Sunday, thanking God on my
own. I didn’t go to church or
anywhere because of the already
established stigma but
today I can confidently attend
church activities because I
guess they all know I’m free
now. I know my faith and belief
healed me. God also worked for
me apart from the fact that
my immune system is also
working. I believe I got healed
also because friends prayed for
me.
Health › Re: How I Survived Ebola – Dennis Akagha by Leopantro: 9:36am On Aug 30, 2014
those that have faith in the government you see how she was treated. GOD, I'M SO ANGRY. Government and LIES, LIES LIES.
Health › The Ministry Of Defence Unsung Heroes In Nigerias Fight Against Ebola by Leopantro(op): 9:22am On Aug 30, 2014
It is crystal clear that Nigeria
has somehow managed to stifle
the rapid
spread of the Ebola virus
infection within its shores. Even
as many
institutions and indeed
individuals are already beginning
to claim
responsibility for this
tremendous achievement, there
is the tendency to
easily forget or relegate the
grave injustice currently being
done to those
in the frontline fight against the
spread of this deadly virus. I am
referring to what is happening
to the lowly placed Doctors
(HOUSE
OFFICERS)
working with the Ministry of
Defense (MOD) at the following
hospitals:
Armed forces Hospital Kaduna,
68th Armed forces Hospital
Lagos,
48th Armed
forces Hospital Lagos, Nigerian
Navy Reference Hospital Ojo
Lagos,
442
Nigerian Air force Hospital ikeja.
In February, when most of them
were offered employment by
the
Ministry of
Defence, they felt extremely
lucky. Having endured the
gruesome
conditions
during the employment
examination and interviews,
they were all in
awe when
they received text messages
beckoning them to come for
their
appointment
letters.
It is no surprise then to see that
they have been working dutifully
in
their respective hospitals for
over seven months. However it
is a thing of
deep sadness to discover that
they have not yet received a
dime for their
hard work. Nothing from their
place of primary assignment
and
nothing from
the ministry of defence that
hurriedly issued these young
doctors letters
of appointment at the request
of the respective commanding
officers
at the
helm of affairs in the hospitals
under the auspices ministry of
defence.
After repeated efforts to see
how they can get paid for the
hard work
they
have done and are still doing, it
is disheartening to realize that
some
individual still remain stoically
nefarious to them. These
Doctors claim
that they have continuously
pleaded with the relevant
authorities, they
have cried, dialogued and for
the past seven months all they
seem to get
are just empty promises.
As the 26th of August 2014,
after meeting with the
permanent
secretary of the ministry of
defence, they learnt that their
salaries were
not included in the yearly
budget of the MOD.
Preposterous one may
think,
but it begs the questions:
1. Why on earth would the MOD
go ahead to issue out
appointment
letters
to workers they had no
intentions of paying?
2. If they had indeed wanted to
pay them, why had alternative
sources to
generate funds not sort for
before the seventh month?
Recently, some individuals
labeled Doctors inconsiderate
for not helping
out the country in the face of
the Ebola crises, but these
individuals are
somewhat wrong, because
indeed clandestinely there were
a group of
doctors
at work in the midst of the
Ebola crises. These Doctors,
although lowly
placed were first on call in the
peak of the Ebola frenzy that
gripped the
nation. Without pay, they risked
their lives to continually care
for the
sick. These unsung heroes
instead of being celebrated are
constantly
being
ridiculed. Even when other
Doctors were on strike these
individuals as
civilian doctors were still
working in the frontline against
the spread of
the Ebola virus in their various
MOD establishments. They
labored
painstakingly each day without
pay or food in their bellies to
see that
their tasks are done efficiently.
The truth of the matter is that
they have not asked for
remunerations for
working during this time of
national disaster, they have not
asked for
national medals of Honor, even
though they deserve it. Rather
what they
ask
is their salaries, to be paid what
is due to them, what they have
earned.
It is however intriguing to
discover that even though they
have begged,
and
asked well meaning Nigerians to
come to their aid, many are too
quick to
brush their story aside. It is
arguable that they have not
gone on strike
even after working for seven
months, why should they? Also,
they
have not
protested, how I can blame
them, when recent events in
Nigeria show
how
frugal a strategy is protesting?
In addition they are not asking
for an
increment in their wages, on the
contrary, they have patiently
waited for
seven months before asking for
their pay. This should not be
happening.
I
weep for this country, if this can
happen to a Doctor in Nigeria; I
wonder
what will begin to happen to
other professionals?
I want to use this medium to
ask all other well meaning
Nigerians to
rightly come to the aid of this
bright Young Doctors and to
implore the
relevant authorities (ministry of
Defence, Ministry of finance) to
look
onto these doctors with mercy
and end the savage acts against
them,
besides
what crimes have they
committed, except they have
served and are
still
serving the country Nigeria.

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