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Get a laptop with linux or boot a linux lived and try and open it from there. Have recovered files from crashed hard drives with this method. It only works with drives that windows recognize that are plugged in but don't show on my computer.

Medicals in the Presidency.:
1. Drugs/Medical Supplies will cost
us N402,175,400.00 this year. That
is N1.1million every day
2. Medical Expenses cost
N83,800,500 this year. That is
N229,590.00 per day.
3. Purchase of Health/Medical
Equipment cost N247,389,088.00
this year. That is N677,778.32 per day.
do the maths, then come back and talk to us about fuel subsidy

this is the second time Akwa Ibom state has come into the limelight about such an issue. in november 2008, various international media stations carried a similar story (search the forum). sadly,cases like this is not limited to the state only as i have witnessed some similar cases in Edo state. you would be amaze at the level of ignorance,which would have given credit to the colonial period, is still rampant in this day and age.

Akwa Ibom state, Nigeria (CNN) -- Just after midnight, the pastor seized a woman's forehead with his large hand and she fell screaming and writhing on the ground. "Fire! Fire! Fire!" shouted the worshippers, raising their hands in the air.
Pastor Celestine Effiong's congregants are being delivered from what they firmly believe to be witchcraft. And in the darkness of the city and the villages beyond, similar shouts and screams echo from makeshift church to makeshift church.
"I have been delivered from witches and wizards today!" exclaimed one exhausted-looking woman.
Pastors in southeast Nigeria claim illness and poverty are caused by witches who bring terrible misfortune to those around them. And those denounced as witches must be cleansed through deliverance or cast out.
As daylight breaks, and we travel out to the rural villages it becomes apparent the most vulnerable to this stigmatization of witchcraft are children.
A crowd gathered around two brothers and their sister. Tears streamed down their mother's face as she cast out her children from the family, accusing them of causing the premature deaths of two of their siblings with black magic.
"I am afraid. They are witches and they can kill me as well," she sobbed.
Taking his time to talk to the mother, Sam Ikpe-Itauma, an imposing man wearing a "Child's Rights & Rehabilitation Network" t-shirt, has come to try to rescue the three children.

"If we are not here there's a possibility of them being thrown into the river, buried alive or stabbed to death," Sam said.
He tries to persuade their mother and a crowd of villagers that the three children are not witches - but no one believes him. And so, putting the children in his white pick-up, he drives away to his orphanage and safety.
Sam runs Child's Rights & Rehabilitation Network, or CRARN -- an orphanage that supports nearly 200 children. All of them were accused of witchcraft and cast out by their families, often after being tortured. The orphanage provides security, healthcare, nutrition and counseling.
Check out the CRARN website
Godwin's story is typical. As he sat next to the quiet 5-year-old, Sam said that after Godwin's mother died, the church pastor told his family that "Godwin is responsible."
From his own investigation, questioning Godwin and talking with neighbors, Sam said that when a relative asked Godwin if he was a witch, "he said no and was beaten and made the confession that he actually killed the mother."
Sam said Godwin was locked up with his mother's corpse every night for three weeks with little food or water before a neighbor contacted Sam, who was able to rescue him.
Other children at his orphanage bear the scars of being beaten, attacked with boiling water, and cuts from machetes. But these children are the ones lucky to be alive.
"A child witch is said to be a witch when that child possessed with certain spiritual spells capable of making that child transform into cat, snake, vipers, insects, any other animal and that child is capable of wreaking havoc like killing of people, bringing diseases, misfortune into the family," Sam said.
"When a child is accused of being a witch -- that child is hated absolutely by everybody surrounding him so such children are sent out of the home,  But unfortunately such children do not always live long. A lot of them, they're either killed, abandoned by the parents, tortured in the church or trafficked out of the city."
Sam doesn't believe in witchcraft and is trying to raise awareness in local communities now gripped by hysteria.
Belief in witchcraft is rooted in centuries of tradition, but it's only in the last 10 years, that it has become associated with child abuse, he said.
"It's a social crisis," he added. "Poverty propels this child witch phenomenon and poverty is a twin sister to ignorance.
"Most vulnerable children come from single parents, divorced parents, dysfunctional families."
But the orphanage has very little space for more children. Overstretched finances mean he can barely pay a skeleton staff of four people, as well as feed the children.
Instead, many children are left to roam the streets.
"My parents sent me out of the house -- said I'm a witch," said Samuel, a 15-year-old who has lived on the streets for five years after a local pastor blamed him for unexpected deaths in the family.
"I was beaten by the prophet in the church," he said in a quiet voice.
Samuel lives in an abandoned building with 10 other children accused of witchcraft. A local group, 'Stepping Stones Nigeria,' which is dedicated to helping street children, visits them.
"Religious leaders capitalize on the ignorance of some parents in the villages just to make some money off them," said Lucky Inyang, project coordinator for 'Stepping Stones Nigeria'.
"They can say your child is a witch and if you bring the child to the church we can deliver the child but eventually they don't deliver the children,  The parents go back to the pastor and say, 'why is it you have not been able to deliver the child' and the pastor says 'Oh - this one has gone past deliverance - they've eaten too much flesh so you have to throw the child out.'"
And most pastors charge a fee for deliverance -- anywhere from $300 to $2,000.
One of the most notorious and influential pastors is Helen Ukpabio of Liberty Gospel Church. Her 1999 film, the widely distributed, "End of the Wicked" has been attacked by child rights groups for its depictions of Satan possessing children.
She had agreed to an interview but the meeting was continually postponed for two days.
But in her preaching at Liberty Gospel Church, she heralds success stories of how she has driven out demons through deliverance.
"Witches and wizards, they started getting afraid. I never gave them rest!" she shouted to a cheering congregation.
Some pastors believe education is a more powerful tool against witchcraft fears.
"One of the things that caused the parents to abandon the children is ignorance," explains another local pastor, Celestine Effiong.
The local government, however, accuses Sam Ikpe-Itauma and Lucky Inyang of using the children to run a scam.
"We insist that the name of Akwa Ibom state must not be smeared and the people of the world should not be deceived by certain NGOs who are claiming to be taking care of stigmatized children of Akwa Ibom," said Aniekan Umanah, the Information Commissioner of Nigeria's Akwa Ibom state.
"This is a ruse, they are making money for themselves."
Stories of NGOs rescuing children, say the government, are exaggerated. They argue instead, that a new Child Right's bill outlawing child stigmatization has largely ended the problem.
But despite some arrests, so far, the government acknowledges, there have been no prosecutions.
"There may be problems yes but it's been blown out of proportion and people are capitalizing, on what ordinarily may be a social problem, across the globe in painting Akwa Ibom state black -- that is the aspect we say no to. We will not allow the image of our state to be smeared."
Sam and other NGOs deny any improprieties, insist their finances are a matter of public record and plead with the government to support their cause.
"Relevant government agencies, working on security and protection of children must step up their efforts to make sure any child that is stigmatized must -- that parent, the churches, the law must be evoked to make sure such people face the law immediately, otherwise it must go on and on, on and on."
With the night comes the screams of more deliverances -- and more witches to be cast out

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/08/25/nigeria.child.witches/index.html#fbid=CJcfNdCOlh3&wom=false

i just finished serving in a primary health care center in Edo state so i feel I'm a better position to describe some problems associated with primary health care services as it relates to Nigeria. please note that services that are obtainable in a health care center vary from location to location.

in a local government area with 13 primary health care centers,i was the only doctor covering just one of the centers.the other centers were covered by CHEW,who were not as qualified as a licensed registered nurse, and matrons, some of whom visit the centers that they are supposed to cover one or twice a week.

in a period of eleven months, i had electricity supply that could be added up to 4 months.i had no hope of laboratory investigation services in any form.i usually had to send the patients to a near by town which is 30 - 40 minutes away on bike. availability of an ambulance is a joke;patient could wait for a cab that visits the location once every two hours. most times i had to buy and transport fuel to the centre in order to run my generator for two hours every day.

immunization covered is more than average with adequate supply of materials.the main problem is getting the villagers to come and take the free immunization. in regards to health-care, i was in serious competition with a chemist (not a pharmacist) and a native doctor. you would be amazed that while we are in the 21st century, some people still maintain some health views that predate the colonial era.

i have lost count of number of times i have had to deliver a pregnant woman with torch and lantern. yet we have to keep the cost as low as possible or else the woman would deliver at home or at the farm. telling a woman to do at least one ultra sound scan doing pregnancy is as good as telling her to stop attending ante-natal clinic.

the problem with primary health care centers is not just in the establishment of structures, provision of equipments and laboratory facilities and adequate staffing but also in improving and increasing orientation in the utilization of health-care services. a number of states have started free medical health-care provision, i feel such an approach be implemented at the basic level of health care would  be benificial.

@harakiri, i wouldn't go so far to say that God is confused. you do know that the bible is a compilation of books written by various disciples.it was the catholic church that decided which book should be added and which should not. some of the books were considered heretical and not fit to be included(e.g i think the dead sea scrolls,I'm not sure).while some where dangerous to read( the full seven books of Moses). if you are to take the whole bible at it's word it's so full of contradictory messages and double meanings that you would go crazy. a balance was decided upon however it wasn't perfect.

i believe the word christian means "christ-like".however, most nigerians don't emulate that.harakiri is asking some serious questions. i don't regularly read the bible but i think if he was asking Jesus Christ in the flesh,he would gladly talk to him in order to shed more light to his reasoning rather than condemning him outright. i had thought that a "christian" would take the time to discus the issue with him or was it not said "ask and you shall receive"?

in regards to the practice of churches in nigeria,i have nearly given up hope because it is now an issue of "do as i say" and not "do as i do".i have a church that conducts their sevices close to my place who don't believe in the saying "let my enemies live long so that they can see what i would be in future".rather their enemies should die immediately. i was passing a church the other day when i heard the pastor telling the congregation to pray for the sick.including those at the hospital and those visiting juju doctors that they may get well. i went in and made a donation to the church.

two months ago i went to a burial where the corpse of the man that died was moved from mortuary to house to crusade to conventions to prayer warriors FOR 7 MONTHS,begging and praying and fasting that God should raise the man from death. and these are not illiterate people: the father is a priest and the mother is a deaconess. i got me asking is it the same bible that taught them this and is it a sin for a christian to die?

@ the topic,i don't care if pastor chris is real,i don't bother to know what he said or did niether would i compare him to anyone.it all boils down to you as an individual.ask questions so you would be enlighten,reason or meditate on what you learn (after all God or the Greater/supreme being gave you a brain,use it) and decide which path you would follow.

P.S I don't insult or criticize Islamic so-called radical activities anymore after i read what the church did during the Spanish inquisition.

why don't you put them in your phone and read it there.if your phone is symbian and the ebooks are in isilo or pdf format, then you don't have a problem. if you have a java phone, you could still read them but in txt format with a tequela ebook reader. it would not have pictures but it's still better than nothing. i have over 40 enovels i read on my nokia3110c

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The world cup hasn't started and Nigeria is already in the spotlight. is it really the host's team's responsibility to provide security while in another country?

Thousands of fans rushed the gates at the Nigeria-North Korea friendly in Johannesburg today, trying to get seats for the World Cup practice match. Early reports filtering through Twitter described a chaotic scene as matchgoers — including small children — fell beneath the crowd and were trampled. At least 20 people were injured, among them a policeman, who was carried away from the scene on a stretcher.

The earliest accounts from the stadium suggested that dozens of people had been killed, but thankfully those seem to have been exaggerated, with the latest reports suggesting no deaths and far fewer injuries. Still, FIFA is being criticized for failing to provide adequate security at a match for which tickets were free, seating was open, and crowd-flow problems should have been anticipated.

The match was being held in a northern Johannesburg suburb at the tiny Makhulong Stadium, which seats around 10,000 spectators.  The stampede began when police opened the gates to allow the crowd into the stadium, as thousands of fans rushed forward to try to claim seats.

From the Associated Press report:

"The crowd just overpowered me and I went down," said Japhta Mombelo, who was bleeding from the head. "I fell down and people just fell over me.

"That crowd is overpowering. The police have told me to stay around and they will organise an ambulance but I am still waiting."

And at least one policeman blamed FIFA:

"Fifa made the tickets free and now look," said the policeman, who refused to be identified. "Fifa wanted them free."

Details are still emerging, and it's unclear at this point where the blame should fall. Still, even given that the news is less awful than it first appeared, this is just about the worst development FIFA and South Africa could have asked for five days before the start of the World Cup.

UPDATE: According to ESPN, Nigeria, as the host team, was responsible for match security and had hired a private security firm. The police stepped in after the trouble started. 

UPDATE: FIFA have issued a statement denying all responsibility:

FIFA and the OC (local organizing committee) would like to reiterate that this friendly match has no relation whatsoever with the operational organization of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, for which we remain fully confident.

http://g.sports.yahoo.com/soccer/world-cup/blog/sow_experts/post/Thousands-stampede-outside-Nigeria-North-Korea-f?urn=sow,245999

Below is a list of PSP games that i currently have

1.SONIC RIVALS
2.SPIDERMAN 3
3.STREET FIGHTER ALPHA 3
4.SYPHON FILTER
5.TALES OF ETERNIA
6.TENCHU TIME OF THE ASSASSIN
7.TOM CLANSY ENDWAR
8.UNDEAD KNIGHT
9.UNTOLD LEGEND
10.VIRTUAL TENNIS
11.WIPE OUT
12.XMEN ORIGEN: WOLVERINE'S REVENGE
13.ADVENTURE TO GO
14.BLADE DANCER
15.CODED ARMS
16.FIELD COMMANDER
17.NO GRAVITY
18.Ys
19.DEAD TO RIGHT RECKONING
20.DEF JAM FIGHT FOR NEW YORK
21.DISSIDIA
22.ENIGMACONS
23.ERAGON
24.FIGHT NIGHT
25.FINAL FANTASY: WAR OF THE TWO LIONS
26.FINAL FANTASY: FFCD
27.GOD OF WAR
28.METAL GEAR PORTABLE
29.GRAND THIEF AUTO: VICE CITY
30/HALF MINUTE HERO
31.KILLZONE
32.MARVEL NEMESIS
33.MEDAL OF HONOUR
34.PARK CITY
35.PSY-7WON
36.RENGOKU 2
37.SAVAGE MOON
38.SHINOBIDO
39.SILVER FALL
40.CAPCOM CLASSICS
41.DEATH Jr
42.300
43.AGES OF ZOMBIES
44.ARMORED CORE
45.ASTONISHA
46.AVATAR (BASED ON THE FILM)
47.AVATER THE LAST AIR BENDER
48.CODED ARMS
49.SOCCER
  -PRO 2009
  -PES 2010
  -FIFA 2009
  -FIFA 2010
50.PRINCE OF PERSIA RIVAL SWORDS
51.PRINCE OF PERSIA REVELATION
52.TWISTED METAL
53.NEED FOR SPEED RIVAL
54.NEED FOR SPEED CARBON
55.DRIVER 76
56.CRAZY TAXI 1
57.CRAZY TAXI 2
58.BURNOUT LEGENDS
59.ASPHALT URBAN GT 2 EU

  EMULATORS
1.PSX (PS 1)
-WARZONE
-RIVAL SCHOOL

2.SNES WITH 50 GAMES

3.CPS
  -MARVEL VS CAPCOM
  -XMEN VS STREET FIGHTER
  -MARVEL SUPERHEROS VS STREET FIGHTER
  -STREET FIGHTER ALPHA 3


Currently in benin but would be in lagos next month.if you are interested in any,hola at me

This is a list of PSP games i currently have

1.SONIC RIVALS
2.SPIDERMAN 3
3. STREET FIGHTER ALPHA 3
4.SYPHON FILTER
5.TALES OF ETERNIA
6.TENCHU TIME OF THE ASSASSIN
7.TOM CLANCY END WAR
8.UNDEAD KNIGHT
9.UNTOLD LEGEND
10.VIRTUAL TENNIS
11.WIPEOUT
12.XMEN: WOLVERINE'S REVENGE
13.ADVENTURE TO GO
14.BLADE DANCER
15.FIELD COMMANDER
16.NO GRAVITY
17.Ys
18.DEATH TO RIGHT RECKONING
19.DEF JAM FIGHT FOR NEWYORK
20.DISSIDIA
21.ERAGON
22.FINAL FANTASY: WAR OF THE LIONS
23. FINAL FANTASY: FFCD
24.FIGHT NIGHT
25.GOD OF WAR
26.METAL GEAR SOLID PORTABLE
27.GRAND THIEF AUTO: VICE CITY
28.HALF MINUTE HERO
29.MARVEL NEMESIS
30.PARK CITY
31.RENGOKU 2
32.SAVAGE MOON
33.SHINOBIDO
34.SILVERFALL
35.CAPCOM CLASSIC COLLECTION
36.DEATH Jr
37.300
38.AGE OF ZOMBIES
39.ARMORED CORE
40. ASTONISHIA
41.AVATAR (BASED ON THE FILM)
42.AVATER THE LAST AIR BENDER
43.CODED ARMS
44.SOCCER
  -PRO 2009
  -PES 2010
  -FIFA 2009
  -FIFA 2010
45.PRINCE OF PERSIA RIVAL SWORDS
46.PRINCE OF PERSIA REVELATION
47. TWISTED METAL
48.NEED FOR SPEED RIVAL
49.NEED FOR SPEED CARBON
50.DRIVER 76
51.CRAZY TAXI 1
52.CRAZY TAXI 2
53.BURNOUT LEGENDS
54.ASPHALT URBAN GT2 EU
55.WARHAMMER 40K SQUAD COMMAND
   Most of the games are below 1GB except Dissidia and GTA though i have a ripped version of dissida that is 570mb but it's Japanese.

EMULATORS
1.PSX (PS1)
  -WARZONE
  -RIVAL SCHOOL

2.SNES EMULATOR WITH 50 GAMES

3.CPS
-XMEN VS STREET FIGHTER
-MARVEL VS CAPCOM
-MARVEL SUPER HEROS VS STREET FIGHTER
-STREET FIGHTER ALPHA 3

I'm currently in benin and would be in lagos next month. if you are interested in any,please let me know

too much of anything is not good.however,everyone has their own limit.Alcohol (in excess) inhibits your inhibitory centre.it means that in sober state that which you will not consider doing,alcohol removes that control. however,alcohol has it's benefits to the body but not in excess doses. especially red wine( not most of the red rubbish they sell in Nigeria) is considered beneficial to the body. i don't agree that alcohol is totally harmful to the body,even Jesus Christ turned water into wine (not beer).

My mum could give very vague directions. she would normally tell us "go into that room,you would see that thing on top of that table,help me bring it". we would be at the door before we would ask which room, what table and what thing. most times,we would enter a room and start wondering what we were sent there to get.

My dad can never finish one TomTom. he would break it into four,keep three in the fridge and take four hours to finish one. when we ask him why he does that,he would reply that it is too strong for him.

“His explosives couldn’t have blown up his own seat. Even if full power, it
wouldn’t have worked.” These were the words relayed to me during a Jan. 2 interview with military analyst and counterinsurgency specialist Gordon Duff in regard to the attempt of Christmas Day underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab [sometimes referred to as Abdulmutallab] to ignite 80 grams of the explosive PETN on a flight destined for America. He also explained how the patsy’s country of origin, Nigeria, is clandestinely controlled by the Israeli army and Mossad.

These entities train the military, sell weapons, run the airports, and wield power over DICON (Defense Industries Corporation). Furthermore, Mutallab’s father is a Mossad partner and Israel’s No. 1 contact in Nigeria. As the former CEO of his country’s most influential bank and the man who ran their national arms industry, Mr. Mutallab also harbors extremely close relationships with the U.S. ambassador and CIA chief in Nigeria.

On Nov. 19, 2009, Mutallab supposedly felt so alarmed about his errant son’s behavior that he met with the CIA’s station chief in Nigeria. Duff describes the father in a Dec. 31 article for Veterans Today as “one of the richest people in the world, head of a major bank, head of the national
armaments industry, and close associate of the U.S. ambassador,” as well as being a Mossad asset. Yet we’re to believe that nobody prevented his Yemeni-influenced “terrorist” son from boarding a plane ultimately bound for Detroit

Another significant detail is being neglected by mainstream media sources. The firm in charge of security at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport is the Israeli-owned International Consultants on Targeted Security (ICTS).They’re also the same outfit responsible for all three airports used by “Muslim hijackers” on 9-11. ICTS also handled security for London’s bus system during their 7-7 “Muslim bombing,” while doing the same at Charles de Gaulle Airport when “shoe bomber” Richard Reid boarded a plane in Paris on Dec. 22, 2001.

When a Michigan passenger, attorney Kurt Haskell, reported that a “well-dressed” Indian man arranged for Umar Mutallab to perform a “walkaround” without a passport in Amsterdam, ICTS was one of only a few entities that could have permitted this security breach to take place.

Despite tighter screening processes since 9-11, Northwest Airlines Flight 253 experienced no delays in takeoff. According to the Mathaba News Agency on Jan. 2, “It is evident that clearing the terrorist with higher-ups took a matter of a minute or so—the ‘Indian’ obviously had a high-level pass (CIA, Mossad or high-level security clout).”

Then, during the flight, onlookers noted that another passenger spent a great deal of time filming 23-year-old Mutallab with his camcorder. Even stranger, once the suspect tried to ignite his “crotch bomb,” Mathaba reported, “Throughout the incident, the man continued recording the terrorist, calmly and without interruption.”

Next, after the plane landed, another Indian man was led away in handcuffs after bomb-sniffing dogs smelled explosives in his luggage. Now, more than a week later, officials have refused to release Schiphol CCTV airport footage from Amsterdam, the air-bound “video passenger” film, or identify the man arrested in Detroit.

This Indian link doesn’t surprise Duff. “Israel and India are very close business partners, especially via their military contracts. Also, the Indian intelligence agency (Research and Analysis Wing) works hand-in-hand with Israel. Essentially, the two governments are one.”

But the Mossad’s reach extends even further, directly into the country where Mutallab purportedly trained. On Oct. 7, 2008, BBC News reported, “Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has said that security forces have arrested a group of alleged Islamist militants linked to Israeli intelligence.”

The ties go even deeper, straight to Mutallab’s home country. In a Sept. 5, 2008 article by Tashikalmah Hallah and Francis Okeke entitled “Nigeria: Lawmakers Divided Over Mossad,” Sen. Nuhu Aliyu voiced his support for their pact with Israel. “They (Mossad) are professionals, and they are here to help train our own intelligence agents. I don’t see any way by which their presence in the country poses a threat to our national security.”

One final element of the equation needs to be addressed; specifically, the “terrorist cell” that ostensibly trained Mutallab prior to his Christmas Day terror attempt.

However, Duff paints an entirely different picture. “There is no al-Qaeda in Yemen. George Bush released a couple of phony operatives from Guantanamo, and after traveling to the Middle East, they hooked up with the Mossad. The only reason Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez released
them is because they’re assets.”

Of course, the American public is being misled again into believing that this “lone nut” terrorist sneaked through the system (no-fly lists, airport scrutiny etc) due to mere incompetence, similar to what occurred on 9-11.

Yet Israeli intelligence provided security at the Amsterdam Airport, where Mutallab boarded a plane with no passport; the NSA is equipped to electronically eavesdrop anywhere around the world; the Mossad is tied to Yemen, Nigeria and India; while the suspect’s father opened up banking and arms contacts in the Middle East while harboring an extremely close relationship with American and Israeli intelligence.

What we’re being fed is another propagandized cover story that is intended to keep ratcheting up Orwellian-style trauma and fear, all the while further spreading our global “terror war” to Yemen and the African continent.

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/underwear_bomber__206.html

Gamebox:
1. Metroids
2. Legend of zelda

GBA:
1. Golden sun 1 & 2

SNES:
1. Legend of zelda: a link to the past
2. Secret of mana
3. Street fighter 2 turbo
4. Mortal kombat 3

SEGA GENESIS:
1. Streets of rage
2. Sonic (all)

PS1
1. GTA 1
2. MGS
3. Dino crisis 1

PS2
1. God of war 1 & 2
2. MGS

GAMECUBE
1. Metroids 2: return of samus
2. Legend of zelda: wind walker

XBOX
1. Halo 2
2. Ninja gaiden black
3. Black

I can't stop laughing,not at the story but at people's comment to the story.this is better than any home video i have ever watched.