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Congratulations to Aubameyang. I hope he'll be useful to resurrect Barcelona from it's slumber

He should've gone by road so that he can have a first hand taste of what the citizens are going through.

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I agree with the judgement as it is in line with the constitution of our dear country. However, other states are entitled the to their share of the proceed illegally given to Nigeria Police Trust Fund

Absolutely true!

NoSentiment:
You have religious bigots in all states, countries and regions of the world (both Muslims, Christians, Hindus, Atheists etc). Majority of northerners are nice to stay with, generous, honest, easygoing, etc. There are also bad ones just as there is in every place.

Most stereotypes are to a large extent overexagerated.

You can only achieve it if you put sentiments aside and give every candidate a fair chance.

Where's the leaked documents?

Repentant candidate named Mr. Timipade Kemepade has written to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) asking for forgiveness owing to his involvement in examination malpractice in the course of obtaining the result of the University Matriculation Examination (UME) now Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) that he sat twenty-one years ago.JAMB in its latest bulletin stated that the candidate blamed youthful exuberance for his misconduct.The letter read in part: "With regret and sincere apology to JAMB, 1, Timipade Kemepade, with Certificate No. 33208803GA confess that l participated in examination malpractice 21 years ago while sitting my JAMB examination."The letter continued, "I, therefore, seek the forgiveness of JAMB. I sincerely regret my youthful exuberance."However, the Board, in response to Mr. Kemepade, stated that the apology and consequent admission of guilt are "rejected in their entirety and are, therefore, not admissible."Consequently, Mr. Kemepade was informed by the Board that the condition for accepting his apology is his willingness to forfeit all the certificates he had fraudulently acquired with the result of the University Matriculation.

Anigreat:



I thought he's a Muslim?

Do Muslim commit adultery? I thought in Muslim liturgy, it's not Haram to commit adultery. One must commit adultery as to have a wonderful place in Aljanah. That was my thought, hence I wanted to convert to Islam so to have all the time in the world to commit adultery.

Sen. Akwashiki is a Christian while Mr. Envulanza is a Muslim.

Ivory Coast all the way

Mr. Governor, provide enough security for the common man on the street before making any threat to punish anyone. Can you assure them of their safety if they come out? If you can't, go and work on that and try again another time. Thank you.

Nicky Campbell has been asking Radio 5 Live listeners if they think Boris Johnson should step down if he did attend a gathering during the first lockdown.
Nadia is a life-long Conservative voter and Boris Johnson supporter, she says Boris should “reconsider his position” if he was at the event, but she will be “utterly gutted” if he is no longer prime minister.
“PMQs today is absolutely crucial,” she says. “He needs to say for certain if he was there and totally apologise and give an explanation – then he may be OK.”
Joanne in Nuneaton says if Boris was aware of the party, he should have taken charge and told staff members it was against the rules.
“People couldn’t go to funerals, they couldn’t grieve for people who died,” she says. “There was so much the country gave up for those people at the party to have a knees-up and laugh at the country.”
Clare in Suffolk says she doesn’t believe it was a party, instead saying it was a social gathering.
“They would have been doing the same inside and we wouldn’t have known about it,” she says. “The mistake here was the person who sent that email and included the word booze.”

Sandy, a Conservative supporter from Surrey, says there have been “issues” going on in Downing Street but believes the media shouldn’t be having further discussions about who was right and wrong until the review findings are released.

Man gets genetically-modified pig heart in world-first transplant

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Surgeon Bartley P Griffith with David Bennett in JanuaryImage source, University of Maryland School of Medicine
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Surgeon Bartley P Griffith pictured with David Bennett earlier this month

A US man has become the first person in the world to get a heart transplant from a genetically-modified pig.

David Bennett, 57, is doing well three days after the experimental seven-hour procedure in Baltimore, doctors say.

The transplant was considered the last hope of saving Mr Bennett's life, though it is not yet clear what his long-term chances of survival are.

"It was either die or do this transplant," Mr Bennett explained a day before the surgery.

"I know it's a shot in the dark, but it's my last choice," he said.

Doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center were granted a special dispensation by the US medical regulator to carry out the procedure, on the basis that Mr Bennett - who has terminal heart disease - would otherwise have died.

He had been deemed ineligible for a human transplant, a decision that is often taken by doctors when the patient is in very poor health.

The pig used in the transplant had been genetically modified to knock out several genes that would have led to the organ being rejected by Mr Bennett's body, the AFP news agency reports.

For the medical team who carried out the transplant, it marks the culmination of years of research and could change lives around the world.

Surgeon Bartley Griffith said the surgery would bring the world "one step closer to solving the organ shortage crisis". Currently 17 people die every day in the US waiting for a transplant, with more than 100,000 reportedly on the waiting list.

GM pigs take step to being organ donors

Dr Christine Lau, chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, was in the operating theatre during the surgery.

"He's at more of a risk because we require more immunosuppression, slightly different than we would normally do in a human-to-human transplant. How well the patient does from now is, you know, it's never been done before so we really don't know," she told the BBC.

"People die all the time on the waiting list, waiting for organs. If we could use genetically engineered pig organs they'd never have to wait, they could basically get an organ as they needed it.

"Plus, we wouldn't have to fly all over the country at night-time to recover organs to put them into recipients," she added.

The possibility of using animal organs for so-called xenotransplantation to meet the demand has long been considered, and using pig heart valves is already common.

In October 2021, surgeons in New York announced that they had successfully transplanted a pig's kidney into a person. At the time, the operation was the most advanced experiment in the field so far.

However, the recipient on that occasion was brain dead with no hope of recovery.
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Analysis box by Michelle Roberts, health editor

A glimmer of hope alongside huge risks

This watershed moment provides hope of a solution to the chronic shortage of donor human organs. But there is still a long way to go to determine whether giving people animal organs is the way forward. Pig hearts are anatomically similar to human hearts but, understandably, not identical. It's not ideal, compared to swapping in a human donor heart. But it is possible to plumb them in and get them working.

The bigger issue is organ rejection. These pigs are bred to lack genes that can cause rejection. They are cloned with certain genes "knocked out" and reared until they reach an age where their organs are big enough to be harvested for transplantation.

It is too soon to know how Mr Bennett will fare with his pig heart. His doctors were clear that the surgery was a gamble. The risks are huge, but so are the potential gains.
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Mr Bennett, however, is hoping his transplant will allow him to continue with his life. He was bedridden for six weeks leading up to the surgery, and attached to a machine which kept him alive after he was diagnosed with terminal heart disease.
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Watch: Muhammad Mohiuddin from the University of Maryland calls the transplant a "game-changer"

"I look forward to getting out of bed after I recover," he said last week.

On Monday, Mr Bennett was reported to be breathing on his own while being carefully monitored.

But exactly what will happen next is unclear.

Mr Griffith said they were proceeding cautiously and carefully monitoring Mr Bennett, while his son David Bennett Jr told the Associated Press that the family were "in the unknown at this point".

But he added: "He realises the magnitude of what was done and he really realises the importance of it."

"We've never done this in a human and I like to think that we, we have given him a better option than what continuing his therapy would have been," Mr Griffith said. "But whether [he will live for] a day, week, month, year, I don't know."
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59944889

It will end in tears ���
Knowing the players and their strengths alone is not enough. He needs to understand African football as he is a novice in Africa.
I wish the team good luck in Cameroon and Qatar. 2022 is going to be a good year for Nigerian football

HushNews:
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Wow!, just wow!!

This life is very brief. We should be prepared always for no one knows the hour dead will come knocking on our doors

It was taken from him, he doesn't have a choice. Yeah

Legend. It's always entertaining watching RMD's movies, but who is the lady with him?

Cinema4d:
I like this your perspective. The God kind of love.
Enlighten us about this kind of love

It is the best kind of love that I've experienced. I was rescued from damnation because of this sweet love, and today I'm living in this love. No turning back.

Love is Sweet because God is Love

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I don't expect anything less from a Supreme Court Governor

What is confusing about the name? Is it Simon or Harry that you don't understand?

inoki247:
The name na looks confusing

A well deserved appointment. Congratulations sir

He should find another girl who is not residing far from him, take his time to know her better before marrying her.
Coming back home to a girl he knew over ten years ago is highly risky. As far as I'm concern, he doesn't know this girl anymore.

As a child, I wanted to be a Doctor. As I was growing up, I realised I can't be a doctor because I don't like hospitals and the smell of drugs. Also, I can't stand sick people. I'm an Accountant today and I owe everything to God who made it possible for me.

This is a great loss to Africa

Beautiful

Wow! I hope ICAN is not trying to lower it's standards. If they do, then There'll be no difference between us and ANAN. These institutions should do well to maintain the integrity that brought them to that level

This is serious! This is just one of the dangers of polygamy.

You're sounding like an experienced Yahoo boy. �

nzeobi:
the secret to outsmarting efcc now is to maintain a low profile and avoid living together in hoods.

make money and invest, don't make money to impress and avoid being too flashy, I.e. avoid tattoos,gold chains and spraying of hair.

and most importantly, stop picking money in Nigeria.