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Yungwizzzy: Elect/Elect

I no sure say you know Wetin dem dey call elect elect.

msmon: K

Modified:

@OP, have u seen heard this before "Too many people buy things they don’t need with money they don’t have to impress people they don’t know." Perhaps, that's sums up your condition.

Off Topic:
Do anybody know why a topic disappear on a board? I posted a topic titled '15 Pets With Guinness World Record' on Pets board this morning around 7am but it disappear few minutes later, I made effort to mail the moderator but I didn't get any response. What could have happen?.

Do you say you made effort to mail the Moderator? Ahaah Nairaland no get moderator. I once mailed him too early this year but the guy no reply. I wonder Wetin hinder just dey do there.

philipadesola: I bn think say 2Face don hang boot na

For where, that guy no fit hang boot lai lai. Giving birth or rather impreginating ladies to him is like a season film.

Common bro, 2face is the father of all nation.

LogoDWhiz: Thanks bro.

Which courses(s) are you studying?

ColWri_2.1x Principles of Written English. This is the course I study, what about you?

LogoDWhiz: Hello peeps. It would be bad of me to keep this in and not share it, i came across the great website through a colleague, he adviced me to check out the site instead of browsing the internet, chatting, facebooking and practically doing nothing meaningful.

What is edX?
EdX is a massive open online course (MOOC) provider and online learning platform. It hosts online university-level courses in a wide range of disciplines to a worldwide audience at no charge. It also conducts research into learning based on how people use its platform. EdX differs from other MOOC platforms, such Coursera and Udacity, in that it is nonprofit and runs on an open-source software platform.

EdX was founded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University in May 2012. There are currently 56 schools, nonprofits, corporations, and international organizations that offer or plan to offer courses on the edX website. As of 22 July 2014, edX has more than 2.5 million users taking over 240 courses online.

EdX courses consist of weekly learning sequences. Each learning sequence is composed of short (an average of 10 minutes each) videos interspersed with interactive learning exercises where students can immediately practice the concepts from the videos. The courses often include tutorial videos that are similar to small on-campus discussion groups, an online textbook, and an online discussion forum where students can post and review questions and comments to each other and teaching assistants. Where applicable, online laboratories are incorporated into the course. For example, in edX's first MOOC—a circuits and electronics course—students built virtual circuits in an online lab.

EdX offers certificates of successful completion, but does not offer course credit. Whether or not a college or university offers credit for an online course is within the sole discretion of the school. EdX offers a variety of ways to take courses, including verified courses where students have the option to audit the course (no cost) or to work toward an edX verified certificate (fees vary by course), honor code courses where students can either audit (no cost) or work toward an honor code certificate (no cost). In addition, in the fall of 2013, edX launched a pilot project to offer a special certificate in a subject area (called "XSeries Certificate" after completing a bundled set of 3-4 verified courses in that subject (cost varies depending on the courses).
Culled from Wikipedia

Advantages
Apart from the numerous advantages cited above, from my own perspective I see this as a very wonderful setup, it's free, consist of lot of courses across all the fields of life.
The course content is given at the beginning of the week, you have videos and handout to support what you are being taught, you can even download the resources and that can be added to your personal library.
And then there are quizzes and tests at a particular time and you have the exam.

It will be an added advantage to you as you have more educational qualifications to yourself and it also shows you make use of your free time wisely.

It's free, you can access the website anytime you like within the week, they are being partnered by top world-class universities like Harvard University, MIT.

This and lot more. Try it out and you won't regret it.

Website
https://www.edx.org/


“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss,
“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
― Voltaire
“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
― Isaac Asimov

Good work bro,you've done what I almost wanted to do before. Am also a registered student at edx.org good work bro no one would have done it better.

edx.org is a good MOOC and I've really enjoyed attending a virtual school and this had really help me in achieving it.
Currently, I am offering an english course.

DonXavi: WHY MANY CHRISTIANS WILL MISS THE RAPTURE!
“Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able. Luke 13:24

Since Rapture will not happen twice, but once, wise Christians will do more to focus and strive to be counted worthy. Why will many miss the rapture even after they are born again and serving God? Here are 7 common reasons in which any of them can hold back a Born again Christian:

(1) UNDONE RESTITUTION Acts 24:16
After you are genuinely saved, there may be some wrongs of the past that need to be corrected in your present new life in Jesus. Restitution includes restoring things wrongly acquired, revealing lies and deceptions and reconciling with people we offended, and also forgiving with all our hearts people who offended us, no matter how terrible. Forgiveness from the heart is part of restitution and many Christians, ministers of God will miss rapture and heaven just because of un-forgiveness and bitterness. Matthew 6:14, 15.

UNPAID & INESSENTIAL DEBT, when you have the power to pay but postponing or does not want to pay, this can hinder Christians from being raptured or entering heaven. And a serious minded Christian will be wary of unnecessary debts of buying inessential stuffs in credit.

(2) JUST A LITTLE SIN Galatians 5:9
Many will miss rapture and entrance to heaven not because they are not born again and serving God, not because they are committing serious sins, but just because of a little, besetting sin, just little but too heavy to hold people down from making rapture. Can you imagine that wearing tight clothes, tops that show a woman's cleavage or transparent clothes would hinder so many godly sisters from making the rapture? When the Holy Spirit calls your attention to the little sin, you excuse yourself that it doesn’t matter, everybody is doing it or it is your own weakness since everybody has a weakness. It may be little anger, envy, jealousy, even in the work of God. Little, little lies, using people’s or your office’s materials for your personal purpose without taking permission. You think it doesn’t matter? It does. Let’s repent NOW. Common sins will commonly hinder common Christians and ministers back.

(3) LITTLE WORLDLINESS 1 John 2:16
Little worldliness will hinder so many Christians from making the rapture. This little worldliness does not matter to many Christians and churches today. The worldly music which you call normal, worldly movies, magazines (fashion, entertainment or pornography), TV programs inspired by Satan (American Idol, African Idols, Big Brother Africa, MTN Project Fame, Gulder Ultimate Search, Dance shows, African magic, animated cartoon, etc. ) Also worldly dress (wearing tops, blouses that show the trace of your breasts as a woman or that reveals your back, tight, transparent or shot dress) Many Christian women are tapped by Satan with worldly dress unknowingly but they will know after the rapture. Those who have died have gotten to know already but too late.

(4) OVER CONFIDENCE 1 Corinthians 10:12
Over-confidence will hinder many believers from entering heaven. You see the shortcoming of others without seeing yours, without daily searching your life with the Word of God and prayer for forgiveness and daily sanctification. This category of people believe they can never make mistake after they are saved, they believe they are once and entirely sanctified and no need for daily prayer for cleansing and sanctification, they are bound in bountiful hypocrisy which is one of the most terrible sins- hypocrisy. Believing that you can’t make mistake after you are saved is a serious mistake. Tenderness and watchfulness serve better.

(5) UNCONFESSED SIN 1 Timothy 5:24
Unconfessed sin remains a secret sin. You did something wrong and you realize it and confessed to God but concealed it from people, you refuse to confess to necessary partners or people even after the Holy Spirit has ministered to you to expose it, you are listening to the wrong preachers and your wrong motive and defending yourself that you have confessed to God so that should settle it. This will block many ears from hearing the sound of the Trumpet of rapture. Please, you must confess to one another, James 5:16, as the case may be, why will you miss rapture just because of this little shortcoming?

(6) LITTLE COMPROMISE 1 Corinthians 5:6
Little compromise at workplace, in your business, to get contract, job or promotion; little compromise to get your documents and papers - being smart. Little compromise in examination hall, in marital relationship or in your tithes and offerings; these little, little, overlooked stuffs will hold and hinder many Believers and Ministers from making heaven. If you are careful, the compromise of your society, of your church and idolized Pastors will not infect and affect you.

(7) LACK OF LOVE 1 John 4:8
Do you think it’s possible to make heaven without love? And does your life shows the love of Christ? Please read 1 Corinthians 13:1-8. Most churches and Christians lack love. Love is kindness and expresses goodness to all men, especially brethren, it helps and shares. The syndrome of “sowing” into the lives of big pastors, the several church projects and personal projects have blinded many Christians from loving and helping people around them.

Purity without love is hypocrisy, love without purity is lust, but real purity means PURE LOVE. Christian life without love is hypocrisy.

Please, we should all search our lives with the light of God’s Word, let’s repent now and confess and correct everything as the Holy Spirit calls our attention. Irrespective of our spiritual attainments and positions, God is not a respecter of any man. As long you still see yourself as a little child in God’s hand, you must be humble and careful enough to look into your life. Let’s ask God to sanctify us, and let’s also be more watchful from now, be more vigilant and prayerful everyday as we ask for God’s grace and mercy to be counted worthy, we all need these, we are all striving and no man is a superman, until we get to heaven. May God help us and see us through to the end in Jesus name.

Rapture will happen once and any time from now. If you want to rededicate your life to Jesus or need further counsel on any of these points, please feel free to contact the address below. That we are still alive now, is a great privilege, let’s make use of it NOW!

1 Peter 4:7,“But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers.”

Where will you be after the rapture?

Umh, christian and criteria to heaven. If I may ask you where on earth did you get this from?

Come! Getting to the kingdom of God is not by criteria for all I care. It is only the grace of God that can see one through, have you forgotten what the bible even said to folks like you, "he who thinks he stand, let him watch lest he fall" I pray you recover from this think are talking about. Mind you, as for me as a person, I'm an indigene of the heavenlies.


It is simply God's grace bro.

In a positive approach and a relative response to the devastating punches the Ebola outbreak has meted on four West Africa nations, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced Wednesday that it has pledged $50 million to help combat the epidemic. The money will be made available to United Nations agencies and international organizations involved in the response effort. It will enable them and national governments to purchase "needed supplies and scale up emergency operations in affected countries,"


The foundation said in a news release, the grant will also be used to develop
therapies, vaccines and diagnostic tests to treat patients and prevent further transmission of the often-fatal disease. "We are working urgently with our partners to identify the most effective ways to help them save lives now and stop transmission of this deadly disease," said Sue Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the Gates Foundation. "We also want to accelerate the development of treatments, vaccines and diagnostics that can help end this epidemic and prevent future outbreaks."


U.S. and World Health Organization officials have warned that the Ebola virus is spreading faster than health workers in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone can work to contain it. WHO estimates released Tuesday put the West Africa toll from Ebola at more than 2,200 deaths and 4,200 infections, primarily due to a surge of new cases in Liberia, the Associated Press reported.


WHO officials estimate that another 20,000 people could become infected with the virus, which has a mortality rate that can approach 90 percent.

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Judge Thokozile Masipa sitting this Thursday started
handing down her judgement in the trial proceeding of Oscar Pistorius, finding him not guilty of the first count charge
(murder). Below Herein, are some key quotes from the judge so far:


On the state’s case: “The state clearly has not proved beyond
reasonable doubt that the accused is guilty of
premeditated murder.” “Viewed in its totality, the evidence failed
to establish that the accused had the requisite
intention to kill the deceased, let alone with
premeditation.” “The accused therefore cannot be found
guilty of murder.” On Pistorius's actions:
“He took a conscious decision, he knew
where he kept his firearm and he knew
where his bathroom was. This is inconsistent
with lack of criminal capacity.”

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Every day around sunset, dozens of residents
of this small Lebanese Christian village on the
border carry their automatic rifles and
deploy on surrounding hills, taking up
positions and laying ambushes in case Muslim
extremists from neighbouring Syria attack.

“We all know that if they come, they will
slit our throats for no reason,” said one
villager as he drove through the streets of
Qaa, an assault rifle resting next to him. For months, Lebanese Christians have
watched with dread as other Christians flee
Islamic extremists in Syria and Iraq, fearing
their turn will come next. Fears multiplied
after militants from Syria overran a border
town last month, clashing with security forces for days and killing and kidnapping
Lebanese soldiers and policemen.


Now, for the first time since the Lebanese
civil war ended in 1990, Lebanese Christians
are rearming and setting up self-defence
units to protect themselves, an indication of
the growing anxiety over the expanding
reach of radical Islamic groups. Across the Middle East, Christian communities
as old as the religion itself feel their very
survival is now at stake, threatened by
militants of the Islamic State group
rampaging across Iraq and Syria.

In Iraq, thousands of Christians have fled
their homes after they were made to choose
between leaving, converting to Islam or
facing death. For the first time in centuries,
Iraq's Ninevah region and the provincial
capital of Mosul have been emptied of Christians. After they left, the militants
spray-painted their houses with the letter
“N” for “Nasrani” — an archaic term
used to refer to Christians — marking the
homes as Islamic State property.
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Jennimma: Is it godly to dance worldly steps in church?
Most of the youths in our churches enjoy dancing steps they learn from secular music like "skelewu" and such likes...and most of our pastors say little or nothing about it. I kinda feel its not right.
Should christains copy worldly dance steps? Can't we create our own dance steps?
Comments allowed.

Madam! Their ain't nothing like worldly dance. All forms of dancing is welcome inasmuch you're praising God.

What will you say about king David, who danced and went nude all unto the fact that he was praising God. And also check out what befall the daughter of saul (his wife) who made jest of him.

From my own side, I still insist all forms of dance is welcomed in the church.
Mind you, am also a Christian.

Pukkah: What kind of theory is this? Did you test your assumptions at all? Can this 'theory' be stretched?

What's your theory on places like Ekiti, Edo, Ondo and Rivers where they've always had Christian governors? Mind you, there are also indigenous muslims in the first 3 states.

Do you also realize that Michael Otedola was once a civilian governor in Lagos state?

Let's go to Oyo. Do you recall that Bola Ige, Kolapo Ishola, Olunloyo and Akala (all Christians) were once governors and politicians like Akinloye and Akinjide (all christians) were pre-eminent and respected?

What do you make of Osun politicians like Ebenezer Babatope, Iyiola Omisore, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, SM Afolabi, Bola Ige, Etteh etc who were all Christians? Were/are they members of Celestial or Cherubim church as postulated by you?

What of Awolowo himself and Samuel Ladoke Akintola? What of TOS Benson?

You stated that in pentecostal churches'u will be respected for not knowing how to speak ur native language' yet Pastor Adeboye speaks/preaches in Yoruba in his Church. Eh?

This your 'theory' get as e be o! If you don't know the exact reasons for a particular trend I think you should simply say so or not say anything rather than come up with some funny explanations.

You need to understand the OP well I guess he saw something before he brought this thought of his to Nairaland. During ur leisure I want you to google search this; #abujadeclaration1989 all spaced please in the search tab. And see what's going on that we never knew.

Against the chaos and ongoing imbalances in the Nigeria Football Federation, the president of the Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Aminu Maigari, has formally resigned his position on the NFF Board with effect from August 26, 2014.

“The Bauchi-born administrator resigned as NFF President on August 12, 2014 to pave way for a peaceful resolution of the crisis that engulfed the football federation shortly after the 2014 FIFA World Cup,” in a letter from the Special Adviser on Media to the Honourable Minister of Sports, Patrick Omorodion, said.
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California public health officials on wednesday declined to disclose the identity of a Sacramento patient who is being tested for the Ebola virus after returning from one of the West African countries affected by the growing outbreak of the disease.


They refused to reveal the patient's gender, age, which West African country he or she had traveled to and how the exposure may have happened, citing federal health privacy laws. But they said the patient, who is being kept in isolation at Kaiser Permanente's South Sacramento Medical Center, developed symptoms during the 21-day period, it takes
the deadly disease to incubate after returning from Africa, warranting being tested.


Still, health experts said they believe the
likelihood the patient actually has Ebola is slim. National, state and local health
authorities are exercising "an abundance of caution" to protect the public's health. "While we should be aware of the disease and its symptoms, it is unlikely Ebola poses a significant public health threat at this time," said Dr. Gil Chavez, deputy director for the Center for Infectious Diseases and state epidemiologist at the California Department of Public Health, during a telephone news conference Wednesday.

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@OP, male and female student living together in the same room is simply 'FORNICATION'

Rest in the bossom of our Lord Doctor Ameyo. Words can't explain how selfless you've given your best even at the risk of your life.

Even if the Presidency remember you not, I've personally mourn you in my own little way here; www.allpoetry.com/poem/by/niftyrules

#NIFTYRULES, Mehn the girls are really wonderful. I sincerely enjoyed myself all through the match.

Just faith in God will do that which seems impossible. Believe in the fact that he's not a man that he should lie will set him into action and move the unmovable. Remember ask and with a believing heart, you shall receive.

This is a poem by me on faith. Faithfully read.



AND FAITH

Is it an ability to believe the unseen
Travel via the mind where you've never physically been
Is it the things hope for
Or evidence of things not seen


Faith has gone far beyond
Far above our daily crumbs
It is the positive mind for positive request
Backed with a mind to have it


Faith Is setting the table
When the store house is short of vegetable
Faith Is having the spoon, fork in its place and plate at the center
when nothing is cooking in the pot


Faith Is getting fired
And you saying "i am hired
Or tired and you saying am stronger"
stolen and you saying, you've gotten Even when it seems farther
Faith brings closer


When labelled looser
Faith says am a winner
Have you said cant to your faith
He's faithful a father to make you enjoy the holyghost bathe
Feel free to ask of it from the father
He is very near and hasn't gone yonder.



Www.allpoetry.com/poem/by/niftyrules

Just faith in God will do that which seems impossible. Believe in the fact that he's not a man that he should lie will set him into action and move the unmovable. Remember ask and with a believing heart, you shall receive.

This is a poem by me on faith. Faithfully read.

AND FAITH

Is it an ability to believe the unseen
Travel via the mind where you've never physically been
Is it the things hope for
Or evidence of things not seen


Faith has gone far beyond
Far above our daily crumbs
It is the positive mind for positive request
Backed with a mind to have it


Faith Is setting the table
When the store house is short of vegetable
Faith Is having the spoon, fork in its place and plate at the center
when nothing is cooking in the pot


Faith Is getting fired
And you saying "i am hired
Or tired and you saying am stronger"
stolen and you saying, you've gotten Even when it seems farther
Faith brings closer


When labelled looser
Faith says am a winner
Have you said cant to your faith
He's faithful a father to make you enjoy the holyghost bathe
Feel free to ask of it from the father
He is very near and hasn't gone yonder.

Www.allpoetry.com/poem/by/niftyrules

DrummaBoy: Please go ahead.

Ok fine. Also, let me know the thread link where I can write it.

Nigerian Medical Association (NMA),
Lagos Chapter, has appealed to the Federal
Government to reverse its directive and
withdraw its circular sacking resident
doctors in the country. The Chairman of NMA, Dr Tope Ojo, made the
appeal at a news conference in Lagos on
Saturday.


The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls
that the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi
Chukwu, had on Aug.13, issued a directive
terminating the residency training for
doctors until further notice. Ojo said, government should engage the
association in dialogue to provide lasting
solution to the problems in the health sector. Relating to his words he said, sacking the doctors
will not yield positive result and will instead
further aggravate the problems in the sector. "NMA condemns in totality the alleged
presidential directive via the Federal
Ministry of Health suspending residency
training in the country. "It could be reminisced that such action was
taken in 1985 during Gen. Muhammadu
Buhari's regime.


The Lagos State Government
also sacked some striking doctors in Lagos on
May 7, 2012. "These actions had not yielded positive
results and can never stand the test of time. "Government should show commitment in
resolving the current impasse with the NMA
rather than resorting to punitive measures
that will only further aggravate the already
deplorable situation", he said.

Ojo said that the current strike would
continue and that the immediate reversal of
the sack remained the only condition to
resume talks with government. He, however, advised the affected doctors
against collecting any sack letter or signing
any register opened in any hospital. Dr Olusegun Akinwotu, the President,
Association of Resident Doctors, Federal
Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba, said that
such sack would have negative implications
on the sector.


Akinwotu said that it would have huge effect
on the operations of the hospital, as 50% to 70
% of the doctors in government
hospitals were resident doctors. "It will affect medical schools as they will
remain shut because these doctors contribute
about 50% to the training of medical
students.

"All major surgical operations will remain cancelled in all teaching hospitals because the consultants by default perform all major surgeries with the assistance of their resident doctors. "It might even escalate the current Ebola scourge because the majority of the volunteers involved are resident doctors." Dr Babajide Shared, the Secretary of the
association, said the sack of resident doctors
would affect patients negatively. Shared said that there would be increased list
of awaiting patients, delay in surgery
appointments and even delay in attending to emergency cases. "The consultants need the resident doctors to
effectively carry out the task of patient
care."


Relating to the response of the US president, Barak Obama at the US- Africa summit held at Washington DC when african leaders requested for an experimental drug. President obama replied african leaders thus;

"We've got to let the science guide us and
I don't think all the information is in on
whether this drug is helpful. The Ebola virus, both currently and in the past, is controllable if you have a strong public health infrastructure in place."


The President 's action on the NMA's agitation according to some Nigerians could led to more outbreak and even the demise of more patients when the doctors are not there to attend to them. To most Lagosians and many Nigerians, a sack letter is not good this time around.
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@Op, I will like to introduce some of my christian poetry in here. I already done quite a number of them.

I just hope I've got a place in here to do that.

Tazmode: This is bad. High probability of spreading the virus by fleeing patients

Am afraid, you're right. And as at now the situation has really got out of hand cos some of the items looted are stained with blood.
At times I even wonder, what the hell is wrong with this people.

Liberian officials fear Ebola could soon spreadthrough the capital’s largest slum after residents raided a quarantine centre for suspected patients and took items including blood-stained sheets and mattresses. The violence in the West Point slum occurred late Saturday and was led by residents angry that patients were brought from other parts of the capital to the holding centre, Tolbert
Nyenswah, assistant health minister, said
today.


It was not immediately clear how many
patients had been at the centre. West Point residents went on a “looting
spree,” stealing items from the clinic that were likely infected, said a senior police official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the press. The residents took mattresses, sheets and
blankets that had bloodstains, which could spread the infection.


Liberian police restored order to the West
Point neighbourhood, which is home to an
estimated 60,000 to 100,000 poor Liberians. Health officials say they fear the looting incident will spread Ebola infections in the capital, Monrovia.


Ebola has killed 1,145 people in West Africa, including 413 in Liberia, according to the World Health Organization. In East Africa, the Kenyan government took steps to prevent the disease from spreading.
Kenya will bar passengers travelling from
three West African countries hit by the Ebola outbreak, closing a debate in East Africa's economic powerhouse about whether the national airline was exposing the country to the deadly disease.
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KanwuliaJara: A "GOD" of SACRIFICES and his MERCIES that endured for ever!!!!!
AMEN.

Its really serious my brother, you've got to see emotions of families and relations displayed to the public like wares meant for sale.

The collective pain was overwhelming
at the Marikana Commission on
Wednesday, two years after the
killings, the relatives of the victims
took the floor and spoke of good men,
justice, and finding a substitute for the unique. They spoke of men with names,
faces and families, what they left
behind, what can’t be replaced.

By NICOLSON.


“I am Andile Yawa, Cebesile Yawa's father . I live in the Eastern Cape. My son was killed in the Marikana tragedy. He was very respectful and humble and he took care of his family very well. He liked sports a lot and he was liked in the village.” Yawa held his fist against his face, had a sip of water. “I was forced to stop working due to my ill health. Therefore, my son took over my job in
the mine. He went to Marikana in 2007.

As far as I know Cebesile rented a shack in the informal settlement Karee. He phoned us regularly, probably three times a week. He would come back home to the Eastern Cape twice a year, during the Easter and Christmas holidays to visit us. Cebesile took over my responsibilities. He was our only breadwinner.” Yawa was one of the relatives of the 44 people killed in Marikana in the week to 16
August 2012 who spoke at the Commission on Wednesday. Family members of police officers, security guards and mineworkers all spoke, united in their lasting grief, demanding justice, and struggling to provide for their families. Good men, lost. “Cebesile
phoned me on Wednesday 15 August 2012. During the conversation, he informed me that workers were on strike
because of a wage dispute. He told me that he and other fellow workers from other shafts were at the koppie. They had invited the employer to come and listen to their grievance and their demand for a wage increase,” said Yawa, dressed in a grey checked coat and yellow polo shirt. The relatives spoke of their last phone calls.

The calls that didn’t go through. On a screen were the pictures of the deceased. Thobisile Zibambele even told his wife Nokuthula his bank details, as though he knew what wasgoing to happen. Many relatives wanted their husbands to come home. They’d seen the reports. But it was a strike for rights, a strike to earn something decent for their hard work that could provide for their dependents. Good men, police security, mineworkers, all were taking care of their families. Yawa’s son took care of his child
four brothers, a sister and parents. “We
observed that my son had a bullet wound in his abdomen and other wounds on his left shoulder. We went to the koppie and shack to collect his spirit.
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Millions of ordinary Africans, facing panicky quarantine orders and cancelled flights, are beginning to pay a heavy price for the world’s alarmist myths about the Ebola crisis. Far from the centre of the Ebola outbreak, airlines and governments are imposing restrictions on African travellers, ignoring the advice of medical experts. Korean AirLines became the latest example on Thursday, suspending all of its flights to Kenya, a country that doesn’t have a single Ebola case and is located 5,000 kilometres from the danger zone. Other fear-based reactions are multiplying.


Nigerian athletes were placed into
quarantine at the Summer Youth Olympic
Games in China, prompting them to quit in
protest. Ghana is proposing a ban on all
“public gatherings.” Zambia is banning
entry to anyone from Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria, the four West African nations where Ebola is present. British Airways and Emirates have suspended flights to some West African cities, and Ivory Coast is blocking ship cargo to the three hardest-hit countries, raising fears of food and fuel shortages. The heavy-handed travel bans are provokingsharp criticism from experts at the World Health Organization and Médecins sans frontières (Doctors Without Borders).


Theflight cancellations are an overreaction that could make the situation worse, hindering
the efforts to help Ebola-affected regions, the WHO says. “WHO disappointed when airlines stop flying to West Africa,” the organization said in a tweet on Thursday. “Hard to save lives if we & other health workers cannot get in.” Stephen Cornish, executive director of MSF Canada, said the suspension of African flights will heighten the risks of Ebola spreading to other countries, since it will become more
difficult to send medical and epidemiological specialists to the Ebola zone.
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South African Police Minister Nkosinathi
Nhleko will investigate whether President Jacob Zuma is financially liable for any part of the 215 million rand ($20 million) spent on upgrading security at his personal residence in Nkandla.

Nhleko will report to cabinet on his findings, Zuma said in a report to Parliament today. The cabinet will also review security policies for the executive "with a view to setting parameters for expenditure and implementation,” Zuma said.


Public Protector Thuli Madonsela, the
nation's corruption ombudsman, said in a
March 19 report that Zuma, 72, unduly
benefited and failed to safeguard public
resources used in the renovation of his home in the eastern KwaZulu-Natal province. Madonsela recommended Zuma repay some of the money.
Zuma has denied wrongdoing and a
ministerial team that investigated the project said in December the president had no role in
authorizing the expenditure.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa — It started when the small Indian Ocean island of Seychelles refused entry to Sierra Leone's soccer squad, fearing that the deadly Ebola virus would
arrive from West Africa along with the players. The decision by Seychelles health authorities
two weeks ago gave its team no choice but to forfeit the game against Sierra Leone and withdraw from qualifying for the Africa Cup
of Nations, the continent's main football competition.


"We cannot let down our guard," Seychelles health commissioner Dr. Jude Gedeon said after Sierra Leone's players were prevented from leaving Kenya for the flight to the Seychelles. Some had already boarded their
plane before being informed they wouldn't be allowed to make the flight.


The Confederation of African Football was powerless to act. Sierra Leone and Liberia, two of the four soccer-mad West African countries affected
by the worst Ebola outbreak ever recorded, have now stopped all football in their countries. Health officials say there is a lethal risk in allowing people to gather in large groups. Togo said it would not travel to Guinea, another Ebola-affected country, for a game at the start of the final round of Africa Cup
qualifying in the first week of September. That forced CAF to relocate that match. The disease has no licensed vaccine, and has killed over 1,000 people in West Africa at the World Health Organization's latest count and has spread through three countries and into a fourth, Nigeria. Controlling it takes priority
over sport.


But if other nations follow the lead of Seychelles and Togo, as many as 18 games in the final qualifying competition starting next month could be affected. The qualifiers
determine which teams get the 16 spots in the tournament, which is held every two years. The 2015 Africa Cup will be held in Morocco in...

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What seems to be a fear today for the
residence of the northeastern region of
Nigeria still remains the case of the islamic insurgent, and even the issue of the missing chibok school girls seem to have enhanced more fear and gradually led to the flee of most resident at Chibok and other villages nearby.

It is no longer a news that the nation is at the
mercy of some islamic insurgent by the name
‘Boko Haram’, neither is what now
seems to be a global issue, the abduction of the 276 school girls on an evening of the 14th of April 2014 a latest development in Nigeria and even to the entire world. In a patriotic adventure, Agencies, individual, corporate organizations and some government parastatals all did and gave their widows mite in a quest to #bringbackourgirls such as the campaign was for the release of the school girls was tagged.
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The recurrent cases of the deadly Ebola virus
has now grown and exceeded its range and
another case recorded in Lagos ones more
this monday . The Minister of Health, Prof Onyebuchi
Chukwu,
said today that another Lagos nurse has
tested positive to the deadly Ebola Virus
Disease. The development came 22 days after the first
case of the virus was recorded. The minister
explained that the newly
married nurse was among those that had
direct contact with the late Liberian man,
Patrick Sawyer, who imported the disease to Nigeria.
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