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From Geared Foundation

Lawyers in the Sicilian capital of Palermo are warning that a new alliance between the mafia and Nigerian criminal gangs moving in from Libya could bring about a new era of organised crime.

http://www.healthjourno.com/2016/06/the-bond-between-nigerian-gangsters-and.html#more

UPDATE: Thanks for the correction guys!

Ile Omugwo in Igbo culture is the period during which the mother takes care of her daughter and the new baby.


These days, it is not only the mother who looks after the new mum and baby, sometimes the mum-in-law mother or even a family member can take up the task.

Nigerian women who live abroad pay quite a fortune to get their children cleaned after childbirth especially because none of the parents may be available at the time.

HealthJourno.com spoke with a Nigerian Mrs Wendy Okodugha who has 3 children, she mentioned that when she had her first, she paid as much as 10 euros per day to clean her baby in Germany where she leaves. Imagine how much that is, at the end of the month.

Some of the things the new mum learns is how to bathe the baby, how to feed the baby, when to know the baby has had enough food, how to breastfeed,when and how to make him belch, sleeping positions for mother and child, how to take care of your body, get back into shape, trim your tummy,
when to start sexual relations with your hubby and many more.

During Omugwo, the person that comes to do the Omugwo takes over most of the household chores and responsibilities.

Some of them include cooking (for both husband and wife), cleaning, carrying the baby while the new mum rests, from my side, at night, the new mum actually sleeps while her mum or whoever is there for Omugwo stays awake with the baby.

It is basically taking the stress of the new mum.

It is commendable to see someone who has started that initiative to package the service and get out there. This is why we decided to share the image above.

I do hope that the team behind this is certified, and the sky is only the beginning for them,

So people, don't say there are no jobs, use your head; THINK!

http://www.healthjourno.com/2016/06/omugwo-new-mother-baby-bath-and-massage.html

Clue: It's not Lagos

http://www.healthjourno.com/2016/05/guess-which-nigerian-city-has-highest.html

Policy paper
Global Declaration Against Corruption

Published 12 May 2016


Contents
Coruption should be exposed -- ensuring there is nowhere to hide:
The corrupt should be pursued and punished and those who have suffered from corruption fully supported:
Corruption should be driven out – wherever it may exist:
Corruption is at the heart of so many of the world’s problems. We must overcome it, if our efforts to end poverty, promote prosperity and defeat terrorism and extremism are to succeed.

Today’s Summit has demonstrated the deep commitment of a significant number of countries, businesses and members of civil society to work together to tackle this scourge.

To do this we will build on and implement existing international agreements – but also go much further, making this a top priority at home and abroad and building capacity to tackle the problem.

We commit to expose corruption wherever it is found, to pursue and punish those who perpetrate, facilitate or are complicit in it, to support the communities who have suffered from it, and to ensure it does not fester in our government institutions, businesses and communities. We will fulfil our shared commitment to ‘substantially reduce corruption and bribery in all their forms’.

1. Coruption should be exposed – ensuring there is nowhere to hide:
By ending the misuse of anonymous companies to hide the proceeds of corruption.
By driving out those lawyers, real estate agents and accountants who facilitate or are complicit in corruption and denying the corrupt the use of legitimate business channels.
By increasing the transparency of government budgets, tax information and procurement to deter tax evasion and expose the theft or misuse of taxpayers’ money.
By making it easier for people to report corruption without fear of reprisal.

2. The corrupt should be pursued and punished and those who have suffered from corruption fully supported:
By actively enforcing anti-corruption laws and working together to pursue the corrupt, prosecute and punish them.
By tracking down stolen assets and returning them safely to their legitimate owners.
By sending a clear message to the corrupt: there will be no impunity. We will restrict their ability to operate in our countries.

3. Corruption should be driven out – wherever it may exist:
By targeting entrenched corruption, linking up institutions and professions around the world to build capacity and foster a shared culture of integrity.
By ensuring transparency and governance in key areas including sport, extractives and the security sector.
By using innovation and new technologies to empower citizens to fight corruption.
By encouraging and supporting the international organisations to increase their focus on fighting corruption and to coordinate their work more effectively.

http://www.healthjourno.com/2016/05/this-is-first-ever-global-declaration.html

The rare, outspoken remark from the Queen was caught on camera during a meet-and-greet session yesterday.

The monarch, who recently turned 90, was referring to the behaviour of Chinese officials during last year's visit by President Xi Jinping.

She was having a conversation with a Lucy D'Orsi senior officer of the Metropolitan Police regarding how the British ambassador to China was treated last year.

Their conversation was filmed at a garden party held at Buckingham Palace.

I can't paste videos here, so if you want to watch the video, do check this link http:///i6YXph

Can someone tell me how to delete this post, it's duplicated; I mistakenly posted it a second time. Thanks

Eleven children under the age of six, including four babies, are among 149 people who have died this year following their detention in horrendous conditions in the notorious Giwa barracks detention centre in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Amnesty International reveals today, May 11, 2016.


We have repeatedly sounded the alarm over the high death rate of detainees in Giwa barracks but these findings show that, for both adults and children, it remains a place of death




Evidence gathered through interviews with former detainees and eyewitnesses, supported by video and photos, shows many detainees may have died from disease, hunger, dehydration, and gunshots wounds. The briefing, “If you see it, you will cry”: Life and death in Giwa barracks, also contains satellite imagery which corroborates witness testimonies.

“The discovery that babies and young children have died in appalling conditions in military detention is both harrowing and horrifying. We have repeatedly sounded the alarm over the high death rate of detainees in Giwa barracks but these findings show that, for both adults and children, it remains a place of death,” said Netsanet Belay, Amnesty International’s Research and Advocacy Director for Africa.

“There can be no excuses and no delay. The detention facilities in Giwa barracks must be immediately closed and all detainees released or transferred to civilian authorities. The government must urgently introduce systems to ensure the safety and well-being of children released from detention.”




Amnesty International believes that around 1,200 people are currently detained at Giwa barracks in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions. Many were arbitrarily rounded up during mass arrests, often with no evidence against them. Once inside the barracks, they are incarcerated without access to the outside world or trial. At least 120 of those detained are children.

Detention and deaths of children

At least 12 children have died in Giwa barracks since February. Children under five years old, including babies, have been held in three overcrowded women’s cells. In the last year there has been a ten-fold increase in the number of detainees in these cells rising from 25 in 2015 to 250 in early 2016. Unsanitary conditions mean that disease is rife. Amnesty International understands that there were around 20 babies and children under five in each of the three cells.

Three died while we were there. When the children died the reaction was too much sadness
Former detainee of Giwa barracks
One witness told Amnesty International that they saw the bodies of eight dead children including a five-month-old, two one-year-olds, a two-year-old, a three-year-old, a four-year-old and two five-year-olds.

Two former detainees reported that two boys and a girl, aged between one and two years old, died in February 2016. One of the detainees, a 20-year-old woman, who had been held in a women’s cell for more than two months in 2016 told Amnesty International: “Three died while we were there. When the children died the reaction was too much sadness.”

The other witness, a 40-year-old woman detained in Giwa barracks for more than four months, told Amnesty International that soldiers ignored pleas for medical attention: “Measles started when hot season started. In the morning, two or three [were ill], by the evening five babies [were ill]. You will see the fever, the [baby’s] body is very hot and they will cry day and night. The eyes were red and the skin will have some rashes. Later some medical personnel came and confirmed that this is measles.”

After the deaths of these children she says that more regular medical checks began. She told Amnesty International: “Every two days the medical personnel will come to the yard and say ‘bring out the children who are sick’. The doctor will see them at the door and give them medicine through the door.”

Despite these measures, it appears that children have continued to die. Between 22 and 25 April a one-year-old boy, a five-year-old boy and a five-year-old girl died.

Boys over five, arrested alone or with their parents, were held in a single cell. As with all detainees at the barracks, they were denied access to their families and held incommunicado.

Read more on http://www.healthjourno.com/2016/05/picturedshocking-report-of-babies-and.html

Eleven children under the age of six, including four babies, are among 149 people who have died this year following their detention in horrendous conditions in the notorious Giwa barracks detention centre in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Amnesty International reveals today, May 11, 2016.


We have repeatedly sounded the alarm over the high death rate of detainees in Giwa barracks but these findings show that, for both adults and children, it remains a place of death




Evidence gathered through interviews with former detainees and eyewitnesses, supported by video and photos, shows many detainees may have died from disease, hunger, dehydration, and gunshots wounds. The briefing, “If you see it, you will cry”: Life and death in Giwa barracks, also contains satellite imagery which corroborates witness testimonies.

“The discovery that babies and young children have died in appalling conditions in military detention is both harrowing and horrifying. We have repeatedly sounded the alarm over the high death rate of detainees in Giwa barracks but these findings show that, for both adults and children, it remains a place of death,” said Netsanet Belay, Amnesty International’s Research and Advocacy Director for Africa.

“There can be no excuses and no delay. The detention facilities in Giwa barracks must be immediately closed and all detainees released or transferred to civilian authorities. The government must urgently introduce systems to ensure the safety and well-being of children released from detention.”




Amnesty International believes that around 1,200 people are currently detained at Giwa barracks in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions. Many were arbitrarily rounded up during mass arrests, often with no evidence against them. Once inside the barracks, they are incarcerated without access to the outside world or trial. At least 120 of those detained are children.

Detention and deaths of children

At least 12 children have died in Giwa barracks since February. Children under five years old, including babies, have been held in three overcrowded women’s cells. In the last year there has been a ten-fold increase in the number of detainees in these cells rising from 25 in 2015 to 250 in early 2016. Unsanitary conditions mean that disease is rife. Amnesty International understands that there were around 20 babies and children under five in each of the three cells.

Three died while we were there. When the children died the reaction was too much sadness
Former detainee of Giwa barracks
One witness told Amnesty International that they saw the bodies of eight dead children including a five-month-old, two one-year-olds, a two-year-old, a three-year-old, a four-year-old and two five-year-olds.

Two former detainees reported that two boys and a girl, aged between one and two years old, died in February 2016. One of the detainees, a 20-year-old woman, who had been held in a women’s cell for more than two months in 2016 told Amnesty International: “Three died while we were there. When the children died the reaction was too much sadness.”

The other witness, a 40-year-old woman detained in Giwa barracks for more than four months, told Amnesty International that soldiers ignored pleas for medical attention: “Measles started when hot season started. In the morning, two or three [were ill], by the evening five babies [were ill]. You will see the fever, the [baby’s] body is very hot and they will cry day and night. The eyes were red and the skin will have some rashes. Later some medical personnel came and confirmed that this is measles.”

After the deaths of these children she says that more regular medical checks began. She told Amnesty International: “Every two days the medical personnel will come to the yard and say ‘bring out the children who are sick’. The doctor will see them at the door and give them medicine through the door.”

Despite these measures, it appears that children have continued to die. Between 22 and 25 April a one-year-old boy, a five-year-old boy and a five-year-old girl died.

Boys over five, arrested alone or with their parents, were held in a single cell. As with all detainees at the barracks, they were denied access to their families and held incommunicado.

Read more on http://www.healthjourno.com/2016/05/picturedshocking-report-of-babies-and.html

Oh, marshalcarter, the picture is in the link.

An Indian woman who gave birth at the age of 70 said Tuesday she was not too old to become a first-time mother, adding that her life was now complete.

Daljinder Kaur gave birth last month to a boy following two years of IVF treatment at a fertility clinic in the northern state of Haryana with her 79-year-old husband.



Ms Kaur said the couple, married for 46 years, had almost lost hope of ever having a child and had faced ridicule in a country where infertility is sometimes seen as a curse from God.

"God heard our prayers. My life feels complete now. I am looking after the baby all by myself, I feel so full of energy. My husband is also very caring and helps me as much as he can," Ms Kaur told AFP from the northern city of Amritsar.

"When we saw the (IVF) advert, we thought we should also give it a try as I badly wanted to have a baby of my own," she said.

Ms Kaur's husband said he was unfazed about their age
Ms Kaur put her age at about 70, a common scenario in India where many people don't have birth certificates, while the clinic said in a statement that she was 72.


Read more http://www.healthjourno.com/2016/05/pictured-indian-woman-gives-birth-at-70.html#more

Domestic abuse and violence is not a Nigerian problem. It is happening all over the world. Violence is never the option. Sometimes, home training is a big part of this issue that is fact becoming a tragedy amongst us.

Domestic abuse is NOT OK. No matter what the partner has done, even if it is a case of infidelity,which is mostly the worst-case scenario, it does not warrant violence for any reason whatsoever!

Simply walk away! Walking away is easier said than done because we haven't trained ourselves that way in our younger years. Some of us just want to keep raising hell and this can be very dangerous.

Sometimes, the person who is abused is the man, even though that's not very common in this part of the world.

First things first, parents need to teach their children that beating/hitting their siblings is NOT acceptable., Charity, they say, begins at home. If can't do it at home, then you should be the same person outside.

Verbal abuse is wrong, especially from the part of the woman and physical abuse is totally wrong from the side of the man, and vice versa. There is also the case of emotional abuse where one party is mistreated and, or talked down in a demeaning manner.

SEEING YOUR MUM OR DAD BEING ABUSED
Your parents are actually the first example of marriage as you grow up. If as a lady, you see your mum being punched regularly by your dad, you may grow up thinking it is acceptable when your man does it to you. It is NOT.

LACK OF SOUND MARRIAGE COUNSELLING
The best counselling comes from our parents really. Even though there are charities out there that over marriage counselling, some of these classes are not exactly sound.

LACK OF INDEPENDENCE ON THE PART OF THE WOMAN
Some women are not that independent and that is one reason the husband may be taking advantage of them. In many cases, the women are used to the comfy lives that their husbands have provided for them and find it hard leaving the relationship because they wonder where they would start from.

Read more : http://www.healthjourno.com/2016/05/exclusive-domesticabuse-why-some.html


Phoonmie is a journalist and wrote this for HealthJourno

On Monday, May 9 in 1960, the United States became the first country to legalize birth control pills.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves the world’s first commercially produced birth-control bill–Enovid-10, made by the G.D. Searle Company of Chicago, Illinois.

Development of “the pill,” as it became popularly known, was initially commissioned by birth-control pioneer Margaret Sanger and funded by heiress Katherine McCormick. Sanger, who opened the first birth-control clinic in the United States in 1916, hoped to encourage the development of a more practical and effective alternative to contraceptives that were in use at the time.

In the early 1950s, Gregory Pincus, a biochemist at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, and John Rock, a gynecologist at Harvard Medical School, began work on a birth-control pill. Clinical tests of the pill, which used synthetic progesterone and estrogen to repress ovulation in women, were initiated in 1954. On May 9, 1960, the FDA approved the pill, granting greater reproductive freedom to American women.

http://www.healthjourno.com/2016/05/this-day-in-history.html#more

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Hi Meggy
The real human hair is actually hair donated by people like me and you and then put in wefts so as to be able to use it as weaves.
There is the raw Indian Remy and also the processed Indian Remy.
I'm not sure how much it costs in Nigeria, but in London where I' presently based, I've seen the Remy priced at £70 for 14". I retail the real hair- Brazilian and Peruvian which go for £80 and £90 respectively for 10" and a £10 increase for the next length i.e 12" and so on. All the hair kinds come in both body wave and straight.
So in answer to your question, Remy hair is more affordable than brazilian because its longevity is not as high as the other brands of real hair.
The exchange rate as at today was 268 Naira to 1 Pound.
Ensure that you buy the right thing as real hair should be an investment for any lady and last you3-5 years when you maintain them well.
See how it looks like on someone, you could make it curlier or straighter, colour it, whatever really.
We ship worldwide
I hope my information helps.