₦airaland Forum

We know politicians are the most kurupt entities in naija....

Hustlers....

Chai.... the white woman short pass commissioner..

Ultra modern with primitive construction techniques...

Lol.....so you wan leave am 6 hrs with no chop?

Who you be?

He is Kurupt...

The only victim here is the poor dog....

No sprinkler system in the apartments?

Were Mbaka?

What does he want?

Could be down to finances...

Dis na problem...

Dr. Emmanuel Okafor, the Director of Public Health, Anambra Ministry of Health, A medical doctor and three other persons have lost their lives in the latest outbreak of Lassa Fever in Anambra state.

Dr. Emmanuel Okafor, was a facilitator at a one-day workshop on Thursday, meant to sensitise health professionals in the state on the disease in Awka.

According to Okafor, “We don’t know the number of cases of Lassa fever diseaase yet, but we have four confirmed deaths.”

However, he said that the outbreak was not yet in an epidemic proportion in the state. Okafor said that the workshop was aimed at training the health professionals who would go to the grassroots to educate the people on the prevention of the disease. Okafor said the state government had put in place proactive measures to handle the scourge.

To avoid further outbreak of the fever, Dr Emmanuel Okafor has urged all health workers to maintain high safety standards in handling cases of Lassa fever. Also, citizens have been warned to stop drinking raw garri, while also, protecting by covering properly foods and other edible items at all times.



Lassa Fever is an acute and often fatal viral disease, with fever, occurring chiefly in West Africa. It is usually acquired from infected rats.

According to WHO, Humans usually become infected with Lassa virus from exposure to urine or faeces of infected Mastomys rats. Lassa virus may also be spread between humans through direct contact with the blood, urine, faeces, or other bodily secretions of a person infected with Lassa fever. There is no epidemiological evidence supporting airborne spread between humans. Person-to-person transmission occurs in both community and health-care settings, where the virus may be spread by contaminated medical equipment, such as re-used needles. Sexual transmission of Lassa virus has been reported.

Lassa fever occurs in all age groups and both sexes. Persons at greatest risk are those living in rural areas where Mastomys are usually found, especially in communities with poor sanitation or crowded living conditions. Health workers are at risk if caring for Lassa fever patients in the absence of proper barrier nursing and infection prevention and control practices.

The incubation period of Lassa fever ranges from 2–21 days. The onset of the disease, when it is symptomatic, is usually gradual, starting with fever, general weakness, and malaise. After a few days, headache, sore throat, muscle pain, chest pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, cough, and abdominal pain may follow. In severe cases facial swelling, fluid in the lung cavity, bleeding from the mouth, nose, vagina or gastrointestinal tract and low blood pressure may develop.

Protein may be noted in the urine. Shock, seizures, tremor, disorientation, and coma may be seen in the later stages. Deafness occurs in 25% of patients who survive the disease. In half of these cases, hearing returns partially after 1–3 months. Transient hair loss and gait disturbance may occur during recovery.

Death usually occurs within 14 days of onset in fatal cases. The disease is especially severe late in pregnancy, with maternal death and/or fetal loss occurring in more than 80% of cases during the third trimester.

Prevention and Control

Prevention of Lassa fever relies on promoting good “community hygiene” to discourage rodents from entering homes. Effective measures include storing grain and other foodstuffs in rodent-proof containers, disposing of garbage far from the home, maintaining clean households and keeping cats. Because Mastomys are so abundant in endemic areas, it is not possible to completely eliminate them from the environment. Family members should always be careful to avoid contact with blood and body fluids while caring for sick persons.

In health-care settings, staff should always apply standard infection prevention and control precautions when caring for patients, regardless of their presumed diagnosis. These include basic hand hygiene, respiratory hygiene, use of personal protective equipment (to block splashes or other contact with infected materials), safe injection practices and safe burial practices.

Health-care workers caring for patients with suspected or confirmed Lassa fever should apply extra infection control measures to prevent contact with the patient’s blood and body fluids and contaminated surfaces or materials such as clothing and bedding. When in close contact (within 1 metre) of patients with Lassa fever, health-care workers should wear face protection (a face shield or a medical mask and goggles), a clean, non-sterile long-sleeved gown, and gloves (sterile gloves for some procedures).

Laboratory workers are also at risk. Samples taken from humans and animals for investigation of Lassa virus infection should be handled by trained staff and processed in suitably equipped laboratories under maximum biological containment conditions.

On rare occasions, travelers from areas where Lassa fever is endemic export the disease to other countries. Although malaria, typhoid fever, and many other tropical infections are much more common, the diagnosis of Lassa fever should be considered in febrile patients returning from West Africa, especially if they have had exposures in rural areas or hospitals in countries where Lassa fever is known to be endemic. Health-care workers seeing a patient suspected to have Lassa fever should immediately contact local and national experts for advice and to arrange for laboratory testing.

http://www.nta.ng/news/domestic/20160819-avoid-drinking-garri-as-medical-doctor-others-die-from-lassa-fever-in-anambra/?

Diversification....

The Proprietor, FC Ifeanyi Ubah and Chairman, Capital Oil and Gas Ind. Ltd, Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah, has said that Capital Oil and Gas Ind. Ltd, a principal investor in the Nigerian Professional Football League outfit, FC Ifeanyi Ubah, decided to sign a partnership deal with English Premier League club, West Ham United, owing to the club’s rich history, unrivalled reputation for developing talents.

Proprietor, FC Ifeanyi Ubah, Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah and representatives of West Ham United during the signing of the deal on Friday, August 19, 2016, in London Ubah, who expressed joy in the Hammers’ first ever partnership deal in Africa, affirmed that the long-term deal will help boost FC Ifeanyi Ubah Academy. The oil magnate said: “We are extremely excited to have signed a partnership with West Ham United and are excited by the prospect of what we can achieve together.

This is going to be a massive turnaround for FC Ifeanyi Ubah, Nigerian football and African football by extension. “West Ham were our first choice of all of the Premier League clubs given the club’s rich history, unrivalled reputation for developing talent and of course the fantastic new stadium in Stratford, which we strongly believe will help boost FC Ifeanyi Ubah Academy. “Together with West Ham’s continued success on the field, this is a valuable proposition for our own club’s learning and evolution.”

Meanwhile, being the principal investor in the Nigerian Professional Football League outfit, FC Ifeanyi Ubah, Capital Oil and Gas, a company of strategic national importance in Nigeria stands out as a leading player in the downstream subsector of Nigeria’s Petroleum industry and the fastest growing indigenous Oil and Gas company in the West African sub region with a vision to become Africa’s first choice provider of energy solutions through innovation, strategic partnership and clientele value added service delivery.

The partnership it is hoped will provide Capital Oil and Gas with a range of rights to promote the business through the football club, driving visibility and awareness as well as focussing on B2B interaction through the use of hospitality at the Hammers’ iconic new home. Based in Nnewi, Anambra State, and currently competing in the Nigerian Professional Football League, FC Ifeanyi Ubah are to become the Hammers’ Official Nigerian Football Club Partner. The long-term agreement will also see the two football clubs join forces on a number of football-related projects led by FC Ifeanyi Ubah, from best-practice coaching initiatives to establishing grass roots football programmes in Nigeria, all with a view to improving the standard of football across the region.

Speaking on the deal, the West Ham United Vice-Chairman Karren Brady said: “This ground-breaking partnership serves to further emphasize our growing international profile, bringing the famous West Ham United name to Africa for the first time in a partnership context. “The popularity of Premier League football in West Africa has been well documented and it is testament to the Club’s success, on and off the pitch, that we are now considered one of the most high profile and attractive clubs in the region. “We are looking forward to working alongside FC Ifeanyi Ubah and building a strong legacy in Nigerian football inspired by West Ham United.”

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http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/signed-partnership-deal-west-ham-united-ifeanyi-ubah/?

nice one...

Chai.......

Imo people.....

NAN(Abuja): The Imo State Government has described as false the report that Governor Rochas Okorocha was slapped by a ghost and is in an Indian hospital for medical treatment.

Mr Sam Onwuemeodo, the chief press secretary to Okorocha flatly denied that governor is sick.

He also denied that the governor went to India for treatment. “The governor had travelled to meet with some of the investors who had invited him for further discussions on the prospects of their coming to invest in the State.

The Okorocha’s media aide said that his boss is a Christian, and does not know what it means to see “a ghost or ghost women”.

“He travelled with few economic aides, and we informed Imo people and the general public and as God would have it, two days to the planned trip, the daughter gave birth to a baby boy and he would use the opportunity to visit his daughter’’, Onwuemeodo stated.

According to Okorocha’s aide, the governor’s wife was already there with their daughter for what the Igbo people call “Ile Omugwo” (visit to a nursing mother by mother) and that Okorocha’s is visit is to see the new baby.

Onwuemeodo noted that in the event of the governor being sick, the information would be made public.

“Ailment or sickness has been there with mankind, the angle that makes the whole claim funny is the “ghost dimension”, and that explains how spiritually poor those behind this balderdash are’’, he added.

Onwuemeodo blamed the report on what he tagged the antics of some of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) folks in the state.

“We accused them (PDP) of being behind the malicious audio because it came twenty four hours after the convincing defeat of the party by the APC in the re-run elections in Okigwe senatorial zone and the three state constituencies of Isiala Mbano, Oru East and Owerri West’’, he noted.

The Okorocha’s media aide said that his boss is a Christian, and does not know what it means to see “a ghost or ghost women”.

He said that the governor is being expected back to the state and once that happens, that the public would be duly informed.

http://www.nta.ng/news/politics/20160819-rochas-okorocha-i-was-not-attacked-by-a-ghost/?

Looks like a Buhari...

Tinubu included?

Good for him...

Lawyer...

Buhari cause am..