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Why do we still have all these silly political moves?

Is he a Building inspector.

If he wants to see the progress of things, why does he need a convoy

Only 76. . .

If they were building enough homes for multitudes of Nigerians, I doubt that he will have tome for all the inspecting...

This is stupid!!!


In life, if you really have an important message to deliver, will you send children that don't know their right from their left.

This really waters down whatever message they had.

And it goes to say a lot about so called "protests" in Nigeria.

In the medieval times, Doctors/physicians were seen as unclean. They were outcasts according to the Jewish laws which is why Luke was an outcast.

Jesus deliberately associated with outcasts to prove and deliver a message.

And Jesus teaching was all about reversing all that way of thinking. He accepted the prostitutes (outcast), Adulterers (outcasts), Tax collectors/agberos.

In summary, no profession is bad. It is all about your intentions. And if you can't stand the heat, don't go near the kitchen.

Rubbish... Fake news.

kinibigdeal:
How many mechanical engineer graduate in nigeria today can successfully assemble or fixed a simple fault in a car? If a mechanical engineer degree holder cannot fix a simple fault in a car, i think such fellow should be sent back to technical colleges for training. Have you ever wondered how a man with PhD in mechanics will be visiting a roadside mechanic at the slightest fault? Do you mean all they know is to assemble?

There are differences between a mechanic technician and a mechanical engineer.

They do different things.

They have different skill sets. One requires a lot more critical thinking on a larger scale than the other.

And people need to understand that a Mechanical engineer did not get all that training to be able to fix cars.

Until we understand this simple fact, NASU and ASUU; Nurses vs Doctors, HND vs BSc, University vs polytechnic fights will never end.

Fayose celebrates Ekiti women indeed...

Why is his picture on the clothes?

Is it not the celebrant that should be the focus?

And people go dey argue that women are not being marginalized.

If PMB is as sick as we think he is, do you think he knows about or cares about what is happening in Nigeria.

He will be more concerned about his life and maybe his family. So, I wonder why people are blaming him. What if he is not even conscious.

The problem with Nigeria is its corrupt people and institutions.

What does the Nigerian constitution say regarding an absentee President?

And if it doesn't say anything, what are our corrupt congressmen waiting for? Aren't they supposed to be there to make new laws.

But corruption and greed will not let them!!!

Determination of age

GUESSING someone’s age can be risky at cocktail parties, but what about when their future is at stake? For refugees, the difference between childhood and adulthood can be the difference between asylum, deportation or jail.

Thanks to international child protection laws, asylum-seekers are more likely to be admitted to wealthy nations if they are under 18. Minors get access to many social programmes and as such they can be costly to governments, so officials want to be confident on the age issue. When documents are in question – or do not exist – immigration departments look to science.

Unfortunately, attempts to assess age with X-ray scans of teeth or wrists are doomed to failure, according to work to be published this week in the British Medical Bulletin. The fundamental flaw with such tests is that, because children grow at widely different rates, skeletal maturity shown on X-rays – which is used to gauge age – doesn’t necessarily match chronological age. Teenagers can have adult bone structure as early as 15 or later than 20, says study author Tim Cole at University College London (UCL). He says X-rays can provide the wrong answer about whether someone is under or over 18 up to a third of the time.

“It’s superficially an easy question to ask, but answering it is fraught with difficulties,” says Al Aynsley-Green, an emeritus professor of child health at UCL, who led the study.


“It is superficially an easy question to ask, but answering it is fraught with difficulties”
Dental scans are also used to determine the maturity of wisdom teeth. These can reach full maturity as early as age 15, as late as 25, or in some cases never fully develop at all.

In wrist scans, age is estimated by looking at 20 or so bones initially separated by cartilage, but which progressively move closer to one another until they fuse in the mature wrist. The reference used for this test is a 1959 atlas compiled for doctors to assess healthy bone development, not age. It includes 1000 X-ray images of wrists of white middle-class American children, and the fully mature wrist of a 19-year-old. Yet wrists can be fully mature in children as young as 15, says Cole. A rival atlas compiled a few years later indicates a mean chronological age for wrist maturity of 17.6 years – give or take 1.3 years. So most “children” have “adult” wrists before 18.

The use of age-determination tests is currently at issue both in the UK – where the UK Border Agency is contemplating a trial of the wrist technique – and in Australia, following incidents including a 2010 scandal in which three Indonesian child immigrants were illegally jailed as “adults” after wrist X-ray tests. They were released last year after providing birth certificates, but about 60 immigrants that arrived with them are currently in jail while their claims of age are checked. The Australian Human Rights Commission is holding an inquiry into the practice.

Still, faced with large numbers of immigrants from poorer countries, immigration officials in richer nations have increasingly been turning to X-rays as a “scientific” way to resolve age disputes. A 2010 study of 22 European countries found that 16 conduct bone scans and 10 use dental X-rays. The US has used both tests for almost two decades.

Practitioners of the dental technique in the US have defended it, saying the inability of such tests to give exact ages has long been known and accepted. “The trick is to know its limitations. We’re estimating age, not determining it,” says Jim Lewis, chairman of the Age Estimation Committee of the American Board of Forensic Odontology. Lewis says that the “wisdom teeth” technique was developed in 1993 and has been used since then by the US immigration services without controversy.

Outside of immigration services, sports governing bodies have an interest in ensuring athletes compete in appropriate age bands. Yet both the International Olympic Committee and the international football federation, FIFA, have agreed not to use X-rays to resolve age issues.

What technique would be more effective? Aynsley-Green and his team say that the best hope is in detailed assessments of physical and psychological development by specially trained paediatricians, skilled in combining different aspects of growth to make an informed estimate of age. It is crucial to chart a new way forward, he says: “Governments must stop believing that there is a ‘scientific’ test that will tell precisely the age of individuals claiming to be children but without papers to prove it.”

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21428644-300-with-no-paper-trail-can-science-determine-age/

You can try to determine age in children/adolescents, but even this is clearly inaccurate.

blazer234:
Stop being such an ignorant dunce. In this age of medical advqncement, it sounds stupid for a literate person to be making this kind of disgustingly myopic comment. You don't know how they detect his age? Please stop insulting your sense of reasoning.

It is probably easy for you to believe that you are more enlightened in "medical advancements" on your keyboard wherever you are.

Nigerians and big big words sha!!!

JideAmuGiaka:
Pls stop disgracing yourself in the public.

Ignorance is the worst problem in the world!!!

ariesbull:
With MRI machine that is used for scan...You can get accurate age

Don't say this again. Ever!!!

Chinexd22nd:
You can even call it ''who send you'' journalism if it suites you...
At least they are better Dan your big daily's...
About the age thing, you don't need to request for your age, some medical procedures needs an exact age or rather age-range which they (the doctors) can determine...
Oga eh, I don't want to believe you are stubbornly ignorant...
I believe you will agree with me that Medicine and science are wide and a whole lot of advancement has taken place over the last decade or two...
We are left behind by our own doing...
Read up on age determination in medicine...
Or even half-life in general science and get a little peek...

I'll definitely take a lecture from you on medical procedures. SMH

Ignorance is evil.

Chinexd22nd:
Bros, it's investigative journalism or better still speculative journalism (since we barely have access to the truth in dis mistake of a country)...
And yo, your age can be determined now without you telling, it's called advancement of science and technology and advanced knowledge... Google could help you out you know...

Well, lets leave investigative out of it.

Just call it speculative journalism. Even I could have come up with that.

And you want to tell me that his Doctors used advancement of science and technology to scan his bones because he told them that he didn't know how old he was and wanted them to estimate his real age.

I wonder what kind of Doctor runs tests like that. i might need one for myself.

Okuda:
you think say na nigeria wey no know wetin them dey do? how do they know footballers age group? or you don forget say them dey use bone check age for football sef medicals sef?

So they ran bone scans as part of his prostate cancer screening to determine that he is almost 80 years instead of 70.

Ok. I see...

First, I don't know how "Doctors" came to the conclusion that his age is closer to 80.

It is either Sahara reporters is spewing lies or the Doctors don't know what they are talking about.

Next. If this is credible news, I wonder how Sahara reporters was able to obtain Buhari's personal health information in the UK?

kings09:
Watch as our health minister gladly set up a committee just to contact the research institute cos it's from Spain. Meanwhile, back home a nigerian developed a likely cure n was never given a chance to prove his research.

Useless health minister, useless govt excluding Osinbajo.

Details of a research is enough proof of a "likely cure". If the Nigerian has something, ask him to send me a message and we can become rich together.

I will connect him with people that will promote his "cure". But he needs to show his "particulars" before we will consider him.

True science speaks for itself. It is not magic.

That child is fat.

And it is usually due to ignorance. Not bad intentions from the parents.

Babies are overfed by their parents because our culture equates food with wealth.

Babies don't complain and will eat whatever you give them until they get older.

So for people who had fat babies that became skinny when they grew older, it was because they got to an age where they were able to refuse food that you put in their mouth that they didn't like or didn't need.

Knowledge is power.

Shame suppose catch am.

I hope he has seen first hand that accident victims in his state are being transported to the hospital in the back of pickup trucks (which is not even safe for healthy people)

I hope that he has seen that Nigerians need ambulances when they are sick and Nigerians do not deserve to be hauled around in the back of pickup trucks like cattle.

decatalyst:
Like in my previous post, women are full of evils!

The devil takes the passenger's seat when it comes to how cruel and sadistic a woman can be.

How about the people carrying out jungle justice

They are the most evil of all!!!

When you are broke, you are broke!!! It has nothing to do with $ex

Very soon, you go talk say she be witch.

Na so dem dey turn Calabar pikin to witches.

Tell us what kind of job you have...

What is wrong with the minister asking for the so called cure to be tested in the appropriate manner

If they start administering the so called cure and Nigerians start turning into blood sucking lunatics, I wonder what all the conspiracy theorists will say.

A similar issue happened a few years ago with Pfizer in Kano where innocent children died over a drug trial.

To Mr. loud mouth aide... Science and Medicine is not practiced on twitter or facebook.

Nigeria is the most religious country in the whole world.

But also one of the most immoral and corrupt.

Contradiction eh

People are so gullible.

And everybody is looking for a Maga to pay

SMH!!!

Condolences to the family.

Science is so far advanced that women should rarely die as a result of childbirth.

Our health sector has been dead for years!!!

But we have other "priorities"... And that is why we continue to be a "developing nation"

Hold trailer owners or trailer companies responsible for accidents that are their fault.

For example, If Dangote PLC is fined well well and families of the victims are well compensated for the accidents, Dangote will realize that they are losing too much money to road accidents and will likely hire more responsible drivers or make sure that their vehicles are in the best conditions before putting them on the road, or will make sure that their goods are well secured =on the truck etc.

God is not going to come down and fix this problem if the simple things have not even been done.

Also, making the government responsible for accidents that occur as a result of bad road conditions (If that can ever happen in Nigeria)

Truth is that the government can NOT and should not be involved in managing everything at all levels as it is in Nigeria.

They probably don't even know that this is the situation in the school. And I wouldn't be surprised that somebody is feeding fat off the supposed allocations for the school.

The power, responsibilities have to be decentralized. Nobody should have too much power over any institution or facility, otherwise, corruption will go unchecked and responsibilities will be ignored!!!

But Nigerians at all levels too like "big man syndrome" because they are hoping to be the big man someday.

megareal:
She should thank her God she wasn't caught by sadistic humans. At least she wasn't beaten, stripped, raped or burnt.

If she loves her life, this should serve as a lesson to her for eternity

You don't think that what he did was sadistic

Haba!!!

It is not by force to speak English.

The people that created the language are not offended by the phrase "how are you"

If it offends non-English speaking people, avoid communicating in that "disrespectful language"

And let us stick to our highly respectful Epele saaah.

On a side note, it is funny how Nigerians talk about respect, especially because President Buhari is around 70 and people who are not even half his age are so disrespectful when they talk about him. Or even our past Presidents.

Hypocrisy in our culture

When you buy a gift for somebody, is the gift still yours?

Is it your phone or her phone?

Why should she allow you to touch the phone?

Don't you have your own phone