LAGOS DEDICATE AUGUST SANITATION EXERCISE TO EBOLA VIRUS DISEASEPREVENTIVE CAMPAIGN

Lagos State Commissioner for the Environment, Tunji Bello, has said that the State Government has dedicated the statewide Environmental Sanitation Exercise for the month of August 2014, holding on Saturday 30th August 2014, between the hours of 7.00am-10.00am, towards massive advocacy campaign and demonstration of preventive measures to curb the spread of the Ebola Virus Disease. He noted that as a responsible and responsive Government, the present administration would continue to be in the forefront of the campaign for a healthier and sustainable environment. According to him, “over the years the present administration had embarked on massive public enlightenment to educate Lagosians on the need to desist from unhygienic acts like open urination and defecation, cleaning of our Environment and proper waste management, as its consequences are grievous”. “Now that we have an index case of the Ebola virus disease in the state, this is now another wakeup call for all Lagosians to desist from unhygienic acts that could spread the disease”, he added. Noting that officials from his Ministry will, during the August Sanitation Exercise, go round the state to demonstrate preventive steps and ways to prevent the spread of the disease, Bello emphasized that the State Government has zero tolerance for acts such as defecating and urinating in the public, street trading, indiscriminate dumping of refuse and constructions of structures along drainage alignments. The Commissioner urged Lagosians to troop out in large number and actively participate in the statewide exercise, stressing that efforts should be concentrated on the cleaning of drains, canals and fumigation of our environment, in order to completely eliminate the disease in the state. While advising Lagosians to sustain the Solid Waste Management Programme of the State Government through the patronage of LAWMA/PSP.

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Breaking News:

Federal Government lifts ban on Residency Training Programme for medical doctors

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A must watch. http://www.arise.tv/headline/arise-news-now-uk-28-08-8043 The Video that implicated Former Borno Governor, Ali Modu Sheriff and immediate chief of army staff, Lt-Gen Ihejirika as Boko Haram Sponsors.

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Witnesses launch world’s most translated website

Jehovah’s Witnesses have launched a month-long global distribution of a new tract entitled Where Can We Find Answers to Life’s Big Questions? to raise awareness of their official website, jw.org.

By Wisdom Mdzungairi

Accessible in about 500 languages, with publications available for download in almost 700 languages, jw.org is the world’s most translated website.

The campaign was launched last week ahead of the first ever international convention to be held in Zimbabwe from August 22-24 to be attended by over 50 000 local and foreign delegates.

The international convention will host 3 500 delegates from the United States, Germany, Brazil and other countries including visiting missionaries.

The convention series commenced in the US and then continued in Australia, Ecuador, England, Germany, Greece, Mexico, South Korea, and Zimbabwe.

Convention spokesperson John Hunguka said: “For the past two weekends now, and continuing into next week, Jehovah’s Witnesses will extend personal invitations to everyone from the whole country of Zimbabwe to attend the convention with them.”

According to the organisation, 1 million unique visitors go to jw.org each day. The site features articles and videos offering practical advice to people of all ages, backgrounds, and circumstances. One of these videos entitled, Why Study the Bible? will be linked to a QR code found on the new tract. This video merges live-action elements and animation to illustrate the practical benefits of studying the Bible.

It is currently available in over 450 languages and has been downloaded nearly 4 million times since it was released last November.

Speaking at a Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) press briefing in Harare on Thursday, Hunguka said the gathering was different from other smaller conventions held in different parts of the country.

In addition to the international convention to be held in Harare, the Witnesses will also organise regional conventions in Karoi, Mutare, Gweru and Bulawayo, according to Hunguka.

“We would like to express our appreciation to all government departments that have supported our convention. We normally hold at least 30 regional conventions annually but this one is unique in that it will host a huge number of delegates for the first time in the country. This convention is being held in Zimbabwe for the first time, it is the only country in Africa to have hosted this convention this year,” he said.

Hunguka said all Witnesses and invited guests were being encouraged to attend.

“On Monday [tomorrow], we are expecting at least 900 international delegates to arrive and the rest will trickle in as the week progresses,” he said, adding that the convention would provide insight into issues vexing families and how to deal with them.

“This programme is about seeking God’s kingdom and putting that first in our life,” Hunguka said.

He added the three-day programme was aimed at teaching people about basic bible principles and how it affects family life, personality traits and characteristics.

“We believe God’s name is Jehovah; he is the creator of all things. We owe our worship and obedience to Him as our creator,” he said.

Through talks, demonstrations, interviews, dramas and accounts, families would be affected in a positive way.

The international conventions are thrilling and festive occasions to attend, which the public will enjoy as the Witnesses gather together as families and friends for what promises to be an exceptional series of programmes.

“The programme will highlight a central theme of the Bible and two core beliefs of Jehovah’s Witnesses — that God’s Kingdom was established in 1914 and that Jesus Christ is the King of that Kingdom. Really, the convention marks the centennial of God’s Kingdom,” Hunguka said.

He added, as was true with all of the Witnesses’ meetings, there will be no admission fee nor will collections be taken.

Hunguka said other countries in Africa were also invited to attend similar international conventions held overseas.

Last year, 36 regional conventions were held and a total 87 439 attended at different venues all over the country and 1 276 new members were baptized. The international convention in Harare will begin next Friday at 9:20am each day until August 24.

Worldwide, there are over 7,9 million Witnesses in more than 113 000 congregations and in Zimbabwe there are 42 000 Witnesses.

http://www.thestandard.co.zw/2014/08/17/witnesses-launch-worlds-translated-website/

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NEWS UPDATES:

* Osun: Omisore petitions tribunal, wants Aregbesola sacked.
* Ribadu has no political value, Clark tells PDP.
* Insurgents take over Madagali Catholic church house.
* 60% of fuel subsidy funds smuggled abroad –Jonathan.
* Infected diplomat takes Ebola to Port Harcourt.
* Ebola outbreak: W’Africa travel bans to be lifted.
* Oct. 13 resumption date for schools, tentative —FG.
* CBN begins restructuring of NSPMC, retires directors. Ecobank donates $50,000 for Ebola fight.
* Ronaldo named best European player. * Tambuwal, Fashola presidential ticket can crush PDP –Rep.
* N968bn budget not enough to fight insecurity —Obanikoro.
* I Pray One Of My Sons Joins The Police — IGP Abba.
* Ebola: Rivers Places 100 Quarantined Persons On 24-Hour Surveillance.
* They Killed My Sons, Now They Want My Life – Sheikh Zakzaky.
* Jonathan Launches National ID-Card.
* 2.6GHz: Telecom Operators Seek New Approach To Spectrum Auction.
* LAUTECH remains a bond between Osun, Oyo – Aregbesola.
* Oduah under pressure to vie for Senate. * OYO raises workers’ salaries.
* Yobe govt to distribute 42,500 bags of grains to citizens.
* Aviation union disrupts Air France/KLM operations over salary structure.
* Nwoye emerges Enugu Deputy Gov.
* Nigeria targets N116.5b non-oil exports to ECOWAS.
* Benue bans inter-state transportation of corpses.
* South Africa Airways to increase frequencies to Nigeria despite Ebola.

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Ebola Allerts: Rivers identifies patients of late doctor

AUGUST 28, 2014 BY SIMON UTEBOR, PORT HARCOURT

Rivers State Government says the patients of the late Dr. Iyke Enemoah, who died of Ebola have been identified and restricted.

Our correspondent learnt that the late doctor died at the Good Heart Hospital on Evo Road, GRA, Port Harcourt.

It was learnt that the deceased, who was a doctor at Sam Steel Clinic on East-West Road, was rushed to the hospital after he took ill with symptoms of Ebola.

He was said to have operated on a woman on Monday after secretly treating the ECOWAS diplomat, who was part of Patrick Sawyer’s team, but took ill the next day.

It was gathered that he was ill for only three days before he started vomiting blood, while passing out faeces stained with blood.

He was said to have been rushed first to Prime Hospital where he was rejected and then taken to the Good Heart Hospital, whose managing director is said to be a cardiologist.

Governor Chibuike Amaechi, who made a special broadcast to the people of the state on Thursday confirmed that the doctor died on August 22, as a result of what was suspected to be Ebola virus disease.

He said the state Ministry of Health on becoming aware of the conditions of his death, immediately commenced investigations and began tracing those who had contact with him.

He said, “As at today, about 100 contacts from a hotel, and patients of the hospital where he was treated until his demise have been identified and restricted. The different locations are being decontaminated.

“Our investigation reveals that an official of the Economic Community of West African States on the team that received late Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American diplomat who died of Ebola haemorrhagic disease in Lagos, Nigeria made a trip to Port Harcourt where he checked into a hotel and met with him.

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LIVE 2015 European Champions League Draws:

Here are the full groupings

Group A

Atletico Madrid
Juventus
Olympiacos
Malmo

Group B

Real Madrid
Basel
Liverpool
Ludogorets

Group C

Benfica
Zenit
Bayer Leverkusen
Monaco

Group D

Arsenal
Borussia Dortmund
Galatasaray
Anderlecht

Group E

Bayern Munich
Man City
CSKA Moscow
Roma

Group F

Barcelona
PSG
Ajax
Apoel

Group G

Chelsea
Schalke
Sporting Lisbon
Maribor

Group H

Porto
Shakhtar
Athletic Bilbao
Bate Borisov

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BREAKING NEWS:

http://www.naijahottestgist.com/2014/08/28/breaking-news-sheriff-and-ihejirika-just-named-as-boko-haram-kingpins/

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OF MANIFEST PSYCHOSIS & PSYCHIATRICS IN POLITICS I.

"He has lost the greater chunk of his sanity that steals, loots and amasses wealth he wouldn't exhaust in ten life-times had he lived them in reasonable comfort. Greed inexplicable is insanity and unbridled looting psychiatric." - Prof. Chris Nwaokobia Jnr.

I read about politicians criss-crossing from Party A to Party B. I read about the oft empty logic and reason for such frequent decampings. I read somewhat strenuous efforts by some to present their political harlotry as pro people. I wonder why these men speak from both sides of the mouth, and I marvel why they all too often return to their vomit.

Some have gone back and forth twice or thrice and some will yet move, yes it is their inalienable right to so do BUT to present a self-driven decision as altruistic and people oriented is where I disagree.

Money and power humbles and calls men in other climes to responsible conduct alas in our clime it mimes the tune of graft, of greed, of ignoble quest for political position cum positioning, of thieving, of oppression and of reckless tendencies within the corridors and frontiers of power.

I was thought as a Law Student some 20years ago that as one ages and closes the gap between one and hades the tendency to do wrong, lie or give false evidence diminishes, this legal protocol is called a 'dying man's declaration' BUT in Nigeria men loot and steal in their 60s, 70s and 80s, they loot as though stealing is right, and they fleece resources they do not need in ten life-times such defines their mental state.

Methinks that the preponderant number that trots our political amphitheatre if subjected to psychiatric tests will fail, that I am sure of.

To be CONTD.

Prof. Chris Nwaokobia Jnr.
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PDP accuses EKSU of N2.5bn contract fraud

AUGUST 27, 2014

The Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State has accused the Governing Council of the Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, of siphoning fund through frivolous awards of contracts.

In a statement in Ado-Ekiti on Tuesday, the state Publicity Secretary of the party, Kola Oluwawole, alleged that the institution planned to award phoney contracts worth N2.5 billion later this week.

He said, “As the party that will form the incoming administration in the state, the PDP has to draw the attention of the people of the state to official misconduct going on in EKSU.

“The Governing Council of the institution has not met for over six months now and a meeting has been fixed for Thursday where phoney contracts valued at N2.5bn will be awarded.

“The contracts were not advertised for tender, there was no bidding process. The contracts never passed through due process as expected, but they want to award them.

“It is disheartening that such actions are being perpetrated in a citadel of learning, a university for that matter. This is coming against the backdrop of the illegal employment of over 1,000 workers in the institution, and all these taking place after the incumbent governor was defeated in the June 21 election.”

Expressing concerns over alleged persistent looting of the state’s treasury, he warned the governing council to desist from such act, because the incoming government would probe the university and ensure that reckless spending of the state fund would not go unpunished.

“Again, in their own interest, the staff of EKSU and civil servants in the state service should not allow any politician to rubbish their career because such politicians will not be around to beg for them for allowing themselves to be used to defraud the state,” he advised

In his reaction, the Vice Chancellor, Prof Oladipo Aina, described the PDP’s allegation as baseless and unfounded.

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NEWS MAKING THE ROUNDS:

HumanScope ...passage of the tallest in the world & of the oldest cleric in Nigeria ...

World's Tallest:

Leonid Stadnyk, believed to be the world’s tallest man at 8ft 4 inches died August 24, 2014 aged 44.

Leonid, a peasant farmer from the Ukrainian village died of complications arising from brain hemorrhage.

In his last interview, he talked about how his height was a curse and why he refused to be measured by the Guinness Book of World Records and also why he refused to get married.

    “To me, my height is a curse, a punishment from God, not something to celebrate. What sin have I committed?

All my life I have dreamed of being just like everyone else. I don’t want or need the fame that this would bring so I have no desire to be in this Guinness book.

    I never got married because I don’t want to inflict my problems on a wife. I think it would not be fair on her".

At one point, his condition, called 'giganticism' left him growing at the rate of roughly a foot every 3 years. His feet measured 18 inches in length while his palms were more than a foot in diameter. 

Nigeria's Oldest Cleric:

Nigeria’s oldest pastor, Pa Samuel Sadela has passed-on, aged 114!

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WHAT'S MAKING NEWS......

SUN
3 kids injured as Boko Haram tries to destroy bridge
Borno schools to open soon –Shettima
Gunmen kill Bakassi monarch in Calabar
Ibadan stands still for Ladoja
Igbo to observe 4-hour shutdown for Akunyili in Lagos
Ebola now contained – FG

PUNCH
PDP governors plot against Ribadu
Nigeria’s oldest Pastor, Samuel Sadela, dies at 114
I am no longer a member of APC —Ikimi
I’m tired of being labelled a gay - IK Ogbonna
Enugu lawmakers impeach deputy gov for rearing chickens

TRIBUNE
Ebola: FG closes all schools till oct 13 •Suspends
summer classes, international seminars
Direct military to fight insurgency, international
agency tells FG
Renewed communal crisis claims 40 in Nasarawa Adadevoh’s sister not hospitalised for Ebola —Family
‘Runaway’ soldiers resurface in Mubi
INEC urged to extend voters’ registration exercise

THE NATION
Fury over troops’ desertion
Enugu deputy governor sacked
Govt: Ebola virus now contained
Osun poll: PDP heads for tribunal
Boko Haram …What Nigeria needs to do Ribadu remains a friend, says Tinubu
There’ll be credible polls in states, says Jega
Fed Govt urged to order military to fight Boko Haram

VANGUARD
Gwoza: Time For Decisive Action
Christians In Edo protest killing of pastor by Boko
Haram
Military uncovers terrorists’ new tricks
Be security conscious, Akpabio counsels corps members
Condolence register opened as church denies
Sadela’s death
E-waste: Microsoft, GIZ research on mobile devices
recycling in Africa
How guard, 2 others sold stolen N23m jewellery for N1m
How telecom regulation refined rebased GDP

THISDAY
Health Minister: Nigeria Now Has One Active Ebola
Case
APC is Firmly in Reverse Gear, Says Ikimi
Soldiers Resurface in Mubi as Fighting Rages in
Gamborou Uzo Aduba Wins ‘Outstanding Guest Actress’ at Emmy
Awards
PDP Govs, Jonathan’s Aide at Loggerheads over
Ribadu
‘Boko Haram Recruits Physically-challenged Persons
as Decoy’ Borno Public Schools to Reopen Soon

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Question of d day????

A year with no sex
OR
A year with no cell phone?

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Remmy Ksr Hazzan > Ogun People's Forum
Good morning great citizens of Ogun State. My name is Remmy Hazzan, an indigenes of Ogun State and a major stakeholder in the Ogun State project. Having appraised all of what our dear governor presented as his stewardship on the state owned TV station last night, it is imperative that Ogun State people who are equally stakeholders in the Ogun State project ascertain the true position of things as regards governance in our dear state.
To this end, since it has constantly been the the government's words against that of the oppositions, I on behalf of all opposition figures challenge the government of Senator Ibikunle Amosun to a live debate on National TV where all matters will be laid bare on the table and our people can then conclude as they are convinced.
The MONOLOGUE on TV last night does not tell the story. We await the administration's acceptance of this challenge as early as possible. Modalities will then be set out by the two sides accordingly..
God bless Ogun State.

Remmy Adewale Hazzan, FCIArb

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Tom Ikimi writes...

It would come as no great surprise if Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s boasted great wealth did not derive from any stupendous inheritance ancient or modern. Or that his sudden bragging as though Nigeria’s Bill Gates is an accumulation of extraordinary hard work or financial wizardry. I would rather trust the informed whispers in the inner circles of the party which have it that having positioned himself as perceived leader in the most lucrative income sources of the party, he is recipient and dispenser of bags and bags of party funds. I am also become aware that he is, too, a beneficiary of most of the lucrative contracts in all the ACN states without exception. To further bolster his image it was also frequently said that Tinubu has control of all the votes from South Western Nigeria which, as has been currently touted, when added to the votes of North Western Nigeria would guarantee victory for the APC in the upcoming Presidential election.6.This reckless and arrogant self-aggrandizement paved the way for the imposition of a strange leadership on the APC in July 2013 when the party obtained registration from INEC. Those of us who had worked so hard towards the successful merger and creation of the APC were manipulated out of the scheme of things. In the bizarre struggle to seize control of the party we were even openly accused by the self-proclaimed owners of the party, of wanting to steal “their” party. Many of us in the party as well as keen observers outside frowned at the skewed leadership image of the party that was being paraded. An image that blatantly ignored National sensitivities. The draft constitution prepared by the Merger Committee included an exit clause, which provided a time limit of six months for the Interim Management of the Party. That clause mysteriously disappeared from the version of the constitution that was smuggled into INEC records. Chief Bisi Akande’s National Chairmanship was therefore primed to stay on in power ad infinitum!
Tom Ikimi

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