Special Olympics: UNILAG hosts 2014 Nigeria National Games

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <a href="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/special-olympics-unilag-hosts-2014-nigeria-national-games/" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.2s linear, border-top-color; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color 0.2s linear, border-top-color; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="Special Olympics: Unilag hosts 2014 Nigeria National Games"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Unilag" class="attachment-slider wp-post-image" height="157" src="http://dvsl3w2q45hb8.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Unilag4.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow; border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.247059) 1px 1px 1px; margin: 0px 20px 10px 0px; padding: 0px; transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow; width: 250px;" width="260" /></span></a><br /> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">140 special athleteswill storm the University of Lagos for the 2014 Special Olympics Nigeria national Games billed to hold between 10th and 13th of August.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The games will feature athletes from the South West, South East, North Central and South-South geopolitical zones of the country.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">According to a member of the board of the Special Olympics Nigeria, Udeme Ufot who addressed the media in Lagos yesterday, “the athletes will compet in 7 Olympics type sports such as Athletics, Acquatics, Badminton, Basketball, Cycling (demonstrative), Table Tennis and Unified Football.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Outstanding performers will be selected to represent Nigeria at the 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Los Angeles, United States. He said, “Special Olympics brings together equal number of athletes with intellectual disabilities and their peers without intellectual disabilities on the same team for training and competition.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The games are being supported by numerous sponsors including Coca Cola, MTN, GTBank, Union Bank among others.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Although Ufot said Special Olympics Nigeria would have loved to host the global fiesta sometime, that can only be possible when government shows seriousness in developing the necessary infrastructure.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“That would have been a fantastic idea, but I must say that we are not ready yet.” The Lagos state government pledged its support.</span></div> <div class="OUTBRAIN" data-browser="safari" data-dynload="" data-ob-mark="true" data-os="ipad" data-src="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/special-olympics-unilag-hosts-2014-nigeria-national-games/" id="outbrain_widget_0" obdone="true" style="border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="ob_brnBox_cont NA" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span class="ob_empty" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><wbr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></wbr></span><span class="ob_org_header" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 3px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/special-olympics-unilag-hosts-2014-nigeria-national-games/#sthash.ZEmic2Yf.dpuf</span></div>

Special Olympics: UNILAG hosts 2014 Nigeria National Games

140 special athleteswill storm the University of Lagos for the 2014 Special Olympics Nigeria national Games billed to hold between 10th and 13th of August. The games will feature athletes from the South West, South East, North Central and South-South geopolitical zones of the country. According to …

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Team Nigeria is a strong force in World sports –Elegbeleye

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <header class="post-header cf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="featured" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Elegbeleye-DG-National-Sports-Comm.jpg" itemprop="image" rel="prettyPhoto" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Team Nigeria is a strong force in World sports –Elegbeleye "><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Elegbeleye DG National Sports Comm" class="attachment-main-slider wp-post-image no-display appear" height="300" src="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Elegbeleye-DG-National-Sports-Comm.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Team Nigeria is a strong force in World sports –Elegbeleye " width="612" /></span></a></div> <h1 class="post-title" itemprop="name" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 35px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Team Nigeria is a strong force in World sports –Elegbeleye </span></span></h1> <a class="comments" href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=74839#comments" style="border: 0px; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px -35px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="fa fa-comments-o" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"></span> 0</span></span></a></header><div class="post-meta" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); border-bottom-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px; margin: 0px 0px 21px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chef de Mission, Hon Gbenga Elegbeleye has describedTeam Nigeria as a strong force in World sport.</span></div> <div class="post-container cf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="post-content-right" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="post-content description" itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px -1.857em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Elegbeleye was reacting to the sterling performance of Team Nigeria at the ongoing Common- wealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Team Nigerian athletes buoyed by the spectacular performance of hotshot, Blessing Okagbare in the women’s 100 m where she shattered the Games record to win 10.85sec posted amazing results winning three gold and a cocktail of silver and bronze medals. </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Odunayo Adekuoreye and Aminat Adeniyi won gold medals in Wrestling while Superwoman Mary- am Usman lifted Nigeria’s name to high heavens with her golden lift.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘’These things are made possible by the love and support of President Ebele Goodluck Jonathan. He has been the backbone of sports and we are happy to be churning out these good results’’, a jubilant Elegbeleye said. </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He opined that the sky still looks good for more medals to come the way of Team Nigeria before the Games curtains are drawn on Sunday.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘’Our athletes and offi- cials have been remarkable. We’re grateful to Mr Presi- dent and all Nigerians for their support’’, Elegbeleye who has been watching and supporting virtually all the sports said.</span></div> <div> <br /></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

Team Nigeria is a strong force in World sports –Elegbeleye

Team Nigeria is a strong force in World sports –Elegbeleye   0 Chef de Mission, Hon Gbenga Elegbeleye has describedTeam Nigeria as a strong force in World sport. Elegbeleye was reacting to the sterling performance of Team Nigeria at the ongoing Common- wealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. Team Niger…

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Ebola: WHO, 3 West African States to raise $100m

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <header class="post-header cf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="featured" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/eu-ebola-high-alert.si_.jpg" itemprop="image" rel="prettyPhoto" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Ebola: WHO, 3 West African States to raise $100m"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="eu-ebola-high-alert.si" class="attachment-main-slider wp-post-image no-display appear" height="336" src="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/eu-ebola-high-alert.si_-690x336.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Ebola: WHO, 3 West African States to raise $100m" width="690" /></span></a></div> <h1 class="post-title" itemprop="name" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 35px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ebola: WHO, 3 West African States to raise $100m</span></span></h1> <a class="comments" href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=74835#comments" style="border: 0px; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px -35px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="fa fa-comments-o" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"></span> </span></span></a></header><div class="post-meta" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); border-bottom-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px; margin: 0px 0px 21px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">•US withdraws Peace Corps volunteers</b><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">as Ghana introduces isolation centers</b></div> <div class="post-container cf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="post-content-right" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="post-content description" itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px -1.857em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> •</b><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Africa leaders summit to discuss problem</strong></span><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The World Health Organization and leaders of West African nations affected by the Ebola outbreak are set to announce a joint $100m (£59m; 75m euro) response plan.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They will meet in Guinea today to launch the initiative aimed at tackling a virus which has claimed 729 lives.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The disease kills up to 90 percent of those infected, though the fatality rate in the current epidemic is running at around 60 percent, according to reports. In the final stages, its symptoms include external bleeding, massive internal bleeding, vomiting and diarrhea at which point the virus becomes highly contagious.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nigeria’s Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) suspended Asky airline for bringing Ebola to Lagos, a teeming mega-city of 21 million people. Many people had questioned how Patrick Sawyer, a person showing signs of the disease, whose sister had died of it three weeks previous had been able to board an international flight. Sawyer died in Lagos.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Health officials are scrambling to avoid the nightmare scenario of an Ebola outbreak in Lagos, but say there are so far no signs of further cases. Sierra Leone’s president yesterday declared a public health emergency over the outbreak after 233 people died there, joining neighbouring Liberia in imposing tough controls as the death toll from the worst-ever outbreak of the virus hit 729 in West Africa.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma canceled a visit to Washington for a U.S.-Africa summit next week. “Sierra Leone is in a great fight … Failure is not an option,” Koroma said in a speech late on Wednesday, adding that the state of emergency would initially last between 60 and 90 days. “Extraordinary challenges require extraordinary measures.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said police and the military would enforce a quarantine on all epicenters of the disease, and would help health officers and NGOs do their work unhindered, following a number of attacks on health workers by local communities.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">House-to-house searches would be implemented to trace Ebola victims and homes where the disease was identified would be quarantined until cleared by medical teams, he said, announcing a ban on all public meetings except those related to Ebola.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sierra Leone, a former British colony, said passengers arriving and departing Lungi International Airport would be subject to new protocols, including body temperature scans.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The moves echoed a raft of measures unveiled by Liberia on Wednesday, which included the closure of all schools across the country and a possible quarantine of affected communities.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ghana also announced yesterday it was introducing body temperature screening of all travelers from West African countries at Accra airport and other major entry points, with isolation centers being set up in three towns.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kyei Faried, deputy director in charge of disease control, told a news conference that authorities had a list of 11 passengers who disembarked from Sawyer’s flight and were monitoring them.  The government is considering whether to ban flights from affected countries.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The U.S. Peace Corps said it was withdrawing 340 volunteers from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea after two of them came in contact with a person who later died of the virus</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The World Health Organisation said it was in urgent talks with donors and international agencies to deploy more medical staff and resources to the regions. The WHO reported 57 new deaths between July 24 and July 27 in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In a measure of rising international concern, Britain on Wednesday held a government meeting on Ebola and called it a threat requiring a response. The White House has also said President Barack Obama was being briefed on the situation.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But international airlines association IATA said the WHO was not recommending any travel restrictions or border closures due to the outbreak, and there would be a low risk to other passengers if an Ebola patient flew.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The spread of the deadly Ebola virus and assistance for affected countries will be discussed during an African summit in Washington next week, a senior State Department official said yesterday.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the issue will be discussed in detail during side meetings. The leaders of Sierra Leone and Liberia, two of the worst affected countries, have canceled plans to attend the summit. It is unclear whether the president of Guinea, Alpha Conde, still plans to travel to Washington.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I have spoken to all three heads of state to get from them where they see things going and what we can do to better assist them and we will be discussing that during the summit,” Thomas-Greenfield told an audience at the Atlantic Council.</span></div> </div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> </div> <div id="adscontainer" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

Ebola: WHO, 3 West African States to raise $100m

Ebola: WHO, 3 West African States to raise $100m   •US withdraws Peace Corps volunteers as Ghana introduces isolation centers  •Africa leaders summit to discuss problem The World Health Organization and leaders of West African nations affected by the Ebola outbreak are set to announce a joint $100m…

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New IG of Police: Heads to Roll

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <header class="post-header cf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="featured" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/aba1.jpg" itemprop="image" rel="prettyPhoto" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Heads to roll in police"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="aba1" class="attachment-main-slider wp-post-image no-display appear" height="336" src="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/aba1-702x336.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Heads to roll in police" width="702" /></span></a></div> <h1 class="post-title" itemprop="name" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 35px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Heads to roll in police</span></span></h1> <a class="comments" href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=74744#comments" style="border: 0px; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px -35px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="fa fa-comments-o" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"></span> 1</span></span></a><a class="comments" href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=74744#comments" style="border: 0px; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px -35px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></strong></a><a class="comments" href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=74744#comments" style="border: 0px; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px -35px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></strong></a><a class="comments" href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=74744#comments" style="border: 0px; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px -35px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;">       </span></span><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">•DIGs, AIGs, CPs to go</strong></a></header><div class="post-container cf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="post-content-right" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="post-content description" itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px -1.857em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">  </span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Following the appointment of former Assistant Inspector General of Police, Sulaiman Abba, as the acting Inspector General of Police, there are indications that heads will roll in the police, as some senior police officers would be retired.Abba was yesterday, announced as acting Inspector-General of Police, to succeed Mohammed Abubakar, who has formally retired, having put in 35 years of service in the police.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Daily Sun gathered that in expected mass retirement, all the course mates of the former IGP Abubakar, still in the police, including five commissioners of police, would go.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Apart from the five commissioners of police, who will leave the Nigeria Police, competent sources revealed that other senior officers, including seven Deputy Inspector Generals of Police (DIGs) and some AIGs would be swept off by the tsunami expected to sweep through the police.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Among those expected to go are all those who gunned for the post of IGP with Abba.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">According to a source in the Police Service Commission, the likes of Solomon Arase, AIG in-charge of the Intelligence Bureau and Dan Azumi Doma, AIG, Force Secretary, Force Headquarters, Abuja, might be affected, as they were strong contenders for the post of IGP. Their retirement may become necessary to avert any form of personality clash, except the new IGP thinks otherwise, the source revealed.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">According to our sources, Abba will formally write to the Police Service Commission requesting those to be retired and retained.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the DIG cadre, those expected to retire are: Deputy Inspector-General of Police (Investigations), Mr. Peter Gana and DIG. Michael Ebiware Odogu Zuokumor, in charge of operations, Force Headquarters, among others.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Naturally, all the DIGs will be retired and any other person would be the sole decision of the IGP,” the source stated.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The source also stated that Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mbah, will  retain his position as the police spokesperson.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Abubakar, who returned from United States of America, where he had gone to visit his wife, who recently delivered a baby boy, was in the office yesterday, to officially inform his colleagues of his exit and the appointment of Abba.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sources said that earlier, Abubakar was at the Presidential Villa, where President Goodluck Jonathan formally confirmed that his tenure would not be extended and asked him to prepare to hand over to Abba.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dressed in his full IGP regalia, Abubakar had returned to his office, where he was later joined by Abba and the DIGs. He officially informed Abba that he had been instructed to hand over to him. He and Abba later went to the Presidential Villa.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile, the Zone 7 office of Abba, has since turned into a Mecca of sort, as friends and well-wishers visited to congratulate the new IGP.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Abba had served as the Commissioner of Police in charge Rivers State. He was also Deputy Force Secretary, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Deputy Force Secretary) and Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of State CID, FCT Police Command.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He was also ADC to Mrs. Mariam Abacha during the tenure of General Sani Abacha as military head of state.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Abba is an alumnus of the Nigerian Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPPS), Kuru. He joined the Police force 35 years ago as a Cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP).</span></div> <div> <br /></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

New IG of Police: Heads to Roll

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Ebola scare in Anambra, as corpse from Liberia is deposited in hospital

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <header class="post-header cf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="featured" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Desinficering-af-hospitalsstue-med-ebola-patient-Congo.jpeg" itemprop="image" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Ebola scare in Anambra, as corpse from Liberia is deposited in hospital"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Desinficering af hospitalsstue med ebola patient - Congo" class="attachment-main-slider wp-post-image no-display appear" height="336" src="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Desinficering-af-hospitalsstue-med-ebola-patient-Congo-600x336.jpeg" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; 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text-rendering: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"></span> 0</span></span></a><a class="comments" href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=74735#comments" style="border: 0px; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px -35px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></strong></a><a class="comments" href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=74735#comments" style="border: 0px; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px -35px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></strong></a><a class="comments" href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=74735#comments" style="border: 0px; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px -35px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">•  Facility sealed, workers quarantined</strong></a></header><div class="post-container cf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="post-content-right" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="post-content description" itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px -1.857em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Fear and confusion pervaded Anambra State yesterday        </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">      </span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">following the discovery of a corpse of a native of the state brought from Liberia last weekend and deposited in a mortuary (name withheld) in Nkwelle Ezunaka in Oyi Local Government Area of the state.Already, the state government has sealed off the hospital, and quarantined some of the workers and patients, as there was suspicion that the corpse might be Ebola-affected coming from Liberia, a country associated with the virus.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Also, the Federal Ministry of Health has dispatched a team of medical experts to Anambra State to carry out necessary tests on the corpse and if necessary, the workers.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The state Police Command had also been directed by Governor Willie Obiano to cordon off the place to avoid influx of people until necessary tests were carried out.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Briefing newsmen yesterday on the discovery, the state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Josephat Akabuike, said a good citizen informed the ministry of the presence of the corpse from Liberia and because of the effect of the virus in that country, the state government decided to mobilise to do the needful.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Akabuike said: “Part of this briefing is to tell you what we are doing to make sure we don’t allow the deadly virus to come into this state, and what actually called for this is that we have a report that a corpse was brought into the state through Lagos and the deceased was said to have been brought from Liberia, where, of course, you know, there were cases of Ebola virus.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The corpse is said to have been brought to Nigeria and deposited somewhere in Nkwelle Ezunaka in Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State and the Ministry of Health has been alerted. That is why we are taking all these measures. We have already identified the mortuary and also informed the epidemiology unit of the Federal Ministry of Health and they are coming to help us screen the workers and the patients, and prevent it from spreading.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We have collected all the necessary protective garments, we have sealed the hospital and quarantined all the persons, every person that had contact with the corpse; the morticians, the nurses and doctors in the hospital, even the relations of the victim. We are doing this so that they will be screened to make sure they are not infected in any way.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The commissioner assured the people of the state that the ministry was equal to the task and had fully mobilised in case of any eventuality.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He expressed surprise that the corpse came into the country and the state without being checked at the ports.</span></div> <div> <br /></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

Ebola scare in Anambra, as corpse from Liberia is deposited in hospital

Ebola scare in Anambra, as corpse from Liberia is deposited in hospital  0•  Facility sealed, workers quarantined  Fear and confusion pervaded Anambra State yesterday               following the discovery of a corpse of a native of the state brought from Liberia last weekend and deposited in a mort…

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Confusion as residents find baby’s placenta with Alfa

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="story-featured-image" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: left; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-right: 15px; min-width: 378px !important; width: 368px;"> <img alt="Gani, the house where the placenta was found." class="attachment-bigstoryimage" height="225" scale="0" src="http://www.punchng.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Gani-the-house-where-the-placenta-was-found-360x225.jpg" style="border: none; float: left; margin-right: 10px; padding: 4px;" width="360" /><div class="featured-image-caption" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 5px; padding: 5px 10px 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Gani, the house where the placenta was found.<br /><small style="font-weight: normal;"><em>| credits: Success Nwogu</em></small></span></div> </div> <div style="float: left; padding: 10px 18px 5px 0px; width: 370px;"> <ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7167863529667065" data-ad-slot="6184555097" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="display: inline-block; height: 140px; width: 370px;"><ins id="aswift_0_expand" style="border: none; display: inline-table; height: 140px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 370px;"><ins id="aswift_0_anchor" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: none; display: block; height: 140px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 370px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="140" hspace="0" id="aswift_0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="aswift_0" scrolling="no" style="left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px;" vspace="0" width="370"></iframe></ins></ins></ins></div> <div id="nrelate_flyout_placeholder"> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The discovery of a baby placenta in the residence of a man, identified simply as Alfa Gani, is causing confusion in the Laduba community, Ogidi area of Ilorin, Kwara State.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Our correspondent gathered on Thursday that the discovery was made when some volunteers went round the Laduba community to appeal for financial contributions from residents for the repair of a faulty transformer in the area.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It was said that the volunteers perceived offensive odour at Gani’s residence, which they later reported to other members of the community.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It was said that curious to know what smelled, some members of the community rushed to Gani’s residence and demanded an explanation for the offensive odour oozing from his house.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">An eyewitness, who pleaded anonymity, told PUNCH Metro that Gani initially accused the community members of intruding into his privacy.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He was said to have rushed to the Oloje Police Station to report the community members.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The source added that before Gani could come back with the police, the community members had entered his house and discovered a boy with a baby placenta.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The enraged community members were said to have beaten up the boy, making him to confess that he was asked to prepare a charm by Gani, who allegedly exhumed the placenta.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">While this was going on, our correspondent gathered that a woman, whose baby naming ceremony was recently held near Gani’s house, arrived at the scene.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On seeing the placenta, she was said to have rushed to where the placenta of her new-born baby was buried, only to discover that it was missing. She was said to have raised the alarm, alerting the community members to the ugly development.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When he came back with the policemen to arrest the community members, the commotion was still in progress.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The source said, “The residents narrated their discovery to the policemen. It was at that point that the policemen decided to search the entire house including an uncompleted building behind the suspect’s house, after which they discovered some human parts.”</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It was gathered that the enraged mob vandalised Gani’s house and set it on fire.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Our correspondent gathered that the policemen, who were overwhelmed by the crowd, managed to prevent them from lynching the suspect as they whisked Gani away to their station.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It was learnt that the incident fuelled speculations that there were dens of ritual killers and markets where human parts were traded in Ilorin.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Police Public Relations Officer, Kwara State Command, Mr. Ajayi Okasanmi, however, told our correspondent that there was no den of ritual killers in the state capital.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said, “That is not true. What was discovered was not a den of ritual killers, but a suspected criminal who was used to performing fetish activities.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The man was looking for a placenta of a new baby, exhumed the buried placenta and used it for whatever yet-to-be identified purpose.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“He just came back from jail. He went to where a placenta was just buried about three days ago before the incident. He dug up the placenta and while he was doing that, people saw him and tried to do things their own way.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the process of damaging his house by the youth, the police got there and arrested the suspect with the exhibit.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The police have started investigation to get to the root of the matter.”</span></div> <div> <br /></div> </div> </div>

Confusion as residents find baby’s placenta with Alfa

Gani, the house where the placenta was found.| credits: Success Nwogu The discovery of a baby placenta in the residence of a man, identified simply as Alfa Gani, is causing confusion in the Laduba community, Ogidi area of Ilorin, Kwara State. Our correspondent gathered on Thursday that the discover…

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This is what an Israeli airstrike on a building in Gaza looks like

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <br /> <div class=" pb-feature pb-chained pb-f-article-article-body" data-pb-async="false" data-pb-columns="" data-pb-content-editable="" data-pb-content-uri="/pb/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/07/31/this-is-what-an-israeli-airstrike-on-a-building-in-gaza-looks-like/%3fhpid=z1" data-pb-name="article-article-body" id="article-world_1401468655537_97" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(213, 213, 213); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 50px !important; padding-top: 10px; position: relative;"> <div class="article-body" id="article-body" style="margin-top: 20px;"> <div class="pb-sig-line hasnt-headshot has-0-headshots hasnt-bio is-not-column" style="padding-bottom: 20px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="pb-byline" style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 5px;">By <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/pb/sudarsan-raghavan/" style="text-decoration: none;">Sudarsan Raghavan</a></span> <span class="pb-timestamp" style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 5px;">July 31 </span> <span class="tweet-authors"><span class="pb-twitter-follow" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 5px; position: relative; top: 5px;"><iframe allowtransparency="true" class="twitter-follow-button twitter-follow-button" data-twttr-rendered="true" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/follow_button.1404859412.html#_=1406846796038&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&screen_name=africawriter&show_count=false&show_screen_name=true&size=m" style="height: 20px; width: 131px;" title="Twitter Follow Button"></iframe></span></span></span></div> <br /> <article><div class="inline-content inline-photo" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(213, 213, 213); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 20px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img class="" data-hi-res-src="http://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2014/07/aljalla-1.jpg" data-low-res-src="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=http://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2014/07/aljalla-1.jpg&w=480" src="http://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2014/07/aljalla-1.jpg" style="border: 0px; width: 599px;" /><br /><span class="pb-caption">A bomb is seen before it hits a house in a Gaza City neighborhood. (Photos by Max Becherer/Polaris Images for The Washington Post)</span></span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">GAZA CITY – It was around 2:30 p.m., and the word had spread on al-Jalla Street.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">An Israeli airstrike was about to unfold. The target: a gray, concrete building of moderate height in the heart of Gaza City.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Children gathered on balconies. Young men congregated at an intersection. Others placed bricks and tires blocking off a section of the street that ran past the building. A man in a tank top and shorts served as a traffic policeman, directing vehicles to take a detour. Cars stopped. More people stepped out, their eyes glued to the ill-fated building.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And they all waited to watch a macabre ritual of destruction on the 24th day of the war.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A few minutes earlier, the Israeli military had telephoned the son of Bashir al-Ramlawi, 58, the owner of the building. How they got his number was a mystery. The voice on the other end of the line told the son that his family had to evacuate their home immediately. They were going to be attacked.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The son frantically called his father. The father frantically told the rest of the family, which by then consisted of 35 members because many had fled their homes in other parts of Gaza to seek refuge with Ramlawi, he later said. Now, they were on the run again.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Perhaps the neighbors saw the family fleeing within five minutes of the call. Perhaps the son called his friends. Perhaps the Israelis themselves phoned residents in the area. Whatever the cause, the word spread like a brushfire, and soon everyone along al-Jalla Street seemed to know of the coming airstrike.</span></div> <div class="wp-inline-bb pb-centered-bb has-subscribe-promo" id="slug_inline_bb" style="background-position: 123px -398px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; clear: both; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 6px auto 30px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: 300px;"> <div id="google_ads_iframe_/701/wpni.world/worldviews/blog/worldviews_6__container__" style="border: 0pt none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><iframe frameborder="0" height="250" id="google_ads_iframe_/701/wpni.world/worldviews/blog/worldviews_6" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="google_ads_iframe_/701/wpni.world/worldviews/blog/worldviews_6" scrolling="no" style="border-width: 0px; vertical-align: bottom; width: 300px;" width="300"></iframe></span></div> </div> <div class="has-subscribe-promo borB1S borT1S marB26 padB10 padT10"> </div> <div class="inline-content inline-photo" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(213, 213, 213); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(213, 213, 213); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 20px 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img class="" data-hi-res-src="http://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2014/07/aljalla-2.jpg" data-low-res-src="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=http://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2014/07/aljalla-2.jpg&w=480" src="http://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2014/07/aljalla-2.jpg" style="border: 0px; width: 599px;" /><br /><span class="pb-caption">Residents of central Gaza watch as an Israeli bomb drops on a house.</span></span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And they waited.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Suddenly, a loud boom, and then, a puff of smoke shaped like a mushroom. The building had been hit. But no one left. They knew this was just the beginning.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A few minutes later, another bomb screeched overhead and struck the building. The cloud of smoke spread, fogging the street. Then, a third one hit. The building was still standing.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Still, no one left. They knew the drill. The first three strikes, some onlookers said seemingly speaking with experience, were small ones from Israeli drones. They served, the people said, as a warning to anyone still too close to the building and as a way to soften up the building, like a boxer jabbing his opponent, seeking that knockout punch.</span></div> <div class="inline-content inline-photo" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(213, 213, 213); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(213, 213, 213); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 20px 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img class="" data-hi-res-src="http://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2014/07/aljalla-4.jpg" data-low-res-src="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=http://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2014/07/aljalla-4.jpg&w=480" src="http://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2014/07/aljalla-4.jpg" style="border: 0px; width: 599px;" /><br /><span class="pb-caption">An Israeli missile strikes a house in Gaza, minutes after Israeli forces called the owner and asked him to evacuate.</span></span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It came at 2:50 p.m. The unmistakable sound of an F 16 fighter jet roaring through the sky. A finned missile loudly whooshed over the heads of the people on al-Jalla Street, obliterating the building. A huge ball of smoke, triple the size of the first three strikes, rose toward the sky.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It was a pinpoint strike. No one was killed or injured, and the surrounding buildings were untouched.</span></div> <div class="inline-content inline-photo" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(213, 213, 213); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(213, 213, 213); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 20px 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img class="" data-hi-res-src="http://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2014/07/aljalla-3.jpg" data-low-res-src="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=http://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2014/07/aljalla-3.jpg&w=480" src="http://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2014/07/aljalla-3.jpg" style="border: 0px; width: 599px;" /><br /><span class="pb-caption">Smoke rises from a house in a Gaza neighborhood after it is hit by a missile.</span></span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And it was over. Within minutes, the street was open again. Cars drove by the crumpled building. Everything seemed to be normal, save for the face of Ramlawi.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I don’t know why they hit my house,” he said, nearly in tears, adding that he had no ties to Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that rules Gaza.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said many of his relatives who lived with him had recently fled fierce clashes between Israeli forces and Hamas fighters in the eastern enclave of Shijaiyah. Now, he said, they were all homeless.</span></div> <div class="wp-inline-bb pb-centered-bb has-subscribe-promo" id="slug_inline_bb_2" style="background-position: 123px -398px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; clear: both; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 6px auto 30px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: 300px;"> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We don’t know where we will go,” said Ramlawi, as he watched people on the street take pictures of his decimated house with their cellphones.</span></div> <div class="inline-content inline-photo" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(213, 213, 213); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(213, 213, 213); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 20px 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img class="" data-hi-res-src="http://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2014/07/aljalla-6.jpg" data-low-res-src="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=http://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2014/07/aljalla-6.jpg&w=480" src="http://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2014/07/aljalla-6.jpg" style="border: 0px; width: 599px;" /><br /><span class="pb-caption">Residents look at the damaged building after it was brought down by an airstrike.</span></span></div> </article><br /> <div class="post-body-sig-line" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(213, 213, 213); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(213, 213, 213); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 20px;"> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/pb/sudarsan-raghavan/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img class="post-body-headshot-left" src="http://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2011/02/15/PH2011021501823.jpg&h=90&w=90" style="border: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); float: left; margin: 24px 24px 24px 0px; max-width: 90px;" /></span></a><br /> <div class="post-body-bio has-photo" style="margin: 24px 0px 24px 105px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sudarsan Raghavan has been The Post's bureau chief in Africa since 2010. He began his career as a foreign correspondent in Africa, and covered the Iraq war as Baghdad bureau chief.</span></div> <div class="clear" style="clear: both;"> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class=" pb-feature pb-chained pb-f-page-share-bar" data-pb-async="false" data-pb-columns="" data-pb-content-editable="" data-pb-content-uri="/pb/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/07/31/this-is-what-an-israeli-airstrike-on-a-building-in-gaza-looks-like/%3fhpid=z1" data-pb-name="page-share-bar" id="article-world_1399567687195_45" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(213, 213, 213); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 50px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: relative;"> <div class="social-tools-wrapper-bottom"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span><br /> <ul class="social-tools-bottom inline" style="display: inline; margin-bottom: 5px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px;"></ul> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">GAZA CITY – It was around 2:30 p.m., and the word had spread on al-Jalla Street.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">An Israeli airstrike was about to unfold. The target: a gray, concrete building of moderate height in the heart of Gaza City.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Children gathered on balconies. Young men congregated at an intersection. Others placed bricks and tires blocking off a section of the street that ran past the building. A man in a tank top and shorts served as a traffic policeman, directing vehicles to take a detour. Cars stopped. More people stepped out, their eyes glued to the ill-fated building.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And they all waited to watch a macabre ritual of destruction on the 24th day of the war.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A few minutes earlier, the Israeli military had telephoned the son of Bashir al-Ramlawi, 58, the owner of the building. How they got his number was a mystery. The voice on the other end of the line told the son that his family had to evacuate their home immediately. They were going to be attacked.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The son frantically called his father. The father frantically told the rest of the family, which by then consisted of 35 members because many had fled their homes in other parts of Gaza to seek refuge with Ramlawi, he later said. Now, they were on the run again.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Perhaps the neighbors saw the family fleeing within five minutes of the call. Perhaps the son called his friends. Perhaps the Israelis themselves phoned residents in the area. Whatever the cause, the word spread like a brushfire, and soon everyone along al-Jalla Street seemed to know of the coming airstrike.</span></div> <div class="wp-inline-bb pb-centered-bb has-subscribe-promo" id="slug_inline_bb" style="background-position: 123px -398px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; clear: both; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 6px auto 30px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: 300px;"> </div> <div class="inline-content inline-photo" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(213, 213, 213); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(213, 213, 213); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 20px 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <img class="" data-hi-res-src="http://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2014/07/aljalla-2.jpg" data-low-res-src="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=http://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2014/07/aljalla-2.jpg&w=480" src="http://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2014/07/aljalla-2.jpg" style="border: 0px; width: 599px;" /></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Residents of central Gaza watch as an Israeli bomb drops on a house.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And they waited.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Suddenly, a loud boom, and then, a puff of smoke shaped like a mushroom. The building had been hit. But no one left. They knew this was just the beginning.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A few minutes later, another bomb screeched overhead and struck the building. The cloud of smoke spread, fogging the street. Then, a third one hit. The building was still standing.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Still, no one left. They knew the drill. The first three strikes, some onlookers said seemingly speaking with experience, were small ones from Israeli drones. They served, the people said, as a warning to anyone still too close to the building and as a way to soften up the building, like a boxer jabbing his opponent, seeking that knockout punch.</span></div> <div class="inline-content inline-photo" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(213, 213, 213); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(213, 213, 213); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 20px 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img class="" data-hi-res-src="http://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2014/07/aljalla-4.jpg" data-low-res-src="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=http://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2014/07/aljalla-4.jpg&w=480" src="http://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2014/07/aljalla-4.jpg" style="border: 0px; width: 599px;" /><br /><span class="pb-caption">An Israeli missile strikes a house in Gaza, minutes after Israeli forces called the owner and asked him to evacuate.</span></span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It came at 2:50 p.m. The unmistakable sound of an F 16 fighter jet roaring through the sky. A finned missile loudly whooshed over the heads of the people on al-Jalla Street, obliterating the building. A huge ball of smoke, triple the size of the first three strikes, rose toward the sky.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It was a pinpoint strike. No one was killed or injured, and the surrounding buildings were untouched.</span></div> <div class="inline-content inline-photo" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(213, 213, 213); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(213, 213, 213); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 20px 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img class="" data-hi-res-src="http://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2014/07/aljalla-3.jpg" data-low-res-src="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=http://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2014/07/aljalla-3.jpg&w=480" src="http://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2014/07/aljalla-3.jpg" style="border: 0px; width: 599px;" /><br /><span class="pb-caption">Smoke rises from a house in a Gaza neighborhood after it is hit by a missile.</span></span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And it was over. Within minutes, the street was open again. Cars drove by the crumpled building. Everything seemed to be normal, save for the face of Ramlawi.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I don’t know why they hit my house,” he said, nearly in tears, adding that he had no ties to Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that rules Gaza.</span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span><br /> <div class="wp-inline-bb pb-centered-bb has-subscribe-promo" id="slug_inline_bb_2" style="background-position: 123px -398px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; clear: both; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 6px auto 30px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: 300px;"> </div> <br /> <div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> He said many of his relatives who lived with him had recently fled fierce clashes between Israeli forces and Hamas fighters in the eastern enclave of Shijaiyah. Now, he said, they were all homeless.</div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We don’t know where we will go,” said Ramlawi, as he watched people on the street take pictures of his decimated house with their cellphones.</span></div> <div class="inline-content inline-photo" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(213, 213, 213); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(213, 213, 213); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 20px 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; width: 599px;"><img class="" data-hi-res-src="http://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2014/07/aljalla-6.jpg" data-low-res-src="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=http://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2014/07/aljalla-6.jpg&w=480" src="http://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2014/07/aljalla-6.jpg" style="border: 0px; width: 599px;" /></span><br /><span class="pb-caption">Residents look at the damaged building after it was brought down by an airstrike.</span></span></div> </div>

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Kolanut Can Cure Ebola- Prof. Maurice Iwu

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <header class="post-header cf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="featured" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/o-EBOLA-570.jpg" itemprop="image" rel="prettyPhoto" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Kolanut can cure Ebola – Prof. Maurice Iwu"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="-" class="attachment-main-slider wp-post-image no-display appear" height="336" src="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/o-EBOLA-570-570x336.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Kolanut can cure Ebola – Prof. Maurice Iwu" width="570" /></span></a></div> <h1 class="post-title" itemprop="name" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 35px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kolanut can cure Ebola – Prof. Maurice Iwu</span></span></h1> <a class="comments" href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=74726#comments"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px -35px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="fa fa-comments-o" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"></span> </span></span></a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; color: black; float: right; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?cat=3" rel="category" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; float: right; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="View all posts in National">AL</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; color: black; float: right; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; color: black; float: right; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; color: black; float: right; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; color: black; float: right; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></span>A plant has been found to halt the deadly Ebola virus in its tracks in laboratory tests, scientists have said.</span></span></header><br /> <div class="post-container cf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="post-content-right" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="post-content description" itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px -1.857em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They used a compound from Garcinia kola, a plant commonly eaten in West Africa. Compounds from the plant have also proved effective against some strains of flu.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If the anti-Ebola compound proves successful in animal and human trials, it will be the first medicine to successfully treat the virus that causes Ebola haemorrhagic fever – an often-fatal condition.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The discovery was announced at the 16th International Botanical Congress in St Louis in the US.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Four deaths per five cases</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Ebola virus was first documented in 1976 after an outbreak in Zaire – now the Democratic Republic of the Congo – where 88 per cent of the 318 human cases died.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">More recently, a 1995 outbreak in the same country had a death rate of 81% of the 315 infected.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There are four types of the virus – Ebola-Zaire, Ebola-Sudan and Ebola-Ivory Coast all affect humans, while Ebola-Reston has so far only affected monkeys and chimpanzees.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">However, doctors have been unable to stop the virus once infection has taken hold – hence the disease has gained a terrifying reputation.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Traditional origins</b></span><br /> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dr. Maurice Iwu, who set up and heads the Bioresources Development and Conservation Programme, led the research. </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It started 10 years ago when researchers were led to the plant by traditional native healers who have used the plant for the treatment of infectious diseases for centuries. </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“This is a very exciting discovery,” said Dr. Iwu, who himself comes originally from a family of traditional healers. </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The same forest that yields the dreaded Ebola virus could be a source of the cure.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fighting chance</b><br /> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The virus multiplies rapidly in the human body and quickly overwhelms it, and in advanced cases the patient develops high fever and severe bleeding. </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Garcinia kola compound has been shown to halt multiplication of the virus in the laboratory. If repeated in humans, this would give the body a chance to fight off the virus.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The active compound is what is known as a dimeric flavonoid, which is two flavonoid molecules fused together. </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Flavonoids are non-toxic and can be found in orange and lemon rinds as well as the colourings of other plants.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Drug hopes</b><br /> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The tests are in the early stages still, but the researchers hope that if they continue to prove successful the compound the US Food and Drug Administration will put it on a fast track – making a drug available to humans within a matter of years.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The discovery of these important properties in a simple compound – flavonoids – was very surprising,” said Dr. Iwu.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The structure of this compound lends itself to modification, so it provides a template for future work.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Even if this particular drug does not succeed through the whole drug approval process, we can use it to construct a new drug for this deadly disease.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. This article was first published by the British Broadcasting Corporation on August 5, 1999 when Prof. Maurice Iwu was still Dr. Maurice Iwu. Prof. Iwu was a former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission. He has since returned to his first love of researching after his service at INEC.</b></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> </div> <div id="adscontainer" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

Kolanut Can Cure Ebola- Prof. Maurice Iwu

Kolanut can cure Ebola – Prof. Maurice Iwu  ALA plant has been found to halt the deadly Ebola virus in its tracks in laboratory tests, scientists have said. They used a compound from Garcinia kola, a plant commonly eaten in West Africa. Compounds from the plant have also proved effective against so…

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Blessing Okagbare wins Gold in Women's 200m

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She did it again! Blessing Okagbare wins Gold in Women's 200m</span></span></h3> <div class="post-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em;"> <div class="post-header-line-1"> </div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4732986936928354531" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 616px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf7TKhfp5Ux_vd5zTvlIZ1Ub9KFqsIvz_bPpzDNDSJiHBSjp7Hw4-ZiAU2byr99r_3FrAYZZ8ssWPgYjbdVYuarCwRx-F6Cm_xIPrrrDriLp59pwqfDFL98PaLwjEgBDEPHccyvzpZCV4/s1600/Bt5aUqdCIAMAeZG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf7TKhfp5Ux_vd5zTvlIZ1Ub9KFqsIvz_bPpzDNDSJiHBSjp7Hw4-ZiAU2byr99r_3FrAYZZ8ssWPgYjbdVYuarCwRx-F6Cm_xIPrrrDriLp59pwqfDFL98PaLwjEgBDEPHccyvzpZCV4/s1600/Bt5aUqdCIAMAeZG.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></span></a></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A few days after she won Gold in the Women's 100meters Finals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, she's won Gold again in the Women's 200m in a time of 22.25 seconds, completing the Glasgow2014 sprint double. You go, Blessing! </span></div> </div>

Blessing Okagbare wins Gold in Women's 200m

She did it again! Blessing Okagbare wins Gold in Women's 200m A few days after she won Gold in the Women's 100meters Finals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, she's won Gold again in the Women's 200m in a time of 22.25 seconds, completing the Glasgow2014 sprint double. You go, Blessing!  …

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Family announces burial arrangement for late Prof. Dora Akunyili

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"> <br /></h3> <div class="post-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em;"> <div class="post-header-line-1"> </div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4955703056594276936" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 616px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJpoKzUVY47ZrrPyzAH53lOKy_1IM6a9u36e42EBpek3iSKps7uXP2K4kfTXzK_1Ve79Pu7xH2yuaagGwbrpIcK5rg9TZ0PcK7n1HDoBs1dHJjyQnUxUsQDSVI04INpdLy3zql0VAmMWA/s1600/Dora-Akinyuli.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" width="272" /><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinsYON3C9eoIfnDqoEp_B2Bs38IziMOoucyHLZxSr7dARaV1ReX9cnsAeCxFjYLNav4zqXHgE0fEIRuwvPy0v9zMdJsP-JBNSyZYzDoYaWa2Xkhl0YnXROu0VaVehqeyNIO4ksC2CSIQE/s1600/3.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" width="231" /></span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The burial arrangement for late NAFDAC boss Prof. Dora Akunyili has been announced by her family. The burial arrangement is contained in a statement signed by her husband Dr Chike Akunyili which was posted on her Facebook wall this evening. Find it below...</span><blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The family of former Minister of Information and Communications, late Prof. (Mrs.) Dora Nkem Akunyili, has released a week-long programme of activities for her funeral, culminating in her burial on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1193821097" tabindex="0">Thursday, August 28, 2014</span>.</span></blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The programme, released today in Enugu by Prof. Akunyili’s husband, Dr. Chike Akunyili, starts with a Christian Wake-Keep at No. 2A Bishop Onyeabor St., G.R.A. Enugu, to hold from <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1193821098" tabindex="0">4:00 p.m. on Friday, August 22</span>. Continue...<a href="" name="more"></a></span></blockquote> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A Night of Tributes is to hold at International Conference Centre Abuja from <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1193821099" tabindex="0">5:00 p.m. on Monday, August 25</span>, while a Mass would be held for her at Pro-Cathedral Catholic Church, Abuja, by <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1193821100" tabindex="0">10:00 a.m.</span> the next day, <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1193821101" tabindex="0">August 26</span>.<br /><br />After the Church Service, Dora’s body would leave for Enugu, where there would be a Mass at KSJ Temple at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1193821102" tabindex="0">4:00 p.m.</span> After a High Requiem Mass at Holy Ghost Cathedral Enugu at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1193821103" tabindex="0">9:00 a.m.</span> the next day (<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1193821104" tabindex="0">Wednesday, August 27</span>), Dora’s body would be taken to UNCOMA Hall, College of Medicine, Ituku Ozalla, Enugu, for Final College Assembly to start from <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1193821105" tabindex="0">11:30 a.m.</span> From there, the body would be taken to Awka for Anambra State Government activities, then to Dora’s father’s house in Nanka, before being returned to her husband’s house at Agulu for a Vigil Mass/Wake-Keep.<br /><br />On <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1193821106" tabindex="0">Thursday, August 28</span>, Dora’s body would lie in state at John Chike Akunyili’s Compound before leaving for Agulu Town Hall, then Madonna Catholic Church Agulu for a Requiem Mass to hold by <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1193821107" tabindex="0">10:00 a.m.</span>Interment at John Chike Akunyili’s Compound follows at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1193821108" tabindex="0">1:30 p.m.</span><br /><br />Dr. Akunyili in a statement expressed gratitude to Nigerians for their outpouring of love and support for his family at this moment of grief. “This has gone a great way in helping us to cope with the monumental loss of our precious gem, my beloved wife, Dora,” he said.<br /><br />It would be recalled that Prof. (Mrs.) Akunyili, a former Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), died last <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1193821109" tabindex="0">Saturday, June 7</span>, after a two-year battle with cancer.<br /><br />Prof. (Mrs.) Akunyili, who was a delegate to the on-going National Conference in Abuja, would have turned 60 on July 14, 2014.<br /><br />Signed:<br />Dr. Chike Akunyili (Husband)<br />Enugu, <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1193821110" tabindex="0">Wednesday, July 31, 2014</span>.</span></div> </div>

Family announces burial arrangement for late Prof. Dora Akunyili

The burial arrangement for late NAFDAC boss Prof. Dora Akunyili has been announced by her family. The burial arrangement is contained in a statement signed by her husband Dr Chike Akunyili which was posted on her Facebook wall this evening. Find it below... The family of former Minister of Informat…

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Jonathan, ex-leaders, govs resolve to end terrorism before Dec

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="story-featured-image" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: left; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-right: 15px; min-width: 378px !important; width: 368px;"> <img alt="President Goodluck Jonathan and Vice-President Namadi Sambo." class="attachment-bigstoryimage" height="225" scale="0" src="http://www.punchng.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/President-Goodluck-Jonathan-and-Vice-President-Namadi-Sambo-360x225.jpg" style="border: none; float: left; margin-right: 10px; padding: 4px;" width="360" /><div class="featured-image-caption" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 5px; padding: 5px 10px 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">President Goodluck Jonathan and Vice-President Namadi Sambo.</span></div> </div> <div style="float: left; padding: 10px 18px 5px 0px; width: 370px;"> <ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7167863529667065" data-ad-slot="6184555097" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="display: inline-block; height: 140px; width: 370px;"><ins id="aswift_0_expand" style="border: none; display: inline-table; height: 140px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 370px;"><ins id="aswift_0_anchor" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: none; display: block; height: 140px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 370px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="140" hspace="0" id="aswift_0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="aswift_0" scrolling="no" style="left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px;" vspace="0" width="370"></iframe></ins></ins></ins></div> <div id="nrelate_flyout_placeholder"> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Members of the Council of State rose from an emergency meeting on Thursday with a resolution to support President Goodluck Jonathan to ensure that the current spate of terrorism in parts of the country ends before December.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They also resolved to put an end to all discriminatory practices in states including the registration and “deportation” of non-indigenes as well as different school fees for indigenes and non-indigenes in states-owned institutions among others.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The council presided over by Jonathan has the Vice President, President of the Senate, Speaker of the House of Representatives, all former Heads of State, all former Chief Justices of Nigeria and all state governors as members.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All former Heads of State, except former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Maj-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) attended the emergency meeting. President of the Senate, David Mark, was also absent.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Governors Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom), Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Sullivan Chime (Enugu) and the National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.) briefed State House correspondents at the end of the meeting.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Aliyu said it was the resolution of council members that all hands must be on the deck to end insurgency in parts of the country.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said they would work hard to ensure that the predictions by some foreigners that Nigeria would cease to exist as a united body beyond 2015 remained a wishful thinking.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The governor added that the council observed that leaders, particularly politicians remained the only threats to the country and democracy.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said a collective decision was taken to stop the inflammatory statements always attributed to politicians.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said, “More fundamental of the issues is the bucks stopping with the leadership. In fact, it came to the fore that if there is any threat to either the state or democracy probably the threat is coming from politicians and from leaders of the country.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We must understand the boundaries of leadership and also the responsibilities that are involved. Leadership is not about beauty contest.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“In leadership, you must take difficult decisions and really go about implementing them.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“So, all the things came to the fore at the meeting and subsequently, each of us made it a deliberate resolution to all be bi-partisan or non-partisan to support the President to make sure that we get rid of this insurgency and indeed suggesting that before December.”</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The governor said there was nothing religious or Islamic about the activities of the dreaded Boko Haram sect.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said the important thing was for adherents of religions to respect the rights of adherents of other religions aside from theirs.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Akpabio said the council frowned at the registration of Nigerians in parts of the country and directed that the exercise be stopped forthwith.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He disclosed further that the council set up a six-member committee saddled with the responsibility of further identifying other discriminatory practices across the country.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The committee which has two months to submit its report, according to him, has governors of Niger, Sokoto, Enugu, Gombe, Akwa Ibom and Ondo States as members.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said with the submission of the report, the council would then decide if the National Assembly would be approached to ensure that changes are made.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said the ex-leaders proffered solutions to the security challenges in the country while council members commended security agencies.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said, “Council viewed the report seriously that some citizens were being deported; deportatiom should be from one country to the other but where you have a Nigerian who is being returned to his state of origin to other states, then you know there is a problem.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We felt that that was capable of disrupting the unity of the country, making Nigerians to become apprehensive and unsafe. ‎</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Also, council frowned at the idea of even registering Nigerians in various parts of the country and felt this must be brought to an end immediately.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“And so we looked at all these issues and the role every leader should play from the local government level to the federal level. The role each one of us should play to ensure that we solidify the unity of this country.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We also looked at these discriminatory practices across board from all parts of the country: North, South, West and the East and we felt all those issues must be brought to front burner, solutions proffer to ensure that Nigerians are united, live freely and do their businesses without hinderance.”</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chime on his part said he saw commitment to save the country by both past and present leaders who attended the meeting.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said the willingness to remain one Nigeria will lead to the abolition of disclosure of states of origin.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rather, he said people would only be asked to disclose where they reside.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said those of them who were around knew that was how the civil war started.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said, “Those of us who were around will remember very well that that was how the civil war started, we saw the danger, we said there is really need for every body to be sensitised on this. It looks very innocent now to say well, I have security concerns, I can register any body who is not from here.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“But you don’t think that you have some people on the other side, what will you feel if they have the same concerns and decide to register everybody who is not from there?</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“That is not the way the framers of the constitution envisaged that the constitution should be operated.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“That is why this meeting was held and I am very happy that there was a lot of commitment, the governors who are the main operators, who are the leaders at that level are all committed that this issue is resolved. There a lot of commitment and support across party lines by those who attended.”</span></div> </div> </div>

Jonathan, ex-leaders, govs resolve to end terrorism before Dec

President Goodluck Jonathan and Vice-President Namadi Sambo. Members of the Council of State rose from an emergency meeting on Thursday with a resolution to support President Goodluck Jonathan to ensure that the current spate of terrorism in parts of the country ends before December. They also reso…

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