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BENEFIT OF QUAIL EGGS

Quail eggs are packed with vitamins and minerals. Even with their small size, their nutritional value is three to four times greater than chicken eggs. Quail eggs contain 13 percent proteins compared to 11 percent in chicken eggs. Quail eggs also contain 140 percent of vitamin B1 compared to 50 percent in chicken eggs. In addition, quail eggs provide five times as much iron and potassium. Unlike chicken eggs, quail eggs have not been know to cause allergies or diathesis. Actually they help fight allergy symptoms due to the ovomucoid protein they contain.


Regular consumption of quail eggs helps fight against many diseases. They are a natural combatant against digestive tract disorders such as stomach ulcers. Quail eggs strengthen the immune system, promote memory health, increase brain activity and stabilize the nervous system. They help with anemia by increasing the level of hemoglobin in the body while removing toxins and heavy metals. The Chinese use quail eggs to help treat tuberculosis, asthma, and even diabetes. If you are a sufferer of kidney, liver, or gallbladder stones quail eggs can help prevent and remove these types of stones.

Biggest CV And Resume Blunders Made By Job Seekers And How To Avoid Them

1. Exaggerating Achievements and Fibbing

Stay honest when you are talking about your work history, skills and achievements. Amplifying these may come back at you when the recruiter runs a background check or wants you to do a certain task that you fibbed about. It takes very little time for the HR professionals to find out the truth. So stop bragging about things you don’t know or are aren’t experienced with as this may be the first and the last time you communicate with this company. Stick to facts that can be validated.

2. Mentioning Non-Contextual Work Experience and Hobbies

Only highlight work experience that is relevant for the profile in question. If you are seeking a graphic designing job, do not mention your stint as a ski instructor from five
 years ago. It may convey a message that you do not hold adequate relevant experience. Stay focused on the profile you are applying to and site past duties that can prove useful for the role in hand.

3. Self-Praise Without Quantified Proof

If your resume’s professional summary starts with “A dedicated professional…,’ the recruiters will lose interest and you lose credibility. Applicants must establish objective facts with the presence of figures, and not just boring clichés. The key is not to say it, but show it. Quantify professional achievements, for instance if you have enhanced client retention by 20% over the last one year, say so explicitly, rather than plainly saying you have excelled as a sales professional.

4. Over-The-Top Beautification

Your resume document must be light and quick to open. Use a font style that is common and do not add heavy images as that can make the file heavy. Using photographs is irrelevant, unless you are an actor or model. They also irk the recruiters because they unnecessarily consume extra ink and take away the focus from your skills. Also, stop designing the CV with borders otherwise a part of it may get cropped when it is printed. Keep it simple yet smart.

5. Using Different Job Titles

Make sure you use job titles that are common and widely-used. These must also be searchable as applicant tracking systems use them as keywords to screen several CVs. Complex words and flowery language may cause the ATS to forego some important information that could have otherwise been useful for your candidature. Even if your resume is in the hands of a human recruiter, uncommon words and unique phrases can alienate you and your application.

6. Generalizing the Content of the CV

As a job seeker, you cannot afford to have a fixed resume that works for all employers. Your CV must be customized each time you wish to apply to a new company. When you find an opening, take some time to carefully read the job description and then edit and personalize your CV before sending it out. You must also visit the company website to get a better idea of their line of businesses and requirements. And double-check the document so that you don’t mistakenly send the CV for Company A to Company B. You can name all resume versions differently.

7. Non-Serious Email Address

Always make sure the email address you use to mail your resume appears non-casual. It must not have numbers or adjectives, else it may seem like you lack professionalism. An address like sarah.cook@gmail.com is way better than coolestengineer@yahoo.com . Whether it is IT or media, a professional-looking ID can help you score more job interviews. If you don’t have such an account, make sure you make one before mailing the resume.

8. Typos and Grammatical Errors

Spelling mistakes can seem highly unprofessional. So make sure you do not make any typos or grammatical mistakes as this can hamper your chances of landing an interview. Also, avoid writing slang or SMS lingo. Shortcuts like ‘ur’ and ‘b4’ can cause trouble.

Hope the above points can warn you against some major blunders and help improve your resume. Happy job hunting!

MYSTERIOUS INDEED

All started like a joke late yesterday until i saw it for my self,pure clean water gushing out from a tree in FUTO.its no joke at all.close to the FUTO bus park just opposite the CCE building, a tree continuously pumped water today,it was really mysterious.Hundreds of students stormed the tree to take a glimpse and also fetched from it after a Chaplain from the ST.Thomas Aquinas Chaplaincy prayed over the water and certified it fit to drink.
                      

SO HE ACTUALLY SAID THIS

Lights Out in Nigeria by Chimamanda Adichie

 

LAGOS, Nigeria — WE call it light; “electricity” is too sterile a word, and “power” too stiff, for this Nigerian phenomenon that can buoy spirits and smother dreams. Whenever I have been away from home for a while, my first question upon returning is always: “How has light been?” The response, from my gateman, comes in mournful degrees of a head shake.

Bad. Very bad.

The quality is as poor as the supply: Light bulbs dim like tired, resentful candles. Robust fans slow to a sluggish limp. Air-conditioners bleat and groan and make sounds they were not made to make, their halfhearted cooling leaving the air clammy. In this assault of low voltage, the compressor of an air-conditioner suffers — the compressor is its heart, and it is an expensive heart to replace. Once, my guest room air-conditioner caught fire. The room still bears the scars, the narrow lines between floor tiles smoke-stained black.

Sometimes the light goes off and on and off and on, and bulbs suddenly brighten as if jerked awake, before dimming again. Things spark and snap. A curl of smoke rises from the water heater. I feel myself at the mercy of febrile malignant powers, and I rush to pull my laptop plug out of the wall. Later, electricians are summoned and they diagnose the problem with the ease of a long acquaintance. The current is too high or too low, never quite right. A wire has melted. Another compressor will need to be replaced.

For succor, I turn to my generator, that large Buddha in a concrete shed near the front gate. It comes awake with a muted confident hum, and the difference in effect is so obvious it briefly startles: Light bulbs become brilliant and air-conditioners crisply cool.

The generator is electricity as electricity should be. It is also the repository of a peculiar psychology of Nigerian light: the lifting of mood. The generator is lord of my compound. Every month, two men filled with mysterious knowledge come to minister to it with potions and filters. Once, it stopped working and I panicked. The two men blamed dirty diesel, the sludgy, slow, expensive liquid wreathed in conspiracy theories. (We don’t have regular electricity, some say, because of the political influence of diesel importers.) Now, before my gateman feeds the diesel into the generator, he strains it through a cloth and cleans out bits of dirt. The generator swallows liters and liters of diesel. Each time I count out cash to buy yet another jerrycan full, my throat tightens.

I spend more on diesel than on food.

My particular misfortune is working from home. I do not have a corporate office to escape to, where the electricity is magically paid for. My ideal of open windows and fresh, breathable air is impossible in Lagos’s seething heat. (Leaving Lagos is not an option. I love living here, where Nigeria’s energy and initiative are concentrated, where Nigerians bring their biggest dreams.) To try to cut costs — sustainably, I imagine — I buy an inverter. Its silvery, boxlike batteries make a corner of the kitchen look like a physics lab.

The inverter’s batteries charge while there is light, storing energy that can be used later, but therein lies the problem: The device requires electricity to be able to give electricity. And it is fragile, helpless in the face of the water pump and microwave. Finally, I buy a second generator, a small, noisy machine, inelegant and scrappy. It uses petrol, which is cheaper than diesel, and can power lights and fans and freezers but only one air-conditioner, and so I move my writing desk from my study to my bedroom, to consolidate cool air.

Day after day, I awkwardly navigate between my sources of light, the big generator for family gatherings, the inverter for cooler nights, the small generator for daytime work.

Like other privileged Nigerians who can afford to, I have become a reluctant libertarian, providing my own electricity, participating in a precarious frontier spirit. But millions of Nigerians do not have this choice. They depend on the malnourished supply from their electricity companies.

In 2005, a law was passed to begin privatizing the generation and distribution of electricity, and ostensibly to revamp the old system rooted in bureaucratic rot. Ten years on, little has changed. Most of the companies that produce electricity from gas and hydro sources, and all of the distribution companies that serve customers, are now privately owned. But the link between them — the transmission company — is still owned by the federal government.

I cannot help but wonder how many medical catastrophes have occurred in public hospitals because of “no light,” how much agricultural produce has gone to waste, how many students forced to study in stuffy, hot air have failed exams, how many small businesses have foundered. What greatness have we lost, what brilliance stillborn? I wonder, too, how differently our national character might have been shaped, had we been a nation with children who took light for granted, instead of a nation whose toddlers learn to squeal with pleasure at the infrequent lighting of a bulb.

As we prepare for elections next month, amid severe security concerns, this remains an essential and poignant need: a government that will create the environment for steady and stable electricity, and the simple luxury of a monthly bill.

Insomnia linked to higher blood pressure

       People with chronic insomnia may be at increased risk for high blood pressure, a new study from China suggests.

The researchers found that people with chronic insomnia who took longer than 14 minutes to fall asleep had a 300 percent higher risk of high blood pressure. The longer they took to fall asleep, the greater their risk.

Although this study found a link between sleep troubles and high blood pressure, it wasn't designed to prove whether the lack of sleep actually caused the higher blood pressure.

Chronic insomnia is having sleeping difficulties for more than six months. The study included more than 200 people with chronic insomnia and almost 100 normal sleepers. Their average age was 40. They were assessed at West China Hospital, Sichuan University, in Chengdu, China.

While insomnia has long been regarded as a nighttime sleep disorder, some studies suggest it is a state of 24-hour higher (or hyper) arousal, the study authors said.

The study is the first to examine whether insomnia with physiological hyper-arousal - defined as a longer time to fall asleep - is linked to high blood pressure. The findings were published Jan. 26 in the journal Hypertension.

"Although insomniacs complain of fatigue and tiredness during the day, their problem is that they cannot relax and that they are hyper," study co-author Dr. Alexandros Vgontzas, a professor of sleep research and treatment in the department of psychiatry at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine in Hershey, Pa., said in an American Heart Association news release.

"Measures that apply in sleep-deprived normal sleepers - napping, caffeine use or other stimulants to combat fatigue - do not apply in insomniacs. In fact, excessive caffeine worsens the hyper-arousal," Vgontzas added.

Buhari Boycotts Presidential Debate

 Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), will not be featuring in the presidential debate organised by the Broadcast Organisation of Nigeria (BON). According Garba Shehu, directorate of media and publicity of the APC presidential campaign organisation, the boycott is due to the “unhidden bias and campaign of calumny by some key organisers of the programme, against the corporate political interest of the party (APC) and its candidates”.

Shehu argued that the Nigeria Election Debate Group (NEDG) powered debate was fraught with fundamental errors from the outset, by wearing the toga of government control, especially being composed mainly of agencies and allies of the incumbent Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) administration.

“A salutary inspection of the composition of NEGD brings into focus the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON), National Television Authority (NTA), Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) and the Africa Independent Television (AIT, owned by a PDP chieftain),” he said.

“And going by the avalanche of inflammatory statements, misinformation and blatant lies being propagated by some of these media against our party and candidates contrary to the Koffi Annan-brokered Abuja Peace Accord, and the failure of these aggressors to desist and apologise, have left the APC campaign with no option than to steer clear of any premeditated smear campaign that could be inimical to our prospective electoral success.”

He urged the public not to see the APc boycott as disrespect for Nigerian voters or an alibi for the party to dodge public scrutiny, but to view it as an honourable right not to consent to any activity that could distract, demean, denigrate or derail the fast-moving train of the party.

He described APC as a party of progressive intellectuals, genuine technocrats, successful businessmen and women, and most of all eminent and courteous people of honour who would never condescend to the level of sadistic gutter propaganda, all in the name of political exigency and crass opportunism.

He also noted that many government-controlled media have clipped the wings of APC promotional advertisements on one excuse on the other, and until a court upturned their decision recently, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) shut down some telecom portals for soliciting legitimate campaign funds from members of the public for APC.

“Aside, elements close to sitting President Goodluck Jonathan have commissioned series of derogatory and death threat advertorials against the person, family and associates of the opposition leader, General Muhammadu Buhari, to which the APC had sent letters of complaint to the Inspector General of Police, the Director General of State Security, Advertisers Practitioners of Nigeria (APCON), Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the erring media that published or aired such offensive adverts or documentaries,” he said.

“None of our letters of protest has been attended to by the authorities. So whatever the incumbent president wants to do with the instrument of state to harass members of the opposition into humiliating submission would not work. The APC/Buhari campaign is now a people’s movement. The more they try to rubbish it, the more popular we are with the populace.

“We are not shadow-chasers or moonwalkers. The APC is concerned mainly with the lack of unity and security in Nigeria; plus the growing decimation of lives, property and territory of our great country due to preventable insurgency; the slumbering economy; decaying educational system; absence of jobs; poor public health; and the cancerous institutionalisation of corruption in our national life. You can’t fool the people all the time. Nigerians will vote out their oppressors come February 14.”

Enyeama and son playing FIFA 15 together

Saw this on Instagram,thought i share it

Heartbreaking pic of 8-month old baby who survived BH attack

   
8-month-old Afiniki lost her arm during a Boko Haram attack in Chakawa village, a christian village in Plateau state on January 26th 2014.

It isn't just a work of art

      
Original copy of John Hinde's photo of Milk maids at the back of the N10 note...

Photo credit: SMSN

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Certificate Saga:My critics should go to court and remain there-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari

           

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the February 14 presidential election, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Tuesday said that Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has nothing new to offer if given another four years as the party has failed to deliver on promises it has been making to Nigerians for almost 16 years.

Buhari said this while receiving in audience a delegation of members of the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM) who were in his office to adopt him as their candidate for the 2015 presidential election.

According to him, whether or not the Nigerian elite is willing to admit it, the 2015 elections represent a watershed in the nation's political history.

He said, 'What you have said summarises the problems of this country. You have looked carefully and found out that this year, 2015, whichever way politicians and the elite look at it, is another time or watershed in our political system.

'If we get it wrong this time, and allow the PDP to go again for the next four years, this country is going to be in trouble. Right now, with the unfortunate event of crumbling oil price, the economy is really in a mess. Coupled with insecurity, it is only a country like Nigeria that can survive and get out of this situation we are in. A lot of countries will just disappear either from the map or from the political equation of nation states. But Nigerians are so resilient to the extent that there are international personalities who could not understand why Nigeria still exists.

'There was a former UN Secretary General who said that if he retires, he will go to Nigeria because, according to him, what is happening to Nigeria, no other country can go through it and survive.'

Buhari added, 'The 16 years of the PDP has been hell. Remember that we use to have Nigeria Airways, Nigeria Railways, Nigeria Shipping Line. Try and find out how much we have spent on power in the last 16 years from the vast resources we accumulate over that period because the price of oil went up to 142 dollars per barrel.

'What did we do with that money? We said that we paid debts with billions of Naira. If that amount was put into infrastructure such as power, roads, railways, farming etc, the amount of job it will create would be enormous. Today, some of our youths have become danger to the society because of lack of jobs. I hope the elite will properly document these 16 years as presenting the worst leadership this country has ever witnessed.'

Buhari noted that for Nigeria to develop, there must be a conscious effort to plan for the youths who, he said, constituted 65 per cent of the nation's population.

He also said that the decision of his opponents to resort to personal attacks did not come to him as a surprise because 'this is Nigeria.'

The candidate said, 'I am not surprised. This is Nigeria, if people are serious about this (certificate) issue; they ought to have listened to the legal adviser of INEC.

'This is the fourth time, I'll run for this office and INEC by law have got those documents. They (INEC) said they have got them. Anybody who has any different idea should go to court. They are now in court, let them remain there.'

Buhari also commended the PDM for coming out to join him in his quest to rescue Nigeria.

He told the delegation that he was delighted that the political family which former Vice President Atiku Abubakar was leading had formally declared support for him.

He revealed that he had tried to get them on board through Atiku who he described as 'your senior colleague, the Turakin Adamawa.'

Earlier, the leader of the delegation, Bashir Ibrahim, who is also the national chairman of the party, said the delegation took the decision to support Buhari at a National Executive Committee meeting.

He said, 'The NEC of our party, at its meeting of January 22, 2015 noted that the party has no presidential candidate for the election of February 14. It considered and accepted the need to support a candidate in order to save Nigeria for imminent collapse and give it a new lease of life.'

Meanwhile, the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation has alerted the nation's security agencies of a plot to use thugs to embarrass Buhari.

According to the APC campaign, the plot is aimed at disrupting the campaign rally of its candidate scheduled to hold in Taraba State on Wednesday (today).

This was contained in a statement issued by the Directorate of Media and Publicity of the Campaign organisation.

It was signed by its Director, Mallam Garba Shehu. He said the APC Campaign got wind of a plan to use thugs to throw stones and sachets of water at the Buhari team when it visits the state.

Holocaust Memorial Day: commemorating the liberation of Auschwitz

 
On Sunday Gavin spoke at Luton’s Holocaust Memorial Day observance service, with the theme of keeping the memory alive. Today marks 70 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Read his address from the service below.
This time last week I stood in a land of great lament. A land with a rich oral history. I was in Israel. And, today, I am struck by the power of choosing to tell the stories of our past – so they’re not forgotten and so they can shape our future.
Today we gather to remember. Because the alternative is to forget.
And when confronted with such pain, to forget almost becomes logical. To ignore can become rational. To deny, conversely, can become plausible.
This is human nature. But that is why, today, we stand here, in this room. Why we, here in this place, choose to remember, despite the pain it confronts us with. The shocking truth we must face.
That man can do this unto man; that we – each of us – bear not only the perceived imperfections that could lead us to find ourselves the concentration camp inhabitant; and the corrupted and defaced human power to be the concentration camp guard.
The theme of this year’s HMD commemorations is to keep the memory alive. It asks us to stand still and experience the dissonance, the confusion, and the reality of what we do to us; of what humanity is capable of.
It is a time when we seek to learn the lessons of the past and to recognise that genocide does not just take place on its own. That it’s a steady process which can begin if discrimination, racism and hatred are not checked and prevented. And in this time of hate; of easy answers and of identifiable groups to blame; it asks us to remember.
There is nothing more powerful than telling the stories that shape our today-history; our cultural conscience. Let this be our oral history.
1941: HOLOCAUST (1)
Between 1941 and 1945, the Nazis attempted to annihilate all of Europe’s Jews. It was systematic and planned. From the time they assumed power in 1933, the Nazis used propaganda, persecution, and legislation to deny human and civil rights.
They used centuries of anti-Semitism as their foundation. By the end of the Holocaust, millions of Jewish men, women and children had perished in ghettos, mass-shootings, in concentration camps and extermination camps.
Nazi beliefs categorised people by race; their opposition to racial mixing was part-justification for their hatred against Jews, Gypsies (Romani), Slavic and Black, disabled and gay people who lived in Germany.
1975: CAMBODIA (2)
The radical communist Khmer Rouge, under their leader Pol Pot, seized power in Cambodia in 1975. The population was made to work as labourers in one huge federation of collective farms. The inhabitants of towns and cities were forced to leave. The ill, disabled, old and very young were driven out, regardless of their physical condition. Children were taken from their parents and placed in separate forced labour camps. Lawyers, doctors, teachers, engineers, scientists and professional people in any field were murdered, together with their extended families.

Together with Kelvin Hopkins MP, Gavin attends Luton’s Holocaust Memorial Day commemorations

It was possible for people to be shot simply for knowing a foreign language, wearing glasses, laughing, or crying. Civilian deaths in this period, from execution, disease, exhaustion and starvation, have been estimated at well over two million.
1994: RWANDA (3)
In 100 days in 1994 approximately one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were murdered in the genocide in Rwanda. The genocide took place following decades of tensions between Hutus and Tutsis, and a recent history of persecution and discrimination against Tutsis. Extremist Hutu leaders accused Tutsis of killing the President, and Hutu civilians were told by radio and word of mouth that it was their duty to wipe out the Tutsis.
This genocide was carried out almost entirely by hand, usually using machetes and clubs. Frequently the killers were people they knew – neighbours, workmates, former friends, sometimes even relatives through marriage.
Each of these stories is shocking. But perhaps more so is what is going on today. Remembering forces us to engage the shocking part with the urgent now. For genocide is a fact of our world, and not just history
GENOCIDE TODAY (4)
IRAQ
In Iraq, today, IS fighters, who have already driven out Christians from their ancestral homes in northern Iraq been especially targeting the Yazidis. The Yazidis are the latest victims of the brutal advance by the Islamic State, formerly the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, whose Sunni Muslim fighters have been targeting Iraq’s Christians and other minority groups, as well as Shiite Muslims.
ISIS captured the Yazidi towns of Sinjar and Zumar, killing nearly 2,000 and forcing 200,000 to flee into the nearby mountains without food and water. Other atrocities include beheadings, rapes, and being sold into slavery.
MYANMAR
The Rohingya are a Muslim ethnic minority of one million people that has lived in Rakhine state for centuries, but they face systematic religious and ethnic discrimination there. The Rohingya are not a recognized ethnic minority and are, therefore, robbed of the rights inherent in citizenship.
During 2012, violence increased against Rohingya and other Muslims in the Rakhine State, and the Pullitzer Center on Crisis Reporting said the Rohingyas have become one of the most oppressed ethnic groups in the world.
NIGERIA
Boko Haram (literally translated as “Western Education is a Sin”) is a genocidal criminal movement, who has vowed to destroy every Christian school in Nigeria, and to carry out terrorist attacks on Nigerian government police and government officials.

In Borno state, northeastern Nigeria, Boko Haram has murdered over 1,500 people in the past year, and over 3,000 in the past five years.  It kidnapped over 200 girls from a Christian school in April 2014 and despite the Nigerian government’s efforts, none have been found.
The leader of Boko Haram has taken “credit” for the kidnappings and says more Christian girls will be kidnapped and sold into sex slavery in neighboring Cameroun.  In May 2014 it began a new wave of kidnappings and bombings.  The leader claims that he is Muslim, but he has been denounced by every Muslim leader in Nigeria.
This is the reality of Genocide today; so what may be our response?
We come back to remembering; for in remembering, we see the age old patterns of human nature – and our ability to dehumanise. The great power we have to create, and the shocking power to destroy. We see parallels in the past time – and our own time. Heroes who find the grace and bravery to oppose scapegoating. Men and women of planned evil. Most of us, caught between the high calling of opposition, and the cost.
But it is not just history. It is defiance. Our act of remembering today is not some passive pastime, but an activity of defiance. A stance: a statement.
This time last week, I stood in Jerusalem – overlooking some of the most holy sites of Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths. Its history is one of capture and recapture. Of conflict and division. But in the surrounding litter of buildings, of subverted ownership, there lies hope – even today.
These places stand on a testament to a history – a hope even – that despite our humanity’s nature; the divine is sought. We stand humbly today and ask for long memories, keeping short accounts, and asking for hope – and peace at last.
 

Ogbomosho:8 burnt to death

                     
A diesel tanker which collided with three other vehicles earlier today left at least 8 persons burnt to death beyond recognition.

The Next President Must be Younger Than Me-GEJ

       

                                  

The president said this at the PDP presidential rally in Nassarawa state,where he also gave the  little boy pictured above scholarship for life

 

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NAFDAC Intercepts And Seizes 4*40ft & 1*20ft Containers Of Fake Drugs At Apapa

NAFDAC has intercepted and seized 4*40ft and 1*20ft containers filled with various unregistered and suspected fake drugs.

Addressing the press, the DG NAFDAC, said the four containers were sighted by NAFDAC officials at the APM terminal and the contents

1. Heragra 120mg tablets in 1 40ft container
2. Ziagra 120mg tablets in 1 40ft container
3. Diclofenac 50mg in 1 40ft container
4. Tramadol 200mg capsules 1 40ft container

Also, the DG highlighted that unregistered Zahigra and Heragra brands of sildenafil citrate tablets is usually registered in 25mg, 50mg and 100mg. However, the fake one came in at a strenght of 120mg.

In line with the above, he further stressed that the intercepted drugs can cause increase d BP, ulceration of the gastrointestinal tract etc.

Also one Akintunde Smith was arrested for faking Alomo bitters.

APC members defect to PDP in Niger,Kebbi

Thousands of members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Niger and Kebbi States.

While 2,000 members left the APC for the PDP in Suleja, 2,750 members also defected to the PDP in Koko/Besse Local Government Area of Kebbi state.

Speaking on behalf of the defectors in Suleja, Niger State, a three-time chairman of the local government area, Alhaji Abdullahi L. Suleiman, said they had to leave the APC because the party had no direction, adding that they were also made to swear by the Quran to abide by rules and directives from the party.

“APC is the only party that will make you swear with the Quran to abide by rules and directives of the party, which we did but when we discovered that it is all deceit, we had to leave the party back to the PDP where we left from.
“We had to return to the party that we can see its structures and development on ground, because there is no ward in the 25 local government councils in the state that has not received dividend of democracy through the Ward Development Project,” he explained.

He also stated that the over 2,000 decampees are from ten wards in the state adding that more would join them.

According to Suleiman, he was not financially induced to return to the PDP, adding that he returned because of his conviction that PDP has better things in stock for the people of the state.

He stated that people are worried about the continuity of some of the policies of the Niger State Governor, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, adding that voting for the APC will mean discontinuation of the policies like paying of NECO and WAEC fees, which is difficult for some parents to pay.

Speaking after he received them into the party, Aliyu said most people, who left the PDP felt that the popularity of the APC because of the Presidential candidate was going to ‘catch fire’ but when reality dawned on them that it’s a party revolving around one person they had to come back home. “They had to come back to what they are used to.”

In Kebbi State, the spokesperson for the defectors, Alhaji Maikano Koko, told Governor Saidu Dakingari in Koko yesterday that the defection was sequel to the numerous development projects sited in the area by the current administration.

He said the PDP-led government had provided infrastructural facilities while giving attention to agriculture and youth empowerment.

Koko also said the defectors decided to join the PDP due to the equitable provision of state resources.

Also speaking, the state Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Bello Doya, assured the defectors that they would be treated fairly, saying “ the PDP family cherishes honesty and fairness among members. “

Doya, who called on the new members to shun money politics, said “ we need trust worthy leaders who fear God and can impact positively on the lives of the people.’’

In his remarks, Dakingari commended those who defected and promised them equal treatment.

“Political activities are for development to take place and not primitive accumulation of wealth to the detriment of the generality of the people.

“We would sustain prudence and equity in leadership,’’ he said.

He urged the defectors to eschew violence and politics of blackmail and thuggery, stressing that peace was paramount to the nation’s existence and development.

The PDP governorship candidate in the state, Sarkin-Yaki Bello, promised to lead by example if elected.

Bello, who said he would consolidate on the gains recorded by the present administration in the state, advised those who defected to ensure that they collected their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs).

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), thousands of APC supporters recently defected to the PDP in Sakaba, Fakai and Shanga Local Government Areas of the state.


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Wizkid's girlfriend caught in the act

Beta pikin crooner,Harry song  shared this picture of himself and beautiful Tania doing justice to amala.She couldn't hide the enjoyment as seen from her smile.

APC members feeling Soft

During the meeting of the APC presidential campaign council at the party’s campaign headquarters in Abuja, on Monday, January 26, it was all smiles and back-slapping among the leaders of the opposition party.

Present at the meeting, was the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Muhammadu Buhari, former Vice president, Atiku Abubakar, National leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Rivers state governor, Rotimi Amaechi, among others.

The purpose of the meeting, is believed to be centered around building a blueprint for the party’s final strategy as the general election is merely days away.

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Family killed on golf estate in Stellenbosch,South Africa

Cape Town - Three family members have been killed in their home on a private golf estate in Stellenbosch on Tuesday morning, Western Cape police said.

It is believed the father, 55, mother, 54, and 22-year-old son were attacked in their home in the De Zalze Golf Estate in the early hours of the morning, Lieutenant Colonel Andre Traut said.

News24 spoke to Lieutenant Colonel Traut who confirmed two siblings, a daughter of 16 and a son of 20, were injured and admitted to a nearby hospital.

The injured daughter has since been taken to Stellenbosch Mediclinic, and is in a critical condition, Eikestadnuus reported on Tuesday. She will later be transported to Vergelegen Mediclinic in Somerset West.

Lieutenant Colonel Traut, though, would not disclose how the family was killed, or a possible motive for the murders.

"We are not speculating at this stage. The forensic guys are still on the scene," he said.

No arrests had been made.

SAD:Former Super Eagles coach Musa Abdullahi passes on

                                                                

Former Assistant coach of the Super Eagles, Musa Abdullahi died on Sunday January 25 after years of battling from stroke. He died in his home state of Kogi.

Abdullahi assisted Coach Fanny Amun to lead Nigeria to a second FIFA Under-17 World Cup title in Japan in 1993. He also coached the Nigerian under 17 and 20 teams. May his soul rest in peace, Amen.

Resist postponement of polls, Emerhor urges Nigerians

As the February 2015 general elections draw closer , the Delta State All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor,  has given Deltans reasons why they should kick out the People Democratic Party (PDP).

According to him, the ruling party has failed the people for the past 16 years, adding that virtually all aspects of the economy has been destroyed by PDP, while reminding his supporters that February 28 is a very important date in the history of political electioneering in Delta State.

The APC governorship candidate said, “For 16 years PDP led government in Delta State has suffered us. There is no food on our table. There are no jobs for our children. They have been telling us stories all these years. All the promises they have been making are in the pipelines.

Our youths decided to cut the pipelines, but they did not see any promises. They later started fighting our youths. Is it not the promise they said is in the pipelines that the youths wanted to collect?”

He faulted the amnesty programme of the Federal Government, saying it only favoured the Ijaw people in the Niger Delta, pointing out that President Jonathan’s administration under the PDP has not brought any development to South-South where he claimed to have come from.

Emerhor who is also the vice chairman of Standard Assurance Group, noted that PDP failed the nation when it refused to provide jobs for the youths in the country, attributing the high rate of insecurity to the high rate of unemployment in the country.

According to him, “There are no jobs for our youth that is why there is so much trouble in the country. Our children must have something to do.  PDP government has suffered us for the past 16 years. They have also threatened to suffer us for the next one hundred years. Is that not what they said? But God will not allow them to succeed.”

Emerhor revealed that the opposition political party is making plans to postpone the elections because they have found out that they will lose if the election holds in February, emphasizing that PDP cannot stop or postpone the election.

He said: “God has opened the red sea and they are about to drown. So they are now asking that the elections should be postponed. But we will not accept their ill-motivated agenda because we are fully prepared for this elections. We have only 20 days for a new government under General Buhari to take over. Now they are afraid of the elections. But we must conduct the election.”

Continuing, Emerhor said that Delta State people are clamoring for change because PDP has failed the people in the state. He stressed that Deltans are  mobilizing for him to win the gubernatorial elections because he has the interest of the state at heart.

According to the APC governorship candidate, “For the past 16 years PDP has been selling the same idea over and over again. They do not have new ideas. All of them are from the same establishment. They do not have anything to offer you anymore.”.

Olorogun Emerhor noted that he is going to come up with new business ideas because of his solid background in the revival of ailing and moribund companies and establishments for over three decades.

He said: “I am coming from the business background. I have built businesses, evidence of which you will find in Lagos. I will ensure that government will be a public-private participation. I will ensure that in my first one hundred days in office I will inject one billion Naira into private sector. We will use it to support and empower our youths and women.”

Chief Ede Dafinone, Chief Frank Kokori, Hon. Cyril Ogodo, Halim Agoda and others who spoke at the rally called on the people of Okpe to vote for all APC candidates.

Boko Haram:US halts Isreali Aid to Nigeria,blocks purchase of military helicopters from Isreal

Twenty Four hours after US Secretary of State, John Kerry met President Goodluck Jonathan and former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, pledging his country’s determination to work with Nigeria and other countries to end activities of the Boko Haram terrorists, the Israeli media, yesterday, revealed that the US stopped Nigeria’s purchase of Chinook military helicopters from Israel to fight Boko Haram.

The sale/transfer of such aircraft required a review by the US, to determine its “consistency with US policy interests,” Obama administration officials told The Jerusalem Post.

It quoted White House Assistant Press Secretary and Director for Strategic Communications, Ned Price, as saying that reviews of such kind take place in the case of “any requests for one country to transfer US-origin defence items to another country.”
Nigeria’s largest arms purchase ever reported was from Israel in 2007, in a deal with Aeronautics Systems worth $260 million. That company is Israeli, however, not American.

A single Chinook costs roughly $40 million to produce.
Vanguard had reported the Nigerian military in the past as saying that the country also resorted to training its security personnel on terrorist encounters in Russia and China because of the refusal of the US administration to sell arms to the government following “unfounded allegations of human rights violations by our troops,” among others.

However, the reports quoted unnamed Nigerian officials as also saying that the US blocked the order “after the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had initially approved the purchase.”

Policy directives
US officials told The Jerusalem Post that such transfers must be consistent with a policy directive revised by President Barack Obama in January, which outlines the criteria for conventional weapons sales.

The policy requires US transfers, including Boeing aircraft, to take into account “the risk that significant change in the political or security situation of the recipient country could lead to inappropriate end-use” of the weapons.



While the Nigerian report suggests Abuja sought the purchase of Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopters, Israel predominantly uses Sikorsky CH-53 aircraft for missions involving heavy-lift transport. Both Boeing and Sikorsky are American companies.

Israeli laws concerning the export of arms is less restrictive than those in the United States. Israel, however, is a member of the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms and, in 2009, reported to the body that Israel, in practice, refrains from transfers “where there is imminent risk that arms might be internally diverted, illegally proliferated and re-transferred, or fall into the hands of terrorists or entities and states that support or sponsor them.”

Sixteen nations operate the Chinook helicopter, none of which are in sub-Saharan Africa.
Nigerian officials were reported as saying that “we had even tried to procure arms from Russia but this was stalled because of the Ukrainian crisis, thus compelling us to turn to other nations like Israel. But even this has been frustrated by the US.”

They further said it was not just in the area of arms procurement that US has been most unhelpful, adding that contrary to its public stance that it was assisting in the rescue operations of the abducted Chibok secondary school girls, it has done nothing significant to help Nigeria in this regard.
Other intelligence sources also cited the fact that the US has refused to share intelligence with Nigerian security forces in a timely manner.

They said: “When we complained, they started sharing some intelligence, but days after such intelligence is of little value”.
Boko Haram gained notoriety around the world after its militants kidnapped 276 students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State in April last year. The US sent military personnel to assist in finding the girls.

Amnesty connection
In August, Amnesty International said it had gathered video footage, images and testimonies that “implicates the Nigerian military in war crimes” which the Nigerian government vehemently denied.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said in Nigeria recently that the United States remains committed to helping the government combat Boko Haram.

“We are engaging with the Nigerian government at all levels to identify areas of counter-terrorism cooperation,” other state officials earlier said.
This was contrary to what the US ambassador to Nigeria James Entwistle told reporters last October while speaking on the refusal by his country to sell high calibre weapons to Nigeria. Entwistle told reporters that “the kind of question that we have to ask is, let’s say we give certain kinds of equipment to the Nigerian military and that is then used in a way that affects the human situation, if I approve that, I’m responsible for that. We take that responsibility very seriously.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/01/boko-haram-us-halts-israeli-aid-nigeria/

Peter Obi Slams Soludo Over Recent Article

Former governor of Anambra state, Peter Obi has hit back at ex-CBN Governor Charles Soludo, who said that Obi built no signature project in Anambra State during his tenure. He described the former governorship aspirant as a man haunted by his past.

Obi’s reaction came through his Media Assistant, Valentine Obienyem. He described the article by Professor Charles Soludo as full of evidence of one who is still nursing deep hatred against those he wrongly assumed were responsible for not renewing his appointment as the Governor of the Central Bank and those that thwarted his move towards becoming the Governor of Anambra State last year.

While he agreed with some of the points raised by the former CBN boss, Obi regretted that the aim of the write-up was not to instruct or contribute to positive national discourse, but to hit back at those he is nursing secret grudges against.

“Talking about signature project, Obi has them in abundance. He built over 30 bridges, built the State Secretariat, built the teaching hospital, built the permanent site of the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu University, rebuilt Iyienu, Borromeo hospitals, Holy Rosary and St Joseph hospitals; and Our Lady of Lourdes among many hospitals with signature structures dotting them,” Obienyem stated.

“Beyond the foregoing, Soludo should be told that Obi did much more in areas that are far more important than mere structures. He returned schools to the Church and committed billions that could build any form of signature project of Soludo’s imagination. Because of this, Anambra State is today the number one in external examinations in the country.

“Moreover, he changed the psyche of the people of the State and removed Anambra State from her pariah status to one of the exemplary States in the country,” Obienyem said. He recalled how Soludo in 2013, said Obi was the foundation upon which the new Anambra State was built and commended him for changing the fortunes of the state. He therefore wondered why Soludo would just turn around and declare that the tragedy of Obi’s tenure was that he built no signature project.

Obienyem described as surprising, the fact that a renowned economist such as Soludo, who in the same write up, prided himself of saving $45 billion in the nation’s external reserves when he was Governor of CBN, in the same article, should condemn Obi for saving money for Anambra State.

“When he said he saved $45bn, does it mean that at that time Nigeria’s problems were over? Now oil price is falling and state’s allocation are bound to fall, Soludo should be told that the money Obi saved will be used to cushion the effect, among others reasons for states to save at all times. He also talked about clearing Nigerian debts without acknowledging that the architect of it is Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala who is still part of Jonathan’s Government”.

Peter Okoye and wife Lola,go to court

Just like Paul Okoye,Peter Okoye and wife Lola also  tied the knot in Ikoyi Registry last week
       

Cute Family Weekend

      

As the war against insurgents in some parts of Borno State continued yesterday with the military still carrying on the coordinated ground and air mop operations, our correspondent has learnt that another 53 terrorists were killed as they opened fire on troops combing the bushes.

Military sources said that the pursuit was an aftermath of the “diversionary terrorists attacks on Maiduguri and Konduga, which have led to the destruction of many lives, including some troops and the terrorists as well as properties.”

“Security sources confirmed that at least 53 more terrorists lost their lives as troops in pursuit of terrorists engaged those that fled and their additional reinforcements in the outskirts of Konduga and Maiduguri in a battle on Sunday night and yesterday’s morning.”

Several machine guns and anti-aircraft guns, as well as, improvised explosive devices were destroyed by the troops.

The source noted, "Health and emergency workers are having hectic challenges in evacuating terribly mangled corpses of the terrorists for mass burial."

Meanwhile, a tweet on the Twitter handle of Defence Headquarters disclosed that a substantial number of heavy weapons have been recovered in addition to the number of terrorists that died in the night fighting till Monday’s morning. 

It added unfortunately that Nigerian forces also recorded some casualty but that "troops and Air force patrol are still ongoing."

- See more at: http://www.aitonline.tv/post-insurgency__53_more_terrorists_killed_in_maiduguri_konduga_attacks#sthash.LHxxZtE1.dpuf

                                                       

As the war against insurgents in some parts of Borno State continued yesterday with the military still carrying on the coordinated ground and air mop operations, our correspondent has learnt that another 53 terrorists were killed as they opened fire on troops combing the bushes.

Military sources said that the pursuit was an aftermath of the “diversionary terrorists attacks on Maiduguri and Konduga, which have led to the destruction of many lives, including some troops and the terrorists as well as properties.”

“Security sources confirmed that at least 53 more terrorists lost their lives as troops in pursuit of terrorists engaged those that fled and their additional reinforcements in the outskirts of Konduga and Maiduguri in a battle on Sunday night and yesterday’s morning.”

Several machine guns and anti-aircraft guns, as well as, improvised explosive devices were destroyed by the troops.

The source noted, "Health and emergency workers are having hectic challenges in evacuating terribly mangled corpses of the terrorists for mass burial."

Meanwhile, a tweet on the Twitter handle of Defence Headquarters disclosed that a substantial number of heavy weapons have been recovered in addition to the number of terrorists that died in the night fighting till Monday’s morning. 

It added unfortunately that Nigerian forces also recorded some casualty but that "troops and Air force patrol are still ongoing."

- See more at: http://www.aitonline.tv/post-insurgency__53_more_terrorists_killed_in_maiduguri_konduga_attacks#sthash.LHxxZtE1.dpuf