Goodluck Fires Resident Doctors Over Ebola Virus (FULL NEWS HERE)

xtragist-President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan has fired all the resident doctors in Nigerian hospitals.

This was contained in a directive by His Excellency to the Federal Ministry of Health to suspend all residency training programme for Nigerian doctors.

The directive was stated in an internal memo dated August 13 and signed by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Health, L.N. Awute, to federal hospitals.

Awute said the sack came following an appraisal of the challenges currently facing the health sector.

“Mr. President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR has suspended the Residency Training Programme for Doctors in Nigeria indefinitely for the purposes of appraising the challenges facing the health sector”. Mr. Awute said.

XTRA GIST gathered that the development is not unconnected with the outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in the country and insistence of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, to go on with their strike despite the national health challenge.

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India celebrate 68th Independence Day

In what was a much-awaited Independence Day speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, sporting a bright orange saafa, focused on the theme of taking the nation forward in a spirit of togetherness. Calling himself the Pradhan Sevak of the country, he launched a scheme for MPs to develop one village in each of their constituencies as model villages.

On the development front, he launched the Jan Dhan Scheme to reach banking services to the poor and urged global companies to set up manufacturing bases in the country. He detailed plans for the replacement of the Planning Commission with an institution that would address the emerging economic needs of the country and strengthen its federal structure.  (thehindubusinessline)

He underlined the need to build separate toilets for girls in all schools so that they do not drop out for the lack of such a basic facility, and on the issue of rape, called on all parents to bring up their sons appropriately.

Ebola Virus Has Caused Bad Market - Prostitute

The commercial sex worker said that the prostitution business is suffering due to the disease

The Ebola scourge has struck fear in many hearts and Nigerian prostitutes have said that this is affecting their business.

The sex workers, under the umbrella of the Association of Nigerian Prostitutes, sent out a warning to all the women of the night in the country.

This was disclosed via a statement prepared after a meeting of the organization in Lagos on Monday.

It reads:

“Some of us met yesterday in Lagos to discuss on how to sensitize our members against the disease and we are calling on them to be very careful, if possible ‘hang boot’ for now till the federal government finds a lasting solution to the killer virus.

“Once a member contracts the dreaded virus, the entire country is in trouble, and to avoid that, we want both customers and patrons to be very careful.

”We will still be meeting in Agege, Lagos on Wednesday (today) to campaign against the killer disease, but we are still using this medium to call on all members of ANP to be guided accordingly as the government battles to conquer the disease.”

Meanwhile a prostitute in Lagos, identified as Franca, expressed her anger at Liberian, Patrick Sawyer to Daily Post.

She said:

“That Sawyer abi Na Suya sef, na Satan go punish am. The guy na bad market. Since this Ebola disease enter Nigeria, customers have been running from us.” “Ebola or no Ebola, man pikin must survive.”

Ebola was brought into Nigeria by Liberian-American, Sawyer who died in Lagos on July 25. 9jaeverytin

Osun APC: ‘Omisore Lost Fair And Square’

The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in Saturday’s governorship poll, Senator Iyiola Omisore, lost “fairly”.

The party was reacting to Omisore’s remarks that his defeat to Rauf Aregbesola of APC was due to the damage done to him and his party by the former Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in the state, Rufus Akeju.

Omisore said: “We had a situation where a clearly partisan REC had opened the entire electoral system to our opponent from the registration stage through data storage to personnel loading… Before he left, he did a lot of harm in the system that would take years to rectify”.

But in a statement yesterday by its Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy, Kunle Oyatomi, APC said: “To accuse the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and Akeju, especially, is the hallmark of a man in delusional stupor. He has not been able to climb down from his high horse of living a lie.

Untested Ebola therapies 'ethical'

Experimental therapies unproven as safe for human use can be offered to Ebola patients provided certain conditions are met, a World Health Organisation-convened panel has recommended in an effort to curtail the worst recorded outbreak of the disease.

West Africa is experiencing the most severe and complex outbreak of Ebola in history and if certain conditions are met - such as informed consent - it is ethical to offer "unproven" interventions, the panel of ethicists, medical experts and lay people concluded.

The panel said research efforts had been invested in developing drugs and vaccines for the disease over the past decade with some showing "promising" results in the laboratory, but they had not yet been evaluated for safety in human beings.

"In the particular circumstances of this outbreak, and provided certain conditions are met, the panel reached consensus that it is ethical to offer unproven interventions with as yet unknown efficacy and adverse effects, as potential treatment or prevention," the UN health agency said in a statement.

Kim Kardashian want to have second child&looking at $21m home for growing family

According to Us Weekly the 33-year-old beauty is ‘actively trying to get pregnant’ so that daughter North, aged one, can have a sibling.

The publication also claimed the Keeping Up With The Kardashians star is looking at pricy mansions near her mother Kris Jenner’s Hidden Hills spread so her growing family can be more comfortable. One property is in the $21m ballpark.

‘Kim wants North to have a sibling who isn’t too far apart in age,’ the insider claimed.

The Vogue cover woman is following in the footsteps of her older sister Kourtney who has had children back to back: in addition to Mason and Penelope, there is a third on the way for the 35-year-old TV star and her 31-year-old partner Scott Disick.

Making baby number two might be a struggle for Kim, however, since her husband Kanye West has been out of town so much for work

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Nigeria 2015 Polls: Jonathan Will win

By Terhemba Daka

Simon Imobo-Twswam is the national coordinator of the pro-Goodluck Jonathan group, Friends Of Our Nation, Democracy, Equity, Reason & Social Justice, (FOUNDERS) A former newspaper editor, Imobo-Twswam was, at various times, news editor of many national dailies, including Daily Trust and Leadership. Imobo-Twswam, now a pastor, spoke with TERHEMBA DAKA in Abuja on why FOUNDERS, is mobilizing support for President Jonathan's re-election bid in 2015.

Interview

You were in the media and without notice you just quit. Are you missing the industry?
Yes, I was in the media and worked in a number of newspaper houses, but it is not true that I left without notice. Could one totally leave the profession? I believe the newsroom has its own unique appeal; the thrill of news hunting, the excitement of being on top of a story, the exhilaration of a scoop, the creative tension of the deadline hour, the pure pleasure of seeing the news-copy ahead of your reader. This is why people say once a journalist, always a journalist.

What does FOUNDERS stand for? Is it another pro-Goodluck Jonathan outfit as it is being alleged?
We are not a pro-Goodluck Jonathan outfit per se. We have come out to take a stand for our country, Nigeria, our democracy; yes, we have come out to take a stand for reason, responsible politics as well as social justice. So on the surface, we may appear like another pro-Goodluck Jonathan group, but from a deeper look, we are a pro-Nigerian group, and we stand for all that is best for our dear country at this point in time.

Osun Governorship Poll: A Robbery Of The Highest Degree - PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate, Senator Iyiola Omisore have expressed dissatisfaction with the outcome of the Osun State governorship election held on Saturday, describing it as “a robbery of the highest order.” 

Omisore said the outcome of the election did not reflect the wishes of the people of the state, and vowed to challenge the result at the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal.

The state chairman of the party, Alhaji Ganiyu Olaoluwa, in a statement in Osogbo, yesterday, said the PDP would challenge the results released by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
Olaoluwa said the election was characterised by malpractices in many parts of the state, especially Osogbo and Ilesa.

He said the party had met and resolved that the results of the election be challenged at the tribunal, adding that the legal team of the party under the leadership of Chief Sunday Ojo-Williams met on the development and was already consulting with those that matter.

Read his statement in part:
“The PDP in Osun State reject the outcome of the last Saturday’s election in its totality and we are ready to contest it until the peoples mandate, which was stolen is returned.” 

Confab: Conference reconvenes to consider final report

The National Conference resumed today Monday  as delegates reconvene to consider the final report of the conference.

The conference had adjourned abruptly on July 14 without being able to reach agreement on two major controversial issues of resource control and the beneficiaries of the proposed intervention fund for states currently facing destruction as a result of attack by the members of the terrorist Islamic sect, Boko Haram.

The conference’s Assistant Secretary, Media and Communications, Mr. James Akpandem, had told one of our correspondents on Friday that the final report of the conference, which he said was up of four volumes, was ready.

He said copies of the report were being produced and that each delegate would be given copies on resumption.

However, the delegates would be reconvening amid the Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in the country with members expressing fears concerning their health.

A female delegate, who called our correspondent to register her concern said, “I hope that the conference will take into note the need to avoid the spread of Ebola at the conference.
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My Message To Jonathan, PDP - Aregbesola

Osun State governor elect, Rauf Aregbesola, has described his victory in Saturday’s election as a “strong message” to President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) adding “no might is powerful enough to thwart the will of the people”.

Aregbesola who made the statement after being declared winner of the Osun governorship election on Sunday morning expressed reservations on the massive security deployment for the poll, describing it as unnecessarily tense, tortuous and traumatic.

The governor warned that nobody or party must  exercise power unreasonably at any level except in accordance with the will of the people.

Read his statement in part:
“Our victory is due to the steadfastness and resolute determination of our people to assert and defend their rights. The PDP obviously did all it could in a most desperate manner to steal the people’s mandate.” 

Klose quits international duty

Nation - Veteran German striker, Miroslav Klose, has called time on his national career at the age of 36, Goal reports.

The forward became the all-time World Cup top scorer in Germany’s triumphant campaign in Brazil in July, surpassing Ronaldo’s previous 15 goals haul in the tournament.

He is the second member of the Germany World Cup winning team to quit international football, after captain Phillip Lahm, who announced his international retirement few days  after the team from South America.

However, the Poland-born Klose will continue to play for his Italian seria A side – Lazio.

Barcelona say Vermaelen not ready to train

Barcelona’s new signing Thomas Vermaelen has an injured right hamstring and will not begin to train with the first team, the Spanish club said Monday.

The 28-year old Belgium international defender, who completed his move to Barcelona from Arsenal on Sunday, picked up the injury during the World Cup in Brazil, the club said in a statement.

Vermaelen will undergo physiotherapy, it added. “His presence in training sessions will depend on how his recovery progresses,” Barcelona said.

Vermaelen, who had been at Arsenal for five years, and captain for the past two seasons, said during his presentation at the Nou Camp on Sunday that he wanted to draw a line under an injury-plagued spell.
“I want to put the injuries I have had behind me and look to the future. My aim is to play in lots of games and help the team,” he said.

“Last year was tough, but I want to start from zero and I am sure I’ll have a fantastic season here at Barcelona.”

Vermaelen made only 21 appearances last season as niggling injuries and the form of Laurent Koscielny and Per Mertesacker limited his impact.

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(Photo) Tinubu, Fashola Celebrating Aregbesola’s Victory

Ashiwaju Bola Tinubu national leader of All Progressive Congress and Lagos state Governor, Babatunde Fashola celebrating victory of the Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Lagos yesterday.

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Osun Election: Why Aregbesola won

IT is no longer news that Governor Rauf Aregbesola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) comfortably beat Senator Iyiola Omisore of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to retain his seat for another 48 months in power in weekend’s Osun State polls. What perhaps is news is the avalanche of reasons for Aregbesola’s convincing victory.

The reasons include: Aregbesola’s modest performance in the last four years; mismanagement of crisis in the PDP and failure to pacify aggrieved leaders like former governors Isiaka Adeleke and Olagunsoye Oyinlola, who had to defect to the APC; failure of the PDP to make capital out of the religious card occasioned by

Aregbesola’s re-classification of schools; Aregbesola’s deft grassroots support; Omisore’s Bola Ige’s baggage; the governor’s work in Osogbo; and APC’s loss in Ekiti, which served as a wake-up call leading the leaders to apply useful lessons learnt from the Ekiti episode where PDP’s Ayo Fayose beat APC’s Governor Kayode Fayemi.

This came as Presidency, yesterday, described last Saturday as a very painful day for it and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, following the victory of Governor Rauf Aregbesola of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in that day’s gubernatorial election.

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