UK COLUMNIST RAISES CONTROVERSY ABOUT GOD AND EBOLA

Michelle Hanson, a UK Guardian columnist wrote this article, she tried to question the existence of God on why God could save two Americans from Ebola and leave another 1,200 Africans die of the same Ebola virus. The writer, said she gave up on God many years ago. Read the article below...

"Lucky Dr Kent Brantly, the American doctor who has recovered from Ebola, having been given a dose of the experimental antibody serum Zmapp, whizzed home to the US, and given another dose. He is now thanking God for saving his life. Through the medical team and drugs, he admits, but ultimately, it seems, God was in charge. And he chose Brantly, not the other 1,200 mainly west African people who have died horribly, which seems a bit picky." Continue...

WORD FOR TODAY

The season of failure is the best time for sowing seeds of success. Paramahansa Yogananda.
When i read this quote all i imagined was the flowers above(pictured above) dying out. All the things I thought were good suddenly dies out and i have to start all over again, it is totally a devastating state of mind.

In life, a season of failure must come marital failure, financial failure,etc that is certain, if we stay stuck in failure is our choice. It is very possible to rise above failure, if you can retract your step and find out what went wrong.
It is okay to cry, feel angry and devastated when things go wrong but we cannot wallow in them and suppress ourselves to depression, we need to get back on our feet and make it right.
I believe everything is for a reason, see a season of failure as a time for the Almighty to manifest in those challenges, it is a season for His Glory to shine Through You. He is always with us(Emmanuel) even in our seasons of failure but we must believe, and not give up, pray and work hard. It may take months, years or days for your success season to arrive but it will surely come if you believe and surrender it all.
When a plants die out what does a farmer do, he clears his land of the dead crops and weeds, and tills the land afresh to begin a new planting season.

The plants are dead, lets us prepare for another planting season. May God bless our Lands to bring forth good fruit.

I leave you with Proverbs 3:5-7

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BEWARE OF BOKO HARAM MEMEBERS DRESSED AS REVEREEND SISTERS SAYS DSS

The Spokesperson for the Department of State Service(DSS) Marlyin Ogar has released a statement, warning Nigerians to be vigilant of Boko Haram members dressed in Catholic Reverend Sister's dress. The warning came as a result of stolen Nun dresses in Sabon gari part of Kano state. Read statement below:

 “On 20th August, 2014, about 0400 hours, some unidentified persons broke into a tailoring shop located at No.55 Odutola Street, Sabon Gari, Kano, and stole about 13 pieces of Catholic Church Reverend Sisters’ regalia.

“With the recent trend of female suicide bombings in the country, the theft of these regalia heightens concerns about the possibility of terrorist elements using same to perpetrate acts of terror.

“Consequently, this Service wishes to draw the attention of the public to this development and to call on all citizens to be more circumspect and exercise greater vigilance with users of such peculiar attires.

“We therefore enjoin all to continue to cooperate with law enforcement agencies through the provision of useful information on suspicious activities within their immediate environment.

“This Service will continue to collaborate with all stakeholders as we strive to keep our country safe.”

WORD FOR TODAY

Our heavenly Father Understands our disappointment, Suffering, Pain, Fear and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that he is sufficient for all our needs.When i accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, i found that my worrying stopped. Charles Stanley

Happy Sunday.....

EBOLA: TWO MORE EBOLA CASES CONFIRMED

In a press conference in Lagos yesterday, Jide Idris, the state’s Health Commissioner, told journalists that five new suspected Ebola virus cases were brought to the isolation ward of the Yaba Mainland Hospital in Lagos on Tuesday, with two of these 5 cases being secondary contacts linked to Patrick Sawyer-the Liberian-American who imported the virus into the country.
The Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, has today confirmed two new cases of Ebola in the country.
Mr. Chukwu said the new cases are spouses of the primary contacts of the index case, Patrick Sawyer, adding that the new cases are the first secondary contacts to test positive to the deadly virus that has killed five people in Nigeria.

This brings the total number of cases in Nigeria to 14, with 5 deaths and 5 survivors.

NYSC: CORP MEMBERS TO DOWNLOAD CALL UP LETTERS ON-LINE

The Director General, National Youths Service Corps (NYSC), Brig-Gen. Johnson Olawunmi has stated that the registration of prospective corps members will be done online.

Addressing Batch B corps members at the NYSC orientation camp in Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State, Olawunmi said the next batch of corps members will not have to go to their respective institutions to collect call up letters, instead, they would simply log on to the NYSC portal, download and print the letters from there.

“Corp members will no longer have to go to their institutions to collect call up letters. He or she can register online from anywhere in the world and our portal will be ready by today. We are committed to ensuring that the scheme is fully digitized so that it can meet international standards”, he said.
The NYSC DG said the corps members  will take active part in the in the 2015 general elections process.
“No corps member should involve him/ herself in any act of misconduct and if anyone is caught receiving gratification from politicians, just to manipulate or give someone advantage, that person will not be spared. All necessary measures will be taken to guarantee your safety and security and you must be ready to face the challenges”, he said.

3DAYS OLD BABY STUNS MOTHER AND DOCTOR AS SHE FEEDS HERSELF

Baby Amara was born to Onyi Chiedozie, a single mother, on August 3rd at the Queen’s Hospital, Romford, Essex, weighing 6lb 3oz. 

Onyi Chiedozie, a Nigerian based in the UK has shared how her daughter Amara, learnt to feed herself at just 3 days old. Still less than three weeks old, the baby now regularly holds her bottle to feed and pushes it aside when she is full.

Onyi says;
“I just think she has a lot of strength, I’m not sure why though as she wasn’t particularly heavy when she was born. When she doesn’t want it she will push it away. She isn’t strong enough to throw it away, but she does push it away, like she does with her dummy. If she is really hungry, she starts shaking, then she will just grab the bottle as you give it to her.” Continue to see more pictures....

PHOTONEWS: LANDSLIDE IN JAPAN LEAVES 36 DEAD, 7 MISSING

A Huge Landslide in Japan has left over 36 people dead and another seven missing. The Landslide which happen earlier today 20th August, buried a dozens of houses in Western Japan, Hiroshima. Report says the Landslide happened after a torrential downpours in Hiroshima which led to the collapse of the hills (pictured above).

According to yahoonews, a spokesman for Hiroshima Police told AFP the death toll was still climbing.
"The figures may change as the rescue efforts continue," he warned.
The number of dead had risen rapidly from an initial four, which included a two-year-old boy.
Among the dead was a 53-year-old rescuer, who was killed by a secondary landslide after he had pulled five people to safety, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said.

Pictures showed there had been at least five different landslides. Some uprooted trees and carried rocks down the hillside into the tightly-packed houses that sit on the edge of a commuter belt, in an area where town gives way to farmland. Continue to see more pictures...

ISIS BEHEADS U.S JOURNALIST TO RETALIATE AIR STRIKES

The Islamic State insurgents released a video yesterday Tuesday August 19th purportedly showing the beheading of U.S. journalist James Foley (pictured above), who had gone missing in Syria nearly two years ago, and images of another U.S. journalist whose life they said depended on U.S. action in Iraq.
The video, titled "A Message To America," was posted on social media sites. It was not immediately possible to verify its authenticity.

Foley, who has reported in the Middle East for five years, was kidnapped on Nov. 22, 2012, by unidentified gunmen. Steven Sotloff, who appeared at the end of the video, went missing in northern Syria while he was reporting in July 2013. Continue...A Twitter account set up by his family to help find him said early on Wednesday: "We know that many of you are looking for confirmation or answers. Please be patient until we all have more information, and keep the Foleys in your thoughts and prayers." Continue...

NEW MAP FOR NIGERIA AS PROPOSED BY CONFAB

The National Confab in July made recommendations for the Nigerian states which was 36 to be increased to 54 by adding 18 more states to the Nation. Above is a copy of  the would be Nigerian map if the states are created.

The new states proposed by the conference are: Aba, to be carved out of the present Abia State; Katagum, from Bauchi State; Ijebu, from Ogun State; Amana, from former Sardauna Province; Apa, from Benue State; Anioma, from Delta State, Savannah, from Borno State; and Etiti, from South-East.

Njaba/Anim, from Anambra and Imo states; Gurara, from Kaduna State; Ghari, from Kano State; Adada from Enugu State, New Oyo from Oyo State; Orachi, from Rivers State; Ogoja, from Cross River State; and Kainji, from Kebbi and Niger states Ose state from Edo, Edu from Niger.

The Closing ceremony will take place tomorrow 21st August.

As a country with only 36 states we have so much trouble with tribalism and disagreements with regions and borders even with those in the same zone. Is the creation of these new 18 states, expected to bind us or separate? I believe the confab were sleeping when they passed this as a recommendation. Having said this it is still up to us to decide.

Nigerians do you want more States?

EBOLA UPDATE: FOUR VICTIMS DISCHARGED, U.S. TO PARTNER WITH NIGERIA TO FIGHT EBOLA

According to MDB, the Minister of health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, has today said that four patients undergoing treatment for the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) have been discharged .
Those discharged include two male medical doctors and a female nurse who helped to treat the index case Patrick Sawyer.
This brings to five the total number of patients diagnosed with Ebola Virus Disease who have now been discharged from hospital.

Meanwhile, the United States of America has pledge to collaborate with Nigeria in containing the spread of the Ebola Virus. The U.S Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr James Entwistle said this on Monday after a close door meeting with the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu. Though the Ambassador was not specific on the kind of help it would render or whether the Ebola experimental drug will be given to Nigeria.

AFRICANS ARE NOT WELCOME TO THE BAR DUE TO EBOLA VIRUS SAYS AN AMERICAN OWNED RESTAURANT IN KOREA

An American-owned restaurant in South Korea has caused controversy online after pictures of their discriminatory sign against Africans was uploaded on the Internet 2 days ago. The sign says  Africans are not welcome in the bar due to Ebola Virus. Everyone on twitter took a swipe at the bar owners, accusing them of ignorance and racism. 

Many are going as far as boycotting the bar since the sign was put up. See some reactions below... Africa you have some haters and Lovers...

WORD FOR TODAY

The Heart part 1

Above is the word for today. I pray that our hearts will always be open to love, quick to forgive no matter the hurt and that the slide of our hand touch will melt away the tears of people around us. 

Let your heart be not Like the the glasses that when it is shattered cannot be mended and when mended the (glued)scares remain, let it not be like the wood when it is broken and mended the piercing of the nails remain to hurt the next man, your heart is no paper that can be torn by the mere touch of a match stick, it should neither be hardened like the metal that cannot be broken nor moved by love.

Let your heart be deep and pure as the Oceans. Deep so that when the the glass, the wood, the paper falls into it, it disappears deep down, rusts,decays yet the surface of the oceans is pure still. And when the iron rod falls into your heart ocean, you take it and throw it away, no grudges. An Oceanic Heart can not be torn nor broken, but only separated which no man has done since the time of Moses.
Let your Ocean heart not be bitter to dig up rusted and decayed particles to the surface of the ocean to spite the fisherman because you not only spite them but yourself.
Let the heart be pure and deep without grudge, don't let the heart be pure and deep and dig up the rusty-dirt that are years gone.
When the heart is indeed truly pure the touch of the heart will be felt by the helms of earth and the realms of heavens. you. Let your heart be immersed in love and Eschew no evil thought.

Let this mind that was in Christ be in you. 

I leave you with this, Guard your hearts from them are the greatest evil conceived. 

Have a Fine day Lovelies.

AN IGBO MAN AS DEPUTY GOVERNOR IN LAGOS 2015 ELECTION- SAYS IGBO UNITED INITIATIVE

Few Months to the 2015 general elections, more people are calling for the Igbos to produce at least the Deputy Governor of Lagos State.

According to an interview conducted by The Daily Sun, the latest call is coming from the Igbo United Initiative (IUI), a renown pressure group in the state.
In the interview, the chieftain of the IUI, Chief Amobi Nnadiekwe, said that people from the South-East zone in Lagos will vote for any political party that fields an Igbo as deputy governor.
Nnadiekwe, who doubles as the Chairman of Win Peace Investment Ltd, claims that the Igbo constitute 43 per cent of the population in Lagos.

Below are excerpts from the interview:

Your group has been sensitizing the people of South-East to vote any political party that fields an Igbo as deputy governor of Lagos in 2015. So far, what has been the response?
The response was wonderful. We plan to visit town unions and markets in Lagos State especially, the ones dominated by Igbo. It is time to be part of the political process in the state where Igbo contribute over 52 per cent to the state’s economy. Of course, you know that South-East constitutes 43 per cent of the state population. To that extent, we deserve the position of deputy governor. With the number of Ndigbo in Lagos, no doubt, if collectively we decide to vote for any party in Lagos, the party must win. Lagos State has continued to marginalize us politically, hence, Igbos have decided to demand for their right. We have written to all the political parties in the state, informing them of our resolve to vote any party that fields an Igbo as deputy governor. CONTINUE....

EBOLA: HOPE FOR EBOLA DRUG CRASHES AS "NANOSILVER" FAILS HEALTH REQUIREMENTS

Many Nigerians were happy when it was announced that a drug for Ebola was on its way to Nigeria after the U.S declined the request to offer Nigeria its Ebola drugs. But on Friday, the U.S announced that the Drug "Nano Silver" is a known pesticide (click here to read Story).
The Health Minister Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu has also confirmed that the "Nano Silver" did not meet the health requirements and will not be used on the Ebola patients. He said this while receiving the US Ambassador in his office today, 18th August, in Abuja. Prof Chukwu is quoted as saying;     

"The experimental drug, Nano Silver did not meet the requirements of the National Health Research Ethics Code. Accordingly, the approval was withheld by the National Health Research Ethics Committee,” Chukwu said.

EBOLA INFECTED DOCTOR RECOVERS, DISCHARGED FROM QUARANTINE

Doctor Ameyo Adadevoh has recovered and has been discharged from the Isolation centre in Lagos. Dr. Ameyo is a senior consultant doctor at the First Consultant Hospital where Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American who brought Ebola into the country was treated, and she was among the first Nigerians who tested positive with Ebola virus.

According to Vanguard Newspaper, the Director of Communication and Community Mobilisation for the Nigerian Emergency Operation Centre on Ebola Virus Disease, Adebayo Onajole, confirmed to media that Adadevoh had been discharged.

He however declined to give further details, saying the Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, would hold a press conference later tonight to fully brief the media about the doctor’s recovery.

NUHU RIBADU LEAVES APC, JOINS PDP

Former EFCC chairman Nuhu Ribadu has joined numerous party defectors in the country. According to Premium Times, Nuhu Ribadu has dumped the All Progressive Congress(APC) and Joined the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP).

A member of the executive committee of the PDP in Bako, Mr. Ribadu’s ward in Yola South Local Government Area of Adamawa state, told PREMIUM TIMES that the anti-corruption chief has been registered as a member of the party and given a party membership card. The source asked not to be named because he was not authorized to disclose the development to journalists.

EBOLA UPDATE: U.S SAYS "NANO SILVER" IS A PESTICIDE, KENYA AIRWAYS BANS FLIGHT

Finally when it looks as if our Ebola trouble was about to fade away, the Americans stepped up their game.

The Ebola drug "Nano Silver" which was expected to arrive Nigeria yesterday for the treatment of the Ebola Virus among Nigerians has been refereed to as a "Pesticide". The United states for Food and Drug Administration said the drug is a Pesticide and warned Ebola affected countries against the use of such drugs.Continue after the cut....

MEET THE WOMAN WITH 14INCH NAILS, LARUE DRUMMOND

Larue Drummond, 54-year-old mother of four, used to be a chronic nail biter as a child, biting her nails to her cuticles until they bled. But according to Larue all that changed when she met a woman at the super market with long nails, who told her, 'when you look after your nails, they will look after you.'

She stopped biting her nails and began to grow them long. Eight years ago, the big fan of nail art decided to stop cutting her nails entirely and has spent not less than $10,000 since then to maintain them.

Some people are very curious about how Ms Drummond manages everyday tasks with her 14-inch talon and she insists she cooks and does other everyday tasks easily. She said:

‘People stop me wherever I go and ask about my nails. I'm always happy to talk about them.
‘The most frequently asked question is how do I go to the bathroom. I tell them, “the same way as you do. If you know of another way, let me know.”’

But not everyone is comfortable with her unique look. Ms Drummond says;
‘I've seen people snigger at my nails. Once a woman wouldn't even sit next to me as if I had a disease or something. It really hurt my feelings. But it's who I am so I am not ashamed. If I broke a nail that couldn't be fixed I’d feel bereaved. My nails are my babies.’
Ms Drummond, who has eight grandchildren, insists that her long talons don’t impact on her part-time job as a child-minder, insiting; Continue below

WORD FOR TODAY

Gratitude Part 1

Gratitude for Life, Thankful for each day. Are you wondering what you should be grateful for?

When i woke this morning, like every other morning, i was undoubtedly happy. Happy for so much love within and around me from my creator and i knelt down with my hands clasped together, i thanked him for a brand new day to experience his undying love, for the morning sunshine that peeked through my window.

It is important that we are grateful for all we have, because life is not of our own making but the Almighty. Like an Igbo saying goes, Anyi kene dike na nke omere ome kwa ozo which translates as "if we thank him for the things he does for us he ll do more".

Thanking him always at all times whether the weather be good or whether the weather be bad. As we learn to be grateful, it should not be an act but an attitude. Gratitude is an attitude of noble souls.

Let also be thankful to fellow men when they shew us with kindness. Gratitude dissolves chaos, creates love, brings peace and gives you much more than you can imagine.

So lovelies, be grateful to God for his our maker, be grateful to man for the Kindness he shows you.

Start being grateful to someone today, you may just find something Good.

I leave you with the words of John Wooden "Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books-especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance"