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donmalcolm21:
Buhari is a time bomb waiting to happen, God will not allow an ISIS and BH sympathizer get into that seat, He will fail because he is an ill wind that blows no one any good.

It will be fun & games till He bans social network & blogging

Very true!
I doubt anyone has what it takes.

linda ikeji
how true is this news

joelpearl:
I got a message inviting me for the National Power Sector Reform Apprenticeship Scheme (NAPSAS) induction course for Electrical Engineers to be held at Bolingo Hotel in Abj from 8th to 19th december 2014. just wanna knw if any other person got d invite too.

I got the text message too, but is the program for graduate engineers or technicians?

heemran:

Please see verses 30-31 in
Surah 24 of the Holy Quran, which give
the meaning of:
{Tell the believing men to lower their
gaze and be modest. That is purer for
them. Lo! Allah is Aware of what they
do. And tell the believing women to
lower their gaze and be modest, and
to display of their adornment only
that which is apparent, and to draw
their veils over their bosoms, and not
to reveal their adornment save to
their own husbands or fathers or
husbands’ fathers, or their sons or
their husbands' sons, or their brothers
or their brothers' sons or sisters’ sons,
or their women, or their slaves, or
male attendants who lack vigor, or
children who know naught of women's
unclothedness. And let them not stamp
their feet so as to reveal what they
hide of their adornment. And turn
unto Allah together, O believers, in
order that ye may succeed.}
See also verse number 59 in Surah, which
gives the meaning of:
{O Prophet! Tell thy wives and thy
daughters and the women of the
believers to draw their cloaks close
round them [when they go abroad].
That will be better, that so they may
be recognized and not annoyed. Allah
is ever Forgiving, Merciful.}
The above verses very clearly show that it
is Allah Almighty Himself, Who commands
the women to wear hijab, though that
word is not used in the above verses. In
fact, the term hijab means much more
than the covering of the body; it refers to
the code of modesty outlined in the
verses quoted above.
Look at the expressions used: “Lower
their gaze”, “be modest”, “not to display
their adornment”, “draw the veils over
their bosoms” “not to stamp their feet”
etc.
It must be clear to any thinking person
what is meant by all the above
expressions in the Holy Quran. Women in
the Prophet’s time used to wear a kind of
dress that covered the head, but not the
bosom properly. So when they are asked
to draw their veils over their bosoms so
as not to reveal their beauty, it is clear
that the dress must cover the head as
well as the body. And hair is considered
by people in most cultures of the world -
not only in the Arab culture - as an
attractive part of a woman’s beauty.
Until the end of the nineteenth century,
ladies in the west used to put on some
kind of head gear, if not a cover for the
whole hair. This is quite in conformity
with the Biblical injunction for the women
to cover their heads. Even in these
degenerate times, people pay more
respect to the more modestly dressed
ladies, than to the scantily clad ones.
Imagine a lady prime minister or a queen
wearing a low-cut blouse or a miniskirt in
an international conference! Can she
command as much respect there as she
would get if she were in a more modest
attire?
For the above reasons, the scholars of
Islam are unanimous that the Quranic
verses quoted above clearly mean that
women must cover the head and the
whole body except for the face and the
hands.

Too much story here Nigga

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It is because of Islamic religion. They hate anything Turenshi because they attribute it to Christianity, that's why they can even pay for Arabic school for their kids but consider normal school not so useful. They r like aligning themselves to anything Arabic and Middle East than Western stuff. Most importantly, they don't have culture and customs again because the advent of Islam took everything away from them. Little wonder they say Islam is a way of Life because it regulates ur actions from cradle to grave. That clothe they wear is not native to them, Camerounians, Niger, Chadiaans etc wear it.

This lady can summarize & hit the nail...likeseriously

MrPresident1:


Sire, I do not think you are right.

No miracle worker can save Nigerians, they are a corrupt mass of people. They expect some leader to wave some magic wand to miraculously 'disappear' all their problems. This was the reason they voted GEJ in 2011, not on anything concrete but on foolish sentiments. it was YAH'S handiwork.

They don't want to change from their wicked ways, they want the good life but are not willing to make any sacrifices for it.

Daniel 4:17
This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.

Nature's complete number is THREE (3)

Cool & simple looking family.
Gen Buhari is a good & religious man, not a fanatic as I/we used to believe.
Goodluck GMB I like U, but I dislike your followers & their myopic thinking.

please a science only section should be introduced different from the t Science/Technology.
thanks.

A radical procedure that involves replacing a patient's blood with cold salt water could retrieve people from the brink of death, says David Robson.

When you are at 10C, with no brain activity, no heartbeat, no blood – everyone would agree that you’re dead,” says Peter Rhee at the University of Arizona, Tucson. “But we can still bring you back.”

Rhee isn’t exaggerating. With Samuel Tisherman, at the University of Maryland, College Park, he has shown that it’s possible to keep bodies in ‘suspended animation’ for hours at a time. The procedure, so far tested on animals, is about as radical as any medical procedure comes: it involves draining the body of its blood and cooling it more than 20C below normal body temperature.

Once the injury is fixed, blood is pumped once again through the veins, and the body is slowly warmed back up. “As the blood is pumped in, the body turns pink right away,” says Rhee. At a certain temperature, the heart flickers into life of its own accord. “It’s quite curious, at 30C the heart will beat once, as if out of nowhere, then again – then as it gets even warmer it picks up all by itself.” Astonishingly, the animals in their experiments show very few ill-effects once they’ve woken up. “They’d be groggy for a little bit but back to normal the day after,” says Tisherman.

Tisherman created headlines around the world earlier this year, when he announced that they were ready to begin human trials of the technique on gunshot victims in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The first patients will have been so badly wounded that their hearts have stopped beating, meaning that this is their last hope. “Cheating death with ‘suspended animation’” is how CNN put it; “Killing a patient to save his life” was the New York Times’ take.

Hyped up

The news coverage has sometimes offended Tisherman’s cautious sensibility. During our conversation, he comes across as a thoughtful, measured man, who is careful not to oversell his research. He is particularly wary of using the term ‘suspended animation’. “My concern isn’t that it’s inaccurate – it’s that when people think of the term, they think about space travellers being frozen and woken up on Jupiter, or Han Solo in Star Wars,” he says. “That doesn’t help, because it’s important for the public to know it’s not science fiction – it’s based on experimental work and is being studied in a disciplined manner, before we use it to stop people dying.” Rhee, who came to global attention after treating congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords after a shooting in 2011, tends to be bolder: he says he wouldn’t rule out longer-term suspended animation, in the distant future. “What we’re doing is beginning part of that experiment.”


Tisherman’s quest to bring people back from the brink of death began at medical school, where he studied under Peter Safar. It is an inspiring dynasty: in the 1960s Safar had pioneered cardiopulmonary resuscitation (R), the now familiar procedure of applying pressure to the chest cavity to try to massage the heart back to life.

Safar’s work began to change our perceptions of death – blurring the point that is meant to mark the end of our lives. “We’ve all been brought up to think death is an absolute moment – when you die you can’t come back,” says Sam Parnia, at the State University of New York in Stony Brook. “It used to be correct, but now with the basic discovery of R we’ve come to understand that the cells inside your body don’t become irreversibly ‘dead’ for hours after you’ve ‘died’… Even after you’ve become a cadaver, you’re still retrievable.”

Blurred line

Tisherman now thinks of death as the (ittedly subjective) point at which doctors give up resuscitation as a lost cause – but even then, some people can still make a remarkable comeback. Last December, a paper in the journal Resuscitation caused a stir by suggesting that 50% of surveyed emergency doctors have witnessed ‘Lazarus phenomena’, in which a patient’s heart has begun beating again by itself, after doctors had given up hope.

Kick-starting the heart is only one half of the doctor’s battle, however; the lack of oxygen after a cardiac arrest can cause serious damage to the body’s vital organs, particularly the brain. “Every minute that there’s no oxygen to those organs, they start dying,” says Tisherman. His former mentor, Safar, came up with a solution to this problem too, with ‘therapeutic hypothermia’, a procedure that involves cooling the body, typically to around 33C by placing ice packs around the body, for instance. At lower temperatures, cells begin to work in slow motion, reducing their metabolism and the damage that could be caused by oxygen starvation.

Some people have come back from the dead, even after R has stopped

Combined with machines that can take over circulation and pump oxygen into the blood stream while the heart is being revived, this has helped open the window between cardiac arrest and brain death. One hospital in Texas recently reported that an 40-year-old man had survived, with his mind intact, after three-and-a-half hours of R. His treatment involved a constant rotation of medical students, nurses and doctors taking it in turns to perform the chest compressions. “Anybody in the room who had two arms was asked to jump in,” says one of the attending doctors, Scott Taylor Bassett. Such cases are rare, however: Bassett, points out that they were only motivated to continue because the patient regained consciousness during the R, despite the fact that his heart was still not functioning. “During the chest compressions he would speak to us, showing he was neurologically intact,” says Bassett. “I’ve never seen it before or since – it was the defining moment of the entire decision making.”

Buying time

Such long-term resuscitation is currently impossible for people whose cardiac arrest is accompanied by injury from trauma – such as gunshot wounds or automobile accidents. At the moment, the surgeon’s best option is to clamp the arteries leading to the lower body, before opening the chest and massaging the heart, which pushes a little blood flow to the brain while surgeons try to stitch up the wounds. Unfortunately, the survival rate is less than one in 10.

It is for this reason that Tisherman wants to plunge the body to around 10-15C, potentially giving the doctors a window of two or more hours to operate. Although this level of deep hypothermia is sometimes applied during heart surgery, Tisherman’s project is the first time that it will have been be used to revive someone who had already ‘died’ before entering the hospital. Perhaps most astonishing of all, the team drain the blood from the body and replace it with chilled saline solution. Because the body’s metabolism has stopped, the blood is not required to keep cells alive, and saline solution is the quickest way to cool the patient, explains Tisherman.

The procedure involves replacing all blood in the body with saline solution (SPL)

With Rhee and others, Tisherman has spent two decades building a substantial portfolio of evidence to prove that the procedure is safe, and effective. Many of the experiments involved pigs inflicted with near-fatal injuries. Mid-operation, there was no doubt that animals were about as far beyond the realms of the living as it is possible to go and then return. “The pig is as white as you can get,” says Rhee. “It’s just pale, refrigerator meat.” If the animals had been cooled quickly enough, however – at around 2C a minute – nearly 90% recovered when their blood was returned to their bodies, after having lain in limbo for more than an hour. “It’s the most amazing thing to witness – when the heartbeat comes back,” says Rhee.

Once the animals had returned back to more regular activity, the team then performed several tests to check that their brains hadn’t been damaged. For instance, before the procedure, the researchers trained some of the pigs to open a container of a certain colour, where an apple was hidden inside. After they had been revived, most of the animals ed where to fetch their treat. Other pigs that hadn’t been trained before the operation, were instead taught the procedure soon after their recovery. They managed to learn just as quickly as the others – again suggesting that there had been no effect on their memories.

Needless to say, gaining approval for human trials has been a struggle. Earlier this year, Tisherman was finally allowed to set up a pilot trial in Pittsburgh to treat patients suffering from gunshot wounds. The hospital sees about one or two such patients a month, meaning that some have already been treated with the technique since the trial began – although it is too early for Tisherman to speak about the results yet. He is also setting up a trial in Baltimore, Maryland, and all being well, Rhee will later be able to begin work at Tuscon’s trauma centre.

Seeing light at the end of the tunnel is not necessarily the closest to death you can get (Thinkstock)

As with any medical research, there will be some challenges in the transition from the animal experiments to the human trials. The animals received their own blood at the end of the operation, for instance – whereas the patients in this trial will need transfusions that have been sitting in blood banks for weeks. And while the animals were under anaesthesia at the time of injury, the patients won’t have been, which could change the way their body reacts to the injury. Tisherman remains optimistic, however. “We generally think that dogs and pigs respond to bleeding in a similar way to humans.”

Other doctors are watching with interest. “It’s very brave,” says Parnia. “Many of us feel that in order to preserve the brain, we have to cool the body a lot more than we’ve done traditionally. But people have been afraid.”

If the trials go according to plan, Tisherman would like to extend the approach to other kinds of trauma. Gunshot victims were chosen for the initial trial because it is easier to localise the source of blood loss, but he hopes eventually to treat internal bleeding from an automobile accident, for instance. It may even, one day, be used to treat people suffering from heart attacks and other kinds of illness.


Peter Rhee: "It’s the most amazing thing to witness – when the heartbeat comes back"

Success could also pave the way for investigations into other forms of suspended animation. Some scientists are looking into whether a cocktail of drugs added to the saline solution pumped into body could further reduce the body’s metabolism and prevent injury. One promising candidate was hydrogen sulphide – the chemical that gives rotten eggs their smell – but although it has been found to reduce the metabolism of some animals, there is little evidence that it improves their chances of survival after a cardiac arrest. Tisherman instead thinks it will be better to find some potent anti-oxidants that can mop up the harmful chemicals that cause injury.

For Rhee, the need for better treatment is all too urgent. He points out the fate of a patient he saw at the hospital only the day before we spoke. “He was shot in the epigastrium, right under the chest in the middle of the belly,” he says. The hospital staff tried everything they could, but he still died. “It’s exactly the kind of patient we hope we could repair if we’d been able to work in a less rushed fashion.

source: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140704-i-bring-the-dead-back-to-life

The 23-man shortlist for this year's Ballon d'Or award
will be reduced to just three players later this
afternoon by a group of football experts from the FIFA
Football Committee and Football.

Gareth Bale, the only Briton on the
list, is one of six players from Real
Madrid which includes last year’s
winner and favourite Cristiano
Ronaldo.
La Liga rivals Barcelona have four
players nominated, including four-
time winner Lionel Messi.
There are six players from the
Bundesliga, are all from Bayern
Munich, with goalkeeper Manuel
Neuer expected to be the biggest
challenge to Ronaldo and Messi.
The Premier League has five
representatives, Chelsea trio
Thiabaut Courtois, Eden Hazard
and Diego Costa, Manchester City’s
Yaya Toure and Manchester United
winger Angel di Maria.
Paris St German striker Zlatan
Ibrahimovic is the only player in
to be nominated, while Paul
Pogba of Juventus is the sole
representative from Serie A.
FIFA wil reveal the winner
of football's biggest award at
the Ballon d’Or gala in Zurich on
January 12.
Ballon d’Or nominations: Gareth
Bale, Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim
Benzema, Lionel Messi, Thibaut
Courtois, Eden Hazard, Diego
Costa, Angel di Maria, Yaya
Toure, Mario Gotze, Zlatan
Ibrahimovic, Andres Iniesta, Toni
Kroos, Philipp Lahm, Javier
Mascherano, Thomas
Muller, Manuel
Neuer, Neymar, Paul Pogba, Sergio
Ramos, Arjen Robben, James
Rodriguez, Bastian Schweinsteiger.

www1.skysports.com/football/news/11095/9588488/ballon-dor-fifa-to-trim-23-man-short-list-to-three-players-later-today

Nmeri17:
matchew!!! people are just wasting their time in NDA Kaduna!! imagine amateurs defeating them and their "formation" after all those years of training. smh. still people will blame GEJ. I wonder what u expect him to do

Good point of view, the only thing they specialize in, is tactical maneuver.

Just imagine how low APC have gone to rig/win election. All dubious & evil activities shall be exposed.
Very soon LIAr will cook stories to give @ press briefing.

horpe132:
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Proper Investigation they Cannot Do........
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I don't Blame the Court,,,How Can You put the Blame of a whole Yan'ya Bomb Blast on one person ??
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DSS Director general & the IG of Police should Cover their Faces in SHAME..........All they're good @ is running after the opposition !!!
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Now let's Discuss the case,,,,,What kind of Evidence did they present to the Court .....because this judgment is a major one & it'll take a Judge d@ know what he's doing to Pronounce such Judgment......
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I repeat & I stand to be corrected,,,,No act of terror is done alone or in isolation,,,,,,,So why is the DSS & NPF charging this guy alone ??
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If You read well about terrorism ,,,You'll know that its not d@ easy to arrest & Prosecute Just one Person for a Mojor act of Terror......
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A lot of innocent people are in Kiri_Kiri now because of the inconclusive investigation of our NPF........
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"Ist they want a Closed Door hearing & Controlled Media reportage on the case".......
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WHAT IS GOOD IS GOOD,,,,,,,WHAT IS BAD IS BAD,,,,,,,,,,,,,Everyone deserves a fair hearing in a Democratic Nation !!!!
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If U don't have any concrete evidence on him.................Let him go !!!!

Soo sad but all your points are right.

chelsea vs west brom...Arsenal to host Man-U.
Chelsea has beef to settle with west brom, can wenger beat van-gaal in emirates?
Enjoy the fun weekend guys

Beautiful!!!

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