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Tuesday, 2 February 2016

(Pictures) Ooni of ife, Oba Enitan Adeyeye visits Bola Tinubu in his home

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, paid a visit to APC National Leader and former Lagos state governor, Bola Tinubu at his home in Lagos yesterday February 1st. The Ooni said his visit was part of his agenda to unify the sons and daughters of Yoruba all over the world. More photos after the cut..

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Cameroonians ask permission to use witchcraft to fight Bokoharam

Worried by the continued terror acts by Boko Haram in their country, some Local chiefs in Cameroon have approached their president, Paul Biya, to grant them permission to fight off Boko Haram using witchcraft..lol. This is according to Cameroon’s Investigative Journalist, Bisong Etahoben.

He also stated that Cameroon army recently dispersed a gang of over 50 Boko Haram jihadists planning attack on Ashigashiya. According to him 15 insurgents were killed and 2 captured.

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EFCC Raids Former VP, Namadi Sambo’s Office, Seize $50,000

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC on Saturday January 30th, stormed the Abuja office of former Vice President Namadi Sambo, ransacked it for documents and also seized $50,000.

According to a report by The Nation, the anti-graft agency may have ransacked his office over an alleged N20 million monthly subvention he received from the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) while he was Vice President.


It was learnt that the search was informed by the unusual movement of hefty bags into the office of Sambo’s Manyatha Company on Saturday. EFCC sources say the relocation of the suspicious bags from Sambo’s home to the office made the agency act swiftly.

One of the EFCC sources said

“The ongoing investigation of $2.1 billion arms cash under ex-NSA Sambo Dasuki has been extended to the former VP. The search started on Saturday till the early hours of Monday. Apart from getting N20 million monthly from ONSA, we got tip-off on movement of some bags loaded with hard currency. All we did was to investigate this clue by searching the ex-VP’s office in a cautious manner and in the full glare of the employees. At the appropriate time, we will inform the public of our findings. We are also looking at the circumstances behind the N20 million grant allocated to the ex-VP’s office by the ONSA. Ordinarily, a sitting VP has a budget for his office. It is like subjugating your office to a junior public officer if you have to be taking N20 million from the Office of National Security Adviser (ONSA). We cannot be blind to this important aspect of monthly grant to a VP by the former security adviser. Some former presidential aides are also under investigation.”

A source close to the former Vice President confirmed the search of the office in Abuja’s Central Business District (CBD).

“The EFCC operatives invaded the Manyatha Company of the former Vice President on Saturday, broke the doors. The operatives did not come with any warrant and when they left, there was no record of inventories. What happened was that the ex-VP moved some documents in Ghana-Must-Go bags from his house to the office in the Central Business District. I think they got false alarm that dollars were stuffed in the bags and decided to raid the office on the sixth floor. We share the same office complex with the British Visa Section. Do you know that since Saturday, the policemen brought by the EFCC are still in the office? The EFCC asked the company to repair its doors before the police could leave the place.”

On the alleged N20 million collected monthly from ONSA, the source added:

“It is a statutory subvention for the Office of the Vice President. When ex-President Goodluck Jonathan was VP, he was getting it. The same subvention was given to ex-VP Atiku Abubakar. Ex-VP Sambo is ready to defend the subvention when necessary. He did not steal public funds and he did not get campaign funds from ONSA.”

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British scientists have been granted permission to genetically modify human embyros

British scientists have been granted permission to genetically modify human embryos by the fertility regulator. The Francis Crick Institute could begin thecontroversial experiments as early as March after the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority(HFEA) gave the green light this morning.

The scientists want to deactivate genes in leftover embryos from IVF clinics to see if it hinders development.
It will only be the second time in the world that such a procedure has been undertaken and the first time it has been directly approved by a regulator. A Chinese team carried out similar experiments last year to widespread outcry.
Currently around 50 per cent of fertilised eggs do not develop properly and experts believe that faulty genetic code could be responsible.
If scientists knew which genes were crucial for healthy cell division, then they could screen out embryos where their DNA was not working properly, potentially preventing miscarriages and aiding fertility.
The initial pilot, which will also have to pass an ethics evaluation, will involve up to 30 embryos and the team would like to work on a further three genes, which could bring the total of to 120.
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Critics warn that allowing embryos to be edited opens the door to designer babies and genetically modified humans.
But lead scientist Dr Kathy Niakan said that the research could fundamentally change our understanding of human biology and give hope to prospective parents.

“We would really like to understand the genes that are needed for an embryo to develop into a healthy baby,” she told a briefing in central London last month.

“Miscarriage and infertility are extremely common but they are not very well understood. We believe that this research could improve our understanding of the very earliest stages of human life.

“The reason why I think this is so important is that most human embryos fail to reach the blastocyst stage. Over 50 per cent will fail so this window is absolutely critical.

“If we were to understand the genes, it could really help us improve infertility treatment and provide crucial insights into the causes of miscarriage.”

The team at Francis Crick are already in talks with fertility clinics across the country to use their spare embryos.
Sir Paul Nurse, director of the Crick, said:

“I am delighted that the HFEA has approved Dr Niakan’s application. Dr Niakan’s proposed research is important for understanding how a healthy human embryo develops and will enhance our understanding of IVF success rates, by looking at the very earliest stage of human development – one to seven days.”

Currently it is not illegal to edit human embryos for research purposes although it has never been done before because they technology has not been available.
When China announced it had carried out similar experiments last year there was a widespread outcry.
A spokesman for the HFEA said:
“Our Licence Committee has approved an application from Dr Kathy Niakan of the Francis Crick Institute to renew her laboratory’s research licence to include gene editing of embryos.
“The committee has added a condition to the licence that no research using gene editing may take place until the research has received research ethics approval.
“As with all embryos used in research, it is illegal to transfer them to a woman for treatment.”
All cells in a human embryo have the same DNA code, but they divide into specialised cells depending on gene expression.
Between day five and seven of human development and embryo has around 200 cells of three different types. One set will go on to form the foetus , while another type becomes the placenta, and the third kind the yolk sac which nourishes growing baby. The aim of the new project is to find out what causes the cells to turn into different kinds, a process known as ‘lineage specification.’
The new genetic editing technique, called Crispr, acts like molecular scissors to snip out part of the DNA code so that scientists can see if it was needed.
“Crispr is so efficient and precise that it can go inside a single volume, open up, a specific page, identify a single word, and alter a single letter,” added Prof Niakan.
The first gene that the team is planning to deactivate is OCT4, which in mice appears to be crucial for the healthy development of foetal cells.
However British scientists were among 150 experts who in November called for a worldwide ban on genetic editing of embryos claiming the practice could open the door to ‘irrevocably altering the human species.’
Dr Calum MacKellar, Director of Research of the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics said: “Allowing the gene editing of embryos opens the road to genetically modifying all the descendants of a person as well as full blown eugenics which was condemned by all civilised societies after the Second World War.”
“It is the very future of the way in which societies accept persons with disabilities that is at play since such gene editing procedures infer that they should not have been brought into existence.”
Gene therapy has been available since the 1970s but it is only recently that scientists have developed technology which can snip out parts of genetic code
The technique could permanently remove harmful mutations which lead to inherited diseases like Huntingdon’s, cystic fibrosis and haemophilia, critics say it could have unexpected side effects any may damage healthy strands of DNA.
Alastair Kent, Director of Genetic Alliance UK, said: ““Understanding the crucial process of embryo development could help us to understand causes of infertility, miscarriage and some genetic diseases.
“The team at the Crick Institute have explained to the HFEA why they would like to use genome editing to investigate embryo development and the HFEA have authorised the research to proceed. We hope that this avenue of research is fruitful, and that genome editing is as powerful a research tool as it currently seems to be.”

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Italian town welcomes first newborn in 28 years

Since the 1980s, the Italian town of Ostana had not seen the birth of a single baby.
But last week, a dream came true, as the mayor of the small town said. A baby was born. The first in 28 years.
According to La Stampa, the town has only 85 inhabitants, including newborn Pablo. Its population has continuously fallen — a fate shared by many other Italian towns and villages.

“The real decline started in 1975, with 17 babies between 1976 and 1987, when the last boy was born – until little Pablo,”

Mayor Giacomo Lombardo was quoted as saying. A party will be held to celebrate what he hopes will be the start of a reversal of that trend.

But the population decline will be hard to stop, no matter what ideas Lombardo comes up with.

Younger Italians in particular say there are few attractive job prospects in rural areas. Many have moved to cities, leaving their hometowns to the elderly. Ostana, which is in northern Italy, has only one shop, a bar and two restaurants, according to the Italian news site the Local.

Some parts of northern Italy have been hit harder than others. But the south, including the island of Sicily, has faced more dramatic demographic changes in recent decades.

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The arrival of baby Pablo has certainly been welcomed in Ostana, according to the mayor. “It’s great to finally have someone born here, and it shows that our efforts to reverse population decline are slowly working,” Lombardo was quoted as saying.

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Lombardo has tried to create jobs in order to prevent other young people from leaving the town. Pablo might be the first indication that his strategy is working. His parents wanted to move away several years ago but stayed after they were offered the opportunity to work at a mountain refuge.

Source: Washington Post

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Doctor who injected himself with HIV-positive blood claims to have cured countries of HIV

The controversial doctor who famously injected himself with Charlie Sheen’s HIV positive blood has claimed his goats milk treatment can cure the virus.

Dr. Samir Chachoua made the extraordinary claims he had ‘cured countries’ of HIV and Aids during an interview on Real Time with Bill Maher last night.
Chachoua – who is not licensed to practice medicine in the U.S. – has been treating Sheen who revealed last year that he has been battling with virus for four years.

He added that his ‘cure’, based on the milk of arthritic goats, had made the virus ‘undetectable’ in the Hollywood star, Gawker reports.

 

The doctor says that the CAEV virus present in the milk ‘destroys HIV and protects people who drink it for life.’

Chachoua went onto announce he had eradicated HIV and another virus called chikungunya in Comoros, an island nation off the eastern coast of Africa, in 2006. 

The doctor did not go into any detail to how his supposed treatment would ‘destroy HIV’, neither did he offer any scientific studies backing up his wild claims. 

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HIV positive Charlie Sheen

The 50-year-old Golden Globe winner – who was immediately put on strong antiviral drugs which suppressed the virus after his diagnosis – stopped taking his medication in order to try an experimental ‘vaccine’ in Mexico.

 
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Sheen has since admitted earlier this month on The Dr. Oz Show that his HIV numbers are ‘up’.

But Chachoua claimed the troubled star was ‘the first adult in history to go HIV negative’ during his appearance on Maher’s show.

 

He told the host that when Sheen was on ‘the incredibly powerful medical cocktails, he still showed virus.’ 

‘As soon as he started my treatment he became undetectable,’ he claimed. 

The bizarre and false claims were followed by a pre-recorded clip of Sheen complaining to the doctor about some of the side effects of his antiretroviral therapy including migraines and ‘poo poo pants.’

‘It’s a horrible way to live, all these side effects disappeared the minute he started my therapy and the minute he started my therapy, his liver went to normal levels,’ claimed Chachoua.

‘Even the charts they held up on our show, all the great tests they showed, they were during my treatment, not theirs.’

Chachoua also discussed the moment he had injected himself with Sheen’s blood, saying he had been ‘that confident’ of his cure.

Sheen has previously admitted he is risking his life with the untested treatment.

 

Charlie Sheen boasted in a pre-recorded segment on the Dr Oz show:  ‘I’ve been off my meds about a week now. I feel great. Am I risking my life? So what? I was born dead. That part of it doesn’t phase me at all.’

‘I didn’t see it as Russian roulette. I didn’t see it as a complete dismissal of the conventional course we’ve been on. I’m not recommending that anyone – I’m presenting myself as a type of guinea pig.’

But his latest series of tests showed that Chachoua’s ‘cure’ had actually led worrying news that his HIV numbers were going up for the first time.

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‘I had been non-detectable, non-detectable and checking the blood every week and then found out the numbers are back up,’ the Anger Management star told the 55-year-old cardiothoracic surgeon Dr Oz. 

‘I’m amazed that I’m actually alive’.

Both Dr. Oz and Sheen’s physician Dr. Robert Huizenga condemned the treatments he was receiving from Dr. Sam Chachoua, who’s not licensed to practice in the States.

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Lord have mercy : Godwin Ekenulo accuses Sen. Hope Uzodimma of infecting his ex-late wife, Hon. Ukachi Amaechi with HIV

Godwin Ebubeagu Ekenulo has accused Senator Hope Uzodimma of infecting his ex-wife with HIV/AIDS. Ukachi Amaechi was a member representing Owerri West constituency from 2007-2011. She died on December 18 from kidney and was laid to rest on Jan. 29th. Read his shocking Facebok post after the cut…

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Monday, 1 February 2016

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Armed robbery suspects arrested

Four suspected armed robbers were arrested by the Ogun State Police Command along Ode Lemo Road, Sagamu, Ogun State.

The suspects identified as David Ogunjinrin, and Mohammed Ibrahim were arrested by police detectives attached to Sagamu Divison led by the Divisional Police Officer after they received a distress call about an ongoing robbery.

When the police arrived the crime scene, the robbers had already attacked their victim and dispossesed him of his motorcycle, mobile phones and money. The two suspects led the police to their hideout in Onoajegbe Village in Iperu Ogun state where two other members of the gang identified Adebayo Segun and Muda Yahaya were arrested. Among items recovered from them were a Bajal Motorcycle and a locally made single barrel gun.

PM News reports that the suspected armed robbers who confessed to have carried out numerous crimes in Lagos and Ogun state claimed to be from Lagos State.

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The Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Department of Finance and Administration, DCP Celestine Okoye, who spoke on behalf of the Commissioner of Police Ogun State CP Abdulmajid Ali commended the Divisional Police officer and his men for the good job and directed that the case be transferred to the Special-Anti Robbery Squad Abeokuta for further Investigation.

Source: PM News

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Pictures of Muhammadu Buhari being received at Ogun state today

President Buhari had visited Ogun state to celebrate the state’s 40th anniversary. On his arrival to the state this evening, he was received by the state governor, Ibikunle Amosun and APC chieftains including Bola Tinubu and Bisi Akande. More pictures…

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