Shey em dey fear to enter great fish mouth ni?
Guess who correctly make you win Aeroplane.
Win an Aeroplane: Just guess who…this strong Man of Abuja…is…
“Doctors, major problem in health care” – Oga of Pharmacists • “You’re insincere” – Oga of Doctors
These-Are-notMYwords, they are Punch’s Leke Baiyewu’s.
“Pharmacists have accused medical doctors of posing threats to the lives of Nigerians through unethical practices. They challenged them to an open debate over their activities in the health sector.
The President, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, Mr. Olumide Akintayo, who spoke to our correspondent on the telephone on Friday, accused doctors of breeding quacks through the training of auxiliary nurses and health attendants in private health institutions.
He said, “Medical doctors are about the biggest problem in health care. In Nigeria today, 99 per cent of them stock drugs in their private health facilities for prescription to patients. This is wrong; it is illegal. They constitute the biggest threat to lives in the health sector.
“Find out who trains auxiliary nurses and health attendants. When the trainees leave the setting, they spread to the communities to perpetrate illegalities.”
The PSN boss argued that pharmacists could not be held responsible for the purpose for which a drug is bought.
He blamed the unrestricted over-the-counter sale of prescription drugs on regulatory agencies. He called for the empowering of the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria to enforce and prosecute. He also urged the government to budget more funds for the sector.
Akintayo said, “As for drugs, the problem in Nigeria is that there is unhindered access to all categories of drugs. The regulatory agencies are not empowered financially too. Government earmarks about five per cent of its budget for health care, compared to 13 per cent of the minimum required.”
The Chairman, Nigeria Medical Association, Dr. Francis Faduyile, however, said pharmacists were insincere with their allegations.
According to him, training of nurses and health workers in private hospitals had been banned in Lagos State.
“Pharmacists consult within their shops and this is beyond their work. It is part of the rights of a doctor to prescribe and to leverage on a number of drugs. The major question is, ‘Are pharmacists ready to stop consulting in their shops?’
“If you go to any pharmacy to complain of headache or fever, drugs will be prescribed for you. Go there with the result of a blood test; you will see them giving you drugs. It is not about professional fight; let us do the right thing.”
Gangnam Style, most-watched Youtube video. Dance like say you dey on top horse…
Gangnam Style, the dance track wey South Korean pop phenomenon Psy, don turn Youtube’s most-watched video of all time. You fit get to watch am here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0
The video don gather more than 814 million views since dem upload am for July.
The video dey make yeye of – “poke fun at” the consumerism of Gangnam, one better suburb for the South Korean capital Seoul.
For inside the song, the portly Psy dey dance as if na on top horse em dey, holding the reins and spinning a lasso in a manner everybody for the world don dey kolo with the dance.
“The video also features the 34-year-old singer reclining on a sun lounger in tight pink shorts, gazing longingly at a girl dancing on an underground train in tight shorts and gesticulating at a woman working out on a beach – in tight shorts.
- Workout
“The dance has sparked numerous copycat versions, being performed by a diverse fan-base including Filipino prison inmates, prominent Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and a Chinese robot.”
Gangnam Style, na em win best video for this year’s MTV Europe Music Awards and the thing na number one in 28 countries.
Na em hold the Guinness World Record for the most “liked” song ever – about 5.4 million likes on YouTube.
This video, na em take over from Justin Bieber’s.
My Guy yarn say em don go Heaven Four Times, begin draws map
If-U-Miss-Am, Sibusiso Mthembu, 64, na South African from KwaZulu-Natal wey don walka go heaven wella.
This story na for the future although dem don report am severally in the past.
guy don walka go heaven like four times. The first time na for 1998, then 2004, 2006 and 2008.
The first reporter of the news yarn say the matter start for 1993, when a white man (an angel, apparently. No be so dem go yarn?) visit am and yarn am say dem need am for heaven.
Na so my guy begin walka go heaven o. The guy don dey draw a map to make sure say we all see wetin em dey yarn say em see for heaven.
My guy yarn say na 11 heavens dey, and the fifth one, Crista, em go first. Na there, in a city wey dem (I no know who dem be o) dey call Sharmoy (dem follow my guy yarn?), na there em yarn say em meet Jesus. The main heaven na Salem, and na there God dey. God still dey young and em complexion na Gray. Jesus na white (interesting combo for the same person).
Again, my guy yarn say na on top (or inside a planet called Jadalem) em see God for the first time during his second trip. Na water and Ice cover this planet.
Em see Moses, Elijah, and Abel. Em do excursion enter the Marshnode City, na where dead body dey go to do reincarnation be that.
Here’s wetin Oddity Central get to yarn as quoted by Ynaija! “But here’s the weirdest of all his tales – he says that the people who predicted the end of the world in May last year weren’t entirely incorrect. Mthembu seems to have eavesdropped on an important meeting in the heavens, where the biggest war against Satanism was being discussed. The war is supposed to have been launched on May 23rd, so we’re basically on a countdown to the absolute end.
“The map isn’t ready yet, but Mthembu is already worried about counterfeit versions. “People must come and see the map as one day someone from Japan or China or Britain will design a map of heaven and the people of South Africa will have forgotten that the map was originally made in South Africa,” he says. Perhaps he needs to patent his creation. And while he’s at it, write a fantasy novel and strike a movie deal too?”
Be gentle on yourself because in spite of all, Life is still a beautiful place
Chinese Motorway Built Around House Because Residents Refuse to Move
This half-demolished building dey stand in the middle of one new motorway wey dem construct in the city of Wenling, China’s Zhejiang province, after the elderly residents inside refused to move.
Celebrity Portraits Made from 5,000 Sweets dey sell for $18,000. Guess who…Lady Gaga, MJ,MM…
Cristiam Ramos, 32, a Florida-based artist dey create portraits of celebrities like Marylin Monroe, Beyonce, Lady Gaga, and Nicki Minaj out of thousands of sweets. “Eye candy” na the expression wey the artist don give a new meaning.
The Mexican artist dey use Gummy Bears, liquorice, M&M’s, bubble gum and after dinner mints to craft colorful portraits of various celebrities.
This guy fit dey use at least 5,000 individual sweets to design em tasty artworks, and his largest creation so far, a life-size candy motorcycle, na over 20,000 sweets e take do am.
Ramos yarn say em get the idea to use sweets as a medium for em art four years ago, while em dey inside one park. He saw a dad wey give em son a piece of candy to sooth em pain, and after seeing the boy smile, he realized how sweets dey make human beings happy.
He began to think “what if they saw one of their favorite artists enshrined in their favorite sweets?” Now, Cristiam Ramos’ celebrity portraits dey sell for up to $18,000, “depending on the size of the picture and amount of sweets used. Celebrities immortalized in candy by Ramos also include Justin Bieber, Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley. Believe it or not, there’s no paint used in any of them.”
Omotola debuts “The Real Me” TV reality show. Must be modern way to present autobiography?
The reality show wey dey yarn about the life of Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, “Omotola: The Real Me,” go dey air on AfricaMagic Entertainment every Thursday.
Omotola yarn “You will get to see everything. What we are doing is very real. It’s basically my whole life. The parts where I’m taking care of the kids, the parts where I’m taking care of the home, the parts when I am working, the parts where I’m yelling. It’s crazy. My life is crazy!”
“Yes my image is ‘omosexy’ but this show is for the whole family. It’s good content for everyone” she yarn.
Person yarn say na the new way wey people wan dey present dem autobiographies be this, as people no fit read again and yet, the celebrities wey we wan know about sef no fit write anything again. hmmm…lakunlescrews no know that one o.
Gunmen abduct 3 patients from Leprosy hospital
Gunmen carry gun enter a Tuberculosis and Leprosy Centre on Thursday at Sanubi town in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State from where dem patient-nap three inmates.
People dey suspect say na ritual dem wan take the patients do. But dem rescue the patients for Ugolo-Orogun.
Wetin lakunlescrews no know na whether na police rescue them or na neutral persons because police yarn say no arrests have been made.
Dem unknown people kill 20 ladies wey dey wear mini skirts in Maiduguri
Some people kill over ten people in Maiduguri and just about a day after, some other people don go kill twenty ladies wey like to dey wear mini skirts and trousers for their separate homes in Maiduguri.
Dem news people yarn say the event happen for the early hours of Friday around 1 to 2 a.m. when most of the residents still dey sleep.
Make you no forget say curfew dey from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. in the state in the past five months
Catarina Migliorini don sell off em virginity for $780,000
If-U-Missed-It, Catarina Migliorini, 20, don sell her “Brazilian lady flower” to the highest bidder – bidder from Japan, for the sum of $780,000. Na Auctions things!
Migliorini yarn say she go give 90% of her “salary” to a charity wey go build homes in her home state of Santa Catarina.
Florida woman seen and ‘gbabbed’, masturbating in public
If-U-Missed-It, on the 30th of October, dem Bradenton Police arrest Jennifer Piranian for allegedly masturbating (oh no, ultimately for drug possession without a prescription) inside the lobby of Bradenton Starbucks, a place “known for making a great cup of coffee”. She yarn say she dey wait for a ride to the hospital.
Na the masturbation attract witnesses wey call the Police. The Police yarn say dem go carry am go Hospital to treat wetin she call “infection or spider bite” or snake bit only if she go allow them search her purse.
She gree and the officer allegedly found a glass pipe wey contain on top am cocaine. Police Station, straight!
As she begin change into her jail clothes, na em another pill drop for ground. Na 8mg Hydromorphone. 2nd charge, straight!
The rest na story….
A Reblog: Pharmacists, doctors trade blameS over rising drug abuse deaths by Chukwuma Muanya
“PHARMACISTS, under the aegis of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) and medical doctors belonging to the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), are trading blames over who is culpable for rising cases of drug abuse related deaths.
A Nigerian Newspaper, not The Guardian had on Sunday reported the Chairman of NMA Lagos Branch, Dr. Francis Faduyile, to have blamed deaths traceable to drug abuse on the failure of pharmacists to disallow the sale of drugs over the counter. Faduyile also said that Nigerians prefer to visit pharmacies and pharmacists, for their health needs.
Faduyile said: “Many lives were lost to wrong diagnosis and prescription. The major challenge is the people; they are the ones creating the problems. They walk into any laboratory for tests and instead of consulting with a pathologist, they directly visit pharmacists who prescribe and administer drugs on them.
“In Nigeria, people prefer the drug shops.”
But the PSN, Lagos Branch, in a statement signed by the Chairman, Akintunde Obembe, blamed doctors for the situation. The PSN said Nigerian doctors were particularly guilty of the phenomenon styled, dispensing doctors in both the public and private sectors.
Obembe said doctors are not trained to dispense drugs and therefore they are part of problems of drug abuse and misuse as well as the inherent complications of this unwholesome development. “The other dimension is that doctors through their hospital facilities purchase the drugs they use in practice in open markets and the scores of unregistered wholesalers presumably because the drugs are cheaper. In this way they sustain the illegality they are now complaining of,” he added.
The pharmacist said it is also very fundamental to indicate that private doctors in furtherance with their agenda to boost quackery stock and dispense drugs in unlawful facilities contrary to the provisions of Cap 535 LFN 1990 and the Fake Drug Act which prohibits the sales and dispensing of drugs in unregistered pharmacy facilities.
The statement reads: “The sale of drugs in Nigeria is ravaged by a departure from the global norm in many respects. In Nigeria today there are only about 3,000 registered pharmacy facilities in the various cadres of practice including retailers, wholesalers, importers and manufacturers. Of this number less than 2,000 are retailers who provide services directly to the consuming public.
It is a statement of fact that while there are less than 2,000 registered retail pharmacies and 10,000 patent medicine vendors, there exist over a million different drug sellers who are unregistered.”
Island disappears from the Maps or from the Earth?
A South Pacific island wey marine charts, world maps, Google Earth and Google Maps dey show us say e dey, Australian scientists don talk say the thing no exist.
Google maps position the island, named Sandy Island, midway between Australia and French-governed New Caledonia. But scientists from the University of Sydney walka go the area only to find a blue 1,400m (4,620ft) of deep ocean, the Coral Sea instead of land.
“We wanted to check it out because the navigation charts on board the ship showed a water depth of 1,400m in that area – very deep,” Dr Seton, from the University of Sydney, yarn the AFP news agency after the 25-day walka. “It’s on Google Earth and other maps so we went to check and there was no island. We’re really puzzled. It’s quite bizarre.
“How did it find its way onto the maps? We just don’t know, but we plan to follow up and find out.”
Robot on Planet Mars: the 11 year old Clara, who named him (or her?) speaks (or spark?)
“On Aug. 5 at 10:31 p.m. PST, a rover named Curiosity touched down safely on the surface of Mars, and I was lucky enough to have a front-row seat.
My name is Clara, and when I was in 6th grade, I won the essay contest NASA held to name its next Mars rover. The essay I wrote was not even 250 words long, but somehow it was enough to change my life.
I still remember that chilly December day, sitting in science class. I’d finished a worksheet early and decided to get a TIME for Kids magazine off of Mrs. Estevez’s bookshelf. It was the 2008 Invention Issue, but that wasn’t the only thing that caught my eye. In the magazine, there was an article about a girl who named the Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity.
The article also talked about the essay contest NASA was holding to name its next Mars rover. Before I even knew anything else about it, a single word flooded my 11-year-old mind: Curiosity.
“Before I even knew anything else about it, a single word flooded my 11-year-old mind: Curiosity.”
I couldn’t wait for the bell to ring so I could get started on my essay. That afternoon, I raced home from the bus stop, sat down at the computer, and typed until my fingers ached. It turns out I was just in time. A few days later, and the contest would have closed.
Five months later, shortly after I had turned 12, I was watching a National Geographic special on mammoths when the phone rang. My mom answered, and immediately, a wide smile spread across her face.
When she told me that I had won, I was happier than I could ever remember being. I screamed and ran up and down the stairs and all around the house. I completely forgot about the mammoths and did not even remember to turn off the TV until it was really late.
Curiosity is such an important part of who I am.
I have always been fascinated by the stars, the planets, the sky and the universe. I remember as a little girl, my grandmother and I would sit together in the backyard for hours. She’d tell me stories and point out constellations.
Here in the heart of the country, my grandmother would say, there were no bright city lights to compete with the brilliance of the stars. There was just the chirping of the cicadas and the soft summer breeze.
My grandmother lived in China, thousands of miles away from my home in Kansas. I loved the stars because they kept us together even when we were apart. They were always there, yet there was so much I didn’t know about them. That’s what I love so much about space. No matter how much we learn, it will always possess a certain degree of mystery.
In the past, space exploration may have been a competition to see who got somewhere first or the fastest. But now, it is one of the few things that bring people together. Science is a language that needs no translation. It doesn’t matter where you’re from or what you look like — you just have to have a thirst for knowledge and a passion for learning in order to succeed.
People often ask me why we go to faraway places like Mars. Why do we explore? My answer to that is simple: because we can. Because we’re curious. Because we as human beings do not just stay holed up in one place. We are constantly wondering and trying to find out what’s over the hill and beyond the horizon.
The Curiosity rover is more than just a robot. It is more than just a titanium body and aluminum wheels. Curiosity represents the hard work, passion, love and commitment of thousands of people from all over the world who were brought together by science.
Science is so awesome. It is breathtaking and mind-blowing, intertwining and unifying; and sometimes, it’s just a little bit crazy. The discoveries we make about our world are incredibly humbling. They move us forward and have the potential to benefit all of mankind.
This December it will be four years of my life that have been tied to Curiosity in some way. I’ve met so many amazing people through this experience, from scientists to engineers to administrators to volunteers. Their dedication and fervor inspire me immensely. My journey with Curiosity and the MSL mission team has shaped the person that I am today, as well as the person I would one day like to become.
I am deeply grateful to everyone who made it possible for me to have this amazing adventure.
And to you, I hope your curiosity takes you far.”
Post or ‘Like’ comments on facebook, Twitter and get arrested. Happening…
Police arrested one Indian lady for commenting on political issue on her facebook account and another for ‘Like’ing that comment. Wetin be that one? Person don lose em freedom be that o. Make I dey watch before ‘Like’ing comments?
Shaheen Dhada, 21, wey be medical student for India and wey dey live on the outskirts of Mumbai, dey vex.
Her vexation be say “when the right-wing Hindu political leader Bal K. Thackeray died last weekend, the city of Mumbai responded with a practiced, if anxious, efficiency. Merchants hurriedly closed their shops. Traffic thickened as people tried to rush home. India’s most populous city, a global financial center and moviemaking capital, was effectively shut down. Like most people, she understood what was happening: Mr. Thackeray’s hard-line Shiv Sena party has dominated Mumbai for decades, often using intimidation, violence or vandalism to enforce citywide strikes or bans against certain movies. This time, Shiv Sena wanted a citywide signal of deference and respect for Mr. Thackeray.”
All that one na English wey New York Times yarn about the issue.
Wetin she yarn on her facebook page simple, “Why should an entire city be involuntarily shuttered to mark the death of a politician?”
And em friend, Renu Srinivasan, 20, read the post and press “like.” Shikena!
blah blah blah. Na so dem arrest the two of dem. People sef go destroy em Uncle Hospital blah blah blah
As for Ms. Dhada and Ms. Srinivasan, dem release dem on bail on Monday. The case don stir so much condemnation that the top police official in Mumbai don order an investigation into the arrests.
For now, though, the two young women dey wait their first hearings in court. Na wa. And the Indian people dey vex plenty (that, na outrage).
The fear of facebook cooments and ‘Like’ na the father and mother of wisdom.
Pictures: And the Dog Named Trotter finally gets married
It’s Trotter’s wedding day
Professional Chef
Baddest boi
It’s Carnival time and Trotter must participate
Sunbathing time?
A writer? The Ken Saro-Wiwa fashion.
Is she not lovingly kissable?
Party boi
Trotter looking l. l. cool j.-like
President Jona’s bro don die
President Goodluck Jonathan’s younger half brother, Meni Jonathan, don die. Na today, 20th of November – the day wey our President dey do em 55th birthday.
Na inside State House Clinic, Abuja e die.
The Presidency never yarn about the death officially. But sources yarn say the guy, Meni don dey suffer an undisclosed ailment for months and dey receive medical attention in his home state of Bayelsa.
Until em die, Mena na the chairman of traditional council of chiefs in Otuoke community of Bayelsa State.
Hope say you see say dem look alike?
Innocent children as victims in the Gaza crisis. Na where we dey walka go?
I dey wonder why Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) [you fit call am IMF sef – Israeli Military Forces] and Palestinian Militant Forces (PMF) dey war against each other and little children be immediate victims.
I wonder more why nobody fit do anything to stop the children, at least, from being victims.
Money?
United States Government?
The United Nations?
Individual influential persons?
Why the thing dey difficult to stop?
Even prayers?
And this war na religious war, against the most, or supposedly the most, religious persons in the world?
lAkUnLeScReWs dey cross em fingers…
Wahala dey for Gaza o. Bad bad thinzzz dey happen
Na one Palestinian student from Birzeit University be this. E dey push one burning tire during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank town of Betunia.
I know say plenty people go dey wonder say why this kin’ war, while the world looks on. Or rather the world seem to fuel the war….
Well, your humble servant sef no know o. We can only assume say we know.
More of assumptions as we walka together.
lAkUnLeScReWs 