What every Nigerian must know about Guinea worm

Guinea worm disease, also known as dracunculiasis, is a parasitic infection caused by the nematode roundworm parasite Dracunculus medenisis.

Guinea worm disease is contracted when people ingest drinking water from stagnant sources containing copepods (commonly referred to as water fleas) that harbor infective Guinea worm larvae.

Nigeria is on the verge of attaining recognition as a World Health Organisation, WHO, certified guinea worm-free country.

Over the last couple of decades, the Nigeria Guineaworm Eradication Programme, NIGEP, has been pushing eradication efforts to the extent that over the last 52 weeks, no verifiable case of the disease has been reported.

Task force raids Oshodi, arrests pregnant women, others

                                 The suspects

Lagos State Task Force on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit has arrested 183 suspected hoodlums in Oshodi and Mafoluku areas of the state.

The arrest came four weeks after PUNCH Metro published its findings that Oshodi was gradually being overtaken by filth and criminals.

It was learnt that while 170 hoodlums were arrested at Oshodi, 13 were arrested at an abandoned pit toilet at Mafoluku.

Residents of the area alleged that the abandoned public toilet was being used as a hideout by the suspects.

JAMB releases 2013 UTME results, withholds 12,110 results

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the 2013 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results.

The board, however, withheld 12,110 results for possible disciplinary action.

The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, announced this at a news conference on the release of the results in Bwari, FCT, on Friday.

The registrar said after thorough processing of answer scripts of the candidates who sat for the examination, the board discovered some forms of malpractice perpetuated during the conduct of the examination.

“However, the results of 68,309 candidates from various centres are undergoing further screening to ascertain the culpability of 12,110 candidates’ results.“

Prostitutes learn English for football fans in Brazil

 Brazil (AFP) – “Good morning, girls!” Igor Fuchs exclaimed as he greeted his students at the start of English class in this southeastern Brazilian city.

But this is no ordinary crowd and the curriculum, for the most part, is focused on sex props.

Fuchs teaches English to prostitutes so they can give a warmer welcome to tens of thousands of football fans headed here for June’s Confederations Cup, as well as next year’s World Cup.

The city’s 80,000 sex workers are counting on brisk business as authorities predict 40,000 tourists will be in town next month for a total of three matches June 15-30. A whopping 140,000 are expected to follow for the 2014 World Cup.

With that in mind, the Association of Prostitutes has been offering free English classes to its members at a local mall since March.

“We teach basic expressions but also have demonstrations with erotic paraphernalia so they can learn the names, how to use them and propose them,” said Fuchs, a volunteer who also teaches Spanish and French.

Talented, but refused to drop out

In a season when some artistes are dropping out of school to embrace music, others have proved they could combine development of their talents with schooling, writes CHUX OHAI

Many years ago, parents didn’t like children who preferred a career in music to medicine, law or engineering. Musicians were generally regarded as occupying the lowest rung of the social ladder and, so, they were hardly respected.

Although they worked hard at their chosen vocations and sometimes, travelled far beyond these shores, many musicians were hardly seen as useful members of the society. Most of the time, they were dismissed as social misfits.

Terry G denies fighting with AY.com

Contrary to rumours making the rounds that Terry G and AY.com recently had a fight during Terry’s birthday party where blows were exchanged; several bottles broken and people injured while trying to separate the fight , Terry G has refuted the rumour, saying that such incident never happened.

Terry made the clarification while speaking with WG on the matter. According to Terry G, “although there was indeed a birthday party at my house, nothing like that ever happened.”

According to him, AY.Com was not at his party. He stressed the story was the handiwork of his detractors and jobless bloggers.

Change of Name and Address

Change of Name and Address
from Akinbodeolukunle.blogspot.com
To Gabbscorner.blogspot.com

I won’t mind becoming a Pastor – Gordons

                                            Gordons

‘Moving the ministry to the permanent site’ is a joke known by all and sundry. It implies a shift, an improvement, a change of level. It is a phrase that explains Gordons’ 13 years journey from grass to grace, from being relatively unknown to being an ace-comedian that cracks jokes to Heads of States. At the peak of his career at the Vanguard Personality of the Year Awards,which held last month, Weekend Groove caught up with this renowned comedian. In this interview, Gordons speaks on comedy, music and the woman in his life.

Ibori loses appeal in UK

                                 former Delta State Governor, Chief James Ibori

The jailed former Governor of Delta State, James Ibori, lost a legal appeal on Thursday against a 13-year prison sentence for embezzling £50m in one of Britain’s biggest money-laundering cases.

Ibori, a founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party and a behind-the-scenes kingmaker, who ran Delta State for eight years, was trying to get his sentence reduced.

His lawyers argued that the original judge had indicated the term would be shorter.

Judge Antony Edwards-Stuart rejected the argument at the appeal hearing and said money laundering should attract close to the maximum 14-year sentence.