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  • Biafra fever

    When rebellion is inspired by hallucination, sooner or later the rebels will demonstrate that they operate beyond the realm of reason. The signs of disorientation are beginning to show more unmistakably in the affairs of Biafra’s promoters.

    It is not that Nigeria’s federalism is perfect, but the imperfection can be perfected without the complication of hallucinatory revolters.

    This must be Ralph Uwazuruike’s idea of taking things to the next level. After unveiling his group’s new identity on December 6 last year, and announcing his new leadership title, he has now released plans to set up a parallel government in the country’s Southeast and South-south.

    The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) was renamed Biafra Independence Movement (BIM), and Uwazuruike said he should be recognised as BIM leader instead of MASSOB leader.

    ”Old members will now belong to the new Biafra Independence Movement (BIM) while the MASSOB structure will be reorganised as the youth wing of the Biafra struggle,” Uwazuruike said during a meeting of his group’s zonal and regional administrators. In other words, the struggle is still alive, but will be carried on under a redesigned banner.

    Uwazuruike must be under the impression that he moved closer to actualising his separatist dream by presenting what was called the 2016 Biafra Budget at the Ojukwu Memorial Library in Owerri, the Imo State capital.   Is Biafra already a reality, and no longer an objective? Who was responsible for making the budget? Who approved it? Where will the funds to operate it come from? Does this budget presentation explain or justify the efforts to generate revenue internally by, for instance, selling so-called Biafra passports as well as MASSOB customised vehicle number plates? Of course, these specific examples were scams.

    Also, Uwazuruike announced the appointment of Rev. Fr Samuel Aniebonam, a Catholic Priest, as the Chairman of the Biafra Independent National Electoral Commission (B-INEC). Uwazuruike said: “The chairman, with other anointed men and women of God as members, will supervise the internal election into the offices of the new Biafra Government on February 22.” How can a group’s “internal election” be for the election of Biafra government officials?

    He continued: “Our election will not be like Nigeria’s election, it will be a transparent one. In Biafra, there won’t be electoral fraud. The tenure of the elected Regional Governor or Minister would be four years and nine months. There shall be no second tenure. Once you are defeated, you won’t appeal in a tribunal against your opponent. This is why members of the commission would be men and women of God.”  He sounded like a Constitution, or like the Constitution. Is there a Biafra Constitution? Who drafted it? Who ratified it?

    The group’s National Director of Information, Sunny Okereafor, was quoted as saying only members of MASSOB and BIM are qualified to vote and be voted for in the elections. Are these the only Biafrans, or the only enfranchised citizens of Biafra? Is the group the same thing as Biafra, or is Biafra the same thing as the group? Okereafor said: “The electioneering has begun; we are conducting elections into all offices from wards to the zones, to elect leaders to administer Biafra. We are going to show Nigeria how to conduct free and fair elections without rigging, intimidation and favouritism.”

    He added: “Biafra will be a country where others would come to learn how democracy works… We want freedom; Biafra is the answer.”  Okereafor reportedly said Biafra would re-introduce its currency as soon as the elections were concluded and winners sworn in.

    Joking apart, don’t they sound like jokers? There is some confusion here, to put it mildly. Or there is some hallucination here, to put it less mildly. Planning to hold elections, and so on, in a non-existent Biafra must be a hallucinatory joke.  Biafra remains imaginary and imagination cannot make it existent. It exists only in the imagination of the imaginers.

    The reinvention that invented BIM should be appreciated in its proper context.  As background, it is noteworthy that a faction of MASSOB led by Uchenna Madu had expelled Uwazuruike for alleged misappropriation of funds. Madu was the Director of Information under Uwazuruike in the old power structure.

    The complexion of the conflict was obvious following Uwazuruike’s allegation that Madu got money from the Federal Government to stop pro-Biafra protests. In response, a statement by MASSOB’s Secretary, Ugwuoke Ibem, attacked Uwazuruike and threatened to expose his “atrocities, sabotage and deviation from Biafra’s actualiastion”.

    The statement said: “As the closest officer to the former leader as well as the image maker, our new leader has vowed to expose Uwazuruike’s dealings with the Federal Government under Jonathan; Ezu River case, death of Innocent Ogbuehi (ex-Umuahia MASSOB leader), and other illicit affairs.”  It added: “MASSOB, under Madu, will continue its non-violent agitation with other pro-Biafra groups.”

    How many pro-Biafra groups exist today?  This question is pertinent in the light of developments concerning what may be tagged “The Biafra Project”. It is no news that the Independent Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), another pro-Biafra group, continues to make the headlines on account of the detention of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, who is facing treason-related charges for illegally running Radio Biafra.

    The truth is that problems arising from the country’s imperfect federalism may not necessarily be resolved by separatist impulses. Disunity among the various pro-Biafra groups is sufficient to illustrate this point.

    As Nigeria celebrates Armed Forces Day, also known as Remembrance Day, on January 15, it is an apt time to further reflect on pro-Biafra separatists in particular. It was on January 15, 1970, that Biafran troops surrendered to the Federal side after a three-year conflict, bringing the Nigerian Civil War to an end, perhaps without ending the centrifugal tendencies in the country’s space.

    There is no question that the present promoters of the past are too fixated on yesterday to give tomorrow a chance. Their extremism is a cause for concern. They are on the Path of Thunder, to employ the title of poetry by Christopher Okigbo, the talented poet who fought on the Biafran side and died on the battlefield. What kind of government will accommodate their provocative absurdities without a collision?

  • OAP Fade Ogunro captured in the Milan fever

    OAP Fade Ogunro captured in the Milan fever

    About 60 hours to the much expected MTV Europe Music Awards, EMA, which took place at the Mediolanum Forum, Parco Agricolo Sud Milano, Italy, the city was abuzz with a buildup of activities that depict the popularity of the EMA among the governments and people of Europe.

    From indoor showcases via dedicated TV channels to street corners, the glitz of the show held sway, increasing the people’s expectations for the awards show yesterday.

    Downtown Porto Genova, where the ‘MTV Street’ is located captures some of these scenarios with pomp and circumstance.

    The MTV Breaks is one of the fun activities that have set the people bubbling with excitement and given the city a festive ambiance.

    With what looks like an early Christmas, so many talents are expressed through graphic designs, merchandises, props, and electronic materials, coming from the fresh talents that entered for the MTV Breaks challenge. They include digital correspondents, graphic designers, Make-up artists and photographers.

    Interestingly, MTV is wielding so much around music, and every artist, every fan of the arts is finding a place for their creative expression.

    Interestingly, these designs are bringing extra verve to the EMA, with test runs that are already trending.

    Nigerian celebrity OAP, Fade Ogunro and her South African counterpart, Thendo were captured around some of the MTV Street fun moments in Porto Genova.

  • Sack fever grips perm secs

    Sack fever grips perm secs

    …as Buhari halts test for new ones

    Sack panic has gripped permanent secretaries following plans by President Muhammadu Buhari to trim ministries, departments and agencies(MDAs) to manageable size.

    There were indications that some permanent secretaries, especially weak and corrupt ones,  might be retired.

    Based on the pending change, the presidency yesterday halted plans to conduct a test for about 20 directors seeking to fill vacancies for the Director-General of the Budget Office and permanent secretary slots for Abia, Borno, Jigawa and Kwara states.

    It was also gathered that the alleged abuse of the selection process also accounted for the postponement of the test.

    A highly-placed source, who spoke in confidence, said: “The fear of a likely reduction of permanent secretaries by 50 per cent has gripped the civil service. Already, we have 42 permanent secretaries and if the MDAs are merged, some permanent secretaries may have to proceed on retirement.

    “The government may be forced to look at the records of the permanent secretaries. The weak and corrupt ones who fiddled with SURE-P funds, mismanaged resources and presided over phony contracts might be dropped.

    “Although the permanent secretaries are managing the government machinery with President Buhari, it will soon be their turn to be sacked or retired.”

    It was gathered that the pending change accounted for the abrupt stoppage of the examination for about 30 directors seeking to fill vacancies for the Director-General of the Budget Office and permanent secretary slots for Abia, Borno, Jigawa and Kwara states.

    A top source in the civil service said: “All the short-listed directors were yesterday abruptly told that the examination has been postponed indefinitely based on the directive of the presidency.

    “They said the shift was as a result of plans by the presidency to review the size of the permanent secretary cadre in the Federal Civil Service.

    “The presidency felt there might be no need yet to appoint new permanent secretaries when it has not decided the fate of those in charge now.”

    A circular by the Permanent Secretary (CMO), Amb. Danjuma N. Sheni, which was exclusively obtained by our correspondent, had invited the directors for the examination.

    The circular said: “I write to inform you that the timetable for the selection of candidates to fill vacancies for the appointment of Permanent Secretaries for Abia, Borno, Jigawa, and Kwara as well as the Director-General of the Budget Office of the Federation has been scheduled to hold from Monday, August 17 to Saturday 22, 2015 as indicated below:

    “ICT Refresher Course Self-Assessment Questionnaire Administration (August 17, 2015; Written Examination for selection of Permanent Secretaries(August 18, 2015); and Written Examination for selection of Director-General Budget Office of the Federation (August 19, 2015).

    “Permanent Secretaries are hereby requested to ensure that all candidates attend the activities as scheduled, please.”

    The Ahmed Joda Transition Committee had recommended drastic reforms in the civil service.

    The panel said: “There is no direct relationship between the number of ministries and efficacy of service delivery. The US with a population of 316million and with GDP of $17, 328 trillion (30 times Nigeria’s GDP) has 15 ministries. India has 24 ministries, while the UK has 17.

    “The current structure of the Federal Government of Nigeria with 28 ministries and 542 agencies (50 of which have no enabling laws) results in very high cost of governance. The portfolios of ministries are not responsive to all the major critical national challenges such as family and child affairs; religious affairs; vulnerable and elderly group affairs as well as the North-Eastern crisis.

    “There is an apparent conflict between the desire of reducing the cost of governance through cabinet downsize and the constitutional requirement of a cabinet-level ministerial appointment from each of the 36 states of the federation.”

  • Expert alerts on African swine fever outbreak

    The Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ilorin, ProfAbiodun Adeloye, has  warned  feed manufacturers and pork producers of the possible outbreak of African swine fever.

    He said the precarious  weather condition is creating an environment for deadly diseases to  invade the industry, calling for quick action and monitoring for possible traces of strange and common  animal diseases, after  the  recent  attack of  bird  flu  on some  poultry farms inthe country.

    With African swine fever  recorded on pig farms  in  some  parts  of Europe,  the expert called on  health  authorities, especially  those  at the  borders, to take  steps to keep  deadly diseases from crossing into the country.

    According to him, national-level health staff should be charged with supervising and coordinating efforts to contain the disease.

    Given the ease with which transmission between animals occur, he urged the government to implement safeguards to ensure that wild boars, the source of African swine fever, donot come into contact with pigs slaughtered for meat.

    He also suggested double fencing to keep wild animals out, proper disposal of food and pig feed and contacting a local veterinarian in case a dead boar is discovered in the wild.

    In addition, he said facilities that cannot secure the observance of veterinary and sanitary rules cannot be used for rearing pigs.

    He called on the  government  to adopt additional measures to contain and prevent the spread of African swine fever and other animal diseases.

    He pointed out the need to raise the awareness among Nigerians about African swine fever and other dangerous animal diseases.

    Last  year, Adeloye alerted on the need for poultry producers and feed manufacturers  to  prepare  for  possible  outbreak on bird  flu.

    Subsequently, the industry was attacked, as smany birds contracted the virus. As a  result of the  highly contagious and dangerous pathogen, the poultry  was  in a state of flux.

    Since then, scientists and researchers have been working to try and understand bird flu and develop a solution that will protect poultry flocks. However, that still seems to be a long way off and new cases seem to be occurring.

    To better manage the issue, he said health authorities should  take the necessary steps to prevent occurrence  of the disease.

  • Some natural ammunition against Ebola Virus fever (6)

    A telephone call from Anglican Reverend Ekundayo  Ogunlana roused me from sleep last Thursday morning. He wished to thank me for the column of the previous Thursday and to let me know it enriched his sermon in church the Sunday after. The column in reference, the fourth in the Ebola virus fever series, suggested, among other things, a return to the creation plan for the nurture of the human body in health and in illness as the surest way of preventing or overcoming all illnesses, Ebola fever inclusive. The kernel of this advocacy is that the creation nutrition plan alone guarantees a robust and impregnable defence mechanism, the immune system, which the creator of the human body in infinite wisdom planted into this body to defend it against all disease – causing agents. Thus, creation wisdom confers upon the immune system dominion over all microbes. In my upcoming website to host publications of this column, I share the source of my conviction in this advocacy. It is a simple sentence from the spiritual teachings of a Wise one: neither drugs nor injections, but the right kinds of foods and drinks bring lasting health.

    In the Bible, to which Rev. Ogunlana turned to build evidence in his sermon for his conviction in the correctness of this statement, there are unmistaken references to creation plan for food and medicine in Genesis, Ezekiel and the Revelation. Incidentally, Genesis is the opening Book of the Bible, and Revelation, the last. Incidentally, also, the reference in the Revelation appears in Chapter 22, the last chapter! In my view, these alerts are, for the Christians like the School bell, which announces the beginning of one lecture and the end of it.

    The experiences of Dr. George Malkmus depend for me the recognitions I gained from the Wise one. Dr. Malkmus is an American Baptist church minister. He watched helplessly as his mother was killed instalmentally by chemotherapy drugs which her doctors gave her for a cancer. So, when Dr. Malkmus himself became stricken with cancer afterwards, he declined chemotherapy as a treatment mode. He opted instead for fasting, especially on organic carrot juice. In months, the crippling cancer disappeared! He was so happy that he went on to share his experience in the book HALLELUJAH DIET. He would also set up a health farm he named HALLELJAH ACRES, where he trains doctors and other people about the Creation Diet for healing all diseases. His forte is Genesis 1:29:-

    “Then God said I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree has seed in it. They will be yours, for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground-everything that has the breath in it – I give every green plant for food and it was so”

    Mr Olajuwon Okubena, who makes Jobelyn, the antioxidant, blood building herbal proprietary product, says this medicine derives its origin from Revelation 22:2

    “Down the middle of the great street of the city, on each side of the river stood the Tree of Life, bearing twelve crops of fruit yielding its fruit every month and the leaves of the tree are for healing of the nations.”

    Rev. Ogunlana referred to this passage to urge his congregation to incorporate natural foods and herbs in their diet for immune building. He also taught them about Ezekiel 47:12

    “Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither nor will their fruits fail. Every month, they will bear because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. The fruits will serve for food and their leaves for healing”.

    The creation plan for food and medicine as outlined in these passages shows we should eat fruits, and seeds and take herbs to prevent illness or cure it. Thanks, Rev Ekundayo Ogunlana. It is great to learn that reverend gentlemen can now lead the crusade of man’s return to Mother Nature in health matters. For the Church had misled many Christians that herbs were anti-Christian. For people who try to add vegetables (greens) and fruits to their diets, they will supply their bodies through this diet energy, oxygen and other nutrients from creation which have been stored, in these foods as though they are battery cells.

    Dr. Malkhmus found that his congregation consumed too much refined White flour foods, and refined white sugar and hardly any greens fruits or food supplements. Members of the Church fell ill frequently, especially after parties at which these foods were eaten. Prayer requests for healing prayer were many. But many of the intercessory prayers would appear unanswered. In fact, deaths often occurred. Dr. Malkhmus decided the Church had to add health education and eating according to the creation plan to Christian teachings.

    I believe Rev. Ogunlana is walking on this path. Surer should be his feet if he remembers that, even when we venture to eat fruits and greens in Nigeria, many of them are devitalized through fertilizer and pesticide use in farming processes. I do not eat carrot and cucumber for this reason. For carrot, I go for either organic carrot powder or organic Spirulina which has more beta carotene than even healthy carrots.

    omeone asked me in earlier parts of the series if Ebola Virus could be a trumpet of the Word Judgement? I replied that I wasn’t competent to answer that question. This much I know, however: The earth is a school for human spirits. It is like the soil in which a seed of maize is sown, to sprout, germinate, flower and fruit; heaven or paradise is home of the human spirit, and the earth the soil in which it is sown to sprout, flower, fruit and return home Sunday as a blazing flame, a useful member of Gods Creation. This earth school for the human spirit, like the University, has its semester and other calendar. We may liken the semester to a cosmic Age. A cosmic Age is about 2,160 earth years. There are 12 Ages on the Cosmic Clock, known also as the ZODIAC. Each Age has its name and sign or symbol. We are now in the AQUARIAN AGE. The people of old who gave mankind knowledge of the zodiac were guided to it from on high. From this revealed knowledge, they developed the earthly clock, which they divided into 12 hours of day hours, and 12 night hours. It is noteworthy that the year calendar, also, has 12 months. I am touched by the fact that when this Gregorian calendar was developed, the Europeans had not known of a place called Nigeria. Yet the Yoruba race in South West has a centuries old year calendar of 12 months! Isn’t there something to the division of Israel into 12 tribes? Why would our Lord Jesus appoint 12 disciples? In the knowledge of creation anchored on the earth today, we are priviledge to be permitted to know that monumental events occur in every Age. It is, in fact, knowledge of the regularity of this occurrence’s when the venal point of the earth’s equator line bisects the cosmic ring at a certain angle which led to great expectations and observations. Now that the Cosmic Age is like a new school year. There is a curriculum of spiritual education the earth man must undergo in one Age. As he matures in this school from age to age, he sprouts spiritually, his radiations expanding or enlarging, even as he grows intellectually in an earthly school, till he bursts forth in a blazing flame if the rhythm of his vibrations is below the voltage of his environment that spells trouble or doom. He is then like a “foolish virgin” with no oil in the lamp (of his soul). He keeps repeating the “class” if he fails in the examination and burdens himself with “carry – overs” into the next class.

    Now, imagine what happens in the University when a third – year student is weighed down by carry – over from the first two academic sessions. Such a student is unlikely to graduate. In what we can call the cosmic school system, energy is the language spoken. The human spirit could neither sprout nor fruit in Paradise because it couldn’t bear the Pressure of the power of the vicinity of God he had to be expelled from there to lower lying world of Creation where the pressure, transformed too much lower voltages, permitted conscious existence and growth. But with every new Cosmic-Age, the voltage increases. Human spirits who have sprouted, flowering or fruiting are able to bear and weather new higher voltages just as a brilliant and well killed student is able to cope with the next, higher academic pressure. Human spirits who are able to cope are those whose energy voltages are in consonance with the voltage or energy of the New Age.

    Where this will make some sense to us is in respect of the Creation knowledge that the human spirit has an important and major input into the formation of the human blood. Fetal circulation is known to be established mid-way through pregnancy, when the incarnating soul takes possession of the growing body in the womb. Evidence of this are the first kicks of the baby a pregnant woman experiences at this time. It is instructive that blood circulation ceases at physical death, when the soul, this vital essence,, vacates the physical body! The heart of this matter is that if a higher cosmic energy breaks down weak human spirit energy, the scorched human spirit, like chicken beaten by rains is unable to contribute its important quota to the formation and maintenance of blood composition at the right radiation level which through the immune function, disintegrates everything not meant to exist in the human body, including HIV and ebola viruses. This is the loss of the “dominion” which man is given over his environment. The blame is his, not any-one elses’, certainly not God’s. Creation is maintained by Laws, God does not intervene in the working of creation. His laws govern creation. It was predicted in the 1920s by a Wise One as the earth supped quietly into the Aquarian Age, that blood diseases will be a major feature of our time. Cancer is a blood- related disease, just like HIV/AIDS and now Ebola Virus Fever.

    The New Age coincides, incidentally, with another phenomenon, the Cosmic Turning-Point. To understand it, one would have to appreciate the Law of Motion, and the law of the Cycle which, among other natural phenomenon known as laws, govern Creation. We are familiar with our hearts pumping blood round the body, and of the blood returning to the heart. When we inhale air, we also exhale it. When we drink water or eat food, our bodies must return them to whence they came. One day, our souls must return, also, to whence they came. Don’t seeds become fruits and these fruits become seeds later?

    This Law of the cycle ensures that everything which moves away from its origin must return to it sometime. We are familiar with the atom. It has a core around which electrons are arranged in concentric rings. So is our solar system (the Sun and the Planets) arranged. As electrons move around the core of the atom in cyclic motions, so do the planets of our solar system around the sun. Our solar system of more than nine planets (new ones are being discovered) belongs to a family of billions and billions of solar systems. Together, they form a GALAXY of solar systems. In this galaxy, the location of our solar system is known as the MILKY WAY. Like the human blood circulation, motion of electrons around the atomic nucleus or the rotation of the earth on its axis and its revolution around the sun, our galaxy also revolves around a core. This galaxy, stupendously, is only one of billions and billions of galaxies which compose our UNIVERSE. This Universe is, thus, a gigantic and amazing work. And like other works, it obeys the law of Motion and Law of Cycle. It revolves around a core in cycles! It is the completion of one cycle, such as in the earth’s rotation which causes day and night or revolution around the sun which brings the seasons, that is, the COSMIC TURNING-POINT. As with the New Age or Cosmic Age, it tells us that the Universe has attained a New Age. And all the creatures maturing in it, are meant to have attained a corresponding degree of maturity which alone entitles them to exist at that new level or rhythm of life. It is like the Gregorian calendar of 12 months telling us we are one year older on earth, to which we respond with birthday celebrations. Human spirits in Creation who are sluggish with their spiritual education, that is maturing, cannot bear the voltage of this new rhythm. It is like a man holding live electrical cable conducting a voltage much, much higher than those in the cells of his body. He would be electrocuted!

    In the Cosmic New Age and in the Cosmic Turning-Point, both of which are in a rendezvous at this time, the earth is wrapped in more power pressure than before. Only those human spirits who have sprouted, flowering and fruiting will be able to swing in this power pressure without harm. The scorching of immature spirits will affect their blood radiations and weak blood radiations which plumet the immune system, however well-fortified with the right diet. For the spirit, a tenant in this body, has a major role to play in the making and maintenance of blood quality. For people who understand the Bible alright, this Message echoes in the BOOK OF REVELATIONS.

    When the speaker says “TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA”, the Message is not address to church organisation in the earthly continent known as Asia where the Chinese and Japanese, for example, ASIA is the spiritual name of the WORLD (Creation). The world is not our earth. The earth is our earth. The spiritual name of the earth is EPHESUS. Man gives names to everything on earth. Sometimes, their names accord with their spiritual names. We know, for example, of JERUSALEM in PARADISE the home of the human spirit. THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA refers, therefore, to the seven Universes in Creation (the World). An Archangel presides over each Universe. The speaker in the Book of Revelations remind them of where these Universes have “fallen” short of the expectations of Creation. This is in the area of those “first things” they had left undone. Of course, those “things” have to do with the purpose of existence, which is all about the discovery of God’s Will and unconditional fulfilment of it. That was the Message which the Lord Jesus brought to mankinds; he did not come to die for their sins to be forgiven. In any cases, didn’t he warn that sins against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven? And didn’t we learn that the Holy Spirit is the power which God sent out to create the World (Let there be Light, and the spirit of God hovered over the land.)

     

    Ebola Virus

    Last week, the news broke that another fever similar to ebola virus fever was killing with the same devastation in Japan. This is Denge fever of which this column wrote a few years ago. Some people say it is caused by rats. Other say the mosquito. A reader of this column who said he contracted it while in Asia gave me a recipe which helped him survive the infection. Unfortunately, I lost his name and the recipe. With the knowledge of the New Age and the Cosmic Turning-Point, we should ask certain questions:

    •          Have ebola virus and this Japanese’s virus always been present on earth in latent inactive forms?

    •          If they have been, why are they active now? What is the trigger?

    •          If the trigger is the energy pressure described above, which the human spirit is unable to withstand and is causing its body to crumble, will the cares being applauded today not be temporary gains?

    •          Are these strange viruses’ trumpets of a World Judgement we are not hearing because we are expecting to hear physical trumpets?

    •          If these viruses were not part of God’s creation, as some people have said, reminding of the biblical view that everything he created is good, how did they arise? Could they be the handiworks of men? By this, laboratory inventions are not imagined. Spiritually, we know volitions of the spirit give rise to thought – forms and that thought – forms may become dense enough to physically materialise. If the heart of man is still dark and evil, will this nature not potentiate darkness and evil? I remember vividly the counsel of the Wise One” KEEP THE HEARTH OF YOUR THOUGHTS PURE!

    As we continue to search for a cure for Ebola virus Disease and other killer viruses, let us remember that man forms his environment, and that since he did not create the World, he has to form his environment in accordance to the Will of the Creator and as he lays his bed, so will he lay on it.

  • Some natural ammunition against Ebola Virus fever (3)

    The fear of Ebola Virus is still sweeping through Nigeria, and in the drive to contain the virus, the unimaginable may happen. A vaccine untested on animals and, after, small group of humans, may be exploded on an entire population.

    Let’s not forget that the vaccine will be nothing but weak Ebola Viruses. The parents of my generation enthusiastically surrendered us their children to smallpox vaccination. And, now, about 60 years after, we are being told by authorities no less than medical doctors that this could be the cause of the explosion of cancer of all sorts worldwide. Today, I wish to present an alternative view to the one-way medical traffic about how we can get out of the Ebola rot. It is a material opinion, not a spiritual beacon, which will follow. As this column explained in the last two series, this question is all about the IMMUNE SYSTEM and the RIGHT DIET and HERBS to maintain it. The alternative view to the groundswell today comes from Dr. Robert O. Young, author of  THE pH MIRACLE, which I was privileged to review in THE COMET newspaper for several weeks a few years ago. He shows that the body should be alkaline at 7.4pH on a 0-14 pH scale, where anything below 7 is acidic and above 7 alkaline. Over to Dr. Robert Young.

    Ebola – Another Round For The Propaganda Matrix Don’t Be fooled Yet Again.

    Every few years, just like clockwork, the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and The World Health Organisation (WHO) conspire on a new global threat to scare the living daylights out of people. Both organisations will spread lies of unfathomable magnitude in an attempt to disrupt and instill fear to ultimately exert control and obtain compliance on populations. They’ve done it before with the flu and they’re doing it again with Ebola.

    Look no further back than 2009 during the flu pandemic hype, and we have the perfect example of a fabricated international orchestration of deception designed to get billions hooked on the fear bandwagon so that Big Pharma could sell millions of antivirals and vaccines for a flu that was no more dangerous than the common cold.

    Manipulating data, promoting falsehoods, continually misinforming the public and using all forms of media to publicise “a deceptive plan”, are all effective strategies currently deployed to extend a massive psychological operation to world populations.

    The orchestrators of pandemics have historically used the same tactics to achieve their goals. Incrementalism plays a large part in priming the populace for vaccination programmes so that administering them becomes a voluntary process rather than forced. The incremental approach gradually integrates all demographic and psychographic factors such as age, set, family, size, language, culture, education, job responsibilities, geography, religion, and how every company, product and service could affect response. It is inclusive of all scenarios that could detrimentally affect the operation. By experimenting through the decades, the orchestrators have learned the best psychological tactics through trial and error.

     

    Using junk science to promote fear

    Both of WHO and CDC claim that by employing their monitoring standards on outbreaks from different parts of the world, they are able to obtain sufficient information to make tentative conclusions about how the epidemics may evolve in the coming months. Much of their clever phrasing is convincing enough to conceal the fact that all their disease policies on response and preparation recommendations are based on pure speculation and junk science.

    The reporting that Ebola is spreading faster in Africa than efforts to control it is based on substantial misinformation. In particular, late last week it was announced that two Americans who had been infected with Ebola were going to be flown back to the US, specifically to Emory University, for treatment, a development that ramped up the fear engine within the media (and the alternative media) about the Ebola virus to even greater heights. One of the problems is that officials will not collect data on the spread of Ebola based on accurate systematic lab confirmation since they will use unreliable methods such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The end point results of conventional PCR are not very precise and end point detection has a very short dynamic range with little chance of detecting the differences between dead or live microorganisms. The CDC is testing all suspected Ebola patients through this method. The PCR method WILL NOT identify if a person is infected with Ebola at contagious levels. Finding trace amounts of Ebola through this method usually means little yet this is how they identify and report to the media that a person is infected.

    They will only refer to “confirmed cases” and do not distinguish between confirmed and non-confirmed case. It would appear that the “non-confirmed” cases are categorised as confirmed cases and the numbers are then used by the CDC to prove that the disease is spreading when it isn’t.

    Also, suggesting that the human immune system is incapable of addressing Ebola without chemical assistance is also a complete lie. During the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918, more than 80 percent of the people treated with allopathic drugs died. Yet, 80 percent of the people who took natural remedies survived. For example, the seeds of the African bitter kola tree have properties that can kill the Ebola virus. Also coffee, fermented soy, homeopathic spider venom and Vitamin C, may all hold promise as anti-Ebola virus therapies, despite the common belief that nothing can stop this lethal virus from spreading uncontrollably worldwide.

    Squashing the innate abilities of human immune system to heal and promoting chemicals is simply another attempt to propagate the need for vaccines. A Canadian pharmaceutical company called Tekmira has been at work for the past few years on an Ebola treatment called TKM-Ebola. Disease like Ebola often have difficulty attracting investment, as pharmaceutical companies rarely see a large payday in tackling a disease that has rare outbreaks and affects a low-income area of the world.

    But TKM-Ebola has attracted the interest of the government. The Defense Department awarded it a contract for $140 million in 2010, after the vaccine proved completely effective in treating non-human primates in chimps. The government’s interest in vaccinating against Ebola is largely rooted in preventing bioterrorism attacks, where the disease could be used a weapon.

    How does Ebola become a deadly infection and why vaccines are not the answer?

    There can be no doubt that Ebola is a dangerous and frightening disease and even though it can kill about 90 percent of its victims, it would not in the developed world, largely because of two factors. The first is the person’s health in general – his or her immune system and ability to bounce back from a viral infection. The second is the type of exposure he or she got. Recovery may be more likely if it wasn’t a severe exposure – meaning, perhaps they were exposed to someone who was early on in the illness, and the amount of virus in the bodily fluids was not yet that high. A 90 percent kill rate would be near impossible in any developed nation.

    Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, M.D., the associate hospital epidemiologist at Bostom Medical Centre and director of Infection Control at Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Disease Laboratories says that in addition to what is known about Ebola, it requires a known marker on the surface of human cells themselves, which it uses to gain entry into the cell. Researchers have found in a laboratory setting that some people’s cell lines actually lack this marker, or it may be mutated somehow, so that the Ebola can’t get into the cells. However, Ebola research is still very much in its infancy, and knowledge about how the virus behaves is still evolving, preventing and curing it. The most important consideration is that no infection – including highly lethal one like Ebola occurs in a vacuum. Psychological, biological, environmental and sociopolitical factors all determine the incidence, spread and virulence of viral infections.

    In a widely shared onion article from a few days ago, scientists “announced” that an Ebola vaccine was still 50 white people away. This was a job at pharmaceutical companies, who, cynics think, will only set their R&D wheels in motion if there’s money on the horizon.

    There are several strains of Ebola. The current strain is ZEBOV, or Zaire virus, but there are also Sudan and Cote d’lvoire versions. It would be impossible to design a vaccine that would work against all of them. Vaccines have an established record of failure in fast-moving epidemics. Donald Allegra, chair of infection control at Newton Medical Center in New Jersey, remembers trying to halt the advance of measles in a Cambodian refugee camp in the 1970s. “We vaccinated 10,000 kids, but didn’t have an effect on the outbreak, “he said. “Vaccines and acute outbreaks don’t work very well together”.

    Unlike cells, the Ebola virus cannot use its genetic material by itself. Living matter reproduces and passes on genetic material as a blueprint for growth and subsequent reproduction. However, the Ebola virus like other viruses needs a living cell in order to function and reproduce; otherwise it’s just playing dead. It can’t divide by binary fission like bacteria. A vaccine facilitates the virus and provides an optimal environment to host cells where it is then forced to expend all of its energy and resources to help the virus replicate and make hundreds of more viruses.   It does this through unchecked immune suppression which affects T-cells. Vaccination provides the gateway to allow natural immunity to fail and allow this process to a greater extent by suppressing cellular.

    One of the best ways to prevent the spread of  Ebola is to help the body’s immune system create an effective response to the virus. Ebola does appear to be a uniquely pathogenic virus to which the human body has yet adequate time to properly adapt, and therefore it is instructive to point other potential natural therapies that have been studied in the past:

    • Garcinia Kola: (Bitter Kola) As reported in 1999, extracts from the seeds of this traditional African medicinal herb were found to”….inhibit this virus (Ebola) in cell culture at non-toxic concentrations.”
    • Vitamin C: According to the late Dr. Robert Cathcart, MD, who had extensive experience treating deadly infections with high dose vitamin C, “the Ebola virus kills by way of free radicals which can be neutralised by massive doses of sodium ascorbate intravenously. “Indeed, Ebola virus disease – as is the case with viral hemorrhagic disease in general – resembles features of acute scurvy, and vitamin C is well known to have a broad range of benefits, including immune-boosting and antiviral properties, with an incredibly high safety margin.
    • Homeopathic interventions: A study published in 1999 explored the therapeutic potential of a homeopathic preparation of the six-eyed spider venom (Sicarius) at treating symptoms associated with Ebola virus infection.
    • Estradiol: A 2013 analysis, titled “ A systematic screen of FDA- approved drugs for inhibitors of biological treat agents, “ found that estradiol exhibited anti-Ebola virus activity in vitro, indicating the relevance of hormonal factors and perhaps gender in susceptibility to the disease – as well as a possible therapeutic role for estradiol if future clinical research confirms bears these findings out.

    There are a wide range of natural compounds that have yet to be evaluated for their direct anti-Ebola activity and/or immune boosting properties, and that may be highly relevant to the goal of immunity. The poor, weak cell usually bursts like an overinflated balloon from all the viruses and is destroyed in the process. Then, the replicated virus attached itself to a new, unaffected host cell, and the viral infection continues. Vaccination will never solve the Ebola puzzle.

    Adenovirus vaccines, which have been used in Liberia, Guinea can have serious adverse reaction. Should any population confide in vaccination for the Ebola virus, they would cause an untold number of deaths.

    Why Ebola and why now? And why all the drama?

    An African nurse vaccinated a child against a fungus called pneumococcus. Pneumococcus fungus is a biological transformation of what used to be a healthy plant, animal or human cell. This fungus is said to be responsible for over 60 percent of all childhood deaths in Africa. I would suggest that the increase in this fungal condition is directly related to the water, food, sanitation and hygiene of the child. Bacteria, yeast, fungi, mold and their waste products – viruses, are born in us and from us as a consequence of an acidic lifestyle and diet.

    All infectious disease at home or in Africa is born within the body from the acidic waste products of diet, metabolism, respiration and the environment which are NOT properly eliminated through the four channels of elimination. When acidic waste products are NOT circulated and eliminated through urination, defecation, perspiration or respiration they are distributed out to the connective and fatty tissues. When this happens you set the stage for ALL sickness and disease.

    All viruses are non-living entities and because they are liquid or gas they can penetrate the cell membrane damaging and destroying the DNA. These non-living entities are ALL the acidic waste products from diet, metabolism, respiration, environment and the biological transformations or evolutions of healthy cells into bacteria, yeast and mold that produce acidic waste products. These acidic waste products are called exotoxins, endotoxins, and mycotoxins. The creation of pneumococcus or fungi is the result of acidic build build-up in the tissues, organs or glands and the biological transformation of once healthy body cells into bacteria, fungi and then mold. Just like food in your refrigerator goes from healthy to moldy. Don’t you know you don’t get old, you mold. So should we vaccinate our food or the human body so it won’t go moldy? O-wait they are already doing this to our food and children!

    The germs of the air can only contribute to a sickness or disease but it cannot cause a sickness or disease. Seeds grow perfectly well in soil but throw them on concrete and they will not grow. It is all about the environment – the internal environment. And there is only one sickness and one disease! That one sickness and one disease is the over-acidification of the blood and then tissues due to an inverted or acidic way of living, eating and thinking. One last example, I call this example the ‘Love Boat’ metaphor. So what happens on a cruise ship like the ‘Love Boat’ – Over-eating acidic food, over-drinking acidic drinks, lack of restful sleep, lack of exercise, over exposure to chemicals in the food, drinking water, shower water and swimming pool water. People get constipated. They become dehydrated. They stop eliminating their waste products. So, people get sick on the ‘Love Boat’ because of their lifestyle and dietary choices and NOT because of some phantom virus like Ebola or fungi like pneumococcus. And the interesting thing is NOT everyone gets sick. Only those who stop eliminating their acidic waste products get sick. This condition of sickness is NOT caused by some phantom virus that selectively picked on YOU! IT is ALL about circulation, elimination and maintaining the delicate alkaline pH of the body fluids.

    Germs and viruses are symptoms of acidic living, eating and thinking. They do NOT cause disease they are the result of acidic build-up in the tissues, organs and glands because of poor circulation and elimination. Sickness and disease is the body in preservation mode trying to rid itself of toxic acidic waste products and restore its natural healthy alkaline state before it quickly dies. As Claude Bernard, a 20th century medical doctor and research scientist, stated, “the germ is NOTHING the TERRIAN is everything.

    The healthy and natural approach to preventing and/or reversing any sickness or disease condition is to maintain the alkaline design of the body with an alkaline lifestyle and diet. True immunity is then achieved by maintaining the delicate alkaline pH of the blood, tissues, organs and glands through good hygiene, clean alkaline water, green alkaline fruit, vegetables, and sprouts, cold-pressed polyunsaturated oils, daily exercise, low stress, and restful sleep.

    So, why Ebola and why Now?  That is a question for each of us to answer. I know the answer! What do you say?

    And what about giving vaccines for a phantom virus?

    What about the use of antibiotics used by conventional medicine for killing bacteria NOT fungi or mold or virus/acid?

    And, finally what are the ingredients of these vaccines?

    Are they safe?

    What is their long term effect of the vaccine?

    Is Africa the testing ground for drugs/vaccines?

    To learn more about pH Miracle Living pHorever read the pH Miracle, revised and updated-

    www.phmiracle.com or www.phmiraclebooks.com

    I would also suggest reading ‘Sick and Tired’ and ‘A Second thought about Viruses, Vaccines and the HIV/AIDS Hypothesis’. Finally, pick up Professor Peter Duesberg’s book on ‘Inventing the AIDS Virus’. He also talks about the inventing of Ebola, Hep C, SARS, West Nile Virus and other phantom viruses..

    PS – The picture below of the so-called Ebola is Not a Ebola Virus, it is a parasite. NO ONE has ever isolated the Ebola Virus – NO ONE!!!!!! Ebola is a phantom virus. This scientific fraud started in 1983 with the invention of the AIDS Virus. PLEASE read Dr. Duesberg’s book inventing the AIDS Virus’ and NOW the EBOLA Virus!!!

    Education NOT Medication!

    Education NOT Vaccination!

    Education NOT Radiation!

    Prevention NOT Intervention!

    Health Care NOT Sick Care!

    YoungaCare NOT ObamaCare! 

  • Ebola: Two down with fever in Lagos after contact with victim

    Ebola: Two down with fever in Lagos after contact with victim

    The Lagos State Government on Friday said two persons out of those who had contacts with Mr. Patrick Sawyer, the dead Liberian Ebola victim, had manifested symptoms of fever.

    The Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris, made the disclosure when he addressed newsmen on the update of the country‘s first Ebola case in Ikeja.

    Idris said the two persons were among the 70 contacts being monitored and investigated for any symptoms of the disease by the state government and other partners.

    The commissioner, who said the two cases were under observation, however stressed that they did not test positive  to the virus.

    Idris said the state government would continue to monitor all contacts with the victims until the end of the 21 incubation day  period of the virus.

    “Our Rapid Response Team is currently tracking all contacts of persons exposed to the dead passenger with Ebola virus.

    “The contract tracing team is following 70 contacts of the EVD case and linking them to clinical support when needed.

    “Two suspect cases had fever, they are under observation and so far have tested  negative to the virus.

    “The monitoring of suspect cases will continue until the end of the period of 21 days from their exposure to the victim,’’ he said.

    The commissioner said an emergency operation centre had been activated in Lagos ,by the state  and its partners as part of efforts to check the threat  of the virus.

    He added that the Federal Government had stepped up measures to screen incoming passengers to Nigeria to identify any traveler with symptoms through, airport, seaport and border crossing.

    Idris said a deceased body was recently brought to Nigeria from Liberia, explaining that the government was investigating if he died from Ebola.

    The commissioner urged residents to collaborate with government in checking the Ebola threat in the country by reporting suspected case for government‘s intervention.

    While saying diseases thrived well in dirty environments, Idris urged residents to maintain clean body and environment to reduce the risk of the virus.

    Also speaking. Prof. Abdul Salim Nasidi of the National Disease Control Centre said noted that though disease had no cure ,it was treatable.

    He warned members of the public against emphasizing that the virus had not cure,saying it might discourage those with suspected cases from accessing treatment.

    While saying the Federal Government was doing everything to check the threat of the disease,Nasidi urged citizens not to panic as no fresh case had been discovered yet in the country

  • The ‘fever’ of Obama’s re-election

    The ‘fever’ of Obama’s re-election

    After months of gruelling and exhilarating campaign, the two front runners in the 2012 Presidential contest in the United States of America – Barack Obama of the Democratic Party and Mitt Romney of the Republican Party – left their fate in the hands of the electorate last Tuesday. At the end of the election, which has been described as the toughest ever in the history of the country, Obama won an overwhelming majority votes. With this, the first African-American President of the US won a second term in office as the country’s 44th President.

    It has gone down as one election where political bookmakers got it wrong, opinion polls and exit polls somersaulted, and an overwhelmed media declared the polls too close to call. For many of us, it was like a battle of our lives. Days before the election, I had taken it upon myself to put regular calls through to my friends in the US in order to get-first hand information about the campaign. That was when it became obvious that the usually reliable international media could no longer be relied upon.

    Not even the Sandy storm that bared its rage across the east coast of America, leaving disaster and destruction along its tempestuous route, was enough to dissuade Uzoma Nwagwu from his daily commentaries which he shared with me with ferocious interest. Uzoma is a resident of New Jersey who commutes to New York every day to fend for self and family with a paid employment at the Citi Bank Group. Before he ‘migrated’ to ‘Obama’s land’ about 20 years ago, Uzoma had had a stint with a newspaper in Nigeria. He had also been exposed to some pro-democracy activists who were at the fore-front of the clamour for civilian rule in the country in the early 1990s.

    So to Uzoma, whom his numerous friends prefer to call Uzor, monitoring an all-encompassing campaign like the recent one in America was more or less a familiar terrain. He was just there anytime his phone rang to give updates. He exuded confidence and charisma each time he weighed the chances of Obama and Romney. When Obama faltered during his first televised debate with Romney, we were both gripped with fear and trepidation.

    Though Romney’s rating had unexpectedly soared after that first encounter, Obama was to shore up his electoral value during the other two debates. On the eve of the election, we had to abandon every other thing and concentrated attention on how Obama would fare in the battleground and swing states. At least, we were sure of his victory in Ohio because of his auto bailout programme which resuscitated the failed auto industry. This ensured that workers in the state had their jobs for keep in the aftermath of the economic recession that plagued the US and the rest of the world in 2008. But we had concern over Florida, Iowa, Virginia, Wisconsin, North Carolina and others.

    At a point, Uzor and I became more troubled when feelers started pouring in that many of the white voters had probably introduced racial dimension into the voting pattern in their desperate attempt to ease out ‘our candidate’ (Obama) from the White House. That evening, the Cable Network News, CNN, which has maintained a track record of accurately projecting winners of elections in US for many years, played safe and could only see a tie between Obama and Romney. That sort of increased the adrenalin flow in our bloodstream.

    At 11:18 pm (Eastern Time in America), when Fox news, CNN and other news outlets still projected President Obama winner, the race to the White House wasn’t anything close. It was a decisive victory for Obama who polled 332 electoral votes, 62 votes more than the required 270 votes, against Romney‘s Republican party’s 206. Obama also swept eight out of nine swing states, with North Carolina his only battleground loss. Of the 56 presidential elections held in United states, 44 presidents in US history, incumbents have run 30 times, winning 20 times and losing 10 times.

    But Obama’s second-term victory did not come as a surprise. The worsening economy set the agenda for the 2012 election. Obama made lots of grandiose promises when he was first elected President in 2008. Paul Ryan, the Republican Vice president, captured this thus: “He promised to cut the nation’s deficit in half? It doubled. He vowed to create jobs and put Americans back to work; unemployment rate grew higher than the day he took office. You have 23 million Americans struggling to find work, 15 percent of American citizens are today living in poverty”.

    The facts are monumental and, definitely, the defence of Obama’s record almost made his candidacy a hard sell. All but the economy became central in the campaign. It is the Middle class that lost their jobs and could not find any. They lost their homes as they could not pay their mortgage and could no longer afford medical care for the family. No wonder the two candidates ran their campaigns focusing on the class.

    Obama’s ground game of getting voters, micro targeting the much-needed audience, and ensuring they voted timely, was a deciding factor for the outcome of the election. For sure, hurricane Sandy did not blow in wind of votes for his victory rather it was the result of a carefully conceived election campaign based on changing political demography that was passionately executed.

    Essentially, the grounding game strategy roared Obama’s message home directly to the target audience. He connected with the Middle class who formed the bulk of the voters. He understood that voters wanted the president they know. They believed convincingly that Obama, not Romney, understood their nightmares of college costs, insurance bills and all that. Virtually, in most of Obama’s rallies, he did not fail to seize the opportunity to remind Americans that he had been in their situation, understood and shared their values. This worked well for him as exit polls showed that voters thought far more and viewed Obama as the voice of the poor and the middle class. On the other hand, they saw Romney as the guy leaning perpetually toward the rich.

    Furthermore, Latino vote was a significant block. Obama’s campaign strategists, therefore, converted to advantage, the emerging demographics and their voting influence on the outcome of the election. He succeeded in building a firewall with Hispanics, and tapped heavily on their increasing population. Hispanics became the biggest deciders of the election. For the first time, they represented 10 percent of the overall electorate. On the whole, Hispanics cast about 11 million votes in the election.

    There was a good reason for this. Five months earlier, under an executive action, Obama amended the immigration policy to allow hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children to remain in the country and work without fear of deportation. That appeared to have removed the rug underneath Romney’s feet. From then on, the Republican Party candidate was all through hunted by his statement calling for illegal immigrants to “self-deport”.

    Also, throughout the campaign, Romney carried the baggage of horrendous gaffes. The problem was that the Republican Party candidate couldn’t pass the credibility test. It was so bad that even many voters who were hitherto disenchanted with Obama found it unsafe to vote for Romney who was seamlessly at ease shifting grounds on his earlier adopted positions on many issues.

    On the whole, Romney’s flip-flop cast aspersions on whether he could really be trusted by Americans. Obama’s strategists effectively used the question of Romney’s credibility to ask American’s who they trusted based on their antecedent. At a point in the campaign, Obama was constrained to call his rival a ‘talented salesman’ who will change his position at anytime to win. The lesson of the 2012 United States presidential election especially for Nigeria, is a topic for another day.

     

     

     

     

  • Lassa fever kills 44

    Forty-four persons were killed by Lassa fever at the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Edo State, this year.

    Last year, 33 deaths were recorded.

    The Chief Medical Director, Prof. George Akpede, said there was an increase in Lassa fever cases in Nigeria.

    Akpede spoke at the maiden Lassa Fever Day awareness programme organised by the Institute of Lassa Fever Research and Control.

    He said despite achievements recorded in the treatment of the rodent-transmitted ailment, there is fear of an increase during the dry season.

    He said: “Through the activities of the Institute of Lassa Fever Research and Control, the case fatality has dropped from between 60 and 80 per cent at the beginning of this millennium to 30-35 per cent.

    “Millions of Nigerians are still unaware of LF and, therefore, cannot take preventive measures to avoid infection.

    “This has resulted in a spread of the disease from six states in 2009 to 23 states and the involvement of ‘new’ states in 2012. This year alone, 44 deaths from LF have been recorded; a figure higher than what was recorded last year.”

     

  • UCH records three suspected cases of lassa fever

    The University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan yesterday confirmed that it has recorded three suspected cases of lassa fever.

    The Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee (CMAC) of the hospital, Dr Jesse Otegbayo, spoke in Ibadan yesterday.

    According to him, the hospital received three suspected cases of the deadly and highly contagious fever but that only one was confirmed as lassa.

    He said the patient, who was brought to the hospital from an area within Ibadan metropolis, died on August 30.

    Otegbayo recalled that the first suspected case was in July but that the sample tested negative. The second was in August which tested positive and died shortly after while the third was recorded last week. The result, which he just received at the time of the interview with our correspondent showed that the patient tested negative to the disease. The third patient is still on admission at the hospital.

    Otegbayo explained that the government has put in place various mechanisms to prevent  the disease at various hospitals in the six geo-political zones.

    “Government has a specific project to address the disease. They include media campaigns including radio jingles and posters to enlighten people on how it can be prevented and contracted. The Federal Government through the Ministry of Health has regionalized diagnostic centres where the tests are conducted. The two for the Southwest zones are in Lagos and Irrua in Edo states. Only results from these centres are taken.

    Besides, government has put in place a chain of reporting from hospitals to states’ Ministry of Health to the Federal Ministry of Health. They work to ensure prevention, diagnosis and quick response.

    “Government has also made available free drugs. The drug was administered to the one that died but the disease has high mortality rate. It spreads very fast.