PDP Chairman, Youths, Beat Up Former PDP
National Chairman’s Wife by gratiaeo: 2:39pm On Jul 12 “I sprang up from my seat in defense and
immediately, over a hundred youths gathered and
started attacking me, and tore my clothes,” – Mrs.
Mariam Nneamaka Ali, wife of former PDP national
chairman. Mrs. Ahmadu Ali shows part of her torn clothes after the fight at the PDP Secretariat in
Asaba Decorum was said to have been thrown into the wind
Friday, when the Delta State Chairman of Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), and youths suspected to be
loyal to the party chairman, allegedly in broad day light
beat up and tore the clothes off the wife of the former
PDP national chairman, Mrs. Mariam Nneamaka Ali. The show of shame occurred when the State Governor,
Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, had waited to come and
perform the formal commissioning of the newly built
state secretariat of the party. It was a presentation of
vehicles to the 25 local government party chairmen in
the state. A SaharaReporters correspondent learned that trouble
started at the state party secretariat following a heated
argument between the state party chairman, and the
wife of the former PDP national chairman. It was all
over a seat.
In recalling her ordeal, the wife of the former PDP national chairman, Mrs. Mariam Nneamaka Ali, alleged
that as a Board of Trustee member of the party, she had
been, on several occasions, ‘sidelined’ by the state party
chairman and others.
According to Nneamaka Ali, “A PDP stakeholder meeting
was held in Abuja and as a Board member member, I was deliberately not invited and just today, another
stakeholder meeting was held at the state party
secretariat. The same time the same thing happened, I
was not informed until someone called me that since I
am in town, it will be nice and wise for me to attend,
and I went. On arrival, I saw two vacant seats besides the former
deputy governor, Chief Benjamin Elue, and the speaker,
Mr. Peter Onwusanya. I quietly seated [myself] and
immediately, to my surprise, the MC of the ceremony
publicly announced that where I was seated was not
meant for me,” she said. “As that was happening, the state party chairman, Peter
Nwaoboshi, was called to the scene, and walked up to
me, and asked me to stand up from the seat. And
before anyone could say, ‘Jack Robinson,’ he gave me
several severe slaps on my face, and started fighting
me, and I sprang up from my seat in defense and immediately, over a hundred youths gathered and
started attacking me, and tore my clothes,” she stated
angrily in recalling her ordeal. Mrs. Mariam Nneamaka Ali’s torn clothes “She was manhandled, humiliated and pushed away.
Her gold necklace and other valuables were lost in the
process. Chief Solomon Obga, the speaker, former
deputy governor, and others, were there but nobody
could do anything. Nwaoboshi forgot so soon how he
was brought from the trenches, and made what he is today by the same woman he has fought. This was the
same woman who made him that he is fighting
because of his tall ambition that he will never achieve,”
Okocha Victor said.
“This was same Nwaoboshi who was given N60million,
by the then PDP national chairman, Bamaga Turku, to dispose to the local government party chairmen, and he
‘seized the money’ till date. He has a penchant of
collecting money from people, and the good people of
Delta North will never have such a dubious character as
a senator representing them come 2015,” Okocha
Victor added with anger in his voice. Giving his own side of the story, the state party
chairman, Chief Peter Nwaoboshi, debunked the
allegations of anyone, including himself, fighting the
wife of the former PDP national chairman, Dr Mrs.
Mariam Nneamaka Ali.
According to Nwaoboshi, “She was the one who attacked me, tore my shirt, and slapped me twice. She
went and sat on the chair reserved for the state deputy
governor, and the security agents approached her to
look for somewhere else to sit, and she ‘flared up,’
saying she is a member of Board, and who is the deputy
governor. All efforts to pacify her failed, and she walked up to me and asked me if I knew she is a member of
Board. I told her that I don’t know if she is a member of
the BOT by my records. And the next thing I saw was a
slap on my face, twice, and she tore my shirt. Mrs. Mariam Nneamaka Ali’s torn clothes “People were there, persons like the former deputy
governor, the 25 local government party chairmen,
security agents were all there, to confirm what I have
just told you. Despite the provocation, I did not
retaliate. Even when she slapped me twice, and tore my
shirt to shreds. She could have been lynched if not for my intervention and the elders of the party,”
Nwaoboshi stated. http://saharareporters.com/2014/07/11/delta-pdp-
chairman-youths-beat-former-pdp-national-
chairmans-wife
Penultimate week, it was a long, big snake that was
killed inside the school premises by the students. A
week after, the students were seen writing their
promotional examinations on bare floor. SEYI
SOKOYA, who witnessed the two unpleasant
scenarios among others, at the Urban Day Grammar School, Ibadan, Oyo State, reports.
THE name of the school is Urban Day Grammar
School, but what was witnessed in the last two
weeks were far from being urban in nature. Infact,
situations in rural areas are far better that what
was witnessed. Findings by the Sunday Tribune indicated that
killing of reptiles in the school is a weekly affair.
Some residents in the area stated that what was
news in the school is when a week passed without
sighting snakes or other dangerous reptiles in the
school premises, that unusual romance with reptiles is the norm in the school.
The academic environment, no doubt, is in a sorry
state, just as the pupils had been subjected to
environmental hazards, threat to life all in the
quest to get quality education.
At Urban Day Grammar School, there is no fence, no gate and no good structures. The roof of the
principal’s office is a big drain. The multi-purpose
hall in the compound is surrounded by bush. Ditto
the toilet. There is an abandoned red block of six
classrooms said to have been built by the late Chief
Bola Ige’s administration. The library, the Home Economics laboratory and all other classrooms were
all begging for attention.
It was observed that virtually all the classrooms that
are habitable in the school have no chairs and
desks. This, perhaps, informed the decision of the
students to find an alternative since their promotional examinations were on.
The students, mostly Senior Secondary School (SSS 1
and 11), were seen writing their examinations on
bare floor. It was learnt that that was not the first
time such would happen in the school, as some of
the students told the Sunday Tribune that “this is not our first time. We are used to it. What matters
most to us is to pass the examinations.’’
Sunday Tribune’s effort to interact with the
principal or any other staff of the school did not
yield any result, as they refused to speak or give
necessary information, especially on the present state of the school. When approached, the school
principal who even refused to mention her name,
said: “It would be better if you speak with my
employer. I have nothing to say except I have an
approval from above.”
Most of the students who spoke with the Sunday Tribune could not give any reason why they should
write their examinations on bare floor. All they
could say was “we don’t have enough chairs in the
school and we have to write our examinations.”
It was also learnt that the school had initial
population of 300 registered students both at the junior and senior secondary school levels, but had
been reduced to 200 students as a result of
unbearable condition of the school, which, it was
learnt, that forced many parents to withdraw their
children.
This, it was said, could be one of the reasons the school has only six pupils in the JSS1 class.
The chairman of the Parents Teachers Association
(PTA) of the school, Mr Mukaila Osuolale Adepoju,
lamented the present state of the school, stressing
that the school authorities, in collaboration with
the PTA, had, at various times, complained to the authorities about the poor condition of the school
without getting any response.
“This school was worse before I became the
chairman of the PTA. We had lodged complaints
about the situation of the school to the
government. I was aware that the principal further wrote a letter attached with pictures of the school
to the commissioner for education. They promised
to come and inspect and they did not show up. This
was about two years ago. We also wrote another
letter last week on the same subject matter but we
are yet to have their response,” he added. Adepoju stated further that the school needed to be
attended to in time so as to ameliorate the
sufferings that the students are being subjected to
on a daily basis. “Some students had fallen victim
of molest on their way home. The school
authorities have lost count of snakes they have been killed within the school premises.
“We even had a molest case at the police station.
The science laboratory has been burgled three
times. Aside the fact that we have been calling on
the government for assistance we, as parents, have
done our bit by rebuilding the damaged science laboratory and replacing the library roof. The only
two classrooms that the whole students are
currently using were donated by the past
government.”
“It is unfortunate that the 40 chairs and tables
donated by ZARTECH Company after we sought their assistance have been damaged by hoodlums. This
has really caused setback for the smooth academic
activities of the school and convenience of the
students,” he explained.
A resident of the area, who pleaded anonymity, told
Sunday Tribune that the pupils, by virtue of their present condition could be exposed to more serious
heath problem.
Another resident, who spoke in the same light,
expressed the fears that students who are exposed
to this type of danger are likely to face severe
consequences later in life. An octogenerean whose house is close to the school
maintained: “I see no reason why this school has
not received the attention of the government in
spite of the fact that the school is very close to
Adeoyo Hospital and the Access to Basic Medical
Care Foundation (ABMCF) a non-governmental organisation (NGO) powered by the wife of the
state governor.” http://tribune.com.ng/quicklinkss/features/
item/10460-secondary-school-where-reptiles-learn-
with-students
Secondary school where students learn with reptiles in Ibadan
THE COFFIN OF ERRORS
(Still To Ishilove) The old and bad-tempered Pa Jimoh was dead, to begin
with, but he did not go to his grave. And this
deprivation of proper interment prevented among
mourners any thought of planting over his head a
mango tree. The real cause of his demise, however, if
brought to focus, would result in an esteem more mirth-inducing to any spectator at the sight of the
incident than to the actual victim on whom such
tragedy befell.
Pa Jimoh had already hoisted himself to the apex of a
rather lofty palm tree before he met his end. His
intention behind this ascent was merely to tap in the early wine, but instead, he found his own hand tapping
on the delicate nest of snoozing hornets. Not many
mortals, if placed behind a judgemental desk, would
put too much blame on the piqued wasps for their
collective efforts in the attack on the feeble
curmudgeon. And it would be unfair if this little but fatal brawl between insect and man was not elucidated
in full detail.
The kind of irritation this swarm fostered could only be
imagined after putting oneself in their thorax. Just
imagine yourself a wasp making passionate insect love
to your spouse in your apartment erected feet high on the branch of a palm, then suddenly poof! your castle
was demolished by the single stroke of a hand. And this
destruction came not just from any hand but from the
hand of Man; that specie with whom you have never
been (and possibly will never be) of benign
companionship. In this instance, the last thing a patriotic wasp would care about was decency; no male
wasp would scramble to a wardrobe searching for a
pair of trousers to cover its privates, and neither would
a female scream for her pants and bra. What would
they do? They’d call on immediate neighbours whose
mansions had also been reduced to rubble and launch immediate attack on the human intruder.
Initiating the divide-and-conquer techniques, some
wasps made their own attack on the human’s skull;
thereby, in the process, reshaping the dimension of the
tapper’s occiput into that which was totally different
from the Creator’s initial design. But this was not what resulted to the old man’s demise; of course, something
more brutal sufficed. While some wasps families were
busy assaulting the old man’s skull, others lodged
themselves into the dark comfort of his rather
oversized pair of trousers. The poor man wouldn’t have
launched into that extraordinary wail even people far away had sworn hearing if those bees had shown
kindness on their intruder. The offensive had found it
incubent to sting him on the delicate tissue of the sac
dangling between his thighs, while some were satisfied
by only sticking their probosces on the flesh of that
tender rope that always come with the sac. The agony could only be best described by someone who’d
experienced a nearly equal attack. So, it could be
deduced that the latter attack was more brutal than the
former, for it was at this moment that the old man
forgot about the precarious position he was in; he’d
disremembered that he was still perched against the stem of a tall tree. And because the pain was getting
unbearable, Pa Jimoh let go. Witnessing the brutal
event could cause one to see only figuratively the
morals behind the anecdote that ‘the higher you fall
the higher you bounce’, and the old man literally
bounced when his slim body came in contact with the earth. And these mean insects returned to build another
nest only after accompanying their victim to his final
destination. A rather eccentric writer may be inspired to
coin a catchy title from this tragedy: ‘Death by Sting’
would go the title.
Pa Jimoh was really dead. There was no doubt whatsoever about that, for he truly and undeniably died
from half a thousand stings and a broken vertebrae. He
knew about his own death? Of course he did. How could
it ever be otherwise? Because Pa Jimoh died a virgin,
there was really not wet eye for his funeral. The reason
behind his decided celibacy would forever remain a mystery even to the most seasoned of all detectives
alive today.
Now, the mention of Pa Jimoh’s funeral brings the
magic of the pen back to the first line of the immediate
paragraph before this. Pa Jimoh was really dead. This
must be distinctly assimilated or there would be nothing of consequence to fathom from the
extraordinary sequence of events that succeeded his
demise. And when a man dies and is still refused the
peacefulness of a grave, then most people will agree
that there is something still amiss with the world, as it
has always been. Jimoh, being the last of his race, was of no known
family member to claim his corpse, let alone rewarding
him with a befitting burial. It was only the kind
indegenes of Ogbomosho that took it upon themselves
to plant the loner, but they refused to do it without a
coffin available. It was part of their culture in the remotest part of the village not to bury any corpse in
the soil without first locking it in a casket. But the only
coffin-maker they knew had his shop in the city, which
was many kilometres away from the village. Having no
other known maker of coffins, the village elders
gathered together their resources and employed the service of Saka, a gifted coffin-maker. These elders
exhibited their generosity over the tapper’s corpse to a
commendable degree. If they’d allowed themselves the
pleasure of considering Pa Jimoh’s manners in his life
they wouldn’t have made any step at burying him;
they’d rather have watched the corpse rot and become meat for fowls of both air and land, for Pa Jimoh was
known to be tight-fisted in his life; a squeezing,
wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old
man. He was a well from which no bucket had ever
fetched a generous water. No beggar who knew him
implored of him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it was o’clock, no man or woman in the
village ever once in all his life inquired the way to such
and such a place, of Pa Jimoh. Even the blind men
appeared to recognize him; for when they sensed him
coming ahead, they would tap their canes and make
their ways to their doorways. It almost seemed as though whenever it came to situations pertaining
Jimoh, they revelled in their affliction. Some of them
would console themselves by saying, ‘No eye at all is
better than an evil eye!’
But even Jimoh himself did not give a trifle care to this
obvious neglect; it was the very thing he liked, and he always defended himself by preaching about how he
was the oldest inhabitant of the village at seventy-five,
and that every other villager should always accord him
the respect for an elder. Although he always
emphasized how he was a year older than any other old
man in the village, everybody knew that he was never an hour richer. And to have such an evil-embodiment
die in the village without the benefit of a burial might
spell misfortune for the growing generation of the
village.
Saka worked round the clock to make a presentable
coffin for Pa Jimoh, and when the work was ready the next day, Saka was impressed at his own achievement;
because he’d never, until now, completed a casket in a
single day. It was as though the spirit of the dead palm-
wine tapper urged him to hasten up. He knew quite
well that his client would likewise be duly impressed at
the rapidity with which he completed the work. He also knew that the villagers could not wait to inter Jimoh
and get it done with. But in the modern world, there
was always Murphy’s Law that could not be avoided.
And in this case at hand, everything worked together to
make sure that the coffin built for Jimoh did not arrive
Ogbomosho in time. Pa Jimoh had chosen the wrong time to die; he kicked
the bucket when fuel scarcity was rampant in the city
yonder.
With his faithful work of art beside him, Saka waited
impatiently at the bus-stop, but the road was
practically devoid of vehicles. The very few that plied the quiet road didn’t give the carpenter a second
glance, and even those who gave were shied away at
the sight of the corpse apartment. Most motorists
believed that the presence of a coffin in their vehicles
could cause doom to their journey, with or without
corpse. Sometimes though, some braver ones would adorn their automobiles with leaves of unknown
botanical nomenclatures, believing therefore that this
action was enough to ward off both potential evils and
evil potentials. Besides, everything in life has always
boiled down to faith; but faith itself is limited. Would
you believe so much in faith that you’d take a bold step to the middle of a rail track with the firm belief that the
speeding locomotive would bounce off you at impact?
And it is not unusual to find that it is only readers who’d
not misplaced their mental gadgets would find the
mission an extremely ludicrous one. And if you trust
otherwise, then the writer can only shrug his shoulder and urge you to prove him wrong.
Saka was already at the verge of giving up and
returning home when he sighted an approaching lorry.
There, he decided within himself that this one vehicle
would not pass him by, no matter what it took. This was
the perfect six-wheeler to transport him, coffin inclusive. He was determined to make the driver stop,
and hand-flagging might not achieve that. When the
vehicle was closer, Saka suddenly leaped to the middle
of the road. There was no one at the bus-stop to stop
him from engaging in this suicidal mission. Everywhere
was silent, as if the situation was not only inflation in fuel price but also an imposition of curfew. Although
this feat was not unlike that of the demented incipient
already mentioned in the former paragraph, Saka was
one of the sanest people in all of humanity; because it
takes a large degree of sanity and ingenuity to build
such a remarkable coffin. Fortunately, Saka was not flattened by the wheels of the truck, though almost.
The driver had managed to repair the brakes the day
before. The vehicle stopped at only a few inches from
the carpenter.
‘Are you crazy?’ Screamed the driver in a thick Yoruba
language. As he poked his head out through the window Saka could not help noticing the brutal tribal
marks on the man’s cheeks. Whoever had carved this
tally on his face had not intention of bestowing
pulchritude. The lines were not even symmetrical; the
driver’s ugliness was classic.
‘No, I am not crazy, just desperate. There’s a difference between insanity and desperation.’ answered Saka in
like language.
‘What do you want?’ The facially-challenged man asked
impatiently.
‘My name is Saka and I urgently need to get to the town
of Ogbomosho.’ ‘How does that concern me?’
‘You are going to drive me there.’
‘And a dozen beauty queens would fight over me.’ Spat
the driver, whose name was Dawodu; an ugly name
among ugly names.
‘Listen carefully to me, Prince Charming, I’m not leaving here unless you agree to transport me.’
Dawodu scoffed amusedly, ‘And you think your rigid
presence here is a threat to my tipper? I can just run
you over.’
Maybe Saka’s sanity had reached such a boiling point
that a regular prefix had been added to his ‘sanity’, or the spirit of the deceased client was influencing him
negatively, because the coffin-maker’s reply was
sensationally inane. ‘I’ve memorized your plate
number.’
The truck-driver stared at Saka for a long moment;
what was running through his mind could be explained by only him, because he quietly but firmly replied, ‘My
fee is ten naira.’ Of course, the amount charged during
this prehistoric time was a direct equivalent five
hundred times its value fifty years aft.
‘What!’ screamed the wide-eyed Saka. ‘That’s a fortune!
I can only afford five naira.’ ‘Deal.’
‘Come and let’s hoist that to the back of the lorry.’ Saka
pointed at the coffin he’d left at the site of the road
prior his maniacal bound before a moving engine. It
was at this moment that Dawodu noticed the wooden
object. ‘What’s that?’ he asked incredulously.
‘It’s a spaceship.’ Saka replied absent-mindedly.
‘It looks like a coffin.’
‘Wow, that’s very brilliant of you. You’re right, it’s a
coffin,’ Saka said impatiently, ‘Now come and assist in
lifting it.’ ‘You are not planning to put that in my lorry, are you?’
The coffin-maker looked at the driver as if he had just
said something incredibly silly.
‘No,’ he answered in anger, ‘I’m planning to string it on
my waist like a bead.’
‘I’m not putting a corpse in my car!’ ‘The coffin is empty, genius!’
‘Prove me wrong.’
It was only after Saka had opened the coffin to show
that it was truly empty that Dawodu assisted in lifting.
Then the journey began.
The Coffin of Errors By Larysun
APC Calls For Inquiry To Unravel Boko Haram
Sponsors, Modus Operandi by BashBB: 2:38pm On Jul 13 The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called for an
international inquiry into the activities of the terror
group Boko Haram in order to unravel its modus
operandi and sponsors as well as any individual or
group that may have links with the insurgents, with
a view to ending, once and for all, the debate over who is behind the insurgency and also to facilitate
efforts to tackle it decisively
In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its
National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,
the party said the inquiry should include
intelligence experts from the US, UK, France and Canada, as well as representatives of the UN and
Nigeria’s neighbours Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
It also said that representatives of the Nigerian
military and other security agencies, especially the
police and the Departments of State Security,
Governments of the states worst-hit by the Boko Haram insurgency, including Adamawa, Borno,
Yobe, Kano, Bauchi and Jigawa, the Federal Capital
Territory, the Christian Association of Nigeria, the
Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Civil Society
Organisations, the Nigeria Labour Congress, the
Trade Union Congress, National Human Rights Commission, the Nigerian Bar Association and any
other relevant individuals or groups.
APC said major political parties, including the
Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives
Congress, must be represented on the panel of
inquiry, whose findings must be made public and those found to have any links with the insurgents
be made to face the full wrath of the law.
”We hope the PDP-led federal government, which
has led the incessant but baseless campaign to
point accusing fingers at the opposition, especially
our party the APC, will give its total support to the immediate constitution of this international panel
of inquiry. We have no doubt that the international
community will give its unalloyed support to this
inquiry, in view of the trans-national nature of the
insurgency and the threat posed by terrorism to
global peace and security,” the party said. APC added: ”On our part, we pledge our total
support for this inquiry anytime it is launched, but
hopefully very soon. Our party, which is barely one
year old, has been at the receiving end of
diversionary, carefully-choreographed and blatantly
irresponsible point-blank accusations as well as insinuations of sponsoring Boko Haram, not
minding that the group’s activities date as far back
as 2002 when there was no APC.
”These accusations and insinuations have become
so virulent and have indeed reached a level where
one begins to wonder whether those behind the finger-pointing are actually trying to divert
attention from their own culpability and whether
they have even more sinister motives for their
finger-pointing.
”Whatever their motives are, let the international
inquiry we are seeking be launched urgently and let the findings be published for all Nigerians to see.
Anyone opposed to this call for an international
inquiry will have a lot of explanations to make to
Nigerians as well as to the international
community.
”Enough is enough. The daily killing, maiming and abduction of innocent Nigerians, as a clueless
Federal Government looks on, must end. The
pervasive insecurity that has crippled Nigeria since
this insurgency started must be halted. Those
behind it must be unraveled and prosecuted. Let
the inquiry begin!’ http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/07/apc-calls-inquiry-
unravel-boko-haram-sponsors-modus-operandi/
APC Calls For Inquiry To Unravel Boko Haram Sponsors, Modus Operandi by BashBB: 2:38pm On Jul 13 The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called for an international inquiry into the activities of the terror group Boko Haram in order to unravel its modus operandi and sponsors as well as any individual or group that may have links with the insurgents, with a view to ending, once and for all, the debate over who is behind the insurgency and also to facilitate efforts to tackle it decisively In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the inquiry should include intelligence experts from the US, UK, France and Canada, as well as representatives of the UN and Nigeria’s neighbours Cameroon, Chad and Niger. It also said that representatives of the Nigerian military and other security agencies, especially the police and the Departments of State Security, Governments of the states worst-hit by the Boko Haram insurgency, including Adamawa, Borno, Yobe, Kano, Bauchi and Jigawa, the Federal Capital Territory, the Christian Association of Nigeria, the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Civil Society Organisations, the Nigeria Labour Congress, the Trade Union Congress, National Human Rights Commission, the Nigerian Bar Association and any other relevant individuals or groups. APC said major political parties, including the Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress, must be represented on the panel of inquiry, whose findings must be made public and those found to have any links with the insurgents be made to face the full wrath of the law. ”We hope the PDP-led federal government, which has led the incessant but baseless campaign to point accusing fingers at the opposition, especially our party the APC, will give its total support to the immediate constitution of this international panel of inquiry. We have no doubt that the international community will give its unalloyed support to this inquiry, in view of the trans-national nature of the insurgency and the threat posed by terrorism to global peace and security,” the party said. APC added: ”On our part, we pledge our total support for this inquiry anytime it is launched, but hopefully very soon. Our party, which is barely one year old, has been at the receiving end of diversionary, carefull
News
Lagos Issues Alert On Ebola, Givesprecautionary Tips
A file photo taken on June 25, 2014 shows the
isolation ward at the Donka Hospital in Conakry where
people infected with the Ebola virus are being treated.
A
regional centre is being set up in Guinea to coordinate
the response to the worst-ever outbreak of Ebola that has killed hundreds of people in West Africa, the World
Health Organisation said on July 11, 2014. The
haemorrhagic fever sweeping through Guinea, Liberia
and Sierra Leone has left an estimated 539 people
dead,
according to the latest WHO figures. Worried by the increasing cases of deaths from
the outbreak of Ebola virus in some neighbouring West
African countries, the Lagos state government,
yesterday gave some precautionary measures to
prevent the outbreak of the deadly virus in the state.
Ebola virus is currently ravaging many communities in some West African countries like Guinea, Liberia and
Sierra Leone among others.
Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, in a statement,
said the measures became necessary with a view to
preventing the outbreak of the disease in the State,
listing the measures include; washing of hands often with soap and water, avoiding close contact with
people
who are sick and ensuring that objects used by the sick
are decontaminated and properly disposed.
He advised health workers to be at alert and ensure
they always wore personal protective equipment as well
as observed universal basic precautions when attending
to suspected or confirmed cases, and report same to
their Local Government Area or Ministry of Health
immediately.
Idris explained that “Ebola virus ds caused by the Ebola virus and outbreaks occur primarily in villages of the
Central and West Africa. The virus can be spread
through, close contact with the blood, body fluids,
organ
and tissues of infected animals; direct contact with
blood, organ or body secretions of an infected person. The transmission of the virus by other animals like
monkey and chimpanzee cannot be ruled out.”
The Commissioner noted that those at the highest risk
of the disease included health workers; and families or
friends of an infected who could be infected in the
course of feeding, holding and caring for them. He stressed that “Early symptoms of disease include
fever, headache, chills, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, sore
throat, backache, and joint pains. Later symptoms
include bleeding from the eyes, ears and nose, bleeding
from the mouth and rectum, eye swelling, swelling of
the genitals and rashes all over the body that often contain
blood. It could progress to coma, shock and death.”
Idris noted that presently, there was no specific
treatment for Ebola disease, stressing that infected
persons would need to be admitted into the hospital
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alert-ebola-gives-precautionary-tips/
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