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COVID-19: Africans mock Nigerians as Buhari fails to address citizens over coronavirus pandemic, Abba Kyari flees to Cuba

      Aba Kyari flees to Cuba while Buratai plans bloody coup

      Published Friday, March 27, 2020 @ 19:01 CET




HONESTLY, ZOO CITIZENS, SORRY NIGERIANS, ARE VERY FUNNY CREATURES

In the midst of a worldwide pandemic, every CIVILISED country have had their head of state address them on a daily and sometimes on an hourly basis, but not in the ZOO called Nigeria.

Even Boris Johnson in self-isolation after having tested positive for COVID-19 continues to coordinate UK government response to the pandemic via a video link. But in the blissfully ignorant Zoo, ‘President’ Abba Kyari in broad daylight took his toy Jubril with him and ran to Cuba for treatment having stolen all the money allocated for Aso Rock Presidential Clinic.

The supposed 200 million British laboratory animals he left behind to face Coronavirus pandemic with nothing is yet to summon the courage to demand their president address them live on TV as any other civilised society around the world that claims to run a democratic system would. Their stupefying cowardice in the face of such danger from a virulent disease is unfathomable. One is left to wonder where their brains have all gone to.





Unbeknown to these Zoo animals, most of whom can barely reason, Lt. General Tukur Buratai Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff is busy plotting to incapacitate Osinbajo and take over power in a military coup in the coming days and weeks. The Yoruba race is about to relive the humiliating experience of Brigadier Ogundipe who instead of taking over power in 1966 was chased away from Dodan Barracks by a Fulani army recruit after the death of Aguiyi Ironsi. Stupidity, ignorance and treachery always attract a very high price.

(Pictures below is the original Buhari in 2016 and Jubril Al-Sudani in 2019, the young boy Nigerians ignorantly refer to as Mr President. In this picture taken in Aso Rock Villa gardens, they forgot his make-up. This is the guy man from Sudan who is now in Cuba with Abba Kyari)



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Wednesday, March 29, 2017. 12:20 GMT

BOOST YOUR HAIR GROWTH WITH NATURAL REMEDIES

Hair growth could be remedied using natural ingredients.

Hair loss affects both men and women. While genetics plays a role, there are other factors, including hormonal imbalances, an underactive thyroid gland, nutrient deficiencies and insufficient scalp circulation. Here are 12 natural remedies that can help boost hair growth:

 Cut back on meat: Hormonal imbalances are a primary culprit in hair loss. Japanese researchers also link excessive sebum production in the scalp to high levels of 5-alpha reductase. Their research indicated that animal fat intake may increase sebum production.

 Add the herb saw palmetto: A study in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine reported that saw palmetto (Serenoa repens) may increase hair growth in men. Hair growth improved in men taking 400 mg of a standardised extract of saw palmetto and 100 mg of beta-sitosterol (from saw palmetto) daily. Historically, saw palmetto has been used by herbalists for hair loss in both men and women.

 Address a possible underactive thyroid gland (hypothyroidism) which can cause thinning hair: Add sea vegetables like kelp, nori, dulse, kombu and wakame, all of which are rich in iodine may be helpful to balance this condition. Avoid drinking tap water since it typically contains fluorine and chlorine, two chemicals that inhibit iodine absorption. You may also want to supplement with 100 mg or 1 mL of the herb bladderwrack (focus vesiculosus) daily. Work with a qualified holistic health care professional if you suspect a sluggish thyroid gland.

 Get enough essential fatty acids: Essential fatty acids from walnuts, flaxseeds, fish and avocado are also important for healthy hair.

 Boost biotin: Biotin encourages hair and scalp health. Dietary sources of biotin include nuts, brown rice and oats.

 Boost keratin production with MSM: Methylsulfonylmethane aids in the production of keratin (a protein in the hair) while doing double-duty to strengthen hair follicles. In one study 100 percent of people who supplemented with MSM showed reduced hair loss and increased growth in only six weeks.

 Rejuvenate hair follicles with B-complex vitamins: 100 mg daily of a B-complex supplement that includes biotin and vitamin B6 can reduce hair thinning by increasing scalp circulation and rejuvenating hair follicles.

 Rev up collagen production with vitamin C: Collagen surrounds the hair strands, but as we age collagen breaks down, causing hair to be more vulnerable to breaking. The best way to boost collagen is not through some expensive medical procedure, it's by getting more vitamin C. Foods high in vitamin C include citrus fruits, strawberries and red peppers. Supplementing with 250 mg daily can help boost collagen production which has the added bonus of reduced wrinkles.

 Prevent breakage with vitamin E: Vitamin E is required to nourish damaged hair and to prevent breakage. It aids the body's ability to manufacture keratin within hair strands to reduce breakage. Supplementing with 400 IU of vitamin E can be helpful to restore locks.

 Eat foods rich in iron: Iron is also essential for hair growth and can be found in blackstrap molasses, green leafy vegetables, leeks, cashews, dried fruits, figs and berries. To help your body absorb iron, you'll need enough vitamin C.

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people wearing masks after an outbreak in Brazil

February 24, 2017

Bill Gates is a smart guy who knows something about global health. So when he gives a grave warning about a potential catastrophe, it's a good idea to listen. Yesterday, at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, the man who tops the Forbes richest person in the world list and is co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said:

Whether it occurs by a quirk of nature or at the hand of a terrorist, epidemiologists say a fast-moving airborne pathogen could kill more than 30 million people in less than a year. And they say there is a reasonable probability the world will experience such an outbreak in the next 10 to 15 years.

Notice that this was at a security conference and not a health meeting. Therefore, he could have focused on some other issue such as nuclear weapons or climate change. But Gates chose to focus on infectious disease threats (whether starting naturally or used as a bioterrorist weapon) for a good reason. Our society is in need of a good wake-up call and a slap in the face.

Our society is woefully underprepared for a bad pandemic. This was obvious in 2009 when I and Shawn Brown, Ph.D., director of public health applications at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), were embedded in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to use our computational models to help with the national response to the H1N1 influenza pandemic. People in HHS were working very hard each day to mobilize the national response.

However, the external resistance that they encountered was troubling. Many external parties put their own individual or business interests in front of national security and were reluctant to share information. Some of the general public questioned whether the pandemic existed and even raised a number of conspiracy theories. Fortunately, the virus was not as harmful as initially thought and the world was spared real disaster. Was the H1N1 pandemic a wake-up call for society? Not really.

Microsoft CEO, Bill Gates


Maybe a slower-progressing epidemic that resulted in more deaths and disability would do the trick? After the H1N1 pandemic ran its course, more attention focused on the continuing epidemics of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with efforts led by John Jernigan, M.D., M.S., and Rachel Slayton, Ph.D., and other public health agencies have been working to combat the MRSA epidemic with healthcare facilities and researchers such as our RHEA (Regional Healthcare Analyst) computational modeling team that includes Susan Huang, M.D., M.P.H., of the University of California, Irvine, Sarah Bartsch, M.P.H., of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH), Dr. Brown, Kim Wong, Ph.D., of the University of Pittsburgh Center for Simulation and Modeling, and Loren Miller, M.D., and Jamie McKinnell, M.D., of UCLA.

Has the MRSA epidemic, which is still continuing, prompted all the major changes in infection control and antibiotic development necessary to combat a pandemic? Again, no. While some advances have been made, lack of resources for infection control practice and research remains a challenge, antibiotic overuse has continued and relatively few antibiotics are under development. As I have stated previously, this continues to be a crisis, as our society may eventually run out of antibiotics that work against bacteria.

Surely, then, an epidemic in which the pathogen is highly and rapidly fatal would spur people to more action. Well, it did result in a new version of the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?"...but, to sound like a broken record, no, it did not deliver the needed kick in the behind. The 2014-2016 Ebola outbreaks in West Africa involved a virus that killed around half the people it infected.

Seemingly suddenly, Ebola jumped into the headlines (even though it had been around for years) when the number of deaths in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea surged, raising concerns that the pathogen may spread elsewhere, including the U.S. Suddenly, people were saying, "Quick, we need a vaccine," without giving the world much lead time to deliver and prepare accordingly, as stated in our Lancet piece.

I recall during the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Ebola Innovation Summit seeing many people around the room who had not even heard of Ebola a year prior, saying that we needed to eliminate this disease, naively underestimating the effort required to do so. As I tried to explain to a founder of a major dot-com at the meeting, creating a successful website is not the same as combating an infectious disease. Fortunately for the rest of the world, the Ebola epidemic eventually subsided without any vaccines or new technologies. As Gates mentioned during his Munich speech, "we would be wise to consider the social and economic turmoil that might ensue if something like Ebola made its way into urban centers."



How much did the activity around the Ebola outbreaks change the world? The refrain: not nearly enough. As David Peters, M.D., Dr.P.H., chair of international health at JHSPH, explains in the following video, many major systems problems in West Africa contributing to the Ebola epidemic still remain and could easily lead to future epidemics:

Indeed, many health systems around the world remain broken. For example, our HERMES Logistics computational modeling team, coordinated by Leila Haidari, M.P.H., and working with Raja Rao at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has found that numerous countries have major problems in their vaccine supply chains that could benefit from significant redesign. Even if the proper technology, such as vaccines and medications, is available during an epidemic, effective and efficient supply chains and health systems would be necessary to get them to where they need to go.

Progress has occurred with vaccine supply chains but not as much in other types of supply chains and other aspects of health systems. As before, the Ebola outbreaks resulted in some changes but not nearly enough.


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Mashable•January 3, 2017

This week, as you dream up ways to improve yourself in 2017, give yourself a pat on the back: You've already made a significant change this year, from deep within your belly.

You technically gained an organ.

Irish researchers have confirmed that the mesentery — a fold of membrane that connects the intestine to the abdomen — is its own continuous organ, and not a series of fragmented parts like experts had previously thought.

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The discovery could create a new field of "mesenteric" science and may help doctors better understand and treat abdominal diseases, said Calvin Coffey, a professor of surgery at University of Limerick's Graduate Entry Medical School.

Digital representation of the small and large intestines and associated mesentery.

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"We are now saying we have an organ in the body which hasn't been acknowledged as such to date," he said in a news release.

Coffey published his peer-reviewed findings in the November issue of The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology, a top medical journal on the digestive system.

Mashable was unable to reach Coffey for comment by the time of publication.

An organ is considered to be a self-contained body part that serves a specific vital function. The heart, for instance, is a muscular organ that pumps blood through our blood vessels. 

Researchers say they still don't quite understand the mesentery's key functions, beyond the obvious role as a connective layer.

One of the world's earliest depictions of the mesentery was produced by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci. While his drawing and subsequent medical illustrations showed the mesentery as a continuous structure, in the past century scientists came to believe it was a series of broken-up pieces, and thus less medically significant.

Drawing of mesenteric organ by Leonardo Da Vinci.

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In 2012, Coffey and his colleagues first showed through microscopic analyses that the fold of membrane was, in fact, a single connected structure. 

Over the last four years, the team continued to collect evidence confirming the mesentery's classification as an organ, which culminated with the November paper.

The research prompted the publishers ofGray's Anatomy, one of the world's best-known medical textbooks, to update the entry for mesentery.

Elsevier, which publishes both Gray's Anatomyand The Lancet journal, included the reclassification of mesentery in its 41st edition of Gray's, which came out September 2015,Mashable confirmed.

Coffey said that better understanding and further scientific study of the mesentery could result in less invasive abdominal surgeries, fewer complications and faster patient recovery.

"When we approach it like every other organ...we can categorize abdominal disease in terms of this organ," he said in the news release.

"This is relevant universally as it affects all of us," he added. "Up to now there was no such field as mesenteric science." 


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Tramadol: Risks and addiction

In a series of special reports, UTV looks at the risks surrounding the prescription painkiller tramadol, as leading experts call for it to be made a Class A drug and one addict - hooked since the age of 14 - tells how it ruined his life.

Prescription painkiller tramadol ‘claiming more lives than any other drug’

Prescription painkiller tramadol, taken by thousands of people every day, is claiming more lives than any other drug – including heroin and cocaine – according to Northern Ireland’s top pathologist.

The painkiller doesn’t cause harm if taken correctly, but the danger rises when users mix it with other drugs or alcohol.

Last year, 33 deaths in Northern Ireland were linked to tramadol.

Among them were a 16-year-old girl and a pensioner in his 70s.

I don't think that people realise how potentially risky taking tramadol is.

I think it’s because it’s a prescription drug - people assume it’s safe.


– PROFESSOR JACK CRANE, STATE PATHOLOGIST FOR NI

The opiate-based drug used to treat moderate or severe pain should only be available on prescription – it was reclassified in 2014 making it an illegal Class C drug without prescription.

But anti-drug campaigners say more and more people are turning to the black market.

Professor Jack Crane has spoken out to say he fears more people will die unless urgent action is taken and he is calling for a crackdown on the illegal market.

He wants tramadol to be upgraded again, this time to Class A.

Professor Crane is now set to meet Northern Ireland's Chief Medical Officer later this month to push for change.

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                                      Published on Wednesday, November 16,  2016.


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Swiss scientists have come up with a novel way to consume medical marijuana with fewer of the harmful effects. All you need is a vaping apparatus and some butane hash oil.

The invention is a deceptively simple alternative to more established weed products like pills, skin patches, suppositories, sprays and syrups. After all, there’s the flavor to consider. However, the e-cigarette, as it’s called, will also take away the more harmful effects of smoking a joint.

“Therapeutic cannavaping” actually came out of an idea first floated by recreational marijuana smokers on online forums. It uses butane gas to trap cannabinoids and bind them together. And you get none of the bad effects from using tobacco – a frequent ingredient to make joints burn more smoothly.

A vape pen is used as the tool for smoking. So, in essence, it’s a streamlining of two pre-existing ideas into something more user-friendly for people who rely on the medical benefits of smoking weed.

"We were inspired by what is done illegally, underground, on the web fora," Vincent Varlet, a co-author of the study and biochemist and toxicologist at the University Centre of Legal Medicine in Lausanne, told AFP. "Normally, they use this form of cannabinoids to get high. Based on what is done illegally, we found that it could be interesting," he added.

When the butane and hash oil are combined into the composite BHO (butane hash oil), the concentration of THCa is about 70-80 percent. High temperature treatment turns this into THC (tetrahydrocannabinol – the active ingredient in cannabis).

Turning this into a commercially-available e-cigarette appears a no-brainer. The producer can regulate THC concentration and sell different strengths of the stuff.

Consumption is done via the vape machines. "Cannavaping appears to be a gentle, efficient, user-friendly and safe alternative method for cannabis smoking for medical cannabis delivery," and all of that thanks to “the creativity of cannabis users,” the authors say in the study, published in Nature.

Although the jury is still out on the actual long-term effects of vaping, it does appear to be more health-friendly, the obvious advantage being the absence of tobacco.

Asked how the high from the e-joint would compare to the real deal, the team said about 80 puffs will be needed with a 10 percent BHO liquid (the stronger version of the three they plan to roll out). So, if you’re locked in a room with one of these things, but do not suffer from cancer, it will be about 75 more puffs before you can feel similar effects.

“The take-home message of our article is that vaping is less harmful than smoking, so you can be sure that cannavaping is less harmful than cannabis smoking for medical purposes," Varlet sums up. "Today, we have set the cat among the pigeons. This is just the first step, and we need to see how the scientific community is going to welcome this kind of possibility,” he added.

Not all of their peers think the Swiss idea would take off as smoothly elsewhere as it promises to do in Switzerland. For instance, academics in the UK believe there’s still a way to go until the idea is green-lighted there, owing to addiction dangers in youths.

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Kim in the lab with scientist

North Korea has created a wonder drug which not only cures Aids, but also eradicates Ebola and cancer if the latest proclamation from the country’s news agency is to be believed

An announcement says that the miracle cure consists of ginseng grown from fertiliser and a mix of other ingredients- but did not reveal the special combination.

The North Korean Government says that the medicine will apparently be injectable and will be known by the name of Kumdang-2.

In a statement published by Korean Central News Agency of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to herald the news, Dr Jon Sung Hun said: “The researchers insert rare earth elements (REE) into insam (gingseng) by applying the mico-elementary fertilizers of REE to the fields of insam.”

“The injection is made of extracts from those complex compounds. As a strong-immuno-activator, the injection has been recognized to prevent different malignant epidemics.”

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The 44-year-old British man is actually the first person in the history to be cured of HIV! Scientists told The Sunday Times that presently the virus is completely undetectable in the man’s blood and if it remains that way it will be the first complete cure

A team assembled from five UK universities is currently conducting experiments on 50 people. “We are exploring the real possibility of curing HIV. This is a huge challenge and it’s still early days but the progress has been remarkable” said Mark Samuels, managing director of the National Institute for Health Research Office for Clinical Research Infrastructure

HIV is not that easy to treat because it targets the immune system, joining itself into the DNA of T-cells so that they not only ignore the disease, but turn into viral factories which reproduce the virus. Currently, anti-retroviral therapies can target active T-cells which are infected with HIV but they cannot treat dormant T-cells. This means that patient’s body continues to produce the virus.

The new therapy works in two stages. Firstly, a vaccine helps the body recognise the HIV-infected cells so it can clear them out. Secondly, a new drug called Vorinostat activates the dormant T-cells so they can be spotted by the immune system.
“This therapy is specifically designed to clear the body of all HIV viruses, including dormant ones,” Professor Sarah Fidler, a consultant physician at Imperial College London, told the Times.

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Researchers have found a way to persuade the body's immune system to attack tumours – and it is largely free from side-effects

Scientists have taken a “very positive step” towards creating a universal vaccine against cancer that makes the body’s immune system attack tumours as if they were a virus, experts have said.

Writing in Nature, an international team of researchers described how they had taken pieces of cancer’s genetic RNA code, put them into tiny nanoparticles of fat and then injected the mixture into the bloodstreams of three patients in the advanced stages of the disease.

The patients' immune systems responded by producing "killer" T-cells designed to attack cancer.

The vaccine was also found to be effective in fighting “aggressively growing” tumours in mice, according to researchers, who were led by Professor Ugur Sahin from Johannes Gutenberg University in Germany.

“[Such] vaccines are fast and inexpensive to produce, and virtually any tumour antigen [a protein attacked by the immune system] can be encoded by RNA," they wrote

“Thus, the nanoparticulate RNA immunotherapy approach introduced here may be regarded as a universally applicable novel vaccine class for cancer immunotherapy.”

The paper said the three patients were given low doses of the vaccine and the aim of the trial was not to test how well the vaccine worked. While the patients' immune systems seemed to react, there was no evidence that their cancers went away as a result.

Cancer breakthrough revealed
In one patient, a suspected tumour on a lymph node got smaller after they were given the vaccine. Another patient, whose tumours had been surgically removed, was cancer-free seven months after vaccination.

The third patient had eight tumours that had spread from the initial skin cancer into their lungs. These tumours remained “clinically stable” after they were given the vaccine, the paper said.

The vaccine, which used a number of different pieces of RNA, activated dendritic cells that select targets for the body's immune system to attack. This was followed by a strong response from the "killer" T-cells that normally deal with infections.

Cancer immunotherapy is currently causing significant excitement in the medical community.

It is already being used to treat some cancers with a number of patients still in remission more than 10 years after treatment.

While traditional cancer treatment for testicular and other forms of the disease can lead to a complete cure, lung cancer, melanoma, and some brain and neck cancers have proved difficult to treat.

Being able to inject an effective treatment into a patient’s bloodstream would be a significant step forward. The vaccine also produced limited flu-like side-effects in contrast to the extreme sickness caused by chemotherapy.

Professor Alan Melcher, of the Institute of Cancer Research, said: “Immunotherapy for cancer is a rapidly evolving and exciting field. This new study, in mice and a small number of patients, shows that an immune response against the antigens within a cancer can be triggered by a new type of cancer vaccine.

“Although the research is very interesting, it is still some way away from being of proven benefit to patients.

“In particular, there is uncertainty around whether the therapeutic benefit seen in the mice by targeting a small number of antigens will also apply to humans, and the practical challenge of manufacturing nanoparticles for widespread clinical application.”

Dr Helen Rippon, chief executive of Worldwide Cancer Research, said “We know the immune system has great potential to be manipulated and reactivated to fight cancer cells, that’s why we’ve been funding research into this for 15 years.

“These are exciting and novel results, showing the promise of an RNA nanoparticle vaccine to do just that.”

She described the immune response in the three patients as “positive” and noted that advanced skin cancer was “a notoriously difficult cancer to treat”.

“However, more research is needed in a larger number of people with different cancer types and over longer periods of time before we could say we have discovered a ‘universal cancer vaccine’. But this research is a very positive step forwards towards this global goal,” she said.

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[caption id="attachment_6506" align="alignnone" width="728"]Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at an American Renewal Project event at the Orlando Convention Center in Orlando, Florida Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at an American Renewal Project event at the Orlando Convention Center in Orlando, Florida August 11, 2016. REUTERS/Eric Thayer[/caption]

Republican Donald Trump on Friday backed away from comments calling President Barack Obama and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton the founders of the militant group Islamic State, while the Republican Party sought to project unity behind their candidate.

A new poll showed Trump, whose unfiltered speaking style has repeatedly landed him in hot water, losing ground in three crucial states ahead of the Nov. 8 general election against Clinton.

In a surprise appearance, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, who in private expressed fury over some of Trump's actions earlier this month, introduced the candidate at a campaign event in Erie, Pennsylvania, and the two hugged onstage.

"We’re so honored to be working with Donald Trump and the campaign," Priebus told thousands of Trump supporters.

"And don’t believe the garbage you read. Let me tell you something. Donald Trump, the Republican Party, all of you, we’re going to put him in the White House and save this country together."

Republican sources earlier this month said Priebus was furious over Trump's failure to endorse House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan and his feud with the parents of a Muslim American soldier killed in Iraq. Trump did endorse Ryan a few days later.

Trump on Friday told the rally that his remarks earlier this week calling Obama and Clinton the founders of ISIS, as Islamic State is also known, had been sarcastic.

"I said Obama is the founder of ISIS. The founder! And these dishonest media people, they’re the most dishonest people," Trump said.

"So I said the founder of ISIS, obviously a big sarcastic, but not that sarcastic to be honest with you," he added.

Trump first made the unfounded claim on Wednesday and repeated it through the week, including in an interview on Thursday with radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt.

"I meant he’s (Obama) the founder of ISIS. I do. He was the most valuable player," Trump said, adding that Clinton also deserved the MVP award.

Trump claimed sarcasm in July as well after he was heavily criticized for inviting Russia to dig up tens of thousands of "missing" emails from Clinton's time as U.S. secretary of state.

A Wall Street Journal/NBC News/Marist poll released on Friday suggested support for Trump is eroding among voters in three battleground states.

Such states are hotly contested because their populations can swing either to Republicans or Democrats and thus play a decisive role in presidential elections, which are ultimately decided by the state-by-state tally of the Electoral College.

The poll found Clinton widening her lead in Colorado, Virginia and North Carolina, while holding her advantage in Florida.

Clinton released her tax returns on Friday, painting the move as a sign of transparency that her campaign says Trump lacks.

U.S. presidential candidates are not required to release their tax returns, but it has become a common custom. Clinton's tax returns have been made public, in some form, every year since 1977.

Trump has cited an audit by the Internal Revenue Service in refusing to release his returns. Trump also has said his taxes are no one's business and that they reveal little.

Trump scheduled a speech in Warren, Ohio, on Monday that will focus on how he would handle the threat posed by Islamic State. Trump has said he would "knock the hell out of ISIS," without offering details, and would persuade Gulf states to bankroll safe zones for Syrian refugees so they would not have to be brought to the United States.

Trump, a New York businessman who has never held elected office, has been mired in repeated controversies in recent days. He drew heavy criticism after he suggested gun rights activists could take action against Clinton, a statement he later said was aimed at rallying votes against her.

Nearly one-fifth of registered Republicans now want Trump to drop out of the race for the White House, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday.

Trump was scheduled to hold another rally in Pennsylvania on Friday, in Altoona.

Republicans frequently trace the birth of Islamic State to the Obama administration’s decision to withdraw the last U.S. forces from Iraq by the end of 2011.

But many analysts argue its roots lie in the decision of George W. Bush’s Republican administration to invade Iraq in 2003 without a plan to fill the vacuum created by Saddam Hussein’s ouster. It was Bush’s administration that negotiated the 2009 agreement that called for the withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Iraq by Dec. 31, 2011.

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The Federal High Court, Abuja, has said it will not grant any application brought by the Department of State Services (DSS) until all orders of the court are obeyed.
A vacation judge, Justice Nnamdi Dimgba, made this known in Abuja on Monday when DSS Counsel GOA Agbadua brought an application for a remand warrant.

Dimgba said it would be wrong for the court to grant an application of the DSS when it had no regard for orders of the court.

He said that he had ordered that retired Air Commodore Umar Mohammed, who was arraigned before him, to be remanded in Kuje Prison pending the hearing of his bail application, but that the DSS decided to keep him in its custody against the order of the court.

Dimgba also cited another instance when he ordered the service to produce some accused persons in court but noted that the DSS had yet to comply.

“The court will not grant any application of the DSS until there is sufficient proof that all orders of the court have been obeyed.

“It will be counter-productive for the court to take this application and grant the reliefs sought by the DSS.

“This court hereby adjourns this application sine die until the applicant’s counsel files an affidavit deposing to the fact that all outstanding orders of this court on the DSS have been complied with”, he added.

Dimgba had berated the DSS for flaunting orders of the court, one of which was to remand an accused person in Kuje prison. (NAN)

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Ndume stated this while answering questions from State House correspondents after joining President Muhammadu Buhari in performing the 2-raka’at Juma’at prayer at the State House, Abuja.

He, therefore, appealed to well-meaning individuals, non-governmental agencies and the international community to help address the situation in the North East.

He stated that current efforts by the Federal Government to tackle insurgency had been yielding positive results, adding that immediate measures should be taken by stakeholders to ameliorate the suffering of the people in the zone.

Ndume said: “The fight against Boko Haram, with the determination and seriousness from this government, is almost over. “We are facing another war and that is fight against hunger, malnutrition and poverty, and that too, government is bracing up to it.

“We are crying out, we are looking up to you to help us in the North East particularly.

“Particularly in Borno, the aftermath of the insurgency, which is almost over, is the issue of hunger, poverty and malnutrition. “For three years our people, who mostly depended on subsistence farming, did not go to their farms and government alone cannot feed the whole North East or Borno State alone and that is our greatest challenge.

“We are calling on all non-governmental agencies, individuals, all Nigerians and even the international community to join hands in helping our people no matter how little it is.”

Ndume described the current face-off in the House of Representatives over accusations and counter-accusations of budget padding as “media creation”.

The senator, who said such face-off was unnecessary, advised all parties involved to channel their grievances through the internal legislative mechanisms for amicable settlement.
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KFC marijuana

KFC was approved on May 15, 2015 for their Marijuana Retail Recreational Pot / Medical Marijuana Occupational Business License.

Franchises in Canada have added this “option” to their menu. In order to be successful, a deep understanding of the market is critical to success, It’s all about evolution and we are ready to serve the needs of the people of Canada. Only adults can buy marijuana with a picture ID.

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Canadians are only allowed to purchase 2 grams at one time, while people who are not citizens of Canada are limited on their purchase only be allowed to buy a quarter at a time In addition to selling the “leafy green” they also have some yummy edibles available. They are offering Smashed Potatoes, Macaroni Munchies and Bong Time Biscuits – all made with their savory marijuana butter (sold in small amounts).

KFC is hoping to get all 100 franchisees on board with the new product by March 2016. #KushForCure

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Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari is suffering from an ear infection, consequently, he began a 10-day sick leave on Monday jetting off to London where he would receive medical treatment for the ear disease identified as Ménière’s disease by Premium Times‘ sources.

“The president was examined by his personal physician and an E.N.T Specialist in Abuja, and was treated. Both Nigerian doctors recommended further evaluation purely as a precaution,” a presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina revealed on Sunday, June 5, 2016.

Since Saturday when the report of Buhari’s ear disease was reported in the news media, Nigerians have been asking about the disease and if it has a cure.

Our research reveals that the disease affects the inner ear and doesn’t have a known cure. According to medical website, C-Health, there are possible treatments for Ménière’s disease including surgery, but it has no cure and “may come and go over a person’s lifetime”

Below are highlights from the medical website:

Ménière’s Disease: What Is It?

Ménière’s disease is a condition that affects the inner ear. It causes attacks of dizziness (vertigo), nausea and vomiting, a feeling of fullness in the ear, hissing and roaring in the ears, and some hearing loss.

The disease comes on without warning. It may come and go over a person’s lifetime. It often leaves no lasting symptoms in between bouts, and people who have it can live perfectly normal lives.

The condition affects men and women, and usually begins between the ages of 20 and 50. Usually only one ear is affected, although 10% to 15% of people with Ménière’s disease develop it in both ears.

Causes

The cause of Ménière’s disease is unknown. The symptoms are believed to be related to having too much fluid in the inner ear.Occasionally, this potassium-rich fluid breaks the inner ear membrane and leaks into the potassium-poor outer fluid. This mixing causes a chemical reaction that paralyses the balance system in the inner ear until the fluid balance becomes normal again.

Symptoms and Complications

Dizziness, nausea, vomiting, ear fullness, ringing in the ears, and some hearing loss are all symptoms of an attack of Ménière’s disease. A person with this condition usually has one or more attacks a year, which may come alone or in groups. The attacks last from approximately 20 minutes to 24 hours and go away gradually. During a dizzy spell, the person feels like the world is whirling around them. They stagger from side to side and sometimes even fall down. These falling spells are called drop attacks or Tumarkin spells.

If you have Ménière’s disease, you may also experience tinnitus, which is a hissing, ringing, or roaring in the affected ear that may continue, change, or disappear. Tinnitus may worsen during, just before, or just after a dizzy spell. People with Ménière’s disease also have trouble hearing voices and music properly. Their hearing often comes back between attacks, but they do lose some hearing permanently over time.

While having an attack of Ménière’s disease, you may also get a headache, grow pale, sweat, develop a slow pulse, and feel nauseous and vomit.

A person with the condition can go for years without having another attack and sometimes they never experience another attack. Between attacks, the person feels fine. However, the hearing in the affected ear (or ears) often declines gradually over time. Since the dizziness is unpredictable, people with Ménière’s disease may be constantly concerned about having a dizzy spell and therefore often avoid driving or operating machinery. If attacks have occurred without warning, your doctor is obliged to advise you against driving.

Making the Diagnosis

Your doctor will review your symptoms and medical history, and do a physical exam. Hearing tests and other tests of ear function will also take place, and a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan may be done to check if there is a brain tumour.

Treatment and Prevention

Currently, there is no way to cure Ménière’s disease. Treatments include acupuncture, herbal remedies, and various medications.Diuretics, vasodilator medications, and a low-salt diet help relieve symptoms by taking fluid away from the head and ear and maintaining the fluid balance in the body. Avoiding caffeine and alcohol may also help.

Diuretics, also referred to as “water pills,” are medications that force the kidneys to pass more fluid, salt, and potassium than normal from the body. Taking these between attacks may reduce the frequency of attacks. People taking some types of diuretics also have to take extra potassium to replace the potassium the diuretics remove. Anti-nausea medications such as dimenhydrinate* can be taken in the form of tablets or suppositories. Betahistine is another medication that can be used to treat the vertigo associated with Meniere’s disease.

Listening to music can “mask” the tinnitus or noises in a person’s ears. Some people wear a tinnitus masker, which is a little device that makes noise behind their ear to block the awareness of the tinnitus.

If these treatments don’t work, surgery may be an option. However, it doesn’t always work and can cause ear damage. A type of surgery called labyrinthectomy usually relieves the dizziness but it results in total hearing and balance loss in the affected ear.

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From Marie Claire


Beauty vloggers are full-service these days. They're not just revealing the secrets behind the perfect highlight or how to sandbag your undereye circles into oblivion, but also how to whiten your teeth.


Now it's no secret that there are a slew of off-kilter ways of going about it (I once turned my teeth black for the cause), but the pearly-white-yielding concoction that Desi blogger Farah Dhukai uses is slightly less jarring and just as effective for a whiter smile within minutes. She simply combines one tablespoon of coconut oil with a pinch of turmeric to create a paste, brushes her teeth with the blend, lets it sit on her teeth for five minutes, then rinses it off for an instantly brighter grin. But be forewarned, this method will turn your toothbrush yellow.


Here's the thing, you won't see a drastic difference the first time you try it. The idea is that if you get into the habit of doing this a few times a week, it will-like white strips-work gradually over time. This is because turmeric, an ancient medicinal herb, helps removes plaque (some that's not evident to the naked eye), which causes discoloration. But as opposed to harsh bleaches you'll find in over-the-counter treatments, its natural antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties make it super healthy for your oral health, much like it isfor the skin. In fact, research has found that it can help prevent dental disease.


This D.I.Y.'s other ingredient-coconut oil-works similarly to wash out stains. Just ask Kylie Jenner, who loves oil pulling (swashing around the natural extract in your mouth for several minutes) to achieve pure-white flash of teeth behind her fish gape. Convinced?

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Lassa fever has claimed 14 lives in Taraba from January to date, an official has said.
Dr Aisha Sani, the Chairperson, Lassa Fever Committee in the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Jalingo, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Jalingo.

According to her, of the 49 suspected cases of the disease reported in the hospital, 21 persons were treated and discharged.
However, she disclosed that seven suspected Lassa fever patients on admission in the hospital had fled the facility.

“Seven persons had absconded. We are making frantic efforts to arrest and bring them back to the hospital before they infect others with the disease.

“We have our internal securities here, but the truth is that we need more to secure the Lassa fever unit,” Sani said.

The doctor said laboratory test had so far confirmed four cases of the disease, while four suspected cases were referred to the Institute of Lassa Fever Research and Control, Irrua, Edo.

“The four patients had already developed kidney failure and you know we don’t have dialysis section here.

“Let me use this medium to appeal to the Federal Government to provide a dialysis unit in this hospital so that we can save lives,” she said.

Sani said the hospital was currently handling two cases of the disease, adding that the worst affected areas in the state were Jalingo, Ardo-Kola and Bali local government areas.

NAN recalls that the FMC officially confirmed the first death of three persons of Lassa fever disease on Jan. 5. (NAN)
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An Abuja-based NGO, Aliwe Daughters Initiative, has petitioned the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund to investigate the recent killings of children in Benue State, north central Nigeria.

Over 500 persons including women and children ​we​re reportedly murdered in a crisis between Benue farmers and Fulani herdsmen.

The group’s chairperson, Ngunan Uganden, on Wednesday described the killing of innocent children and women as “primitive, barbaric and unacceptable genocide that must not be allowed to continue.”

She challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately deploy troops to the affected areas to support the efforts of Benue State government in ending the carnage.

Since the outbreak of the fresh crisis in Agatu, Buruku and Logo local government areas last month, she said hundreds had been killed and several communities sacked by suspected Fulani herdsmen.

UNICEF every child in danger

Mrs. Uganden said the saddest sides of the massacre were the killing, rape and kidnap of innocent children.

She, therefore, called on the UNICEF to investigate the perpetrators of these heinous acts and come to the aide of vulnerable children and women affected by the crisis

“We insist that the continued perpetration of crisis between herdsmen and farmers in Benue, which claimed hundreds of lives and property worth millions of naira, is bringing untold hardship to innocent people in the state who are predominantly farmers.

“Cattle rearing is a business to Fulani people like farming is business for Benue farmers.

“Fulanis should be compelled to establish ranches in their respective states to feed their animals.

The continued attacks on farmers by herdsmen can no longer be tolerated,” she added.
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A young British woman has become one of the first cancer patients to be injected with a new vaccine designed to stimulate the immune system so that it destroys tumours wherever they have spread in the body.

Kelly Potter, 35, was diagnosed with advanced cervical cancer in July 2015 and was among the first to be enrolled on a cancer vaccine trial that will run over the next two years involving up to 30 volunteers.

Medical researchers have designed the vaccine to encourage the immune system to react against a part of the cancer cell that allows it to continuously replicate without ever dying.

 

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February  27, 2016

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Lassa Fe­ver virus has spread to 17 States of the federation and claimed 76 lives, the Federal Government has said.


The Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole, who dis­closed this on Tuesday, de­scribed the outbreak of Lassa Fever as a “national embar­rassment”.

He therefore appealed to health practitioners in the 36 states of the federation not to hide any case from their gov­ernors and other leaders.


Adewole spoke in Abu­ja at the Emergency Nation­al Council on Health meeting with States’ Commissioners for Health and other stake­holders in the sector.

He said that so far, the Las­sa Fever virus had spread to 64 local government areas in 17 states, while 212 suspected cases had been recorded.


The meeting, according to the minister, is to facilitate dis­cussion on the control of the outbreak, develop strategies of prevention and management of all cases in the country.

The minister said: “There is a high level of denial and a conspiracy of silence in some states. I think people take de­light in saying we have no case and to me that is not the issue.

“In fact, if you are able to pick a suspicious case, to me that is the issue because that goes to tell us that the surveil­lance system is working.


“We also want to alert all health professionals in the country that they should re­port any case to the appro­priate authorities. I have de­scribed the outbreaks as a national embarrassment. We can manage the embarrass­ment, but when we allow an­other outbreak to occur in Au­gust this year, it will become a national shame to all of us. One of the things we will do is to stamp out Lassa Fever.


“Seventeen states have been affected across the country, it has affected 64 local govern­ments across the country and we have been able to pick 212 suspected cases. It dates back from August last year, not just this year. It is better to over-count suspected cases than to undercount.

“The real hotspots are Ni­ger, Bauchi, Taraba, Kano, Edo, Nasarawa, Plateau and Rivers, but for us to be honest with ourselves, all states should con­sider themselves at risk and put up measures to contain, pre­vent and reassure their com­munities that we are on top of the situation,” Adewole said.
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