Superstition stopping Ebola victims from seeking medical care

    

Health workers fighting Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo have run into an invisible but powerful hurdle — a belief system that deems the disease to be a curse or the result of evil spirits.

Some people are refusing medical care and turn instead to preachers and prayers to chase away the threat, they say.

The pastor of an evangelical church last Wednesday died several days after he “prayed” for an Ebola victim who went to him for help, a doctor said.
“Some sick people believe that the Ebola epidemic comes from sorcery — they refuse to be treated and prefer to pray,” said Julie Lobali, a nurse on the front line against the DRC’s ninth Ebola outbreak.

How breast cancer stays ‘quietly’ in other parts of the body –Scientists

Scientists have identified the mechanism that allows breast cancer cells to lie dormant in other parts of the body, only to reemerge years later with lethal force, according to a study published on Tuesday.

In experiments with human cells and live mice, researchers showed that disabling the mechanism — with drugs or gene manipulation — crippled the cancer cells and inhibited their capacity to spread.

The discovery, reported in the journal Nature Communications, provides a promising target for the development of breast cancer therapies, the study said.

Metuh fell down on his own, says Judge

Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday said that former National Publicity Secretary to the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Olisa Metuh, deliberately fell down as the court’s proceedings were about to start on Monday.

Justice Abang said this while correcting an impression created in the submissions of a defence lawyer in the case, Tochukwu Onwugbufor (SAN), who was urging the court to adjourn the matter due to Metuh’s absence on Tuesday.

$16bn electricity project: Buhari tackles Obasanjo, asks, ‘Where’s the power?’

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday threw a jibe at former President Olusegun Obasanjo for spending $16bn on power projects during his tenure, without corresponding power supply to Nigerians.

Although he did not mention any name, Buhari said “a former Nigerian leader” was bragging at a time that his administration spent the amount on power sector, yet there is nothing to show for the expenditure.

Buhari spoke at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, while receiving members of the Buhari Support Organisation led by the Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Hameed Ali.

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 Gone are the days when gospel DJs were missing out on the entertainment scene. As a matter of facts, many of them are creating cutting edge platforms to share music content that they personally developed. Music apps such as CETUNES, a mobile application invented by LoveWorld Radio Networks as a tool to propogate the gospel music ministry is proving that smart apps and mobile devices can fit into today's world of professionals and upwardly mobile, digital age as useful tools, rather  than mobile novelties

Obaze's public policy book Prime Witness rises above the fray

All is set for the Abuja presentation of a new public policy book on President Muhammadu Buhari's first year in office. Titled, "Prime Witness: Change And Policy Challenges In Buhari’s Nigeria", the public policy evaluation book is scheduled for presentation at the Shehu Musa Yar'adua Centre, Abuja on Thursday, May 24, 2018.

Prime Witness, which is published by Safari Books Ltd. is authored by a public policy expert, Mr. Oseloka H. Obaze, the MD/CEO of Selonnes Consult Ltd. who coincidentally, was the candidate of People's Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2017 governorship election in Anambra state. 

ANAMBRA APC STATE CONGRESS RETURNS BARR EMEKA IBE AS CHAIRMAN

Omisore dumps PDP for SDP

A former Deputy Governor of Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, has finally dumped the Peoples Democratic Party for the Social Democratic Party where he said he intends to contest the September 22 governorship election in the state.

Omisore announced his defection in a statement made available to journalists in Osogbo on Sunday.

He said his governorship ambition would be realised on the platform of his new political party, saying he was ready to rescue the state from the ruling All Progressives Congress.

In military school, dad gave me a hot slap because I didn’t salute him — Tunde Idiagbon’s son

2019: Only PDP looters will benefit from change – Presidency

The Presidency on Sunday said the implication of re-electing a Peoples Democratic Party government in 2019 was that all the loot so far recovered from members of the party and their cronies would be returned to them.

It said that was the thrust of the “change the change” campaign the party has been embarking on without defining exactly what it means.