Nigerian News of 2015 That Broke Social Media [3]

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Nigerian News of 2015 That Broke Social Media: July

Buhari Rejects U.S’s Gay Marriage - Presidency

President Muhammadu Buhari has told Barrack Obama-led United States of America that he will not sanction gay marriage in Nigeria, stating that ‘sodomy is against the law of the country and abhorrent to our culture’.

The spokesperson of the president, Femi Adesina said that the issue of gay marriage was discussed during Buhari meeting in the US but he rejected the offer.

“The issue of gay marriage came up here yesterday. PMB was point blank. Sodomy is against the law in Nigeria, and abhorrent to our culture,” he posted on his Twitter handle.

Nigeria Celebrates One Year Without Polio Case

Health officials in Nigeria are celebrating an impressive milestone: The country has gone one year without a single case of polio. The world is now one step closer to making polio the second human infectious disease – after smallpox – to be eradicated with an effective vaccination campaign.

Nigeria is now on the brink of eradicating the paralyzing disease, which predominately affects children under five. Polio (poliomyelitis) is a highly infectious disease, which invades the nervous system and can at times paralyze a victim in a matter of hours. The disease is caused by a virus that spreads through unhygienic environments. One in 200 infections leads to irreversible paralysis and 5% to 10% among those paralyzed die.

There are only three countries where polio remains endemic – Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan. If no cases are reported in the following weeks and the World Health Organization (WHO) confirms previously affected areas are free of the virus, Nigeria is expected to be removed from the list of countries where polio is endemic.

“This is such a testament to people who walk hours and hours to vaccinate a child. This is really for them,” WHO spokesperson Sona Bari told IFLScience.

She explains that Nigeria will need to go another two years without a recorded case of the disease before the WHO declares it polio-free. This important milestone didn’t even seem possible just a few years ago, in what Bari describes as “a long and difficult journey.” Polio reached a three-year high – with more than 100 cases – in 2012. The increase in cases was mostly driven by rumors about the vaccine and political instability.

In 2003, some northern states imposed a year-long ban on the vaccine as some state governors and Muslim clerics alleged the vaccine contained HIV and was intended to be spread among Muslims to sterilize the population. While community leaders did eventually promise to support vaccination campaigns in 2009, the terrorist group Boko Haram began their insurgency at the same time. Health workers were regularly attacked, with the last being in 2013 when nine polio vaccinators were shot dead in a health clinic in the northern Nigerian city of Kano.

Bari attributes recent progress to the strong political commitment from the government, who increased their domestic funding for polio almost every year since 2012, but she points out that this success isn’t just down to the ministry of health.

“Community health workers and community leaders in Nigeria were significant to turning around the difficult situation,” Bari said. “There are traditional leaders in Nigeria who command enormous influence and respect. They formed a platform to make sure vaccination was accessible to all children and that made an enormous difference, because in many communities they are the people you listen to.”

Source: IFLScience

Video Evidence Showing Nigeria Police and Army killing Biafran Secessionists  in Aba Goes Viral on Social Media

UN Proclaims International Day To Honour Genocide Victims

The UN General Assembly has adopted and proclaimed 9th, December the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime.

Adama Dieng, Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, said on Tuesday in New York that adopting and proclamation would strengthen the resolve to prevent such events from ever happening again.

“We have a collective responsibility to prevent genocide and by commemorating the victims of the crime of genocide.

“We can dignify them and show that we are not indifferent, that we care about what happened to them and will never forget them,’’ he said.

Dieng noted that genocide represented the very worst of humanity, as such no human being should experience such a terrible crime.

He said genocide is defined by the UN as a crime that is committed against members of a national, ethnic or religious group, solely because they are members of that group.

The UN Genocide Convention was signed 9 December 1948.

Dieng said the International Day is intended to commemorate and honour victims of the crime of genocide around the world, and to raise awareness of the Convention and its role in protecting populations from future genocides.

He said in adopting the resolution on Friday without a vote, the 193-member UN General Assembly reiterated the responsibility of each individual State to protect its populations from genocide. (PANA/NAN)

Relief As Doctors Now Have Permanent Cure for Sickle Cell Anaemia

Doctors at the University of Ibadan in partnership with the University of Illinois, Chicago, USA and University of Loyola, Chicago have discovered a permanent cure for Sickle Cell Anaemia.

Over five million Nigerians suffer from Sickle Cell Anaemia, a severe hereditary form of anaemia in which a mutated form of hemoglobin distorts the red blood cells into a crescent shape at low oxygen levels.

Professor of Medicine, Victor Gordeuk, who is the Director, Sickle Cell Centre, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA and his colleagues, Prof. Damiano Rondelli and Prof. Bamidele Tayo, University of Loyola, Chicago claim the cure is bone marrow transplant.

The experts accompanied by the Chief Medical Director, UCH, Prof. Temitope Alonge, Dr. Titilola Akingbola, a haematologist and Dr. Foluke Fasola explained that the stem cell transplant is a standard procedure for the treatment of many blood cancers in both adult and children.

He said “With this chemotherapy-free transplant, we are curing adults with sickle cell disease, and we see that their quality of life improves fast within just one month of the transplant.

“About 90 per cent of the approximately 450 patients who have received stem cell transplants for sickle cell disease have been children. Chemotherapy has been considered too risky for adult patients, who are often more weakened than children by the disease.

“Adults with sickle cell disease can now be cured without chemotherapy — the main barrier that has stood in the way for them for so long. Our data provide more support that this therapy is safe and effective and prevents patients from living shortened lives, condemned to pain and progressive complications.”

“In the new procedure, patients receive immuno-suppressive drugs just before the transplant, along with a very low dose of total body irradiation, a treatment much less harsh and with fewer potentially serious side effects than chemotherapy.

“ Donor cells from a healthy and tissue-matched sibling are transfused into the patient. Stem cells from the donor produce healthy new blood cells in the patient, eventually in sufficient quantity to eliminate symptoms. In many cases, sickle cells can no longer be detected. Patients must continue to take immunosuppressant drugs for at least a year.”

Source: The Herald News

Sylvester Stallone Accepts Jesus Christ as Saviour

Boko Haram Kills 32 , Injure 80 in Market Bombing

At least 32 people were killed and 80 wounded after an explosive device went off at a market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Yola, humanitarian agencies say.

“Thirty-two people were killed and 80 have been injured,” Reuters quoted a Red Cross official as saying.,  Another official from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Alhaji Sa'ad Bello, later confirmed the same numbers of casualties.

“The explosion happened in the midst of a large crowd because the area houses a livestock market, an open-air eatery and a mosque,” AFP quoted Red Cross official Aliyu Maikano as saying. “Our main preoccupation now is to save the injured.”

One witness described the horrific aftermath of the scene: “The ground near my shop was covered with dead bodies. I helped to load 32 dead bodies into five vehicles,” witness Alhaji Ahmed told Reuters.

Another local said there were up to eight ambulances on the scene attending to the victims.

Source: Social Media

Nigerian Student Suspended in UK University Over Jollof Rice Origin Fight

This Satire story of a Nigerian being suspended for fighting with her Ghanaian roommate is presumably fake news but the article did made wave on Nigerian Social Media.

Source: ScrewLife

Nigerian Music Success Story with a speacial focus on Wizkid's Ojuelagbe made wave from 234Jam on Social Media in 2015

2015 was full with activities on Social Media and I'v been able to compile a list of Nigerian news that almost shut down the networks.

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