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AIDS CRISIS RESPONDS TEAM IN OKENE, KOGI STATE, NIGERIA
Related to country: Nigeria

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Sometimes it involve alot to believe that such a tremedious task could be achieved by people who are not actually from you community, state, country and of the origin with you. This was my thought when these team of selfless people from Canada called AIDS CRISIS RESAPONDS TEAM, arrived my Community (Okene, Kogi State Nigeria). This people were great and outstanding, not like some i have meet before. the team from Canada are: Donna King, Lizzy Walker, Terry Sebastian and Donna Cross. Between 11th to 16th of July, 2008 this people with our volunteer team embark on a charity excersise which involves HIV/AIDS campaign, testing people for free and giving drugs, supplements and vitamins to the needy. We visited the poor and downtroden providing them with little support in the form of cloths, toys, small amount of money.

We visited Orphanages and widows who were in need of assistance and materials for survival, all these were given to them.

This is the kind of efforts we want to see people do, and not for people who do not believe in helping people yet their songs are been sang. I am happy to be part of this great effort and i hope more people like these will keep comming to Africa from more charities and NGOs.

Other people involved are: Idris Abdul Rahman, Farouq Mazai, Abdul G, Yunusa, Ohunene Sule, Muhammed Ogirima, Mariam Yusuf (Oremeyi), Marhia, Danjuma Muhammed, Usman Aliyu, Kabir, Memunat Mukhtar and Musa of EbiraOpete TV communications.

And to the Ebiraview Team which are: Idris Abdul Rahman, Usman Aliyu, Maryam Yusuf (Oremeyi), Muhammed Danjuma(Me) and Kabir Ismail, you have done a great JOB.

for more information check this site, www.ebiraview.net and also acrt2008.blogspot.com.

thank you.

Peace! ! !

Danjuma Mohammed,
Okene, Kogi State, Nigeria.
2348036378036, 2347027351498.

July 17, 2008 | 5:18 AM Comments  0 comments

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What Do people Call Love......
Related to country: Nigeria

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lets talk bold and open here, i used to believe LOVE exits, but now that believe is all gone. It happened as a result of been so much in love with people who at first make you believe they love you and can't do without telling you all sort of rhyme and sweet words. But from my experience with love strories and personally affectedlove doesn't exist.

I love A girl that i give all she needs and trusted her, love her so much that she could predict my actions and thoughts anytime and anywhere. But i must tellyou when it matters most she fleeeeeee...... and never want to come back all because i don't have a work then. Rigth i find it difficult love and respect a lady. i can't even love becos it doesnt exit.

Please man be careful with these women as they rather keep two men than one... they are great liers............

June 27, 2008 | 2:34 PM Comments  0 comments

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A Tale of Two Cities: The Asphalt and the Favela
Related to country: Brazil

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“The first favela came from the head of a pig. In 1898, the Rio de Janeiro city government decided to demolish a tenement called Cabeça do Porco (Pig’s Head) that housed over one thousand people in the center of city. One quarter of the city’s population at that time lived in tenements- and the Pig’s Head tenement represented the unclean and unwanted. The dislocated residents, mostly dock workers, occupied a nearby hill and built new homes from the rubble of the old. The first favela - Morro da Providência - like those that would follow, was the result of a serious shortage of affordable housing for low-income workers—and the government’s unwillingness or incapacity to provide that housing.

Since Morro da Providência, hundreds of favelas have formed across the hills of Rio de Janeiro. The United Nations Center for Human Settlements (Habitat) estimates that between 30 and 40 percent of Rio de Janeiro’s population of thirteen million lives in favelas - illegal land occupations. In the 1950’s, the number of favelas increased dramatically, when poor families from the North and Northeast migrated to Rio de Janeiro in search of better opportunities and access to education, health care services, etc.

These migrants arrived to find poor living conditions in most favelas - no running water, sewage, electricity, or telephones. Gradually, through various community organizations led by activists, the favelas improved. While long established favelas in the Zona Sul and Zona Norte have relatively good access to basic urban services, an explosion of new favelas in the Zona Oeste (where the population living in favelas is growing at the rate of 400% per year) have raw sewage in the streets and no running water or electricity.

Currently about 12% of households in Rio de Janeiro do not have running water, over 30% do not have sewage connections, and official electricity connections reach only 70% of the population. In favelas - which make up the bulk of the households without these urban services - residents use illegal connections (gatos) to water and electricity, and sewage is often dumped straight into rivers, drainage ditchs, and lagoons.

Favela Faces is a bilingual web site that uses photographs and short video interviews to tell the stories behind the faces of four people (Tio Souza, Tiana, Zé Cabo, and Paulinho) living in or around the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. Their stories relate the problems facing favela residents, the ways in which they are working to overcome them, and how they have and continue to improve their communities with the limited resources available to them.

Text and stories as well as photograph of Tio Souza courtesy Favela Faces website.

June 2, 2008 | 4:25 PM Comments  0 comments

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Okonjo-Iweala becomes World Bank MD
Related to country: Nigeria


FOUR years after ending her 21-year-career at the World Bank to take up appointment as Nigeria's Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, will from December 1, this year return to the global financial institution as a Managing Director.

Okonjo-Iweala, a princess from Ogwashi-Uku in Delta State, who left the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo in controversial circumstances in 2006, will join El Savador's Juan Jose Daboub and New Zealand's Graeme Wheeler in that capacity.

The World Bank's president Robert Bruce Zoellick announced Okonjo-Iweala' s appointment yesterday.

The president and three managing directors are joined at the top level of the bank's management by executive Vice Presidents Lars Thunell of Sweden and Japan's Yukiko Omura, as well as Chief Financial Officer Vincenzo La Via from Italy.

With the appointment, Nigeria has produced yet another citizen at the helm of the World Bank group. Former Education Minister, Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili is the bank's Vice President in charge of Africa.

In her new position, Okonjo-Iweala, born on June 13, 1954, will have responsibility for Africa, South Asia, Central Asia and Europe. She will also take oversight responsibility for Human Resources with four Vice Presidents of the bank reporting to her.

Her appointment takes effect from December 1.

Her father, Prof. Chukwuka Okonjo is a retired professor of Economics at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan and the traditional ruler of Ogwashi-Uku. Her mother, Kamene, is also a retired professor of Sociology from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), while her husband, Dr. Ikemba Iweala is a United States (U.S.)-based neuro-surgeon.

Making the announcement, Zoellick said: "Ngozi brings a unique set of skills and experience to the World Bank Group (WBG). As an outstanding Minister of Finance and Foreign Minister in Nigeria, Ngozi helped lead the country's reform programme on issues of fiscal prudence, transparency of government accounts, good governance, and anti-corruption. "

The World Bank President continued: "She led Nigeria's quest for debt relief and helped her country obtain an unprecedented $18 billion write-off from the Paris Club. Ngozi was also instrumental in helping Nigeria obtain its first-ever Sovereign Credit rating (of BB minus) from Fitch and Standard & Poor's. She is an internationally respected world leader."

Zoellick stated further: "In addition, she knows the WBG well from her 21 years of service. Her commitment to the developing world is unparalleled. I am delighted she has accepted to join my senior team."

Okonjo-Iweala is founder of NOI-Gallup polls, an indigenous Nigerian opinion research organisation, and co-founder of the Makeda Fund - a fund to invest in African women entrepreneurs. She is currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Brookings Institution. From 2003-2006, she served as Finance Minister and subsequently Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nigeria. As Finance Minister, Okonjo-Iweala led Nigeria's economic team responsible for implementing the Obasanjo administration' s far-reaching economic and social reform agenda. The reforms made particular progress in restoring macro-economic stability, tripling growth, initiating a strong fight against corruption, and increasing transparency.

Before taking up her ministerial appointment, Okonjo-Iweala served in a number of important positions at the World Bank including Vice President and Corporate Secretary, Director of Operations in the Middle East and North Africa region, and Country Director for the South East Asia and Mongolia Country unit. She joined the World Bank in 1982.

Accepting the appointment, Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala said: "I am delighted to be coming back, and I welcome the opportunity to work through this great institution to make a difference in the lives of our youth, and our hardworking men and women in the developing world. I particularly look forward to working with President Zoellick as he maps out exciting new paths for the World Bank Group."

Okonjo-Iweala is a recipient of numerous awards and honours including Time Magazine European Hero 2004, Euromoney Magazine Global Finance Minister of the year 2005, Financial Times/The Banker African Finance Minister of the year 2005, ThisDay Nigeria Minister of the Year 2004, 2005, Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Colby College 2007, and Brown University 2006, Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Northern Caribbean University, Jamaica. She is a member or chair of numerous boards and advisory groups in the public, private and non-governmental sectors, including DATA, the World Resources Institute, the Clinton Global Initiative, the Nelson Mandela Institution and the African Institutes of Science and Technology, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation Governance Prize Committee, Friends of the Global Fund Africa. She is also an adviser to the World Bank on the Stolen Assets Recovery (STAR) initiative, and served as a member of the Malan Committee on Bank-Fund collaboration.

Okonjo-Iweala graduated with an A.B. magna cum laude in Economics from Harvard University, and holds a Ph.D in Regional Economics and Development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


October 5, 2007 | 3:54 PM Comments  0 comments

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A Must Read for Workers
Related to country: Nigeria

Translations available in: English (original) | Arabic

“A word is enough for the wise…..”



Every time I am about to speak at a youth gathering, I always have to go back to the rudiments of what makes one a winner because it is the basic, if implemented that strengthens your foundation to any form of success. I got this mail from an MTN staff straight in my official mail and I became curious; scanning through it, I immediately concluded it was basic stuff just like ABC of success but when I remember that there are people out there who may have never read or heard of this ABC of success; I decided to post it and encourage writers like this to keep pouring out their inner leanings. If you are blessed from the write-up, please show some love to the writer by leaving a comment. Since I am not sure he wants his name to be publicized; let call him MR. Goodwill. Happy Reading…….





The shrill in his voice cut through my bone marrows like a chain saw ashe narrates his ordeal over the phone. He had just lost his youngerbrother in an accident a month ago, his wife just gave birth, inaddition he caters for his other five siblings and a week after he wasfired by the organisation for which he has sacrificed nine years of hislife. Bugzy got fired last week; he could not even pick his personalfiles from his PC.



This piece is not about Bugzy, it’s about us, you and me. Let’s pausefor a moment and put our selves in Bugzy’s shoes, did I hear God forbid?Yeah! Bugzy would have said that a week ago but reality has set in.whether Bugzy was unfairly sacked is not what I want to discuss but whathave we to learn from it?



We work in the 21st century where technology is fast claiming good oldjobs, my dad used to be a cable expert at NITEL, he reveled at thesingle fact that he’s so good at the job, he was indispensable, but themoment the idea of GSM was being mooted, he was such a smart man that heresigned and started some other business but his colleagues stayed onwith expectation of the usual monthly pay perk, then came the big bang,256 NITEL Technical staff sacked, my dad was still being paid hispension after taking his gratuity. Technology we love so much isbecoming our competitor, organisations are fast automating theirprocesses, we are being replaced by machines, it’s now a war of man vs.machine but man is fast losing the battle due to that tacit support ofthe capitalist machine.



Yes, the capitalist machine, that greedy behemoth, never satisfied withlittle. Due to globalization, companies are spreading more than ever,are consolidating more than ever and profits are rising more than everbut jobs are lost more than ever. You may ask why, the reason is; theyhave found alternatives and they are machines. Companies cut jobs atevery little provocation, losing ones job is as easy as a phone call oran SMS, hurray technology! When organisations want to cut costs, theydon’t sell computers and softwares, they sack people.



Like Bugzy, we have come to work today, to earn our pay, but are wereally sure we will be here when the salary will be paid? I am notNostradamus but I can give a little advice on how to live in thisperilous times. I may be sounding too negative but permit me to drivehome my points. Do we have the I-quit-money? Majority of us just spendand spend till we drop dead, hoping to earn an unearned salary. We shop,drink, party away, take loans to consume luxuries over income we are yetto earn in the next three years. What if after this, we get sacked andnothing is left in our accounts? We get frustrated and feel worthless.Please, let’s save and save and save and then invest, invest and investagain but wisely, let’s invest in landed properties, stocks, bonds;invest long term and short term for we will fall back on them in therainy days. At least let’s set about 30-40% of our income aside forinvestment and savings so when it happens we can comfort our dependantsand keep their hopes alive instead of killing our dreams and theirs dueto our wrong choices.



A job should not deter us from having a plan B, one of the best ways tomake a plan B is to learn some very practical skills aside from what wedo at work, let’s learn some skills. The truth is in some years fromnow, people like Bugzy might be thankful to the organisation for sackingthem as they might become more successful by going into personalbusinesses or doing something that will bring income far above whattheir paid jobs offered. Can you sing? Try developing that skill, learnto sew, learn hair dressing, make use of that ability to cook thatpeople have always praised you for, are you good at programming? Trydesigning software, teach if you can, learn something, anything, itcould be your saving grace after you receive that call. These arederided skills which wiser people have converted to cash. Talk about theMr Biggs, Nandos, Tiffany Ambers, Frank Oshodis, Tufaces, Bill Gates,Steve Jobs of these world and you talk of people doing ordinary thingsin special ways and making serious money.

For those that can still apply to study pleaseintensify efforts, it increases your market worth and you can call thebluff of any employer when you need to A word is enough for the wise, let’s do these things so we can smile anddrop our letters with joy when we are called to do so. These things callfor serious discipline, what else differentiate success from failure ifnot discipline and determination?



If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk, but please keep moving.Don’t sit in your comfort zone because there is nothing as such, it’s an illusion.



Thank you.


Culled from www.dipotepede.com

September 27, 2007 | 3:39 PM Comments  0 comments

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