Edeson Online News: 07/09/13

Tuesday 9 July 2013

…Teacher Arrested & Detained for Eating Students’ Lunch…

A teacher at New Zealand childcare centre is set to face detention life for eating her student’s lunch.
A teachers Council complaints assessment committee heard that the woman was captured on CCTV helping herself to the packed lunches

Photo: Live Report from YOBE State:

…YOBE State Shuts Down All Secondary Schools… ….Following The Gruesome Murder Of Over 20 Students….

The Yobe state government yesterday has ordered the closure of all secondary schools after a massacre that saw suspected Islamist extremists kill over 20 students in a gun and bomb attack on a boarding school.

The governor directed that all secondary schools in the state be closed down from yesterday, Monday 8th July 2013 until a new academic session begins in September.

Meanwhile Senate President David Mark has also condemned the act.
It would be recalled that gunmen believed to be members of Boko Haram stormed Government Secondary School in Mamudo Yobe state on Saturday July 6th and killed at least 29 students and one teacher.

Eyewitnesses and other students who survived the attack said the gunmen gathered the students, put them in one of the hostel rooms, threw explosives and opened fire, killing at least 29 students and wounding others. Some victims had their body parts blown off, some were badly burnt, while others had only gunshot wounds.

Following the violent attack, the Governor of Yobe State, ordered all secondary schools in the state to be shut down until September.

This killing is the third attack on secondary school students in less than a month. On June 16, suspected members of Boko Haram killed seven students of a secondary school in Damaturu, then the next day, June 17, nine students sitting for an exam at a Secondary School in Jajeri ward in Maiduguri, Borno State were killed. RIP to the young ones we have lost.

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The Yobe state government yesterday has ordered the closure of all secondary schools after a massacre that saw suspected Islamist extremists kill over 20 students in a gun and bomb attack on a boarding school.
The governor directed that all secondary schools in the state be closed down from yesterday, Monday 8th July 2013 until a new academic session begins in September.

Photo: Political PLATFORM:

…Presidency Rejects Removal Of Immunity Clause …

…But Guys, DO YOU Support the Removal of Immunity Clause or Retention of Immunity Clause in Nigeria?

The Presidency on Friday kicked against the proposal by the House of Representatives to remove the immunity clause being enjoyed by the state governors and their deputies under thePresident, vice-president, constitution.

The recommendation for removal of immunity was one of the highlights of the House of Representatives’ Ad hoc Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution report, which was presented to the House by its chairman and deputy speaker, Mr. Emeka Ihedioha, on Thursday.

The immunity clause, as currently enshrined in the nation’s constitution, allows the president and the governors, as well as their deputies, protection from prosecution while in office.

The report was based on the demands of Nigerians during the November 10, 2012 People’s Public Sessions on the constitution.

The Presidency, however, said the proposal would not sail through.

Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Dr. Ahmed Gulak, told SUNDAY PUNCH in an interview on Friday that the retention of the immunity clause in the constitution was the best thing that could happen to the country.

He warned that unscrupulous persons, who were bent on getting at public officials out of sheer envy, would capitalise on the removal of the clause to cause distraction in the system.

Gulak said, “The planned removal of the immunity clause will count, the recommendation will not sail through.

“The President, vice-president, governors and their deputies really need immunity. Immunity is the best thing that has happened to this country today.

“These public office holders should not be distracted. The removal of immunity will expose them to frivolous litigation by unscrupulous elements that want to get at them out of sheer envy and not based on constructive criticism.

“Removal of immunity will not be good for this country. The recommendation will fail.”

Aligning himself with the Presidency’s position, the Ondo State Governor, Olusegun Mimiko, cautioned against actions that could distract the attention of those saddled with the responsibility of leading the people.

spoke through the state’s Commissioner forMimiko, who Information, Mr. Kayode Akinmade, said removing the clause would hinder governance in the country.

He said, “Immunity clause is not peculiar to Nigeria. It will mess up governance if it is removed. Those who put the clause in our constitution are not daft. They know governance is a serious business, which should be devoid of distractions.

“We should not take any action simply because some people don’t like the face of a president or governor. We should remember posterity in whatever we do.”

The Congress for Progressive Change also said it had always called for removal of the clause.

It attributed the spate of impunity in the country to the immunity clause, which excluded the President, vice-president, governors and their deputies from criminal prosecution while in office.

The National Publicity Secretary, CPC, Rotimi Fashakin, told one of our correspondents that the removal became necessary because in a clime where democratic values had not been embraced and entrenched in the national psyche, it would be “very preposterous” to continue to allow immunity clause.

“I’m not surprised that the Presidency rejected it. When you have something that has made you more Nigerian than other Nigerians, you will not support the removal of such. But since it is something that the majority of Nigerians want, then it should go. It doesn’t really matter if the Presidency wants it; it is about the people. This is what is happening in Egypt; it is what the people want that will eventually happen,” Fashakin stated.
(Source: PUNCH NEWSPAPERS)

BUT GUYS, DO YOU Support the Removal of Immunity Clause or Retention of Immunity Clause?
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…But Guys, DO YOU Support the Removal of Immunity Clause or Retention of Immunity Clause in Nigeria?
The Presidency on Friday kicked against the proposal by the House of Representatives to remove the immunity clause being enjoyed by the state governors and their deputies under thePresident, vice-president, constitution.

Photo: Health/Medical NEWS Update:

….Lagos University Teaching Hospital Now Has Scanner that Can Detect Death in 10 Seconds…

Lagos University Teaching Hospital LUTH said they have acquired a CT scan equipment that has the capacity to run a check on all organs of the body, from head to toe in less than 10 seconds and fish out a patients death points for immediate treatment. The machine, called the 128-slice Aquillon CT scanner is the first of it's kind in West Africa.

Speaking on the machine, the Chief Medical Director, LUTH, Professor Akin Osibogun told Nigerian Tribune:
"The Aquillon CT scanner is a 128-scanner and the main advantage it has over other CT scanners of earlier generations is its ability to penetrate deeper into the tissues and organs to show clearly the state of those tissues and organs. Of course the CT scanner is an imaging device and because it is able to provide images of tissues and organs inside the body. We are able to see the state in which those tissues and organs are and we are able to make diagnosis that help us to provide appropriate treatment for the patients.

"Earlier generations CT scanners are of course far better in terms of diagnostic capability than the x-ray because they provide clearer definitions than the x-ray but moving to a 128-slice CT scanner, in fact, that it is in terms of where current knowledge is, with regards to ability to get clearer images of tissues and organs that are internal to the body and therefore we are able to make better diagnosis. A further advantage of the 128-CT scanner is its speed with which it works and that means it is able to capture parts of the body that are in motion.

“So the Aquillon CT scanner is a very fast machine, able to pick items in motion and that advantage enables us now to study even the heart as it is beating and as it is pumping out blood, so we are able to study the arteries, the veins as the blood flow through them, so if there is a thin blockage or a blockage is developing, the scanner is able to pick it.”
“So in coronary heart disease for instance, the scanner is a vast advantage over other imaging devices because we are able to pick them up early and we can then advise that patient on dietary changes or whatever changes that are necessary and if you have the capability, you can actually combine it with what we called interventional cardiology.
“You can remove small plague or small particles that are already forming on the way. It is just simply by introducing a catheter, you guide the catheter under the imaging device and go to where you want to go and remove what you want to remove, without opening the chest. The CT scanner can be combined to some extent with the interventional cardiology which we would introduce at a latter point. At this point because we just acquired the equipment, we will be using it largely for diagnostic methods to pick disease conditions and do that in a more precise manner.”
Commenting about possible kidney transplant in Nigeria, LUTH Chief MD said that the procedure was possible at the hospital with just N3 million but the donor must be a relative of the patient.
“Maybe if you help us make that public, that all they need to do, is to bring a relative who is willing to donate kidneys to them and with N3 million, we work them up, carry out the transplant and follow them up” he stated

THIS IS A GOOD DEVELOPMENT.

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Lagos University Teaching Hospital LUTH said they have acquired a CT scan equipment that has the capacity to run a check on all organs of the body, from head to toe in less than 10 seconds and fish out a patients death points for immediate treatment. The machine, called the 128-slice Aquillon CT scanner is the first of it's kind in West Africa.