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Monday, January 25, 2016

Microsoft donates cloud computing ‘worth $1 bn’

Microsoft said Tuesday it will put a billion dollars’ worth of cloud computing power in the hands of non-profit groups and university researchers free of charge.
A philanthropic arm of the US software colossus will make the donation during the coming three years to 70,000 non-profit groups and researchers, chief executive Satya Nadella said while attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Cloud computing lets people use the Internet to tap into processing or data storage capacity at huge data centers.
“Among the questions being asked in Davos are these: If cloud computing is one of the most important transformations of our time, how do we ensure that its benefits are universally accessible?” Nadella said in an online post.

Killer viruses on the prowl, threaten human lifeKiller viruses on the prowl

• El Nino to cause increase in health-related emergencies, says WHO
• Mosquito-transmitted Zika joins trail
• Pregnant women on alert as more babies are born with defects

VIRUSES, hitherto almost unknown to scientists, are in town – from China to Saudi Arabia, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Canada to Nigeria – unleashing ill health and death.
The list of the infections currently circulating around the world and blamed on the viruses include Lassa fever in West Africa, especially Nigeria; Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Sierra Leone; the Zika virus in Latin America, which is also causing birth defects; Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) in El Salvador; Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus (MERS-CoV) that has spread to all continents; and Human infection with Avian Influenza A (H7N9) in China not to mention the bird-to-bird strain circulating in Nigeria.
The Guardian’s investigation revealed that most viral infections peak between November and March, and that the situation this year is worsened because of the effect of climate change factors such as El Nino.

Fire guts Abuja NNPC mega station

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) mega station at the Central Business District in Abuja has been gutted by fire. A member of staff at the mega station who preferred anonymity told the News agency of Nigeria(NAN) on Monday that the fire started around 10 p.m.
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when a tanker was discharging fuel to the tanks of the petrol station. The source said that no casualty nor injury was‎ recorded but noted that some sections of the filling station were affected by the inferno. . It added that the fact that it was weekend and late in the evening, reduced the risk of casualties and significant damage.
He said that officers and men of the Federal Fire Service Abuja, were on hand to tackle the fire and helped in preventing it from spreading to neighbouring buildings. Some eye witnesses confirmed that the prompt response of the fire service helped the situation. Yarima sani, an eye witness, said, “I was driving close with the intention to fill up my tank when we were asked to use a different road that there was fire at the station.

I parked and trekked and I saw the fire service people were already there helping to quench the fire,” he said. He added that some security men helped in controlling traffic. Commenting on the situation, Mr Collins Elechi, Public Relations Officer, Federal Fire Service Abuja, confirmed the incident to NAN. He said that the fire started around 9.28 p.m. while a tanker was discharging product.
He said the service received a distress call immediately and quickly deployed it’s men to the scene. “Our fire fighters responded immediately to the fire outbreak on Sunday at the mega station. “The quick intervention limited the loss to the vehicles alone. “It could have been more devastating if it had happened in the day time, especially afternoon, ” he said. He called on filling stations to be cautious while discharging petroleum products.(NAN)

Passengers’ manifest: FRSC warns commercial motorists against negligence

Beautiful pregnancy photoshoot of woman expecting quintuplets

Kimberly Tucci, is an Australian mother of two who had tried for 1 year to have another child. She got pregnant and visited the Doctors for a maternity check. When she got there, she got a huge surprise! She's having five babies at the same time!

Tucci wrote on her Facebook page, Surprised By Five:

“My suspicion of a possible multiple pregnancy grew due to the quick rise of the pregnancy hormone. I was excited at the possibility of twins but absolutely nothing on this earth could have prepared me for what happened next.” At her first ultrasound, the sonographer spotted multiple gestation sacks.

“The sonographer started to count ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE!” Tucci said. “Did I hear that correctly?? FIVE?? My legs start to shake uncontrollably and all I can do is laugh. The sonographer then told me the term for five is QUINTUPLETS!!”

What You Need to Know about Lassa Fever & How to Avoid It

After the Ebola crisis of 2014, Nigeria is now facing the spread of Lassa Fever.
Lassa Alert, a collective led by Federal Ministry of Health. The Nigeria Center for Disease Control and Partners are focusing to spreading awareness to help stop the spread of the disease. Lassa Alert has shared key information about the disease which has now been confirmed in several states around Nigeria.

Over 40 people in 10 states have been confirmed dead since this outbreak started.

Key facts
Lassa fever is an acute viral haemorrhagic illness of 1-4 weeks duration that occurs in West Africa.
The Lassa virus is transmitted to humans via contact with food or household items contaminated with rodent urine or faeces.
Person-to-person infections and laboratory transmission can also occur, particularly in hospitals lacking adequate infection prevent and control measures.
Lassa fever is known to be endemic in Benin (where it was diagnosed for the first time in November 2014), Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and parts of Nigeria, but probably exists in other West African countries as well.
The overall case-fatality rate is 1%. Observed case-fatality rate among patients hospitalized with severe cases of Lassa fever is 15%.
Early supportive care with rehydration and symptomatic treatment improves survival.

Background
Though first described in the 1950s, the virus causing Lassa disease was not identified until 1969. The virus is a single-stranded RNA virus belonging to the virus family Arenaviridae.

About 80% of people who become infected with Lassa virus have no symptoms. One in five infections result in severe disease, where the virus affects several organs such as the liver, spleen and kidneys.

Lassa fever is a zoonotic disease, meaning that humans become infected from contact with infected animals. The animal reservoir, or host, of Lassa virus is a rodent of the genus Mastomys, commonly known as the “multimammate rat.” Mastomys rats infected with Lassa virus do not become ill, but they can shed the virus in their urine and faeces.

Because the clinical course of the disease is so variable, detection of the disease in affected patients has been difficult. However, when presence of the disease is confirmed in a community, prompt isolation of affected patients, good infection protection and control practices and rigorous contact tracing can stop outbreaks.

Symptoms of Lassa fever

Amara Kanu gives her baby girl loving kisses (photos)

Kanu Nwankwo's wife Amara Kanu and her beautiful daughter having a lovely mother-daughter moment.

The Otedola Sisters! DJ Cuppy & Temi Otedeola cover Diaspora Quarterly

DJ Cuppy (Florence Otedola) and her younger sister, fashion blogger Temi are the cover girls for the latest edition of Diaspora Quarterly, its’ first of 2016!

Striving to do more and be more than just another set of kids with a famous last name, the sisters share with DQ their inspiration, passions, dreams and plans.

In the latest edition of Diaspora Quarterly, a magazine which aims to celebrate Nigerians at home and abroad, see how recent returnees such as Pediatric Intensivist Dr. Bunmi Ode and OB-GYN Dr. Chito Nwana, are doing their bit to improve healthcare in Nigeria.

Photos: UK ambassador to Nigeria visits Emir of Kano

UK ambassador to Nigeria, Paul Arkwright and other delegates paid a 2-day visit to Kano recently were they visited the Emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi II.

Charly Boy weighs in on Will Smith’s Accent in the Movie “Concussion” & How Nigerians Reacted

Have you seen the movie CONCUSSION?

If not, I suggest you do so.

In the movie, Super A-list actor, Will Smith plays a lead role, where he depicts the character of a notable Nigerian Doctor, Bennett Omalu, the first ever doctor to research and find out the link between banging heads in American football and a disease called Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, CTE and whose works have saved lives in the NFL in the United States and worldwide.

Hummmmm, wouldn’t you expect that Nigerians would be happy with Will Smith for portraying our brother in good light for his great work? Instead, Naijas are beefing Will Smith for failing to capture the Nigerian accent to the T. Haba!!!

Why can’t my people for once just focus on that which is positive and good?

If Dr. Bennett Omalu has been in America as long as over 10yrs, do we expect him to still possess the igbotic accent some of us are born with? Even on our own local radio station, I hear some presenters sounding more Americanised than Americans. Should we insist they speak with their strong Yoruba/Igbo/Hausa accent?

Without that movie, we wouldn’t have really known who Dr. Bennett Omalu is. Isn’t it enough that he discovered how to save the lives of a lot of football superstars? Even in our own country Nigeria, have we really shown that we value our players, celebrities, entertainers, and generally, all those that make us happy?

Please we should chill with all the silly, stupid and uninformed comments. OMG!

The fact, for Christ’s sake is that Dr. Bennett Omalu left Nigeria since 1993. How do we know if he even spoke with a heavy accent before he left our shores? Nobody knows if he had an igbo accent in the first place, so why do they expect Will Smith to speak like someone who hasn’t crossed the Seme border?

Even me CharlyBoy, after 5yrs in America, most Americans that I came across would have sworn that I was born and buttered in America. Abegi.

Sometimes I can’t believe my people’s hypocrisy, just too obnoxious, makes me sick.

For a long time now, the foreign press and television stations have portrayed Africa and Nigerians in particular as jokers, fraudsters, common criminals and everything bad; now that we have a movie that’s flipping a positive side, must we find something negative to say, all because of Will Smith’s accent?

For all those people out there yarning akpata, please shut the fuckup, nobody wants to read or hear your useless comments on this matter.

If you can’t applaud a job well done, just keep forever mute and stop all the unnecessary noise.

Kourtney Kardashian shares cute selfies with sisters Kim & Kylie

Most of the Kardashian girls are currently single...Kourtney, Kendall...Kylie and Tyga seem to be taking a break and Khloe hasn't been seen with James Harden in public in a while...

The Game claps back at fan...draws blood! Too harsh!

Lol.....

Kylie Jenner's butt is getting bigger (photo)

She is 18+,not surprise...

'Love to Nigeria' - Lewis Hamilton tweets

That is lovely!

Louis van Gaal: Man Utd boss admits failing the fans

Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal says he has not lived up to expectations after his side were booed by fans after losing to Southampton.
United supporters were mutinous after Saturday's 1-0 loss at Old Trafford.
"They have - or they had - great expectations of me, and I cannot fulfil them, so I am very frustrated because of that," said Dutchman Van Gaal.
United are fifth in the Premier League table, five points behind fourth-placed Tottenham and 10 off leaders Leicester.

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The Red Devils have taken 37 points from their first 23 games, their lowest total in the Premier League era and three points fewer than amassed under David Moyes during the 2013-14 season.
After the defeat against Southampton, Van Gaal had said fans were "right to boo" but added: "For better or for worse we have to stick together.
"We are working very hard, but we have had a lot of injuries. That you cannot change."
Van Gaal was also criticised on the club's official television channel, MUTV.
Former Reds winger Bojan Djordjic suggested that "the only corner we are turning is into some dark alley where we get robbed again".
Next up for United is a trip to Championship side Derby in the FA Cup fourth round on Friday (kick-off 19:55 GMT).

Darmian 'fine' after rib scare

United lost defender Matteo Darmian midway through the second half following a clash with Shane Long.
Van Gaal revealed the Italian, who took an elbow to the ribs, was "spitting blood" after leaving the pitch and had gone to hospital

More new born babies born in IDP camp in Yola

Malkohi IDP camp Yola Adamawa state witnessed increase in its population as two new born babies ( baby Muhammed and Baby Hafsat) were welcomed on 23rd January, 2016 at about 2am and 3am respectively... Mothers and babies are in good condition. More photos after the cut....

Bariga cult clash: Police arrests gang leader, 6 others

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested seven suspected cultists who engaged in supremacy battle in Bariga area of the State on Saturday, leading to the killing of a 65-year-old woman.

The deceased, Adejoke Adefuye was burnt beyond recognition when her house located at 19, Oshinfolarin Street in Bariga was set ablaze by the rival cult groups.

Trouble had started when members of Eiye confraternity led by one Ibrahim Balogun clashed with another rival cult group known as Aiye confraternity led by a man simply identified as Gideon in a supremacy fight at the area.

The cultists, according to reports, vandalized some vehicles parked along the road in the area, while two members of the Aiye confraternity known as Bobo and Abayomi Olubola lost their lives in the fracas.

A statement issued on Sunday by the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Dolapo Badmus, confirmed the arrest of the cultists, as well as some of the equipment used to carry out the operation.

Badmus said the second in command of one of the cult groups was among those arrested, while three power bikes, one live/expended cartridges and a tricycle popularly known as Keke Marwa used to get to the scene were also confiscated.

She said the cultists have been terrorizing the area for some days and that they were able to make some arrests due to the quick response to the distress calls received concerning the fracas.

Those arrested, according to Badmus include Afees Olaide Fagunwa, Nurudeen Lateef, Richard Ewa, Richard Abayomi, Mohammed Musa, Kayode Dada and Adams Adelakun.

She said that the bodies of the deceased have been deposited at the Gbagada General Hospital for autopsy by the State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit (SEHMU) while other occupants of the burnt building who sustained minor injuries were treated by the Lagos State Ambulance Services (LASAMBUS).

She said that further investigation into the matter had been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti.

Arsenal v Chelsea: Mythbusting - is Diego Costa a dirty player?

Diego Costa and Arsenal defender Gabriel

In a new series, we analyse popular myths to assess whether they are based on fact - or fiction. Do they stand up to scrutiny, or are they nothing more than tired cliches?

Diego Costa is never far from the headlines.
The Chelsea striker has twice been banned for three games in his two seasons in England, once for stamping on Liverpool's Emre Can and once for a clash with Arsenal's Laurent Koscielny.
Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini suggested earlier this season that he should tone down his aggressive side, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has accused him of always being "involved in provocation", while his international manager, Spain boss Vicente del Bosque, described his conduct during the Blues' 2-0 win over the Gunners in September as "unedifying".
So as Costa's Chelsea prepare to travel to Arsenal on Sunday, we look at whether the 27-year-old's reputation is deserved.

Khloe Kardashian Gives Update on Lamar Odom: 'He's Great, But His Short-Term Memory Isn't So Good'

"He’s doing really good. His long-term memory is great. His short-term memory isn’t so good, but I mean, if I met someone earlier today I probably wouldn’t remember either so that’s understandable!" she said.

Denver Broncos Beat New England Patriots for Spot in Super Bowl 50

The Broncos are going to the Super Bowl! The Denver Broncos’ strong defense helped them capture a huge win against the New England Patriots on Sunday, January 24, earning them the AFC spot in Super Bowl 50.
Patriots quarterback Tom Brady tried to make a comeback in the final seconds of the fourth quarter, but the Broncos managed to hold on and take the victory.