IMPROVE YOUR LOVE LIFE AND RELATIONSHIP

You have to admit that everyone needs a better half or soul mate for his or her life to become more meaningful. However, no matter how hard you try to make things work with your love life, there wil always be times when you need to let go because it seems that the odds are never in toy favour.
Once in relationship it is important you work on it constantly. Relationships is like a garden that needs to be water all the time for it to keep on blossoming.  It needs continuous effort from both parties. Here are some tested tips on how to improve your love life and relationship.

1. Show gratitude:
  Sometimes in our relationship we forget or tend to overlook a simple act of gratitude. Show gratitude, let your partner know that you appreciate every little thing he/she does in the house or for you, by doing that you give your spouse the reason to want to do another thing for you.

Database On Unemployed Nigerians Ready By January - Aganga

The Federal Government is working with the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) on a national survey of unemployed Nigerians and their level of skills. This is to help them to get employment in the sectors of the economy, which are attracting massive investments and job vacancies.
This was disclosed by the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investments, Olusegun Aganga, after the inaugural meeting of the Presidential Jobs Board at the State House, Abuja, on Friday.
The board, with private and public sector players as members, is chaired by Vice-President, Namadi Sambo, and had met to evolve the right governance structure to drive and sustain government's plan to create about three million jobs for unemployed Nigerians in 12 months.
Aganga said there are many jobs in the country but the level of unemployment remains high, which is why the board is mandated to help fill the gap between jobs and unemployment.
According to him, "For the first time in this country we have begun a national job surveys of skills gap. So that for each sector we will know what the gap is, know what is required to fill that gap.
"We are not just looking at the existing gaps today, we are looking at where the investments are going to. We are looking at the next five to 10 years.
"For instance, a lot of investments are going to automobile, we have automobile engineers, how many will we need in the next five to 10 years.
"A lot of investments is going to sugarcane to sugar; do we have the skills to do that, how many will we need in the next three, five, 10 years?

"About N16 billion is going to petrochemicals, fertiliser, and methanol, we will need skilled players. A lot of investment is going to metals, iron ore and all that.
"Most of these positions at the moment in this country are not filled and if they are filled they are filled by foreigners. We do not have anything to ensure that our graduates coming out of the universities are relevant to the economy today.
"So, for the first time in this country we have embarked on that national survey with UNIDO and that survey will be ready in January."
"That survey will be used by training institutions like Industrial Training a Fund (ITF) to ensure people are trained, but not just train but train to work immediately," he said.
The results of the survey will also be used by the Ministry of Education, the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) and similar institutions in the public and private sectors, as was done in the automobile sector where higher institutions have keyed in to train automotive engineers, the Minister said.
The private sector is also to be encouraged to set up skills training institutions, added Aganga, pointing out that such is used by Brazil to train two million people and 90 per cent of them get jobs within three months.
Another member of the Board, Ndudi Elumelu, assured Nigerians that the board would deliver on its mandate, and the members would meet in another three weeks after which key decisions will be made and communicated to Nigerians.

   

Nigeria must take their 'A' game to Congo

 

 

 

African champions Nigeria will have to be at their best if they were to improve their chances of automatic qualification to next year’s AFCON when they face hosts Congo in a decisive Group A tie on Saturday. Congo are second in the standings on seven points from four matches, three points ahead of third-placed Nigeria with only the top two teams guaranteed automatic passage to the tournament proper.

The Red Devils also hold the advantage of having beaten the Super Eagles 3-2 in the first encounter in September and so Nigeria would now need to win by at least two clear goals on Saturday to shade on the head-to-head stats.

NIGERIA VS CONGO

Nigeria will be on the march again towards qualifying for the Orange Africa Cup of Nations when the Super Eagles engage the Red Devils of Congo at the Stade Municipal in Pointe Noire on November 15th.
The African champions have had a yo-yo qualifying campaign so far and had to wait till match day three to pick her first points and match day four to pick up a first win in what surely has been a rough patch for the Super Eagles
The crisis at the Nigeria Football Federation looked to have overshadowed the team's quest on the pitch as Amaju Pinnick and Chris Giwa have gone full throttle for control of Nigeria's football.
Matters got to a head when Stephen Keshi, who had earlier been relieved from his post as the Super Eagles gaffer after the Sudan win last month, suddenly made a comeback to the team and will now lead the Super Eagles against Congo this weekend.

ANGUS SINCLAIR: THE WORST SCOTTISH SERIAL KILLER EVER

The former detective who once led the investigation into the World’s End murders believes the man responsible is the “worst serial killer in Scottish history”.

However, it is unlikely Angus Sinclair will ever by brought to justice for the other murders police think he carried out during a “prolific” period in the late 1970s.
Allan Jones, a former detective superintendent with Lothian and Borders Police, believes Sinclair is responsible for a series of killings which were looked at as part of Operation Trinity, a cold case review set up more than a decade ago following advances in DNA profiling.
The investigation looked at the World’s End murders as well others, including the killings of Anna Kenny, 20, in Glasgow in August 1977; Hilda McAulay, 36, in Glasgow in October 1977, and Agnes Cooney, 23, in Lanarkshire in December 1977.

Comet lander goes quiet after apparent loss of power

Trapped in a forbidding jumble of sun-blocking cliffs and rocky debris, the Philae comet lander, its batteries nearly depleted, somehow managed to contact the Rosetta mothership Friday in true cliffhanger fashion, relaying stored science data back to Earth and receiving commands to turn in place in a last-ditch bid to bring a larger set of solar cells into the meager sunlight.
But a few moments after the pirouette, battery voltage suddenly plummeted and engineers said the end was near. Trapped between a rock and a dark place beyond its ability to survive, Philae dutifully sent back stored data and even made fresh measurements until finally, just after 7:30 p.m. (EST-5), contact was finally lost.

 

Historic comet landing

Rosetta space probe's Philae lander touches down on distant comet after decade-long chase

"Link is intermittent," the European Space Agency tweeted. A few moments later: "The @Philae2014 Lander has switched to stand by due to low power. All instruments off." ESA followed with a tweet saying the lander was "now sending only housekeeping data at very low rate. All instruments are off."
Stephan Ulemac, the Philae lander operations manager, said he was thrilled with the spacecraft's performance. As Philae entered "idle mode," sending the occasional data packet and final bits of housekeeping telemetry, Ulemac marveled "we can even watch it falling asleep."
A few minutes later, ESA tweeted: "Loss of signal. No more comm with @Philae2014. All science data from First Science Sequence successfully downloaded."
It was not immediately clear whether contact was lost because Philae's battery power dropped below the 21.5 volts needed for normal operation or because Rosetta passed out of view in its orbit around Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

 

First pictures taken from surface of comet

 

Either way, stranded in the cold shade of comet cliffs more than 310 million miles from Earth, the 220-pound Philae presumably began slipping into the equivalent of an electronic coma as its battery power steadily draining away.

"Congratulations to the amazing work by the Rosetta/Philae/ESA team," @BadAstronomer tweeted. "You had an entire planet cheering on a small robot 500 million km away."
More than any space mission in recent memory, Rosetta's encounter with 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and Philae's wild, bouncing touchdown have played out in public on the internet with Twitter capturing the thoughts of many during the lander's apparently final moments.
"Now Philae down to sleep, "We pray a sunbeam soon to sweep "And if the hibernation break "We have more science yet to make," tweeted @BadPhysics.
"...this is why we feel emotions for little @Philae2014 -- it may be nuts, bolts, aluminum and circuits, but it represents us. And science," wrote @astroengine.

Historic space mission survives rough landing on comet

A manmade probe is clinging to a comet that is traveling at nearly 84,000 mph, but yesterday's rough landing could hamper the 10-year-old mission...

"Sleep well, @Philae2014! Thank you for the images and data. Come back to us when panels are warmed up (hopefully soon!)," said @spacewriter.
Tweeted @BBCPallab: "This death scene by #Philae2014 is almost Shakespearean."
But reports of Philae's demise may be premature. While engineers were not particularly optimistic, the lander's final maneuver should have brought a larger set of solar cells into the limited light of the sun. It might possibly be just enough to revive the hardy spacecraft when Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko moves closer to the sun next year and the light falling on the solar cells intensifies.
"So there is some hope that at some stage when we're closer to the sun that Philae wakes up again and talks to us," Ulemac said earlier. "But we need to be very lucky that this happens."
Regardless of the long-term outlook, engineers at the European Space Operations Center were clearly thrilled the lander managed to send home a final set of science data, possibly including the results of an attempt to drill into the crust of the nucleus to collect pristine material for analysis.
Asked how he felt about the mission, Ulemac said "satisfied, I have to say."
"Of course, it's a little bit sad to see the power voltage curve going down," he said. "But I'm very happy. ... We lived longer than we could expect in the conditions we had."
He said the science teams had a wealth of data to study from the observations Philae was able to complete and "they should be really happy" with "a lot of data. From what I've seen, it looks pretty good."
Philae's wild ride began early Wednesday when Rosetta released it for a seven-hour descent to the surface of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The lander was equipped with harpoons and ice screws to anchor itself to the nucleus at the moment of touchdown, but the systems failed to operate and Philae bounced back up into space, reaching an altitude of more than 3,000 feet before coming back down again two hours later.
The lander then bounced away again, finally coming to rest more than half a mile from its original touchdown point. Or so the telemetry indicates. Engineers do not yet know precisely where the spacecraft ended up, whether the initial two-hour bounce was mostly vertical and how that played in with the comet's 12.4-hour rotation.
Wherever it ended up, frames from a panorama taken after it came to rest revealed nearby cliffs and a chaotic jumble of dark rock-like debris casting long shadows and allowing only minimal sunlight to reach Philae's solar cells.
"We are not toppled over," Valentina Lommatsch said from the lander control center. "It looks like we're kind of surrounded by rocks. ... But pictures show all three legs on the ground, and I can confirm from the solar data we have not moved at all since the first set of panorama images after the third landing. So we are on the ground, we just have really (been) unlucky in a corner surrounded by rocks."
Philae was launched with 50 to 60 hours of charge in its primary and secondary batteries. By Friday morning, most of that was depleted.
In the lander's original orientation sunlight reached the solar panels during a roughly 90-minute period each 12.4-hour "day." For most of that time, less than 1 watt is available, but power output climbs to 3 or 4 watts for about 20 minutes.
"The lander needs 5.1 watts to boot, so we have to at least get that," Lommatsch said. "After we have that, in order to charge the batteries we have to heat it up to zero degrees Celsius. In the simulations that we've run, that would mean that we'd need about 50 to 60 watt-hours a day in order to reach zero degrees and still have some of the daylight left to charge the battery. So it doesn't look that great."
But Lommatsch said as 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko moves closer to the sun and warms up, the amount of sunlight hitting the spacecraft will intensify enough to possibly rouse the lander from its slumber.
But it would take a considerable amount of luck. Rosetta would need go be within line of sight and the lander would need enough power to drive is computer and radio gear.
"Having a link would need additional power again, so we'd have to have something in the battery in order to have a link or be extremely lucky that Rosetta is looking for us in the moment that sunlight reaches the solar panels," Lommatsch said.
While "it looks a bit bad," she said, "we can only hope that as we approach the sun, maybe in August if we don't have too much dust or a huge coma blocking the sun, perhaps there would be a chance that at some point we could come back and at least see how the lander's doing. "So cross your fingers, or press your thumbs if you're German, perhaps we'll hear something from the lander again."

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Comet lander goes quiet after apparent loss of power

Trapped in a forbidding jumble of sun-blocking cliffs and rocky debris, the Philae comet lander, its batteries nearly depleted, somehow managed to contact the Rosetta mothership Friday in true cliffhanger fashion, relaying stored science data back to Earth and receiving commands to turn in place in a last-ditch bid to bring a larger set of solar cells into the meager sunlight.
But a few moments after the pirouette, battery voltage suddenly plummeted and engineers said the end was near. Trapped between a rock and a dark place beyond its ability to survive, Philae dutifully sent back stored data and even made fresh measurements until finally, just after 7:30 p.m. (EST-5), contact was finally lost.

 

Historic comet landing

Rosetta space probe's Philae lander touches down on distant comet after decade-long chase

"Link is intermittent," the European Space Agency tweeted. A few moments later: "The @Philae2014 Lander has switched to stand by due to low power. All instruments off." ESA followed with a tweet saying the lander was "now sending only housekeeping data at very low rate. All instruments are off."
Stephan Ulemac, the Philae lander operations manager, said he was thrilled with the spacecraft's performance. As Philae entered "idle mode," sending the occasional data packet and final bits of housekeeping telemetry, Ulemac marveled "we can even watch it falling asleep."
A few minutes later, ESA tweeted: "Loss of signal. No more comm with @Philae2014. All science data from First Science Sequence successfully downloaded."
It was not immediately clear whether contact was lost because Philae's battery power dropped below the 21.5 volts needed for normal operation or because Rosetta passed out of view in its orbit around Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

 

First pictures taken from surface of comet

 

Either way, stranded in the cold shade of comet cliffs more than 310 million miles from Earth, the 220-pound Philae presumably began slipping into the equivalent of an electronic coma as its battery power steadily draining away.

"Congratulations to the amazing work by the Rosetta/Philae/ESA team," @BadAstronomer tweeted. "You had an entire planet cheering on a small robot 500 million km away."
More than any space mission in recent memory, Rosetta's encounter with 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and Philae's wild, bouncing touchdown have played out in public on the internet with Twitter capturing the thoughts of many during the lander's apparently final moments.
"Now Philae down to sleep, "We pray a sunbeam soon to sweep "And if the hibernation break "We have more science yet to make," tweeted @BadPhysics.
"...this is why we feel emotions for little @Philae2014 -- it may be nuts, bolts, aluminum and circuits, but it represents us. And science," wrote @astroengine.

Historic space mission survives rough landing on comet

A manmade probe is clinging to a comet that is traveling at nearly 84,000 mph, but yesterday's rough landing could hamper the 10-year-old mission...

"Sleep well, @Philae2014! Thank you for the images and data. Come back to us when panels are warmed up (hopefully soon!)," said @spacewriter.
Tweeted @BBCPallab: "This death scene by #Philae2014 is almost Shakespearean."
But reports of Philae's demise may be premature. While engineers were not particularly optimistic, the lander's final maneuver should have brought a larger set of solar cells into the limited light of the sun. It might possibly be just enough to revive the hardy spacecraft when Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko moves closer to the sun next year and the light falling on the solar cells intensifies.
"So there is some hope that at some stage when we're closer to the sun that Philae wakes up again and talks to us," Ulemac said earlier. "But we need to be very lucky that this happens."
Regardless of the long-term outlook, engineers at the European Space Operations Center were clearly thrilled the lander managed to send home a final set of science data, possibly including the results of an attempt to drill into the crust of the nucleus to collect pristine material for analysis.
Asked how he felt about the mission, Ulemac said "satisfied, I have to say."
"Of course, it's a little bit sad to see the power voltage curve going down," he said. "But I'm very happy. ... We lived longer than we could expect in the conditions we had."
He said the science teams had a wealth of data to study from the observations Philae was able to complete and "they should be really happy" with "a lot of data. From what I've seen, it looks pretty good."
Philae's wild ride began early Wednesday when Rosetta released it for a seven-hour descent to the surface of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The lander was equipped with harpoons and ice screws to anchor itself to the nucleus at the moment of touchdown, but the systems failed to operate and Philae bounced back up into space, reaching an altitude of more than 3,000 feet before coming back down again two hours later.
The lander then bounced away again, finally coming to rest more than half a mile from its original touchdown point. Or so the telemetry indicates. Engineers do not yet know precisely where the spacecraft ended up, whether the initial two-hour bounce was mostly vertical and how that played in with the comet's 12.4-hour rotation.
Wherever it ended up, frames from a panorama taken after it came to rest revealed nearby cliffs and a chaotic jumble of dark rock-like debris casting long shadows and allowing only minimal sunlight to reach Philae's solar cells.
"We are not toppled over," Valentina Lommatsch said from the lander control center. "It looks like we're kind of surrounded by rocks. ... But pictures show all three legs on the ground, and I can confirm from the solar data we have not moved at all since the first set of panorama images after the third landing. So we are on the ground, we just have really (been) unlucky in a corner surrounded by rocks."
Philae was launched with 50 to 60 hours of charge in its primary and secondary batteries. By Friday morning, most of that was depleted.
In the lander's original orientation sunlight reached the solar panels during a roughly 90-minute period each 12.4-hour "day." For most of that time, less than 1 watt is available, but power output climbs to 3 or 4 watts for about 20 minutes.
"The lander needs 5.1 watts to boot, so we have to at least get that," Lommatsch said. "After we have that, in order to charge the batteries we have to heat it up to zero degrees Celsius. In the simulations that we've run, that would mean that we'd need about 50 to 60 watt-hours a day in order to reach zero degrees and still have some of the daylight left to charge the battery. So it doesn't look that great."
But Lommatsch said as 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko moves closer to the sun and warms up, the amount of sunlight hitting the spacecraft will intensify enough to possibly rouse the lander from its slumber.
But it would take a considerable amount of luck. Rosetta would need go be within line of sight and the lander would need enough power to drive is computer and radio gear.
"Having a link would need additional power again, so we'd have to have something in the battery in order to have a link or be extremely lucky that Rosetta is looking for us in the moment that sunlight reaches the solar panels," Lommatsch said.
While "it looks a bit bad," she said, "we can only hope that as we approach the sun, maybe in August if we don't have too much dust or a huge coma blocking the sun, perhaps there would be a chance that at some point we could come back and at least see how the lander's doing. "So cross your fingers, or press your thumbs if you're German, perhaps we'll hear something from the lander again."

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Comet lander goes quiet after apparent loss of power

Trapped in a forbidding jumble of sun-blocking cliffs and rocky debris, the Philae comet lander, its batteries nearly depleted, somehow managed to contact the Rosetta mothership Friday in true cliffhanger fashion, relaying stored science data back to Earth and receiving commands to turn in place in a last-ditch bid to bring a larger set of solar cells into the meager sunlight.
But a few moments after the pirouette, battery voltage suddenly plummeted and engineers said the end was near. Trapped between a rock and a dark place beyond its ability to survive, Philae dutifully sent back stored data and even made fresh measurements until finally, just after 7:30 p.m. (EST-5), contact was finally lost.

 

Historic comet landing

Rosetta space probe's Philae lander touches down on distant comet after decade-long chase

"Link is intermittent," the European Space Agency tweeted. A few moments later: "The @Philae2014 Lander has switched to stand by due to low power. All instruments off." ESA followed with a tweet saying the lander was "now sending only housekeeping data at very low rate. All instruments are off."
Stephan Ulemac, the Philae lander operations manager, said he was thrilled with the spacecraft's performance. As Philae entered "idle mode," sending the occasional data packet and final bits of housekeeping telemetry, Ulemac marveled "we can even watch it falling asleep."
A few minutes later, ESA tweeted: "Loss of signal. No more comm with @Philae2014. All science data from First Science Sequence successfully downloaded."
It was not immediately clear whether contact was lost because Philae's battery power dropped below the 21.5 volts needed for normal operation or because Rosetta passed out of view in its orbit around Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

 

First pictures taken from surface of comet

 

Either way, stranded in the cold shade of comet cliffs more than 310 million miles from Earth, the 220-pound Philae presumably began slipping into the equivalent of an electronic coma as its battery power steadily draining away.

"Congratulations to the amazing work by the Rosetta/Philae/ESA team," @BadAstronomer tweeted. "You had an entire planet cheering on a small robot 500 million km away."
More than any space mission in recent memory, Rosetta's encounter with 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and Philae's wild, bouncing touchdown have played out in public on the internet with Twitter capturing the thoughts of many during the lander's apparently final moments.
"Now Philae down to sleep, "We pray a sunbeam soon to sweep "And if the hibernation break "We have more science yet to make," tweeted @BadPhysics.
"...this is why we feel emotions for little @Philae2014 -- it may be nuts, bolts, aluminum and circuits, but it represents us. And science," wrote @astroengine.

Historic space mission survives rough landing on comet

A manmade probe is clinging to a comet that is traveling at nearly 84,000 mph, but yesterday's rough landing could hamper the 10-year-old mission...

"Sleep well, @Philae2014! Thank you for the images and data. Come back to us when panels are warmed up (hopefully soon!)," said @spacewriter.
Tweeted @BBCPallab: "This death scene by #Philae2014 is almost Shakespearean."
But reports of Philae's demise may be premature. While engineers were not particularly optimistic, the lander's final maneuver should have brought a larger set of solar cells into the limited light of the sun. It might possibly be just enough to revive the hardy spacecraft when Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko moves closer to the sun next year and the light falling on the solar cells intensifies.
"So there is some hope that at some stage when we're closer to the sun that Philae wakes up again and talks to us," Ulemac said earlier. "But we need to be very lucky that this happens."
Regardless of the long-term outlook, engineers at the European Space Operations Center were clearly thrilled the lander managed to send home a final set of science data, possibly including the results of an attempt to drill into the crust of the nucleus to collect pristine material for analysis.
Asked how he felt about the mission, Ulemac said "satisfied, I have to say."
"Of course, it's a little bit sad to see the power voltage curve going down," he said. "But I'm very happy. ... We lived longer than we could expect in the conditions we had."
He said the science teams had a wealth of data to study from the observations Philae was able to complete and "they should be really happy" with "a lot of data. From what I've seen, it looks pretty good."
Philae's wild ride began early Wednesday when Rosetta released it for a seven-hour descent to the surface of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The lander was equipped with harpoons and ice screws to anchor itself to the nucleus at the moment of touchdown, but the systems failed to operate and Philae bounced back up into space, reaching an altitude of more than 3,000 feet before coming back down again two hours later.
The lander then bounced away again, finally coming to rest more than half a mile from its original touchdown point. Or so the telemetry indicates. Engineers do not yet know precisely where the spacecraft ended up, whether the initial two-hour bounce was mostly vertical and how that played in with the comet's 12.4-hour rotation.
Wherever it ended up, frames from a panorama taken after it came to rest revealed nearby cliffs and a chaotic jumble of dark rock-like debris casting long shadows and allowing only minimal sunlight to reach Philae's solar cells.
"We are not toppled over," Valentina Lommatsch said from the lander control center. "It looks like we're kind of surrounded by rocks. ... But pictures show all three legs on the ground, and I can confirm from the solar data we have not moved at all since the first set of panorama images after the third landing. So we are on the ground, we just have really (been) unlucky in a corner surrounded by rocks."
Philae was launched with 50 to 60 hours of charge in its primary and secondary batteries. By Friday morning, most of that was depleted.
In the lander's original orientation sunlight reached the solar panels during a roughly 90-minute period each 12.4-hour "day." For most of that time, less than 1 watt is available, but power output climbs to 3 or 4 watts for about 20 minutes.
"The lander needs 5.1 watts to boot, so we have to at least get that," Lommatsch said. "After we have that, in order to charge the batteries we have to heat it up to zero degrees Celsius. In the simulations that we've run, that would mean that we'd need about 50 to 60 watt-hours a day in order to reach zero degrees and still have some of the daylight left to charge the battery. So it doesn't look that great."
But Lommatsch said as 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko moves closer to the sun and warms up, the amount of sunlight hitting the spacecraft will intensify enough to possibly rouse the lander from its slumber.
But it would take a considerable amount of luck. Rosetta would need go be within line of sight and the lander would need enough power to drive is computer and radio gear.
"Having a link would need additional power again, so we'd have to have something in the battery in order to have a link or be extremely lucky that Rosetta is looking for us in the moment that sunlight reaches the solar panels," Lommatsch said.
While "it looks a bit bad," she said, "we can only hope that as we approach the sun, maybe in August if we don't have too much dust or a huge coma blocking the sun, perhaps there would be a chance that at some point we could come back and at least see how the lander's doing. "So cross your fingers, or press your thumbs if you're German, perhaps we'll hear something from the lander again."

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SYNAGOGUE SAGA

A team appointed to expedite the repatriation of the remains of 85 people from South Africa who died in the collapsed Synagogue building on 12th of September was expected to leave South Africa for Nigeria  yesterday said the South Africa government.

"A mass body repatriation team consisting of 80 specialist members from the department of health, the SA Police Service and the SA Military Health Service will today leave South Africa for Nigeria to begin the process of repatriating the mortal remains," spokesperson Phumla Williams said in statement.

"Upon touching down in Lagos, the team will be split into three groups and each will simultaneously work on the preparation of the mortal remains at the three mortuaries," she said
They included 81 South Africans and three Zimbabweans and one Democratic Republic of Congo national using South African travel paper.

"Due to the number of the deceased, and the time period since the incident, the repatriation will be carried out in line with strict procedures to ensure that the mortal remains are repatriated in a dignified manner while also taking appropriate precautions," said Williams.

Two aircraft had been secured for the repatriation operation."The first aircraft is a passenger plane that will transport the repatriation team, as well as other role players," said Williams.

"The second aircraft is an Antonov 124 cargo plane that will transport eight vehicles and specialised equipment."The two aircraft, transporting both the remains and the repatriation team, would then leave Nigeria on Saturday evening and would be expected to arrive at the Waterkloof Air Force Base in Pretoria on Sunday morning.

Once the aircraft arrive at the base, government would host a formal reception ceremony. The event would be private and would be restricted to accredited personnel.

"At the end of the formal reception ceremony, the mortal remains will be transported by road to the closest government... mortuaries in the different provinces," said Williams.

"From there the mortal remains will be transported to the government mortuary closest to the place of burial where they will be received by their next-of-kin."
May their souls rest in peace

BOKO HARAM SEIZED CHIBOK TOWN

Seven months after over 200 school girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram members in Chibok town, they have decided to finally take over the town. Amidst all the promises by the Federal government to rescue the girls from the hands of the group, the violence in the North has not seize instead it has been intensified with Boko Haram reportedly seizing more than two dozen towns and Nigeria's security forces reportedly absent in many areas.

The military was not immediately available to comment on the developments in Chibok.
But given the town's symbolic significance, its fall will likely raise fresh doubt about Nigeria's ability to handle the Boko Haram threat.
"Chibok was taken by Boko Haram. They are in control," said Enoch Mark, a Christian pastor whose daughter and niece are among the hostages being held.
Mark and the senator for southern Borno, Ali Ndume, said the militants attacked on Thursday, destroying communications masts and forcing residents to flee.
Ndume said that he had received calls from fleeing residents about the attack that the town "was now under their [Boko Haram] control".
In a series of phone calls to AFP in recent months, Chibok elders stressed that security had continued to deteriorate, despite the promises made by the government.
Pogo Bitrus, chairman of the elders forum in Chibok, also confirmed the attack but said troops were being deployed and were going to retake Chibok.

I WILL CHALLENGE JONATHAN: TAFAWA BALEWA

NO CHILD DESERVES TO BE BORN WITH HIV: JONATHAN

President Goodluck Jonathan has called for political commitment at all levels of government, from the ward level to the national government, in order to increase the momentum in the effort to achieve elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV, saying that no child deserves to be born with HIV and no mother deserves to die of AIDS.

He made the pledge yesterday in Abuja during the Presidential Launch of the National Operational Plan for the Elimination of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV in Nigeria by 2020 (2015-2016).
Jonathan said that the process being undertaken by him, aimed at a political and social mobilisation to end the AIDS epidemic among children.

The president who was represented by Vice President Namadi Sambo, noted that Nigeria is still faced with several gaps towards improving health outcomes in the country, including funding and access to health facilities.
"There are still challenges with bringing services closer to the communities through the primary health care system, as a result of infrastructural decay, inadequate and mismatch of human resources for health, inadequate funding for service delivery and lack of enabling policies for key interventions, which are partly linked to limited political leadership and ownership at the states and local government levels."
According to him, the 2013 Demographic and Health Survey showed that six in 10 women receive ante natal care (ANC) from a skilled provider, which implies that 30 per cent of them did not receive ANC services from a skilled provider

Nigeria Army takes Mubi

Latest reports informed that the Nigerian military has recaptured Mubi town in Adamawa State, northern Nigeria from the Boko Haram insurgents. According to BBC report, the terrorists are currently fleeing from the Nigerian soldiers.

   Also, a resident in Mubi confirmed the information to newsmen, saying that: “Earlier today, soldiers launched a fierce attack, which saw the Boko Haram militants retreating.

SENATE LEGALISES NFF AS A STATUTORY BODY

Abuja – Nigerian lawmakers on Thursday passed a bill amending the way the country’s football association is run, which could reduce the number of times the African champions fall foul of world governing body FIFA.
The upper house of parliament, the Senate, voted to change the decree that governs the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) that effectively makes it an autonomous branch of the executive.
The bill now legalises the NFF as a statutory body in line with FIFA’s own statutes and disallows legal action on football matters in the civil courts.