Sim Registration: Crowd At A-Class Park and Events Centre, Maitama, Abuja & Zaria MTN Office (Photos)

 

Sim Registration: Crowd At A-Class Park and Events Centre,
Maitama, Abuja

MTN Please Stop This Torture !!!


Listen to someone I asked enquiry on what he is doing at the venue mentioned above and below was his response:
"I registered my MTN sim early last year. "

I heard people say MTN sent them messages to update their registration. They talked about the inconveniences they faced but I didn't really understand.

Just last week MTN sent me the dreaded message. I panicked because that number is on all important forms I've ever filled. It's the number I also use for business.

I cancelled every engagement for this last Thursday and I am told to go to A-Class Park and Events Centre, Maitama, Abuja, so I went to the A-Class Park and Events Centre, Maitama, Abuja which is about 30 minutes from my place but can take an hour when there's much traffic. It took me about 50 minutes.

The crowd there was big. I was told there was a very long waiting list and they were no more taking names for the day. I had missed important activities yet couldn't register.

I got an MTN text last night just like many people did saying their offices would be open from 7am to 10pm today.
I planned to spend the whole Thursday at their office if I needed to. I just wanted to get this thing done.

I left home some minutes past 7am and got to their office a few minutes to 8am.
I joined the queue to write my name. I stood for about 3 hours till 11am when the workers said they would not take any more names even though we'd waited for hours. Weren't they supposed to close by 10pm?

People were very angry but we were peaceful maybe because of the armed soldiers present there.

What was annoying was that some people were smuggled through the back door on arrival with the consent/help of the soldiers.

Now his questions to MTN,

1. Why tell me to register again after you had acknowledged my previous registration?

2. Why threaten to deactivate my number when I had no fault?

3. Why put me through this inconvenience because of your inefficiencies?

4. Why not monitor your agents and ensure they do the proper thing?

5. Why not engage more agents? Kaduna is the third most populous state in Nigeria with over 6 million people.

Why only one incompetent agent?

I don't want any bonus from you. Please keep it.
I just want my peace of mind he concluded and enter his car".

Please share and let MTN see this and help save people from this stress.

Sim Registration: Crowd At Zaria MTN Office:

 

A doctor kills more than a gun

Target Malpractice

No, a study didn't prove doctors are more deadly than guns.

Claim: A study proved you're thousands of times more likely to be killed by a doctor than a gun.

Example: [Collected via e-mail, Internet, and Twitter, January 2016]

Aren't statistics wonderful? 'Guns don't kill people, doctors do.'
Doctors:
(A) The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000.
(B) Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are 120,000.
(C) Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171
Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.
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Now think about this:
Guns:
(A) The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000. (Yes, that's 80 million)
(B) The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups, is 1,500.
(C) The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is .0000188
Statistics courtesy of FBI
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So, statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.
Remember, 'Guns don't kill people, doctors do.'
FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT Almost everyone has at least one doctor.
This means you are over 9,000 times more likely to be killed by a doctor as by a gun owner!!!
Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors before this gets completely out of hand!!!!!
Out of concern for the public at large, we withheld the statistics on lawyers for fear the shock would cause people to panic and seek medical attention!

Origin:On 5 January 2016, President Obama announced novel executive measures intended to reduce gun violence. Predictably, his remarks met with a mixed reception, and a number of old gun control rumors began recirculating online.
Among those rumors were an ancient e-mail forward commonly titled "Doctors vs. Guns" or "Fun with Statistics." As excerpted above, the claim compares unsourced numbers of deaths attributable to doctors vs. accidental gun deaths, and concludes that Americans were 2,450 to 9,000 percent more likely to be killed by doctors than guns. The rumor and its iterations were elderly by Internet standards at the time of its 2016 circulation: our earliest online sighting of this piece dates from February 2004, but a pprinted newsletter dated 2003 [PDF] included the same material, describing the information as a joke obtained from the Internet (dating it to at least 2002 and making its updated "citations" suspect):

John Joyce got a chuckle from every one by reading an article he had gotten off the internet, called "Sumpin' to think about". a. The number of physicians in the US is 700,000. b. Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year is 120,000. c. Accidental deaths per physician are 0.171. (US Dept of health & Human Services) a. The number of gun owners in the US is 80,000,000. b. The number of accidental gun deaths per year (all age groups) is 1,500. c. The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is .0000188. Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.

A common aspect of early versions of this item its labeling as a joke or funny e-mail forward, not a straightforward comparison of credible or serious statistics. That framing was underscored by the ambiguity of its quantitative units and descriptors, along with vague mentions of statistics compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). To that point, actually determining whether the numbers cited had any basis in reality was challenging, as there was no year given in which either number might have originated.
Viewed through that lens, the numbers were barely worth quantifying: the basic gist was that doctors were far more likely to accidentally kill another person than a responsible gun owner. The text didn't specify what constituted "accidental deaths caused by physicians" or details whether that figure included only clear malpractice or all deaths remotely linked to medical treatment (including folks who would have died irrespective of medical attention).
At some point after its presentation as a joke in 2003 to 2004, the claim evolved from humorous to straightforward. On 31 January 2013 Natural News' "Health Ranger" Mike Adams penned a column titled "Doctors kill 2,450% more Americans than all gun-related deaths combined," the assertions of which paralleled the claims of the original humorous e-mail:

Your doctor is FAR more likely to kill you than an armed criminal
It's true: You are 64 times more likely to be killed by your doctor than by someone else wielding a gun. That's because 19,766 of the total 31,940 gun deaths in the USA (in the year 2011) were suicides. So the actual number of deaths from other people shooting you is only 12,174.
Doctors, comparatively, kill 783,936 people each year, which is 64 times higher than 12,174. Doctors shoot you not with bullets, but with vaccines, chemotherapy and pharmaceuticals ... all of which turn out to be FAR more deadly than guns.
This is especially amazing, given that there are just under 700,000 doctors in America, while there are roughly about 80 million gun owners in America.
How do 700,000 doctors manage to kill 783,936 people each year (that's over one death per doctor), while 80 million gun owners kill only 31,940? Because owning a gun is orders of magnitude safer than "practicing" medicine!

Adams asserted the numbers reflected "over one death per doctor," whereas the original placed that figure at 0.171. The article was accompanied by an cherry-picked infographic, which in part cited a separate Natural News article:

One of the two other citations was from a supplement sales company's March 2004 article "Death by Doctor," which purportedly supported the figure of doctor-caused deaths. An excerpt from that article read more like a vitamin sales pamphlet than a study or other credible research:

Natural medicine is under siege, as pharmaceutical company lobbyists urge lawmakers to deprive Americans of the benefits of dietary supplements. Drug-company front groups have launched slanderous media campaigns to discredit the value of healthy lifestyles. The FDA continues to interfere with those who offer natural products that compete with prescription drugs.
These attacks against natural medicine obscure a lethal problem that until now was buried in thousands of pages of scientific text. In response to these baseless challenges to natural medicine, the Nutrition Institute of America commissioned an independent review of the quality of “government-approved” medicine. The startling findings from this meticulous study indicate that conventional medicine is “the leading cause of death” in the United States .
What you are about to read is a stunning compilation of facts that documents that those who seek to abolish consumer access to natural therapies are misleading the public. Over 700,000 Americans die each year at the hands of government-sanctioned medicine, while the FDA and other government agencies pretend to protect the public by harassing those who offer safe alternatives.

Neither Natural News nor the vitamin sales company detailed the means by which they concluded that 700,000 Americans died each year due to medical accidents (Natural News' infographic cited only themselves and the LifeExtension nutritional supplement company as sources), and on 1 February 2013, the Inquisitr published an article in which the dodgy Natural News infographic was incredibly described as a "study":

US Department of Health and Human Services statistics were used to compile a Natural News infographic about doctor related deaths versus gun crime figures. There are currently 700,000 doctors in the United States. According to the study, there are 120,000 accidental deaths caused by doctors each year. The infographic of accidental doctor deaths notes that medial errors accounted for 98,000 deaths.

We were unable to locate any matching study, nor any statistics compiled by the HHS at any point in time pertaining to "doctor-related deaths" (as it didn't appear that agency maintained such records). In September 2013, NPR published a piece that cited some more tangible data on medical mistakes:

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine published the famous "To Err Is Human" report, which dropped a bombshell on the medical community by reporting that up to 98,000 people a year die because of mistakes in hospitals. The number was initially disputed, but is now widely accepted by doctors and hospital officials — and quoted ubiquitously in the media.
Now comes a study in the current issue of the Journal of Patient Safety that says the numbers may be much higher — between 210,000 and 440,000 patients each year who go to the hospital for care suffer some type of preventable harm that contributes to their death.

Both previously excerpted claims antedated the NPR piece and its source study by several months, so the 2013 Journal of Patient Safety article cited by NPR couldn't have been the source for the 700,000 figure. (The Journal of Patient Safety figures, while high, topped out at 440,000).
Even then, as NPR noted, the estimates were perpetually in dispute, partially due to the fact that such figures are next to near impossible to quantify:

Asked about the higher estimates, a spokesman for the American Hospital Association said the group has more confidence in the IOM's (Institute of Medicine's) estimate of 98,000 deaths. ProPublica asked three prominent patient safety researchers to review James' study, however, and all said his methods and findings were credible.
What's the right number? Nobody knows for sure. There's never been an actual count of how many patients experience preventable harm. So we're left with approximations, which are imperfect in part because of inaccuracies in medical records and the reluctance of some providers to report mistakes.

In short, there's absolutely nothing close to a solid figure on deaths by medical error per year. At best, experts have settled on a range of 98,000 to 440,000, but no one knows whether those numbers are grossly exaggerated or horribly underestimated.
Natural News cited GunPolicy.org's 2011 statistics, but the infographics numbers demonstrated significant variance from what we found when we viewed the same statistics in January 2016 (possibly due to adjusted data). The infographic claimed total gun deaths as 31,940 from homicide (11,101), suicide (19,766), unintentional shooting (851), and undetermined intent (222). In January 2016, the 2011 stats displayed as 32,351 total, from homicide (11,068), suicide (19,990), unintentional shooting (591), and undetermined intent (248). The larger total included additional gun deaths not attributed to any of those four causes, whereas the smaller initial number did not.
The CDC's data tool returned the updated number of 591 accidental gun deaths in the U.S. in 2011, matching the statistics we located on GunPolicy.org. That same tool enabled us to pull a solid number of deaths by adverse event for that same year (2011), either by prescribed drugs or medical care. That number was actually 2,584, which was not only far lower than the numbers estimated in contemporaneous research, but also than the unsourced count of 700,000 which appeared in the original joke e-mail forward before it transmuted to become a "study."
Finally, whatever the real numbers might be, trying to draw meaningful conclusions based on the number of accidental deaths per doctor or per gun is a very, very poor metric, because those measurements don't take frequency into account (i.e., how often one is in a position to be killed by a doctor or a gun in the first place). When we want to analyze statistics regarding fatal traffic accidents, for example, we typically don't look at the number of deaths per automobile, because some automobiles are on the road much more than others; instead, we look at the number of deaths per mile driven. So to make a valid comparison between doctors and guns, we would need to know the number of times the average person is typically treated by a doctor per year, as well as the number of times the average person is within range of a gun that could be accidentally discharged, and take those factors into account.
In any case, the e-mail forward reproduced above was never intended to be taken seriously as a legitimate comparison of deaths caused by doctors versus deaths caused by guns. The sheer number of variables makes such a comparison completely meaningless though any imaginable manipulation of the underlying statistics, and the root claim that 700,000 Americans die each year due to medical mistakes appears to be cut from whole cloth. As such, this once-humorous meme remains false.

AIR SCARE - Must read !!!

More folks are dying from cancer than ever before. We wonder where this stuff comes from, but here is an example that explains a lot of the cancer-causing incidents.

Many people are in their cars first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, seven days a week. As I read this, it makes me feel guilty and ill.

Please pass this on to as many people as possible. Guess it's not too late to make some changes.

Please do NOT turn on A/C as soon as you enter the car. Open the windows after you enter your car and turn ON the AC after a couple of minutes.

Here's why:

According to research, the car dashboard, sofa and air freshener emit Benzene, a cancer-causing toxin (carcinogen) .

Take time to observe the smell of heated plastic in your car. In addition to causing cancer, Benzene poisons your bones, causes anaemia and reduces white blood cells.

Prolonged exposure will cause leukaemia, increasing the risk of cancer. It can also cause miscarriage. Acceptable Benzene level indoors is 50 mg per sq ft.

A car parked indoors with windows closed will contain 400-800 mg of benzene. If parked outdoors under the sun at a temperature above 60 degrees F, the Benzene level goes up to 2000-4000 mg, 40 times the acceptable level.

People who get into the car keeping windows closed will inevitably inhale, in quick succession, excessive amounts of the toxin.

Benzene is a toxin that affects your kidney and liver. What's worse, it is extremely difficult for your body to expel this toxic stuff.

Origins:   This item about the dangers of benzene supposedly emitted by automobile components has been widely misunderstood. Many readers have come away from the article with the impression that it warns drivers not to use their cars' air conditioning because the A/C system itself is producing benzene, but what the article actually cautions against is the practice of turning on the air conditioning immediately upon entering an automobile. Motorists should instead, it says, roll down their windows in order to allow accumulated benzene fumes (allegedly emitted by other components, such as dashboards and upholstery) to vent from the car first before re-closing the windows and turning on the A/C.

How much truth is there to this warning? Evidence suggests an association between exposure to benzene and an excess risk of leukemia, as noted by the American Cancer Society (ACS):

A considerable number of human studies provide evidence linking benzene and cancer. Initially, increased risks of leukemia, chiefly AML, were reported among workers with high levels of benzene exposure in the chemical, shoemaking, and oil refining industries. More recently, studies have focused on workers with relatively lower exposure.

The human data are supported by animal studies. There is sufficient evidence for the carcinogenicity of benzene in experimental animals. Key animal studies support the finding of an excess risk of leukemia in humans from exposure to benzene by inhalation and ingestion. The details of these studies have been reviewed and found to support the association between benzene and cancer.

But do automobiles really produce potentially cancer-causing levels of benzene? No studies have yet documented that claim to be true. A 2001 study of commuter exposure (in both cars and buses) in Korean urban areas found some relationship between automobile use and exposure to benzene, but its observations differed from the warning quoted above in some significant areas:

• The study found that traveling by automobile increased exposure to a number of deleterious compounds, including benzene, but the primary factor in this regard was the fuel used by the vehicles, not internal components such as dashboards.
• The study found that benzene levels were higher in older cars than newer cars, which suggests that the primary factor in automobile benzene levels was not associated with the "new car smell" emitted by components such as dashboards and upholstery.
• The study found that exposure levels were significantly higher during the winter months, which suggests that automobile air conditioning use is not a major factor in benzene exposure.

The Korean study itself did not establish a connection between commuter exposure to benzene and the onset of cancer.

A 2007 German study on "Toxicity of Parked Motor Vehicle Indoor Air" which specifically tested the health effects of emissions from one new and one three-year-old vehicle exposed to "parked in sunshine" conditions found "no apparent health hazard of parked motor vehicle indoor air":

Buters and his colleagues first collected molecules from the air inside a new car and a three-year-old vehicle of the same brand placed under 14,000 watts of light, where temperatures reached up to 150 degrees Fahrenheit. They next exposed these compounds to human, mouse and hamster cells grown in lab dishes. These are commonly used to test toxicity.

New car smell does not appear to be toxic, the scientists found. Air from the new car did cause a slight aggravation of the immune response that could affect people with allergies, but the same was not seen with the older vehicle.

(The German study also found the total amount of volatile organic compounds in a new car to be one-tenth the level claimed in the e-mail for benzene alone.)
The ACS similarly noted of this e-mail that:

We found no published studies that confirm the claims of this e-mail. Benzene levels that exceed recommendations for chronic workplace exposure have been observed in some moving cars, but these levels seem unlikely in properly maintained cars. 

The e-mail did get one thing right, though: Upon returning to a closed car on warm days, you should open the windows for a minute or so rather than immediately turning on the air conditioning. The reason has nothing to do with benzene levels, however; rather, it's because when a car is parked in the sun with its windows rolled up, that condition can create a greenhouse effect which causes the interior of the vehicle to warm up to a temperature considerably higher than that of the outside air. Opening the windows for a few moments allows for the exchange of hot air from inside the vehicle with cooler air outside, speeding up the process of cooling off the car more than air conditioning alone would. 

So friends, please open the windows and door of your car - give time for the interior air to dispel the deadly stuff - before you enter.

Thought: 'When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others.'

Nigerian Snacks And Their Health Benefits

Can you survive without snacks? The answer is: No. A snack is a small portion of food that can be eaten between meals. We eat snacks when we are bored, stressed out, too tired to cook, or when we can't just get food. So you see, you can't survive without snacks.

Nigerians love snacks and have a lot of them. These snacks are not just handy, they are also delicious. Since we are very creative people, there are many snacks from different regions if Nigeria.
Well today you will see the top ten Nigerian snacks, and because my main goal is to keep you healthy, I added their health benefits.

This list was based on their popularity and partly on their tastiness. As you read focus on the health benefits. Please note that am not a food expert. But I assure you that you will not just learn something new today, you'll also laugh hard. So please let's look at the top Nigerian snacks and their health benefits.


10. Nigerian Buns
At number ten we have buns. Buns is a tasty deep fried snack. It is prepared with flour and baking powder. The interesting thing about buns, is that you can enjoy it with any consumable drink (except for alcohol and blood lol).
Buns contains a lot of calories which is somewhat bad. But the health benefits of eating buns are that gives a lot of energy. The flour also contains many vitamins that benefit the heart.

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9. Plantain chips
Plantain chips are fried unripened plantain. They are so delicious and can be eaten anywhere.
Plantain chips are very abundant in carbohydrates, which means they fuel the brain, muscles and tissues. Also plantains are a rich source of Vitamin A and C. Which means they are very good for your immune system.



8. Egg roll
Egg roll is one if the most popular snack in Nigeria. It is a deep fried snack made with boiled eggs inside. It is the ideal snack that goes well with water or any soft drink (except for wine).
Just like buns egg roll also contains a lot if carbohydrates and fats. But the presence of boiled egg makes is healthy, as it is very proteinous.



7. Meat pie
Meat pie is an exquisitely delicious snack made with chicken, meat, flour and potatoes. It is a very popular snack among the females in Nigeria. Meat pie works well with ice cream.
When you eat meat pie, you get healthy significantly, because it contains a lot of dietary fibers that prevents constipation and reduces
cholesterol.



6. Okpa
Okpa di oku o!!! That amazing sentence gives joy and probably 'hope' to the people in the eastern part of Nigeria. Its means "okpa is hot". Because it is best eaten hot . The Common name of okpa is Bambara nut fruit. This sumptuous snack, when eaten, fills your belly full.
What are the health benefits of okpa?
Okpa is very rich in proteins, which makes good for growth and development. It is also believed to reduce the growth of infectious diarrhea and promote urinary tract health. So when eating okpa you can be sure to get this health benefits.
5. Chin Chin
You need to have strong teeth to eat chin chin. Chin Chin is commonly known as dough rocks. It is a fried crispy snack that has a crunchy taste.
Chin Chin is the ultimate Nigerian dessert.
Chin Chin is said to have excellent health benefits to the heart.



4. Moin Moin
Moin Moin or Moi Moi is also known as bean pie or steamed bean puddles. This snack is so good they named it twice. It is made from beans and assorted spices. Moin Moin can serve as a side dish with Nigerian jollof rice. It can also serve as an appetizer.
What are the health benefits of Moin Moin? Moin is very very rich in protein content, as in, if protein was money it'd be billgate. It also gives a good amount of energy. Moin Moin is also the best snack for anyone trying to lose weight. Now time the top three,
the ballon d'or of Nigerian snacks.



3. Suya
Suya is the most loved snack in all of Nigeria. If you want to woo a Nigerian lady, give her suya. Suya is basically skewered meat or beef made with various types of spices and herbs. It is very spicy and wickedly delicious.
What are the health benefits of suya? Due to the conditions it is prepared and the way it is packaged, suya is not so healthy to be eaten just anyhow. But if you want to benefit well and enjoy your suya, eat with cabbage, onions and tomato. It's healthier that way. Suya can also help you win her heart. Just kidding.



2. Akara
At number two is akara. Akara is very popular among Nigerians. It's so tasty and wonderful. Am sure God gave the recipe to oduduwa to give us Nigerians. Akara is made with beans and deeply fried in oil. It is the best snack that can be eaten with bread or pap.
What are the health benefits of Akara? Well to benefit from eating akara somehow depends on the oil used in frying it. It should be cholesterol free. However it is rich in dietary fiber, protein and is perfect for weight loss.
Now it's time to find out the number one snack in Nigeria.



1. Gala
Gala is simply sausage roll. But every Nigerian calls it gala. Gala is the most popular, most sold, most eaten snack in Nigeria. It is snack that you eat when you are stuck in traffic, when you are waiting and when someone buys you a free drink. It is practically unforgivable to ban gala in Nigeria.
So What are the health benefits of sausage roll, sorry, gala? It is an easily absorbed source if protein, iron and Vitamin B. It is also good for the reproductive and immune system.

I hope you enjoyed reading. Please don't forget to leave comments.

Source: www.youmustgethealthy.com

Pictures From #glocafawards2015

 

African Footballer of the Year 2015 Result/Standing

1.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon & Borussia Dortmund)

The Gabon front man beat off competition from Manchester City’s Yaya Toure and Swansea City’s Andre Ayew who had excellent years of their own. Aubameyang has been one of Europa’s deadliest strikers this season scoring twenty seven goals in twenty seven games in all competitions.

2.

Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast & Manchester City)

3.
Andre Ayew (Ghana & Swansea City)

Congrats Brother!!! Yaya and Andre welldone !!!

Girl With Half-body (Photo)

A 19-year-old Rahma Haruna in Ladin Makole, Kano State. Rahma has no functional limbs and arms

RECRUITMENT SCAM OF JANUARY 4,2016 !

Federal Government of Nigeria response to recruitment scam. Federal Ministry of Labour of Nigeria is not recruiting.

See letter below:

To prevent what happened during NIS Job Scam exercise during the Past president Goodluck Administration where a lot of unemployed youths lost their lives, documents, body parts, etc..