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Wednesday, 7 October 2015

Jonathan lacked will power to fight corruption – Edwin Clark

Jonathan lacked will power to fight corruption – Edwin Clark

Ijaw Leader and former Minister of Information, Chief Edwin Clark says former President Jonathan who he regards as a son, lacked the will power to fight corruption while he served as President. Mr Clark made this statement today while hosting the "Think Nigeria First Initiative” group who visited him at his home in Abuja. He said Jonathan and late Yar'Adua meant well for Nigeria but was too much of a gentleman to tackle corruption as was expected of him. He also announced his retirement from partisan politics at age 88...


 "Jonathan didn’t have the political will-power to fight corruption. He’s too a gentleman. Drivers of yesterday are living in palatial buildings now under his government. In advanced countries, when you are living above your means, people query you. That’s not so in Nigeria. Former governors and lawmakers are now asking for immunity. Jonathan meant well for this country, but the will power to fight corruption was not there. In an ideal society, when a man who earns 20,000 as his monthly salary and all of a sudden he acquire something that is worth N100,000, he should be questioned, but here in Nigeria, immunity has covered those that should be questioned. That is not the kind of country that we want. Being a gentleman is not enough to govern this country.”he said
The statesman applauded President Buhari's anti-corruption campaign
"It is not everything done by the opponent that is wrong. I will therefore support the policies that are for the good of the country because Nigeria belongs to all of us. We are all to support him, particularly in his determination to eradicate corruption in Nigeria. For eight years Obasanjo legalised corruption. Yet, he’s the one talking about corruption. If your brother is arrested, did he give you money? If your sister was arrested for corruption, did she give you money? Nobody should distract Buhari from fighting corruption. People should stop talking about sectional or selective justice"he said.

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Girl born without a forehead undergoes pioneering 3D surgery to fill hole after brain 'split through skull'

Girl born without a forehead undergoes pioneering 3D surgery to fill hole after brain 'split through skull'

A seven-year-old girl born with a huge hole in her forehead has undergone pioneering surgery to fill it - using 3D printed technology. Grace Kabelenga had surgery at four years old to correct her craniofacial abnormality - but a large section of her skull was removed to prevent infection.

As a result Grace from Ndola, Zambia, has never been to school and is not allowed to play with other children as she is desperately prone to infections.


Just falling over or being touched in the wrong place could have killed her, as the entire front section of her skull was missing and her brain was completely unprotected under the skin of her forehead.

Now Grace has undergone state of the art surgery in South Africa to have a specially constructed forehead implanted into her skull to encourage the bone to grow. Grace's unique facial condition developed in the womb and her parents Ngula and Elijah desperately sought medical attention upon her birth.

Ngula said: "When she was born she was rushed to a children's hospital. There was so many doctors but they told us they couldn't do anything because it was beyond their ability."
Elijah said: "Grace had a cranio-facial abnormality. The eyes, the nostrils, the mouth they were all far apart.
Grace with her parents

"The nostrils were actually 13 centimetres apart. The brain was suspended and stuck to the hard palette on her mouth. You could physically see it outside just covered by a thin skin."
Grace's face had been forced apart by an encephalocele, a defect in which part of the brain peeks through an opening in the skull , splitting open her face down the middle.

It destroyed the base of the skull meaning there was a hole in the roof of her mouth through which her brain was hanging.

When Grace was three years old, she and her father Elijah flew to Argentina for her first life-changing surgery.
After six months in hospital being treated by nutritionists to increase her size and strength, Grace was considered ready for the 21-hour surgery which lifted her brain and rebuilt her face.

American surgeon Dr Kenneth Salyer, founder of the World Craniofacial Foundation, who stepped in to help Grace, said: "The reason to operate was to save her life, she couldn't live that way and would not survive long term."

At seven years old, Grace's face had healed, but she still has no bone in her forehead. She wore a padded helmet and her parents had to take continual care as only a thin layer of skin protected her brain.

Culled from UK Mirror
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Oh dear! See the animal that was killed inside UNIZIK, Awka today!

Oh dear! See the animal that was killed inside UNIZIK, Awka today!

A LIB reader sent in the photos. He said there's a seasonal stream inside the university, and the crocodile was discovered after yesterday's heavy rain inside a drainage that leads to the university pry school. See another photo after the cut...




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