Naeto C welcomes bouncing baby son

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By Charles Mgbolu

Neato C and wife Nicole had their first baby delivered on March 26  in the United States with the proud father showing off his bundle of joy on Instagram and Facebook.

Naeto C and his son

He wrote’

”Thanks to Everyone for all the messages…words aren’t honestly enough to express this moment…it’s ironic especially for someone like myself who is used 2 putting words Together…maybe later…but right now i’m just Thanking God with my Family and enjoying my son’s company!

I wish you all similar moments at some point(s) in your lives!“ Thank you so much for the love and support. May your lives be filled with endless joy.”

Naeto C and his beauty entrepreneur wife Nicole got married in July 2012. His singles Kini big deal, Number 10 and 5&6  made huge waves when  released. It is reported that he is to commence his Canadian tour soon.

I’ve never met girl that took pix of me in bed – Davido

By Charles Mgbolu

In December last year, Dami duro crooner Davido was enveloped in a second lady-in-bed photo scandal with an unnamed girl after the first one involving girl friend Sonia went viral in March while holidaying in  Ghana.

Davido has kept mum on the matter until now when he tells former Big Brother Africa house mate Ebuka Obi Uchendu  hosts of TV programme Rubbing Minds that he never knew this girl.

“I was asleep in bed. The girl just snuck in and (makes gesture of taking photograph) I don’t know her. I used to stay in an apartment back then and movement was kind of free. Maybe I didn’t lock the door and she just snuck in and took the pix. I have  however moved to my new home where there is much tighter security.

I don’t know her – Davido

I didn’t realise what was going on even after the pix was posted online. I traveled to Ghana immediately afterwards and I noticed on the plane people were just staring at me and I wondered why. Since it was a flight my phone was switched off  and so I had no idea what was happening online. When I got to Ghana, I still got the same stare from people. I was asked by friends to switch on my phone and that was it. 300 calls from Dad, 600 calls from grandma, everyone one asking Davido what’s going on.”

Davido claims the girl in question later called his ‘people’ to apologise but then the damage had already been done. He hopes such incidences never occur again as he maintains his resilience to finish his studies, face his music business and continue to be a role model to others.

Scientists pinpoint gene coding errors for cancer

PARIS  (AFP) – The biggest-ever trawl of the human genome for cancer-causing DNA errors has netted more than 80 tiny mutations, a finding that could help people at high risk, researchers said Wednesday.

The results, which double the number of known genetic alterations linked to breast, ovarian and prostate cancer, were unveiled in a dozen scientific papers published in journals in Europe and the United States.

The three hormone-related cancers are diagnosed in over 2.5 million people every year and kill one in three patients, said a Nature press statement.

Teams from more than 100 research institutes in Europe, Asia, Australia and the United States said the work should in the future help doctors to calculate an individual’s cancer risk long before any symptoms emerge.

People with high-susceptibility mutations could be counselled against lifestyle choices that further increase their risk, given regular screening and drug treatment, or even preventative surgery.

“We have examined 200,000 areas of the genome in 250,000 individuals. There is no (other) study of cancer of this size,” Per Hall, coordinator of the Collaborative Oncological Gene-environment Study (COGS), told AFP of the research.

The studies compared the DNA of more than 100,000 patients with breast, ovarian and prostate cancer to that of an equal number of healthy individuals. Most were of European ancestry.

DNA, the blueprint for life, comprises four basic chemicals called A (adenine) C (cytosine), T (thymine) and G (guanine) strung together in different combinations along a double helix.

Researchers noted where the A, C, T, G combinations of cancer patients differed significantly from those of healthy people.

They were looking for a tiny “spelling mistake” in the code, called a single nucleotide polymorphism or SNP that can cause problems in gene function.

For breast cancer, the researchers found 49 SNPs, “which is more than double the number previously found”, said Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet, which took part in the giant study.

“In the case of prostate cancer, researchers have discovered another 26 deviations, which means that a total number of 78 SNPs may be linked to the disease.”

For ovarian cancer, eight new SNPs were found.

Everyone has inherited alterations in their DNA, but whether these mutations are dangerous or not is determined by where on the code they lie.

And carrying a mutation does not necessarily mean a person will develop cancer, a disease that may have multiple causes.

The researchers said further study is needed to allow scientists to translate these DNA telltales into tests for predicting cancer risk. A more distant goal is using the knowledge for better treatments.

“Since there are many other factors that influence the risk of these cancers (mainly lifestyle factors), future tests have to take more risk factors than just genes into consideration,” said Hall.

“It will take a couple of years before we have the necessary models enabling us, with high accuracy, to predict the individual risk of these cancers.”

The findings were published in Nature Genetics and Nature Communications, PLOS Genetics, the American Journal of Human Genetics and Human Molecular Genetics.

Scientists develop safer foot and mouth vaccines

By Sola Ogundipe

British scientists have developed a new vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease that is safer and easier to manufacture. This is an advance  expected to greatly increase production capacity and reduce costs.

The technology behind the livestock product might also be applied to make improved human vaccines to protect against similar viruses, including polio.

Scientists are excited about the new vaccine which does not require a live virus in its production.

David Stuart, a professor of biology at the University of Oxford, who led the research, notes that in contrast to standard livestock vaccines, the new product is made from synthetic empty protein shells containing no infectious viral genomes.

A report scientists in the journal PLOS Pathogens, hints that the vaccine can be produced without expensive biosecurity and does not need to be kept refrigerated.

“One of the big advantages is that since it is not derived from live virus, the production facility requires no special containment,” Stuart said.

“One could imagine local plants being set up in large parts of the world where foot and mouth is endemic and where it still remains a huge problem.”

Worldwide, between three and four billion doses are administered every year but there are shortages in many parts of Asia and Africa where the disease is a serious problem.

Current standard vaccines are based on a 50-year-old technology, although U.S. biotech company GenVec last year won U.S. approval for a new one.

The purely synthetic British vaccine has so far been tested in small-scale cattle trials and found to be effective. Lager tests are in the pipeline while discussion on the vaccine’s commercial development is on, but it may be too early to give an
indication of how much the vaccine would cost.

The same approach could in future be used to make empty shell vaccines against related viruses such as polio and hand-foot-and-mouth, a human disease.

No need to panic over Mandela – Zuma

JOHANNESBURG – President Jacob Zuma on Thursday said there was no need to panic after South Africa’s anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela was hospitalised for a recurrent lung infection.

Zuma told the BBC that the 94-year-old Mandela is “in good hands” and the “country must not panic.” (AFP)

Microsoft to grow local software market through 9jApps contest, says Onyeje

By Emeka Aginam

The Country Manager, Microsoft Nigeria, Emmanuel Onyeje has said with optimism that 9jApps contest challenge would empower the next generation of Nigerian developers, by helping them drive innovation and grow the local software economy.

The challenge was designed to empower local developers to take advantage of Microsoft’s new tools and resources to develop locally appealing and locally-relevant apps for the Windows platform, utilizing Visual Studio 2012 and the Windows Phone SDK, in addition to the Windows Azure SDK,

The 9japps contest, according to Microsoft aims to foster innovation and creating personality around developers and their apps in collaboration with Nokia, Dell and CCHub Nigeria.

“Nigeria is blessed with enormous talents, and Microsoft is proud to be able to help these talented developers to acquire new skills that will help them explore their potential and reach new heights” Onyeje told IT Journalists at the flagging of the challenge last Tuesday in Lagos.

The competition, he said will run for 3 months teeing-off in March and climaxing at the end of June, 2013.

“This push for economic development through African innovation is one of the key drivers of the Microsoft 4Afrika Initiative, launched continent-wide in February of this year.

“Microsoft is committed to working with Africa’s students, entrepreneurs, and independent developers to help them create the next generation of world-class African apps on the Window Platform, to bring relevant content and new business opportunities to people across the continent” he explained.

Also speaking , the Developer and Platform Evangelism Lead, Microsoft Nigeria, Oyeshina Oyetosho told Journalist that , “This is not development for development’s sake. This contest is about giving developers the skills and tools they need to help them publish their apps to the Microsoft Store so they can monetize their innovation and share it with the world.

“ The Microsoft 4Afrika Initiative is rooted in the belief that African innovation can and will shape the future, so it is our hope that contests like this one can help fuel that cycle”.

The conditions for entry, according to Shina will include the following:

* Apps entries must be in the respective stores (Windows 8 or Windows Phone) by 14 June 2013 at 23:59:59 GMT.

*Apps published and available in store before the contest period are not eligible to participate.

*Apps developed for the Windows Phone platform must be compatible with low-end Windows devices.

Prizes by categories of the contest include:

Window 8 Apps category:

*Grand Prize: 2012/2013 KIA Rio automobile

*Second Prize: NGN750, 000 cash

*Third Prizes: A Windows 8 device each (X5)

Similarly, contestants in the Windows phone category will win the following:

*Grand Prize: NGN750, 000

*Second Prize: NGN500, 000

*Third Prize: A Windows Phone 8 device (X5)

Speaking on the partnership, Partner Manager, Developer Experience, Nokia, West Africa, Mr. Olumide Balogun said that Nokia was thrilled to partner with Microsoft, to bring the 9jApps competition to both students and independent developers.

We are looking forward to some great solutions on the phone side leveraging both Microsoft WP and our Lumia devices capabilities to deliver locally relevant apps that we can export to the world, he said.

Reacting further about the partnership, the Country Manager, Dell, Nigeria Chuks Udensi said “Dell remains committed to the partnership and looks forward to great innovations to come from the competition”.

Tunji Elesho Pre-Incubation and Research Lead for CCHub added that “The Microsoft 4Afrika initiative is a laudable one which seeks to empower Africans. The entire plethora of what Microsoft is bringing is massive”.

University of Uyo disowns media report on fake doctor

  

By TONY NYONG

UYO – The University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, Akwa Ibom State, has denied media reports that one Usen Effiong, was apprehended by the internal security of the hospital and handed over to the police on Tuesday for pretending to be a medical doctor and consulted for the hospital.

The hospital said that the media report, that the fake doctor had been consulting and attending to patients in the hospital was ‘absolutely false’ as all the doctors and other categories of medical personnel in the employment  of the hospital are well trained and easily recognizable.

In a statement, yesterday by Director Corporate Affairs, S.O Williams, UUTH explained that the said Effiong was found loitering around the Out Patient Department of the hospital and was picked up by the university’s security and handed over to the police.

It said Effiong’s movement was suspicious even though he was wearing a ward coat, thereby giving people the fake impression that he was a medical personnel with the Teaching Hospital.

“The attention of UUTH management, has been drawn to the news item on the arrest of a ‘’fake medical doctor” at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, Uyo on March 26, 2013 by both print and electronic media. We wish to say that the contents of the news do not in any way represent the true position of what happened as the new casters did not bother to cross check and confirm the facts from the authorities of the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, Uyo.”

“However, for the purpose of putting the records straight and in order not to undermine the confidence of the members of the public, who have been turning out in large numbers to access health services in the hospital, it is proper to inform all and sundry of the true position of the matter.

“On March 26, 2013, a young man, who gave his name as Usen Effiong was found loitering around the Out Patient Department of the hospital. His movement was suspicious even though he was wearing a ward coat, which would give anybody an impression that he is medical personnel.

MTN staff abducted in Lagos

LAGOS— A staff of a telecommunication giant, MTN, one Yemi Owadokun, has been kidnapped in Lagos. The 44-year-old man was said to have been abducted, Thursday , at about  6.10a.m, at Ologunfe junction, Awoyaya,while on his way to work.

His captors were said to have demanded a ransom of N70 million.

Before the abduction of the Ondo State-born, one Kazeem, was reportedly abducted and released 10 days later, after N2 million was paid as ransom.

Policemen at Elemoro division said to have been hinted about the latest abduction, assured that they were investigating the case. against his volition, calling for an independent body to take over the investigation.

Pope washes prisoners’ feet in unprecedented Easter rite

ROME (AFP) – Pope Francis washed the feet of 12 young offenders including two girls and two Muslims at a Rome prison on Thursday in an unprecedented version of an ancient Easter ritual, seen as part of efforts to bring the Catholic Church closer to those in need.

The pope knelt down, washing and kissing the young prisoners’ feet in the first Holy Thursday ceremony of its kind performed by a pontiff in prison, and the first to include women and Muslims.

Pope Francis (R) kissing the feet of a young offender after washing them during a mass at the church of the Casal del Marmo youth prison on the outskirts of Rome as part of Holy Thursday.AFP

“Whoever is the most high up must be at the service of others,” Francis said at the mass in the Casal del Marmo youth prison, a fortnight after being elected Latin America’s first pope.

“I do this with all my heart because it is my duty as a priest, as a bishop. I have to be at your service. I love doing it because this is what the Lord has taught me,” the 76-year-old said.

Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said many of the participants broke down in tears at the ceremony, which was open only to Vatican media. One young man had to be replaced at the last moment because he was too overcome with emotion.

Video footage from the ceremony showed the pope pouring water over the feet — one of them with tattoos — bending down to kiss them and looking each of the 12 prisoners in the eye before moving on.

Lombardi said that while this was the first time a pope had washed women’s feet, Francis had performed this type of ceremony in his native Argentina many times before becoming pope including in jails, hospitals and old people’s homes.

The Holy Thursday ceremony is usually held in a basilica in the city centre and commemorates the gesture of humility believed to have been performed by Jesus Christ before his death to his 12 disciples at their last meal.

Popes performing the ritual have usually washed the feet of priests.

Catholic traditionalists are likely to be riled by the inclusion of women because all of Jesus’ disciples were male — the same justification used to explain why only men can be Catholic priests.

Francis has already broken with several Vatican traditions with his informal style, although he is yet to begin tackling the many problems assailing the Roman Catholic Church including reform of the scandal-ridden Vatican bureaucracy and bank.

Local prison chaplain Gaetano Greco said he hoped the ritual would be “a positive sign in the lives” of the young offenders at the prison, which has around 50 inmates aged between 14 and 21.

Earlier on Thursday, the pontiff told Catholic priests at a mass in St Peter’s Basilica to stop their “soul-searching” and “introspection”.

“We need to go out… to the outskirts where there is suffering, bloodshed, blindness that longs for sight and prisoners in thrall to many evil masters,” he said.

– Via Crucis –

The former archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, was known in Argentina for his strong social advocacy during his homeland’s devastating economic crisis, his own humble lifestyle and his outreach in poor neighbourhoods.

Holy Thursday is the first of four intensive days in the Christian calendar culminating in Easter Sunday, which commemorates Christ’s resurrection.

On Friday, Francis will recite the Passion of Christ — the story of the last hours of Jesus’s life — in St Peter’s Basilica, before presiding over the Via Crucis — Way of the Cross — ceremony by the Colosseum, where thousands of Christians were believed killed in Roman times.

While a frail Benedict, now 85, presided over last year’s celebrations from under a canopy next to the Colosseum, Francis is expected to take part in the procession and even carry the wooden cross on his shoulder for part of the way.

On Saturday, the pontiff will take part in an evening Easter vigil in St Peter’s Basilica. The Vatican has not yet said whether Francis will follow the tradition of baptising eight adult converts to the Catholic Church during the service.

On Sunday the Vatican’s first non-European pope in nearly 1,300 years wi

Women arraigned for cutting neighbour with blade

Hannah Okurabe
 

Two women – Temitope Abigeal and Temitope Remi – have been arraigned before a Chief Magistrate’s Court in Ebute Meta on a three count of conspiracy, assault and grievous harm.

Abigeal (26) and Remi (28), both choristers at a Cherubim and Seraphim church at Progressive Road, Ebute Meta, were said to have assaulted Hannah Okurabe (18) with razor blades at Abule Nla junction, a few metres away from the church.

The March 17, 2013 incident was said to be the result of an earlier fight over the church’s choirmaster, Joseph Unuigbe.

 A father of two, Unuigbe is married to Folashade, who is also a member of the same church.

The charge read, “That you Temitope Abigeal and Temitope Remi at about 18.30 hours at Abule Nla junction, Apapa Road, Ebute Meta West, Lagos in the Lagos Magisterial District did conspire amongst yourselves to commit felony to wit assault and thereby committed an offence punishable under section 409 of the criminal law of Lagos State of Nigeria 2011.

“That you, Temitope Abigeal and Temitope Remi in the aforementioned magisterial district did unlawfully use a razor blade to cut one Okurabe Hannah on her cheek, eyelid, left ear and back of her neck which caused her grievous harm and thereby committed an offence punishable under section 243 of the criminal law of Lagos State of Nigeria 2011.”

The defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges.”

Their counsel, identified simply as Mr. Chukwudi, made a bail application.

The prosecutor, Mr. Ishola Samuel, objected to the bail application, saying that the complainant was presently admitted to the Lagos Island General Hospital.

Samuel said, “If bail is granted, the defendants are likely to abscond from the court and that would prejudice the interest of justice. In view of this, I ask this honourable court to discountenance the bail application of the defence counsel.”

The Magistrate, Mrs. M. O. Tanimola, ruled that the charge was a bailable offence.

She said, “Bail is hereby granted the two defendants in the sum of N200,000 each in like sum. Defendants are to produce two responsible sureties who are gainfully employed and with evidence of tax payments to the state government in the last three years.

“The sureties must be relatives of the defendants and their addresses are to be verified. Case is adjourned to the April 17 2013 for mention.”

The suspects are said to be currently remanded at the Kirikiri Minimum Prison.

Secondary school dropout consults for teaching hospital

The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested a 25-year-old man, Usen Effiong, for posing as a medical doctor and consulting for the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital for more than two months.

The State Police Command Public Relations Officer, Mr. Etim Dickson, said Effiong, an indigene of Ukot Usung Itam, in Itu Local Government Area was caught based on intelligence report from the UUTH.

He said, “The police arrested Effiong in the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital impersonating a medical doctor.

“The Chairman, Nigerian Medical Association, Akwa Ibom State branch, Dr. John Udobang denied ever knowing the young man. He is not a member of the association.”

He said the police had investigated Effiong and found out that he was actually impersonating a medical doctor, adding that the law would take its course.

Udobang told PUNCH Metro that he received a call from the Dean of the Faculty of Clinical Sciences, UUTH, Dr. Sunday Udo on the activities of Effiong.

He said, “Udo told me that they caught someone who has not finished secondary school parading himself as a consultant in the teaching hospital as a medical doctor.”

Udobang explained that he went to the teaching hospital where he interviewed the suspect and found him with stethoscope and sphygmomanometer (blood pressure apparatus).

He said, “We also found some prescriptions and forms that he wanted to fill to become a member of the association of resident doctors”

“Later, when they went to look for him, he was found in the doctor’s consulting room eating.

“He has confessed that he is not a doctor, and has not finished his school certificate, and has been coming there to consult in the last two months.”

Asked how it was possible for an SS II dropout to be consulting in a teaching hospital, Udobang replied that people used to see him but did not know his intention.

He said, “The Dean whose table he was sitting on used to see him and thought he was a medical student or a newly employed doctor that he has not known.

“It was after one of the younger doctors saw him and asked the Dean who he was that they started investigating him.”

Suspected cultist impregnates 7-year-old

By EMMA AMAIZE


WARRI — POLICE at Orerokpe, Delta State, have arrested a suspected cultist, simply called Monday, for allegedly raping and impregnating a seven-year-old girl (names withheld).
Vanguard learnt that the girl was living with her 27-year-old aunt, Destiny, in Ometa village, where Monday allegedly had carnal knowledge of her.
It was gathered that the victim fell sick after the incident but Destiny did not suspect it was as result of pregnancy until she alerted the child’s mother, a widow, who said she should be taken to the hospital.
The young child was taken to a clinic where a pelvic scan conducted on her confirmed she was pregnant.
A family source said: “The suspect was subsequently, arraigned in court yesterday, and remanded in prisons custody.”
As police rescue kidnapped principal, vice principal.
Meantime, police in Delta State have rescued the Principal and Vice Principal of Okuname High School, Agharho, Mr. Michael. Akpoduma and Mrs. Gerah Edith respectively, kidnapped by three gunmen, March 25.
Police officers and members of a vigilance group in the area stormed the kidnappers’ den in Okuname forest to rescue the victims, yesterday.
Delta State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ikechukwu Aduba, who confirmed the the rescue of the victims said the kidnappers initially demanded N10 million and later reduced it to N5 million to free the victims, adding: “No ransom was paid.”
The principal and vice principal were driving home in the principal’s Camry car, March 25, when they were ambushed at a bad spot and seized.
They took them away in another snatched  Camry, which they later abandoned.

Tuface/Annie Idibia wedding: I was not invited – Blackface

By Charles Mgbolu
Blackface has via a tweet confirmed that indeed he had not been among the 250 guests invited for the mega wedding of the year (so far) Tuface/Annie as he had gotten no invitation from Tuface to attend the ceremonies in Dubai.
Blackface tweeted

Mother gets 30 years jail for starving kids to death

TOKYO (AFP) – A 25-year-old mother whose two young children starved to death surrounded by rubbish after she locked them in her apartment has been sentenced to 30 years in jail in Japan, reports said Wednesday.
Single mother Sanae Nakamura regularly left her daughter, 3, and one-year-old son, in the apartment in western Osaka while she spent the night at her boyfriend’s house, reports said.
She had begin leaving them alone in March 2010, the Asahi Shimbun said, adding that sometime in early June that year she stopped coming home.
But when she did eventually return later that month the two tots were dead, the paper said.
Nakamura was convicted of murder by Japan’s lower courts and sentenced to 30 years at earlier hearings, which found she had known that leaving the children without sufficient food would kill them.
The country’s supreme court on Monday upheld the sentence, the Asahi and Kyodo News reported on Wednesday

Pornography Case: Covenant University was right – Court

By Onozure Dania
Justice Mobolaji Ojo of an Ogun High Court sitting in Ota, Wednesday, dismissed the suit filed by 20-year-old Longji Felix Vwamhi, a 400 level student of Information and Communication Technology department of Covenant University, challenging the institution over his expulsion for  being in possession of pornographic materials in his laptop. The case was dismissed for lack of merit.
It will be recalled that Vwamhi was expelled on November 27, 2012 following the outcome of the Disciplinary Committee set up by the university which found him guilty of being in possession of pornographic materials and indecent dressing.
The Covenant University, its vice chancellor and chancellor are the first, second and third defendants, respectively while Felix’s mother, Mrs Indo Felix Vwamhi,  of Block House 13 Mbora  Estate, Abuja is a co-plaintiff in the suit.
In his judgment, Ojo found out that the student has indeed violated the university regulations as contained in chapter 4 section 35 of its student hand book which prohibits public display or possession of pornographic films  or photograph.
He pointed out that the student also admitted being in possession of the laptop containing the pornographic materials and sharing same laptop with friends in the school.
He also stated that the panel set up by the university to try the student did not violet section 36 of the 1999 constitution as amended and the principles of “Audi Alterem Partem and Nemo Judex in Causa Sua” . That one cannot be a judge in his own course.”
According to him, the claimant did not state categorically that the chairman of the panel was biased being the Dean of Students Affairs whose staff investigated the student in question.
The Judge  also faulted the claimant’s counsel for his  inability to file counter affidavit against the issues raised by the respondents, adding that, in a situation where the party to a dispute could not file counter affidavit it would be assumed he admitted.
Justice Ojo however, stated that  the school authority should reconsider the letter of a passionate appeal made by the student’s father to revisit and review the decision of the Student Disciplinary Committee to avert possible miscarriage of justice and colossal human and material wastage.
He urged the university authority to tamper justice with mercy and recall the student stressing that he needs  encouragement to complete his education having spent four years already.