Dangote signs multibillion dollar deal with banks to build oil refinery in Nigeria

I go hustle till I aliko like dangote. * ice prince's voice*
The Nigerian business billionaire has signed multi million dollar deal with banks to build oil refinary in Nigeria.

Nigerian Female Hairstyle In The Sixties

One problem that has been looming around in  african
is that we don't always appreciate what we have
we always believe that what we have being given by
God is infrerior to what others have. I just saw this
article on dailymail showing photographs of
nigerian hairstyles then by J.D. Okhai Ojeikere.
The photographer spent the Sixties and
Seventies documenting the hairstyles of the
women he encountered in his native Nigeria. He
snapped over 1,000 photos of these complex
coiffures, from subjects he found on the streets,
in offices, and at wedding celebrations.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
femail/article-2411686/Gravity-defying-
hairstyles-Sixties-Nigeria-photographer-J-D-
Ojeikere.html

Man Caught 'Driving Without A Steering Wheel' - Car Talk

A South Australian man is facing charges after
he was allegedly caught driving a car without a
steering wheel — with just vice grips clamped to
the part where the wheel should have been for
control.
Police said they pulled over the white Holden in
the Adelaide suburb of Gilles Plains after they
spotted it driving dangerously with two blown
tyres, ABC Online reports.
When officers peered in the window they saw the
car allegedly had no steering wheel and the 38-
year-old driver was using a pair of vice grips to
steer.
When police ran a check on the vehicle they
found it was unregistered, uninsured and subject
to a defect notice.
It was also allegedly involved in a crash with
another vehicle just moments before it was
stopped.
The driver from the suburb of Northfield is facing
charges of driving while disqualified and
returning a positive drug test.
More : http://news.msn.co.nz/
worldnews/8694209/man-caught-driving-car-
without-steering-wheel

Five-year Imprisonment For WAEC Exam Cheats.

The federal government yesterday rose from
its weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC)
meeting approving the enactment of an Act to
amend the West African Examinations Council
(WAEC) Act, CAP W4, Laws of the federation
2004 to give effect to the revised convention
of WAEC, 2003 in Nigeria.
Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufa’i,
disclosed this yesterday while briefing
journalists on the outcome of the FEC
meeting, stressing that under the new Act
examination malpractice will fetch five year
jail term for offenders or the option of
N200,000 fine.
The 2004 Act, to which an amendment is
being sought, states that WAEC is empowered
to take disciplinary action against those who
have contravened the Act by illegally using
examination papers and leakage of
examination papers, etc.
In particular, section 19(1) reads: “such
candidate shall not take or be allowed to take
or continue the examination, in addition, he
shall be prohibited from taking any
examination held or conducted by or on behalf
of the council for a period of two years
immediately following upon such
contraventions and if a candidate aforesaid
has already taken any papers at the
examination, his result therefrom shall be
cancelled.”
In addition, the candidate may be prosecuted
and if found guilty shall be “liable on
conviction to a fine of N200,000 or
imprisonment for a term of five years or to
both such fine and imprisonment.”
Section 20 (2) reads: “the penalties contained
in this sub-section (a) may be imposed
whether or not a prosecution for an offence
under section 20 or 21 of this Act has been
brought or is being conducted or contemplated
and (b) shall be in addition to such other
penalties as a court may impose upon
conviction for an offence under the aforesaid
section 20 or 21.”
Rufa'i in a memo tabled before FEC noted that
there was the need to domesticate the revised
convention establishing the WAEC, Accra,
2003, pointing out that: “The ordinances have
been replaced with the conventions which
confers legal personality on the Council as an
international organisation.”
“The council established in 1952 and operated
in Gold Coast (Ghana) , Nigeria, Sierra Leone
and The Gambia and Liberia “now operates
under a revised convention signed in 2003
and functions through committees.”
The federal government also directed the
Ministry of Justice to take further necessary
action on the matter.
The government also approved the policy for
the establishment of National Health Care
Waste Management for Nigeria. The Minister
of Health and his Environment counterpart,
Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu and Hajiya Hadiza
Mailafiya respectively jointly presented a
memo to FEC on the policy.
As a signatory to the Basel Convention on
control of trans-boundary movements of
hazardous wastes and disposal, the
domestication of which is in progress and
which necessitated the need for a national
health waste policy, guideline and strategic
plan, “Nigeria at present does not have a
coordinated healthcare waste management
system, especially in the area of segregation,
collection, storage, treatment and disposal,”
Mailafiya said.
She said the federal government, having
deliberated on the matter, approved the
adoption of the national health waste
management policy and guidelines, and the
establishment of the proposed National
steering committee, taking cognisance of the
fact that in the past “it has made some efforts
in form of provision of high temperature
incinerators at tertiary health facilities which
form part of the healthcare policy and
strategic plan.”
The government also approved the draft
national fire safety code which will be
implemented nationwide.
A post-council document stated that: ‘The
code had become an urgent necessity in view
of the rapid urbanisation and industrialisation
that require safety inputs in the construction
industry and town planning as well as
industrial chemical processes.”
“The national fire safety code stipulates safety
requirements in buildings estate, markets and
similar structures which must be met before
approval of building development plans are
granted by relevant authorities,” it added.
The national fire safety code prescribes
minimum standards for the establishment of a
reasonable level of fire safety, Property
protection from hazards resulting from fire,
explosion and hazardous materials.
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/fg-waec-
offenders-risk-five-year-jail-term-n200-000-
fine/158179/

HIV Vaccine Reported To Be Successful In Trials By Canadian University.

HIV vaccine reported to be successful in trials by
Canadian university
Researchers at the University of Western Ontario
recently completed Phase 1 human trials of a
new preventative HIV vaccine, and the results
give hope that they may be on track towards a
commercially available vaccine that will protect
against HIV.
The vaccine, called SAV001-H, was developed by
Dr. Chil-Yong Kang and his team at Western
University's Schulich School of Medicine &
Dentistry. So far, SAV001-H is unique in being
the only preventative vaccine to use a
genetically-modified version of the whole virus
(similar to vaccines for polio, influenza and
rabies, to name a few).
"We infect the cells with a genetically modified
HIV-1," Kang said in an interview with Ontario
Business Report. "The infected cells produce lots
of virus, which we collect, purify and inactivate
so that the vaccine won’t cause AIDS in
recipients, but will trigger immune responses."
This will hopefully make the vaccine not only
effective, but easy and cheap to produce.
Now, Phase 1 trials (which started in March of
2012) are specifically to test if the vaccine is
safe, and to identify any side effects (if any). It's
not until Phases 2 and 3 that the actual
effectiveness of the vaccine is truly put to the
test. However, it seems that SAV001-H passed
its Phase 1 trials with flying colours, since no
adverse effects were reported in any of the
patients that participated in the study.
[ More Geekquinox: Mammals could harbour
over 300,000 unknown viruses ]
With this success, it now opens the doors for
Kang and his team to continue on with Phase 2
trials, where they'll test the vaccine's ability to
produce an immune response and its overall
effectiveness.
Dr. Kang goes into details about the vaccine and
the trials in this video:

Frsc writes Toyota over high rate of crashes.

Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps,
Osita Chidoka, said on Wednesday that he had
written to the Managing Director of Toyota
Nigeria Limited over high frequency of crashes
involving Toyota buses, especially the Hiace
brand.
Chidoka said extensive investigations and
analysis of commuter vehicles carried out by the
FRSC between 2007-2012, showed that Toyota
Hiace buses were involved in 1,844 accidents.
He said 31 percent of bus accidents within the
period also resulted in fire incidents.
The FRSC boss, who spoke at a sensitisation
programme on speed limiting devices in Abuja,
stressed that the situation was unacceptable to
his organisation.
He said the study indicated that road traffic
crashes involving buses had been on the
increase since 2007 and that available data
showed an average yearly increase of 126
crashes involving Toyota Hiace buses,
representing 48 per cent of the total number of
buses involved in accidents.
He noted that Nigeria started recording high
Toyota Hiace crashes in August 2010.
“It is on record that Toyota Hiace YH3 buses
were recalled in Australia as a result of fire in
1990 and recently in 2012. The 1990 safety
recall closed August 26, 2010, the period Nigeria
started recording high Toyota Hiace crashes
involving fire incidents. The corps has therefore
written to the Managing Director of Toyota to
bring this menace to their attention,” he said.
The Corps Marshall advised commercial bus
owners to install speed limiting devices in their
vehicles and obey stipulated speed limits while
plying the roads.
Chidoka said the FRSC had also written to the
management of Young Shall Grow Motors over
the frequent involvement of their buses in
crashes, saying the company’s buses were
involved in 32 crashes which resulted in 71
deaths and 93 injuries between January 2012
and June 2013.
He said that the FRSC was carrying out a full
audit of safety processes of the transport
company, spanning its drivers, vehicles, and
company policies to ascertain their compliance
with minimum safety standards.
The FRSC, Chidoka said, was collecting data on
another transport firm, Peace Mass Transit, and
would also conduct safety audit on the company.
He noted that the PMT and the ABC transport
company had voluntarily commenced the
installation of speed limiters, which he described
as an effective means of preventing speed
violation and resultant consequences, in their
buses.
Secretary to Government of the Federation,
Senator Pius Anyim said there was a need to
work together to stop speed violation by
motorists, adding that the Federal Government
believed that speed limiting devices in
commercial vehicles and trucks would reduce
road crashes in the country.
source http://www.punchng.com/news/frsc-
writes-toyota-over-high-rate-of-crashes/

15 Years of google and see they have achieved

Page and Brin started it all in 1996 . . . Enjoy
the information and see where they are NOW