FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO PAY PREGNANT WOMEN. WHAT IS YOUR VIEW?

The Federal Government has commenced a primary healthcare programme that includes payment of N5, 000 to every pregnant woman that patronizes primary health centres in the country.
The South-west Zonal Coordinator of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency. Dr 0ladimeji Olayinka, disclosed this at the training of 180 midwives in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital on Tuesday.

The agency, which is under the Federal Ministry of Health, is implementing the new primary healthcare project under the Subsidy Re-investment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P).

It handles several intervention projects for the Federal Government.

Olayinka explained that the agency will pay the amount to every pregnant woman that registers for antenatal at the primary health centres in four instalments.

Describing it as “conditional cash transfer,” the zonal coordinator explained that beneficiaries will receive N1, 000 twice during antenatal, receive N2, 000 at childbirth and another N1, 000 after childbirth to enable them apply the financial aid at different stages of need including receiving immunization.

He said the initiative is aimed at helping to improve maternal health and to reduce mortality rate in the country.
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THE TONTO DIKE YOU DID NOT KNOW: I GUESS YOU DID NOT KNOW THESE FACTS!

TONTO DIKE

Nollywood actress, Tonto Dike may strike many as a magnet for controversy, but a stroll into her world reveals there’s more to her than controversies, tattoos, cigarettes, twitter fights and drama.

Here’s the Tonto Dike you do not know:

Born on June 9th, 1985, Dike is now a force to reckon with in Nollywood, the Nigerian movie industry. With an increasing number of Nollywood movies to her credit, she has gradually acquired a large fan base among Nollywood movie fans, both in Africa and in other parts of the world such as the United States, where these movies are exceedingly popular. The light skinned, beautiful and talented Tonto has her determination and her God to thank for her break into the limelight.

Growing up without her mum, Tonto was confined to the parental care of her father and later on, her stepmother, in a family of nine. At a tender age, she gained admiration for notable Hollywood stars Julia Roberts and Al Pacino, and said to herself, ‘I can do this.‘

Her description of Julia Roberts: ‘Lighthearted and serious-minded, brave in the face of any movie role that comes her way…. I see a lot of Julia Roberts in myself.‘ The journey to acting had its rough patches, the most threatening being her admission into University to study engineering. She says, ‘Deep within my heart, I cried, thinking I would never achieve my dreams.‘ She had embraced the idea of the incompatibility between higher education and acting.

However, she decided to take on both activities with enough passion to keep her going till the end, a decision that worked in her favour. Tonto is a graduate of petrochemical engineering from the University of Science and Technology (RSUST) Nigeria.

Tonto’s big break came in 2006 through a Nigerian reality TV show, The Next Movie Star, where she emerged the first runner-up, exposing her to the world of Nigerian movie entertainment. Her experience, she says, was a lot of fun and very emotional, helping her learn the concepts of theater arts, including character analysis and interpretation.

At the end of the reality TV show, Tonto had become acquainted with a few people in the industry who believed in her dreams, and movie roles started coming. Since then, she has been fully involved in a series of Nigerian movies, acting alongside other prominent Nigerian actors.

She still has bigger dreams, with Hollywood and the opportunity to take classes at the New York Film Academy as her next targets. She also intends to own a standard editing studio and a petrochemicals firm in Nigeria.

LOUD MUSIC ON HEAD PHONES CAUSES DEAFNESS DAMAGING NERVES LIKE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS (MS)

LOUD music played on earphones causes deafness by having a similar effect on nerves as multiple sclerosis (MS), scientists have learned.

New research shows that noise levels above 110 decibels strip insulation from nerve fibres carrying signals from the ear to the brain.

Loss of the protective coating, called myelin, disrupts electrical nerve signals.

The same process, this time due to an attack from the immune system, damages nerves in the brain and results in MS.

Loud noises are well known to lead to hearing problems such as temporary deafness or tinnitus (ringing in the ears). But this is the first time scientists have been able to identify the underlying damage to nerve cells.

The findings are published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Lead researcher Dr Martine Hamann, from the University of Leicester, said "The research allows us to understand the pathway from exposure to loud noises to hearing loss. Dissecting the cellular mechanisms underlying this condition is likely to bring a very significant healthcare benefit to a wide population. The work will help prevention as well as progression into finding appropriate cures for hearing loss."

The scientists found that myelin lost as a result of noise exposure regrows in time, meaning hearing can recover.

"We now understand why hearing loss can be reversible in certain cases," Dr Hamann added. "We showed that the sheath around the auditory nerve is lost in about half of the cells we looked at, a bit like stripping the electrical cable linking an amplifier to the loudspeaker. The effect is reversible and after three months, hearing has recovered and so has the sheath around the auditory nerve."

The work is part of ongoing research into the effects of loud noises on the cochlea nucleus, a brainstem region that receives sound signals from the inner ear.

The team has already shown that damage to cells in the cochlea nucleus can cause tinnitus

  SOURCE: Independent

ACN FAULTS ASARI'S $40 MILLION CONTRACT

The Action Congress of Nigeria has described as illegal, unconstitutional and indefensible, the $40m being paid annually to some ex-militants to guard the country’s oil pipelines.

In a statement on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said “the reckless manner political power is exercised and monopolised by a few individuals is partly overheating the polity.

The party recalled that on January 22, 2012, it issued a statement in which it queried the rationale behind the memo that was presented to the Federal Executive Council seeking approval for a strategic concession partnership between NIMASA and Global West to enforce regulatory compliance and surveillance of the entire Nigerian Maritime domain.

In the same statement, the ACN expressed concerns, because the Federal Government had withdrawn a bill before the National Assembly that would have performed the same functions being outsourced to a private firm.

 SOURCE:The Punch

JONATHAN SEEKS INVESTMENT IN LOCAL OIL REFINING

The dream of becoming oil producing area and therefore entitled to more funds from the federation account is gradually translating to reality for more states outside the traditional oil-rich southern Nigeria. Some states in the northern part of the country are also warming up to join the league of oil producers.

Anambra State, in the South East zone, yesterday became the latest oil producing area in the country when President Goodluck Jonathan commissioned the production of oil at the Aguleri, facility of the Orient Petroleum Resources (OPR) Plc.

Recently, oil was reportedly found in Sokoto State in the North West zone. And now, Kogi is warming up to join the league as Governor Idris Wada said oil wells had been discovered and were being explored in Odeke community in Ibaji Local Council of the state.

The unveiling of the multi-billion dollar Orient Petroleum’s production facilities in Anambra was also historical as it emerged the first oil production from an inland basin in the country.

At the official commissioning, President Jonathan said the production had opened a new vista of opportunities for Anambra indigenes and the country. He lauded the integrated style of production adopted by the board and management of Orient.

Calling on other operators to emulate the local company, the President expressed confidence that the model, when replicated widely, would end the era of gas flaring and environmental degradation in oil producing communities.