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- If You Have Any Of These Symptoms, Go For Test Immediately To Avoid AIDS
- Rihanna goes off on journalist who branded her a poor role model
- What is wrong with this photo?
- Tragedy! Bridegroom Dies In Accident on The Way to Wedding
- Ella magazine publisher, Lisa Walsh, delivers baby girl in Dublin
- Photos Of Sick OJB's Present Condition
- Unilag Creative Arts students protest against sexual harassment
- See Student Who Gave Birth Inside Toilet In OAU & Her Baby; Plus The Updates
- Actress Anita Joseph Caught Smoking Indian Hemp
- Get $1,000 off vehicles ordered through MicoStar Motors
- Dear OBB readers: I love my fiance but I hate his family
- Rafael Nadal knocked out in first round at Wimbledon
| If You Have Any Of These Symptoms, Go For Test Immediately To Avoid AIDS Posted: 25 Jun 2013 11:06 AM PDT  Medical experts tell us that though there's no cure for HIV/AIDS yet, when detected early, HIV can be managed and prevented from progressing to AIDS. The Director-General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS, Prof. John Idoko, advises every sexually active person to regularly undergo HIV screening, so that they will know their HIV status. Epidemiologist and Deputy Director, HIV/AIDS Division, Federal Ministry of Health, Mr. Segilola Araoye, recommends being tested at least once a year if you do things that can transmit HIV infection, such as injecting drugs or steroids with used injection equipment; having sex for money or drugs; having sex with an HIV infected person; having more than one sex partner since your HIV test; and having a sex partner who has had other sex partners since your last HIV test. Experts say you are more likely to be infected with HIV if you have ever shared injection drug needles and syringes; have ever had sex without a condom with someone who had HIV; have ever had a sexually transmitted disease like Chlamydia or gonorrhoea; received a blood transfusion or a blood clotting factor between 1978 and 1985; and if you have ever had sex with someone who has done any of those things. And if you happen to be one of those people who still dither about having HIV screening, here are the symptoms to look out for as you wonder whether or not you are HIV-positive. The first one is fever. Family doctor, Eugene Osazie, says within a month or two of HIV entering the body, 40-90 per cent of people experience flu-like symptoms known as "acute retroviral syndrome." She also notes that sometimes, HIV may not manifest for years. "As such, many people may even be HIV-positive without being aware," she says. She notes that such fever may be accompanied by certain symptoms such as fatigue, swollen lymph glands, and a sore throat, which may last for a few weeks. "By this time, the virus is moving into the blood stream and starting to replicate in large numbers," Osazie warns. She also warns that when HIV enters the bloodstream, it begins to attack certain white blood cells known as CD4 cells — the specialised cells that are a part of our immune system. "The immune system then produces antibodies to fight off infection. When you take an HIV test, doctors are actually looking for the presence of these antibodies, which confirm that HIV infection has occurred," Osazie counsels. Again, you should be worried if you now feel fatigued by simple activities that you were used to, such as walking; or if you feel pain in the joints and muscles, among others. "One of the things that should ginger you up is when you start having swellings in the armpits, groin and neck, as these are some of the parts of the body where you have the lymph nodes. "The lymph nodes are a sort of garrisons, as they act as filters for foreign particles and are important in the proper functioning of the immune system. When they are inflamed or swollen, therefore, it is an indication that something has gone wrong in the body, and only a competent medical screening can tell us what is cooking," Dr. David Anyaegbuna of DuCross Clinics, Festac Town, Lagos, says. Sore throat and headaches are also things to worry about if you have been engaging in risky behaviours as outlined above, experts warn. Ditto unexplained rash or boils, Anyaegbuna says. Physicians also say nausea, vomiting and constant stooling (diarrhoea), as well as weight loss should be a wake-up call for HIV screening, as these may be signs that the immune system is being depleted systematically. Doctors also advise that if you have prolonged dry cough that has become resistant to regular antibiotics; or if you always have night sweats even when the weather is cool; or if you develop mouth ulcers or genital herpes, go for HIV screening. The online portal, health.com, also warns that if the colour of the nail changes, or if it thickens, splits or becomes discoloured with black or brown lines, HIV may be responsible. As HIV courses through the body, Anyaegbuna says, the virus damages the nerves. It is then people start having tingling in the hands and feet — otherwise known as "peripheral neuropathy," as you find among those who have diabetes. Gynaecologists also warn that if, as a young or middle aged woman, you have fewer and lighter periods, it may be a manifestation of advanced HIV, which sometimes increases the incidence of menstrual irregularities. Idoko agrees that those working in the field of HIV/AIDS need regular skills acquisition training. And in order to further equip resource persons, the Federal Ministry of Health, in collaboration with global bodies that include the World Health Organisation, holds regular stakeholders' meetings, during which workers are trained to better understand relevant issues. At one of such trainings in Lagos recently, a WHO official, Dr. Niyi Ogundiran, notes that the trainings aim to provide caregivers and those working in the field of HIV/AIDS practical knowledge about how to provide support for people living positively. "The training also seeks to sharpen caregivers' communications skills to enable them to provide appropriate guidance for people living with the virus," Ogundiran says. On the paucity of funds that tends to affect health care delivery in the country, Araoye advocates continued judicious utilisation of available resources in order to curb the spread of the disease.  |
| Rihanna goes off on journalist who branded her a poor role model Posted: 25 Jun 2013 10:51 AM PDT   Well trust RiRi to respond. She posted a photo of the journalist on her instagram with the caption: "LOL!!!! My money got a bad habit of pissing people off!! If you sincerely wanna help little girls more than their own parents do, here's a toxic tip: don't be amateur with your articles, you sound bitter! What's all this about hair and nails and costumes and tattoos?? ....That shit ain't clever!!! That shit ain't journalism! That's a sad sloppy menopausal mess!!! Nobody over here acts like they're perfect! I don't pretend that I'm like you, i just live... My life!! And I don't know why y'all still act so surprised by any of it!! "Role Model" is not a position or title that I have ever campaigned for, so chill wit dat! I got my own fucked up shit to work on, I'll never portray that as perfect, but for right now it's ME!! Call it what ya want!! Toxic was cute, Poisonous Pop Princess had a nice ring to it, just a lil wordy! And P.S. my first American Vogue cover was in 2011...APRIL!!! #ElizabethAnnJones"Read the article that made Rihanna angry HERE  |
| What is wrong with this photo? Posted: 25 Jun 2013 10:42 AM PDT   |
| Tragedy! Bridegroom Dies In Accident on The Way to Wedding Posted: 25 Jun 2013 10:38 AM PDT  "Four persons including two men and two women, who were occupants of the Toyota Siena, with registration number USL 111 AE, died in the accident. The accident was as a result of speeding. The light rain showers equally contributed." On their way to the wedding introduction, the groom, his grandmother, uncle and the uncle's wife who were riding in a Toyota Siena bus had a head-on collision with heavy duty truck belonging to Setraco Construciton Company. They were on their way to Uromi, in Esan North East Local Government Area when the accident occurred around Iruekpen, in Esan West Local Government Area of Edo State. Head of Operation, Iruekpen Unit Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Mr. John Omokandugba, said the accident was caused by dangerous overtaking by the Toyota bus. Oh dear... how will the bride cope with this sad incident?  |
| Ella magazine publisher, Lisa Walsh, delivers baby girl in Dublin Posted: 25 Jun 2013 10:31 AM PDT   Meanwhile Ella magazine will be relaunched in a bigger and better way by August this year.  |
| Photos Of Sick OJB's Present Condition Posted: 25 Jun 2013 10:23 AM PDT  Bank: UBA || Name: Babatunde Okungbowa || Number: 1015075120 I don't know how true, but I hear that OJB has only 8 weeks left to live if help does not come quick!  |
| Unilag Creative Arts students protest against sexual harassment Posted: 25 Jun 2013 10:21 AM PDT   The students stormed the Arts block this morning with placards to register their grievance and later moved their protest to the Social Science department. Female students of the department claim their lecturers are making life difficult for them by demanding sexual favours before they can pass their courses. The students say they have had enough and after a meeting yesterday, decided to protest against the sexual harassment that has become the order of the day. The school authority is yet to respond to these allegations. See more photos from the protest after the cut...     |
| See Student Who Gave Birth Inside Toilet In OAU & Her Baby; Plus The Updates Posted: 25 Jun 2013 10:17 AM PDT  The photo above is that Oyinlola Rotimi, a 400-Level student of OAU and her baby. She has now revealed the circumstances that led to her controversial delivery of the baby inside toilet... Segun Olugbile and Sodiq Oyeleke of Punch narrate the dramatic story of this 22-year-old student. Without clarifying the circumstances that led to the delivery in the toilet, many on the social media put Miss Oyinlola Rotimi on trial. The student of Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology at OAU delivered a baby boy last Wednesday. While the news went round the campus, the traumatised young mother was hurriedly taken to the institution's Health Centre by two cleaners, Mrs. Shipebi Grace and Mrs. Cecilia Ologbenla. The social media was further flooded with stories that Oyinlola wanted to kill her baby. The OAU management investigated the matter and found out it was not true. Rotimi, who was discharged from the hospital on Friday, has also narrated her own side of the story. In spite of the trauma she had passed through since last Wednesday, the student, a native of Ijabe, a border town between Osun and Kwara states, says she is happy that the embarrassment she received from the controversy that surrounded the birth of her baby has turned into a blessing for her. She says the baby's birth has made her more popular and important in the society. 'God has the best plan for me' "Why would I flush or kill my baby after going through the pains of carrying him for about good nine months? I am not heartless and I thank God for my life and the safe delivery. I know God has the best plan for me and my baby. I seriously appreciate the cleaners for their assistance because I got here (health centre) before I understood everything that happened to me. I am happy that I am alive and my baby is alive too. I'm also using this opportunity to thank the VC, the doctors and nurses, my lecturers and everybody because they all stood by me. They all became my father, my mother and everything to me. "Right now, I can call myself a celebrity and definitely I'm going to be greater than a celebrity. My baby too is going to be great. Look at the circumstance that surrounds his birth, just some days old, he is already all over in the news around the world and everybody is happy to see him or hear about his story. He will surely go beyond where I am now. He has turned me into a kind of celebrity. " Circumstances surrounding the baby's birth "I was purging all through the night and I had no idea of what labour pain was all about. Actually, I was feeling pressed, I can't call it a labour pain because I was visiting the toilet all through the night till that morning. I just went to the toilet to go and purge when I noticed something just came out of me which I found out was the baby. The baby entered the closet. I was just there shouting, bleeding and people who saw the blood came out to help me alongside the baby. "I was really scared! I was not expecting a baby. I went to the toilet but seeing a baby was terrifying because I was not expecting him or her to come out yet. It is absolutely not true that I took to my heels when people came to help me. It happened in Moremi Hall toilet and the toilet is a public one where everybody takes their bath, fetch water and clean up. So, some people were around fetching water, having their bath as usual, while I was in the toilet planning to defecate. My friend called the cleaner for help because she was an elderly woman. I was very scared and people around too couldn't help because we are all young female students. The cleaner later helped to carry the baby out and brought it to the Health Centre along with me." Her plan for the baby "I will continue to keep him more handsome, healthier and nurture him to attain greater height in life. But what he will become later in life is not for me to decide but he will definitely become what God wants him to become. I will just try to train him in God's way and I am sure His (God) plan for his life will be realised." The bean cake she ate deceived her – CSO According to the institution's Chief Security Officer, Mr. Paul Ogidi, Rotimi thought she had stomach upset instead of labour pains because of the bean cake she took before going to bed. "She got to campus late at night on Tuesday and it was learnt that she could not immediately get herself something to eat but later resolved to buy beans cake within the campus. After eating the snack, she complained severely of running stomach, urinated and defecated at regular intervals. "She felt her stomach disorder was caused by the bean cake that she took the previous night – not knowing it was labour pains." University law does not forbid pregnancy - OAU Authorities of OAU have blamed the improper use of the social media for the allegation that Oyinlola attempted to flush her baby away. The Head of Public Relations, Mr. Biodun Olarenwaju, who spoke on behalf of the management, described the incident as a "social media rumour." He said, "Social media is designed primarily to disseminate information. But in the Nigerian context, many people disseminate rumours. The only information that should be seen there should be those persons who have the authority to speak concerning that particular incident. "The only truth in the social media episode is that a bouncing baby boy was delivered in the toilet of the female hostel in our university. Other tales on the social media were totally incorrect. Students should not encourage rumour mongering because of the image of the person involved. They have to be careful not to make rumour the news." He explained that it was legal for the student to have delivered the baby in the school, stating that universities are institutions for adults. "It is not a crime for a student to be pregnant. There is no law or decree that states that a student should be punished, an adult for that matter, for getting pregnant. And there is no law in this university that states that an undergraduate cannot become pregnant," he added. 'My friend didn't plan to kill her baby' Rotimi's friend, Oluwayemisi Satope, who was in Room 103, Block B of Moremi Hall, together with the undergraduate mother, the night before the incident, said Oyinlola was willing to have the baby. She explained that there was no attempt by them to kill the boy. She added, "The truth of the matter is that we don't know how to go about it when we saw the baby. It was our first time and we didn't want to make a mistake. I had to call Mama Cleaner to assist us. Immediately it happened, I was the first person to shout for help and two cleaners appeared to assist. "Diana (Rotimi) had to spend the night on campus to enable her to prepare for her 8:00 am examination the next day, because she stays off-campus. That mid-night, she started complaining of stomach upset and was visiting toilet regularly. A few minutes to 7:00am, she went to the toilet to defecate but delivered a baby." Students name baby after VC And as soon as the birth and survival of the baby became known on campus, students in their characteristic manner, launched into an unsolicited naming feast for the baby. Before the official naming ceremony scheduled to hold on Wednesday (tomorrow), OAU students have named him after the institution's Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Bamitale Omole. At the Anglo-Moz Car Park of the university, they gathered and named the baby Moremigbemi (Moremi-blesses-me), Oriyomi (My-head-saves-me), Oluwadayisi (God-protects-this), Eniolorunopa (He-who-God-does-not-kill), Bamitale (Be-with-me-permanently) Omole. Others at the Moremi Hall named the baby Orisamoremi (Deity Moremi), Moremidayisi (Moremi-protects-this), Omomoremi (Child-of-Moremi), Olorunwa (God-exists), Oniyapupo (One-with-many-mothers) Moremioku (Moremi-is-alive), Iyabo (Mother-Moremi-is-Back), among others. Moremi is a mythical legend of the Yoruba race. We forced the door open to rescue Oyinlola and her baby – Cleaners Also, the two cleaners, Mrs. Shipebi Grace and Mrs. Cecilia Ologbenla, in a chat with our correspondents, said there was no evidence to prove that Oyinlola wanted to kill her baby. The cleaners noted that they had to force the door open when they were called to ensure the safety of Oyinlola and her baby who was crying. According to them, the baby was in the water closet when they entered the toilet. "She would not have wanted to attempt to kill the baby the way we saw her. She only panicked when we forced the door in. We had to force the door in because of the cry of the baby. In fact, it was one of them that came to call us, but you know some students are impatient. They didn't confirm what happened before they started spreading rumour." But the undergraduate father keeps mum Meanwhile, efforts made by our correspondents to speak with the baby's father proved abortive. He is a 400 Level student of Mechanical Engineering, and is sitting for the second semester examination currently on at the institution. One of his friends who spoke on the condition of anonymity explained that the young father is very sober about the development. The friend alleged that the young man and Rotimi had been friends for some time. Along the line, Oyinlola got pregnant and they decided not to abort it in order not to compound their 'sin'.  |
| Actress Anita Joseph Caught Smoking Indian Hemp Posted: 25 Jun 2013 10:14 AM PDT |
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| Dear OBB readers: I love my fiance but I hate his family Posted: 24 Jun 2013 11:45 AM PDT  I am engaged to a really nice man but I'm thinking of calling off the engagement because I hate his family. He's from one of the prominent rich families in Lagos and they are of the worst breed. They are controlling, they don't mind their business, they tell their children what to do, they make their decisions for them and their matriarch is the opinion of the family. Nobody dares question her decisions or argues with her. My fiance's sister told me I have to quit my job after I marry into their family. My future mother-in-law has summoned my father to her home on several occasions, asking him the most belittling questions. She even had their family doctor examine me, and the doctor asked me how many men I've been with in the past and if I've ever had an abortion. Duh! They question every thing you do, even the clothes you wear. I'm not yet married into this family and I'm already having panic attacks. I really love this guy but I don't think I can deal with his family. They plan to completely clip my wings once I marry their son and I don't think that's the life I want. Should I walk away or is there a way to handle such a family if I go ahead with the wedding? Please help me.  |
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