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FACEBOOK ENCOURAGING ORGAN DONATIONS
(CNN) — On average, 18 people in the United States die each day waiting for an organ transplant. Billionaire Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg wants to change that. He announced Tuesday that the social networking site wants to “help solve the crisis” by allowing users to volunteer as potential organ donors in the United States and the…
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WHAT IS IN YOUR NAME?………..CURSE/BLESSING?
I have been thinking seriously what people think about names and why some parents give their children some “funny” names. It is really funny when you hear some English names like ‘Courage” (reminds me of courage the cowardly dog on cartoon network),” Independence” (must the person always remind others that 1st of October is independence…
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FCMB/FINBANK MERGE…..Who pays the price?……….again
The nation’s banking industry, has once again, downsized its workforce by 550, raising the number of disengaged workers in the sector to about 3,000 in recent months. specifically only Finbank employees were involved in this latest exercise, under the integration scheme of the two merging financial institutions. FCMB has earlier laid off 320 members of…
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DIARY OF AN EXPECTANT FATHER………….
Dear Diary (JayneWhyte), About Me!My name is Suonye Jacob Bara, I am a native of Nkoro, Rivers state. I work for a Non-Governmental Organisation. I got married to the love of my life Agnes last year and I am indeed happily married. My wife and I are expecting our first child and we are really excited…
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Microsoft, PIN and Me…..
A Report on the Microsoft NGO Connection Day; Microsoft NGO Academy. By Jayne Arinze- Egemonye (WRAN) The Microsoft NGO Connection Day Nigeria brings non-governmental organizations together to network, share information, learn more about Microsoft technologies and solutions through technical demonstrations and also compete for the Tech4Dev Awards-the award that showcases the best use of ICT…
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IWD-Connecting Girls, Inspiring Futures
On the 8th of March every year around the world,we commemorate the International women’s Day. It is a day we raise awareness of the changes brought to women’s life, educate the general public on discrimination against women and celebrate women’s achievements. The theme for IWD, 2012: Connecting Girls, InspiringFutures. For me, this is an interesting theme for this year…
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DATA ARE "LIVES"- six months within the walls of SCMS
It was a long ride but also a very interesting one working as an intern in the monitoring and evaluation Department of John Snow Inc. I never felt that I would miss everyone that much as I am presently.While an Intern, I worked with data, data for me represents lives-human lives and I would like to share my thoughts with…
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MY METHOD OF FAMILY PLANNING
Do you know that: Family Planning is an informed decision by an individual or couple on how many children to have and when to have them and then achieving this by using modern contraceptive methods. As such, Family Planning plays a major role in maternal, newborn and child health. Family Planning can help avert high…
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The Act of Breast Sucking-A cure for Breast Cancer?
Is this real?. Did this information come from the Federal Ministry of Health? and if yes, then i guess i will need passionate advocates to come up with strategies to inform more people. I just received a message from a friend saying: “Very soon women will start paying men handsomely to suck their breasts. why?…
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CROWD OUT AIDS- for young people, by young people
Youth leaders from around the world on April 24th, 2012 presented a set of youth-defined recommendations that will guide the UNAIDS Secretariat’s work on HIV and young people through 2015. The recommendations were received by UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé at an event in Paiko community, Gwagwalada, Abuja, organized in collaboration with Education as a…
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