Dear President Obama, Please Throw Away Your Selfie Stick and Use My Emofix

 
Dear POTUS, Please Throw Away Your Selfie Stick and Use My Emofix

It is really an embarrassment to see that President of the United States (POTUS) Barack Obama is still using a Selfie Stick! When I am using an Emofix, the first most advanced gadget for taking selfies and videos in the world and Emofix has no stick or any funny looking handle like the ridiculous monopod called selfie stick. Using the selfie stick is now old fashioned and outdated since the Emofix bluetooth selfie and video gadget launched in Europe!

 
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Facebook Celebrates One Year Anniversary of Internet.Org App

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One year in: How Facebook’s Internet.org Free Basic Services are bringing people online

Facebook is celebrating the one-year anniversary of the introduction of the Internet.org app by hosting a Developer Day at iHub in Nairobi, Kenya on Monday, 27 July.

The Nigerian Government Did Not Cause the Predicament of Majority of Nigerians

 The Nigerian government did not cause the predicament of majority of Nigerians, but their own wrong choices in lifestyles indoors and outdoors.

There are too many empty lives in Nigeria, because majority of Nigerians have empty minds without focus and without purpose on the best values and virtues of life. That is why majority of Nigerians are under achievers and millions of Nigerian graduates are jobless and unemployable.
Majority of Nigerians don’t even know how to use their incomes to appreciate and improve their lives. They have no other ambition beyond their salaries and their ultimate ambition is to be rich? Even when they become rich for their selfish gratifications, they are still intellectually retarded and lack basic communication skills for their intellectual development.

Breaking News: Nigeria Goes One Year Without A Case of Polio

 Senator Oluremi Tinubu giving a child an oral polio vaccine with a house-to-house polio vaccination team in Nigeria.  

Nigeria Goes One Year Without A Case of Polio 

EVANSTON, Ill., July 24, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today marks one year since the last case of polio in Nigeria, the only remaining polio-endemic country in Africa. This achievement – the longest period Nigeria has gone without a case of the paralyzing disease – could signal the world will soon see a polio-free Africa, a significant global health milestone.

Rotary has been a leader in the fight to eradicate polio since 1985, when it launched the first global initiative to immunize the world's children against polio - its flagship PolioPlus program. The organization has donated more than $1.4 billion to end polio.

Nigeria's last polio case occurred on July 24, 2014, in southern Kano state, and the continent of Africa has not seen a polio case since August 11, 2014. The World Health Organization (WHO) may soon remove Nigeria from the list of polio endemic countries. When Nigeria and every country in Africa go three years without a case of polio, WHO will certify the region as polio-free. Most recently, WHO declared India and its Southeast Asia region polio-free in 2014.

Experts caution that while today marks a noteworthy milestone, the world cannot take its sights off polio. The next two years will be critical to ensuring Nigeria remains on-track and prevent a resurgence of the disease. The support of donors, governments and partners is needed more than ever to ensure high-quality polio campaigns.

Last month, Rotary announced US$19 million in grants for continued polio eradication activities in Africa, including nearly $10 million for Nigeria. Over the past thirty years, the organization has given $688.5 million for polio eradication throughout Africa, and $207.4 million for Nigeria.

"Rotary's 1.2 million members around the world – including the 6,890 in Nigeria – have played an important role in this progress. Rotary has worked with partners to successfully pioneer unique and innovative solutions to the challenges facing polio eradication in Nigeria," said Dr. Tunji Funsho, Rotary's National PolioPlus Committee chair for Nigeria.  "However, it is too soon to celebrate. The world needs to keep polio eradication a high priority to ensure the disease does not return within our borders."

Beyond Nigeria, only Pakistan and Afghanistan remain polio-endemic. According to experts, Pakistan will prove the biggest challenge to global eradication efforts, with the country accounting for nearly 90% of the world's cases in 2014. However, there has been recent progress in Pakistan, with the country reporting a nearly 70% reduction in cases in the first half of 2015 compared to the same time in 2014.

Rotary launched its polio immunization program PolioPlus in 1985 and in 1988 became a spearheading partner in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative with the WHO, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Since the initiative launched in 1988, the incidence of polio has plummeted by more than 99.9 percent, from about 350,000 cases a year to less than 400 confirmed in 2014.

Rotary's roles within the initiative are fundraising, advocacy, and social mobilization. To date, Rotary has contributed more than $1.4 billion and countless volunteer hours to fight polio. Through 2018, every dollar Rotary commits to polio eradication will be matched two-to-one by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation up to $35 million a year.

About Rotary
Rotary brings together a global network of volunteer leaders dedicated to tackling the world's most pressing humanitarian challenges. Rotary connects 1.2 million members of more than 34,000 Rotary clubs in over 200 countries and geographical areas. Their work improves lives at both the local and international levels, from helping families in need in their own communities to working toward a polio-free world. In 1988, Rotary was joined by the WHO, UNICEF and the CDC to launch the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Visit rotary.org and endpolio.org for more about Rotary and its efforts to eradicate polio. Video and still images will be available on the Rotary Media Center.

SOURCE Rotary

CONTACT: Michelle Kloempken (+1 866-976-8279), michelle.kloempken@rotary.org
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Meet the Winners of Choiseul 100 Africa in Paris

Meet the 62 young African economic leaders who are laureates of the first “Choiseul 100 Africa at the Quai d’Orsay on June 16, 2015 in Paris, France.

The winners of Choiseul 100 Africa were present in Paris.
Numerous meetings with the highest state authorities as well as the best representatives of the French economic fabric were organized by the Institut Choiseul and its partners from June 15-16, 2015..

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Nigeria Pastor and Imam Reconcile in Oprah Winfrey's Powerful Documentary "Belief"

Two Nigerian faith leaders who have been sworn enemies 20 years ago, Christian Pastor James Wuye and Muslim Imam Muhammad Ashafa come together to reconcile in Oprah Winfrey's groundbreaking one week TV documentary series "Belief". This is definitely a must see for all Nigerian Christians and Muslims everywhere. Other believers from different racial and tribal backgrounds and cultures are featured in the powerful documentary film on the human quest for the truth; and the universal faith of a common belief in God becomes the strength to overcome the wrath of the earth.
 ~ Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, Publisher/Editor of Nigerians Report Online.

Oprah Winfrey Presents Landmark Seven-Night Television Event Belief Premiering Sunday, October 18 on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network

For Seven Consecutive Nights, Documentary Series Explores Beliefs Around the World and Humankind's Ongoing Search for Meaning and Connection

TORONTO, July 23, 2015 /CNW/ - This fall, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network (Canada) presents the landmark television event Belief, a week-long documentary series airing over seven consecutive nights that depicts how people with a wide range of beliefs search for deeper meaning and connection with the world around them. Through vivid, emotional storytelling and cinematic visual imagery, Belief illuminates the best of faith and spiritual practices from around the world – the rituals, stories and relationships that bind us all together as human beings. The series will premiere on Sunday, October 18 at 8 p.m. ET on OWN (Canada), day and date with the U.S.

Violence in Nigeria Drives Refugees Deeper into Cameroon

Violence in Nigeria drives refugees deeper into neighbouring Cameroon, UN agency warns
 

NEW YORK, 21 July 2015 / PRN Africa / -- Weeks after elections in Nigeria, violence and attacks continue to drive population movements within and outside the country, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR) warned today, reporting a “steady flow” of Nigerian refugees now seeking safety some 100 kilometres inside the Cameroon border.

Reimagine The Future: Innovation for Every Child In Nigeria and In the World

Reimagine the Future: Innovation for every child

The State of the World’s Children 2015

To mark the 25th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, this edition of The State of the World’s Children calls for brave and fresh thinking to address age-old problems that still affect the world’s most disadvantaged children. The report is inspired by the work of innovators around the world – who are pushing boundaries and crafting solutions for local problems that reflect urgent global needs – towards a future in which all children can enjoy their rights.

The digital report is a crowd-sourced compilation of stories and videos. It includes an interactive platform that maps innovations in countries all over the world, and invites users to put their own ideas ‘on the map’. It is available at http://sowc2015.unicef.org/

This Executive Summary provides an overview of the digital report and the context of UNICEF’s call for innovation for equity. It also presents key statistics on child survival, development and protection for the world’s countries, areas and regions.

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Constructing a Nation's Memory: The Cinema of Michel Khleifi

Constructing a Nation's Memory: The Cinema of Michel Khleifi

Shubbak has invited Khleifi to curate the festival's main film programme: a personal selection from his own films in dialogue with works of Arab and European cinema (PRNewsFoto/vision.ae)

Constructing a Nation's Memory: The Cinema of Michel Khleifi

DUBAI, UAE, July 22, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

For many years, Michel Khleifi was the ultimate voice of Palestinian cinema. Emerging from the ashes of PLO resistance cinema, the Nazareth-born, Brussels-educated and based filmmaker was the leader of the so-called 'new Palestinian cinema' of the '80s ─ a movement that ventured to break the dominant stereotypical representation of Palestinians and create a new space that links Palestine's destroyed past with its austere present and uncertain future.

UN Calls for $20M To Stop Spread of ‘Highly Virulent' Avian Flu in West Africa

UN agency calls for $20 million to halt spread of ‘highly virulent' avian flu in West Africa

NEW DELHI, 20 July 2015 / PRN Africa / -- The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today warned that without timely intervention “to stop it in its tracks,” outbreaks of the highly virulent avian flu virus H5N1, which has already spread to five West African countries in six months, will spread across the region and beyond.

“Based on what we do know, there is a real risk of further virus spread,” FAO quoted Juan Lubroth, chief of the agency's Animal Health Service Division as saying in a press release. “Urgent action is needed to strengthen veterinary investigation and reporting systems in the region and tackle the disease at the root, before there is a spillover to humans.”

Outbreaks of the virus have been reported in poultry farms, markets and family holdings in Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Niger, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana.

FAO said the outbreak comes as countries across West Africa, home to 330 million people, are still recovering from, and in some cases still battling, Ebola, which has mainly affected Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Previous strains of the virus – known to be highly virulent to poultry and capable of causing illness and fatalities in humans – have been circulating in Asia since the early 2000s and in Egypt for almost 10 years. The H5N1 strain has caused the death of tens of millions of poultry and losses of tens of billions of dollars.

Avian flu in West Africa could trigger a mass “die-off” of chicken – a nutritious and inexpensive source of food for many people – with detrimental impacts on diets and on the economy of the region, exacerbating an already difficult situation, the agency said.

“We're looking at a disease – H5N1 – that has already spread to five countries in six months. We have to make a concerted effort to stop it in its tracks and we have to do it now,” Mr. Lubroth said.

FAO is appealing for $20 million for prevention and response to bolster weak veterinary systems, improve the capabilities of local laboratories and putting FAO specialists on the ground in affected and at-risk countries.

Because the disease can be transmitted to humans and is considered highly lethal, FAO said it is working closely with the World Health Organization (WHO) on country assessments, contingency plans, offering technical assistance and investigating potential flu cases and the source of infection.

SOURCE UN News Centre
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