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36 — Vanguard, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2020 YOUR LUCK TODAY By Joshua Adeyemo Phone 08056180139 TAURUS: Mercury will start to go on backward motion soonest, therefore you will need to re-examine both your personal ideas and advice given to you by other people. Be family minded. GEMINI: Avoided you don’t allow others to mislead you, things will not go wrong. The more willing you are to take the initiative the better for you. Take your love life more seriously. CANCER: Although you will need to be as secretive as you can, your success will attract others’ attention to you to the betterment of your cause. Be ambitious. LEO: People who more influential than you will be willing to support your cause but you will need to make the necessary move. The more self assertive you are the better. L E I S U R BE TAKE HEART — ELLA RANDLE Self-care is never a selfish act — it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others. —Parker Palmer- Give yourself permission to love you. You are worthy of being loved. This is the first step in accepting that you can love yourself and that you are choosing to do so. —Ella Randle SAYINGS OF OUR PEOPLE Roosters’ tail feathers: pretty but always behind. —Malagasy Proverb VIRGO: Challenges of yesterday will today bring you good opportunities along your career/business lines to the betterment of your finances seek supporters of powerful ones. LIBRA: Think of the best way to improve on your working pattern in order to enhance your career prospects if you listen to your creative self, things will work out fine for you. Be more loving. SCORPIO: Success is boldly printed on your cards today. Think of both immediate and far future while you are savouring goodies offered you but mother nature. SAGITTARIUS: You should not have it tough while trying to win the needed supports of others. Take good advice from some of your friends who are creatively gifted. CAPRICORN: Your creativity ...... is enhanced today and if you demonstrating this within your working arena, you’ll earn success and consolidate on your recent progress. AQUARIUS: As mercury prepares to go on backward motion it is important you don’t take things for granted. Watch carefully what you agree to do. PISCES: Better than yesterday. Others will be willing to give you the needed co-operation both at home and within your working arena. This is a good day for lovers. ARIES: Those of you who are more enterprising will have much to show for your efforts. The more cooperative you. Don’t neglect love. ASTROLOGICAL COUNSELLING TERROR MUDA in “Never say goodbye” DUDU in “ROLLING HOT” “HOT” By Kola Fayemi By A.O.OLAIDE ASTROLOGICAL our date and place of COUNSELLING birth to the Astr tr Send your dat trological Counselling, P.M.B 100 007, Apapa, Lagos WHAT DOES FUTURE HAVE FOR ME Dear Joshua, I don’t want you to publish my data. However, I want to know how the planets lined up when I was born. And which day of the week was I born, would I record success in life ? When would my success come? Azeez, Lagos. Dear Azeez, You were born on a Jupiter ruled day - Thursday. You=ll succeeded earlier than you think. Your Horoscope Data DAY OF BIRTH: THURSDAY SUN SIGN = PISCES: SUN IN 25TH DEGREE OF PISCES MOON SIGN: PISCES: MOON IN 21ST DEGREE OF PI- SCES MERCURY IN 28TH DEGREE OF AQUARIUS VENUS IN 28TH DEGREE OF ARIES MARS IN 7TH DEGREE OF CANCER JUPITER IN ZERO DEGREE OF AQUARIUS SATURN IN 27TH DEGREE OF CAPRICORN URANUS IN 22ND DEGREE OF LEO NEPTUNE IN 11TH DECREE OF SCORPIO PLUTO IN 6TH DEGREE OF VIRGO NORTH NODE IN 6TH DEGREE OF PISCES CARDINAL AND MUTABLE STAR SIGN HOSTED THREE PLANETS EACH, FIXED AND WATER FOUR EACH, FIRE EARTH AND AIR HOSTED TWO EACH. PUSHFUL INFLUENCE = 40% NON-PUSHFUL INFLUENCE = 60% HIGHLY HIGHLIGHTED STAR SIGN = AQUARIUS FINAL DISPOSITOR = SATURN ANALYSIS OF THE HOROSCOPE DATA Saturn as the final dispositor-the most influential planet at home when you were born, pointed to you as an ambitious person who must have a well developed career. You are a disciplined person withhigher degree of leadership quality in yourself. Although, you can be emotional, you are stable andreliable. Less than 50 per cent of push-full influence in you is an indication of your being an amiableperson. Both your natal sun/moon in Pisces and Aquarius are indications of characteristic of star signs are highly pronounced in your inner-self Having your hands on public pulse will always bring you unexpected success and fulfilment. Around your 30th birthday an endless cycle of great success and achievements will start for you. Oil-petrol chemicals will feature in your life when the predicted great cycle gets started for you. Congratulation. VIRGINIA dadadekola@yahoo.com HOME & ABROAD By Lawrence Akapa
VANGUARD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2020 — 37 Don’t let me die, kidney patient sends SOS to Nigerians ... Begs Wike, Amaechi, others for N4.6m lifeline By Emmanuel Elebeke & Alice Ekpang F ORTY-YEAR-OLD Adibe Kelechi Ephraim is seriously ill and fast deteriorating in health. He urgently needs N4.6 million to balance the N9.6 million required to carry out a kidney transplant if he is to ever stand on his feet again. Ephraim, a native of Umuagbai Ndoki in Oyingbo in Rivers State has been suffering from kidney failure for over two years, and it has taken a huge toll on him financially. Narrating his ordeal, Ephraim, a father of four, was a student of the Nigerian Aviation College (NACAT), Zaria where he spent a year out of his two years course before the ailment struck. “First, I studied computer science at the University of Port Harcourt. I furthered my training programme with the Nigeria College of Aviation Technology Adibe Kelechi Ephraim undergoing dilaysis (NACAT) Zaria, where I had ambition of becoming the first commercial pilot from my Local Government, but it is unfortunate that along the line I developed kidney failure. ‘‘Since 24th of June 2016 till to date, I have been on constant dialysis three times a week. I spend N150,000 every week for dialysis to stay alive and this has taken a huge toll on me financially. ‘‘I was admitted at the Garki General Hospital for over six months and was later moved to Asokoro General Hospital where I have gone through series of dialysis which has depleted my funds completely due to the cost of treatment and has rendered me completely empty. ‘‘I have not urinated for the past three years, it has been God and friends that have been helping me and sustaining me to do the dialysis. ‘‘I am passionately appealing to Nigerians, my governor, Nyesom Wike, the Minister of Transport, Chibuike Amechi; Jim Ovia; Tony Elumelu; the Senate President, Ahmed Lawal, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, and the Ooni of Ife, some of whom I have written for assistance to undergo kidney transplant.’’ Ephraim, who vowed to return to school to realize his dreams after treatment said he had written over 50 appeal letters to no avail. Some of those he wrote to include: Gov. Nyesom Wike, legislators representing his constituency at the National Assembly, the Transport Minister, his Church (Dunamis), where he served as a worker; RCCC; Living Faith; Christ Embassy; the Senate President, his Deputy and Speaker House of Representatives among others. He also appealed to other good spirited Nigerians to come to his rescue, saying ‘‘it would be the greatest leap in my life and to my family if I can do the transplant’’. If you are touched by Ephraim’s story , please send your donation to Ephraim Kelechi Adibe, Zenith Bank 2085344585 or call 08037894822. SFH tasks Nasarawa State on adolescent SRH issues ...As 2000 unintended pregnancies averted, 300 STIs managed By Sola Ogundipe TOWARDS promoting the fortunes of Sexual and Reproductive Health, SRH, issues of adolescents and young persons, the Nasarawa State government has been called upon to intensify focus on funding and response to Gender Based Violence, GBV, teenage p r e g n a n c y , contraception, among other issues affecting adolescents and young people in the State. The call came recently as 2,000 unplanned pregnancies were averted even as over 300 Sexually Transmitted Infections, STIs, were syndromically managed by adolescent girls during the COVID-19 lockdown from March till August 2020 in the State. Making the call for more funding commitment to support state-wide availability of contraceptives and increased access to other SRH commodities and services, the Programme Assistant, Adolescents 360 Project in Nasarawa State, Samuel Ombs, advocated for domestication of the various adaptations of the Matasa Matan Arewa, MMA, project in order to meet up the SRH needs of adolescents and women of reproductive age within the state. Speaking in Lafia during a media roundtable organised by the Nasarawa State Primary Healthcare Development Board in collaboration with and the Society for Family Health/A360 Project, Ombs stated that during the two years of the project intervention,a total of 7,537 sexually active adolescent girls in the State adopted at least one contraceptive method, out of which 525 girls returned for continuity of their preferred method. In his presentation entitled: “Meaningful Youth Engagement in Adolescents and Young People’s Sexual Reproductive Health Services and COVID -19”, Ombs stated that 1,106 girls had no need of a contraceptive, while 101 girls were confirmed pregnant, even as over 500 girls were syndromically treated for Sexually Tested Infections, STI. During the two years of intervention, 10,032 adolescents girls most of who are married, were reached with SRH services and commodities including contraceptives. “COVID-19 pandemic brought a lot of challenges such as ban on group meetings, restriction of movement and local transportation, palpable fear of being infected. This led to the closure of public PHCs occasioned by the health workers strike in the state due to a cut in pay.” Ombs remarked that regardless of the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic brought a lot of challenges, strategies adopted by the MMA project to ensure continuity of ASRH services Also speaking at the roundtable, Synderila Bulus, a Young Designer, A360 Project, Nasarawa State said the interventions put in place by the A360 Project, Family helped avert 2,000 unplanned pregnancies and syndromic management of over 300 STIs. Bulus, in a presentation entitled: “Reaching Adolescent and Young Persons with essential life building skills and SRH Services in COVID-19: Rapid Adaptations to Ensure Adolescents and Young Persons are Empowered to Achieve Their Future Dreams”, argued that by providing the live text-based WhatsApp Love Family and Health, LFH, class run by providers, as well as weekly sms to girls who received services for support continuation, the adaptations enabled A360 reach and engage with girls during the lockdown and the health workers strike which led to the closure of PHCs across the state. “By this, we have been able to avert over 2,000 unplanned pregnancies and syndromically managed over 300 STIs cases from March till August. As COVID-19 continues to heighten the vulnerabilities of people groups, especially women and girls. A360 continues to adapt to ensure girls have access to the SRH information and services they need to achieve their life goals and raise healthy families.” Further, Bulus observed that even as COVID-19 continues to heighten the vulnerabilities of people groups, especially women and girls, A360 continues to adapt to ensure girls have access to the SRH information and services they need to achieve their life goals and raise healthy families.
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