Ebola Awareness and how you can prevent yourself from contacting the virus

Ebola virus is fast spreading across West-Africa and its cure is unknown. The Ebola disease first identified in 1976 around the regions of South Sudan (former Sudan) and the Democratic Republic of Congo has recently spread to other countries like Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria. The suspected case of Ebola virus as recorded by World Health Organisation (WHO) has risen to 2,615 with 2,427 reported dead. The deadly disease has several symptoms ranging from fever, headaches, and diarrhoea, vomiting, sore throat, and rash and muscle pains. These symptoms can be mistaken for malaria, cholera and fever. Ebola Virus can be contacted through body fluid from animals such as Bats, Chimpanzees and Gorilla and direct contact with other people’s blood, sweat, and dead bodies and contaminated medicated equipment. The symptom starts manifesting within 2 to 21 days maximum after a person has contracted the disease. It is therefore necessary for anyone experiencing any of these signs to visit the hospital for proper control. Self treatment/medication must be avoided when these symptoms are evident in order to prevent complication and further damage to one’s health.

How to prevent Ebola virus

There are certain measures that a person must observe in order to prevent contacting the virus. Some of them are:

1. The importance of washing the hands with soap and water cannot be overemphasized. Washing your hands after coming home from work or arriving at the office is a vital measure to take. By doing this simple task, you will have washed off any residue that may have contaminated your hands. If you don’t have water, you can use clean sand and ash as recommended by W.H.O.

2. Avoid contact with infected person’s bodily fluid such as sweat, blood, embalming dead bodies and if possible saliva.

3. Hand disinfectants, including products such as detergent, bleach and bleaching powder can be used as a means of disinfectant.

One positive aspect is that the disease is not air borne, so do not be afraid of breathing fresh air even when you think someone around you may have it. Simply avoid direct body contact with the person, don’t say it’s my mother, father, wife, husband, aunt, brother, or friend.

Please add your own suggestion or idea on how to prevent this virus.

Teach your Son/Daughter to Respect you!

It bothers me when I hear some parents say; my son does not respect me; my daughter does not respect me! My son cannot clean after him; my daughter cannot clean after her! Wait a meet! Did you teach him/her as a young growing child age 10-12 how to do their chores, to respect people, and most importantly yourself?

The answer is probably both No and Yes! No because you love your son/daughter so much that you feel correcting their wrong doing will hurt them. Therefore, you decided that doing the chores yourself is better because you cannot afford to see them suffer. Yes, you did, but started when you could no longer control them. It is good to love our children, but in loving them, we should be courteous of how we train them, less the love becomes our nightmare. Over-loving our children can sometimes result to neglecting our responsibility as parents. When you refuse to correct your child's disobedient and disrespect to other people, then, you must be ready to face the consequences yourself. What do I mean? I am emphasizing that by failing to admonish that wrongdoing, you are encouraging your child to disrespect you. Charity they say begins at home! What you teach your child is what he/she will represent outside. I have watched uncles, aunties, relatives and friends pamper their children like egg. That is good! You can say he is my only child and deserves love; fair enough! But, do you love him enough not to rebuke his outrageous attitude such as when he eats and abounds and piles up the dishes for you to wash? Are you doing her good by asking your househelp to wash her clothes and prepare her food when you could quickly teach her to do those things? No, you are not! You know why? It is because at the end of the day you have only done your househelp well by teaching her how to survive independently, while, you make your son/daughter a liability to his or herself.

Thank God for the internet as the world is now computerizing. For some reasons, our 21st century parents nowadays, think that computer can teach their children respect and every other quality needed for their survival. Computer is good and can contribute to the child’s development.  However, the moral aspect of the child's upbringing is entirely your responsibility. I was thought to respect people at a very tender age, and it paid off in the long run because that is an appropriate time for children to learn manners and not at their teenage age when they begin to assume a grown up attitude. For instance, we had a househelp and for this reason, I did not learn to start cooking until my high school. Our househelp did the cooking and some other household chores. I was glad at that time that all I needed do was play or read my books. When the househelp was dismissed by my mother after completing high school, we still did not realise the importance of learning how to cook until my mother travelled for a crucial meeting and we were left with no one to cook for us. I always remembered how my sister and I cooked Ogbono soup for the first time and the soup turned out watery with plenty of oil and salt. We definitely learnt to cook the hard way.

What then is my point? I am advocating that parents teach their children how to respect them and what they are supposed to know at an early age, irrespective of whether the househelp is there or not. It is your responsibility and not the computers.' Whatever you teach your child will surely not depart from them according to the bible (proverbs 22:6). If your child learns to respect you, he will learn to respect himself and others. So next time, before you ask your son/daughter after he finishes eating to go and sleep, just remember you will end up doing the dishes yourself and that some day they will become an adult who needs to be responsible. You do not want them to turn into mama’s boy or daddy’s girl, always running to you at the slightest chance when they should be capable of handling situations in their adult life.

Praise Jesus Christ

Praise our Lord Jesus Christ
 for in that praise lies our Salvation
Praise our Lord master King
for in that praise lies our Healing
Praise our Lord of Host
for in that praise comes our Deliverance
Praise the Lord our Messiah
for in that praise comes our Prosperity
Praise our Jehovah God
for through that praise our Change is made Manifest




Happy Easter to all!