Images of Ebiraland

(From right) Idris Abdul Rahman , Usman Aliyu , Maryam Oremeyi Yusuf , Muhammed Danuma and Kabir Ismail . The EbiraView Team EbiraView team on behalf of NAKOSS Comrades, Ebira Opete TV crew and entire Anebira, expresses its profound gratitude to ACRT; Lizzy, you are wonderful, your effort is simply 'Wao! Donna Cross, you reamin the 'Mom' and we will continue to be your 'sons and daughters'. Donna King, like you do say, 'Avo' for being here and for Terry, 'Nothing dey happen' you are 'Awesome' As for TINA, you are the 'Big Sister, the Matron'. Thanks so much for making us so proud. We shall continue to 'ask for more'. WE LOVE YOU ALL. Idris Abdul Rahman, Farouq Mazai, Abdul G, Yunusa, Ohunene Sule, Muhammed Ogirima, Mariam Yusuf (Oremeyi), Marhia, Danjuma Muhammed, Usman Aliyu, Kabir, Memunat Mukhtar and Musa of EbiraOpete TV communications are sending a spcial 'Thank You' to TINA OKWORI for accoding us this great opp...

It was just few minutes before 4.00 am when I arrived Okene and as I disembarked at Ogaminana at such early hours of the morning, I wondered what was going on in the minds of my colleagues, Idris Abdul Rahman and Usman Aliyu who left Lagos in the early hours of Thursday, July in the company of the ACRT team members. As I made my way to the prestigious De Hilltop Guest house, Abdul Rahman and Terry Sebastian, a member of the team and a professional photographer from Canada had left for the cyber café. Around 9am, we left the Guest house for the mission; delivering talk on and offering treatment to HIV/AIDS patients. Our first call was at Kogi state School of Nursing, Obangede. The students were happy and received the team expectantly. Lizzy was wonderful. She delivered a lengthy talk on HIV; cause, modes of transmission, preventive methods and all that. She advised the students on the need to know their status as Nursing students who might be offering treatment to HIV patients in the fu...

In July 2008, we brought you a report of the AIDS Crisis Response Team (ACRT) 2008 mission in Okene. Now, we bring you the video clips of the major hgihlights of the activity. Visit the ACRT archive page here -:: VIDEO CLIPS ::- Do condoms really prevent HIV? Listen to Lizzy Walker addressing the Nursing students in Obangede HIV test for Okene LG officials A test and enterntainment time See ACRT activity in Okene >>>

It's humanitarian; it's selfless and grassroot oriented. Aids Crisis Response Team (ACRT) have done a wonderful job from counselling to testing and offering drugs to HIV positive people. Beside other great gestures by this wonderful team, they have plans to establish a permanent contact with the volunteering youths comprising of NAKOSS Comrades, EbiraView and Ebira Opete TV crew while tasking the team to do more in researh work across the community to identify the people who need help most. On Saturday, 12th July the team were in Obagende where about 60 students received the HIV test before heading to Ege community of Adavi LG. While in Ege, the community troop to welcome the team. Drugs were offered to people with various kind of ailments beside encouraging the villagers on being useful to themselves through farming and other trades. A woman received a cash gift from the team before heading to Idi-chatta area of Okene where they met a boy with a special deformity that triggers...

The AIDS Crisis Response Team (ACRT) is in Okene and will be conducting HIV/AIDS - free campaign to Ebira public in conjuction with Ebira youths as volunteers. The team arrived Nigeria on monday, July 7th 2008 at the Muritala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. The program is expected to begin Thursday, 11th of July 2008 and will be published on Images of Ebiraland as the team moves from place to place. Places expected to be visited include Okene general hospital among others. Terry Sebastian , one of the team members, was not sure what to expect, fearing absense of internet services required to update their blog while in Nigeria. Terry however promised that they would deliver the much needed supplies themselves to make sure the team get to the people that need them the most. EbiraView hopes to deliver real-time web coverage of their activity in Okene to Ebiras and the world. Our team is set to leave for Okene at the early hours of Thursday, 11th July. Stay tuned for updates.

As we ring in the New Year in style, we wish to point out that 2008 has been a wonderful year. Most of our listed tasks were acomplished except for the proposed Kogi Mass 2008 which never held due to circumstance beyond our control and delay in the release of the special edition of EbiraView Magazine. All the same, we are planning a bigger MASS for 2009 while the magazine release will be in the second week of January, 2009. Challenges The year was smooth but its tail end challenged the webmaster in a very big way. This is evident from the less frequent News posting on our Online News occassioned by system failures and internet fluctuations. To this end, we appeal to our esteemed readers for a Laptop computer as a backup to our congested systems. We equally wish to solicit your support for power generation in our office considering the spate of Nigeria power problem. As a free service, it is imperative to note that our meager resources went into power and internet bills thus reducing ou...

As related by Terry Sebastian ... Mana, a beautiful young woman draped in an orange cloth and her very tiny baby Fatimat caught my eye. Fatimat was 2 months old and her mother was HIV positive. Mana was kicked out of her house when her husband found out her positive status. She went back to live with her parents and was forbidden to contact her husband again. (He had another wife and at least 4 more children.) She was convinced that her baby was negative for the virus. But when we tested tiny Fatimat, she was positive. Mana seemed OK, but the reality of her emotions showed up at our hotel the next day, and I could see her pain, the fear in her eyes, and I just wanted to hug her, throwing any rules out the window. I felt a deep sense of helplessness for her when she looked at me, and I still do. It is estimated that ten percent of new HIV infections in Nigeria are caused by Mothers breastfeeding their children. Later, I was shocked and disillusioned to learn that men here can ac...

This is to notify our esteemed readers that the long awaited (special) edition of EbiraView Magazine has been released. The edition, released on Thursday, February 5th 2009 is a focus on the Formation and Evolution of Ebira Peace Project (EPP) and also highlights the Aids Crisis Response Team (ACRT) Mission to Okene in 2008. The magazine arrived Abuja on Friday. Delivering copies of the special edition to the secretary general of EPP, Alhaji Abubakar Imam, the Editor, Ismail Omeiza Kabir declared the release a sigh of relief. This, he noted, was due to the many challenges faced in the course of printing and movement to Abuja. Commending, the former boss of Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation, Dr. Tom Adaba praised the efforts of EbiraView and promised to contribute to its growth and survival. In an interview with our correspondent in Abuja on Friday, Adaba, the NTA former director and chairman, Trim Communications, Travel and Tours said that the time has come for change in Ebiraland. Read...