How often do you wash your towel? Some people wash once a week, while some, once a year. The towel is a fertile breeding ground for millions of microbes, especially those found on human skin and on the gut. No wonder the towel is one of the objects that facilitate fecal-oral contamination (literally connecting the two ends of the gut). Worse still, most people keep towels in the bathroom (near the toilet). Every flush of the toilet sends mist with millions of microbes, ranging from H.pylori, salmonella and other deadly bacteria and viruses. When you wash your hands ready for a meal, and dry them with your body towel, there's high chance you are directly ingesting your fecal matter, or, if in a shared lavatory, someone else's faeces. Unless cleaned well, viruses such as human papillomavirus (causes warts, anal cancer and cervical cancer) can be transmitted when towels are shared with infected individuals. So, what to do? 1. Launder towels once a week. 2. Use hot water and det...
President Goodluck Jonathan today accepted a definite offer of help from the United States of America to locate and rescue the girls abducted from the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok three weeks ago, a presidential statement has said. “The offer from President Barack Obama which was conveyed to President Jonathan by the United States Secretary of State, Mr. John Kerry in a telephone conversation which began at 15.30 Hours today, includes the deployment of U.S. security personnel and assets to work with their Nigerian counterparts in the search and rescue operation.” It added that Mr. Kerry assured President Jonathan of the full commitment of the United States to giving Nigeria the required support and assistance to save the abducted girls and bring the reign of terror unleashed on parts of the country by Boko Haram to an end. Mr. Jonathan told Mr. Kerry that Nigeria’s security agencies would appreciate the deployment of American counter-insurgency know-how and expertise in support of their efforts. The statement further said that following Mr. Jonathan’s conversation with Mr. Kerry, he met with the Chief of Defence Staff, Service Chiefs and heads of national security agencies“in continuation of the national efforts to find and rescue” the girls. Mr. Jonathan received updates on the situation, and gave approval for recommended further actions, the statement said.
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