Bleep off! Don't be stupid abeg

KendrickAyomide:
That So called UK returnee must die. Demon

CanadaOrBust:


I’ve seen the story b4. It illustrates what I was telling some people - 9ja has done nothing to warrant being praised the way they were praising us. We did exactly the same thing Italy did. So anything that would have happened would have started happening by now.
I hope u can see how the story illustrates my point - there is something preventing Nigerians from catching any deadly form of corona. Just as in Senegal where 27 people have tested positive so far. ALL are returnees from hot spots or family members of returnees from hot spots, none serious, some without symptoms, and some have already tested negative again! I’m pretty sure our hot sun and warm humid weather has something to do with it!

Nigerians,God has been guiding us.

Lord have mercy.

Na the thing wey I dey talk since be this.


this government go use their mumuism put the people of Nigeria in danger.


nothing this country dey ever do right.


no airport should be operating for now. all of dem should be shut down, dem no go hear.


if this COVID-19 should spread in this country, na that time una go know say African blood is very friendly to the virus, contrary to the rumors that blacks are immune to it.



I pity una.


I spit on the government occipital.

Why are people still acting stupid and careless even with all this pandemic everywhere?

The man who took her in knew quite well, she was coming in from a highly infected country and still took her in....now hes shutting down office after exposing so many people. When will people ever learn?

I once said it that the people to avoid in Nigeria now are the rich and those that have people abroad who visit them from time to time as some are likely to come in with the disease this period. as if I knew, now this is happening.

The security who let her into the country at the airport too are all wako jackos.
Mtchew.

KendrickAyomide:
That So called UK returnee must die. Demon

..... Nack Sense into dis Good for NOTHING BIG HEAD >:

I sincerely hope Nigeria doesn't get to pay for its nonchalance

CanadaOrBust:


I’ve seen the story b4. It illustrates what I was telling some people - 9ja has done nothing to warrant being praised the way they were praising us. We did exactly the same thing Italy did. So anything that would have happened would have started happening by now.
I hope u can see how the story illustrates my point - there is something preventing Nigerians from catching any deadly form of corona. Just as in Senegal where 27 people have tested positive so far. ALL are returnees from hot spots or family members of returnees from hot spots, none serious, some without symptoms, and some have already tested negative again! I’m pretty sure our hot sun and warm humid weather has something to do with it!

Yes as it appears corona virus doesn't survive in heat, warm surface or hot sunshine. heat helps in breaking down viruses hence we are been adviced to wash hands regularly with warm water, drink warm water, avoid ice cream or cold water. but how true is that?

CanadaOrBust:
If the guy living with the returnee tests negative, then rest assured it is very difficult to transmit corona in Nigeria

This is in essence another chapter of a laboratory experiment being conducted on the behalf of the Nigerian public, by unwilling subjects, to determine how much credibility there might be to the theory that Corona virus will not transmit as readily in hot tropical climates, as is the case in cooler climates.

The previously recorded arrival of a virus infected Italian man into Nigeria a month ago, has resulted in no REPORTED secondary infections till date, just as the case of an infected family that flew into Nigeria from the UK two weeks ago, also passed with no reports of secondary (novel) infections.

The omens look good thus far, that Nigeria, West Africa, South America and parts of the Caribbean, might turn out to be some of the few safe havens on this planet, where mass infections of the Corona Virus contagion simply fail to occur, on account of the ambient heat, quite simply.

Raining season is a few weeks away, will this theory still hold water when it starts? If this thing does not end soon, it will be bad o.

Jakumo:


This is in essence another chapter of a laboratory experiment being conducted on the behalf of the Nigerian public, by unwilling subjects, to determine how much credibility there might be to the theory that Corona virus will not transmit as readily in hot tropical climates, as is the case in cooler climates.

The previously recorded arrival of a virus infected Italian man into Nigeria a month ago, has resulted in no REPORTED secondary infections till date, just as the case of an infected family that flew into Nigeria from the UK two weeks ago, also passed with no reports of secondary (novel) infections.

The omens look good thus far, that Nigeria, West Africa, South America and parts of the Caribbean, might turn out to be some of the few safe havens on this planet, where mass infections of the Corona Virus contagion simply fail to occur, on account of the ambient heat, quite simply.

sodiqapril:

Take a look at this link before it's deleted again http://newswirengr.com/2020/03/17/the-full-story-of-nigerias-unfolding-coronavirus-scandal/

Very very sad. Nigeria is a failed Nation, they terrifying thing is that millions of Nigerians are going about their regular businesses without any knowledge of or have access to this information.

Silly boss. He is more concerned about discrimination than the jeopardy to public health his stupid inactions caused. He supposedly is literate, sees the news everyday and knew the person was coming from a nation already is the grip of the pandemic, a country that is already shutting down. Why didn't he order the person to self quarantine in line with government directives.

This is why I say government just has to change its strategy if it has any. The Nigerian that cannot obey a simple traffic light will not obey a complex self quarantine regime. It has to be made mandatory the way it is done in China, a cou try that has experience of what this pandemic can do to a country. In China all quarantines are done in government establishments to ensure probity.

If our government cannot take the sensible decision of suspending visas and closing borders to all but a few countries with zero cases then it should declare a state of emergency in all international gateway states of Lagos, Abuja, Kano and Portharcourt and commandeer all hotels and medical facilities within proximity of those city airports for mandatory quarantines. It may not be for as long as 14 days but no one should be allowed to walk straight into society and decide by him or her self whether he or she is a threat to society. That is just idiotic.

The government should step in and quarantine the entire staff of that company and decide by itself when their premises and operarions can resume, not them. Nigerians are not their brothers keeper. They cannot be trusted to do what is right. Goverment must be more assertive. If this thing hits the core of society and it begins to empty out police stations and debilitate prison wardens and grounds soldiers then we wil take it seriously.

Let us do what is right WHEN WE STILL HAVE TIME TO.

9jatriot:
Raining season is a few weeks away, will this theory still hold water when it starts? If this thing does not end soon, it will be bad o.

This is the million dollar question. The arrival of the rainy season in West Africa will lower temperatures, so your fear is entirely justified.

The safest people on this planet, as the contagion rages through populations, will be those who reside in remote areas, like our man Wole Soyinka, who resides deep in a forest, whenever he is at home in Nigeria.

I do not understand how Nigerians will be traveling out on vacation in these times. Or does the bird view ceo also watch fox news?

This virus is spreading gradually, measures to combat this in Nigeria has to be put in place before it gets out of hand.

YorubaKinging:
My God
Your judgement is swift
Who will be able to stand in the day of your anger
O' merciful Lord , you have been patient and merciful for years
Your long suffering has been for long

Now is time for your to pour your wrath on the head of the wicked

But Lord, remember for your name sake your promise , that as many that fear your holy name , and keep your commandments, you' will exempt them from the dangers

Please Lord save those people who you've elected from the foundation of the earth
Those who fears you and tremble at your words

please which Psalm is this?this is what I and my family need right now..... thanks

[quote author=9jatriot post=87542483]Raining season is a few weeks away, will this theory still hold water when it starts? If this thing does not end soon, it will be bad o.
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Rainy season is our own flu virus season. June, July, August, depending on where you are in the country is where the pollen count stratospheres. I never like that period. In the South by September/October the air is so heavy with humidity clothes don't dry in open air for days and mould forms in houses without air conditioning. Virus paradise.

Odikwa strong oo

KiloMarine:


Nigerians,God has been guiding us.

he said the hot or humid weather, nothing to do with God.

ornicus:
I do not understand how Nigerians will be traveling out on vacation in these times. Or does the bird view ceo also watch fox news?

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that many Nigerians long resident in the UK, decided to return to Nigeria's hot climate, just in case it might in fact be true that the tropical heat offers some level of protection from transmission of the virus.

The tragic side-effect of that exodus to the tropics, is that many previously uninfected people would catch the virus in the aircraft cabin's recirculated air, and thus become carriers and possible casualties themselves, in Nigeria and other warm countries, where they had fled to seek better odds of survival.

YorubaKinging:
My God
Your judgement is swift
Who will be able to stand in the day of your anger
O' merciful Lord , you have been patient and merciful for years
Your long suffering has been for long

Now is time for your to pour your wrath on the head of the wicked

But Lord, remember for your name sake your promise , that as many that fear your holy name , and keep your commandments, you' will exempt them from the dangers

Please Lord save those people who you've elected from the foundation of the earth
Those who fears you and tremble at your words

Fairytales. how practical is this rubbish?

pweedie:
Hmmmm. I just hope a the workers come out negative because if not so, naso this thing go dey spread ooo. I can't imagine how many people they all have come in contact with

It was noted that the staff living with the index is free so all of them should be unless village people don enter the game.

gypsey:
Fairytales.

The masses need that opium now, in this time of fear. Let them indulge. No harm done.

gypsey:
Yes as it appears corona virus doesn't survive in heat, warm surface or hot sunshine. heat helps in breaking down viruses hence we are been adviced to wash hands regularly with warm water, drink warm water, avoid ice cream or cold water. but how true is that?

cold water is known to naturally weaken the body's immune system.

Employees of the Dangote Oil Refinery Company in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos are currently in varying degrees of panic as a leaked internal email yesterday indicated that the company is dealing with a suspected case of COVID-19. A trusted source at the company who asked not to be named has confirmed that the patient in question – an Indian pipe fitter working at the giant petrochemical complex – is currently in isolation on site.

When I spoke to my source earlier today, I initially expected this to be yet another story of a Nigerian corporate taking liberties with the lax regulatory environment to put its own interests first while flouting rules and putting people in danger. As I found out later, this goes well beyond Dangote Group or its internal health policy. This is a story about how Nigeria is facing a dire health emergency, driven by a perfect storm of incompetent governance, crass politicking, ignorance and corporate insularity.
Exhibit A: The Indian Pipe Fitter

Last week Thursday (March 12, 2020), a pipe fitter contracted to work at Dangote Refinery boarded a flight from Mumbai, India to Cairo, Egypt. After a brief stopover, he boarded another flight to Lagos, Nigeria where he was to resume work the following Monday. When he showed up at work on Monday however, something was wrong. He had a fever, a dry cough, a sore throat and significant breathing difficulty.

Dr. Avijit Singh, a Russian-trained surgeon with 10 years of experience in general surgery and practise across two continents, was the doctor on duty at the site clinic. He immediately suspected that the patient was infected with the coronavirus by virtue of his symptoms and his travel history (Cairo is a COVID-19 hotspot with over 150 known cases as at yesterday).

After isolating the patient, he fired off an email to the on-site safety officer, Akhil Kuniyil, detailing the incident with full disclosure of the patient’s travel history, location and suspected diagnosis. It is unclear whether anyone at Dangote Refinery attempted to establish contact with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), the Federal Ministry of Health or the Lagos State Ministry of Health after becoming aware of this information.

At press time, no information had been released by any of the concerned parties to address the building story. Staff members at the refinery meanwhile, got their hands on the communication between Dr. Singh and Mr. Kuniyil and according to my source, an unredacted version of the screenshot above has been circulating among refinery staff, their friends and families for more than 24 hours. My source further informed me that in addition to sitting on such critical information and stonewalling regulators as Dangote Refinery is in the habit of doing, certain practises and conditions on site may actually be aiding the possible spread of COVID-19.

He was especially keen to point out that despite the extant coronavirus threat, a temperature scanner was only installed onsite yesterday Monday 16 March, 2020. The site meanwhile, employs hundreds of people who congregate every morning and then disperse back into Lagos every evening. In other words, Dangote Refinery has yet again ignored local and international HSE best practises and put its workers at risk – only this time the risk extends beyond its workers. The sprawling Ibeju-Lekki free trade zone is now effectively a brewing COVID-19 hotspot in Lagos with hundreds of potential disease vectors coming out of it everyday.

Describing the internal chaos after the news of the suspected COVID-19 case leaked yesterday my source said:

“The temperature scanner was installed just yesterday. And, it created a severe bottleneck where many people have to cram into a small space to get screened daily, thus ensuring that the virus really goes round if one person has it.”

The solution according to him, is for the entire complex to shut down operations until the threat blows over. The alternative he says, is to risk the daily temperature check that should counteract the spread of COVID-19, itself becoming a dispersion point for the virus. In his words:

“I guess it is a question of saving lives vs keeping the project moving.”

Exhibit B: The Insecure Minister and the Unprepared Government

When NCDC chair Chikwe Ihekweazu recently visited China to observe its coronavirus containment efforts as part of a capacity building exercise facilitated by the World Health Organisation, few might have thought of it as anything other than an objectively good thing. What better place for Nigeria’s disease control czar to be than the epicentre of the global outbreak picking up useful information that could help Nigeria? One of those few however, turned out to be federal Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire.

According to a source who is familiar with the matter, Ehanire was apparently unhappy that national and global attention was coming the way of Ihekweazu, who is technically his subordinate. Known to have gubernatorial ambitions in his native Edo State, Ehanire apparently sees the COVID-19 outbreak as the perfect staging point to build his political brand and come to the forefront of Edo’s political consciousness. The fact that local and international media and multilateral bodies prefer to interact directly with the NCDC – without necessarily making reference to him – is a problem. Unfortunately, in this context of Nigeria’s fight against a deadly pandemic, this petty clash of egos is now everybody’s problem.

Rather than focusing energy on coordinating efforts to fight the spread of the coronavirus, Ehanire has instead made it a point to put his face in front of every available camera and make it clear that he – not Ihekweazu – is the one in charge. Ihekweazu is no longer permitted to speak to the media independently about COVID-19, and he must now report to the Federal Ministry of Health and operate from there. In other words, the most important thing about the COVID-19 crisis in the eyes of the FMOH is that the world must know that it is the health minister’s show and his alone.

Last week, Ehanire took the most telling step to reclaiming his ostensibly lost glory and pushing his political agenda when he hosted a press conference to announce Nigeria’s second COVID-19 case. The location of a press conference organised to make a nationwide health announcement? Benin City, Edo State.

While this was happening meanwhile, Nigeria’s management capacity for COVID-19 was significantly lower than publicly claimed. It will be recalled that when the Italian index patient was identified and confined in Lagos, everyone concerned treated the story as evidence of preparedness with some even sounding triumphal. In reality what actually happened was that the subject self-presented and was diagnosed – the good news ended there.

Describing what happened next, my source says:

“The case in Lagos for instance took the intervention of the Italian ambassador for the patient to be moved. The place he was kept initially wasn’t habitable . While Govt was on air claiming to have contained him in a hospital – he was literally abandoned at a poorly maintained facility, which is why Punch reported his attempted escape because he was dealing with mosquito bites.”

In the context of Nigeria’s porous land borders and the up to 30-day asymptomatic incubation period of COVID-19, during which time it is infectious, nobody actually knows how many novel coronavirus cases are in Nigeria. While the FMOH and the NCDC engage in a pointless pissing contest, hundreds of thousands of Nigerians could currently be carrying the COVID-19 virus, without anything close to the required testing capacity to find out.

Breaking! #COVID19Lagos Updates
If you are a passenger on flight BA 75 that arrived in Lagos on 13th March, 2020, stay at home and isolate yourself for 14 days.
Call @LSMOH hotlines now; 08000corona, 08023169485,
08033565529,
08052817243, 08028971864, 08059758886, 08035387653 pic.twitter.com/TIzkV3z0U0
— Prof. Akin Abayomi (@ProfAkinAbayomi) March 17, 2020

The Nigerian government strategy right now appears to be to cross both fingers, wait it out and hope. The NCDC has been shackled. Osagie Ehanire wants to be governor. Private corporations are managing the health crisis on their own – and possibly worsening it. The government at state and federal levels are broke and under-resourced. Ultimately, it would seem that any salvation from COVID-19 if it is to come, will be from our climate and our natural immune systems.

Nigerians once again, are on their own.

CanadaOrBust:
If the guy living with the returnee tests negative, then rest assured it is very difficult to transmit corona in Nigeria

how true is that?

Jakumo:


The masses need that opium now, in this time of fear. Let them indulge. No harm done.

how practical is that? false hopeless hope.

gypsey:
how practical is that? hopeless hope.

I agree. If the Corona monster starts to get close to my hideout, my money would be more wisely spent enjoying the ministrations of the most beautiful woman of easy virtue that I can locate, than wasted as pointless tithes given to some fast-talking pastor who claims to have Papa God's private phone number.

Jakumo:


I agree. If the Corona monster starts to get close to my hideout, my money would be more wisely spent enjoying the ministrations of the most beautiful woman of easy virtue that I can locate, than wasted as pointless tithes given to some fast-talking pastor who claims to have Papa God's private phone number.

I agree, i would certainly do the same. I mean, what are people even afraid of? Death? death is inevitable.

pweedie:
Nawa ooo. This is getting serious ooo.

Na really waa