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Henrydone:
Large undeveloped landscape,Python must be doing great there

Akure

Like I told your friend Naijalander, Nigerians have no appreciation of the environment that's why your cities are brown, dusty and with no trees. That Eldoret environment is the best place to live - within a city yet all green.

Naivasha

Really dude

If we start with the disease epidemics in Kenya. I have chosen not to portray your country in a negative light. This proves nothing, there is disease every where bro.

MtuMsuper:
Meanwhile :
Polio Rears Its Head Again In Africa

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August 12, 201611:20 AM ET
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Jason Beaubien 2010
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Ado Ibrahim carries his son Aminu through a village in northern Nigeria. Aminu was paralyzed by polio in 2012.
David P. Gilkey/NPR
Health officials in Nigeria are gearing up for a massive emergency polio immunization drive after two children were paralyzed by the disease.

The two new polio cases in Nigeria are the first detected on the African continent in more than two years.

Nigerian health officials plan to vaccinate nearly 5 million kids across the northeast of the country in an effort to contain this latest outbreak.

Next Year Could Mark The End Of Polio
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Next Year Could Mark The End Of Polio
The re-emergence of polio in Nigeria is a major setback for global efforts to eradicate the disease.

Prior to this week, the polio virus appeared to be on the verge of defeat: Afghanistan and Pakistan were the only countries reporting ongoing transmission of the virus. Including these two children who've been paralyzed in Nigeria, there've been only 21 polio cases reported anywhere in the world this year.

The two Nigerian cases were found in the volatile northeastern state of Borno along the border with Chad. The area is a stronghold of Boko Haram, which has made routine immunization drives difficult. The terror group has publicly denounced the vaccination campaigns as a Western plot, killed immunizers and made it difficult for government health officials to even enter some parts of the country.

Nigeria's health minister, Isaac Adewole, issued a statement saying that the cases were only detected because of a military offensive against the militant Islamist group.

"The discovery and confirmation of the outbreak was as a result of strengthened surveillance due to improved accessibility which has been made possible by the recent military action in liberating more communities in the North-Eastern part of the country," according to the statement.

Adewole added, "Our overriding priority right now is to rapidly boost immunity in the affected areas to ensure that no more children are affected by this terrible disease."

The World Health Organization has also vowed to pour resources into Nigeria to try to make sure the virus is contained in the Nigeria/Chad border region and doesn't regain a foothold in Africa.

Nigeria has been the Achilles' heel of polio eradication in Africa in the past.

A decade and a half ago, religious leaders in some parts of Nigeria actively denounced polio vaccination as part of a Western plot to sterilize Muslim children.

Even as other nations on the continent wiped out polio, Nigeria served as reservoir where the virus survived, sparking outbreaks throughout West Africa as travelers moved throughout the region.

Just four years ago, Nigeria accounted for more than half of all the polio cases reported worldwide — 122 of the 223 global cases in 2012. Up until this week it appeared that Nigeria had successfully eliminated polio and was on track to be declared polio-free by the WHO next summer. It takes three years without a case to be eligible for the designation.

UNICEF, which has been one of the lead agencies fighting polio in Nigeria, vowed to redouble efforts in the region and "not stop until we reach every child with polio vaccination."
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/08/12/489762952/polio-rears-its-head-again-in-africa

literacy rate in Africa :

our cities are not all brown and dusty. Have you forgotten Githurai, Kabiria, Kahawa are all dusty. Do you how dusty Thika Road was before they fixed it??

NairobiWalker:


Like I told your friend Naijalander, Nigerians have no appreciation of the environment that's why your cities are brown, dusty and with no trees. That Eldoret environment is the best place to live - within a city yet all green.

Naivasha

naijalander:

That side of Ibadan has been there since the 1800s. Doesn't mean the people there are poor and hopeless.
That is the statue of one of its old leaders Aare Latosa. Ibadan is older than Nairobi.

It doesn't matter whether they are poor or not. What matters is the place is poor and unlivable. Mombasa and Lamu are way older than Ibadan yet they don't look like that.


Here is Lamu

NairobiWalker:

Unlike the rusty roofs of Ibadan below, Nakuru's roofs are actually brown clay tiles and not rust. Compare them with Ibadan below.

Still dwelling on 18 century exhibition of Ibadan,see the new Ibadan below modern and livable

naijalander:
Really dude

If we start with the disease epidemics in Kenya. I have chosen not to portray your country in a negative light. This proves nothing, there is disease every where bro.

I brought in polio. it's occurrence anywhere in this day and age with the advances in modern medicine is Widely acknowledged as a sign of backwardness.

naijalander:
our cities are not all brown and dusty. Have you forgotten Githurai, Kabiria, Kahawa are all dusty. Do you how dusty Thika Road was before they fixed it??

Unfortunately you are mentioning slums in Nairobi while I'm mentioning the normal Ibadan. of cause Nairobi slums are dusty but the whole of Nairobi is much better than Nigerian towns................and how long did you say you've been in Kenya? Thika Road was dusty before expansion? lol.........Thika road was lined with so many trees and greenery there was an outcry when the trees were being cut for expansion. I'm starting to doubt you now. Below is Thika road before expansion.

Henrydone:
Still dwelling on 18 century exhibition of Ibadan,see the new Ibadan below modern and livable

Unfortunately the rusty Ibadan makes the biggest portion of the city

MtuMsuper:
literacy rate in Africa :

Yet Nigeria has the highest number of English speakers outside of the UK & US.

Not that it proves anything but I don't believe this statistic.

MtuMsuper:

I brought in polio. it's occurrence anywhere in this day and age with the advances in modern medicine is Widely acknowledged as a sign of backwardness.

Just like HIV in Kenya, female genital mutilation, jiggas, etc.

You are not being objective sir.

NairobiWalker:


Unfortunately the rusty Ibadan makes the biggest portion of the city

Naah these places are being renovated. A satellite image may not show the good houses among the brown roofs. The brown roof doesn't mean the house isnt a good house to live in.

naijalander:


Yet Nigeria has the highest number of English speakers outside of the UK & US.

Not that it proves anything but I don't believe this statistic.

There is a big difference between speaking English and literacy buddy. English is just a language like Yoruba nad Hausa or Luhya and Kamba.

naijalander:


Naah these places are being renovated. A satellite image may not show the good houses among the brown roofs. The brown roof doesn't mean the house isnt a good house to live in.

I could also say the same about houses in Githurai but would that stop you from saying Githurai is shitty?

NairobiWalker:


Unfortunately you are mentioning slums in Nairobi while I'm mentioning the normal Ibadan. of cause Nairobi slums are dusty but the whole of Nairobi is much better than Nigerian towns................and how long did you say you've been in Kenya? Thika Road was dusty before expansion? lol.........Thika road was lined with so many trees and greenery there was an outcry when the trees were being cut for expansion. I'm starting to doubt you now. Below is Thika road before expansion.

Trust me, I lived through the dust of Roysambu Thika road to Roasters all those places.

Slums in Nigeria are not the same as what you would call a slum. Old houses having old brown roofs does not equate to slum unless you look at the interior of these houses.

NairobiWalker:


I could also say the same about houses in Githurai but would that stop you from saying Githurai is shitty?

Githurai is pretty bad though...many iron sheet houses these.

naijalander:


Just like HIV in Kenya, female genital mutilation, jiggas, etc.

You are not being objective sir.

Out of 10000 Kenyan girls how many have undergone FGM?

NairobiWalker:


There is a big difference between speaking English and literacy buddy. English is just a language like Yoruba nad Hausa or Luhya and Kamba.

And yet Nigeria is full of good writers. A typical Nigerian can write his own language clearly, forget English.

NairobiWalker:


Unfortunately the rusty Ibadan makes the biggest portion of the city

Some of these ancient buildings are captivating

naijalander:


Yet Nigeria has the highest number of English speakers outside of the UK & US.

Not that it proves anything but I don't believe this statistic.

It's not a matter of choice. Its a fact.
Also india has more English speakers than either US or UK. So now the number of English speakers is a point of comparison?

NairobiWalker:


Out of 10000 Kenyan girls how many have undergone FGM?

The practice is dead and gone in MOST of Nigeria, its still pretty common in Kenya.

MtuMsuper:

It's not a matter of choice. Its a fact.
Also india has more English speakers than either US or UK. So now the number of English speakers is a point of comparison?

US

India

Phillipines

Nigeria.

Point noted.

naijalander:


Githurai is pretty bad though...many iron sheet houses these.

You must be a special kind of delusional to claim Githuria (first picture) is worse than Ibadan rusty roofs (second picture)

NairobiWalker:


You must be a special kind of delusional to claim Githuria (first picture) is worse than Ibadan rusty roofs (second picture)

dude that is just on part of the town!

naijalander:



The practice is dead and gone in MOST of Nigeria, its still pretty common in Kenya.

I know how much you Nigerians love Kenyan girls. How many have you met that have undergone FGM?

NairobiWalker:


You must be a special kind of delusional to claim Githuria (first picture) is worse than Ibadan rusty roofs (second picture)

Githurai is a town, Ibadan is an entire city. A confederacy. You have really disrespected that city. The city was once a military empire mehn show some respect.

naijalander:


dude that is just on part of the town!

Are you talking of Ibadan or Githurai?

NairobiWalker:


I know how much you Nigerians love Kenyan girls. How many have you met that have undergone FGM?

I haven't slept with that many Kenyan women so I wouldn't know. Go to areas like Samburu and Masai areas and ask this question.

Obviously cities like Nairobi don't have them in bulk.

naijalander:


Just like HIV in Kenya, female genital mutilation, jiggas, etc.

You are not being objective sir.

I am. Polio, measles, diptheria and other communicable diseases are a sign of backwardness. HIV and its prevalence is not. Its more of a show of lack of choice for women in reproductive matters. Since you brought it up, can you substantiate your claim. You are full of ultimatums like asking folks to take it or leave it and no substance. Prove the HIV lie you're trying to peddle

NairobiWalker:


Are you talking of Ibadan or Githurai?

Actually both.

Henrydone:
Some of these ancient buildings are captivating

Maybe a few but most of them are an eyesore.