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Meanwhile, the ONE MILLION BOYS gang is sending out Save-the-Date notices in Lagos and Ogun states...

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Ojiofor:
Some people abroad wan use the opportunity of free tickets to visit home.

Unfortunately for them, the flights will not be free.
They have to pay for their flights and any hotel accommodation used for isolation.
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MetaPhysical:
Many of you hear abroad and immediately start thinking of UK, US. Nigerians are in Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Cambodia, and when these countries put their society in lockdown, all the hustle shut down. A hustler in Cambodia that can't go out...and no palliatives....Nigeria becomes his heaven. This is some serious economic shyte bro when you count your money and it is not adding up at end of each hour, each day, each week.

Almost 2000 has applied to return from the UK...
Also news reports indicate over 200 from the US.
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BlackFlamefromP:
Dude, whichever country you are born in is the right country, and whatever time you were born in is the right time! There's no such thing as 'a wrong country'. There is no accident in nature. Everything happens for a reason!

There’s a reason of all the words there “right” is the only one in quotation marks...smh
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Bilabong:
“Through data mining, we have been discovering those that need urgent intervention in terms of feeding and other basic necessities of life.”

The minister further acknowledged the release of huge sums as a palliative by the federal government to the poor.

I have four sims. I have not loaded any card on three since this lockdown, but still I haven't received a text that I should come and get any palliative... Una dey fool Una self.

They may have assumed you are dead...
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decatalyst:
Yes o!

It started with allowing females to drive, go the stadium...now this. I am sure beheading will be abolished soon.

Civilization is finally finding it's roots in that country. I hope the blind and staunch followers get liberated too.

Cosmetic “changes” in a country still largely mired in the 17th century...
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ednut1:
I went out for a stroll today. 2 people begged me for money. It will soon get bloody

When will Nigerians not beg for money? Omo, they start begging at the airport...
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Bigleaf1006:
Did I just read the most amazingly preposterous argument in favor of the lockdown? Jeez ,I just wonder are some people's minds are wired.

Like seriously!!

I will ignore the personal insult...
It merely betrays a lack of substance and a crude personal upbringing.

Meanwhile, on the SUBSTANCE of the matter under discourse...
Yes, the “argument in favor of the lockdown” is to slow down the infection rate, so that it does not overwhelm the healthcare system.
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Bigleaf1006:
Cases ain't same, the corpses in the mortuaries were not covid-19 victims, yeah! I agree covid-19 victims are totally under the control of the government with their rights majorly voided but these ones the governor is talking about, ‘b[he has no right over them.[/b]

They are in state government morgues...
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Chikelue2000:
dear FG....pls declare a state of emergency in Kano.....let there be full lockdown dis time with d help of d military assisting....d hausa man is known to be very careless n stubborn...who may not even care to obey simple health routine....but with d help of d military that should change.....it's time to act fast FG....pls

gabicon:
Unfortunately more people are going to die, this is the effect of poverty and limited education, more sadly is the fact that as a result of how integrated the north is a number of elite will also die. When a majority of people are financially viable and have been educated they can make intelligent decisions and protect themselves. More unfortunate is the fat that it will spread to other parts of the north.

God help us.

This is a football game in Kano THIS WEEK in the midst of the Covid pandemic...

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More than 12 people die in 12 hours every day in Kano...
The only reason this is news is the so-called “prominence” of these folks.

But look at the lack of social distancing at even these funerals...SMH

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bobo65:
That you have Money to fend for yourself doesn't mean u shouldnt be considerate...
I went out around 7pm yesterday and I saw many ppl on the road, trekking and interacting, no mask or anything.. AGEBRO on every junction begging, stealing is now the order of the day.

See this lockdown is a total failure, people are hungry and desperate, if government cannot provide people what to eat from the money they stole from the people then let them allow the people work to make money for themselves.

Nope! It’s NOT a “total failure”...
Because it’s goal was to save lives by slowing down the rate of Covid infections, not to solve hunger in Nigeria.

Of course we should feel empathy for the hungry and desperate, but with or without Covid there will still be people who are hungry and desperate. Nonetheless, one of the certainties in life is that only people who are ALIVE can be hungry.
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Bigleaf1006:
Be like say LASG get plenti money take do case.
You stopped us from burying our dearly departed, we haven't fully recovered from a dissipating lockdown now u want to force us to go bury immediately by just executive Fiat.

Oga, build more mortuaries simple. This guy's just be making pronouncements by a whim, what a way to run a society

You mean that before New York started putting dead bodies in refrigerated trucks and burying them in mass graves out on Hart Island, New Yorkers held a town hall and a referendum of its citizens? Emergency situations call for exigent solutions.
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Dozzywest:
Better start digging the mass graves because no owambe no burial.

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itsmayiela:
Islamization. Gradually, the state and its citizenry is beginning to adopt policies practised by Muslims.

We reject this.

Owambe must be organized o jare!

We must wait for our grandmother to be buried first before we begin preparation for our father's burial.

We must wait for our siblungs in Yankee to return before we bury the corpse.

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babyfaceafrica:
How does how a religion or tribe burying their dead your problem?.every religion has its tenets, some burn, some casket, some mat.... Leave them!!.. If I choose to spend all my life savings to bury.. How is that your business?

When you clog up the public morgues, it becomes the state’s problem - and as a taxpayer, mine...smh
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erico2k2:
Well if U live in my world I'm sure your views will differ. What has a person who is a front line job and designated as a key worker got to lose?
Plus its its free

Literally their lives...
The reason for long clinical trials is to adequately study the effects (including possibly dangerous side effects) of drugs. Better safe than sorry.
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erico2k2:
Funny enough vaccination is a preventative procedure

Not if it is coming a year after you have the problem (assuming it even works)...
By definition, a preventative procedure is carried out BEFORE a problem arises, not a year later.

A vaccine next year is NOT prevention for a population CURRENTLY at risk, while Lockdown/Distancing is...
Many people who lives could easily be spared by a lockdown and social distancing would die before any vaccine.

Btw, you seem to have this misguided notion that every clinical trial results in an efficacious remedy...
When medical history is replete with failures (including the disastrous Pfizer meningitis drug trials in Kano).
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Papadoh:
Mortuaries are full already after only 33 deaths? Na only one mortuary dey Lagos? I'm a little confused.

Is it that you think that only Covid kills people in Lagos?
Or that you do not realize that many bodies in the mortuary pre-dated Covid?

Anyway, if you had been assed to read the news story you would have found your answer.
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CoronaV:
I hope people wiill read the article and discover that morturaries are full because funerals are not being held due to lockdown and not that Corona is killing everyone.
E no dey hard Nigerians.
On another note, can those advocating for extension of lockdown see another example of hardship and unnecessary expenses it is causing people?

If they are NOT going to extend the lockdown (and I personally suspect they will NOT)...
Let it be on the basis of sound medical reasons, not because our people want to do Owambe funerals.

Muslims bury within 24 hours while most Westerners bury within a week...
You can bury someone immediately with a simple ceremony, and elaborately celebrate their lives later.
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Lucky Sperm Club...
The Accident of Birth.

Call it whatever you may, but this is a reaffirmation that being born in the “right” country at the “right” time can sometimes be half the journey, but that YOU as an INDIVIDUAL still have to work hard enough or have the vision or intuition to take advantage of opportunities that you neither created nor earned. CONGRATULATIONS to the dude. He embodies that thin line between wacko and wiz!
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erico2k2:
Stay there, more than 80 persons have been vaccinated plus Herbalist has no scientific narrative of what they do, but this is promising so I'm staying positive!U can be -ve that's ur own opinion!
Let me add,
When one finds himself in a difficult situation the worse thing that can be done is NOT TO DO ANYTHING!

Strawman Argument...

How does saying there's presently no cure or vaccine and thus we should isolate/social distance equate to advocacy for doing nothing?
You are placing your entire faith on something AT BEST might (or might NOT) help by next year rather than do something NOW to help ourselves.

Since you apparently like cliched sayings...
Here another one: PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE!
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dangermouse:
How do u mean by working against the country? Any case scenario?

Nigerians are the WORST thing to happen to Nigeria!

Look at the Okada dude on the left below (in the red shirt)....
He thinks he's the "smartest" dude in Lagos - until he gets run over (and then his Okada pals will try to lynch someone). SMH

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SmallmebigGod:
It is not all government, how can you be collecting bribe to do what you are being paid to do and you say government. Besides who are the government , also a citizen. Let's not indulge or justify all our malpractice as citizens just by blaming government. The blame is on both side

Well said! While the government carries a lot of the blame/responsibility...
Nonetheless, Nigeria's condition is the culmination of the acts (by commission or omission) of ALL Nigerians!

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SmallmebigGod:
If we look closely you will see that many Nigerians are working against the country one way or the other. The case at hand is 'like government like citizen'

Well said...
Often, government is only a manifestation of the prevalent values of the population.
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dangermouse:
A hungry man answers only to his stomach! Who am i to condemn thier action? The government need step up thier game and stop paying lip service in the fight of this pandemic!

Let's call a spade a spade....
These are CRIMINALS, not hungry men.
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TheCOOLEST:
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Covid-20 loading up...
Nigerians (like the Chinese) will eat ANYTHING!
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Isahalbash:
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I fear the WORST is yet to come...
Look at these folks ignoring social distancing. SMH
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An IBEDC Staff in Ogun state was beaten to Stupor for distributing Electricity bill.

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https://www.facebook.com/347625639002296/posts/919207075177480/

Presumably no social distancing was observed by the beaters...
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fortran12:
We can try south Korea's

We can try...

But of course the reality is we don’t have their testing capacity (not even the US or the UK does)...
South Korea suffered gravely from its previous coronavirus (SARS) outbreak and built an entire infrastructure on that experience.
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Kingjay007:
The working Governor!

Gandolla should learn basic stuff!

Exactly! This week in Kano...

https://i2.wp.com/phcityhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/kano-residents-defy-social-distancing-to-see-football-match-1.png?w=902&ssl=1

While police has arrested the footballers...
That crowd was a veritable petri dish for Covid-19!
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erico2k2:
its human trial so if I want I can go and have it free of charge! all I need do is go to oxford

So? You could also go to the local herbalist if you want...
The point is that a trial does not equate to a cure or a vaccine.
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