₦airaland Forum

Investnow2017:
How many people have been tested so far, if I may ask pls?

Elslim:
Thats d problem, did you see any data of people tested daily? Why are the hiding the data?

I don’t believe they are hiding it...
The NCDC dude discusses it at the daily press briefings.

Obviously, the number of daily tests increases...
As more labs are added for COVID testing (including staff training).

In addition, the labs are undertaking process engineering....
Eg, instead of one 8-hour workday, have three 8-hour shifts (requires hiring/training more staff though).
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Elslim:
It's spiking... It's spiking ooo

The rate of infection has not really moved much...
Which is significant, given that many more people are being tested daily.
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Akpacha:
I can't wait for this figures to getting to 419. It will stop at that numbers.

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BeLookingIDIOT:
Yes,we know PDP and APC are both failures.But I hate all this sort of simpleton reasoning.Whatever economic progress that occurred was not due to Jonathan. It is equally absurd to say buhari brought about a recession. Things would likely have been much worse if Jonathan got re-elected.

Buhari may not have “brought” the recession...
But he most certainly worsened, deepened and elongated it with his initial inertia and subsequent inept policies.

He’s now been in office for 5 years....
Yet (prior to COVID), Nigeria has struggled to rebound from its recession, while our peers (except SA) and neighbors have soared.

Again, we can have a rational debate about the economy (hopefully, without the gratuitous insults)...
But any rational discourse has to be anchored on factual reality, and the facts are that the economy is much worse off under Buhari.
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festacman:
Congratulations ma, but I would have been happier if in your times as Finance minister, you initiated diversification of Nigerian economy.

Having studied the terrain in your first stint under Pres. Obasanjo, one had expected concrete action on diversification in your second stint as coordinating minister of cabinet/Finance Minister of Finance under Pres. Jonathan. Things could have been a lot better if you did that but all is now history. You are certainly world famous but you have few legacies at home.

Wishing you all the best, still.

While I think both PDP and APC are 2 sides of a rotten coin...
Things were certainly economically much better under Jonathan than under Buhari.

Now, we can have a rational debate as to the reasons why...
But NOT about factual reality - from one of world’s fastest growing economies to world capital of extreme poverty!
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CONGRATS!
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StupidVoters:
Pre-Covid era, i dont pay attention to a certain moniker "Hungerbad" here on nairaland because i think he choose a funny name for himself. Na today I know say hunger bad truly. A certain handsome fresh looking guy in my area who has never beg me nor anybody in the neighborhood for assistance as far as I know, came knocking on my door, I was alone inside my apartment Not feeling to see anyone. I got up to check who was at the door through the tiny door camera only to be amazed by my special visitor. I opened the door with enthusiasm only to see the guy postrating begging me that he hasn't eat anything since yesterday morning, I rushed to the kitchen to prepare a meal together with his assistance. When he ate to satisfaction. I told him to wait till afternoon to have lunch. The guy over prayed for me. He just left.

NB. I'm managing myself not that I have big money somewhere but I was delighted to help this younger "brother". My people, don't turn anybody away requesting for your help at the moment because hunger bad. Do anything within your capacity ( if you have) to help. I beg you in the name of God.

I'm sure Covid won't erase us (Africans) because we are fighter, I'm not sure if hunger won't , because no one is immune to it.

Thanks for your kindness...
But instead of expending his time and resources into looking “fresh”, the dude should have been legit hustling hard and SAVING his coins.

Our priorities are so messed up...
Because in our culture, there’s almost always be some ‘Uncle’ or ‘Aunty’ or ‘Broda’ to help (inadvertently fueling the Culture of Entitlement).

May providence reward your kindness.
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Too ‘blingy’ for my taste...
Would feel like living in a nightclub or bar.

But to each his/her own...
CONGRATS to him, and Safe Isolation.
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RIP...

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What business of yours is it?
Did the dude come to you to complain about it?
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successmatters:
Ebonyi can comfortably feed Nigeria with rice.

Fact.

And stone...
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emmabest2000:
Someone wrote that apology letter for him

hisexcellency34:
Letter that affidavit people typed for him...no be to sign

Jimmyubah2:
Na dey court arrange the letter for am sef.

Jaymoney5000:
Believe he wrote that by himself at your own peril

Doesn’t matter...
So long as he PAID the lawyer who wrote it.

Makes the lawyer his Agent, and him the Principal...
The actions of the Agent is deemed by law as that PERSONALLY of the Principal.
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WELL DONE!
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EKO ONI BAJE!
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Why do Nigerians use sidewalks as markets?
And then end up using the roads as sidewalks.
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Nicklaus619:
www.nairaland.com/attachments/11339572_img20200410125254966_jpeg7bcd8d9a9c2dbc0883be6f078bb7a05c

RaptObserver:
Chicken change... But what if he was convicted out of error? His family should sue FG for damages.

That was big money during our parents’ time - almost $2 million...
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madridguy:
Audio coronavirus

Audio patients

We are discharging patients everyday yet we still need to import doctors from China, for what again if i may ask?

Call me anything you, nothing like Coronavirus in Nigeria. Government are just using the audio virus to loot our treasury.

Stay at home, stay at home, don't go out so you won't contact corona yet hunger are killing people at home.

Heartless and selfish government.

Read Ayodeji Osowobi’s coronavirus experience...#TakeResponsibility #StayHome #StaySafe
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/nigeria-covid-19-survivor-experience-don-200406152458618.html
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madridguy:
Audio coronavirus

Audio patients

We are discharging patients everyday yet we still need to import doctors from China, for what again if i may ask?

Call me anything you, nothing like Coronavirus in Nigeria. Government are just using the audio virus to loot our treasury.

Stay at home, stay at home, don't go out so you won't contact corona yet hunger are killing people at home.

Heartless and selfish government.

Those Chinese healthcare professionals were brought in by CCECC for its own staff...
While they will help FG with the new donated equipment, they will not doctor to the Nigerian public.

Meanwhile, it is sad to see the skepticism from apparently ‘educated’ folks...
Unless we work hard to break the chain of infection, Nigerians will die in the hundreds.

Remember Donald Trump thought similarly considered Covid-19 to be some sort of ‘hoax’.
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NASENI in Abuja has started making ventilators...
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erico2k2:
where we at now in the Uk we already lost 7k plus and we have not reach its peak yet, italy 17k plus and not finished, you can see where I am coming from, if 7k plus no peak yet it means we are going over 14k plus i n the uk

Go tell that to the relatives of those 3500 dead people...smh
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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING!

She took a random tiny baby hand to announce her baby’s birth...
When the mom of said baby took offense, she apologized and took it down.

End of story. CONGRATS to both mothers.

PS: A topic for another day...
But folks should realize that anything voluntarily put in the public space loses any expectation (and possibly protection) of privacy.
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Stmykel001:
Dangote's refinery is almost done. They are already preparing soft landing for him.

The subsidy regime is IRRELEVANT to the Dangote Refinery...
It is going to be buying crude and selling its products (including its exports) at international prices.
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slowice:
Paying tax to a government that can't be held accountable is like throwing money into the sea. A huge waste. Even the oil money they earn can't be accounted for. They want to reap where they ve not sown. When our government start acting responsibly people will be happy to pay taxes seeing what their money is being used for.

Chicken and egg situation...
Waiting for the government to do things that most governments do with tax revenue before you pay taxes.

Taxes are the obligation of citizenship (or residency). It is what gives you a voice and the moral right to make financial demands on government. In other words, it is the financial part of that vaunted social contract between the government and the governed. Unfortunately, in Nigeria, the oil windfall (that until relatively recently was produced by foreigners) has caused the government to become un-accountable to the citizenry since it does not rely on tax revenue paid by citizens, and has similarly caused the citizens to demand public services without bothering to pay for it.

Frankly, tax dodgers and evaders are just as societally “irresponsible” as the government. Furthermore, they are effectively “stealing” from those of us who pay taxes when they enjoy public services (public schools, hospitals, law enforcement) financed by those who bother to pay our taxes.
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erico2k2:
Bro go and check, China was ready, they already had SARS which is a coronavirus!

Btw, the flu is also a coronavirus...
Which is why Trump misguidedly thought the US was ready.
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erico2k2:
Bro go and check, China was ready, they already had SARS which is a coronavirus!

And still lost 3500 people...

EVERY nation made it up on the fly
But as I SPECIFICALLY stated “some with relatively more success than others” (China, South Korea, etc.).
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erico2k2:
please where did you get 500 from care to share??
PS, I have seen them ones displayed up there and I am afraid to tell you, they are the non-intrussive ones, won't help with this virus, these are the ones the Italians where using hence death rate soared. Nigeria with over 200 million people God forbids it spreads it would be a total disaster.I know you might be thinking Im digging out the FG too much but be rest assured, if you have seen waht I have seen, you will understand!!

So we have gone from 5 patients to 200 million?

Dude, not sure what you seem to be having difficulty understanding...
If Nigeria has a massive surge of infections, it will overwhelm the system - just like it has in the US, Italy, Spain, etc.

NO country in the world was prepared for Covid-19...
EVERY country is making it up as they go along, some with relatively more success than others.

Accordingly, for seemingly the zillionth time...
The smart thing is prepare for the worst but work and hope for the best.
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erico2k2:
please where did you get 500 from care to share??

In the SAME article that said there were 169 in 16 states...
It is somewhere there in the last or second-to-last paragraph.
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MODIFY: Found the article here...

zakim:
https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/covid-19-only-169-ventilators-in-16-states.html

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erico2k2:
where did you get the gist that we had hundreds of ventilators in Nigeria FYI the Uk only has 10k ventilators as we speak
last count Gwagwalada Spec Hospital Abuja had just TWO ventilators aparently 169 in 9ja

I see you have found the story, but you’ve misread it...
There are 169 in 16 states, but about 500 across the nation.

That was before the at least 50-100 that has recently been donated.
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PS: Here’s the new made-in-Nigeria ventilators...

https://guardian.ng/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/NASENI.jpg
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erico2k2:
where did you get the gist that we had hundreds of ventilators in Nigeria FYI the Uk only has 10k ventilators as we speak
last count Gwagwalada Spec Hospital Abuja had just TWO ventilators

We have at least 500 ventilators across Nigeria...
And that was even before the new ones bring donated.

PS: There was actually a post on ventilators on NL recently. Do a search.
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OlujobaSamuel:
We are clamouring for deregulation, forces of demand and supply should determine pricing, abeg why is kerosine and diesel still the despite the crash in crude?

Bros, kerosene and diesel (as well as aviation fuel) pricing were deregulated YEARS AGO...
That’s one reason the petrol subsidy made little no economic sense - given that diesel, kerosene and aviation fuel impacted the citizenry more.
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Hezmatosky:
No body talks about people's welfare in this country. FG should create an Avenue where people can at least get something at the end of each month to aid themselves.

That usually happens in countries where citizens actually pay their taxes...
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