Zzor:
ignore him and pretend he doesn't exist,dont fall for such simple trick to get you jealous,hes a player.Never show a guy you like him no matter how deep you have fallen,he will never respect you if you do that,he may accept you if you make any move but will never value you,you will become his sex thing,they value ladies they suffered to have,thats how they are weird,dont follow any advise coming from a guy here,they just want you to fall cheap for their fellow.I repeat,never ever make or show him signs that you have fallen in love with him,if he comes fine, but if he doesn't,my dear bury that feelings quickly and get busy.

This is your goldmine. Hold it dear to your heart!!!!

feedthenation:
Some of the best infrastructures in Nigeria were done under military rule.

Most that stood the test of time. Perhaps, one can say 90% of the infrastructure facilities in the country.

Opperwezen:


You mean 3 letters

Not three letter somehow, but the one with e at the center. Afterwards, wetin I know!!!

SeverusSnape:
Those were the days when Frats consisted of reasonable people and intellectuals, Now, the whole thing has been hijacked by lowlifes and riff-raffs, murderous blowhards.

Just the same way our political landscape and various state institutions have been hijacked!!!

Maadoo:
We survived..

Kano Pogrom 1945

Jos Pogrom 1953

Nationwide pogrom 1966

Genocide 1967 to 1970.

We survived abandoned properties.

We survived state imposed bankruptcy.

We survived nationalisation of industries.

We survived quota system.

We survived government anti Igbo policies.

We survived Fulani herdsmen.

We survived destruction of our properties in Islamic riots.

We will outlive every evil policy from a country entangled in gross darkness and mired in structural wickedness.

Evil can never triumph over good.

We will overcome the dark heart of man.

of man's inhumanity to man.

Today we remember our heroes.

Odumegwu Ojukwu.

Philip Effiong.

Alexander Madiebo.

Joseph "Hannibal" Achuzia.

Rolf Steiner

Taffy Williams

Carl Rosen

Roger Faulques

Bruce Mayrock

Jan Zumbach

Etc.

Thanks for giving your yesterday so that we can have a future.

... and God bless the living legend Squadron Leader Artur Alves Pereira of the Biafran army, for coming to our rescue when the world feigned blindness to the cruelty of the dark construction of the human heart. Your generation is blessed.

Today we remind Nigeria that her past will continue to haunt her, her present will continue to torment her and her future will continue to elude her... for obfuscating history and conniving with evil, until Biafra is recognised and freed.

Even if Nigeria, a country suffering identity crisis and internal contradiction forgets, we will never forget.

We will take back our nation.

From the Hausa Fulani slavemasters and their puppets.

We will restore Biafra.

And make it the pride of Africa.

In Biafra Africa died and in Biafra Africa shall rise again.

In Biafra Nigeria died and in Biafra all the ethnic nationalities currently enslaved in Nigeria will rise again.

Come Biafra come.

God bless you. We will never forget. My late dad told me about it! I will pass it to my children, on and on like that to many many generations when am gone! Until it comes a time when all Biafrians, old East blocks and our brothers across the Niger river, will remember and celebrate it like the Jewish Passover. Rest in peace to all that stood for peace and justice.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has, since its founding in 1987, set out to be a global “committed corporate citizen” serving clients worldwide instead of focusing only on one region.

It succeeded. The contract chip maker is today the world’s largest semiconductor foundry. But now TSMC has been drawn into the increasingly fierce tech feud between the United States and China.

On May 14, TSMC announced a plan to build a $12 billion plant in Arizona. A day later, the US Department of Commerce unveiled a rule change that from September would bar global chip makers that use US equipment or technology (effectively most global industry players including TSMC), from selling to China’s Huawei, which accounts for around 14% of TSMC’s revenue, according to Credit Suisse analysts.

Why TSMC matters

At the core of the issue is the extreme importance of semiconductors, which are essential for internet and software companies, as well as being at the heart of many technologies used by militaries around the world. Chips are essential building blocks of modern technology supply chains. Chip factories, which need major capital investment and high tech equipment, are also an economic boon to the cities in which they are located. It is not an exaggeration to say whichever country masters chip production and design know-how will have an upper hand in the technology front.

TSMC, the world’s largest contract chip maker, is vital in the global tech supply chain. Contract chip makers make tailor-made products for clients, unlike companies such as Samsung and Intel which reserve their best chips mostly for their own products. Many of TSMC’s clients are semiconductor makers in their own right and design the integrated circuits but don’t have the capacity to mass-produce them. TMSC is the most important source of chips for a number of US and Chinese tech giants, including Apple, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Nvidia, and Huawei. Overall, the company generates 61% of revenue from the US, followed by China (17%) and Taiwan (8%), according to Bloomberg.




The significance of TSMC’s new plant

Even China’s best chip makers are believed to be as much as a decade behind (paywall) their international peers despite huge investment in the industry from the government. If Chinese tech champions like Huawei are not allowed to use or are restricted from using TSMC’s chips, that creates major supply issues for companies. Although the new Arizona plant is expected to only contribute 3–4% in revenue to TSMC, according to analysts from Bernstein, it’s still bad news for China if it shows that TSMC is leaning towards its American clients rather than Chinese.

The fact that TSMC is a Taiwanese company further complicates the matter. Beijing claims the self-ruling island democracy as part of its territory and so should be “re-unified” with the People’s Republic of China. The coronavirus outbreak has exacerbated the conflict between the two sides, against a backdrop of growing international support for Taiwan, which has had one of the best public health responses to the pandemic.

What could happen next?

One direct consequence of TSMC’s move is that it could accelerate China’s own development of semiconductors, though it’s unlikely China could catch up with the US anytime soon. Even the country’s most advanced chip maker, Shanghai-based Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), has only recently launched its latest generation of 14 nanometer chips, some four years behind Intel and Qualcomm, analysts from Fitch Solutions, a research firm, wrote in a note.

“China has been throwing billions of yuan into the semiconductor industry in the last few years trying to expand capacity, but it’s still not there yet,” says Bryan Mercurio, an expert on international trade law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

However, despite its still-huge gap with international peers, Chinese chip makers could have a good opportunity by offering cheaper and less powerful products to emerging markets, where demand will come from more practical and lower-tech home and office equipment. In this area, Chinese companies could supplant US brands within the next decade, say the Fitch analysts.

As for TSMC, it remains to be seen whether its opening of a plant in Arizona is a firm move away from its valuable Chinese clients or more of a gesture to generate goodwill in Washington, DC and with Trump.

“The launch of this plant has to be a token gesture from TSMC. Would the company really want to risk losing all of its Chinese clients, not only Huawei, or being shut out of the China market just for a symbolic move like this?” says Mercurio. “Probably not.”

Source: https://qz.com/1859534/why-a-taiwanese-chip-maker-is-at-the-heart-of-us-china-tech-fight/?utm_source=YPL&yptr=yahoo

slyfox35:
Extending the Gradual ease of lockdown by two weeks.Do they mean after the two weeks,we will be placed on total lockdown? I yam not understanding,who bathes with clean water just to go and play in mud.
You want to lockdown,you lockdown,you want to lift it?you lift it,Confused Government,stop putting Nigerians in a state of limbo,there is hunger in the land.
The total lockdown did not decrease the covid 19 pandemic neither did the gradual lockdown,just uplift this thing already,Nigeria and Nigerians are starting to doubt the authenticity of the so called cobid 1-9 birus
By the way,how do I explain to my children that yakubu did not score this goal.

Yakubu no try out all....

We are in war time...all measures used to win the war is ok...

Not only monopoly but favorable FX and tax cuts.

People are prone to stereotyping, but we love it when someone flips the script.


So when Hilary Brown asked us what the difference is between turtles and tortoises, we were happy to learn that our notions about turtles were all wet.


Turtle or tortoise?


Sheila Madrak, a San Diego-based wildlife biologist who specializes in sea turtles, has a simple answer.


“All of them are turtles,” she says.


The end.

Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/12/shell-game--how-to-tell-a-turtle-from-a-tortoise/

The fiancee of Jamal Khashoggi has asked the Premier League to prevent the Saudi Arabian takeover of Newcastle United because of the alleged crimes committed against the murdered journalist.

With a consortium from the Gulf nation edging closer to purchasing the Premier League club in a £300 million ($374m) deal, Hatice Cengiz - via her solicitors - sent a letter to the competition's governing body asking that it takes the 'right, proper and lawful action' to stop the takeover because of the alleged 'cover-up' regarding Khashoggi's death in 2018.

Saudi-born journalist Khashoggi was allegedly murdered inside Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul, Turkey after going into the government office to pick up documents pertaining to his future marriage with Cengiz.


Ms Cengiz urges you and the board of the Premier League to take all necessary steps to prevent this takeover from happening," the letter addressed to Premier League chief Richard Masters read.

"It is undoubtedly the right, proper and lawful action for you and the Premier League to take especially in light of the ruthless killing of Ms Cengiz’s fiancé.

"There should be no place in the Premier League, and English football, for anyone involved in such abhorrent acts.

"It would be contrary to the letter and the spirit of the Premier League Chairmen’s Charter and the Rules of the Premier League, and the fundamental and honourable principles upon which they are based."

The Saudi consortium close to purchasing Newcastle - Public Investment Fund (PIF) - is controlled by the Gulf nation's leader Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

In a separate statement made via Twitter last week, Cengiz demanded the Premier League intervenes in the potential takeover to keep Bin Salman out of sports in the United Kingdom.

"UK authorities and the Premiere League (sic) should not allow someone like Mohamed Bin Salman (sic), who has yet to face any accountability for the murder of my late fiancé, Jamal Khashoggi, to be so involved in sports in the UK," Cengiz said in the statement.

"Doing otherwise will greatly stain the reputation of the Premiere League and the UK. Mohamed Bin Salman is strategically using international sports to repair his badly damaged reputation after the murder of Jamal."

Source: https://sports.yahoo.com/fiancee-murdered-journalist-urges-premier-050624380.html

Drince:
SMH

Please answer that question!!!

NwaNimo1:
Cut of the 5g.....then there will be an end in sight!

Some countries are already researching on 6G and you are here talking....look at this link: https://www.nairaland.com/5825114/china-already-kicked-off-6g#88999151

Days after commercial 5G services were switched on in the country, China has officially started its research and development into 6G, marking the start of the next stage of a cellular technology arms race with the US.

Several government ministries and research institutes have established a national technology research and development group, according to a publication from the country’s Ministry of Science and Technology.


The government had previously stated it hoped to kickstart 6G development before the end of 2018 and expected commercial networks to be ready before the end of the 2020s. Whereas 4G services launched relatively late in China, the country has become a leader in 5G.

•Get ready for 6G
•China wants to launch 6G by 2030
•China launches world's biggest 5G network

China 6G development

It already has the world’s largest 5G network, while Huawei is a major player in the telecoms equipment market. However telecoms has emerged as a source of tension between Beijing and Washington, with Huawei frozen out of the US market on national security grounds.

US President Donald Trump has said he wants America to take the lead with 6G, adamant he doesn’t want the country to be left behind. However no specific measures have been enacted and there is still no consensus on what from 6G networks will take.

Samsung is already working on 6G in South Korea, while the €251 million 6Genesis project in Northern Finland has also also begun research.

Leaders of the project told TechRadar Pro last year that 6G would fulfil the capacity and latency promise of 5G by delivering the architectural shifts required and through the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is also thought that 6G will deliver speeds of up to 1Tbps.

Source: https://www.techradar.com/news/china-has-already-kicked-off-its-6g-research

I don't know anyone who tells me that Cristiano Ronaldo doesn't know how to play football, at 18 Cristiano was pure talent, he was a boy who just wanted to have fun with the ball in his feet, he dribbled all, even the referee himself!
.
WHAT IS NOT MISSING IN RONALDO IS TALENT
.
But Ronaldo realized he needed to mature
Doesn't mean he lost the Talent...
just got older
.
At 21 he saw that with the Dribbles he wouldn't win gold ball
went on to make a more mature football!
.
for me Ronaldo is the best player today
I don't compare him or Messi
Because Ronaldo is such a good player that no matter who his colleagues are, Ronaldo will always shine
.
it's like Ronaldo is a 4 x4
And Messi a Ferrari
.
Who doesn't know by car will say that Ferrari is better
More who knows that 4 x4 is much better
.
puts the Ferrari running against the 4 x4 on a formula1 track.
Ferrari will win
plus the 4 x4 will finish the race
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Now put the Ferrari running on a road full of sand, or a full of stones, or a full of snow!
Ferrari won't even leave the place
.
What I'm saying is that Messi plays only in a style of play
The style that Barcelona has trained him since he was 11
.
Ronaldo is able to play in any style of play
That's why Ronaldo is Ronaldo wherever he plays
.
Messi stop being Messi when he takes off Barcelona shirt!
.
To respect everything Ronaldo has done
regardless of the sweater you have on
.
Ronaldo is Ronaldo with 18 or 34
RONALDO IS RONALDO WITH SPORTING OR UNITED
Ronaldo is Ronaldo with real madrid or juventus
Ronaldo is Ronaldo in the swallow or in the selection

A poultry processing plant in Delaware has made the "difficult but necessary" decision to kill two million chickens as worker shortages push the US meat supply chain towards a breaking point.

Delmarva Poultry Industry Inc., a cooperative that works with some 1,300 farmers, said it looked at all other options, "including allowing another chicken company to transport and process the chickens and taking a partially processed product to rendering facilities to utilize for other animal feed," but ultimately decided on euthanization.

"If no action were taken, the birds would outgrow the capacity of the chicken house to hold them," the company said, noting that the birds will be killed "using approved, humane methods" and farmers will still be compensated.

It's a small percentage of the 609 million chickens that Delmarva's farmers raised in 2019, but the interruption highlights a problem facing meat producers across the United States: meat slaughtering operations can only be so automated.

Tyson, one of the world's largest meat producers, said in a full-page advertisement in national newspapers on Sunday that "the food supply chain is breaking" as workers get sick and plants are forced to close.

"There will be limited supply of our products available in grocery stores until we are able to reopen our facilities that are currently closed," Tyson said in the ad.

Three major pork plants in South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa — which collectively represent 15% of pork production, according to CNN — were forced to close indefinitely in April.

"During this pandemic, our entire industry is faced with an impossible choice: continue to operate to sustain our nation's food supply or shutter in an attempt to entirely insulate our employees from risk," Smithfield said in a statement to Bloomberg News on Friday. "It's an awful choice; it's not one we wish on anyone."

According to data from the US Department of Agriculture, the amount of frozen pork in storage dropped 4% from March to April. Slaughterhouses, meanwhile, processed 25% less meat while 400,000 animals wait in a backlog as plants work at lowered capacities.

Worker shortages are only the tip of the iceberg.

Other agricultural products — from milk, to beer, and vegetables — are going to waste as restaurants, hotels, schools, and theme parks go dark.

"People don't make onion rings at home," an onion farmer in Idaho who mainly supplies restaurants told The New York Times.

Some farms have sent unsold crops to food banks — where Americans are flocking in droves as record jobless claims pile up — but for many, the donations aren't possible without financial assistance for harvesting and transporting.

"As we hit into the peak berry production in May, that could be berries that would not get picked and never make it to the market," Soren Bjorn, president of the berry producer Driscoll's, told Business Insider. "We think that by far, the best thing that could happen is that that product makes its way to the food banks. And that will require some financial assistance from the government."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/2-million-chickens-euthanized-single-165800309.html

Noerection:
Kanu is dead
May his soul rest in piss

We are all born to die....everything we do, echoes in eternity!!!

Just days after news that the first deaths from the coronavirus in California occurred weeks earlier than experts realized, a report from the San Francisco Chronicle is shedding light on exactly what caused one of those cases to turn fatal.

The report zeroes in on the case of a 57-year-old woman whose daughter found her dead, on Feb. 6, of an apparent heart attack in Santa Clara, Calif. The official autopsy report, obtained by the Chronicle, reveals that the woman died of “acute hemopericardium” (meaning accumulation of blood around the heart) due to the “rupture of [the] left ventricle.” The report also notes that the woman’s heart was inflamed and lists the causal factor in her death as “COVID-19.”


The news is further evidence that the coronavirus has the ability to impact many organs in the body, not just the lungs. But what exactly does it mean that her heart ruptured, and how common is that? Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist and professor at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, tells Yahoo Life the fact that her heart burst is unusual.

“She had a bad heart attack — so bad that it actually ruptured through the wall of the heart,” Schaffner says. “That was the cause of death, and they found in a number of her organ systems, including the heart, evidence of the virus. So that reinforces the notion that, at least in some patients, the virus itself can get out of the lungs, probably via the bloodstream.”

In an interview with the Chronicle, California-based forensic pathologists agreed that the severity of this heart attack is not typical. “There’s something abnormal about the fact that a perfectly normal heart has burst open,” Dr. Judy Melinek said. “The heart has ruptured. Normal hearts don’t rupture.”

A 2012 paper on cardiac ruptures published in Science Direct lists the phenomenon as “rapidly fatal,” saying that it’s the most common cause of death from blunt force trauma. “Most cases of cardiac rupture result from high-energy impacts, such as those sustained in motor vehicle accidents or falls from great heights,” the authors write.

Although the severity of the heart attack may have been abnormal, Schaffner says the fact that the virus traveled is not. “[The bloodstream] is the way viruses usually are distributed in the body, and it can settle and find receptors in other tissues and cause damage in those tissues,” he says. “And that may be part of the reason these people in intensive care units can have multi-organ failure.”

Other coronaviruses, such as SARS and MERS, he says, have been found in other organs, but COVID-19 seems particularly formidable — and capable of causing major damage. To be sure, the vast majority of those who contract the virus make a full recovery, with many showing no symptoms at all. But for a small number, as the autopsy shows, it can prove extremely dangerous.

“Once [the virus] gets into you, it can do nasty things and it can involve organs other than the lung,” says Schaffner. “How frequently that happens, we’re not quite sure yet.”

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/coronavirus-caused-womans-heart-to-rupture-in-first-known-fatal-case-an-injury-most-common-in-car-crashes-200306310.html

xynerise:
They should also test it on mouse...We share similar DNA with mouse...

The scientific sequence is...mouse to monkey to human. As such, probably done on mouse already! Meanwhile, a big lessons to our universities and research institutions. Not only to source for fund from government and students but researching in providing solutions to humanity. Making money from patent rights and solution providers

Mitchew, the president were go follow us watch the new at 8pm... Yeye the smell

Etimocracy:
Well, I've read the comments here so far which has been nothing short of entertaining and educative as well. I believe we all have our own unique weird tendencies of which I'm not left out.

Firstly, I chew my Eba. My Parents did all they could to correct that trend as they saw it as abnormal. (I still chew till date. However, I munch it slowly when I eat around people)

Secondly, my phone is always on silent mode. Heck, I hate ringtones. I rarely miss calls though

Thirdly, during my undergraduate days, I preferred reading alone. I'd seclude myself from the bunch and do my stuff.

My daughter of 5yrs old does chew her eba, her mother and I, have done all a parent could do to stop her but to no success...so we've let her be....so really annoying

Etimocracy:
Well, I've read the comments here so far which has been nothing short of entertaining and educative as well. I believe we all have our own unique weird tendencies of which I'm not left out.

Firstly, I chew my Eba. My Parents did all they could to correct that trend as they saw it as abnormal. (I still chew till date. However, I munch it slowly when I eat around people)

Secondly, my phone is always on silent mode. Heck, I hate ringtones. I rarely miss calls though

Thirdly, during my undergraduate days, I preferred reading alone. I'd seclude myself from the bunch and do my stuff.

My daughter of 5yrs old does chew her eba, her mother and I, have done all a parent could do to stop her but to no success...so we've let her be....os really annoying

[quote author=naijaschoolguru post=88565915]
You are the one that is wrong my brother, you can only " CONTRACT A DISEASE" But you can not CONTACT it, it's not possible for you to contact a disease.
NOTE: To ' Contract disease' means to develop an illness or acquire an illness. While to ' Contact disease' may mean to touch a disease, which is not possible.
Good... Correct word... Contract.... Not contact

I was here!!!

duduade:
ADDRESS BY H.E. MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE EXTENSION OF COVID- 19 PANDEMIC LOCKDOWN AT THE STATE HOUSE, ABUJA
MONDAY, 13TH APRIL, 2020

1. Fellow Nigerians

2. In my addresson Sunday, 29th March, 2020, I asked the residents of Lagos and Ogun States as well as the Federal Capital Territory to stay at home for an initial period of fourteen days starting from the Monday, 30th March 2020.

3. Many State Governments also introduced similar restrictions.

4. As your democratically elected leaders, we madethis very difficult decision knowing fully well it will severely disrupt your livelihoods and bring undue hardship to you, your loved ones and your communities.

5. However, suchsacrifices are needed to limit the spread of COVID-19 in our country. They were necessary to save lives.

6. Our objective was, and still remains, to contain the spread of the Coronavirus and to provide space, time and resources for an aggressive and collective action.

7. The level of compliance to the COVID-19guidelines issued has been generally good across the country.I wish to thank you all most sincerely for the great sacrifice you are making for each other at this critical time.



8. I will take this opportunity torecognise the massive support from our traditional rulers, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) during this pandemic.

9. I also acknowledge the support and contributions received from public spirited individuals, the business community and our international partners and friends.

10. I must also thank the media houses, celebrities and other public figures for the great work they are doing in sensitizing our citizens on hygienic practices, social distancing and issues associated with social gatherings.


11. As a result of the overwhelming support and cooperation received, we were able to achieve a lot during these 14 days of initial lockdown.

12. We implemented comprehensive public health measures that intensified our case identification, testing, isolation and contact tracing capabilities.

13. To date, we have identified 92% of all identified contacts while doubling the number of testing laboratories in the country and raising our testing capacity to 1,500 tests per day.

14. We also trained over 7,000 Healthcare workers on infection prevention and control while deploying NCDC teams to 19 states of the federation.

15. Lagos and Abuja today have the capacity to admit some 1,000 patients each across several treatment centres.

16. Many State Governments have also made provisions for isolation wards and treatment centres. We will also build similar centers near our airports and land borders.

17. Using our resources, and those provided through donations, we will adequately equip and man these centres in the coming weeks. Already, health care workers across all the treatment centers have been provided with the personal protective equipment that they need to safely carry out the care they provide.

18. Our hope and prayersare that we do not have to use all these centres. But we will be ready for all eventualities.

19. At this point, I must recognise the incredible work being done by our healthcare workers and volunteers across the country especially in frontline areas of Lagos and Ogun States as well as the Federal Capital Territory.

20. You are our heroes and as a nation, we will forever remain grateful for your sacrifice during this very difficult time. More measures to motivate our health care workers are being introduced which we will announce in the coming weeks.

21. As a nation, we are on the right track to win the fight against COVID-19.

22. However, I remain concerned about the increase in number of confirmedcases and deaths being reported across the world andin Nigeria specifically.

23. On 30th March 2020, when we started our lockdown in conforming with medical and scientific advice,the total number of confirmed cases across the world was over 780,000.

24. Yesterday, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases globally was over one million, eight hundred and fifty thousand. This figure is more than double in two weeks!

25. In the last fourteen days alone, over seventy thousand people have died due to this disease.

26. In the same period, we have seen the health system of even the most developed nations being overwhelmed by this virus.

27. Here in Nigeria, we had 131 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in 12 States on 30th March 2020. We had two fatalities then.

28. This morning, Nigeria had 323 confirmed casesin twenty States. Unfortunately we now haveten fatalities. Lagos State remains thecenter and accounts for 54% of the confirmed cases in Nigeria. When combined with the FCT, the two locations represent over 71% of the confirmed cases in Nigeria.

29. Most of our efforts will continue to focus in these two locations.

30. Majority of the confirmed cases in Lagos and the FCT are individuals with recent international travel history or those that came into contact with returnees from international trips.

31. By closing our airports and land borders and putting strict conditions for seaport activities, we have reduced the impact of external factors on our country. However, the increase in the number of States with positive cases is alarming.

32. The National Centre for Disease Control has informed me that, a large proportion of new infections are now occurring in our communities, through person-to-person contacts. So we must pay attention to the danger of close contact between person to person.

33. At this point, I will remind all Nigerians to continue to take responsibility for the recommended measures to prevent transmission, including maintaining physical distancing, good personal hygiene and staying at home.

34. In addition, I have signed the Quarantine Order in this regard and additional regulations to provide clarity in respect of the control measures for the COVID-19pandemic which will be released soon.


35. The public health response to COVID-19 is built on our ability to detect, test and admit cases as well as trace all their contacts. While I note some appreciable progress, we can achieve a lot more.

36. Today, the cessation of movement, physical distancing measures and the prohibition of mass gatherings remain the most efficient and effective way of reducing the transmission of the virus.By sustaining these measures, combined with extensive testing and contact tracing, we can take control and limit the spread of the disease.

37. Our approach to the virus remains in 2 steps - First, to protect the lives of our fellow Nigerians and residents living here and second, to preserve the livelihoods of workers and business owners.

38. With this in mind and having carefully considered the briefings and Report from the Presidential Task Force and the various options offered, it has become necessary to extend the current restriction of movement in Lagos and Ogun States as well as the FCT for another fourteen days effective from 11:59 pm on Monday, 13th of April, 2020.I am therefore once again asking you all to work with Government in this fight.

39. This is not a joke. It is a matter of life and death. Mosques in Makkah and Madina have been closed. The Pope celebrated Mass on an empty St. Peter’s Square. The famous Notre Dame cathedral in Paris held Easter Mass with less than 10 people. India, Italy and France are in complete lockdown. Other countries are in the process of following suit. We can not be lax.

40. The previously issued guidelines on exempted services shall remain.

41. This is a difficult decision to take, but I am convinced that this is the right decision. The evidence is clear.

42. The repercussions of any premature end to the lockdown action is unimaginable.

43. Wemust not lose the gains achieved thus far. We must not allow a rapid increase in community transmission. We must endure a little longer.

44. I will therefore take this opportunity to urge you all to notify the relevant authorities if you or your loved ones develop any symptoms. I will also ask our health care professionals to redouble their efforts to identify all suspected cases, bring them into care and prevent transmission to others.

45. No country can afford the full impact of a sustained restriction of movement on its economy.I am fully aware of the great difficulties experienced especially by those who earn a daily wage such as traders, dayworkers, artisans and manual workers.

46. For this group, their sustenance depends on their ability to go out. Their livelihoods depend on them mingling with others and about seeking work. But despite these realities we must not change the restrictions.

47. In the past two weeks, we announced palliative measures such as food distribution, cash transfers and loans repayment waivers to ease the pains of our restrictive policies during this difficult time. These palliatives will be sustained.

48. I have also directed that the current social register be expanded from 2.6 million households to 3.6 million households in the next two weeks. This means we will support an additional one million homes with our social investment programs. A technical committee is working on this and will submit a report to mebythe end of this week.


49. The Security Agencies have risen to the challenges posed by this unprecedented situation with gallantry and I commend them. I urge them to continue to maintain utmost vigilance, firmness as well as restraint in enforcing the restriction orders while not neglecting statutory security responsibilities.

50. Fellow Nigerians, follow the instructions on social distancing. The irresponsibility of the few can lead to the death of the many. Your freedom ends where other people’s rights begin.

51. The response of our State Governors has been particularly impressive, especially in aligning their policies and actions to those of the Federal Government.

52. In the coming weeks, I want to assure you that the Federal Government, through the Presidential Task Force, will do whatever it takes to support you in this very difficult period. I have no doubt that, by working together and carefully following the rules, we shall get over this pandemic.

53. I must also thank the Legislative arm of Government for all their support and donations in this very difficult period. This collaboration is critical to the short and long-term success of all the measures that we have instituted in response to the pandemic.


54. As a result of this pandemic, the world as we know it has changed. The way we interact with each other, conduct our businesses and trade, travel, educate our children and earn our livelihoods will be different.

55. To ensure our economy adapts to this new reality, I am directing the Ministers of Industry, Trade and Investment,Communication and Digital Economy,Science and Technology,Transportation, Aviation,Interior,Health, Works and Housing, Labour and Employment andEducation to jointly develop a comprehensive policy for a “Nigerian economy functioning with COVID-19”.

56. The Ministers will be supported by the Presidential Economic Advisory Council and Economic Sustainability Committee in executing this mandate.

57. I am also directing the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, the National Security Adviser, the Vice Chairman, National Food Security Council and the Chairman, Presidential Fertiliser Initiative to work with the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19to ensure the impact of this pandemic on our 2020 farming season is minimized.

58. Finally, I want to thank the members of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 for all their hard work so far. Indeed, the patriotism shown in your work is exemplary and highly commendable.

59. Fellow Nigerians, I have no doubt that by working together and carefully following the rules, we shall get over this pandemic and emerge stronger in the end.

60. I thank you all for listening and may God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

God have mercy... Another 14 days...

My sister nothing good comes easy... I will share a personal experience: A friend accommodated me in his room and parlour when I came to Lagos after my nysc. A year after I secured a room in face me, I slap compound. With my small salary as a teacher, though a mechanical engineering graduate! I invited my girlfriend from Enugu, to visit me and see my humble beginnings but she was sad when she arrived Lagos and decided to quit the relationship because she felt I still have a long way to go, my place of abode and salary are a sorry situation.... She left, I felt bad, I move on with my life...fast forward today, 7 yrs after I am happily married to my best friend, my pillar that stood with me , encouraged me, inspired me and all that stuff... You know what? We started our relationship in that one room... Today, we have our own house, two plots land, car and God has blessed us with two lovely kids...career wise... Working in one of the best multi-national FMCG in sub Saharan Africa..
So, my sister, if you love him, he has vision of where he's going and he is assiduously working towards it, then inspired him more...you will know a man can be greater with the right woman pushing him..
Sorry for typo/syntax error...was in a hurry...

Afamed:

This is a great opportunity for us to grow our local productions. For how long should Nigeria be a dumping site? At this 21 century, you have to rely on importation of Rice, Turkey and Pine Apple. How do we develop if we simply can't produce what we want to eat ? How do we reduce unemployment when virtually 100% of our consumptions are imported? My Brother we definitely have to start from somewhere. We have the very reach fertile soil with over 923,990 land mass.

Just for your information, all the manufacturing companies in Agbara industrial area of ogun state, are in crisis owing to inability to export goods with duty paid to the west African coast via land border, this could lead to massive job cut. Another question is how do we grow naira if we don't export

Praizeupdates:
Super moderator of africa popular forum Nairaland, Lalasticlala set to dedicate his already grown up daughter in church next week Sunday as he show off her cute pretty face in new adorable photos.

We pray she continue to grow in grace of the almighty. See more photos below

Gist From Praizenews ; http://www.praizenews.com/lalasticlala-show-off-his-cute-daughters-face-set-for-church-child-dedication/

If Lala no kill snake for this dedication with palm wine, I no go attend.

szymanski:
Whosoever wrote this article obviously needs to be cross examine, I work at Afam power station as an electrical consultant, I've lived there with my family for 18years now. They've been no project as such here, all we've been doing here are mainly maintenance jobs, you guys should stop posting trash and misinforming the masses, Dem never even pay us for Six good months now, and your here saying buhari did this and that. Sometimes I wonder if you guys have anything better to do than writing rubbish.

Thank you bro for letting this bloody liars and Nigeria know the situation. I was privilege to work on this site (.afam.) and the other one at Egbema before the coming of this government. In short, this government contributed to the sorry state of the project as initiated by GEJ government.

If atiku is corrupt, as assumed by Mr Ambode, what is buhari waiting for with the EFCC and ICPC? Has any court in Nigeria indicated atiku? Zone B answer please