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Pepper31:
I can't believe I just read dis


Pls how can I unread dis post

Tell your child that:

(1) Kante was born in Paris & Sallah was born in an Egyptian village.
(2)Nationality is not dependent on colour in modern times.
(3)There have been Africans in Europe since Roman times. Some were even part of Romano-British elite before current English people moved from Germany & Denmark into the British Isles.

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GogetterMD:
Yes, imported. Not a lot of countries manufacture amtivenom as its research is capital intensive

Actually this is no excuse. Money stolen by one governor can more than do it. Much of the research has been done abroad that we can learn from.

Considering that we only need to work on around 5 most common venomous snakes (carpet viper being by far the most important), it cannot cost that much. We lots of the snake around. Extracting the venom is pretty low tech too. We have a reasonably large number of bite victims for clinical trial. So the costly part would be actual serum production in animals, purification and formulation.

Northerners are too savvy to let any rift show so close to election.

Amaechi was always a tool to use, as an ardent Iscariot. They (the North) will pretend all is well until election. If they win, they will codedly deal with him.

If they lose they will accuse him of "always has a been PDP mole". His stolen Rivers millions used to buy Buhari vote in 2015 won't matter.

humberjade:
Imagine a farmer doing d no2 in d bush or taking a nap after a hectic session on his farm...u can't be too sure u know...


It is sad that we give a lot and take crumbs back from these countries....but my question is, can't we produce them locally? At least our forefathers who were mostly farmers must have survived these bites with some local anti-venom

In theory we can. But like every other aspect of life, we do not fund research purposefully to achieve self-sufficiency in any given sphere. So we seek the easy (but often expensive) way out: importation.

You basically have to follow FOUR key steps in aniti-venom (AV) in production: extract anti-venom, inject very minute amount into chosen domestic animals, extract the plasma/purity to removes microbes/viruses and other impurities with product quality control AND officially formulate the product for the market/use.

Of course each of the FOUR steps involves several things in it. Of which from step three to four pre-clinical & clinical trials are CRUCIAL to assess efficacy, safety/side effects and viability over time. For example a storage process that will not render the AV inefficient has to be devised considering that rural areas where they are MOST needed may not have stable electricity or electricity at all. Antivenom (a protein) is very susceptible to heat.

In the West, monoclonal anti-bodies are made in university labs. Undergraduate stuff. Any life science or medical student worth his salt will have done same or at least tried at undergrad level. So if employed in Biotech company later, the whole anti-body process won't come as a surprise, albeit in industrial scale.

humberjade:
What if d snake bites ur buttocks or tummy...where do one tie ojare?

You be real werey.
What is your buttocks doing on the ground in the bush or road?

Truly snakebite in 9ja is just luck to survive it, if it injected its venom fully. Just hope it's not the most venomous snakes like mamba, viper or cobra.

Farmers in rural areas are most at risk. Exactly areas where medical facilities are few, poorly equipped or non-existent.

Australia with so many venomous snakes like Inland Taipan (world's most venomous) have done a good job producing anti-venom.

Nigeria should by now have much expertise considering high rate of bites in farming communities, especially areas like Gombe, Plateau, Bauchi, Taraba, Borno, Adamawa and other places. Especially for carpet viper that bites the most in the area, especially during raining season, harvest and flooding periods.

We still import Echitab anti-venom from Costa Rica and questionable/poor quality ones from India after all these years.

We export live snakes only to get expensive anti-venom back. Like we cheaply export crude oil and get refined petrol, kerosene, jet fuel etc back at expensive rates. Na wa for 9ja o.

GAZZUZZ:
If GEJ had done half of what APC is doing, they would have never come close to power.

Well, posterity is always there to judge.

Kikikikiki!

This post is funny.

People have forgotten that women cheat more these days.

While men cheat due to weakness & fun, most women cheat for a purpose: money, material stuff, promotion, passing exam, employment & other favours, greed, etc.

So it's a necessity.

Necessity & leisure do not elicit same push & determination to do something.

Considering that not all affairs or cheating result in pregnancy, considering that between 25 and 40% of all kids (incidence in first born kids being higher) of all kids belong to another man outside, clearly women have it easier, have more opportunities and do not have to pay to cheat.

Making their cheating rate higher.

It's wrong notion that boys cheat & women are angels that girls craftily use to cheat without suspicion.

Aderewah:
Nigerians love material things. No science, no technology, no research ,project or discovery. Just hustle. Then buy things and show off.

You know in Nigeria when you say the truth you are called a jealous guy. Looking at the compound, you could build a nice 6 bedroom duplex and still have enough money to start a small hi-tech or any other innovative business. I'm sure Seun began Nairaland with far less money. And Seun didn't even have the Western exposure as Emenike has had over the years.

From my little experience, maintaining an average modern house is expensive, let alone a palatial one like this.

In a few years his income will reduce drastically after football career. A building of just six flats in Okota/Magodo side can earn surprisingly good returns in the years to come. I hope he has done such and more.

But it seems black people across the world who make good money have the overspending, lavish lifestyle and later left with nothing: Tyson, Ronaldihno, Emmanuel Eboue, MC Hammer, Tony Braxton, etc.

That is why how you choose traditional chiefs is important.

In some areas money plays more role in selection.

Some people not raised in a royal manner may not know how to uphold the dignity & responsibility expected from that title-holder.

Famocious:
What happens to some of us that do hospital calls for a week at a stretch nko?

We are still waxing strong sha

Well certain professions cannot do without night shift. But the negative effects are pretty well known now.
The circadian rhythm and metabolic disease aspects are now indisputable for long term night shift workers.

Obviously the risk is even bigger for those already generically at risk. By causing an earlier onset for example.

RihannatOlosho:
I feel so hоrny, who wants to come work night shift on my pussy.
Lagos residents only.

BlueRayDick:
You found yourself bleeding and the next thing you do is call your pastor

What happened to calling a doctor? What happened to visiting a teaching hospital? What happened to seeing a doctor that specializes in the woman body?

See what religion has done to us in Africa

Your head dey there. They called a pastor who prescribed "River bath". That stupid pastor and those around the girl could face the law if it were in saner climes.

The same mindset that allows religious explosion is what favours belief in ritual stuff. Superstition instead of scientific empericity.
And they will bury that poor girl without an autopsy!

We see bleeding from all orifices everytime. With various causes

But you will soon see a brainwsshed and backward generation coming here to defend both pastor and superstition.
China is exploring space and making USA panic over their future of world trade. Nigerians are building mega churches. Nigeria has a long way to go.

Hope he has assets/trusts for the future.

He should just go into politics like Romario.

But this new president Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil could make politics difficult for blacks. With his racist right wing ways.

Yewandequeen:
This is child abuse of the highest degree

But hypocrisy won't allow some people see it. Later this boy will have a sexualised image of women and girls generally. And we know the consequences of it.

The society as a whole brings up a child, not just the nuclear family. The lady dancing with him is part of that society. A society increasingly failing to do the right thing for kids to emulate.

Happy new year dear.

One thing society likes to be silent about is the sexual molestation of young boys by older women. Sad thing is society pays for it sooner or later.

I was shocked by how many acquaintances claim to have been molested by older women.

It has been shown that among boys sexually abused as kids, a higher number of them become abusers themselves.

We now know that R Kelly was sexually abused as a kid. And accusations against him flying around for years are extremely disturbing.

Not using that to exonerate anybody, but we cannot totally ignore the effect of molestation on behaviour later in life.

LiveByNight:
Dude did you grow up in a jungle ?

I am in my late thirties and never did this ... .

Dude not everyone grew up in face me I face you

Sometimes keep your peace and save yourself embarrassing responses

When we were kids, many UK born and partly bred kids used to go to the village on holiday and festivities. Dads were typically UK educated professors, medics, lawyers, and such.
So no need to form ajebor.

rozayx5:
This is damaging oh

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And train sounds in the background


Means its recent

Not damaging. Zombies already knew Buhari has nothing to offer. They also did not care about his integrity. They said even with NEPA bill as certificate they will vote for him and they did.

So sufferheads will not want to alleviate their suffering.
But myself and others who knew what was coming prepared ourselves for the bad economy Buhari would bring.
So zombies will again vote for more suffering.
But wait o, why is no one hearing "change" slogan again.
Buhahaha.

This might surprise indomie kids.

But in the coup speech after overthrowing Buhari, IBB pretty much said same in 1985.

So Amaechi just said what he knows everyone already knew since eon.

dinocy:
You will agree with me that mikel would have been a better player if he had followed his mind and played for Manchester United like he initially intended but big offer and other influence made him change is mind over night and signed for Chelsea. Now where is the mikel that was competing with Messi in youth football??

Mikel made money and has a trophy loaded cabinet. He cannot have many regrets. He might not even have lasted that long at United. Nani and Anderson who came boasting similar talents like Mikel did not end up winning Balon d'Or at United. Yorke and Andy Cole were sent packing by Ferguson at United despite their earlier heroics there.

As good as Mikel has been, he was never in the class of Messi despite comparison in youth. And never was going to be.

Nwankwo Kanu and Ronaldo de Lima were both playing in Holland and both were compared in Youth. Kanu made the perfect move to Arsenal that played the skillful free flowing football.

Even if he didn't have a heart condition, he was never quite in the class of Ronaldo.

Perhaps the football training much earlier in life in top academies enhances near maximum exploitation of potential, not just the later training as a professional footballer alone.

Same everywhere in 9ja in everything. Political parties have camps, factions, two state chairmen/leader, etc.

Consensus is not our strength hence unity evades us. Because we choose not to fair and transparent in our procedures, we create divisions.

Next is assassination and such nonsense. Wahala dey o.

philip0906:
It's not about getting emotional...I can see a number of peeps from Edo state coming to the defence of their state, which is "fine"...It still doesn't change the FACT. Benin city is a really backward city and it's not just about this particular crime...but on all indices of evil, Benin city stands amongst the "best"

Condemning others is very easy. As we all know seeing the speck in the eyes of others is easier than removing the log in one's eye. Nothing new there.

Sadly you provide no comparative scientific data compared with Ibadan, Enugu, Akure, Jos, Kaduna and such cities for example. Such that includes unemployment level, literacy, murder rate, birth rate, poverty level, child and maternal mortality, school enrolment at primary and secondary level, etc.
In modern times, eyeballing and headlines hardly shows the full picture.

I was chatting with a female Uniben student from Akwa Ibom. She ranted that Edo people were diabolical bla bla bla. But then admitted that she has no friend from Edo State after years living in Benin. That all her friends were from other states. And she could not explain why.

But subtly admitted that her perception that Edo people diabolical before even coming to Benin probably influenced her choice of friends. She also eventually admitted that they all from outside Edo often say Edo people are diabolical. Even though they have not really been close to the natives. And have never had any diabolical problems emanating from Edo people. These are "educated" people who will later claim to know Benin people because they once lived there. Yet never mingled or sought to understand the people. So continues prejudice. Which by the way is enough to go round.

That Benin people value their culture and have not allowed colonial mentality and inferiority complex to wipe out the culture. That is what the likes of you call diabolical.
I have visited over 40 countries, mostly in the West. They all keep their culture. Even the pagan festival Christmas that you celebrate is part of Western culture. Around winter solstice, not birth of Christ. It was only introduced to try to suppress it.

It is Borno that copied Middles Eastern religion and bombing the NE to smittering and decimating the army that is progressive and advanced?
Or the pastors with human heads and corpses buried under their pulpits that are progressive and modern?

I will rather be backward with my culture than be backward with a borrowed way of life thank you very much.

See all those from skull mining world capital cities talking.

When Evans the billionaire kidnapper was operating in Benin many were blaming Edo boys.

Benin is city and many cities in Nigeria have high crime rates.

Of course any crime has to be condemned and perpetrators caught and punished according to law. And their assets seized to compensate victims or relatives. But using to express tribalism, bigotry and primitive instinct shows why we cannot go forward or have unity.
Many commenting here feel no pity for the dead. They just want to spew hatred.
Rip woman.

VolvoS60:


Raw tribalism in football is alive and well...Let me join in too...

How can anyone describe Zico as "this one" because of his (admittedly harsh) comments about Messi?

But Zico has a point. In an era where clubs are richer than some countries, the World Cup (despite FIFA's many failings) seems to be the only place where the big superstars can be brought down to earth. You might be the World's best player in the richest league but if you haven't won the world cup, then there's something missing...

Tor!
This is more so because the very great players literally put other players on their back and drag them to win WC together.

Pele showed it, Maradonna did, Ronaldo da Lima did and so were Zidane & Beckenbauer. Players who individually clearly made a massive difference to their team's fortune.

That is what made France world Cup win in Russia 2018 more of a collective effort. They had very good players, though not in the mold of Zidane (Mbappe might still achieve that) but all performed near their best and gelled together in that tournament: Griezmann, Pogba, Mbappe, Varane, etc. Similar to 2014 WC winning German team.

nnamdijonathan:
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Which Southeast region? You better worry about your own region

Hmmm.

Lol. So Niger State alone could have filled the vacancies with thousands more applicants left.

glosplendid:
Happy new year nairalanders,,just recently graduated and looking for a job instead of staying home doing nothing,,,my location is Abuja,,please any decent job with a good pay is okay by me,,.course: political science and international relations .contact:glosplendid@gmail.com

Very admirable. Instead of just using NL as a distraction, you're seeking to get something useful out of here. Please do not copy those who trade insults here or display their ill manners for the world to see.

You will surely get something good. Keep trying, show determination & humility. Good luck dear.

Oya all those with decent job contacts make una come forward o.

tizzdi:
My sister u can NEVER know a guys body count..we may tell u we are virgins but since you are not clairvoyant there’s no humane way to know unlike you guys that d hole would look like a goal post and still be forming inexperienced

Let them be doing mumu there.

Did they fit a "Bodycount-O-Meter" in men's d!cks or write it on their foreheads?

Quite often, guys with the highest body count have the sweetest tongues to deceive ladies.

By the way, an average girl has a higher body count than an average guy.

In fact as a guy, the chances that your kid is not biologically yours can be up to nearly 40%. Depending on location, circumstances and whether first child (higher chances) or not.

If allegedly men have a higher body count, and women have a much lower body count, who are the women the guys a clocking their sky-high body count with?

We all know that a Hot woman can more easily seduce a guy than a guy can. She also doesn't have to pay for the dates first to get laid if she wants that.

And worldwide, there are even slightly more men than women statistically.

hisexcellency34:
We are losing more soldiers under Buhari than GEJ

But our journalists & newspapers dare not breathe a word.
That is the change APC promised I guess: more death & far more suppression of the press.

I only just pity the promising lives cut short & their loved ones.

But since our elite and the families and cronies are tucked away in safe places in Nigeria and across the world living in affluence, nothing else matters.

If we have learnt anything from history, impunity will eventually explode in the faces of the perpetrators.

Tareq1105:
It's in line with the not too young to run law

Let him go contest in a political election.

Civil service rules are not about politics. You pay your due diligently and rise through the ranks. Learning the ropes thoroughly over the years.

To oversea the state bureaucracy overall, you need to have distinguished yourself for a very long time. Others who have paid their due should not be retired prematurely just to create space.

Murtala Mohamed made that mistake when he took over in a coup in 1975.

In the name of fighting corruption, he retired seasoned civil servants, most of whom were trained abroad before entering colonial civil service.

Nigerian civil service never recovered from that fiasco.

But because of the way Murtala died, most people are unwillingly to mention that fundamental error he made.

In Nigeria sentiments over-ride reason & truth.

Hmmmmmmn.

Wait for zombies to come justify this. They will say wherever the best candidate is, old or young, Tinubu's servant or not, he should be chosen.

As long as Tinubu is happy obviously.