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Until we African learn to ignore see scammers, I’m afraid we will not make any progress.

Why don’t we roll the drums out and celebrate! Abba Kyari promised the players that they would receive their entitlements. Two days later, they were paid. What a feat!

The death of this man does not call for celebration but self-reflection. I’m scared for the fact that we Nigerians still don’t believe that Covid-19 is real. We call it “audio virus”. We continue to mix freely and in some cases worship in crowded churches and mosques. Some people think it doesn’t affect blacks, but blacks and ethnic minority healthcare professionals are being disproportionately affected. Refer to the statistics of healthcare professionals who have died in the UK.

The number of cases in Nigeria has continued to rise. Please wake up! There is fire on the mountain.

Nigeria has only achieved 7000+ testing. That tells you that we have many unidentified cases. I’m worried that the poverty level and lack of medical facilities in Nigeria means that we are threading on live grenade. We may not be ready for what is to come.

Please follow government guidance as relates to Covid-19. I know what I’m talking about. I see positive cases on a daily basis. I know real people who have died of this illness; colleagues and a relative. Please stay safe if you can.

Kalapizim:
walahi I will shoot him if I was the civil defence officer.
Even empty my magazine on him ..what rubbish !

This is an act of terrorism.

You see how you reason? Shoot him for what? Do you think people would attempt to abscond from the centre if not for the stigma and myth you have created around this illness?

yungchop:
Azorjiu I mentioned you in a thread sir, plus I sent you a Private message here. Please check it.

Looking at your previous postings, there’s definitely nothing for us to discuss. Don’t make a career out of nairaland. Someone of us a very good in this game.

Yujiro:
Please Sir, if any of you can help with a job, i will be eternally grateful. I just completed mu NYSC and in search of job and will really appreciate any form of help or connection.
I still have pending applications but i can't put all my eggs in one basket.

And you just opened an account to post this?

Can’t believe I almost fell for this cheap scam. The last time I’d ever attempt to assist a fictitious person. Too many bad eggs.

Amanofwisdom:
Forgive me sir
It's 09053156665
Not 080

Maybe I wasn’t clear enough. After a minor examination of your posting history, I’ve come to a decision that I won’t be contacting you.

Amanofwisdom:
God bless you sir
I don't have access to my email
This is my WhatsApp number 08053156665

Sorry I’m unable to contact you on WhatsApp after a profile analysis.

Very good concept.

Our country cannot move an inch from its current position if we don’t have selfless individuals devoid of tribalism on the frontline of our national politics.

I’m very ready to identify with this group.

My prayer is that Covid19 should evade Nigeria. I’m home today because of the horror I witnessed on a coronavirus ward yesterday. The number of positive cases being brought into the wards and the body bags being taken away by the porters was too disheartening.

Please stay at home if you can.

We should adapt the stay at home order to reflect the fact that most Nigerian depend on day pay for survival.

Let’s hope it doesn’t get to that, but are there churches opening up their doors to potential Covid19 patients? This will present great opportunity to convince sceptics like myself.

If the social distancing policy will prevent them from performing this holy duty, I suggest they visit patients’ homes to deliver their healing. If they chicken out at this crucial time and leave medics and scientists to tackle this scourge, they will have failed Nigerian faithfuls.

Yes!

And there is evidence to show that if we fail to heed this warning, we are in for very rude awakening.

We must learn from history. The article below will focus minds.

I work on wards with coronavirus patients. I see similarities between this and the Spanish flu. Please wake up and brace yourselves. Blacks are not immune to this illness.

And before you start running to your pastor for prophesy and healing, be aware that you can get it from him. Don’t let him/ her touch you. It’s time to focus on evidence-based interventions.

How the Spanish flu hit Philadelphia

In September 1918, Philadelphia held a planned Liberty Loan Parade to promote the government bonds that were being issued to pay for World War I.

But the parade took place when the pandemic commonly called the Spanish flu -- the H1N1 virus -- arrived in the city of 1.7 million people.

The virus swept the world between 1918 and 1919. About a third of the entire world's population -- about 500 million people at the time -- were infected with the virus, and about 50 million died, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There was no vaccine against the virus.

Though the virus infected 80% of the population in Spain, it seemed far away — it mainly spread through Europe and Asia, according to information from the University of Pennsylvania Archives & Records Center.

It didn't reach the US until the spring of 1918, among military personnel, the CDC says. As US troops came home from World War I, cases popped up in cities like Boston.

The virus spread to Philadelphia on September 19, 1918, through the Philadelphia Navy Yard, UPenn states. In a matter of days, 600 sailors had the virus.

Yet Philadelphia didn't cancel its Liberty Loan Parade, scheduled for just a little more than a week later. Meant to be a patriotic wartime effort, the parade went on as scheduled on September 28, bringing 200,000 Philadelphians together.

By October 1, there were 635 new cases in Philadelphia, according to UPenn.

Philadelphia was one of the hardest-hit US cities. More than 12,000 people died in six weeks, with about 47,000 reported cases, according to UPenn. By the six-month mark, about 16,000 had died and there were more than half a million cases.

The parade isn't all to blame, though. Other factors contributed to the flu's spread, including high population and poor working and living conditions. Still, it's an example of what not to do during a pandemic, according to CDC's Division of Global Migration and Quarantine.

St. Louis, for example, canceled its parade while Philadelphia did not. In the end, the death toll in St. Louis did not rise above 700, according to the CDC.

"This deadly example shows the benefit of canceling mass gatherings and employing social distancing measures during pandemics," the CDC said.

In the US, about 675,000 people died of the 22 million who caught the flu.

So, as more and more US cities cancel their St. Patrick's Day parades, or other events, it may be useful to look to Philadelphia in 1918. If this even shows us anything, it's that these cancellations can save lives.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/15/us/philadelphia-1918-spanish-flu-trnd/index.html

At last, I pray this epidemic will give my people brain and make them question their unfounded belief in religion and miracles.

There is nothing wrong in having a faith, but everything is wrong in believing these Fraudsters who pose as pastors, defrauding unsuspecting impressionable individuals.

Sensible countries are investing in medical research to find a vaccine and possible cure. My people all want to run to the church for divine intervention.

This novel COVID 19 will expose these Fraudsters. They have been caught out.

Xcelentmac:
Its only Orlu senatorial that will produce a governor in IMO state because Orlu zuru ka'eme

In the same vain, it’s right for the north to continue producing the president of Nigeria because ha zuru ka-emee. Cover your face in shame dear brother. Yours is a case of clannishness within a clan.

Flyingngel:
Nigeria oooooo.
I refuse to blame the South African for their derogatory words abt our country.
First look through Niaraland, you will see disgusting comments against different tribes and political parties.
Look at how Nigerians are supporting their political parties and the politicians without caring to ask how far they have utilized our patrimony they held intrusted for us.
Now tell me why South Africa or perhaps the whole world shld not only insult us but kill us at will.
Let me not talk abt how we worship riches in this country thereby pushing our youth into nefarious activities within and outside Nigeria.
You will hear words from our youth like - it is better to die trying: i it dying for noble work or criminal work?
That is what we fail to ask.

My sentiments.

What I struggle to get my head around is that in 2019, we cannot hold our leaders to account. We waste every 4/5 years strategising and fighting over which tribe will rule whilst our rogue politician consolidate their booty. Why can’t we be like Hong Kong.

An Indian friend once told me that wealthy Nigerians now go to India to die. Why won’t they die abroad when they cannot fix potholes much less the health system. What is dignifying in dying in a strange land? Tufiakwa!

So I was reading about Nigerians who could not be returned from South Africa because of no documentation. What caught my attention was the response from South Africans.

But think about it....

Why should we expect any country to take us seriously when we parade the most inept leadership in the world?. A country being ruled by illiterates in a computer age!

Unless our youths learn to take responsibility, take these politicians to where they belong (dementia/ care homes) and shun criminality, this country will continue to be in the rank of Yemen, Somalia and other fragile states whilst countries such as Rwanda and Ghana will continue to make progress.


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Trinitrotoluene Bang
11 hours ago
The irony of them being illegals in SA and being refused entry into their own country because they are illegals is hilarious
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Africa First Trinitrotoluene Bang
11 hours ago
Their problem they believe in champagne Marxist fairy tales.

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Grant Neill
12 hours ago
They going home for a free holiday, they’ll be back in a month.
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BarbarianCruncher Grant Neill
12 hours ago
Criminals, those who don't have the correct "documentation". It proves that they either went undocumented here, in Nigeria or in both countries. Imagine trying to enter the US or any other civilised country without an ID, a passport and an approved visa.

I recall a South African student who once was on the same flight as myself to New York. She was going to do her required one year practical on a relative's farm somewhere in the US on a student visa. She later wrote me that she was accosted at JF Kennedy by customs officials who wanted to know how she was going to survive in the US as she was not allowed to work. When she replied that her relative was going to "maintain" her the customs officials said that implied remuneration and put her on the next flight back home.
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Zoobamboo
9 hours ago edited
Wow, everyone criticizing and putting the blame on them and other foreign nationals for being illegally in the country is so immature. First address the big elephant in the room, aka Home Affairs. They are the cause of at least 90% illegal and undocumented foreign nationals in this country due to their incompetence.
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Madumbe
10 hours ago
SA is not the only country in Africa having problems with Nigerian citizens involved in crime. Nigeria needs to tackle their crime and corruption issues.
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Funnyvirus
12 hours ago
As if they left a paper-trail upon arriving and staying in SA...ILLEGALY!!!!
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Hyperstorm
12 hours ago
No papers? Deport them!!!

Oh … wait ...
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Daphne Lesige
5 hours ago edited
Strange that foreign heads of state are Screaming Xenophobia!!!! when in actual fact they should be hanging their heads in shame for failing to provide for their people, with what they're looking for in other Countries.Clean up your acts we have a lot in our hands as a nation.Let each country handle its economic woes.Why make your problem SA's problems?
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Timmy Tenbag
10 hours ago edited
I see the flight attendants holding Say No To Xenophobia sign in S.An flag colours. They send their drug lords and drug pushers here than send subliminal messages to whoever is watching that our flag represents evil. I knew the way their government is reacting to all of this, is about more than their citizens whom they could give 2 $h!Ts about being persecuted here. This is all about trying to paint themselves as Africa's true leader as they have the continents best interests at heart. Funny thing is they make our corrupt government look like darling angels, they take corruption and self interest to a new level for such a rich oil nation to have its citizens risk life and limb to go to other countries says a lot about their governance. They need to take care of Boko first before they come acting all holier than though here mxm.
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Derrick
11 hours ago
Nigerians are good at faking anything. Why not create fake papers for them to get rid of these criminals. The lot operating brothels and taverns in the Cape Town areas should also go home.
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KraagKop
6 hours ago
Yep. Incompetence and ineptitude thrive throughout the continent...TIA!

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Alinea
9 hours ago
Unbelievable! The Nigerians could not "make-up" something .......? Really?

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Greg McManus
9 hours ago
The lack of documentation is part of the anger that locals express. This is nothing new

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Xitering
9 hours ago
The Nigerian president must come get them, maybe he will stop asking stupid questions as to why everyone hates Nigerians, the first answer will be staring at him at the airport.

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Romeo Siera
11 hours ago
The article is not complete, it failed to mention that the main problem is documents to travel with children.

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MidnightFalcon
12 hours ago
And this is probably why more Africa countries dont want their people back. Alot dont have documents for themselves or their kids.

I feel sorry for these people, they are not wanted in their adopted country here nor back home...

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Africa First
12 hours ago
Same happen to some people claiming they are from Botswana, returned from the border as Botswana does not want to accept unknown people.

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zakir
10 hours ago
give them all SA resident permits we need skills

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Nigeria and our “over sabi” syndrome.
This is a guy who may have taken his own life due to the hopelessness of this country we call Nigeria.

A bus driver taking his own life because of the fear of losing his job? In a sane country, he would be driving for another company/ agency the following week if fired by his employer.

And who decided that he drank “sniper “? Do we discount the possibility that he might have been poisoned/ murdered?

What about his mental health? He might have been clinically depressed. He might have had his personal struggles that do not warrant us to come out here to judge him.

Every Sunday we carry our big bibles to church, but we have not learnt the act of supporting one another. One day, Nigerians will become enlightened. To achieve this, we must become less religious and spend less time in church.

honsule:
Too bad. the Numbers that voted is far TOO low

Perhaps the number of people who should have registered in the 1st place. The remaining registrants are probably nonexistent and shouldn’t have been registered. I expect even lower turnout in the north.

bettercreature:
River state results are irritating, 15% turn out in some Lg
I don’t think Atiku will get more than 500.000 votes from there

That seems to be the trend across the country. It appears that this is the first election with which we can make close projection as to the number of valid voters we have in each part country. All these years, we have been getting it all wrong. I think this time around, we are beginning to get it right.

ipobarecriminals:
look for another alternative to avoid story that touch.

The problem is that I already paid for the return flight. She flew to London with Arik early February. She's going back home to Nigeria next week.

So mother-in-law is due to fly back to Nigeria next week after a 5-months visit to the UK. Knowing the way our system works, I decided to confirm whether Arik is still in business. To my shock, I just found that the Lagos - London route had been discontinued since February 2017. Anyone flown to Nigeria with them recently? I'm hoping there are alternative arrangements in place to cater for those who purchased their tickets a while ago.

Shall we desist from calling this man cripple please. Such usage is obsolete. He has disability. He's neither lame nor cripple.

As a mental health practitioners, the views held by some here is indicative of the need for an assessment to establish they need Hospitalisation for their own safety and those around them.

How could you still believe in witchcraft in this time and age?

The poster is very right. Our beliefs are so ingrained in the belief in witchcraft that we fail to seek help when our family members, relatives and loved ones suffer from mental health illnesses.

Conditions such as schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder, anxiety disorder, depression, anorexia, personality disorders, etc are all established mental health conditions which we ascribe to Witchcraft. But we are wrong. There are many contributory factors to the development of mental health illnesses of which witchcraft is not one of them.

Few years ago, an old woman was almost lynched in Lagos for turning into "a bird and flying from Ogun to Lagos". Of course that was what she said on interrogations by the mob. In reality, that was a woman whose children brought to Lagos to look after her as she presented with dementia symptoms.

Anything we don't understand is witchcraft. Some people still believe that cars are controlled by witches.

I'm trying so hard to rationalise the message of this author. Did he just imply that because obasanjo is a political wizard in Nigerian matters, he should be excluded from any scrutiny? Is he insinuating that any such probe should be limited to Jonathan's time in office?

Some of the advice you are getting here are in bad taste. The fact is that to some, abroad is harsh. You understand your husband's circumstances and the reasons why he is unable for you and the kids to join him. No sane person would want to live away from his family. Maybe it is in the best interest of both of you to remain apart at the moment.

Five years is a long time, but we have to be realistic. Coming home for 2 months in a year is a feat. Some people in Lagos whose families are in the village don't see them that often.

My advice is that you should both consider the mitigating circumstances why your husband is unable for you to join him. Could it be that he is subject to the new UK immigration policy (assuming he is in the UK)? Etc.

I pray that in time your husband would be able to bring you over. Good luck as you seek to find a solution to the current stressor.

Thanks for the info delishpot, Holatin and lexusgs430. I will call the airline I'd like her use so I can make further enquiries.

@ Lexusgs430, you got me cracking there. But my mother in-law has got no physical disability. I'm inclined to think that such services are for people with physical disability.

Hi Guys, I trust I will get valuable contribution from you guys in respect of my mother in-law's intending visit to the UK.

The situation is that we are expecting a baby late March and we are inviting her to come over for Omugwo. The problem is that she hasn't travel abroad before. She has hardly travelled beyond her village. She can not fill out the landing card etc. on arrival. I'm just scared that she might not be able to go through all the immigration checks at the lagos airport without support.

My questions: is there help available to assist people in her circumstance? Someone like a guide? Is it possible for her daughter to put her in the care of someone at the airport? With the security at the airports that restrict non-travellers from going past the entrance of the airport, how possible would it be to entrust her to the care of someone in the same flight?Any way to get in touch with a staff at the airport to help her out? Has anyone been in this situation and How did they manage to circumvent it?

I will earnestly appreciate your input.