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AreaFada2:
This is medicine, not speculation.

You think everyone on NL just talks anyhow? Some people here on NL actually do cutting-edge stuff.

So you have no idea people actually research into this? Yes people do. The new developments and progress we have to rely on the West to do, do not come by way of miracle, but sheer hard work & dedication. Over decades.

Miscarriages happen mostly because as the foetus develops, defects in vital organs (brain, heart, kidneys, etc) make it incompatible with life. The defects can have various causes like teratogenic medication, chemical exposure, radiation exposure, drug abuse/addiction, etc.

But the main cause is genetic defects which happens to affect more male foetuses. This is what researchers have found by taking & analysing DNA samples from left over of the foetuses for genetic defects linked to gender.

No wonder we Africans are so much in the dark.

It certainly won't make any sense to you. Because using education to enlighten oneself about scientific advancement is hardly the way of many of us Africans. We rather seek miracles instead.

Check census figures for countries and see the breakdown by gender. In light of comments that followed this piece since it was posted 6 days ago, breakdown by gender includes the age ranges (especially one in which reproductive age is covered at 15 to 64).

Anyway, I am not writing to convince you. I'm writing for those scientifically minded/progressive people silently reading here. Those that would actually go and find out about what I have mentioned here.

statistics show there are more males than females in Nigeria and most other countries

Sharon6:
That's one giant scorpion.. A sting from it will lead to death in hours. If truly you didn't kill it, I pray it does not find its way into your house.



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no scorpion sting can lead to death in hours, in fact no scorpion sting can kill a healthy adult. It hurts like crazy though. In his shoes, I'd have killed it as the pain of their sting is better avoided.

voltz:
Very true, i read all the 132 pages and i understand the boot-camp is a grinding machine! so if you don't have good problem solving skill right now then you'll be wasting your time and money going to the boot-camp if you're called.

exactly! Some people copy and paste code just to make it to the interviews and then sweet-talk their interviewers, only to struggle badly with first week tasks in the Bootcamp. What's the use?

Bootcamp is even child's play compared with the simulations that one would face in the first 3 months of fellowship.

The truth is that Andela is tough, and it's not a humanitarian organization seeking to teach you stuff just like that. It's a business organization looking for the brightest minds to do their work for them. The earlier one realizes that and works on his skills, the better.

Apollux:
Lol.... Trust me I love science. I get so excited about stuff like dinosaurs, galaxies, outer space. As far back as my early days in primary school I can recite the 9 planets of the solar system without being taught in school. I saw this on a book called Atlas back then. So I get carried away by these things. U see when ur lecturer just comes to the class and tell u that the earth is just between 4 and 5 billion years old, you don't even raise and eye brow, well because 4 and 5 are close, so u just accept it without really considering the magnitude of the difference in that statement, it is a whole billion years difference. See I do not really believe in the conspiracy theories the flat earhers promote but a lot of things modern science teach doesn't add up.
Ok check this out. Do u know that before now I had always believed that Internet and all modern day communication is done by satellites in space, that was the impression we were given. But the truth is 99.something %, of all earth communication is by fiber optics cables buried under the sea. When flat earthers pointed ithis out, I thought they were exaggerating but I got convinced today after I Google it and it was confirmed. Try it and see.
I think there are lots of things mainstream science are not really telling us.

oh please! Who is the 'they' that gave you the impression that all Internet communication is carried out by satellites? Communications satellites are just one type of satellite technology. The others basically are observers, either of earth or of space. How do you think google maps came about? How do you think GPS works?

So it was flat-earthers that first revealed the use of fibre-optics? Which hole do you live in?

Where did you now confirm it from if scientists are trying to hide the super secret knowledge of fibre-optics? Anyone who knows anything about Internet technology knows about fibre-optic cables. It's taught in secondary school physics.

You were ignorant, but you cured it by making research on a scientific topic. Modern science made that possible.

The earth isn't flat. If it were, we wouldn't have varying climate, and varying sunrise and sunset times around the world. The round moon wouldn't even have a business hanging around a flat earth without gravity.

HenryDion:
I can't comprehend your write up Mr. Just lie low...be dead!

lol. You can't comprehend something so basic? Here I was thinking there were just two groups - the intelligent and those who are not.

Clearly you are in a third group all by yourself - the absolutely clueless. Ok, you and Buha a certain other person

Please go erect your own canopy

HenryDion:
Work on your grammar first. You sucks!

em... bro, it's 'suck' that goes with 'you', not 'sucks'.

Relax and join us under the canopy for the 'less-than-intelligent'

giwish:
barca fans always bringing unnecessary stats wen they lose.....wats our business wit how many matches messi and ronaldo has played

lol. After seeing stats, it's no longer your business? Like you guys did not just say on this thread that Ronaldo scored 100 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE goals before Messi after all the gragra, and that makes him better.

Stats are meant to cure ignorance. Don't fight it.

For those comparing them based on a goal difference of 3, I hope you can see the huge difference in number of matches played. They are both awesome players, but the difference is clear.
https://images.performgroup.com/di/library/GOAL/ae/45/messi-ronaldo-race-to-100-goals-ps_12h49c4j43br4z9e5sitzfkh6.png?t=1676539075

Ouch! So no hope for us wey no dey musically inclined or wey no read huge books at age 5.

Lol. OP I have just three questions I'd like you to answer. If the earth is flat and static...

1) It would have edges. Where are they located?
2) What is responsible for the day and night phenomenon?
3) Why does the sun APPEAR to rise from the east and set at the west, casting shadows of varying length as it progresses?

lordZOUGA:
I think Tweakware is based on Openvpn.

The Tweakware app redirects the openvpn software to an inbuilt proxy server that then modifies the outgoing http requests.

Depending on your skill level, it may be simple to do or not.

bro, what happened to simple server (Netloop)?

Belief in the Big Bang and Evolution requires as much faith as belief in Creation. Proponents of the former are simply trying hard to appear smarter.

It's now every 5 cycles? The last all-female was cycle 18 not long ago.

I like the idea of encouraging females, but talent doesn't seem gender neutral if you have to limit guys so that more girls can stand a chance.

It's like saying "hey ladies, we know most of you can't get in if it is a mixed application, so we'd take guys out of the picture as you can't be as good as them"

That's terrible. Imagine the wasted resources, energy and time; imagine the stress, the embarrassment. There's no excuse for that sort of behavior, except maybe she was kidnapped (which she obviously wasn't).

If you really don't want to marry him, then don't say yes to his proposal. It's that simple.

Electronzeez:
Nijiriya


Why is nigeria cursed

I swear down! Nigeria matter don tire me

It's not like they have it in excess.

VS Code, then Sublime.

The average African is always looking for who to blame for his misfortunes, and ways to become prosperous without having to work hard like his mates. That's why they are the most religious race on earth.

For many, God is a personal body guard who protects anyone who mentions blood of Jesus, and a lottery machine who multiplies their sown seed.

When they fail to become prosperous despite all the seeds sown, then it has to be some evil power causing it, not because they made bad economic decisions, and certainly not because they aren't working hard enough.

Certainly the worst of all such foooools are those who would believe that their own innocent kids are the source of their troubles. Those kind of people aren't even fit to live, together with the fraudster pastors that feed their evil delusions.

I'm tired of what religion has done to my people.

Says the hippotamus. All ass and not enough brains to know that men do not all want the same things regardless of shared nationality.

Integrated or dedicated graphics?

Followers and worshippers of men.

The woman is obviously lying. Your husband caught a man in boxers with you in your home and you are saying he came to use your toilet. You love your husband but you want the court to dissolve the marriage and SHARE THE PROPERTY.

I pity the man though. He's been stripped of all dignity.

I also pity those trying to rush into marriage with a devil they haven't recognized, all in the name of marrying early. Una go still rush come out.

Fear cuts deeper than a sword. How can one believe that God is good, loving, and almighty, yet cower at the unknown like an abandoned orphan child?

Where is your faith? Pray and forget about it.

I hate how I'm seeing BBNaija everywhere. This is a nation without adequate electricity generation and supply, a nation choking under bad economic policies. Yet the youth have time to campaign for trivialities.

Is Nigeria cursed?

God forbid say I use my one naira vote any body for that useless show.

GenBuhari:
The Imperialist powers are working feverishly to maintain control of the information the African consumes.

That is why any media that has large African or even black audience is quickly taken over or shutdown.

Its no mystery really, once you understand their game plan. NL was taken over years ago, remember that time NL was down for some days or weeks and when it came back online large chunk of its archives was deleted. This was probably just after it was taken over.

Check the front page nothing negative about the white man or positive about Africans can ever be allowed on there.

Threads negative about the white man has a good chance of being deleted . yes the entire thread.

lol. Another angle to the conspiracy theories.

Rossikk:
You're assuming everything happened in one uniform, fell swoop across Europe. The slave trade occurred over a period of 300 core years. Starting slowly in some European countries, and quicker in other countries, and in some, not at all. etc etc. The black European elite, there since 711 AD, were at the tail end of their dominance as the slave trade gained steam by the late 17th century. By the 18th century, at the height of the trade, they were virtually a memory. It wasn't difficult for the white elite to disseminate propaganda on African 'inferiority' after that. People can be very receptive to propaganda which demonises the 'Other'. See how easy it was for Hitler to turn an entire nation of Germans against the Jews, leading to six million of them slaughtered? He made them subhuman in the eyes of Germans. The Jews were in the elite class, mind you. And they were of the same colour as the Germans, yet the Nazis somehow sold the people the idea that they were an inferior race.

So it's very easy to manipulate people.

The reason the white elite went to the extent of inventing the phenomenon of racism, through various - and now discredited - racial theories, was out of desperation to justify the horrific slave trade to their people, as the period of the Enlightenment emerged, with people rejecting barbarities.

So only by claiming that the Africans were little more than primitive beasts of burden, using ''scientific'' studies and publications which emerged at the peak of the trade in the late 17th and 18th centuries, and by systematically erasing all traces of previous black dominance (through for instance, whitening black images of kings on paintings) could they gain public support for the continued operation of the slave trade, and counter the growing abolitionist movement.

Even the black colour of Jesus and Mary was gradually transformed to white. How could the Christianized European masses support a system in which the people who looked like the Lord were being brutalised? Solution? Turn the Lord white! And make black synonymous with bad, the devil etc.

The huge economic implications of public opposition to the trade simply compelled the elite to cook up various racist theories and absurdities from their 'elite' institutions and their 'scholars'. The public ate it up. The slave trade flourished, and those involved made the money.

It always boils down to money and profits at the end of the day, doesn't it?

well said. Makes lot of sense.

Rossikk:
You are putting the cart before the horse. It was only AFTER Europe began the slave trade that their elite began propagating tales of African 'inferiority' in order to justify to the world and their own people, their barbaric and brutal treatment of the Africans. Prior to the slave trade, no European on earth felt superior to an African. As for the second part of the question, the blacks were "wiped out" the same way other eras come to an end. For instance, today, do you see any traces of white colonial rule in Nigeria? Or Ghana? Or Sierra Leone? Nope. They've all gone. Once your time is up, you'll disappear from the scene eventually.

no, you didn't get my question. It's not a question of when but why. Why would one dare to sell as slaves and treat as inferior on the basis of skin color those no different from their rulers? We were once ruled by white skinned folks and till tomorrow, most Nigerians shamelessly worship white skin.

If the blacks where amongst the elite as the artworks show, who sanctioned the slave trade and the accompanying brutality and inhumanity towards native Africans? When did it start and what did the black rulers do about it?

We speak British English... That's a residue of British colonial rule. Unless you mean the black Africans colonized European countries (the way Britain or Portugal or Spain colonized countries in Africa and South America), as against being a part of their civilization, I'm afraid I can't see the connection.

Believe me, I like the tales of historical black superiority and white conspiracy but it doesn't really add up as I expected.

Hmmm... I like this. There are questions though...

If blacks ruled Europe, how is it that the Europeans saw blacks as sub-human species only fit to be sold as slaves? How come the blacks that ruled Europe lost their influence to the extent of being wiped out? Today there are no traces, except for these 'artworks'. Why is that so?

I can't believe you are fantasizing about a little child being sexually attracted to you and making up child erotica tales. Pedophile. Na your type dey rape babies. I hope you fantasize your way into jail before you ruin lives.