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He is pained because he is not getting good number of positive and fatality. Ppl nor dey die b4 covid-19 come?

As the country continues to experience increase in confirmed COVID-19 cases, healthcare experts have warned Nigerians using local gin, popularly called ogogoro, as hand sanitisers to desist from it, saying it is ineffective to protect against the infection.

The experts said ogogoro has less than 60 per cent alcohol content that is required to kill viruses, unlike alcohol-based hand sanitisers that have such high level alcoholic content.

They warned that using ogogoro as hand sanitiser only provides a false sense of security against the virus, maintaining that hand sanitisers with 60-80 per cent alcohol content are the most effective.


The experts said that in the absence of hand sanitisers, thorough handwashing with soap under running water remains the best option.

Speaking in an exclusive interview with PUNCH HealthWise, a former president of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, Olumide Akintayo, said people using ogogoro as hand sanitisers will not get any value for it.

“We don’t need to create a problem that is not there while trying to solve another.


“For a standard hand sanitiser to do what it ought to do to prevent against virus, it must have a minimum of 75 per cent alcohol.

“So, what you have in ogogoro is usually 40 per cent rate or slightly higher, but that will certainly not do the job.

“People using ogogoro as hand sanitiser will not get any value for it. This is because, the percentage of alcohol you get in it is far less than what it should be in an ideal pharmaceutical formulation,” Akintayo warned.


The former PSN boss told our Correspondent that the alcohol content in ogogoro is usually between 40 and 45 per cent.

“This is why I said the users will not get any result by using it as hand sanitiser.


“Ogogoro is usually formulated for consumption — for drinking and internal use. So, using it at that strength won’t serve the purpose for hand sanitiser,” he reiterated.


He advised Nigerians who cannot afford standard and well formulated hand sanitisers to regularly wash their hands with soap.

The pharmacist counselled, “If for any reason, you cannot afford sanitisers, any average soap will thoroughly give you the same result that you should get from hand sanitiser.

“If you constantly wash your hands, especially when you have touched hard surfaces, or when you have had contact with unkempt environment and all that, just wash your hands with soap and clean water.


“You will achieve the same effect of killing germs that is very germane to keeping yourself safe and well in this unusual and tough season that we all find ourselves in.

What cld be worse than what we already have. Get your thumb out of your ass oga, people are watching

You mean biblical Thomas said this "I won't believe until I put my hand inside that hole." Where in the bible?

jubrilELsudan:
CORONA FALL INSIDE YOUR ANUS.

I don't walk around naked. I always have my boxer n trouser on so, my shithole is unreachable to corona

It is as if they want to use this corona mess Wike up. Rivers is flowing slow but steady.

landmark86:
Don't just no what to type

just type home alone

Never for ones or once have seen something as worst as this. Outright disdain

jubrilELsudan:
SHE MUST RUB HOT CUM ON HER FACE EVERY NITE BEFORE BEDTIME FOR 2 WEEKS.

YOU CAN THANK ME LATER. YOU WELCOME.

isn't that d doctor that discovered covid-19 here. Respect her dignity na.

Na maturity. Leave she will b fine. She shld stop bleaching

Use you? In what way. She came to your house for the first tym n u polash her, how much have u spent that you are talking about use. The kind of money you are giving her that she collects with joy if you try it with another girl she will curse u n your whole for trying to impoverished her. Bo'hum lan, she gu'gurl

I pray he doesn't kill you. If you don't keep any grudge against him, he kept a truck load against you. He will dig you out n return you back to square zero as in odo, O

I hope this is not another pandemic

What about church Sir? Is it not a means of robbing people in the name of God? Your kind of stealing is devilish n inhumane

Don't they know that their going to get caught. May God heal the world. Nothing is going right again

A former beauty queen, Helen Prest-Ajayi, says there is no need to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of her husband and Managing Director of First Foundation Medical Centre, Lagos, Dr Tosin Ajayi.

Helen told PUNCH Metro her position through her lawyer, Abiodun Owonikoko (SAN), on Saturday.

Five children of the deceased had through their lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), written to the Chief Justice of Lagos State demanding a coroner’s inquest into the circumstances surrounding their father’s death.

A family friend, who spoke on behalf of the children, had told PUNCH Metro that Helen and Tosin were never legally married, because his marriage to his first wife, Oluyemisi, which produced the five children, was never dissolved.

The family friend further alleged that four weeks to the time of Tosin’s death, Helen never informed the children of his condition and even his death, adding that they only got to know of his demise through a third party and she also allegedly prevented them from viewing his corpse in the mortuary.

Upon his death, Helen was said to have gone to Tosin’s office, where she reportedly made away with some documents, fuelling further suspicion.

Her lawyer, however, told PUNCH Metro that the allegations against his client were baseless.

“This whole thing is not good for the memory of the deceased. A coroner’s inquest should not be abused. It should not be a theatre for infighting in the family. There are genuine cases that should go for coroner’s inquest, but if they are looking for public sympathy and are grandstanding, they should remember that the soul of the departed deserves rest and respect,” Owonikoko said.

Narrating the circumstances surrounding Tosin’s death, Owonikoko said sometime in March, he had high blood pressure and his condition worsened at home.


The senior advocate said Tosin was taken to a hospital in Ikoyi, where he was diagnosed with a heart condition, and later suffered kidney failure.

Owonikoko said the deceased was taken to the St Nicholas Hospital, then First Cardiologists on Victoria Island and back to St Nicholas Hospital, where he eventually died.

He stated, “A cardiologist was invited to the house three days after Dr Ajayi took ill and after running some tests, he concluded that he must be taken to a hospital. He was taken to a hospital in Ikoyi that Sunday and by the next morning, his condition got worse and Mrs Ajayi (Helen) started calling his associates and friends. About three or four friends responded and they suggested that he be taken to a hospital that could attend to him properly.

“On Monday, he was admitted to the St Nicholas Hospital. That was on March 9. On getting there, they discovered that he needed a cardiologist. He was then referred to First Cardiologists, Victoria Island. He was on treatment for three days and when he stabilised, he was returned to St Nicholas.

“He was there undergoing treatment, which included dialysis for kidney failure. He was there until April 26 by which time we were hoping he would be discharged and taken home. But that day, he passed away.”

When asked if Helen and the deceased were married, Owonikoko told PUNCH Metro that their relationship spanned more than 25 years and produced a daughter.

He stated, “She (Helen) was made to understand that Dr Ajayi had divorced his first wife, but this is not the time to be discussing such. Things like this will be addressed in the fullness of time

“They lived together for 25 years and no one, including the children, challenged their relationship all through when the man was alive. I think they should not let the old man’s memory be soiled.”


When asked why Helen never informed Tosin’s five children of their father’s illness, Owonikoko said the deceased had categorically instructed her that his condition be kept a secret, adding that he did not want anyone coming to visit him during the lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

On why his client made away with some documents from Tosin’s office shortly after his demise, the lawyer said she needed vital information such as his date of birth and other bio-data, which would be included in his death certificate.

“One of the controversies was his age. So, she needed to consult documents. The documents she got revealed that he was actually 75 and not 68 as she had thought,” the senior advocate said.

When asked why Helen prevented the children from seeing their father’s corpse in the mortuary, Owonikoko said his client was also hospitalised a day after Tosin passed away and immediately after she was discharged, she reached out to one of the children of the deceased, Mayowa.



He further claimed that Helen informed the children of their father’s death the day after he passed away.

However, a family friend told PUNCH Metro that most of Helen’s claims were untrue, adding that they learnt of Tosin’s death through a third party.

The family friend said Helen pointedly told the children that she would not let them see their father’s death certificate and made it clear that she would not let them play their rightful role during his funeral.

The president wants to cough again. Let's see how many shots of phlegm and bile he is gonna produce n their direction.

So, you think you have grown now at 25 scolding your mother for a girl that will japa at anytime. Something is remoting you

Lemme find somewhere put myself,hmmmmm yeah, it is underdevelop.

Rochas Okorocha for president. The man tried.

ojun50:
Get a life

pocohantas:
It is sweet, TO ME!

The solid stuff is fermented corn, made into dough. Then pepper and shito I think. I really can’t describe the taste, but I like it. You will eat it same way you eat any swallow and soup.

I am still looking for where to find very good one in Lagos. Anyone that points me in the right direction would be my crush for life.

crush is not good enough. If you'd said husband for life I would have taken the bait. Eat well, beautiful

Sammy07:
Touch them and die

in active service

pocohantas:
Lol. Some people have very large appetites na.



You told me you are engaged to be married. I haven’t forgotten.




That is kenkey. A Ghanian delicacy. You have a problem with it?




Please keep me posted.

Never heard of it. How do you eat that?. Is it sweet?

Sammy07:
, it's Okitipupa.


Try to visit.
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Idanre

OkitiPUNA, sounds great. Hope them girls are notoriously vulnerable

Has anybody seen what's on this lady's profile picture? Fufu, diced onions, raw grounded pepper n fried fish in one plate. I can't shaa your ewa agon iyin

Please, someone shld explain the title of this news better. Is it a bad news or good one? That ' fear accelerate against malaria' got me confused.

mansakhalifa:
Do you know the difference between Sierra Leone and Liberia

Just asking. Cos in Sierra Leone they don't spend Liberian dollars. They spend *Leone*. That's what their currency is called. Leone.

And the figure quoted in the story is actually in US Dollars. 20,000 US Dollars.


Just so you know. Liberian Dollar was once equal to the US Dollar but it is no longer so. 1 US Dollar=198 Liberian Dollars.

Don't mind my insolence jare, this corona is activating brain drain systematically

Unveiling the flag for his new space force in the Oval Office on Friday, Donald Trump said the US was developing a “super duper missile” to outpace military rivals including Russia and China.

“We have no choice, we have to do it with the adversaries we have out there. We have, I call it the super duper missile and I heard the other night [it’s] 17 times faster than what they have right now,” the president said, sitting at the Resolute Desk.

“That’s right,” said the defense secretary, Mark Esper, standing to Trump’s right.


“You take the fastest missile we have right now,” Trump said. “You heard Russia has five times and China’s working on five or six times, we have one 17 times and it’s just got the go-ahead.”

Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, has indeed announced a hypersonic nuclear missile, meaning one that flies at five times the speed of sound (767mph) or faster.


According to Bloomberg News, Putin has said his Avangard missiles can “travel at up to 20 times the speed of sound, like a ‘meteorite’ or a ‘fireball’”.

“Not a single country possesses hypersonic weapons, let alone continental-range hypersonic weapons,” Putin told military chiefs in December, according to Bloomberg. “They’re trying to catch up with us.”

The US tested its own hypersonic missile last year but on Friday Trump, whose public rhetoric and withdrawal from key treaties have fuelled fears of a new nuclear arms race, seemed to allude to new technology. A report released this week detailed accelerated US spending on nuclear weapons.


Trump’s desire to build a new and cosmic arm of the US military has attracted widespread criticism and satire. In perhaps the most extreme example, Netflix will soon release an eponymous comedy starring Steve Carell and John Malkovich.

The fallout from Friday’s event in the Oval Office might have been more reminiscent of HBO’s hit satire Veep.

According to the Hill, reporters raised the “super duper missile” during a Pentagon press call. Despite Esper’s apparent confirmation of the “super duper missile”, a spokesman referred questions back to the White House.

Just open your mouth and convey your heart desires to God with open heart n clear conscience.

Dem nor wear slippers at all