₦airaland Forum

Commonsense99:
That is why I advice everyone to stop donating cash, let them donate in kind, let them buy ventilators, let them construct hospitals and or equip hospitals in their respective states or local governments, let them give directly to the population within their vicinity.

Alakija have shown such example, Dangote is constructing a 600 bed capacity isolation center in kano, that's the way forward.

Alot of the donations u see are audio donations. Those business men and corporate bodies are smart enough not to entrust their monies to govt officials and politicians

ivolt:
There is no trouble.
Breach lockdown and get shot.

When hungry angry people start to feast on you and start breaking into ur home, your government won't be there to protect you

Godwithus20:
no be only unprecedented challenges, na precedented vulnerable....

BUHARI SHARE OUR MONEY

I don't think you understand the gravity of the problem ahead for Nigeria. We are indeed in perilous times,it's not whether it's buhari or anybody else in power.

Covid-19 matter nah small compared to the recession we are about to face. Brace up bro shit is about to get really real!!

Egoveen:
Stupid,stinking governor.....idiot.

Those giving the useless order have stashed enough stolen money to last them lockdown forever and also their salaries continue even with the lockdown.

How about the majority who have no succour whatsoever to sustain themselves

maasoap:
I'm sure that I didn't respond to your opinion about the lockdown because I'm not aware you mentioned that in your post.
I responded to your comment alleging that all those confirmed cases are audio to get benefits from the FG. May be you should take a trip to Lagos, Abuja and Osun state isolation centers so you can receive a little sense

I am sure I never said there were no infected persons in Nigeria. The figures however being bandied about by our government isn't entirely correct and being manipulated for pecuniary gains.

If u choose to believe all what they are telling u then it's up to u and I can't help but laugh at ur buffoonery.

maasoap:
This is the thing about morrons all over the world. They wouldn't believe a thing unless it consumes them or someone they knew.


Morronic brothers

I do not need to get infected so you add me to your audio statistics so as to make more money off the panic you have created.

I still maintain that the situation in Nigeria is still very much manageable without need to order a lockdown.The panic being created is nothing but a charade.

APCNig:
Go and get infected so that when you get to Isolation Centre, you will tell us the true story, but we will still treat you.

I do not need to get infected so you add me to your audio statistics so as to make more money off the panic you have created.

I still maintain that the situation in Nigeria is still very much manageable without need to order a lockdown.The panic being created is nothing but a charade

contigiency:
Your foolishness is from another planet.

Who is more foolish, you taking every word from govt hook, line and sinker,naija govt for that matter or myself who is critical of our govt and refused to be fooled!!

Hope u saw the post from the isolation center were all the patients were all smiles and comfy,compare that to scenes in New York or Spain or italy. Who is fooling who?

dapotemi:
I made some investment recently as I got a bus from Germany for transport biz; last month a friend relocated to Canada and I quickly bought his corolla from him, not planning to buy though but the price was tempting and the car was maintain well, though manual. I have a personal corolla that I drive on Uber and I average just about 10 trips a week due to my job.. My plan was to hit d road fully with the 3 vehicles and make good cash but Corona strikes.. Thank God for some little reserve and wifey. Nothing is certain!
My wife said " look at the 3 vehicles parked, they are useless right now, the only thing useful is Food, Good health and Shelter. My daughter had temperature this morning and I got panicked and beg God that this is not the right time for this. I was scared. This pandemic will change some of us to restrategise and redirect our focus to what really matters.

Many of us have wrong priorities, however aspiring for greatness isn't entirely bad but Nigerians fear of the unknown makes us end up as nervous wrecks.

You are on your own in this country from the day u are born till when u die, there is no welfarism what so ever and govt does not give zilch about u.

Many people stealing monies is cos the Nigerian system is adversely materialistic,u are dead without money,money is the number one factor in this country,we worship money too much and wrongly perceive the essence of money.

If we don't have humanist oriented systems that cares about all whether you are rich or poor,we will continue to wallow in the misery that we have found ourselves.

APCNig:
Nigeria is teaching Corona Virus a lesson of it's life. While they are dying in thousands in the so called developed nations, Nigeria is treating and discharging formerly infected patients. We are not just giant of Africa, we are giant of the world.

Our leaders are not arrogant like Donald Trump who has continued his boasting, chest beating and spewing trash while Americans have continued to die in thousands. We have recorded TWO DEATHS so far and treated and discharged many that means whatever we are doing about the COVID-19, we are doing it well. So, USA, Italy, Spain, France and others should get book and biro, get table and chairs and sit down in a class while Major General Muhammadu Buhari and our Starboy Babajide Sanwo-Olu teach them CRS 101: Introduction to Crisis Management.

Did you actually believe all the cases they are claiming were all actually infected? I dey laff u gan Dey dia make pant dey wear you, money has been chopped

timsucess:
Every state is looking for a means to benefit from the FG largesse

Noh mind dem, audio cases.Cotedvoire wey Dem dey come from,how many cases dey dia?

Govt magic,govt scamming the people

Mizwisdom:
People will go around the world looking for cheap scores to ridicule the govt. Even someone in Philippines with slums and poverty everywhere is still taking pics of noodles and canned drink worth N1000K to show us I won't abuse my country, if you like snap Bread and Chicken plus dollar notes, the main thing we hope for is for a cure for Corona to be found

Your notion is quite misplaced. People are not asking the government to give them gold or diamonds but any kind of gesture will be appreciated no matter how little.

40 million bvn numbers multiply by just 2k naira is 80billion naira. Are you saying naija govt cannot afford this.a family can have father, mother and maybe an adult child with bvn, that's 6k for that household,this though little can still go a long way in helping people this period.

There are people who have spent over 40years in this country and have never benefitted 1kobo from Nigerian govt.

chloedogie:
Good. Someone should tell the NCDC and right authority that in FHA Lugbe Abuja it is business as usual. Police and Nigerian army need to visit Lugbe and enforce this lockdown. Bikes are moving in their 100s and while shops are opened. I don't know who to call would have done the calling myself. And to think educated people are mostly the ones floating this order is scary and alarming.

And u think government doesn't know this. The govt themselves Know that total lockdown can't work

LibertyRep:
But what difference does it now make? Does the virus become impotent within those hours?

The truth is that we can never sustain a total lockdown like in those organized countries.

If we survive this, it should call for sober reflection and a reason for us to truthfully examine the very foundation of this country.

We have always told them that Nigeria cannot sustain 2 weeks lockdown. The government knows this and everyone knows this. You go see the way people go start to dey burst out soon

Abohboy:
That’s why they have started giving food to poor citizens they are aiming to food 2.5 million people for now they have reached 200 000 people in different LGAs in Lagos

Audio 200,000. Govt magic as usual

johnmartus:
Ah this man thought its ordinary malaria I guess. Both of you will just die together and infect other neighbors. Although I understand your pain but you just have to calm down.

May this never happen to you but don't underestimate how much damage an angry people that distrust their govt can cause.

The initial panic that has been created which is absolutely unnecessary will definitely result to this. You here rich and affluent people getting well or doing fine but yourS is being left to suffer.

GentRoyal:
Who knows if those in charge are deliberately inflating the numbers

That's what they are doing, u just go complain minor fever, dem go just throw u inside say u don't get coro. Ur number will be added to the others

Babatunde40:
Hahaha. Something tells me that government is using this Coronavirus stats to embezzle money

If u are just realizing this, u slow well well be that

I am confused o. Ports will be operational and cargo can move out. People have not been able to evacuate cargo for weeks now.

School feeding will continue when all schools are closed.i am not understanding.

Satellite towns will be given palliatives what of those within Lagos and Abuja? Confusing speech from confused president

Nobody is even talking about the low oil prices in the global market and what's coming if we eventually survive this corona crisis.

Instead of government to statrt working out a plan they are all busy hiding behind crona scare.guys need to brace up cos this will be worst than 2016

Seun:
This is unwise. I hope it doesn't affect Nairaland. The #ShutDownNigeria people don't have a very deep understanding of how an economy works. The vast majority of business activities in a developing country like Nigeria are essential. Very few people go to Lagos just for fun. Our leaders think that shutting things down is a viable alternative to massive testing and isolation of those who test positive, and sadly, we are cheering them on. There is no quick fix to the Coronavirus. There is no alternative to massive testing, isolation and contact tracing. We have to be smart.

Shutting down a country to stop a virus is like shooting a man dead to kill the sickness in his body. Does it work? Probably. But it's also unwise. I say instead of that, find a drug that targets the sickness in his body and kills it without killing the man. That's the only real solution to this issue.

There are only two countries whose efforts to beat the Coronavirus have been really successful. China and South Korea. I suggest that they are the only people that we should be listening to. They both encourage the widespread use of facemasks. They both do massive testing and isolation of infected people. China shut down part of their country but South Korea didn't do that despite having around 1,000 new cases per day at peak. They just continued to do every smart thing that could reduce the rate of transmission of the virus, and it worked and is working.

If you put a mask on every face, educate everybody about how to conduct their business without spreading the virus, and do massive testing of all people suspected to have the virus, and that doesn't work (it will), that's when you can start thinking of shutting things down. Our politicians won't even distribute face-masks to market women in Lagos who are begging them for it, or wear them, but they want to #ShutDownNigeria.

How will it affect Nairaland? Here is a short part of the answer to that:

I have been shouting myself hoarse over this. Shutdown isn't the solution. We need to invest in testing kits and testing centers. We can do ward by ward level testing centers using the polling units we use during elections,everyone that comes clean gets a pass on their mobile phone via a app designed for this or a ussd code.

Nigerian economy cannot withstand 2weeks total shutdown.now is the time we need to be bracing up and getting our economy blasting on all cylinders due to the decline in oil prices so as to mitigate a very hasrsh recession.

This for me is a bigger problem than what we have now.

Create panic so u can loot unhindered. After coro virus u then declare ur state broke and unable to pay salaries.

That's the game our government are playing,all of them, both federal and state

Patrioticman007:
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Covik 19 will enrich some people while others will die. The monetary aspects is a two edge sword.

It's all planned bro, it's all planned. In a game of chess there will always be pawns!!

Hofbrauhaus:
Just saw this...wow

Something is definitely not right here. It's either these people are looking for money from WHO or covid-19 is one hell of a comic virus....

I have been saying it,this coro association Nigeria chapter nah the more you look the less you see!!

Kaduna sef needs a share of the largess

ThierryJay:
As the number of cases increase exponentially, it becomes more difficult to present a comprehensive case history like they previously did with a lower number of cases. In countries like Egypt, South Africa and others that have several hundreds or thousands of cases, they don't publicize the case histories anymore.

But the history will still have been documented in the WHO report for the individual patients.

But we can get data on how many are foreign related and how many are home grown transmissions!!

ThierryJay:
You better do away with your pseudo-intelligent conspiracy theories, cos you are sounding profoundly ignorant. You still think a disease that has killed over 25,000 people globally is a scam (confirmed from videos and persons affected)??

What in your mind makes you think that Nigeria immune to COVID when it's ravaging several hundreds of countries?? If we are not immune, then it's logical that there will be cases in Nigeria. How you think the existence of COVID cases in Nigeria is not justifiable is turning logic upside down.

You think its business as usual? So if the Gov't wants to use COVID to siphon money, it will now be its top echelon i.e Abba Kyari, Governors and possibly the President himself that will be the guinea pigs Really So the executives have to put their life on the line to satisfy the financial greed of some subordinates

Overthinking can dull the brain o.. confirm

Thank you very much sir for your apt response.however I never said we were entirely immuned to the virus,also never said there were no cases in Nigeria.

I will tell you again and a again that these guys are unduly creating panic so as to get everyones attention to it and create a crisis situation so as to get as much money as they can.u and I know how this goes with government.

The number of confirmed cases isn't as much as they are claiming. It is still very manageable.

Abba kyari having corona or bala Mohammed having it is also suspect. Hope u have read the governor's statement as at this morning.

Corona virus isn't death sentence as we can see with Mikel arteta,Idris Elba and meny others.

As many government officials as possible are in the loop on this so as to cash out from the expected windfall.

Racoon:
Economic recession in full force.Brace for impact people.

We told them not to create unnecessary panic, brace up for what's to come. After this virus, if d tin Noh pass N500 go be big miracle

engrsyer:
This country is trying to make our little salary to be worthless than tissue paper.

Tufiakwa


Mono-economy country would always turn out to be like this

It was expected,that was why we were shouting that we shouldn't create unnecessary panic in the country.this is just the beginning

Charleys:
Last last this Corona na scam.

Bros!! Everything has been planned,if many had intuitive reasoning they would have seen this coming.trust me some guys are getting richer with dis corona mata

GermanMelania:
Why have they stopped telling if they are travellers or if they caught it in naija

You get sense, i swear!! This coro matter for naija nah the more u look the less you see

ekevwe:
A month ago we were telling the incompetent president to shutdown border and embassy because Nigeria hospitals don't have the equipment to fight this virus but he bluntly refused. Relying on that fake rumour that heat and alcohol cure corona virus. Nonsense

The truth is people with that virus is far more than 10000.

If they quickly shutdown down points of entry,there would most likely be zero cases and with zero cases,no money for our government guys to chop!!

This is all planned!!

deltateam:
Nigerians don't hear word.

Granted the President failed us by not closing the border even as at now, airports are still operating.

Nigerians instead of staying one place will visit homes thus spreading it. Transfer money to your family but stay where you are. Its possible you have it or they have it.

This is not the time to visit family and friends. This is not the time to frolick with girlfriends and boyfriends.

Yet they won't hear.

Oga,Noh be everybody fit survive total shutdown for 2 weeks, government knows this,we all know this except we just want to hide behind 1 finger.

Stay at home with no palliative,many people never even collect salary and many won't. No light,no water,no money,no food!!