I have been a good follower of this great Forum for a very long time and I must commend how you guys help with meaningful comments whenever someone requests for help.......
Pls I am in urgent need of your advice now....
Pls ignore my grammatical errors...
Here is the story......
I have a friend named Victor, (real name) a Ghanain..
We are close friends and we are about doing some business together. Before I present the real deal now, let me highlight one mistake he made that would have ended our friendship but I ignored it..
It was way back 2014..
We newly became friends then..and coincidentally there was a Muslim girl I feel in love with, and we starting dating. One day I was not around when my (Victor) friend came to meet this Muslim girl (my girl) and tried to kiss her.
She was a flashy girl and very tempting no doubt, but he almost broke the brother code by trying to do that to my girl. When my girl (now ex) told me, I was angry but decided not to ask him and it died like that.
Sadly, on religious ground I was not allowed to marry the girl so we went our separate ways, but I found it difficult to love again because I loved that girl deeply. So I relocated to another city. Kumasi.
Fast forward to 2020.. About 2 months ago my friend Victor invited me to come down to Accra for some business discussion. So I came and I met his wife's sister (real name Abigail) who now lives with them. Sincerely I felt something for her and told my friend strait away that I like Abigail, and I would love to know her more with marriage in view. I also spoke to his wife Abigail sister about how I felt for her sis but I needed their consent before I approach Abigail.
Consents were given by both of them and after few weeks I proposed to Abigail and she asked me to hold on, that she is going to formally inform her sis and the husband because she lives with them, and I quite understand.
About 2 weeks on Abigail accepted my proposal and I was happy, but went ahead to ask why she accepted and she said she has been hearing good things about me, and beside I am handsome (lol), pardon me I was just quoting her..
So we starting dating.
So 2 days ago I had some discussion with my friend victor (Abigail sis husband).
This time this discussion was basically about some issues he's been having with his wife, how he treats his wife badly lately, does not eat at home or spend time with the wife. So I spoke to him about why he should change and allow peace to reign in the house. As I was discussing with him, he then chipped in some issue about me and Abigail.
HE SAID AS HIS FRIEND HE WON'T ENCOURAGE ME TO ENTER THE WIFE FAMILY. THAT HE HAS BEEN IN THE FAMILY AND HE'S BEEN FIGHTING SOME SPIRITUAL BATTLE FROM THE FAMILY..
So I thanked him, I said to him that I will try to pray about it. That I know many family have some spiritual battles, but I will try and fight the battle....
Here I am somehow confused.. Does he genuinely mean well for me? or he just does not want me to marry this beautiful girl?
Less I forget. He also stopped me from introducing this girl into a certain business that would give her some financial freedom..
I am thinking he does not want the best for either me or the girls family....
And given how he speaks about his wife, I think he is heading in the direction of divorce, and maybe he does not want me to enter the family as that may cause some barrier......
All this are just my opinion given how things are playing out....
Pls I need your suggestion... Thanks
@mods, pls help me move this to front page, I need urgent help pls
If you enter their family, there will be a yard stick to compare you and him. You intend to marry the girl not her family. The question to ask here is what is your assessment of this girl if her beauty were removed Your friends position could be one of 2 things. Speaking from a point of fact, or a point of ego (some facts clouded by emotions). With marriage it's your call. If it works well you say thank God l made this choice!!!, If it doesn't, you go the way your friend is planning to go, divorce.
DabFrankNG: The church cannot stop them. It's an end time event, a precursor to the Antichrist.
These are the last days that the Bible discussed.
The only SOLUTION is to be ready for the rapture as it can occur at any time
"We are not in the last days but the last hours." Pst WF Kumuyi
We have been hearing this narrative for over 2000 years....
Matthew 16:28 (KJV) “Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.”
mrphysics: I went through this thread https://www.nairaland.com/5774444/fact-check-coronavirus-caused-5g-technology by aminulive and while I appreciate what he has done, I think enough needs to be done to drive that point clearer to the Nigerian audience. However, my fear is that when scientist and health practitioners say something, most people, especially Nigerians will accept the ones coming from religious leaders.
I will try my best to explain in details what you should know about radiations.
Classifications of Radiations They are two basic classification of radiations, they include: 1 Particle radiation: This contains charged and neutral particles 2. Electromagnetic radiation: (Photon flow. 5G belongs to this group.)
We can classify radiations according to their biological effects on matter, here, we have two types of radiations: Ionizing and non ionizing radiations.
You must have heard these two in recent times, so what is ionizing and non ionizing radiations? a. Ionizing radiations: This means radiation have enough energy to eject one electron from the atom of the crossed material. b. Non ionizing radiation: Particle energy is not enough to eject one electron from the atom, therefore it is said to have lower ionizing potential.
Great, let's advance further. The next question is, at what energy is a particle considered as ionizing? I won't waste much time here, so let's concentrate on 5G and their corresponding energy.
I am a graduate student of Nuclear Engineering. And in one of our course called Interaction of Radiation with Matter, we discussed everything about ionizing and non ionizing radiation. Therefore, for tissues/matter consisting of Hydrogen, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen (Which the human body fall under), radiations are considered as ionizing radiation if their energy is greater >> 12.4 eV (electron volt). The wavelength of such photon is 0.1um (micro meter). .
Using the relationship between energy and frequency, E = hf, I made a quick calculation and realized that the wavelength of such radiation must be 100nm (0.1um) and the frequency (Hz) is to the order of 3 x 10^15 hertz. We do know that the frequency of a 5G network (5 Giga hertz - 95 Giga hertz) and discovered that it's frequency is of the order of 10^9 hertz. which is million times lower than what is considered as ionizing. It therefore means that photons from a 5G network can never ionize the human body.
We know all these because to excite the electron from the ground state of a hydrogen atom to the first excitation state, you must have an energy of 13.6 eV. If you check the energy of a 5G wave, you will see it is approximately 0.00002 eV which is a million times lower than the fundamental energy of ionizing radiation.
Some persons have also linked it to cause cancer and the rest, this is not true. Of course there are two effects of radiations which is stochastic and deterministic effect. Deterministic effect occurs instantly and severity increases with radiation dose where as stochastic effect does not occur instantly but will take time to manifest.
Let me point out that, those who survived the Hiroshima and Nagazaki bomb blast and were followed in a study called Cohort Study, out of over 100k followed person, only about 2% died of cancer related cases which manifested about 50 years after the incident. Remember these people took many grays of highly ionizing radiations.
Whenever you take flight from a particular place to another, you have absorbed more ionizing radiations that someone living 20km from a nuclear power plant. When you take 1-9 cigarettes a day, you take same risk as someone who took a dose of 3.4Sv from a bomb blast.
To end it, 5G network is not an ionizing radiation, and poses no harm to the body, well not anyone that has been experience now. It will take many years for one to experience any such effect (Which to me is not possible). Some of us have done X-rays, if only you knew you stood against an ionizing radiation, and yet still healthy, you won't be talking about 5G network.
The words of MrPhysics
Find a way to send it to the Home alone senator Dino Malaye, cos he is on the bandwagon of misinformation... Him and Pastor Chris passing misinformation to the general purpulace...Analogous to a mechanic describing on social media how to carryout brain surgery
Dino Melaye has called for the demobilization of 5G network which he claimed has been mounted in some parts of Nigeria.
The former Senator who described 5G network as evil, stated that it kills the immune system, affects the respiratory system, causes cancer and hypertension and indirectly causing the deaths of Coronavirus patients.
He back his statement by sharing videos in which plants growing near a 5G network were affected by the fifth generation of wireless communications technologies.
Dino Melaye stated that some deaths can be avoided by stoping the deployment of 5G network in the country.
So l should take your word for it, Are you a scientist or a science graduate or student....Have you visited the places they have been deployed, do you have physical evidence that ALL the people staying around it have died as a result or have ailments Walking is natural why use a car? I dey see your garage online o... Nonsense!!!
SadiqBabaSani: Mobile phone masts have been torched amid theories linking coronavirus to 5G, despite ministers saying there is no credible evidence to back them.
Masts were set alight in Sparkhill, Birmingham, on Thursday and Melling, Merseyside, on Friday.
Trade body Mobile UK said false rumours and theories linking 5G and coronavirus were "concerning".
The government said "there is absolutely no credible evidence of a link" between the two.
Posting on Twitter, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport added it was "aware of inaccurate information being shared online about 5G".
In Melling, Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service said it extinguished a 5G mast tower fire near the M57 motorway.
There was damage to the mast and control panels, a spokesman said.
West Midlands Fire Service said the fire in Birmingham involved a 70ft tower on a telecommunications site. However, the service said the cause was yet to be identified and could not confirm the mast was 5G.
A West Midlands Police spokesman said: "We're aware of a fire involving a phone mast, but are awaiting further details on its cause."
On Friday, Facebook removed a page which showed several videos claiming to show 5G towers on fire and encouraged others to do the same.
In addition to warning on the theories about the safety of 5G technologies, Mobile UK added: "More worryingly some people are also abusing our key workers and making threats to damage infrastructure under the pretence of claims about 5G.
"This is not acceptable and only impacts on our ability as an industry to maintain the resilience and operational capacity of the networks to support mass home working and critical connectivity to the emergency services, vulnerable consumers and hospitals."
Analysis By Leo Kelion, BBC technology desk editor
Conspiracy theories linking 5G signals to the coronavirus pandemic continue to spread despite there being no evidence the mobile phone signals pose a health risk.
Fact-checking charity Full Fact has linked the claims to two flawed theories.
One suggests 5G suppresses the immune system, the other claims the virus is somehow using the network's radio waves to communicate and pick victims, accelerating its spread.
While 5G uses different radio frequencies to its predecessors, it's important to recognise that the waveband involved is still "non-ionising", meaning it lacks enough energy to break apart the DNA in our cells to cause damage
We never get any 5G mast for Nigeria but we have cases The mast has been there a while but nothing until someone came on social media to link the 2. I would rather we face social media than the mast. Most of the information on social media are false and are somebody's joke...hmmm April fool just past sef
Ever since its announcement by China in 2019, It is least to say that so many conspiracy theories have sprung up ever since COVID-19 broke out, where people share their opinion on what is the cause of the pandemic, but the one most talk about is its link to the 5G network, new world order, the coming of the antichrist, and the eventual end of the world.
A British man had earlier uploaded a video online, showing the new TWENTY POUND NOTE (£20) which was recently released in Britain and claimed that at the back of the note, you would see a 5G mast and symbol of coronavirus over it. The notes entered circulation on February 20, 2020, and is made entirely from polymer.
Not so long ago, Senator, Dino Melaye shared a video online, where he advised the federal government to desist from installing and using 5G infrastructure in Nigeria, while also linking the Network to the coronavirus deaths.
While nations are researching a cure to the virus which has killed thousands globally over a short period; while other nations are on lockdown in a bid to prevent further spread of the virus, a new video is now making waves online, which shows pastor Chris Oyakilome sharing his own opinion, why he thinks the pandemic was created.
Pastor Chris, the General Overseer of Believers' love world tells a congregation he was preaching to that the pandemic was created in order to popularize the 5G network, which is gradually gaining attention across the world because the network has advance Artificial intelligence (AI), that can solve nearly all the human problems, which is a major breakthrough for science, technology, and medicine.
It is of the opinion of Pastor Chris that for the creators of the 5G network to make the world accept this new technology, the creator has to send fear into the world, and therefore be able to make everyone to embrace it as the possible way out for their problems.
Pastor Chris should be too educated for this...comments like: *When l did my research l found out that...Does God no longer talk to you? *They are pulling down all the information on the net that was direct and re-editing them...Why did they put the information there in the first place, if they did not want you to see it *They want to introduce 5G, military grade internet...meaning the military is already using it. How do you conderm something you haven't used *It is not like 1G, 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G is 10 times faster....So *This time everyone will have a permanent number, not the number on your passport, you don't need your passport anymore...hahaha, what of BVN and NIN numbers that we all did Or in advanced countries, social security number hmmm
Funny enough all their healing schools are not mentioning CORONA positive turn negetive All of them are now civil, devoting more attention on internet solutions to tithe and offering and visual conferencing and meetings...
oyeb15: Isolation centers or death traps.No food or drugs. Useless government.
Nigerians, Let's march against Lockdown. We are not prisoners. Government provide NOTHING in Nigeria.Enough of this oppression!
Goverment ought to Enforce the use of face mask and gloves and social distancing while going out. Then testing centeres. FreeNigerians#
Have you been inside one before, frankly? Stay at home was what worked in slowing and stopping spread. People movement is synonymous with virus movement...
CodeTemplar: This our abrakadaba subsidy is something else.
Price of crude comes down by over 50% but we are only able to see a marginal decrease of arou d 10% in petroleum product prices. How on earth is that possible?
That's magical arithmetics only possible in Nigeria.
Salaries of those producing it did not drop. All the other ingredients may not also have dropped. Salaries of the shippers remained constant. So it's not supposed to be a direct proportion.
"The average Nigerian works on a daily basis and gets paid on a daily basis. We have a lot of Nigerians that do blue collar jobs. If they don't work in a day, they will not get money in a day and they will not eat in a day, yet we want to have a lockdown. What will people eat?"
"Conductors, mothers that go to the market to sell stuff, what will they eat? When you say people should lockdown and stay home, what will they eat, will they eat themselves? A lot of people depend on daily income. So when you say lockdown, you should also provide food for them. Hunger is deadlier that this virus"
kecy19: I thought it was also an Air-borne disease?
Airborne if you are close to a person with the disease. The reason we advocate for social distancing. By taking in the droplets released by a patient during coughing, sneezing or talking and you are less than 2 meters from the person...
maklelemakukula: are you immortal? Do you think your life or those of your loved ones is guaranteed if/when a serious outbreak happens? Do you know how long ago Corona became a global problem? Did we not have enough time to prepare? The Nigerian index case came long before that of Ghana and South Africa. How many tests has Nigeria done since this time. Juxtaposed with that of Ghana and south Africa you'll see how much Nigeria has disgraced herself. Why is the government so concerned about keeping the "numbers" low by not taking enough tests when they know the implications will far outweigh the perceived picture they're trying to paint to the international community so it seems they have it under control.
Nigeria will work the day the brains of her people begin to work.
So you believe Nigeria is more interested in keeping the numbers low... The disease does not hide, how come our hospitals are not filled up with symptomatic patients? Instead of commending the efforts of the health workers involved in this intervention for their due diligence. There is politics on the one side and the professionals on the other side. The politicians manage the funds, not the health workers...
Emescot: Your disclaimer is funny to me Like you think some doctors here will blame you for coughing, but bros next time be careful where you cough, so they won't ask you out of the vehicle in the middle of nowhere.
Honestly now that I ask myself that too, I don't know the answer, especially now that our president is missing
I dont think it's easy, but prevention is better than cure.
I get your point, but do you consider it a waste of test kit? One can never be too careful, have you thought of how many people that would have been infected if I had the virus?
We do not manufacture any of the items used for collecting samples and for testing in Nigeria. If we a finite number of kits it makes more economic sense to have a protocol for deployment or use which they are following strictly. The first thing anyone learns in school economics is that resources are scarce, humans have unlimited needs, hence the need for categorization (scale of preference)...bla bla bla
Emescot: Hello guys, Let me start by narrating my ordeal, about 2weeks ago I started having my regular symptoms of typhoid and malaria which is back pain, hot breathe, evening fever and change in urine colour, so i rushed to the pharmacy and got malaria drugs.
Fast forward to Saturday 21st,I started coughing but i didn't take it too seriously, but by midnight of that day I woke up with the worst fever and hallucination i have ever experienced, by Sunday morning the fever was gone, but then I had itchy/sore throat coupled with the cough, so i gargled salt and warm water and i got relief from the sore throat.
At exactly 6pm that Sunday, the fever returned but this time more serious than the last one and this time it lasted till Monday morning, at this point I was already on google searching for all the symptoms of CoronaVirus, instantly I called my nurse that I needed injection for malaria and typhoid and she told me no treatment unless i go for a test to confirm if its malaria and typhoid.
The thought of going to the Lab for test made me feel uneasy so i called the NCDC toll-free line (080097000010), I called for 12 good times and each time I was told to hold on but the call gets disconnected, I wasn't going to let myself die of ordinary Typhoid because I want to self isolate so i went to the Diagnosis centre with my nose mask on. At the centre i was dying inside, dying not because I was sick inside or I was afraid of what the result would bring, but dying because I was trying so hard to suppress the urge to cough, because I didn't want to scare people or spread whatever was wrong with me. After 2hrs the result was out and i had malaria and too much typhoid in my body system, I went home gave the nurse the result and she gave me 3 injections for the Malaria and typhoid, and I am much better now than yesterday,and she also prescribed Tutolin for my cough.
I read today about a Nairalander that called the NCDC line today to explain his symptoms and was told they only attend to people that had contact with someone who just came from travel outside Nigeria, with that I can only conclude that there is no seriousness in this Government to fight the Virus, right from the beginning they refused to close all point of entry in the country because they thought its child's play, now they wont even respond to Emergency calls.
Forget the nose mask, the hand sanitizer, once this gets to the common man in Nigeria, who believes they cant get the virus, who still believes the hot weather will kill the virus inside you, who believes the cure for every sickness is either paracetamol or antibiotics, then I am sorry to say, Nigeria might just become worse than italy
Stay safe guys, Stay indoors.
Corona only comes with contact, with an infected person. That is why your travel history is key. If they wasted a test kit for you, when those really infected comes there will be nothing to test them. NCDC is responding to a pandemic and they have to be prudent with scarce resources.
Tpharell: I beg to differ completely here. The only reason why this is so is that we are not testing enough, period! Infact, compared to what Spain and Italy did at the fourth week we are not testing at all.
If we are not testing enough, and there are more cases out there they will appear at the hospitals when they become symptomatic, but that is clearly not the case so E no dey hide, even if you downplay figures the will show up and overwhelm the hospitals...
PapaBaby: I don't wanna make anyone scared but if Lying Mohammed says 4,370, we have to multiply that by at least 10 but on the other hand this could be a way to embezzle billions.
This does not mean they are missing. It means these are the number of people the surveillance / contract tracing teams are following up on daily each for 14 days. If any becomes symptomatic within the period, the are then moved to isolation for case management.
kingxsamz: Please read again... He didn't say a cure will be found on the 27th. He said the virus will disappear on the 27th... Please, it's not yet 27th, don't start rolling out excuses on the pastor's behalf.
Any how, meaning no new infections (Since the virus would have dissappeared) even if those already infected are there abi? We day wait...
scorpiogal: Good day everyone... I made a post yesterday about my brother that has been missing since on the 7th of March. That’s the link below for the post.
I really wanna appreciate everyone that said a prayer or two for my brother, and those that called to sympathize with me, God bless you all.
My brother made contact with us yesterday night, he’s fine and okay, though he hasn’t given us a story of what happened, all he said was he has been sleeping under the bridge at dopemu, how he got there all the way from ogba, we have no idea.
He’s home with us now, and we thank God that he’s at least fine.
That aside, someone from Nairaland tried to blackmail me... he called my line saying he has my brother and if I don’t do as he says, he’s going to send down his body parts, luckily for me, my brother had already contacted us at that time. So when I got the call from this dude saying he has my brother, I knew it was all a big scam.
I posted for help here, not for someone to come take advantage of the situation for his own greed and wickedness... If you are reading this now, you know yourself, you better change your ways.
Below is the number of the “supposed kidnapper” and the message he sent when I stopped picking his calls.
*08158725704*
Make a police report! They can track the number...
Do you know how to perform brain surgery? Do you know how to construct a multi rise building? If your answer is No to one or both questions...does that make you illiterate? I responded in line with a comment made by someone else...
JERRY1925: U wrong, don't be surprised if u had accepted your parents decision u would still have issues and regrets. reason is, u will feel life would have been much more better if u had sticked to ur choice with every small challange u face with the one ur parents accepted. It's good u make ur own mistakes. Its easier to learn from your mistakes than having someone to blame for your mistakes. And if u can't make a good decision in marriage, it means ur parents failed in training or directing u from the very start. For me, i know what my parents would accept, because they kept singing it from my childhood. i know what they might frown at. So before i even walk up to a girl, i already know what i want and what my parents might like. But if after still trying to balance things 50/50 and they insist on something else, I'll ignore them. Because i trust my decision. Truth is, its good to try balance things moat times, at least to put some smile on your parents face. Example 1 for me.. I know my mum love hearing a girl is a virgin.. So before even showing her the girl, i start singing the girls praise to her(even if shes not one), before u know she done get interest for the girl. Example 2, my mum don't like girls wearing trousers, so the day i brought my woman.. She wore a cute gown at least for some few period. All this is to just create that first impression. When they have generated that love everything can now follow. But some persons do not even understand what their parents like. They just bring anything (girl or man) home. Learn to package ur products well and never forget to sing their praise for months before even presenting them to parents.
What i observed is, parents only control or make choices for children who can't..if your parents know u to be a person that sticks to your decisions they won't dare tell u who to marry, because they know From previous experience that the matter is dead on arrival.
metroid: Why is FG not this proactive with Lasa Fever epidemic?
Lassa fever is a tropical disease and is endermic in Nigeria. In fact there is a lassa fever belt when you draw the map of Nigeria. There is a lassa research center in Irrua. Its been there for ages...
Politics › Re: Sanwo-Olu Won't Escape Probe After COVID-19 Pandemic - PDP by Dalby(m): 11:45pm On Apr 05, 2020
