₦airaland Forum

@ poster
#1. you are yet to tell us where and how you arrived at a diagnosis of typhoid fever
#2. you did not tell us the injections you have been using, the regimen, who made the prescriptions and where you bought them
#3. did npot tell us the symptoms you had

anyway, the current drug of choice for typhoid for most doctors now is ciprox as someone stated earlier. but my suggestion is that you go to a tertiary hospital where i'm sure you'll do a series of tests (including HIV screening) to arrive at a medical impression of your ailment. be careful where you get your drugs and i'll suggest accredited pharmacies are best.
early proper treatment is the best in any situation and major fatalities is nigeria are due to late on set of medical attention.
all the best

adconline:
darfur,
Can you specifically tell me where Nigerians have gone wrong in criticizing the government? I want specifics not by telling me that we should be happy that Nigeria is not like Zimbabwe or Liberia.

dude it's high time i criticised your brains (if you got any). i said, go through my posts in this thread, i am of the opinion that nigeria's govt should be criticised. haba if you are looking for those who are against the criticism of nigeria under the guise of not painting nigeria negatively, go to people like aisha and simple me. those are the good image advocates. i stand for criticising the nation when necessary.

now it's either you dont understand what you read, or you have short memory that you forget who wrote what, or your computer has got problems interchanging the names of posters, or you are just being mischievous, or you are just irreversibly dumb or. . . . . . . .

ha ha ha very funny thread. i laugh in swahili

chelsea will win

folem:
"ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your. country,“

story.
your country got to give you the opportunity to do something for her. that statement was made by john kennedy, but america gave kennedy the opportunity to do something for america by 1st making him a senator, then president. nigeria should open the way for it's youth, her future. i weep b/c when i see what is happening in europe and i know that my country is rich enough to get near european standards it pains me. the poorest of governors in nigeria is richer than most ministers in the UK. corruption.
but there is hope. EFCC has started something that will turn the country around in the next decades if maintained.

[quote author=simply_me link=topic=69085.msg1346526#msg1346526 date=1185959728]there is a difference between criticising and offering positive suggestions - Nigerians offer no positive suggestions but talk more about negatives, even at the face of positives, they still add a bit of sceptimism to a very act well done, example, government announced the plan to build a modern railway line, the first thin these people will say is, it will never succeed, or things like it wont work etc. Isint that shameful?[/quote]wow, simply me, na you de speak this simple english so? lol. i been de fear another grammatical bombardment from you.

well it's good to be positive but dont let that cover your sense of critical appraisal of contemporary issues. that ability to look at issues critically can be protective. believe me. it sanitises a system.
finally, you wont blame a child for being scared of a renown bully who has bullied him a thousand times even after the bully is now a pastor.

adconline:
Some Nigerians cannot cease to spit hawkish ignorance. Go to America and see how liberals and conservative criticize ther government. The same holds for UK. There needs to be constant criticism of Nigeria in order to stir the minds of people on how to move the country in the right direction. How can you improve without criticism? Practical example is that the grade you receive from your teachers is a form a criticism. Likes of Soyinka and Achebe constantly submit their works to be critiqued. Why does Nigeria deserve less?
[b]
Dafur,

I would want to answer my questions. Maybe you are telling us that the elections were not mired in fraud. The only reason why she is right in your thinking is that she (Baroness) has not felt power failure, never lacked medical care, never been without a running water etc. She cannot in her myopic imagination empathize what Nigerians go through. The reason why you think that we cannot talk about bad governance in Nigeria is that you really have not imagined what good leadership is because Nigeria has never known one. Your comparison of good leadership could be drawn from two benchmarks ie good and bad leaderships, but you have only tested one, so when your leaders tell you that we cannot move beyond big talks and dreams, we throw party for them.

Any system that is not open to criticism is going to self destruct like Hitler. Nigeria is a society that does not take evaluation. We have insisted not to overly criticize Nigeria and today our nation is squalor and we still want the status quo to remain. Abacha was not criticized and he became a living monster.
Corruption thrives in Naija because people like you have tolerance for it. The reason why Nigerians are trooping into S/Africa is because Nelson Mandela was critical of apartheid. The reason why Nigerians cluster at American Embassy is because Martin Luther King was critical of segregation. For you to resist a system, you have to be critical of it first. Criticism lays the foundation for violent or non violent movement. There must critical thinkers who will synergize ideas and bring them into fruition.
By the way , are you saying that Nigerians do not need basic things of life or that Nigeria cannot afford?[/b]

adcoline,
are you sure you read my posts well. it is simply me and aisha that are against criticism of nigeria. i am all for governmental criticism. we are supposed to be on the same side.

fish is better but i love meat( i dont like fish)
after watching a movie. . splash . .when i was a kid, i hated fish to the bottom and just couldn't get over it
i love meat. especially chicken . . . .which is unfortunately of even lower value than beef. and quite fattening but i still love chicken

anyway, do what i say and not what i do. eat more fish

Carlosein:
though it's called cervical cancer, can it not affect men too?

men don't have a cervix so they can't have cervical cancer. however men have their own wahala in the prostate which can get enlarged and problematic as in BPH or even get cancerous. women have no prostrate so they can't get prostrate cancer or enlargement.

@topic
good one aisha. the best health approach to cervical cancer or any other cancer or indeed any disease whatsoever is preventive medicine . a sound health system which incorperates public awareness will do a lot.

early detection and prompt management is invaluable

abeg na referee go win the match jare

urologist fast fast fast fast. delay is dangerous. and never take any concotion o

ndi igbo mmamma nu o. biko nu achoro m iga darfur na nso nso a, ka m ga nye ndi no na agha obele nri na mmiri. biko, donate-uo nu ego charity maka darfur region o. nye nu m ya bu ego na accounti m no na HSBC nke bu number

0357 419 777

ndi beanyi ya gazie o

moondust onye ara. soo gi na ekwensu sere foto okwaya

no, we cant be like them b/c they are not us. we should be advanced at least with the basic things. i must confess, the biggest problem with the nigerian followership is the fact that the vast majority of nigerians have no idea of how life should be. yes quote me. the child selling pure water in the street does not know that he should never be in the streets etc

if we nigerians realise that we have the wherewithal to tarr every road, build clean hospitals in every village, have clean drinking water in every home 24hrs, and constant power supply.

when i was a student in nigeria, i became used to 3-6months strike that i almost forgot that strikes are an aberation.

that's the problem. if we nigerians know how a nation should be governed, we'll ask our leaders more questions

aisha2:
Mark My words and quote me some day, very soon people will start lining up for Visa to come to Nigeria.
Then all those Whinners will know they are proudly Nigerian. For God sake even a 1 yr old baby knows the problems we face as a Nation, so please stop unnecessary repeatation.
if any body does not have any meaningful contibution to make please let us be, thank you we are aware of our problems what we want now are people who will do something to change our situation. It is everybody's responsibility not only Government

it's good to be positive and i'm not attacking you. i will work to build nigeria with all my strenth while i'm alive. but if i see something wrong with naija, i wont just shut up and continue working, i'll speak out. that's why we have freedom of speech. i dont go telling the britons that we have 419ners from nigeria. i'll rather keep quiet b/c if you read my posts you may notice some aversion to the westerners. but for crissake, when we are with ourselves we should tell ourselves some truths and see what can be done

k0be:
Many Nigerians embellish and embrace kolomentality. An insurmountable prevalence of subsequential colonial mentality is the cause of our noticeable lack of national jubilation. Colonial mentality is undoubtedly highly responsible for the unacceptable feelings of national inferiority that clog up our minds, the minds of our people. The unquestioned effects of the colonial mentality we undergo is clearly seen causing our minds to relish the limiting aversion that our inferiority complex vouchsafes upon us. These feelings can be suppressed through electrifying practices of self-celebration and appreciation. In order to celebrate ourselves we must reward ourselves; if we don't we won't see the shining bright light Nigeria has to offer us. We, the people of Nigeria, devote so much time to bashing or glorifying the political and economical negativity that has our nation bedridden in an ICU that we forget about those who suture up their voices to spark a change, a rebellion. We as Nigerians are asininely intimidated and fearful of the ensuing consequences that will arise if we speak out against corruption and devilish violence, but I ask you, what can the government do if we speak collectively as a whole, what else can they do but listen? We must pull together and work against this unpalatable menace that has become of our currently distasteful society. Come to think of it, we can definitely learn a thing or two from Black Americans about what it means to be prideful, about what it means to prosper when facing image-shattering adversity. We must stand together - together we shall overcome.

i really couldn't understand your grammar but i noticed a statement about "feelings of national inferiority". i do not feel inferior to anybody. however, when my beloved country cannot count it's citizens, or conduct elections, it is painful. but even at that, one may understand the nitty gritty of a 3rd world country, but what i refuse to understand is when a sitting president and his cohorts will come out openly to say the same elections and census were good. that, though, wont make me have "feelings of national inferiority" but some terrible feelings of internal shame for my country.

treasure,
what kind of hospitals have you been going to and what kind of Drs have you been seeing? what did they say about the cough? cough is a symptom and not a disease. there must be an underlying disease causing the cough. and for the cough to be there for three yrs . . . . .doesn't sound good.

i'll advise that you get a pulmonologist as someone advised or some other specialist somewhere (cardiologist, oncologist) and find out what is really wrong. but no need to panick as i'm sure your problem will be handled effectively by any of these professionals. i'll suggest you start with a tertiary health centre like a teaching hospital.

oluchi the most important thing for you to do now is to calm down. fibroids is something that can be comfortably handled by nigerian gynaecologists. i'm sure there are lot's of them there in lagos. no skaking. inugo? no fear, no wahala.

some women carry fibrioids all thier life and still have children. just make sure you see a gynaecologist and not just any doctor and dont you ever, i repeat ever, think of herbal medicine or any other form of medical attention except from a gynaecologist.
herbal medicine and other concotions may damage your liver and /or kidney and if that happens. . . . . hnnmm babygirl, . . .let me just say that should not happen.

so find a gynaecologist and register with him/her and the gynaecologist will take over.

smile you have a good life ahead. nothing dey happen

hmmmn i can smell something btw tosh and mukina

shi ojoo nwe ushi

a bad/ugly lump of excreta smells really bad

(meaning ~ kind of. . .by their fruits ye shall know them)

@jakumo
you are not a bad freelance writer

Afam:
I did state once that the views of Nigerians living outside Nigeria is less important compared to the views of Nigerians living in Nigeria because those within know what goes on here first hand.

All we ask for is objectivity and honesty in criticisms. No one can absolve the government of the day of any wrong doings but comments and discussions shold not include fabricated and manufactured allegations.

It is also important for us to know that amongst those that will always say negative things about Nigeria and Nigerians are 419ners, corrupt officials and other get rich quick people that have woken up to a whole new way of doing things.

point one. the views of all nigerians are important and the importance should not be weighted by location.
point two. there is no point trying to bring 419ners into this criticism. focus on the criticism. does it make sense. when a 2 yr old kid is abducted in the niger-delta you turn around to blame the BBC/CNN for painting nigeria in a bad light. have u ever considered if it were your own child?   call a spade a spade. a problem tolerated is a problem enthroned. why can't the military take over the british govt? after-all they have the ability. b/c the british people will not tolerate it at all. and they know it?
point three. power belongs to the people. if the govt knows that the people cannot tolerate something, trust me, they wont do it

aisha2:
The best you can do for your country is actually to help solve its problems pratically not just to stay and make exagerated critism.

i agree. the fact that i'm in europe does not mean that i'm not contributing to the development of my country.

aisha2:
She said the truth,

i disagree. she seemed to me to be aiding the destructive spirit of complacency for something unacceptable. this spirit has given our inept leadership and unmbrella of excuses and contentmen for their intentional failures. that is why someone in nigeria will be happy to hear that a governor did not steal too much money as against another who stole too much as if we elected our governors to compare thieves

aisha2:
People like you just stay and make empty. . .

wrong again sister. i dont make empty uninformed noises (except in the thread on stingy uk residents which was more of a joke) read through my posts, i make sense if you are objective and dont you ever think i dont like nigeria or that i ran away from nigeria but know for sure that i'm getting prepared for nigeria-my home

aisha2:
I do not just stay and make bad cricism about my country when i see problems in Nigeria I try to see how I can intervene as a Person and appeal to good spirited Nigerians to do something which God bless their hearts they always do even not in the magnitude we expect.
Before I got a job, I wrote over 50 tests and i knew i di not do well in them so i worked harder, read harder and thought harder.

more grease to your elbows. you are the kind of people we need.

aisha2:
. . . . . . . . . Nigeria will get better we have started the process. .  . . . . NIGERIA FORWARD. WE WILL OVERCOME AS A COUNTRY AND AS A PEOPLE, WE WILL KEEP MOVING EVEN IF WE FALL WE WILL NOT STOP WE WILL CONTINUE. GAT USED TO IT,

i say AMEN to that

one thing with crooks in govt is that they call their opponents unpatriotic. that's why the republicans say the democrats have a patriotism problem. babangida used such strategy against those who fought for june 12 (those guys are heroes today).
if the oyibos want to see anything good from nigeria they can look at me and say nigeria can have good schools b/c i learnt their language in our local schools.

but i'll always say the truth for the sake of my country. call me bagger today, history will call me the hero

@debosky
nice write up

@adconline
better write up. these guys dont know white people. that baroness whatever her bitchy name is may have some hidden agenda in denying such obvious national disgrace. it's like telling a bleeding patient to relax that the red stuff coming out of his body is not blood. instead of doing something to stop the bleeding

that kind of attitude creates complacency. you guys talk of americans, those americans have come out on cnn to call bush a noncompoop, they've called him world's #1 terrorists. they've called him the worst president america ever had. they've cried out loud about post katrina management, the brits called tony blair. . . . . b[b]liar[/b]. we have a govt that tells us all is well. they look at an election we all saw and said no wahala and "hire" an oyibo to agree with them. just to fool us. and you guys expect me to be fooled.

the best patriotism and i could give my country is to tell her the truth. that's why chinua achebe is a hero. he refused OBJ's award and made it an international news item. and told the world why he refused it. that's why soyinka is a hero, all those guys who fought against abacha and took the battle to foreign lands

@simply me

kai. . . . i withdraw my case until the time comes when you decide to breakdown the grammar wey you gramatise for that post

muchbabe:
this thread is fucken hilarious, i will steal one of the pics

no take my wife picture o

sharap all of you , let the truth be told always. how do you want me to tell the world that my country is wonderful when everyday they hear of abductions of even little kids in the niger-delta? when they saw what we called elections and how, even as it was openly rigged to global world record levels, our leaders still came up and unashamedly said the elections went well? how we couldn't conduct a clean census. how sweet our roads are. what kind of patriotism are you trying to potray? they'll look at you and laugh in their hearts.

beware of foreigners who come to say great things about nigeria. they have a hidden agenda. the west initially criticised our elections, but when they saw the oil in the niger-delta they started to soft pedal. beware of those guys. this is the same cabal that wont waste time in degrading nigeria as a 3rd world country with extreme corruption and then when it comes to helping poor countries they claim nigeria has money. beware of people who tell you sweet things. get the guys who'll tell you the truth.

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Ikomi:
Hey dude I haven't got time for your abusive banalities, am going to hand u over to some smart girls who can throw u out with a word.

Just wait they'd soon be in here.

Where are all my good girls at? Babyosisi, GC and Nnenne, yeah those girls are what u call smart, they've got it all in there middle name.

biko hand me over to umuoma fast fast. amaghi m ma obu gi na enyem headache now. ka m mara ma umuoma ha ga achu m ishi na awa m kita

babyosisi:
Ikomi ala chu kwa gi oso.
Kedu Ihe i'nabara onye batara na thread su o Igbo?
O maka gi na ndi ofe mmanu n'asu Yoruba Yoruba na thread ha gi enwee the guts ikwu odi ihe a
n gwa mee apologise ozugbo

oya mee apologise ASAP

israel built themselves from the scratch, but not entirely without outside help. israel has always had outside help since it was formed. anyway, it is a great nation. Thank God
what history did you read of the 6 day war? - from western point of view. innit?
all i'm saying is israel should be more gentle with those guys.
look at the UK, with all the terror threats the asian british are still free to live happily in the UK and are not harrassed as much as it is done in israel, yet the asians in the UK feel very embittered, how much more those in israel. they will always feel like tearing israel apart (thank God they cant) peace cant grow in that kind of environment

romeo:
infact irere ure

gi kwanu? ireela refere buruzia referee