₦airaland Forum

No time to watch tonight's game. Hope Nigeria is dominating.

PaulOtl:
LMAO I know your type of mentality.
You want to play safe to the core
Having your cake and eating it

I once thought of this plan of yours (excluding having women and kids till I'm old) I'll just wait til I'm old to find an equally old woman to wife-up. But I killed the thought long ago, since I'm a person who loves bonding and companionship, and won't be able toe sit till I'm 60. The earlier the better, but without kids. Now I'm still in my 20s. At 40 will be ideal for me. Or, 37 at least.

It's a perfect plan bro. Right now I already have 2 sons from two different ladies. 5 more ladies to have like 2 each for me....then by the target age, I will just wife up someone close to my age, and we enjoy our latter years together. So my plan is already in motion and going perfectly. The almighty be praised!

Okowa with his rotten teeth and substandard projects.

He just came in, and he is stepping on the "other" govts toes? hmmn, dis one go rule him tenure finish so....

FaithBrain1994:
Says a man who probaby ate heavy fufu as breakfast and perhaps, has no idea about his dinar.. You better to be real so that people can help you. Clemen!

Piss dey catch me. I wan go piss!

Juan Francisco Paladines knew there was something wrong when he started seeing double.
Doctors told him his symptoms - including double vision - which first appeared ten years ago, were being caused by a brain tumour.
"It was a very tough moment in my life. Fortunately, I have many friends and family that were my backbone," says the 56-year-old industrial engineer from Santiago, Chile.
Surgeons told him the unusual shape of his tumour meant it would not be possible to completely destroy it. But after a course of radiation therapy his symptoms went away.
For the next four years, scans showed that the tumour was not growing. "It all went well. I forgot about the whole business," he says.
However, in 2019 the double vision came back. "I knew what it was... I started to look for alternatives to the radiation therapy."
In recent years, a new cancer treatment has emerged called proton beam therapy - a form of radiation treatment used to get rid of malignant tumours.
It uses a beam of high energy protons, which are small parts of atoms, rather than high energy x-rays.
Proton beams easily pass through the body on their way to the tumour and are very effective at destroying it when they arrive.
They can also be targeted very precisely, which makes proton beam therapy useful for treating sensitive areas of the body, including the brain, neck and spine.
After some research, Mr Paladines decided that this was the treatment for him. But proton beam therapy was not available in Chile, or in any neighbouring countries.
"I did extensive research to find hospitals from different countries, who could provide proton treatment," he explains.
Many options were too expensive or not suitable for him. But eventually he found the Centre of Apollo Hospital in Chennai, India.
"It has state of the art technology, at very affordable prices compared to western countries," he says.
The hospital also helped him find accommodation and transport, for his trip in November 2021.
"These factors play a very important role mentally. I was miles away from home with fear, in a new country, a completely different culture and language," Mr Paladines says.
Mr Paladines is one of thousands of people who visit India every year for medical treatment.
Between 2016 and 2019, the number of overseas patients travelling to India increased from 430,000 to 700,000. The sector was estimated to be worth $9bn (£6.7bn) by 2019.
But travel restrictions during the pandemic almost bought the sector to a standstill. According to figures from the Ministry of Tourism almost 183,000 tourists arrived for medical reasons in 2021, down 73% from 2019.
The picture is similar elsewhere in the world, including other nations that are popular for medical tourism, among them Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia.
"India has the largest pool of clinicians in South Asia," explains Dinesh Madhavan, President of Group Oncology at International Apollo Hospital Enterprises.
"We are uniquely positioned thanks to our hospitality and rich culture, combined with modern as well as traditional medicine and therapy," he says.
And it's not just treatment for medical conditions like cancer. There has also been a sharp rise in patients arriving in India for cosmetic surgery procedures such as liposuction (removal of body fat) or hair grafts for baldness.
"We get patients from the US, Africa and Gulf regions," says Dr Satish Bhatia, a dermatologist and cutaneous surgeon in Mumbai. Dr Bhatia says he sees many flight attendants, looking for quick, non-invasive cosmetic procedures such as dermal fillers or Botox.
Dr Bhatia says that, on average, the price of most cosmetic procedures in the US, Europe and the Middle East are at least 50% higher than if done in India.
Like much travel, medical tourism ground to a halt during the pandemic, but Dr Bhatia says business is picking up again and he is confident it will continue to grow.
However, this boom in overseas patients has its downsides.
"There is a mushrooming of new aesthetic clinics all around India. Sadly, this also attracts unqualified and untrained doctors wanting to make easy money," says Dr Bhatia.
Always research your doctor's credentials and experience before fixing an appointment, he advises.
Patients should also make sure there are adequate arrangements in place for aftercare, says Dr Shankar Vangipuram, senior consultant, radiation oncology at the Apollo Cancer Centre in Chennai.
"Post-treatment in India - sometimes due to lack of qualified clinicians and diagnostic tools - we do face difficulty in tracking the responses and toxicities," he says.
The government meanwhile, acknowledges that the sector needs tighter regulation.
"Indian medical tourism lacks effective regulations to govern the sector, which leaves it unorganised and lacking in monitoring," says Rakesh Kumar Verma, Additional Secretary, at India's Ministry of Tourism.
While doctors complete years of training at college, which can be verified, the same is not true for the intermediaries who handle the arrangements to connect doctors with overseas patients, he explains.
The intermediaries, or facilitators, can be thought of as travel agents for medical tourists. "[They] have an important role but they are not well organised," says Mr Verma.
He warns that the quality of the services provided by these agents is not regulated, adding that pricing is also not consistent across hospitals, which makes it easier for some agents to overcharge unsuspecting patients.
Some in that industry would welcome a lot more oversight.
"There is a strong need to have certain guidelines set by the government which have to be followed by the hospitals, facilitators and other support services... in order to bring professionalism in MVT( medical value tourism)," says Garima Magu, a director at Medsurge, a medical travel agency.
For the hospitals, a recurring problem is patients changing their minds and switching to another, cheaper hospital on arrival in India, which wastes their time and resources.
Ms Magu says this could be easily solved by the government setting standard rates for treatments, and patients transferring a deposit over to the hospital before arriving in country.
Back in Santigao though, Mr Paladines is satisfied with his treatment and is being monitored by his doctor from Chennai.
"Presently I am doing good. To some extent, I am feeling better," he says.

The real deal, not fry fry.

Rubbish and Junk!

I repeat again....I will never ever get married till I'm 65 or 70, just plenty babymamas.

Being single is way better than been married these days I swear. For me, I will not get married until I'm maybe 65 or 70. Will just have different women having children for me till then when I'll look for a single woman who may be in her 60's too, to enjoy my old age with. Don't have time to live with someone who will be giving me heartache everyday.

Since you are already good at architecture, I will advise you go for the coding bootcamp(that is if you have the passion for it, cos coding no be your mate just like architecture be too), else..... pursue your HND course.

Long overdue.

Nato's secretary-general, Jens Stoltenberg, said it is poised to send troops to Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania.
Nato is set to approve big increases in the forces deployed on its eastern flank, its secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg has said.
Mr Stoltenberg was speaking at a news conference on the eve of an emergency summit on Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
He pledged more troops for Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania.
Nato will also agree more support for Ukraine, including greater protection against the use of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.
US President Joe Biden is on his way to Brussels for the summit on Thursday and for other meetings with European leaders.
While he is in Europe the US is expected to announce further sanctions on Russian political figures and oligarchs.
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan also said G7 leaders would agree to co-ordinate on sanctions enforcement.
The news comes as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in an address to the French parliament, urged a number of major French companies to pull out of Russia.
And media reports have emerged that in recent years Israel refused to sell Ukraine its Pegasus spyware system because of fears of provoking Russia.
Mr Stoltenberg said he expected leaders would "agree to strengthen Nato's posture in all domains, with major increases in the eastern part of the alliance. On land, in the air and at sea".
In all, Nato has about 40,000 troops on its eastern border, stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea.
"There is a new sense of urgency because we cannot take peace for granted," Mr Stoltenberg told reporters.
He warned Russia against using nuclear weapons in Ukraine, calling for a halt to Moscow's "dangerous, irresponsible nuclear rhetoric".
He added that that any use of biological or chemical weapons would have "far-reaching consequences", while stressing that Nato was ready to "protect and defend allies against any threat, any time".
Meanwhile US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Washington had concluded, following a "careful review of available information", that Russian forces had committed war crimes by attacking civilians.
Last week Mr Biden described Russian President Vladimir Putin as a "war criminal".
The remark has infuriated the Kremlin, which shows no sign of backing down - a month into the invasion.
Russia has been largely isolated, and on Wednesday, Poland said it was expelling 45 Russian diplomats accused of intelligence activities, about half of those currently working at the Warsaw embassy.
Russia's ambassador said there was no basis for the accusations.
The US has also been given a list of diplomats to be expelled from Russia, in retaliation for the expulsion of Russian diplomats at Moscow's UN mission in New York.

aikyg:
Snail is free in my village. Our custom forbids us from touching let alone eat it. During the rainy season you see a lot of snails in nearby bushes. People come from other towns to come and collect snails, but we are forbidden from showing them where to find the big big ones.

Abeg where be your village, I wan com gather d snails.

Nisiw365:
ipobian shut up. Olori pelebe

At least, ipobians don't mine skulls. Okay.

Same ibadan where someone saw egg in supposed meat pie? Who curse ibadan? Who? Ibadan is useless to Nigeria.

Billingslord:
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that is why your generation will be useless and die in abject poverty,werey

Okay. I never knew there is one here. Okay...

DaveHarry:
I've been an introvert since secondary school days. At a time my classmates were were complaining to my seat-mates. I don't talk much, I don't make friends beyond the moment, I don't even like someone greeting me past once or twice a day. I like been indoors and doing my own things.....etc. most times I've tried to fight the lifestyle thinking maybe something was wrong with me, but I couldn't. I had peace when I found out there are other people like me with these same traits and more. I've decided to live with my myself, it's not intentional. It's normal being an introvert.

But the worst part of been an introvert is when you add drugs.....worse!

nabiz:
why do Nigeria love propaganda. This is not buhari hand writing. Go to online and google buhari's signature, pay attention to where buhari wrote YOURS SINCERELY

What is dis bros even trying to say now?

Am not surprised a bit. Ibadan people are one of the most primitive people in Nigeria. They can even put groundnuts inside roll and say it's fish roll. Very useless set of humans.

I believe it's Mr buhari's handwriting cos olden days people have better and beautiful handwriting than we see from this present indomie generation of youths. So doubt at your own risk.

Sheddy5:
Someone wrote it for him.

Bros but you were not there when it was written na.

Joe Igbokwe, an aide to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Tuesday, March 22, disclosed President Muhammdu Buhari's handwritten message at Ibeju Lekki, Lagos, where he commissioned the Dangote Fertiliser Plant.
President Buhari wrote the note after the tape cutting ceremony of the multi-billion dollars project which will unarguably act as a catalyst for Nigeria's economic boom.
In the message, Buhari said the project very well aligns with his administration's drive to better the lives of Nigerians economically, especially those of farmers.
He added that the commissioned plant proves that with visionary and enterprising citizens, nothing is impossible for Nigeria. The brief message written in legible but cursive handwriting read:
"The Dangote Fertilizer Plant I just commissioned is consistent with the effort made by our administration to transform the lives of the farmers, increase their incomes and save the country precious foreign exchange."

Nigerians react
However, a lot of Nigerians on social media have reacted to the post by Igbokwe with varying concerns and takes. But some other persons believe the president is a man of integrity and as such, cannot lie with some as petty as handwriting. Read the reactions on Facebook:

Amb Kuseme: if he should write this beautiful then why the country this way? Is there anything we are unaware ‍♂️ i’m asking for my brothers in Igbo land."
Arome Attah: "Without light, fuel and the general hardship for naija, na who good writing dey epp? Ehn, na who?"
Samuel Omolola Edema "Hmmm. I thought the quote is "nothing is impossible with visionary leaders..." Our president said "nothing is impossible with visionary citizen like Dangote ... " Isorite."
Ralph O. Ahanonu: "Samuel Omolola Edema. Dangote is both a visionary leader and visionary Nigerian citizen and entrepreneur. "That's not in dispute.
If PMB had set out to quote the author verbatim, he would have used inverted commas/speech marks/quotation marks to denote this. He preferred to write something slightly different. I hope you re not insinuating it is a slip/mistake."
Segun Fagbemi: "This is the handwriting of a septuagenarian? This is too perfect."

ChristineC:
who told you that?

If you know, you know. I know.

Houses they can't call home

do you still have it?

I have one of 12+years now

Exactly. Let go instead of wasting more resources.

HenryDion:
In other words, police scammed you 150k to help you recover your lost 150k? This is terrible.

Fact is she can be tracked if she's still using her phone number. That's what police do, especially to lost phones.

My advice is to let go, to avoid wasting more resources cause both the bank and police are scammers themselves.

It's painful to lose money to a scammer. I've been there. Just let go! If anything, you have learned from this experience.

JudasNaKarrot:
US and European block will continue to dominate the political and economic scene for the next 50 years.

What I told a man the other day. The West will continue to dominate in even 200 years to come.

Why e be say na only isolated places nai dese asteroids dey always drop? It should fall on people's head.