₦airaland Forum

OhBiafra:
So every single person travelling through Kogi must be infected? Or the infected ones must stop in Kogi and have contact with people? Where ia this reasoning coming from? If works like that, then no single person in the infected states should be free of the virus

Are you thinking from your brain at all? You lack the mental capacity to engage in a matter so sensitive and complicated like this. I will advised, you keep mute, watch and learn while the intelligents one discuss.

Let the young rule, let the young rule. Una see the young now.

Likely to happen across the states once our health care facilities become overwhelmed.

This is the major reason lockdown, social distancing and good hygiene still remain the cheapest, most efficient and obtainable means of managing infectious diseases like COVID- 19.

The central bank of Nigeria suspend lay- offs in Banks


https://www.cbn.gov.ng/

The presidential team said 80 per cent of every 100 samples taken from the state for testing always came out positive.


Yet they keep on manipulating the figure for the reasons best known to them.

Everyone will learn!

The management of this virus will proves alot of things
Which region that is highly uncoordinated
Which region is backward in handling challenges
Which region has less value for life
Which region has been dragging this country backward
And alot more

Kano is the epicenter of Nigeria. May his soul rest in peace!

ignis:
El Rufai is taking advantage of Almajiri brought from kano to inflate figures

A fool like you will support this your assertion.

Kano! Kano!

Herdsmen:
I’m not a fan of Kanu.. check the records .. if say I be Bayerebe I for wish am dead ..is in Bayerebe blood.
I only thank God that his followers are cured of their acute zombiesim .. hope Apc zombies will be delivered someday .. before it’s too late

Kanu is a bloody fool and a scammer... any day he visits Otu Ngwo me go personally change am for am .. no be noise.

If you know you know..

"change am for am"

Herdsmen:
I’m not a fan of Kanu.. check the records .. if say I be Bayerebe I for wish am dead ..is in Bayerebe blood.
I only thank God that his followers are cured of their acute zombiesim .. hope Apc zombies will be delivered someday .. before it’s too late

Kanu is a bloody fool and a scammer... any day he visits Otu Ngwo me go personally change am for am .. no be noise.

If you know you know..

"change am for am"

please give me similarities between Igbo and yoruba? I know of Edo, Yoruba and Igala.

TGM2015:
That Gunner Jay tweet though.

What can you deduce from these tweets?

Gone to where?

haryorbarmie83:
I don't know what can this government do to please the citizens. Everybody is complaining about the SMS before, now they stop it some call them broke ass. What can please human. I guess nothing.

You write them to stop it?

Who stopped them from updating people with the new number of cases information through SMS since most Nigerian use SMS enabled phones.

Clueless people!

Aid: Mr Lai let us use Abacha loot for this coronavirus pandemic
Lai: You must be very stupid, how many time would I tell you that the loot has been distributed to the mass.
Aid: You mean that million I received last last
Lai: Foolish boy, Go away

helinues:
it be like you have no idea about how much billions of Naira NCDC have spent on sms..

Hmmn!Only God knows how much each SMS will cost.

For the past three days, I have not gotten any message from NCDC.
What might be the reason(s)

*Are they broke already?

* Are there no more information to share?

* Are they tired of encouraging us to stay at home and maintain good hygiene?

*or just suspended it without any reasons

It is well.

kelly72:
We shared $300 million recovered Abacha loot with Nigerians -- Lai Lai Mohammed

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Oga, demand for accountability and stop these semantics. Stop giving goverment officials a free pass. This country is in serious trouble. They, whoever has been receiving money on behalf of goverment should be held accountable. Nigerians want to know why we appear under resourced despite publicly declared donations. Transparency is not what you toy with in critical situation such as this.

If Nigerians arr going to be kept at home till December due to lack of resources to battle Covid 19 let us know NOW so that those who have a serious stake in Nigeria can go find the resources to shorten the battle.

Is it a sin for goverment to be open, honest and transparent.

I am not challenging that fact my brother. I really care like you. I am only given the reasons NCDC is pleading for all these needs. Frankly speaking nobody is encouraged at the way the FG is handling this dangerous and highly contagious pandemic.

GamalNasser:
Come on man , 9 out 10 is a total failure for any procedure

Of course, not all coronavirus patients even need the ventilators. Only people that developed severe pneumonia symptoms. ( difficulty in breathing)

Cjayboy:
Please, point of correction..
Nobody donated any money directly to NCDC rather through the joint presidential taskforce on Covid-19, ministry of finance and CBN.
Thanks

many didn't understand that NCDC is just an agency saddled with the responsibility of management, reporting and documentation of infectious diseases.

They only apply for fund through the ministry of Health.

You can't donate to them directly.

Kobojunkie:
Ventilators have not been proven ineffective since the use of ventilators were never as a CURE for the viral infection but to help buy patients time while the doctors help their body fight the virus.

Ventilators are prescribed purposely to patients with difficult breathing. One of the last stage of the virus

Study showed that 9 in 10 of people placed on ventilator died. That means 90% percent. what is your measure of efficiency?

early test, early isolation and early treatment is still the best approach. They need more testing kit than they need more ventilators. That is my argument.

early testing before manifestation of the symptoms is the best approach. That is what help Isreal and co. Our testing rate is extremely too low.

Kobojunkie:
Ventilators are not CURES for the virus. They only serve to help by the patient time while the patient's own immune system fights back. So, I would not throw ventilators out completely. If it gives even a few a chance to make it, why deny them that chance?

Ventilators has been proven ineffective. They need less of it at moment. They should focus more on PPE for the care givers and testing kit. Their treatment method has been working relatively fine.

GamalNasser:
I doubt you have doctors that can successfully intubate a patient with a respirator and besides You don't need ventilators because the offer no benefits to the patient ..

I hope they listen to your advice. Procurement officers must chop.

I hope some general are not already infected with coronavirus . The sudden development is a signal

xendra:
it is clearly edited. if its indoor I might believe but outdoor like that? what will they do such nudes for?? plus everybody knows Tacha's breast is sleepers that's definitely not Tacha

and if Tacha's pic can be edited Then Toke's own definitely is too.

"everybody"

K

The price of US oil has turned negative for the first time in history.

That means oil producers are paying buyers to take the commodity off their hands over fears that storage capacity could run out in May.

Demand for oil has all but dried up as lockdowns across the world have kept people inside.

As a result, oil firms have resorted to renting tankers to store the surplus supply and that has forced the price of US oil into negative territory.

The price of a barrel of West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the benchmark for US oil, fell as low as minus $37.63 a barre
The severe drop on Monday was driven in part by a technicality of the global oil market.

Oil is traded on its future price and May futures contracts are due to expire on Tuesday. Traders were keen to offload those holdings to avoid having to take delivery of the oil and incur storage costs.

June prices for WTI were also down, but trading at above $20 per barrel. Meanwhile, Brent Crude - the benchmark used by Europe and the rest of the world - was also weaker, down 8.9% at less than $26 a barrel.

The oil industry has been struggling with both tumbling demand and in-fighting among producers about reducing output.

Earlier this month, Opec members and its allies finally agreed a record deal to slash global output by about 10%. The deal was the largest cut in oil production ever to have been agreed.
But some analysts said the cuts were not big enough to make a difference.

"It hasn't taken long for the market to recognise that the Opec+ deal will not, in its present form, be enough to balance oil markets," said Stephen Innes, chief global market strategist at Axicorp.

The leading exporters - Opec and allies such as Russia - have already agreed to cut production by a record amount.

In the United States and elsewhere, oil-producing businesses have made commercial decisions to cut output. But still the world has more crude oil than it can use.

And it's not just about whether we can use it. It's also about whether we can store it until the lockdowns are eased enough to generate some additional demand for oil products.

Capacity is filling fast on land and at sea. As that process continues it's likely to bear down further on prices.

It will take a recovery in demand to really turn the market round and that will depend on how the health crisis unfolds.

There will be further supply cuts as private sector producers respond to the low prices, but it's hard to see that being on a sufficient scale to have a fundamental impact on the market.

Meanwhile, concern continues to mount that storage facilities in the US will run out of capacity, with stockpiles at Cushing, the main delivery point in the US for oil, rising almost 50% since the start of March, according to ANZ Bank. "We hold some hope for a recovery later this year," the bank said in its research note.

Mr Innes said: "It's a dump at all cost as no one, and I mean no one, wants delivery of oil with Cushing storage facilities filling by the minute."

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52350082?intlink_from_url=&link_location=live-reporting-story

Coronavirus outbreak alias COVID-19 disease wey dey affect more and more kontries around di world don make some pipo dey give different heath advise online as e be say di disease neva get any cure.

We wan torchlight some of di popular myths or fake claims wey pipo don share online about wetin fit cure di virus and explain wetin science tok concerning di claim.


1. Garlic

Plenti posts for facebook advice pipo say make dem dey chop garlic to prevent infection.

World Health Organization (WHO) tok say while garlic na "healthy food wey fit get some antimicrobial properties", e no get any evidence or proof wey show say if pesin chop am, e fit protect dem from di new coronavirus.

Also too much garlic fit sometimes cause harm to pesin bodi, for example, South China Morning Post report one tori of one woman wey dem rush go hospital for treatment sake of say her throat swell up afta she chop 1.5kg of raw garlic.

We know, in general, say eating fruit and vegetables and drinking water dey good for staying healthy. But no evidence don show say some kian food fit help fight dis particular virus.

2. Heat and avoiding ice cream

Plenti advise don full social media wey say heat dey kill coronavirus, and so make pipo dey drink hot water, take hot baths, or use hairdryers.

One fake post wey no truly come from Unicef but wey plenti pipo from different kontries copy and paste - claim say drinking hot water and exposure to sun go kill di virus, plus make pipo avoid ice cream.

Charlotte Gornitzka, wey dey for Unicef on coronavirus misinformation, tok say:

"Dat recent lie-lie online message... wey pipo claim say na Unicef post am, wey dey advise pipo to avoid ice cream and oda cold foods to help prevent di disease. no be true at all, na big lie."

We know say di flu virus no dey survive well outside di body during hot weather, but we neva get evidence wey prove how heat dey affect di new coronavirus. Gornitzka, tok

One sabi pesin, Professor Sally Bloomfield say Trying to heat your body or expose yoursef to di sun - to prevent di virus - no dey work at all. Once di virus dey your body, e no get any way wey you fit take kill am- your body just need to fight am off.
Outside di body, "to actively kill di virus you need temperatures of around 60 degrees", and dis dey far hotter than any bath or sauna.

Professor Bloomfield tok.Washing bed linen or towels at 60 degrees na good idea, as dis fit kill any virus for di material. But no be good option for washing your skin.

And bathing hot water or drinking hot liquids no go change your actual body temperature, wey remain stable unless you already dey sick.

3. Drinking water every 15 minutes

One post, wey plenti pipo for Facebook copy and paste quote one "Japanese doctor" wey recommend say make pipo dey drink water every 15 minutes to flush out any virus wey fit don enta di mouth. One version of dis post inside Arabic language don get more than 250,000 shares.

Professor Bloomfield tok say no evidence don show say drinking water every 15 minutes go help.

Airborne virus dey enta di body through di respiratory tract wen you breathe in. Some of dem fit go inside your mouth, and even drinking water no go prevent you from catching di virus.
Anyway shall, drinking water and to stay hydrated na generally good medical advice.

4. 'Miracle minerals'

One YouTube pesin, Jordan Sather, wey get thousands of followers, claim say "miracle mineral supplement", wey dem dey call MMS, fit "wipe out" coronavirus.

Di tin contain chlorine dioxide - bleaching agent.
Sather and odas promote di substance even before di coronavirus outbreak, and for January e come tweet say, "no be only say chlorine dioxide (aka MMS) dey strong for cancer cell killer, e fit wipe out coronavirus too".

Last year, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sama warning about di health danger wey dey if pesin drink MMS. Health authorities for oda kontries also bring out alerts about dis substance.

Di FDA say "dem no know of any research wey show say dis products dey safe or fit treat any illness".

Dem sama warning say drinking dis substance fit cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and symptoms of serious dehyrdation.

5. Drinkable silver

Na for one American televangelist, Jim Bakker show dem promote di use of colloidal silver- wey be liquid wey contain tiny particles of silver.

One guest for di show claim say di solution dey kill some strains of coronavirus within 12 hours (But e agree say dem neva test am on Covid-19).

Pipo wey support colloidal silver treatment idea dey claim say e fit treat all kind of health conditions, act as antiseptic, and help di immune system.

But US health authorities don give clear advice say no evidence don show say dis type of silver fit cure any health condition.
Dem add say colloidal silver fit even cause serious side effect including kidney damage, seizures and argyria - dat na condition wey dey make pesin skin to turn blue.

Di post of some of di pipo wey dey promote di use of colloidal silver inside social media don get one pop-up warning from Facebook fact-checking service.

Health authorities say dis colloidal silver no dey like iron or zinc, no be metal wey get any function for di human body.

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-51799426