₦airaland Forum

10mobile:
They are using Nairaland also as you can see below. See how they operate:

1. They kidnap people and get ransom. This is what they use to buy more arms and ammunition to support the ones they already have.

2. They want you to believe that herdsmen, bandits, and Boko Haram are different from one another. Please, don't fall for it. They are just different faces of the same people with the same agenda.

3. They are using divide-and-rule tactics even here on Nairaland. See how: They create monikers with Igbo- and Yoruba-sounding names for example. Whenever there is an attack in South-West, they use their Igbo-sounding names to mock them. Also, whenever it happens in South-East, they use Yoruba-sounding monikers to mock them. Then unsuspecting members of the bereaved tribes are made to hate people from the other tribes. This way, cooperation between them is weakened. These terrorists understand that once the Southern tribes unite, they are finished.

They also create division between Igbo and Niger Delta. How you will know that what I'm saying is true is that ALL SOUTHERN CULTURES ARE AGAINST MOCKING THE DEAD OR THE BEREAVED. So, we can't be the ones mocking each other when people are slaughtered. Also, Edos, Ibibios, Igbos, Yorubas, and many other Southern tribes all have the proverb in their different languages that, "brothers should first ward off their common enemies together before they return home to settle their scores". If I lied here, let someone from any of these tribes say so.

4. These terrorists are more desperate than many of us realize. Before one of them was recently caught spying on Yoruba elders, I once raised an alarm that many shoe shiners in our different neighborhoods are actually SPIES but some people laughed at me.

SOUTHERNERS, WE NEED TO BE WISER AND MORE PROACTIVE. THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO SETTLE SCORES. THIS IS THE TIME TO UNITE AND FIGHT. ONLY STUPID PEOPLE WOULD BE BUSY FIGHTING ONE ANOTHER WHEN A COMMON ENEMY IS PLUNDERING THEM.

Lalasticlala, Mynd44 please, people need to hear this my point of view. Some savages brought a war to our doorsteps while we are sleeping. Thank you.

Vicoxtar:
No be bad luck. De man de choose beauty over character. How many fine gal de submissive.

moseskalu555:
https://celebrity-profile.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/South-Africa-School-Girls.jpg

Dressing is another important thing in life because it covers our body, so choosing the right cloth is important for everyone if not you will be embarrassed by people and since no one wants to be embarrassed so people tend to look decently and neat.

But these days people are just wearing any thing that they like without if thinking twice whether or not it looks decent on them, it is even common with School girls because they think that they have arrived and must dress anyhow to show case theirselves.

Check out some photos of what South African Girls are doing in school all in the name of snapping pictures: https://celebrity-profile.com/check-out-s3ductive-pictures-of-south-african-school-girls-on-thier-uniform/

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SmartPolician:
Bro, Nigeria will last for another 100 years.
Go and write it down.
If any tribe misbehaves, they will use the military to format their brains.
This has been the strategy since 1960.

Wesleyes:
President Biden said last Tuesday that his administration is already working on ordering more COVID-19 vaccine doses to increase the U.S. supply through this summer. But before that can happen, Pfizer and Moderna have to fulfill their commitments under their original federal supply contracts.
Each company is responsible for supplying the U.S. government with 100 million doses of the vaccine by March 31. Although both companies will need to significantly increase the number of weekly doses they release to the government to reach those goals, Moderna has made significant progress in the last week.
The federal government has allocated 5.8 million Moderna doses to states this week, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That's 1.5 million more doses than the 4.3 million the company supplied the previous week — an increase of about 35%.
Meanwhile, Pfizer doses increased only slightly over the previous week — 70,000 doses, or less than 2% — for a total just shy of 4.4 million vaccine doses this week.
"Yesterday, we announced a 16% increase in supply flowing to states every week for the next three weeks to a minimum of 10 million doses per week. That's good news," said Andy Slavitt, White House adviser on the COVID-19 response, at a Wednesday press briefing. The projections can help states with planning.
What he didn't say, but is clear from the allocation data, is that most of the latest supply increase is because of Moderna's additional doses.
"Pfizer and Moderna are committed to delivering a total of 200 million doses by the end of March, with much of it coming at the end of the quarter," Slavit said during the briefing. "So it will accelerate."
That's important because if Moderna continues to release 5.8 million doses a week, it will only have released 85 million doses by the end of March. And if Pfizer continues to release 4.4 million doses a week, it will only have released 72 million doses by the end of March. (This is including the doses already released since both vaccines were authorized by the Food and Drug Administration in December.)
Releasing supply to the federal government doesn't mean the doses physically pass through federal officials' hands. Rather, it means that the companies have told the government these are the first doses they will provide for the following week and the second doses they will provide a few weeks after that. The government can use the information to allocate the doses to states. Once the orders are in, Pfizer ships its vials using FedEx and UPS, while Moderna uses distributor McKesson.
Asked whether the release and allotment numbers from the companies have been accurate, Health and Human Services spokesman Bill Hall said they have been. "To date, the manufacturers and U.S. government have filled all official allocations that have been provided to jurisdictions," he said.
He said government leaders are in "constant communication and dialogue" with the vaccine manufacturers, but conceded it is a "complex and delicate process."
"We have embedded government specialists in key manufacturing facilities and have a team of logistics experts dedicated to aggressively working with industry to proactively identify and solve any bottlenecks in raw materials, supplies, equipment, or skilled labor," he said.
Still, former government officials decried a lack of transparency into the companies' manufacturing supply during a press call organized by Georgetown University on Thursday.
"I don't think there's been a strong tradition of transparency when it comes to vaccine supplies," said Glen Nowak, a former director of media relations at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who now leads the Center for Health and Risk Communication in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia.
"We saw this when I was at CDC in 2004, when we had a flu vaccine supply shortage. We had a hard time then getting accurate information about how much vaccine was going to be available when," he said. "We sometimes got information, but it often turned out to be not accurate."
Transparency wasn't much better in 2009 regarding the supply of the shingles vaccine, Shingrix, Nowak said. A major government talking point then was to defer to the manufacturer for information.
The COVID-19 pandemic heightens the demand for accurate, timely information. "I still think we need much more transparency from the companies about what they're producing. And I realize it's complicated because ...a lot of this might be proprietary and there's contracts and the like, but these are the company's products," said Bruce Gellin, who used to direct HHS's National Vaccine Program office. "And I think that the company should stand up every week and talk about what their numbers are."
Moderna isn't releasing more detailed supply data, but company spokesman Ray Jordan pointed out that it reaffirmed its supply commitment in a press release on Tuesday.
Pfizer did not respond to NPR's request for comment. But Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla told Bloomberg News on Tuesday that the company could deliver doses to the United States even faster than originally expected and hit 120 million by the end of March, surpassing the commitment of 100 million.
That 20% increase in doses could reflect the unexpected sixth doses found in Pfizer vaccine vials in mid-December. When the Food and Drug Administration authorized the Pfizer vaccine, the vials were thought to contain five doses. Now even the FDA acknowledges that there are six doses inside, though they're only accessible with a special syringe that not every health care provider has access to.
Neither company nor the federal government answered NPR's question about how long it takes to make the vaccine from raw ingredients to ready-to-ship product.
Still, Geoffrey Porges, an analyst at the investment bank SVB Leerink, said he's confident the companies will meet their goals despite the limited doses they've released to the United States each week so far.
He said it's also worth noting that Pfizer has committed to delivering significantly more doses than Moderna outside the U.S. In the United Kingdom, for example, Pfizer will provide 40 million doses through 2021. Moderna has only committed to delivering 7 million doses, starting some time in the spring.
"The confidence that Pfizer is showing about the supply commitments makes me presume that they can step this up through those bottlenecks over the next couple of months," he told NPR.
Pfizer cut back on vaccine deliveries in Europe in mid-January to upgrade production capacity, according to the Associated Press. That especially angered Italy, which is reportedly considering suing the company.
Despite being hard at work on its own vaccine, French drugmaker Sanofi said on Tuesday it will help manufacture the Pfizer vaccine by working with Pfizer's German partner, BioNTech. But those doses will increase supply in Europe, not the United States.
"We will provide BioNTech access to our established infrastructure and expertise to help produce more than 100 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine in Europe in 2021," a Sanofi spokesperson told NPR in an email. "We will be filling and packaging the vaccine that BioNTech sends us. This should help accelerate the deliveries of vaccine doses to EU countries. We see this as part of our responsibility to helping solve the COVID-19 pandemic. We are moving some work across our different sites to accommodate this, and plan to start in July with the first doses being delivered in August."
This is the reason why the United States is willful, because it has excellent R & D and production capacity. Even in the distribution of vaccines, the United States can effectively control other countries. When can we successfully complete the vaccination?

tobechi74:
2020
This is a true old folklore that many of 21th century haven’t heard. It is one of the first feminist acts in India started by a strong powerful women called Nageli who was born in a low caste of – Ezhavas-toddy tappers (who laboured in that awkward gap of society fashions ) and she went create history that will forever be remembered in history of feminism in India.

It took place in the early 19th century at a princely state called Travanacore in a simple village called Cherthala in heart of Kerala.

A breast tax (mulakkaram) was imposed by the Bramin king on lower caste Hindu women. The women were forced to pay the taxes if they wished to cover their breasts in public with a shawl(long piece of scarf).The tax varied from women to women as it was assessed on proportion to the size and shape of their breasts. The purpose of the breast-tax was to maintain a strict caste structure. If a women failed to she was punished by being hanged to death.

Women were forced to pay up or become a prey to the perverted eye glare of the sophisticated high class men. It was a burden forced on girls as soon as they reached adolescence. They silently wept and criticized their fate, shame building upon shame under the gaze of men for whom the right to dignity came with a price.

Nageli was forced during her younger years to be taxed. This women was already in shackles of poverty. The village inspector came to find out that Nageli was not abiding by the rules. He went to her house to collect the money. He forced her to pay up.She proclaimed in order cover her dignity she was not going to throw money to protect it. She just cut her breasts from her own body with a sickle knife ,her two lumps of bleeding meat in a palatine leaf and she handed it to him. Her husband found her bled to death on the floor. At the pyre funeral the husband out of emotions jumped into the flames of her funeral and died.

Which was the first male sathi in India. Sathi- Its a barbaric practice in which the widowed women voluntarily or forced to burn herself to death in the flames of her husbands fire at the funeral. What makes this story completely unique is that a male -( Nalgeli’s husband) for the first time in history scarified himself to death out of love for his wife in era where women practiced saithi.

In a land where Goddesses are worshiped to find this bitter heinous acts forced on women is appalling. The truth had the villagers flabbergasted and led them to fight against this law. The rulers out of shame abolished this horrible law.

Nageli was the village super women. She died protecting her rights of as a women but her death didn’t go in vain as she put a end to a 100 years of disgusting tradition forced on women at gunpoint to her grave . Her act was a selfless and her pride and dedication for equality knows no bounds. She fought in a era when women were oppressed and were not allowed to talk to boldly. She had the courage and guts to say was wrong. Also the story of first male sathi in a land of Gods where female sathi was followed

This story covers the aspects of many hardships of just being a women living in unimaginable circumstances. Desert flowers


https://tobechispeaks./2021/02/02/nangeli-abolishment-of-breast-tax/

gistongist:
Archaeologists Digs Up Mummies With Golden Tongue In Egypt

Archaeologists have unearthed 2,000-year-old mummies with golden tongues.

According to the antiquities ministry, the Golden tongues were placed inside their mouths in northern Egypt.

An Egyptian-Dominican team working at Alexandria’s Taposiris Magna temple discovered...

- https://gistongist.com/archaeologists-digs-up-mummies-with-golden-tongue-in-egypt/

Valentina1987:
The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, says the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines from COVAX will arrive in Nigeria from February.
Ehanire made this known on Monday in Abuja at the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 national briefing.
The minister, who said Nigerians should expect the first roll out of the vaccines as from February, did not specify the date or time.
"According to latest information I have, we have been advised to expect the first COVID-19 vaccines from COVAX to arrive in Nigeria as from February.
"We shall continue to review plans to ensure smooth roll out in our country," Ehanire said.
He explained that the delay being experienced in receiving the first batch of COVID-19 vaccine was because manufacturers were yet to take decisions on when to deploy it to the country.
"The date of first arrival of vaccines in Nigeria has kept changing, because the decision lies with the manufacturer who already has heavy commitments," the minister said.
Ehanire said that Nigeria had been allocated over 41 million doses by the AU's African Vaccines Acquisition Task Team AVATT and was expecting 15 of about 41 million doses from COVAX.
"Altogether, it will give us coverage for over 50 per cent of our target for 2021, if we can access all doses promised," he said.
The minister, therefore, reiterated the call by the World Health Organisation (WHO) for global equity in the allocation of vaccines, noting that COVID-19 was a threat to mankind, and not only to any country alone.
"Besides, the Director-General of WHO has repeatedly stated that no country is safe till all countries are safe.
"We have been keeping a strict eye on the vaccines scene and those who follow International news may have heard of the scramble for vaccines which has pitched some countries against each other in Europe, as wealthy high-income countries have pre-paid to allocate vaccines to themselves.
"A spokesperson for WHO estimated that 95 per cent of vaccines manufactured globally so far has gone to only 10 rich and powerful countries," he said.
Ehanire said that the Ministry of Health's Oxygen Strategy had been boosted by the addition of 38 proposed Oxygen plants, now in procurement processes.
He said that it would address COVID-19 treatment centres' needs and the long neglected oxygen needs of the health sector in the post-COVID-19 era.
The minister said that the Global Fund was also on standby to assess existing oxygen plants for repair and reactivation in the short term.
Ehanire said that only two companies submitted the dossiers of their vaccines to NAFDAC till date for evaluation.

WinifredVII:
LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria expects to receive 41 million COVID-19 vaccine doses from the African Union, the head of the country's primary healthcare agency said on Monday, while the health minister said vaccines from Russia and India were being considered.
Authorities in Africa's most populous country, which has 200 million people, plan to inoculate 40% of the population this year and another 30% in 2022.
The African Union initially secured 270 million COVID-19 vaccine doses from manufacturers for member states. Last week it was announced that the bloc would receive another 400 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Faisal Shuaib, who heads the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, said Nigeria's previous request for 10 million doses through the AU had been increased four-fold.
"We have applied for 41 million doses of a combination of Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines," Shuaib said in a text message response to written questions.
Shuaib said the request was for 7.6 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, 15.3 million of the AstraZeneca vaccine and 18.4 million of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
He said the doses were expected to arrive by the end of April, adding that Nigeria was "exploring multiple payment options" for the doses including through the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) financing plan to make repayments in installments over five to seven years.
Nigerian authorities have previously said the country is working with the COVAX programme backed by the World Health Organization, that aims to secure fair access to COVID-19 vaccines for poor countries, and expects to receive its first doses in February.
Shuaib, speaking in a news conference in the capital Abuja, said 16 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine were expected to be delivered under the COVAX programme. "This will replace the earlier communicated 100,000 doses of Pfizer vaccines which we all agreed was grossly inadequate," he said.
Health Minister Osagie Ehanire told reporters that dossiers for two vaccines, one from India and another from Russia, were being studied by the country's National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) drugs regulator.
Nigeria has had 131,242 confirmed COVID-19 cases, resulting in 1,586 deaths.

gistongist:
Nigeria has lost four hundred and five persons to Corona-virus in the last two months and infected seventy-five health workers last week.

Presidential Task Force Chairman and Secretary to Government of the Federation, Mr. Boss Mustapha who stated this said seven cases of the UK variant of Covid-19 have been identified in the country.

The Presidential Task Force however, described Kogi State whose Governor Yahaya Bello denies existence of the virus as a high-risk state. It also listed twenty-two high burden council areas, some of them in Lagos State and said Nigeria is likely to suspend flights from United Arab Emirates and Netherlands.

https://gistongist.com/nigeria-loses-405-people-75-health-workers-tests-positive-to-covid-19/

chukwuaustin:
Straight Talk
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HERE ARE WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE NEW CHIEF OF DEFENCE STAFF.

1. Name in full: Lucky Eluonye Onyenuche Irabor;

2. Community in Anioma : Aliokpu in Agbor, Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State.

3. Schools attended: Ika Grammar School, Agbor, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife;

4. Religion/denomination: Christianity. An ordained Assistant Pastor of The Redeemed Christian Church Of God. Worships at RCCG, Trinity Sanctuary, Kaduna and RCCG, Throneroom Parish, Abuja. But in the village his is a dedicated Anglican Church member.

Wife details

1. Name:Victoria Anwuli Irabor (nee Okubor);

2. Village:Ute-Erumu in Ika North-East local Government Area of Delta State.

3. Schools: Marymount College, Agbor, University of Benin...

4. A Lawyer, called to the Nigerian Bar in 1992, a Director and Company Secretary of Railway Property Management Company Limited.

5. Religion: Christianity. An ordained Deaconess of The Redeemed Christian Church Of God. Worships at RCCG, Trinity Sanctuary, Kaduna and RCCG, Throneroom Parish, Abuja.

Mokason288:
I only came to check name