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airmark:
Any discomfort while sleeping shouldn't leave effects on one for months.

Maybe amoto94 slept on stones.

Maybe Amoto too believe in superstitions. Maybe his body was telling him something during his dream, and he refused to wake up and deal with the matter physically, thinking he is waging spiritual war with village people in his dream.

airmark:


And the blood supply to the limbs ceased that same night of that nightmare.

The nightmare was a result of a physical sensation happening to him. He could be jejely having another dream and once his body is physically in trouble, his brain will inject it into his dream.

We have all woken up with what they call "pins and needles" eg when you sleep on your hand in a certain way and cut the blood supply, you wake up and need to spend a few minutes allowing blood to.drain inside that hand before you can use it. When that's happened to me in the past, I will just be dreaming jejely and somehow it will enter my dream that someone is pulling my hand etc.

raumdeuter:
Do you know that some people bury their dead inside the house? Some in the bedroom and people still sleep there without anything happening

People in South bury inside the house, right under the sitting room, and also bury just outside the house.

I don't know why we have to go sleep in cemetary to see Ghosts.

Abi Ghost no get leg to waka comot from cemetary to find who him want find?

This is why I like Wily Wily. Anywhere you dey, Wily Wily go come find you.

Amoto94:
Let me share a personal story.

As a little boy in primary school then I had a dream that someone was lying on me and I felt pain, I woke up and lost my walking ability. Prior to this moment my limbs were functional but afterwards I couldn't work for months I had to drop out of school and start treatment when it was clear that I couldn't do anything without support from others. My parents had to spent a lot both on medical treatment and spiritual treatment before I could regain my walking ability.

Alhamdulillah, I survived but there were others who didn't survive such attacks. So, it's either ignorance or arrogance that will make some deny the existence of evil forces that cohabit our planets. In Islamic faith it's an established fact that evil exists and there are prayers to guide against such.

Could it be you lost blood supply to your limbs from your sleeping position? Or some sort of bloodclot? Our doctors in the house can give you possible reasons before assuming it's village people

Bonjovi13:
When I see people make this mistake of comparing earnings by converting a foreign currency to Naira I laugh. The exchange rate is not reflective of the comparative cost of living between Nigeria and that country. For example any guy can get a good hair cut for 1k in Abuja.Some can get a good haircut for N300.How much is a haircut in London.
The rent in a high brow duplex in Maitama Abuja is on the average 3M.How much does it cost to rent a duplex in NY or London.Lets even say a flat.
Electricity per kilowatts in Nigeria is one of the cheapest in the world.How much is electricity.
I hope you get my drift.Someone earning over 1.5M per annum in Nigeria can live a fairly comfortable life in any of the Nigerian cities talk more of outskirts. ie 125k per month.Convert that with current exchange rate of N430=$1 is $3488.
Someone earning that a year in any developed country is a welfare case.

So why the comparison.There is no basis for using that indices to compare cos the realities are totally different.

Good point about purchasing power. Just building on the previous posters comparison. Although the trade off for this higher purchasing power in Nigeria is peace of mind that comes from security, adequate healthcare systems, and the knowledge that you have embedded your kids within a buoyant economy and given them every chance to build on your achievements.

larride:
He’s trying to be smart by half.

For starters we don’t share land border with Ghana. What we share with Ghana is maritime border and its was never closed.

He’s right though about the law banning non Ghanaians from operating petty or retail business outlet.

No he is right. Since Nigeria decided their local laws supercede Ecowas freedom of movement (whether from Benin, Cameroon, Chad or Niger), then Ghana can also feel empowered to supercede Ecowas freedom of movement laws with their own. They actually still maintain freedom of movement, you just can't trade freely without meeting their threshold.

chrisagyei:
i just don't feel comfortable when Nigerians talk about Ghana cos it will surely lead to attacks on Ghana not necessarily by the one who even made the positive or harmless comment about Ghana buh onlookers who naturally have issues with Ghana and hate to hear the word Ghana and willing to do another Ghana Must Go when Ghanaians already left their country forcefully over 30 years ago.They begin their comments by "small or ordinary Ghana meaning an attack unprovoked is about to occur.

What happened last year was really not an attack. You know the high tension between Ghana and Nigeria since independence of both nations. Ghana made a law in 1992 constitution barring any non Ghanaian whether ecowas citizen or not from engaging in any petty or retail business in Ghana unless that individual has a capital of 1 million dollars to legally register the business. The law was passed buh not implemented by our leaders for reasons best known to them.

West Africans especially Nigerians drove in their millions to engage in all forms of petty retailing businesses across the country especially in Accra,Tema,Sekondi Takoradi and Kumasi.Our trade union always petitioned the government to apply the anti retail law by foreigners and these Ecowas citizens always countered referring to Ecowas free movement and trade policy overriding our national law.

Then last year September or so Nigeria closed it's borders citing protection of it's economy. It was a blessing in disguise for the Ghana Trade Union because now they have a point to force Nigerian traders out of business in Ghana because Nigeria also overlooked Ecowas free movement policy by closing its borders.They intentionally forced Ghanaian government to warn Nigeria government to open the borders or they will retaliate knowing very well that Nigeria will not open the borders so that they will use that chance to close all Nigerian retailers shops in Ghana and force them out.

And their plan worked.This time the government refused to come into the aid of Nigerian businesses cos they felt Nigerian government failed them by refusing to listen to their offer of opening the borders.Over 700 shops were locked down in a computer and phone wholesale and retail town alone in Accra.And Nigerians were crying xenophobia by Ghanaian traders and government refusal to step in .

This Charlie must be like the larride of Ghana. He knows all their politics and laws well well.

Thanks for shedding light on the situation Charlie. It's understandable. One love.

BlueRayDick:
Charlie

This Chelsea thread is something else. Even Charlie found his way here.

Kopfschmerzens:
Was in Ghana for the year of return, thinking of moving to the motherland. But many folks are telling me Nigeria is the cool place.

What's it like starting a business in Nigeria?

Security and infrastructure?

Ease of getting citizenship or like the equivalent of the green card?

Do y'all grant folks willing to come do business or own properties citizenship?

I will really appreciate sincere contribution from y'all.

Forget Nigeria bro. The security situation is dire.

Gambia would be the most peaceful place for a returnee with good security and decent infrastructure, as well as low cost of living, followed by Ghana

Thecassanova:
True, but It can give us something to work with in the mean time before vaccines. How Remdesivir will work on targeting the ACE-2 receptor for covid-19 is still what we trying to figure out. Then synergy study between it & other cheap antiv drugs will prove vital economic wise.

Yeah, it seems to hold the most promise but the most expensive. Congrats on getting your paper published. Try drop the link when it land

Siri no dey hear Naija accent

Wetin be Bona boy

Thecassanova:
Me & few colleagues wrote a manuscript detailing the mechanism of action of some FDA approved repurposed drugs, most especially Remdesivir for the virus therapeutic management. I’d rather look inward to Remdesivir (& ritonavir) as it’s in phase 2 clinical trial, same with tocilizumab, both works to inhibit RNA Dep & interleukin-6 respectively. A critical stage that prevent the viral synthesis & decreases inflammation. Will share the link once published in few days.

Oga talk better tin abeg. I read somewhere that that Remdesevir is apparently $1k per dose. If true, that is not a workable solution for 99% of the Worlds population.

BlueRayDick:
Imagine Gowon claiming he released Awolowo and Ojukwu claiming same. Unfortunately the Awo himself was late and couldn't tell the two ex-warlords to keep his name out of their mouths.

I didn't bother to respond to Donjazet original post so as not to further Civil War debate on here.

Ojukwus assertion is false and actually gives insight into his militaristic thought process, and abrogation of powers he did not possess.

Awo was released by a Federal Prison Service by Federal Directive a good 6 months before even the Aburi Accord. A State Governor on whose territory that prisoner was held (by a Federal Agency) has nothing to do with that process unless he has already declared war against FG, which was not the case at the time. Ojukwu on the other hand as a State Governor has no power to release a Federal prisoner

The fact Ojukwu went to discuss partnership with Awo while held in his region in no way means he released Awo having been satisfied with Awos disposition. Holding Awo against Federal Directive would have involved launching an attack on the Prison Service and tantamount to declaration of war. It speaks to Ojukwus mentality and militaristic tendencies that he considered that Awo was ever within his power to grant clemency.

larride:
Not federal funds, the money will be deducted from the State allocation.

The plan is to make them really independent in the true sense of it. At least with these move, we can begin to see State HoA actually doing their job and not being a lackey for state govenors.

This may be a bad move as most Local Government leaders are despots, most in the South-South are either militants or vicious thugs who got LGA Chairman role as their reward for delivering for the Governor. LGA Chairmen commit more abuses and there are no press controls on their actions, whereas a Governor has to manage press fallout from their actions.

Any further loosening of central command-and-control toward a democracy of thugs is to be discouraged. Democracy of thieves and thugs us the worst thing that can happen to a country. We already have too much Executive power in the hands of tinpot Governors. I have always maintained that FG does a much better job than State Govt and State Govt does a much better job than Local Govt. This is because FG is somewhat accountable to International bodies and International perception, while State bodies are somewhat accountable to National perception. For example you can never see FG not paying salaries for months on end unlike State Govt.

Local Govt own is to do anyhow, anyhow and no one will hold them to account. On NL front-page yesterday we saw a pastor being tortured on camera for criticising Local Government.

afrodoc2:
Well more information is needed.

Remember i was never convinced about this Chloroquine issue. The level of evidence was just too weak.

Anecdotal reports and Lab studies just don’t cut it in terms of driving a change in the management of a disease as major as this.

This study you quoted is better but until large randomized double-blind control studies or even a meta analysis of several such studies are done it would still be a gamble.

I don't think there can be any practical study that would satisfy members of team Chloroquine cos that would require access to infected people at home with mild symptoms who have also been diagnosed. This is the most comprehensive study so far though. Although the African experience, particularly low mortality in the likes of Senegal who have an early Chloroquine deployment policy, although anecdotal is a decent argument in favour of Chloroquine.

odizeey:
E don dey happen o.

Person wen bring talk don go sleep o. Sow seed of discord.

No mind am. I no know why DonJ bring this kain civil war talk come here.

afrodoc2:
If not that i read it in Ojukwu’s book I would have doubted. Name sounds somehow. Lol.

I read somewhere that they were half-brothers and shared the same mother and different fathers but i don’t know how true that is.

Ojukwu mentioned the deaths in his book, I believe in the portion in which he was trying to dispel the belief that he and Nzeogwu were never in good terms.

No, the Tom Biggar was a half-caste so it is likely say na Louis go done sire both of them, unless Ojukwu mama done run go meet white man at some stage after Ojukwu was born.

This is the most comprehensive retrospective study on Chloroquine so far.


https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31180-6/fulltext


It be like say I go reconsider membership of team Chloroquine, although one counterargument is that all these patients where hospitalised, mostly in the West which indicates advanced viral replication as they only hospitalise you in the West when water done pass Garri. Chloroquine advocates always argue it is too late at this stage. However the study also included a key control which is that patients had to have had Chloroquine within 2 days of Covid diagnosis. So far no study has set such criteria which favours the "taking Chloroquine early" argument, however there is still wiggle room for Chloroquine advocates to argue that Hospitalisation itself is an indicator of advanced disease in the West, as they will not admit you till things done dey red.

Of 96,000 patients analysed in hospitals, 15,000 patients were given Chloroquine sometimes in combination with a macrolide like azimothrycin. Patients treated more than 2 days after diagnosis were excluded as were patients on ventilators.

The death rates of the treated groups were: hydroxychloroquine 18%; chloroquine 16.4%; control group 9%. Those treated with hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine in combination with antibiotics had an even higher death rate.

Age/Race/Sex/Co-morbidities were fairly evernly spread between the Chloroquine groups and Control Groups.

The only argument left for team Chloroquine is to focus on the Hospitalisation argument that the virus has already proliferated by hospitalisation stage, also you have time lag between Hospitalisation and diagnosis turnaround time plus up to 2 days allowed by the study meaning these patients could be anything from 10-30 days into infection by the time Chloroquine was prescribed. There may also be Doctor bias in the Chloroquine group with the more sicker patients being prescribed Chloroquine in comparison to the control group.

Afrodoc2, TheCassanova, Victornezzar, do you think this argument may still be valid for Team Chloroquine? Also how about other Zinc Ionophores such as Quercetin etc? Any benefit in that?

afrodoc2:
Yup. He died in an ambush along with Ojukwu’s brother Tom Biggar.

Ojukwu brother name dey always make me laugh

salford1:
The maths in me did a quick calculation

For a professional to earn 80,000 naira in Canada in half a day (4hours), you will have to earn around $140,000 a year which will comfortably place that person in the top 5 percent earners in Canada - Not an easy feat. That is more like a manager/directors wage in a top organization, or a tech/engineer/tradesperson putting in extra hours/ or with decades of experience. OP seems to be in his early career. Not many professionals will earn that amount or get anywhere near that figure. In addition, around 39% of that money will be deductions at source. Then you would have expenses and bills to deal with, so we can't easily compare wages. E.g. rent alone could be as high as $1500 a month and monthly mortgage as high as $2500 for moderate living.

It may be hard to become rich in a developed country, but one would certainly have peace of mind and a high standard of living. For this paragraph alone, op should move. Everything is not about money. He should listen to his family members in Canada.

Don't know about N80k in Canadian dollars but N80k is £160 which is about half what an IT consultant or any professional consultant will earn at a mid management level which is around £250-£500 day rate. With adequate tax planning and usage of pension allowance, one can keep almost all of that.

For paid Employees a decent mid to senior management role should yield anywhere between £150 and £300 daily before tax so you can call N80K anywhere between half a day to a full day's pay, while after tax, you can call it anywhere between half a day to 2 days net pay.

nihilistjnr:
Eurobond dey? Interesting.

I was wondering what was attractive about Naira bonds to foreign money.

It is not attractive at all with the kain inflation wey go soon hit Nigeria. It should be attractive to Nigerians though as some sort of hedge against the coming inflation and Naira devaluation. It's probably the best hedge available to a local Nigerian apart from holding dollars.

nihilistjnr:
Eurobond dey? Interesting.

I was wondering what was attractive about Naira bonds to foreign money.

Eurobond na just bond denominated in foreign currency. In Naija case, that's usually dollars. I no know why them name am Eurobond. Na dollarbond them suppose call am because dollar is the main koko for any country raising in foreign currency.

nihilistjnr:
Ibime abeg wetin be government bonds.

I heard Nigeria is selling cheap bonds and foreign investors are rushing to buy.

It's just a way of Govt raising money from private entities rather than going to World Bank or other countries.

For an individual, it's a way of almost guaranteeing your wealth is preserved as Govt will pay back the face value at maturity having made periodic interest payments (coupon). In developed markets, the interest payments are always quite low and barely inflation busting so it's a wealth preservation tool rather than a growth tool.

In simple terms it's like I (being Govt) borrow £100 from you and promise to pay you £1 per month as interest and in 10 years time give you the full £100 back. You can then take that bond and sell it on secondary market to Donjazet who will give you £100 upfront, then you give him $1 per month. If you think it's more likely that I won't pay you the £100 at expiry, you may be happy to pay DonJ £2 a month interest just to ensure you receive your £100 from DonJ now. That means you have sold the bond cheap to DonJ by offering him more monthly interest. Also if the bond is denominated in Naira, as inflation goes up, interest rate will rise. If DonJ can put £100 in the bank and the bank interest rate gives him £2 interest per month, you can only sell the bond to DonJ if you promise him £2 monthly coupon at least to cover his opportunity cost. Meanwhile I (being Govt) already collected my £100 from you long ago and am only committed to paying £1 interest per month until the time comes.to pay back the initial £100 to whoever is holding the paper on maturity (either you or DonJ).

In Nigerian case the yield is high because Nigeria's credit rating is low and there is actually now a risk of default although countries will typically hardly ever default to private investors, especially foreign investors, they would rather seek debt forgiveness from IMF than burn foreign investors. If that fails, they will default on Naira denominated bonds before defaulting on their Eurobonds.

Meanwhile on the local market, they will be selling Naira denominated bonds cheap also because they don't believe the coupon rate will cover inflation and attendant increase in interest rates. It is up to an investor to judge whether they want to take the risk of holding cheap Nigerian paper. While they get sweet Coupon rate now, Nigeria may not redeem that paper at maturity.

PoliticallyInco:
That your level 12 salary could be a week's pay in Canada.

A week? More like half a days salary for a professional.

I believe most of these "should I stay or go" posts are just trolling.

iamoyindamola:
Make we write petition, I no fit forgive ibime wetin he do me last season

My village people

I done win FPL FA Cup thanks to virtual coin toss making it 4 FA Cup victories and 1 league victory for me

#GreatestFPLManagerofalltime

BWAHAHAHAHA

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Raumdeuter
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Please come and bear witness.

Ipukulu once again cement their place as the greatest FPL team of all time with their 4th FA Cup triumph to add to their one league title.

Ipukulu win their 2nd Consecutive FA Cup thanks to virtual cointoss.

The record reads:

2010 FA Cup winner
2012 League Winner
2017 FA Cup Winner
2019 FA Cup Winner

And now. . . .the newly crowned. . .

2020 FA Cup Winner!!

BlueRayDick:
Thank u for this. I find it hard believing whatever figure they churn out because we don't even know the population of the country. The last census was done 14 years ago and it was fraught with controversies that shows the data is inaccurate.

We don't have unemployment benefits, so at what point does the government know someone used to work but he's now unemployed?

That was why I said those guys just padded figures and dish it out and claim that is the situation on ground when it's far from it. You hardly see 15 people gaining employment out of a class of 100 within the first 1 year of graduation and NYSC. Yet they are talking about a Lower unemployment rate.

All unemployment figures are estimates but in the West they will call out büllshit if there is too much variance from welfare claims.

I don't think anything can be read into Naija unemployment figures as they are just copy-copy of Oyinbo metrics and there is every incentive to understate unemployment in order to give the market confidence. As you say the overinflated denominator ie population figures already skew those calculations.

I'm sure some mumu Oyinbo investors will still look at Naija unemployment figures before investing in Naija as that metric is a key indicator in developed economies. So it would be in Naija interest to keep that number low, and a whole industry would have been built around keeping employment figures low whilst still passing muster with IMF audits. For example, many of those millions of unemployed graduates may be marked as employed if they even make N1000 from a side hustle.

What gives a level of confidence in Western employment figures is the welfare payments. Oyinbo man will not hustle for $10 on eBay and consider himself self-employed, when his Govt will probably give him $80 per week unemployment benefits. Whereas in Naija, that $10 eBay hustle will count as employment.

BlueRayDick:
Oga mi, the 800k is their sample which they will use to represent the population. Whatever Labour force figure they want to come up with is in the 800k. That is how sampling works.

What I'm saying is doing analysis and basing decisions on a sample of 800k out of over 100m population shows Ur data will not be accurate.

By the way IMF, World Bank will not leave their country and organize census in Ur country for u na. Na wetin u give dem in terms kf Ur population dem go take.

UK unemployment rate is measured via a random sample of 100,000 adults so 800,000 in Nigeria is OK as a sample size.

What Naija doesn't have is a sense-check mechanism like in the West they also track the no of unemployment benefit claimants.

TBH, you cannot argue with any figure produced in Naija because what really defines unemployment? Whilst the average Nigerian girl baking cake and chinchin in her house after NYSC may describe herself as unemployed, one can argue she is self-employed. I am guessing if the statisticians call her as part of the 800k sample and she says she is making chinchin, they will mark her down as employed. There is no profit figure you must hit to class yourself either way. However what I know is that very few Nigerians are gainfully employed.

eph12:
Most of these figures can never be verified, unfortunately.

Nigeria has the capacity to generate 8000MW, are they really generating 8000MW? No. They may even be generating about half of that on the average.

It's a sleight of hand. Larride is a politician. He can take a low month during Jonathans time and compare to a high month during Buharis time

Say what you want about larride, he is knowledgeable in his chosen subject, even though you don't agree with him, you have to engage him with a level of respect rather than mockery.