Politics › Re: South Africa Is Nigeria's Big Brother - Minister by Ironi: 3:21pm On Aug 31, 2012 |
chrisxxx: Believe me this is the threshold of insanity. SA may have competitive advantage in same areas of development but not in all. If SA is Nigeria's big brother then US and Britain become our God and ancestor respectively. We are friendly competitors not big brother to any. I humbly disagree with you minister. Of course the white man is your God. What makes you think you can compare Nigeria to USA or UK ? As a matter of fact I think Africa would be way better off if it is re-colonized by the white man. |
Nairaland General › Re: What Makes You Want To Comment On A Topic? by Ironi: 6:45pm On Aug 30, 2012 |
Messielakes: You are sick, sincerly. Why? I should not fight back? |
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Nairaland General › Re: What Makes You Want To Comment On A Topic? by Ironi: 4:59pm On Aug 30, 2012 |
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Nairaland General › Re: What Makes You Want To Comment On A Topic? by Ironi: 4:55pm On Aug 30, 2012 |
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Sports › Re: Interesting Article About John Mikel Obi by Ironi: 6:33pm On Aug 29, 2012 |
kunle.t.ade: As far as am concern mikel is the second best mid fielder in africa after Yaya Toure... Viva madrid You can easily count the number of times his legs touches the ball in every game, has no imagination and creativity. |
Food › Re: What Unusual Kind Of Meat Have You Eaten ? by Ironi: 7:23am On Aug 26, 2012 |
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Celebrities › Re: Ghanaian Artistes To Sue Flavour N'abania Over Song Theft by Ironi: 8:50am On Aug 16, 2012*. Modified: 9:17am On Aug 16, 2012 |
logica: LOL. Idiots are always stup!d. "Stup!d id!ot" = tautology (yeah, look it up quickly). Though you may be the first smart id!ot. Monkey, you've already wasted enough time with me. I wouldn't mind you wasted a bit more. LOL @ stinking Nigerian girls. How many have you sniffed? I guess they only allow you sniff the pv$$y but you don't get to hit eh? LMAO. You are right though - I'm a "motherfcker". Ask your mother. Look at a rettard like you behaving like you can write English. Let me teach you a few lessons in grammar. You don't say I wouldn't mind you wasted a bit more I wouldn't mind you wasting a bit more.  I guess they only allow you sniff the pv$$y but you don't get to hit eh? I guess they only allow you to sniff the pv$$y but you don't get to hit eh?  Your whole sentence here is pure shiit. I'm just trying to help you here and this is not just typo. I guess spell check can't catch that. Morron like you behaving like you are all that. You can hide behind your moniker and pretend like you can write English, I bet when you open your mouth I'll feel like puking. |
Celebrities › Re: Ghanaian Artistes To Sue Flavour N'abania Over Song Theft by Ironi: 4:27am On Aug 16, 2012 |
logica: "Taught" you mean? You "thought" you have "taught" who what? Can a m0r0n even teach himself? I just told you where the inspiration of High-Life came from: Jazz music; and as far as I'm concerned it's a music form in transition. So you guys never had your own traditional music like Juju and Fuji? What problems do you speak of? I currently have one problem - Ghanaian girls can't have enough of my d!(k in their mouths. So who's got the big mouth - me or them? Speaking of deep-Drinking. Can you help me solve it? I have seen too many sttupid idiots like you run their mouths here to be bothered. Why don't you want your stinking Nigerian girls anymore?I guess it's because they are being fcked by dogs in Italy? Selling their cheap pusssies by the tons, motherfcker.. Btw, I don't have time to waste on you so I'll let your ignorant and dumb comments about highlife slide for now. |
Celebrities › Re: Ghanaian Artistes To Sue Flavour N'abania Over Song Theft by Ironi: 2:13am On Aug 16, 2012 |
logica: If you check the quote below, I believe it's in basic English.
Now you tell me; does it make sense that the English look at Brazilian football and try to emulate it; yet they invented football? Use a bit of sense.
Oh really? No wonder Highlife musicians got a lot of inspiration from Jazz musicians. Anyway, when did the Yoruba ethnic group become Nigeria? Juju is from the Yorubas FYI. So you have perfected highlife? crap. I doubt whether you even know what highlife is. No surprise here, the usual big mouth and Nigerian yeye. Even if the Nigerian is being thought he still maintains he is the teacher, little wonder you can't find solutions to your problems. |
Celebrities › Re: Ghanaian Artistes To Sue Flavour N'abania Over Song Theft by Ironi: 11:12pm On Aug 15, 2012 |
logica: We all know High-life originated from Ghana, but it got to the point that they were getting direction from Nigerians. It's like how the English invented football and Brazilians perfected it. Currently, you cannot claim ALL Nigerian artistes are copying from Ghana because they've mixed in a lot of Nigerian culture into the sound. You have Fuji, you have Juju, you have Apala all mixed up into it. Do Ghanaians also do Fuji, Juju and Apala talk less of the styles from the East?
Flavor's own case is special; we all know he's not original. But speaking in general terms about Nigerians copying Ghanaians? Una miss road. Hahahaha, I don't understand what you are spinning here. Now you want talk say Nigeria dey give directions for Ghana on Highlife? makes no sense if Ghanaians are the originators of highlife. Nigeria has Juju music and Ghana has Highlife, there is no shame in playing any of these musics whether you are Nigerian or Ghanain but don't claim anything you didn't do. |
Celebrities › Re: Ghanaian Artistes To Sue Flavour N'abania Over Song Theft by Ironi: 10:39pm On Aug 15, 2012 |
Ishilove: Mikeappollo and other ghanaian music apologists shud bow their heads in shame. Who says ghanaian musicians hv beta int'l rating than nigeria? Go and lis ten to Azonto and flavour's n'abania and see the difference. Ghanaians hv acknowledged the good quality of nigerian music whch is the rave of the moment You sound very ignorant and don't know what you are talking about. |
Romance › Re: Looking Into Your Partner's Eyes - What Do You See? by Ironi: 12:37pm On Aug 02, 2012 |
A beautiful asss. |
Romance › Re: Must A Guy Pay A Lady's Transport Fare When She Visits? by Ironi: 8:52pm On Jul 31, 2012 |
If a lady visits and you Bleep her the whole night ,would it be too much to ask for a fare back home? |
Crime › Re: SSS Nabs Two With A 7 Year Old Boy's Head by Ironi: 8:35pm On Jul 26, 2012 |
chindi: My friend, dnt allow anytin to take u 2 hell. Mind wat u wish for urself. Dnt u knw dat hell is worse dan d worst sufferings man is subjected to here on earth? Hell is a place I dnt even wish 4 ma enemies. Hell worst ooo! Be careful wat u wish urself nd others sharrap, have you been to hell before? What do you know about hell, jare? The crap you read in books are all somebody's imagination, make believe. |
Crime › Re: SSS Nabs Two With A 7 Year Old Boy's Head by Ironi: 2:37pm On Jul 26, 2012 |
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Foreign Affairs › Re: John Mahama (VP) Is Ghana's President Now by Ironi: 9:31pm On Jul 24, 2012 |
Mayor Ogwo: Ghana should not be compared with Nigeria in any thing, political maturity or whatever Ghana is no where to be found, we can only compare Ghana with one or two states in Nigeria, not even a geo-political zone. Nigeria is still the giant of Africa, both politically and otherwise. Nigeria!!! Good People, Great Nation. Looks like you were born yesterday. Nigeria is bigger than Ghana but Ghana has always led the way for Nigeria to follow. Has nothing to do with size. You can be big and slow, young man.  |
Foreign Affairs › Re: John Mahama (VP) Is Ghana's President Now by Ironi: 9:09pm On Jul 24, 2012 |
trimwis: monkey NPP MAN is that the definition of xenophobia, keep on posting trash why we are buying your entire economy. if your useless prideful ASHANTIS people do anything silly against Mahama you will see how fast BOKO HARAM will spring up in Ghana. Lazy and jealous people What a retarrd. Do you know the root cause of the Biafra war? Maybe you were not born then or you need to go back to school. Btw, do a good research on xenophobia and come again. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: John Mahama (VP) Is Ghana's President Now by Ironi: 9:05pm On Jul 24, 2012 |
Billyonaire: Dont make noise there, or I will dispatch only 3 Boko Haram suicide bombers to come kill all of you in that Colony. Invite ghana's Capable security forces to handle Boko Haram and Nigerians would enjoy some peace. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: John Mahama (VP) Is Ghana's President Now by Ironi: 8:55pm On Jul 24, 2012 |
trimwis: e
see lazy man self dey talk, we control your entire economy you are here posting trash. wetin you won take colonize. Racist and Xenophobic people Who is more Xenophobic than Nigeria, don't throw around words you don't understand. You people have been butchering each other like animals in Nigeria everyday and you come here accusing Ghanaians of Xenophobia? Remember the Biafra war? Look at what is happening now in your violent country. Dude, the worse is yet to happen in Nigeria because you people behave like pests that would eat each other very easily. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: John Mahama (VP) Is Ghana's President Now by Ironi: 8:43pm On Jul 24, 2012 |
azimibraun: Guys jst dey hurry 2 post rubbish. Na john rawlings abi JERRY rawlings? Idiot! I beg u guys mk una free our brodas for ghana dem dey mourn and dia state of mind no dey bam rite nw. Abeg mk una terry G dem abeg. Free dem. He is Jerry John Rawlings (JJ), dickhead. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: John Mahama (VP) Is Ghana's President Now by Ironi: 8:42pm On Jul 24, 2012 |
Billyonaire: Ghana will be colony of Nigeria forever. Mention one Ghanian Bank in Nigeria. Yet we have EcoBank, GTB, Accesss Bank etc. Then we control your communication with Glo, we own your mines and hire you as slave works. In Nigeria, you are slaves, in your country, you are our slave. Ghana is Nigeria's colony. Every president that ghana has comes to Nigeria to pay homage to show legitimacy. What a stuupid Idiiiot, don't your Presidents also come to Ghana to show respect? As a matter of fact most of your leaders were trained there so that goes without saying. I think Ghana would rather colonize the slow and witless giant. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: John Mahama (VP) Is Ghana's President Now by Ironi: 8:32pm On Jul 24, 2012 |
kinky josh: DONT even go there cos ure heading into a ditch murderforker How do you win a war? Having a huge population and a loud mouth and making ye ye would not make you win a war. Wits and tactical skills is the deal and Nigeria has shown not to be very well endowed in that department. Why? Boko Haram!!!!!!!!! With all the resources at your disposal your retarrd military cannot even deal with this riff raffs. Pathetic!!!! |
Foreign Affairs › Re: John Mahama (VP) Is Ghana's President Now by Ironi: 8:18pm On Jul 24, 2012 |
Billyonaire: I heard People are celebrating on the Streets of Accra instead of mourning a great man. And you are on a Nigerian website celebrating in your own little way. Do not forget am your master and you are my slave. How is GTB doing in my colony, how about your National Carrier Globacom. We are paying you 2000 naira in our currency for Yellow Fever Ticket, cos you worship our valued currency. We are like USA, we will take over your economy, we will enslave you, we will fight you in war, kill you, and take your women as spoils of war and your children will be our slaves. Go back to Ghana and mourn the death of a great man. How can retards like you win a war against Ghana? |
Foreign Affairs › Re: John Mahama (VP) Is Ghana's President Now by Ironi: 8:11pm On Jul 24, 2012 |
Ezira: JOHN Kufour, JOHN Atta Mills and now JOHN Mahama. Seems the name John is connected to Ghana's Seat of Power. JJ before Kuffour is also John. JOHN Rawlings JOHN Kufour, JOHN Atta Mills and now JOHN Mahama |
Travel › Re: Yellow-Fever Card: Ghana Denies Nigerians Entry by Ironi: 4:33pm On Jul 24, 2012 |
Okija_juju: ...Who is this Pant!!
What are you doing in Nigeria?!!
Who are your brothers?!!! Do you see any Nigerian with such horrible skin pigmentation like your people?!!
Who you dey advice?!! Go and give it to your Ghanaian brethren.. Just incase you havent heard, Attah Mills is running Ghana back into the days of "Ghana must Go o"...
I am glad you have seen how rich we are.. I'm guessing that its the love of our money that has made you become a refugee in Lagos.. Most likely a resident of the now demolished Mokoko Waterfront housing estate..
Our houses are dirty because we are too busy getting paid... We would have given Visas to you Ghanaians to come be the slaves that you already are to us, but you niggas are too ugly and thief like rats.. You said Nigerians are suffering and smiling.. What are Ghanaians doing?!! Living la Vida?!! Like are you retarded?!! What exactly does the Average Ghanaian who isnt work for the Mines at Obuasi, Prestea, Tarkwa and Takoradi do for a living?!! How much does 1 USD exchange for now in Ghana (and dont quote this your bullshit new currency.. We all know you bitchasses simply divided your old currencies by 10,000 thereby making 10,000 Cedis note into 1 cedis... New currency, same useless toilet roll value..)
Employment!! We dont have any, but look at a Ghanaian working and earning a living in Nigeria... Ironic...
Health!! I dey laugh o!!!! The only reason you see fake drugs in Nigeria is because we have Nafdac... In Ghana, who is your agency that fights fake drugs?!! WAIT!!! Who are the consumers of Nigeris fake drugs?!! YES!! Ghana!!
Sanitation.. Ghana is a dirty country... Have you been to Cape Coast and Takoradi?!! The whole daggon place smells of dead rotten fish!!.. OMG... Lets not talk about KUMASI!!! Nigga please...
MY ADVICE: Shut the Fhuck up about Nigeria... We no be una mate.. I have been to Nigeria and have seen a dead man on the street being driven over by vehicles. I have seen people shiiting and throwing it into another house. Yes, Nigerians are very dirty. True that. |
Travel › Re: Yellow-Fever Card: Ghana Denies Nigerians Entry by Ironi: 4:15pm On Jul 24, 2012 |
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Travel › Re: Yellow-Fever Card: Ghana Denies Nigerians Entry by Ironi: 4:07pm On Jul 24, 2012 |
Fake yellow fever vaccination card, which sparked a diplomatic row between Nigeria and South Africa in March this year, is still in circulation. Damilola Owoyele investigates the prevalence of the card and the perpetrators.
The car park had the sign “Rent a Car” at its entrance. Ishmael, middle-aged and a cab driver, trudged on amid the teeming people within the park on that busy Wednesday morning, July 18, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos. Ishmael said: “The two yellow (fever) cards you want to buy cost N4,000.” He seemed eager to strike a bargain.
Asked if the two fake yellow fever vaccination cards would be different from the original ones, and if there would be vaccinations, he said: “They are the same thing. The only difference is that we don’t give injection.”
He went on: “Wait here; I will go and collect them from my friend who sells them.”
But when this reporter insisted on following him, he said, “Ha! It is wahala if we are caught selling these cards. Lai lai, you can’t come. Wait here, I won’t be long.”
Having said that, he went to obtain the fake yellow cards from his friend.
At that instance, a younger fellow in jeans and faded T-shirt, who had been watching us from a distance, walked up to Ishmael and spoke silently to his ear. The fellow seemed suspect of the would-be buyer (this reporter) who Ishmael had been engaged with.
Ishmael, on hearing what the young man said, looked back and his countenance, which had been cordial in anticipation of the patronage of the fake cards at N2000 per piece, changed; he became apprehensive. Yet, he proceeded to get the cards accompanied by the younger man. They disappeared around a corner.
Before long, he returned and said hastily: “The guy who sells it has left. He isn’t around.”
When asked if the yellow cards could be bought later, he said curtly, “I don’t know when the guy (who he had earlier called his friend) will come back.” With that, he hurried away.
That was how the attempt to penetrate the lair of the peddlers of fake yellow fever vaccination cards at MMIA was foiled by the wary accomplice.
Earlier, these fake cards had reportedly been sold with impunity on the premises of MMIA. But since they became the source of a diplomatic dispute between Nigeria and South Africa, the peddlers have been forced to go underground. But from where they still operate. Yellow fever, which is a viral haemorrhagic fever, is endemic in West Africa since 50 per cent of the population is not vaccinated. And Nigeria, according to a WHO report, is at risk of yellow fever outbreak while South Africa is not.
Tony, who works at one of the airlines’ stalls at the international airport said: “Yes, the fake cards were being sold freely before the disagreement between South Africa and Nigeria, but now things are a little different. I would even advise you to get vaccinated. It would help you and it is cheaper; it is just N500. People buy the fake cards because they want to get it for someone else or they don’t want to be injected.”
A visit by The Nation to the Port Health Services at MMIA ascertained the persistence of the fake cards. The Chief Nursing Officer, who did not acquiesce to the publication of her name in print, said, “The fake yellow fever cards, which had been seized by the port authority from passengers, still bear 1969 as the year of inception of issuance. Whereas it has been reviewed; now the new original ones bear 2005.
“Also, there are traits common with fake cards. They usually carry stamps of fictional hospitals and names of vaccines that are no longer administered, such as Cholera vaccine that is only administered to people going on hajj pilgrimage. These touts often write CMS, the bus stop, instead of CSM (cerebro-spinal meningitis) vaccine on the fake cards.”
She revealed that the latest real stamp by the Port Health Services was “PORT HEALTH OFFICER, MURTALA MOHD INT. AIRPORT, HEADQUARTERS IKEJA” also with the impression of the Nigerian Coat of Arms. She contrasted it with the fake cards that bore stamps like: “MEDICAL OFFICE OF HEALTH, LAGOS ISLAND, L.G. CITY HALL LAGOS”, “MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH”, and “PORT HEALTH SERVICES, FEDERAL MINISTRY OF HEALTH, M.M INTER. AIRPORT, IKEJA”. Other fakes have only the Coat of Arms imprinted in them. She said some fake cards had Oshodi and Ikeja as locations of non-existing hospitals.
She described the incorrect vaccine batch numbers that were filled in the counterfeit cards. These, particularly, were the features the South African port health authority said they found unrecognisable and unacceptable. She said of intending passengers interested in fake cards, “These people claim they are healthy. They say, ‘I don’t have malaria; I don’t have fever.’ They don’t know yellow fever is a disease on its own and the vaccine prevents it. Yellow fever has the tendency to perforate any organ. It can kill a lot of people within 72 hours.”
The Chief Nursing Officer, who is also a community health expert said: “The essence of vaccination is to prevent trans-boundary communication of the disease. We shouldn’t let citizens of this country infect citizens of another country, and vice-versa.”
A prospective traveller on the queue at the departure section of MMIA, who refused to be named, showed his yellow fever vaccination card. It was worn out and did not have the real stamp of the Port Health Services; it only had the Nigerian Coat of Arms imprint. “I have been using this card for a while. My agent procured it for me. It cost N1000. I wasn’t given any injection; In Nigeria, we don’t do that jare.”
When asked if she would attribute the sale of fake cards to laxity in the manner the Port Health Services officers discharge their duty, the Chief Nursing Officer said: “We had the vaccines, but travellers did not come. Even though it was just N500 and we administered the vaccine to them, they would rather buy the expensive fake ones without being vaccinated. However, after the South Africa problem, a lot of people have been coming here to get vaccinated. We also have a 24-hour operational clinic at the airport where people can be vaccinated.” thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/mobile/health/54912-fake-yellow-fever-card-in-abundance.html Why don't these dumbass Nigerians read this and stop behaving like pest. |
Travel › Re: Yellow-Fever Card: Ghana Denies Nigerians Entry by Ironi: 4:05pm On Jul 24, 2012 |
Fake yellow fever vaccination card, which sparked a diplomatic row between Nigeria and South Africa in March this year, is still in circulation. Damilola Owoyele investigates the prevalence of the card and the perpetrators.
The car park had the sign “Rent a Car” at its entrance. Ishmael, middle-aged and a cab driver, trudged on amid the teeming people within the park on that busy Wednesday morning, July 18, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos. Ishmael said: “The two yellow (fever) cards you want to buy cost N4,000.” He seemed eager to strike a bargain.
Asked if the two fake yellow fever vaccination cards would be different from the original ones, and if there would be vaccinations, he said: “They are the same thing. The only difference is that we don’t give injection.”
He went on: “Wait here; I will go and collect them from my friend who sells them.”
But when this reporter insisted on following him, he said, “Ha! It is wahala if we are caught selling these cards. Lai lai, you can’t come. Wait here, I won’t be long.”
Having said that, he went to obtain the fake yellow cards from his friend.
At that instance, a younger fellow in jeans and faded T-shirt, who had been watching us from a distance, walked up to Ishmael and spoke silently to his ear. The fellow seemed suspect of the would-be buyer (this reporter) who Ishmael had been engaged with.
Ishmael, on hearing what the young man said, looked back and his countenance, which had been cordial in anticipation of the patronage of the fake cards at N2000 per piece, changed; he became apprehensive. Yet, he proceeded to get the cards accompanied by the younger man. They disappeared around a corner.
Before long, he returned and said hastily: “The guy who sells it has left. He isn’t around.”
When asked if the yellow cards could be bought later, he said curtly, “I don’t know when the guy (who he had earlier called his friend) will come back.” With that, he hurried away.
That was how the attempt to penetrate the lair of the peddlers of fake yellow fever vaccination cards at MMIA was foiled by the wary accomplice.
Earlier, these fake cards had reportedly been sold with impunity on the premises of MMIA. But since they became the source of a diplomatic dispute between Nigeria and South Africa, the peddlers have been forced to go underground. But from where they still operate. Yellow fever, which is a viral haemorrhagic fever, is endemic in West Africa since 50 per cent of the population is not vaccinated. And Nigeria, according to a WHO report, is at risk of yellow fever outbreak while South Africa is not.
Tony, who works at one of the airlines’ stalls at the international airport said: “Yes, the fake cards were being sold freely before the disagreement between South Africa and Nigeria, but now things are a little different. I would even advise you to get vaccinated. It would help you and it is cheaper; it is just N500. People buy the fake cards because they want to get it for someone else or they don’t want to be injected.”
A visit by The Nation to the Port Health Services at MMIA ascertained the persistence of the fake cards. The Chief Nursing Officer, who did not acquiesce to the publication of her name in print, said, “The fake yellow fever cards, which had been seized by the port authority from passengers, still bear 1969 as the year of inception of issuance. Whereas it has been reviewed; now the new original ones bear 2005.
“Also, there are traits common with fake cards. They usually carry stamps of fictional hospitals and names of vaccines that are no longer administered, such as Cholera vaccine that is only administered to people going on hajj pilgrimage. These touts often write CMS, the bus stop, instead of CSM (cerebro-spinal meningitis) vaccine on the fake cards.”
She revealed that the latest real stamp by the Port Health Services was “PORT HEALTH OFFICER, MURTALA MOHD INT. AIRPORT, HEADQUARTERS IKEJA” also with the impression of the Nigerian Coat of Arms. She contrasted it with the fake cards that bore stamps like: “MEDICAL OFFICE OF HEALTH, LAGOS ISLAND, L.G. CITY HALL LAGOS”, “MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH”, and “PORT HEALTH SERVICES, FEDERAL MINISTRY OF HEALTH, M.M INTER. AIRPORT, IKEJA”. Other fakes have only the Coat of Arms imprinted in them. She said some fake cards had Oshodi and Ikeja as locations of non-existing hospitals.
She described the incorrect vaccine batch numbers that were filled in the counterfeit cards. These, particularly, were the features the South African port health authority said they found unrecognisable and unacceptable. She said of intending passengers interested in fake cards, “These people claim they are healthy. They say, ‘I don’t have malaria; I don’t have fever.’ They don’t know yellow fever is a disease on its own and the vaccine prevents it. Yellow fever has the tendency to perforate any organ. It can kill a lot of people within 72 hours.”
The Chief Nursing Officer, who is also a community health expert said: “The essence of vaccination is to prevent trans-boundary communication of the disease. We shouldn’t let citizens of this country infect citizens of another country, and vice-versa.”
A prospective traveller on the queue at the departure section of MMIA, who refused to be named, showed his yellow fever vaccination card. It was worn out and did not have the real stamp of the Port Health Services; it only had the Nigerian Coat of Arms imprint. “I have been using this card for a while. My agent procured it for me. It cost N1000. I wasn’t given any injection; In Nigeria, we don’t do that jare.”
When asked if she would attribute the sale of fake cards to laxity in the manner the Port Health Services officers discharge their duty, the Chief Nursing Officer said: “We had the vaccines, but travellers did not come. Even though it was just N500 and we administered the vaccine to them, they would rather buy the expensive fake ones without being vaccinated. However, after the South Africa problem, a lot of people have been coming here to get vaccinated. We also have a 24-hour operational clinic at the airport where people can be vaccinated.” thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/mobile/health/54912-fake-yellow-fever-card-in-abundance.html Why don't these dumbass Nigerians read this and stop behaving like pest. |
Travel › Re: Yellow-Fever Card: Ghana Denies Nigerians Entry by Ironi: 4:03pm On Jul 24, 2012 |
Fake yellow fever vaccination card, which sparked a diplomatic row between Nigeria and South Africa in March this year, is still in circulation. Damilola Owoyele investigates the prevalence of the card and the perpetrators.
The car park had the sign “Rent a Car” at its entrance. Ishmael, middle-aged and a cab driver, trudged on amid the teeming people within the park on that busy Wednesday morning, July 18, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos. Ishmael said: “The two yellow (fever) cards you want to buy cost N4,000.” He seemed eager to strike a bargain.
Asked if the two fake yellow fever vaccination cards would be different from the original ones, and if there would be vaccinations, he said: “They are the same thing. The only difference is that we don’t give injection.”
He went on: “Wait here; I will go and collect them from my friend who sells them.”
But when this reporter insisted on following him, he said, “Ha! It is wahala if we are caught selling these cards. Lai lai, you can’t come. Wait here, I won’t be long.”
Having said that, he went to obtain the fake yellow cards from his friend.
At that instance, a younger fellow in jeans and faded T-shirt, who had been watching us from a distance, walked up to Ishmael and spoke silently to his ear. The fellow seemed suspect of the would-be buyer (this reporter) who Ishmael had been engaged with.
Ishmael, on hearing what the young man said, looked back and his countenance, which had been cordial in anticipation of the patronage of the fake cards at N2000 per piece, changed; he became apprehensive. Yet, he proceeded to get the cards accompanied by the younger man. They disappeared around a corner.
Before long, he returned and said hastily: “The guy who sells it has left. He isn’t around.”
When asked if the yellow cards could be bought later, he said curtly, “I don’t know when the guy (who he had earlier called his friend) will come back.” With that, he hurried away.
That was how the attempt to penetrate the lair of the peddlers of fake yellow fever vaccination cards at MMIA was foiled by the wary accomplice.
Earlier, these fake cards had reportedly been sold with impunity on the premises of MMIA. But since they became the source of a diplomatic dispute between Nigeria and South Africa, the peddlers have been forced to go underground. But from where they still operate. Yellow fever, which is a viral haemorrhagic fever, is endemic in West Africa since 50 per cent of the population is not vaccinated. And Nigeria, according to a WHO report, is at risk of yellow fever outbreak while South Africa is not.
Tony, who works at one of the airlines’ stalls at the international airport said: “Yes, the fake cards were being sold freely before the disagreement between South Africa and Nigeria, but now things are a little different. I would even advise you to get vaccinated. It would help you and it is cheaper; it is just N500. People buy the fake cards because they want to get it for someone else or they don’t want to be injected.”
A visit by The Nation to the Port Health Services at MMIA ascertained the persistence of the fake cards. The Chief Nursing Officer, who did not acquiesce to the publication of her name in print, said, “The fake yellow fever cards, which had been seized by the port authority from passengers, still bear 1969 as the year of inception of issuance. Whereas it has been reviewed; now the new original ones bear 2005.
“Also, there are traits common with fake cards. They usually carry stamps of fictional hospitals and names of vaccines that are no longer administered, such as Cholera vaccine that is only administered to people going on hajj pilgrimage. These touts often write CMS, the bus stop, instead of CSM (cerebro-spinal meningitis) vaccine on the fake cards.”
She revealed that the latest real stamp by the Port Health Services was “PORT HEALTH OFFICER, MURTALA MOHD INT. AIRPORT, HEADQUARTERS IKEJA” also with the impression of the Nigerian Coat of Arms. She contrasted it with the fake cards that bore stamps like: “MEDICAL OFFICE OF HEALTH, LAGOS ISLAND, L.G. CITY HALL LAGOS”, “MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH”, and “PORT HEALTH SERVICES, FEDERAL MINISTRY OF HEALTH, M.M INTER. AIRPORT, IKEJA”. Other fakes have only the Coat of Arms imprinted in them. She said some fake cards had Oshodi and Ikeja as locations of non-existing hospitals.
She described the incorrect vaccine batch numbers that were filled in the counterfeit cards. These, particularly, were the features the South African port health authority said they found unrecognisable and unacceptable. She said of intending passengers interested in fake cards, “These people claim they are healthy. They say, ‘I don’t have malaria; I don’t have fever.’ They don’t know yellow fever is a disease on its own and the vaccine prevents it. Yellow fever has the tendency to perforate any organ. It can kill a lot of people within 72 hours.”
The Chief Nursing Officer, who is also a community health expert said: “The essence of vaccination is to prevent trans-boundary communication of the disease. We shouldn’t let citizens of this country infect citizens of another country, and vice-versa.”
A prospective traveller on the queue at the departure section of MMIA, who refused to be named, showed his yellow fever vaccination card. It was worn out and did not have the real stamp of the Port Health Services; it only had the Nigerian Coat of Arms imprint. “I have been using this card for a while. My agent procured it for me. It cost N1000. I wasn’t given any injection; In Nigeria, we don’t do that jare.”
When asked if she would attribute the sale of fake cards to laxity in the manner the Port Health Services officers discharge their duty, the Chief Nursing Officer said: “We had the vaccines, but travellers did not come. Even though it was just N500 and we administered the vaccine to them, they would rather buy the expensive fake ones without being vaccinated. However, after the South Africa problem, a lot of people have been coming here to get vaccinated. We also have a 24-hour operational clinic at the airport where people can be vaccinated.” thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/mobile/health/54912-fake-yellow-fever-card-in-abundance.html Why don't these dumbass Nigerians read this and stop behaving like pest. |
Jokes Etc › Re: Picture Of An Okada Carrying Another Okada(More pix) by Ironi: 4:04am On Jul 22, 2012 |
dasparrow: My goodness! sufferhead! Our people are trying oh. Chai!  Nope, your people are morons. Taking such risk is what stupidity is. |
Sports › Re: Nigeria Into Olympic Basketball Qualifying Semifinals by Ironi: 12:36am On Jul 07, 2012 |
So now you turn to basket ball after you've been fcked so much by Ghana in soccer.
Wusses! |