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Shanklee:
You don scatter weekend plan wey you do for me be that

Shanklee:
Where in Ibadan

Perfecttouchade:
.2mm is a very low guaged aluminium roofing materials, if the leaks are too many, u might need to change the whole Aluminium roofing and to think no one can climb the roof without the Aluminium cracking.. Make sure u go for the right 0.45mm next time Sir.

frozen70:
There is this thick black but the other side is silver material like a tape that are used to patch it, you can be using that pending when you will have money to replace it

Bloghomies:
Back then, this money could get you at least 3 plots of land

DuBLINGreenb:
You will hardly see Emeka Kayode marry Aisha Muhammad,

northern Nigerian Muslim women are prohibited from marrying Non Muslims esp. southerners, even if you are a southern Muslim you still can't marry from there if you doubt me go try am and live to tell the tale, you have to marry without parents permission and run for your life.

Before Islamic ummyad entered Nigeria through the desert, we all lived not exactly as one, but we didn't hate each other, inter marriage wasn't really a big deal, but after Islam entered a line was drawn.

The agenda to dip the Koran in the Atlantic became a thing. To be achieved by fire by force and as such Yorubas we're forced to convert at knife point and dagger point in the war of Ogbomosho in 1840.

To keep Islam growing worldwide bars were set against non Islam men marrying, Islamic women and Islamic men were encouraged to marry not just 4 wives but also marry non Islamic women to procreate for Islam and kill out the infidels/Kafirs.

A woman can only produce one baby every 9months, a man can impregnate a new woman every week, this is part of the reason Islam places value on men, let me add that almost all religions were invented by men and as such more value is placed on men but as a man in Islam the incentives and privileges you get are too much so you won't even dream of leaving.

Some examples are 1. your wife can not stop you from getting a new wife, it is a sin on her part if she does
2. you are allowed to beat your wife to correct her, it's in the koran and various haddiths.

you can see that the Muslim populace will grow exponentially as opposed to the non Muslim populace so that was the plan and it seems to be working look at the growth of Islam no new converts compared to other religions, it's mostly hereditary in Nigeria people are prevented from leaving Islam through Disinheritance and disownment from family, if you leave the religion you are disowned and you cannot inherit any property from any of your family members and you are made an outcast so people don't leave even when they want to.

If you don't believe me because you suspect every Nigerian has a tribal agenda fine and good look beyond Nigeria, look at Turkey, only 2 years ago was the ban on Muslim women marrying non Muslims lifted, a whole turkey.

This goes to show us that much of organised religion as we know it, is an instrument of social control and not a race to heaven. A particular group trying to control the rest that's all.q

One Nigeria

Congrats to the couple regardless

ChybuzzDD:
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This guy, I don't know what's wrong with your ability to understand simple things.
I'm a medical doctor, and fully understand "dose" and "dosage" far better than you do.
Neither the article you posted nor Gilead pharmaceuticals mentioned about the word "dose".
That was introduced by you.
Gilead is to sell its drug at $2,340 for a 5day course(which is equivalent to 5 doses at one dose per day). Remdesivir, just like Azithromycin, is to be given for a period of 5days, and to be extended to 10days if needed.

What that means is that if you're ordering for it for each patient, you'll be given a 5day worth of the drug for $2340, which is an already subsidized rate.
The doctor giving the drug already knows what dose to give; and that's not what the article is talking about.

ChybuzzDD:
Just shut up and understand the article.
As a shareholder with Gilead pharmaceuticals, I follow their news daily.
I first you saw and read about that news when it was released yesterday.
The $2340 is the total cost of a 5 day treatment for government sponsored patients,
and $3120 for private insurers, and not the cost per dose of the medication.
The drug will be given for a 5 day period at the above cost.
The stock price initially rose yesterday when people mistakenly thought it was per dose, but later crash when they realized it was the cost for a 5-day period, meaning the profits to be realized may not be that much.

And it's clearly stated in the news you posted. Or are you one of those with a penchant for distorting news to condemn governments and organisations??

Once people hear $2340 per dose now, they'll shout yes, that's why the US, Bill Gates, etc, invented covid-19 to make money.

ChybuzzDD:
$2340 per 5 day course, not per dose.
You couldn't even read and understand a post you made!

For all governments in the developed world, including the U.S. government’s Indian Health Services and the Department of Veterans Affairs, Gilead will charge $2,340 for a five-day course. U.S. insurers, in addition to Medicare and Medicaid, will pay 33% more, or $3,120. Countries in the developing world will get the drug at greatly reduced prices through generic manufacturers to which Gilead has licensed production.

“We spent a lot of time and considerable care and discussion about how to approach the pricing of this medicine,” Gilead CEO Daniel O’Day told STAT. “At this price it’s significantly below the value it brings to patients and to society. There is no doubt of that in my mind.” He also wrote an open letter explaining the company’s decision.

Remdesivir’s effectiveness against Covid-19 was established in a 1,063-patient study conducted by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In results released in late April and later published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the drug reduced the median time it took a patient to recover from 15 days to 11 days with a 10 day course of treatment. The mortality rate in the remdesivir group was 7.1%, compared to 11.9% among those who received placebo, but the difference was not statistically significant. In another study in less sick patients, remdesivir led patients to improve more than placebo when it was given for five days, but not when it was given for 10.

Following the NIAID trial, in May, the Food and Drug Administration said it would allow emergency use of remdesivir to treat patients with Covid-19.

There will be room for outsiders to argue the price is too high — and too low. The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), a nonprofit which sets benchmarks for what it thinks are fair prices in the U.S., said that remdesivir would be cost-effective at as much as $5,080 per treatment course. But it also said that, given recent studies showing that dexamethasone, a cheap and ubiquitous steroid, could save lives among ventilated patients, a fair price might be as low as $2,520. That would mean that governments would be getting a good deal, but perhaps not private insurers in the U.S.

In another analysis as part of the same document, ICER said that if remdesivir does not save patients’ lives, the drug might be worth as little as $310. The group also said that, to recoup the manufacturers cost, the drug might need to cost anywhere from $10 to $1,600 per patient.

O’Day said Gilead believes that remdesivir’s value is much higher than any of those numbers, arguing that just by reducing the time patients spend in the hospital the drug would save $12,000 per patient.

“There’s no playbook for how to price a medicine in a pandemic,” O’Day said. “In normal circumstances, we’d have priced this medicine in accordance with value. But we’re not in normal circumstances. This is an extraordinary global situation.”

Peter Bach, director of the Center for Health Policy and Outcomes at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, said he worries that the drug could actually lengthen some hospitalizations, because patients may not be discharged until they get a full course. And he said the data about the medicine may not support the price.

“This is entirely predictable,” said Bach. “They take the highest number anybody has floated, they cut down a bit from there, and they say now they’re the good guys.

“This is a drug that was shelved. This is a drug where the pivotal trial was funded by the U.S. government. And they did not go and run a trial that would have been definitive. But they’re happy to capitalize on it.”

The price, O’Day said, was determined by finding one that would be affordable to the developed country with the lowest purchasing power, and then setting a single price for all countries.

Why is the price for private insurers in the U.S. higher? Because, O’Day said, that is how the U.S. system works. “There are always two prices in the United States for a medicine,” he said.

Related: Less than a movie ticket or ‘impossible to overpay’? Experts name their price for remdesivir
The Department of Health and Human Services said that it has bought 500,000 courses of remdesivir for American hospitals, which are expected to last through September. This represents all the doses Gilead expects to produce in July, and 90% of those expected to be produced in August and September. After September, a more traditional commercial distribution system for the drug will be put in place.

Gilead expects that insurers and government programs, not patients, will shoulder most of the cost of the drug in the U.S. The company said government programs, including the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, which supports uninsured patients, should support the drug’s affordability and that Gilead will provide additional assistance.

One group that may not be happy with Gilead’s decision: investors. In a series of notes to investors, SVB Leerink analyst Geoffrey Porges recommended buying Gilead shares and said that he believed annual sales of remdesivir could reach $6.7 billion next year. Porges assumed prices of $5,000 per course in the U.S., $4,000 per course in Europe, and $2,000 per course in other markets.

“I’ve never seen a disconnect between doing what’s right for patients and doing what’s right for investors,” O’Day said. “I believe that this is the right decision for patients and it’s the right decision for Gilead and it’s the right decision for investors.” But he said that, in his discussions with investors, many understood what he said is Gilead’s responsibility.

“Many investors I spoke to encouraged us to make sure we put patients first,” O’Day said. “And so that’s what we’ve done here.”

The company will be continuing to invest in new studies of remdesivir, which must be given intravenously. It is also working on a version that could be inhaled into the lungs, which will be priced separately. Gilead said it expects to spend $1 billion developing remdesivir by the end of this year.

monakii:
This is implicitly misleading, perhaps a confabulation. please double check your record of history. i mean no jibe anyway!
if i may ask in which faction did kofo bucknor ?contested?

ehissi:
This is a beautiful piece, if not that it is laden with a lot of half-truths - I think calling them lies will only bruise the ego of the author - that attempts to glorify some political actors using borrowed robes.


Chief of which is the fact that Tinubu did not win the AD gubernatorial primaries.

It was Dr. Mrs Kofoworola Bucknor-Akerele that won the fated gubernatorial primaries. It was simply handed down to Tinubu - by intervention and intense lobbying of his adopted mother and the Mandate group - because the Oba of Lagos insisted that a woman cannot be governor in lagos.

Why? The staff of office of a Traditional Ruler flows from the governor's office. A female governor makes a woman seemingly a superior over the Oba, which is not acceptable in yoruba land.

And as such she was asked to take the lesser role of deputy governor...........................a role she resigned from in protest, because she alleged that Tinubu was using lagos state money to build political alliance aimed at seizing the presidency, despite all the wonderful and lofty plans they had for lagos state; plans that were eventually implemented by the Fashola administration..........

An allegation that rang true when, Tinubu and some of his henchmen broke out of AD to form the ACN - which initially drew the ire and scorn of Afenifere - which morphed into the hydra-headed monster called APC of today................

JKisOK:
Coronavirus could die in sunlight within minutes, the US Department of Homeland Security revealed Thursday. New research from the DHS Science and Technology directorate found that high humidity, temperatures, and sunlight kills the virus in saliva droplets on non-porous surfaces and in the air. “Our most striking observation to date is the powerful effect that solar light appears to have in killing the virus on surfaces and in the air,” said DHS Science and Technology Advisor Bill Bryan.
“We’ve seen a similar effect as well, where increasing the temperature and humidity or both is generally less favourable to the virus.” The game-changing findings of the joint effort between the DHS’s Science and Technology directorate and Donald Trump’s coronavirus task force was revealed at Thursday’s White House press briefing. The virus dies quickest in the presence of direct sunlight, and it survives best in indoor conditions, the study found.

There is need to be extra careful to properly disinfect areas that aren’t exposed to direct sunlight, particularly within indoor spaces, according to Bryan. “I can tell you that bleach will kill the virus in five minutes, isopropyl alcohol will kill the virus in 30 seconds,” said Bryan. “And that’s with no manipulation. If you rub it, it goes away even faster,” he added. DHS and the White House coronavirus task force will continue to look at how the virus in saliva and how it reacts to other disinfectants.

Although “summer-like conditions” will lead to a decrease in virus transmissions, Bryan said Americans aren’t yet in the clear to return back to normal outings. “It would be irresponsible to say the summer will kill the virus and it’s a free for all and people ignore guidance,” Bryan said. “That’s not the case.” The DHS findings that coronavirus could die in sunlight, Trump made sure to point out he had made a similar observation earlier.

“I once mentioned that maybe it does go away with light,” he said at Thursday’s briefing. “Maybe the fake news didn’t like the suggestion that it goes away with light.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/04/light-relief-coronavirus-dies-in-sunlight-says-homeland-security/