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People "pre-registered" and were given dates to go and "capture". Has this actually started?

No information online and INEC never picks up their phones.

Fejoku:
Etsako Central people are not Igbos. Their language and culture is mostly Edoid but one can't rule out small similarities with Igbos because our fathers did travel far and wide those days rendering services all over the SS and SE. Most Estako people are called Afenmai and certain clans their have noted some connections they have with Igbos notably the metalsmiths in one small community their who claim relationship with the famous Awka Blacksmiths. Awka Blacksmiths were known to have travelled to Idah, deep into Edo state and as far as Urhoboland as itinerant artisans. There are historical records by researchers. Masquerade masks from Igboland have been seen among the Estakos which possibly was borrowed from their. This New Yam festival may also be borrowed since most Edoid are not known for having such festivals.
By and large, these people are not Igbos both linguistically and culturally. They are clearly Edoid but certain features among them are also found among the Igbos.
Edo North is a very complex area of different languages. It's very clear that the power of the Benin Kingdom was what held away and greatly influenced.

@bolded
Not true.

Sugardick:
I will never forget Foursquare Gospel Church, Ailegun road Ejigbo

Why, sir?

How Russia is losing the fight against vaccine skepticism
Russia was the first country to authorize a COVID-19 vaccine. A year later, less than a fifth of Russians are fully vaccinated -- and the daily death toll is peaking.

Daniel Van Boom
Aug. 6, 2021

Ulyana was getting a haircut when it happened. As she sat in a St. Petersburg beauty salon with her hairdresser and several other customers, the topic of vaccines came up. One woman declared she wasn't going to be the Russian government's lab rat, and others murmured in agreement. Ulyana told her hairdresser, Katya, that she'd gotten the Sputnik-V vaccine and felt fine. Katya was shocked.

The hairdresser got out her scissors and slowly moved them toward Ulyana's shoulders. She believed Ulyana had a microchip in her shoulder.

"I was speechless," said Ulyana, a 31-year-old consultant. "She explained to me that in the videos she had seen on the internet, vaccinated people could stick metal objects like coins to their bodies in the place of injection because the 'vaccine chip' draws them."

The hairdresser showed Ulyana the Instagram video she'd seen, as well as a Telegram group she subscribed to. The group's members, numbering in the thousands, spoke of how the government would be able to use the vaccine to implant a microchip that would give it the power to control someone "like a video game character."

"I have known Katya for a while, and she is a nice girl," Ulyana said. "I have always imagined people who might believe in all those conspiracy theories are weirdos in tinfoil hats. She is a normal person, a working mom with a kid."

Russia has a dreadful vaccine hesitancy problem. Its Sputnik-V vaccine was authorized a year ago, in August 2020, and deployed in December. But nine months later, just 18% of Russians are estimated to be fully vaccinated. The more transmissible delta variant is proving ruinous in the face of such limited defenses. Case numbers are going up, and unlike in the more vaccinated US and UK, deaths are shooting up too. Death counts have been at a peak since the middle of July.

The official statistics say 150,000 Russians have died from COVID-19, but experts analyzing excess mortality data estimate the true death toll to be closer to 400,000. That Vladamir Putin's administration can't be counted on to provide legitimate COVID numbers is part of the problem: After years of the government sowing disinformation, many Russians don't trust the Kremlin when it tells them to get vaccinated. With so many seeds of distrust planted, conspiracy theories flourish.

When Ulyana was accused by her hairdresser of having a chip in her shoulder, she laughed it off. She tried to tell Katya that the videos were fake. Katya rejected the argument -- instead reasoning that "they" switched the chips off after being exposed by the viral videos.


Russian President Vladamir Putin announced last August, via a Zoom-like teleconference broadcast on State TV, that Sputnik-V had been authoritzed for deployment. Mikhail Klimentyev/Getty Images
V for victory
When Sputnik-V was made available to the Russian public in December, authorities hoped 60% of adults would be vaccinated by July. The failure to reach this milestone doesn't reflect lethargy among Russians. In fact, many Russians have proved remarkably energetic -- in their efforts to avoid vaccination.

The country is home to a thriving black market for vaccination certificates, which are required for many hospitality, retail and transport employees to return to work. State TV last month warned of a growing trend, evidently spawned by a viral TikTok video, that sees Russians eluding the jab by getting the injection in a prosthetic limb.

COVID denialism and vaccine skepticism exists everywhere, but Russia has a unique problem. Much of the population harbors a specific distrust of the Russian-made Sputnik-V vaccine.


"Sputnik-V has a horrible reputation in the country," says Andrei Soldatov, an author and senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis, a nonprofit public-policy group. "Everybody hates it."

Sputnik-V was developed with exceptional speed at Moscow's Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology. Russian scientists had a prototype vaccine in March 2020 before the city even went into lockdown, around a month before the Trump administration accelerated US vaccine production with Operation Warp Speed. It was August 2020 when the Sptunik-V was approved, with Putin assuring the public that the vaccine had "gone through all the necessary checks."

Many Russians became convinced that authorization of Sputnik-V had more to do with Russia clearing a vaccine before the US than anything else. This is implied by the name: Sputnik is a reference to the satellite the Soviets launched into space, embarassing the US in the early Cold War years, while the V is for victory. This perception became stronger when Putin was found to be speaking dishonestly. At the time he said Sputnik-V had been clinically verified, Phase III trials, which test the safety and efficacy of a vaccine against a placebo, had yet to even begin.

That reputation has stuck, even a year after Sputnik-V was authorized, according to Ekaterina Borozdina, an associate professor in sociology at the European University in St. Petersburg, who's been surveying educated professionals about vaccine hesitancy.

"Respondents were concerned that vaccination campaigns are designed to reach some state-level goals, including purely political goals related to a kind of competition with other [countries]," she said via email, adding that respondents often felt that any health risks associated with taking a vaccine aren't as important to bureaucrats as ratcheting up vaccination statistics.

The Kremlin's apparent obsession with vaccine supremacy may've undermined the credibility of what appears to be a legitimate vaccine. Sputnik-V is used not just in Russia, but also in countries like Argentina, Hungary and India, and the Phase III data published in The Lancet medical journal shows a 91.6% efficacy in blocking transmission. (Phase III trials took place prior to the delta variant's spread.)

Its rapid development can be chalked up to the Gamaleya Institute's expediency: It began working away at a vaccine as soon as scientists released the genome sequence for the coronavirus, in January 2020, and it used as a foundation the work it had already done to craft vaccines for the Ebola virus and the MERS coronavirus.

"If you have the [vaccine] platform well established, then it is an easy matter to go from MERS to COVID," explained Nikolai Petrovsky, a vaccine researcher and vice president of the International Immunomics Society. "The published data suggest that Sputnik-V is a reasonable vaccine very similar to AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson Adenovirus vaccines.

"But while it might be a good vaccine, people have a right to be skeptical given the absence of reliable data."

Even after it was deployed for widespread use in December, Putin hurt public perception of Sputnik by avoiding vaccination until March. Unusually for a president renowned for ostentatious photo ops, the Kremlin sent out no video or photo of the event. He didn't even say which vaccine he received -- not until two months later, after much questioning, did he reveal it was Sputnik-V.

Denial and skepticism
When Russia was found to have systematically doped its Olympic athletes in the run-up to 2014's Sochi Games, the sports minister offered an apology. Later that year he was promoted to deputy prime minister. Ulyana thinks that well-known misdeeds like this hurt the Russian government's credibility, which matters when that same government is beseeching citizens to roll up their sleeves for a vaccine.

"It naturally creates a lot of mistrust in the society when people see that our officials face no real consequences even after being called out for their actions by the international community," she said.

Though Sputnik-V supplies have been lacking in parts of Russia, trust appears to be the resource its government needs most to battle COVID-19. The country's population trusts its business, media and government institutions less than any other country's population polled by Edelman for the firm's annual Trust Barometer. Tellingly, just 15% of Russians surveyed for the 2021 Trust Barometer said they'd get a COVID vaccination as soon as possible, compared with 33% of Americans, 48% of Brazilians and 51% of Indians.

Conspiracy theories have unsurprisingly proliferated in such an atmosphere of mistrust. Among those theories is the belief, shared by 66% of Russians, that COVID-19 was created in a lab as a biological weapon. The conspiracy theory that billionaires like Bill Gates are using the vaccine to reduce the global population to 1 billion is also popular, as is the theory that claims face masks contain infectious "nanoworms."

The Kremlin may've inadvertently fueled conspiracy theories about Sputnik-V as it relentlessly spun disinformation about foreign vaccines, which are banned in the country. State TV regularly amplifies any misfortunes that befall the small percentage of Pfizer and Moderna recipients who experience side effects, and one of Russia's most famous TV pundits last year denounced AstraZeneca as a "monkey vaccine" because Oxford built the vaccine off a variant of COVID that infects chimpanzees. The result may be greater skepticism of vaccines in general, not just Western ones.

Faced with such ardent suspicion, the Kremlin at first tried to win over Russians with a sweet deal. Governments offered mobile vaccinations, free ice cream, or even free money in exchange for vaccinations. Now, with the delta variant running rampant, the Kremlin is making vaccination mandatory for public-facing workers, like hospitality and retail employees. As of late June, Muscovites need to be vaccinated to enter restaurants.

The strategy is turning Russian politics on its head, with Putin's usual critics becoming supporters of the Kremlin's vaccine drive.

"The most liberal part of the society, which is usually more critical of the government, they are pushing for more [government] control in terms of restrictions," said Soldatov of CEPA. "The rest of the population, which usually is more in favor of the government, they are getting more suspicious of the vaccine."

Seeking solutions, Putin's administration may be looking to introduce more vaccine variety into the country. It last week approved trials to see how the AstraZeneca vaccine works in tandem with Sputnik-V, indicating it may break its moratorium on international vaccines.

For Ulyana, however, the solution isn't more vaccines. It's more honesty.

"I wish the authorities could at least acknowledge some of their past mistakes and start an honest dialogue about the issue," she said. "It's really critical. The death rates are the highest since the beginning of the pandemic."

She's tired of arguing with vaccine deniers, she says. "Especially when you simply want to get a haircut."

Baawaa:
Nemesis is really teaching this man lesson,with all the money in his possession he is stagnant.Some mumus will say it is old age.
What is he saying,this is meaningless

I doubt it's old age. The evil genius always had a knack for saying meaningless things. Check his past interviews.

KingLennon:
Don't get me wrong. Am not supporting IBB but am telling you that Buhari's government is worse. We are not in the 80's anymore, we are in a modernised era. He ruled in the military regime and was a failure. He came back in 2015, we were expecting him to correct some errors he made before but he hasn't. All the short-comings you highlighted in IBB's regime in 1985 is twice of what we are facing in 2021. In 2021 brother not 1985! Forget it, Buhari is worse. Don't blame our present economy on IBB's failings.

Have a great day.

stephanie11:
POLITICSNIGERIA.COM



https://politicsnigeria.com/2023-ibb-reveals-7-qualities-nigerias-next-president-must-have-list/

What's wrong with those in their 30's, 40's, or 50's? When people are talking, evil genius too will be talking. Mtcheeeew.

KingLennon:
I wasn't born yesterday bro. IBB succeeded this same Buhari in 1985. As at 1983, the Nigerian Government led by Buhari were going through serious challenges. Babangida's regime brought stability to our economy. He formed SAP and MAMSER. He released many journalists and politicians who were imprisoned by Buhari in 1985. He was a dictator(the evil genius himself). He killed so many including Dele Giwa. He was evil but Buhari in both civilian and military regime is a disaster. I raise my case.. .

Heo

Ok, I'll bite. Babangida released the political prisoners jailed by Buhari because that's what you do when you oust a government. He later jailed his own share and closed down media houses, so I'm not sure what you're on about there. Babangida did not bring stability to our economy - teachers suddenly stopped being able to feed their families under IBB. Remember the naira was bigger than the dollar when he came to power. You're the only guy on earth who thinks SAP was a good thing - it may have been well-intended but it totally failed the man on the street due to our realities, as basic necessities went out of reach.

In any case, IBB is not our worst leader because of his economic failings: he's our worst leader because he destroyed the country's social and moral fabrics and our ability to maintain basic law and order and ensure national security. Under him, anyone with connection to generals suddenly became a millionaire. Young people took note and acted accordingly. That's why 419 started under him. Trouble makers were paid off in cash. Kickback went from 10 to 20-100 %. The government got things done by paying off people instead of following the law. All the leader cared about was self-enrichment and everyone took note. The result is that today nothing works in the country and everyone is out to scam you. Anyone who grew up in this country after 1986 has never lived in a country where people were decent, respectful, and went about their work diligently.

With someone like Jonathan, you had bad governance. With Buhari, you have ungovernance. But with IBB, you had the kind of misgovernance that destroyed the country's foundations and will take 500 years to fix. You think Buhari is the worst because of insecurity? IBB knows something about that - he underfunded the police and made sure the military lacked equipment because he was afraid of a coup.

KingLennon:
Judging by our economy, finance and structure back then and now. I think Buhari is no. 1

The one you know.

Assignment: Talk to three educated Nigerians who were aged 10 and above in 1986.

KingLennon:
IBB that is one of the bad leaders Nigeria has ever produced has turned to a motivational speaker because of Buhari's government. IBB is now a saint because of our darling president.

IBB is not one of the bad leaders. He has the number 1 spot as the worst and no other leader can compete. People don't know what this man did to this country.

MANDIPUTIN:
*Says new president should be in his sixties



https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2021/08/06/breaking-news-ibb-rules-out-atiku-tinubu-from-2023/

So what's wrong with 30's, 40's or 50's? When people are talking evil genius will be talking. Mtcheeeeeew.

Thefavouredone4:
Hi bro. I know this has been long but please what’s the dietary solution?

1. Increase your oral hygiene (floss once daily for 3-4mins, use a tongue scraper once daily, brush twice daily)
2. Eat red apples (the sweet one, not the sour one) daily
3. Reduce or eliminate your intake of foods that are high in cholesterol (cut out red meat, shrimps, and some types of fish like catfish altogether)

Try the above for a few weeks and see.
This book has details on the relevant food groups to reduce and those to eliminate and other tips.
https://okadabooks.com/book/about/the_dietary_solution_to_bad_breath/11856

Vickyvice:
Better thunder go fire this girl. No need for all this investigation. Take her to firing squad and shoot her dead straight up. How one man go hustle, while one bearchi go come kill am, collect money and Jeep. No nah. Now, Most chic's will not be able to secure sugar daddy with all this kind report . I hope chidinmma has been killed.

No.

BreakingNews21:
Lolz, no indictment papers yet and no names of the U.S. based law firms. Just good sounding English to feed the gullible.
Who has the money to pay a retainer for three US firms? I remember these liars said Hushpuppi had top a US lawyer but that didn't happen.
US lawyers will not waste precious time on b.s. if you no show dem some money up front to start the case. In this case there is no formal indictment or extradition in place.



Alleged Bribery: Group consults 3 US-based law firms to defend Kyari

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/08/alleged-bribery-group-consults-3-us-based-law-firms-to-defend-kyari/

You dey mind them.

Acecards:
The best graduating medical student in Uniben with about 7 distinctions was into programming... I don't know if he was making money from it or it was just an avenue for pastime

There are always a few exceptional people. Most people can't do this.

Seun:
The US authorities like to exaggerate the danger of African Land snails. The main issue with the snails is that they are an invasive species. When released into a new habitat they can wreck havoc on ecosystems. They eat everything and multiply rapidly. They're not that dangerous. The "meningitis" thing is nothing but a scare tactic, but it's very effective.

I think the disease part is actually more worrisome than the invasion part. The only place GALS have ever "invaded" in the US is Florada, and that's because FL has a tropical climate. I doubt they can thrive in New York or even Texas.
One of the species of these snails may indeed carry the pathogen they're concerned about (which is destroyed by proper cooking).

Romanoff:
These are not goats.

These are old women in the community wey hunger Sama bad bad.

Stone any of them and be doomed.

Righteousness2:
Whoever Loves Putin should advice him to thread with Caution!

It is Braggings as these that use to Provoke ALMIGHTY BABA Above to send one small calamity to People and Nations.

Personally, I love Putin, but his bragging is becoming too much. He reminds me of Sennacherib in the Bible who Bragged and Bragged until He was Humbled.
Whoever Loves Putin should advise him.

BABA Hates Pride and HE is an Expert in Humbling the Proud. In these last days, BABA is Seriously Humbling Nations and People.

Why do you love Putin?

Afriqan:
Say what you want but these are signs of the end time... Never in the history of the civilised world has there been a series of natural disasters like these.

He that hath ears, let him hear.

That's an assumption. How about you check the FACTS?

frankzone:
Meffy seems so confused these days!

He has always been. From day 1 he was appointed.

Uwaiwe:
In the company I work, CCTV are monitored 24hrs every day. They have more than 50 cameras positioned all over the company premises. I usually go to the security room so it's not hearsay.

There are reasons for that where you work. It's not something every random shop does.

Opexzy:
I saw this on ig and I was like...
What's the work of the cctv of its can't be monitored... This tragedy would have been averted or minimized if they are actually using the cctv technology correctly.

CCTV is not meant to be an evidence of a crime alone, but primarily a tool to mitigate against tragic events like this.

I doubt there's anywhere in the world CCTVs are actually monitored 24 hours - except military/high security facilities.

PrinceOfLagos:
He did the right thing

I only pity his aged parents

Right thing ke. They want to avoid a prolonged discovery process and trial that may implicate his powerful accomplices. Justice won't be done here.

KillMNKnow:
Misleading headlines for clickbait
[/b]The government further stated that Nigerians should direct their anger at Twitter and not the government because Twitter would not have been suspended if it complied with Nigeria’s laws[b]

The headline is not misleading.

seunmsg:
So, when are you guys doing an analysis of the amount paid to Agberos in Enugu, Abia, Rivers, Anambra, Kano, Abuja etc? Abi NURTW only exist in Lagos?

Analysis like this would make a lot of sense if it was done all over the country or at least in some selected states so that we can do a comparative analysis. So, why single out Lagos state?

Btw, NURTW is a trade Union. Trade Unions and professional bodies charge their members huge sums annually. As a member of ICAN, I pay 30k to the institute as annual subscription. I still pay for conference, AGM and faculty due without complaining. So, are members of NURTW complaining? Who forced them to be members of the union?

@bolded
Seriously?

nairavsdollars:
All newspapers today reported Sunday Igboho's case in Benin Republic and the protests. Only Daily Trust newspaper failed to do so

Where are the others for comparison naa?

YakubuLagos:
Good day everyone.

I'm from Edo state to be precise.

The major problem we have presently is not just the FG alone but other bodies under the government.

I lived in an estimate of about 4 flats each. Fast forward to this day, we were using normal light (no prepaid). Along the line, my landlord introduced the prepaid meter for every flat, which was a welcome development.

Yesterday, I decided to recharge as usual. But I got an information that I can't recharge, and this prompt me to go to the NEPA office to laid a complain. On getting there, I was told that I have to pay #5000 before I can recharge and that is a new directive from the state government, which I was skeptical about. What annoyed me was the fact that, the payment is manual and not through the state or FG ban.

Since morning, I have been trying to call them but the phone line kept me on voice note.

Corruption is every corner, the system has gotten to a point where it cannot be saved.

This must get to the state government.

If it's the new meter, you can recharge on line.

seunH:
I personally believe if she has a good lawyer, she would go scot-free. For the action the school took to be valid, there must be evidence of malpractice, as in solid evidences like witnesses, malpractice material (phone, microchips, textbook etc) etc. That she wrote it on her clothes is not valid enough to make her guilty, any body can write anything. For instance, if I write on my shirt "I am a yahoo boy" does it mean I would go to jail for Internet fraud. The highest the law enforcement agency can do, is try to investigate me in order to get solid evidences which would be presented to the judge. Presenting my shirt where I wrote "I am a yahoo boy" to the judge as their only evidence would be toss into the thrash can!!!!

How about the rule that "admitted facts need not be proved"?

Emilokoiyawon:
If you fail to respect river and sea, you can pay with your life. Even people who can swim can drown let alone non-swimmers. Some Nigerian yoots still think swimming is about strength and muscle. In fact, the more muscular you are the more likely you are to drown.

Obviously he went in because he could swim. He didn't plan to die. But these things happen. God bless his soul.

Ishilove:
Ungrateful child

As in, ehn! You gotta "bow" for them Gen-Z or whatever they're called. I hope he finds what he seeks.

daddytime:
Kpokiyor is all the meanders that finds their ways into the body by mistake to cause wahala because they don't belong there. Eg, bacteria, germs, and such other kpokiyors even phlegm, sweat, and saliva that finds their ways into some pots at some restaurant kitchens.

Interesting. What language is that?

daddytime:
This is just so so evil.

People don chop kpokiyor tire for life. Na just God and immune system dey help us all.

What is kpokiyor?