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rastaLivity:
Mr chris is trying too hard to blow megaly with this corona stuff, he's acting too desperate these days.

A member told me *pastor chris is singlehandedly fighting the anti-christ*

Just felt sorry for the dude's dad for wasting his hard earned money sending him to school, yet still came out a fool

LMAO

Just three months after the start of the coronavirus pandemic, several biotech companies are beginning trials of promising vaccines and treatments.

As the coronavirus pandemic spreads at unprecedented rates, invading the lungs of people of all ages, ethnicities and medical histories, companies are ratcheting up their efforts to fight the disease with accelerated schedules for creating new vaccines, and beginning clinical trials for potential treatments.



The stem-cell company Mesoblast said it was starting a 240-patient clinical trial, supported by the National Institutes of Health, that would test whether cells derived from bone marrow could help patients who developed a deadly immune reaction to the coronavirus.

In normal circumstances, development of new vaccines and treatments would take years. But the pharmaceutical industry is racing to compress organizations, government agencies and regulatory authorities. this timeline with the support of non profit.

A vaccine made by the biotech company Moderna is already in a clinical trial, which started March 15. Another one, developed by Inovio Pharmaceuticals, was injected into the first adult volunteers on Monday.

“We’re all trying to do something which we have almost no precedents for, which is accelerating a vaccine in the middle of a pandemic,” said Dr. Peter Hotez, who is a co-director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development at Baylor College of Medicine.
There is no approved treatment for Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, and researchers and doctors are testing a host of therapies in a desperate bid to save the lives of people who have few other options.

But Mesoblast is taking a more standard approach, testing the cell therapy in 240 patients at more than 20 medical centers around the country, which are part of the Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network, a program created by the N.I.H. Patients will be randomly divided into groups that will receive the therapy, and those that will get a placebo. Researchers said the trial could yield initial results within months.

While many people who are infected with the coronavirus experience mild symptoms, others develop a severe case when their immune systems go into overdrive and begin attacking the body’s organs, which is called a “cytokine storm.” This can set off something called acute respiratory distress syndrome, which damages the lungs and is often deadly. Several other treatments are also being tried to calm this storm and reset the immune system.

Dr. Silviu Itescu, chief executive of Mesoblast, said the company decided to test its treatment in these Covid-19 patients because its product had shown good results in children who developed a similar deadly immune reaction called acute graft versus host disease, in which the body’s immune cells can attack healthy cells after receiving a bone-marrow transplant. Their treatment is currently being reviewed by the Food and Drug Administration for use in that disease.

We put two and two together and said, ‘We think we’ve got something that is safe and could have benefit,’” Dr. Itescu said.

Another stem cell company, Athersys, has said it is also planning a study of stem cells in coronavirus patients with advanced respiratory distress syndrome, but is not as far along.

Nine coronavirus patients at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York have received the Mesoblast treatment on an emergency basis, and doctors there said the initial response was promising. Six patients were removed from ventilation and others were being weaned off or had remained stable — a welcome development when most patients who need ventilator support do not survive


Pfizer said on Thursday that it would begin testing an experimental drug, as well as its rheumatoid arthritis treatment Xeljanz, in clinical trials against Covid-19. Xeljanz, also known as tofacitinib, is an anti-inflammatory medicine and could dampen the immune system in patients with the severe respiratory syndrome. But the company warned that research was still in its early stages and that Xeljanz should not currently be used in patients with serious infections.

Still, a vaccine would be the best way to stop further spread of the coronavirus because it enhances the immune system’s natural defenses. Of course, many companies are also struggling with ways to partner with manufacturing ventures to produce enough vaccine so that it will be widely available.

If you could only have a vaccine, just imagine you could walk out your door confident that you were not going to get sick,” said Dr. Gregory Glenn, the president for research and development at Novavax. “Because of that, everyone is very motivated and working to move things quickly.”

Novavax has worked on experimental vaccines for both SARS and MERS, which are closely related to the new coronavirus. The company also has vaccines for the seasonal flu and respiratory syncytial virus, which causes colds, in the last stages of clinical trials.
When Chinese scientists posted the genetic sequence of the new coronavirus in January, researchers at Novavax started working on recombinant technology to make a synthetic version of the virus. Researchers used a baculovirus to carry bits of genetic material from the coronavirus into cells. Baculoviruses typically infect insects, so they cannot replicate and cause illness in humans.

“We never use the real virus,” Dr. Glenn said. “But we can fool the immune system to think it’s been attacked.”
By combining the recombinant vaccine with an adjuvant, or substance that increases immune stimulation, Novavax was able to achieve a high neutralization titer in preclinical tests — a measure of the protective antibodies that can block the virus.

The company hopes to see a similar effect after giving more than 130 healthy adults two doses of the vaccine. Results of the trial, which will be conducted in Australia, are expected around July.

Moderna and Inovio are pioneering a different approach. Moderna uses RNA technology, while Inovio has developed DNA technology to package the genetic code of coronavirus spike proteins, which make up the crown around the virus and help it latch on to cells. This approach has the advantage of being able to move to trials faster than vaccines that require the production of viral proteins or a weakened version of the actual virus to induce an immune response. But the technology is still unproven. There are no approved RNA or DNA vaccines for any disease.

Dr. Hotez’s team and Johnson & Johnson, on the other hand, are relying on technology that is more similar to Novavax’s approach because it has been used successfully to create other vaccines in the past, including one for Ebola that has been registered in Europe and is used in the recent epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Some countries already have the manufacturing capabilities that will be needed to scale up vaccine production, and that will keep costs low if everything goes well.

“It’s not very sexy, but it’s a reliable approach,” Dr. Hotez said. “We know that it works.”

For now, the first stage of clinical trials for each potential coronavirus vaccine must focus on how safe or toxic the vaccine may be at different dose levels. Researchers will collect the medical histories of volunteers participating in the trials and track their antibody levels, liver enzymes and other indicators of emerging side effects.
If everything looks good and the vaccine appears to be safe, then we’ll go on to trials with much bigger numbers and look at the vaccine efficacy,” said Dr. John Ervin, who is leading the Inovio clinical trial in Kansas City, Mo.

In parallel, companies are planning to continue further animal testing, as well as investing in manufacturing capacity both in the United States and abroad. They will need millions of doses for additional clinical trials and even more if a vaccine eventually goes to market.
The virus is racing through crowded urban areas and slums in certain countries,” Dr. Hotez said. “How do you do social distancing in those places? You don’t.”

“We are building out a road map for how we work as a country for the next two or three years,” he continued. “That’s roughly the time frame that we saw for the 1918 flu pandemic and that’s probably likely for Covid-19.”

Source - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/health/coronavirus-vaccines.html

Erediauwa:
Dear Kenzosky,



If you noticed, I deliberately ignored him....

He was unhappy I didn't reply, he then logged in to his other account to call the moderators that I broke some rules in this thread.



Kindly ignore him as well.

I thought as much, cause, his reply to your comment seems very personal.

dustmalik:
At your age, don't you have more important ongthings to do than to be making useless and irritating comments on an issue that is so irrelevant?

Are you not ashamed of yourself?

You are one of the reasons Nigeria is been refered to as a shit hole with shitty People. Btw, why should he be ashame? for saying the truth and letting our up-coming generations to know it's very embarrassing and damaging to ones reputation for one to wrongfully claim what doesn't belong to him or her. Moreover, what on earth makes you think this issue is irrelevant? Ask yourself, if this issue is that irrelevant like you said, why then did the real owner of the pic publicly called her out. Our Nigerian women are becoming something else bringing more shame and embarrassment to an alredy embarrased Nation. First it was Oge Okoye, then Blessing ceo. If only you know what this two People i just mentioned are passing thru on a daily basis just to make amends and do some damage control, you won't be here calling such a universal problém an irrelevant issue. Bottom Line, truth must be said at all time.

This too shall pass. Meanwhile, in other news, a 15-member medical team from China has arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, despite the NMA warnings/protest.
It's no-longer a hidden truth that Nigerian leaders and top politicians are alergic to been checked and treated by Nigerian trained doctors in Nigeria under-equipped hospitals and clinics, and
since they can no longer travel to the West for medical treatment or check- up, they decided to use tax-payers money to import anyone (doctors) with White or yellow skin as an alternative to treat any one of them that's alredy down with the virus or will be down with it. Despite the NMA warnings/protest against inviting foreign doctors, they still went ahead and do whatever pleases them by brushing the NMA warnings aside like it's a warning coming from rabbits catchers association,showing high level of Public disrespect for the NMA for all Nigerians to see. This pandemic should be an eye opener for all well meaning Nigerians, we don't have leaders, all we have are blockheads, nincompoops, buffoons, dolts, Ignoramus, cretins, slowpokes and ninny chump entities we called leaders, Revolution will start during this pandemic, mark my words

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This is more than a slap on the FACE of the NMA.

Erediauwa:
Funke Akindele might have promised him two runs girls as a "Thank You For Coming" package and a talented Amala and Ewedu delicacy, and the family man who's supposed to be loosing his wife braids during this lockdown dashed out of the house with his neat Agbada carefully starched by his wife....

Now see where his great appetite for fresh pussy has landed him... A prominent man for that matter.




May our love for Owambe not take us to the wrong place.

Nwamaikpe, is that you...?

Seven years ago, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar quit medicine for politics. Now he is going back to work as a doctor as his country battles the novel coronavirus outbreak.

The Taoiseach, as the Prime Minister is referred to in Ireland, has rejoined the medical register and will work one shift a week to help out during the pandemic, national broadcaster RTE reported.
Varadkar worked as a doctor for seven years before becoming a politician. He left the medical profession in 2013.

RTE reported that he re-registered as a doctor in March and offered his services to the country's Health Service Executive for one session a week. Varadkar will carry out phone assessments to free up staff for frontline work, according to RTE.
Ireland closes schools and colleges to halt coronavirus spread.
Ireland has almost 5,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 158 people have died of the disease in the country.
The country has been under a lockdown for over a week, with people not permitted to travel more than 2 kilometers from their homes.
People can leave their homes only when necessary: to purchase groceries and medicine, attend medical appointments, to take care of family or to engage in "brief" exercise.
Public and private gatherings amongst people from separate households are prohibited, and only essential workers including health and social care professionals are allowed to travel to and from work.
Source - CNN.COM

African Americans account for 30% of the coronavirus cases in Illinois, according to Dr. Ngozi Ezike, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health.
Ezike said the disparity in health care access is a long standing issue for the black community.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said the state is working to reopen hospitals in harder-hit communities with a large percentage of people of color.
It's hard to make up for decades frankly, maybe centuries, of inequality" in access to health care, Pritzker said. "This virus doesn't discriminate."

The state reported 899 new coronavirus cases, including 31 deaths, Ezike said during a Sunday afternoon press conference.The total number of cases statewide is now 11,256 and the death count is 274, Ezike said.

Ezike also reported that a second person involved in the outbreak at Stateville Prison has died. That person is one of 60 cases reported at the prison, Ezike said.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to a hospital on Sunday for coronavirus tests, according to a statement released by Johnson's Office.
On the advice of his doctor, the Prime Minister has tonight been admitted to hospital for tests," the statement read.

"This is a precautionary step, as the Prime Minister continues to have persistent symptoms of coronavirus 10 days after testing positive for the virus.

"The Prime Minister thanks (to National Health Service) staff for all of their incredible hard work and urges the public to continue to follow the Government's advice to stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives."

Source, CNN.Com

The streets of Ecuador's western city of Guayaquil are deserted, with few residents in sight -- and a few dead, as bodies are being left in the streets of this overwhelmed place.

The coronavirus pandemic is overloading the public services in the country's most populous city to a point of collapse. Hospitals have no beds left to accept sick patients, and morgues, cemeteries and funeral homes are straining. With no place left to put them, some residents say they have no choice but placing them outside.
It's unclear how many of the deceased are dying because of Covid-19. Many families say their loved ones had symptoms of the virus, while others only know the ill were unable to be treated at Guayaquil's overwhelmed hospitals.
We have been waiting for five days," Fernando Espana said in a video obtained by Reuters on March 30, as he complained about the struggles to have authorities come pick up his family member.
"We are tired of calling 911 and the only thing they tell us is to wait, they are working to solve this," he continues as he moves the camera through a window to show a black plastic-wrapped shape inside the home, with two fans blowing on it.The smell is too much to take. "It's the odor from the body that one can no longer handle," Espana's neighbor, Glenda Larrea Vera says in the same video, from across the street and behind a mask. "And we also have neighbors that are elderly. I have my mother who is 80 who is also having respiratory problems."
Video surveillance from last week obtained by CNN shows a motorcyclist abandon a body in the street. Hours later, a group of people, dressed in special hazmat suits are seen picking up the deceased, then driving off in a vehicle.
National figures show that Ecuador's authorities have collected more than 300 bodies from private homes in the city which has 2.99 million residents, according to the CIA Factbook -- between March 23-30.
The city is on the Guayas River and is the nation's major port. Brittanica.com calls it the country's most economically important city.
Jorge Wated, head of a joint military task force created to deal with Ecuador's coronavirus crisis, in a televised interview on Wednesday said that his task force had gone from "taking away 30 deceased per day to 150" over the past three days. Wated added that this was "independent of the hard work reactivated by the private funeral homes and graveyards in the country."
Source - CNN.COM.

A coffin containing the body of a person who is supposed to have died from Covid-19 lays wrapped in plastic and covered with cardboard, outside a block of family apartments in Guayaquil on April 2.

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Another 674 people have died of coronavirus in Spain in the past day, the lowest daily rise in percentage terms since early March.

The country has now seen 12,418 deaths from its devastating outbreak, the most anywhere in the world apart from Italy.

But the evidence strongly suggests that the nation is through the worst of the pandemic, with the pace of new cases and deaths decelerating.

The Health Ministry’s data shows there are now 80,261 active cases of Covid-19 in Spain, an increase of 1,488 from Saturday – but also the smallest daily rise since March 17. The rise in the number of new cases has been declining in percentage terms since March 24.

However, there was an uptick of 329 in the number of people admitted to intensive care units since the pandemic began – compared to Saturday’s number of 116.

The ministry also reported that 38,080 have now recovered from the virus – nearly 4,000 more than the number reported Saturday. For the first time since statistics were made available the daily increase in active cases was under 2%.


Patients at a temporary hospital, built in an exhibition center in Madrid.

Shelumiel:
...but face masks don't prevent corona na.

Yes, it does, don't mind Jeromy Adams and all those over sabi health doctors that said the contrary.

First a city with a population of 11 million was shut down and then a country of 1.4 billion people came to a halt. Most people have shown concern and understanding. Whenever there is a public health concern, people tend to react strongly, however some have allowed the fear to turn into bias.

But sometimes the reaction is over the top. People have effectively closed borders, shouted hateful words and driven others away indiscriminately. Some have called the novel coronavirus "the China Virus." We wrongly called the 1918 pandemic the Spanish Flu and with better knowledge and conscience we never called AIDS or Ebola an African virus because we don't want people to associate a pathogen with a place or people, and we shouldn't.

Coronavirus is feeding bias and discrimination against people, people from Wuhan and China, people across the aisle and in the neighborhood.

It is understandable that people are panicking in the face of a big unknown. But we have a rough idea about this virus; it is highly infectious, and not as deadly as SARS. We wash hands, wear masks, keep our hygiene and keep ourselves happy to let the immune system do its work.

Draconian isolation policy during the 14-day incubation will help us identify more cases and hopefully the virus will burn out eventually or its impact will be mitigated when our immune systems with the help of supportive care will win out at last.

But discrimination will take its toll. The disregard of AIDS patients during the 1970s drove them underground and undetected, resulting in a larger outbreak. And similar messaging on Ebola made matters worse in 2014 in Africa. In history, we have treated leprosy, AIDS and even flu patients like outcasts partly because we were unable to deal with the disease, but largely because we could not understand the threat.

But now we do. Virus knows no boundaries, be it AIDS, the flu, SARS or 2019-nCoV. An epidemic of global scale demands the sharing of information, resources and moral support.

Quarantines might work for a while, but they won't last and won't solve all problems. We are now in a gigantic prisoner's dilemma, the incentive to turn against each other is so strong even though banding together works better. Bias hurts your interests, you just don't know yet.

In our modern, borderless world, we aren't living in villages anymore. Even though we may pay a price dealing with strangers, we still do, and we are better off because of it.

"This is the time for facts, not fear.

This is the time for science, not rumors.

This is the time for solidarity, not stigma.

We are all in this together."

dazzlingd:
No it's not a satire...my opinion stands!
So what do u have to say?

She just did what you can never do in your entire Life even if you are giving a thousand years to live on earth, representing her generation by calling out the president of her country to do the needful in time of crisis, why People like you hide behind your mother skirt and half broken android phone to insult a Young girl with ovaries who was bold enough to do the needful no matter the consequences. My advice to you, take a blade and cut Off those little balls between your legs, BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT FIT TO BE A MAN.

PS - I'm not even her fan,but i know she she did the right thing.

GeoAfrikana:
Dirty, stinking Olosho.

What an era! Whores and dupers (yahoo-boys) are now the ones 'representing' the people.

I'm disgusted.

BTW, what she's said makes absolutely no sense. Health and life come first in priority before food, shelter and clothing. This is common knowledge. Unfortunately, she's too daft to know this.

T

She just did what you can never do in your entire Life even if you are giving a thousand years to live on earth, representing her generation by calling out the president of her country to do the needful in time of crisis, why People like you hide behind your mother skirt and half broken android phone to insult a Young girl with ovaries who was bold enough to do the needful no matter the consequences. My advice to you, take a blade and cut Off those little balls between your legs, BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT FIT TO BE A MAN.

dazzlingd:
Why should we listen to her...what does she know, what's the quality of the substance in her head. olosho has no business with the affairs of the nation.
She should crawl back to do what she knows how to do best

Is this a satirical statement or what?, i just want to know, because, if it's not, and you mean all you just wrote, then i have something to tell you.

akanbiaa:
Exactly my point, his position is very sensitive, what seems to have occurred was his over zealousness to please the Governor even if he had to lie to do it, but he forgot that lies will always be exposed especially ones that have to do with information that can be verified online, and on his account being hacked that is just a lame excuse to correct his mistake, if his account was really hacked he would not have responded to the guy that said he should remove the post and he said he was sorry that he got wrong information. And if truly his account was hacked the Governor would have felt he was too careless with his account login details to warrant being in that position.

It seems like so much work to lie, especially when one has to rememeber what they said earlier and there is potential to contradict themselves later. In this case, he shot himself twice in the leg.

"Keep calm and carry on." "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." "Don't worry, be happy."

These are the kinds of pithy, inspiring phrases and quotes that, historically speaking, have the power to steady us through challenging times. War. Depression.Call them mantras, maxims or even memes -- they get repeated and recycled over the years, sometimes over the millennia, because they contain powerful jolts of easily accessible truth, insight and perspective.
As we all face new struggles, looking for wisdom from the past to help the present.
Below are quotes I think speak to this time of coronavirus shutdowns and of health and economic fears.

Keep calm and carry on.

Ahead of attacks on its cities during World War II, the British government issued and displayed three posters with messages written to boost morale and mentally prepare its civilians. One of them, "Keep calm and carry on," has grown in popularity over the years because its message is applicable beyond its original intent. It's also poignant now that coronavirus is invoking comparisons to world war.
Similarly, a line from President Franklin Roosevelt's 1933 inaugural address, to a nation paralyzed in the economic fear of the Great Depression, has endured its original meaning because "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" because a life lived in fear is a life half live.
For what use is our fear right now? "Worry is like a rocking chair: It gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere," wrote humorist Erma Bombeck.
Now is the time for a more scientific and analytical approach, as the physicist Marie Curie said: "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

Don't worry, Be happy.

For anyone alive in 1988, Bobby McFerrin's "Don't worry, be happy" has been stuck in their head ever since. There have been many happiness songs before and since (Pharrell, the Partridge Family), but McFerrin's Grammy-winning tune has had the longest staying power, because it's simple and directive.

Personally I prefer Bob Marley's "Don't worry 'bout a thing, cause every little thing's gonna be alright." Also directive, plus a call to appreciate the little things, like sunrises and bird song.
"Things could always be better, but things could always be worse," is a line attributed to actress Marla Gibbs, of all people, famous for her role as a sassy but insightful housekeeper on the 1970s and '80s sitcom "The Jeffersons."
Good and bad, it's all the same: a Taoist parable to live by or a classic movie directed by David O. Russell, which contains this Western Zen koan: "Nothing's okay. So it's okay."I like to think of life as an adventure, like a roller coaster. It helps with the ups and downs."
I equally like this framing by Fred Rogers: "Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else." It speaks to this time as the start of a new era, without any negative connotation.
Dance in the rain
So what do we do now?
"Better to be busy than to be busy worrying," actress Angela Lansbury is quoted to have said. Because, author Vivian Greene explained, "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain." Or as Sting sings, "When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around."

We need to make the best with what we have now, especially if the grocery store shelves are empty. "You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you get what you need," sang the Rolling Stones.
And what you need are the bare necessities, "The simple bare necessities. Forget about your worries and your strife ... The bare necessities of life will come to you," promises Baloo the bear in Disney's "The Jungle Book."
Two hundred years before coronavirus, the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had some poignant metaphorical advice to do your part in this pandemic, when he wrote, "Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean."
Embrace that this time could have a positive impact on you. "That which does not kill us, makes us stronger," the aphoristic philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche famously said. And spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle added that "Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness."
That evolution will likely lead you to look out for others in this critical time. "I shall pass this way but once; any good that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being; let me do it now," wrote the Quaker missionary Etienne de Grellet.
And whatever happens, we just need to endure. "If you're going through hell, keep going," said the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Because as the days rack up, or the situation intensifies, more things may fall apart and further call on our resolve to power through. In other words, "You just gotta keep livin' man, L-I-V-I-N," Matthew McConaughey's Wooderson reminds us in the film "Dazed and Confused."
Which brings me to my favorite quote from a favorite novel, John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath." You just gotta keep living.
The sun will rise

"This too shall pass," is an old Persian saying that may have originated with the poet Rumi. Abraham Lincoln, something of an aphorist himself, was a fan of this line because it is "true and appropriate in all times and situations," Lincoln said. "How much it expresses! How consoling in the depths of affliction!"

The impermanence and struggle were favorite themes of the Buddha's recorded sayings, including, "Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind."
That should give us hope, maybe even help us see "dawn comes after the darkness," as author Lisa Wingate put it.
That's the perspective articulated at the end of Robert Zemeckis' hope-fueled film "Cast Away." After four years stuck on an island and uncertain of what to do once he returns home, Tom Hanks' character, Chuck Noland, says, "I know what I have to do now, I've got to keep breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?"
And in the end, I'm going to give the last word to that singer-sage John Lennon. If you only remember one of these aphorisms, this is the one that most succinctly captures endurance, perspective and hope: "Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end."

pk2me:
Nonsense and ingredients cock and bull story. there is nothing like Napoli as a City in Italy. Napoli is a football club in City of Naples.

In this case,you are the"Ignoramus et Ignorabimus", because, Napoli is the Italian name for Naples. Here in Europe Naples is popularly called Napoli. Except for some English and Scots that refer to Napoli as Naples, because Naples is the English name for Napoli.

friday2011:
Lol... You catch am red handed, i no fit laff, na so e go dey form nigga for nairaland, common cotonou here, he never cross

The Italian name for Naples is Napoli. Don't be ignorant.

rottennaija:
Your write up isn't organised. How do you expect people to read this?

I think you need to have your frontal lope organised to comprehend this right up.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said this week his country managed to stop the mass spread of coronavirus and that the situation was "under control," thanks to early and aggressive measures to keep more people from getting the disease.
According to information released by Russian officials, Putin's strategy seems to have worked. The number of confirmed Russian coronavirus cases is surprisingly low, despite Russia sharing a lengthy border with China and recording its first case back in January.
The numbers are picking up, but Russia, a country of 146 million people has fewer confirmed cases than Luxembourg with just 253 people infected. Luxembourg, by contrast, has a population of just 628,000 according to the CIA World Factbook, and by Saturday had reported 670 coronavirus cases with eight deaths.
Russia's early response measures such as shutting down its border with China as early as January 30 and setting up quarantine zones may have contributed to the delay of a full-blown outbreak, some experts say.
Dr. Melita Vujnovic, the World Health Organization's representative in Russia said on thursday that Russia also took a broader set of measures in addition to testing.Tracing contacts, isolation, these are all measures that WHO proposes and recommends, and they were in place all the time," she said. "And the social distancing is the second component that really also started relatively early."
Rospotrebnadzor, Russia's state consumer watchdog, said Saturday that it had run more than 156,000 coronavirus tests in total. By comparison, according to CDC figures, the United States only picked up the pace in testing at the beginning of March, while Russia says it has been testing en masse since early February, including in airports, focusing on travelers from Iran, China, and South Korea, limiting its controls for arrivals from Europe to taking temperatures and imposing two-week quarantines.
The majority of the coronavirus cases reported in Russia were brought from Italy. According to health officials, Russia contends with widespread public skepticism, a legacy of its Soviet past,on social media, Russians have raised questions referring to their country's poor track record of transparency, such as the coverup around the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in 1986 and the country's botched response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.
Authorities have moved swiftly to counter what they see as misinformation. In early March, Russia's Federal Security Service and internet watchdog moved to take down a viral post claiming the real number of coronavirus cases was 20,000 and that the Russian government was covering it up. Facebook and Instagram users in Russia then started to see coronavirus awareness alerts linking to Rospotrebnadzor's official website.
News reports of shortages in protective equipment have also fueled skepticism. And some experts have raised doubts about the reliability of Russia's testing system, which depends on a single laboratory. A report by PCR.News, a media outlet for medics and healthcare professionals, pointed out that the only approved coronavirus testing system, produced by Vector in Novosibirsk, has a lower sensitivity than other virus tests, raising concerns about false negatives.
David Berov, the first confirmed coronavirus patient in Moscow, wrote on Instagram that his second test showed a negative result, while the first and third tested positive for coronavirus.
"The virus was confirmed in my third test, it was not seen in my blood but was in my saliva," Berov wrote on March 5. "As I was told, they could barely see it so that's why they were in doubt for so long."
Vector did not respond to a request for comment. The Russian branch of the WHO, however, told newsmen it received the specifications for the Vector test kits and the laboratory had been placed on the list of approved institutions used to confirm the coronavirus.
Cover-up allegations rebutted by Kremlin and the WHO, putin has put together a coronavirus information center in moscow.
EU says pro-Kremlin media trying to sow 'panic and fear' with coronavirus disinformation
Moscow health officials denied the accusation and said they were testing pneumonia patients for coronavirus. The WHO's Dr. Vujnovic also was skeptical about Vasilyeva's claim.
"If there was a hidden, unrecognized burden somewhere it would be seen in these [pneumonia] reports," she said. "So I do not believe this is happening, which does not say that you might not see an increase of cases in the next period, because we have seen that in many countries."
Putin himself addressed the concerns about the statistics Wednesday, saying the government might not have the full picture but is not covering up the numbers.
"Here is the thing: the authorities may not possess the full information, because people sometimes do not report it, they themselves don't know that they are sick, and the latent period is very long," he said in a televised meeting. "But everything that is issued ... by the Ministry of Health is all objective information."
This week the numbers have surged, with Russia adding 30 to 50 cases every day, and the count will most likely continue its upward trajectory as Russia expands its testing. Nevertheless, the local representative for the WHO says Russia is still doing relatively well, as the country tracks cases with epidemiological links to travel or family transmission. On Saturday morning, Rospotrebnadzor released a figure potentially more concerning than the number of confirmed cases -- 36,540 people are being monitored for possible coronavirus.
Meanwhile, the government moved to impose more sweeping measures, canceling public events and closing Russia's borders to foreigners, with some exceptions. But politics as usual continues under Putin: the President has signed a decree scheduling a nationwide referendum on constitutional amendments that could see him stay in power till 2036 on April 22. The authorities have vowed to monitor coronavirus developments but so far have not changed the date.

The most topic circulating from the southeast is ” the north are illiterate, they live in poverty, same people would tell you the north want to rule they want enslave Nigeria how can an illiterate rule and Enslave the educated

When The Election Was Won and Lost, Some Of the people In The Southeast Started Calling The Northerners Names Like Illiterate, Stupid… Some Even Made Videos Mocking Them Of Begging.

As A Region, southern part Are Weak In Some Areas But Have Strength In Other Areas. As so as the north but sometimes you need to focus on the area that would not just gain your time but the areas that would give you time and strength.

The Illiterate North
They Are Politically Savvy and Sophisticated. They Know What Name Politics Is Called,They are very Good in playing The Game. Last election They Gave Nigeria Two Of Their Sons. While the Southeast Chose The One With A Bad Character, They Chose The One They Called Integrity. They Know Their Sons Character.

They Will Not Kill Themselves As the Southeastern Do on Election day , southeast Fight and Kill themselves Over PMB and Atiku. Meanwhile in the north they Quietly Filed Behind The Person They Want. No Fight No Killing. But Southerners, How Many Deaths Of your Sons Is Hanging On your Necks? You Are Even Not Up to Them When They Vote. They Have Learnt Patience and Tolerance, you Have Not.
These Northern Illiterates Don’t Vote Mostly For Party. They Vote The PERSON. His Character. PMB Cleared Kano Like… Kilode!, Yet The Moment They Started With “Ganduje Barawo Dollars”, He was Fighting For His Life As A Governor.

In The North You Will See Different Parties Winning Elections. Because They Vote The Person not The Party. But the Southeastern, will Vote for Party. For example abia state governor owe workers 13 month salary the moment he brought out a tanker of kerosine abia people voted him in for the second time, Even If devil + abacha Contest Under your Party, you Vote, Just To Spite The Other Party and prove what you are not.

The Northern Illiterate Don’t Snatch Ballot Boxes or Kill Their Brothers Because of Election. If They Vote For You And You Misbehave, They Patiently Wait For Four Years, To Them, 4 Years Is Just Around The Corner. But Is That The Case With The Educated Southerners? 95% of all Political Violence, Ballot Snatching, Ballot Burning etc Is Perpetuated In The South.

You guys Arm Thugs, Killers, Arsonist To Cause disorder. Yet you Are EDUCATED.? North shows there power when it’s time too , they don’t make mouth,
Southeastern Problem Is their Ego.
They Don’t Respect Others
they Demand Respect From Them
They Don’t Trust Others and they Demand Trust From Them.
They Should Realise That Even In A Family,
they Don’t Behave The Same,
Yet In Brotherly Love We Tolerate Each Others.
The south keep saying they are the best in business
Yet aliko Dangote a northern has been the African richest man for a long time
Yet 86% of food we eat in Nigeria is from the north
Yet this illiteracy north have been leading Nigeria week in and week out
Yet we know they are indestructible either rich or poor
Yet we know how the Hausa’s hustle in every part of Nigeria
Yet they are selfless to do any kind of job
The southeast should also remember about there reluctancy to develop there region they prefer doing business in other state than there own which is part of what is killing them politically .like my quote
“GOOD REGION DON’T MAKE GOOD PEOPLE, IT IS THE GOOD PEOPLE THAT MAKE GOOD REGION”
hausa/Fulani North Is Always With His Small Radio Tuned In To BBC Hausa Service. He Will Not Only Hear Nigerian News But Foreign News As Well. Yet He Is Not Educated.
The Hausa/Fulani Illiterates Is Schooled In Islamic Education. This Is One Of The Education Approved Worldwide. But Because He Can’t Speak English or Did Not Go To College, You Termed Him “ILLITERATE”. Yet He Knows More Than You Think.
The southeast Must Learn To Accommodate Our Brothers and Sisters In The North. You Can’t Live Their Lives nor Force Them To Live yours. We Should Show Mutual Respect and Trust For Each Other. That’s How A Nation Is Built and That’s How A Nation Is Sustained.
IGBO’S HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO LEAD BUT THEY SHOULD REALIZE THEIR EGO MUST BE REDUCED. IF NIGERIA WANT TO LIVE WITHOUT A TRIBE IT SHOULD BE THE HAUSA/FULANI NOT THE SOUTHERN

chozzy:

Lol ... Thïefnubu is just a hypocrite.

He himself is plotting for 2023 but blaming others
of being overambitious.

I guess they are beating him to his game.

The silence of the presidency and body language of the Police
tells it all


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How can you be so NAIVE and DEWY-EYED?

[quote author=MrNipplesL re. over post=87356051]this would be a good move.

anyone of them who tries to escape in the cage should be hang to death.

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You're damn RIGHT. I just dey vex

I personally think it's time to pass a Bill locking all our senators in a cage. How about that?

cRobo:
Many are dead but living

Just be careful

Mind your business everyone


I won't say a word

Please stop using that phrase, it's so annoying. Look for a better niche