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beardlessdude:
I am 21, born Igbo but I only understand but do not speak.
I live in the abuja and school in Niger state.

I am not interested in getting better in at igbo because I dont use it in day To day conversations unlike hausa that will be required.

Go for Hausa. We rock, we northerners are the best.

Step forward if you are a Marlian

Don't they have fire fighters around??

Oh, I forgot this is Nigeria where leaders loot and don't get caught.

Building on Fire!!

Wonders of uploading pictures on the Internet.

They were quickly informed about some perpetrators breaking the restriction of movement move.

Let us all look at it this way, the power to make this country a better place is in our hands. If we don't come together to speak, then no justice will be done.

Ikorodu -- Aruna should be the next. Let them flog any disobedient persons/person they can get.

These boys doing frog-jump on the first pics shouldn't be doing that, but rather given a broom to sweep the express.

This will serve as a deter for others.

The country is on fire; they still wanna light a matches stick

Everybody wanna cash out this period.

Good, but it now seems like he wanna gain attention by committing his March allowance.

He could have bought stuff, go straight to poor homes, and start the allocation.

Not critisizing his kindness, he's good.

Nice one.

Honest2:
what's 'ESS EM ESS',??

Don't tell me you haven't read what a guy commented above.

It's all about the sound.

Account dey read minus for some people.

I saw matured man in my area begging a lady who sells herbal stuffs for money.

The girl declined, and says she gat no money. After the man had walked about 7 meters away from her, she called the man back and handed him #500.

Hunger is everywhere.

Makavelli25:
Words that start with consonant will take "a"
Words that start with vowels will take "an"

"A" is a vowel so "An Apple"
"B" is consonant so "A Ball"

Thats how it is

The person that typed that message didnt do english in school

Look who scaled through school. He is even abusive with no manners. You are just embarrassing yourself.




At OP[Honest2], It's pronounced 'ESS EM ESS', which starts with a vowel, so I would say 'an SMS', and I can't imagine that I would write it differently.

Wuhan the most mentioned city this year.

Someone asked me, "Mr. Kent, do you think 5G was responsible for the falling of some Chinese on the streets of Wuhan?''

I was a perplexed at his question, I don't know if 5G was or wasn't, so i reasoned outside the box and said," Mr. Collins, we have infinix pro and hot, we have blackberry bold and curve, same with Iphone, so Mr. C 5G cannot be an exception ; there should be the upgraded one"


Surfing the net on 4G drains the phone battery, and also makes the CP give out much heat....

I am just neutral on the 5G saga. The best thing is to wait, the truth must be out.

Every states hustling for their own share of the Billions.



Let us all know what's gona befall this country. After Coronavirus has been subdued, recession follows.

Use your penis to tear her toto

I wonder what our advice would do for you.

It could be she consumes food rich in protein alot.

Coronavirus can kill anybody. It's a no respecte of man.


RIP

More reason while President Trumph warned India not to ship in any drugs nor render any assistance to them.

The US are well informed, they know many hidden things going on this period. They ain't the world's greatest for nothing after Switzerland

This is where the corruption starts.

Some custom bosses go hammer.

I asked one to close her bible that she is a lady, she replied ," I am still digesting the book of Titus "

I had to sit the opposite side waiting for her to digest finish.


I also have another one to say.

I told this fool to stop opening her legs, she replied ," Na you buy pant for me? come close my legs naa. "

I was embarrassed with her words. Some of them just like it opened.

The guy behind is the man. He stays protected because he doesn't trust anyone.

Coronavirus has really humbled the world. No one is an exception; the rich, poor,young, old and animals also.

There is one thing I like about Nigerians : they take advantage of a situation( capitalize)

Our economy is already bastardized. We are in for worse situations.

He says," if the whole goods and money in the shop is looted, the shop becomes empty"

Hope we can now see the people looting the shop(Nigeria)

I just pray there won't be a time people would start eating people.

Miriam*, 25, got married at the age of just 16. She was abducted from her home in Nigeria by Boko Haram at the age of 22 when she was five months pregnant. She managed to escape one month before giving birth to her son.
Abandoned by her husband upon her return, she now lives in a camp for internally displaced persons in Borno state, where she has been slowly rebuilding her life over the past three years.
With the help of counselling sessions and psychosocial support provided by child rights and humanitarian organisation Plan International she has started to rebuild her self-esteem and become a key member of the Community Based Child Protection Committee supported by the organisation.
As well as helping to identify children in need of support, she is also working hard to reduce the stigma directed at girls who, like herself, have been associated with Boko Haram – many of whom are living alone in the camp as single mothers.
Here, she tells her story.
“The day I was abducted, we heard gunshots, but we didn’t run because people said it wasn’t Boko Haram, it was just the civilian defence force. They had come disguised in the Civilian Joint Task Force uniform so we thought they had come to help us.
They got us into boats to cross a river – and that’s when we realised that they were Boko Haram.
From then on, we were in their custody. There were about 300 of us – all women and girls. My husband had run when he heard them coming and had left me on my own.
They started forcing us to get husbands, but I was pregnant at the time so I was left alone.
To get food, they would go and kill people and take their food for us to eat, but sometimes there would be no food for many days. I was moving into my third trimester at the time and things were not going well for me.
One day, the men went out on an attack and we were left under guard when the army arrived and our guards ran and left us. By then, I was around eight months pregnant, so me and an older woman teamed up because we couldn’t run like the others.
We walked for two days in the bush and whenever we saw a farm we would eat whatever was there. On the third day we met a man farming onions and he showed us the way to get out of the wilderness.
He had a motorbike and took us to a village, but when we got there, it was deserted. From there we walked all the way to a nearby town. It took us three days to get there.
When we reached the town, we just slept under a tree the first night because we were exhausted and we knew that nobody would accommodate strangers in their homes since everyone was suspicious of each other because of the situation.
In the morning, we started to look around town in case we saw anyone we knew and eventually – and fortunately – I saw my oldest sister’s husband and he found a car to take me to Maiduguri.
When I got to there, I found my parents and then my husband heard about me and came to find me and took me to live at his brother’s house. He had a business in another town and said he would return there and send support for me. What I found out then was that when he had run from Boko Haram, he had done so with his second wife, so he was going back to live with her.
I waited for two weeks and didn’t hear anything and then his brother asked me to leave his home, so I went to live with my parents and I gave birth there.
We sent word to my husband - twice, but he didn’t come. When he didn’t even come for the naming ceremony of my child, we thought something must have happened to him. I secured some money to travel to the town where he lived with his second wife. When I got there I met him and his other wife and they gave me a very cold reception.
They didn’t give me much food and treated me very badly. Some nights I would get nothing to eat. I decided I needed to get divorced. But my husband didn’t seem to think that we needed a divorce and made me stay with him for a long time until he eventually agreed.
I went back to Maiduguri to stay with my parents, but there wasn’t a lot of business for them and they didn’t have enough money to support me and my son. So that is why I ended up in this camp.
Life here is not comparable to my hometown. Back there, we had everything we needed. We had land, we knew everyone, we had a business. It’s not like we were rich, but we had enough to get by. But here, we are reliant on assistance. We can’t farm. We only survive on what the aid organisations can give us. My life before the crisis cannot be compared to how it is now.
My biggest concern now is to get married because I am divorced and, being a woman, if you are not married, life is difficult. For people to respect you, you need to be in your husband’s house.
But I’m getting on with my life. In my free time I like being with other people and helping to ease their trauma. I watch films to help me forget about things. And I like sewing caps, but when I’m doing it alone, I still think about things that I don’t want to think about.
What is helping me the most is the counselling that I get from Plan International. It has helped rebuild my self-esteem and the work I have been doing as a volunteer has given me a new sense of purpose.
Since I’ve been here I’ve become a member of the Community Based Child Protection Committee so I help to identify children who need support and I also run sessions on child protection.
Some of the cases I come across are girls who have returned from Boko Haram and I like being able to help them. I try to help reduce the stigma they face, and any new cases that I come across, I let Plan International team know so that they can provide them with support.
To begin with, we did have a lot of issues here in the camp, but ever since Plan International came and started involving us in different activities and providing us with support and training in psychological first aid, it has been much better because everyone is working through the challenges together. If there’s an issue that someone identifies then we discuss it at meetings and work out how to address it collaboratively.
Besides counselling we’ve had dignity kits with wrappers, hijabs, slippers, toothpaste and things like that. And I’ve learnt things like how to maintain my house, how to cook safely, good sanitation practices, and how to take care of my son – and I now share what I’ve learnt with other households too.
I go from house to house with the hygiene kits and teach them everything I have learnt. How to clean their toilets, how to cope with trauma and how to look after their children: how to talk to them, how to help them learn, and how best to help them in general. And not just our own children, but other children in the community too. There are a lot of things that I didn’t know before, so Plan International has really helped me and I feel proud to be able to help make things better in the community as well.
I also like going to the Child Friendly Space (CFS) to help with the children – playing with them, stopping them becoming too rowdy. We used to have a lot of children fighting and ending up in the police station, but ever since we started running the CFS they no longer fight because they go there to play. They really like the CFS.
I keep myself busy. Even the women who live alone, who live in tents without their husbands, I’ve managed to encourage them to come out and socialise. Because there were some people here who used to say that they were sleeping around, and we’ve stopped that gossip. And even the children in the community respect these girls and women now. They have got their respect back because they are involved in the community and people appreciate the work they are doing.”

Source: allAfrica.com

Social distancing is one of the proven measures to limit the spread of coronavirus, so we must learn to change our behaviour to save lives.

1. Train communities located along Nigeria's international land borders in risk communication, so they understand how infectious diseases are spread, who to call when cases are suspected and their roles in preventing transmission of infectious diseases, including COVID-19. There are lessons to learn from a survey  conducted by EpiAFRIC in 2016 at Idiroko - a border community located between Nigeria and Benin Republic. A total of 397 questionnaires were administered in the survey. The result showed that 36% believe that spiritual healers can cure or treat infectious diseases; 33% say that they drink traditional herbs to avoid germs; and 63% do not know who to contact to report a suspected case of Ebola to ask questions. Fifty-three percent agree that land crossing at Ipokia should be closed if there is any outbreak in neighboring countries; 67% trust the government/ministry of health to give reliable health information to them; and 78% chose radio, television (67.5) and Facebook (35.5%) as preferred sources of information on infectious diseases.



2. Increase cross-border collaborations between national public health institutes, port health, customs and immigration services in all countries involved. To mitigate the occurrence of infectious disease, they must collaborate to share data, learnings and intelligence. For instance, the lack of such collaborations may be the reason for these recent COVID-19 cases that came in from Benin Republic. Joint training of officers from these different arms of government is also very important. This would ensure the officers establish personal as well as official relationships that could improve information sharing.

3. Improve access to healthcare in border communities and engender positive health-seeking behaviours. When community members fall sick, the first place they should go for healthcare is within the public health system. As it currently stands, data  show otherwise - chemists and community pharmacies are the first places people seek care. In fact, Nigeria's 2016 national health accounts  showed that total health expenditure was $10 billion: out-of-pocket expenditure was $7.7 billion and $2.6 billion of out-of-pocket expenditure was spent in chemists and pharmacies (this was more than twice the total donor health support in same year). Any communities along these land borders without universal access to healthcare is a weak link in prevention, detection and prevention of infectious diseases.


4. Train drivers who convey passengers along these international land borders on epidemic preparedness. They must be educated on their roles in preventing cross-border transmission of infections. This training is for their good too because their close proximity to passengers exposes them to COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.
Tackling the limitations of Nigeria's vast land borders would not happen overnight. However, government, civil society, the private sector, donor-funded programs, health workers and community leaders must begin to prioritise this intervention one community at a time.
Infectious diseases do not respect borders. Public health interventions should not too.
Source: allAfrica.com

As the COVID-19 pandemic rages globally, the African continent has not been severely affected. Overall, Africa  – a continent of 1.2 billion people – has reported 9,310 cases. Looking at Nigeria, despite being the most populated country in Africa, it has just reported  232 cases, 5 deaths and discharged 32. As encouraging as Nigeria's COVID-19 situation is, however, it is very possible that cases are being missed, especially along Nigeria's land borders.
As a public health physician in Nigeria, I have worked in communities along these land borders and seen firsthand how porous they are. Some of them are farmlands, some are forests while some are parts of households. Apart from a few portions that serve as official crossings, the land borders are pretty much open for all. This has always bothered me, and I have spoken  about this weakness previously.
Countries located around Nigeria's vast land borders include Cameroon (north east and south east); Republic of Benin (north west and south west); Chad and Nigeria's Republics (northern) and the Atlantic Ocean via the Bight of Biafra (Southern). As at April 5 2020, these countries reported  the following numbers of cases of COVID-19: Cameroon (306); Niger (98) Benin (13) and Chad (.
With closure of international borders in the country, public health authorities had heaved a sigh of relief and focused on tracing and testing more than 6,000 people who were exposed to COVID19 as a result of international travels and their contacts. Then, on April 1, 12 new COVID-19 cases  were reported in Nigeria's south west state of Osun. These cases were Nigerians traveling by road from the neighboring Republic of Benin. This highlights the risks that exist along Nigeria's vast international borders.
Indeed, Nigeria's land borders have been part of the country's weakest link in epidemic preparedness for a long time and now must be prioritized in order to stem the count of COVID-19 cases. These are four ways to markedly reduce the threat of importing COVID-19 and other infectious diseases through these land borders.

No harm in trying. It is always good to be optimistic.

Apology accepted. We are good people; we are democratic.

yrex01:
Mr exposed. I'm not saying 5g is d caused of covid'19 ooo but if they finally launch it, pls stay close to the mast for 5hrs n come here to tell us we go school. I'm not xtain tho but 5g z very deadly to human. We talking bout 60hz man.. Get sense 60hz !!!!

Don't mind that guy. Some people just talk without reasoning. Education is not about learning how to read and write,but reasoning also.


How can someone in 3rd world country critisizes the action of those in the advanced countries about their technology.

Wisdom wisdom wisdom

Only the person wearing his/her shoes knows where it pinches.

He is not witnessing what's happening over there.

These are what I have to say about Nairaland.


Nairaland is an Internet forum where people log in to do some disgusting things for cheap likes.

Some for good, others for evil.

It is a site where you see educated illiterate behaving like an illiterate.

We make mockery of the president, say things about him,call his supporters Zombie, but the same people still worship NwaAmaikpe and his co ManaBBGrills. So what's the difference?


1. Nairaland is also an Internet forum where members display different characters; Tribalism, Racism,...etc. where we have thousands of people supporting / siding different obnoxious attitude.

Let me start by hailing Explorer, one of my favourite on Nairaland. His news are always legit, simple, comprehendable with beautiful graphic pictures. I surf nairaland every day in search of Explorer's updates.


2. The Good think I just love about Nairaland is their "Snake thread"


I like Lalasticlala. Each time I am on a post and I see Lalasticlala viewing / on that post, I smile and say, " FP material"


3. Thanks to Mynd44, the guy that banned my cousin for a crime / rules he didn't break: Posting about a fix match, why it should be crubed, how to Identify scammers..etc, where he got banned till 2036. He deserved that ban as stated by one of the rules: Do not post false information on Nairaland. Mynd44 is really doing a great job, making sure perpetrators are really dealt with when any of the rules are disobeyed.

He asked me, "can Nairaland still be in existence till 2036?", I laughed and replied to him by saying "yes", because I trust Seun,others limits is his starting point.


4. Also, to the CEO of Nairaland Mr. Seun, I see your hand work each day, if Nairaland hadn't existed, I wonder what the world would look like.

It's a good thing you came up with a brilliant idea in creating Nairaland. I see you becoming our Nigeria bill gate.

5.I see your Updates which ain't easy. One can even go back to a post made in 2013 to get information.

You are just wonderful.

finally, I wanna say good Pm to all my haters, just because you hate me don't mean I shouldn't say "hi"


Thank God for the gift of life, we shall all overcome Coronavirus and our greedy politician.

It is finished.

See sentencing oooo

what kinda 'f judge handled their case?

The tribunal has been turned into a joking centre.

okomile:
Supported!!!

What about someone, somewhere now razing people's farm, raping their women, bombing their homes?

I hope when they gets caught, your opinion won't change.

Let's assume Today is the presidential election.

Click "like" if you don't want APC

Click "share" if you still want APC

All Nairalanders must participate.

Let the voting begin

Yanmiriflathead:
So These Ones Are Still Hoping That Someday They'll Relegate Tinubu/APC And Be In Full Control Of Lagos State??[b] So That They Can Turn Lagos To An Igbo Affair Abi? Imagine Having An Igbo Man As The Deputy Governor Of Lagos And Several Sensitive Consolatory Positions To Boot For Their Steadfastness. [/b]Only Tinubus Propaganda Machines Alone Una Done Resign Discharge Go Una Various Villages For East. We Never Talk Of Deploying Merceneries Like MC Oluomo And Co. This Is Day Dreaming. It Is Impossible For PDP To Rule Lagos State Just As It Is Impossible For An Igbo Man To Rule Nigeria

PS: May U'all Quoting Me To Say Rubbish Have Covid 19 Before Buhari This Month.

Why do you link those you don't like as IPOB/ PDP?

Who told you PDP is igbo?

Who was the candidate of PDP last governorship election??


Why are you this bigot, can't you reason or at least lay your bed for your future children instead of letting hatred eat you up.

Put me and this mofo inside ring, i go beat am blue black.

WTF!!