Boko Haram will never come near Chadian soldiers again. Anyone who understands terror groups in Northern Nigeria will know that they are scared fellows who run when a superior power hits them. They are NOT an army and this says a lot. Approach them with precision and a plan and they run and cry when they start seeing their dying colleagues writhing in pain from shrapnel tear and bullet holes.
Sadly, they will focus on the compromised Nigerian Army and the Nigerian territory now. This isn’t good news.
JAMO84: Kudos to the Chadian army, but stop giving me the crap about President Deby leading anything. He did not fire a single round, he wasn't the commanding officer. He just turned up in military regalia at the bigging of the operation in order to boost the morale of the military personnel!!!
Did I also mention that the Nigerian army pushed the terrorists to the fringe of the lake Chad region were they attacked and killed 91 Chadian soldiers!
I AM DONE TALKING
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All BMCs are done talking. You shouldnt embarass yourself; it is not worth it. You havent done anything different.
Thursday evening battle at kelkoua, bank of Lake Chad as Tchadian forces fire rockets and 12.5mm rounds on #BokoHaram fighters from both flanks. Several BHT bunkers were discovered and destroyed. pic.twitter.com/QRabOaafIo
— DEMAGOGUE PhD.💘senior advocat (@von_Bismack) April 4, 2020
Buhari will send an emissary to TChad to ask them to stop killing his brothers. Or find a way to give out TChad soldiers positions to Boko Haram. Or maybe Nigerian Army will "accidently" bomb TChad soldiers positions. I pray this happens. It can help to fish out the compromised members of the Army.
lalasticlala: Funke Akindele And JJC Skillz are being blasted by Nigerians for allegedly holding a house party amidst coronavirus pandemic and lockdown.
A Nigerian twitter user, the CV Writer @FunkeOnafuye, Shered a video from the party.
Seun: Effect Of Temperature On COVID-19: An Unscientific Investigation.
In the early days of the Coronavirus scourge, many Nigerians believed that we wouldn't be affected because of our hot weather. Now that we're testing people, we have seen a sharp increase in the number of confirmed cases, to about 210, which is still quite low for a country with 190 million residents. However many people suspect that the virus has penetrated our society far more deeply than the NCDC statistics suggest. We've noticed that people who travelled to colder countries recently or spend most of their time in air-conditioned spaces, or their direct contacts, are massively over-represented among the confirmed cases. Is this because they are the only ones being tested, or is heat a factor?
Here is the list of the 10 countries that have the highest number of active COVID-19 cases, and their forecasted temperatures for the day: * USA has 257,790 active cases. The temperature forecast for New York is 8°C - 15°C. * Italy has 85,388 active cases. The temperature forecast for Rome is 7°C - 25°C. * Spain has 77,488 active cases. The temperature forecast for Madrid is 6°C - 19°C * Germany has 65,309 active cases. The temperature forecast for Berlin is 1°C - 12°C * France has 61,650 active cases. The temperature forecast for Paris is 6°C - 17°C * UK has 34,428 active cases. The temperature forecast for London is 4°C - 16°C * Iran has 31,954 active cases. The temperature forecast for Tehran is 8°C - 19°C * Turkey has 20,012 active cases. The temperature forecast for Istanbul is 8°C - 11°C * Switzerland has 14,169 active cases. The temperature forecast for Geneva is 3°C - 17°C * Netherlands has 13,986 active cases. The temperature forecast for Amsterdam is 4°C - 14°C
On average, the top ten countries with Coronavirus have a temperature forecast of 5.5 - 16.5°C. The temperature forecast for Lagos is 26°C - 34°C, and for Abuja, it's 24°C - 36°C. This is a massive, massive difference! The maximum temperature of nine of the countries above is lower than the minimum temperature of Lagos. The maximum temperature of 7 of those countries is lower than the minimum thermostat setting of most Nigerian air-conditioners (18°C).
The countries mentioned above are in Africa, Asia or Europe. What about Africa? Here's our top 5: * South Africa has 1,401 active cases. The temperature forecast for Johannesburg is 9°C - 15°C. * Algeria has 1,004 active cases. The temperature forecast for Algiers is 9°C - 17°C. * Egypt has 703 active cases. The temperature forecast for Cairo is 24°C - 34°C.1 * Tunisia has 472 active cases. The temperature forecast for Tunis is 8°C - 17°C. * Burkina Faso has 236 active cases. The temperature forecast for Ouagadougou is 28°C - 43°C. 1 1 The Egypt data is misleading because the their average temperature last month was 11.6°C to 26°C, but Burkina Faso is a legitimate outlier; the country is much hotter than Nigeria.
The above data, in spite of the outlier, is enough to convince me that the Coronavirus likes cold weather and probably spreads faster in cold places, such as air-conditioned cars, offices, and homes. This, apart from the lack of testing, may explain why we are yet to see any significant evidence of transmission outside the circles of travellers and the rich and powerful in Nigeria. It is consistent with what we know about other respiratory illnesses, and why countries like the US expect the disease to slow down in their summer season (starting from June).
When I see videos of Lagos officials spraying open areas e.g. roads & sidewalks in Lagos, I have to laugh, because I strongly suspect that, if they actually bothered to test for the presence of the virus on those surfaces, they'd find nothing at all because the sun already sterilized them.
Knowing that the virus hates our hot temperature gives me hope. If a cold country like South Korea (0°C -13°C forecast for today) could beat the virus without destroying their economy by imposing a total lockdown, a constantly hot country like Nigeria could do much better if we used the same tactics. We need to start testing people who have had close contact with confirmed cases before they show symptoms. We also need to enforce universal wearing of face-masks and social distancing everywhere, which in itself may even be sufficient to end the virus.
May your days be bright and hot. May your air-conditioners be off and your windows wide open (to get rid of aerosolized droplets). Cheers.
PS: I always make a lot of mistakes when I post long articles, so if you spot any errors, omissions, or false statements, please correct me.
If Africa or any of the African countries was the epicentre of the virus and there was detailed testing and diagnosis, the numbers will same or be higher than the numbers from the West [due to the poor health infrastructure]. It is all about the epicentre and the factors that drive the spread. Your argument, while emotionally beautiful, is misleading as it is not backed by science. Virus can survive in temperate regions. That is why Lassa Virus, Ebola Virus Disease and HIV survives in Africa, the epicentre.
Marriage mehnnnnn That shit scare the hell out of me. How niggarrrz continue to get erection for a particular woman under one same roof baffles me
Can't forget last time i asked one girl to spend one week with me After three days of her staying i was no longer comfortable and my dickk hardly gets excited.
[s]Which means all these our married people are pretending [/s] They don't love themselves anymore but they are just enduring and suffering.
Which means all our married people are not like you. Humans are wired differently. We are not products off a conveyor belt. You need to get that into your brain.
One man, one "organisation". This Muslim blogger -and one must respect him for the amount of noise he has made in Nigeria- should go and isolate himself.
Petyprincess: interracial relationships are beautiful Sometimes dating outside your race gives you more opportunities nd experience! If you are a black girl nd you ve never dated a white guy you are missing alot!! #teamwhitemen
LOL. Be deceiving yourself- but that isnt my concern. You are attempting to deceive other females and this is my concern.
From the video of this Nigerian man, lol, do you see him as free, comfortable and genuinely happy? Of course not. To say otherwise is to fool oneself. Aside the "passport opportunities" which dating outside ones race can give you, I am not certain of other important opportunities.
afrorossiyatv: Western propaganda always paints a picture of Russia as a country filled with blood thirsty racist skin heads, but trust me that's not the reality. A black man is even safer in Russia than America
Depends on where you go in Russia, bruv.
But yes, statistically, you are right. Walk around in downtown Chicago or in the hood in any American state and you can get shot just by looking different. Easily.
festacman: May God heal Abba Kyari, other COVID-19 patients in Nigeria and indeed all over the world.
Our lives and times are in God's time, whether you are a believer, atheist or agnostic. When it's your time to go, you fly! Thats it.
Death wish is a product of dark hearts.
God please, if Abba Kyari has not been directly instrumental to the sufferings, pains and killings of millions of ordinary Nigerians since 2015, if he is squeaky clean from corruption, if he did not contribute in no way to the violence of the 2019 General Elections, please reward him with life and heal him.
However, Father if he is guilty of any of the above, Nigerians and all good people of the world ask you to fulfil your Word in Psalm 109: 8 for him.
Garrieveryday: No place to run to. Is still better than coming back to Nigeria.
They should stay there. In the NHS they will be fed 4 times a day. And given medications and ventilators free of charge. They paid their Immigration Health Surcharge fee and are entitled to these as legal immigrants. I hope they are not foolish enough to think of returning back if flights are available.
PassingShot: I have read a lot of wailing and criticism about the FG’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic since it arrived in Nigeria on Feb 25th. The most recent was reactions to a thread comparing Nigeria’s handling of the crisis to that of UK. Expectedly but sadly, a lot of ignorant commenters were dancing albeit nakedly based on the newspaper’s report which didn’t even say that the UK is handling the pandemic better than Nigeria.
If any unbiased person wants to make any comparison about govts handling of the pandemic, their objective analysis will include parameters such as each govt’s efforts before COVID arrived at their shores (very important), each govt’s immediate response as soon as COVID arrived in their country, number of infected persons (confirmed) and lastly and most importantly, the number of deaths recorded as a result of the pandemic. But since many Nigerians have allowed their common sense to be affected by prejudice and hatred, they have abandoned these relevant parameters in making evaluating the govt’s response to the crisis. Now let’s quickly look at the following facts:
1. Measures taken by the Nigerian Govt before a COVID case was discovered in Nigeria: Long before the pandemic found its way into Nigeria, the FG embarked on monitoring body temperature of people flying into the country to be able to discover who may have showed any signs of the disease. By this time and despite that the disease was at their shores, USA, UK, Iran and many other “saner clime” countries were not even taking this measure. Dr. joe Abah did a thread on it and the World Health Organization commended Nigeria for this measure and going as far as using Nigeria as an example of how countries should respond to the pandemic. Read https://twitter.com/drjoeabah/status/1233989553008119809?lang=en for Dr. Joe’s Twitter thread and https://guardian.ng/news/coronavirus-who-commends-fgs-effort-on-response/ for WHO’s commendation.
2. Number of cases recorded in Nigeria versus that of UK or any other “saner country”: As at the time of writing this article (01/04/2010 @12 noon Naija time), the UK has 25,150 confirmed cases and 1,789 deaths; the USA has 188,639 cases and 4,059 deaths; Iran has 47,593 cases and 3,036 deaths, Italy has 105,792 cases and 12,428 deaths while many other “saner countries” have similar gloomy numbers to show for their efforts. Nigeria on the other hand has recorded 139 cases and 2 deaths. I expect some readers to jump on the fact that Nigeria is not testing as much as the mentioned countries, but the fact remains that while that may be responsible for the low number of confirmed cases, it couldn’t have been responsible for low number of deaths. Not carrying out enough testing would not have prevented people from being struck down by the disease or people dying as a result of it.
3. Another indication that Nigeria’s govt is doing her best in containing the spread of the virus can be seen when one compares the time the country’s first case was discovered to when those of the “saner countries” were discovered and juxtapose with the number of confirmed cases and deaths. Italy had her first case around January 31st, 2020 (two months ago), Spain had its first on Feb. 1st and Italy had it on Feb 21st which was only four days earlier than when Nigeria had hers on Feb 25th. Compare the number of deaths/confirmed cases of these countries and see if you have not been unreasonable in your criticism of the government.
The problem with wailers and destructive critics is that they always shift the goalposts. As such, you can never have any reasonable conversation with them. When the first case was reported in Nigeria, lead by their frustrated Wailer-in-Chief, they said it was a scam to be used to loot money. And when few more cases were confirmed some days after, they turned back to say the govt should have closed the bother long ago! Such is their pathetic life!
Ask them which country Nigeria should have emulated in containing the disease, those of them who still have a bit of sense will stutter because they would not dare say USA, UK, Italy or Germany but the chronic wailers who have obviously lost it all will still compare how Nigeria is managing the spread of the disease to the same UK which has lost almost two thousands of her people to the disease.
Does Nigeria have the facilities or the means to combat the COVID19 pandemic? The answer is a resounding NO. Does the country have a robust health system compared to those “saner countries”? Again, the answer is an emphatic No? Do we have enough money to deploy to tackle any outbreak in the size of that witnessed in UK, Italy, USA or Germany? The answer is an obvious NO. But the fact is that the state of our health system or the size of our purse wasn’t brought about by the current government but a result of many years of failure. So, why wailing uncontrollably instead of supporting the govt’s efforts at preventing the spread of the disease?
Had it been Buhari who reacted the way Trump and Boris Johnson first reacted to the COVID19 outbreak – by dismissing it and making all sorts of joke of it, or just like Seyi Makinde (your “presidential material”) who called it an APC disease, perhaps you would have possibly reacted in such a bad manner. There should be a limit to wailing!
iykbethany: I'm worried at the rate at which western countries are evaluating their citizens from Nigeria.
Last week France evacuated her citizens from Nigeria.
Yesterday Israel evacuated their citizens.
The same yesterday a chartered flight arrived to Evacuate American citizens out of Nigeria?
Germany is planning to evacuate all of her citizens out of Nigeria within the next few days.
You may call me alarmist if you like but I suspect that these western countries must have seen that there's a great danger ahead. They know that we can't handle what's coming. If this virus gets to the rural areas it's gonna be a TSUNAMI. May God help us
The reasons are not actually medical reasons. They know that a "lockdown" as copied by Nigerian regime from the West is not short or medium term sustainable and will lead to a breakdown in law and order. Their intelligence agencies have run the simulation and their models have informed the decision to evacuate. You dont extrapolate what societies with near-perfect systems and stronger economies do and implement it in a weak, failed state with failed infrastructure. That is creating a a situation for anarchy. That is foolishness.
Thanks to the Buhari as given to Nigerians by the South West and the North, the situation will unravel very, very quickly.
These neocolonial capitalists have come with their nonsense again .
When they see that a Nigerian President is close to actualising it, they will insitigate the South West and North to install an illiterate to destroy and destabilise. What did they do to Nigeria when Nigeria was on CNN Money's top 5 fastest growing economy in the world? Instigate and regime-change an illiterate into power.
madridguy: Better for him. I hope the boys can also drop their uniform and return back to their love ones. Boko Haram is an avenue to enrich some individual at the detriment of some peoples lives.
Sadly soldiers are programmed not to question these possibilities. If the Army and its political friends want BH and Fulani Herdsmen Terrorists to end, it will end in a week.
A video of Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State mocking coronavirus at a PDP rally days ago, has surfaced just after he tested positive for the virus.
Speaking at the event, the Oyo State Governor disclosed that there was outcry against the rally as many claimed there was coronavirus. He further stated that there is no coronavirus in PDP.
Makinde said: “They say we should not do this rally because of Coronavirus... Their party leader say they have Coronavirus... We don’t have Coronavirus in our party”
Watch the video above.
Sorry, tomorrow he will praise COVIKK 1-9 and not mock it.
qualityovenbake: There is hope, we are winning this fight. When this covid-19 crisis is over, I just hope our leaders will deliver the change they promised Nigerians. This crisis calls for transformational change that prioritises our county and the wellbeing of all people of Nigeria, not some selected privileged elites.
I think Nigerians are unfair on Buhari. How do you want someone who is illiterate and clearly has the capacity and cognitive abilities to function for himself to deliver "transformational change"? Is it by magic?
People that have been asking why Nigerian atheists (I call them bloody cowards) dont look for the trouble of Muslims... Now you see the reasons. Who wan die?
kingthreat: You are a prolific retard to similarize the contagion in Ebola to that of Covid19
I do not respond to BMCs because, clearly, I cannot keep up to their speed and propensity for insults. It is like being demon-possesed, being a BMC. I expected more insults after I had shown that you were silly comparing 18 months to 4 months.
So continue with your foolishness. The good thing is that it is in the public This is my last response.
kingthreat: Stop being a blockhead. The contagion in Covid-19 and Ebola is not the same. Even Liberia could control it. How much more Nigeria?
Stop being a foolish person. Ebola first emerged in Liberia in 2014 (On 30 March 2014) and ran till 2015 (3 September 2015). That is more than one year.
Nigeria's started in July 2014 and ended in October 2014. It is only foolish people that compare 4 months to 18 months.
Ekejoestar: Today being 23 march 2020, I went to LUTH due to the appointment I have with the E.N.T doctor. When the time came for the Dr to see us the patients, she addressed us and asked everyone to go home due to the corona virus epidemic and how unprepared the hospital was to protect staff working there.
She reveald that LAGOS UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL does not have enough air ventiletor, that LUTH only has about 15 ventilators and the nature of ENT clinic demands close contact with patients for thorough examination and she won't risk her life even if she has ventilators.
She told us to either wait until the epidemic is over or go to NCDC and get tested for the virus assuring us that if an individual can get two negative result within 48hrs and bring the result for confirmation, then she will attend to the person.
I immediately took bike from LUTH gate to CDC office yaba, got there and explained everything to them, they directed me to MAINLAND HOSPITAL (IDH) around Yabatech.
It is clear that Nigeria's efficient handling of the Ebola Virus Disease was simpy because of the clear, centralised and competent leadership that GEJ provided at that time. We can disagree and pretend to ourselves that this isnt true, but the facts stares at us in the face.
Without such a leadership now, anything going on will be uncordinated, scatter gun or, in some cases, non existent. It is clear that MBuhari is physically, intellectually, medically incapable of providing such as leadership. Why cant he (or Abba Kyari) empower the Vice President Osinbajo to provide such leadership? If they really care about the people or the country? This is what Nigerians should have been calling for. Not for the incoherent Buhari (who should be resting and self-isolating) to give a 23 second TV broadcast about kovik 1-9.
This is what Nigerians should be on social media calling for.
Politics › Re: Chadian Soldiers Free Nigerian Soldiers In Boko Haram Captivity - Daily Post by madridsta007(m): 9:07pm On Apr 05, 2020*. Modified: 11:39am On Apr 06, 2020
It can help to fish out the compromised members of the Army.
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