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The Rivers State commissioner of Police, Mustapha Dandaura has warn his men against extortion while enforcing lockdown at different borders in the state.

While speaking to newsmen, he said a monitoring unit will be put on ground to check mate the activities of the Police at the different borders in the state, and any officer caught going against the directive of the state by collecting money will be dealt with.

Video Credit: NigeriaInfo PH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-JLWoXa4ZY

Recall that both residents, motorist and traders, especially those bringing in essential commodities into the state have accused the security operatives enforcing lockdown at the border of extortion.
Source: https://www.ccnaija.com/2020/04/rivers-state-cp-warns-operative.html

Security operative deployed to the boarder around Mbiama accused of extortion.
Video Credit: NigeriaInfo PH


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPkLGnx_fL4

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ifysimple:
The one in the first picture is black pepper (uziza)
On the second picture is cloves

Thanks, I just googled clove. I wonder why she gave me that instead of black pepper.

So I wanted raw black pepper. But didn't know if the people in the market would know the English name. So I searched for the Igbo name and found out it's called uziza.

I went to the market and told a lady that I wanted to buy uziza, and she gave me what you are seeing in the first photo.

A week later, being today. I went to the same woman and said I wanted black pepper, and she gave me what you are seeing in the second photo. I didn't bother to look at it until I got home since I bought a lot of things today.

I have never used this spice before, and do not know what it looks like. I only decided to buy it because of its health benefits.
Please if you know this spice. are any of these black pepper?

Everyone wants to talk about the novel coronavirus outbreak right now, but you might hear YouTubers avoiding the subject — if they talk about it, they risk getting their ads shut off.


“For today’s video, I won’t be directly commenting on the recent health related news because A, I am not a health care professional, and B, I don’t need my video demonetized,” Linus Sebastian, host of Linus Tech Tips, says at the beginning of recent video about buying a new PC in this period.

YouTube has demonetized videos about sensitive subjects in the past. The company’s advertising guidelines state that sensitive topics — usually a recent event with a “loss of life, typically as a result of a pre-planned malicious attack” — are normally not suitable for advertising. These videos are allowed to stay on the platform; they just can’t make money from YouTube’s built-in ad service.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/3/4/21164553/youtube-coronavirus-demonetization-sensitive-subjects-advertising-guidelines-revenue

Cool

After reading this topic, I have lost all respect for pastor Chris. I remember sometime in 2010 they said Obama was the Antichrist, now its China lol

China have already started working on 6G technology since last year. In a few years time from now, 5G will become obsolete. And he will still use the same technology to stream his service online.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7656417/amp/China-kick-starts-development-6G-technology-week-rolling-5G-network.html

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This question should be directed to those beneficiaries who went to marry new wife with their stipend.
As for the others, same way they have been coping when they weren't enrolled on Npower.

Globally, more than a million Coronavirus cases have been confirmed. According to the latest figures release from Hopkins university. Though Hopkins have recorded 1 million confirmed cases Globally, the number are thought to be much higher. More than 50,000 have already been confirmed dead globally with about 210,000 recovered.

The the novel Coronavirus first emerged from Wuhan China, in December 2019, and It took about a month and a half for the first 100,000 cases to be confirmed. Over the past week, the number of new cases have been doubling, now reaching a million registered cases.

The US is the new epicentre of the disease, with about 1,000 COVID-19 patients dying this past days. Almost a quarter of all the cases are registered in the US, with Europe accounting for about half.
Source: https://www.ccnaija.com/2020/04/global-coronavirus-cases-passes-1.html

This is just crazy

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Rivers State Government imposes 6pm - 6am curfew
Government to set up Food Market Across Rivers State
Local Government Chairman of Obia/Akpor Suspended indefinitely

The Rivers State Government has imposed a dusk to dawn (6pm - 6am) curfew on the state in an effort to curb the spread of the Coronavirus in the state.

The Governor of the state Chief Barrister Nyesom Wike made this known in a broadcast on Monday. The curfew is to take effect from Tuesday, 31 March 2020. He however, excluded those performing essential services from the ban like journalist, medical personal, those in the power sector, petroleum products etc.

The governor also directed traditional rulers, youth leaders, and community development committee to make sure all beer parlors in their community are closed down

The governor said the state is considering setting up Food Market across the state were residents can buy essential commodities.

The governor announced the suspension of the Local Government Chairman of Obia/Akpor, Solomon Abel and his deputy for failing to carry out the government instruction on the closing of all market in their LGA.

Source: https://www.ccnaija.com/2020/03/coronavirus-rivers-state-government.html?m=1

The Coronavirus has no doubt created anxiety among people, with the spreading of the Covid-19 around the world, people are now soaking up every information that is being shared on social media concerning the virus.

In our effort to get the latest update concerning the COVID-19 , we should not forget that not every information we get on social media are true.

Because of this, the WHO (World Health Organization) has collaborated with facebook- owned WhatsApp to create a Coronavirus focused pandemic chatbot called "WHO health Alert"

The chatbot will answer questions about COVID-19, provide latest news on the latest infection rate, travel advice, how people can protect themselves, FAQ and tips as it relates to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

How To Add WHO Heart Alert on WhatsApp

Save the number +41 79 893 1892 on you phone contact

Open your WhatsApp and send Hi to the WHO Heart Alert number you just added.

Once you send the message, you will get a message showing a list of things the not can do. You can then press the appropriate number depending on the data or information you wish to get.

You could also visit the WhatsApp.com/Coronavirus and click on the WHO link to open a chat with WHO Heart Alert

As at this time, WHO Heart Alert is only available in English, but there are plans to include support for other languages such as Chinese, French, Spanish, Arabic and Russian.

The WHO already have a website for sharing of latest information on Coronavirus. WhatsApp however, has an advantage because it is easily accessible to a large part of the Worlds population. WhatsApp has the potential to reach over 1.9 billion individuals and WHO can get these information directly to this people.

Facebook have also said it would release $1M grant to International Fact Checking Network (IFCN). The IFCN is a unit of poynter that helps brings fact checkers worldwide. It will help support fast fact checking on Coronavirus

Source: https://techoragon.com/threads/who-to-curb-covid-19-fake-news-on-whatsapp-with-heart-alert-chatbot.177/

As we all stay at home I thought it will be nice If we all lighten up our day with some funny Memes. Especially Coronavirus funny pictures or memes, if you have any you can share them here.
There is also a Facebook group for sharing COVID-19 Memes and updates click Here to join

The only fight I separate are those between kids. I don't even go close to teenagers fighting, not to talk of adults.

walesho:
God punish poverty, because of free wifi you want to be infected

where is you sense of humor bro...You don't have to take everything so serious.
In case you didn't notice, it was a joke.

From emirs to kings, Nigeria's traditional rulers are increasingly being humiliated by politicians - and mocked by young people who see them as representing an archaic institution.

The latest example of this was the brutal dethronement of the Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II.

The state governor invoked his constitutional powers to depose the emir after accusing him of "insubordination".

No-one knows the number of monarchs in multi-ethnic Nigeria but there seems to be one ruling over every inch of land, often putting them at loggerheads with the politicians who have constitutional authority.

Nigeria's traditional leaders retain huge influence in many parts of the country but recent events have made some young people question the role of the monarchy in the 21st Century.

Mr Sanusi is the most high-profile of several cases in the last five months in which politicians have publicly brought monarchs to heel or the actions of some traditional rulers have led people to question their relevance.

Colonial-style exile
Mr Sanusi was removed for "total disrespect" of institutions and the governor's office, the government said.

But in truth, his removal was the culmination of a long tussle with Kano state governor Umar Ganduje, a powerful figure within Nigeria's governing All Progressives Congress (APC) party.




Those close to him say the emir expected his removal but not his banishment to neighbouring Nasarawa state which his lawyers described as an "archaic practice" of the colonial era.

After gaining a court order, he has regained his freedom but the manner of his removal and subsequent detention showed the real balance of power between politicians and traditional rulers.

"There is no way you can reconcile the feudal gathering of traditional kinship with the application of a modern republican constitution," said Dr Jare Oladosun, an associate professor of history at Nigeria's Obafemi Awolowo University.

He said it was an insurmountable contradiction and favours the scrapping of the monarchy.

"You cannot have both, only one," he said.

For many, Mr Sanusi's removal confirmed what they have long suspected - that the country's monarchs are only symbolic heads with no real power.

Don't shake your head when the governor is speaking
Nigeria's constitution has no role for traditional rulers but they are nevertheless widely respected as custodians of both religion and culture.

And this can be seen as a form of power.


Several myths about the oba of Benin say magic makes him indestructible
Olutayo Adeshina, a professor of history at the University of Lagos, said that by pledging to respect the culture "by protecting, preserving and promoting traditional values", the Nigerian constitution recognises the important role of traditional leaders.

"Traditional leaders possess some latent power which politicians are afraid of, hence the tension between the two.

"If they are not relevant, the politicians would ignore them. But you ignore them at your own peril," he said.

But anyone who watched a video widely shared on social media in January would question whether politicians still have much respect for traditional leaders.

A king in the southern state of Rivers was publicly ridiculed for shaking his head while governor Nyesom Wike was speaking.

The governor ripped into the mortified king in a gathering of traditional rulers, provoking laughter from those in the room.

"You just [go] and wear something that is bigger than you... to breach protocol."

The governor was mocking the monarch's traditional robe and elaborate crown.


In the same week that emir Sanusi was removed in Kano, traditional rulers in south-west Ekiti state were embroiled in a face-off with the governor after he appointed an oba (Yoruba king) to head the traditional council.

A group 16 local obas were not pleased with the "interference" and stayed away from state functions, drawing a stern letter from the governor who accused them of insubordination.

In November 2019, Nigeria's Supreme Court dethroned another oba, in Oyo state, declaring the process of his ascendancy to the throne illegal.

Samuel Adebayo-Adegbola, who was the Eleruwa of Eruwa, had spent 21 years on the throne before he was forced to step down on the grounds that he was not a member of one of the town's two ruling houses whose turn it was to produce a successor in 1994.

The throne remains vacant.


The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Adeyemi III is a respected traditional leader in south-western Nigeria
But it is not always the politicians casting aspersions on the monarchy in Nigeria - the actions of some traditional rulers have also put them in the spotlight.

In February, the Oluwo of Iwoland, Abdulrasheed Akanbi, a flamboyant and controversial oba in the south-west state of Osun engaged in a public brawl with another monarch, Dhikrulahi Akinropo, Agbowu of Ogbaagbaa.

Tempers flared at a meeting to settle a land dispute and Oba Akanbi is currently serving a six-month suspension for his part in the altercation.

'Traditional trendiness'
But some monarchs are determined to remain relevant.

Oba Akanbi's Instagram page is an album of very colourful pictures and in one post he talks about "21st Century Kings".

"You think Kings can't "Swag"!! 21st Century Kings like me will catch you unawares!!! You got it all wrong by thinking kings are just 'old raggedy, sad looking, can't dance, working with voodoo, scary looking, can't have fun and only boring!!!" he posted.


But such "traditional trendiness" has not caught on among young people and many took the opportunity of the emir's dethronement in Kano to criticise the monarchy.

"Kings that have no authority, no armies, fight no wars, bear no responsibility for the development or prosperity of their domain.

"Yet we indulge in this pitiful fantasy of them being the all powerful as Kings who did all these and more in the days of yore. Too funny," this user said.

Source : https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-51853564

CoronaVirusRelo:
Yes.

Do you want to come there?

Hmm, time to stop washing my hands

I was wondering if they provide free Wi-Fi for those who are quarantined

I have modified my post because you are actually right. You never said anything about alcohol. I'm just obsessed with the fact that someone somewhere will take advantage of this Coronavirus stuff.

Modified

what about a spoilt smartphone, can it be put to good use?

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Weda society approves her decision is debatable. But from her attitude, it seems she is living her dreams.

Nice one

Lemme park well. Maybe I might learn something new

She better save the sperm as evidence. Otherwise, this case will go out the window.