₦airaland Forum

yarimo:
The cleric is just wasting his time, advicing someone who doesn't know anything about good governernce.

paramakina202:
Geometric are currently intalling free recharge meters in houses and apartments in Aba and environs.
Why blame state government when the project isn't state owned?

Dalohad:
You be illiterate, deny am..

A map of the $3 trillion African Economy labelled by each country's economic output, excluding Eritrea, Burundi, Lesotho, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe.

Breaking Down the $3 Trillion African Economy by Country
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Home to 1.4 billion people, the nations of the African continent are widely diverse; not just in culture and language, but also in economic output.

We visualize the 2024 gross domestic product (GDP) projections for African countries from International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates, last updated in October 2023. The data is in current USD, and does not include projections for Eritrea.

Furthermore, data for Lesotho, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Burundi has been left off the map due to a lack of space but has been included in the article’s table.

Ranked: Africa’s Economies by GDP

At first place, South Africa is Africa’s biggest economy in nominal terms, with an estimated GDP of nearly $400 billion.

The country’s mining industry is a major contributor to the economy, accounting for nearly 60% of total exports in the first half of 2023. South Africa is one of the world’s biggest producers of gold, diamonds, platinum, manganese, and other minerals.

However, concerns regarding the sustainability of South Africa’s mining industry have grown since the pandemic. According to a report by PwC, the country’s gold industry may have less than 30 years left without renewed investment.

Note: Figures are rounded.
Close behind South Africa, Nigeria’s economic output in 2024 is estimated at $395 billion. Declining oil production—the country’s main export—along with foreign exchange woes, have made for a broader economic crisis, sparking protests. Inflation is also running rampant in the economy as well: expected to peak at 33% by mid-2024.

Africa’s third-largest economy, Egypt, is also suffering from extremely high inflation since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. This is largely due to the country’s reliance on food imports from those nations. According to the IMF, core inflation in Egypt hit nearly 40% in 2023, while food inflation briefly surpassed 70%.

Oil plays a huge role in fourth-ranked Algeria as well, contributing nearly 25% to the country’s $239 billion economic output.

However, in fifth-ranked Ethiopia, agriculture accounts for more than 40% of the country’s $192 billion GDP and coffee is its biggest export. Gold and gemstone mining are seen as an important areas of diversification for the country’s economy.

Dalohad:
Make una dey research, if something no clear. Una mouth too wide for social media, and una always want talk, whether na common sense or rubbish, una go sha open mouth waaaaah!

Nigerians!

Jeon:
Why will a normal man deny a woman to go see her family?.
Some Women dy marry shéha !.

Nah woman of before go obey, even if there's no valid reason for denying her to see her blood family. But now try it on most women.

phorget:
Subtle jab from Obi, the man is teaching them common sense but instead they will run to receive palliative from war torn Ukraine.

Vasgas:
An eye opener

Omoawoke:
Maybe God will make you or give your artistic children like this

Omoawoke:
Not every human is good looking...call a spade a spade, some people are ugly while some are good looking. Some are rich, some are poor, some are intelligent, some are dull.... Na so life be. All humans cannot be rich, beautiful, intelligent, talented, etc...we are not equally yoked.

folake4u:
Lol.

Every legal practitioner in Nigeria is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria upon being called to the Nigerian Bar.

Watianoengineer:
He and Nnamdi kanu should be cell mates

Calitoscassius:
Keep waiting for them to enter Ghana, what is so special about Ghana anyway?

Mr. Ibu died of Blood Clots in his leg.



This is the disease that almost killed me.

I still have a clot in my left leg. 200,000 Nigerians die of Blood Clot annually. Please know the symptoms. I almost died if not for medical intervention.

This was 3 years ago…

I lived with undiagnosed DVT for several months…

Then it dislodged and traveled to my lungs, causing Pulmonary Embolism…

I almost died…

Breathing was like stabbing myself with every draw of air…

Already walking was almost impossible…

At one point, I couldn’t get out of bed because of the pain…

Doctors couldn’t find what was wrong…

Blood tests and X-ray couldn’t find anything…

This is where many Africans become superstitious and conclude that they are being ‘pursued by village people’….

I was undiagnosed until the day I almost stopped breathing…

I remember walking into my GP’s room that morning…

Immediately he saw me, he ordered a D-Dimer blood test…

This is a test that checks for blood clotting problems by measuring the amount of the D-dimer level in your body.

My result came out positive and he ordered an ambulance to take me straight to hospital… according to him, I could drop dead any moment from then if I wasn’t admitted in hospital…

I told him I needed to see my family and kiss them goodbye before being taken to hospital…

I drove myself back to the house, packed my laptop and few clothes, said my goodbyes to the family and drove myself to the hospital…

It was during COVID so hospitals were filled with COVID patients and it took longer to get me admitted…

Once fully admitted, they injected me with CLEXANE…

My oxygen level was dropping…

I was taken in for a CT scan and boom, it was confirmed that I had clots in my lungs. I was diagnosed of Bilateral Massive Pulmonary Embolism. The size of the blood that clotted in my lungs is what was described as massive.

It was then that my physician told me I would have died in 2 days if I didn’t make it to hospital…

At that point, everything lost value…

I knew I could die any moment…

I called a few friends and prepared them for my potential exit…

I contacted business partners and shared every necessary information they need for continuity…

I blocked my mind from thinking about my son as the thought of him in this world without me was killing me faster than the massive clot in my lungs…

But I had faith in medical science…

I trusted the process…

I surrounded myself with friends in the medical field - from Dr. Idee in the UK who first mentioned i should be checked for DVT/PE, sister Joy in the US, Dr. Adetola in the US and others.

On ground, I had the best specialists monitoring me closely.

After 10 days of fighting for my life in hospital, my physician discharged me and said I cheated death.

According to him, blood clots kills faster yet few people are aware of it.

I knew at that point that the universe wanted me to use my story to raise awareness about this killer but unpopular medical condition…

If you sit long hours in flights or at work, you are at a risk of developing a blood clot.

If you have high blood pressure, cancer or on cancer therapy, your risk of clotting is high.

If you have a sibling or relative who suffered blood clot, please investigate the possibility of a genetic clotting disorder.

And finally, if you’re sick and multiple blood tests do not show what’s wrong with you, do not conclude that the condition is spiritual. You just haven’t been tested correctly. Some laboratory tests or radiological scans may also not be available in your city. A lot of Nigerians die because they mistook a medical condition for a spiritual problem .

My name is Charles Awuzie and I just wanted to raise awareness about blood clots especially after learning that Mr. Ibu died of clot related complications.