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MrBrownJay1:
nice points.... now do you believe stopping eating cow, chicken, pig, bush meat, monkey and bat would actually solve diseases such as mad cow, bird/swine flu , ebola or coronavirus etc?!

Mad cow was caused by cows being used as feed to cows. To wit, from wikipedia: " In the 1980s and 1990s, bovine spongiform encephalopathy spread in cattle in an epidemic fashion. This occurred because cattle were fed the processed remains of other cattle, a practice now banned in many countries. In turn, consumption (by humans) of bovine-derived foodstuff which contained prion-contaminated tissues resulted in an outbreak of the variant form of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in the 1990s and 2000s.[6]"

Now that the practice is banned, one can say we have stopped the spread of mad cow.

Influenza is a virus with strains adapted to different animals. The problem is that some strains (e.g. bird, swine), become a problem for humans when they make the jump from one species to another. This can be reduced with better farming, distribution, and culling practices.

Ebola, similarly, is a virus that made a jump from bats to humans. If people didn't mess with bats, it would have stayed among bats. Unfortunately, we interact with all sorts of animals from all sorts of places, and viruses - in their bid for survival - adapt to the new situations and hosts, sometimes become far more dangerous in the new host than in the older (which by now have developed some immunity)

So in summary, there are logical reasons for why we should all be careful of how we catch (or raise), prepare, and consume other animals.

When government wants to bring revolution upon itself, it keeps tightening the screws on the population...

shine12:
I love how Nigerian mentality is different.

I know you guys dont see anything wrong with it but America has a big history of leaders spurning our racial rhetorics for their own agenda.USA has millions of Asian American and it wont be long untill racist people start attacking them.

As if the Chinese have been innocent of racism. Read up on their propaganda against Japan, Korea, Vietnam, USA, Kenya, Nigeria... not saying it's right, but what you said about USA is very applicable - even more so - to China.

Spanish flu, Asian flu, Hong Kong flu, Russian flu, Chinese flu... what's the outrage about?

If it had started in Nigeria, you can bet the Chinese would have called it Nigerian flu. (technically, 尼日利亚 简体), but you get my point
Let them celebrate their addition to the history of flu pandemics jare.

TylerDurden:
Idiots still subscibing to the long debunked theory by the Chinese Govt that the Wuhan Corona Virus came from a wildlife market and from eating bats.

The Virus was bio-engineered by a Jew by the name of Charles Lieber and sold to China.

The Chinese got careless and the Virus was released by mistake in same Wuhan which houses a Bio-Safety Level 4 Lab.

Do you idiots need people to think for you always.

Can't you piece information together and come out with your own conclusions.

Must you rely on hand fed propaganda lies

Haba!

Please provide your peer-reviewed sources. Speculation and conjecture is one thing, verifiable evidence is quite another.

MrBrownJay1:
use your brain..... Asians and Africans have been eating these animals (AND WORSE) for generations, and nothing happened to them....now suddenly, this coronavirus happens and you actually think stopping eating these would help?! did the people stop eating cow when there was the mad cow diseases?! stop believing all the rubbish the are feeding us... the CORONAVIRUS was probably created in a lab.

Insightful, however:
1. only local animals used to be eaten... now animals from all over the world are brought into one space. When you mix and match viruses and bacteria, super versions are born.

2. people didn't travel and move around as easily as they do now - increasing chances of spreading - especially into populations that have no immunity to the viruses being brewed in these markets

3. when people died early - reason? unknown (or God's will or something). Now we understand that bacteria and viruses kill people. We understand how thing spread.

4. don't underestimate the effects of modern society: pollution, ecological damage - which can give genetic pressure for organisms to mutate.

Why do people defecate in the open? Because there are few places to do your business.

Rather than declare "war" and waste a whole bunch of energy and resources, Yobe should build public toilets, ensure that people have working toilets at homes and schools (including funding), and sensitize people. But that is hard and will interfere with the governor's traveling and squandering of public funds, so hence taking the easy route and banning it.

We really like to ban, ban, ban, ban. No understanding or appreciation of the fundamental issues, nor the patience and political will to play the long game and do things right.

Africa 2020?

Una don see how 2020 take scatter globally? OK. vision 2030 loading

But what has the judiciary got to do with a political party's internal struggles? Can anybody explain, because I'm not understanding...

Beautiful. We need more and more.
I don't mind that money from South is used to develop the North, as people like pointing out. That's what most countries do. I've never seen a country with the same amount of resources spread all over. You develop different regions with what's available and make the nation as a whole great.

Truth is there are resources in the North that we as a nation have ignored for a while. Many states all over North and South have these resources, and if we were a serious country, we would have paid attention to all of them, instead of focusing solely on oil. This is not the fault of a person from the North, but of Nigeria's leadership (who we have the power to choose, I must point out)

Some materials of interest to me that could be used if we were serious (I'm including middle-belt in this list):

Tin: Plateau
Lead-zinc: Benue (batteries for solar)
Silica: Kano, Jigawa (solar cells, controller chips)
Uranium: Borno (alternative power)
Iron: Kogi (steel)
Gypsum: Adamana (glass making, chemicals)
Talc: Niger (pharmaceuticals)

For most of us, especially our leaders, we learned this list only to pass exam, and have since forgotten the potential.

I'm into computer systems. If I had the money, or could convince enough people with money, I would set up a silicon industry in Kano to create chips and solar cells. We have the money in this country for private industry to pour $4 billion to make this happen. We have over 300million people in Ecowas we could provide phones and solar panels for.

Under16:
If the privatisation isn't working The Fed govt should acquire it back.

... it was working before when it was not privatized bah? It's just all round unseriousness on the part of everybody involved, including customers who like paying below-market-price for electricity yet expect first-class service.

Sense. A girl has to have sense. So many boring, starving ladies out there.

I know it's a thread aimed at the ladies, but wanted to chuk mouth.

HRH Sultan of Sokoto... speaking truth... please sir just be careful of shaking tables... some governors no get chill...

BlackfireX:
Igbos always like showing off....

Think of it this way: "Igbos always like inspiring themselves".

Igbo culture is based on the principles of personal achievement, egalitarianism, continuous improvement, and fierce independence. Accordingly, there's no psychological limitation that somebody is inherently better and one should just accept their fate. It's no accident there were no kings in Igboland.

Due to these principles, there's no need to wallow in jealousy, but instead, you'll see Igbo minds thinking: "how can I achieve this too?"

Honestly, that was what ran through my mind: I want to build something like this!

I wonder how much this virus is saving the Nigerian people? At least $100,000 USD daily

Sholaco:
What about power food supply, poor power supply, poor health care supply, poor road network, poor security network, poor education provision, poor or leadership failure

It's called redundancy na... we already know we lead in anything poor.

Before nko? Since mid-80's, Nigerians have been OYO when it comes to water.

I just can't imagine how our leaders will be proud to know they can't just open tap and drink water. It's like they didn't grow up in modern ages. They are able to buy bottle water or their own filtration, and it's OK... no pride in yourself as a black man to provide for your own people.

#1 on this list should be: Leave Lagos.

After all the "I must make it in Lagos", you would have ruined your health and your mental state, drinking filtered borehole water from right next to soakaways... all for what? So you can live in an overpriced house that you leave at 5:30am and come back to around 11pm? Spend nearly one full day of every week in your precious life in traffic? (4hours x 5 days = 20 hours a week)

Abeg, Ibadan dey, Ilorin too. PHC, Enugu, Owerri, Asaba are there. Much better quality of life in those cities if you ask me.
We used to live in Lagos when I was small. It's been 4 years since I last visited Lagos (by choice, since I go to other cities), and man, I don't miss it.

southniyikaye:
so monkeys were also affected in this Corona virus craze?
Imagine you not knowing and coming from your farm with 3 bunches of banana and these monkey waylay you?

Man... too funny. This coronavirus thing has many unforeseen effects oh

YINMU. As school-leaving certificate was not verifiable, so will HND diploma. This is Nigeria.

It's like it's time for me to go on long vac in the villa. Only thing I need is yam, palm oil, egusi, salt, garri, crayfish, beans. I can eat those in various combinations for three months.

I don't have to pay rent or drive anywhere.

Water don dey pass garri oh. 2020 na wah for you oh!

So this is the 2020 we have been talking about since that we were going to end poverty, running water in all cities, 24/7 light. Na so world economy con hang up. Many history PhDs dissertations will be written concerning "The Great Pandemic of 2020 and the Global Economic Crash".

Holy sht!!! This is unprecedented. Hang on to your loincloths folks, we are in for the ride of the century.

So I hope we take a valuable lesson from this: quit messing around with wild animals. Between the snakes, crocodiles, bushmeat, and assorted that people are slicing and dicing here in Naija, who knows what we're breeding...

Coronavirus started from people fooling around with wild animals... kwantinu. The virus that will finish Nigerians is still doing pressup inside a snake or bushmeat.

Any word on the people they shared air with for 10 hours in a restricted plane cabin?

Geology. History and International Studies bah?

US citizens with these degrees are either waiting tables or driving taxis. No kidding.

I'm an advocate for higher education, and traveling abroad for it. But to be brutally honest, google: "Half of China's billionaires don't have a degree". I'm assuming similar percentage for higher education (e.g. masters or another bachelor's). You already have higher education. The money that will be spent on further education would be much much better utilized in a business.

I realize many people are not built to be entrepreneurs with the stress and risk it entails. I will say this though: if you migrate, you will become yet another wage slave. Unless you're very very careful with your planning and finances, you will spend 20-30 years of your life abroad, with nothing but a mortgage, a couple cars, and perhaps a little retirement nest egg. Which is fine.

When you are able to scrape a few thousand dollars together so you can visit Nigeria once a year, you will see your mates have become directors, MDs, ambassadors, landlords, etc. Your Nigerian-based mates are able to buy houses in US outright with cash, while you're still on year 20 of your mortgage.

Mature economies do not have the same opportunities like developing ones. Ask China.

Nigeria is hard, but opportunities abound. Who owns all the factories, housing estates, clubs, hotels, IT companies all over? No be person?

From now till 2100, will we be asking the Italians, Brits, Germans, Indians, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans to build our things. When are we going to train our own manpower and support our industries to create the things we use? We can't keep selling natural resources to buy goods that add value to other countries.

Wow. Reminds me of one old guy in my villa way no dey send anybody. Troublesome fellow who's well known at the police station. His hobbies include slapping, biting, kicking, and pouring boiling water on police. He will spend a few days in cell, and then go and find somebody else's trouble. What a guy

They should not forget to triple the loan amounts while they're at it. And why haven't we heard the usual spins from Mr Lye?

nabiz:
good luck. But if I may ask what are the problems you want to go and solve in your locality and how do you plan to tackle it

You're asking how he plans to help people? Which Nigerian politician does that?

OP, good luck sha. Please be a force for good.

GerogeI:
It is unconstutional because the traditional ruler being in Governance itself is unconstitutional. You cannot have a throne under a democratic government. The State Governor has no authority appointing or dethroning an Emir,

Once you see the Emir as head of a cultural association, then you can argue in court that only members of this cultural association can appoint or depose him legally, not the Governor. But the problem is establishing who and who are members of the Kano Emirate Cultural Association. You can do this by collecting signatures of people who have the cultural affiliation. By trying to Appoint a Monarch, the Governor is giving away his constitutional powers which is unconstitutional.

Sanusi can defeat the Governor this way in court, under freedom of association rights, but after the battle, it will leave the Emir as a weak association president.

Thank you for the clear explanation. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. I'd always assumed governors would be careful to tread on the Emirs and other traditional rulers since it might anger the people.

2 to 3 weeks, at least twice a year. Sometimes I just unplug, and you can only reach my by calling. Honestly, unless you're using it for work or study, there's very little of value being connected all the time. What's on Instagram, LIB, or Nairaland that you've not read before: see bobbi, see twerk, this one died, that one never marry, people abusing each other, and lies from government.