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Hmm this is the hospital. I don't think he would entrust his life to this kind of hospital

magicminister:
It’s high time we push for a law that makes it impossible for former head of states to become civilian president. Though mediocre, The biggest strides we made in our democracy were during the Jonathan/Yaardua era.

We should not keep recycling the old people with ideas that never worked!

No need for such law. All former heads of States are senile. None of them can contest in any election again.

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JasonJidenna:
Wouldn't mind paying a fortune to bring these guys to Nigeria when the politicians troubling us finally bites the dust like Abba Kyari.

These guys have gone global



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Nice.

Nigeria is blessed with many intelligent people and stupid people. That's our problem

You are the Plaintiff, the Advocate and the Judge.

More please

Recovered

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Coronavirus: Why lockdowns may not be the answer in Africa

Many African countries have introduced lockdowns in order to halt the spread of coronavirus, but, as Alex de Waal and Paul Richards argue, ordinary people have to be involved in choosing the solutions that will work for them.
Countries on the continent have learned much from tackling epidemics such as HIV and Ebola that should be put to good use as they face the impact of Covid-19.

The most important lesson is that communities must be at the forefront of responding.
This is not a pious mantra but fact of life.

First, infectious disease outbreaks unfold differently in different communities, according to social conditions that only local people can know.

Second, no control measures, for example lockdowns, can be imposed without the consent of the people affected. It is only when local people are fully involved in planning and implementing epidemic control measures, that they can work.

Public health officials developed a useful guide during the Aids epidemic: "Know your epidemic, know your response, and act on its politics."
It is useful to think of Covid-19 not as a single global pandemic, but as a simultaneous outbreak of innumerable local epidemics, each one slightly different.

Africa's disease burden is different
In each case, the key factors are social behaviours such as greetings, mingling among the generations, hand washing, or maintaining physical distance.

Experts can build their models based on assumptions and averages, but only communities can know what these mean for their particular circumstances.

Africa has a burden of diseases different to other continents.
There are good reasons to fear that Covid-19 will be particularly dangerous to tens of millions of people with tuberculosis or whose immune systems are compromised by HIV.

CORONAVIRUS MEASURES
• Rwanda declared lockdown, unnecessary movements are not allowed
• Uganda closed borders, banned public transport, imposed curfew
• South Africa declared lockdown, unnecessary movements are not allowed
• Nigeria imposed lockdown in key urban areas, including Lagos
• Kenya imposed curfew, restricted movement between populated areas

Little is known about what infection with the coronavirus means for people who have malaria or are malnourished.

On the other hand, Africa's population is young.

One reason given for Italy's high mortality rates has been that it has a large proportion of elderly people - 23% of the population is over the age of 65
- who are most at risk should they contract the disease.
By contrast, less than 2% of Africa's population is over 65. For this reason alone, the virus' mortality rate may be lower on the continent.
It is clear that each African country will have to design its own response, suitable for its own need.

Why governments need to talk to the people
Governments do not have the data and models for precise expert prediction, and will not get them quickly enough.
But there is a better method, tried and tested: talking with the communities. Doctors and epidemiologists can provide the medical facts, communities can provide the contextual details and knowledge of what has worked for them in the past.
China, Europe and North America all adopted much the same epidemic control policy: lockdown.

African governments followed suit, but in general lockdowns may be simply unworkable in the continent. Only a few African countries, such as Rwanda and South Africa, have the capacity to administer a centralised strategy.

For people living from day to day, reliant on earning cash in the market to buy food, a few days' lockdown is the difference between poverty and starvation.

For people already suffering hardship because of unemployment, drought or a swarm of locusts, social welfare is provided by relatives. If a lockdown cuts these social ties, adversity becomes destitution.

Lockdowns also threaten to interrupt supply chains of essential drugs to treat TB, HIV and other diseases.

If any form of lockdown is to work, emergency assistance measures are needed.

The lockdown which didn't work
These include aid to those who have lost either their jobs or the money they received from family in Europe and America to keep food and fuel supply chains open.

Some countries, for example Uganda and Rwanda, are distributing free food. Ghana has announced free electricity, water and a tax holiday. But African governments simply do not have the funds to sustain these kinds of measures without international aid.

If basic livelihoods cannot be secured, a comprehensive lockdown is not practical. Poor people will prefer the lottery of infection over the certainty of starvation.

In the Ebola epidemic, when the Liberian government ordered the army to impose isolation on West Point in the capital, Monrovia, in 2014, it discovered within a few days that the lockdown was so unpopular as to be unfeasible. It did not stop transmission either.

Very quickly the government shifted to a policy of asking community leaders to design and enforce their own control policies.

The simple lesson that public health works by consent was learned in Sierra Leone too. Communities took the lead in designing their own quarantine measures, which were then adopted by international agencies.

What is needed in Africa
The key lessons for epidemic response are to act fast but act locally. That is what African countries should be doing.
Africa's health systems are already overstretched. Covid-19 demands an emergency response at scale and that begins with governments.
African hospitals need testing kits, basic materials for hygiene, personal protective equipment for the professional health workers, and equipment for assisted breathing.

There is a global shortage of all of these and a shameful scramble among developed countries to get their own supplies - relegating Africa to the back of the queue.

But as the international response gains momentum, African governments should coordinate their needs assessments and supplies.
A second pressing need is to set up field hospitals for the surge of cases that will arrive at the peak of the epidemic, which seems to typically be about eight weeks after transmission in the community first becomes evident.

Of necessity, these must be very simple: tents in a school field or even thatched sheds in the bush.

There simply will not be enough respirators or intensive care units. The modest aim is to ensure that family members can nurse patients with Covid-19 without disabling local hospitals or health centres.

Keeping health facilities open to groups such as mothers and babies, free of cross-infection with Covid-19, is another key aim or else the increased illness and death from other causes could outrank the virus itself.

Communities can help by finding sites, constructing camps and nursing patients according to a home-care protocol for the virus, with health professional supervising from a safe distance.

An even bigger challenge will be keeping economies functional and stopping a slide into destitution and hunger.

African countries cannot close its fresh produce markets or people will starve. But market goers can readily work out how to reduce the risks of transmission, through measures such as better hygiene, crowd control, and physical barriers such as polythene sheeting at point of sale.

Another proposal is that each household should designate a single person to buy food, and the market authorities provide that person with an identifier such as a coloured bangle. The designated shopper would then be isolated from other household members on returning home. Some markets could be temporarily relocated to safer sites.

In some countries, a switch to cashless mobile phone transactions may be workable; in others, companies that send remittances home can be enlisted.

What is most important is not a list of good ideas, but proper discussion with traders, customers, market authorities, chiefs and local government. They are the ones who will know what will work for them, and how it can be monitored and enforced.

Lockdowns have the potential to create a serious social crisis. This is not just in terms of creating poverty, hunger and resentment, but also endangers
the roll out of workable epidemic control measures.

'No time to lose'
Today, public health experts have not proposed alternatives to comprehensive lockdown.
They have not explored local variants of isolation, movement restriction, contact tracing and quarantine. That is because they have not yet asked local communities for their proposals.

There is no time to lose and community consultations should begin now.
The experience of handling epidemics such as HIV and Ebola provide an encouraging lesson. Ordinary people are not the problem, rather they are the solution.

The good news is that communities can quickly learn to think like epidemiologists provided that epidemiologists are ready to think like communities.

Alex de Waal is the director of the World Peace Foundation, Tufts University, and author of Aids and Power: Why there is no political crisis - yet. Paul Richards is an anthropologist, and author of Ebola: How a people's science helped end an epidemic


Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-52268320

Chad President has exposed you guys. They wanted the war to continue indefinitely so they can benefit.
Boko Haram Can Be crushed in a month. But they refused to crush boko haram

Ogun not on the list

Nice one. Dont just share money, give people something to do to justify the money.

Imustsurvive:
the states not affected by covid 19 sharing the money meant to soften its effect!

do we really have brain in this country?

I tire o!

Sultty:
U now see reasons people vote for tribe rather than on merit, Buhari has nothing to do with being president. Tinubu, sycophants and his personal interest pushed him to it. In a lockdown is it only in d North East that poor Nigerians exist? What a show of shame

Wait o! FG locked down Abuja, Lagos And Ogun and then shared money in the north. Does that make sense?

hmmm!





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As much as I would like to be positive about this Corona virus issue, I know a correct prediction when I see one. Nigerians would rather believe their Pastors. I am not a prophet of doom, but this is the time to take the necessary steps to ensure that you and your family are safe. If there is no vaccine in the next few months, what she just said may happen.

Low cases of corona virus in Africa is because many people do not have access to tests. There are many people with Covid 19 in Nigeria.

Even Bill Gates confirmed that an effective vaccine is 18 months away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjjwyawk0Io

Our politicians on a normal day are bereft of ideas. I don't see them coming up with any viable ideas to manage the pandemic.
Even the lockdown doesn't seem to be working. If they enforce it, crime will increase and the economy would suffer.
Right now the whole country is just waiting to see what would happen next.

Melinda Gates, wife of billionaire Bill Gates has warned that if the world does not act fast enough, then there will be dead bodies all over the streets of Africa.

Mrs Gates raised this concerns while speaking to CNN, on the novel coronavirus and its effects in the third world countries.

She said her heart is in Africa, stating that she is worried that the continent might not be able to handle the devastating effect of the virus.



“Its going to be horrible in the developing world.

“Part of the reasons you are seeing the case numbers still do not look very bad, is because they don’t have access to many tests.

“Look at what is happening in Ecuador, they are putting bodies out on the streets, you are going to see that in countries in Africa,” Mrs Gates noted.

Melinda Gates who is also co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation fears things will get worst for Africa once cases peak because of poor health care systems and lack of humanitarian supports.

According to Mrs Gates, her worst nightmare was when she “saw what China had to do to isolate enormous part of its population. My first thought was Africa. How in the world are they going to deal with this.”

“I have been in townships all over Africa and slums. When we talk in country physical distancing and hand-washing, if you live in slums who can’t physical distance, you have to go out and get your meals. You don’t have clean water to wash your hands,” she added.

https://www.channelstv.com/2020/04/13/covid-19-expect-dead-bodies-in-the-street-of-african-countries-melinda-gates-warns/
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/business/2020/04/10/melinda-gates-coronavirus.cnn-business/video/playlists/business-coronavirus/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jJsp6INGxE

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In Good News, Scientists Built a Device That Generates Electricity 'Out of Thin Air'


They found it buried in the muddy shores of the Potomac River more than three decades ago: a strange "sediment organism" that could do things nobody had ever seen before in bacteria.

This unusual microbe, belonging to the Geobacter genus, was first noted for its ability to produce magnetite in the absence of oxygen, but with time scientists found it could make other things too, like bacterial nanowires that conduct electricity.

For years, researchers have been trying to figure out ways to usefully exploit that natural gift, and this year they might have hit pay-dirt with a device they're calling the Air-gen. According to the team, their device can create electricity out of… well, almost nothing.

"We are literally making electricity out of thin air," said electrical engineer Jun Yao from the University of Massachusetts Amherst back in February. "The Air-gen generates clean energy 24/7."

The claim may sound like an overstatement, but a recent study by Yao and his team describes how the air-powered generator can indeed create electricity with nothing but the presence of air around it. It's all thanks to the electrically conductive protein nanowires produced by Geobacter (G. sulfurreducens, in this instance).

The Air-gen consists of a thin film of the protein nanowires measuring just 7 micrometres thick, positioned between two electrodes, but also exposed to the air.

Because of that exposure, the nanowire film is able to adsorb water vapour that exists in the atmosphere, enabling the device to generate a continuous electrical current conducted between the two electrodes.

The team said the charge is likely created by a moisture gradient that creates a diffusion of protons in the nanowire material.

"This charge diffusion is expected to induce a counterbalancing electrical field or potential analogous to the resting membrane potential in biological systems," the authors explained in their study.

"A maintained moisture gradient, which is fundamentally different to anything seen in previous systems, explains the continuous voltage output from our nanowire device."

The discovery was made almost by accident, when Yao noticed devices he was experimenting with were conducting electricity seemingly all by themselves.

"I saw that when the nanowires were contacted with electrodes in a specific way the devices generated a current," Yao said.

"I found that exposure to atmospheric humidity was essential and that protein nanowires adsorbed water, producing a voltage gradient across the device."

Previous research has demonstrated hydrovoltaic power generation using other kinds of nanomaterials – such as graphene – but those attempts have largely produced only short bursts of electricity, lasting perhaps only seconds.

By contrast, the Air-gen produces a sustained voltage of around 0.5 volts, with a current density of about 17 microamperes per square centimetre.

That's not much energy, but the team said that connecting multiple devices could generate enough power to charge small devices like smartphones and other personal electronics – all with no waste, and using nothing but ambient humidity (even in regions as dry as the Sahara Desert).

"The ultimate goal is to make large-scale systems," Yao said, explaining that future efforts could use the technology to power homes via nanowire incorporated into wall paint.

"Once we get to an industrial scale for wire production, I fully expect that we can make large systems that will make a major contribution to sustainable energy production."

If there is a hold-up to realising this seemingly incredible potential, it's the limited amount of nanowire G. sulfurreducens produces.

Related research by one of the team – microbiologist Derek Lovley, who first identified Geobacter microbes back in the 1980s – could have a fix for that: genetically engineering other bugs, like E. coli, to perform the same trick in massive supplies.

"We turned E. coli into a protein nanowire factory," Lovley said.

"With this new scalable process, protein nanowire supply will no longer be a bottleneck to developing these applications."



Source:
https://www.sciencealert.com/in-good-news-scientists-built-a-device-that-generates-electricity-out-of-thin-air
PETER DOCKRILL
11 APRIL 2020