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If na so make fg the villagers to fight back.

Giant African snails have showed up in the news over the past few years. They've been castigated for destroying the environment and giving people meningitis. It turns out that they are being unfairly maligned! Kind of!

Giant African snails are hand-sized snails that have been favored, for a time, as pets by irresponsible jerks. We know the pet owners were irresponsible jerks, because they let their pet snails out into the wild. The snails decided to respond to this by giving their new country the virtual middle finger. They ate everything in sight, including valuable parts of our ecosystem. And that's when calumny entered the equation. In news stories about giant African snails, writers talked about environmental degradation, but also alleged that these foreign snails can give people meningitis. That's not African land snails so much as every snail.

Meningitis is not brought on by any specific disease. It's the term for the swelling of the membranes around the brain and spinal cord. It can be caused by viruses, bacteria, or a fungal infection. In the case of the snails, it's caused by a rat parasite. The parasite's natural life cycle shuttles it between two creatures. In its adult phase, it burrows around in the lung of a rat. At some point, it drops out larva, which migrate to the feces of the rat. Snails, while grazing on leaves, eat the rat feces along with everything else. The larvae infect the snails, living in them until they are almost mature, at which point the snails are eaten by rats and this majestic cycle of life can begin all over again.



The parasite only gets passed to humans when people eat uncooked snail meat. (This happens more often than you'd think. Check your salads before you eat them.) Most of the time, people aren't affected by the parasite, but on occasion the parasite causes an infection that spreads to the spinal cord and the brain. Meningitis, thankfully, can be treated with antibiotics, but it's important to catch it as soon as possible.

Now you may have noticed that there's nothing in there about how giant African snails are more likely to carry the parasite than any other snail. That's because they aren't. All snailscan be infected, including the cute little ones sliming around your garden. The only reason there's not a wave of meningitis spreading across the country is you would pretty much have to eat the snail to contract it. It takes more than a little poke with a finger to get them inside your body. African snails are, if anything, less likely to be agents of infection, since no one misses a hand-sized snail in their food.

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So you can sleep soundly tonight, knowing that foreign snails aren't coming for your spine. Just keep yourself awake thinking that, if you let a snail climb across your hand, you have been bathed in the juices of something that eats rat poop so often that an entire species' reproductive cycle depends on it

I Always come here to check the level of stupidity among the youths in nigeria,in addition to that,gold circle condom is fifty naira and op useless father could not afford one.God will punish your father for this.

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Nigeria spends N3.50 daily to feed one prisoner’
June 25, 2015Ben Ezeamalu

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The Nigerian government spends a meagre N3.50k to feed an inmate in Nigerian prisons each day, the Legal Defence and Assistance Project has said.
Speaking at a round table for media and civil society organizations in Lagos, Thursday, Chino Obiagwu said that the current cost was increased by the new Comptroller-General of Prisons from the previous N2.10k per prisoner.
The round table was themed ‘Moving Nigeria Towards the Abolition of the Death Penalty.’
“The truth is that many prisoners supplement their meals because all kinds of businesses and activities go on inside the prisons,” said Mr. Obiagwu, National Coordinator, LEDAP.
“If you allow Nigerian prisoners to survive on their ration, they will all die.”
There are about 56,000 inmates scattered across Nigerian prisons, according to Mr. Obiagwu whose organization champions the rights of Nigerian prisoners.
“A lot of philanthropy goes into our prisons, churches like the Catholic church, The Redeemed church carry out on regular prison visits to improve the welfare of inmates,” said Mr. Obiagwu.

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Bro its 300 per day from FG and its under contract, so its not up to 300.The Nigerian government spends a meagre N3.50k to feed an inmate in Nigerian prisons each day, the Legal Defence and Assistance Project has said.
Speaking at a round table for media and civil society organizations in Lagos, Thursday, Chino Obiagwu said that the current cost was increased by the new Comptroller-General of Prisons from the previous N2.10k per prisoner.
The round table was themed ‘Moving Nigeria Towards the Abolition of the Death Penalty.’
“The truth is that many prisoners supplement their meals because all kinds of businesses and activities go on inside the prisons,” said Mr. Obiagwu, National Coordinator, LEDAP.
“If you allow Nigerian prisoners to survive on their ration, they will all die.”
There are about 56,000 inmates scattered across Nigerian prisons, according to Mr. Obiagwu whose organization champions the rights of Nigerian prisoners.
“A lot of philanthropy goes into our prisons, churches like the Catholic church, The Redeemed church carry out on regular prison visits to improve the welfare of inmates,” said Mr. Obiagwu.

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Bro its 300 per day from FG and its under contract, so its not up to 300.

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For me ooooo I hate it,why not use the money to give credit facility to ur customer.flavour will not make drink it.

That freeze na 1 d iot, tell him I said so.

fiizznation:
People have to be careful. If you think you are dealing with the average Nigeria fulani/fulfude group then you people should better wake up. I'm a Fulani man and I know what I'm talking about. These herdsmen carrying out all these atrocities are dangerous herdsmen from other Africa countries e.g chad, Niger, Sierra Leone, Gambia, guinea, Senegal, Mali etc. Normally they rarely attack any community until they are attacked first and they don't understand anything called fair play. They have a very wide network that cuts across the entire African continent.

My problem with the hypocritical Nigeria media houses is they hardly report any killings of these herdsmen by the local community, but the herdsmen reprisal attacks are always reported. To me this is insensitivity. We all know how innocent Nigeria herdsmen are killed everyday by the locals, but nobody wants to talk about that. The agatu people killed many innocent Fulani herdsmen before the herdsmen reprisal attacks, but how many media houses reported that? All we were hearing was Fulani ransacked agatu community.

People should be careful, if you think these herdsmen don't get to hear news about how their fellow brothers are killed and their cattle rustle, then we are not serious about solving this crisis

so mr fulani why is buhari not saying anything about.

Him done old na,e remain ........

Its a pity that we are in this zoo called nigeria

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barnabas91:
Do You Agree with this?
Our School system in this country can be so frustrating. One University will just throw a course to you that you didn't yearn for.
The course(Agric) Mr A want is being given to Mr B, while Mr B chose the course(English) Mr A was given.
Why won't there be half baked graduate

Bros your post has more message than you can think.its nigeria problem.

So many useless people in nairaland.

I love nla,people with shallow mind and childish reasoning.why didn't the Minister use the seatbelt and do you think that the driver can force his oga to use it? Why should the minister tell the driver to spend up?if not he should have told the driver to slow down.s t u p I d country and citizens.

This guy is high on something

[b][/b][font=Lucida Sans Unicode][/font]. Goodmorning nairalanders, I Need advice on what to invest 500k in,iam looking at printing sachet business,but anyone with better idea can help.plz I Don't need online business.I would prefer small Scale production.

http://abokifx.com/ $ is 280

[quote author=irunooboo post=42525717][b]Mr Buhari is the best thing to happen to our country Nigeria. He is old but fighting for the present and unborn generation so they can be free from poverty and hardship forced on the populace by the thieving elites. I hope we all support this man and be patient with him so he can do his best and leave the rest. To the enemies of Nigeria like Nnamdi Kanu, Dasuki and the IpoB youths, may God punish all of you for trying to make this country ungovernable.
And may God punish your father too

Goodafternoon sir, plz I want to start your line of business at aba,I would like to call you for advise.

So someone in his right senses is in support of this guy graduating without attending lectures ,na wa for nigeria mentality.

regarding the death of Nigerian singer and activist, Fela who passed away several years ago.


Majek Fashek
 
Legendary Nigerian  reggae singer, Majekodunmi Fasheke, popularly known as Majek Fashek who recently got out of rehab following his chronic use of drug today made a revelation that Afro beat legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti did not die of AIDS but was rather injected to death by former military Head of state, Late Gen. Sani Abacha.

The iconic reggae singer appeared as a guest on TVC’s ‘Your View’ where he mentioned that he did not go to rehab but rather went into seclusion because he felt people were tapping into his spiritual intellect. He further claimed that he never used drugs but cocaine and Marijuana.

The living legend who was one of Nigeria's biggest artistes in the 80’s after Fela during the course of his chat made a bottomless revelation that Fela was injected by the late Abacha and did not die of HIV/AIDS.

The Rainmaker was a surprise performer at the 2015 edition of The Headies, held on January 1, 2016 where he gave an energetic performance of his evergreen classic, Send Down the Rain alongside Timi Dakolo.

he Eastern part of Nigeria is a made of predominantly Christian population whose way of life is different from their Northern Counterpart that are predominantly Muslims. These two groups of people existed on their own without the other part for thousands of years before the coming of the white men. There were amalgamated in 1914 by the then Governor of the Colonized Niger Area – Lord Frederick Luggard for the purpose of convenience of governance of the area. The amalgamation of the North and the South of the Niger-Area came into force and it was Flora Shaw that gave it the name Nigeria, coined from the word – NIGER + AREA.
 
After the flag independence of Nigeria in 1960, the crop of leaders that took over from the colonial masters in their effort to gain control of the Nation through undue influence gradually planted the seed of nepotism, hatred, and ethnic division among the worst of all, corruption that has continued to cripple Nigeria to date.
 
Over time, the notion that the Ibos were domineering people gradually degenerated into hatred that caused the massacre of the Easterners in the North in an effort to curb their presumed influence and abilities as they were the most educated and versatile of the people of Nigeria. The unending massacre resulting from greed and nepotism caused the then Governor of Eastern Nigeria – Cornel Odumegwu Ojukwu to declare a Republic of Biafra in 1967. The declaration brought a civil war when the Nigeria government under Gen.Yakubu Gowan tried to force the Biafrans back into Nigeria, The war lasted for 3years from 1967 to 1970 before the Biafrans surrendered as a result of starvation ochestrated by against Biafrans though total blocked of every rout that food may be brought into Biafra land. Over 1.5million children and women perished as a result of using hunger as a weapon of warfare for the first time in the world, introduced by Pa Awolowo, the first Nigerian Minister of finance and economy under a military head of state.
 
MANY YEARS LATER
In order to appeal to the ego of the proud Biafrans, the war was declared no victor and no vanquished, but the actions that followed proved otherwise. The Biafrans to date lost all their property all over Nigeria, even in their homelands and they were subjected to undue treatment of receiving 20pound in exchange of any amount you must have saved in the bank before the war. It forced them to resign to fate and their only way out became to join one trade or the other and willing out their children as servants. But over the years, they succeeded and became the most popular businessmen in Nigeria.
 
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As a result of the flight from Biafra land occasioned by lack of work and conducive livelihood on Biafra lands as a result of government policies which include making it impossible for Biafrans to run any company that can employ up to 100 workers, impossible to import their goods through their closest seaport some 10kilometers to them and instead have to import through Lagos about 800kilomiters away and paying through en-rout to the numerous Nigeria uniformed officials back to their land.
These numerous ill treatment caused the rise of some opposition to Nigeria from this area. The first of its kind was from the Niger Delta area by Ken Saro Wiwa and his kinsmen from Ogoni, but they were all hanged by the Nigerian government under IBB, Then the Niger Delta boys went militancy to protest the oil spillage that was destroying their lands to date and the government of late Yaradua got wise and gave them amnesty. Other such groups are THE MEND, MASSOB and presently IPOB that is controlled by Nnamdi Kanu.
 
While the other groups seem to have come only to get money from the federal government, the IPOB has proved to be on a more serious mission to secede from Nigeria. Using Radio Broadcast and very advanced technology to reach the world without control from Nigeria, IPOB has managed to cause a serious nightmare to the Nigerian government.
 
Nigerian government seriously tried but failed to block the signal of the radio playing into Nigeria, mostly the Eastern part of Nigeria, they resorted to the only method associated with “Black People” force.
 
NNADI KANU Sets a trap, Nigeria falls headlong into it.
“How could Nigerian Government be so insensitive to fail to decode that Nnamdi Kanu intentionally came down from United Kingdom to be arrested and they played into the trick? He is an educated man who calculates all his moves. Nigeria will never remain the same again after this arrest because this arrest has given more publicity to the Biafran cause than the Biafrans and even their leader Nnamdi Kanu would have dreamed. Now that Amnesty International has talked about it, New York Times and all the News Papers in Nigeria have carried it from the arrest to the bail. I think that is all Nnamdi Kanu needed to go to the next level of the struggles.
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