Throwback:
Corona seems to be a school for the rich and powerful.

But that's because only the rich and powerful have identity in Nigeria

You are right, my brother. It's also killing a lot of poor people too, people just don't care about them.

The outgoing president of Burundi has died of a sudden illness, suspected by many to be Covid-19.

The cause of Pierre Nkurunziza’s death was described as a heart attack in a government statement. The 55-year-old was due to stand down in August following elections last month.

It was unclear exactly when he died. A government statement said the president, a keen sports enthusiast, had attended a game of volleyball on Saturday but fell ill that night and was taken to hospital.

The former footballer’s health improved on Sunday but “surprisingly, on morning of Monday June 8, 2020, his health suddenly deteriorated and he had a heart attack”. The statement described Nkurunziza’s death as “unexpected” and asked people to remain calm. Seven days of mourning have been announced.

Nkurunziza had refused to impose restrictions in the small and poor African country, allowing sporting events and mass political rallies to go ahead.

Speculation about the cause of his death has been fuelled by unconfirmed reports that his wife was flown to Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, 10 days ago after contracting Covid-19.

Authorities in Burundi have been accused of deliberately playing down the threat posed by the coronavirus pandemic, which has infected 197,000 people on the African continent and killed more than 5,000.

The nation of 11 million people has reported 83 cases of Covid-19 and officials have cited divine protection for Burundi’s ostensibly low infection rate and urged citizens to go about their daily lives without fear.


Nkurunziza’s spokesperson said that although the country may be hit by the pandemic, “Burundi … has signed a special covenant with God, whether you believe it or not”.

Burundi refused to follow most other African nations in imposing a lockdown and expelled the World Health Organization’s expert team working on coronavirus.

Nkurunziza was forced to step aside after 15 years in power by opponents within the country’s ruling CNDD-FDD party, but was to become “supreme guide” with wide if ill-defined power. As former leader he would have received a $500,000 (£410,000) gift from the nation along with a luxury villa.

The elections were won by Gen Évariste Ndayishimiye, who analysts say was selected because he was acceptable to a powerful clique of senior military officers. The opposition claimed the poll had been rigged. Rights groups accused the ruling party and its youth wing of systematically crushing dissent.

Between January and March, Ligue Iteka, an exiled Burundian human rights organisation, documented 67 killings, including 14 extrajudicial executions, six disappearances, 15 cases of gender-based violence, 23 cases of torture, and 204 arbitrary arrests. There was also some violence directed against ruling party members and youths – including killings – but at much lower levels.

Burundi became diplomatically isolated after 2015, when Nkurunziza’s decision to run for a third term – a move his opponents said violated the peace deal that ended the civil war – sparked protests met with extreme violence by the youth wing of the ruling party, known as the Imbonerakure, and the security forces. Hundreds of thousands of Burundians fled into exile.

Burundi withdrew from the international criminal court in 2017 and shut down the United Nations office on human rights last year.

“As I learn of the passing of Pierre Nkurunziza, I think of the thousands of lives that his regime cut short. The families that won’t see justice,” tweeted Thierry Uwamahoro, a democracy activist and prominent government critic who lives in exile.

Journalists and human rights workers in Burundi are routinely targeted. Last week, four journalists from the domestic news website Iwacu were sentenced to two and a half years in prison after they travelled to investigate reports of unrest in the north-west of the country.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/09/burundi-president-dies-illness-suspected-coronavirus-pierre-nkurunziz

Black Americans have come a long way in the fight for equality and justice. Most of what black people, including African immigrants, enjoy today in the western world, primarily in American, is as a direct result of these sacrifices. That why it bothers me when Africans, especially Nigerians, come here and insult or refer to the black Americans as lazy. Sometimes, I see this as an act of cowardice. You left your country where you have a rich history of your past but unable to fight for the betterment of it. You cannot fight for constant electricity, good schools, eliminate poverty and corrupt leaders. Still, you come to a place where other people have struggled to build with pain, and some others have fought for you to be seen as a human being, at least you owe them some respect.

Protest against segregation in the Buses
Approximately 40,000 Black bus riders boycotted the Montgomery, Alabama, bus system in December 1955, a few days after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white rider. The boycott lasted 382 days and ended when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional.

Protest against segregation in school cafeterias
Hundreds of students sat at the Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, every day for 6 months after four Black students were refused service on February 1, 1960. The Greensboro sit-ins triggered other sit-ins in cities throughout the South, with more than 50,000 students joining in by April 1960. The Greensboro sit-ins ended when the local Woolworth’s lunch counter was desegregated on July 25, 1960.

Protest against segregated bus terminals
In 1961, Freedom Riders headed south from Washington, D.C., on buses, making stops along the way to protest segregated bus terminals. The riders were ultimately met with violence and arson, which drew national attention from the Kennedy administration. The Freedom Rides came to an end after 7 months, with the Interstate Commerce Commission outlawing segregation on interstate buses. ‘Whites only’ signs were taken down in more than 300 Southern stations.

Protest against segregated in public establishments
Martin Luther King Jr. joined peaceful demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama, to protest its Supreme Court-defying segregation. Police met the demonstrators with dogs, billy clubs, and fire hoses, as Birmingham jails were overflowing with arrests. After 37 days, Birmingham officials agreed to desegregate public establishments, hire Black workers, and release jailed protesters.

Source: NowThis https://www.instagram.com/nowthisnews/

Chimeluv:
Drama

It is well my dear

dokxavi:
How much have you made from putting the money you inherited in the index fund?
Who knows you or your father?!

Another moronic Nigerian. The kind of life you are living is what you deserve. May it continue that way.

Galaticos444:
but he built an empire better dan wot he inherited dat shows how tenacious he is cos he cud av easily sold d father's company dsame way most Nigerians cud av done

If Trump had just put the money he inherited in an index fund and go to sleep, he would have been 5 times richer. He is a moronic business man. He has already led 6 companies to bankruptcy.

FarahAideed:


So why are you bothered about their election ...Speak for yourself I make money from America every day

I currently reside in Worcester, so it affects me directly. I don't want to get shot by the police or racist people. I just want to go about my daily activities like a normal human being.

FarahAideed:
God bless Trump the agents of darkness in Panic mode as record job creation Numbers comes in for the month of May ..All people of faith join me as we Pray for President Trump..

NO WEAPON FASHIONED AGAINST PRESIDENTS TRUMP PRESIDENCY SHALL PROSPER ..AMEN

Americans don't care about you. To them, you are just another low-life from a sh.it hole country.

malcomxjr:

This is totally miss information you need to make your findings CCN has done lots of damage...Trump is someone who we will need to support agains the demons of Democrat...l can give you fact about all this if willing to learn...

Please let me know your facts. It also seems like Fox 'news' has done their job.

malcomxjr:

l wonder how Africans think at times how will you call him a slowpoke you need to seek for forgiveness.This is a man who is trying hard to keep us safe from the wicked Demons now you blamed him..l hope you see the light soon

Do you live in the US? How do Africans think? What wicked demons? Can you please explain?

Trump is an example of an African dictator that is not allowed to exercise his power due to the system that has been put in place in the US.

Mynd44:

Nancy knows the game and plays it well.

Donald on the other hand is just showing himself as more like an African President

Trump is a mor.on

Jostoman:
Dino don join them

I have families in Kabba and the whole town is aware that Imam Ejibunu is sick with COVID-19. Kabba town is not that big.

SarkinYarki:


It's over 70days already if people were to die like fowl they would have already started dying since ...Open your eyes

What of Brazil? The first case was confirmed in February and the first death was recorded on 17 March. Their president denied it as a "little flu", today they have 470,000 cases (they recorded 29,000 new cases yesterday) and people are dying like rats. He could have reduced the numbers by early intervention but he chose to turn a blind eye. You can't just wish COVID-19 away, it requires hard work, which includes extensive testing and contact tracing. Nigerian is doing neither, we are buying time.


Brazil has even given up, they are just digging graves or people;

slimfit1:
You will think all this over70s will know how to speak to people no nothing.

Another mor.on

ndcide:


Did you also miss this part I quoted below?

So how do they hope to gather accurate evidence, with the campaign to stop the use.

Look, I don't know you. So if you think those who question these bodies are foolish, then you've traded your God given wisdom.

Sorry mate, you don't deserve a reply from me.

ndcide:


You are one of the mo.ons.

Go and read the post.

Did you see this part of the article?

"The steering committee decided to suspend enrollment to that arm of the so-called Solidarity trials, WHO officials said Monday. That’s after the Lancet published a study that said the drug, touted by U.S. President Donald Trump as a treatment, was linked to an increased risk of death and heart ailments."

This is the study the article is referring to, you dimw.it:

ndcide:
So how do they want to get the data they are talking about.

WHO is working under instructions.

You didn't even read the post. There are plenty mo.ons walking about in Nigeria.

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Studies have shown that Hydroxoychroquine increases your chances of heart complications and even death.

Sacchi1162:
I want to know what Nigeria has been using to treat their own patients that recovered because this thing is not funny again

90% of people with COVID-19 don't require any treatment. They recover on their own, maybe with some Paracetamol to help with mild fever. All other countries don't isolate people anywhere, they just stay quarantined in their homes. Only people who are very sick are taken to hospitals.

slivertongue:
wahala
gradually heading to 10000

It is already more than 10,000 in Nigeria. We are not just testing enough to know how far it has spread. Nigeria, a country of 190 million have only tested 38,000 people. It is really a hopeless situation.

Legendre2:


An equally moronic reply. So you go about testing people from home to home, people on the street etc because you want to do "early testing"?. Whatever happened to the conditions a patient must meet before testing.

Yes, you test whoever is testable. Where I live, there are many drive-throughs, just like KFCs or McDonalds, you don't need to get out of your car. If you have anything like headache, flu or you feel you have been in contact with anyone with the virus, you just go there. Even if you have coronavirus, all you need to do is stay at home and take paracetamol. Do you know that 90% of people with COV-19 do not require any hospitalisation and many don't even show symptoms? So you know, in NY, there are currently 270,000 cases, however, less than 7000 are in the hospital, the rest are at home.

When you don't test people, you allow the virus to spread until it starts to kill the most vulnerable people. For example yesterday only, UK tested 83,000 people while Nigeria tested <1000. Even Ghana here has tested 6times (180,000 till date) more than Nigeria (~33,000).

People all over the world are not stupid, there is a reason why Nigeria don't have constant power supply after 60 years of Independence. It is all over your post.

Orestino:
All the freaking best!

For all we know, dead bodies arent littering the streets of Kogi state

So why is the hype of the scamdemic too much?

That's a moro.nic statement from you.
Dead bodies didn't litter the streets of Italy in January or February but did in March/April.
Didn't litter streets of UK/US in February or March, but did in April/May.
Didn't litter streets of Brazil in March or April but it is now and climbing rapidly.

WHO and countries like S. Korea, Singapore and Germany have shown that the only way to prevent significant community spread and unnecessary death is extensive early testing. Those countries that refused to heed to this warning caused a lot of their citizen to die. I hope that will not be the case in Nigeria.

Ignorance they say is bliss. If you don't test for COVID-19, you won't get any result. However, COVID-19 don't if you are stu.pid or not, it just keep spreading.

Kazim88:

You lie

Lie about what? That it's Brazil's turn now and maybe Nigeria's turn soon.
Three weeks ago Brazilian President denied COVID-19 in the country, today the country is digging thousand upon thousands of graves and burying people in mass.

u11ae1013:
do not panic else you die of panic instead of coronavirus.
There is nothing you can do about the virus than to accept your fate, I think God has been merciful towards us in these continent else, the virus entered same month with other countries and for us, it's so far so good

I am not scared of the disease, the fatality rate of COVID-19 is less than 10% and I live in a place where people take it seriously. WHO and many countries like S. Korea, Germany and Singapore, have shown that the only way to defeat this virus is to test extensively, that way you know who has the virus and be able to isolate them from the public.

Nigeria is under-testing for COVID-19 and it normally doesn't end well that way. The US, UK, Italy, Brazil and Spain, who didn't carry out extensive early testing suffered the consequence. If Nigeria doesn't expand its testing capacity, she may be used as a case study in a few months down the lane.

u11ae1013:
Lol, believe this at your own peril.

There is a better way to say you want to lockdown lagos than fabricate figures few days to buhari's prepared speech

One thing I know is, people are no longer afraid, Corona is no longer an unknown enemy, it's no longer a visitor but our neighbor, so, we will live with it and serve it with chloroquine + zinc +vitamins and yoruba pepper

Be careful what you wish for. Brazil was in our situation 2 weeks ago, now they have more that 200k cases and they are now burying people in mass.

Righteousness89:
I Just Love and Admire the Guts of President Donald Trump!

A whole lot of Crazy things would have happened if Someone like Trump was not president!

GOD ALMIGHTY fixed him there for Times as these..

He is a mo.ron

senatordave1:

You mean over inflating and overreporting

Nigeria is under-reporting COVID-19 cases in the country. Every country that tried this strategy have suffered, Brazil is currently going through its own now. That is a preview of what is coming to Nigeria.

Nitah1:
Nigeria discharges covid 19 patients more than America....

You are funny or...

Ghana has now recorded 2,719 cases of COVID-19 and 65 additional recoveries making a total of 294, according to the Ghana Health Service (GHS).

The death toll however remains the same at 18. This is the largest the country has recorded so far in one batch.

Meanwhile, the Ghana Health Service is still embarking on a massive testing and contact tracing exercise to ensure affected persons are identified as part of measures to further curb the spread of the virus.

http://thepostghana.com/ghana-records-550-more-cases-of-coronavirus-in-2-days-tally-now-2719/

olumide4christ:


Oh is that so? Someone who needs to be put on ventilator, where else will they isolate them?

You need to learn more about COVID-19. Again, 95% of people with COVID-19 DO NOT require ventilation and about 90% DO NOT even require any hospitalisation. 90% of those that have recovered from COVID-19, did that in the comfort of their homes. For example, NY has about 240k active cases, however, less than 11k are currently hospitalised and only 3k patients are on the ventilator.