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Smellymouth:
I am very proud to be a Nigerian and very much so that if I had the opportunity to be reborn,i'll still choose to be a Nigerian...

The same people who rated us amongst the poorest people on earth,the most corrupt nations, the countries with low life expectancy,etc..also rated us amongst THE HAPPIEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD!

GOD bless the Green white Green!!!

Smellymouth:
I am very proud to be a Nigerian and very much so that if I had the opportunity to be reborn,i'll still choose to be a Nigerian...

The same people who rated us amongst the poorest people on earth,the most corrupt nations, the countries with low life expectancy,etc..also rated us amongst THE HAPPIEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD!

GOD bless the Green white Green!!!

IamLEGEND1:
SAI NAIJA!

Jarizod:
[color=#F58700] Baba God as presidents and important dignitaries dey rush to shake Zukerberg na so my story sef go be!

Any Enemy of PROGRESS in my Life DIE DIE DIE! I say DIE BY FIRE!

Ogun Oso gbogbo -- ATEPA!

Ogun Aje gbogbo -- ATEPA![/color]

Rednaxelot:
He really enjoyed his coming to Nigeria.

Posting these pictures about his stay in Nigeria is a very lovely thing that will send signal to the foreign investors that Nigeria is safe and the people are welcoming. Not minding the bad news being heard about Nigeria everyday.

Zceesneh:
we go travel around for my posh o
baby pana
They say u like wahala i get wahala
Anywhere u go i go u follow dey go

Smellymouth:
I am very proud to be a Nigerian and very much so that if I had the opportunity to be reborn,i'll still choose to be a Nigerian...

The same people who rated us amongst the poorest people on earth,the most corrupt nations, the countries with low life expectancy,etc..also rated us amongst THE HAPPIEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD!

GOD bless the Green white Green!!!

ichommy:
Jonathan’s Almajiri Schools Too Expensive To Run – Adamawa Government

http://punchng.com/jonathans-n700m-almajiri-schools-expensive-run-adamawa/

Mariojane:
by the words we shall know them. Only mountain of fire people want their enemies to die by fire forgetting they re some other people enemy too



Have you not read the part of the bible that Ask you to pray for your enemies? If all your enemies die by fire, before whom will God prepare your table as promised in Psalm 23?

[color=#F58700] Am not a mountain Madame preacher..now kindly fvck off

I hope ur night was good swiri [/color]

anonimi:
How is being happy in stark, crushing POVERTY with no chance of getting out of the impoverishment such a good thing, please?
Thanks.

victorazy:
So why the black/white pictures? Making it vintage and odd, the slum CNN tamed Lagos.

Lawmaker scores Lagos Water Corporation low

A Lagos State lawmaker, Mr Saka Fafunmi, on Thursday expressed dissatisfaction at the performance of the state Water Corporation.

Fafunmi, a member of the Lagos State House of Assembly (LAHA), said in Ikeja that the corporation had not been able to justify statutory allocations to it.

The lawmaker, who represents Ifako-Ijaiye Constituency 1 at the assembly, spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

He said that the corporation had the capacity to generate much fund internally through water rates but had relied solely on government funding because of poor performance.

'' Anyone that is using water will be willing to pay for it; the corporation has not been giving us water.

"Is there any new community that Water Corporation has given water? People depend on boreholes; even government estates have industrial boreholes.

"Why do we keep pumping money into an agency that does not give us the desired results?'' he asked.

He noted that the Adiyan Waterworks was located at Ifako-Ijaiye, where many of the residents had resorted to digging boreholes as a means of getting water.

''A lot of people are falling sick because they don't drink clean water.

''In the same compound, where you have sewage, is where you have a borehole.

''There is no way you can manage the sewage that it will not leak and pollute the water; everyone drinking such is drinking contaminated water,'' he said.

The lawmaker urged the corporation to increase water reticulation and supply to residents.

From: http://www.punchng.com/politics/lawm...rporation-low/

anonimi:
In this interview with MOTUNRAYO JOEL, the National Chairman, Association of Public Health Physicians of Nigeria, Dr. Tanimola Akande, talks about cholera and the current outbreak affecting some parts of the country

What are the symptoms of cholera?

Cholera is a form of gastroenteritis caused by Vibrio Cholera bacteria. The patients with cholera present with profuse passing of watery faeces and vomiting which may be accompanied with fever. Such patients lose body fluids rapidly and become dehydrated and therefore have body weakness. The first case may not be recognised as cholera since some other gastroenteritis can present that way but as soon as many more cases are recorded within a short time, a high suspicion of cholera should be made.

What leads to cholera transmission?

Cholera is transmitted through the faeco-oral route. That means the bacteria are shed in the patient’s faeces and it gets into another person by mouth from water or food that is contaminated with the bacteria.

Is Nigeria susceptible to a cholera epidemic and why?

Nigeria is highly susceptible to cholera epidemics and there have been several ones in the past in the country. Currently there are epidemics of cholera in various parts of the country. This is because of poor basic hygiene and sanitation. Only about three-quarter of households living in urban areas have access to improved source of drinking water. The situation is worse in rural areas where less than half of the households have access to improved source of drinking water. In some of these communities people have their drinking water from polluted streams or rivers. In the same vein only about 40 per cent of the urban population have non-shared improved toilet or latrines and it is as low as about 30 per cent in rural areas. Surveys show that about three in 10 households in Nigeria use an improved toilet facility.

A situation where people still pass stool in the open makes the population vulnerable to epidemics of cholera. Such faeces are often washed by rain into streams and rivers that serve as drinking water for some people. In addition a high proportion visit toilets and will not wash their hands, this practice unfortunately is not uncommon among food handlers.

More states in Nigeria have recorded cholera outbreak, why is this happening?

The reason for the spread of cases of cholera in more states is not farfetched in view of the sanitary and water supply situation described earlier. Government and households are not doing enough to improve water supply and provide improved sanitary facilities. Whilst some people may have improved sanitary facilities in their homes, this may not be the case in their places of work particularly those in the informal sector. In most cities and towns public toilet facilities are not either not available or grossly inadequate. Some brands of packaged water (often called pure water) are also sources of cholera spread because of the poor sanitary condition of the factories where they were produced.

Why hasn’t Nigeria been able to curb cholera outbreak?

Nigeria has not been able to curb this epidemic because we have not been able provide all citizens with safe drinking water and improved sanitary facilities both in the homes and public places. People are probably also not well informed about cholera and the preventive measures they can put in place to curb it. Imagine that some people managed to build houses with about four – six rooms (the face-me-I-face-you type) but they find it difficult to go the extra mile to provide a toilet or latrine. It is a shame to find houses in cities and towns without toilets. You want to therefore ask what those in charge of approving plans or inspecting houses are doing if this simple measure cannot be enforced. It was not until recently when my area of residence got crowded with houses, that the dwellers stopped passing faeces all around the open spaces. Now we are luckier they have to move a little further. The houseflies that hover around such faeces are not discriminatory; they fly anywhere and land on anyone’s exposed food.

Does boiling of water prevent cholera?

The way cholera spreads is through contaminated food and water but particularly water. Boiling water, of course, is quite helpful in preventing cholera. Some other measures of disinfecting water through urban water supply chlorination and domestic water chlorination are also helpful.

What is the recommended treatment in patients who have developed cholera?

Patients who have developed cholera need to be quickly rehydrated since they would have lost some fluid. The rehydration (replacement of the lost fluid) could be though oral salt and sugar solution or the packaged oral rehydration salt (ORS). In severe cases the rehydration will be though intravenous fluid (drips). In addition the patients are given antibiotics to take care of the cholera bacteria.

Could a cholera outbreak occur in developed countries?

Cholera outbreak is not impossible in developed countries, but will be quite unlikely. Some people can have cholera and may not show symptoms. If such people travel to such developed countries and practised poor sanitary hygiene, they may infect a few people. This situation, even though it affects a few people, will still be considered an outbreak. It is unlikely to affect many people because of the good water supply, sanitary facilities and personal hygiene of citizens of developed countries.


More from: http://www.punchng.com/health/why-ch...eading-expert/

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Not much surprise there since most of us drink our own sh'it from boreholes in the same compound as our septic tank/soakaway pits as our STATE governors have ABANDONED their constitutional RESPONSIBILITY to provide all of us something as basic as TAP water.

The LGAs can also not be bothered about ensuring hygiene in individual homes (just a few decades ago, we had Sanitary Inspectors aka Wole Woles in the South west) and businesses in their areas talk less of undertaking activities for public sanitation.

We are really in deep shi't

Smellymouth:
I am very proud to be a Nigerian and very much so that if I had the opportunity to be reborn,i'll still choose to be a Nigerian...

The same people who rated us amongst the poorest people on earth,the most corrupt nations, the countries with low life expectancy,etc..also rated us amongst THE HAPPIEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD!

GOD bless the Green white Green!!!

Rednaxelot:
He really enjoyed his coming to Nigeria.

Posting these pictures about his stay in Nigeria is a very lovely thing that will send signal to the foreign investors that Nigeria is safe and the people are welcoming. Not minding the bad news being heard about Nigeria everyday.

Smellymouth:
I am very proud to be a Nigerian and very much so that if I had the opportunity to be reborn,i'll still choose to be a Nigerian...

The same people who rated us amongst the poorest people on earth,the most corrupt nations, the countries with low life expectancy,etc..also rated us amongst THE HAPPIEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD!

GOD bless the Green white Green!!!

Smellymouth:
I am very proud to be a Nigerian and very much so that if I had the opportunity to be reborn,i'll still choose to be a Nigerian...

The same people who rated us amongst the poorest people on earth,the most corrupt nations, the countries with low life expectancy,etc..also rated us amongst THE HAPPIEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD!

GOD bless the Green white Green!!!

anonimi:
CNN did not just TERM Lagos as a slum.
Slum is what Lagos is in all reality.
Something as basic as public supply of tap water to even the poshest areas is NOT available after over 17 years of progreTHIEF leadership looting by the All Propaganda Crooks, APC and you say the state of "excellence" is not a slum?
Please abeg you, how do you define a slum





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Jarizod:
[color=#F58700] Am not a mountain Madame preacher..now kindly fvck off

I hope ur night was good swiri [/color]

LastSurvivor:
I used to love being a Nigerian but hunger is currently making me reconsider my stand

Noneroone:
is this supposed to be Nigerias largest city?

No wonder Kenyans finished this hell hole

Yinkatolu:
OgheneZukerberg But why did he use black & white?

Yinkatolu:
OgheneZukerberg But why did he use black & white?