There could be more than the eyes will see

IFNOTGOD:


don't see any sense in u quoting me cos I don't see any corrolation between fever, cough n covid 19 knowing fully well dat Oda sickness have same or similar symptoms with covid 19.

go for test, do u have d manpower or capacity or to test people?

Since you know these symptoms are not restricted to only Covid 19 why not go for Test to Confirm the particular illness.we are too ignorant in this country and we display them with confidence.

It is highly unlikely that Kogi state is free of COVID-19. The NCDC is absolutely right that the virus is everywhere. After what we have seen in Kano, Jigawa and, frankly, the entire world, the position of the Kogi State government cannot be taken seriously.

However, I empathize with this part of what the OP said:

He left the impression of certainty that the virus would reach every nook and cranny of the country. I paused and asked myself: who is NCDC working for? Are they working to curtail the virus or spread it? If indeed they're working to arrest the spread of covid-19 in the country, why was the NCDC DG so sure that it would get to every state?

I am not a fan of the NCDC’s defeatist attitude either. Perhaps I am mistaken, but I thought they were trying to wipe out the virus from the country by isolating all active cases, hence the drastic measures. Lately it seems that the NCDC’s goal is just to observe and inform us about the progress of the virus.

BlackSpanner:
OP!!! I agree with you on your write up.
I was also shocked the day the NCDC said "Corona virus will surely get to all states in Nigeria". Since that day, I started suspecting that those guys at NCDC have a mission to accomplish with support from within and outside the country.

How can you make sure a statement in public not even once and Nigerians will not suspect you.

If you look at some countries that also have this virus, you would realize that it is not the entire country that is affected.

Lastly, not as if I doubt the presence of the virus in Nigeria. But I doubt the daily figures generated by NCDC without showing us any proof on TV as it is done worldwide and the general hysteria accompanying this virus.

For about two months and still counting, the fatality rate is still not bad as compared to developed countries, that is even if NCDC are giving us the correct figures.

Yes, the virus is in Nigeria, but some top men are cashing out from this SCAMdemic

Increase your volume please. I know they will come for you does cashing out on scamdemic.

Why is ncdc so obsessed with covid infection stats.

Why are they not looking for a cure?

Why are they discouraging hospitals and other medical practitioners from finding a cure?

Why are they so obsessed with ensuring all 36 states record covid?

When you follow the money trend, you will answer most of these questions?

They want donations from all and sundry, but don't want to hear that anyone outside ncdc has a cure.

Dubious charade.

this person go believe say he don type better something for him mind now....the fact is kogi people shouldn't even deceive themselves that Corona isn't present in that state....this is a State that is surrounded by not less than 8 states....lokoja na general bus stop wey vehicles going from both directions in Nigeria must stop even if na just for 10mins...so they should stop deceiving themselves and it's a State that doesn't have the capability to deal with this thing if it goes out of control....I've been to the State countless times and I know what I've seen there...Kano wey dey collect better allocation and a rich state can't handle it not to talk of kogi that is a civil service state

some people are making conspiracy theory that the covid-19 cases is been inflated by most especially state governors in the name of corruption, which I am actually caught my attention because all these covid-19 issues is been done in secrecy. no Transparency

Sunnick:
someone will just wake up one day and type one long rubbish, end it with a Dr name to deceive the ignorant ones

. Chai, brother, education no hard na, why you they make life difficult for you, you saw every thing he types which is the truth, and you are saying his typing rubbish, the spirit of stupidity is really ashamed of you, if truly you can't understand anything he types, that means your parents just waist there money on you for good solid 12 years on your education, you no fit get sense for live again no be lie.

Hmmmm ..�� I can smell rotten tomatoes

Austine1212:
South Africa tested almost 400,000 now.

The real giants, not paper or procreation giants.

I remember telling Nigerians to carefully note the number of testing kits donated to the goverment the day Nigeria Breweries donated 36,000 kits, yes 36,000.

Instead of making a mental note as to what is available so that Nigerians can hold goverment to account, our slow citizens were busy bantering about the north and donations by a brewery.

That is 36,000 free kits. If you add goverments own stocks, those donated by other corporates and individuals, should we not be having close to 100,000 tests done by now. Why is no one enraged by the paltry number of tests done compared to the kit gifts.

That of NB was a good three weeks plus ago. What is happening in this country. Will they hoard those kits until they rot?

OgbanjeProphet:
TAAA MECHIE ỌNỤ!' to Dr Abubakar Muhammed.

I know you have started your propaganda against another Igbo son.

Whether you agree or not, Coro Coro is already in Kogi state.

Although I am not totally in support of NCDC actions in Kogi state, Kogi Gov should come out clean and tell us how a state like Kogi, surrounded by states with cases of coronavirus, is coronavirus free.

When Mrs Gates stated her fear concerning Africa, many Africans almost crucified her, but tell me if she has not been proven right today...

. Like say Melinda gate na prophet or God way know when people go die, why she no see am last 2years, na now her vision clear bar, nonsense, guy open your eyes well, no let main stream media they decieved you with figure.

Blogsphere:
Before the Chinese authority owned up to the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan, China, the world did not realize that a major health crisis that would quake the entire mankind was in the offing.

The Covid-19, as the World Health Organization (WHO), termed it, rose from a minor outbreak of respiratory cum cough-related disease to a pandemic that is ravaging the world, today.

The world has been literally brought to its knees by this invincible enemy. As at last count, 9th of May, 2020, global confirmed cases stood at 3.9 million, while fatalities were recorded as 276,000.

The world being a global village, covid-19, sooner than later, berthed at the shores of Nigeria on 27th February, 2020.

An Italian citizen who came into the country from Milan, was the carrier. Since then, Coronavirus pandemic has registered its footprint on almost all the states including the FCT, except Kogi and Cross River States, respectively. As at 8th of May, 2020, Nigeria had recorded 3,912 confirmed cases; 679 discharged and, sadly, total of 117 deaths. Of an approximate population of 200 million people, NCDC has been able to test only 25,000 Nigerians.

I have the habit of watching daily media briefing of the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19. I must commend the Task Force and all the medical practitioners on the front line of this war against coronavirus. In one of the Presidential Task Force's updates, Director-General of NCDC, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu made a statement that rattled me.

He alluded to the fact that covid-19 would get to every state in Nigeria and urged the state governments to prepare for the eventuality. Initially, the statement came to me as precautionary, but Dr. Ihekweazu's body language as he made the shocking projection, left me in utter bewilderment.

He left the impression of certainty that the virus would reach every nook and cranny of the country. I paused and asked myself: who is NCDC working for? Are they working to curtail the virus or spread it? If indeed they're working to arrest the spread of covid-19 in the country, why was the NCDC DG so sure that it would get to every state? When I saw in the news that NCDC had a disagreement with the Cross River governor on the issue of not submitting enough samples for testing, I did not take it seriously. Then came Kogi State.

From the information out in the public, NCDC is literally mounting pressure on the Kogi State Government to submit samples of suspected coronavirus patients for testing. The big question here is: why is NCDC having a running battle with the only two states that are yet to confirm any case? When juxtaposed with the insensitive statement of NCDC's DG that covid-19 would get to every state of the federation, I can conclude without the error of assumption, that NCDC is in a hurry to register covid-19 cases for Kogi State. Do the agency want to manufacture fictitious cases for Kogi State?

NCDC alleged that they sent their officials to Lokoja to help the state government in verifying suspected cases to be considered for testing. But Kogi State is yet to ask for such assistance. The state government has categorically affirmed that there has not been any case satisfied to be forwarded to NCDC for testing. Why is NCDC crying more than the bereaved? With the suspicious moves of the agency, how are we sure that it will not be biased against the state to record any sample sent to it for testing, as positive?

Why is an agency that is visibly overwhelmed by the samples sent to it for testing, to the extent that some states wait for two to three days before getting feedback on their samples, be so much obsessed with a state like Kogi that is yet to forward sample to them for testing? When NCDC officials arrived Kogi to "assist" the state government, the governor, being suspicious of their activities in the Confluence State, insisted that the officials should be isolated for 14 days to ascertain their status regarding covid-19. The officials of NCDC returned to Abuja with the prejudiced message that Governor Yahaya Bello turned down the help they offered—while there was no need for the so-called help in the first place.

Do you offer to help a state that has not called for it? Has Kogi told NCDC that people are falling dead on the streets of Lokoja as a result of covid-19? Do you commiserate with someone that is not bereaved? It becomes hilarious and ridiculous when the same agency has shown high level of incapacitation and incompetence when it comes to meeting its responsibilities to terrified Nigerians at a time of crisis of this magnitude. NCDC fans itself in self-praise of testing 25,000 Nigerians in the last three months, while its counterpart in South Africa has tested over 100,000 within the same period. It should face its business of scaling up its testing capacity and leave Kogi State alone.

Is it a coincidence that the number of confirmed cases in the country skyrocketed when Nigerians were locked down in their homes. You lockdown Nigerians for more than one month without massive testing? As at 8th of May, 2020, out of over 25,000 tested persons, 3,912 cases were confirmed; 679 discharged and 117 deaths. Is this a result to be proud of, for a big nation like ours? Juxtapose the total number of discharged covid-19 cases with the number of deaths and it is clear that we are not doing well at all, yet NCDC had the luxury to be dancing ‘zanku’ leg work in Kogi State, in search of a non-existent covid-19 case, when lives are being lost at an alarming rate in other parts of Nigeria.

I stand with Governor Yahaya Bello for standing firm in the face of pressure from the agency to record cases for the state, while the state government continue to step up its precautionary measures against this pandemic, our ultimate goal and prayer, is that covid-19 does not get to the state. If it eventually comes, it should be real not fictitious. The mischievous actions of NCDC officials, is what is fueling the falsehood cum conspiracy theory in the minds of some people, that there is no coronavirus in the country. How do you explain to a lay man in the street the rational behind NCDC complain that states like Kogi are not sending in enough samples for testing, when the need has not arisen. NCDC should stop its questionable mission in Kogi.

By Dr. Abubakar Mohammed

https://www.thecable.ng/covid-19-ncdcs-questionable-mission-in-kogi/

I said it from the start that NCDC lacks transparency, yes there is Covid19 in Nigeria but it's not as they paint it to be, causing fear to Nigerians like they always do with bringing out fake figures

OgbanjeProphet:
TAAA MECHIE ỌNỤ!' to Dr Abubakar Muhammed.

I know you have started your propaganda against another Igbo son.

Whether you agree or not, Coro Coro is already in Kogi state.

Although I am not totally in support of NCDC actions in Kogi state, Kogi Gov should come out clean and tell us how a state like Kogi, surrounded by states with cases of coronavirus, is coronavirus free.

When Mrs Gates stated her fear concerning Africa, many Africans almost crucified her, but tell me if she has not been proven right today...

How has Mrs gates been proven right? Number of deaths is 150 out of 200 million people compare that with over 60k deaths in her own country!

TIMEISWISDOM:
I hope the author of this write up understand that NCDC is responsible for controlling infectious disease outbreak, and if eventually Kogi turns out to become an epicenter, they will be held responsible for it. Or you telling me nobody is reporting to hospitals in Kogi with cough and fever?

Submitting samples is all they ask for don't complicate things

you said cough and fever, why NCDC want covid-19 symptoms samples, is cough and fever covid-19, or you want them to summit other Illness as covid-19 symptoms .

Kingpele:
Chai, I can't believe that someone that can register in this forum could be this foolish, when he DG of NCDC said it will reach every where, they want everyone to be responsible and adhere to its guidelines, in this way the virus will be contained, why are we this foolish in this country, is not everything u should wail about... Even USA today have more than 80k deaths and almost I. 5 million cases, every nation should be afraid and responsible, don't doubt the existence of this virus here if u don't want to be a victim.. God please heal our world

. America is 30k death not 80k, no go they raised the figure up for them, except you day watch your own news from CNN, fake news media.

intruder15:


Malaria doesn't give you dry cough neither does it give u shortness of breath nor pneumonia. Let it sink.

Study about the bold

Rebuke:
Ok. Nothing is hidden under the sun my brother....I pity gullible Nigerian.

. Very very gullible sir, they hate truth, I was sharing one yesterday about the generation of Adolf Hitler, the wicked mode purposely delete some of my post and ban me on politics session, but I no say one day there eyes go open to know say people they do research .

waslag11:
ncdc said after 14 days,you start seeing the symptoms but had been in this issue more than 2 week yet no any repot from kogi and cross River. then leave two state focus on other states where they have it more .

Thank you jaare. This is exactly what the article is about..

Covid 19 patients in abroad hardly breath,
In Nigeria , covid19 patients come out to protest for poor treatment...
Am Still watching shaa.

Remdesivir:


I think NCDC is working for WHO who is working for Bill Gates to make sure that everyone on the planet gets the vaccine.

But I might be wrong.

. You are not wrong brother, you are 100% right, check the head of WHO, and see the African man there, his name is Gabriel yhesue, I don't know if I get the name correctly, but his a former terrorist in Ethiopia, killed many inocent souls in his home country.

BlackSpanner:
OP!!! I agree with you on your write up.
I was also shocked the day the NCDC said "Corona virus will surely get to all states in Nigeria". Since that day, I started suspecting that those guys at NCDC have a mission to accomplish with support from within and outside the country.

How can you make sure a statement in public not even once and Nigerians will not suspect you.

If you look at some countries that also have this virus, you would realize that it is not the entire country that is affected.

Lastly, not as if I doubt the presence of the virus in Nigeria. But I doubt the daily figures generated by NCDC without showing us any proof on TV as it is done worldwide and the general hysteria accompanying this virus.

For about two months and still counting, the fatality rate is still not bad as compared to developed countries, that is even if NCDC are giving us the correct figures.

Yes, the virus is in Nigeria, but some top men are cashing out from this SCAMdemic

Even the Lagos state commissioner for health made him own statement dat covid-19 patient go hit 120000 by July. What game are ds politician's playing us like bet9ja virtual dat we dont know?

Seun:
It is highly unlikely that Kogi state is free of COVID-19. The NCDC is absolutely right that the virus is everywhere. After what we have seen in Kano, Jigawa and, frankly, the entire world, the position of the Kogi State government cannot be taken seriously.

However, I empathize with this part of what the OP said:
I am not a fan of the NCDC’s defeatist attitude either. Perhaps I am mistaken, but I thought they were trying to wipe out the virus from the country by isolating all active cases, hence the drastic measures. Lately it seems that the NCDC’s goal is just to observe and inform us about the progress of the virus.

Seun. In the middle of January a Professor of Virology from the States, can't remember whether he was from John Hopkins said, it was likely 70 percent of the population of the world will eventually get infected judging by the nature of this particular strain of influenza virus.

Today we can see just how aggressive it is. Places that have been technically clear of Covid for a while have witnessed new flareups. The virus itself has eluded the playbook. No one still knows how it infects, no one is sure if it is/has mutating/mutated, no one is sure of the source so the original DNA cannot be sequenced.

I will not be entirely surprised if the vaccines on trial presently donot knock this thing out once and for all. My fear and that of Dr. Fauci, USCDC in fact is that the vaccines may cause resistance and may trigger mutation similar to what happened with the 'common cold' vaccine which has to be updated every year.

Covid 19 is a very big problem.

dirtydiva:
Even the Lagos state commissioner for health made him own statement dat covid-19 patient go hit 120000 by July. What game are ds politician's playing us like bet9ja virtual dat we dont know?

They are not playing a game but making careful calculations to prepare for the worst case scenario so that they are not planning IN A CRISES. You know it is a black thing to be caught off guard on everything.

Tell me. Knowing what you know now. If you had anticipated this pandemic event in December or January will you not have acted diffetently. They say hindsight is always 20/20. As a responsible individual, parent or leader you can never have an overabundance of caution.

If your President for instance knew it will be this bad in Nigeria as it is today, at the first sight of the Italian in February no one will have told him to shut the international borders subsequently.

Tboy1419:
. America is 30k death not 80k, no go they raised the figure up for them, except you day watch your own news from CNN, fake news media.

I think it is you that needs updated information. Deaths in the States passed 30,000 weeks ago, almost a month ago.

Sunnick:
someone will just wake up one day and type one long rubbish, end it with a Dr name to deceive the ignorant ones

You made no sense with this comment. He stated his facts (verified or not) in a logical sense, but you, no fact, just an attack. Now tell me, who made sense and or who look more like a deceiver? The answer is obvious.


P.S. It is better to read and pass, than to comment without making any sense.

Austine1212:
South Africa tested almost 400,000 now.

Have You been tested? If no, what effort have you made to get tested

Please pack your family and extended family member go for testing am sure it will increase the number of tested people in Nigeria

God bless you, even a doctor in the US said 70% of the world population will have it, why crucify NCDC DG over the statement that all states will have it, it doesn't matter if it's just one person in a state.
Having cases doesn't mean the governor is incompetent if there are not other reasons to conclude so.

Kingpele:
Chai, I can't believe that someone that can register in this forum could be this foolish, when he DG of NCDC said it will reach every where, they want everyone to be responsible and adhere to its guidelines, in this way the virus will be contained, why are we this foolish in this country, is not everything u should wail about... Even USA today have more than 80k deaths and almost I. 5 million cases, every nation should be afraid and responsible, don't doubt the existence of this virus here if u don't want to be a victim.. God please heal our world

Reference:


Seun. In the middle of January a Professor of Virology from the States, can't remember whether he was from John Hopkins said, it was likely 70 percent of the population of the world will eventually get infected judging by the nature of this particular strain of influenza virus.

Today we can see just how aggressive it is. Places that have been technically clear of Covid for a while have witnessed new flareups. The virus itself has eluded the playbook. No one still knows how it infects, no one is sure if it is/has mutating/mutated, no one is sure of the source so the original DNA cannot be sequenced.

I will not be entirely surprised if the vaccines on trial presently donot knock this thing out once and for all. My fear and that of Dr. Fauci, USCDC in fact is that the vaccines may cause resistance and may trigger mutation similar to what happened with the 'common cold' vaccine which has to be updated every year.

Covid 19 is a very big problem.

. Dr fauci also gave $3m to Wuhan lab in China, down play the cure of HRC which South Korea and other countries have been using to cure this disease, the same guy that predicted a deadly pandemic breakout in 2017 if am not lying, how did he know about this deadly disease if he is not among the group that planed it, I watch the London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony, every character they played in that stadium is what is happening now, you can go to YouTube and watch it yourself to compare, everything was planned 9years ago.

Reference:


They are not playing a game but making careful calculations to prepare for the worst case scenario so that they are not planning IN A CRISES. You know it is a black thing to be caught off guard on everything.

Tell me. Knowing what you know now. If you had anticipated this pandemic event in December or January will you not have acted diffetently. They say hindsight is always 20/20. As a responsible individual, parent or leader you can never have an overabundance of caution.

If your President for instance knew it will be this bad in Nigeria as it is today, at the first sight of the Italian in February no one will have told him to shut the international borders subsequently.

That's what WHO and China his from the world by not declaring the nature of covid-19 as a pandemic health issue because an agenda is underway to depopulate the entire globe and now dey are coming up with all manner of clinical trial dat can't even lay a reasonable result

Tboy1419:
. Dr fauci also gave $3m to Wuhan lab in China, down play the cure of HRC which South Korea and other countries have been using to cure this disease, the same guy that predicted a deadly pandemic breakout in 2017 if am not lying, how did he know about this deadly disease if he is not among the group that planed it, I watch the London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony, every character they played in that stadium is what is happening now, you can go to YouTube and watch it yourself to compare, everything was planned 9years ago.

I am speaking about the reality of the disease, the present and possibly future aspects as experts see it.

I donot involve myself in conspirational stories. I am not interested in where the virus originated and who might have or was not behind it. That doesn't help me or anyone else put a handle on it.

My present and future reality is to survive it then continue life as best as I can despite it. Whether the world is able to find a vaccine or not, the world must go on.