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The President, Association of Resident Doctors, Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia, Abia State, Dr Onuh Felix, has bemoaned the poor state of the isolation centres in the state, describing the situation as worrisome.

Felix urged the federal and state governments to, as a matter of urgency, expeditiously equip and expand the existing facilities at the FMC Umuahia, as well as other isolation centres in the state.

He made the call on Monday in a statement titled, ‘Combating the COVID-19 pandemic in Abia State – A call for action.’

He pointed out that reports from several testing centres in the country showed an increasing number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 patients who did not have any foreign travel history.

Felix said the development suggested an upsurge in both hospital and community transmission of the virus, while insisting that the situation in Abia State and reports from different centres in the country suggested obvious deficiency in the capacity of various states to test suspected patients and exposed individuals.

He said, “The low numbers recorded in these states consequently confer a false sense of security and confidence on the populace. This trend is dangerous and calls for concerted effort from governments at all levels to ramp up efforts to increase their capacity to test suspected cases and exposed individuals.

“The abysmal level of compliance to the use of face mask and lockdown directive in Abia State is a cause for concern. Despite government’s directive, human and vehicular movement mostly go unhindered, a development sometimes abetted by sharp practices of security outfits.”

He described any attempt to keep people at home without a commensurate plan to cater for the attendant economic hardship as a recipe for societal unrest and therefore called on government to resist the temptation of paying only lip service to the issue of palliatives, especially for the poor and vulnerable in the state.

manuelreports:
No need replying that mad dog and her dumb brothers from the South West.
In this life don't bother urself trying to help people who don't want to help themselves. That is the mistake MNK is making, the people of South West have pledged their life time loyalty to be the slave of Fulani Empire, nothing will change that. That is why they will fight anybody who attack their slave masters.
#longlivennamdikanu

SLAP44:
That's why your sister said this

trutht828:
Still, you are a dispensible useless pawn on buhari's chess board. . Northerners received money, while southwest received rice that custom said is poisoned for human consumption. . That's how much value buhari places on your Hailing.

Rich people in South East are giving their people fresh rice and not poisoned rice from custom.

And to think you even still came here to hail your receipt of the rice like a mental slave. Did you sit down for once to ask yourself why the rice wasn't sent to the north? .

Imagine yourself rejoicing for being a mental slave. What a situation!

ServantsOfTruth:
Go on and tell the world how stupid and foolish you are

I deal with fact am not as stupid as you are..read this and educate your stupid self cause you know nothing


Beggars do emerge from the Yoruba under two categories; conditional beggars and ceremonial beggars. Conditional beggars are victims of circumstance. They include, mostly, physically challenged individuals and those that life has obviously and glaringly being unfair to. Unlike the Almajiris, these beggars are not imposed on the people under the umbrella of culture or belief. They don’t just wander along the streets with bowls, believing that the people must help them. Rather, they consider themselves victims of life’s cruelty and their misfortune shouldn’t be anybody’s cup of tea. While pleading for alms, they usually include a prayer to their ordeal. They recognize their ill fate and hence pray for passersby not to witness a fate such as theirs. They are good orators, narrating their story as brief as possible with prayers flowing in and out of their sonorous voice. Indeed, there is power in the tongue; that whatever utterances made through it can influence one’s life. This catches the South-Westerners well enough that they usually feel obliged to give to these conditional beggars. Funny enough, the Northern beggars, who found their way to the South-West, also learn about this clue. Thus, they upgrade from their mute mode of begging to the oral mode. They’ve mastered two Yoruba utterances, Adura a gba (your prayers will be answered) and Asiri a bo (may you never lack), which they echo once they come across someone. Just as stated in Chinua Achebe’s, Things Fall Apart, “Eneke the bird says that since men have learnt to shoot without missing, he has learnt to fly without perching.” The Yorubas also find a way of turning down their Northern friends by mastering a suitable response in the Hausa language. Allah bamu sa’a is the token response used in discharging these beggars whenever they appear with their two learned Yoruba utterances; which has become their national anthem. However, the majority of the Yorubas barely know what Allah bamu sa’a implies. All they know is that once said, the beggars do give up their quest and quietly walk away. Yet, what is being said is, “May God grant us success.” Ceremonial beggars, on the hand, are those certain of coming across at Owambe party. One distinctive feature of the Yoruba people is being socialites.

It is a long-accepted norm in Yoruba land that every little accomplishment of an individual calls for a celebration. From the day a child was born to his day of demise, there is always a cause to throw a party. The naming ceremony, matriculation, and valedictory ceremony, wedding ceremony, burial ceremony, etc., are paramount in the Yoruba social It is a long-accepted norm in Yoruba land that every little accomplishment of an individual calls for a celebration. From the day a child was born to his day of demise, there is always a cause to throw a party. The naming ceremony, matriculation, and valedictory ceremony, wedding ceremony, burial ceremony, etc., are paramount in the Yoruba social setup.

In conformity with the exciting atmosphere attached to these ceremonial events, beggars tend to change their garment of sadness and put their despair aside for the meantime. They blend in with the crowd. Those who are conversant with Owambe party must have had an encounter with these ceremonial beggars. They range from a group of middle-aged women to wandering food beggars. These women are known for throwing themselves at anyone lingering around the premises of the party. Regardless of whom you are, you become the VVIP of the ceremony once you are sighted by these women. In a blink of an eye, they’ve started giving you special treatment; fanning, mopping and placing hand-made stickers on your dress. By the time they start rendering appraisals and eulogies, you need not be told before dipping your hand in your pocket. Almost immediately after you’ve donated, they depart from you and disperse; waiting for another hapless victim.

The Igbos are well-known to be energetic, gregarious, and highly industrious. Among the three major ethnic groups in Nigeria, they are convincingly the most enterprising. Hypothetically, they are the least likely to be found begging.

Who is a slave and a beggar when other will make your to beg

Shame on your yourba tribe as a whole

Fool

Cantonese:
How do you define barren and curse?

Igbo lands are lush and green. If lands are flowing with milk and honey The people are very hardworking and productive; The people are able to spread nationally and internationally, possessing massive lands and properties in their respective locations.The people have developed massive industries (many names are known to you) of their own and contributing to national growth. Women from other tribes (especially Yoruba) beg to marry Igbo men/associate with them or learn trades from them, how are Igbos cursed and their lands barren?

There must be limits and ends hatred, jealousy and abuses. I sincerely hope that you can wipe that pettiness off your heart so you don't keep on suffering loses from relationships which you would have had with Igbos that could have moved you forward beyond where you presently are today. Cheers.

ozoebuka1:
If you ain't bias you'd agree with me that igbos insult and criticize any of their leaders whenever they misbehave.

The problem with you Yorubas is whenever igbos are criticizing any other person other than an igbo man, you guys see it as tribalism. That's your problem.

stanluiz:
Bla Bla bla. Story for the gods

Like the way you people have been killing and butchering your selves in Lagos and ogun during this lockdown. Hunger has dealt with you people this period. Crime rates has skyrocketed in the south west. What about the ritual killings in ogun that have shown the world how hungry, wicked and frustrated you guys are

Your audio billionaires and your politicians are not givings you guys anything , thereby allowing hunger to dealt with your people and I can see it through your comments.

When will tinubu family and mc oluomo donates palliatives to the agberos and area boys that are collecting money for them at Lagos street and motor parks

ozoebuka1:
I'd excuse you with your double standard... It's inherent I guess. Continue to wallow in your petty Stockholm syndrome.

ozoebuka1:
You just want us to run around in circles? You and I know, that the problem in Nigeria particularly southern Nigeria today is the fault of Yorubas. Fulanis can be excused because they seem not to care and they benefit from it, seeing Yorubas jubiliate in mediocrity of the governance in Nigeria today makes a reasonable person want to run mad. SMH.

ServantsOfTruth:
Did your stupid Ondo State buy the bags of rice? Ondo slaves don't have money to buy rice...you idiot are known for begging

Slaves that was given rotten rice to eat..for this I love bubu
I hope you heard what is happening in the south east..igbos we don't beg and you cowards know that lol

ozoebuka1:
You are right but this time, replace southerners with Yorubas

ServantsOfTruth:
Yourba nation are known for begging chia what a shame

So thiefnibu, jagadrugdealer can't buy common rice for you beggars

Bubu is feed you slaves with rotten rice

I love what bubu is doing to the south west slaves and south west ass lickers

Lol

okpalaAnambra:
Nothing shameful in their hustle since it's legit,...than osun people who aren't crippled but wait to be fed and forming 1 million boys terrorising their fellow Afonjas... pathetic and horrible

okpalaAnambra:
Osun is an IDP state aka almajiri state, it has nothing to offer ..Buhari only banned important states

OlujobaSamuel:
I'm suspecting the lady is neither a Ufuoma nor from Ibadan.
Probably a change of identity by the traffickers. Might be some of those girls from far òkè ogun boarder town that people do source for maid service.
A lady with Busari as surname would likely have a Yoruba name as one of the other names too, and not just a combination of Peace Ufuoma.

tsinzu:
You're talking nonsense, none of her name's is igbo, Ufuoma is not an igbo name.

sassysure:
When this news came out initially.
Because the name on the passport which may be fake is igbo name,
Go to that post and see what fellow Nigerians regurgitated from their mouth. They didn't see a trafficked Nigerian girl and a human being but an igbo girl.
Now, it's confirmed she isn't igbo, what do they have to say?
Where are those laughing and taunting igbo people on that thread?
Shame on u inhuman humans.

Sometimes I wish I wasn't a Nigerian. The hatred is deep.

DonMustafa:
Why don't I believe this whole story. It seems scripted

How can Ufuoma come from Oyo state?

Eastlink:
Nonsense! So you didn’t see her surname Busari. You think it’s easy to falsify Nigerian international passport this days.
She’s Yoruba from Ibadan, maybe with an Urhobo mother.

IDeyNL:
Protest for hungry people in SW.

For South East, them dey chop well. So no need for hitting pots and pans.

Sctests:
All these cries and lamentations won't be needed if you can simply replace Emir of illorin with an Oba. That is the evidence you were conquered forever.

As for shameful dahomey defeat that had your ancestors scampering under olumo rock, below is a picture of lipstick-wearing teenage dahomey lady with a severed yoruba head.

Take the L and bounce. Loser!

Menance:
May God punish you, your family, your ancestors and your generation..
If you want to quote me, quote me like a civilized human not some not some emotionally manipulated slowpoke.. You are pained and it's very very obvious you demonic child of hate.

It's not news that your spineless brothers are always pained by "Igbo amaka". You can hide it and hate but who gives a smelling Fu. Ck?.

Yes if it was an Igbo thread you'll see 20 pages of praises now tell me... Is it your praises? Are you the one the praises are sang to? Is it your thread?.. or did Igbos go to your region to say "Igbo Amaka"?

Chest beat you there. Do you know what chest beating is?
NB: It's not easy to achieve great feat and make giant strides.. Go cry elsewhere..

Useless mugu..

Sctests:
We lost a war against British Naval ships, Artilleries and Russian fighter jets not against yorubas who were conquered by menstruating dahomey lady fighters and overconquered by the fulani cattlemen who have a huge Emirate on yorubaland till this day as a symbol of yoruba slavery and servitutude. Bwahahaha!

Sctests:
Did anybody stop you from saying 'yoruba amaka', omoluabi etc?

There is nothing wrong in promoting and praising oneself, afterall your yoruba leaders and politicians pay millions to Fuji musicians like Kwam 1, Obesere, Pasuma etc to sing their praises and adulate them.

Now why is it a problem if an Igbo man does something praise-worthy, and he is hailed with 'Igbo amaka' adulations?

I noticed it many years ago here on NL, how the word 'Igbo amaka' became a cause for accusing Ndigbo of tribalism and victimization when it doesn't in any way insult yorubas or anyone else?

I've seen people with car stickers saying 'proudly yoruba', it doesn't take away anything from me as an Igbo man but why do some yorubas take offense when we say 'Igbo amaka'? If I put a car sticker saying 'proudly Igbo', some yorubas will definitely raise eyebrow and accuse me of 'tribalism'. But how does it in anyway insult them?

Is it because history has conditioned you to believe we Igbo must hate ourselves as a condition of gaining your acceptability in Nigeria because we lost a war against the British in 1970s?

Wake up my good friend, that narrative no longer holds.

RTSC:
There is nothing you have done that Igbos have not done or matched.

So shut up.

If the Yorubas in the East are sound enough, they would get a first class.

Ngwamankillyou:
Worthless blacky

Ngwamankillyou:
House negro keep kwayet.

Ngwamankillyou:
Go and have a seat local man, I won't envy someone I'm superior to... Get that in your African black skull.