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Totally agree. I have been berating him since early February when the virus spread to HongKong. He didn't declare a pandemic until it breached the continent and appeared in Iran then Italy shortly after.

Most of Asia including Taiwan, Vietnam and Singapore were affected but because those countries were in the sphere if influence of China he kept quiet. He is a politician, period and should have been removed since.

Just happy about the news coming out of AstraZenica this morning. The vaccine manufacture/testing is going on simultaneously and will most likely be available before the end of the year and will be offered at cost.

So it is the duty of every person to survive the next six months by proper protective practices. Kudos to the University of Oxford, Virology Research Department. They are the rock stars in this Covid pandemania.

Refrained from this issue so far but this is getting ugly. Not too late to clean up this mess.

... Bridge over River Kwai.... built during the infamous World War 2 Japanese death march..

senatordave1:
Channels TV earlier this week reported that lagos ,rivers,fct and kano will get 10 trucks while other states will get 3 or 4

According to you Lagos gets 10. It has just about the same population and a lot more covid 19 cases. But the goverment in its wisdom decides Kano gets 10 times, 10 times, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 10 times the quantity of relief materials....

You know what this simply tells me. That the Federal goverment feels Lagos can take care of itself while Kano cannot.

When this dust finally has settled I cannot see how any Lagosian will not demand for a restructuring of Nigeria to do exactly that. To enable it take care of itself.

I do hope after the tragedy of governance surrounding this pandemic states will be prepared to give the Federal goverment a cold shoulder and chart a course for themselves.

sarrki:
While other states got 1800\ 600 = 3 trailers

Are you wailing?

IlovePMB:
This is what some people elected to be their president. Nigeria is on a time bomb.



I am ashamed of you and others like you who I share the same country with.

So no interaction with him since last year, no correspondence, no discussion about what he is appointed to do. Then it cannot be an appointment or establishment that is worth our while nor should it cost the taxpayer anything.

Said it severally. Government business is a millstone round the necks of Nigerians. For folks who are aped about the so called palliatives. This is one of the reasons why there is nothing left in the till for the rest Nigerians...an overbloated government filled with political jobbers and gravy trainers.

He was certainly not appointed for anything serious or worthwhile. If he had they will know the minute he passed on.

This is the problem with Nigeria (ns). We like pretense and self deceit. Just as our government couldn't admit it didn't have the capacity to lock Nigeria down these folks posting all these false flags keep burying their heads in the sands.

I have not been to Maiduguri in a while but these will certainly not represent Nigerians living in Maiduguri. They should cut across locations where all strata of society lives if you are representing correct demographics.

You show me Central Area and Asokoro in Abuja and tell me FCT residents are in lockdown when the sattelite town which I have passed at least thrice a week on my way out of town since the curfew started have never seen anything called lockdown.

I have seen pictures from Portharcourt, Asaba, Uyo, Kaduna and manu more stet capitals showing me places where you wil not even see crowds in normal times, while the fact is that it is the slums, the ghettos, the sattelite towns, the innercity settlements that have caused the lockdown to fail and the Nigerian state to cave in to Covid 19.

Why is it that Nigerians simply donot understand their country from the dusty city streets to the Rock in Abuja. Oga, show us the real Maiduguri, the real places that matter in this pandemic. Don't print postcards for us. We are presently doing anti-tourism.

6 weeks?....hmmm, then we can assume he will have lung scarring. That's an awfully long time to have chronic pneumonia. Wish him the best.

AreaFada2:
Sadly no messiah anywhere in Nigeria.

Nigeria must be totally reconfigured from top to bottom. No shame in admitting that we have failed and get help. From more impartial people like Australians, Canadians and New Zealanders. Singapore even.
We must now swallow our pride.

Just having educated people is not enough. We lack the discipline and the right attitude.

Same here. Been saying it for ages. Serious people get the very best they can to handle matters important to them. Dangote wil not force a Nigerian into any position that will bring his company crashing down.

We are a people full of sentiment and are paying for it dearly with a nation of extreme poverty and backwardness. People that will rather die than do what is right. You ask a man who has corruption cases before his to clean another corrupted institution....is like taking the face mask of a known corona virus patient and wearing it for protection.

There are thousands of experts throughout the world that you can contract to shape institutions, enterprises, MDA's etc, to transfer values, ideals, technology and best practices. When they have instituted good governance you end their contracts. What is so hard in that.

divinehand2003:
https://thenationonlineng.net/just-in-mass-retirement-of-senior-nddc-staff-looms/

NDDC. A stinking cesspit. No right thinking person will have anything to do with that criminal organisation. I took one look at them in 2002 and avoided their airspace completely. You can't say you work for them or with them and will not need an attorney before God Almighty.

Visionless home. Your calling in life is to do house chores. Both you and your husband should be flogged at the courts of life.

aminu114:
we nigerians are confused there u are in the south insultng him saying he favours the north nd here we r in north insulting him saying he favours the south morethan us

Don't mind them. Ask them where their own big shots are. You only see their bullion vans when there is a vote to be sold or chants of 'Lion of Teranga' during election week...

Where are the leaders in goverment from the South who sit on vast budgets, peddle vast influence and live in laps of obscene luxury. I think elections in Edo and Ondo are coming. Let us see what they will say, what excuses they will give for this negligence.

They are only jealous you guys know how to take care of yourselves which is the hallmark of grassroots politicking. The joke is on their citizens.

The Veep is there to donate to the South. Nothing stops him from sending his wife with trailer loads too to appease his constituents in Lekki who went bonkers yesterday against lockdown.

The bigwigs in this goverment from the south are ominous by their silence.

Which project? There ia no other project in 2020 outside Covid 19. Nothing else will be value for money in the uncertainty caused by the pandemic.

This is May already. They should specify the critical projects that cannot wait for the coast to clear up to enable income generation to rebound.

Yeah, was watching him on Channels this morning.

Acidosis:
The rate at which Agberos will infect them ehn.

I laugh when people talk about nose masks. They believe a typical and desperate agbero that hardly pronounces destinations properly will wear a nose mask.

We complain of hunger, but how many people will allow artisans, electricians, plumbers come to fix anything in their house at a time we're seeing new cases? Those surviving on daily income still won't get the kind of job they expect so what's the point? If you won't allow an artisan come close to your house, why lift the lockdown when we can force the government to provide?

It is a zero sum game. Nigerians see that the goverment cannot cater for them so they are prepared to take their chances and bear the consequences, simple. I understand that. Why can't you. For heavens sake the government knew it had no capacity to handle Covid 19, why didn't it act swiftly then. It knew Coivd 19 was a death sentence shutdown or not. Nigeria simply does not have the capacity to save its people. We are a severely weak nation.

Adakintroy2:
Think it has peak. It has been hovering around 81 - 1000 of late and consistently so.

Now it's 64, a decline..I hope it mentain a continuous steady decline till next week.

Those who are going out Remer to cover up.

God bless us all.

R.i.p to the dead, condolence to those who lost love ones. It's well.

You know very little about this pandemic. You are talking about peaking based on what statistic? You are talking about peaking based on how many inquiries (tests), sampling volume and distribution? In Nigeria what we have done statistically is next to insignificant. And it is from statistics conclusions are drawn, not from emotions.

It is like a VIO officer says every car is road worthy or an FRSC officer claims to his boss that every Nigerian has a drivers license because he has checked ten vehicles and drivers since January.

How can you make auch a damning conclusion on such paltry number of samples. Like I asked last week. Can you make an important business investment decision when you have leass that 0.05 percent of the data at hand. Will you spend the only money you have in the bank to buy those eggs to raise poultry chicks if you are told only 0.05 percent of them have been tested for sterility.... nawa oh.

Once again, just as we have said. That the lock down will be eased while cases are on the rise. Nigeria will be the first to do this and will be a global experimental model. Folks who cannot be locked down will not social distance nor wear face masks in public. We are heading for an uncertain outcome.

This is the product of lack of foresight, lack of intellectual capacity on the the part of those who take key decisions in Nigeria and lack of introspection. I said it in February. There are certain things which will not be recoverable nor repairable. Covid 19 is the great revealer of intents and competencies.

Iamgrey5:
I have argued here that Nigeria doesn't have the money to enforce a lock down

But if majority of "Educated Nigerians" including the civil and public servants believe the lock down is the best way to go.

Then the government must come up with the money from somewhere to support the poor people.

We told them Nigeria did not have the capacity to lockdown immediately we saw Wuhan late January.

If the people knew they will be bailing out the goverment as opposed to the goverment bailing out the people as happens in ALL other climes then they will have taken charge of their destiny and acted in charge against the pandemic themselves.

If a father cannot cater for his children he cannot set curfew rules, cannot decide what they study in school and cannot tell them how many pieces of meat they can take from the pit of soup they cooked.

Its just a pity that out of sentiment Nigerians have abdicated their privileges under democracy and fear those who naturally should fear them. The only reason why I take this with some levity is that I hold the civil service at all levels partly responsible for the poor state of affairs in Nigeria.

Beedude:
I'm a school owner and really support the govt. At the moment education isnt a priority.Food and Survival of this lockdown is.What i simply do since March is send work of all the classes to the school whatsapp forum and parents guide their children. Such work will be done and sent back to me. It is actually FREE but some parents compensate .Starting 3rd term online is wrong. So many factor won't make it work in Nigeria at the moment. Electricity, cost of data and access to an internet enabled phone. Only 40% of parents are even available on whatsapp. We shouldnt be greedy

You are a businessman not a school owner. EDUCATION IS ALWAYS A PRIORITY, EVEN IN WARTIME. What the heck are you saying. Education should never, ever, ever stop. Education is life. Education is a competitive resource. The moment I know more, faster, earlier than you, you will remain at a competitive disadvantage almost forever. Just don't say that. Ever.

Mizwisdom:
So should they be pulled down because others can't meet up?

When I said months ago that this pandemic will be a game changer at many levels and that we should do everything to avoid it because of a lack of capacity this was it. The things ordinary people like me saw is what a supposed government with all its resouces could not anticipate. That society will be shorn by the effects of the pandemic. It will no doubt widen the gap between the rich and poor. That you cannot avoid. While others are struggling to eat, others are attending extramural classes at great expense.

And because we are late to the pandemic the competition between us and other nations will widen that much further at all levels from basic school to grad school. Our leaders don't think far and donot anticipate consequences early. Just elected and appointed to react to things. No visionaries.

wonder233:
I support the government on this. These Shylock Lagos private school owners will stop at nothing to exploit.
Let parents at least use this lockdown period to bond with their kids. Let the kids learn other things like crafts, domestic chores, etc. Let them be revising what they've been taught before, or let them just play.
We run a unified academic calendar at primary and secondary level. So, if they conclude their term online, so what happens to their counterparts in government schools?

What happens to their counterparts overseas, the children of your feudal leaders you worship, fight, abuse and kill for who will soon resume their schools in Europe and America and be spirited out of the country using tax payers funds, your money. Will you be able to stop them resuming and gaining a career advantage over your kids....

Life is not fair we all agree but you can level the playing field by demanding good governance and not buying into the sentiment the leaders so desire to hold the nation captive. I hope the resumption of schools whenever that happens will not be centralised so that states that have worked hard to keep safe are not undermined and held back by poorly governed ones.

The best way to conquer this pandemic is to decentralise the fight in Nigeria. No one should hold the other back. Let the private schools be abeg. If parents want their kids educated better why should you stop them.

Incomptence everywhere, at all levels and yet they all want monopoly of power and authority. There is nowhere else on earth where the battle against Covid 19 is centralised. If Trump has such powers California or Newyork will be finished, so will Scotland if perhaps Boris had his way. We have this penchant for structural imbalances that inbreeds inefficiency and mediocrity.

Why can't the Kano state goverment have its own centre for disease control handling its peculiarities so that the state can mobilise its own resources independently of the Federal goverment. Central police has been found wanting, central petroleum control, central power distribution. Nothing centrally controlled can ever work efficiently in a large, complex society such as ours.

Its just a breeding ground for the things the owners of this country love, nepotism, corruption and feudalism. Perhaps Ganduje should take a heifer to Abuja to offer as sacrifice before he is summoned before the gods. We are just drowning in our ignorance. What is is about Covid that a state cannot handle without the involvement of the Federal goverment who should merely be umpires.

uridadole:
This is what you get when contractors are only paid so as to give kick-back without proper supervision of project execution.

leaky roof of silos may be the culprit. This government is not exonerated but to say that right from 1999 till now, it has just been the same.


we really need to start having youth organizations that will volunteer to monitor compliance to standard in the course of executing every government project.

Mr. Youth. Bagged materials are not put in silos. If it cakes up it will not discharge from the hopper and it will be seen the instant it is being bagged. The rice you see has not been near any silo lately.

9PBLIVE:
Photo Of The Day: Is This Right?

This is punishment.



https://twitter.com/realSopulu/status/1254434036157685762/photo/1

If you feel embarassed by this yet cannot call your leaders to question then you need to have your head examined.

This picture is a product of the so called servants not respecting those they serve. I cannot employ a driver and be changing the flat tyre while he sits idly by.

Everyone elected is employed by the people to serve. Everyone appointed is paid by the people to work. Few politicians in progressive, dynamic nations are neither feared nor loved.

cococandy:
Even the so called organized countries don’t have much of a plan. This one weak everybody.
At this point I’m down for anything.
Open or close, I dey.

It is not about individuals. We should think about others. If I considered myself alone I can assure you I don't mind the lockdown extending till a vaccine is established next year because part of my business is essential on the one hand and another significant part is domiciled overseas and hopefully these will soon be back. I go to work four times a week for just a few hours each day.

But ones society is ones society and we should all be concerned right now about the big picture concerning this pandemic viz about our capacity to handle it.

One of the big mistakes we have made and continue to make from the get go and up until yesterday's meeting by Mr. President and the Minister of Health and Head NCDC is that the pandemic is a health issue alone. It is absolutely not.

It is far more than that for the simple reason that the vast majority affected by a pandemic ARE NOT SICK AND WILL NOT BE SICK AT THE END. So dealing with this group in helping to stem the pandemic IS NOT A HEALTH ISSUE but a general governance issue.

That is why when you see the tip of the spear in most other nations you see the involvement of other experts interfacing with goverment and not just disease control experts calling all the shots.

cococandy:
I don’t even know what to say. It sounds like it is necessary but what’s the plan?

Now the citizens are awakening and asking the questions. Previously they thought 'lockdown' was a plan. Today they realise it is only a tool to buy time. What you do with the time you buy is called the plan, is the strategy.

The goverment says it is seeking test kits so they want us to wait until they find the kits....even if it takes them ten years to find. Is this not a receipe for disaster.

Folks say the lockdown has curbed the spread. I agree. If that is the strategy then we should just lockdown till the virus burns itself out or a vaccine is found and goverment should admit we will be locked down till early next year.

Lockdown to me is like you lifting your bed edge so that your wife can sweep under it. It is hard work. If you strain to lift and your wife is busy on the phone or cannot find the broom or sweeps with lethargy you are bound to react.

For goodness sake the goverment should realise that the strain on society is real and proportional to the ability of society to maintain cohesion. Without cohesion the virus cannot be contained.

nairavsdollars:
Moghalu not a government critic. He is like Jimi Agbaje..He only speaks during election period. Have you heard anything from Moghalu and Fela Durotoye since 2019 election?

Were you not the folks who support the 'campaign only during election regime' of this goverment that is intolerable of criticism outside election schedules.

What were you guys calling Sowore duri g his movement. What is Atiku being called today. Good governance through virile opposition is not imposed on a country but demanded by the people. Nigerians do not value it so the quality and diversity is non existent. The average Nigerian loves autocracy.

festacman:
Prof. Is-haq Oloyede through angelic display of unimpeachable integrity, rare incorruptibility, and enviable honesty proved that JAMB is actually a PROFIT CENTRE as opposed to purely a cost centre it has been in the past years. By this act, he exposed and proved the past registrars of JAMB as insincere and corrupt.

Take a bow distinguished Prof!

You guys have started again, talking as if you are a spirit following him around and checking all his deeds until you are gobsmacked by his own laundry.

If you are interested in good governance then I suggest your focus shift from individuals to institutions. JAMB is obviously a weakly governed institution so it is a matter of time before the institution destroys the perceived integrity of any individual. It is the structure that matters. Who will talk today of integrity in this present goverment as compared to 2015. Nigeria has blown off any preconception.

Crime everywhere round the world is falling due to the lockdown, even in Iraq and Yemen. In the United States this is despite record gun sales. In Nigeria, Lagos specifically, crime is skyrocketing. Gangs, hundreds of men strong are rampaging around causing mayhem, not protesting bad policies and bad governance, but robbing their fellow citizens.

The inability of the citizenry to direct the effects of bad governance aright is what has destroyed the social fabric of Lagos and put a glass ceiling on any hopes of sustainable development. Something their leaders will cherish. They can tiptoe to the cookie jar while the citizens destroy themselves with everything from denial to racism.

Good news. One creature not needed on this planet.