₦airaland Forum

adadike:
When I said it, people called for my head. If you have malaria, just go to NCDC office and see if you won't test positive for Covid 19. ! NCDC , stop lying to Nigerians , they have suffered enough

But how is this your claim possible? The test for Covid is through swab samples collected from the nasal tract. The test for malaria is through blood samples.

The reagents used for both tests are different.

Covid-19 is a virus while malaria is caused by a single-cell parasite.

So how can a test for malaria reveal that you have Covid-19 and vice-versa?

Has the malaria parasite which is restricted to the blood began to manifest in the nasal tract?

This is just simple logic really.

LandOwners:
Stop the lockdown.
We really need to find a way around this covid 19 thing.
Let's practice social distancing, wear our face masks and hygiene.

Everyone is tired of the lock down. I am sure even government wants things to return to normal as soon a possible.

But we as a people have made a habit of not complying with government directives.

We did not comply much with the stay at home order and we aren't complying with the terms of the partial easing of the lockdown.

The terms were simple: wear a mask in public, do not crowd anywhere beyond 60% capacity, use hand sanitiser everywhere and wash your hands regularly. Have you seen that happening much around you? If you live in Lagos, just look around you. People are moving around their regular businesses with hardly any precautions.

The fact is that even if the government imposes another lockdown, compliance will still be poor and this disease is going to keep spreading.

The best bet in my opinion is that we pray for some kind of vaccine. Either that, or government needs to be a lot more radical about enforcing the lockdown or the social distancing rules.

Preciousgirl:
My 30 year old brother is going to marry a 43 year old woman. The woman is never married before and has no kids but been in 7 different past relationships.

I am not endorsing this, what do you advise?

Why does he need your endorsement?

Are you the one marrying the woman?

If it works well for the couple, praise the Lord! if things go south, show your brother love and support him through his period of recovery.

Stop being selfish. Keep your endorsement to yourself and support your brother to find happiness.

Edoloaded:
Isn't this strange.



https://mobile.twitter.com/BashirAhmaad/status/1250063460215533568

If you observe all of the photos of the President holding meetings in the last few weeks, it would appear that everyone that has come into close proximity with the President has worn a face mask and gloves. I can bet they are also sprayed down with a strong disinfectant before they meet with him. That ensures the President is protected in case the visitor is infected.

With this, I don't see the need for the President to wear a mask and gloves.

CapitalBank:
don't ever in ur life mention my handle.

Or else what will happen?

Barrystar5585:
Territorial war loading...

There's no territorial war loading anywhere. Deby can only make all of the noise. He won't dare engage Nigeria in a full-frontal war.

idealogical:
The Chadian clown is delusional, he's nervous because we are not responding to his propaganda and silly game.

He's mad because he can not hustle PMB like he used to hustle Jona for ransom and BH protection money.

Chad is not holding an inch of the Nigerian terirory, his charade fight against BH is right there inside Chad, not inside Nigeria.

He withdrew from the joint regional security forces and left Nigeria, Cameroon and Niger to fight BH because he reached am agreement with BH with the understanding that BH won't attack him and his country. He looked the other way while BH set up camps in his country, he didn't stop BH from sending weapons and fighters into Nigeria, but something changed and BH attacked and killed 92 of his men.

So, to save face, he went after BH with propaganda nd staged BH weapons and 5 killed BH on the ground.

The fact his, he didn't just found out about BH camps and bunkers on his soil, he knew all along the location of all the BH camps in his country and never shared that info with Nigeria, he knew exactly where to go to look for BH . BH just wasn't sitting there waiting. He knew their location all along.

Every time we kill BH and chase their fighters, they run into Chad and the useless Derby in Chad just let them be

The man is a crook, he's an extortionist, he probably wants money from us to fight BH just like he extorted money from Jonathan to fight BH.

He gambled with BH and lost 92 men in the process.

Same thing I have been trying to tell some of my friends who are suddenly praise-singing a key terrorist sponsor like Deby. The same bastard that scammed about 22 million dollars from the FG during President Jonathan's administration under the guise of negotiating a peace treaty with Boko Haram.

I always ask them how come Deby and his troops found so many BH camps in Chad and they did nothing about them all these while? While our soldiers are staking their lives daily keeping our borders safe, Boko Haram launches surprise attacks and then retreat deep into Chadian territory where Deby gives them a safe haven.

Same Deby that has shown an uncooperative attitude towards the MJTNF arrangement with Nigeria, Cameroon and Niger, suddenly wakes up one day to launch attacks on Boko Haram after losing men, and claims he killed 1000 Boko Haram. When we ask him to show pictures of the "1000 dead boko haram", he shows pictures of about 3 dead boko Haram and a video of him surrounded by his lieutenants talking kak and Nigerians are foolishly hailing him.

Time exposes all things. The truth will come out soon.

CapitalBank:
Source: https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2020/04/12/chad-issues-nigeria-april-22-deadline-to-occupy-territories-seized-from-bharam/

President Deby knows how to play up propaganda. The recent operation of the Chadian Army was all within Chadian territory. They never crossed over into Nigerian territory so all these talks of holding territory within the Nigerian space is nonsense.

Someone needs to arrest all of those people running around on Gbagada expressway in the name of exercise and show them these pictures and other horrible pictures from across the world.

Perhaps where simple common sense has failed to work and get them to sit their asses at home, some good old shock therapy will!

Macphenson:
With the recent brouhaha surrounding the 5G network all over the world, prompting the Federal government to issue a statement that nobody has been licensed to operate a 5G network, I stumbled across this memo from MTN Nigeria saying they have tested 5G in Nigeria.



https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2020/04/fg-clarifies-position-on-5g-deployment/amp/

MTN ran a well-publicised demo of the 5G network and its benefits sometime in November 2019.

The demo was well publicised and televised. It held in their head office in Lagos and their regional offices in Abuja and Calabar. It was well attended by members of the public and government. You can google for Youtube videos of the demo. There was nothing secret about it. The demo lasted for a week and then the machines were switched off and dismantled.

The NCC or FG hasn't licensed any of the network to operate 5G in Nigeria. What MTN got was FG permission to run their demo. Huawei brought their equipment, set it up, ran the demo, shut down the machines, dismantled and everyone moved on.

holuwashezy:
Oyo State governor, Engr Seyi Makinde has said that the state doesn't need to go the Lagos, Ogun, Osun and Ekiti way on total lockdown before the spread of coronavirus can be curbed.

Makinde said during a phone call conversation to a popular radio station in Ibadan on Tuesday.

The governor who reiterated that everything that can be done to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in Oyo State is on the table, that the government will continue to assess the situation and take additional measures where necessary.

Quoting the governor verbatim, he said "Yes, Lagos can be on lockdown, Ogun can be on lockdown, Oyo State, yes, people have been saying have a total lockdown and then I have been asking them questions. What will be the benefits here? Are there alternative courses of action for us to take? If you ask people not to come out, you lock down the market places, there are people who what they sell today - the profit from today’s activities is what they will eat tomorrow. There are plenty of people like that within our environment. So, are there alternatives available to us? Can we do selective lockdowns? That’s why I imposed the curfew.

"I think, everything is on the table but it has to follow a logical pattern and it will need the input of experts. We are not just going to lockdown because everyone is looking down.

"I have been watching CNN and the most successful place right now in containing this is the Czech Republic. And one of the things they brought out is that they made a law that if you must leave your house, you must wear a mask. It may be that route for us to go. I have asked them to start evaluating that. If we must make that law and say everybody that must go out must wear a mask, then, how about those who cannot afford it. Can we make masks locally? Can we get our artisans and our tailors to commit to that with the government supporting? So, those are the type of solutions we are looking for."

https://mobile.twitter.com/seyiamakinde/status/1245012510937415688

Don't worry Seyi Makinde. You and your government should keep playing kalo-kalo with the lives of Oyo people because you don't want to toe the line of wisdom you hear! You will tell me whether Czech republic and Oyo have anything in common.

WHO has repeatedly stressed that face mask and hand gloves do not prevent the virus. Keep playing the populist politician to the depraved adulation of your social media hallelujah band!

Developed countries like US, China, France and UK have adopted total lockdown. You are talking about Czech republic and face mask? From the moment you organised a political rally after the announcement of the virus in Nigeria, I knew you were grossly overrated. I am just so glad you aren't the governor of Lagos else we would all have been dead by now.

madridguy:
Better for him. I hope the boys can also drop their uniform and return back to their love ones. Boko Haram is an avenue to enrich some individual at the detriment of some peoples lives.

You realise that if the boys drop their uniforms, the entire land will be overrun in no time and there may be no "loved ones" to return to. You and I will not even have enough security to banter on Nairaland or anywhere else for that matter.

GamalNasser:
I am saying what's the difference between the lockdown he ordered and the one that was already being observed in Lagos?

The difference is that both the public and private sector are now compelled to shut down fully unlike Sanwoolu that partially shut down the public service and left the private sector to use their discretion.

There are a lot of people that wanted to stay home but their offices compelled them to come into the office everyday thus exposing them and their families to risk. Now with this order, the employers will be forced to comply.

Local flights are grounded and inter and intra state vehicular movements have been seriously curtailed. All in all, much more people by this order will stay in doors.

It is very inconveniencing but highly necessary.

GamalNasser:
Lagos was already in lockdown for the past 6days and we were doing great so why did he have to announce the same level of lock down and trigger another round of inflation , panic buying and uncertainty ? Why ? Didn't he know Lagos was already in lock down? And besides he doesn't even have the power to do this without consulting the Governor and state assembly

You people just like talking. So in your minds, you think the President just woke up in Abuja and pronounced curfew in 3 states across the country without due consultation with the state leadership apparatus?

By the way, neither Lagos nor Abuja was on lockdown before now. When the rumour that Lagos was going to be locked down came up last week, the governor issued a statement to debunk it stating expressly that operations will be scaled down but not locked down.

Between that announcement and today, there have been over 50 new confirmed cases in Lagos. If you dont see the necessity of an immediate full lockdown of Lagos like people have been clamouring for, then perhaps you want a repeat of the Italy situation in Nigeria.

helinues:
Hmmmmm

Nigerians should be expecting network fluctuation this week

Hmmm! Little do you know that MTN has been simulating telecommuting and equipping itself with a business continuity plan that enables atleast 80% of its staff work virtually from any location for about 3 years now.

Considering the numerous disruption of their regular workflow by the NLC, agberos, government, etc, it would have been foolhardy not to do that. The company has invested millions of dollars on cutting edge work tools and cloud technology that allows staff work from any where. This has been tested and simulated over and over.

Trust me, if they had not told you staff are working remotely, you wouldn't even notice. Your network will remain as stable as usual.

Islie:
https://punchng.com/why-we-cant-sell-petrol-at-125-litre-marketers/

Valid point. The only lie to this position is that if the announcement was an increase even by 1 naira, the private marketers will implement the change within 30 minutes of the announcement.

Our government deals with us citizens. But the one wey we dey do ourselves naim bad pass.

MelesZenawi:
Another court just granted Giadom power as chairman.

A superior court (Appeal Court) granted a stay of execution. We wait to see who the enforcers of the law will obey.

It is a no brainer really. How can you depose a king, banish him and keep him in custody in this modern time and age?

You can ask him to leave Kano for a while to give the new king some time to settle into the role and avoid any blowback form his supporters. I'm sure the man wont mind doing that. But holding him in a location against his will is so wrong.

Some of these gaffes from government are needless.

agwom:
Source: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/my-family-are-scattered-in-relatives-houses-buba-galadima.html

"Threatening to sleep outside"

Threatening who exactly?

dre11:
https://leadership.ng/2020/02/24/delta-govt-plans-law-to-ban-sale-consumption-of-beef/

Why don't we enact a law to behead everyone that has a headache or gut everyone that has a stomach ache while we are at it.

LindaIkejiNews:
Popular controversial blogger now evangelist, Kemi Olunloyo has been called out by her biological son simply identified as Eni on his 33th birthday.

According to the post, Kemi Olunloyo’s son made on his official instagram page, the controversial blogger has been disowned by her son as he called her ‘former biological mother’. He said his former mother i.e. Kemi Olunloyo is full of illicit affairs and doing all sort of bad things to people. He also called her a LovePeddler in the post.

Check out his post below:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B822jUAHRAx/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

His rant is incoherent. One can barely make sense of the ramble from the son.

It looks like the young man is also suffering his mom's mental health challenges. Many years ago, Kemi Olunloyo also went on a rant on the the internet disowning her parents. If I recall, she went as far as acusing her father of using her for his juju.

Seems this is becoming a generational curse. May God have mercy.

Myself2:
To err is human, but to admit to an error is divine ........

Nothing wrong if the supreme court justices admit they mada a mistake and reverse themselves

I agree with you.

But elsewhere, judicial reviews are done to correct dangerous precedents with the benefit of hindsight or against current realities, and not set them.

Also judicial reviews are usually undertaken by neutral parties after sometime has passed so as not to create a disruption of order but set a new precedent.

The current supreme court has only nine active judges out of it's full complement of 14. For a case of these kind, you must have a panel of atleast seven at every given time.

What that means is that you are most likely going to have the same judges, bar one or two, sitting to review their own judgements that were delivered only a few weeks ago? Isn't that an aberration?

I read somewhere that the PDP has written to the CJN asking that five out of the seven judges that presided over the Imo case, should recuse themselves from this review. If that happens, it means only four judges will be available for the review. That is less than the seven required to form a quorum. So what's the point?

So while I agree that judicial reviews are normal and necessary sometimes, we should not allow the procedure to be so whimsical abused by our selfish politicians.

[quote author=wwwihy post=86751694]Protesters storm Justice Mary Odili’s private residence in Abuja …Calls for her resignation

Fresh Protesters from the North, West, South, East, storm Justice Mary Odili’s private residence in Abuja, for always taking bribe to divert the people’s mandate at the Supreme Court.

Just as she has heartlessly and wickedly taken bribe to divert the will of the people in Bayelsa State.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DogUJfrJGLw

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1525780377572391&id=100004213292605[/quote]This is absolute nonsense! That panel had 6 other JSCs and not just Mary Odili. Are they going to go and picket their houses too?

Politicians need to be careful with all of these dangerous precedents they are setting.

The police need to put down this protest immediately.

janefblog:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/dailypost.ng/2020/02/17/uzodimma-vs-ihedioha-wole-soyinka-gen-abdulsalami-abubakar-others-to-monitor-supreme-court-imo-judgement-review/amp/

These ones are agitating for a "reversal" of the supreme court's ruling.

The "review" as undertaken by the Supreme Court, might not necessarily lead to a "reversal" of the judgement.

This "review" in itself sets a very dangerous precedent of having a trial after the trial. If the court then decides to reverse its own judgement, it will be dangerous.

It means that the judiciary has basically hijacked the electoral process and all that politicians need to do after losing an election is to sponsor an agitation, apply for a judicial review and get into office through the backdoor.

The elections have held, the courts have reviewed the results and made their ruling. No matter how imperfect the ruling may be, I think we all should accept the results and move on.

We keep complaining that our judicial system is not good yet we keep supporting politicians to further ridicule the system.

Yoighaman:
When you cry " Wolf, wolf, wolf" always, when there's no wolf, nobody will believe you the day a real wolf appears.

When you tell lies always, nobody will believe you even if you are saying the truth.

I think the person shouting wolf here is relative.

Amaechi did not cry wolf. Aisha Muhammed cried wolf and Amaechi debunked the claim.

Everyone is taking this woman's word for it on the basis that her relatives were on the train and saw the Minister's convoy running away.

Since she doesn't have any documentary evidence of this situation, is there a chance she could be lying.

Or are we just to take her words because we do not like Amaechi and Buhari?

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nairavsdollars:
By Temidayo Akinsuyi



https://www.independent.ng/releasing-repentant-boko-haram-members-into-society-dangerous-sagay-warns/

To be fair, Government's choices in this matter are limited:

Option 1 - Kill everyone arrested on suspicion of being a member of Boko Haram. The danger of this is that a lot of people who aren't really Boko Haram members as well as those who were forced and coerced into joining Boko Haram will suffer unjustly. Human Rights organisations, backed by most western governments and partners will come for you and impose even more sanctions on the country.

Option 2 - Incarcerate them in detention centres for the rest of their lives. Current prison facilities simply cannot accomodate them so government will have to build new prisons. Then government must further spend tax payers money on catering for these prisoners probably for the rest of their lives. The government can ill-afford that at this time.

Option 3 - Profile all of the detainees with a view to determining the extent of radicalisation. (There is a scientific way of doing this and there are people trained to profile criminals.) Neutralise those found to be steeped in the Boko Haram ideology. Those ones are a hopeless case. Commence a deradicalisation procedure for the others like the government claims they have done. Equip them with some basic survival skills and cut them loose with a small purse. Track their progress as they reintegrate back into society.

The only thing that I see wrong with this move by the Nigerian government is the undue publicity around the process. Though I doubt there is anything the government does that won't be criticised because we now view things through a political prism. Deradicalisation programmes like this one are one of the most effective preventive counter-terrorism measure adopted by countries all over the world.

Awol1:
They are working so hard to gather points they'd consider enough to curry the Eastern votes in 2023.

But hey, I think I need to remind us that the Second Niger bridge was commissioned as Public Private Partnership Project.

What that means, as I remember president GEJ saying then, is that once the govt pays it's counterpart fund for the project, which Jonathan did, the project will go on irrespective of who is in power.

That's the truth they don't want us to remember.

GEJ paid counterpart funding? Can you show proof of this?

The way some of you talk, it is almost like you wish the project was stalled or didn't even exist just so that you people can continue to hold on to you fallacious claims that Buhari hates Igbos.

Unfortunately for people like you, Buhari "hates" the Igbos so much that he is determined to complete this project as well as any other projects in the Southeast before his tenure winds up. If he doesn't the next President of Nigeria will continue from where he stopped.