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grandstar:
Is this right or wrong? I can't yet say but my instinct says it's wrong. The Japanese government should not give handouts for companies to leave China.

China would appreciate any country that stands with it in this time of calamity. Japan seems to have blatantly done the opposite as though taking the gloves off when there was no need to wear them in the first place.

Yes, China's land grabs has soured relations with Japan but that's another issue altogether. The true belligerent is China's head of state who has a conservative no nensense alienate-your-neighbours attitude to things.

I suspect once he's gone, China will return to its peaceful-rise policy which the present head has thrown out through the window.

First, Xi Jinping isn't going anywhere....
He's made himself emperor for life.....
The rest of the world had better get use to seeing him.....
And he's pursuing an aggressive China rise and expansion.....

Second, it's dangerous for the world's value supply chain to be concentrated in the hands of China.....
Not even because of better technology advancement but cheaper labour....

Over dependence on China for supplies worsened the COVID-19 containment......

Other countries won't understand their stupidity until they involved in a war.....

Third, African countries should get their act together for once and build and ecosystem that can attract foreign manufacturing......
Nigeria should lead the way and stop being giant of africa for nothing....

I think we should just evacuate Nigerians out of china for now....
Reports online shows Chinese authorities are determined to quarantine all Africans....
Chinese social media also shows increasing xenophobic vile against blacks.....
There's so little one man can do....

Necksonnel:
How will they have money when most of them don't work. Many of them do menial jobs , they are not as educated as their white counterparts. No health insurance, underlying health issues. You don't expect doctors to treat them thesame. Even in Nigeria here , you don't expect doctors to treat a rich man and a poor man who can't pay for health thesame way.

Pls go and read about the young nigerian guy that died of COVID-19 in the US....
Educated, brilliant young chap....
Yet was denied testing and early intervention until too little too late....
He called and called, but was ignored...

Self hate becloud sense of proper judgement....
Blacks are being pushed down the order of priority list in the US and u blaming underlying health issues...
No body get cancer pass white man.....
Their body is so frail....

Blacks work dirty jobs also in Europe....
Yet they not dropping dead disproportionately compared to the general population....

IMASTEX:
Oga below is your response.


You spoke my mind 100%. though I am black by skin colour but sometimes I wonder if God made blacks himself or he simply instructed an angel seeing some useless behaviours & mindset that majority have accepted as a way of life. Same here in Nigeria many are still busy making theories instead of following the health tips. And when the worse happens they seek who to blame.

U and that guy u quoted are both suffering from delusional self hate......
White people have consistently ignored lockdown instructions and are seen in parks and public square ignoring social distance....
Police had to be empowered to enforce lock down....

Right now in Italy, people want the restriction lifted despite rampant epidemic, simply because they are tired of staying at home....

Police in both uk and USA had to disrupt parties organised by white folks u guys live to worship.....

Now lets hear what u have to say.....

PHijo:
You are foolish, the only reason you are in America is because their ancestors fought for it. Comparing them with Latinos who are immigrants like you just shows how uninformed and disrespectful you are. The opportunities arrogant and ignorant negros like you have isn't the same with them.

The reason Nigeria is hated around the world and is a dysfunctional shithole back home is because people like you who take pride in being uninformed and will want to have an opinion on issues they don't or don't care to understand.

Even amongst the White elite there's a huge abuse of drugs. Neither Steve Jobs, Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg graduated from college. In fact, Steve Jobs had a drug issue before he started Apple computers.

The primary reason more African Americans are dying is because many have underlying health issues and they lack insurance coverage.
Sometimes some racist medical personnel do not attend to due shortage of supplies and other factors.

The young Nigerian man that died in America died because they refused to attend to him after several efforts be tested and treated.

Self hate is real among black folks....
And I'm afraid that's going to be our next biggest headache....
I watched Van Jones on CNN and the guy was blaming the black community for not taking COVID-19 serious initially....
Like seriously, he should tell us if the white race took it serious when it first came out....
Was it not trump and his Fox news white goon who claimed COVID-19 is a hoax....

ibkayee:
Let's be honest. Black men are at the bottom of the socio economic ladder on average, why would the group of women with the highest social currency (white privilege plays in here because I'm not even saying they deserve it, but that's just how things are) be chasing after the men with the lowest? White woman average are not rushing after black men for anything serious. Are there are a portion oyibo women who go for them despite this? Sure, but definitely not the majority or even that many in the grand scheme of things. I’d also like to clarify that there’s a difference between being open to dating someone and coveting them as whole, the latter just isn’t true, we can agree to disagree lol.

Trust me I'm not here to throw banter against women or denigrate women folks.....
I don't do that...I respect black women......

I just wanted a honest answer to the rampant population of mixed race in UK...

B4 I arrived here, I used to think inter racial marriage is just a one off thing, used by desperate immigrants to attain settlements....
But result on ground shows otherwise....
I don't think white women drools over black male, but I think they are very much open to dating black men....

Go to youtube and watch public videos seeking women opinion on which nationality has the pengest boys..
most women- black, white, yellow, brown, Arabs etc all voted for Jamaican guyz- black male.....

However, I disagree black men are the bottom of socio economic ladder....
Recent statistics show nigerian Americans are among most successful and top 10 percentile high income earners in usa....more than whites....
The narrative is also changing in UK....we are no longer the lowest income earners....
And with the influx of African professionals into NHS, IT industry and financial sectors....
The future trajectory looks good....

mvem:
They relayed info Chinese were giving out. Taiwan is not really a recognized country that's why

Taiwan is not recognised as a country....says who....
Taiwan is as independent as it can be.....no need for political correctness....

Let's be real....WHO politicised this crisis and got it all wrong...
Now the whole world is paying dearly for their indiscretion.....

They ignored experts warning from taiwan that COVID-19 spread by human to human transmission.....
They also ignored advise that regular use of face mask prevents transmission.....

WHO gave the impression it was another regional epidemic like SARS or MERS.....
Thus most countries never took it serious and didn't prepare adequately for any possible outbreak.....

WHO even discouraged countries from closing borders against China...advising that travellers should only self isolate.....
The DG even criticize countries that shut borders against China in January calling it discriminatory.....

This is a DG that praised China for its response to the outbreak and never criticize then for hiding the disease for that long.....

This is not about trump....he will receive his own score card in November......
This is about the incompetence of the WHO DG and its whole epidemiological team.....
They really messed up and if they have any iota of shame...they should step down....

awakeuche:
He better, these bastards are busy having discussion on WeChat on how to Bleep African's over.

U mean recent discussions on we chat....

ibkayee:
I've lived with white people and all other types of races my entire life, it just isn't a thing. Other than satisfying a fetish, black men generally aren’t on their radars like that when it comes to long term relationships.

Ontop of that, naija guys (who may technically fall under the umbrella of 'black men' but there's a difference and Nigerian men are not necessarily who people are thinking about when we're talking about about 'black men') want to add themselves to the equation lmao.

Outside of the black community, Naija guys aren't even relevant or 'mainstream' like that for anyone to be rushing after them in the first place. Unless the oyibo woman just happens to hang with a lot of Nigerians (which isn't common)...nobody knows you. When they think of Nigerian men the only thing they probably know about them are emails from the random 'Nigerian princes' asking for money lol

Whenever you see a Naija guy in an interracial relationship with an oyibo woman she usually isn't someone he'd go for on a normal day if he didn't need to use her to stay in the country. She's usually really old or just not considered desirable amongst her own, and this makes them easy targets.

There will always be exceptions and I'm not saying that 'genuine' relationships between Nigerian men and oyibo women don't exist, but they're not common enough to be creating conversations. 9/10 he's just using her for a visa or something and he's usually the one pursuing her lol

So how come mixed race kids are so rampant in UK....where I live...
Not only in London...but every major UK cities...
I believe in the near future....mixed race -white/black will become a significant distint ethnic minority....

Pls don't tell me white male/black female is responsible for majority because we both know that's not true.......

aswani:
Bros Emmelee,

I am not even smart sef.

The initial article was a total nonsense. For something this sensitive, we should have had names of hotels and landlords and their side of the story or "No comment" from them at the very least.

The person I complimented was extremely articulate in the way they destroyed the flimsy evidence they saw and I am not ashamed to say I defer to more intelligent people generally.

The article thankfully concluded that African community leaders were in talks with the authorities so I guess this would be ironed out sooner rather than later which is a good thing.

What's going on right now is targeted attack against Africans by Chinese people accusing blacks of importing and spreading coronavirus....

Africans are not allowed to board bus, they are not allowed to enter stores or supermarket, Africans are being evicted by their landlords.....

Africans are specifically targeted for COVID-19 test, as if coronavirus is racist....

Those guys in the video were kicked out of their hotel rooms after completing the mandatory 14 days quarantine in isolation centres.....

If Chinese don't want them in the country, why don't u just deport them or better still shut your border against Africans....
Instead of throwing them into the street.....where they are more at risk of spreading the virus if they actually have it....

Now if U don't see anything wrong with this, then I don't really know what to say.....
I just don't understand why self hate is so real among blacks....
In the face of obvious oppression, an african man will still look for a way to exonerate his oppressor....

Thank God for social media....
Africans are beginning to realise how much the world loves them....
Sooner or later, we go get sense by force....
And see the need to develop our continent...

0m0nnakoda:
Everything is an APPLICATION of something else that existed before
The internet is an application of electricity and electronics
You cannot create your definition of Innovation
The wheel was invented a long time ago its use is a wheel chair is innovative
Just like in the motor car or aircraft or roller skates

The driving mirror is an application of a mirror but it is an innovation
Mininiaturization of cameras to phones are innovative

New applications of existing technologies are innovative
Drones now use cameras in movie making that is innovative.

Nothing is new we just have new ways of using old things

I think your thinking needs innovation

Is this how u address people with contrary opinion in real life....
Especially ones u barely know...
Part of the disruptive human behaviour caused by social media....

0m0nnakoda:
YouTube is not disruptive?
Innovations have to be disruptive to have value or qualify as innovations?
Camera phones are not innovative
Home banking is not innovative
Internet shopping is not innovative?

Internet is not a 21st century innovation.....
Internet was first used by the US military in the 1960/70s...then called intranet.....

Social media, online banking, internet shopping are not disruptive innovations but application of internet technology....
If anything, the above has led to disruptive human behaviour that has more negative impact than positive.....

Onlyonebuhari:
In Canada and US with some other countries, children can't start school unless they reach the age of 6 because they value parenting primary education. Nigerian has been Killing their children by dumping them in creche thinking they are doing them favours and that's why we have miscreants ubiquitous on social media. Even most of the graduates we have are paperwork and only few can innovate with it. Greatest scientist we have today are the pre WW1 scientists who recieved maximum parenting education.
I will implore FG and Lagos State to focus more on parenting education or else we will continue to produce looters as leaders and corruption we have now is just a warm up to the one coming tomorrow. But good parenting will produce honest leaders

I agree with u on pre world war era produced the greatest inventors and scientist....
The later 20th century innovation was a feed off from the preceding era....

The 21st century may end up becoming the least innovative century in recent era despite technology and scientific advancement....
U just can't point to any disruptive innovation of recent....
It's just repeated attempt to make previous technology better.....

Whether the rush-rush mentality of recent generation is the cause....
The jury is still out on that....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ6u4tCi4cY

I believe the loss of manufacturing capabilities in Europe and America is the main reason for their severe COVID-19 morbidity and mortality when compared to Asian countries....

They couldn't get the resources they needed on time....
Materials such as PPE, gloves, masks, test kits, Hazmat suits couldn't be sourced fast enough to counter the spread of the scourge....
They even had to depend on China for critical equipment like ventilators....

Western countries will have to think hard about the future their manufacturing industries....
And whether outsourcing for cheaper labour is a good idea on the long run...
All in the name of higher profit margin and better return on investment for few greedy capitalist....

Lenin already warned that capitalism will be the doom of western nations....
He said a capitalist will gladly sell u the rope with which to hang him.....
"When it comes to time to hang the capitalists, they will vie with each other for the rope contract"

I believe the loss of manufacturing capabilities in Europe and America is the main reason for their severe COVID-19 morbidity and mortality when compared to Asian countries....

They couldn't get the resources they needed on time....
Materials such as PPE, gloves, masks, test kits, Hazmat suits couldn't be sourced fast enough to counter the spread of the scourge....
They even had to depend on China for critical equipment like ventilators....

Western countries will have to think hard about the future their manufacturing industries....
And whether outsourcing for cheaper labour is a good idea on the long run...
All in the name of higher profit margin and better return on investment for few greedy capitalist....

Lenin already warned that capitalism will be the doom of western nations....
He said a capitalist will gladly sell u the rope with which to hang him.....
"When it comes to time to hang the capitalists, they will vie with each other for the rope contract"

naijacarz:
I can't stop laughing at the conspiracy theorists.

I put this theory in the realm of "mobile phone is not for poor people" mentality.

Soon the "5G causing cancer people" will soon falling head over heels to use 5G tech.

Sit down and think...

Why are we having increasing incidence of cancer, autoimmune and degenerative disease worldwide...

These are conditions whereby the body immune system fails to repair or eliminate damaged cells....
These damaged cells multiply or mutate and begin to manifest in various body organs...

These are disease of the elderly 30-40 yrs ago, but now people in their 20s and 30s come down with these disease....

Don't u think a recent disruption in our environment affecting our system could be responsible....
For every cause...there's definitely an effect.....


There has to be a stop....
Or else we get to 100G and they keep telling us everything is fine.....

People got lockdown for 2 weeks and suddenly the atmosphere returned to sky blue....
That shows the extent of damage we inflicting on the earth and ourselves all in the name of technology.....

Btw...Experts don't know it all....they only pretend they do....
Look at how messy they handled the coronavirus pandemic....
WHO initially told other countries not to shut their border against China, because the risk of a pandemic is negligible...
CDC told us not to wear face mask, because it doesn't prevent transmission....
2 gullible statements that fell flat in the face of common sense and pragmatism....

Think man...think....
This isn't about conspiracy theory...
But pragmatism....

Why do u need a 5G technology that can help u download movies in 1 minute or reduce the latent time when playing video games.....

Seriously, how does the above add value to human life.....
When compared to the possible risks associated with 5G....

While the jury is still out on the health safety or otherwise of this 5G network....
I'm yet to see any benefit 5g has to offer mankind apart from downloading movies in 1 minute or shorter latent time for video games.....

Seriously, we embracing a new technology because of faster internet speed and shorter latency....

Other applications of 5G like IOT, smart cities, smart glasses, autonomous cars, remote robotic surgery, augmented VR etc are yet to suffice because the technology for these inventions are still in latent phase and there's no assurance we close to it yet....
Hardware tech is far harder and more expensive to develop than software technology.....

So we risking our health and existence because we want an internet speed that's 100 times faster than 4G...

How about postponing 5G until the whole world can appreciate its usefulness, rather than forcing it down our throat....

yusufu16:
My friend resigned from Shell to go work for FERMA. He said he was in bondage working in Shell.

You have to work for every you earn there.

Maybe na contract staff....
Ever since Nigerians took over the management of shell, the remuneration has been poor....

samwash:
This op, you go school at all
Did u paid for 13 months or 12 months ?
Pple like una go blem other pple for una own error

See as people spew out ignorance with so much confidence....
Nigeria is in big trouble....

18/04/2019 - 18/03/2020 is 11 months not 1year....

m140:
Beauty of the game is gone, that's why national teams tournament no dey hot again, na club side, even WC no dey sweet again, cus they earn little compare to club side,,,, if messi n cr7 played in the 90's they wont win one ballondior

World cup fanaticism is dead...
It's now just an avenue for FIFA to make money...
Good thing an African country will soon win it....

Messi n cr7 would definitely win ballondior if they played in the 90s or 00s...
But not this one they just rotating it btw cr7 or messi

m140:
Alaiye ,go sidon joor, na Maradona kinsman be referee bah, messi never scored undeserved goal in his career ? dont ever call Maradona a fraud in football, if not social media that overhyped players this days, you cant call cr7 or messi a legend cus they never had wc winning medal, which is the biggest tournament in the sport, I see people like you calling them great, those times players like zidane never scored much goals, same with figo and rivaldo , they were world best, that's why you rarely see very good midfielders this days , everything na goal, football is no more entertaining like those times

Football sucks nowadays....
No creativity, no exceptional skills, no jaw dropping goals, no passion, no drive, no loyalty, no ambition....
It's all about the money...
Everything now na pass, shoot n score...
No wonder the likes of Messi n CR7 can dominate the game for over 12 yrs now, and no one looks close to challenge them....
I see that PSG boy mbappe n I wonder...what's the hype....

Mourinho destroyed football...
He was the one who introduced negative football, all in the name of trophy...
Alex Ferguson contributed his own by winning matches with significant help from the '12th player'....
Arab boys and their money miss road attitude was the final nail on the coffin....
Now see the aftermath...
Wenger warned us...but we wouldn't listen...
It's not about the trophy, but beauty of the game...

Recently, I watched the review of 49 games unbeaten of 'the invisible' and I ponder if the game is not retrogressing....

Chinese economy is export dependent....
Global shut down isn't in the best interest of China....
How many Nigerian traders have travelled to China to order more supplies....
China for now can't afford a global meltdown....
The biggest beneficiary is America who can afford to print 2 trillion dollars out of nothing....

prof800:
It shouldn't be like that. In other saner countries you can walk into any hospital and request to get tested. You can even call a medic and they will come and take your samples at home if you are isolating yourself and don't want to go out. They will then send the result to you.
The CDC is wrong, not like Millions of funds has not been released by the ministry of health to address this.
The OP requested the test so he could get access to see an ENT doctor.

Pls can u mention the saner climate where u get tested simply on request...

Mizwisdom:
So you agreed that America is a scam? If it wasn't for the dollar being a defacto currency, it would have been almost valueless by now so why Lord it over others to devalue when we all use their currency? they predict doom and gloom for others because they simply go and print more and more dollars to help them stay afloat. Allow others to extend some level of independence and stop this gloomy tales, nobody holy pass.

I wouldn't agree America is a scam...

American economy is the reason globalisation is successful....
No country in the world can have such alarming trade deficit and still remain stable.....
America's ability to sustain huge negative account balance, means emerging economy can embark on export oriented economy.....
These emerging economies have been able to build a solid industrial economy n a growing middle class courtesy American strong import apetite.....


In return, the whole world has to use the dollar has the global currency....
This means Americans can continue to afford cheap goods from other parts of the world on Amazon or Wal-Mart shelf....

Now if u want America to give up his dollar privilege status....
U had better find another country with a huge import apetite and a middle class with strong consumer spending....
And good luck with that.....

The possible scenario is a repeat of the 1930s depression....
When every country wanted to export, but no one wanted to import....

Mizwisdom:
So you agreed that America is a scam? If it wasn't for the dollar being a defacto currency, it would have been almost valueless by now so why Lord it over others to devalue when we all use their currency? they predict doom and gloom for others because they simply go and print more and more dollars to help them stay afloat. Allow others to extend some level of independence and stop this gloomy tales, nobody holy pass.

Yea I agree, but global economy don't operate on sentiment.....
After preaching equity and fairness, every country does what's best for its economic interest and survival....

Nigeria at the moment can't afford to support the naira.....
It will be too expensive and an eventual futile effort....

The global economy will enter recession this year and that will definitely affect the price of oil.....
Except Nigerians also reduce their appetite for foreign good....
I don't see how the naira will come out of this unscathed....

Mizwisdom:
If the US doesn't manipulate the value of $$ why is the dollar stable even in this crisis. Everything is locked down in America so how come dollar remain stable? simple, America is a scam. Blomberg report is another scam to manipulate countries into devaluing their currencies while $$ remains constant despite economic downturn in America

Most global currencies may depreciate this year....
American dollar may escape the hammer, because they are like the de facto global currency....
Federal reserve can afford to print more dollars not backed on any transaction n get away with it.....
They will simply export the inflation.....

Nigerian CBN dont have that privilege....
Printing artificial naira into circulation will only breed internal inflation....
The only way out is to devalue the naira.....

The above is why America will fight and destroy any nation that attempt to replace dollar with an alternative global currency.....
The free money is just too sweet to abandon....

Nigeria will eventually have to devalue the naira....
There's no 2 way around it....
The corona pandemic has shut down global economy and there's less demand for oil...
Nigeria can't sustain it's budget on a paltry 20 dollars per barrel....
The govt will soon go broke and will be forced to devalue the naira to meets it's obligation....
Irrespective of IMF or bloomberg.....

NGpatriot:
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Stop babbling rubbish, we closed our border a long time ago.

The border is still very much actively open....
All the cases reported in nigeria were imported.....

See the action of a proactive govt in Lagos state....
https://www.nairaland.com/5742711/lagos-moves-stop-church-mosque

But bubu is waiting until corona invade aso rock b4 addressing the nation.....

No response from the FG about the impending recession which may last the whole year....
But his BMC see no wrong in his ineptitude......

NGpatriot:
No, you people brought up Trump addressing Americans to compare with PMB and after showing you how America and Trump made their situation worse, not all of a sudden it's not about Americans. See your life.

What exactly do you want to hear from the President?

You need the president to tell you how to protect your self and your family?

Politicians are not healthcare professionals, we have the NCDC staffed with knowledgeable professionals available and ready to give you all the infor that you need.

Stop playing to the gallery and start doing what's right for you and your family.

Did u read my post at all...
Am I the one that will close the border or ban public gathering......
We talking about national consequences of the infection n FG role, u still hammering on individual responsibility.....
BMC are something else....

NGpatriot:
You are sadly mistaken, the best healthcare system and Trump did not stop the rising COVID-19 cases and deaths In America and Trump's incompetence and lack of care did not help either.

Trump's speech was chaotic, aimless, uninspiring and did nothing but breed confusion that exposed lack of preparedness, ignorance and institutional dysfunction.

Nigeria was ready and well prepared, but America wasn't. When we were testing and obtaining results in less than 4 hours, but in America, it takes over 24 hours and a lot of headache.

Americans didn't even have test kits because they rejected test kits offered by WHO and they did not have any of their own. Rejecting the kits and not having any was dumb, irresponsible and incompetent, this led to needless deaths virus cases.

We have 5 cases and we don't have a single death in Nigeria, but they now have more than 100 deaths, 5,894 confirmed cases of coronavirus.

You need medical professionals in charge to address you and give you the vital info that you need to protect yourself and your family, they president can not do that for you.



God Bless Nigeria.

Forget USA....
Buhari should address nigeria...
Coronavirus is a global menace n nigeria isn't immune to the possible fallout....
Some of these goes beyond the purview of healthcare professionals......

Nigeria will most likely enter recession as a result of weak oil demand.....
What's the FG plan to mitigate the effect.....

Should nigeria close the border entirely or effect partial closure. The recent open border isnt doing anyone any good......

Should we ban open/public gathering for now. If yes, has FG met with stakeholders to get their support.....

What happen to national events scheduled for these period, should it be postponed....

Schools n campuses are still open....is that a wise decision or they should be closed...

All the above need executive action n someone in the presidency should come out n address the nation.....
The national assembly do not have the power to effect anything....
If buhari cannot talk, osinbajo should be sent...