₦airaland Forum

Chicagoesontop:
Naija things dey always different, i see people killing themselves just to give the government a bad name, i haven't seen anybody that just died of hunger, if government no send you abeg send yourself .. Y'all know the kind of country we are in, if you like protest from now till next year, government no send you they no send you, if hunger catch you just find a way and feed yourself and stop dragging government inside your hunger because they didn't provide food for you before the lockdown, blame Corona not the government at this time !!


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Punchline33:
Na wa. Govt should lift the lockdown order let Nigerians return to their daily lives it has failed. The country is already a risky place to live before corona came. An average Nigerian fears hunger more than corona virus. They can still equip the hospitals for emergency but we re fine pretending corona doesnt exist here

BreconHills:
You need to apply reality. It is not those that have sqiirreled away money that will be inconvenienced by no oil, they have already prepared for this day. It is those that ho to local schools, take out mortgages, go to local hospitals. This group will suffer untold casualties.

What you should be talking about is a change of mentality. When Professor Dr Awojobi began producing indigenous medical equiptment - who opposed him? The nigerian medical association. Until the mindset changes imports will continue to dominate even at extraordinary prices. The adjustment you are seeking ( and which is necessary) will come at a price of epic proportions

BreconHills:
What you say is true and already overseas remittances from Nigerians in diaspora have already exceeded crude oil proceeds. However the once in a "lifetime gift" of high oil prices would have provided investment in all the areas you mention. Everything you have mentioned comes with a price tag. To make it worse our "youth bulge" challenge means the time to market for any of these assets you mentioned, effectively sacrifices an entire generation of youth.

I point out these things not be way of simply blaming a period of administration on Nigeria, but rather that as a nation we may fully appreciate where we are, how we got there and the effort and time it will take to extricate ourselves. Once we understand this, we will be able to resist the false promises of politicians and look instead to creating a new paradigm. It will mean upskiling, retooling and retraining a generation who wanted to work in a "big company " and it will mean being patient with the necessarybrollnoutbof infrastructure. Without coming to this point, politicians will seize their day with false promises of a quick and painless turnaround.

Oil has built Lagos, Abuja, Port-Harcourt, Kaduna and many modern capital cities across the country, over a hundred government own universities, ports, roads, rails refineries, steel plants, petrochemical plants, fertilizers and aluminium smelter plants. Nigeria is the only African country with four major oil industrial cities, in Onne, Bonny island, Lekki\Dangote and Escravos. The country has more than enough infrastructure to industrialised.

Has Buhari/FG Actually Mishandled COVID-19 Pandemic?

BreconHills:
Bros at $100 per barrel, debt forgiveness I am entitled to question results in the PDP era. The power plants you speak about were constructed but what about transmission. Many of the equiptment at the port could not be evacuated for years because simple things like road expansion and bridge expansion were not done. It was a project failure on a colossal scale. I would let everything pass if not that during that period I kept shouting across all social media that our population growth at 3% required massive infrastructure to unlock the energy and creativity of the nigerian people. I also pointed out that oil earnings from that period would never be repeated. It was a last chance yo avoid where we are now.

kolexy:
Did you just say GEJ started the Ajaokuta - Itakpe - Warri rail line. I don't know how old you are, but that line is probably older than you.

myboy2111:
https://twitter.com/CCECC8/status/1244983894098579456

domDva:
I'm sorry but your comparism is somewhat funny, USA has over 100k cases and may be only 60k ventilators and protective gears available . Now if.Nigeria has 100k outbreak how many protective gears and ventilators do you have? The whole country does not have more than 100 pieces functional vents.

Thats the angle you should look at it from..I never argued with u that they are not having challenges.
Like I.said ...the better chance u have is let it not get bad here .period. If it does, the only chance you have is God.

JamParkMe:
Oga you cannot stock pile testing kits for an infection that's novel to the scientific world. Stop making baseless arguments. If there's a widespread infection of the Spanish Flu, Polio and other illnesses combated in the past, there will be better prepared. I repeat you cannot have test kits for an unknown virus unless of course you have psychic powers to predict the future.

Sall and his team of researchers in the Senegalese capital, who previously worked on vaccines for yellow fever and dengue, developed the prototype for the diagnostic test in partnership with Mologic, a British biotech company founded by the inventor of a widely used pregnancy test.

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Once ready, the tests will be produced in the UK and at a new Dakar-based facility managed by DiaTropix, a subsidiary of the Pasteur Institute that focuses on infectious disease testing.

According to Sall, the Dakar site will have an initial capacity to produce up to four million tests annually. The developers are also in early-stage talks for local manufacturing sites to be set up in other parts of the continent.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnczXc0g_IE

okomile:
Dem dey craze

I no dey pay a dime
Stupid and idiotic pple

lastempero:
All these our army generals no fit organise coup abeg

Nigeria

JamParkMe:
Alas!! But you confidently said it is spread by airborne and went ahead to quote the WHO. Now you are saying the WHO isn't so sure how it's being spread and they are learning everyday. But somehow[b] you still expect Nigeria to have a stockpile of testing kits for this new virus that caught the whole world unawares[/b]. Man, do you guys need me here to eradicate this infectious ignorance. It's like a sad case of group-think.

The first wave of the 1918 pandemic occurred in the spring and was generally mild. The sick, who experienced such typical flu symptoms as chills, fever and fatigue, usually recovered after several days, and the number of reported deaths was low.

However, a second, highly contagious wave of influenza appeared with a vengeance in the fall of that same year. Victims died within hours or days of developing symptoms, their skin turning blue and their lungs filling with fluid that caused them to suffocate. In just one year, 1918, the average life expectancy in America plummeted by a dozen years.

Flu outbreaks happen every year and vary in severity, depending in part on what type of virus is spreading. (Flu viruses can rapidly mutate.)

Influenza, or flu, is a virus that attacks the respiratory system. The flu virus is highly contagious: When an infected person coughs, sneezes or talks, respiratory droplets are generated and transmitted into the air, and can then can be inhaled by anyone nearby.

ijustdey:
What I do want is for the government to meet the coming economic challenges with a swift, bold and effective spending plan. Those who, until now, would spend their time beating up on straw men should give us their own plans. If, that is, they even have any.”
https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/covid-19-my-position-on-economy-misreported-tinubu.html

kokomilala:
As I've been saying on this forum for some time now, the knock-on effect during and post COVID-19 will be huge: as people run out of food,money and patience, they'll turn against their governments. The first law of nature is survival.They'll look for ways at all costs to survive.
The world economy has roughly lost about USD 8 trillion. Many economies are collapsing.As a result, the political dynamics will unravel because state infrastructure will collapse. This is the reason why responsible governments are providing stimulus packages for their people ,to protect jobs or reassure on jobs, to give lifelines or bailouts to industrialists and loans to SMEs ,just for them to stay afloat and swim against the tides of this ocean of disaster.
On the social front ,things will never be the same again.Some people may never kiss, hug or get as close pre-covid-19.New vistas of social interactions are opening up and being tested.
How will the world get out of this force majeure? Difficult to call. Franklin Delano Roosevelt voted about USD 800 million to jump start the US economy in the 1930a during The Great Depression. Former secretary of State,Henry Marshall proposed The Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe after the ruins of World War 2.USD 300 billion.I think Obama vetoed about USD 700-800 billion to restart the US economy after the economic meltdown of 2008. I don't see Trump giving Europe any dime.
Europe will never be the same after this.Rebuilding will be slow and painful. It's time for a country to make the most of this crisis and emerge as an economic power.

JamParkMe:
Please learn how to read. "WHO continues to recommend droplet and contact precautions for those people caring for COVID-19 patients and contact and airborne precautions for circumstances and settings in which aerosol generating procedures are performed"

It isn't airborne, it is droplet. They only recommend airborne precautions when administering aerosols such as nebulizer treatments. If it were to be airborne, it will be far more virulent than its current state. Also, those patients will need a negative pressure room as used in TB patients who are placed on airborne precautions. How many negative pressure rooms do you think exists in hospitals around the world? By the end of today, you will be more knowledgeable than the WHO epidemiologists, I guarantee it.

Spanish Flu Pandemic was global pandemic, an airborne virus which affected every continent
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/The-Spanish-Flu-pandemic-of-1918/

Eriggs:
Suddenly pigs and idiots are no more saying that he is in Cuba and Baba is in London anymore.They have now accepted he has been in Nigeria since. Bunch of confused pigs.

JamParkMe:
You are the only idiot I see here. Where is the definite proof that it is Airborne. Also just so you don't go outside and make a fool of yourself, Influenza AKA H1N1 virus spreads by droplet particles, and not airborne. I won't charge you for this lecture.

n the context of COVID-19, airborne transmission may be possible in specific circumstances and settings in which procedures that generate aerosols are performed (i.e. endotracheal intubation, bronchoscopy, open suctioning, administration of nebulized treatment, manual ventilation before intubation, turning the patient to the prone position, disconnecting the patient from the ventilator, non-invasive positive-pressure ventilation, tracheostomy, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation). In analysis of 75,465 COVID-19 cases in China, airborne transmission was not reported.


Implications of recent findings of detection of COVID-19 virus from air sampling

To date, some scientific publications provide initial evidence on whether the COVID-19 virus can be detected in the air and thus, potentially involve airborne transmission. These initial findings need to be interpreted carefully.

Conclusions

Based on the available evidence, including the recent publications mentioned above, WHO continues to recommend droplet and contact precautions for those people caring for COVID-19 patients and contact and airborne precautions for circumstances and settings in which aerosol generating procedures are performed.[/b]12 These recommendations are consistent with other national and international guidelines, including those developed by the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine and Society of Critical Care Medicine13 and those currently used in Australia, Canada, and United Kingdom.14-16

At the same time, other countries and organizations, including the US Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, [b]recommend airborne precautions for any situation involving the care of COVID-19 patients, and consider the use of medical masks as an acceptable option in case of shortages of respirators (N95, FFP2 or FFP3).17-18


https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/modes-of-transmission-of-virus-causing-covid-19-implications-for-ipc-precaution-recommendations

JamParkMe:
Just like America, World's number 1 superpower is taking care of her people abi? This infection respects no one. Despite all the top class medical schools, doctors, scientists, researchers and pharmaceutical companies in America, the rate of new infections is exponential. Over 1000 already dead.
They should remain in Nigeria, the weather limits the spread and virulence nature of the virus.

JamParkMe:
Talk about jumping from frying pan to fire. As it stands right now, Israel has recorded 19 deaths and over 3,000 COVID-19 infections. These people stand a better chance at surviving in Nigeria than in Israel.

Olodo24:
Are they not health workers? They're supposed to be brave. If every other health workers act like them, we are finished.

COVID-19: Doctors, nurses flee as suspected cases hit Lagos hospital

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Gbagada General Hospital
Angela Onwuzoo

There was pandemonium at the Gbagada General Hospital, Lagos, on Thursday when four white men suspected to have coronavirus were brought to the emergency ward of the hospital for treatment.

According to sources at the hospital, the men said to be Egyptians, were brought in a private vehicle around midnight, with one of them coughing uncontrollably and showing other symptoms of coronavirus.

One of the sources, who spoke with Sunday PUNCH, said, “It was around midnight that they came to the hospital and I was on duty that day.

“So, when they got to the emergency ward, nurses and doctors on duty came out to attend to them. But upon getting to the vehicle, they noticed that the four occupants were whites with one of them critically ill and coughing uncontrollably.

“Immediately the nurses and doctors saw them, they all took to their heels.

“Some of the nurses began to shout ‘this is coronavirus! Coronavirus is not my portion. God forbid! Here is not IDH (Infectious Disease Hospital), Yaba, please go there. Where is security? Security, please come and send these people out of this place.’

“When the screaming became too much, some of the security guards on duty that day summoned courage from afar and ordered them out of the hospital, because they too were afraid and they drove out.

“They were not allowed to come down from their vehicle.

“Everybody ran because some of the doctors said the symptoms that they saw were clearly that of COVID-19.

“Their visit truly caused commotion at the hospital.”

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Another worker in the hospital, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said after the incident the management decided to bar foreigners from the hospital.

The source said, “All workers at the hospital have been warned not to attend to foreigners. And anybody whose body temperature is above 40’C is not allowed in.” The source added, “The situation (presence of the four white men) affected patients on admission as many people withdrew their sick relatives and loved ones after the incident.”

The Medical Director of the hospital, Dr. Adeleke Kaka, who confirmed the incident, however, said it was only one Egyptian suspected to have coronavirus that was brought to the hospital, not four.

Kaka said, “The guy was suspected to have COVID-19 by the doctor that saw him in a private hospital and referred him to the Gbagada General Hospital. He was sent to Mainland Hospital for further evaluation and testing.”

However, he denied claims that health workers in the hospital took to their heels when they saw the four men.

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Mightymanna:
What useless emergency number has 11 degit?

Ayoefa:
I'm glad you agreed that Jona was a complete failure. Buhari has't performed any magic either.
Baba Iyabo did not clear our debt by paying for it, he cleared it by begging our debtors to forgive a huge chunk of the loans. So it's not like he was paying for it with income from oil.

Looking at the figures above even a novice can see the economy improving as the price of crude oil increased. Not only that, this govt has embarked on major capital projects that other govts have left to decay for generations such as rail system, 2nd Niger bridge, road systems, Lagos MMA airports expansion and many others.

Look, if oil is selling for 100 dollars, you can have a monkey as the President and all will be ok. With oil selling for 28 dollars as it sold for when Buhari first came in, even an Harvard Economic PHD can only do so much especially considering what he met on ground.

With the return to civilian rule in 1999, Nigeria embarked on a relentless campaign for debt relief. Nigeria’s debt, which stood at US$36 billion in December 2004 was unsustainable, President Obasanjo campaigned. Nigeria spends more on interest payments than it does health care and education. Given this debt level, Nigeria cannot achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
This debt relief effort yielded fruit on June 29, 2005, when the Paris Club and Nigeria agreed on an US$18 billion debt relief package.

Nigeria will pay this US$6.2 billion in order to completely exit its Paris Club debt.
In total, therefore, it is expected that the amount of debt cancellation Nigeria will get from this treatment will be about US$18 billion.
https://www.dmo.gov.ng/publications/other-publications/nigeria-debt-relief/570-nigeria-s-debt-relief-deal-with-the-paris-club/file

Melezenawii:
Doubters of Pictures ... please see the Video....is not easy to be wailers and liars at the same time

kikero:
3.Likewise the recession under this current admin started in April 2014...when oil prices collapsed due to the Saudis trying to outproduce American shale oil producers. By January 2015...NOI was warning that whoever won the election, there would be economic crisis.

4.The truth is, our economy has been vulnerable since independence. The economy depends on revenues from whatever raw materials we sell , whose prices we do not control. In the 1960's it was agricultural produce. By the 1980's, oil was taking over.





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Ayoefa:
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Pls stop qouting these useless FAKE PDP figures. Record earnings from Agric and other services yet right before Jona left, there were fuel lines everywhere, States where not able to pay monthly salaries. I beg sell these fake figures at the next PDP convention not to those with common sense.

Highest income were under Jona, pls point to the capital investments that took place under him....just tell us the capital projects...Not the stealing is not corruption ones ..I beg.

Seetto:
Too late, some people have already started blaming buhari, they will tell you is because of buhari we have Corona virus.

AustineCJ:
There was indeed a country .....how we went from sane minds like Azikwe,Awolowo,Tafawa belewa,Shagari, yar adua to Buhari is a wonder to the world.......

Herdmen:
Soware want fame...is all about his interest not Nigerians..

He should show his ruggedity and merit his reward

The idiot keep bitchin..

Face your fame and pain alone.. that’s how men are made.

Haba!