sammyj:
Haba !!!! What happened to our oyee money!!

How much is the oil money? Nigeria's population is huge.

sammyj:
I and other working class people forced to pay tax that is stolen by the politicians and the civil servants!!!

Nigeria's tax coverage is very low. There is no money to provide the kind of help that is being provided by developed countries.

sammyj:
Can you how a good country is ran. Buhari we hail they oooo. What is the FG waiting for

How many people pay taxes in Nigeria?

elyte89:

Guy...no disturb ursef...if Vic moses is willing to come back to d national team..he will walk into d first eleven with ease; same as ighalo(we re not Brazil dt can afford to look away @ players plying deir trade in first elite teams)

Moses might not necessarily walk into the first 11. There is more competition for his place.

barackodam:



Looooollll

I'm beginning to think this man is jobbing us.

You can't have been really receiving a better offer, and you want to die on Nigeria. Ones that are starting to thrash you.


Maybe it's cos the squad is full of potential, and he still needs it to land his dream job. That's the only possible reason

Rohr is excited about Nigeria's prospect beyond just the job. He believes he can achieve something special with this bunch.

Africa has a COVID-19 time bomb to defuse
Tolbert Nyenswah
Senior research associate, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Africa’s healthcare systems will be overwhelmed when coronavirus cases escalate.

Africa has little hope of support when countries like the US cannot supply its healthcare workers with personal protective equipment.

In Liberia, the first case of COVID-19 came from someone who brought the disease from Switzerland. This traveller’s household cook was the next in Liberia to test positive for the infection.

This is not the way it is supposed to work. According to the stereotypes, it is the working class in the slums of a non-industrialized country – in this story, that would be the cook – who transfers the infection to the traveller, who then brings the contagion to the industrialized nation. But we do not live in stereotypical times.

Think back to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a few years back. Seven out of the 28,646 suspected cases escaped the African continent in three and a half years and yet the industrialized world was in a full-scale panic.

Today, it is the industrialized world that is exporting an infectious disease to the global south. While not as deadly as Ebola, COVID-19 is far more contagious.

Africa, with its long underfunded healthcare systems, is a time bomb just waiting to explode. The first few dozens of COVID-19 infections were detected in March, but the virus probably arrived weeks or months before.

In Africa, deaths from COVID-19 might far exceed what the world is witnessing right now unless major steps are taken. But we have little hope for substantial financial support when countries like the US cannot afford to properly supply its healthcare workers with personal protective equipment (PPE).

In hearing stories of workers trying to make their own visors and re-using surgical masks, I think back to the Ebola outbreak when we in Liberia were compelled to do the same. The lack of PPE had a catastrophic effect: 192 health workers died in Liberia from Ebola and related causes.

And yet, with a virus this dangerous, the international community should invest in all countries needing help, from the US to Liberia to anywhere else, because to do otherwise would allow this infection to continue its virulent march around the world.

Sub-Saharan Africa is disproportionally affected by communicable diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. Non-communicable diseases such as heart attacks and cancer are on the rise, coupled with frequent outbreaks of diseases such as Ebola, measles, meningitis, and monkeypox. Health systems are severely challenged: they have unreliable stocks of essential medicines; little to no electricity; high medical fees for patients; and poor access to health facilities. We have some of the worst child and maternal morbidity and mortality rates on the planet.

There isn’t much in Africa standing in the way of COVID-19. It is one of the fastest-moving and hardest-hitting pandemics in human history. This is a looming threat to the over 1.2 billion people on the continent of Africa. The high-income countries that bear much of the healthcare costs in Africa are confronted with the COVID-19 fight themselves.

To be honest, unless we obtain more support, we may never know the true impact of COVID-19. Liberia’s healthcare system was able to identify these first two cases and track down their contacts – as a top-line system should. Many other African countries are also ahead of the curve, thanks to our experiences with Ebola.

But once the cases escalate, even the best of systems will be overwhelmed. And this pandemic will never end if we cannot root out all of the infections it causes, even in the poorest of countries. As we see with other infectious diseases like tuberculosis, once they find a home in the slums and other impoverished places around the world, infections will always escape out and threaten the wealthier regions.

The Ebola epidemic that raged through West Africa was an existential threat to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. A challenge to governments around the world, it severely threatened international public health systems in ways they have never been challenged before.

And yet, even as the first few months of COVID-19 has hit harder than Ebola, there is one lesson learned that many of us will never forget.

We are all on this planet together. You may not be able to wall off diseases like COVID-19 and Ebola, but you also cannot wall off the common bonds of humanity that all of us share. If we are to get through this pandemic – and we will, because humans are a stubborn species – we will get through it together, by providing support to the more impoverished parts of the world. This chapter of our history does not have to end so darkly.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/africa-covid-19-time-bomb-defuse/

Subzero047:
Uduokhai
Tonunrigha
Felix Agu
Akpogunma

Rate these players cc Tbaba1234

Uduokhai
Agu
Torunarigha
Akpoguma

In that order

somehow:
Reasonable conditions unless these are not all

Stay in Nigeria and nuture players Every country is picking their best players and we want the national team coach to sit in Nigeria and nuture players.

It took Keshi 18 months to get some players to a decent level to play for the super eagles. And there was no long term benefit. 18 whole months. And some players ran away at the first chance of a European contract.

Fix the league and you will not need anyone nuturing players. The players will be nutured by their clubs.

MainJoe:


Why was it low? Is he saying his ministry did not have budget? Is it that they never had the intuition that these was coming?

It is few days ago it was ramped up. Before he announced it, series of journalists asked him why so low a test and the figure of those tested. He did not give figures that day. It was the next day he called the figure and said they would ramp it up.

This is serious stuff we are talking here. We do not have the time for incompetennce.

How much was your national health budget? The UN Sec general just recently praised Nigeria's speed of response.

Do you think, things get ramped up overnight? We have very few labs equipped to do these tests so in many cases, they are starting from scratch.

MainJoe:


That is because of cries and repeated batches of criticisms of the health minister. Before in his briefings, he was not even given figures of number of tested individuals.

It had nothing to do with criticisms. They have bee building up their testing capacity and opening more test centers.

The number of people tested was low but they are ramping up quickly. We have to understand that we lack infrastructure.

MainJoe:


I am sorry but I can not commend gross incompetence. Because, the mismanagement of UK health system does not give any credence to gross ineptitude.

In Nigeria we have money released and donated to curb this virus. Yet, we are yet to see investment in where it is most needed. We have States, sitting on massive IGR and allocations refusing to open testing labs or set up quality isolation centres. Without private sector donating, lots of State would not even have isolation centres.

Until the federal government changes its policy on policing people and not the virus, I can not give them praise in any way.

NCDC has built up its testing capacity. They have the capacity for 1,500 tests daily now. There is also a drive by testing site in Yaba, Lagos now.

Obviously, more needs to be done but it is not terrible.

somehow:
Roll call for our members in the US, UK and elsewhere.

Tbaba, Komeka and co, we want to be sure you guys are safe over there. The number countries like UK, US, Spain, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherland and the rest are pulling (Convid-19) is kinda alarming.

We need you guys to post here o, so we'd be sure you guys are safe.

May we not lose anyone to this virus!

I am doing well. Staying home as much as possible

safarigirl:
Guys, there's an argument going on on Twitter about Nigerian legends

The players in contention are JJOkocha, Kanu Nwankwo and Mikel Obi. Some are arguing that Mikel doesn't belong on the list, claiming JJ carried the team's he plays for and deserves better than to be named alongside Mikel.

Y'all know how I feel about Mikel, so, for the sake of neutrality, do you guys agree with this notion?

Cc tbaba1234, icon4s, thesupernerd, joebie, andrew44, komekn, darkelf, bascovanveli

I think, Kanu underachieved with the super eagles. I will put both Okocha and Mikel over him when it comes to the super eagles. Okocha carried the team for years. Mikel did the same for a shorter period. Mikel and Okocha won AFCONs.

If club achievement is included, Mikel and Kanu are obviously superior.

BascoVanVeli:



U are so sure simply because people he accused denounced him? What about the fact that the REAL IMAM's are not speaking the truth?

The real imams are speaking the truth from the pulpit not twitter.

BascoVanVeli:


So let me get it straight, u think a man calling for the end of Christian killings in the country a fraud? So all the recognized Imam's who go as far as funding terrorism are saints ba?

I am saying that he poses to be what he isn't and and panders to a crowd.

He is not even an imam in the first place.

If i claim to be what i am not, even if i say some correct things, i am still an impersonator and a fraud.

BascoVanVeli:


What false thing did he say about Nigeria? If I didn't watch his video I would have still believed he was Nigerian.

I don't agree with the Buhari resign talk sha because that could cause trouble.

Like i said before, it is not about whatever he said about Nigeria. I have not even read that

The man is simply not what he portrays himself as.

BascoVanVeli:

How can u say someone condemning terrorism is a fraud? The only knowledge I care about is PEACE and that is what I think the Imam is about. The question I have now is, why haven't the "REAL IMAM'S" spoken up like he has? So you would rather no one spoke up? Because that is what has been happening for years.

You stay in America and I can tell u that no matter what Malcolm X and MLK did, nothing would have worked unless white people also stood along and condemned racism.

He is not an Imam, he is a fraud.

ChrisKels:


What really makes him a fraud?

The guy regulary tweets falsehoods and panders to his crowd. No be today. It is about popularity and gaining followers. There is no real substance there.

I have known that account for years now.

Humility017:


could you care less about what he said concerning buhari

I can't really deduce others
anyway we will be fine

I love it when those in government gets exposed in this manner because if a Nigerian had done this by now DSS would have been after him and EFCC If he once occupied a public office

this government is a shame

You do not need a seer to tell you that Buhari has done poorly.

That does not change the fact that that guy is a fraud.

Humility017:


Lol...

don't tell me you're pained by the way he revealed the truth about our government

I have been following up for sometime now
dude hate extremism and he is even on Iranian government neck

anyone who love peace loves him.... And I do and many more folks do that alone is okay for him to continue the good work


for his Islamic principles I can't really say because I am not a Muslim or an authority in that area but you see the truths he exposed yesterday I super love him for it

since some of us are scared or hiding from the truth in this country better a foreign tells us the truth

just within two weeks over 90 soldiers have been killed by Boko Baram
we cried and even protested the man at aso rock change the service chiefs..this men have been there for over 5 years now and soldiers keep dying and situations keep getting worse and even arrested boko boys are being released after just 6 months all in the name of rehabilitating them but the president refuse to listen

bro you may not like that IMAM but every reasonable Nigerian knows he spoke the bitter truth

Pained?? I could care less about what he said about Buhari.

I knew him as a fraud way before now.

BascoVanVeli:


Explain

He portrays himself as an "imam' but lacks even the most basic Islamic knowledge. He panders to populist narratives that increases his popularity. This is not based on his comments on Buhari. I have known the account for a long time. He is a fraud and he is selling his populist narrative again to another crowd.

andrewbaba44:


Who is this imam ?

He is a dunce and a fraud... He is not an Imam at all

Danielnino00:
I'm not trying to sound wicked,but I believe it is good news that the coronavirus has hit our elites first... Every year they would budget billions of Naira for healthcare and end up doing nothing! They see UK,US,China,India,etc as a safe haven for their medical needs and leave the poorly equipped hospitals in the country for the poor... Now it's time they had a taste of their own medicine....it's time they feel what we feel.... Its time they sit down and reflect on their mistakes and correct them...

The elite just have more access to tests

BascoVanVeli:
30 seconds of Shehu boxing


https://mobile.twitter.com/OfficialShehu/status/1242860696896929794

Lol

As a boxing fan, i can see many flaws.

Footwork is all wrong. His hip rotation when throwing the right hand is non-existent.

Stick to football, Shehu..

LordReed:


How would one know that mercy has been given?

As long as you seek it, it has been given. Despair not of the mercy of God.

LordReed:
I realised I have no clue as to how Muslims deal with these things. Where better to ask the question then.

Thanks for question, as humans, we have all gone through those kinds of periods. For the muslim, the Quran says:

"Say, ‘[God says], My servants who have harmed yourselves by your own excess, do not despair of God’s mercy. God forgives all sins: He is truly the Most Forgiving, the Most Merciful." (Surah 39:53)

We are taught not to despair of the mercy of God, no matter how badly we fall as long as we seek forgiveness and change our ways, forgiveness is there. One should not lose hope over the mercy of God.

Humility017:


this incompetency is getting annoying
up till now flights are still allowed in from the UK

even as at today there were reports of some law makers refusing to be screened prior their arrival from abroad at the airport

Only Nigerians are allowed in..

BascoVanVeli:
What is really going on? Now we have players kidnapped for ransom. Dayo Ojo won the silver medal at CHAN currently playing for Enyimba

Sad day for football...

Young people are not immune

New York State Governor.

4 new cases today... up to 26..

Stay home this sunday...

Another confirmed case in Oyo..

This thing spreads rapidly, if you do not take it seriously, in 2 weeks you would not understand what is happening.

Blueelf:
This is for those here who have accused the church for its imperfections:

Some Good old Facebook Memories

“Its the easy and lazy way out to abscond from church for certain "imperfection"in assemblies.Such critics are only on satans pay-roll!The Church HAS NEVER been perfect,rather its imperfections are grown men reaching unto perfection.(including the church analyzer)Eph4:12/16.Ignore CNN/Google/bbc/you tube(governed by anti-christ spirits),GO TO CHURCH.ave a nice sunday.”

March 21,2010

In this time, stay at home..