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nuban07:
I also wonder, the youth ve lost it. This is an elderly man, older than some people grandfather. Is there no respect for elder in this country again Criticize him not calling him names, it can be u or ur relative tomorrow.

I don't understand why we we need to be abusive to deal with our leaders' deficiencies.

Infact, I have studied this trait for some years now and I can say that most times when we start abusing them, we lose our cool and fail to ask the right questions. Hence, we lose the opportunity to engage leadership so as to achieve better governance.

Whenever we start going personal on our leaders, we drive a wedge between us and them and introduce noise into the communication system such that the intended message is distorted before it gets to the target.

We need to be more constructive. I watched people calling GEJ all manners of names and I'm watching it happen again with PMB. But what has that done for us?

Masterpiece676:
Can i tell you something? I don't really agree with most of mannerbbq post especially when it has to do with politics in Nigeria but most time i think the guy is better than most of you guys that always tag him to trash his every of his post. Try to pretend you have brain Nah, the shit is getting stale. People don't use to enjoy it anymore, abeg stop it

God bless your beautiful soul. I have my disagreements too with position sometimes but I believe he/ she is entitled to his/ her opinion like everyone of us and that freedom to express divergent views is the bedrock of democracy and it has to be upheld.

That said, a lot of people trolling him have crossed the boundaries a number of times. I have read posts where people threatened his life right here. To those people, let me caution them, that the internet does not provide anonymity as such and our laws frown strongly on threats to life and threats to cause bodily harm.

We should learn to be civil, even when we disagree.

Trello:
Hello everyone - I'm not quite sure whether this is the right section to post this.

Anyways, I currently hold a Master's degree and I also recently gained admission into a PhD program in a UK university but with no funding from the school and the estimated total cost of the tuition and living expenses amount to about #16 million for the 3 years.

So, I decided to come seek the opinion of folks here with better experience if it really worth spending this amount in the long run or should I rather invest this amount?

Thank you in advance!

In the present circumstances, #16 million might not be enough to see you through your 3 years PhD with tution, living expenses and other incidental costs.

In the alternative, I will suggest you beam your search light for PhDs in the U.S. You will find a lot of them fully funded.

With a well crafted Statement of purpose you will most likely get an admission in the States.

All the best.

egbetokuns:
What do you mean shut up. The same imam assembled themselves and blocked the whole major road @ Oje Market even Central mosque @ Felele Last Friday , this morning they still gathered in the mosque for morning prayer. My friend this is not the time of apportion blame on anyone. We should put all our blames unto the government

The emphasized part of your post refers (emphasis mine). I disagree with this submission strongly. While the government shares part of the blame, citizens and opinion moulders cannot be excused of their insensitivity at a time like this.

When Corona virus hits the streets (God forbid) the people who will be free are those who have maintained social distancing, stayed at home and observed hygienic practices and not those who would be blaming government.

Let us learn to do our part by living responsibly. There is God and government. Do you blame God for allowing the virus to exist at all? Government has not lived up to expectations and that happened almost all over the world because a lot was not known about the virus and it's deadliness (remember that is why they call it novel).

The people in Government who failed to do the needful are paying the prices by being afflicted by Corona.

By the same token, individuals who failed to observe the guidelines by health authorities would have themselves to blame ultimately.

If the government fails us, do not let us fail ourselves.

All religious leaders and opinion moulders should not abuse the right to associate freely by putting the lives of others at risk. There is no right that is absolute.

okpalaAnambra:
Nothing special about Lagos state... FG kept the testing centre there, nothing more

I never said that there is anything special about Lagos State. However, the state being a transit and gateway state requires the support of all to provide optimal services to all and sundry.

[quote author=wwwihy post=87753380][[s]quote author=goodnessme1 post=87753074]Because lagos is no man's land. [/s]
Lagos is London for people from the other side , Best State in Nigeria...other States are parasites

Same idiots will open their gutter mouths abusing Tinubu[/quote]Truthfully, the importance of Lagos State cannot be overemphasized as COVID-19 has shown.

When this blows over, Lagos State should be accorded it's special status.

Slawormir:
Damnnnnn niggarrr

Isoright

Nothing is gonna happen to the wake and see governor

And for all those celebrating that only the elites are testing positive. Don't celebrate yet

Only the elites are going for test now. The common Man is not willing to go for test. And i can bet my balls that thousand of people in da street are already positive

And the elites are going to to recover fast because they won't be at the back of the queue for treatment and ventilator

The emphasized part is what the ignorant masses rejoicing at the misfortunes of the elites via COVID-19 infection shouldn't forget.

The truth is that everytime someone is infected, the chances of the non-infected getting infected is increased.

What does he want to go and do in Lagos? Give Lagos State a special status, they have refused.

Yet, they want to go and overwhelm the resources in Lagos!

Bewisebenice18:
*Adamu Abubakar, Atiku's son who has been diagnosed with Coronavirus was at the Gov Seyi Makinde's PDP Unity Rally held at Mapo Hall in Ibadan last week. Perilous times!*

I don't wanna believe this. Can you please substantiate your claims. Thanks as you do so.

alsudan:
In one week, Covik One Nine Birus will sweep through Naija.

It will never be well with those that foisted the Lifeless Disaster on Nigeria.

The people you referred to exercised their franchise the way it pleased them and it should have ended at that.

Now, if your prayers are answered and it is not well with them, how does that translate to your gain?

These are perilous times and I will advise that you channel the energy and time you use for cursing your imaginary enemies to pray for yourself and your loved ones.

I wish you and your's God protection. Amen

Vibra:
And some people think it is a trick by the government to embezzle funds....

I couldn't understand how people could even be foolish to think along that line.

Nigerian government and leaders do not need to fake Covid-19 to embezzle funds; they have been doing it since 1800, so I wonder why they would need to lie about COVID to do something that they have perfected.

payperpost:
Sleep over this: 30 days ago, it's 30 cases in Italy, Spain and USA; today it's 53,575 in Italy, 26,747 in USA, and 24,926 in Spain....Today, it's 30 cases in Nigeria; the next 30 days will be crucial for Nigeria. Therefore, the focus should not be on 30 cases but the unidentified cases out there.....We’re so far behind this thing at this point. And the reason we’re so far behind is because we’ve had so little testing...... Pray for Nigeria in distress

I believe the cases are under-reported as you pointed out.

Sadly, Lagos has the highest number of reported cases but I will not be surprised if some other states actually have more incidences than Lagos State.

Of all the states, Lagos State is the only one (and this is purely based on my observation, I might be wrong) that has shown aggression in tackling this issue and even Lagos State needs to do more.

janeedema:
I truly hope that at the end of this pandemic, those in the corridors of power would have learned a thing or two.

Atiku's son would probably have been on his way out of naija for medical attention, but for the closure of the borders of these countries.

Now, the high and mighty are all stuck to our quack medical services they have abandoned and refused to invest in.

Indeed, what goes around comes around.

I pray that beautiful and progressive lessons be learned from this setback. And that at the end of all this, we will become wiser and more patriotic as a people.

Let me say Amen to your wishes. I equally hope that people across political divides would learn not to play petty politics with issues that portend calamity for the nation if not handled well.

Some problems do not play politics.

Let me end this by wishing Atiku Abubakar's son and all those already infected with the virus and other ailments speedy recovery.

Sirvingeo:
How I wish our political leader contract this virus ?God please spare the poor masses.

My initial thought was to say amen to your prayer because of the stupidity of our leaders but when I thought it through it occurred to me that such a prayer could be harmful to the masses. You wonder how? Here you go:

1. If the political leaders catch the virus, they have the capacity to marshall medical personnel to their homes. 1 of them can marshall as many as 50, if he or she so desires.

That means less number of medical personnel and materials will be available to the masses.

2. If the political leaders catch the virus in their numbers, they will use the state resources to treat themselves unlike the masses.

Let us just pray and hope that the virus abates as a result of our immunity. This is no time to pray for the virus to attack anybody.

Xisnin:
There are no "protocols" in case of an emergency.
Who enforces such a standard?

Immigration laws are set by individual countries and not by a world body.

Countries even render their citizen stateless for political reasons and it will be trivial to ban
citizens to protect the majority.

Any country that has instituted travel ban have automatically banned its citizens from the
target countries.

Japan recently did not allow the Covid 19 infested cruise ship to land despite having some citizens aboard
until the coast was clear.

Very well then. Thanks for the feedback.

Xisnin:
Says who?
The borders can be shut against anybody.

I believe that international protocols forbid countries from shutting down borders against their citizens.

I am yet to see a country that has shut her borders against her citizens.

Although, I am still making further findings on what is acceptable as the standard.

dujika:
Hmmmm
This would have been tackled if our boarders were closed much earlier

I shared the same sentiments before I considered that closing the border couldn't have solved the problem totally as the borders couldn't be shut against our citizens.

Now that the borders are shut, Nigerians in diaspora should just be less selfish and stay wherever they are at the moment until the situation normalizes.

And then, the unfounded talks about Corona not being able to survive in Nigerian weather encouraged a lot of Nigerians abroad, who felt threatened by Corona, to come back to Nigeria so as to enjoy the purported "immunity" that our weather confers on us.

lakesider:
Useless illiterate, closure of border is to only foreigners and not citizens and permanent residence... Educate yourself and stop spreading information you hear from beer parlour

I don't understand why most people just rant about border closure without minding the fact that the borders cannot be shut against the citizens of a country.

lighteast:
Please help a brother, someone is using his affluence to deal with me even when he is the one at fault all because I don't have anybody to come to my rescue or speak for me, what an evil world.

Why don't you open a thread on this and supply all necessary pieces of information that can help your cause. Doing that might help you in getting the help you seek.

Mention me, in the event that you open the thread.

WILLuKPquiet:
May be the reason why corona doesn't have too much devastating effect on the black man. Chloroquine had been a normal drug for us. And though its usage had been stopped, the left over is still in the blood of many of us and it is been transfered from generation to generation.

Let the production start all over again.

Hurray!!!

This is very plausible. Your hypothesis is worthy of further investigation.

mvem:
That Viral Obj statement was actually fake...it was debunked....I was surprise people thought it was a real news

That is refreshing. Didn't get to see the rebuttal.

Perfecttouchade:
they were playing with people's life...1300 no be small thing, do we have facilities to handle any outbreak? No, doctors sef are on strike...shoo ...make Dem close schools now, Dem still never hear ....me I tire o

This is why I disagree with OBJ as an elder statesman classifying the index case Italian as scare mongering. Not everything should be treated as politics; they are just playing Ludo with people's lives. It is sad.

Perfecttouchade:
Buhari see ur life

The borders ought to have been shut like a month ago.

CanadaOrBust:
Yeah but children can give it to others especially the vulnerable elderly.

IF ONLY BUHARI HAD CLOSED OUR BORDERS LONG AGO LIKE EVERYONE WAS BEGGING HIM TO DO...

Now that they have closed them has the world ended??

You sound a bit funny. How can you talk about border closure when you were misleading many people here about the warm weather in Nigeria having the capacity to prevent the virus from surviving in Nigeria.

Did Buhari act stupidly by not not closing the border earlier? Yes, he did!

Did you mislead a lot of Nigerians to their possible doom? Yes, you did by broadcasting unfounded statements about a pandemic that was already ravaging the rest of the world.

mikezuruki:
Nothing is impossible. I have gone as far as meeting great programmers, Data Scientists, and Machine Learning experts. it's doable

It is doable. You may crack it faster if you can identify the random number generator they use.

Cannonleo:
thats my issue, i want to learn python but i need to know its variable applications, and what it can be applied to within our clime including links to programs one can work on and feasible programs one can create

What do you intend using python for. Your response would help anyone who would want to assist in answering your question.

Cheers.

You might just have gotten yourself a monitoring spirit.

CalvinGaye:
Hello Python geeks!!
I have a little Question I need to clear, Can I develop a normal app like
Instagram, Facebook, using PYTHON and DJANGO alone??
Maybe it would not be as complex as the apps I just mentioned, but I want it to be a GOOD and FUNCTIONAL online application.

Is this possible?

Certainly you can. You just need to integrate with a database of your choice and thankfully Django comes with bells and whistles that make the connection to a database a breeze through MODELS.

ibkayee:
About to hop on the python bandwagon, I knew the syntax was simpler but now that’ I’ve played with it somewhat I know it’s the language for a sloth like me(this is a joke, I know it’s comparatively easier, but that doesn’t mean it will a ‘breeze’ for everyone)

Trust me, python is a cool programming language and it comes with a lot of modules and add-ons that can make you achieve the seemingly impossible.

However, focus your attention on the modules that would assist in your goal.

For instance if you are interested in:

GUIs - focus on Tkinter
Data Science: Numpy, Scipy, Pandas
Web framework: Django

and so on.

Wish you luck in your quest.

Paapii3d:
DAY 10
LIST COMPREHENSION


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIq1PhviHCs

List comprehension is another vital way of manipulating lists in python.

for example to print a list of squared values in python, it can be performed as

numbers = [1,2,3,4,5,6]
squaredNumbers = [num ** 2 for num in numbers]
print(squaredNumbers)

The same objective can be achieved with fewer lines of code thus:

for i in range(1,7,1):
print(i*i)

P.S.
Nice effort op. Teaching others what you know is worthwhile. I salute you. Some of us need to find time out of no time to contribute our little token to make life easier for others. Kudos.

kingjms010:
Pls, will a system of Core i3 and 4gb ram run a programming language like Python, I want to start learning but I'm afraid my laptop won't be able to run or handle it

What you have (your system's specifications) would conveniently run python.

raymod170:
Don't feel sad, truth is am always busy with work and always travelling (work related).

I will be lying if I told you the opposite, however I will advise you make use of treehouse, udacity or any other online learning platform to learn.

I would have mentioned YouTube but then it never worked out for me, You can consider that tho. But learning from those platforms gives you a structured learning process with objectives which will help you learn better.

Best regards.

Treehouse is good but you may want to add udemy too.