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Udstar:
Everybody is free to believe in whatsoever they want to believe, it's none of your business.

Your belief is nobody's business provided you keep it to yourself under your roof, but becomes everyone's problem when it poses a risk to people.

Make you dey use your head.

EzzyCarter:
Just a desperate attempt at covering the truth. The fact remains covid-19 is an example of virus alteration/modification gone wrong

Do you have a shred of evidence to back up this "fact"?

Shelumiel:
A virus that was cause by gene fusion between a snake and bat is not a lab experiment abi...? Mtcheww...keep dreaming OP.

Your ignorance stinks. Take all the time you need and read the OP.

Churches over here in Enugu didn't comply with the directive, right now as I'm writing I could still hear different praise and worship songs blaring from different directions, which makes me wonder if most of us are okay in the head but just enjoy being foolish.

People that went to church today, what exactly was their aim? To pray to the God that created Corona, or the one that doesn't care and refused to do anything about it?

Make we try dey use our head: only we can save ourselves. The government are doing their own part, let's play ours by ensuring we avoid any large gatherings.

As the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 spreads across the globe, with cases surpassing 284,000 worldwide today (March 20), misinformation is spreading almost as fast. 

One persistent myth is that this virus, called SARS-CoV-2, was made by scientists and escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China, where the outbreak began.

A new analysis of SARS-CoV-2 may finally put that latter idea to bed. A group of researchers compared the genome of this novel coronavirus with the seven other coronaviruses known to infect humans: SARS, MERS and SARS-CoV-2, which can cause severe disease; along with HKU1, NL63, OC43 and 229E, which typically cause just mild symptoms, the researchers wrote March 17 in the journal Nature Medicine.

"Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus," they write in the journal article. 

Kristian Andersen, an associate professor of immunology and microbiology at Scripps Research, and his colleagues looked at the genetic template for the spike proteins that protrude from the surface of the virus. The coronavirus uses these spikes to grab the outer walls of its host's cells and then enter those cells. They specifically looked at the gene sequences responsible for two key features of these spike proteins: the grabber, called the receptor-binding domain, that hooks onto host cells; and the so-called cleavage site that allows the virus to open and enter those cells. 

That analysis showed that the "hook" part of the spike had evolved to target a receptor on the outside of human cells called ACE2, which is involved in blood pressure regulation. It is so effective at attaching to human cells that the researchers said the spike proteins were the result of natural selection and not genetic engineering.

Here's why: SARS-CoV-2 is very closely related to the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), which fanned across the globe nearly 20 years ago. Scientists have studied how SARS-CoV differs from SARS-CoV-2 — with several key letter changes in the genetic code. Yet in computer simulations, the mutations in SARS-CoV-2 don't seem to work very well at helping the virus bind to human cells. If scientists had deliberately engineered this virus, they wouldn't have chosen mutations that computer models suggest won't work. But it turns out, nature is smarter than scientists, and the novel coronavirus found a way to mutate that was better — and completely different— from anything scientists could have created, the study found. 

Another nail in the "escaped from evil lab" theory?  The overall molecular structure of this virus is distinct from the known coronaviruses and instead most closely resembles viruses found in bats and pangolins that had been little studied and never known to cause humans any harm. 

"If someone were seeking to engineer a new coronavirus as a pathogen, they would have constructed it from the backbone of a virus known to cause illness," according to a statement from Scripps. 

Where did the virus come from? The research group came up with two possible scenarios for the origin of SARS-CoV-2 in humans. One scenario follows the origin stories for a few other recent coronaviruses that have wreaked havoc in human populations. In that scenario, we contracted the virus directly from an animal — civets in the case of SARS and camels in the case of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). In the case of SARS-CoV-2, the researchers suggest that animal was a bat, which transmitted the virus to another intermediate animal (possibly a pangolin, some scientists have said) that brought the virus to humans.

In that possible scenario, the genetic features that make the new coronavirus so effective at infecting human cells (its pathogenic powers) would have been in place before hopping to humans.

In the other scenario, those pathogenic features would have evolved only after the virus jumped from its animal host to humans. Some coronaviruses that originated in pangolins have a "hook structure" (that receptor binding domain) similar to that of SARS-CoV-2. In that way, a pangolin either directly or indirectly passed its virus onto a human host. Then, once inside a human host, the virus could have evolved to have its other stealth feature — the cleavage site that lets it easily break into human cells. Once it developed that capacity, the researchers said, the coronavirus would be even more capable of spreading between people.

All of this technical detail could help scientists forecast the future of this pandemic. If the virus did enter human cells in a pathogenic form, that raises the probability of future outbreaks. The virus could still be circulating in the animal population and might again jump to humans, ready to cause an outbreak. But the chances of such future outbreaks are lower if the virus must first enter the human population and then evolve the pathogenic properties, the researchers said.

Source: https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-not-human-made-in-lab.html

Ogun State Government has ordered the closure of schools indefinitely to avoid the spread of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19).

The government also banned religious centers from holding activities that will bring 50 or more persons in the same place.

The ban was confirmed in a statement issued on Thursday by Kunle Somorin, the Special Adviser to Governor Dapo Abiodun.

According to Somorin, the shutting down of educational institutions in the state will be effective after school hours on Friday, March 20.

“Due to the global spread of the Coronavirus and the recent ban of all high-density gatherings in Ogun State, the State Government wishes to clarify that the ban on high-density gatherings affects all schools, whether they are public or private-owned, as well as all religious activities in the State.

“Consequently, all schools in the State will remain closed indefinitely after school hours on Friday, March, 20th, 2020.

“Also, all religious centers and activities including regular and special services that bring together fifty (50) or more persons in the same place are banned with immediate effect,” the statement read in part.

The government noted that these “measures will be reviewed at regular intervals in response to the development surrounding the Coronavirus disease.”

Governor Abiodun asked, “all parents and guardians who have their children and wards in any boarding facility within the State to immediately evacuate them and return them to their respective homes at the close of schools on Friday, March 20th, 2020.”

He also pleaded “for the understanding of parents, school owners and the entire citizenry to comply fully with all laid down measures and for them to offer useful information for the state to respond appropriately to the COVID-19 challenge.”

Source: https://www.channelstv.com/2020/03/19/ogun-shuts-schools-indefinitely-bans-worship-centres-over-coronavirus/

But Fury is one helluva boxer sha. I mean name a single major world title in the heavyweight division that he hasn't won.


WBA


WBC


WBO


IBO


IBF


Ring


Lineal


The first boxer to do this. Give it up for the Gypsy king.

Oh boy Wilder was damn lucky. Dude was literally saved by the bell.

oblo:
Bros I greet you. Thanks for the update. I know you are enjoying your umidigi a5 pro . I dey see your WhatsApp staus .

Glad you are happy with your purchase. �

I picked up for him. And his feedbacks have been positive. Matter-of-factly the phone dey give am plenty plenty joy.

BTW I notice you've sold the one on this thread too. Keep up with the legit deals bro; nothing like having a good name. Cheers.

I picked up the last phone OP sold on this forum. E pain me say I no hol' money for this one because his stuffs are like giveaways and he's legit af.

Oblo I hail o

If you investigate those Naija gunner fans that make excuses for Emery you'll not be surprised to learn they're also Buhari fans

PervertProphet:
Exactly what hurt Canibus's career going against LL Cool J even though LL Cool J was the one who started the beef. Canibus won the beef but in the long run ruined his opportunity of cementing his place as one of the dopest emcee to spit.

Canibus is one of the illest emcee to grace the mic, that nigga was so raw he could spit complex bars about some deep abstract shit, call him Mr intellectual rap, his penmanship was off the charts but his greatest undoing were his wacky beats plus his ridiculous lyrics that wasn't suited for the mainstream mind who enjoys garbage music. He's another example of good-lyrics-don't-mean-more-sales.


I still play "Second round K.O" and "Rip the jacker" anytime I wanna have a feeling of what a real beef is.

Naija man and him neigbours go parade you naked after em don panel-beat your life... LOL

See photos of gays having sex on a public forum and the mods are not doing anything about it

jesvic91:
Chai NTA is a very stupid station

I agree bro. Choosing to air Buhari propaganda programme over Nigeria AFCON match is beyond foolishness

I thought something was wrong with my phone that I even had to format my SD card.

Op thanks for restoring my sanity

See as NTA leave better program begin show yeye anti-corruption summit

Only few senators clapped for Ali Ndume. I think the executive stooge is winning this

The display of ignorance on this thread though. Just for the record, members of church of Satan neither believe in Satan as a deity nor worship him, in fact most of their members are atheists. Satan is just seen as a positive archetype for enlightenment, freedom, rebellion and independence of thoughts.

You guys should pull your heads outta your arses and stop submitting ignorant comments here.

The seller is a cool guy, very polite and 100% legit. I got my order and will definitely order again.

Feels like déjà vu.. y'all remember some prof like that that also had trouble reading out the result in 2015 to the extent a lamp was brought to him in a well-illuminated room?

SEONaijaExpert:
Typical example of what PDP will publish as press release

Lol. Take it easy young man..I'm a neutral observer. My earlier gaffe can be attributed to hastiness on my part after seeing that APC pulled 289k out of over 600k accredited voters.