She was found at Panseke Abẹ́òkúta. Couldn't remember her name, family name, where she was coming from. In case anyone knows her family, kindly contact the Police Station, Ibara, Abẹ́òkúta through 08060147341

Op, get facts right before you publicly push trash all in the name of political support.
The internet never forgets and this why Comrade himself is regretting today over all trash he asserted in 2016 about the person of POI all in the name of demarketing PDP then.

Election should be about plan policies about the people not bickery. As it stands, I doubt if you reside in Edo State as your analysis is full of emptiness (you could not even spelled Oshonmole nor Obaseki correctly), how then should we believe this analysis of yours.

Go ahead with your support, leave Oshonmole and Obaseki alone and continue to market your candidate's manifestoes to Edo people and stop fanning hate and violence (election is to elect people but not about hatred and killings)
Let we the Edo people decide who to be our governor come September.

Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, has vindicated Gov Obasekin of Edo State of the accusations levelled against him by Capt Hosa on the cancellation of a maritime security contract given to him.

Okunbo, chairman of Ocean Marine Security Limited (OMSL), had accused the governor of influencing the cancellation of the contract, the ground upon which he decided to support Ize Iyamu of APC over Obasekin of PDP.

In an open letter, Okunbo alleged that Obaseki attacked his company, leading to the loss of the contract to provide security on the Nigerian waterways — but the governor denied the claim.

In a statement on Saturday, Crusoe Osagie, Obaseki’s spokesman, said when Amaechi appeared on an AIT programme, he provided reasons for the cancellation of the contract.

According to Osagie, Amaechi said the transportation ministry cancelled the maritime security contract, which Okunbo’s OMSL was undertaking, because the deal was laced with fraud.

Amaechi reportedly said OMSL was grossly inefficient and did not have the federal government’s approval to execute the contract yet was charging very high rates.

“What security was he (Hokunbo) providing? He charges each vessel on the waters 2,500 dollars, then after that 1,500 everyday, he doesn’t pay back that money to the federal govt,” the minister was quoted to have said.

“He makes 17 million dollars from that activity, who approved it, nobody! So as minister for transport, I said no, we can provide that security, 195 million dollars was approved by the federal government to a company that is training Nigerians that will take over the waterways, and take care of the security, then Okunbo is now saying no no, I must do it, he can’t! I wonder why our personal interest will override national interest. I wonder what kind of country we belong to.”

Amaechi reportedly challenged Okunbo to come forward with the approval letter he got from the federal government to provide maritime security on the nation’s waterways.

“If you said Captain Hosa was doing it, how come we are currently ranked number one in the world in terms of insecurity in the maritime sector. When we came, we were number three, but now we are number one in the world,” he was quoted to have said.

“Now the second aspect beyond ranking number one in the world in insecurity, is the fact that we are notorious as a country in the whole of Gulf of Guinea; 80 per cent of the crimes in the Gulf of Guinea is committed in Nigerian waters.”

Reacting to the minister’s remark, Osagie said the clarification has shown that the governor has no hand in the cancellation of Okunbo’s maritime security contract.

“We are glad that the Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi, came on air to lay this issue to rest in the minds of some Nigerians,” the statement read.

“For us, Amaechi’s clarification reinforces what we have always believed. Of course we know the governor was right, when he said that he had no hand in the cancellation of Okunbo’s maritime security contract, even though Captain Hosa would have people believe otherwise. Amaechi’s claim brings to rest, the argument over who was responsible for the cancellation of Okunbo’s contract.”

https://www.thecable.ng/obaseki-amaechi-has-vindicated-me-over-cancellation-of-okunbos-contract

My people let us be careful as we are in critical times and watchout for strangers who come into our lives in the name of Jesus or the gospel. Many are spies working for kidnappers, ritualists, cultist and above all their master the devil and not for my caring Jesus Christ.
You will agree with me after this report from Shagamu, Ogun state:

"I need ransom for expansion of my church",General Overseer nabbed for kidnapping tells Police

More Revelations from some of the kidnap suspects arrested by the Police Intelligence Response Team emerged on Wednesday night with the Pastor and General Overseer of a church in Shagamu, Adetokunbo Adenopo confessing that his gang demanded the payment of #20million as a ransom for one of their victims.
The G.O. of New Life Ministries, Lukosi added that he embarked on the crime of kidnapping and recruited his team in other to fulfil his ambition of expanding the church and carry out charity works.
Other gang members of Pastor Adenopo’s gang which operates an underground detention facility at the New Life Ministry, Lukosi, in Shagamu Area of Ogun State were named as Chigozie Williams 22years, a native of Umuahia North, Abia State, Ugoji Linus 30years, a native of Ezinifite in Imo State and Emmanuel Chris Ani, 27years, a native of Aniri in Enugu State.
The Police stated that they are all responsible for the kidnap for ransom of one Jonathan Ekpo 35years from Benue State.
“The victim, an employee of a logistic company was kidnapped on 17th July 2020 while on official duty to deliver goods in Shagamu, Ogun State.
“The victim was kept in an underground cabin inside the Pastor’s church building in Ogijo town, Ogun State by his abductors who demanded the payment of #20million ransom as a condition for his release.
“He was subsequently rescued unhurt nine days after and reunited with his family by the Police.

ADVISE:
They will come to you in the name of the gospel with sweet tongues but alas, they came to study your life, family, business. Do not fall to strangers this critical time. Do not follow strangers to unknown locations in the name of fellowship,many disguise as disciple preaching the gospel but they are recruits for ritualists and kidnappers.

Make research and probe background, ask people combine with prayers or just simply avoid secret fellowships operated with no names (the are now many everywhere). They will tell you do not worry is just a special movement for as you can be going to your normal church still.
Let us be wise as christians.
Tell your partner, warn your children, educate your relatives and colleagues.

Thank you.

Bros, take it easy and be careful on what advise you follow.
Your lines of sentences depit some hidden truth as a review of your complaints tends to return the same fingers you point back at you.
REVIEW
Firstly, you did introduction and a list was given to you for traditional marriage and you opted for court (meaning bride price was not paid?)
Secondly, your wife is possessed, have a spirit husband who has bitten your dxck 3x in a year and that a prophet told you.
Thirdly, she refused deliverance and does not like sex
Fourthly, you paid the rent and School fee.
Lastly, the brothers should take her and even her children can as well followed.

ADVISE
I guess you dated and court, if you do that would have allow you to do some home work before you say "I Do", meaning you loved her. Hence, take a memory; work for your chosen love no matter the situation now.
If I may get you, you substituted Court for tradition. I assume is possible, go pay her bride price to the uncle as you can't skip tradition for the court.
As for prophet say, why didn't you meet prophet before saying "I do". You have to be careful with prophets as regards your wife. If your wife is all that posses with a spirit husband that bits your dxck and she does not give you sex, how come you have children from her. Love is nolonger in your home, reawaken love, and your wife will resurrect and so called spirit hubby will vanish (buy her gift and resume viable communication)
For payment and bills which are your duties, if she works or does business, learn a way to bring her in so as to assisst. No woman you called names would naturally like to assist (she feels you rediculed her).
Stop listening to negative people, go back to your former love. Do not let your children to suffer. Yes she is old now after child birth, rebrand her, ( who knows what the one outside will bring?) and thank me for how you will reunite your home.

Re: COVID-19: Boss Mustpha Says This Is The Right Time To Lockdown by XXXXTENTACION: 8:05pm On Jun 25
Thunder fire that im mouth. undecided


you wan still chop money. shocked
(Quote) (Report) 213 Likes (Like) 15 Shares (Share)

Re: COVID-19: Boss Mustpha Says This Is The Right Time To Lockdown by Nbote(m): 8:23pm On Jun 25
Lockdown pro max incoming
(Quote) (Report) 12 Likes (Like) (Share)

Re: COVID-19: Boss Mustpha Says This Is The Right Time To Lockdown by yanabasee1(m): 9:28pm On Jun 25
After locking down the country....They should look for a good buyer oh.....
(Quote) (Report) 75 Likes (Like) 4 Shares (Share)

Re: COVID-19: Boss Mustpha Says This Is The Right Time To Lockdown by Joeboy88: 9:41pm On Jun 25
it's only God that will judge all these our politician elders that have turned covid-19 into a money making venture without having at heart what the common man faces everyday.
(Quote) (Report) 73 Likes (Like) 5 Shares (Share)

Re: COVID-19: Boss Mustpha Says This Is The Right Time To Lockdown by ralmix(m): 5:00am
Joker
(Quote) (Report) 4 Likes (Like) 1 Share (Share)

Re: COVID-19: Boss Mustpha Says This Is The Right Time To Lockdown by cardoctor(m): 5:01am
Lock yourself down make we hear word jare.
(Quote) (Report) 40 Likes (Like) 2 Shares (Share)

Re: COVID-19: Boss Mustpha Says This Is The Right Time To Lockdown by Lalalash: 5:02am
And they are just reopening airports lipsrsealed
(Quote) (Report) 3 Likes (Like) 2 Shares (Share)

Re: COVID-19: Boss Mustpha Says This Is The Right Time To Lockdown by Actuator: 5:02am
Agree

What a great loss..

I have a wonderful offer for everyone looking to enhance his/her earning ability with a new skill you can master on your own at home during this corona period

SQL Mastery 4 courses 20gb
Zero to hero in Data Science 8 courses 25gb
Web development 5 courses 30gb
Coding Proficiency(Python + Java) Over 8 courses 20gb
Mobile App Development(Android + IOS) 4 courses 15gb
Total size: About 120gb

Whatsapp me now on 234' 806, 4943-297 for more details & content walkthrough.

Why you should contact me?
- Since the lockdown began, you've not added a need skill to ur list of competencies
- Offer Valid for tmao only
- I will personally deliver at ur doorstep
- They are easy to master even for beginner with zero prior knowledge
- Google 'most in demand skills of 2020s' & you will find the above in any list online
- Each skill comprises several courses from different world class instructors(E.g Eremenko, Portilla e.t.c) giving you different perspectives
- If you want to enrol for any of that skill, you will spend over 100k & might end up not mastering it
- Finally, the price goes back to normal after today friday
(Quote) (Report) 4 Likes (Like) 2 Shares (Share)

Re: COVID-19: Boss Mustpha Says This Is The Right Time To Lockdown by Kobicove(m): 5:02am
Lockdown kee you there! angry
(Quote) (Report) 54 Likes (Like) 4 Shares (Share)

Re: COVID-19: Boss Mustpha Says This Is The Right Time To Lockdown by SmartPolician: 5:04am
Idiot

You people are not tired of using this virus to defraud the country yet
(Quote) (Report) 31 Likes (Like) 2 Shares (Share)

Re: COVID-19: Boss Mustpha Says This Is The Right Time To Lockdown by astonished: 5:04am
All those people that support this lockdown, SCAMdemic, that use to attack everyone here that don't believe in their wicked scam, may you never know piece in your life, may you be in bondage in the rest of your life, may you encounter an agony death.

What a wicked soul are Nigeria government and her moronic citizens who because of money they are embezzle don't want this SCAMdemic to end.

may thunder � all this government officials, NCDC, and their supporters here who still clamour for continuous of this wicked and barbaric show of power, that lead to people suffering in pain, lots of people are out of job, most companies did not pay their staff since the lockdown, lot of people now turn to beggars & looking hopeless, people are very hungry.

Yet what this barbaric government and their supporters here know is, wear facemask, social distance, stay safe, & lockdown of people against their fundamental human rights of freedom, yet the stvpid govt taskforce go around harrass, tortured an helpless & innocent citizen, extort money from them, denied them of work & business that fetch them money that they will use to put food in their stomach

Where is the DANGER? there is no anything out there in this country to warrant all these barbaric show of power & wickedness by this government,

Are we not be disregard their foolish rules, yet we still not know anyone that know someone that are in critical condition as a result of covid-19, all what this useless government waiting for is to let any public figure died and tagged it covid-19 death, then make it as if the virus is real in this country & kill everyone including the public, because Ajimobi die now we must go on another lockdown, when Abba kyari death the lockdown extended
(Quote) (Report) 29 Likes (Like) 3 Shares (Share)

Re: COVID-19: Boss Mustpha Says This Is The Right Time To Lockdown by biggie73(m): 5:04am
Again? Hunger is real.
(Quote) (Report) 1 Like (Like) (Share)

Re: COVID-19: Boss Mustpha Says This Is The Right Time To Lockdown by DonTattaglia: 5:04am
Absolutely true!!
(Quote) (Report) 12 Likes (Like) (Share)

Re: COVID-19: Boss Mustpha Says This Is The Right Time To Lockdown by Esseite: 5:04am
Are you threatening us with lockdown?... you actually needs us moving, because you can't manage us not moving..
(Quote) (Report) 4 Likes (Like) (Share)

Re: COVID-19: Boss Mustpha Says This Is The Right Time To Lockdown by Untainted007: 5:04am
If they like the shud lock it down 500 times, if they keep doing it the same way they did the last one, they will keep getting the same unproductive results. Lockdown without providing palliative to survive and you think people will comply fully.
(Quote) (Report) 47 Likes (Like) 2 Shares (Share)

Re: COVID-19: Boss Mustpha Says This Is The Right Time To Lockdown by Nwakannaya1: 5:04am
Why not bring this deceit to an end?

Haven't you people made enough money from it?
(Quote) (Report) 36 Likes (Like) 4 Shares (Share)

Re: COVID-19: Boss Mustpha Says This Is The Right Time To Lockdown by Victor912(m): 5:05am
Lock down again wahala
(Quote) (Report) (Like) 1 Share (Share)

Re: COVID-19: Boss Mustpha Says This Is The Right Time To Lockdown by Chekwube1989(m): 5:05am
Because of the daily allowance they are paying ur guys what about the common man.useless government with senseless PTF
(Quote) (Report) 44 Likes (Like) 5 Shares (Share)

Re: COVID-19: Boss Mustpha Says This Is The Right Time To Lockdown by Felixamos(m): 5:05am
May thunder please shake hands with whoever is calling for total lockdown.. What nonsense!

What does Mustapha mean by saying; "Nigerians are romancing the virus"? What is this clueless regime putting in place to decontaminate public places so as to cub the spread of the virus?.. Are the politicians even obeying the interstate travel ban?

Mustapha wants a lockdown? He can lockdown himself and his family..

And by the way what virus is he even talking about?
With the number of cases on NCDC list yet noone is clamoring for ventilators? Is it the covid 19 that we are seeing in Spain, UK, USA and Italy?

Or is it the lodge that they lodged some nigerians in the so called isolation centers where they got overwhelmed with joy having eaten to their satisfactions and began to sing for joy?

You want to lock up the country because some few persons have malaria and fever... I don't blame that Mustapha...

Mustapha should keep deceiving himself...

Note! If you quote me to explain how covid 19 is real "in Nigeria", your faith would be granted to you and you will have it before the week runs out..
(Quote) (Report) 38 Likes (Like) 1 Share (Share)

Re: COVID-19: Boss Mustpha Says This Is The Right Time To Lockdown by StillWiz(m): 5:05am
Let the lockdown begin
(Quote) (Report) (Like) 1 Share (Share)

Re: COVID-19: Boss Mustpha Says This Is The Right Time To Lockdown by Imefawulo(m): 5:07am
Nigerians and their Nonsense Attitude. Coro is real but they dont believe..Gradually it has been killing people but our people will follow the bandwagon belief that it is not killing people..
(Quote) (Report) 24 Likes (Like) 2 Shares (Share)

Re: COVID-19: Boss Mustpha Says This Is The Right Time To Lockdown by Ebenezer202O: 5:07am
thank God he realized it is not within his power.
(Quote) (Report) 4 Likes (Like) (Share)

Re: COVID-19: Boss Mustpha Says This Is The Right Time To Lockdown by Ogbuu101: 5:08am
XXXXTENTACION:
Thunder fire that im mouth. undecided



you wan still chop money. shocked
Ask any health worker you know, the cases are rising so fast.
People are dying daily.
(Quote) (Report) 9 Likes (Like) 1 Share (Share)

Re: COVID-19: Boss Mustpha Says This Is The Right Time To Lockdown by Yompay01(m): 5:08am
Just lock down this year but still let us be watching our football viewing centers and betting shops too
(Quote) (Report) 1 Like (Like) 1 Share (Share)

Re: COVID-19: Boss Mustpha Says This Is The Right Time To Lockdown by clems88(m): 5:08am
Nonsense leaders. As if they will provide for the welfare of the masses when they lockdown.
(Quote) (Report) 9 Likes (Like) 1 Share (Share)

Re: COVID-19: Boss Mustpha Says This Is The Right Time To Lockdown by ENGINEERG(m): 5:08am
But will people accept that , Govt had made mistake before, they can't give palliative, and they can't enforce all laws and rules on covid 19, just talking like a backing dog....only inter state movement , people don't obey, police is casing out big too on it , and govt can't act
(Quote) (Report) 6 Likes (Like) (Share)

Re: COVID-19: Boss Mustpha Says This Is The Right Time To Lockdown by Ebenezer202O: 5:09am
Ogbuu101:
Ask any health worker you know, the cases are rising so fast. People are dying daily.
NCDC agent will you shut up
(Quote) (Report) 38 Likes (Like) 3 Shares (Share)

Re: COVID-19: Boss Mustpha Says This Is The Right Time To Lockdown by ogawisdom(m): 5:09am
grin

Na ur mouth u need to lockdown

What is this again cry cry cry

Do I blame you, when u collect 500k allowance every day bc of Covid 19, u won't want it to end.
(Quote) (Report) 12 Likes (Like) (Share)

Re: COVID-19: Boss Mustpha Says This Is The Right Time To Lockdown by Hamiatx: 5:10am
Bbbvk
(Quote) (Report) 1 Like (Like) (Share)


https://www.nairaland.com/5951112/covid-19-boss-mustpha-says-right

Following the dissolution of the Comrade Adams Oshonmole led NWC of the All Progress Congress (APC) and the setting up of A Caretake Committee by the President through the NEC of the party, a microscopic analysis has shown that the CPC group mainly represented by northers in the party has picked the party towards 2023 realignment.

LIST APC CARETAKER COMMITTEE AND EXTRA-ORDINARY CONVENTION PLANNING COMMITTEE.
1. Governor Mai Mala Buni (Yobe) Chairman
2. Isiaka Oyebola SW
3. Ken Nnamani SE
4. Stella Okorete - Women Rep
5. Governor Sani Bello NC
6. Dr. James Lalu physically challenged
7. Sen. Abubakar Yusuf- Senatè Rep
8. Hon. Akinyemi Olaide - Reps
9. David leon - SS
10. Abba Ari -NW
11. Prof. Tahir Mamman - NE
12. Ismail Ahmed - Youth
13. Sen. Akpan Udoedehe- Secretary

As it stands today, Mai Mala Buni, who is to steer the party until the convention is core CPC. A deep perusal of the list also shown key CPCs members as northern representatives in the said committee.
Predictions of weakening the ACN group in APC before now has finally come to pass as the next powerful position the committee, office of the Secretary of given to nPDP, Akpan Udoedehe, former PDP senator from Akwa Ibom, South south.
Most mention in the Committee is Women leader seat that went to Stella Okotete, an nPDP member from Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State, South south. This position is a key one for power play in any politicking as women are vital on what become of the party.
Other key positions in the committee owards controlling the party, are the representatives of the National assembly: such positions were also not spare as they were appointed towards a geopartical direction.
Sumarily, this alignments and realignments are caved towards a marriage between the North and the South South of the country, with the believe that the South East is always in alignment with the South south
It is worthy of mention that while Gov. Oyetola of Osun state, a perceived Tinubu loyalist, there is a rumour of rift between Former Gov. Aregbesola and Jagbaga himself, which might possibly mean, Aregbesola who president Buhari loved so much might planted Oyetola there for his 2023 interest.
The much needed truth is that as it stands today in All Progressive Congress (APC) as party, there is an unforseen forces that intend to outplayed the ACN group towards 2023 presidency and the shortfall of south west ACN group in the list should give the west a sleepless night in the coming days.

The National Working Committee NWC of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC has named Sen. Abiola Ajimobi as its acting National Chairman.

The development followed Tuesday’s affirmation of the suspension of the National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomholeby the Court of Appeal in Abuja.

The party in a late statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu said it has received the news indicating the Appeal Court has upheld the suspension of the Party’s National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole by an FCT High Court pending the determination of the substantive suit.

“Guided by advice from the Party’s legal department in line with the provisions of Section 14.2. (iii) of the Party’s constitution, the Deputy National Chairman (South), Sen. Abiola Ajimobi will serve as the Party’s Acting National Chairman.

“According to Section 14.2. (iii),of the APC constitution, the Deputy National Chairman, North/South “Shall act as the National Chairman in the absence of the National Chairman from his zone”, the NWC stated.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/06/breaking-apc-names-ajimobi-acting-national-chairman/

From another perspective, this lady might be protecting herself against rape as most hawkers (especially those that sell food at new site are prone to rape).
This might just be an act to stire attackers.

I have copied this from the wall of Ibim Semenitari to ask for a stop to the brutalisation of Nigerian by military men and also demand justice.

*My Story*
(Violence Against Doctors)

On Monday 18th of May 2020, at 5:10pm,I was walking along Ohiamini-Psychiatric road, off Rumuola, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. I had just come out of my house, and was heading for a hospital where I was to cover a night duty shift.

It was strolling distance from my house and there was a little drizzle at the time, I didn't mind. I was armed with my Medical IDs and the pass issued by the attorney general of the state.

I hadn't gone any distance when I saw a light blue Hilux with military personnel and a light blue luxury bus behind it. The red and blue lights on the Hilux were flashing although there was no siren on, so I assumed it was an escort convoy.

However, as they got closer to me, one of the 2 armed personnel standing behind the Hilux jumped down, brandishing his weapons with the nozzle of the gun pointed at me, he shouted 'Stop there!'. I stopped and looked at him. I told him you don't need to point your weapon at me, just ask me who I am.

He asked 'Who are you?' I said I was a medical doctor, just as the words left my lips before I could pull out my ID card, he landed a heavy slap on my left cheek, I was dazed for a moment. I heard him say ' Are you the first doctor?'

By the time I looked up all the personnel (except the drivers) in both vehicles in combat uniform had surrounded me, it seem they too were confused as to why I had been hit so forcefully.

I looked up in shock , I said to him I told you am a doctor and you hit me The excuses started immediately, 'You did not identify yourself, why will he hit you if you identified yourself?' Another one said 'You must have been rude to him' I recounted our interaction that lasted less than a minute before I was hit and asked them, when and how I succeeded in being rude, and deserving a slap? Another said I was pointing my fingers at him.

With all these excuses and no apologies forth coming. I felt infuriated. I told them this matter was not going to end as simply as they thought it would. I looked at the vehicles, they had no number plates. The personnel were dressed in green combat trousers, military issue boots and black T-shirts with the armed forces emblem on the arms. Most had black face masks on, covering the lower half of their faces. Most had no name tags or forms of identification.

The few officers in full uniforms started to shift away from me. Sudden one told all the others to get into the vehicles and leave me.

Immediately, I took out my Samsung phone hoping to capture their images for future identification. An officer forcefully took my phone away from me. I waited till their backs where turned and brought all my second phone, an infinix phone, they noticed my actions quiet late and were panicked. I was roughly picked up and pushed into the luxury bus, all my protests fell on deaf ears. I looked around, there was no soul in sight to witness the brutal treatment I was receiving. I asked where I was being taken to, an no one answered me. They attempted to take away my second phone, I struggled to keep it. They began driving away. I was asked to seat at the rear of the bus while they huddled to the front. There were two males and a female personnel in the bus with me apart from the driver and another man at the back seat.

I immediately stood up so I could see where I was being taken and started making phone calls. I called my medical director, NMA Fin Sec, some of my senior consultants. I tried taking pictures. The bus stopped briefly and an officer named Bass MO (name on his uniform) attempted to forcefully take my phone away, this time he damaged the screen in the process, I refused to let go of the phone. My colleagues kept calling and I kept talking and giving as much details as I could. I eventually made a short video that I sent out immediately to our association page, just in case.....

A senior officer came from the Hilux and told them to stop struggling with me and to just drop me at the isolation centre. The vehicles made a U-turn and took me to the Isolation centre at the liberation stadium.

When we arrived, I was still on a call, I was asked to come down and another struggle to take my phone away, ensured. In the midst of the struggle I noticed the Hilux carrying the man who assualted me had made a U-turn and was about leaving the stadium. I beaconed on an individual who appeared to have some authority, telling him I was a doctor and I was assualted by those men and I only wanted their pictures or some form of identification. He said I was not allowed to take pictures there.

Of course, nobody paid attention to what I was saying, instead, they were trying to get me to sit on the ground like everyone else who had been brought in by the sting operation teams. I kept receiving calls for members of NMA who were trying to reach me. The police officers around also demanded I hand over my phone, I refused.

One of the personnel from the bus went to a man in jean trousers and a jersey and handed my Samsung phone to him. He also gave some report. I was unaware of what he said after which they entered the bus and left. They all left about a minute after we arrived. I kept asking isolation centre officials to detain those individuals so their identities could be captured but no one paid any attention to my words.

Doctors working at the isolation centre recognized me and came over to meditate. The man in jeans was said to be the boss (Mr. Orekefe). He claimed I refused to calm down and talk to him, that since I was so unwilling to cooperate he would ensure I spent nothing less than 24hr detention at the isolation centre.

A police officer tried to take my phone from me again, I protested, explaining that it contained evidence, so I couldn't hand it over. He lead me to a gated area and locked me in. My phone was taken by a female police officer (Chukwuemeka Gary), I was told you couldn't have your phone in police detention.

Few minutes late, I heard a shout from Mr Orekefe, that they should bring me out, he handed his phone to me saying the attorney general of the state wanted to talk to me.

I took the phone and for the first time in several minutes, I was spoken to with dignity. He introduced himself and asked me what happened, I explained. He apologized and said I would not be detained. He asked me to return the phone to Mr. Orekefe. After the call, Mr Orekefe apologize on the behalf of the air Force officials who had assaulted me. He promised they would get to the bottom of things but said as the young men had left it would be difficult to trace them. He asked a police vehicles to take me home.

I have had a mild but persist headache since that assault. I am not worried for myself, because as a doctor, I have a voice, am backed by an association that would fight for me, but what about others not as fortunate?

So if anyone, steps out of their house to buy a drug at the pharmacy just 3 houses away, they may be slapped, thrown into a bus and taken to the Isolation centre

My abusers think they can mouth excuses like, you did not identify yourself and you were rude, and get away with such lawless and unruly behavior. If the next time, they shoot a doctor, what excuses will they give And what would we find acceptable?

I think enough is enough! The Nigerian Air Force should hand over the officer called Bass MO, and he in turn should identify the man who assaulted me as well as all those involved.

I am asking for a return to sanity and respect for humanity.

Copied

Please Moderator move to Front Page.

Go for CT + cream (try buy both cream and soap)

Follow usage direction

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has, again, warned Nigerians against taking Chloroquine as treatment for Coronavirus (COVID-19).

“Nobody should buy Chloroquine and use. If you have COVID-19, go to a doctor. We have warned Nigerians and shall do that again. Do not take Chloroquine,” Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, NAFDAC’s Director General said on Thursday in Abuja.

“The delay in approving some of the drugs for treatment of the virus is because of the clinical trials the agency is carrying out on them.

“So far, no group or individual has proffered any solution to the treatment or management of the pandemic,” she said.

According to Adeyeye, the Chinese government carried out lots of trials on Chloroquine before it approved its use for treatment on some COVID-19 patients.

”Clinical trial is not a thing one can handle casually; it requires guidance, supervision and experiment before approval so that it will not cause further damage.
“The trial is to determine whether it is actually working or not, after a sustained observation. NAFDAC is supposed to be the centre of the regulation of clinical trial effects.

“Nobody can do any job of clinical trial in the clinic or anywhere without passing through NAFDAC protocol.

”If such protocol is found defective or tend to compromise the health of Nigerians, we will not approve it,’’ she said.
The NAFDAC boss further said that whatever procedure was coming up for the cure or curtailment of COVID-19 must be submitted for trial to the agency for appropriate processing.

She said that the agency must also ensure that all the procedure used in arriving at their experimental processes for the cure or curtailment of COVID-19 must be submitted with relevant proof.

Adeyeye advised researchers and traditional medical practitioners to follow the normal protocol before the approval of their work for public consumption.

Summarily, this can be reduced as a case of when two elephant fights.

A Colorado man who died of alcohol poisoning had his death classified as due to the coronavirus, possibly shedding light on a skewed virus death toll in the state, according to a report on Thursday.

Sebastian Yellow, 35, was found dead by police on May 4. Montezuma County Coroner George Deavers later determined that his death was due to acute alcohol poisoning. His blood-alcohol content measured in at .55. The legal limit in the state is .08.

But before Deavers signed the death certificate, Colorado health officials reportedly categorized Yellow’s death as being due to COVID-19.

What killed Sebastian Yellow? Coroner says the man drank himself to death with .550 blood alcohol reading-'ethanol toxicity' reads death certificate. But @CDPHE has categorized it as a #COVID19 death, raising many questions.

“They should have to be recording the same way I do. They have to go off the truth and facts and list it as such,” said Deavers, according to Denver's KCNC-TV.

Back in April, health officials in Colorado classified three nursing home fatalities as COVID-19 deaths, even though attending physicians ruled they were not related to the coronavirus.

While Yellow later tested positive for COVID-19, Deavers said his death had nothing to do with the coronavirus.

“It wasn’t COVID, it was alcohol toxicity,” said Deavers, according to the station.”Yes, he did have COVID but that is not what took his life.”

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment released a statement to KCNC-TV on how they classify COVID-19 related deaths.

"We classify a death as confirmed when there was a case who had a positive SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) laboratory test and then died. We also classify some deaths as probable," the statement said.

"The gist is that there must be strong epidemiological evidence of COVID-19 such as a combination of close contact with a confirmed case and symptoms of COVID-19. We will also count a death as a COVID-19 death when there is no known positive laboratory test but the death certificate lists 'COVID-19' as a cause of death."

Dr. Deborah Birx, the response coordinator for the White House coronavirus task force, said in April the federal government was classifying the deaths of patients infected with the coronavirus as COVID-19 deaths, regardless of any underlying health issues that could have contributed to the loss of someone’s life.

“There are other countries that if you had a pre-existing condition, and let’s say the virus caused you to go to the ICU [intensive care unit] and then have a heart or kidney problem,” she said during a news briefing at the White House. “Some countries are recording that as a heart issue or a kidney issue and not a COVID-19 death."

BIRX SAYS GOVERNMENT IS CLASSIFYING ALL DEATHS OF PATIENTS WITH CORONAVIRUS AS 'COVID-19' DEATHS, REGARDLESS OF CAUSE

Classification instances like that of Yellow's could mean the virus is overcounted, although some doctors and officials believe the reality is the opposite due to other reasons.

During Dr. Anthony Fauci's testimony before the Senate on Tuesday, he said undercounting could result from people who died at their home from the virus, but weren't counted or tested because they never reached the hospital.

“I think you are correct that the number is likely higher,” Fauci said in response to a question from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, according to the Washington Post.“I don’t know exactly what percent higher, but almost certainly it’s higher.”

Fauci wouldn't speculate on if the numbers were 50 percent higher than the current U.S. death toll. However, he said that "most of us feel that the number of deaths are likely higher than that number.”

https://www.foxnews.com/health/colorado-man-died-alcohol-poisoning-death-classified-coronavirus-report

Former diplomat, Dapo Fafowora, has made damning comments circulating on the social media of most universities'groups about President Muhammadu Buhari officially-named Chief of Staff, Professor Ibrahim Gambari.

79 years old Fafowora was Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations from 1981 to 1984.
He made his comments as soon as speculations of Gambari’s appointment hit the public space and was confirmed by his nephew, the Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Zulu Gambari.

Read his comments:
“I know him quite well. I was the one who in 1981 brought him to the UN at his request as a member of the Nigerian delegation".

“He was then a senior lecturer at the ABU. In fact, the late Prof Audu, who was then Foreign Minister actually advised me against inviting him to the UN. But he had strong academic credentials which impressed me. He had obtained his first degree in political science from the LSE, and a doctorate from Colombia University in New York. We were looking for strong delegates to the UN General Assembly and I considered him the kind of delegates we were looking for.

“So I invited him as one of our delegates to the UN General Assembly. He was at the UN in New York with me. I gave him and his wife my city apartment which I was not using free for 3 months plus a car. I liked him and I was not seeking any favours from him.

“After 3 months he returned home and sent me a note thanking me for giving him the first opportunity to visit the UN as a delegate and giving him his first experience at multilateral diplomacy.

“However, he sent President Shagari a secret and private note that while he was at the UN he observed that I had not been attending the meeting of Islamic states at the UN. President Shagari sent the note to Prof Audu who forwarded it to me in New York. He didn’t even ask me for any comments on Gambari’s secret memo as Prof Audu fully understood that Nigeria had traditionally not been attending meetings of the Islamic states as we were not then a member of the Group.

“Gambari asked for a private meeting with President Shagari which Prof Audu advised against. I was shocked that someone I had helped so much turned round to betray me so blatantly. I did not tell him I knew about the secret letter he had sent to the UN. When Shagari was overthrown by Buhari, Gambari became Foreign Minister. When career ambassadors were being suddenly retired I was at first not on the list.

“But Gambari, now FM and Rafindadi, the head of the NSO who had worked under me in London, and was now head of the NSO worked together to secure my retirement. In fact, when I called him from New York to confirm from him news about my retirement he first denied it.
Thereafter, he no longer took my calls.

“In fact, I remained at my post in New York for another 3 months during which the MFA tried to reverse the decision to retire me. I had done absolutely nothing wrong in my entire career in the diplomatic service and only got into trouble for helping a young academic who turned against me to fulfil his own personal ambition.

“Since then, he and I have only met twice in very difficult circumstances. First at a dinner by a mutual friend in New York several years after my retirement. He could barely look directly at me. He was clearly embarrassed.

“Then when Buhari won the elections in 2015 I headed a team that was set up to prepare a paper for him on our Foreign Policy. Subsequently, Alhaji Joda asked him to join the team.

“Last year, he suddenly called me to ask if I would kindly represent him at a public lecture he had agreed to chair. I told him I could not snd that he should look for someone younger. He immediately hung up on me.

“Now, he may be the kind of person Buhari is looking for to succeed Abba Kyari as COS. They are very much alike but Gambari is more subtle and even more dangerous and will substitute the national interests for his own personal interests. I have no doubt about that.

“What I have written in this long piece is just some of my personal experience and encounter with him. Everything I have written here is in my memoirs ‘Lest I Forget’ which he has seen and read. It is nothing new.

“But I think it important that the character of our top govt officials should be revealed and not covered up. We have, as a nation, paid dearly for supporting appointments to high office that are often detrimental to our nation. Enough is enough and this has to stop.”

Dapo Fafowora
Former Nigeria Diplomat.

Coronavirus: Railway worker who died after being spat at 'was forced to go back on concourse after incident'

Belly Mujinga died after a member of the public who said he had COVID-19 spat at her. (PA). The railway ticket office worker who died with coronavirus after being spat at while on duty was allegedly told to go back to work the rest of her shift.

Belly Mujinga, who had an 11-year-old daughter, was on the concourse of Victoria station in London on 22 March when a member of the public who said he had COVID-19 spat and coughed at her and a colleague.

Ms Mujinga’s union, the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) said there were now “serious questions” about the death that must be answered.

Both Ms Mujinga and her colleague fell ill with the virus within days of the attack, and Ms Mujinga died in hospital in Barnet on 5 April.

Ms Mujinga’s husband, Lusamba Gode Katalay, said the suspect walked up to his wife and spat in her face.

Belly Mujinga's family claim she told supervisors she was scared for her life following the incident. (PA)
Belly Mujinga's family claim she told supervisors she was scared for her life following the incident. (PA)

He said: “The man asked her what she was doing, why she was there, and she said they were working.

“The man said he had the virus and spat on them. They reported it to their supervisor. Belly came home and told me everything.”

Colleagues of Ms Mujinga have spoken of their own safety fears following the spitting incident.

Gate worker Victor Bangura, 34, told PA: “We are all vulnerable”.

He added: “I was very shocked. It is the last person I would expect it to happen to.

“She was a nice person, looked healthy, she was a mother. Imagine you see someone now like me and the next time they are dead.

“My whole body went into shock. I was very, very emotional.

“We are all vulnerable, in the same station, it could happen to any one of us.”

Ms Mujinga’s family claims she and her colleague told supervisors they were scared for their lives and asked not to be sent back out to work on the concourse.

However, they were told that people were needed to work outside and were sent back for the rest of their shift, according to Sky News.

Ms Mujinga’s husband claims the two women were not given personal protective equipment (PPE) while working with the public at the station.

He said: "They weren't given masks, or gloves, so they were exposed to everyone.

"It's her employer, the company and the state who have to look at that.”

When asked about the incident and the lack of PPE, transport secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: "My heart goes out to Belly's family. Nobody should be spat at.

Belly Mujinga was originally from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and moved to the UK in 2000. (PA)
Belly Mujinga was originally from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and moved to the UK in 2000. (PA)
"This is not a question of PPE, it's just disgusting and I know that the British Transport Police are investigating.

"So very, very sad, her death and indeed the deaths of around 50 transport workers is something I take particularly seriously.”

Shapps said he had sent guidance to service operators, adding that PPE was not "broadly recommended" for transport workers by Public Health England.

"Clearly, nobody should ever be spitting at somebody; that's a criminal offence and I know that investigation is under way," he said.

TSSA general secretary Manuel Cortes said they were “shocked and devastated” at Ms Mujinga’s death.

Belly Mujinga was working at Victoria train station in London at the time of the incident. (Getty)
Belly Mujinga was working at Victoria train station in London at the time of the incident. (Getty)
He added: “There are serious questions about her death, it wasn’t inevitable.

“As a vulnerable person in the ‘at-risk’ category, and her condition known to her employer, there are questions about why she wasn’t stood down from frontline duties early on in this pandemic.

“Rather than talking about the easing the lockdown, the government must first ensure that the right precautions and protections have been taken so that more lives are not lost.

“Our rail industry needs to have a very serious look at what tasks are deemed ‘essential’ and must put protections in place for all our members and our passengers.”

Downing Street described the attack as “despicable”, while British Transport Police are now searching for the suspect – seven weeks later – amid suggestions that bosses at Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) initially failed to call emergency services over the incident, despite Ms Mujinga’s request.

Angie Doll, managing director of Southern Railway and Gatwick Express, owned by GTR, said the company was investigating claims about the way staff handled Ms Mujinga’s case, adding: “We take any allegations extremely seriously.”

A BTP spokesman said: “British Transport Police have now launched an investigation into a report of two members of rail staff being spat at while working at London Victoria station on March 22.”

Ms Mujinga was originally from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and moved to the UK in 2000.

Her husband and daughter Ingrid were two of only 10 people permitted at her funeral on 29 April.

Anyone with information is asked to contact British Transport Police by texting 61016 or calling 0800 405040 and quoting reference 359 of 11/05/20.

A fundraising page for Ms Mujinga’s family has so far raised over £12,000.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/belly-mujinga-coronavirus-spit-074822826.html

Africa People do not Marry for Love, but to have Children says Chukwuka Utazi, senator representing Enugu North.

Utazi made the comment while contributing to a debate on a bill seeking to prevent, control and manage sickle cell anaemia in the country, on Tuesday.

The bill is being sponsored by Sam Egwu, senator representing Ebonyi north.

While making his point, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senator said it is painful to realise that an individual cannot marry his or her choice because of blood group.

“This bill is taking me down the memory lane because I’m an AS carrier and when I was about getting married, several years ago, I moved into this orbit and I know what I went through because I was in love. I knew the trauma. After that incident, for five years I didn’t come out of it,” he said.

“So I am speaking from experience and I know how it pains that you have made a choice and you discover that the choice can’t work. Because in Africa, we marry for children, we don’t marry for love.”

At this point, Senate President Ahmad Lawan interrupted, saying: “Senator Chukwuka Utazi, I think you should be speaking for yourself.”

Continuing, Utazi said: “In the developed world, particulars of a child’s blood group is given at birth.

“A test is done to show the blood group, the genotype before leaving. In the birth certificate of the child, all those things are put in place.

“We should not be waiting for when people want to go and marry, that is when they will start checking their genotype and their blood group, it shouldn’t be.”

Also speaking on the subject, Biodun Olujimi, senator representing Ekiti south, asked Nigerians to look at ways of addressing health needs.

“The time has come for us to look inwards to solve some of these health needs and also support institutions that are doing so. Going forward we need to take serious blood testing for intending couples,” Olujimi said.

“We will not allow love take away the best part of our marriages.”

The bill passed second reading after it was put to a voice vote by Lawan.



https://www.thecable.ng/extra-in-africa-we-marry-for-children-not-love-says-enugu-senator

He lived in the US for 40 years. Then he became the first to die from Covid-19 in immigration jail
Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejia had lived in the United States for four decades. Last week, he became the first person to die from Covid-19 in immigration custody.

Escobar Mejia, 57, came to the US as a teenager, having fled El Salvador after his brother’s murder during the war. He died on Wednesday in San Diego, after complaining for weeks that he was sick and that his history of diabetes, high blood pressure, heart problems and an amputated foot put him at high risk of succumbing to Covid-19 inside the Otay Mesa detention center.

“He was weak, he should have been released,” his sister Rosa Escobar told the Guardian. “They were refusing to take him to see a doctor. He was begging and screaming for medical attention. He was so scared.”

Escobar Mejia’s death comes as Covid-19 has infected hundreds of detainees in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) jails. A long history of substandard conditions, overcrowding and unsanitary practices in some facilities, as well as the US government’s refusal to release many detainees at particular risk of developing Covid-19 complications, has led to a rapidly escalating crisis, advocates say.

“These facilities don’t care about the people or the facts of their lives,” Rosa said by phone days after her brother’s death, speaking in Spanish. “These are private institutions making money off of immigrants.”

Haunted by deportation threats
Escobar Mejia was the youngest of five siblings, and they left El Salvador with their mother in 1980 after one of his brothers was killed in the civil war. He lived with Rosa and their mother in Los Angeles until his mother died, in 2014. While his sisters eventually became US citizens, Escobar Mejia struggled in his 20s and was unable to get a green card.

“His brother was butchered in the middle of war, and he didn’t know how to adjust,” said Joan Del Valle, an LA immigration attorney who represented Escobar Mejia for years and became close with his family. Escobar Mejia lived with addiction and had a handful of related convictions in the years after moving to the US, she said, including drug possession and a DUI.

Although the offenses were decades old, his record continued to haunt him in US immigration courts, where he was repeatedly threatened with deportation.

In the roughly eight years Del Valle represented him, he never missed a court date, she said: “He was extremely responsible. If court was at 8am, he would be there at 6am.”

Escobar Mejia worked a wide range of jobs over the years, including in construction and cleaning, Del Valle said, but he ultimately had to have his foot amputated after an accident at work and complications related to diabetes. He continued trying to help around the house and find work, his sister said, even though he could no longer drive.

A friend was driving him around on 10 January of this year when the US border patrol stopped them outside of San Diego. He was taken to the Otay Mesa detention center “due to pending removal proceedings”, Ice said.

“It broke my heart,” Rosa said, recounting his arrest. “He was very scared that he has to go again before immigration, when he has not done any crime. He was afraid to be killed in El Salvador. He didn’t have family there.”

‘He should still be alive’
Escobar Mejia’s troubles quickly worsened at Otay Mesa, which is run by CoreCivic, a private prison corporation. He told his sister he wasn’t receiving proper care for his diabetes, which was exacerbated by the poor quality of the food. And Del Valle couldn’t travel to San Diego to represent him due to her caseload in LA.

Covid-19 quickly became a disaster at Otay Mesa.

Advocates, lawyers and detainees have long complained of severe medical neglect at the facility.

Castillo, a 21-year-old migrant from Nicaragua who asked not to use his full name, was released from Otay Mesa at the end of March when he was granted asylum. He said the detainees were never given any masks and guards didn’t wear them. Ice continued to bring in new detainees during the pandemic and keeping a distance was impossible, he said: “My friends still in there have coronavirus and are afraid of dying. They are seeking asylum, they are not criminals.”

Otay Mesa also ignored complaints from detainees who reported Covid-19 symptoms, said Briana, a 25-year-old migrant from Honduras, released in April: “They didn’t care. People were detained in there like animals.”

Despite the conditions at the detention center and Escobar Mejia’s fragile health, which required him to use a wheelchair, an immigration judge denied his request for release on 15 April, deeming him a “flight risk”.

Around the same time, Escobar Mejia started showing Covid-19 symptoms, and about two days after a judge denied his bond, he told his sister by phone that he was throwing up and getting worse.

Rosa said Ice did not alert her, but his friends in detention called her and said “it was not until he was gasping for air that they took him to the hospital”.That was 24 April, the day he tested positive. “He was already dying,” she said.

Otay Mesa had 144 confirmed Covid-19 cases among its roughly 630 detainees as of Monday, by far the most of any Ice facility. Only 181 of them had been tested as of 6 May. The US has reported more than 850 total Covid-19 infections among detainees, though the lack of widespread testing means the numbers could be higher among the 30,000 migrants detained in civil cases.

Anne Rios, an attorney with the immigrant rights organization Al Otro Lado, represents more than a dozen detainees at Otay Mesa, including some with Covid-19, and says Ice has refused to release her clients despite them suffering from heart conditions, diabetes, HIV, thyroid disorders, hepatitis C, histories of strokes and seizures and other serious medical vulnerabilities.

Although a federal judge ordered Ice to review cases of those who are medically vulnerable, immigration attorneys say that process has been slow and flawed. Escobar Mejia was on Ice’s list to be reviewed, but an attorney for the US government admitted it was probably too late to save him on 4 May, telling a judge his condition was serious and suggesting prayers, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. He died on 6 May.

Ice said in a statement that Mejia’s exact cause of death was pending an official determination and that the agency was “undertaking a comprehensive, agency-wide review of this incident” and was “firmly committed to the health and welfare of all those in its custody”. A spokesperson declined to comment on Mejia’s medical treatment, citing privacy guidelines. Ice stopped bringing new detainees to Otay Mesa on 2 April and has released 680 detainees from there since March, the agency said.
Amanda Gilchrist, a CoreCivic spokeswoman, said the company was not responsible for medical care and referred questions to Ice. Gilchrist said detainees had received masks and could get new ones if they requested them. Housing pods with Covid-19 cases were isolated from others, she said.

Rosa has not heard from Ice since her brother’s death. A funeral home, however, contacted the family and said they would have to pay $1,700 for cremation, according to Del Valle.

Rosa said her brother was like a son to her, and that she had promised her dying mother she would always take care of him. Now, she worries she has failed her: “My pain is so big.”

She said she hoped the US would release more detainees after her brother’s death: “I can’t get Carlos back, but [Ice] can save other people’s lives, including their employees.” If Ice had released him or intervened sooner, “he would still be alive,” she added.

Her brother always paid his taxes, she noted. Days after his death, she opened a letter in the mail addressed to him: it was his US government stimulus check.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/lived-us-40-years-then-100008871.html

Turkey accuses five nations of forming 'alliance of evil'

Turkey on Tuesday accused Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, France and the United Arab Emirates of seeking to form an “alliance of evil” after these countries issued a joint declaration denouncing Ankara’s policies in the eastern Mediterranean and Libya.

In a strongly-worded statement, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said the five countries were pursuing “regional chaos and instability” in the eastern Mediterranean and sacrificing Libyans’ “hope for democracy for the reckless aggression of dictators.”

The foreign ministers of the five countries held a teleconference on Monday to discuss the situation in the eastern Mediterranean, where Turkey has been drilling for potential hydrocarbon deposits in an offshore area where Cyprus has exclusive economic rights, as well as the situation in Libya.

Last year, Turkey signed a contested maritime border delineation deal as well as a military cooperation agreement with the internationally-recognized government in Tripoli.

Turkey says the deal grants its economic rights to a large swath of the east Mediterranean Sea and prevents any energy-related projects from moving forward without Ankara’s consent. Greece and Cyprus have protested the deal, saying it contravenes international law and infringes on their own rights in the area.

The five nations denounced what they said was Turkey’s sixth attempt in less than a year to “illegally conduct drilling operations in Cyprus’ maritime zones.”

Turkey doesn’t recognize ethnically divided Cyprus as a state and claims much of its exclusive economic zone as its own. It has dispatched warship-escorted vessels off Cyprus to drill for gas, insisting that it’s acting to protect its interests and those of Turkish Cypriots to the area’s natural resources.

Cyprus was split in 1974 when Turkey invaded after coup by supporters of union with Greece. A breakaway Turkish Cypriot state is recognized only by Turkey.

The five also protested the agreements signed with Libya’s U.N.-backed government as a violation of international law and the U.N. arms embargo in Libya.

”(The) Ministers strongly condemned Turkey’s military interference in Libya, and urged Turkey to fully respect the UN arms embargo, and to stop the influx of foreign fighters from Syria to Libya. These developments constitute a threat to the stability of Libya’s neighbors in Africa as well as in Europe,” the five nations declared.

In its response, the Turkish Foreign Ministry accused Greece and Cyprus of avoiding dialogue with Turkey and faulted Egypt for not protecting the rights and interests of its own people. It also charged the UAE of joining the others out of hostility against Turkey and blamed France for allegedly seeking to act as a “patron” to the alliance.

“We call on these countries to act in line with common sense, international laws and practices,” said Aksoy, the Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman. “Peace and stability in the region can be established with sincere and genuine dialogue, not through alliances of evil.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/turkey-accuses-five-nations-forming-100640360.html

Keshi’s ‘dirty deals’ forced me out of Super Eagles – Taye Taiwo

The 35-year-old’s last international outing was in February 2012, and he has revealed reasons behind his exit from the national team

Taye Taiwo has accused former Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi for his early exit from the national team set-up because of his dirty dealings.

The former AC Milan defender managed just a single appearance under late Keshi, an Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match against Rwanda in February 2012, which was also the last of his 59 caps for Nigeria.

Taiwo made his Nigeria debut in 2004 and went on to play at the three Afcon tournaments and the 2010 Fifa World Cup in South Africa during his eight-year international career, in which he scored five goals.

He claimed he dumped the three-time African champions because he does not want to be associated with dirty glory under Keshi, who guided the West African country to their last Afcon triumph in 2013 and the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

“I am someone who doesn't want dirty glory and in my life, I have never been involved in what is not clean and that was why I packed my bags and left the Super Eagles,” Taiwo was quoted by Legit.

''I cannot work or stay where I see that is dirty because I am serving a clean God, and if I am in an area that is not clean, I will have to leave the place.

''When they appointed Stephen Keshi as coach, he was acting somehow in which I told myself that it was time for me to leave the Super Eagles.

''I packed my bags and I told my wife and family that I cannot be involved in dirty deals.”

Taiwo’s statement comes in the wake of the latest controversy in the Super Eagles after former Schalke 04 star Chinedu Obasi revealed he was dropped from Keshi’s team for the 2014 World Cup because he refused to pay a bribe.

Meanwhile, Keshi's assistants Daniel Amokachi and Valere Houdonou have reacted to Obasi's claim.

https://www.goal.com/en-ng/news/keshis-dirty-deals-forced-me-out-of-super-eagles-taye-taiwo/16s5fs10wdd5q1j6f8iltrlc4f

Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, says Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo is the current chairman of the “Short People Association of Nigeria”.

In a tweet on Monday, el-Rufai jocularly said short people are represented in the “highest echelons of governance.”

“Yes…..I remember this @Tejubabyfacetv interview in 2010…..how time flies….HE VP Osinbajo is the current chairman of the Nigerian Association of Short People….so we are represented at the highest echelons of governance! Thanks Teju,” the governor tweeted.

The governor sent out the tweet after Gbadewonuola Olateju Oyelakin, better known as Teju Babyface, tweeted an excerpt of an interview.

“I used to be the secretary-general… at a point at my teenage years, in my early 20s I had big issues with my height because you know all the pretty girls turn out to be taller than me,” he said.

“But with time, I got over it. I managed to get a pretty and intelligent woman to marry who was an inch shorter than me.” El Rufai stated.

https://www.thecable.ng/extra-osinbajo-is-chairman-of-short-people-association-of-nigeria-says-el-rufai

Saudi Arabia is tripling its value added tax (VAT) as part of austerity measures to support its coronavirus-hit economy.

The government in Riyadh also said it will suspend its cost of living allowance to shore up state finances.

The oil-rich nation has seen its income plummet as the impact of the pandemic has forced down global energy prices.

The kingdom first introduced VAT two years ago as part of efforts to cut its reliance on world crude oil markets.

Saudi Arabia's state news agency said VAT will increase from 5% to 15% as of 1 July, while the cost of living allowance will be suspended from 1 June.

The allowance of 1,000 riyals ($267; 245 euros) per month to state employees was introduced in 2018 to help offset increased financial burdens including VAT and a rise in the price of petrol.

"These measures are painful but necessary to maintain financial and economic stability over [the] medium to long term... and overcome the unprecedented coronavirus crisis with the least damage possible," finance minister Mohammed al-Jadaan said in the statement.

The announcement came after state spending outstripped income, pushing the kingdom into a $9bn (£7.2bn) budget deficit in the first three months of the year.

That's as oil revenues in the period fell by almost a quarter from a year earlier to $34bn, pulling down total revenues by 22%.

At the same time Saudi Arabia's central bank saw its foreign reserves fall in March at their fastest rate in at least two decades and to their lowest level since 2011.

The measures to fight the impact of coronavirus are expected to slow the pace and scale of economic reforms launched by Crown Price Mohammed bin Salman.

Last year Saudi Arabia raised a record $25.6bn in the initial public offering of shares in state-owned oil giant Aramco in Riyadh.

The share sale was at the heart of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's plans to modernise the economy and wean it off its dependence on oil.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52612785

Coronavirus masks: What are the different kinds and what protection do they offer?

Many countries around the world are urging their citizens to wear face masks in public to protect themselves from coronavirus. This is despite the World Health Organization’s recommendation that they should only be used by medical workers, caregivers and those infected by the virus.

Although medical experts say face masks do not provide effective protection, some countries have made it illegal to appear in public without wearing one. Many people are now using face masks made out of cloth.

The big question is, how much protection do face masks offer and how can you tell an effective face mask from a fake one?

Your views are welcome.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-africa-52574506/coronavirus-masks-what-are-the-different-kinds-and-what-protection-do-they-offer

Fasting killing people in Jigawa, not COVID-19, says senator

Ibrahim Hassan Hadejia, senator representing Jigawa north, says fasting, heat and ill health are responsible for some of the recent deaths in Jigawa.

There were reports on dozens of people who died mysteriously in Hadejia local government area of the state within four days, with some attributing the deaths to COVID-19.

But in an interview with Vanguard, the senator said a committee set up by the state government found “only 46 deaths” and there was no proof that COVID-19 was responsible.

He said all those who died recently were elderly people who had health challenges, adding that although they were told not to fast, they did eventually.

“A five-man committee which has a World Health Organisation, WHO, member found only 46 deaths throughout Jigawa. That committee was set up by the governor when he heard the news. The committee went to Hadejia, looking for the veracity of the so-called 100 deaths,” Hadejia said.

“They did a verbal post-mortem. You know once somebody dies, our people bury him immediately. So, the team asked questions from the relatives of the dead and if there was strong suspicion, they had them tested as well. For now, all the tests done of everybody around the dead, including children and wives, that is over 70 percent tests done, have all come back negative.

“That says a lot. Now there is [also a] malaria problem in Hadejia, also the temperature around there has been unusually high, 241 degrees, and our people are all fasting. All the people reported dead were elderly with health challenges. Even when you tell them not to fast, they bluntly refused.

“The fasting, the heat, coupled with the health status, affected the elders and they died.”

The senator added that the steps taken by the Jigawa government would curb the spread of the disease.

So far, Jigawa has 38 confirmed cases of COVID-19.

https://www.thecable.ng/extra-fasting-killing-people-in-jigawa-not-covid-19-says-senator

Geometrical increase. infinix hot 8 lite was sold 38,500 before the lockdown at slot. I bought it 51,500 yesterday at slot.

I am available to conduct research for your:

1. Term Papers,
2. Projects
3. Journal articles,
4. Reports,
5. Enquires, etc.

on any topic in Arts, Humanities, Management Sciences and the Social Sciences disciplines.

Please contact me:
Email: back2sch2009@gmail.com
Tel:+234 811 238 7753

I think we should be very careful about the usage of these locally made face masks because of what I saw today. I was in a bus where a passenger called a facemask seller. After asking for the price, he took one and put it on. He immediately told the seller that he want to make another choice. He finally paid for one after putting on about 5 different types. I noticed it and told the man the implication of what he has just done and he became so sober. Even other passengers were looking fearful because what I said was true. Now, what if that man has the virus, he has succeeded in affecting those masks without knowing. These infected masks will be bought by other innocent people. It is also possible that is how these facemask hawkers allow buyers to first put it on before they buy. There is a high possibility the virus can be spread easily this way. For those of us who patronize these local hawkers, let be careful and vigilant. God will protect us all.

Alternatively if we must buy from the street vendors, let's ensure we wash and iron the mask b4 use.

�Nobody knows who gives, nobody knows who takes, no advertisements, no boastings, in Poland. This is how the people are in those countries . Very true to the heart of helping the most deserving without any publicity .���

Watch the Video
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10221301186935429&id=1120272404

A Coronavirus Thriller Was Finished Just Before the Shutdown

A Canadian filmmaker read the headlines, and a few weeks later a shoot was underway on a story addressing xenophobia and the pandemic. Then film festivals were canceled.

In between the time the coronavirus started to make headlines but before life shut down to restrain the pandemic, an independent filmmaker conceived, shot and finished postproduction on a movie about the contagion.

Thanks to the availability of relatively cheap digital equipment, there is rarely much lag time these days between real-life events — like Hurricane Sandy in 2012 or the Japanese tsunami in 2011 — and films about them. But this new movie, by Mostafa Keshvari, is unusual in that it was made even as the story is still unfolding.

Keshvari’s 63-minute “Corona” looks at what happens when seven people are trapped in an elevator, and begin to realize that one of them has Covid-19. The movie is about fear and “a study of society, people and moral choices,” Keshvari, 33, said in recent phone and email interviews about the movie. “We are all in this ride together.”

Vancouver, known as “Hollywood North,” is Canada’s gateway to Asia, and also an epicenter in the country’s Covid-19 crisis. As news reached here of a “Wuhan virus,” there were increasing reports of harassment of Chinese-Canadians and others of Asian heritage. Patronage of Chinese-Canadian businesses dropped by up to 70 percent.

The filmmaker was in an elevator reading the headlines when he had the idea.

“There were just so many incidents,” said Keshvari, who also runs BC Minorities in Film & TV Society, a network for budding artists from minority backgrounds. At the time he embarked on his project, “nobody thought a white person could get it. But the virus doesn’t discriminate.”

In real life, “everyone faces discrimination, all different kinds,” he said, so if he could “bring all these people” together in the film and “trap them,” he thought, then their “true colors come out.”

Starting in late January, he spent two weeks writing the script; the set took 10 more days to create. “We rented a space and we built an elevator,” he said. “Ultralow budget.”

Some cast members he already knew; others he found through word of mouth. The director also left room to improvise. “I told them: ‘Imagine that the actual coronavirus is in this elevator.’”

He wanted the action to unfold in real time, he said. “My struggle was to make sure it was all one shot,” Keshvari said.

Over three days in February, it took nearly 70 takes to pull that off. Money was running out. And time. “It helped with the anxiety of the film,” he said.

Outside, the coronavirus moved fast. “We thought it was just going to pass,” Keshvari said. “No one could have imagined.”

ADVERTISEMENT

He had planned to submit the film, finished before the city declared a state of emergency, to festivals. “Unfortunately, that’s not the case anymore,” he said, as nearly every such event has been canceled for the foreseeable future. Streaming is the most likely option. The movie “belongs to humanity,” he said.

As for Keshvari’s cast and his crew of 25, he said, so far they are well.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/movies/coronavirus-movie.amp.html

Alot of scam is going on around the world over the Covid-19 pandemic from institutions and individuals.The forensic accountants must prepare for post Covid-19 fraud detection and investigation.

'The Ingraham Angle' takes a deeper look into the COVID-19 numbers in US
Could flu, pneumonia and COVID-19 deaths be conflated? Insight from Dr. Scott Jensen, physician and Minnesota state senator.

Dr. Scott Jensen, a Minnesota family physician and Republican state senator, told "The Ingraham Angle" Tuesday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines for doctors to certify whether a patient has died of coronavirus are a "mess" and predicted that some fatalities initially reported to be COVID-19-related would be reclassified.

"We both know," Jensen told host Laura Ingraham, "that there have been influenza deaths, influenza cases, that have been called COVID-19 [deaths] because nobody bothered to swab their throats. If you want to find out what the data is, I don't care if they're dead or alive, swab them. We can always run a test later and then actually get real information."

Earlier this month, Jensen told Ingraham that under the CDC guidelines, a patient who died after being hit by a bus and tested positive for coronavirus would be listed as having presumed to have died from the virus regardless of whatever damage was caused by the bus.

Jensen also gave a hypothetical example of a patient who died while suffering from influenza. If the patient was elderly and had symptoms like fever and cough a few days before passing away, the doctor explained, he would have listed "respiratory arrest" as the primary cause of death.

"There's been so much garbage going in that we are going to get garbage out," Jensen said Tuesday. "Three weeks ago, you and I talked about this and we've seen since then, [in] Pennsylvania, the coroners have pushed back and said 'These aren't COVID-19 deaths,' and Pennsylvania reduces its numbers.

"New York says it's going to come out and add 3,700 [coronavirus deaths] in a day," Jensen continued. "The Illinois public health director tried to define what a COVID-19 death looks like and stumbled all over herself -- made it very clear didn't she have a clue.

Dr. Jensen calls out 'ridiculous' CDC guidelines for coronavirus-related deathsVideo
DOCTOR BLASTS 'RIDICULOUS' CDC CORONAVIRUS DEATH GUIDELINES

"We've got people ... in the southeastern part of the country saying they want accountability, we’ve got California and Minnesota saying 'We're going to count only confirmed cases' ... so it's a mess," Jensen said.

New data published this week by the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) projected more than than 74,000 coronavirus-related deaths in the United States by Aug. 4, an increase of nearly 6,000 projected deaths from its latest report.

Fox News' Charles Creitz contributed to this report.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/dr-scott-jensen-cdc-coronavirus-death-guidelines