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Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by wirinet(m):
garetz:
This woman has never done anything to you, doesn't even know you exist, is not a politician and avoids politics as much as possible so I don't get why you have to be this Petty and foolish to be making this mocking remarks about her on her birthday just because she is the wife of a politician you don't like. It just shows how shallow minded you liberals can be, very pathetic!! Liberalism is indeed a mental disorder.
Imagine you guys weeping over a small jibe aimed at Melania, when you heaped much more insults on Michelle. Melania is even having it very easy compared to what Michelle went through at the hands of fox and friends. Even here on nairaland, there is no insulting word you guys did not use on Michelle.
CrimeRe: Merry Bet Has Refused To Pay Me My Money by wirinet(m): 9:18pm On Apr 25, 2020
Highorbit7016:
The ugly truth is if I hadn't taken some legal actions against merrybet they'd have eaten my money and made me feel cheated and violated.
They are so very much uncomposed. Whoever handles their twitter account will say something very different from what their Facebook page handler would say. Then there's the Ufuoma and Sharon. Ufuoma would say it's an error, Sharon would say I must continue betting, unfortunately they're all merrybet customer reps o.
Then on Facebook, whenever I post, the admin deletes my posts. Hardly does it stay 20mins on their page before it is deleted.
If I had the opportunity and financial power, I swear deep down, I'll pursue more legal actions against merrybet.
Seriously are these the people you want to entrust your money tohuh
Once again, sent you a private mail.
CrimeRe: Merry Bet Has Refused To Pay Me My Money by wirinet(m): 7:45pm On Apr 25, 2020
Sent you mail. Please respond.
PetsRe: My Rott's Naughty Behavior: I Need Advice Please by wirinet(m): 2:42pm On Apr 25, 2020
See Cesar Millan establishing his dominance over a stubborn dog here, my quarrel with his method is that he was not adequately protected and so took a nasty bite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ihXq_WwiWM
PetsRe: My Rott's Naughty Behavior: I Need Advice Please by wirinet(m): 2:19pm On Apr 25, 2020
humilitypays:
As a lady or woman or girl, don't ever breed or keep large species of animals as pet, be it dog, cat or whichever.

Go for the small Bunnie.


You cannot discipline that dog, the dog may get aggressive and bite you hard, don't listen to people here. Sell that dog and go for those tiny dogs with large furr
I know someone that has 2 dobermans (a military man). They sit when he orders them to. It depends on the way you train the dogs.
PetsRe: My Rott's Naughty Behavior: I Need Advice Please by wirinet(m): 2:13pm On Apr 25, 2020
Gabrokpara001:
Op you have made a very big mistake by backing down when your dog challenged your position,now he is the alpha of the house yes!..The way we live in families dogs live in packs and a pack must have a leader whose position most be merited...you may be taking this as a joke but dominant dog breed such as rotts, Boerboels, Caucasians,e.t.c require a firm hand that's why there re nt recommended for first time owners who ll get scared when a dog challenges them...Don't be surprise if your dog attacks you or your family one day.

Correct your mistake show him no fear and spank him to submission next time he challenges you...tho with his age it may be difficult for you..good luck
He challenged you to the dominant male of the house and you backed down. You dog now sees itself as the Alpha male, and there is nothing you can do, unless you challenge him again and subdue him. That's the way things work in the animal kingdom. Even with lions, you must never let the male that offers a challenge to win, once you back down you are finished. That's why circus trainers will tell you never to allow your lion to challenge you and if one did, never back down but punish him for insubordination.

What you need to do now to get back your respect and dominance is, buy thick leather boots and gloves, get a thick koboko, then go out and challenge him by giving him an order. If he refuses, koboko the hell out of him. He will attack but your boots and gloves should protect you. After you beat the hell out of him, he will bow down and submit and never challenge you again, or mark your house as his territory. This is how dog trainers subdue stubborn and even wild dogs.

If you can't do that, then sell him to a dog trainer or euthanize him. If not he will cause serious harm to you or someone you love.
Foreign AffairsRe: Trump VS Obama In Handling Outbreaks by wirinet(m): 8:22am On Apr 25, 2020
Martini101:
Comparing COVID-19 with those ones already shows the limit of your knowledge.

Meanwhile,
Using every known metric, Obama trumps Trump. Trump rode on the success of Obama.
Foreign AffairsRe: Trump VS Obama In Handling Outbreaks by wirinet(m): 8:17am On Apr 25, 2020
skywalker240:
A hypocrite Nigerian wants to remove a stick from the eyes of his neighbour and the mustard tree in his own eyes has already condemed him to blindness.


Why cant you compare the garbage ruling this shithole with the past administration in handling outbreak ?
The garbage ruling this shithole has handled this corona virus far better than those countries you worship and equate to heaven.

Comparing a highly contagious disease like covid 19 and a moderately contagious disease like ebola is an exercise is dishonesty. The past administration could not have handled covid 19 better that it's being handled now.
HealthRe: 72 Nigerians Tested Positive For Coronavirus In Guangzhou - China Writes FG by wirinet(m): 10:42pm On Apr 24, 2020
asapants:
Who wrote the corona virus script needs to be awarded. Well planned and organized...They've infected blacks over there, they'll start chasing all blacks outta China.
Na by force for blacks to stay in China? If the don't want you in their country, move to a country that's more hospitable or move back home.
HealthRe: 72 Nigerians Tested Positive For Coronavirus In Guangzhou - China Writes FG by wirinet(m): 10:32pm On Apr 24, 2020
Smithkafors:
And so?,why are u telling us,are they different from thousands of Chinese that tested positive ?
They are telling us because our people are very stubborn and do not obey rules. The Chinese are very stringent about their social distancing laws unlike us that disregard almost all laws including social distancing. When the Chinese starts arresting and isolating Nigerians due to suspicions of carrying the coronavirus, we will be screaming racism (not that the Chinese can be exonerated of racism though )

As a digression, I went to sabo market in Ikorodu today, and what I saw was social hugging, the crowd was just too much, hardly any space to even move.
Foreign AffairsRe: Trump Suggest Injection Of Disinfectant And Heating Up Patient As Cure For Covid by wirinet(m): 9:04pm On Apr 24, 2020
garetz:
That's it!! no doctor suggested injecting people with disinfectants neither did Trump!! It's your fake news media that is misleading you liberals with bullshit!! Trump is not a medical expert so he was asking the experts if this was possible. He clearly says it's up to them and the medical doctors to check that out. Asking your experts about the possibility of something is not the same as telling them to do it.
You mean to tell me that Trump is not a medical expert? A trump that is heading the daily medical briefings on the coronavirus virus and has prescribed the miracle drug hydroxychloroquine for the cure of the virus? That's hard to believe.

You guys are more slippery than a snake swimming in engine oil. When Trump started promoting the miracle drug hydroxychloroquine, you defended the drug as if your life depended on it, saying Trump could not have prescribed the drug without expert advice. Now, that Trump has suggested injecting hypo bleach as the new miracle cure, you now change mouth, that no doctor suggested it, and that he was just suggesting that doctors check it out.

Even trump himself has said he was only being sarcastic and did not really mean doctors should test injecting bleach into the human body.
Foreign AffairsRe: Trump Suggest Injection Of Disinfectant And Heating Up Patient As Cure For Covid by wirinet(m): 6:17pm On Apr 24, 2020
garetz:
They are deliberately trying to make it look as if it was Trump's suggestion to use those as Chloroquine treatment when he was simply referring to what other experts said they observed in their studies. You can't see the big difference here? He even went on to ask Dr. Birx if she had heard of those studies so from where did they get the headline that Trump suggests injecting people with disinfectants?
And you can see clearly from the statement that Trump was saying what he told the experts when they told him about the studies. You can see him clearly saying
"And I think you said you’re going to test that too. Sounds interesting, right? " And "so it’d be interesting to check that so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me. So, we’ll see, but the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. That’s pretty powerful." So where did he suggest injecting people with disinfectants?
Which doctor or even sane human would suggest you inject disinfectant into the body of a living thing not just humans to cure any infection? Your lord and master just just heard that bleach kills viruses and other germs, and immediately suggested that people should start injecting bleach. What are disinfectant used for if not for killing germs on surfaces. Disinfectants had been used for in hospitals for centuries, no one was crazy enough to suggest people drink or inject it. ( well, until stable genius came along ).

The one that got me laughing until my children started asking questions was this;


So, supposedly we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light


See Trump's light therapy below

Foreign AffairsRe: Trump Suggest Injection Of Disinfectant And Heating Up Patient As Cure For Covid by wirinet(m): 5:45pm On Apr 24, 2020
garetz:
He wasn't suggesting anything, he was just talking about what Under Secretary for Science and Technology at the Department of Homeland Security, Bill Bryan had noted earlier that in their studies observations were made about how the virus reacts to certain things including UV light and various chemicals. Trump was just saying from their studies, if it was possible to make an injection out of certain chemicals or UV light then it could be effective because their studies showed the virus reacted negatively to them.

This is the full transcript of the press conference including Bill Bryan's comments,
https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-coronavirus-press-conference-transcript-april-23

that's if you can read because I know that liberals are lazy readers and that's why you are easily bamboozled by sensational headlines. You better take your time to read the full transcript or watch the full video of the press conference and may thunder fire you too if you dare tell me that it's too long for you to read
This is the quote the controversial part of the transcript;

Donald Trump: (29:46)
A question that probably some of you are thinking of if you’re totally into that world, which I find to be very interesting. So, supposedly we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and I think you said that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it. And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you’re going to test that too. Sounds interesting, right? And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me. So, we’ll see, but the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. That’s pretty powerful. Steve, please.
So where is the part CNN faked or misconstrued?

I am sure you cannot the the parts I redded.
Foreign AffairsRe: Trump Suggest Injection Of Disinfectant And Heating Up Patient As Cure For Covid by wirinet(m): 5:30pm On Apr 24, 2020
ThinkFreely:
Sorry, you are a trump supporter. Most of them don’t usually reason like a normal human being.
I understand your case
Trump already commanded his cult not to see reality but only what he tells them.

This is the order from Trump
"Just remember: What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening."

So even if Trump rape their mother in the middle of 5th avenue in broad daylight, they would not see it.
Foreign AffairsRe: Trump Suggest Injection Of Disinfectant And Heating Up Patient As Cure For Covid by wirinet(m): 3:10pm On Apr 24, 2020
Inteltower:
he came up with ideas. and scientist may know to do such. isn't there radiation therapy for cancer patients.

so dey reason
Dr.Trump's ideas are like divine inspirations to his cult members. Oya, go and buy your bleach, and don't forget to get the straw.

PoliticsRe: Seven Lies The Nigerian Media Have Been Telling Against Ojukwu For 50 Years by wirinet(m): 8:19am On Apr 23, 2020
Dedetwo:
Most Nigerians are funny indeed. Did you expect me to chase a link you recommended? Decree 34 was unification of civil service in Nigeria and had nothing to do with regional government. It must be plain stupidity on the part of Ironsi to abolish regionalism with Decree 34 yet appoint regional governors. Unification decree, thus, 34 sought to formalize civil service in Nigeria where level 14 in Enugu is equally level 14 in Kano or Kaduna. However the Emirs and northerners assumed it was a hidden agenda to have educated easterners take over the country.
OK, why not recommend your own link, so I can see the decree 34 you are talking about.
PoliticsRe: Seven Lies The Nigerian Media Have Been Telling Against Ojukwu For 50 Years by wirinet(m): 9:33pm On Apr 22, 2020
Dedetwo:
This is one of the outstanding con job perpetrated by the loudmouths. Decree 34 has nothing to do with suspension of the constitution or abolishment of the region. It was about the unification of civil service which ironically is still used till today. Decree 34 simply eliminated local authority where the Emirs and their stooges reign supreme.
I must be discussing with a mindless bot. Read the link to decree 34 I posted and read aloud section 1 and 7.1 which is earlier quoted for those whose browsers cannot follow links.
PoliticsRe: Seven Lies The Nigerian Media Have Been Telling Against Ojukwu For 50 Years by wirinet(m): 5:59pm On Apr 22, 2020
Dedetwo:
You have written like a typical Yari.ba and one who has not seen a parade ground in his/her freaking life. There is tactical withdrawal or retreat in military strategy. Since Afonja, the general of Yari.ba land goofed, all places from Offa to Mina, Niger State belonged to Caliphate.
Nothing person no go hear for nairaland. So running away and leaving your soldiers at the mercy of the enemy is now a tactical military strategy?
PoliticsRe: Seven Lies The Nigerian Media Have Been Telling Against Ojukwu For 50 Years by wirinet(m): 5:57pm On Apr 22, 2020
Dedetwo:
Lt. Col. Emeka Ojukwu was the regional governor of the defunct eastern region of Nigeria. All statutory regulations in 1960 and 1963 Nigerian constitution as well as decrees granted Ojukwu the right to call bluff. Gowon was nothing yet he destroyed Nigerian federalism by dividing Nigeria into states. In your figment of imagination, have you asked what gave Gowon right to divide Nigeria into states when did not have control of all the regions in federation?
I an confused as to whether you guys are truly ignorant or deliberately misleading. You are taking about a 1960 and 1963 Nigerian constitution that had been suspended by decree 34 of 1966, otherwise known as the unification decree.
Here is section 1 and 7.1 and of the decree
1. Subject to the provisions of this Decree, Nigeria shall on 24th May 1966 (in this decree referred to as ‘the appointed day’) cease to be a Federation and shall accordingly as from that day be a Republic, by the name of the Republic of Nigeria, consisting of the whole of the territory which immediately before that day was comprised in the Federation.


7. 1. As from the appointed day, the provisions of the Constitution of the Republic mentioned in Schedule 2 of this Decree shall be suspended.
https://dawodu.com/decree34.htm
Gowon was the head of state and commander of the Armed forces. He was the legislature and executive. He makes laws by decrees and implement them as the executive. That's the way military or authoritarian governments work.
PoliticsRe: Should Africa Consider The Nuclear Energy Route? by wirinet(m): 4:39pm On Apr 22, 2020
Supersymetry:
The sun use nuclear fusion not fission. Fusion far better than fission. So the problem is uranium based nuclear fission which is not sustainable.
Fusion technology is still in development, of which Africans should join in research, or even on a lower level join thorium based reactor research though it's not the best option.
Advanced battery technology will tackle the problem of storing solar energy for night use, like sodium ion battery, aluminium ion cell, flow cells etc.
Africa join ke? Maybe white Africans, because black African are not interested in learning, science or research. How many functional research institutes do we have in the whole of Africa? How many museums, observatories, libraries, e-learning centres?

We are more interested in owanbes, worshiping (either Jesus, Allah, ogun, ifa, Amadioha, etc). We will wait for the Europeans or the Asians to do the research and produced the fusion reactors. We will then award the contracts at 10 times the cost, and chop the rest.
PoliticsRe: Seven Lies The Nigerian Media Have Been Telling Against Ojukwu For 50 Years by wirinet(m): 4:07pm On Apr 22, 2020
Eastlink:
Read the bolded and kindly stop exposing your shallowness. Dude! Did you really study your Government in school?
For your information, there exist no legislative nonsense in the military. Military rule is characterized by edicts and decrees.
From Ironsi to Abdulsalami the military junta didn’t share powers with the Legislature. It is only in civilian rule that you have the separation of powers between the Executive, Judiciary and Legislature.

Gowon in question summoned his cabinet and appointees the likes of Awolowo etc at his own wihims and caprices. That was the same way Ojukwu summoned the provincial heads and Chiefs of the Eastern region. So Ojukwu didn’t need any Legislature to summon the leaders of the old east.[/b]


Military rule is a rule by the use of force, where military men hijacked power from the legitimate civilian rulers. They use sanctions to keep that power. Gowon’s leadership in question was illegitimate, same as that of Ironsi before him. Ojukwu himself, wasn’t appointed by Gowon and he Gowon had no power to remove him. It was left in the hands of the eastern house of assembly whom themselves have been illegally removed by Ironsi’s junta. However, the house of chiefs was from time to time consulted by Ojukwu in the scheme of things.
If Gowon had the powers to rule and legitimize his junta in the eyes of the civilian populace, Ojukwu too had the same power to do likewise.
I don't even have the strength to continue arguing senselessly.
Gowon planned a coup and succeeded, so he naturally became the head of state of the whole country. Ojukwu was appointed by the last coupist ( Ironsi who had been murdered). Eastern region was not a sovereign state, even though Ojukwu felt it was and he was head of state of eastern region.

I don't understand you arguing both ways. First you said "there exist no legislative nonsense in the military" which implies that Ojukwu could act without taking permission or authority from anybody, then you argue that Ojukwu Ojukwu summoned the provincial heads and Chiefs of the Eastern region to take a deciding on secession - meaning it decision to declare secession was not Ojukwu's. So which is it?

Gowon as head of state could appoint anyone into his cabinet, but the final decisions rests with him, and he took responsible for everything.
PoliticsRe: Seven Lies The Nigerian Media Have Been Telling Against Ojukwu For 50 Years by wirinet(m): 3:57pm On Apr 22, 2020
gidgiddy:
Really? So Lord Lugard had the mandate to create Nigeria because the British conquered the indigenous people of the land?
YES. That was the situation in all lands conquered by the British, French, Spanish and all other conquests since the dawn of history.


Well if you believe that then you should have no problem understanding why Ojukwu and his people had to fight to preserve their sovereignty and not be in Nigeria
Ojukwu led rebellion had nothing to do with Lord Lugard or preserving sovereignty, it was as a result of the aftermath of the January and July 1966 coups, which led to massacres of igbos in the north. Ojukwu stepped in to stop the massacres and not because he initially cared about sovereignty.


Lugard created Nigeria by the barrel of gun, Ojukwu created Biafra by consultation, yet Lugard had more legitimacy because he came from Europe to rain bullets on your ancestors? Colonial mentality is truly horrible
It was not Lord Lugard that created Nigeria out of the barrel of the gun. It was the British crown than created Nigeria out of the barrel of the gun. Lugard was just a British soldiers that was posted to wherever the British government wish. He was first appointed. Lord Lugard was not even involved in the British conquest of southern Nigeria, he only led the conquest of Northern nigeria. He was appointed high commissioner of Northern nigeria after the conquest. It was 15 years after the being appointed high commissioner of Northern nigeria that the British completed the conquest of southern Nigeria and put it under his control. So it made more sense for him to almagamate the two Nigeria's instead of administering them separately. From Nigeria he was posted to Hong Kong.
PoliticsRe: Should Africa Consider The Nuclear Energy Route? by wirinet(m): 3:27pm On Apr 22, 2020
mrphysics:
Lol, you made a valid visualization of the energy mix or model that Nigeria should operate on. We shouldn't depend on only one source. We should have alot of sources. I agree, some states should use solar (but solar is so hard to maintain, requires alot of batteries, on the long run, you waste so much money. Trying to change panels, maintaining panels, etc. ).. But it's a good option.

One striking advantage of Nuclear Power Plant is that once you start it, you will be sure you will have 24/7 electricity supply for the next 6 months except in emergency shutdown mode. It does not depend on anything apart from accidents. But Solar depends on weather conditions which is constantly changing. Depending on the intensity of the wind, it could destroy your panels, or you may not have enough sun during rainy season.

But Nuclear doesn't depend on anything.
I wonder where you got the wrong notion that solar is hard to maintain, and hold tenuously to that belief. Good solar panels are expected to last 25 years before degrading to less than 80%. The component that is expensive to purchase and maintain is the battery bank. There is a design solution that doesn't make use of a large battery bank (or even battery bank at all).

The use of micro inverters on each panel converts the dc voltage directly to ac and thus eliminate the need for solar controllers, inverters or batteries. The only drawback is that you have energy only when the sun is shining.

This model can be applied to office or commercial complexes that operates during the day. It can also be used to supply power to a village or small town during the day, and other power sources are used for night time.
PoliticsRe: Seven Lies The Nigerian Media Have Been Telling Against Ojukwu For 50 Years by wirinet(m): 2:21pm On Apr 22, 2020
Deepfeel:
Long trash a general is the shining star of his troops kill the general and the troops will disappear , even in the bible king David stopped going to war the day he was nearly killed his troops told him never to come to battle cause his life is worth more than a million troops
Did what you wrote up there makes any sense, even to a 5 years old?
PoliticsRe: Seven Lies The Nigerian Media Have Been Telling Against Ojukwu For 50 Years by wirinet(m): 2:18pm On Apr 22, 2020
gidgiddy:
What you should remember is that Ojukwu called all the Chiefs of and heads of all the provinces to a meeting and they voted and asked him to declare the Eastern Region a separate country.

Compare that to Lugard who sat in a house in Northern Nigeria and created Nigeria with a stroke of the pen without calling on anyone
Which law mandated the Chiefs and heads of all the provinces to be able to declare independence? Which law gave Ojukwu powers to call all Chiefs and heads of all the provinces?
Do the process legislative powers?

Believe me lord Lugard's action was far more legitimate than Ojukwu's action. Lord Lugard had the mandate to amalgamate the northern and southern protectorates, because we had be conquered by the British and therefore submitted our sovereignty to the British crown. And lord Lugard was appointed by the Crown.

Now tell me what give Ojukwu the legitimacy to call the Chiefs and heads of all the provinces in Eastern Nigeria to discuss secession, when he himself was just an appointee of the head of state and not a sovereign?
PoliticsRe: Seven Lies The Nigerian Media Have Been Telling Against Ojukwu For 50 Years by wirinet(m):
Deepfeel:
Even if ojukwu dressed like a woman to escape its acceptable anything can be done to survive in war

But the real coward is this man awolowo who drank rat poison to escape misery
A general never abandons his troops in the heat of battle, that's the classic definition of cowardice. What happens if your enemy decides to slaughter your troops and your people who you purport to be protecting.
The Nigerian civil war was not the first civil war in modern times, but it is the only war the general commanding a side ran away in the heat of battle. During the US civil war, Robert Lee who was the president of the south and the general that commanded the southern army personally surrounded and negotiated the terms of the surrender, he did not run away because of fear for his life.

If we are to even accepted your warped history that Awolowo commited suicide, then that is far more bravery than running away. If IBB wanted to kill him and Awo decided to commit suicide rather than be killed or humiliated, that is an act of bravery. History had it that cleopatra of Egypt choose to commit suicide that allow herself to be captured by Octavian, and be humiliated. She is celebrated for that act of bravery till today.

A general that is afraid to die is not worth to be called a General.
PoliticsRe: Should Africa Consider The Nuclear Energy Route? by wirinet(m): 12:16pm On Apr 22, 2020
Reference:
You need enormous industrial support to drive down prices and serious R&'D. Nigeria can get there but not tomorrow. No nation waits for optimum technology before developing indigenously. Let us adopt the technologies that are available. If we are going green then nuclear remains the best for now.

Nuclear plants pay for themselves in about 5 years. By the time the nuclear fuel is spent in say 25 to 30 years, perhaps renewables will have become viable.
A country's energy mix cannot consist of one source. It's usually a mix of Fossil fuel, solar, nuclear, hydro and other renewals in varying proportions. Most countries are reducing their percentages of fossil fuels and increasing solar and other renewables.
PoliticsRe: Should Africa Consider The Nuclear Energy Route? by wirinet(m): 12:09pm On Apr 22, 2020
benji93:
At the moment, No. Nigeria especially. I am afraid, we are not capable of managing such a system especially the by/waste products. We cannot handle a potential nuclear fallout. At least not until we start caring genuinely about each other's welfare. If we embark on such an endeavor, Ithe first phase would involve the development of human resources. We may have to send students to study different aspects of Nuclear power, over a given period of time. Now, in the light of sending students, there has to be a team Nigerian expert on Nuclear energy, providing advisory functions on how to develop human resource with all important aspects of Nuclear energy in consideration. Following this, we would have to create an institution that would be equipped to train personnel to develop and manage our Nuclear power generation systems. At the moment I know of no single renowned Nigerian expert on Nuclear power generation. So if we would like to venture into nuclear energy generation 30/40 years from now, the federal government can specifically create a board that oversees the funding of students who would like to pursue postgraduate work in Nuclear Energy for a span of 15/20 years. However, given the cruelty of our leaders, creating such a board is an avenue for embezzlement. Our current crop of leaders is unapologetically corrupt. Let's hope we can phase them out, as we usher in a more moderately corrupt generation of leaders. The key phrase is generation of leaders not leader. Although it has to begin with that one leader, that will spearhead a revolution in which those potential leaders with some restraint will start considering getting into politics. At the moment, you cannot trust our leaders to effectively execute the first phase, which would require continuity. I wouldn't even bother mentioning the other phases. It's a waste of time for Now. By the way, I would think there are other safer alternatives like wind and solar energy we can consider, although the latter would be really expensive. But I suppose it's not something we would do in a month, perhaps we can spread it over 3/4 years.
I don't understand why people only condemn leaders, what about followers? The generality of the Nigerian population condone and encourage corruption. In fact corruption has become an acceptable culture. It's present in every aspect ed of our social, political and economic life. From churches, whose leaders embezzle almost donations, tithes and offerings to market women association, from our village development association to our collective contributions to achieve any objective.

What happens to research grants given to faculties of Nigerian universities to conduct research. The monies are embezzled by the dean of faculties and H.O.D.s. Oxford university has just been given a grant of £20 million to find a vaccine for coronavirus. Give that kind of money to a Nigerian university and the V.C., Dean and H.O.D. would do thanks giving the next Sunday. No research would be done.
Our problem is one of value system, until we change our values, we would not make progress as a society.
PoliticsRe: Should Africa Consider The Nuclear Energy Route? by wirinet(m): 12:00pm On Apr 22, 2020
Reference:
Have you seen the Niger Delta. Why are you still pumping oil there. 76 babies lost per 1,000 births due to pollution (not counting adults) in the Niger Delta while the peak radiation deaths in Chernobyl was 26 per 1,000.

Perspective is often lost in things. It is similar to what you have in transport safety where few believe air travel is the safest mode simply because the unit death count and publicity is much higher.

Today folks shout pandemic up and down amd the world is shut down because 150,000 have died while the humble mosquito is quietly doing its thing putting 400,000 people in caskets every year with alarming regularity. If you ask anyone what is the most dangerous animal out there, they will say it is the lion or snake which most will not encounter in thror lifetime.

A typical nuclear power station will deliver between three to ten times the energy of a typical coal, oil or gas fired stations. That energy multiplier alone builds in significant safety benefits. The 5,000 megawatts we claim to generate can be provided by just one large nuclear plant or no more than 3 meduim sized ones. No silly pipelines to vandalise. You can then protect it with a whole division of soldiers if you wish.
The typical African is afraid of change, and continues to do things in the old inefficient ways. Another problem is that we allow other to do our thinking for us. I call that mental laziness. We allow Europeans, Americans and lately the Chinese to help us think about the solutions to our local problems, instead of putting our thinking cap on and drawing up our own home grown solutions.
We fail to see that the mosquito is the most dangerous animal on the planet and so we fail to look for solutions to both the mosquito and the plasmodium parasite that kills hundreds of thousands of black Africans on a yearly basis. And yet, we are spending billions of dollars in fighting a coronavirus virus that is yet to kill 100 black Africans.

Nuclear is the future of energy on the planet, and we have not even started embracing it. Our universities are only in name only, no actual research goes on in these institutions. They are only proficient in awarding degrees, and before I forget, training one to apply spiritual solutions to scientific problems
PoliticsRe: Should Africa Consider The Nuclear Energy Route? by wirinet(m): 11:49am On Apr 22, 2020
mrphysics:
Lol, solar is only good for small countries. Putting money on solar in Nigeria is purely a waste of time. It will amount to nothing.
Germany must be a very small country, because Germany generates 9.1% of its electricity from solar and up to 24.8% by wind - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Germany

Putting money in solar is the best investment Nigeria and Nigerians can embark upon now.
PoliticsRe: Should Africa Consider The Nuclear Energy Route? by wirinet(m): 11:09am On Apr 22, 2020
donbachi:
What africa need is human capacity building,agriculture,business and people friendly policies and open market..not some nuclear energy.
How can you build human capacity, agriculture and business without energy? What will you use to power your class rooms, your homes, your machines and your businesses. No economy can develop on 4,000 MW of electricity. That's the power consumption. NewYork city alone consumes 3,000MW.

Even though I have always been against nuclear due to safety concerns and high initial cost, I think African countries need to start looking in the direction of nuclear and other alternative energy sources to solve our energy crisis. Fossil fuel is just too unpredictable and political apart from its environmental concerns.
PoliticsRe: Oil Price Collapses To $11 Per Barrel Amid Covid-19 Pandemic by wirinet(m): 10:32pm On Apr 21, 2020
asamaigho:
so u mean, u have to install several thousands of square meters of solar panel to charge a car, bro no let me talk oo!
Lord help dis generation, cos google fking dem up so badly.
I have been dealing with Solar power for over 10 years. I am working on building lithium ion battery banks, so I know exactly what I am talking about.

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