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Congratulations Gen. Abdulsalami on your 83rd birthday.

You exemplified a military officer at his finest, and still a Nigerian icon.

May you continue to experience the richness of a long life.

I think Mr Tunde Omole should shut up right now, there were things he did not know: on the day of the APC Presidential Primary in 2022, the message ed out by TVC journalists, a Tinubu company, was that he wanted to BE the Vice-President, I had to stylishly correct them that was wrong, a northerner following Buhari would be wrong.

In 2020, a former TVC correspondent for West Africa was asking around if Nigeria was ripe for a military take over, I had to correct her it was an impossible mission. What happened next? Militaries took over in some of those countries the lady was covering.

So before you cause bad blood between Sanwo-Olu and Tinubu, I think it is the President who needs to examine himself, nay the APC inner caucus need to examine themselves.

OgundeleTeju:


https://punchng.com/criminals-on-interpol-red-list-arrested-in-nigeria-minister/

Whoever has BTO ears had better tell him: all this we know everything about you before you board the plane is not the forte of a democrat or politician...... no politician gets elected to put people on surveillance.

If he continued with this rhetoric or action, he should forget about becoming the Governor of Ondo State...... we do not want a persona like that ruling us.

EarlierDawn:


https://thenationonlineng.net/ondo-monarch-four-others-arrested-over-alleged-fake-installation/

Fake news! Real fake news!

There was no installation on the 17th of April.

or Seun, please lock this thread.

Mr I-have-a-British-port so I am a mass mobiliser should be jailed for life to teach him a lesson.

Non-state actors have been acting hollywood movies since 1999 - I cannot the specific movie right now. They saw domestic violence as the way to the presidency.

Through it Niger-delta got the presidency for Jonathan, Boko Haram and their tendencies got the presidency for Buhari and VP for Shettima. It was not the intention of NADECO and Afenifere to use force to obtain the presidency in 1999 and they never did, how the two prominent actors died in 1998 was a mystery yet to be resolved. Mr Albino aka mass mobilizer wanted to use the same pattern as enumerated.

Let's put an end to using violence to rule Nigeria. This is a civilian dispensation. The use of force should be roundly condemned. The right message must be put across, kindly jail Mr Albino for a long time.

My name is Tunaji and I created this thread, though granted it was lifted from the Punch.

The thread I created was modified by someone else besides me: the person emboldened some parts of the article and equally added pictures. Those were not done by me.

I will have to report the management of nairaland.moviesx.org to the Police for an online security compromise. Likes are not my food, neither are several people commenting on a compromised a nudge on.

Please lock this thread.

Editorialtimes:


The Bureau Newspaper

This is a simple matter: the Nigerian Airforce should print and distribute flyers or leaflets in Hausa, pidgin and Arabic to those places from the air, asking them to disband or disperse or go and seek an asylum in Niger Republic, if they do not this, they should be given an air strike. Operation no Mercy.

I wonder why since 1999 trouble-makers and fake separatists have been fighting guerrilla warfare against Nigeria - they will strike and go back into hiding - same tactics by the Niger-Delta militants, Boko Haram and bandits. What are an unserious bunch! I beseech the Nigerian Military to dust their books on Che Guiverra-styled guerrilla warfare and deal with these people once and for all.

If I were a military planner, I would use the chess analogy: I tap all their phones and be killing their kings and queens (sponsors & financiers, as well as their officers) until they become useless, scum of the world and rudderless.

Meanwhile, we know non-state actors are laying their own optic fibres across Nigeria, tapping into the telecom's networks, and the over-democratisation of national security by the NIN has aided them as well. Ali Patani was to blame partly, heard his own relatives were kidnapped and he was kind of powerless despite his NIN brouhaha.

Prominent economist and political activist, Prof. Pat Utomi, has inaugurated a shadow government composed of from various opposition parties.

According to Utomi, the “Big Tent Coalition Shadow Government,” launched virtually on Monday evening, will function as a credible opposition force, highlighting the failures of the Bola Tinubu istration while offering ideas for better governance.

But in a swift reaction, the Federal Government kicked against the move, describing it as an aberration in a federal system of government.

In an interview with The PUNCH, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, said, “At a time when our nation is set to celebrate 26 unbroken years of presidential democracy, the idea of a so-called “shadow government” is an aberration.

“Nigeria is not a parliamentary system where such a system is practised, and there is no provision for such in our statute books.

“While opposition politics is a central feature of democracy, it must be practised at all times within the bounds of propriety.

“This idea of a shadow government sadly does not that test. Our bicameral legislature amply features of the opposition, and it should be the right place to contest meaningful ideas for nation-building.”

Utomi, however, justified the move, arguing that policy missteps by the current Federal Government had worsened poverty, driven multinational companies out of the country, and intensified terrorism in Benue and Plateau states, alongside rising insecurity and corruption nationwide.

The don expressed concern over what he described as the government’s resort to propaganda and the suppression of opposing views.

“The recent spate of defections to the All Progressives Congress provides further evidence that all is not well with democracy in Nigeria,” he said.

“The imperative is that if a genuine opposition does not courageously identify the performance failures of incumbents, offer options, and influence culture in a counter direction, it will be complicit in subverting the will of the people.”

He said the shadow cabinet—made up of figures drawn from several opposition parties—was created to respond to what he called a national emergency.

“Today, I bring to this pioneer body the desperate cries of a people troubled by how their reality seems bound for serfdom. I challenge you to awaken these people who wrongly believe that everything is fine as long as they can manage a share of what little still trickles down from crude oil sales,” Utomi said.

Human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi, was named head of the Ombudsman and Good Governance portfolio.

Others appointed to the policy delivery unit include Oghene Momoh, Cheta Nwanze, Daniel Ikuonobe, Halima Ahmed, David Okonkwo, and Obi Ajuga.

Other of the shadow cabinet include Dr. Adefolusade Adebayo, Dr. Peter Agadah, Dr. Sadiq Gombe, Chibuzor Nwachukwu, Salvation Alibor, Bilkisu Magoro, Dr. Victor Tubo, Charles Odibo, Dr. Otive Igbuzor, Eunice Atuejide, Gbenga Ajayi, and Dr. Mani Ahmad, as well as Peter Oyewole and Dr. Omano Edigheji.

Utomi stated that the shadow government would hold weekly cabinet meetings to assess government policies and propose practical alternatives.

He identified immediate priorities as the stimulation of production, the formulation of a coherent economic growth strategy, decentralisation of security, and constitutional reform.

The cabinet, he said, would also focus on providing alternatives in healthcare, education, infrastructure development, law and order, and policy monitoring.

“This shadow team must also address issues of ethics, transparency, and integrity, which continue to challenge this government at every turn,” Utomi said.

“Nothing is more urgent than tackling the rising poverty across the country. Multinationals are shutting down, and millions are unemployed. Just two recent company exits illustrate how poorly thought-out policies have tanked the economy.”

He criticised the ruling party’s alleged reliance on propaganda, comparing it to fascist tactics meant to stifle critical debate.

“The resort to propaganda as a tool of governing, by the party in power, makes rational discussion of the decisions of the APC government difficult, moving us more towards fascist conditions. Like Joseph Goebbels inoculated Germans to Hitler’s deadly path, a massive shower of propaganda insults seeks to prevent patriots from factually critiquing policy choices of the government, and the behaviour of its agents, which can have more negative consequences on our well-being,” he said.

Utomi also addressed the controversial removal of the petroleum subsidy, arguing that the decision was poorly sequenced and executed.

“Making propaganda of most leaders being in agreement on removing the petroleum subsidy was to cover up policy errors of how to remove it without further structural damage to the economy. The sequencing of actions could have produced different outcomes than driving the people into penury,” he said.

He added that economic revival depends heavily on stimulating production through policies that entrepreneurship and local value chains—an area he claims the current istration fails to grasp.

“Unfortunately, corruption and short-sighted self-interest have prevented sensible policy choice and ionate implementation,” Utomi stated.

“The argument that pain from policies is inevitable is giving a lie by the wasteful use of public resources for executive comfort in Jets, Yachts, and frequent travel. Pain evenly spread breeds consensus that accelerates implementation.”

Utomi challenged the shadow cabinet to propose and promote a practical economic growth strategy.

“Don’t worry if they steal your ideas and use them—the gain is for Nigeria,” he said.

On security, he noted that parts of Benue and Plateau states have been deserted due to terrorist attacks, with no visible government strategy in place to address the crisis.

“The threat to peace and the effect of uncertainty on economic activity make this such an important issue more appropriate for emergency measures than that which led to the unconstitutional ousting of Rivers state Governor Sim Fubara,” he said.

He advocated a decentralised policing structure, arguing that communities should have their own armed and trained forces, complemented by state police and a Federal National Guard.

“Policing for me is a local function. We will travel further if we get the communities to have their own armed and well-trained police forces, which will be layered State police and the Federal National Guard. It appears the corruption ‘benefit’ of centralisation is fanning rationalisation of centralisation,” he said.

He added that the political class appears more focused on positioning for elections than serving the people.

“So much seems rooted in politics and positioning for elections that service to the people seems to be a forgotten proposition. This shadow team must emphasise returning to the people and enabling their pursuit of happiness. That is the purpose of the government. Too much misery parades itself in our country, and it needs to be forced out,” Utomi said.

He also tasked the cabinet with upholding ethical standards and integrity, which, he alleged, are absent in the current istration.

“This shadow team also has to deal with matters of ethics, transparency and integrity that seem to challenge this government at every turn. The policy team of the new tribe has a detailed analysis of the Lagos-Calabar contract and state capture. They can provide you with quality input,” he said.

He stressed that promoting ethical governance is essential to sustainable economic development.

“I note also with great pain the pervasive state of corruption in current reality. All effort to showcase integrity and transparency as value must be made,” he added.

Other of the shadow cabinet include Sidi Ali, Ibrahim Abdukarim, Adenike Oriola, Promise Adewusi, Prof. Ukachukwu Awuzie, Mr. Ambrose Obimma, Rwang Pam, Dr. Kingsley Anedo, Prof. Auwal Aliyu, Dr. Ghazali Ado, Ms. Nana Kazaure, Aisha Yusuf, Dr Charles Gilbert, and Olujimi Akinboh.

https://punchng.com/fg-kicks-as-pat-utomi-forms-shadow-govt/

I think Prof Utomi should really fight for the soul of Nigeria if he is really serious about it.
This shadow govt of a thing is still a superficial part of the battle, it reminds one of Patito's gang and the Mega Party he wanted to form.

Sir, you and I are supposed to be friends and we have come across each,to the best of recollection, twice.

To really win the soul of Nigeria, set up political radio stations across Nigeria as Tinubu did and take over a national newspaper fully to propagate your ideas just like President Tinubu. The current President owns the Nation and has a substantial investment in the Punch.

You need to give your competitors a good run for their money. You might not end being the president cos you are a minority, but posterity will you for a job well done.

Babe, look for my number and text please.You are the type who should populate the world.

happiness32:
As seen below on X!

https://x.com/vivan_okeke/status/1917228124682780707?t=zIclLK8A9tEJc0X4Ose8tg&s=19

That JAMB uses or used to utilize negative marking is a statement of fact.

Assuming a candidate has scored 90 in each of the modules of the exam, making 360. With negative marking 320 becomes an arduous score with the complex mathematics, I guess not just 0.25 negative marking I was told in 1998/99.

See, I have done many MCQs in my life and I know complex mathematics are involved in arriving at scores.

What is special about CBT? CBT that any computer genius can hack into JAMB database and give themselves or people any score they like? Take it from me, there's nothing special or innovative about the computer or internet because there are many bad actors on them - hackers are plenty!

If I ever have children, I will ask them to write SAT which incidentally, not by my parents' design, stand for my initials.

Good luck with JAMB and its eugenics and societal hierarchical segregation agenda! I'm saying this cos JAMB punished and delayed me in 1999 for no just cause.

And yes a professor of Islamic Studies is not qualified to be the JAMB Registrar in a multi-ethnic, multi-religious and officially secular country like ours, other religious groups look at it with suspicion. He is too deep in Arabics for a job as his. Guess he has been there since 2015 of Mohammed Buhari, that's too long. We need a professor of metrics or statistics at the helm.

ppogba:


So, a professor of what should be Jamb registrar?
What does it take to be a Jamb registrar?
Have you ever bothered to find out the innovations he introduced while he was VC at Ilorin?

Perhaps, you are not even aware that Ilorin was miles ahead of other unis. in the conduct of CBT Exams?

Easier to Jamb now even in spite of the new result?

Did you at any point in time know about how Jamb arrives at candidates results?

What negative marking are you talking about?

Oga, some people wrote Jamb years ahead of you NO MATTER THR YEAR YOU MIGHT WANT TO CLAIM YOU WROTE THE EXAM.

Cheers.

Prof Oloyede, the Islamic professor turned VC of Unilorin is just playing and doing what he likes at JAMB. How can an Islamic professor be the JAMB Registrar - it's a great anomaly.

I heard today's UTME is modelled after the IJMB of the University of Ilorin.

I heard also there is no more negative marking in JAMB exams. In my time, 0.25 deduction was there for every negatively picked option; well, that's the message that was ed across to me and I was prepared for it.

In those days, we used the Four-figure table for our calculations.

It is now easy for candidates to score above 300 and look good in the eyes of the world cos no more negative marking coupled with the use of calculators.

I implore JAMB (remove Prof Oloyede first) to re-introduce negative marking and the use of the Four-figure table, these would greatly increase the aptitude of the Nigerian student.

Hard eugenics as practised by Nazi and the soft one ?being propounded Marie Stopes today.

Dear Marie Stopes, this is not a statement of fact, but an allegation - just prove yourself justified!

English polymath Francis Galton formulated the concept of eugenics in 1883. Inspired by animal breeding, Galton encouraged people with “desirable” traits to procreate while discouraging or preventing those with “undesirable” traits from doing the same. As social and intellectual qualities were hereditarily “fixed”, he thought some groups were naturally superior. Galton constructed a racial hierarchy, with white Europeans at the top.

Eugenics has since played out in varying, always tragic ways. Attempted genocides and forced sterilization are first to mind, though the 20th century brought about the concept of soft eugenics: non-coercive methods of reducing certain conditions through individual choice and medical advice. Popularized in Nancy Stepan’s 1991 book, The Hour of Eugenics, “soft” eugenics is accomplished by indirect, environmental, and educational interventions while “hard” eugenics is marked by direct biological interventions (such as sterilization). The term has since been expanded in discussions of genetic technologies, prenatal screenings, and physical fitness.

Enter Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US secretary of health, who regularly laments over the “back then” of his youth when he says that diabetes and autism was almost unheard of and obesity rates were far lower. (In his campaign videos he would often do this over vintage footage of white bodies splayed on a beach.) Kennedy champions living harmoniously with nature, free from the burdens of “poisonous” food additives, fertilizers, cooking oils and the most toxic chemistry of all: vaccines.

Kennedy’s myopic emphasis on personal responsibility as the main driver of health means he’s at best indifferent, and at worst welcoming, of the idea that those that don’t heed his counsel might die.

Yet health is never simple. By avoiding discussion of education, employment, social networks, economic status and geographic location – the social determinants that public health experts agree influence health outcomes – Kennedy, in lockstep with top wellness influencers, is practicing soft eugenics.

He’s not the only member of the Trump istration to do so. The increasing frenzy around immigration seems fueled by the desire to shape the population’s genetic makeup. Musk’s cuts to foreign aid are already leading to increased child mortality and HIV and malaria cases in Africa (the Trump istration’s other main policy engagement with Africa has been offering white South Africans refugee status).

At the heart of all these policies is soft eugenics thinking – the idea that if you take away life-saving healthcare and services from the vulnerable, then you can let nature take its course and only the strong will survive.

A collage of an anatomical skeleton in front of a stylized DNA electrophoresis gel strip.
Illness only affects the weak
Kennedy’s “Maha” (“make America healthy again”) movement does not advocate for forced sterilizations or mass deaths. Their stance is more of a shrug and sigh than a battle cry. When Kennedy claims that autism is worse than Covid-19 because the latter only kills “old people” and “metabolically healthy” people don’t die from it, or when a Maha associate claims that measles is “an essential rite of age, immunologically”, you’re hearing the language of soft eugenics. Don’t let vaccines protect everyone, instead let the infirm and weak be culled so that the strong will survive and perpetuate.

How can we get healthier without healthcare? Kennedy repeatedly puts the onus of disease on diet and lifestyle while minimizing the role of social services and doctors. He claimed that by removing chemicals from food, “our nation would get healthy immediately,” and floated the idea of using money spent on Ozempic to provide “a gym hip for every obese American.” In his mind, the unwell are the reason we’re in such dire shape–not the system that keeps the unwell from receiving access to healthy food and medical care.

While true that a nutritionally sound diet and regular exercise are important factors, Kennedy is not just adding emphasis on personal rather than public responses to health issues, he’s decimating public options. The $2.6tn agency Kennedy oversees recently fired a quarter of its workforce and shuttered entire departments tasked to address the multivariate environmental and social factors that contribute to well-being.

His handling of the worst measles outbreak in generations offers an example of his soft eugenics thinking. He falsely stated the measles vaccine “wanes very quickly”, leads to “death every year” and has not undergone thorough safety evaluations. He also says it’s “very difficult” for a healthy person to die from measles while praising doctors treating children infected with measles with vitamin A. He’s continued to do so even as a small number of child patients have begun to show up at Texas hospitals suffering from vitamin A toxicity, the result of overuse of the vitamin, probably due to receiving misinformation about its effectiveness.

Thanks to declining vaccination rates, measles (along with rubella and polio) could soon be endemic. Things now seem so dire that Kennedy performed an apparent U-turn, writing that “the most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the MMR vaccine”, but he’s since undermined that stance. This week he falsely claimed the vaccine contains “aborted fetus debris”.

Then there’s autism, a neurodevelopmental condition that’s been studied for over a century. Experts believe increased prevalence is due to expanded diagnostic criteria, improved awareness, and better case identification. More than 250 genes have been strongly linked to autism spectrum disorder. Yet during a recent press conference, Kennedy wrongly called autism a “preventable disease”, labeled it an epidemic like measles, and accused experts of being in “epidemic denial”. He then said: “Genes do not cause epidemics; it can provide a vulnerability, but you need an environmental toxin.”

This language squares with the longstanding belief that thimerasol, an organic compound used as a preservative in some vaccines, causes autism, even though the preservative was largely removed from vaccines in 1999 – and even then the link was unproven. Yet Kennedy appears hellbent on linking the two: he’s placed known anti-vaxxer David Geier in charge of “researching” a connection that will apparently be “discovered” by September. In 2011, Geier was disciplined for practicing medicine without a license after injecting autistic children with puberty-blocking drugs.

During his speech, Kennedy cited non-verbal children – roughly a quarter of the autism demographic – as evidence of an epidemic. By repeatedly calling autism a disease and promising to “eliminate those exposures” that supposedly cause it, he’s suggesting a variation in brain function is an impurity to be eradicated from the gene pool. His belief that autism wasn’t around when he was young is also misguided. At the time it was a subtype of schizophrenia–autism didn’t become its own diagnosis until 1980.

Fabricated rhetoric that favored Kennedy in contrarian wellness spaces is falling flat as he heads the nation’s public health apparatus. Tragically, he’s not the only person in the istration pushing soft eugenics.

A collage of a phrenology-style diagram of a man’s head with the top opened up. A large DNA strand, mathematical figures, and money pour out.
Make ‘smart’ people have more children
Blaming the weak for their own sickness is one half of the coin of soft eugenics. The other is encouraging the perceived strong to procreate more, which brings us to Elon Musk. Musk frequently invokes IQ, a flawed and long-debated measure of intelligence. His fever dream of a crumbling civilization can only be salvaged when “smart” people pump out more babies. What constitutes a smart person, he doesn’t make explicit, though in tech-natalist circles they usually mirror the entrepreneurs declaring the mandate. To that end, Musk has personalized his advocacy for pronatalism by challenging himself to help “seed the earth with more human beings of high intelligence”.

A proper pronatalism program might echo Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán’s recent declaration that women with two more children will never have to pay income tax again. Yet the Trump istration is focused on taking away social services even while declaring the need for more “seeding”. Trump’s proposed $5,000 “baby bonus” isn’t much of an incentive when the average cost of giving birth is $18,865.

Musk’s strange focus on babymaking ignores the complex socioeconomic, cultural and gender equity factors that contribute to declining fertility. If he truly cared about increasing childbirths, he wouldn’t take a chainsaw to USAID, indiscriminately cutting off essential services in troubled regions. Those cuts have already caused childhood deaths in war-torn Khartoum, where over 300 soup kitchens were closed due to the shuttering of Emergency Response Rooms.

Musk’s pet project, the “department of government efficency” (Doge), cut 86% of USAID funding linked to Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Programs, causing 16.8 million pregnant women to lose access to services and 11.3 million newborns to post-natal care. Funding for childhood vaccines is also gone, increasing the risk of death from measles, polio, and diphtheria. Musk’s unofficial organization slashed budgets for the treatment of pneumonia and diarrhea for 14.8 million children, two leading causes of death in those under age five. There’s been major disruptions in HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria programs – significant causes of child mortality in low-income countries. An estimated 25 million people could die in the next 15 years thanks to Doge. Such carnage only makes sense if you don’t consider those lives worth living.

Kennedy and Musk are aligned on this issue. Beyond all those chronic diseases food dyes are supposedly responsible for, Kennedy also blames color additives for declining sperm counts. Such bro-podcast pseudoscience fails from a policy perspective. Instead of aiding already-born children, the istration is cutting funding for Head Start, a program that provides early education services for more than 800,000 families. HHS grants that fund day care, counseling, and disability services for children are also on the chopping block. This fits the longstanding anti-abortion stance: ensure babies are born, then immediately stop caring about them by cutting off all social services.

Despite relative geographic isolation, America isn’t immune to global outbreaks. Experts predict the consequences of cuts to international aid will inevitably find us. When they do, they’re going to impact the most vulnerable Americans, including senior citizens, people with disabilities, low-income residents, people living with chronic diseases and HIV, and those relying on public health programs. This again makes us wonder whose lives Musk and Kennedy value.

A collage of a vintage stethoscope with a halo.
Public healthcare is too kind
Kennedy often compares America’s health outcomes with other countries. Yet he never mentions that those countries all offer socialized medicine. When pressed on the topic during his confirmation hearings, Kennedy told Bernie Sanders universal healthcare isn’t fair.

Kennedy cites the example of smokers. Should longtime smokers deserve the same benefits as someone who exercises and eats organic? No, Kennedy says. Rules matter. Right now, the CDC sends billions of dollars to states every year for tobacco prevention efforts in an attempt to get to the root cause of smoking, which is strongly linked to social determinants. Kennedy isn’t enthused by these kinds of approaches. He prefers the bootstraps mentality, a core component of Reaganomics propaganda: individual health is a personal responsibility. If you can’t manage it, you shouldn’t receive the same benefits as those who can. Kennedy advisor and former Heritage Foundation intern, Calley Means, claims that giving people more access to health care is only fueling a broken system.

Yet public health officials recommend universal healthcare to improve health outcomes, especially in marginalized communities. Herein lies the wellness sleight of hand: Maha activists weaponize data about poor health outcomes, which predominantly affect lower income and minority communities, in order to preach personal responsibility (and often to sell unproven solutions like supplements that only affluent populations can afford).

In this sense, Maha perfectly mimics Maga’s deregulatory ethos: cut social services for vulnerable populations while parroting populist language that further helps consolidate power for the most well-off. The 19th-century fantasy of a privileged race is alive and well in Kennedy’s yearning for the America of his youth, enabled by the circle of wellness influencers and contrarian doctors similarly hypnotized by a romanticized past that never existed.

In his book Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics, geneticist Adam Rutherford writes: “The adoration of the classical world, and the constant lamentation for its demise, runs through the eugenics movement like a seam.” Kennedy’s vision for a healthy America is akin to the mythical Camelot that has consumed his family’s imagination for generations. Only his version is a wellness farm where everyone has access to kettlebells and free-range meat. If you find yourself outside of the walled garden, good luck crossing the moat.

Derek Beres is a writer and speaker on science and media literacy. He is the co-host of the Conspirituality podcast and founder of Siris Health.

Illustrations by Laura Weiler.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/may/04/maga-soft-eugenics

zero8zero:


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/04/food-security-fg-firm-release-first-zinc-rice-varieties-to-tackle-deficiency/

Hehe.... someone has been reading the AMC MCQ Handbook which was where someone like me first came across the frank dermatological manifestation of zinc deficiency and how it was miraculously cured by the addition of zinc in the diet.

Having said that it is not only zinc that needs to be introduced to rice, molybdenum, selenium and other micronutrients and co-factors need to be added as tolerated.

"5000 soldiers dying per week"

I think it is high time Putin paid the max. price, 5000 soldiers are flesh and blood like him; what exactly is the crux of this asinine war that 5000 soldiers and civilian living calmly in their houses have to be eliminated.

Putin is a shame, he's a scum of the world, no ethics and no irable quality in him. Very idiotic.

Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy have sat down for a face-to-face talk in the opulent halls of a Vatican basilica to discuss a possible ceasefire, after which the US president accused his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, of not wanting to “stop the war”.

The White House described Trump’s meeting with the Ukrainian leader before Pope Francis’s funeral as “very productive”, while Zelenskyy said on X that the talk with the US president was symbolic and had the “potential to become historic, if we achieve t results”.

It was the first time that Zelenskyy and Trump had met face to face after a frosty February encounter in the White House where Trump and the US vice-president, JD Vance, berated the Ukrainian leader and accused him of ingratitude for US aid.

Trump later published a social media post criticising Putin. “There was no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities and towns, over the last few days,” he posted on Truth Social.

“It makes me think that maybe he doesn’t want to stop the war, he’s just tapping me along, and has to be dealt with differently, through ’Banking’ or ’Secondary Sanctions?’ Too many people are dying!!!” the US president wrote.

In an effort to to end fighting between Ukraine and Russia, Washington is engaging in intense mediation between the two countries, at war since Russia’s 2022 invasion.

On Friday, Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff met Putin, in Moscow for three hours to discuss Washington’s peace proposal. Trump said that “most of the major points are agreed to”, in a post on his Truth Social platform, without further elaboration. He called for a meeting between Kyiv and Moscow’s leadership to sign a ceasefire deal, which he said was “very close”.

Despite Trump’s eagerness for a deal, significant differences remain between the US vision for peace and what Ukraine and its European allies have deemed acceptable conditions for a ceasefire.

Two sets of peace plans published by Reuters on Friday showed that the US is proposing Moscow retain the territory it has captured, including the strategic Crimean peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014.

A carve-up in gift wrapping: Trump’s peace plan puts the sacrifice on Ukraine
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This is seemingly a non-starter for Ukraine and European countries, with Zelenskyy insisting the territory is the “property of the Ukrainian people”.

“Our position is unchanged,” the Ukrainian president told reporters in Kyiv. “The constitution of Ukraine says that all the temporarily occupied territories … belong to Ukraine.”

It is also unclear if Moscow will agree to the US peace deal, which is seen as offering considerable concessions to Russia.

On Saturday, the Kremlin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said all Ukrainian troops had been forced from Russia’s Kursk region, a key aim for Moscow. Ukrainian officials disputed the claim.

The technical details of a ceasefire deal still need to be hammered out, including how western sanctions imposed on Russia would be lifted and what sort of security guarantees would be offered to Ukraine.

Trump acknowledged on Friday that the talks were “very fragile”, and he has warned that the US would halt its mediation efforts if the two sides did not come to an agreement soon.

Fighting continues in tandem with mediation efforts, and the Kremlin blames Ukraine for a car bomb that killed a senior Russian general near Moscow on Friday. Kyiv did not comment on the incident, the latest in a string of killings of Russian military officials over the past three years.

The day before, Russia carried out its deadliest attack in months on Ukraine, launching 70 missiles and 145 drones, mostly towards Kyiv.

The attack caused Trump to lash out at Putin on social media. “I am not happy with the Russian strikes on KYIV. Not necessary, and very bad timing. Vladimir, STOP! 5000 soldiers a week are dying. Let’s get the Peace Deal DONE!” Trump posted on Truth Social on Thursday.

Great100000:
[b]Tribunal orders Meta, WhatsApp to pay FCC $220 Million fine, $35,000 in 60 days for discriminatory practices.



Source: https://nairametrics.com/2025/04/25/tribunal-orders-meta-whatsapp-to-pay-fcc-220-million-fine-35000-in-60-days-for-discriminatory-practices/

While I want Mark Zukerberg to succeed, but he seems to be an enemy of himself, and I don't know why. I used to pity him because a shirt of a certain hue was his uniform. One wonders if he had many of that shirt or he kept wearing the same clothe all the time. Now he seems emanciated with jerry curl hair that belongs to the 70s and 80s.

Having said that facebook and whatsapp were too porous. Many people of different shades and inclinations were doing what they liked on those sites. Facebook was for love scammers and fake hookups. Whatsapp on the other hand was so porous that you can pay a token to some apps and spy on what other people were saying and discussing. The so-called end to end encryption was a big joke. Just look at the implication of people reading your messages.

Third, Mark Zukerberg now monitors people on his social media in real life. A friend of mine told me the day his mother died, Mark was actually in his small hometown in Africa that day. They met at a Filling Station at the area the mother was itted. What the hell was he doing there that day, even before the woman was pronounced dead. More questions than answers.

I hate to spoil his business but he is apparently not making money from the ventures and his billionaire status might be a ruse. Facebook and whatsapp need to shut down permanently cos their modus operandi is not that of a business, but that of just collecting people's information.

Okay, this seems to be the gentle Adamu, not the one who is an in-law of Dangote.

But why won't Nigerian Policemen be running for political office, cos the country is officially a Police State. Our office holders are heavily surrounded by security men, they have no lives of their own; with policemen brandishing guns and ammunitions everywhere. No one can live a comfortable and happy life in an instance like this.

This our democracy is too imperfect to be real.

Seun:
Dear Nairalanders,

For years, people have been alleging that Nairaland is a toxic place where people insult each other and exhibit uncontrolled tribal bigotry. So after my last thread, we decided to follow through by extending the mandate of our anti-spam bot to include dealing with toxicity.

Unfortunately, the roll out wasn't smooth: many innocent were unjustly banned. We apologize profusely for this. We will keep tweaking the bot to make it more accurate. Meanwhile, please reach out to the mods and supermods if you are unjustly banned.

Hit me with your suggestions and complaints.

Seun, it's as if we are now friends in real life.
I had mailed you personally in 2008 you didnt appreciate it then.

How is your new venture doing?
All the best! Don't be a philanthropist like that o.

Please give me the ability to deactivate my . To be frank, I dont like having digital footprints, it's not good for my image, neither is it good for anyone's image.

Seun: there is wahala, though I am now like those ones who have multiple mails, my with nairaland has been moved into another email of mine, which has a foreign number which has been deactivated attached to it. You have managed to permanent me on this site. You certainly mismanaging your commentators. If I set my eyes on you again I will confront you. Do the right thing, send me a text.

ALTERNATEID:


https://dailytrust.com/nigeria-exempted-as-trump-moves-to-shut-down-us-embassies-in-africa/

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if this piece of news is genuine it is a welcome development cos it will put us out of our misery. We are tired of applying for US visas and being told you are denied without being questioned.

I believe President Trump is not insane, if the embassies and consulates were closed, they would migrate to outsourcing like the tls or vfs global, which is a welcome development.

It's about flowing with the rhythm.
Ibi ti aye ma ti yi si, ni ki e ba won yi si.

Addendum: I just ed the Fifa World Cup is next year, and it is an opportunity to see inspiring new environments. And I am sure they would want to issue a lot of visa for the events. Therefore, it's better to migrate to a more transparent outsourcing mechanism than the biased system currently in force.

nlfpmod:


https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2025/04/17/the-global-rise-of-women-commentators-in-football/

na husbands dem dey find. leave story

Let's be frank is this Churchill guy really a Nigerian? he seems like that boy in Lil' Kim"s Lighters' s music video.

He calls himself Obasanjo's boy, he probably came to Nigeria on the invitation of President Obasanjo.

Just as we go abroad and would like to be immigrants, Nigeria should welcome immigrants too, but they should set up real businesses, not taking alcohol all around and appearing in celebrity mag and blogs and certainly not trading in crypto because if anything untoward happened to democracy, they would be the first to disappear

EmperorIsaac:
Nah....the rest of us like it this way!

Don't let me use the worn out statement that he who has ears let him what the spirit is telling the churches.

I'm a trainee psychiatrist and you can trust me on this

Nairaland.com with its layout is not good for the mental health.

You open a post or comment, then you have to scroll up and down in anticipation of would-be commenters who will give you a high or low mood depending on the situation. No alert that someone has replied you.

As you do the above your dopamine and other neurotransmitters fall and rise, depending on the situation. A situation like that can tip one into neurosis, an old term,or a frank psychosis. You don't have to wait to be attacked physically by your haters on the site. Their comments as well as the motivation and reward you anticipate whilst commenting is akin to cannabis and cigarettes abuse and gaming.

So, I implore the owners of the site to convert into a microblogging site like X (twitter) or reddit. It would do a great deal of favour to the s of the site.

No wonder that in the past the code word on the site was go and use your medications, and things like take a chill pill. Let's not further damage the mental health of Nigerians, please upgrade the site soon.

Washington is revoking all visas for South Sudanese port holders and blocking new arrivals, secretary of state Marco Rubio said on Saturday, complaining the African nation is not accepting its nationals expelled from the US.

The state department “is taking actions to revoke all visas held by South Sudanese port holders and prevent further issuance to prevent entry”, Rubio said in a statement.

It was the first such measure singling out all port holders from a particular country since Donald Trump returned to the White House on 20 January, having campaigned on an anti-immigration platform.

Rubio accused the transitional government in Juba of “taking advantage of the United States”, saying that “every country must accept the return of its citizens in a timely manner when another country … seeks to remove them.”

Washington “will be prepared to review these actions when South Sudan is in full cooperation”, Rubio added.

The world’s newest country and also one of the poorest, South Sudan is currently prey to tensions between political leaders.

Some observers fear a renewal of the civil war that killed 400,000 people between 2013 and 2018.

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South Sudanese nationals had been granted “temporary protected status” (TPS) by the istration of Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden, with the designation set to expire on 3 May 2025.

The US grants TPS, which shields people against deportation, to foreign citizens who cannot safely return home because of war, natural disasters or other “extraordinary” conditions.

There were about 133 South Sudanese in the US under the TPS program, with another 140 eligible to apply, the Department of Homeland Security said in September 2023.

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But the Trump White House has begun overturning TPS designations, revoking protection in January from more than 600,000 Venezuelans.

A federal judge this week put that decision on hold after calling into question the government’s claims that the majority of Venezuelans in the US were criminals.

According to the Pew Research Center, as of March 2024 there were 1.2 million people eligible for or receiving TPS in the US, with Venezuelans making up the largest group.

The Trump istration’s singling out of South Sudan also comes after growing numbers of Africans attempted to enter the US via its southern border – an alternative to risky routes into Europe.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/us-revokes-all-visas-for-south-sudanese-over-countrys-failure-to-repatriate-citizens

@the attached picture, Marco Rubio's physiognomy doesn't portray a happy man, he is now doing things that are against his conscience.

Operation Make America White again is in full force, they think South Sudanese are now too dark. Unfortunately South Sudanese young girls think they are models. It is a vicious cycle.

Let me start by saying though I do not have a source for what I am about to say, just anecdotal pieces of evidence:

I think the World 's time is being rigged. The 80s (my first decade) seemed long in my view, as well as the 90s, but ever since time seems to have been running.

In Lara Croft's Tomb Raider acted by Angelina Jolie, the American NSA purportedly possessed the time machine over which a fight ensured.

I aspire to be something in life, by my previous calculation, I got a date now it says I would be 85 at that time. By my calculations of Easter,and I counted manually, Easter was meant to be this weekend or next, though I must confess my system was set to the Australia (Sydney) time. Well, what brought about this post, I made a mistake of going to my office late in the night, I went to the lounge, connected my phone to charge it. I saw a nun or rev'd sister at my corner, reassured that a fellow christian could watch over my phone; left the lounge and came back at 1:00 am to pick my phone. She was still there.


By the time I came back to pick my phone, the phone said all my s were full and I needed to delete some numbers. Two days ago on checking my Fire Amazon tablet, the date for Easter is now 20th of Easter, and by the time of my supposed desideratum (which I'm not really keen on, but I don't mind) I'd be 85.

Everyone tell me does the time machine really exist? Isn't it about time everyone switched back to the normal wall clock with dates as some of us had in our childhood.

Why is the current Pope being itted every now and then, and in the last three weeks in the middle of Lent, was it to hide their track?

delete this post please.

I have moved it into religion.

Let's launch a petition to bring back the real Donald Trump.
I think the plastic surgeons, neurosurgeons and ENT surgeons must have finished their work and discharged him (assuming I am right).

I beseech them to retire the supposed Alec Badwin's Donald Trump (assuming I am right). He kept shouting "deal" which inter-alia made it obvious he was copying the real person.

No wonder they 're sounding a 3rd term in America cos it seemed the right Trump was yet to assume office.

I also noticed the fake Trump's White House was different from the real White House.

The real Trump has a full and ballooning cheek while the supposedly fake one has a hollow and chiselled cheek.

Addendum: before you criticize me, let's assume I was right.

Fortune118005:

If that is true, then the trending picture of him as an Alhaji is not a coincidence..
Hmmm 🤔

If I were to sound pedestrian, I'd say "se ni won n wa agbara kiri".

In all honesty, I wouldn't think he would descend that low, in that so-called Muslim regalia he was looking so handsome - I thought it was the work of generative Ai.

TempleHouse:
RCCG IS RICH ENOUGH TO BE IN THE MOON 🌙

Take a visit to the Redemption Camp, don't believe the hype.