COVID-19 IN NIGERIA: WE SAY NO TO CHINA INTERVENTION

Can the world ever trust China again? Would Nigeria romance with the prime suspect of the current global crisis (COVID-19)? How can we? In 2012 China handed over a fully funded and built headquarters building in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to the African Union (AU). A great gesture of friendship and solidarity, perhaps. But not long after, it was alleged to have been bugged, leaking vital, confidential information of the Union to China in faraway Shanghai! True or false, the Union had to change its computer servers to check the alleged mischief. But issues of health are different. Misfiring means losing a life, or even lives. On a national scale, that can amount to thousands. Painful loss. Avoidable loss. The authorities must tread with caution here. Face masks, test kits, ventilators, vaccine and doctors - all from or of China. Hmmmm, caution we must exercise. Until now we have been using our indigenous doctors, and they have been doing well. WHY CHANGE THE WINNING TEAM? Please let us DISCARD this idea of Chinese intervention. WE DON'T NEED IT. Let us stay safe Stay indigenous. Stay Nigerian We shall overcome

Sunday, 23 February 2014

Ukraine gets interim president S

Parliament in Ukraine has named its speaker as interim president, the BBC reports. Oleksandr Turchynov takes charge following the dismissal of President Viktor Yanukovych on Saturday. Mr. Turchynov told MPs they had until Tuesday to form a new unity government.

Parliament also voted to seize Mr. Yanukovych’s luxury estate near Kiev, which protesters entered on Saturday.

The whereabouts of Mr. Yanukovych, who described parliament’s decision to vote him out as a coup, remain unclear.

Thousands of opposition supporters remain in Independence Square, where the atmosphere is described as calm.

Yulia Tymoshenko told the crowd that “heroes never die.”

Opposition leader Vitaly Klitschko: said “Protesters should stay in square.”

Late on Saturday, former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, freed from detention in the eastern city of Kharkiv after a vote in parliament, urged opposition supporters in Independence Square to continue protesting.

Her release was one of the conditions of the European Union-Ukraine trade pact that President Yanukovych rejected last year – triggering the protests that led to the current crisis.

The health ministry says 88 people, mostly protesters, are now known to have been killed since February 18.

Mr. Turchynov, a close associate of Ms Tymoshenko, described forming a unity government as a “priority task.”

BBC
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