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Mokola und der zauberhafte See Seppäjärvi

Mokola, ein Ort, der oft übersehen wird, verzaubert seine Besucher mit einer unberührten Naturschönheit und einer ruhigen Gelassenheit. Die sanften Hügel und dichten Wälder schaffen eine Szenerie, die wie aus einem Märchenbuch entsprungen scheint. Die Sti

Mokola, ein Ort, der oft übersehen wird, verzaubert seine Besucher mit einer unberührten Naturschönheit und einer ruhigen Gelassenheit. Die sanften Hügel und dichten Wälder schaffen eine Szenerie, die wie aus einem Märchenbuch entsprungen scheint. Die Stille der Natur hier ist fast greifbar, und die Luft ist erfüllt von einem Gefühl der Ruhe und Harmonie. Suoranta Liebe Reisebegeisterte und…

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Hello, Tumblr beings. 👋🏾 I’m Seo and I wanted to share my music (🔗) with you. 🎤

I’m a producer 🎧 and singer-songwriter 📝 and this is some of my work released this year.

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Assmix 5000 Xtra

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Mokola International

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Alien Zone

Butterflies

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Economic hardship: IPOB warns against protest in South-East

The Indigenous People of Biafra has banned protests against hunger in any South-East territory, adding that any Nigerian agent who dares to organise any protest in Biafraland will regret it. The pro-Biafran group stated this in a press statement issued by its spokesman, Emma Powerful, stressing that the current hardship in Nigeria should be the concern of Nigerians, not Biafrans. IPOB said anyone who organised any protest against economic hardship in the South-East would put Ndigbo in danger. The statement read partly, “Following the unprecedented hardship in Nigeria, IPOB ably led by the leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, hereby cautions the people of Biafra not to join any protest against hunger in Nigeria in any South-East territory. “The current hardship in Nigeria should be the concern of Nigerians, not Biafrans. Biafrans are no longer interested in the affairs of Nigeria. Biafrans were abused, intimidated, beaten, and killed and denied voting rights during the election of this present government. Ndigbo were told to wait and that it was their turn to rule, not the turn of Ndigbo. “Anyone who organise any protest against economic hardship in Biafraland will put Biafrans in danger. During the #EndSARS protest, the Federal Government accused Ndigbo of attempting to destroy Nigeria with violence. We don’t want such profiling and targeting to repeat because Ndigbo participated in any Nigerian mass protest. “Ndigbo should leave the current economic hardship in the contraption called Nigeria for Nigerians to deal with because this hardship is what God Almighty has in store for Nigeria for the crimes they have committed against Biafrans between 1967 to 1970 and up to date. “We understand that Ndigbo is equally affected by the economic hardship arising from the reckless and thoughtless economic policies of the government, but God is still seeing Biafrans through. We are worried about the suffering of other tribes, but there is nothing we can do. The current situation is why Biafrans are fighting for freedom. Nevertheless, we must apply wisdom.” The group further said anyone or group that wants to organise a protest for Nigeria’s hardship should kindly go to Northern or Western Nigeria and stage such a protest there. “Our region is battling the state-sponsored insecurity, kidnappings, and killings by the Federal Government’s agencies and agents, including terrorists. We have much on our hands to do. We will not allow anyone or any group to use the arrangement of protests to import more agents of destabilization into our territory. “ESN is ready to take on the government’s agents who will want to organise hunger protests in Biafraland. Therefore, the IPOB intelligence unit must be on high alert to identify those planning to destabilise Biafraland with senseless Nigeria hunger protests. But Biafrans will come out of this one too unscathed. We will see how serious Nigerians are and how well they are handling the protest. “Biafrans should call IPOB’s inquiry lines if any person or group are found planning to stage a Nigerian hunger protest in our territory. If we catch anyone organizing hunger protests in Biafra land, they will have ESN Operatives and IPOB volunteers to contend with, and the person will ‘smell pepper’,” the statement added. The reports that as the pains of the food crisis bite harder, on Monday, youths disrupted commercial activities in parts of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, in protest over the situation in the country. The protest, which started at the popular Mokola Roundabout, spread to Adamasingba, Ekotedo, Onireke, Sango, Bodija, Agbowo, and Ojoo, as the security agencies deployed in the areas to prevent a breakdown of law and order. The incident caused a traffic gridlock on the ever-busy roads to Ojoo, Adamasingba and Bodija areas. The protesters were seen carrying placards complaining about the spiralling current cost of living, the fluctuating prices of food items, economic hardship, and the urgent need for the government to take pragmatic steps toward making food affordable. Their mantra, ‘Ebi n pa wa’ (we are hungry) charged the atmosphere. Some of the inscriptions read, ‘Mr President, this is not the hope you promised,’ ‘This is shege,’ ‘Is this the renewed hope that you promised?’ ‘End hardship,’ ‘We want peace’ and so on. Read the full article

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By • Olalekan Fagbade JUST IN; Father allegedly defiles his Teenage Daughter Policemen in Ogun State have arrested a man identified as Ganiyu Aikore for allegedly impregnating his 17-year-old daughter (name withheld) in the Mokola Isale Tapa area of Abeokuta, the state capital. The PUNCH reported that the man was arrested after his daughter and other concerned residents in the area, including the community's chairman reported the incident at the Adatan Police Division. They told the police that the man after discovering that he had impregnated his daughter, approached a nearby pharmaceutical store to procure what was suspected to be abortion pills. Confirming the incident, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Omolola Odutola, said Aikore was suspected to have had carnal knowledge of his daughter, adding that the pregnancy was precisely 23 weeks. “We have arrested him. He was suspected to have been sexually involved with his teenage daughter for a very long time. The pregnancy is 23 weeks. We are conducting further investigation,” she said.

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38 Years of Making Moi Moi

My team and I went into a small market in Ibadan called Mokola market to teach women how to utilize technology to boost their business using simple apps they already use. This was to commemorate International Women’s Day 2023 on March 8th. While doing our thing, I passed through an aisle, and out of the corner of my eye, I saw a woman wrapping bean pudding (moi moi). Knowing the typical Ibadan…

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LIST OF IBADAN RADIO STATIONS 1. 87.7 - Omoluabi FM, Mokola Hill, Ibadan 2. 88.5 - IITA Radio, Old Oyo Road, Idi Ose, Ibadan 3. 88.7 – Agidigbo FM, Iwo Road-Ojoo expressway Ibadan 4. 89.1 – Lead City University Campus Radio FM, Ibadan – Lagos Toll Gate, Ibadan 5. 89.3 – Wells FM, Oluyole Estate, Ibadan 6. 89.7 – Prince FM, Oke-Omi, Olodo, Ibadan 7. 90.1 – Space FM, Liberty Road, Ibadan 8. 91.1 - Crest FM, Olodo, Ibadan 9. 91.5 – Star FM, Secretariat, Ibadan 10. 91.9 – Ilaji FM, Akanran Ibadan 11. 92.5 – Impact Business Radio, General-Gas/ Akobo, Ibadan 12. 92.9 – Royal Root FM, Osuntokun Bodija, Ibadan 13. 93.5 – Premier FM, Dugbe, Ibadan (FRCN) 14. 93.7 - Vintage FM, Oluyole Industrial Estate, Ibadan 15. 93.9 – Solutions FM, Aweni House, Oke – Bola, Ibadan 16. 94.9 – 32FM, 4th Floor Cocoa House, Ibadan 17. 95.1 – Raypower FM, 5th Floor Cocoa House, Ibadan 18. 95.7 – Soul FM, Orisunmbare, Ibadan 19. 96.7 – Lagelu FM, Felele, Ibadan 20. 97.9 – Beat FM, Ondo Street, Bodija, Ibadan 21. 98.3 - Blast FM, Ayefele Music House Challenge Ibadan 22. 98.5 – Oluyole FM, BCOS Orita Basorun,Ibadan 23. 99.1 – Amuludun FM, Moniya, Ibadan 24. 99.5 – Correct FM, Ikolaba, Ibadan 25. 99.9 – Medal FM, Apẹte, Ibadan 26. 100.1 – Jamz FM, Felele Area, Ibadan 27. 100.3 – Pep FM, Felele Ibadan Ibadan 28. 100.5 – Inspiration FM, Basorun, Ibadan 29. 101.1 – Diamond FM, University of Ibadan, Ibadan 30. 101.7 – Yes Radio, Yemi Sonde Crescent, Felele, Ibadan 31. 102.3 – Petals FM, Old Bodija, Ibadan 32. 102.7 – Naija FM, Ondo Street, Bodija, Ibadan 33. 103.3 - I-flier FM, Ogungbade, Adegbayi, Ibadan 34. 103.5 – Honor FM, Old Bodija Ibadan 35. 103.9 – King FM, Premier Hotel, Ibadan 36. 105.5 – Splash FM, White House, Felele, Ibadan 37. 105.9 – Fresh FM, Ayefele Music House Challenge, Lagos-Ibadan by-pass, Ibadan 38. 106.3 – Lead Radio, Toll-gate, badan. 39. 106.7 – Pensioners FM, Agbarigo, Onireke Ibadan 40. 107.1 – Noble FM, Ologunẹru Ibadan 41. 107.5 – Life Radio, Oba Akenzua Crescent, Onireke Ibadan It is pertinent to note that this list only comprises terrestrial radio stations in Ibadan alone. In the same vein, there are numberless of onli https://www.instagram.com/p/Cop_GBgo2-_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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2023 Full List of Military Secondary Schools in Nigeria

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2023 Full List of Military Secondary Schools in Nigeria

Military Academies are institutions that are under the control and direction of the military of a country. These institutions are reputed for their exceptional ability to instill discipline and moral uprightness in their students, while at the same time helping them to excel academically. Military schools adopt the same curriculum as other conventional schools.

If you wish to have a comprehensive list of all military academies in Nigeria, then you have come to the right place. 

List of Air Force Secondary Schools in Nigeria

The Administration Branch of NAF Headquarters houses the Directorate of Education. It is located in Area 7, Garki, Abuja. An Education Officer of the Air Rank heads this directorate and also doubles as the Director of Education.

The Chief of Administration (COA) is accountable to the Director of Education (DOEDN) for initiating policies controlling the supply and management of NAF educational services. The Directorate is in charge of the 20 NAF elementary schools and 13 NAF secondary schools.

Due to the establishment of a military school in Jos in 1980, the demand for Air Force Secondary Schools (day schools) and Air Force Comprehensive Schools (boarding schools) materialized earlier than anticipated. Therefore, the idea of creating an Air Force Secondary School (AFSS/AFCS) at the Command level was floated in 1981 to alleviate the pain experienced by NAF personnel on posting in getting admission for their children and wards. 

Below is a full list of all the Air Force Military Secondary Schools in Nigeria;

Air Force Military School, Jos

Air Force Secondary School, Makurdi

Air Force Secondary School, Ikeja

Air Force Secondary School, Kaduna

Air Force Comprehensive School, Ibadan

Air Force Comprehensive School, Enugu

Air Force Secondary School, Kano

Air Force Secondary School, P/Harcourt

Air Force Secondary School, Yola

Air Force Girls Comprehensive School, Abuja

Air Force Girls Comprehensive School, Jos

Air Force Comprehensive School, Uyo

List of Command Secondary School and Command Technical Secondary School

Below is a comprehensive list of Command Secondary School and Command Technical Secondary School. The schools have been subdivided into Day and Boarding categories. 

Military Day Secondary Schools in Nigeria

Command Day Secondary School, Abuja FCT.

Command Day Secondary School, Makurdi Benue State.

Command Day Secondary School Enugu State.

Command Day Secondary School, Ojo Lagos State.

Command Day Secondary School, Oshodi Lagos State.

Command Day Secondary School, Ikeja Lagos State.

Command Day Secondary School, Jos Plateau State.

Command Day Secondary School Owena Barracks Akure Ogun State

Command Day Secondary School, Ijebu-Ode Ogun State.

Command Day Secondary School, Ede Osun State.

Command Day Secondary School, Mokola Ibadan Oyo State

Command Day Secondary School, Ibadan Oyo State.

Command Day Secondary School, Kaduna State

Military Boarding Secondary Schools in Nigeria

Command Science Technical Secondary School Rinze-Akwanga Nassarawa.

Command Science Secondary School Agwada Nassarawa.

Command Science Secondary School Lafia Nassarawa State.

Command Secondary School, Suleja Niger State.

Command Secondary School, Orlu Imo State.

Command Secondary School, Ohafia Abia State.

Command Secondary School, Makurdi Benue State.

Command Secondary School, Abakaliki Ebonyi State.

Command Secondary School, Ipaja Lagos State.

Command Science Secondary School Girls Gusau Zamfara State

Command Science Secondary School( Boys) Talata Mafara Zamfara State

Command Secondary School School,(Girls) Sokoto State.

Command Science Secondary School,(Boys) Shagari Sokoto State.

Command Science Secondary School,(Girls) Goru Kebbi State.

Command Secondary School, (Boys) Jega Kebbi State

Command Science Secondary School,(Girls)Moringa Borno State

Command Science Secondary School, (Boys) Auno Borno State.

Command Science Secondary School, Numan Adamawa State.

Command Science Secondary School Yenegoa, Bayelsa State

Command Science Secondary School, Effa-Etinan Akwa-Ibom State.

Command Science Secondary School, Port Harcourt Rivers State.

Command Secondary School, Mbiri Delta State

Command Secondary School, Jos Plateau State.

Command Secondary School, Ibadan Oyo State

Command Science Secondary School,(Girls) Barkiya Katsina State.

Command Science Secondary School,(Boys) Faskari Katsina State.

Command Secondary School, Kaduna State.

List of Nigerian Navy Secondary Schools in Nigeria

Attending one of the Nigerian Navy secondary schools (NNSS) is usually a good choice if you’re thinking about joining the Nigerian Navy because you’ll receive all the fundamental intellectual and physical training required for a successful military career. 

Currently, there are seven Navy Secondary Schools in the country, find their list below;

Nigerian Navy Secondary School, Okura-Olafia (NNSS Okura-Olafia)

Nigerian Navy Secondary School, Ogbomosho (NNSS Ogbomoso)

Nigerian Navy Secondary School, Imeri (NNSS Imeri)

Nigerian Navy Secondary School, Calabar (NNSS Calabar)

Nigerian Navy Secondary School, Port Harcourt (NNSS Port Harcourt)

Nigerian Navy Secondary School, Abeokuta (NNSS Abeokuta)

Nigerian Navy Secondary School, Ojo (NNSS Ojo)

Summary of Military Secondary Schools in Nigeria

In Nigeria, there are several military secondary schools that provide education and military training to students. Some of the notable military secondary schools in Nigeria include:

Nigerian Military School, Zaria – This is one of the oldest military secondary schools in Nigeria, and it provides education and military training to students interested in pursuing careers in the military.

Nigerian Air Force Secondary School, Jos – This is a military secondary school in Nigeria that provides education and military training to students interested in pursuing careers in the Nigerian Air Force.

Nigerian Navy Secondary School, Abeokuta – This is a military secondary school in Nigeria that provides education and military training to students interested in pursuing careers in the Nigerian Navy.

Nigerian Army Children School, Bonny Cantonment – This is a military secondary school in Nigeria that provides education and military training to children of military personnel.

Nigerian Defence Academy Secondary School, Kaduna – This is a military secondary school in Nigeria that provides education and military training to students interested in pursuing careers in the military.

These schools provide a unique learning environment and offer students the opportunity to develop leadership skills, physical fitness, and military tactics. They also provide students with a strong foundation in academics, preparing them for further education and careers in the military.

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COVID-19 and the Epidemiology of Zoonotic Disease in Relationship to Modern Human Industry: Educated Guesses from an Amateur’s Brief Research

Wikipedia's basic description of the SARS-COV-2 says that while bats are the most likely natural reservoir, the genome of the virus as it exists in bats is just different enough from the human strain that there was probably an intermediate host between bats and humans. In other words, the virus probably did not come from people EATING bats, nor purchasing bats from the market, but perhaps it did come from going to the market to purchase bats for eating.

I find Wikipedia's explanation plausible because of an article I read on Chuangchn.org, which asserts that we get epidemics when an expansion of human activity into wild microbial reservoirs allows certain viruses to hit crowded populations with low immunity, be they livestock feedlots or slums full of severely stressed humans. Normally those reservoirs have buffers against infecting humans because of a great genetic variety among the wildlife, such that any one strain can only spread so far; as modern capitalism steadily reduces the size and genetic variety of wild populations, their attendant microbial parasites have fewer barriers against reaching humans.

So you get one virus running into, say, a vast pen of cattle, and as the cattle have no immunity, the virus faces very little selection pressure that would force a greater genetic variety. Instead the selection pressure is to spread as fast as possible, which means to grow as fast as possible, and the faster a virus grows, the more strain it places on the host, so within a short time the virus goes from benign to deadly.

And so you tend to get epidemics coming close on the heels of major capitalistic shifts in the concentration of living creatures. English outbreaks came in the era when they began to enclose their cattle in pens; the Spanish Flu started in the pigs of a Kansas stockyard shortly following the rise of American industrialized agriculture.

Admittedly these viral outbreaks can occur with direct human incursions into the wild, either by incorporating wild animals into modern markets or simply pushing industrialism into wild areas. Ebola seems to have appeared first in the 1970s with an English-owned cotton mill operation that planted itself in the central African jungle and occurred again every time that sort of industrialism increased its presence in the area. Likewise HIV is said to have come from humans eating "bushmeat", which is any manner of monkey meat, as if humans had not been doing such a thing before, so that they had no immunity to what they found within those animals -- maybe, then, they were going after bushmeat because their usual food sources were out of reach? Oh, wouldn't it be interesting if HIV and Ebola came from the same damn cotton mill!

This is not the case. According to the Chuangchn article, Ebola was first recorded in 1976 where the most common strain of HIV appears to come from early-20th-century Kinshasa, or should I say Leopoldville, the capital of the Belgian Congo and centerpoint for a great deal of environmental degradation and societal upheaval through modern capitalism. Bushmeat had been a common food source for a long time, with Simian Immunodefficiency Virus being endemic in wild primates. People used to catch SIV all the time. They resisted it well and fast enough that it could never spread from human to human. Then Leopoldville created a world where increased prostitution could spread syphilis more quickly, such that the ulcers which present the greatest danger of transferring SIV were all over the place, and SIV was now able to jump from one person to another fast enough to mutate into HIV.

Now as for Ebola and HIV, both of those diseases are more deadly than the diseases that seem to come from livestock concentration. One of them is a hundred percent fatal, the other fifty percent without treatment. Likewise the source of the Black Plague was Central or East Asian rodents moving into human agricultural areas due to climate change, and the disease itself appears to have an untreated mortality rate of thirty to sixty percent if bubonic, one hundred percent if pneumonic or Septicimic -- as if a wild microbe that hits human populations without an intermediary host is invariably more deadly than one that arises out of the intermediary host.

That's assuming the Plague hit humans directly through people eating gerbils in the manner of people eating Bushmeat to catch SIV, and that neither rats nor fleas were the intermediate host where the bacteria could go from benign to virulent. To compare the Black Plague to Ebola is also to conflate the behavior of viruses with bacteria. I do not know if they would react to certain selection pressure the same way.

All I know is that these microbes which become dangerous among crowded livestock seem to have a lower, or perhaps slower, mortality rate than the ones which develop from direct wild-to-human transfer. The zoonotic diseases that humans are supposed to have picked up from livestock at the beginning of human-animal domestication -- Tuberculosis, Smallpox, Cowpox, Glanders, Escheria Coli, and so forth -- generally have a much lower mortality rate than Ebola, with only Smallpox reaching the untreated mortality rate of the Black Plague --

In populations already exposed to the disease, at any rate. For virgin populations such as the entire Western Hemisphere circa 1492, the untreated mortality rate was something even Ebola could not match. It may simply be that the zoonotic diseases livestock herders are familiar with are less deadly because their most dangerous strains burned themselves out tens of thousands of years ago. In that sense, the only real difference between zoonotic diseases incubating in livestock and those hitting humans directly would be the novelty, where these wild diseases, being invariably new to us, have not yet burned through enough people to create a selection pressure towards less fatal strains.

One might argue that Rabies has been known for many thousands of years and remains as deadly as it ever was, and is a very good example of how dangerous a virus can be when it infects humans directly from the wild. But the fact that Rabies spreads though biting means that it's not viral in the same way as most other diseases. Despite the fact that the virus itself has an evolution rate similar to any other RNA virus, it doesn't have the transmission rate of most other RNA viruses, so I would expect that its effective rate of evolution is much too slow to force it into something less deadly.

In point of fact, of the seven major species in the Lyssavirus family, nearly all of them follow the same pattern as Rabies: bats as a wild reservoir, human transmission through biting, fatal if untreated, human transmission extremely rare. Only Mokola Virus is endemic in mammal populations like the Rabies we know, and then only in South Africa; as it has the possibility of being transferred by Mosquitoes, it may have a much shorter time scale for selection pressure than any other Lyssavirus and, as it happens, one of the two humans who contracted the disease recovered. Nor do the cats infected with Mokola Virus exhibit unprovoked aggression in the manner of Rabies. While all these strains appear to have evolved within the last 1500 years, only Mokola Virus appears to face enough selection pressure to evolve into a milder form. For the rest, they still run wild, and it will be a long, long time before they settle down.

Rabies remains deadly for being new in comparison to its evolutionary time scale, and HIV remains deadly for being new in relation to its own time scale, and Ebola remains deadly for being new in general, where livestock-zoonotic diseases have been facing more intense selection pressure for quite a while longer than these diseases direct from the wild. We're all virgin populations for Ebola, Rabies, and HIV like the Western Hemisphere was a virgin population for   Smallpox.  That's a more prosaic explanation for this discrepancy than some aspect of livestock that makes their epidemics less deadly...

Especially since James Gallagher at the BBC News says HIV is already adapting into a slightly less deadly form as it gets used to human immune systems.

And yet the initial outbreak of SARS in 2003 was entirely novel, it came from a wild vector and its case fatality rate was an average of nine percent. That looks like a case of a novel wild virus with direct transfer being much less than fatal. Palm Civets, there you go, there's the vector, right? Except that these palm civets were in the wild-animal MARKET, and the virus itself has a wild reservoir in bats, so if the civets were shoved in close together like any livestock then the disease would have developed within their population just the same as if they were all pigs. I can't say that SARS was a direct transfer from the wild.

As for this Novel Coronavirus...while Hubei does a lot of livestock operations but the pandemic has been traced to Wuhan's Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, which also sells lots and lots of wild animals, quite similar to the meat market in Guandong where the 2003 SARS came from. As I imagine it, the virus started from one bat, incubated among wild animals crowded together, and developed in just the same way as 2003 SARS.

The fact that the virus appears to have a low variability among known genomic sequences stands in marked contrast to HIV, which has a great deal of genetic variability in its many subtypes, and Ebola, which is an entire genus of viruses, as well as the aforementioned seven species of Lyssavirus, of which Rabies is but one part. It is as if this novel Coronavirus hit a crowded population just once and took off from there, facing, as I said, no selection pressure to force genetic variety, where viruses picked up directly from the wild have competed against their wild hosts a long time before ever reaching humans.

I imagine the scenario as follows:

1. A living landscape in its proper state has a great deal of genetic variety among its multicelled organisms.

2. This variety creates an evolutionary selection pressure in their attendant microbial populations, which means these microbial populations will have a degree of genetic diversity matching the macrobial popluation.

3. Humans pushing their industry into these areas for the first time reduce the genetic diversity of the area, thereby reducing the diversity of immune responses, and letting certain microbes spread farther.

4. At the same time, humans pushing industry into these areas are coming across populations of wild microbes that still have a high degree of genetic diversity.

5. Humans doing the grunt work in this industrial push have many opportunities for contact with this population of wild microbes through direct contact with wild animals.

6. Wild microbes enter the human population with multiple strains, be they subtypes or whole species, where a wild microbe hitting a stockyard first would be only one or a very few strains.

7. Having a high degree of genetic variety from the start, they have much more chance to compete against human immune systems than the intermediary-incubated epidemics, so they are invariably more damaging to their human host.

8. By the same token, they cannot be endemic among human populations like the diseases that grew out of microbes hitting livestock operations, because as they have survived within wild macrobial populations that resist them well, they are optimized for surviving within a host and against virulence. Their methods of human-to-human transfer, be it saliva, sexual intercourse, or skin contact, have a low rate of success compared to the livestock-incubated diseases.

See for example Leprosy, which appears to have a wild reservoir in Red Squirrels, does terrible things to its victims, and...is not very contagious between humans.

The existence of Cholera complicates this picture because it is an incredibly deadly disease like Ebola, and it seems to be endemic to human populations, in contrast to Ebola which disappears until industry expands into the jungle again. And it is extremely virulent, without having a stealthy effect on humans. How does Cholera win the epidemic jackpot? By having its wild microbial reservoir in water. Water contaminated with fecal matter causes zooplankton to pick up the bacteria; oysters then eat the zooplankton; humans eat the oysters, and get sick; suddenly they’re contaminating the water with their own fecal matter and the disease is living free in the local water for a while, and everyone else gets it.  Cholera is unusual for having a wild reservoir that is invariably close to human habitation, such that it remains endemic without becoming any less wild. Let us say, then, that Cholera is not endemic to humans, but is endemic to a source so close to them that it might as well be. It comes in waves, because it comes on the waves.

Perhaps not so unusual. There is a land-based wild reservoir that resembles that of Cholera. Once upon a time, there was once another extremely virulent and deadly disease in the manner of Cholera, called the English Sweating Sickness. It killed its victims in the space of hours, and had outbreaks from 1485 to 1551. The most likely source was a strain of Hantavirus with a wild reservoir in rodents. Like the schools of wild fish, its reservoir was constantly interacting with human populations, as rodents broke into human food stores. English Sweating Sickness has never been seen again, but Hantaviruses remain quite dangerous, enough so that a discovery of mouse droppings in a human space demands immediate and thorough cleanup.

I find it telling that the aforementioned article mentions this English Sweating Sickness coming in a time of agricultural and social upheaval. I also find it telling that Wikipedia attributes the first major recorded Cholera epidemic to increased commerce, pilgrimage and migration. Just like folks in China hitting the SARS viruses, eh? Wuhan’s meat market has a bunch of wild animals to sell because people are running into them more, as they push capitalist industry further into wild spaces. So those wild microbes hit populations that are tailor-made for turning a virus into an epidemic. These wild reservoirs are somewhat dangerous on their own, as Rabies and Lyme Disease will tell. You can walk in the forest without fear of breathing them in, as long as you avoid getting bit by anything. But to destroy their habitats, to reduce the genetic diversity of those places, so that there's less buffer between the viruses and us, just for the sake of making more money faster, well...that’s when these critters get into our lungs.

It’s the interface of an increase in Intensive Industrialism with Wilderness that does the trick.

As I live in the Northeast United States, in the foothills of the northern Appalachian Mountains, I and all my friends deal with this every damn summer when we have to worry about Deer Ticks. Those didn’t become a problem until people shoved their big suburban houses up against the woods just as they were coming back, and in the new forest with new deer populations there were no wolves, so there’s deer everywhere and there are deer ticks everywhere. Lyme Disease gets into a person and it never goes away on its own, but gums up your joints and wears you down over the years if left untreated. Call it the AIDS of New England. Human immune systems can’t handle AIDS nor Lyme Disease, and I don’t think that’s a coincidence. Lyme Disease is yet another virus direct from the woods.

Supposedly Poison Ivy comes from the same issue, for as people shove their houses up against the woods they create more of the edge-forest area where Poison Ivy thrives.

It’s that edge that does it. The edge between Industry and Wilderness, that’s where the world boils and roils and spits out hot stuff like someone put too much oil in the fry pan. Edge environments always have the most activity in the first place even if they’re All Natural. Continental shelves, forest edges, river banks, lake shores, swamps, salt marshes, whatever the biologists will call an Ecotone. That’s where the living world boils and roils, as the creatures of one biome meet another. If Intense Human Industry barges into the place and smashes it up without an ounce of caution -- well, the results are like someone smashing a fist into a frypan of simmering oil.

“That’s what you get for messing with the Wilderness!” cry the Eco-facists and all the folks who think humans are a disease upon the earth. “Mother Gaia takes her revenge! So there!”

And there I come to the one part of Chuangchn’s article that I really disagree with. The author thinks that we’re Losing The Wilderness. But I don’t think we’ve ever really had any. Not Wilderness with a capital W, at any rate. Humans have been significant shapers of the living landscape for tens of thousands of years. Our species has been fairly well integrated with the world and highly influential, a lot like beavers making ponds all across northeast North America. In the same time period as beavers, humans were setting enough small fires in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico to be a bigger factor for forest fires than the climate was. Likewise the Amazon Rainforest that we think of being a Pristine Landscape Untouched By The Hand Of Man was actually shaped by centuries of human activity. Humans made all the terra preta that you can find throughout the rainforest. Hard to believe that they could make fertile soil without livestock! I will leave you to guess of where that manure came from.

Indeed, to speak of "wilderness" implies that we are separate from the world, and it is this mindset that leads us to set aside certain areas as Natural Pristine Beauty and then pave over everything around them. Both lands are thus diminished by the desire for Purity. If we were willing to incorporate the rest of living world, letting it live and grow with our influence but not our destruction, as once we used to, such that the genetic variety of the world was not reduced -- perhaps then we would not have these epidemics after all. It is not that we need to Preserve The Wilderness so much as we need to become part of the world again.

As it is, capitalism prefers that this does not happen, because it means a slower increase in personal wealth for the select people holding all the money. Capitalism does not live and let live. It cannot. The system wants more, more, more, faster and faster. To clarify: certain people holding all the money want more, more, more, faster and faster. There is no place they would let alone if they could make lots of money off it soon, nor any place they would let make money slowly when it could make money quickly. So you see people choosing to strip-mine a place instead of sell tickets for river rafting.

This was never necessary, except to serve the greed for personal wealth and power. And yet, was it even necessary for that? The Empire of the Incans functioned without money or markets, as did every civilization for thousands of years, until someone invented coinage around the 600s BCE. Plenty of wealth and power to be had without coins, surely! The real value of money is liquidity and speed, and some people want their fortune Now. Maybe it’s the Greed For Speed that makes the difference between the power-grabbing of an aristocrat and the power-grabbing of a merchant.

And so as we alter the landscape too fast it cannot adapt in time, and suffers greatly.

We see the results in one epidemic after another. It’s not Gaia’s Revenge; it’s just the fallout of us setting things up to make a virus’s happy accident our unhappy accident, time and again.

[eseomo]

Music recap:

ASSMIX 5000 XTRA / 20 August 2024

ASSMIX 5000 / 08 August 2024

Mokola International (Osai and all their Friends x Begho x Seo) 01 August 2024

Fuck a Degreeee. / 03 July 2024

§eo / 02 April 2024

Alien Zone / 17 March 2024

Butterflies (ZOiD x Seo) / 08 March 2024

Synthetic Fears / 14 February 2024

Time travelers inc. / 01 January 2024

Epic dreamy escapade (Deluxe) - Moonbather / 25 December 2025

Epic dreamy escapade - Moonbather / 01 December 2023

Gargantuan Chest of Ancient Mumbo Jumbo / 17 November 2023

Tea Break VI (Deluxe) / 11 November 2023

Earth Glitch / 31 October 2023

Tea Break VI / 31 October 2024

Moonlit Beach - Moonbather / 3 March 2023

[hardynwa]

Economic hardship: IPOB warns against protest in South-East

The Indigenous People of Biafra has banned protests against hunger in any South-East territory, adding that any Nigerian agent who dares to organise any protest in Biafraland will regret it. The pro-Biafran group stated this in a press statement issued by its spokesman, Emma Powerful, stressing that the current hardship in Nigeria should be the concern of Nigerians, not Biafrans. IPOB said anyone who organised any protest against economic hardship in the South-East would put Ndigbo in danger. The statement read partly, “Following the unprecedented hardship in Nigeria, IPOB ably led by the leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, hereby cautions the people of Biafra not to join any protest against hunger in Nigeria in any South-East territory. “The current hardship in Nigeria should be the concern of Nigerians, not Biafrans. Biafrans are no longer interested in the affairs of Nigeria. Biafrans were abused, intimidated, beaten, and killed and denied voting rights during the election of this present government. Ndigbo were told to wait and that it was their turn to rule, not the turn of Ndigbo. “Anyone who organise any protest against economic hardship in Biafraland will put Biafrans in danger. During the #EndSARS protest, the Federal Government accused Ndigbo of attempting to destroy Nigeria with violence. We don’t want such profiling and targeting to repeat because Ndigbo participated in any Nigerian mass protest. “Ndigbo should leave the current economic hardship in the contraption called Nigeria for Nigerians to deal with because this hardship is what God Almighty has in store for Nigeria for the crimes they have committed against Biafrans between 1967 to 1970 and up to date. “We understand that Ndigbo is equally affected by the economic hardship arising from the reckless and thoughtless economic policies of the government, but God is still seeing Biafrans through. We are worried about the suffering of other tribes, but there is nothing we can do. The current situation is why Biafrans are fighting for freedom. Nevertheless, we must apply wisdom.” The group further said anyone or group that wants to organise a protest for Nigeria’s hardship should kindly go to Northern or Western Nigeria and stage such a protest there. “Our region is battling the state-sponsored insecurity, kidnappings, and killings by the Federal Government’s agencies and agents, including terrorists. We have much on our hands to do. We will not allow anyone or any group to use the arrangement of protests to import more agents of destabilization into our territory. “ESN is ready to take on the government’s agents who will want to organise hunger protests in Biafraland. Therefore, the IPOB intelligence unit must be on high alert to identify those planning to destabilise Biafraland with senseless Nigeria hunger protests. But Biafrans will come out of this one too unscathed. We will see how serious Nigerians are and how well they are handling the protest. “Biafrans should call IPOB’s inquiry lines if any person or group are found planning to stage a Nigerian hunger protest in our territory. If we catch anyone organizing hunger protests in Biafra land, they will have ESN Operatives and IPOB volunteers to contend with, and the person will ‘smell pepper’,” the statement added. The reports that as the pains of the food crisis bite harder, on Monday, youths disrupted commercial activities in parts of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, in protest over the situation in the country. The protest, which started at the popular Mokola Roundabout, spread to Adamasingba, Ekotedo, Onireke, Sango, Bodija, Agbowo, and Ojoo, as the security agencies deployed in the areas to prevent a breakdown of law and order. The incident caused a traffic gridlock on the ever-busy roads to Ojoo, Adamasingba and Bodija areas. The protesters were seen carrying placards complaining about the spiralling current cost of living, the fluctuating prices of food items, economic hardship, and the urgent need for the government to take pragmatic steps toward making food affordable. Their mantra, ‘Ebi n pa wa’ (we are hungry) charged the atmosphere. Some of the inscriptions read, ‘Mr President, this is not the hope you promised,’ ‘This is shege,’ ‘Is this the renewed hope that you promised?’ ‘End hardship,’ ‘We want peace’ and so on. Read the full article

[crimechannels]

By • Olalekan Fagbade Mohbad’s Death : Speaker, Commissioner join protesters, demand justice Some youths on Wednesday converged in Ibadan to stage a peaceful protest over the death of a 27-year-old singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba, popularly known as Mohbad. The protesters, who demanded justice for Mohbad, began their rally from Mokola to Sango, Bodija, Iwo Road, Gate; Dugbe, Ring Road; Apata, Iyaganku, and eventually climaxed at the Oyo State Secretariat, Ibadan. The protesters, who were all in black attires, carried placards with inscription “Justice for Mohbad”, chanting solidarity songs. The Speaker, Oyo State House of Assembly, Mr Debo Ogundoyin and State Commissioner for Youths and Sports, Hon. Adegoke Wasilat, who dressed in black T-shirts, also joined the rally. Ogundoyin, who addressed the protesters at different points, commended them for standing up for one of their own, adding that their peaceful rally to demand justice for late singer was commendable. The speaker, who described Mohbad’s death as painful and shocking, said the deceased was a talented and highly inspired young musician whose songs were lyrical and melodious. He added that the late singer, who rose from grass to grace, exhibited a great passion for music. ”It is unfortunate that Ilerioluwa Aloba died in a mysterious circumstances. The investigation team set up by the Nigeria Police Force must be thorough in their job. “Everyone connected with the death of the young man must be investigated and the cause of his death must be unraveled “Why did the police fail to investigate a petition he sent to them on constant threats to his life? “There are video clips showing Mohbad being beaten and bullied, yet no one was arrested at that time and no one was prosecuted. “He also did some audio recordings of his depressing situation and conditions, but nothing was done by the security agencies to secure the life of Mohbad” he said. Ogundoyin described the death of late singer as pathetic and condemnable. One of the organisers of the protest, Mr Kunle Eniafe, expressed bitterness over the demise of Mohbad. He urged police to as a matter of urgency fish out those that killed the musician. According to him, Nigerian youths would continue to stage protest across the country until justice is done. (NAN) www.nannews.ng DAK/SAF/KOLE/ADA #Commissioner #joinprotestdemandingjusticeforMohbad #Speaker

[nigerianscitizens]

Police officer slaps Nursing mother in Ibadan (photos)

Police officer slaps Nursing mother in Ibadan (photos)

There was a gentle dramatization following a fight between Nigerian Police officer and a wedded lady with her baby  on her back.

As indicated by reports, the fight between the two parties began in Mokola area of Ibadan after the policeman was supposedly cautioned not to cause an accident because of the N50 fee.

Nigerian Police officer

The policeman was said to have harassed the lady who was on a…

[amandaiheme]

A Series of Fascinations, Volume II - Paths, Walls and Gates Agodi Gardens, Secreteriat Road, Mokola Hill, Ibadan. (2018) Ibadan is nice. Ibadan is nicer than Lagos. I shot a little this year. I spent more time being a shrink than a photographer. One may argue that it is because psychotherapy pays most of my bills. I could say that whenever I think of shooting in Lagos, I am weighed down by fear and sadness. Fear of being harassed by people because I have a camera. Seek permission to shoot, they say. That's a long process because I have to explain what I am doing, why I am shooting, why buildings, what am I going to do with the images. The thought exhausts me. SETTLE BOYS! They own the land so I don't have the right to shoot there. I'm stressed. Which money am I going to use to be paying bullies? No one commissioned me. Those with houses and spaces worth shooting (Yes, I said it. Worth shooting. Not everything is worth shooting) are paranoid. I don't like the rejection. I don't like being told No. It's like I see a building I am excited to get to know and I am denied access. I either mourn my loss and walk away or say nothing and steal images. I'll edit what I have shot thus far. I have been made to delete images I have shot. It is sad. I'll say it again: IBADAN IS NICER THAN LAGOS! #amandaiheme #architecture #arkitektur #amandaiheme #archidaily #africanarchitecture #space #agodigardens #ibadan #lagos #nigeria (at Agodi Gardens Ibadan) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2mxRWFl5KS/?igshid=1oa2kjsidsgnf

[atshealthyhabit]

A NEWLY BUILT 2 BEDROOM FLAT For Rent+ STANDARD ROOM AND A PARLOR SELF CONTAINED + A ROOM SELF CONTAINED * 2BEDROOM CHALET BQ AT MOKOLA GRA VETERINARY ROAD IBADAN. Minimum 2 years upward 4M per annum. #residentialpropertyforsale #residentialpropertyforrent #propertyforrent #rental #rentalproperty #rentals #rentalproperties #serviceapartment #serviceapartments #serviceapartmentibadan #expat #expatinlagos #expatlagos #expatrate (at Mokola Ibadan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfWUCctL3Qx/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=