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Interesting Findings About Unrefined Palm Oil And COVID-19
48.2Kshares 32.1K 16.1K 0 0 0 0 0 Interesting Findings About Unrefined Palm Oil And COVID-19 Coronavirus: Palm Oil, best oil against COVID-19! ALTERNATIVE medicine and traditional medicine looked set for upgrading from the side-lines last week in Nigeria’s search for a home grown COVID-19 cure. But a last minute push of chloroquine to the front burner in Lagos State appeared likely to block them. The Presidential committee which is trying to involve alternative medicine and traditional medicine practitioners in the search for a COVID-19 cure finally got some prominent figures in the industry to have a meeting with the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control ( NAFADAC). But at the same time, Lagos State, the most respected and most influential of Nigeria’s 36 states when it...
From China With Love!
34.4Kshares 27.4K 7.0K 0 0 0 0 0 From China With Love! By Emmanuel Ita Akpaka China may have pissed on its own parade with its worrisome handling of the COVID 19 pandemic but it has other wrinkles that could be as worrisome as the pandemic. After decades of isolation and seeming apathy to global affairs, China’s brandishing of its soft power to woo diverse countries across the world is in full throttle. In Asia, Latin America and especially in Africa, China is building roads, dams, seaports, railways and the like. In Africa, China has become an ubiquitous construction colossus, handling out multibillion dollar loans and credit lines to countries whose miserable economies make them attractive target for the Chinese economic bulldozer. From East to West Africa, countries are literally scramb...
Predicting the Legacies of the Quarantine Livestream Boom
How will the flurry of at-home and in-game performances leave their mark on pop music? “We just wanted to fuck around and have a good time,” Post Malone said, sipping from a beer can in a koozie before holding it aloft. “Cheers, fuckers!” In a thunderous 80-minute set of Nirvana covers, livestreamed from his Utah home on April 24, he was funny and loose, wearing a floral day-dress (not unlike the one Kurt Cobain once wore) and checking if his accompanying band was “hot and ready, Lil Caesar’s style.” “Let’s kick this shit in the ass,” he said, referring to COVID-19, before launching into the whiplashing riff of “Drain You.” Post Malone styles himself as a slouchier version of a golden age axe-wielder. He’s covered rock classics and literally has a Nirvana face tattoo, but on the livestream...
