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A Mockable Fire Service

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If Nigerians who are knowledgeable about public services in the UK or/and the US are asked to make comments on the efficiency of the fire departments in the two aforementioned countries, what their responses might be could be guessed. Even if the respondents have never been to the West, a 2013 thriller titled The Call that features Abigail Breslin and Halle Berry is enough to convince anyone that public services in the US or Canada are not for jokers or façade public administrators whose priorities are self-interests and social media posts of imaginary achievements. Here is an important question that requires our attention: Is it logically possible for two fire service trucks to arrive at a scene of a fire outbreak without water two hours after emergency numbers were called? Rescuers at the scene For anyone who lives in France or the United Kingdom or even Egypt, such could be a fiction. But for residents of Lewis Street in Abule Taylor of Alimoso, Lagos, Nigeria, is ...

China and Covid-19

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When the so-called Covid-19 virus was first reported last year (2019), it was not imagined that Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province in China, was a location for the kick-off of a global pandemic. Few weeks after the lockdown of Wuhan, cases of Covid-19 infections were reported in South Korea, Italy, Spain, the UK and the United States. What appeared shockingly suspicious was the minimal number of infections in Chinese provinces like Beijing, Shanghai, Fujian with 587, 536 and 350 cases, and eight, six and one deaths respectively. The figures are different and represent far contrasts to the number of infections and deaths in New York, Milan, London and Madrid. In the four cities, over 100,000 cases and more than 10,000 deaths have been reported in each. A logical question that should be asked is this: how is it possible that the source country of the virus experienced less number of deaths, unlike the recipient states? Such has never been the case in the history of an epidemic...