Read this if you eat catfish.
Yesterday, I was tagged to a BBC video that showed Indian authorities destroying many catfish farms and burying hundreds of thousands of fish live. Indian authorities claim the fish caused cancer, amongst other things. I checked the scientific name of the catfish and it's Clarias gariepinus, the most common catfish we farm in Nigeria.
I started digging. I first went to WHO's website and I found out that their cancer agency, IARC, dis not lost Clarias gariepinusas a carcinogen. I felt a wave of relief.
I then went further to find out why the Indian authorities would say that the fish is carcinogenic. The official Indian ban from the late 1990s was first about ecology. Our own African catfish is predatory, invasive, and a threat to their native catfish.
African catfish is extremely hardy. It can live in dirty, low-oxygen water that would kill many other fish. Illegal Indian farms often exploit that: drains, slaughterhouse waste, crowded pits, polluted ponds. In that setting the fish can pick up heavy metals (arsenic, cadmium, lead, chromium, mercury), other industrial pollutants and parasites such as fish lice.
Final verdict: African catfish is not carcinogenic. But if it is raised in unclean and polluted water, it can store heavy metals in its body, which may harm the health of the humans that eat it. Be sure of your catfish supplier. Once they maintain good hygiene and healthy practices, you're good to go.
The FBI is in Nigeria for purely political reasons stemming from the fact that your president works for them and Nigeria is not a sovereign country.
It has nothing to do with cybercrime. No African country is even in the world's top 20 if we're talking about actual cybercrime. All these $2,000 iTunes gift card scams that you people kill yourselves over are not "cybercrime" - they're petty theft.
"Cybercrime" is when Chinese hackers gain access to the control network for the electrical grid supplying an American city. "Cybercrime" is when Romanian hackers penetrate the security of a Canadian bank and siphon $40 million. "Cybercrime" is when Malaysian hackers deliver malware to a Silicon Valley CTO's laptop and encrypt it, permanently locking him out and putting a $5bn startup in trouble unless he pays a $4m ZEC ransom.
A Yahoo Boy with sagging pants and brown teeth who scams $500 gift cards out of lonely old white women is not a "cybercriminal" - he's a fucking idiot. We don't have cybercriminals in Nigeria. We just have idiots. And the FBI didn't leave the world headquarters of idiots and travel to West Africa just to hunt idiots when they already have so many at home.
It's 100% political.
Thank you, Mercy.
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This life is just funny anyhow. This is a country’s president in Jail for drug trafficking related charges in America. There is an African president currently begging same America not to release his own records of drug trafficking related case and America is agreeing.
The deal must be very massive or they don’t rate Africans.