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OP, you are just like so many youths in this country. We have Eyes but we cannot see.
Have you ever taught abt starting a business. So, many pple in Nigeria are engage in 1 livestock bizness or another. Why don't u locate a town or city where people are engaged in livestock bizness. It can even be ur own town or city. Set up a bizness whr u start selling poultry feeds, fish feed, poultry drugs etc nd also advice these customers on how to use dem nd see if ur fame wudnt sprread. Dude, Open ur eyes. Nigeria has vast opportunities to be explored by Men wit Vision only.

Vet meds can work in the zoo right?

Tough life for DVM guys, had four in my class at training school (a financial institution)

A vet dr is a well groomed intellectual who can fit in perfectly in any organisation.
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NZE SYLVA YOU ARE ON POINT!

Employment and job creation is a live issue world over. Vet medicine is a core profession. To me, apart from nursing it is the nearest to human medicine - even more than pharmacy. I remember a few years ago in Min of Health Imo State when a Vet doctor displaced a pharmacist to become perm sec.
The Min of Agric where the vet rightly belong is mainly agrarian especially in the South of Nigeria. In developed countries where rich zoos and animal reserves kept, equine and other animal sports and shows are practiced, the vet find more jobs. The solution is to diversify and become all you can - as they say in the army.
On a lighter note, let me ask my numerous vet doctor friends the questions I have always asked them - why do you charge me 2000 per shot of DHPP-L each time I bring my dogs for vaccination? Why do you eat some of your patients (chicken, goats, rams, and cows) during festivities? Are you not creating patient distrust and reducing the number of your clients? Cheers!

Human medics after their first degree have to pass through internship and residence training in order to sharpen their clinical skills. On the financial side, they get paid for this period that is why you will seldomly find a doctor who is doing badly even if he doesn't have govt employment because he would have been able to aggregate some money for business capital.. And it is not that they don't get jobs sef. Med doctors get employed in hundreds yearly, in a suitable ratio to the amount of docs being produced by their medical schools. In the vet arena, after your DVM, u are entering labour market straight to hustle. After u kill one or two animals during PP, u will learn small sense. No residency or whatsoever, the closest thing to a residency is if u are posted to a properly run state vet hospitals with consultants to put u through some procedures and u are able to raise some change. That is why everybody will everly want to serve in ondo. Some states including the FG have not recruited openly any Vet doc in years. Oyo hasn't employed any vet in over 14 years. Most of these states heavily depend on vet corpers. You can see the NMA always striking and agitating for the betterment of its members. Our VCN is only see during inductions. If you don't have connections to land a govt job, please find a business to do.
So far, only the Lagos NVMA has been credited with any statement concerning ebola which has its origin in animals. It is just saddening. I'm sure if tomorrow a disease like parvo becomes zoonotic and becomes an epidemic, vets won't say shii. And the quackery in small animal practice is too much. If you are lucky to have rich parents, just start a livestock farm, there is money in that aspect.

Vet students don’t have holidays. We are on
campus all year round. We run a schedule that is
same as that of our Human Medical colleagues. We
do basically the same courses and more. We study
the husbandry, medicine and surgery of at least
seven species plus a comparative study of
Humans. We are literarily made to develop a
seventh sense to use in decoding our patients
problems since they don’t talk. We pay as much
as the Human Medical students for our studies.
Our official course duration is six years just like
them.

this is so horrible!

idu1: Is lie. Vet doc are not suffering as in the writeup. This nigeria no profession is treated as it be Lawyers, engrs. Admin graduates even the mbbs. Most human doc r in private clinics which evry1 know is always not favourable. Few dvm i know r doing fine. A nairalander with moniker idowu is vet doc. He can say further about this.

Yeah. no occupation is really having it good in Nigeria. from the charge and bail lawyers , to the doctors collecting 40k/month in private hospitals and the civil engineer collecting 50k/month and teachers collecting less than 20k. may God help Nigeria.

Am a vet, things are not as bad as painted by this article, mind u this article as been on since 2007...am a proud veterinarian and am the fourth vet in my family and my younger brother ll be the fifth.
My advice, learn the secret that works, and stop being lazy, think and act wen you can.

Super sad n depressing... I know this is medicine after death especially when u finally pass that JAMB n post UME. U feel no force on earth will make u stay @home again but sometimes, der is wisdom in just staying back or @ least not continuing with a course if u feel dis bad about it. How can I suffer for 6yrs 2b called doc den I begin 2find bank or customer service work like evy1 else?

Me that is studying biology education i am even complaining... Smh 4 myself

Guy ur a pessimist joor see d way u condemned d police force dont u know u woul b harnessed der fully i think u shoul jet out ow many nigerians own pet dars d first tin u shoul have thought of b4 doin d course guy get a life

Bla bla bla bla........Can't even read the article.Proudly a Vet.@holard07 integrity class abi.

Mbediogu: Employment and job creation is a live issue world over. Vet medicine is a core profession. To me, apart from nursing it is the nearest to human medicine - even more than pharmacy. I remember a few years ago in Min of Health Imo State when a Vet doctor displaced a pharmacist to become perm sec.
The Min of Agric where the vet rightly belong is mainly agrarian especially in the South of Nigeria. In developed countries where rich zoos and animal reserves kept, equine and other animal sports and shows are practiced, the vet find more jobs. The solution is to diversify and become all you can - as they say in the army.
On a lighter note, let me ask my numerous vet doctor friends the questions I have always asked them - why do you charge me 2000 per shot of DHPP-L each time I bring my dogs for vaccination? Why do you eat some of your patients (chicken, goats, rams, and cows) during festivities? Are you not creating patient distrust and reducing the number of your clients? Cheers!

Lol at d bold!!!!!! They should be vegetarians

My brother, your ears na how many?? Na to find yankee enter ni o

idu1: Is lie. Vet doc are not suffering as in the writeup. This nigeria no profession is treated as it be Lawyers, engrs. Admin graduates even the mbbs. Most human doc r in private clinics which evry1 know is always not favourable. Few dvm i know r doing fine. A nairalander with moniker idowu is vet doc. He can say further about this.

What the op is saying is very correct but not everyone experience what he posted.

jammani: I know of school VCs that are Profs of Vet.Med. As though survival is slim bn a practitioner in the field, we do stil have sucessful people springing up. Be the best in whatever you know how to do and Pray.

Guy, may God bless you this truth. You are a wise man.

So pathetic. However, no matter how bad a situation is, you can still make good out of it.

1.Do not be discouraged, encourage yourself, it is not only vet doctors that are not getting jobs. Let someone else from another profession explain his or her situation and you will see reasons to give thanks to God.

2.Many have suggested things you can go into like fish farming,poultry and also selling of drugs, feed. Please start thinking along that line. You don't need to start big. You can start small and watch it grow big. "Do not despise the days of small begining"

3.To raise capital, you might be thinking how do I get money. My advise, please since you know where you are going, if need be, take up a job as a biology or agric teacher in a private school or any other job that you can easily find and try to save something out of your salary having one thing at the back of your mind, you are not judged by what you are today, you are judged by what you ended up becoming.

Keep faith and keep hope

please, what about ANIMAL NUTRITION same things happend after graduation

What do you expect from a country that don't love and care about life of its citizens..U expect such country to care about animals??

The story of what they did to that washed up baby whale and that beautiful rock python is enough to tell u how we feel about animals on this side of the world.

Australia is recruiting vets (especially) in their immigration program. Vet doctors and agric specialists are always on high demand.

My view is based on experience. If 9ja isn't so heavenly, then try outside. It may be hard at first try but it pays if one doesn't give up.

When there is excess supply over demand,there is a fall in wage and demand for labour and vice versa.Medical doctors are on high demand because of the demand for their services and that's why their wages and the tendency of securing job are high unlike Vet Doc,how many persons actually patronise them? And if they do the percentage shoud be about 6 percentage. So many dear friend the Nigeria labour market is saturated coupled with so many graduate on street struggling to secure jobs they didn't study in school. For example a medical doctor,engineer, micro biologist struggling to work in a bank.

I've once talked abt ds Vet of a profession. I really know d enormosity and toughness of d course while in schl coz I've got many friends doing it and I hardly see them to hangout with while in sch, always d busy types. In a country like ours where there are no animal regulations/laws, vet medicine don't seems to thrive whereby any human being can treat an animal. I used to have this senior coleague @ my ppa during servic year who was a vet doc but had to go back to study human medicine, I think he's in 400L now, well I'd rather advise pple to go study animal science rather than vet med coz most farms can't pay d salary of a vet.

Biochemistry graduates too experience same thing, if you can not get yourself into the academia, you end up struggling with other graduates to jostle for limited positions like in banking. Very pathetic!

Godspearl: Bla bla bla bla........Can't even read the article.Proudly a Vet.@holard07 integrity class abi.

Yes o, integrity lives on.

[quote author=Mbediogu]Employment and job creation is a live issue world over. *******[Vet medicine is a core profession. To me, apart from nursing it is the nearest to human medicine - even more than pharmacy. I remember a few years ago in Min of Health Imo State when a Vet doctor displaced a pharmacist to become perm sec.]******
The Min of Agric where the vet rightly belong is mainly agrarian especially in the South of Nigeria. In developed countries where rich zoos and animal reserves kept, equine and other animal sports and shows are practiced, the vet find more jobs. The solution is to diversify and become all you can - as they say in the army.
On a lighter note, let me ask my numerous vet doctor friends the questions I have always asked them - why do you charge me 2000 per shot of DHPP-L each time I bring my dogs for vaccination? Why do you eat some of your patients (chicken, goats, rams, and cows) during festivities? Are you not creating patient distrust and reducing the number of your clients? Cheers! [/quote/]


@ Word in ***[ & ]****. wat do u mean?

abeg i dey study petroleum geology,wat are my chances?

holard07:

Yes o, integrity lives on.

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shabbey09: Its coz of the state of our nation. An average man lives in a rented appartment for maybe 45 yrs or more and its not likely to have a pet in an rented accommodation unlike abroad that have access to mortgage, someone in this category will have bills and a pet would be the last thing on his mind on the other hand those that have dier own homes are prone to having pets but even at that few are willing to spend so much on a pet and if there are no pets then there are no vets!!

Let's keep praying the economy of our country continues to get better

This is truthfully correct.
How do you fathom accommodating an catering for a pet when you live in a face me, I face you apartment with numerous siblings and relatives.
Until we get a better economy, better housing scheme and total poverty reduction ratio, vet docs will still suffer ill fate post graduation.
Abi na animals I wan dey feed or take care of when I never chop.

Op, pls move into animal rearing/livestock production.

Afghanistan: I really feel for those studying vet medicine in nigeria. Honestly, they have more load of work to do more than those in MBBS. Vet medics study different animals that differ in structure and composition both physiologically and anatomically whereas MBBS only deal with humans in which our anatomical and physiological structure has left us the same way for years as a result of evolution. At the end of the dayt, you'll find out that vet medics have a lower job opportunity than the MBBS graduates. This is nigeria and come to think of it, how many people take their farm animals or pets to the vet? Its very rare in this country. My vet medics, if you want to really enjoy this field and make the fruit of your labour show, try looking for greener pastures outside this country.

I AGREE WITH U, VM HERE ISNT WORTH IT, THEY SHD GO LOOK FOR GREENER PASTURES IF THEY DONT WANT NAIJA TO ALTER THEIR CAREER..??