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I once gave a patients father money to pay for his child's investigations so we could do an emergency surgery on the child and the man abandoned the child and absconded. At the end of the day we had to cancel the surgery and discharge the child. Maybe somebody somewhere will be cursing me for discharging that child without doing "anything". These are the kind of Nigerians that we deal with on a daily basis. Women who will put a baby under a pile of dirty clothes to smuggle the baby out of the hospital in order to avoid paying for an emergency CS or abandon a relation in hospital without paying a dime and when the patient dies you see the kind of convoy that comes to pick the corpse for burial. Doctor's cannot be the mourner that cries more than the bereaved.Nigerians don't love themselves and have no regards for human life and expect doctors to be saintly.

The second child is not Hope but the woman's own biological child.

This guy's mother should flog him, so he knew Timipre was bad market, you knew he did all these things but he still went ahead to sell his properties for Timipres cause. To make matters worse they call themselves a group for good governance and have no shame telling people that they supported a rogue for juicy appointments and are stupid enough to go to the press.

debuscket:
A Peugeot car was loaded with 1020 liters of pms and during the gunfire it didn't catch fire.

I find it difficult to believe

Some upside down others on their sides and the car remained dry

Nellybii:
You are lying to yourself and yourself alone.
Am from that section and what he said is true.
Every Nigerian knows there is a problem with economy and a lot of things are not going on well. Did it start today? The last administration we had NNPC, Finance, SGF, and so on. We weren't so vocal. Did social media just arrive Nigeria? Why do we attack everything and every action of the government. However good it is? Honestly it is becoming annoying. We even support Saraki even after his own people want him brought to book. Is that normal.?
A begi. lie only to yourself. mtchewww

Femi Adesina is spokesperson to the government of Nigeria, not the government of some regions or some people. Buhari is president of every Nigerian whether they hate him or like him, he is President and owes every person a duty of civility. I am a member of Huffington post an American blog site like naira land if you see what people say about Obama, how he is criticised down to calling his wife transgenderd and him the anti- Christ yet no government official will come put and insult American citizens. In 1999 almost all the South West states voted for AD, while Obasanjo and Tinubu had their own problems did you see any Government person or Obasanjo insult the people of the SW or call them the 30% because they didn't vote him? This government is starting a dangerous precedence and nobody knows where it will end.

We derided Segun Adeniyi and Ruben Abati for defending their paymasters even in the face of glaring anomalies but I cannot remember them ever insulting any section of the populace. When people were insulting GEJ as sitting president I commented that it was wrong to denigrate the position and that that was sEttington a bad precedence. Today a presidential spoksman calls "a section of the country" wailing Wailers and he is being hailed. Remember Rwanda genocide was fueled by a popular radio presenter referring to an ethnic group as cockroaches and see the end result. Nigeria and Nigerians don't learn we insist of making the same mistakes over and over again. We are now more divided and hate each other more than ever before and here is the government's spokesman adding fuel to that fire! Today it is "a section of the country" maybe tomorrow he would descend to calling people cockroaches too.

[quote author=Blackberrybabes post=44300483]The United States has acknowledged Nigeria’s challenges and told President Muhammadu Buhari administration that building Nigeria would not be “an overnight operation.”
The US Secretary of State, Mr. John Kerry, who stated this on Wednesday at the US-Nigeria Binational Commission’s meeting in Washington, said America wanted Nigeria

Kerry said that no country, including Nigeria, could make progress with a culture of impunity.
He stated, “We back the role of civil society and of the media in exposing corruption and in advocating for greater transparency.
“And we emphasise the message that in the United States, we don’t have a holier-than-thou attitude about this. Believe me, we don’t. We’ve had our own challenges with organised crime through some of our history, but we have fought back against it.
“And we have fought back against it with prosecutors, who are above reproach, above the possibility of any kind of interference, and that has made all the difference in the world. You cannot have impunity in your culture – in anybody’s culture – and expect to be able to make progress.”
He added that all countries should emphasise that the fact that the soliciting of a bribe at any level of government could not be considered business
http://www.punchng.com/building-nigeria-not-an-overnight-operation-us-tells-buhari/


I love this part!

I see some truth in what the article says but it only applies to a small segment of the Nigerian population, the elite and the "middle class". The market women, the farmers, the okaka riders, the vulcanizers, the akara sellers etc make up the larger percentage of our population and they don't drink champagne or wear designer clothes, they don't travel for summer, shop in shoprite or send their children abroad. The truth is this segment of the population never went to Kingswear or Leven is, never bought made in Nigeria cars and never holidayed in Yankari game reserve or Obudu cattle ranch. These people who are the bulk of Nigerians never had electricity or roads or good schools or good health care ever in the history of Nigeria. All these people want is food, something to wear and a place to lay their heads. So when castigating Nigerians, plese castigate you and I the privilege few that have education and exposure and instead of making things better for others are only interested in ourelies and our comfort and giving only our children the best education. That applies to less than 20 million Nigerians and I am being generous here the other 150 million cannot share in the blame with us.

The difference I see with traditional medicine and orthodox medicine in Nigeria is records. When there is a failure in orthodox medicine it is documented people discus it and shout about it or people even sue. When thee is a failure in traditional medicine people quickly rush to orthodox medical facilities and if things get worse blame them for the failure. Or they now look for an excuse eg spiritual attack to explain the failure like the story someone told of chicken leg breaking. Under Ransom Kuti there was a department of traditional medicine in LUTH, this was in the first days of AIDS when so many of them claimed to cure it. Eventually the traditional guys all ran away because when proper records were kept it was obvious that their patients were dying not being cured.

You can be a Clinical scientist or a Biomedical Scientist in the feild of pathology but that does not make you a pathologist or eligible to sit for their exams, each has its own training programmes. The National Postgraduate College of Medicine in Nigeria also gives fellowships in Pathology and this is only to doctors.

nelszx:
U want to know where a post graduate college of/for Medical Laboratory Scientist is?
In the UK a typical post graduate college is the Royal college of pathology
https://www.rcpath.org/discover-pathology/i-want-a-career-studying.html

First and foremost a pathologist is a physician that has specialised in pathology. This college you are quoting primarily trains physicians, you can become a Fellow by publishing or honorary without a non medical degree. You cannot as a Laboratory Scientist do a residency in pathology to become a Fellow of tye royal college of pathologist.

I am a doctor and I have to admit a whole lot of us have a God complex, we don't take our ime to explain to patients what their problem is qnd what we are doing about it and that upsets a lot of our patients. I was involved in medical education at both undergrad and post graduate level and I find it amusing that during exams the first thing students do is introduce themselves and ask the patients permission to touch them, yet a few years down the line act as if they are doing patients a favour. I always told my residents that any patient in hospital is scared and slightly confused it's our job to allay their fears and calm them down.

leave GEJ I'm sure he doesn't want to be young and fresh like the saintly.....

Sorry remove plateau18/27 ×100 = 20%

HungerBAD:
Abia (N14.152bn), Adamawa (N2.378bn), Bauchi (N8.60bn), Bayelsa (N12.85bn), Benue (N28.013bn) Borno (N7.680bn), Cross River (N7.856bn), Delta (N10.036bn), Ebonyi (N4.063bn), Edo (N3.167bn), Ekiti (N9.604bn), and Enugu (N4.207bn).

Also among the states are Gombe (N16.459bn), Imo (N26.806bn), Katsina (N3.304bn), Kebbi (N0.690bn), Kogi (N50.842bn),Kwara (N4.320bn) and Nasarawa (N8.317bn).

Others are Niger (N4.306bn), Ogun (N19.00bn), Ondo (N14.686bn), Osun (N34.988bn),Oyo (N26.606bn), Plateau (N5.357bn), Sokoto
(N10.093bn) and Zamfara (N10.02bn).

Lalasticlacla,mynd44
http://www.punchng.com/unpaid-salaries-fg-yet-to-receive-fresh-bailout-request-from-states/

APC
1. Adamawa
2.Bauchi
3.Benue
4.Borno
5.Gombe
6.Imo
7.Katsina
8.Kebbi
9.Kogi
10.Kwara
11.Nasarawa
12.Niger
13.Ogun
14.Ondo
15.Oyo
16.Osun
17.Plateau
18. So koto
19 Zamfara

Modern Maths 19/27 X 100 = 20%

DickDastardly:
The Senior Special Assistant, SSA, to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media, Garba Shehu, said on Sunday that the presidency will soon begin to hold town hall meetings with Nigerians.
Mr. Shehu made this known while answering reporters’ questions in Abuja.
According to him, government decided to embark on such meetings because it has realised the importance of information communication to the people at the grassroots.
“I[b] know that there is a plan that the Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo would start town hall meetings in zones.[/b][size=8pt][/size]
“It would then be broken down to the states and so on.

[quote author=kenonze post=44164202]PMB, we love
If this will make you spend more time at home.
Wailers will still be angry at this.
There will wail saying he won't sit down in Abuja.... .

It's Osibanjo that is going to do the meetings not Buhari.
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Osyabj:
She has been so drugged out of her mind, like Paedophile sanusi druggged the 13 year old Ese before he rapped her for 8 months. These children are working zombies after being drugged and rapped for months!!!!

But not drugged enough to say she was from Chibok when caught

Doesn't this girl have a name, she is 15 for goodness sake, old enough to know her name, her fathers name, her village and home address. Even when 5 year olds are found wandering the first thing done is to ask them their name and garner as much info to help locate their families. What's all the publicity about what should be a simple matter. She says she is from Chibok let her give info linking her to Chibok.

My advice is for you to take your mind off sex for a short while and get to know each other again. Maybe she feels all you want from her is sex. Take her out alone without the kids sometimes, for a movie or for dinner take a bat with her wit out inai sting it ends with sex. Play scrabble or whatever game the two of you once enjoyed. Talk to her, if she doesn't come to bed go and meet her and join her in whatever she is doing even if she says it's OK. Become her boyfriend again. Sometimes we get caught up in our roles as parents and forget our spouses matter. Sometimes it's small resentments that build up and snowball into big things.
Then again if your last child is less than two consider post part depression, it can turn the bubbles and most fun woman into a ghost of herself. Everything around them becomes hopeless and they cannot explain to themselves what's more to another person why they are acting the way they do.
Good luck!

So she was 13years old when she was abducted. I thought they were students in SS3 who were sitting for WAEC or are we suddenly going to be told some JSS students were involved.

To those saying the statement is true, it is an insult to all the hard working female hairdressers, marker women, doctors, lawyers, teachers, kabusa kabusa drivers,lecturers, soldiers and all other women you in this country to agree with this statement. None of you should complain tomorrow when the same Aljazera refers to you guys as drug pushers and robbers. There are so many decent young girls around but because they don't wear weaves to their waist or are dark in complexion or don't do designer shoes and clothes, or dont use a smartphone are termed razz and ugly. When you chase after a girl who is obviously living above her means and turn round to mock the young girl who cuts her cloth to her size for looking like Mary Amaka what do you expect.

EreluY:
Allycat? if you're a doctor and you swore either or both the hippocratic oath and/or physicians oath, go and have a look at the texts, and come back to tell us about your solemn pledge to consecrate your life to the service of humanity and to maintain the utmost respect for human life whether or not they are your 'registered' patients.

Yes I am a doctor and I have practised in both government and the private sector. Also I have spent time outside the country and have an idea of how medical services work in saner climes. As a foreigner go to a private hospital in the UK, USA, India, Germany or South Africa, with no social security number, no insurance or no money and tell them you are an emergency they must treat you. The best you will get is a call to a government agency to get a government ambulance to take you to a government or charity hospital. They will not attend to you period. I mentioned a foreigner because your status the is like the average Nigerian here, they have no means of finding you if you abscond or retrieving there money. If I want to be charitable I do out reaches where I give my time and spend my money on people I know cannot afford it. I have donated blood to my patients, paid for patients investigations, feeding and drugs from my pocket and so have so many doctors.I have had emergencies myself, I have family members who have had emergencies and none were handled totally free because I am a doctor. I can be involved in an accident tomorrow anywhere and not be able to identify myself , so I am not immune to what can go wrong.
So instead of blaming doctors why don't people look for a way to get together and form NGO's that will pay for emergency patients bills or provide materials to emergency departments in hospitals for indigent patients. Do something!

The hippocratic oath people keep referring too says "the health of MY patient will be my first consideration" emphasis being My. This does not make me responsible for anyone who is rushed into my clinic or hospital.You do not become my patient till I agree to manage your case. So using that to blackmail doctors is a no case submission. If that were the case why don't you put your sick relations on a plane and fly abroad and tell the doctors there to treat you free after all they swore to the same hipocrattic oath.

All we hear now is how Jonathan messed up Nigeria. The question I want to ask is what of the state governors who for 16 years collected allocations from the federation account, why are they not being held accountable? If Jonathan did not save, why didn't they save? If Jonathan did not build Federal roads what happened to the state roads. If the teaching hospitals were not functional why didn't the general hospitals become state of the art, at least that level is under state governors or do we blame the federal government for that. If Federal University education became crappy under Jonathan why didn't the local governments and state governments improve on primary and secondary education which is their business.In fact most state universities are nothing to write home about. Nowadays governors, ministers , Senators etc who were at the helm of affairs for the last 16 years and many of whom are now ministers or senators are quick to blame PDP as if they had no responsibility all this while.

27 states that received their share from the federation account cannot pay salaries and nobody is asking what the governors did with all the monies that passed through them. If the Federal government did not save what stopped the state governments from saving? if Jonathan did not build roads, or schools or hospitals, what stopped individual governors building first class roads or schools or hospitals. the same governors who served during that period are now ministers and senators and are joining to open their mouths and blame Jonathan for the state of the nation.

Those people do not resemble people that have been in IDP camp, no women, no children. People that escaped from their villages with nothing but the clothes off their back now returning with private cars, very few public transport vehicles or trucks. Their houses were burnt down and farms razed to the ground yet they are gping back empty hand Ed no sign of sup plies or anyghing. What I see are people traveling caught up in traffic somewhere in the north or correct fuel queue.

Why does he keep saying we had 42 ministries, can't his people correct him. We had 29 ministries under GEJ and 42 ministers. If he can't even get that small fact right I wonder what other things he is mixing up.

Wait oh, I hope this is not like the list the USA gave Buhari on his first state visit or the names they told Oshiomole that time

So all the money was invested in Dubai. None in Switzerland, UK, USA,Barbados, Ghana, Venezuela etc. No properties were bought in Abuja or Banana Island, no private jets were purchased. Meanwhile they said 7 ex governors, so the other 29 plus the Presidency and ministers must have shared another $600 billion since they were not as dubious as these 7. By the time they calculate all the monies stolen it will be more than 5 times all the money Nigeria has made since independence.

Kai our people are so easy to fool. All those jerry cans in the Peugeot are empty. How will they be full of fuel yet many are upside down, lying o. their sides and nothing is leaking. Tell me another story.

How could they have been coming from the international airport when they were earlier at mile 1 police station?

Freegift75:
@Allycat:

Mr Man you seem not to understand the issue well. Look back to 17 years when Military handed over to civilian government, things have gone worse.

The major challenge that leads to that is the lapses of lack of discipline in democratic practices. The who Nigeria is corrupt, politicians even lawyers are corrupt.

And this will continue till jesus comes if not checkmate.

We need military intervention to restructure Nigeria. Present set of politicians can do that. For example, what has happened to the referendum during Jonathan era?

There are influences from all angles frustrating the implementation. This is a shame

Again, Buhari forwarded a Anti-corruption bill to NASS, till today nothing has being done about it.

I'm not a kid as you insinuated. By 1999 I had already started a Nursery and Primary School which is still functioning till date.

In 1984-85 I witnessed Buhari's government which I can make references to in comparing to present dispensation.

Mohammad Buhari has intention to revive Nigeria but democracy does not permit.

If you look at the past of Military influences in Nigeria government, you just have to agree with my opinion.

Forget about the pas military leaders who are rich by crook, we need them to enact policy.

Imagine, Military can bar Tinubu, Amechi, Alimodu Sherrif, other from participating in politics but Democracy can not.

The present set of Military leaders are more wiser and innovative. We hhave both learnt fron our 17yrs democratic errors.

We need them.

Imagine, a filling station is supppose to sell fuel at N86.50k but selling at N120 and you expect democracy to continue.

I live very close to two filling stations, one sells normal price while other sells N120. That's what is destroying Nigeria.

Arise O Lord,
Influence The Military
To Lead Us Out Of Bondage

I leave you to continue living in a delusion. The military with which I worked for several years It's people like me that should be shouting military come because I will soo chop, They are wrose than you can imagine.But as I said if Oga says black is white in the military black is white, Nobody will challenge him except another coup where the new guys will come and chop their own. But I am thinking of my children and my children's children.