₦airaland Forum

teamchocolate:
You have obviously misunderstood me.. there is nowhere I said minister of health equals surgeon general... Nigeria's health system is quite like no other... I was just trying to infer from my post that the head of any medical team is always the doctor (M.D) however you want to look at it...


Particularly in the Nigerian context, it is imperative that a doctor heads the health system.. allied health workers should remain just that...allied!

And just curious, the chief medical officers you met, were they doctors or allied health workers... I have had a brief stint with UK NHS, pls humor me and tell me they were allied health workers...

Ok.
But in developed climes, we talk of multidisciplinary team. We now have "nurse specialists, consultant nurse".....and so on.

Nurses are doing more specialised job, and delegating more jobs to nurses, provided they are trained to do so, is the way forward. Patients get treated quicker. Midwives now do a whole lot, and O&G docs don't have to see some at all. Same with dialysis & to some extent with chemotherapy/radiotherapy.

Why this epistle? Because you might be in a position in the health service some day to bring progressive approach.

That way, the cat & mouse thing between docs & other healthcare professionals in 9ja will reduce.

teamchocolate:
He insulted my teacher and senior colleague first..

In most countries that you speak, they don't have minister of health, what they have is a SURGEON-GENERAL who is always a doctor..forget the propaganda of one army surgeon nurse who is surgeon general in the US, I have had this argument countless times..
The Surgeon general is ALWAYS A DOCTOR. (M.D)

US is just one country. Even US has a Secretary of Health & Human Services. Current one is Sylvia Matthews Burwell.

UK, Eire, France, Germany, Australia, South Africa, India and most commonwealth countries have one.

Surgeon-General is NOT minister of health, please don't mislead people. It's equivalent to Chief Medical Officer in UK. There is Chief Nursing Officer too.
I have even met both Liam & Sally, previous & Current CMOs.

Haba! Just admit and learn if you don't know something.

teamchocolate:
It's obvious ur not a doctor, and it's more obvious that ur not very smart, or else u won't be talking about a professor, a teacher of medical teachers that way! Ode! Receive sense IJN

I don't really condone insulting anybody but in most countries, health ministers are not doctors, not even pharmacists or nurses. Yet they do brilliant jobs.

I know many medical profs. Most won't make good administrators/ministers. Being a dean, VC or MD of a teaching hospital won't necessarily prepare one for such a political job. Except they have more extensive exposure to politics previously. Like Chris Ngige, Peter Odili (though PDP member), etc.

I think they should stick to medicine/surgery & research.

ojimbo:
affecting the most religious country in the world. i believed thoes God of men never see this one coming. i wonder if God hates us so much upon all we worship him here in africa

Maybe when we start emulating Jesus instead of worshipping jetsetters, recognise that faith without work is dead, just maybe then, we will get our acts together.

olayemifisayo:
Please, send your email address.

area.fada@yahoo.com

Lamasta:
Do you know that letter carries the President`s signature and you are here typing and blabbing to defend your President`s error ooh no wonder even the budget itself is full of error and contradiction.....

Nor mind them.

If it was during GEJ's time, they would say he must have got an ogogoro drinker to write it.

Their embarrassment is so profound that they are on 24/7 face-saving mission.

They have their work cut out. From defending wrong budget, to defending error in letter to correct wrong budget, and defending rip off bank deposit/transfer charges and policy flip flop/summersault.

udemzy101:
That's how u fail exam.... Using an example that doesn't relate to the question...


Tell your nepa bill certificate holder to check properly before ordering his secretary to send any letter

Abi o. Instead of making the country the butt of ridicule.

Who knows all the gbagaun they blow inside diplomatic letters to UN, ECOWAS, UNESCO, WTO, EU and countries/missions they write letters to?

A country that produced Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Ben Okri, Emecheta, Adiche, Saro-Wiwa and more.
Chai!

So the presidency with well-paid appointees, SAs & SSAs cannot write a letter of a few lines without errors?

Why do we lack attention to detail even at the highest level?

Does it mean nobody proof-reads these letters?

What a mess.

cktheluckyman:
Jonathan'government did not initiate amnesty for the militants rather it was Yaradua that did

Jonathan as VP personally went to meet with creek militants without bodyguards, with extremely high risk of being kidnapped to negotiate on behalf of FG.

I guess you have selectively forgotten that now.

In trying to discredit GEJ, we should not rewrite history so soon.

Was VP Sambo able to negotiate peace deal with Boko Haram on behalf of FG? Capital NO.

olayemifisayo:
Regards!!!
*plantain do well here
*labour is very available
*things a safe and secure over here
*No option of buy 5 get 1 free, what you buy you own
*Yes, I can

Thank you sir.

What's the cost involved in managing one acre for example: clearing, ploughing, seedlings, planting, weeding, harvesting, marketing & your commission? For plants like Watermelon, Plantain, Cassava, cucumber.

That would be used to see how much for more acres if necessary.

meforyou1:
u are very funny. A big clown. A typical rural ebonyi man. Your backwardness is a disgrace to igboland.
Once we get Biafra, we will cut you guys out. U are not igbos one bit. Go join your Hausa Fulani 7th century people in the far north

Hahahaha!

Chai! Wahala dey o. So you even discriminate against core Igbo people like Ebonyi people? What of Anioma then?

I have no Igbo ancestry whatsoever. I just know they have great work ethic, business acumen and superb intelligence. From all over Igboland.

I have no reason to discriminate against anyone. Because I have great sense of my history & civilisation.

Discriminating against a section of your own tribe shows your innate primitive dispensation.

God forbid.

mobaladf:
See how this guy waste money build house wey be say na 1ne room im go sleep

It's a good pension investment. Basically eight houses in one. But we overbuild in 9ja. Those pillars gulp money and hardly add anything except to appear ostentatious.

You can still build those houses to be beautiful and look more sleek/slim line, yet command similar rental value. That would increase ROI.

Hahahaha!

The Zombies are secretly saying "Baba GMB, no come use shame catch us o, Wailing wailers will roast us". But they cannot admit it publicly on NL.

Only very few are willing to say so here. You know some people will rather "commit suicide" than kill themselves out of shame.

Dame Patience's grammar suddenly make sense. Showing two fingers to those who used to laugh at her.

ritababe:
Why dont we look for solution now instead of waiting for the west, i thought we deal with ebola by ourself, please the president should wakeup before it get out of hands.

My dear, we have brilliant molecular biologists, geneticists, biochemists, pharmacologists and an array of other medical/biomedical scientists. We have the highest prevalence of twin births in the world. All these resources are pure gold mine for scientific research. But we never use them.

I shake my head when I stumble upon medical research done at Uniben/UBTH, UI/UCH, ABU, UNN, Unilag/LUTH and other schools in Nigeria back in the 1970s/early 1980s. They were on par with Oxbridge & University of London standard.

But alas, we went to sleep. Dornroeschen schlaefchen as Germans would say.

meforyou1:
keep quiet joor. With all the advancements in technology, you are still using century-old method to source for water

You are very naïve.

70% of Nigerians live in the rural areas. Where do you think your grandparents come from? New York City?

How many boreholes have you sunk in your life to help others with relatively clean water?

I sunk my first one about 20 years ago. I mentioned it in the "Mini-gas plant thread" on NL some days ago.

Writing rubbish & criticising things here behind computer/phone screen is easy.

Those who criticise everything often contribute the least.

LOVEGINO:
Sai Changee! but to be realistic, they must be dull because they suppose make it more wider & deeper. #CommonSense

Not that logical as you think. this would be a nice clean river before dry season.

Digging would disrupt the river bed. Might yield water for now, but would affect flow later on.

They learnt over centuries to let water seep out little by little, makes it cleaner too.

babseg:
Seriously? See grammar oo. Make I correct u

He rip what he soul

Shekina

Actually, he reaped what he sowed. Like he harvested the bad corn he planted. A theme common in the Bible.

sucess001:
forgive the lawyer in me but its easy to see these are fake pictures...or i ll say the pictures don't relate to the message...


What is the evidence that the food are for school children.....


Even if they are..how come the plate, wooden table and and camera quality is same for most of the countries...?


My take? it is different meals prepared by same person and nothing to suggest it is for school children...

Having seen some of those meals in real life and in pics of friends' kids in schools, they are not really far from it.

Remember meals change daily. The French one might contain baguette/French bread stick lump next day.

Problem with 9ja is embezzlement. Not much left to buy decent trays/plates to serve the food. Even cooks will corner rice, garri, beans, ingredient and take home.

lawanson44:
No wonder French people are so lekpacious! All fruits and Veggies. No Fat or Carbs.

Exactly, very nutritious & low calories.

French, Spanish & Italian in that order.

RIP

adekanmbi1986:
What's the package like ? And can we see pix ?

Seconded

Spybradd:
Is that charade and scam of an election gonna stand? And again if audu's (rip) so called votes didnt stand for faleke,it shudnt stand for the current beneficiary either,whatever his name is.
Apc,much ado about bulshiit..

I tire o. APC just have trouble abiding by basic rules.

Faleke & Audu were on a joint ticket. Votes had already been cast in most places, whether conclusive or not.

If APC was a party that plays straight politics and lead by example, Faleke should get the mandate.

They can then negotiate with him to go for only one term in office. If he reneges in 4 years' time, they can use the legislators to impeach him.

Mtschew.....

So there are people who still believe people just because they bear pastor title.

My experience with certain so-called pastors make me suspect pastors more than the average person out there.

Once & twice bitten, gazillion times shy.

Nice one.

Congrats! You have got yourself a fine Edo bride. Joining the league of OBJ, Danjuma & co.

You can manage 500k. Sit down with your babe and decide what's important.
She can let her family know the size of the occasion you're planning.

Certainly let her know your budget and you can both work around that.

No need to rent a hall. The bride's family house, church's own hall or local school will do nicely for reception.

Generally in Edo, bride price is a token. In many families, they even return most of the token to you. Symbolically to use to look after their daughter.

As for the list, there are slight variations from village to village, from town to town. Your in-laws will give you your exact list.

You're sure to enjoy the colourful occasion.

Tip: a contingency sum of about 100k would be a good thing.

Louislewis:
[size=18pt] Is Imo Water Corporation not essential to the masses? Why closing it down?[/size]

Well, they have abdicated the job of water provision to private individuals using boreholes.

You thought chanting "change" will actually change anything?

adewasco2k:
Calling any substandard phone a "china phone" is lame to me though.

Well, for those of us with a few years on our backs, it's not really lame.

Because it used to be Taiwan. Any substandard good used to called "Taiwan".

If you went to an Igbo man's shop, you'd ask not to be given Taiwan Walkman, Cassette recorder, camera, fan belt or even cutlass sef.

Taiwan was even technologically way ahead of China then.

tsdarkside:
give the guy a break...our own just too much.....

others are here to keep things running..........

nigeria has a goverment and constitution.....buhari is just the face of our goverment and constitution,,,....

our goverment and constitution will still run even without him around....that is the beauty of democracy....

Running it always does. After all it even did when Yar'Adua was comatose.

On cabal & autopilot.

oglalasioux:
Don't listen to people who tell you to forget this. Restore the dignity of your family. Do everything in your power to stop this marriage. Your family was insulted by this man. Don't take it lightly. Be a man.

Stopping the marriage is not his business.

BUT... his Egbon needs to know the whole truth.

Imagine a scenario where 5 or 10 years later, the girl's parents make her to deal mercilessly with his Egbon.

And then the OP now comes out with all he knows about his in-laws.

Would that not be "betraying" Egbon on such a crucial life matter like marriage??

ladyF:
I think I support the OP. I would probably do the same if not worse if someone ever treated my family this way. A physical attack on my parents is synonymous with a personal attack on me. Your brother has to know at least, whether or not he decides to continue with the wedding is up to him, but he certainly has to know!!!
I can't watch you attack my own family and stay quiet for life. God himself will understand.

Very correct.

That family will also not hesitate to use their daughter to attack her husband in the future. It might be to divorce him and collect his property in America.

@ OP, How can the girl's parents even look your family eye to eye and form happy in-laws?

Children learn things from their parents. I won't risk marrying a girl from such a family.

She might appear "cool-headed" now, they usually are until marriage. Then they show their true colours.

Olorun maje.

I hope her family ia already aware.

Na another man pikin dey your house, except you wan enter wahala.

4nobody4every1:
......So it means the Oni is superior, right....

I think that is the wrong way to look at it.

To the world for centuries, Oyo Empire kept the flag flying. Fighting off Jihadists that would have subjugated all of Yourubaland under the Fulanis. Despite losing Illorin.

Benin Empire did same to Keep jihadists from invading Northern Edo from Idah. The wars lasted good six years.

The Hausa kingdoms for example did not succeed in doing that.

But before that, Oodua and his descendant rulers enabled the process of at least minimally centralizing Yorubaland towards a greater sense of ethnic/cultural identity. And that is no mean feat.

At this point in history, it should be about complimenting each other:The Ooni, Alaafin, Awujale, Olowo, Alake, Deji, Eleko, Olubadan, Ataoja, Soun, and many others.