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And besides those of you yarning trash the reason why the banking industry is dead is cause of lack of professionals please go to the west and read psychology people that have liberal arts degrees are getting it hurt now there is massive unemployment most are going back to school for science and engineering degrees even LAW is a gamble in the west and the same applies here in nigeria

You people can abuse the poster like it or not he is saying the truth what relevance are those courses to nigeria computer science is good if you have the money to do the professional courses at the end aside that there are many people who have read it without nothing to show for it and for someone that read fine arts and wants to work in the bank well think again cause they are presently passing a bill in the senate very soon CBN won't regulate the banks it will be the chartered institue of bankers

mercylicious: I will also encourage jambites, if u apply for d courses dt r in demand and don't get it, just get admission in any available course. Bt please, try and make a 2.1 and above if u can, dts wat most employers in naija need currently.
If u wait for jamb for years and later get ur choice course bt graduate at age 30- possibility of getting an entry job is reduced except by divine intervention or connection.

I beg to differ there are alternative ways into the university there is predegree there is diploma there is IJMB A levels are there too and there are also polytechnics which after OND you can apply for direct entry

DMainMan: From previous comments, I can deduce dat most of u here ar undergraduates. However, irrespective of your courses, u all had beta studied hard and pass out with minimum of Second Class Upper. In Nigeria, a graduate of Human Kinectics from Gombe State University with Second Class Upper grade is far better and more employable than an engineering graduate from Harvard University with 2.2 grade. Almost all oil firms, banks and multinational companies in Nigeria requires 2.1 minimum in any discipline to b eligible to apply. It is worthy to note that most of these firms will train u for about one to two years so dat one wil b aquainted with dere products and services. De give prefrential treatment to First Class and 2.1 because it is generally assumed dat they wil b fast learners

guy shaarap there which harvard that school is the alma mater of 62 living billionaires wetin dey dey teach for gombe state university

Donkunze: e be lyk say no body ever go uni 4 ur family?!mcb s a waste of tym...u be mumu 100%

idiot i do not blame you ignorant black motherfucker my mom is a doctor and my dad is a lawyer do you think everything is so uninformed like you idiot

please my advice to all prospective undergraduates do not be deceived shine your eyes before picking a course go and make all necessary information the internet is there i wanted to be a lawyer and change the world yada yada but you cannot do that on an empty stomach lawyers do not have money now even doctors please refer to the punch 11th of january 2013 the economy is too messed up for any course now i don talk my own

And i repeat all the courses i mentioned above are useless a microbiologist in mobil what is he doing geophysics christ what does that even mean i prefer to go and learn a trade even if am given such a course on a platter of gold architecture yes what can an architect do a civil engineer cannot do even an ss3 student offering TD can draw a basic plan of a house and besides the nigerian government is not building any infrastructure maybe in the next 100 years when government is serious architecture and civil engineer will become hot cake

Thanks to all those who have abused me no be fight this is a public forum and am entitled to my own opinion the world is competitive education does not guarantee a good life but the thing with students if JAMB frustrates and you cannot get your dream course go and learn a trade one would be surprised how much some of these traders make go to alaba and you will be surprised if you think it is only nigeria that is suffering from unemployment think again even the yanks are not finding it easy most student now refuse to go to college considering america has 4128 universities people prefer trade schools same in switzerland nigerians should continue deceiving themselves i rest my case

oyedun82: disagree wit u on theology nd history.

Only in this country we all want to be rich once you pass through university gate. Is it a must u must be succesful with the course you studie in d institution?

Have seen a yoruba graduate working as an accountant while al this accountancy student they carry cv up nd down.

this only happens in nigerias economy that is why things are not working out as they should in america if you read history you will end up at mcdonalds working at eight dollars fifty cent an hour with 70000 dollars student loan debt to pay

And besides not all engineering degree are equal civil engineers are not in demand

Havilah93: you kidding?
Microbiology a waste of time?

it is where will you work I know so many of them that make less than 50000 naira a month my advice to students look at the economy of your country before picking a course to study even the yanks aint finding it easy if you are not going for engineering or medicine no need going to college stay at home cause the student loan debt are at an all time high

French russian and asian languages yoruba law

Botany and geophysics and microbiology and environmental biology and history and theology and religious studies and architecture

Am not a medic am a young teenage boys who loves to read a lot and that article is from the punch you can go read it at punchng.com if there are not so much why are doctors unemployed I have always hated the course

Guy we have enough doctors look at the number of universities in nigeria and each produces between 150 to 200 doctors every year so that means in a year we are producing not less than 4000 doctors or didn't you hear that doctors are unemployed now my children will never study such a course unless they are overseas

The point is that medicine is a useless course very useless most doctors are suffering take it or leave it

Why medicine this same medicine that there is no money in God forbid she should have gone for petroleum and gas or marine engineering

The news about a medical doctor who abandoned medicine to become an oil pipeline thief may have cast a pall on the prestige of what is supposed to be a noble profession. But a seeming loss of the prestige of medicine did not start today. You may have heard it before that many doctors regret reading medicine. For me, it was during my secondary school days. I had told a neighbour who was a doctor, who further endeared me to the profession, that I would want to read medicine, and I thought he would have been pleased. But I was taken aback when he said I should instead go into engineering or even banking like my dad. He said medicine was not worth the trouble. I felt his advice was suspicious. I also recall a visit to our family doctor then. When I told him my ambition, he said, “Why medicine? Since I got into medical school I have not rested, even till now.” In my young mind, I just concluded that some people would say anything to make sure others don’t become like them.

I got into medicine anyway. I remember always waking up with a start. The only thought was how to scale anatomy, physiology and biochemistry. I thought it strange when other students from other departments made a face when I told them I studied late in the cadaver room. We dissected with our bare hands, and from there to the cafeteria. Reading was not by choice. It was a race against time. Twenty four hours was not enough, so you found yourself borrowing from the next day and accruing deficits.

Well, I passed somehow and got into the clinical class. Just when I thought the hurdle had been reduced, without congratulating us, the Dean, Clinical Sciences in introducing us to the clinic said: “If you think you have made it, you are wrong. This is the time to decide whether you should continue the journey―or to voluntarily withdraw!” This is despite those who were withdrawn. And despite those who became psychiatric.

Though a teacher of mine boasted about the study of medicine: “It has never been easy, and it will never be easy,” many doctors do not want their children to be doctors. A 2007 survey by Merritt, Hawkins indicated that 57 per cent of 1,175 doctors questioned would not recommend the field to their children. Another teacher of mine said his son was “crazy enough to become a doctor.”

With the coming of the Information Age, doctors have been demystified. The awe is for software scientists, and those who can give us breathtaking electronic gadgets. And that is where smart kids now go into, and of course, sports and music. Perhaps, Bill Gates or the late Steve Jobs would not have been popular if they were doctors.

Never known before, there is now unemployment in the profession. After medical school, you have to do the compulsory one-year internship. There are fewer accredited places for internship than the number of medical graduates. Even those with accreditation lack the funds to absorb. So you find fresh doctors staying more than a year, even up to two years to get placement. And by the Medical and Dental Council law, if you do not do the internship within two years of graduating, you have to write a council exam. Even after the compulsory National Youth Service Corps scheme, doctors still look for work. Many doctors who want to become specialists, have passed their primaries, but cannot get anywhere to do their residency programme. I know some who have given up on that dream after many years of attending fruitless interviews. The majority of doctors, many with primaries, are doing one locum or the other in a private hospital where they are paid as low as N60, 000 per month.

There are other disincentives. In the US, doctors face malpractice regularly. And many have stopped practising. Yet, the majority of lawsuits brought are frivolous. In more than 91 per cent of cases, the defendants won. And only six per cent of all lawsuits go to trial. Those that are not thrown out are settled amicably. In Nigeria, it is catching on. Of course, doctors who make gross inexcusable mistakes are liable, as those who are unqualified. When a patient dies here, and the hospital remains the best place to, there must be something the doctor should have done he did not do. As doctors, we took an oath, yes, but the oath did not say we will save everybody. Even Jesus did not save everybody. There was still a son of perdition.

The typical scenario in Nigeria is that the patient has taken all sorts of self-medication including traditional concoction, and when organs have damaged they are rushed into the hospital for the doctor to perform a miracle. Children are brought in chronically ill-looking, very anaemic and needing blood transfusion because the parents’ neighbours told them it is “teething”. When you tell a woman she will have an elective caesarian section because she risks a uterine rupture from a previous caesarian section, she will say “I reject it”. Many laboratory investigations cannot be done because there are no reagents. There are many diagnostic tools that Nigerian doctors only read about in textbooks. Many patients are also poor and cannot do investigations when it is available and cannot buy their medications. So your medical knowledge hangs in the air.

There are still other frustrations of daily clinical life. In most government hospitals, the crowd stretches the capacity of the hospital. In seeing a patient, a doctor is making the most of the 15 or so minutes he has to be with the patient, but the patients outside grumble that you are taking a long time. But when they themselves get inside the surgery, they don’t want to leave. Some patients complain that their doctor does not listen. But it is not so. As New York Times health columnist, Danielle Ofri, puts it, “Sometimes, it feels as though my brain is juggling so many competing details, that one stray request from a patient—even one that is quite relevant—might send the delicately balanced three-ring circus tumbling down.” She calculated the number of thoughts a primary care doctor juggles to do a satisfactory job, and tabulated 550. She said doctors keep pushing so many balls into the air and that there is no doubt a few will fall. As it stands, it seems that doctors will simply have to continue this impossible mental high-wire act, juggling dozens of clinical issues in their brains, panicking about dropping a critical one. The resultant neuronal overload will continue to present a distracted air to their patients that may be interpreted as they not listening, or perhaps not caring.

Ofri, adds that when her computer becomes overloaded, it simply crashes. Usually, she reboots in a fury, angry about all her lost work. However, she views her computer with a tinge of envy. It has the luxury of being able to crash, and of a reassuring, omniscient hand to press the reboot button. Physicians are permitted no such extravagance.

There are still other things to ponder on. The retirement age of professors is now 70. Yet, critically speaking, doctors do more for the people. How about increasing their retirement age to 70 also? It pains me when doctors go on strike. But how about removing doctors from the civil service structure and creating something different that covers all doctors in government and the private settings? How about empowering many other hospitals, including the private ones to do internship and residency training? How about increasing the budget that goes to health? Wait a minute. Where is the National Health Bill?

I can’t deny that sometimes, I feel if I had not been a doctor life would have been much easier. I do not have to do calls. My sleep will not have to be interrupted by distress telephone calls. I do not have to leave my wife in a dash. I am condemned to have more than my own fair share of grieving, for every patient that dies in my unit is somehow connected to me. Gasp, and needle pricks!

But, I also shudder at what it would mean for patients if doctors walked away from medicine because of the frustrations. I still marvel at discovering the wonder of the human body. The honour of being trusted by my patient to give them advice, the gratitude the elderly ones especially show when helping them through their illness, their prayers and blessings. These things will remain unchanging. When I look at all these – I still consider myself lucky and privileged to be placed to look after God’s creation

It depends on what you went to school to read you do not expect to have a liberal arts degree and life will be rosy yes there is unemployment but an engineer and a doctor that knows his or her onions can never go hungry so before going to school make research go on the internet find out if what you are going to study is relevant to your countrys economy

The chick is on her own o abeg I no fit fight chei what if the guy is one tall ferocious looking giant with 8 packs hmm no I go even beg am oga u no try she be woman u for pity am na so many people have lost their lives doing what red mosquito would do

Please I would love to know what this guy studied in the university the other day I read an article from yahoo written by a harvard professor and he said if you aren't going to college to study engineering, medicine, law, or accounting you are better off at a trade school instead of wasting thousands of dollars on a degree that is not marketable before we say anything what did this study was it relevant to the UK economy no one goes to school to study trash you must look at your countrys economy before picking a course in the university even though medical doctors are not rich they can never go hungry same with accountants and engineers they are all professionals

Men north no know book o 17 pass common WAEC chei men what is nigeria waiting for we need to divide this country we cannot live together lie lie until then we cannot move forward this people have destroyed nigeria hausa o only suya and almajiri and Bleep una know chei

Just passed out of secondary school last year had a fairly good WAEC result 1A and 6Bs and would love to be a marine engineer I love the maritime sector the open sea and all that

I wish for nigeria to divide into two northern and southern nigeria just like korea someone say amen

When Salifu Odiba gained admission to study Medicine and Surgery at University of Jos in 1996, his dream was to one day own his hospital.

But two years after his graduation, the 35-year-old doctor abandoned his stethoscope and chose life on the fast lane by joining pipeline vandalism cartel.

Odiba, who was recently arrested in Kogi State by the Police Special Task Force on Anti-Pipeline Vandalism, Force Headquarters, said he was attracted to the illegal business because it was lucrative.

He said, “I spent eight years studying Medicine and Surgery in UNIJOS and graduated in 2004 and later served in Bauchi State. A year later, I got a job at Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission where I practised for six months. But I was later asked to leave.

“I moved to Kogi in 2006 and it was there that a friend introduced me to the business. I was making good money and later got a part time job at Federal Medical Centre. I received N90,000 as monthly salary which was not enough for me. So, I stuck to the pipeline business.”

The suspect added that he even had a part-time job at another hospital but the commission he received was too little.

Describing his modus operandi, the Kogi State indigene said he acted as a middleman for the vandals and buyers.

He said although he never destroyed a pipeline, he was actively involved in the business and soon became popular.

He said he was usually paid commission by pipeline vandals and buyers after he had sold the products.

 “People started calling me ‘oil doctor’ because I always had ready buyers for all kinds of petroleum products. Oil business is very lucrative especially in Kogi State where as many as 17 trucks of petroleum products could be siphoned and sold in one night,” he said.

Odiba lamented that the medical profession was no longer as prestigious as it was due to the “large number” of people practising it.

“People don’t visit hospitals like before. These days, many Nigerians prefer to take self medication,” he said.

Narrating how he was arrested, the suspect said he was contacted by a source at Lokoja, the state capital, who claimed to have large quantities of oil in a barge.

He said he was on his way to finalise the deal when policemen arrested him.

Odiba, who vowed not to return to crime if released, burst into tears when narrating the hardship he had suffered in the past.

He said although N90, 000 was not a poor salary, the pressures of having to take care of his siblings fuelled his greed.

He said, “I have four siblings and my parents are retired. I am the first son and through this business, I have been able to sponsor two of my siblings through university and they have graduated. I don’t spend the money I make on myself. I have a fiancée but I can’t even afford a wedding now.

“I don’t want my siblings to suffer and I did this for them. Crime for me was due to a quest for survival but I promise never to go back to it. I spent last year’s Christmas in police custody after being arrested in Kaduna. This year again, I’m spending my Christmas in detention.

“I’m tired of this life of crime and I promise never to go back to it again. My dream is still to own a hospital and even while doing the oil business; I rendered free medical services to people.”

Odiba, who was arrested and detained for a similar offence last year, said he was released and warned when investigation showed that he only played a minor role.

The Officer in charge of the task force, Friday Ibadin said Odiba’s case was proof that not only miscreants were into the illegitimate business.

He said, “The suspect was arrested at Lokoja.  Ajaokuta specifically has become a haven for these criminals. The business is very lucrative because a tanker of crude oil could be bought illegally for as low as N800, 000 and resold at N5m during scarcity.

“This is economic sabotage and it carries a life sentence. Members of the public are hereby warned to stay away from the nation’s pipelines.”

http://www.punchng.com/metro/doctor-abandons-medicine-becomes-pipeline-vandal/

Men poverty na curse o if they born man and e decide say e go poor men life go hard see as niggas are living the life choi