SeverusSnape:
What the hell is wrong with this man

He always makes negative prophecies and never proffers solution for the impending doom.

As for the attacks, This is a wake up call for European countries, You don't openly welcome terrorist Mohammedans into your country and expect them to be peaceful, never!...The E.U better make more stringent laws about immigration especially from the middle east and all ISLAMIC countries.

I've not been my self today because of those attacks, Indeed, This religion of peace is really pissful.

RIP to all the dead.

He gave solution now. Did he not tell them to pray? Read the post again.

Mekky05:
Op,that's naija for you! ***Modified*** FTC again? A whole lot of things is still keeping our country tied up on the ground,I keep on saying it over and over again.. Amalgamation of 1914 should be termed one of the greatest mistakes or decisions of the 19th century,it should be in the Guiness World Records. Nairalanders, do have a lovely weekend ahead.

You are funny. So amalgamation makes people corrupt abi?

OP, you are the most sensible igbo I have seen on Nairaland. You too get sense!

RexTramadol1:
When u talk of Value for money








OAU is the cheapest







When you talk of Quantity not Quality







Any school can be cheap






#Lobatan!

This is the issue I have with this OAU students. They rarely leave ife or for those that leave, they never leave the southwest to see other schools. Yet they blindly believe their school is the best on earth. Funny people. Keep living on past glory. E funny gaan!!

olrotimi:
Let me weigh into the discussion.
Firstly, Op you have spoken well and have spoken our mind. The state of health care in Nigeria is appalling to say the least. Lemme give my experience :
During my service year, I was the only doctor covering a general hospital in Ebonyi state and also the only health professional who 'sleeps -in'. After over working myself with the out patients, probably had one or two surgeries, I'd then be faced with call duty which is another story entirely. I play the role of doctor, nurse, pharmacist and oftentimes, health records. Oftentimes I get woken up at midnight by a woman in labour. With no nurse or midwife to assist me, I have to do what I have to do, as if I turn them away, they would end up with untrained traditional birth attendants. I have conducted countless deliveries including daring ones (twin gestations, breech, and placenta previa) sometimes with just one forceps and one scissors and just a head lamp. Ethically, this is wrong, but does my patient understand ethics, These I did 24/7 for a year and I was paid for just two months.
Bottom line is this : No one appreciates the circumstances we have to work under, ofcus we don't need your sympathy, but be guided by your glib talk and vituperations (like the poster above) cos many of you have inherent disdain for health professionals and nothing we say here would change it.

My exact sentiments. Awesome comment. Better Person!!

zed7:
If you guys have no doctors or inadequate personnel then please close the hospital.
It's not an excuse you are giving. The duty of every medical personnel is to save life. Imagine how silly you are to say what you have said and called it a defence.
Haven't you met doctors who try to save accident victims even when they do not have their kits with them? They use whatever is available and make an attempt. No matter the situation, the medical personnel should make an attempt to help, reassure the patient and kindly refer them somewhere else.
This is not usually the case as our Nigerian nurses and doctors are arrogant and treat you like thrash.
Like the Nigerian society, you are only treated with respect if you have money.
Mr/Madam nurse, you excuse or defense is lame. The family of the man should have lynched you also. You people's attitude and not lack of facilities caused the man's death.

Very senseless comment. Shoro niyen?

New cases of the dreaded disease have been discovered in Serialleone
pulse.ng/health/ebola-sierra-leone-suffers-setback-two-new-cases-recorded-id3904275.html

By Chimamanda Adichie
A few days ago, the Oba of Lagos threatened Igbo leaders. If they did not vote
for his governorship candidate in Lagos, he said, they would be thrown into the
lagoon. His entire speech was a flagrant performance of disregard. His words
said, in effect: I think so little of you that I don’t have to cajole you but will just
threaten you and, by the way, your safety in Lagos is not assured, it is
negotiable.
There have been condemnations of the Oba’s words. Sadly, many of the
condemnations from non-Igbo people have come with the ugly impatience of
expressions like ‘move on,’ and ‘don’t be over-emotional’ and ‘calm down.’
These take away the power, even the sincerity, of the condemnations. It is
highhanded and offensive to tell an aggrieved person how to feel, or how quickly
to forgive, just as an apology becomes a non-apology when it comes with ‘now
get over it.’
Other condemnations of the Oba’s words have been couched in dismissive or
diminishing language such as ‘The Oba can’t really do anything, he isn’t actually
going to kill anyone. He was joking. He was just being a loudmouth.’
Or – the basest yet – ‘we are all prejudiced.’ It is dishonest to respond to a
specific act of prejudice by ignoring that act and instead stressing the generic
and the general. It is similar to responding to a specific crime by saying ‘we are
all capable of crime.’ Indeed we are. But responses such as these are
diversionary tactics. They dismiss the specific act, diminish its importance, and
ultimately aim at silencing the legitimate fears of people.
We are indeed all prejudiced, but that is not an appropriate response to an issue
this serious. The Oba is not an ordinary citizen. He is a traditional ruler in a part
of a country where traditional rulers command considerable influence – the
reluctance on the part of many to directly chastise the Oba speaks to his power.
The Oba’s words matter. He is not a singular voice; he represents traditional
authority. The Oba’s words matter because they are enough to incite violence in
a political setting already fraught with uncertainty. The Oba’s words matter even
more in the event that Ambode loses the governorship election, because it would
then be easy to scapegoat Igbo people and hold them punishable.
Nigerians who consider themselves enlightened might dismiss the Oba’s words
as illogical. But the scapegoating of groups – which has a long history all over
the world – has never been about logic. The Oba’s words matter because they
bring worrying echoes of the early 1960s in Nigeria, when Igbo people were
scapegoated for political reasons. Chinua Achebe, when he finally accepted that
Lagos, the city he called home, was unsafe for him because he was Igbo, saw
crowds at the motor park taunting Igbo people as they boarded buses: ‘Go, Igbo,
go so that garri will be cheaper in Lagos!’
Of course Igbo people were not responsible for the cost of garri. But they were
perceived as people who were responsible for a coup and who were ‘taking over’
and who, consequently, could be held responsible for everything bad.
Any group of people would understandably be troubled by a threat such as the
Oba’s, but the Igbo, because of their history in Nigeria, have been particularly
troubled. And it is a recent history. There are people alive today who were
publicly attacked in cosmopolitan Lagos in the 1960s because they were Igbo.
Even people who were merely light-skinned were at risk of violence in Lagos
markets, because to be light-skinned was to be mistaken for Igbo.
Almost every Nigerian ethnic group has a grouse of some sort with the Nigerian
state. The Nigerian state has, by turns, been violent, unfair, neglectful, of
different parts of the country. Almost every ethnic group has derogatory
stereotypes attached to it by other ethnic groups.
But it is disingenuous to suggest that the experience of every ethnic group has
been the same. Anti-Igbo violence began under the British colonial government,
with complex roots and manifestations. But the end result is a certain psychic
difference in the relationship of Igbo people to the Nigerian state. To be Igbo in
Nigeria is constantly to be suspect; your national patriotism is never taken as
the norm, you are continually expected to prove it.
All groups are conditioned by their specific histories. Perhaps another ethnic
group would have reacted with less concern to the Oba’s threat, because that
ethnic group would not be conditioned by a history of being targets of violence,
as the Igbo have been.
Many responses to the Oba’s threat have mentioned the ‘welcoming’ nature of
Lagos, and have made comparisons between Lagos and southeastern towns like
Onitsha. It is valid to debate the ethnic diversity of different parts of Nigeria, to
compare, for example, Ibadan and Enugu, Ado-Ekiti and Aba, and to debate who
moves where, and who feels comfortable living where and why that is. But it is
odd to pretend that Lagos is like any other city in Nigeria. It is not. The political
history of Lagos and its development as the first national capital set it apart.
Lagos is Nigeria’s metropolis. There are ethnic Igbo people whose entire lives
have been spent in Lagos, who have little or no ties to the southeast, who speak
Yoruba better than Igbo. Should they, too, be reminded to be ‘grateful’ each
time an election draws near?
No law-abiding Nigerian should be expected to show gratitude for living
peacefully in any part of Nigeria. Landlords in Lagos should not, as still happens
too often, be able to refuse to rent their property to Igbo people.
The Oba’s words were disturbing, but its context is even more disturbing:
The anti-Igbo rhetoric that has been part of the political discourse since the
presidential election results. Accusatory and derogatory language – using words
like ‘brainwashed,’ ‘tribalistic voting’ – has been used to describe President
Jonathan’s overwhelming win in the southeast. All democracies have regions
that vote in large numbers for one side, and even though parts of Northern
Nigeria showed voting patterns similar to the Southeast, the opprobrium has
been reserved for the Southeast.
But the rhetoric is about more than mere voting. It is really about citizenship. To
be so entitled as to question the legitimacy of a people’s choice in a democratic
election is not only a sign of disrespect but is also a questioning of the full
citizenship of those people.
What does it mean to be a Nigerian citizen?
When Igbo people are urged to be ‘grateful’ for being in Lagos, do they somehow
have less of a right as citizens to live where they live? Every Nigerian should be
able to live in any part of Nigeria. The only expectation for a Nigerian citizen
living in any part of Nigeria is to be law-abiding. Not to be ‘grateful.’ Not to be
expected to pay back some sort of unspoken favour by toeing a particular
political line. Nigerian citizens can vote for whomever they choose, and should
never be expected to justify or apologize for their choice.
Only by feeling a collective sense of ownership of Nigeria can we start to forge a
nation. A nation is an idea. Nigeria is still in progress. To make this a nation, we
must collectively agree on what citizenship means: all Nigerians must matter
equally.

lol...3rd to comment....frontpage material. One day i knw say i go be 1st to comment...hehehe

theorbiters:


Oooooo, for the last time, who will decide the elections was free and fair or rigged? Now, wen APC loses, trust they can't fold their arms and say it was fair, never. So is it wen they win, they wud acknowledge it was fair? Haba, think am again.

Well, you get point sha

seunayantokun:
Johesu members are professionals and they should be treated so. They are not in competition with anyone. The health sector does not belong to those guys in medicine only. There is need to treat a doc as a doc and a nurse as a nurse, etc. They all make decisions to help the patient. This is part of what is obtainable in advanced countries where our political leaders run to for health care services.

One of those infuriating situation is that which makes even a yet+to-be-fully qualified (resident doc) to lord it over other professionals in a hospital on issues he/she knows next to nothing about. Why on earth should a doc head the nursing department? Why can't nurses who are qualified to be consultants be so recongnised. Don't we have communication, accountant, language, etc consultants in those various fields? Why is it only those in medicine that can become consultants in Nigeria's health sector?

In the US that most of us are quick to cite as an example, there have been surgeon general office for quite a long time. However, the question is how many medical doctors have ever occupied it? I don't think there have even been more than one if any. The way Yayale's report want to package it under the name special health adviser won't work. If it is packaged in such a way that professionals who are knowledgeable in the field of public health and others can occupy it, then it won't be seen as medical doctors' advantage to further put other professionals down under them.

A hospital where docs are almighty won't help anyone. That is why those who have the wherewithal flee abroad for care.

So, my prayer is that the government should do it the way it is done in the US, Canada, Britain, etc for permanent peace.

You are obviously a johesu member and you are high on a hard drug called....INFERIORITY COMPLEX! Grow up!

theorbiters:
So, APC can open that their trashy mouth to say they wud form a parallel govt if they lose but this guy can't open his mouth to say SS youth wud shut down the economy. I see.

APC=thugs

They never said if they 'lose'. They said if 'election is rigged'.

makhez019:
Y all dis fulaniz dhe wan tarnish jona tenure y?

Because Oga Jonah is an expert in ineptitude....Thats why.

WhiteTechnology:
Yawns

It is their region


Northern Christians the lord is your strength

This is the most stupid comment i have read on nairaland this year and Iam sure it will be for months before another stupid comment takes over. Such insensitivity and wickedness! So because it is not happening in ur locality, u dont care. See, Boko haram is the collective problem of Nigeria. If they conquer the north, then they will come to the south. Just pray they dont launch the southern invasion from your family house. Mtcheeew!

stebell:


My broda did I hear say the NE is for Buhari? Jus wait a little while it will be clearer to yu and the rest.

Has Buhari won in Kastina his home state b4? Go check that out.

GEJ all the way.

you are very funny. so u think pipo in the northeast will vote for a man that cannot protect them from boko haram. You must be a clown to believe so!

hedonistic:
These are old pictures, you slow poke. At least three years old. Besides, it has already been widely discussed on the Internet when it first appeared years ago, so what's the point of digging it up now?

Just the same way u jonathanians dig up old buhari stories abi....See, Jonathan is a clueless president and he must be flushed out of Aso rock come 2015. Enough is enough!

;DPotential front pager.....make i book space. I dey come back

Bobbystanley:


Bitter heart?
We want change in Nigeria that I know but have u asked yourself if APC change is for good or for bad?

APC isn't the change Nigerians are clamouring for.
Let the fresh air continue to blow till 2019!

You must be a joke....How can you call this fresh air. OMG! This air is malodourous nd i geuss u do not know because your nostrils are bad.

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