₦airaland Forum

Thiefobi1:
Buhari was the most hated and unpopular president in 2019, according to opposition, but still floor the combination of Atiku/obi ticket.

Tears go flow for opposition camp after January election.

Comparing Buhari's popularity in the north with that of Tinubu is like comparing apples and oranges. Even with his poor first term performances Buhari still had a cult like following in the north and yet still struggled against Atiku. Now imagine an unpopular candidate like Tinubu who doesn't command such following in the north. You can imagine how bad his situation is right now for Tinubu. You can continue dreaming.

In as much as I'm disappointed in Tinubu, I'd give it to him on this. Since he took over there has been relative peace in Southern kaduna. Or I think I should give the kudos to the current governor of kaduna. This tells us that having the right leadership is very important. With the right leadership, all this boko haram insurgency would have been a thing of the past.

Great100000:
Honorable mentions:

Real Madrid vs Barcelona

AC Milan vs Inter Milan

Manchester United vs Liverpool

Arsenal vs Chelsea

Micheal Jordan vs Isiah Lord Thomas III

Mohammed Ali vs Joe Frazier

Sega vs Nintendo

Mike Tyson vs Evander Holy field

Adidas vs Puma

You can also add yours.

Naaah not arsenal vs Chelsea but Arsenal vs Manchester United aka Arsene Wenger vs Alex Ferguson aka Patrick Veira vs Roy Keane. Only legends would know how we always looked forward to watching this game then

The fact that he has to even borrow shows he's not even living comfortably in this economy. Yet he borrows a loan to fund the same man that has kept him in such poverty. That's the mindset of most poor Nigerians.

IamPatriotic:
Wike had spent this much and even more as an incumbent Governor, yet Atiku, who had been out of government since 2003, outspent and defeated him in the PDP primary election that year. This only confirms that Atiku stole enough money from the government as an ordinary Vice President to last his tenth generation.

God forbid that Kachalla should ever have another chance in Aso Rock. He will steal Nigeria into bankruptcy.

Just negodu the very low reasoning pattern of a typical Nigerian.

neonix:
I am not defending the students' behaviors. My first comment on the topic stated giving the students at least a warning strike before the kind of judgement they got. And that comment was based on the fact that they are still students. If that many students came together to do a video derogating themselves and their own future careers for a tiktok challenge then their school must have forgotten to teach them about this "needing to be worthy of character" part of the job you are talking about.

Not every rule must be spelt out. There are certain etiquettes that naturally come from being in a profession. For instance, a school will not state in their brochure that stealing is a crime. But anyone that naturally engages in theft will be expelled. A certain level of discipline is expected of someone in a health profession into whose hands the lives of human beings will be placed. Another example is the way you dress. If I dress so nonchalantly as a doctor or nurse, I'm very sure you won't want yourself or even your relatives to be handled by me. So there are natural expectations and disciplines that follow a profession like medicine. Medicine is way way more disciplined than the military. A soldier can not be told how to dress to a parade ground. If he dresses casually to a parade ground you think he won't be appropriately disciplined? How much more the medical profession that deals with human lives.

neonix:
I have met at least two damn good doctors that are very good at their jobs and are also very funny. In fact putting a little joke here and there in between a conversation between a patient and a doctor sometimes makes the patient feel better and more receptive to treatment and helps both the patient and the doctor build a rapport. Yes they have to be serious with their jobs but that does not mean they should avoid fun when not on duty or when on duty and are not busy.

What those ladies did were not jokes please. Rightly divide between what is ethically unacceptable and what is ethically acceptable in the medical profession. I'm a medical doctor and I can tell you that there are certain jokes I can make before a patient in a hospital setting that will be considered ethically unacceptable and probably cause me to lose my license, no matter how good my intentions are. Stop unnecessarily sentimentally defending misdemeanors when you don't know how the medical profession operates. Jokes are good, but when you don't know what is an acceptable joke and what is not, it becomes lack of wisdom to indulge in it.

Alliswell248:
The return of subsidy would sky rocket the dollar rate.

How would the government fund it?
Less money to the states and LG

More borrowing.

GEJ used more than 14 billion USD to defend subsidy

Buhari printed over 30 trillion naira

Think twice Nigerians

Yet despite these, their economies were still a thousand times better than what we have now. And moreover, the so called subsidy money is now being channeled to crooks and cronies. But during GEJ and Buhari's time, the subsidy was channeled to the people.

MaddKingg001:
Ordinary man like suffering their fellow ordinary people. Calculate the number of nurses we have remaining after you expel these ones who just want to have fun..

They didn’t commit any offense, you’re supposed to put joy in whatever you do, we have soldiers dancing in the bushes, and we celebrate them..

The rich won’t talk on this, after all their Medicals is always abroad..

Modified…
For those tagging me and saying if I can trust a nurse that dances like that. I believe there is time for everything. If some one who dances like this actually went and finished a nursing school, I’ll prefer them over the ones that are always serious..

You haven't fallen into the wrong hands medically that's why you're sentimentally writing this thrash. Medicine is more disciplined than the military. Sentiments are never involved when issues of morality are at stake. That's also why before a certificate is issued, you're said to have been found worthy in CHARACTER and in learning, not just learning. You complain that the quality of Medicare in Nigeria is dropping and yet you support such misdemeanor from people who'd eventually handle lives. That's double standards

dollytino4real:
Amaechi was like dat during Jonathan's regime. my question is dat why Rivers State all the time??

Even Peter Odili was like that during Obj era. Also Saraki

If your plans were that feasible, then in 2015 Amaechi would have won Rivers for his candidate against Wike.

When I saw them celebrate their narrow win against a very terrible Madagascar side, I just knew that this SE of Nigeria are not worth it and have crashed to an all time low

The best time to invest in a stock is NEVER during an IPO. The prices of a stock at IPO is usually inflated because of the numbers of people rushing to invest in it. The price then drops drastically after a few days to weeks and those that invested in the IPO would then have to grapple with losses or would have bought at a very inflated price. The best strategy is to Wait like a month or two and buy the dip. You'd buy way more shares at a lower price and subsequently enjoy your profits when the price rises eventually. This is what experienced investors do. And moreover, a huge chunk of the shares would have been sold at give away prices to close associates before the IPO is listed, thus leaving the public to grapple with inflated price per share on the IPO listing day.

Very old video. Probably years now. The guy in question was confirmed to be mentally deranged

I was having a discussion with some friends recently and we somehow got talking about the Nigerian economy, doctors and the number of highly trained Nigerian professionals who are leaving the country. One of my friends is a neurosurgeon and another is a general surgeon. What struck me was not merely that they had both considered leaving Nigeria, but the ridiculous economic journey that their careers had taken them through.
Let me explain something for those who are not familiar with the structure of the medical profession. A house officer is essentially a newly qualified doctor. He is at the very bottom of the medical career ladder. He has finished medical school, completed his internship requirements and is only beginning his professional career. A consultant, on the other hand, is at the peak of specialist medical practice. To become a consultant surgeon requires years of medical school, internship, residency training, professional examinations and years of additional experience. Neurosurgery in particular is one of the most demanding specialties in medicine, requiring a very long period of highly specialised training. Now consider what has happened to the value of that career in Nigeria.
My neurosurgeon friend was a house officer during the Goodluck Jonathan administration. At the time, his salary was approximately $1,500 per month, which was about ₦220,000 at the prevailing exchange rate. Remember, this was a fresh medical graduate, essentially at the lowest level of the medical profession. Fast forward several years. He has gone through residency, become a specialist and eventually reached the position of consultant neurosurgeon. He is now at the very top of the specialist hierarchy. Yet before he eventually left Nigeria during the Tinubu administration, his monthly salary was about ₦1.1 million, which at the exchange rate at the time was roughly $800. Imagine, a doctor at the lowest point of his professional career was earning approximately $1,500 per month. The same doctor, after spending years acquiring specialist training and becoming a consultant neurosurgeon, was earning approximately $800 per month. In other words, his dollar-denominated salary had fallen by almost half between the beginning and the peak of his career.
And we are the same people who turn around and ask doctors why they are leaving Nigeria. This is where I honestly find the whole “don't japa, stay and build Nigeria” argument difficult to take seriously. What exactly are we asking these people to stay for? For your information, there are currently less than 39,000 doctors (on paper, excluding the ones that have recently japa'd or pklanning to) for over 220 million Nigerians and just over 100 neurosurgeons for over 220 million Nigerians. Some states don't even have one neurosurgeon.
The consultant neurosurgeon has spent years acquiring a skill that very few people in the country possess. He is performing operations that can last several hours. He is dealing with brain tumours, intracranial haemorrhage, traumatic brain injuries, spinal disorders and other conditions where mistakes can have devastating consequences. He carries an enormous amount of responsibility. He has sacrificed years of his youth in training to reach that point. Then he looks at his payslip and discovers that, in real international economic terms, he is worth less today than he was when he was a house officer. At the same time, hospitals and health systems in other countries are actively looking for exactly the skills he has spent all these years acquiring. They understand that a consultant neurosurgeon is a highly valuable professional. They are prepared to pay accordingly. They offer salaries denominated in relatively stable currencies, better infrastructure, functioning equipment, better working environments and clearer professional opportunities. And Nigeria's response is: “Please stay. Be patriotic.”
I genuinely find that argument difficult to understand.
Nobody should misunderstand what I am saying. The fact that doctors are leaving is a serious problem for Nigeria. It is particularly worrying in specialties where there are already very few specialists available. When a country loses a consultant neurosurgeon, it is not simply losing another employee. It is losing someone whose training may have taken well over a decade and whose expertise may be extremely difficult to replace. But if we are serious about solving the problem, we need to stop pretending that doctors are leaving because they suddenly stopped loving Nigeria.
Most people respond to incentives. If you have spent years becoming a specialist and another country offers you several times what you earn in Nigeria, you are going to think about it. If that country also offers better infrastructure, functioning hospitals, better equipment, more predictable working conditions, greater professional opportunities and a stronger currency, the decision becomes even easier. That is not necessarily greed. It is basic economics. In the case of my friend, the absurdity becomes even clearer when you look at the dollar equivalent. He went from approximately $1,500 as a house officer to approximately $800 as a consultant neurosurgeon.
The question is not why he left. The question is why Nigeria allowed this to happen, and this is where the political dimension inevitably enters the conversation.
How do you tell a highly trained specialist to remain in the country out of patriotism when he looks around and sees the political class living in an entirely different economic universe? How do you expect someone who has spent years training to save lives, working long hours and carrying enormous responsibility to look at the enormous sums of money associated with Nigerian politics and then conclude that he should accept declining economic value because he owes the country a patriotic duty? Nigerians watch politicians spend enormous amounts of money during elections. We hear figures running into billions and, in the broader political system, sometimes into staggering sums. We see the privileges attached to political office. We see government expenditure, political appointments, official convoys and all the other manifestations of a system that appears capable of finding money when it wants to. Then the doctor gets to the hospital and discovers that the equipment he needs may not be available, the infrastructure may be inadequate, the hospital may be struggling, his salary has been eroded by inflation and his currency has lost enormous value. And after all of that, someone tells him that leaving the country is unpatriotic.
There is something deeply contradictory about that. If patriotism means asking ordinary professionals to sacrifice their economic future while those who control the country's resources continue to enjoy the benefits of political power, then eventually people will stop listening.
You cannot guilt people into staying in a country. You have to give them a reason to stay. That reason does not have to be that Nigeria should somehow pay every doctor what America, Britain, Australia or the Gulf countries pay. That would obviously be unrealistic. But there has to be some reasonable relationship between the level of training, responsibility and expertise required and the compensation being offered. More importantly, doctors need to work in an environment where their professional efforts can actually produce results. There is little satisfaction in being highly trained if you arrive at work and discover that the hospital lacks the basic resources required to provide the standard of care you were trained to deliver.
This is why I think the conversation around “japa” has become too simplistic. We speak about migration as though people wake up one morning and decide that they hate Nigeria and want to abandon their country. That is not how it works for most professionals.
People compare options. They look at what they earn here. They look at what they could earn elsewhere. They consider their working conditions. They consider their families. They consider their children's future. They consider housing, security, education, healthcare, infrastructure and professional development. They then make a decision. And if the balance keeps shifting against Nigeria, we should not be surprised when people leave.
In fact, I would argue that the Nigerian government should be much more worried about the doctors who are still considering leaving than about those who have already gone. Because once a consultant has left, the country has already lost him. The real question is whether the country is going to continue producing highly trained professionals only to watch other countries recruit them after Nigeria has borne much of the cost of their education and training. Nigeria trains a doctor for years, provides teaching hospitals and residency programmes, produces a consultant and then another country can essentially come along and say, “Thank you very much. We will take it from here.”
That is a terrible economic model. And the solution is not to insult the doctors. It is not to call them greedy. It is not to tell them that their colleagues who remain are more patriotic. It is not to tell them that previous generations endured worse conditions.
The solution is to make staying sufficiently attractive that leaving is no longer the obvious economic decision. This is particularly important because the people leaving are not necessarily the least committed doctors. In some cases, they are precisely the people Nigeria should be desperate to retain: experienced specialists who have spent years developing skills that are difficult and expensive to replace. There is also something psychologically damaging about watching your professional value decline as your qualifications increase.
Imagine being a young doctor and earning the equivalent of $1,500 a month. You then spend years studying and training, endure residency and eventually become a consultant, only to find that your salary in international terms is now approximately half of what it was when you started. At some point you have to ask yourself whether the system is rewarding you for becoming better or punishing you for it. And then somebody tells you to stay because of patriotism. I don't think that argument will survive contact with reality.
The uncomfortable truth is that Nigeria has created an environment in which “japa” is often the rational response to the economic incentives facing highly skilled professionals. That does not mean every person who leaves will be happier. It does not mean every foreign healthcare system is perfect. It does not mean Nigeria has no opportunities. And it certainly does not mean that everybody should leave. It means that we should stop pretending that people are irrational for considering it.
There is something seriously wrong with a country when a consultant neurosurgeon at the peak of his profession can earn less, in real international terms, than he earned as a house officer. There is something seriously wrong when the country needs these specialists desperately but cannot create conditions capable of retaining them. And there is something seriously wrong when the response to all of this is to lecture the people leaving about patriotism rather than asking why staying has become so unattractive.
Doctors do not owe Nigeria their poverty simply because Nigeria trained them. If Nigeria wants to keep its doctors, it needs to create an economy and a professional environment in which staying is a rational choice. Until then, we should not be surprised when the people who have spent the best years of their lives acquiring valuable skills decide that those skills should be valued somewhere else. That is the real tragedy of Nigeria's brain drain.
The problem is not that our doctors have suddenly discovered the outside world. The problem is that the outside world has discovered the value of our doctors while Nigeria increasingly appears unable—or unwilling—to do the same.

Oh my God! Coming not long after losing Kenny Rogers. What an awesome generation of singers slowly taking their final bows! I doubt we'd ever have such great generation of musicians again who told inspiring stories through music.

Apel147:
Oga will u keep quiet! U guys always carry this bigotry everywhere, because u live in enough means the information decimated to public space via video and pictures evidence is false? Shut up mbok!

Na this mindset never give una presidency, rochas in opposition, best governor, he joins APC and became worst governor.

Omahi best governor in opposition, worst governor in apc etc..

To show how myopic you are, you assume that because someone lives somewhere therefore he's from there. For your info, where I come from, my region has produced more presidents and VPs than your myopic brain can decipher. And instead of throwing insults, I expected you to come on ground and counter my statements with facts. Anyways, my time is too precious to respond to unintellectual persons who can't reason beyond their noses. I will only address intellectual people who are actually on ground and know exactly what's happening in the state

I wonder where people post all these false information from. I live in enugu and I can tell you that Mbah is one of the worst governors that has ruled enugu. It's surprising that people who live outside and know nothing about what's TRULY happening in enugu are posting gibberish here. Even the bus terminals have now become a haven for touts and animals. Substandard roads are being constructed. In fact if you drive on those roads, you would think you're driving on a pot hole ridden road. Or is it tax? Even your car tyres are taxed. Let me not even get to the issue of rent. The man is just not worth it as a governor. Even gburugburu that was touted as the worst seemed to have performed better.

Probably contraceptives use (most likely) or a submucosal fibroid (less likely)

hotspec:
I'm sure you're not in Osun State. No insult intended.

Good question! The only people's comments on osun state that I'll take seriously are only those living in osun state

The average Nigerian man's mentality about wealth is number of cars and houses. I hope this man can now see why tinubu is where he is today. Inasmuch as I'm not a fan of tinubu but you have to give it to him. He spent his resources building men and that's why today he has produced governors and ministers at all levels. But all this idiot called Dino can boast of is having 200 cars. That's why he remains very irrelevant today.

demstone:
PRIVATE SOLDIERS B4 TINUBU GOT 48K WAGE

IN 2025 TINUBU INCREASED IT TO 100K

TODAY TINUBU INCREASES IT TO 180K

YET SOME NIGERIANS HATE TINUBU...

IS TINUBU NIGERIAS 1ST PRESIDENT

What was the value of 48k before Tinubu came in and destroyed the naira's value by over 500%. Until there's an increase in salary of over 500% from 48k, any increment below this is completely useless. I don't know why Nigerians like you keep making senseless comments. What 48k could purchase in 2022, even 200k cannot purchase such stuffs today. So it's not by increasing salary from 48k to 100k and then you start stupidly clapping like he's done something good. There has to be at least a 500% increase in salary from 48k (that is, at least 200k salary) for the 200k of today to become equivalent to the purchasing power of 48k years ago before Tinubu came in and destroyed. Indeed common sense is not common.

There's nothing excellent about this news. If you take into consideration the depreciation of the naira since 2023, you'd understand that even a 100% increase in salary would still be lower in value to what same soldier earned before 2023. So in essence, there has been no effective salary improvement. A 500% increase in salary would make more sense than this. How can you destroy the value of the naira by over 500% and you're only increasing salary by 80%? Only fools would rejoice at this. Most Nigerians don't have common sense.

Dricker:
never say never yet bro..Last I checked tinubu hasn't ascended into godhood na only president I'm be..if people really come together next year that guy dy go I'm Lagos house

Det play. If Tinubu in 2023 could withstand forces against him directly from the presidency and it's cabals including a sitting CBN Governor, to not only win the primaries but also the presidential elections, then is it now he's in power that he'd lose? At this point, only God can remove him.

franchasng:
Tinubu will lose if he conducts a normal election but unfortunately he does not have any plans to conduct normal election.


INEC Chairman is already on lockdown and surrounded by SPs, he already has the 2027 election results template.


Tinubu is a ruthless politician who is now the incumbent contesting for reelection? He will use everything at his disposal to make sure he rigs himself back into office, that is the major challenge not just winning him at the polls.



Atiku, Obi and Kwankwaso merger would have been massive enough to counter his rigging plans, but let's watch and see as things unfold

This is the most factual comment so far! In as much as I want tinubu to lose for Nigeria to move forward, truth is that only GOD can remove tinubu at this point because of all the factors you rightly listed out. That's why he comes out to make mocking statements boldly against the masses because he already knows he won't give free and fair elections

Ever since I started using starlink, I have forgotten what MTN looks like. I'm so satisfied with starlink

50k that can't even last more than 2 days? This is monumental stupidity at it's peak

It's very simple. If you give a man one month ultimatum to marry, he can even use 2 weeks to get married. But even if you give a woman 6 months ultimatum to get married, she might not be married in even one year. Why? Because she can't decide when to get married. Even if she's surrounded by 100 guys, it's still the guy that would decide if he wants to marry her or not. A guy might approach her and she might even like the guy. But if that guy isn't interested in marrying her she won't get married. It's essentially the guy that decides how things go, not the woman.

Bestintheworld1:
Even though she's extremely pretty, or wealthy, at the end of the day, the man gets to choose if it's worth settling down with her or not. So, No. Not a misogynist but, that's how nature have made things. She can only play a man into choosing her, that's the only scenario they could do that.

Best and most logical comment I've read so far

PulaPower:
Your Son ftom Delta kwa?

You lie sote, you forgot where Jonathan came from..

There's a difference between "the Delta" and "Delta state".
The Delta generally refers to the Niger Delta region

What exactly will 2m naira do in this economy? After destroying the value of the naira they now hand over paltry sum of 2m naira to start exactly what kinda business in current Nigeria?

MartinCorridon:
It's funny how they say " lost to USA"

How was she lost ? She went for better economic opportunities. Simple.

How was she lost ? Do USA or UK people say same when they move to other countries ?

I know this family well. 4 or 5 daughters all in the same line and they are " abroad inclined"

She did Residency in Texas and Harvard... So how was she " lost to the USA?"

Been seeing this very non intelligent headline everywhere from LinkedIn to here.

Nigerians are single minded with zero ability for critical reasoning.

So if a player moves from Enyinmba of Aba to Barcelona in Spain.... Nigeria lost him or he went for better pay and facilities ( more prospects) ?

When you realize that Nigeria has just 130 neurosurgeons fnr over 200 million persons then you'd understand that this is not just a loss but a monumental one! In fact, some states don't even have a single neurosurgeon! Now you argued that she left for better pay and all. Is that not similar to what has been happening to other doctors who leave the country for greener pastures? Would they have left if the government put the necessary things in place to keep them back? Do you know what it means for a neurosurgeon of all specialist to leave and retrain in a stepdown specialty like paediatrics? The situation must have been very terrible. And let me probably shock you. Do you know that the monthly income of a consultant neurosurgeon doesn't exceed 1.5million naira in this current economy? Let me shock you further. Do you know a house officer(entry level medical doctor) during the time of Goodluck Jonathan earned way more than what a consultant neurosurgeon (the highest/peak of medical career) earns today? Now tell me which doctor in their right senses would want to stay back? Especially a neurosurgeon who has the skills to make a lot of cash but is hindered from doing so in Nigeria. In some of the worst countries, the least a neurosurgeon earns monthly is equivalent of 10 million naira.