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spiceadole:
The medical personnels were in order.

No PPE...Run for your life!

Every patient right now is handled as a suspected Covid-19 case.
How much more with such complaints.

Medical personnels also have families and loved ones..Many are breadwinners too.

May the soul of the departed rest in peace.

Well summarised�

boolee:
At this critical Time? Why now? Because they want to get recognized and ask for additional funds too. Even The Lecturers too, that are supposed to be carrying out research in their different universities are on strike too. Because they too want to be recognized and get additional funds too. Why can't we all play our individual roles out of selflessness.


Let the Doctors sit at home too. I think then, everyone will get to understand this madness better.

My point exactly, the health workers should just sit at home if so.
Just to supply fuel with tanker, them dey shout covid up and down, but they expect heathworkers to be at the hospital attending to them for a pittance as hazard allowance.
Let Nepa too sit at home self, no essential services. Police too and soldiers in the northeast

This is the new reason... Dolts. How do you expect people to self isolate when they need food?

Dem wan begin chop this one

Fatnecked rubber stamp stooges... See him acting like he is confused about what abaribe is talking about.
What are they hiding?
The corruption in this regime is so so bad

Mires:
Bro what he said is true. I am a living witness. I had to tell Drs, more surprising, senior registrars that they are "Google Drs". Nothing from their heads when attempting to see how to address patients condition in the public hospital. They will boom, ask their colleagues to Google

My friend it's obvious you know nothing, it's standard practice worldwide to verify info when not sure especially of doses and drug side effects or contra-indications. Abroad, doctor's are encouraged to do so, have computers with internet at there disposal and carry there tablets around for the purpose. Every protocol must be verified or you risk being accused of malpractice.
Or do you prefer they guess the dose of an uncommon drug on your head?

delvinho:
In naija? You are very funny, I am a medical man and I can assure you many of the medical personnel don't really give a Bleep. Na only God fit judge them. The moment you read and swear the hippocratic oath you have chosen the caring life. Sadly because of the lapses and cover cover of we naija Healthcare officials many get away with it. Nurses are ill mannered and don't show care and softness, same for doctors, many have no business being in that line of profession. A sad reality, these same people place them abroad and you would see a complete turnaround, you know why? Because there are serious consequences for negligence.

Well... Not everybody should be in every profession, there are bad workmen quarrelling with their tools everywhere. The attitude of the healthcare workers are a reflection of the general public most times, people are rude in Nigeria and do not understand empathy, they do not even understand the need for pain killers when prescribed. And yes, every societal discipline thrives on consequences. Without it there's no law

Premiumwriter:
you guys keep making points that does not correlate with the situations in Nigeria.

How many of the countries you mentioned above have as many languages as Nigeria?

In Benue State alone we have more than 10 languages. In just a state. Should a child be taught all of these languages in order to be able to communicate with others or be allowed to master a single language with which he can communicate with not only those in his immediate surroundings but also with the world?

Look at the internet today, a lot of friction makes it almost impossible for Indians and Chinese to do business because of they don't understand English.

Any freelancer here can tell you this.

Just because you're good on English, your local language and pidgin doesn't mean everyone will be.

And how about the igbo man leaving in Lagos? Should special igbo curriculum be made for the kids?

Language is not our only culture. If you want your kids to be able to speak your mother tongue, make special arrangements for it. Speak it to them, teach them while they are at home. Or even enroll them in igbo schools (if anyone ever comes up with such ideas)

Let it be that you promote the language you love. It shouldn't be a national problem or a formal school problem because that will create more friction than you can imagine.

Let your mother tongue be something your kids picks up from you at home. (how often do you personally prompt your kids to speak your local dialect at home or even speak it to them?). This is where the language get lost. It's not in school that they lose the language.

I've seen many parents encourage their kids to speak English or even speak English with their kids at home. This is good but if you are concerned about your mother tongue then it's bad.

It's however very bad if we want the government to encourage local dialect as much as they encourage the teaching of English. It'll bring more disunity, poor bonding and lack of communication, confidence and opportunity

I don't understand your argument, how does learning English interfere with learning your mother tongue exactly? How does learning your mother tongue cause disunity? In secondary school during my time, kids were given options of learning one or 2 local languages so I wonder how it relates to national unity. Everyone learns English in school...so why are you so against them learning another language? Is it because they are learning your so called 'vernacular'? I'm sure if it was French or Spanish, this our argument will cease to exist and sadly I sense a feeling of inferiority to foreign cultures rather than national interest. We are a country of many cultures and we have to deal with it like that. America is like that but every one survives- Mexicans, Puerto Ricans etc. Canada has french and English speaking parts still they haven't split or tried to unite by outlawing one language.
Language has everything to do with culture and one cannot exist without the other. Part of preserving history, mythology and local literature lies in language. The best way to keep traditions and a people's pride alive is via language.Translations never work well.
I have no problem with English, it is an official language via which we build bridges and link... But it's not my first language and I don't find it superior to my mother tongue. English is the language of England, it's their cultural heritage and they have spread their culture through it. It's Vernacular in Africa, the same way they condescendingly refer to ours.

danvon:
What of those people that were not born with ur upbringing, from what you just stated you didn't put much effort in learning languages it came naturally or luckily

I can't learn any new language now, I learnt all as a child. That what I stated in my response, I see no reason children should be deprived of learning their mother tongue. It starts and home and children now become completely literate at school. Their brains are like new hard drives, they absorb everything. There's nothing privileged about it.

Premiumwriter:
was it in the four walls of the classroom you learnt pidgin English and your mother language?

We learnt it in and out of classrooms... And yes, I write my mother tongue too. English is also not a classroom affair, it's all around us.
The English in our classrooms is a colonial creation and only serves the purpose of bridging people with diverse cultures and languages not to subdue our own into oblivion. The Chinese speak Chinese, the Germans German, even English in the UK is diverse, the Scottish and Irish accents are incredible but they wear it proudly.
English is our vernacular, nobody said you should not know English but my mother tongue is not beneath it.
I consider myself trilingual- Igbo, pidgin, English in that order

Premiumwriter:
the only person that seems to be making any sense on this thread.

nigeria is a multicultural nation with more than 250 ethnic groups and language. we need a unifying language and of course we cannot choose hausa, yoruba or any of the other ethnic group over the other. hence english. don't know why some people tend to criticize the adoption of english

He's very wrong and very much misguided and your supporting argument makes no sense. Children are able to absorb more than one language during their formative years. I'm a product of that multilingual system and I speak my native tongue, English and pidgin fluently and able to switch in several appropriate scenarios without even noticing that I am as a result of my upbringing. Your mother tongue is your mother tongue, an essential part of your identity and culture... No one respects you for totally adopting another man's culture.
And referring to native languages as for poor people is derogatory and I am sure this guy doesn't have much coins in his pocket. English is our vernacular

Cheato64:
pls am not jobless am a senior technologist at a federal University. I provide for my family, we have never lacked and also my wife works in the same school

Bro don't listen to these people, they know nothing and are hereto catch fun on your behalf. Most think marriage is girlfriend and boyfriend ish. Deep inside you know what is best for you and your family minus the violence... Just get on with it

id4sho:
Barman ,give him a chilled bottle of orijin .
Tiri gbosa, man wet sabi. May you live long.
my 2 cents

Sounds like a good idea deserving of orijin but sorry to disappoint you, no wife will replace the husband's phone. You will learn that soon. He needs to deal with the violence though and threaten her with severe consequences like separating for a while if it happens again. Women hate a man leaving and staying where they can't see him.
And the advice about not going anywhere other than antenatal ignores the family dynamics. They probably have a less than 1yr old kid with another on the way, and from the way he sounds, they have no help. Unless the poster will go to market or hold the baby while his pregnant slow wife goes to market, how dem go chop? If you think it's easy staying with a breast or feed dependent child without the mum for hrs then you never jam. That child will cry and cry and you will wish she was close to just slot breast into his mouth. You won't still be able to do shit or watch TV for those hrs. So what's the point?
The poster should just buy her a car and be pt

feelme3:
As in, the way most of these online marriage counselors dish out advices you begin to wonder. But you sef, how you know say him never marry

He's not married bro... Theory no fit pass practical
Most of this men commenting are thinking it's sone sort of male ego thing... Guy, a pregnant woman with kids and feeding you is not an easy person to take for granted. She has your children hostage and she controls your most prized resource which is food. Be firm as much as you want, but when she is stressed na you pikin stress you go dey see. It will be better when she drops and the kids start growing and occupying her. What I don't endorse is violence in any form.
Most of the people commenting think is an ordinary power play. They forget that Herod's wife indirectly killed John the Baptist, maybe they should read the Bible more closely

tunwumi:
She working on one weakness you have. You care too much.

If telling your parent is what you dread so much discuss with them on the need for you to wear trouser in your home. Just show her you don't care and she will be worshipping you with obedience.

Right now she thinks you should be the one that follow her. If she had misscarriage tell her she will get another one. Tell her that if she has a car and she love okada accident so much that she's the one that will on wheel chairs. You just have to let out of laziness.

Your advice is so callous and unfeeling. Did you marry her not to care for her? Let me tell you, the first rule to winning your children over is to have regard for your wife. You must be a wicked person to joke with miscarriage. Do you know how hard it is to go through a pregnancy with all the uncertainty? A miscarriage is very painful, stop advicing the OP wrongly as it's obvious you're inexperienced and have no child of your own.
This woman is pregnant!!! There's a mental aspect to it and she needs support not some powerplay at this time.

VICTOR4U2C:
I am married with 4 kids ..Despite my wife knows how to drive I still carry her to market and any other places xccept she is going to party alone ...most expecially in this kind of situation that ur wife is pregnant pls don't stop taking her to wherever she want to go ...it is fun driving your wife my brother..teaching her takes style you won't even let her have clue you want to teach her how to drive. ...first take her for shopping and movies ...do things she love doing and at the end of the day teach her with laugh and joke from there she will put interest but do the teaching after she much have deliver oooo .....for the ex girl calls pls end it ,is ur ex ur account officer look for someone else in ur bank to do ur banking stuffis eazy to talk with any staff and have his number infact I don't have my ex phone number on my phone again I block it and my ex knew I block her that show I don't want anything to do with her...family is important

You are a real married man... Many of those commenting on this threads are unmarried children and imagine one has been advocating for beating of the wife. When you introduce violence into your marriage, it's like a scar that won't go away. The marriage becomes abusive and it will marr your children for life. @healthserve- pls change your view point unless you intend to marry a slave.
Though her smashing the phone was overboard, if you wife sees your ex's number on your phone as dialled, she has every right to over-react. Carrying a pregnant woman with an additional kid around can be exhausting but is not too much to do for her. You got her pregnant and it's not easy unless you don't care about your kid and unborn child.
At the poster, it's ok to feel overwhelmed but you have to seat her down about her anger issues. Do not permit violence in your marriage and if it happens again, by all means threaten to separate from her.
On a good note, just be a little bit more patient, when the 2nd baby drops, she will be so occupied to take interest in anything you do and then you can hang out and do guy stuff. This was age old wisdom dropped down to me by elderly men.

Vanhooijdonk:
If Goodluck Jonathan performed Nigerians would have not seen Buhari as an alternative. All he needed to do what provide world class roads,portable water,24 hour electricity. It is not rocket science, other African countries like Botswana and Namibia are doing it.

I never liked GEJ... But to analyse a situation and go for a worse option because of being unable to provide world class roads is not intelligent. We moved from frying pan to fire. I remember analyzing this for my colleagues at work then but they never listened. They are very silent now... I have nothing more to say, you can't put a value on freedom and we had it but lost it.

texazzpete:
The OP is a jester.
The general hospitals are swamped with patients. Health workers are underpaid and overworked. Equipment is in short supply.

Why does he expect to be given ‘express’ service when his case isn’t an emergency?

Why is he surprised that he was asked to return the next day for his test result when common sense would tell him that the lab - at 2:30 pm - would have lots of samples to analyze, and the man who’s supposed to draw the sample is most likely multitasking as an analyst due to inadequate manpower.


At the end, he proves to be a part of the problem. Instead of calling on the Government to significantly revamp our hospitals with more equipment and increased staffing, he’s turning this into a rant to bash doctors.


Truth be told, this is exactly what happens when citizens can’t hold their leaders accountable for good healthcare.


If you can’t push your Governor to revamp the hospitals in the state, just make sure you can afford private healthcare. If not, don’t complain.


I have spoken.

Apt and on point

sgtponzihater1:
You were treated that way because you also behaved yourself. Naija patients are unruly in many cases, same thing with Doctors. This chaotic mix gives what we now see.

When you go the the AnE in UK sometimes you end up waiting 3 hours or even more. You don't see anybody screaming and making a mess of the place. Its not the same thing in Naija. Everywhere would have been noisy, chaotic and rowdy. People are also given 2-3months non-emergency appointments, but book a patient for even one month here and see him screaming and trying to pull down the place.

My brother I tire o... Nigerians expect world class facilities in a sick country. Like you said, it takes a while in the UK to get an appointment to see the doctor and if you Google UK A&E waiting times, it's crazy and they are usually in crises around Christmas.
This guy writing this is not sick obviously, sick people don't come updating on nairaland. You dashed into a government hospital, paid 200naira and expected to be attended immediately by 2 overwhelmed doctors seeing a multitude of patients. Are you aware there's a queue or list starting from the morning? Are you aware that some patients come by 6am to write names? Are you aware that the doctor probably started work earlier than that?
You're so focussed on your self meanwhile you exist in this pitiable entity called Nigeria and I can bet you are taking bribes and bring unfair to people at your own job or workplace. People only remember their rights and morals in a hospital but try and get a passport at immigration office or drive on the road and you will see hell. This post was all targeted at the health workers but I am sure the hospital environment was nothing to write home about but you choose to doctor hate the people working in that depressing place.
And all those asking you to post an innocent doctor's name online in the spirit of call out, just be aware that online posts can land one in jail now especially this type of attention seeking myopic piece.

Mediocres... No wonder the state is in shambles

lucianohase:
If na for ABU or any higher institution in the far Northern part of Nigeria that such conference is destined to be held, this lecturer and all those planning such event won't leave to tell the stories of what would happen. Their families would have ran away from Nigeria by now.

I don't understand the analogy... Is this your statement supposed to validate or make it right or wrong? So killing people now in the name of religion is a virtue to extol. Later we Christians will complain of persecution... Meanwhile all this ventilation is on an academic conference. The university is a place of open discourse and not a church

themanderon:
Esoteric is becoming exoteric. The secret societies are all coming out in plain sight. You can see this in movies, musicals and even the cartoons kids are watching . The goal is to introduce what is known as the "New age religion" which has to do with the world accepting what they call the "True light of Lucifer".
Conferences like this are simply designed to familiarize people with what was initially known as "Esoteric knowledge" of the dark arts.
Initially they denied their own existence but we are now living at a time where everything must be unveiled so people can receive the true light of Lucifer as they call it.
Google Albert pikes letter detailing plans for 3 world wars.
Shows that we are living at the end of times where the prophesies in the book of revelations must be fulfilled.
Prepare yourself for what's coming!!!

Go and read carefully about what the conference is actually about and stop extrapolating and yapping here... It's an academic conference probably on the roots and why we ever even believed in a shitload of stuff like witchcraft. People have been wrongly accused and killed including children... Nigeria is definitely heading to the dark ages

ogbuefi677:
Can you give us 1 evidence of that 'battle' b/w Catholics and Anglicans in the south east?

The evidence is in society... Government is so sensitive to it. What they do for the Catholics, watch and wait and it will come the other way after some grumbling.
Every politician plays the religion angle. It has permeated politics and Catholics have the upper hand deciding who rules. The clergy especially the bishops are so powerful. It has split clans and brothers and sadly it continues. Marriages across religious lines are difficult most times unless the family decides to ignore but members especially knights in some churches are obliged not to let this happen unless some conditions are met.
I'm from Anambra and I can say it clearly here that it's a big problem for the future for several reasons bothering on anambra government policy as regards state run healthcare.
Kanayo o kanayo is not from my state but I sense something in this move other than salvation. Let's watch and see, probably the future will prove me wrong

midnighter:
Which church was he before And why is he changing it now

Welcome sisters

Politics my brother, religion and politics are so intertwined in the south east and it's a battle ground between Catholic and Anglican church. They enrich themselves via political patronage while the masses suffer

Kristaz:
For those questioning his source of wealth, Johnbosco Onunkwo is a major player in the oil industry. He is a high profiled engineer in one of the major oil companies in Port Harcourt. His source of wealth is not questionable. Go to NAOC, Port Harcourt and ask of Onunkwo and you will be amazed and overwhelmed by his source of wealth.

High profiled engineer my ass... We all know people working for oil companies, e no reach this posturing unless he's living fake live

Agugbadin:
One reason why corruption will not end in this country is that when the media wants to describe people who's source of their wealth is not known, they are simply described as Oil mogul I find it really difficult to understand why.

That is my major question about this guy... Everything about him smells dubious especially his desperate attempts of recent to be visible in the media despite no antecedents, no obvious source of income. All I see is a fraud... Simple

The question by shettima is very dumb.
The stock market reflects the economy not the other way round
Dumbos in question and answer session

nagoma:
The children kidnapped are majority girls. Some as young as 3 years, I have never seen a 3 year old Almajiri girl, and some of the boys kidnapped were on their way returning from school. You cannot use “Almajiri culture” as an excuse to invade the north and be kidnapping their children.
There is no excuse for crime, a factual statement that some population group in Nigeria fail to understand and accept. Their criminal activities are always because they are marginalized, because this because that. It is unacceptable.

Well, like I said, do whatever rocks your boat... Open panels for other straight forward crimes too like fence jumping, thunder firing cattle etc

nagoma:
You think it simple because you have sympathy for the criminals and you don’t want the details of the SYndicate involved in this terrible kidnapping and slave trade to be exposed. It is not just trafficking of a few kids and we need to know.

I have no sympathy for nobody, do the crime and do the time. It's you guys that are getting overtly emotional about crime. As far as we know, some people bought babies from a source up north, as far as we know, they are a few according to the police. Is the panel now the police? What exactly is their job? The almajiri culture is the obvious culprit but no, Una no wan look am.
It's simple but you guys are not normal reasoning people I guess.
Knock yourselves out by all means if it makes you happy and ignore the teeming almajiri that are homeless and uncared that fueled this incidence

FiftyFifty:
This is sad, very very sad. Stop comparing this ugly trend to the so-called Islamic Schools. They're totally incomparable. How can you kidnap an innocent child, smuggle him/her out of his/her region, change his/her name, religion, and identity and still have the guts, the impetus and the audacity to justify this highly unjustifiable barbaric action? If those children were Igbos we all can imagine what would have happened by now.

The culprits should just get arrested and locked away. That's how justice is done not ranting here... Innocent people are trafficked everywhere, babies disappear everywhere... What is the inquiry going to achieve really that is different from the police investigation? I bet they were even sold by poor northerners.
We all have bigger problems, lock this people away already if found guilty in court... Simple

Why institute a panel of inquiry to investigate?
This is a simple police case and there's nothing extraordinary about it...
The north has very very big problems to pursue not the case of trafficking of a few kids
Herds of almajiri are being tortured all over, yet no inquiry.
This country and how some people reason sha

Anambralstson:
Go back and read my post, use your common sense

I read your low IQ propaganda posts and it almost dropped my own IQ, speaks of the brain quality of the several SAs and SSAs given peanuts to defend blatant stupidity... Keep selling nonsense to outsiders, the streets know what's happening and the failure you are, and word on the street is decider in Anambra not online show boating and lies that the people can see through.
You and your principal are living on borrowed time and if it continues like this, you guys will be pelted with stones and water in public... Anambra will never forget this deception and you guys will enter the annals of ignominy like mbadinuju.
Once again... Shame on you