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Is it true that they were still being paid while they were striking, by the way?

I read this somewhere, but I find it hard to believe that this really happened.

But for the most part, the path forward is fairly clear...it doesn't require massive amounts of thinking about the mistakes your ancestors made 100, 500 or 1000 year ago for you to decide what the best strategy going forward is.

Moreover, there is a danger in that spending too much time contemplating the mistakes of the past will prevent you from seizing the opportunities of the present...

I personally don't think it is worth too much time worrying about this stuff.

Let's try to make the present and future better, rather than dwelling on mistakes of the past.

It isn't as if the "game" is over yet.

Basically, work so that 300-500 years from now, our descendants will bless us for our vision rather than curse us.

alienYOUTH: This particular question has always intrigued me...why is "Africa the dark continent?". Correct me if i'm wrong, but it has been proven that life originated from Africa, so d argument about our plight being imposed on us by colonialism and western civilization need not even exist.

Biblically, it was d "Tower of Babel" saga that started d whole "migration to other parts of d world" thingy. Its my belief that d smart ones were d adventurous who left to populate d ends of d earth, while d selfish & greedy stayed back.

To cut short d long tale; i believe there's something about our black skin that bleeds thru & corrupts our hearts and minds. We r naturally diabolical, myopic, selfish & take no responsibility for our actions, whilst our lighter skinned fellows r d exact opposite...or how else will u explain how they built d Titanic in 1912, whilst 100yrs later d whole african nation is yet to come up with a bicycle built from scratch.

When Isaac Newton sat under d proverbial apple tree contemplating all wat not & d fruit dropped on his head, that very day gravity was discovered. i hate to think of how many coconuts fell on my fellow African man's head without more result than a slight concussion & percieved curse from d gods.

lmao

If it were that easy, then they'd have left already. After all, it isn't like a doctor in Nigeria will make money comparable to what doctors makes abroad.

However, getting a visa isn't easy.

Neither is passing licensing exams...

You basically need some wealthy relative already abroad who will sponsor, house and feed you while you study for your exams.

An exam that not everyone passes on their first try.

Long story short, Lagos shouldn't concern themselves much with that...whether these doctors go abroad or not is not their concern (though it is a loss for Nigeria as a whole.)

Lagos's only concern should be to replace those sacked.

If my descendants are fortunate enough to discover and conquer some (nearly) uninhabited, human-suitable planet rich with resources, then they too will look pretty awesome.

A lot of luck. Right place, right time.

I've never understood why in a country like Nigeria where unemployment is so high, labor has ever felt like it has the upper hand.

And as much as doctors may want to think otherwise, they are labor like everyone else.

Replaceable.

Commissioner for Health Dr. Jide Idris who spoke yesterday denied that hospitals in the state were totally grounded by the doctors’ strike, saying 746 doctors were at work providing qualitative medical service and saving lives. Those ones are to be joined by the newly employed 373 medics, he added.

Dr. Idris described the threat by the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) to revoke the licences of the newly recruited doctors as mere intimidation; saying only the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) has the power to decide on discipline in the the medical profession. . “The NMA does not grant Medical licences; it is the MDCN that grants medical licensces. And granting of the Medical licences is subject to your qualification in the medical school”, he said.

@aletheia: It appears that Lagos State has won this battle against the doctors

They've already replaced half of their fired staff. No doubt they'll be able to fill in the remaining vacancies over time.

interesting.

Though I really wonder how much electricity this will generate

So few details..

Ijesha Industrial Park is what he needs to use the electricity of this plant to build, imo

If Aregbesola were a wise man, rather than viewing any electricity produced from this project as amala to hand out for free to everyone, he should use it to power factories and thus create jobs.

Osun + Ekiti population is probably ~6-7 million.

That is a pretty damn good market for anybody manufacturing, if he has access to cheap electricity.

Not even to mention that whatever you manufacture can of course be distributed elsewhere in Nigeria.

Abagworo: From what I've seen both on this forum and reality, it is better Imo State aligns itself with SS than SE. We don't speak the same language and do not have the same way of life and we can't mix.

Something about this post makes one feel...sad

Cheer up man, don't take NL so seriously

Actually, I assumed that they are building a dam of some sort. But is this true? Tbh I wish there were more details

So...question.

How much electricity is this dam expected to generate?

And who do they plan to sell the electricity to? And for how much?

Will an investor be able to negotiate directly with Osun state for the electricity, or will it have to deal with the FG?

My own town is very close to Ijesha axis.

I would love to start a factory there and employ my people...

Hrm. It would be very good if this was for real.

But so many details lacking in this article..

djustice: How many plots at Lekki Phase 1 have they allocated to you, moderators and owner? The blood of those that will die from this demomic action will be on your hands and heads. Vampires!

I will gladly shill on NL for a plot in Lekki

Hmm. I have a different perspective on the Oodua stuff...strategic reasons why I think that was done.

But let me not derail this thread further. Back to discussing hydro

[quote author=isale_gan2]lol. one "like" showing for the above. totally safe to assume from whom. [/quote]Heh

You are quite the detective

Anyway not a big deal...carry on with the topic of the thread

If you name everything with an O for Osun, then you've destroyed uniqueness.

I am Yoruba, but I didn't decide to rename my chair Y-chair.

Or my shoes YShoes.

I dunno, not a big deal I guess..just strikes me as strange.

No clue man..I can speculate, but without more information it'd just be a shot in the dark.

I don't even know if this is a persistent trend or a recent one, which Nigerians they counted when they did the study, etc.

shymmex: I think the 'O' is an acronym for Oshun..

I know that. The question is, why is everything being branded with the O?

It is excessive.

kingoflag: Have you ever been to Mexico? Not as a tourist, but to stay there for an extended period of time? Yes? No? If you have then you'll know that Mexico is as much a shixxt hole as Nigeria. Electricity outages, Corruption all over, Underdeveloped Infrastructure the whole nine. Once you leave the Capital, there are only like 4 or so other states that are half-way habitable. Dapo, You live in Cali go across to Tijuana one of these days and see what I'm talking about. And If you really think you got balls of steel, then take a trip to Juarez or Nuevo Laredo. Just remember to write a will for your family to execute in the very likely event that you don't return.

Mexico is a piece of crap country. Nigeria is just slightly worse.

No, only been there as a tourist.

Monterrey is supposed to be pretty great though, from what I've heard.

I would never go to Tijuana lol...I don't want to get kidnapped or killed. Some parts of the border are really dangerous

Why is everything in Osun named "O"?

O meal, O power, etc.

Anyway, let me not talk about the electricity needs of all of West Africa again

my own "problem" to solve fortunately is a much smaller one (Ekiti State.)

Negotiating some arrangement with Dangote's cement plants in Kogi to buy electricity from them probably is going to be enough to make good progress on our energy needs, at least in the short term.

I look forward to the day that states can distribute electricity and set the price it can be sold for themselves..

100% agree on that last point.

Nigeria has enough natural gas to probably power all of Africa.

If Nigeria gets natural gas and electricity right, then not only should nobody in Nigeria be talking of solar, likely nobody in West Africa should.

It has nothing to do with Nigeria specifically, really.

Generating electricity from solar is not competitive with generating it from other sources, for any country (aside from possibly some island country in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, perhaps. but said country has no hope of industrializing anyways..)

Technology would have to advance quite a bit for solar to be competitive.

And again...if this happens, we wouldn't be reading/hearing about it on NL. We'd see Japan replace their nuclear power plants with solar. The US shut down its coal plants for solar, etc

Onlytruth: The East would leapfrog Mexico in health accessibility IMMEDIATELY.
The East would also likely leapfrog Mexico in education.
Suffice it to say that Mexico may not be richer in GDP per capita than the East, even if that Eastern country is only comprised of 5 SE states!

These three statements are false.

Mexico is of course way better off that Nigeria...they aren't comparable as countries.

Fayimora: I'm not saying that it is advisable to go in with zero programming experience.

But if you've:
a) written code before
b) are decent at math, or at least willing to put in effort to learn concepts (which granted, not everyone wants to do)

then there is no real reason to have seen all the algorithms in a class before you even take it.

PhysicsQED: I highly, highly doubt that.

If that were true and the cost of solar energy had dropped that low, I certainly wouldn't be hearing about it first on NL.

You will have to back up your claim with a citation (e.g., someone else's study) which shows this for me to consider believing this claim over that of the DoE study.