₦airaland Forum

These are truly the End times

hinwazaka:
Kogi will burn like the 4th of july. From lokoja to Okene, bombs will go off like Christmas firecrackers. The people of Kogi should prepare for the carnage about to be unleashed on them. As for Audu, he will resign from the position of govenor, with his blood. The APC just signed their death warrant. And as for you, Alistar, your days are numbered.

You are taking your freedom of speech to the extreme.
You are heating up the polity. I hope you won't run into hiding when the DSS come knocking on your door soon.

*peeps into thread*
I will not comment on this topic now.

Still taking a break from Nairaland.

*walks out of thread*

The sycophants will soon come here to tag the writer of this article 'wailing wailer' without giving some thought to the issues raised in the article.

They will be Buhari's undoing.

Buhari ought not to leave any stone unturned in fighting corruption no matter whose ox is gored.

The heart of man is very wicked.

Well said @dearpreye

The way they are going about this Biafra struggle is all wrong. They are trying to build a country on the foundation of hatred. The approach is wrong.

Because there is life outside Nairaland.
Maybe those who are leaving want to do something more productive with their time.
I do not encourage youths to spend their time engaging in meaningless online tribal and political e-wars over people and politicians who do not give a damn about them.

These people only look out for themselves.

For now, all the agitation seems to be coming from Anambra state. This means that the entire south-east is not in agreement over this biafra of a thing.

Good

Somehow, I see Amaechi being confirmed minister despite all the dust that has been raised.
Buhari's 'integrity standards' has already been compromised. Many of the other ministerial nominees were people who helped him become president. Amaechi becoming a minister is just like adding a black spot to an already black surface.

A labourer (Amaechi in this case) deserves his reward and there is honor even among thieves.
The idea of a fair anti-corruption fight is a scam.

Of what use is his visit to Nigeria?
We need to stop looking for attention when no one actually gives a damn.
He is free to visit wherever he likes.

Good.

OK.

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Really?
Is this your own contribution to the thread? If it is, I want to let you know that it is off the point of the topic, sir!

centje:
I don't want to write much on this internship programme for some reasons. But why Nigerians have this mentalility that things shouldn't be made straightforward, amazes me. Just because they want to place some unnecessary value... People are subjected to unnecessary suffering and risks. There shouldn't be any form of competition in relation to internship programme, it's mandatory training, what qualifies one for the internship is securing your degree

CMDs and Administrative arms of teaching hospitals do a lot of malpractice, let me cite one example; interns are recruited in batches or sets, so a set end up leaving at the same time. When a set leaves, there's usually about 2, 3 or even more months time lag before new recruit are taken to replace the out gone interns, now during this time lag, federal govt still allocate and send funds to teaching hospitals, these monies are pocketed by who?? While there are propective interns wasting at home.

This country is messed up.

You are right.
There is this strange belief among Nigerians that everything must be difficult, that someone must struggle and suffer for EVERYTHING thinking that that is how life should be. A lot of people have this mindset and that is why the country is like this.
They fail to realise that it is an obvious failure of our systems.
Nobody is encouraging anyone to be lazy.
Everyone ought to make some effort to get certain things in life but we don't need to struggle for EVERYTHING. Once the systems are in place and everything runs as it should, people will not have to struggle unnecessarily.

I can't see any gloves on his hands.
What the hell was he thinking?
Many people don't always pay attention to safety measures until damage is done. This attitude is borne out of the tendency for the average Nigerian to neglect giving attention to things such as following standard procedures for doing things.

How would he climb an electric pole without safety equipment?

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Obinoscopy:
You think its easy to redeploy?

For you to redeploy, you must first report to camp. Then while you are waiting for redeployment letter you will be posted to your PPA. After maybe 6 months into your service, your redeployment request MAY be granted. By then you've already settled in.

NYSC only acquiesce to redeployment letters from pregnant women and from very sick corpers.

I am only using NYSC as an example because it has a close structure to what I am talking about. But I am looking at a more easier redeployment process for internship, something like 'application for transfer'.
Presently interns have the opportunity to change from one centre to another if they have a genuine reason to leave the centre were they began the program.
I believe security concern is a genuine reason to approve someone's application for transfer.
It may not be implemented exactly the way I have stated it but it should be much more easier than that of NYSC. That is what I am thinking.

I have nothing to say on this topic so I'd rather post something to lighten up someone's mood this lovely Saturday morning. Here we go:

TEACHER: Mike, how do you spell 'crocodile?'
MIKE: K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L'
TEACHER: No, that's wrong
MIKE: Maybe it is wrong, but you asked me how I spell it.
(You gotta love this child)

TEACHER: Mary , your composition on 'My Dog' is exactly the same as your brother's.. Did you copy his?
MARY : No sir, It's the same dog.

Obinoscopy:
I have one very simple question for you. If you were "posted" to University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital would you honour it?

I will reply you with a question followed by an answer.
Using NYSC as an example, what options are there for anyone posted to highly insecure states like Borno and Bauchi? The answer is, the person can decide to go there or apply for redeployment. Such options should also be available for internship if the practice of posting is adopted.

As for me, the later is what I would do.

Obinoscopy:
Why is getting admission into medical school "something we need to struggle to get?" Why do we need to write UTME and Post-UTME despite having 5 credits in our WASSCE?

If you can answer those questions, you should find the reason why one should struggle to get internship placements in the various certified establishments.

You shouln't place getting admission and internship on the same level. There are two different things.

Internship is an extension of the medical program.
There are already approved centres with enough slots to go round but corruption and a lot of irregularities has made it difficult for these graduates to get these slots.

Look at the NYSC program for instance. It is almost mandatory for every graduate to serve before seeking employment. Does anyone struggle to get NYSC posting?

So, in the same way, we are saying that the regulatory bodies of these medical professions should adopt the practice of posting graduates to these approved centres. That way, it will be mandatory for these centres to take in the graduates.

Obinoscopy:
Very soon, they will also want the government to give them a job when they're done with service and internship. That's wrong. Every medical graduate should go into the world and go through the rigors of internship job search. It would make him or her ready to face challenges in life.

However I'm not in support of the application fees. The forms should be free.

Internship program is not supposed to be a job search. It is part of the medical graduates program necessary for full licence to practice and that is why there are specified approved centres/institutions.
Internship placement should not be something they should struggle to get.
As for the job search, many of them still enter the labour market in search of jobs like other graduates after internship and NYSC so you don't need to worry about them being spoon-fed.
There are currently many medical professionals looking for jobs.

Not interested.
Call me when you have pictures of Seun Osewa's mansion.

Don't know him.

Why should they rent a venue they can't afford?

Good for him.

I see...

Permit me not to answer the question but rather to say something on the issue of pregnancy among HIV positive women.

If a woman is HIV-positive and her male partner is HIV negative and she wants to get pregnant, there are "low-tech" and "high-tech" approaches.
A safe and "low-tech" method is to do home insemination using her partner's semen and a needleless syringe, timed with her ovulation. By this method, her partner has no possible exposure to HIV. A more "high-tech" version of this approach is to use either intracervical or intrauterine insemination. For this, she would need the assistance of a fertility clinic.

Approaches that involve unprotected intercourse between the partners are riskier as far as HIV transmission is concerned.
Some strategies significantly reduce the likelihood of infection but are not 100% reliable; transmission sometimes (though rarely) may occur.

The following approach can be considered, though it has not been studied thoroughly in the context of trying to conceive a baby, and currently it is not recommended.

The HIV-positive woman is advised to continuously take anti-HIV drugs and until she has an undetectable viral load; this greatly reduces the risk of infecting her partner. The HIV-negative male partner also takes HIV medications as prophylaxis to reduce his risk of infection with HIV, beginning in advance of attempts at conception and continuing afterward (this is called pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP). The couple then has unprotected sex limited to the time the woman is ovulating (this reduces the number of times they have unprotected sex and thus lowers the risk of HIV transmission).

HIV-positive women who become pregnant, regardless of the method, should seek prenatal care, as early in the pregnancy as possible, in a program with experts in preventing HIV transmission during pregnancy or at birth.

The above information which I have provided is for the purpose of enlightenment. Always consult your doctor before you make any decision.