₦airaland Forum

NMA: THE ACT OF STANDING ALONE...
In one week, about 16,000 Resident Doctors
had their residency suspended which
technically means they lost their jobs yet
there isn't much of PUBLIC SYMPATHY to
their plight! NLC/TUC have not issued
warnings to the FG nor did we have million
man marches on the streets of Abuja in
solidarity with them... Its hard to believe
that an event of such magnitude went
underway yet all appears to be so calm.
Why?
While the members of NMA would simply
wish to have us dismiss the above stated
questions away with a whish of our hands, it
tells VOLUMES about what the NMA and its
affiliates have become. The general public
that should have risen to stoutly defend
them seem to have gotten weary of the many
malfeasance of NMA owing to increased
general awareness of the cold war that had
festered within the "QUIET" ambience of our
nation's hospital.
Its noteworthy that over the years, the
inherent arrogance of NMA made them feel
"larger than life" and thus felt that a
separate NICHE in this world should be
reserved for them EXCLUSIVELY (no wonder
they demand for SPECIAL PLATE NUMBERS)
and thus withdrew from all forms of Unions
in Nigeria. NMA withdrew its membership of
NLC and TUC. They pulled out of the various
statutory unions in the health sector. In
effect, they stood ALONE!!
Though this solitary potentiation had
favoured them for a while as they succeded
in maligning various govts to achieve their
aim and of course they always had their way
owing to the differential interests of the
other members of their team. However, that
said goodbye in the birth of the JOINT
HEALTH SECTOR UNION (JOHESU); a union
encompassing all other professional groups
in the hospital.
The birth of JOHESU woke govt up to the
reality that the hospital wasn't a home for
NMA alone and thus began the genesis of
worries for NMA...
Now, the NMA appears to be so vulnerable,
having NO PARTNERS AND FRIENDS. Worst of
all, they have lost public sympathy. Alas!!
Hence, a Profession as noble as medicine has
been brought to so much disrepute due to
the negativities of its members. Very
disturbing signals that should worry NMA are
emerging... Imagine, Nigeria successfully
wades through a delicate outbreak of epideic
while Doctors are on strike! Hmmmmm...
So now a warning to NMA; the recent
REGRETABLE suspension of Physicians'
residency may only be the beginning of
greater worries to come for NMA. Of course
the strike weapon of NMA appears to have
blunted since the formation of JOHESU, thus
robbing NMA of its one and only joker! Its
imperative for NMA to find ways for cordial
relationship with their co-workers. They
must purge themselves of the repudiating
toga of ARROGANCE & PURE EGO TRIPPING.
NMA must begin to seek the general well
being of all health workers no matter how
"small" they may be.
The ongoing drama certainly proves the old
saying that THERE IS STRENGHT IN UNITY....
UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL...
9JA 4 LIFE

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The outgoing Head of the
Civil Service of the
Federation (HOS), Bukar Aji
has called on members of
the Nigerian Medical
Association to resume work,
describing the continued workers strike as
a disservice to the nation.
He spoke in Abuja during the launching of two
books about his life and leadership of the
Federal Civil Service, titled: “A Quintessential
Civil Servant,” and “The Challenges of
Transforming the Civil Service.”
According to him: “The situation we are in
today, is a situation that the Nigerian
society recognizes who is actually a
Nigerian…not only in the case of the
insurgency of Boko Haram, but when the
Ebola virus came, When do you then stand
up for your nation? That’s the question
everybody will ask.”
Bukar Aji added that: “Even in this time,
the Nigeria Medical Association is still
trying to sustain the strike; I think the
answer is getting very clearer to Nigerians
that they now know who are actually
Nigerians and who are those who will stand
for the nation at the time of need.”
He appealed to end the strike, saying: “I would
like to use this medium as I’m bowing out to
appeal to the Nigeria Medical Association to
reconsider their stand and resume back to
work before it is too late.”
Aji said all avenues have been deployed yet the
matter is not resolved and the principal factor
is for government to raise the bar of the entry
point of doctors to grade level 13.
He lamented that, “What happened to the man
that has to wait for ten years before he gets to
grade level 10, we explained the revenue
situation of the country, it is not as good as it
use to be, the minister of finance told me that
the figure we are giving about for personnel
cost and over head cost of N1.8 trillion is not
true, it’s now close to N2 trillion.”
Speaking on behalf of President Goodluck
Jonathan, the Secretary of the Government of
the Federation, Anyim Pius commended the
wide reaching reforms put in place by the
outgoing HOS, describing him as a hero of
public service reforms.
He urged all civil servants to embrace the
legacy of the outgoing HOS and be agents
of reform.
Also in his remarks as chairman of the
occasion, former minister of Defence,
Yayale Ahmed challenged civil servants to
think outside the box and use their
knowledge in advising the political leaders
of the country.

http://www.medicalworldnigeria.com/2014/08/head-of-service-flays-striking-medical-doctors-nmastrike

RESIDENCY SUSPENSION; CHRONICLES
Its no more news that the Federal Govt
yesterday suspended the Residency training
of Medical doctors in Nigeria. The
announcement was greeted by lamentations
and thumpings depending on the angle of
impact. This development however brings to
fore many issues but firstly, WHO ARE
RESIDENT DOCTORS??
Resident doctors can be simply described as
POST GRADUATE DOCTORS IN TRAINING.
Essentially, they are TRAINEES seeking to
specialize in various fields of medicine.
Resident doctors are highly priviledged in the
sense that while the FG TRAINS them, they
are fully paid for their services rendered in
the hospitals. Hence its somewhat an IN
SERVICE TRAINING... Yet they added another
definition to themselves; NOTORIETY FOR
STRIKE ACTIONS EVEN FOR FLIMSY
REASONS...
Now, while no one begrudges the NMA its
rare priviledge of residency, the NMA have
overtly and covertly done everything possible
under the sun to SELFISHLY frustrate the
constitution of residency in the fields of
NURSING, MEDICAL LAB SCIENCES,
PHARMACY and other areas of medical
practice. The NMA especially the body of
Resident Doctors even went to the
ignominable extent of THREATENING STRIKE
ACTIONS if the government dares to extend
these priviledges to other members of the
medical team!! For Nigerian Physicians,
Residency MUST BE FOR THEM ALONE!!! As
far as they are concerned, IT WILL NO MORE
BE "RESIDENCY" IF PHARMACIST, MEDICAL
SCIENTISTS ET AL BENEFIT FROM IT...
Its instructive to note that medical practice
is a MULTI-DISCIPLINARY venture and as
such advancement of knowledge in all fields
is important for the general well being of the
PATIENT, who is at the CENTRA of health
care. Why then would any reasonable man
wish and work towards frustrating members
of his own TEAM (a team he claims to lead)
from advancing in knowledge It really
beats me!!
....and thus began a bitter struggle for
EMANCIPATION by the other professionals in
the health sector. All professionals seek to be
free from the retrogressive grip of NMA and
its allies. The agitation for Residency training
by the other professionals heightened amidst
stiff opposition from NMA. Shockingly, NMA
started demanding for FOREIGN RESIDENCY
TRAINING WHILE AT THE SAME TIME
ANGLING AGAINST EVEN "LOCAL" RESIDENCY
FOR OTHERS... Shocking and sad?
Certainly, the residency training is just ONE
OUT OF THOUSANDS of inter-professional
issues in the health sector. With the hard
stance of NMA against the progress of other
members aggravating, resentment and strife
escalated.
Presently, it appears the FG has woken up to
the reality that the health industry is not a
CONCLAVE FOR NMA ALONE and so makes
moves to RESTRUCTURE RESIDENCY TRAINING
in the nation. Its instructive to know that
what is sauce for the goose should also be
sauce for the gander.
If and when the residency programme will be
restored, it must cut across all relevant
fields of medical practice. Should the FG
succeed in doing that, it will signal the FIRST
STEP towards solving the perenial problems
in the health sector. Advancement of
knowledge should be guaranteed across
board to enhance proper patient care.
A SINGLE TREE NEVER MAKES A FOREST. "ONE
TREE HILL" was only a movie. LIVE AND LET
LIVE....
9JA 4 LIFE

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A child must obey his father who labour to
pay his school fees. If the child decide to
attack the father in a commando style or
snake in the monkey shadow style, the father
have no choice than to defend himself so
that other children can continue to benefit
his paternal love & care.
Federal Government pays RESIDENCY
TRAINING FEE of Medical Doctors for them
to be CONSULTANTS. The Pharmacists,
Nurses, Medical Laboratory Scientists, etc do
not enjoy this generous love from Fed Govt
but Medical Doctors have continually
enjoyed this benovolence for years & at the
same time like "Jackie Chan" they balance in
a Karatic style threatening Fed Govt not to
dare extend such favour to other Health
Professionals.
Now that Fed Govt have said I WONT PAY
YOUR FEES AGAIN FOR RESIDENCY TRAINING
& HAVE ISSUED THEM SACK LETTERS AS
RESIDENT DOCTORS because of their
disrespect & backstabing, rushing into strike
despite our National Challenge with Fed Govt
paying their fees plus salaries, what will NMA
do?

Doctors can become a medical officer and follow the
cadre as a civil servant, then they can experience
the brunt other health workers suffer

drobadebayo: I guess u hv to call pipo names b4 making ur point.to assume am a resident tho,tht was slow.but I wdnt expect more from sme1 like u

The problem is that they won't listen due to their superman nature, maybe they thought GEJ just woke up today to cancel residency program, he had planned it far back as last year October , the former NMA president is aware, that was why the minister of health was warning NMA, not to let FG do the worst

drobadebayo: Take off with which doctors?trust me d only thing dt ll happen is d usual "about turn"wen he reverses his decision.until den d film is interesting

You still can't believe this, you must be a learner, FG have already put in place measures like employing new MBBS graduates next week, provided they wish to to up the job and deployed military health personal to reduced the work load and you still think president GEJ is a dumb, my friend wake up from your slumber before it too late, I advice you if you have good relationship with your CMD, better give him a call earlier to fix you on locum before it is filled up, a word they said is enough for the wise.

[quote author=Danyhel][/quote]Let see who is dumb between NMA and president Jonathan at end of the month when no alert for you, and mind you residency will take off later with new laws and will cover other health professionals in the health sector, but till then you are on your own.

logic2014: .

Oniranu! stay up and hear words nau. no sleep. shebi na gutter language una undertand. doctors have been too civil with you JOHESUITES. This mantra of 'team work' in the health sector have been taken to a ridiculous level. We all know who gives the orders.

Who is your slave that you can give order to, Go and give order to your family at home, you this semi god

phantom: this is why our health system is in shambles. pay for residency

serious governments fund residency training.
the US even funds undergraduate medical training.

nigerians are a funny lot. get ready to start flying to india. i hope you can afford it otherwise you and your family are finished.

Then the residency should cut across all health professionals in the health sector, and mind you are finished since no more salary and you and your family are also finished too in case they need medical attention, you arrogant small god.

When government pay so much to train only doctors residency program in Nigeria and instead of doctors to be greatful they still threatened government with strikes, what do you expect government to do, now government will use the money to employ and pay only full term staff to work in the hospital, and if any medical professionals want residency program you will have to pay for it yourself, simple as ABC.

Shares of Tekmira Pharmaceuticals
Corp. rose the most in five months after
U.S. regulators said the company could
possibly give its experimental Ebola drug
to people infected with the deadly
disease.
Shares surged 18 percent to $16.89 at
9:35 a.m. in New York, the biggest
intraday gain since March 5, after
gaining as much as 24 percent.
The Food and Drug Administration had
previously put tests of the drug, known
as TKM-Ebola, on hold. The Vancouver-
based company said yesterday that the
agency altered the therapy’s status to
possibly allow its use in those infected
with the virus that has killed 932 people
in West Africa since March.
“We have been closely watching the
Ebola virus outbreak and its
consequences, and we are willing to
assist with any responsible use of TKM-
Ebola,” Tekmira’s Chief Executive
Officer Mark Murraysaid in a statement.
“The foresight shown by the FDA removes
one potential roadblock to doing so.”
Stephanie Yao, an FDA spokeswoman,
said she couldn’t discuss specific
products and deferred questions to
Tekmira. The company didn’t say in the
statement if or when it would begin
tests, only that it might, and didn’t say
how much of the drug is available. Julie
Rezler, a Tekmira spokeswoman, didn’t
return calls for comment after the
statement was released.
The World Health Organization is
planning to convene a panel of medical
ethicists next week to explore the use of
experimental drugs for Ebola. The U.S.
also is developing policy about how such
medicines should be distributed in future
outbreaks, saidAnthony Fauci, director
of the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases.
Tekmira’s drug wasn’t the treatment
administered to two American aid
workers infected with Ebola in Liberia.
The aid workers, Kent Brantly and Nancy
Writebol, each received a dose of Mapp
Biopharmaceutical Inc.’s experimental
therapy, called ZMapp, in Liberia before
being flown to the U.S. They are being
treated at Emory University Hospital in
Atlanta and have shown signs of
improvement.
Nigeria’s health ministry said it had
written to the director of the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention requesting access to Mapp’s
drug.
Human testing of Tekmira’s Ebola
treatment was put on hold last month
due to safety concerns. Tekmira said the
studies were suspended because of an
inflammatory, flu-like response in
healthy volunteers taking higher doses of
the drug. The company previously said it
expected the hold to be resolved by the
end of the year.
The drug stops the action of specific
Ebola virus genes, which keeps the virus
from making more of itself, said Thomas
Geisbert, a virologist at University of
Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
In a 2010 study, researchers tested the
drug on four monkeys, giving them seven
doses of the medicine after they were
infected with high doses of Ebola. The
drug worked to protect them from the
disease. It is one of only three
treatments that have been shown to
completely protect monkeys against
Ebola, Geisbert said in an e-mail.
Yao, the FDA spokeswoman, said earlier
this week that while the agency couldn’t
comment on the development of a
specific product like TKM-Ebola, it
individually considers each human study
based on the risks and benefits involved.
“A future proposal for a study or
emergency use in a different population,
for example in patients with disease,
might have an acceptable risk-benefit
balance,” she said. “If the benefits of
studying the product on an individual
outweigh the risks, we may consider
permitting that study to proceed.”
TKM-Ebola had earlier been fast-tracked
by regulators in a process designed to
expedite the review of drugs for serious
conditions and unmet medical needs. The
therapy is in the first of three stages of
clinical trials usually required by
regulators for approval.
Besides Mapp’s antibody therapy and
Tekmira’s treatment, the U.S. National
Institute of Health is developing a
vaccine, which may begin enrollment in a
Phase 1 clinical trial by this fall. Other
companies developing drugs for the
deadly disease include Fujifilm Holdings
Corp., BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Inc.,
and Sarepta Therapeutics Inc.
The Ebola virus has sickened 1,711
people in West Africa in the latest
outbreak, according to the World Health
Organization. It has no cure. The current
treatment is to hydrate patients, replace
lost blood and use antibiotics to fight off
opportunistic infections. The hope is that
the patient’s immune system will be able
to ward off the disease.
Ebola has historically killed as many as
90 percent of those who contract it. The
current outbreak has claimed the lives of
about 60 percent of its victims.

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"Practical Nurse Pledge", a modern version
based on the "Nightingale Pledge"
Before God and those assembled here, I
solemnly pledge;
To adhere to the code of ethics of the
nursing profession;
To co-operate faithfully with the other
members of the nursing team.
I will not do anything evil or malicious and I
will not knowingly give any harmful drug or
assist in malpractice.
I will not reveal any confidential information
that may come to my knowledge in the
course of my work.
And I pledge myself to do all in my power to
raise the standards and prestige of the
practical nursing;
May my life be devoted to service and to the
high ideals of the nursing profession.
COURTESY: WIKIPAEDIA

Nigerians need a very big chain to chain this small gods call NMA because they are becoming nuisance to prevent them from dancing naked in the market square, they are really embarrassing themselves, I pray they succeeded in mobilising themselves to this public hearing and behave like animals like they always do and they should expect nothing less than embarrassment, since NMA have no shame, they think Nigerians don't know left from right.

Physicians' strike irks lagos state
government.
Their major grouse with
government was a demand for
"Teaching Allowance" for House
Officers, who are doctors-in-
training, still being taught the
practical aspects of the job to
prepare them well for the
challenges of the caring
profession.
House Officers, according to the
Lagos State Commisioner for
Information and Strategy,
Aderemin Lateef Ibirogba, would
only be eligible to proceed on
National Youth Service Corps
based on their success at this
Housemanship.
The Doctors, he disclosed were
also demanding an increase in
their salaries without recourse
to the other professionals in the
public service system, despite
currently receiving the full
Consolidated Medical Salary
Structure (CONMESS), by which
the least paid among them (the
House Officers), receive over
N173,000.00 monthly
As at now, House Officers on Grade Level in
the
State take home a total of
N173,927.33, while Medical
Officers on Grade level 12, earn
between N207,629.75 and
N256,903.58 every month, he
said, adding that those on level
13 earn between N260,690.59
and N309,303.83 monthly.
Level 14 Medical Officers earn
between N312,883.83 and
N364,613.41 monthly, just as
those on level 15 net home
between N372,463.50 and
N444,311.58 every month.
"In the same way, the State pays
doctors on Grade Level 16
between N445,522.00 and
N531,205.83 monthly, while
those on level 17 are paid
between N534,594.67 and
N632,658.17. The Consultants
earn a monthly salary of
between N439,576.50 and
N801,985.09", he said.
Government, he explained, had
frowned at the habit of the
doctors of exploiting every
flimsy excuse to divert patients
from government hospitals to
their private clinics, most of
which were located close to
government hospitals under the
guise of ill-conceived strike,
adding that government was
committed to maintaining law
and order while making efforts
to protect who chose not to take
part in the illegal strike, as
adequate security would be
provided to make those who
want to work do so unhindered,
in this regard, doctors who
consider it their professional
duty to continue to work are
assured of adequate protection.
The Commissioner however,
assured that everything possible
was being done to ensure that
normalcy was quickly restored
to the health system and that
knee-jerk recourse to strike
action, leading to distress and
even death of citizens of Lagos,
would no longer be part of the
culture of the state health
service. the skipping has already been done
from House officer GL10 to medical officer
GL 12. and now super skipping to GL13.

PUBLIC NOTICE!!! PUBLIC NOTICE!!! PUBLIC
NOTICE!!!
Licensed Professional Nurses are never
trained by doctors, they are not doctors'
servants or messengers. They are members
of the health team comprising of others (like
pharmacists, physiotherapist OR Lab.
Scientists)
Let the whole of Nigeria know from
henceforth, whenever Obembe or any other
egocentric, schizophrenic or manic psychotic
member of NMA has the gut to claim that
"nurses" are trained by doctors to be their
servants, kindly note that the only group that
exist as nurses in the crooked dictionary of
such ones is the horde of miserable quacks
they train in their death-trap-like private
clinics, the cluster they mischievously breed
to misrepresent and tarnish the image of an
adorable profession, their squad of killers
and assemblage of zombies they roguishly tag
'AUXÎLLARY NURSES' instead of AUXILLARY
DOCTORS!
LET THE PUBLIC BEAR THIS IN MIND:
LICENSED PROFESSIONAL NURSES BY FAR
DIFFERS FROM AUXILLARY NURSES. THEY ARE
AND WILL NEVER BE THE SAME.
AUXILLARY NURSES (NOW KNOWN AS
AUXILLARY DOCTORS) ARE NOT LICENSED TO
PRACTICE, THEY ARE QUACKS, AGENTS OF
DOCTORS TRAINED FOR EVIL ENDS, THEY ARE
A SQUADRON OF KILLERS TRAINED BY
MURDERERS!

# waragainstauxillarynursesandtheirdoctors

"NURSES ARE MEANT TO ASSIST THE DR. I
TAKE OFF MY GLOVES & GIVE TO THE NURSE
TO DISCARD IT BECAUSE IF I DISCARD IT MY
LICENCE CAN BE SIEZED" - (DR OBEMBE,
NMA PRESIDENT) ON CHANNELS TV).
Could this be true?

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Instead of this doctors to go and save lives they are all on nairaland trying to save their profession, after destroying it because of there small god mentality, maybe when doctors do that they can get public sympathy but as it stands many Nigerians are not happy with this small gods

FUNKE EGBEMODE (A The Sun Nigeria
Newspaper columnist)
It pisses me off when people who don’t know
anything pretend to know something. My
anger is worse with those who ought to know
yet know nothing. And I am mighty angry
with you and you and you and the
government. You still don’t know why I’m
angry, right? Very annoying people. How
long is it going to take a nation of
supposedly brilliant people to realize our
doctors are big boys, big babes and we
should not take them for granted? When are
we going to face up to the fact that doctors
are not mere men, not ordinary people we
should toy with?
If we are as intelligent as we claim we are,
won’t we know that men who can make a
difference between life and death in as little
as a minute are small gods? But what do we
know? What do we do? We annoy our
doctors every year, force them to dump their
stethoscopes in anger. What kind of smart
people piss off gods with such reckless
abandon annually instead of worshipping
them? Only Nigerians. Smart people offer
sacrifices to their gods regularly. They don’t
put their stubby fingers in the eyes of the
gods.
Look at me. I spent four years in the uni­
versity getting a degree but doctors spend
six years. Do I need Wikipedia to tell me my
degree is smaller than that of a doctor?
Seriously? Other graduates start at grade
level 8 in the civil service. Doctors start at
level 12. It takes about 10 years to catch up
with these special people. Isn’t that why I go
to the hospital each time I have malaria even
though I have been having malaria since
forever? Still I’m no specialist, no consultant,
at treating malaria.
When are we going to get it into our
pompous heads that it is and will always be
our fault that doctors go on strike every
year? We should quit blaming these great
people who help to keep us alive and well.
We should listen to their every whisper,
appreciate every drop of their sweat. Of
course, we can never pay them enough for
their efforts, which is why they have to take
an oath to be good to us even when we are
bad to them. They are priceless, our jewels
of inestimable value.
These human beings are bigger than their
employers, don’t you think? That is what the
federal and state governments needs to
know.We all need to acknowledge the
goodness and greatness of our doctors. The
Minister and the Minister of State for Health
are medical doctors. The heads of NAFDAC,
NHIS, NACA, among other health institutions
are doctors. I hear between the federal and
state hospitals in Lagos, there are 2,000
consultants in Lagos alone. Don’t exclaim
yet. I also heard that 92% of the budget of
the health sector goes to paying salaries,
58% of which goes to medical doctors. Are
your eyes threatening to pop out of their
sockets? Tell them to maintain status quo
ante.
It may look like doctors are getting too
much as it is but we need to do more. It
doesn’t matter that NMA is a trade union,
not a member of NLC or TUC, we always
negotiate with the body. But we need to do
more. It does not matter that it is rude for
employees to order their employers around,
they have us all by the balls and they are
squeezing. Let’s beg them even if the 24
reasons patients are dying since July 1 is not
our fault. Most of their demands are admin­
istrative issues but we must still beg them
now. Check out some of the reasons and see
how boxed into a corner we are by men and
women whose salaries are paid from your
tax and sweat.
“The NMA is opposed to the appointment of
directors in the hospitals. This position
distorts the chain of command in the
hospital, induces anarchy.”
Ah, chain of command is important. Very
important. Anything that distorts it is reason
enough to promote a few hundreds of pa­
tients from the ward to the mortuary.
“Grade level 12 (CONMESS 2) in the health
sector MUST be SKIPPED for medical
doctors.”
Good point. Let us sacrifice a few babies in
the neonatal units to this demand. Those
premature little things ought to have known
better than to come into the world at a time
medical doctors are still being made to en­
dure CONMESS 2. It is not fair to help these
babies while no one is helping doctors.
“The title “CONSULTANT” in a hospital setting
describes the relationship between the
Specialist Medical Doctor and his patient. It
will be a source of confusion if the title is
applied to any other health worker who
statutorily does not own patient.”
Yes now. The doctors own us as soon as we
have the misfortune of stepping into their
hospitals. This CONSULTANT chieftaincy title
is the exclusive preserve of doctors. Burying
a few patients to secure this title is just a
little sacrifice even if it is the reason you are
burying your favourite aunt because there
was no doctor on duty when she got to the
hospital. I’m even suggesting special beaded
stethoscope and scrubs for Consultants so
they can stand out in the crowd of health
workers.
“Surgeon General of the Federation MUST be
appointed with immediate effect.”
I like the MUST in capital letters. That’s what
happens when the employee becomes bigger
than the employer. A man goes to apply for
a job, his files clutched in his nervous hands
behind him, wearing faded shirts and cheap
shoes. You give him the job and then he
starts throwing words like MUST around
because he can now afford a brand new Kia
Picanto? The little boy is getting too big for
his booties, ain’t he?
“Clinical duty allowance for Honorary
Consultants should be increased by 90% of
CONMESS and Hazard allowance MUST be at
least N100, 000 per month for Medical
Doctors.”
This is a matter of urgent national im­
portance. This sacred allowance is enough
reason for a woman to lose an only child be­
cause the doctors are on strike. It’s enough
reason to enlarge the community of widows
and widowers. We should pay them their
money and when we do, we shall insist they
make the dead walk.
“Government should as a matter of urgency
set up a health trust fund that will enhance
the upgrading of all hospitals in Nigeria.”
Awwww. How nice and considerate. These
small gods are not totally mean after all.
They kill a few and heal a few. But what is a
well equipped hospital if there are no
doctors to man the equipment because next
year, our little gods will go on strike again.
It’s an annual ritual.
One thing bothers me though. When these
doctors resume and find out that 10 of the
patients in Ward 6, 5 in Ward 7 and 15 in
the maternity ward died while they were on
strike, what will they tell God when praying
five times a day or when they ‘lift up holy
hands’ in church on Sunday?

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The action of the NMA in causing confusion
in the Nigeria health sector can be likened to
the insurgents and if not checked can go
viral and hydra headed.
It is sad that NMA who called itself elite
Association could be little itself and result to
name calling referring to other members of
the health sector as amorphous, supportive
staff and non- medically qualified.
The same NMA who berated the action of
Joint Health Sector Unions when they
threatened to embark on strike is now
declaring an indefinite strike which I refer to
as senseless and egocentric as a close look
into their demands revealed that none of
those things demanded can add value to
patient’s care rather enhancing their self
earned ego.
It is important that Nigerians are enlightened
to the facts concerning some of the requests
of the Nigeria Medical Association.
1. APPOINTMENTS OF DCMAC: There is no
law in Nigeria that established the position
Deputy Chairman Medical Advisory
Committee in our health sector but NMA
smuggled the position into the
administration of our various hospitals
through the Federal Ministry of health and
exclusively for medical practitioners, a way
to siphon public fund. The law that
established teaching hospitals in Nigeria
referred to as University Teaching Hospitals
(Reconstitution of Boards, Etc.) Act otherwise
known as Decree 10 of 1985 or Act U 15
LFN 2004 section 5 subsection (4) states that
“There shall be for each hospital, a chairman
of the Medical Advisory Committee who shall
be appointed by the Board and responsible
to the Chief Medical Director for all the
clinical and training activities of the
hospital.”
2. APPOINTMENTS OF DIRECTORS IN THE
HOSPITALS: Contrary to the claims of NMA
that this Position distorts the chain of
command in the hospital, induces anarchy
and exposes the patient to conflicting
treatment and management directives with
attendant negative consequences. They
should be reminded that aside medical
practitioners in the hospitals, there are
several other professionals whose scheme of
service allows them to reach the peak of
their professions which further reiterates the
recognition accorded to the practice of each
profession and informed decision making.
How can the NMA question the statutory
positions of other health professionals that
have been in place since 2001? It is clear
that they are the ones breeding anarchy.
3. DEMAND FOR SKIPPING: When JOHESU
challenged the FMOH circular that ordered
reversal of skipping of grade level 10 in the
health sector, NMA accused JOHESU of
stealing from the Government coffers, a
position that was challenged in court and
won. At the verge of implementation for
other health workers NMA came up asking
for skipping. Who is now a thief?
4. . THE TITLE OF CONSULTANT IN A
HOSPITAL SETTING: The leadership of NMA
should go and check the meaning of a
consultant in a dictionary. This simply means
professional adviser; an expert who charges
fees for providing advice or service in a
particular field. Whereas there are a lot of
specialists setting in the health sector
(Physiotherapy, Dietetics, Medical Laboratory
Science, Pharmacy, Radiography, Optometry
etc) what then give the NMA the temerity to
think they are the only professionals/
specialists in the hospital?
5. RELATIVITY IN HEALTH SECTOR: There used
to be one salary structure in our hospitals
until the regime of late Prof. Olikoye
Ransome Kuti who initiated the gross
disparity in the salary structures in Nigeria
hospital in a bid to favour his constituency
(NMA) with the advent of circular 1 of
1991which has thrown the bane of the
troubles in the health sector till date. An
attempt to amend this anomaly failed due to
the parochial interest of medical
practitioners who wants to go home with
sacks of currency in the name of salary while
what is earned by others is determined by
them making it to look like master- maid
relationship. This is sheer selfishness, as the
well being of a patient does not rest on the
shoulders of the NMA who is still living the
old tale.
6. IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL OF THE CBN
CIRCULAR AUTHORIZING THE MEDICAL
LABORATORY SCIENCE COUNCIL OF NIGERIA
(MLSCN) TO APPROVE LICENSES FOR THE
IMPORTATION OF IN-VITRO DIAGNOSTICS
(IVDs):
The singular act of NMA on this matter
clearly portrays them as ignorant and
lawless. Section 4 subsection (e) of MLSCN
Act states that the Council shall power to
“regulate the production, importation, sales
and stocking of diagnostic laboratory
reagents and chemicals; When did NMA
become sensor board? NMA is busy chasing
shadows by not wanting to obey the law of
the land. What a shame.
7. RESIDENCY TRAINING: NMA enjoys full
residency training at the expense of all
Nigeria scholars as they are the only set of
people that Government trains at the post
graduate level. I don’t even know if Nigerian
youth enjoys this Father Christmas venture
from the Federal Government at post
graduate levels and yet they are asking for a
review to travel abroad for training at whose
expense? NMA keeps talking about
international best practices. Is this what
happens outside the shores of Nigeria where
people pay for trainings? Another way of
licking the honey. Alas the funding of this
training is taking a chunk of resources from
the sector, no wonder other health workers
cannot be trained or sponsored to workshops
8. THE ORCHESTRATED INTIMIDATION,
HARASSMENT AND PHYSICAL ASSAULT BY
LABORATORY SCIENTISTS: Members of NMA
in this department has chosen to
continuously disregard government rules,
regulations in the Federal Medical Centers,
Specialist and Teaching Hospitals. The
statutory scheme of service for medical
laboratory scientists clearly provides for the
functions of the Director, Medical laboratory
services; namely: “Taking charge of General
Administration of medical laboratory
services; Budgeting and ordering for
laboratory equipment and reagents; Advising
on the formulation, execution and review of
medical laboratory policies” among others.
This dates back to 1972. Organograms are
being designed with complete disregard to
structure of professional services as designed
by schemes of service; harassment of
hardworking professionals; threats of “sack”
by Medical Directors, Chief Medical Directors
and even Boards of Management. Why won’t
there be anarchy when this set of people
(NMA) perpetrates organized quackery in the
laboratories.
9. THE POSITION OF CHIEF MEDICAL
DIRECTOR/MEDICAL DIRECTOR: It is laughable
to hear NMA say that the position is
sacrosanct. One wonders if medical
practitioners think they are the only one that
is medically qualified in the health sector.
They have deceived Nigerians to believe that
the position of the Chief executive in our
hospitals, Commissioners and Health Minister
positions respectively is their exclusive
rights. Section 5 subsection 2 of the law that
established teaching hospitals in Nigeria
states that
“The Chief Medical Director shall -
(a) be a person who is medically qualified
and registered as such for a period of
not less than twelve years, and has had
considerable administrative experience
in matters of health and holds a post -
graduate medical qualification obtained
not less than five years prior to the
appointment as Chief Medical Director; and
(b) be charged with the responsibility for the
execution of the policies and matters
affecting the day - to - day management of
the affairs of the Hospital.”
Where then in this act was the position
reserved for these sets of power mongers?
Having let the cat out of the bag, is it not
clear that the requests of the so called NMA
is self driven? What manner of ego is it that
a group of employed workers by the
government will tell the government how to
relate with other employed medical workers?
It is the same Obembe led NMA that
demanded Nigeria should give all physicians’
special cars with special plate number for
whatever reasons. Soon they will be telling
all Nigerians to leave the roads for them
when they pass in a supposed hurry to attend
to emergency. Soon they will tell us to create
a special road for them to drive on with
siren. Has NMA no shame that it will attempt
to practice world standard but wants to turn
the rule upside down when it does not favor
them? Also in one of their request, NMA
members must be paid a minimum sum of
N100, 000 as hazard allowance a month.
What then makes them feel that they are
exposed more than Nurses who stays with
the patients 24hrs or Medical Laboratory
Scientists who does the dirty job or even an
ambulance driver?
Over pampering of these elements for long
has made them look directly at us in the face
to call Nigerians fools.
Physicians in Nigeria throw in stethoscope
and abandon their duty post at the slightest
opportunity to jeopardize the health of
Nigerian citizens. They should be told that
they don’t have this opportunity to do so as
they are never a registered Trade Union that
is regulated by law. No wonder why they are
lawless. Resident doctors are group of
students who are training to specialize. How
then is the system so bad that a group of
student will be allowed to hold a nation to
ransom without caution? This is how
insurgency started in the North eastern part
of Nigeria, can we manage another
insurgency in the health sector in the name
of NMA or are we trying to create another
sambisa forest in the guise of coerced
request? Of course NO.
I was greeted by news of an industrial action
of NMA on 1st july 2014 after an injunction
of the National Industrial Court which they
dragged the Federal Government and its
agencies warning them not to go on strike as
the matters are before the court. Is this not
the height of lawlessness in an attempt to
pervert justice?
Prof. Shettima Gyoh, a renowned Surgeon
and an esteemed member of NMA in a write
up published by African Health Magazine,
September 2013 Vol.35 No 6 pg 2 titled
Disharmony in the Nigerian Health Sector
advised “the doctors and dentists to soften
their insistence that only they can head
health administration institutions which
arose from the arbitrary selection that
started during the era of Military rule.
Military Government had only doctors in
mind when it came to appointing Heads of
Health administration without considering
the ability to manage. This practice has
continued as Civilian Governments have
tended to imitate their Military predecessors.
Doctors often claim that only they have the
comprehensive picture of the health needs of
society because of their education and
training. They should realize that after many
years of experience other health worker can
and also do have that same picture equally
comprehensively. They should realize that
neither stethoscope nor dental drill is
required in administering health”.
It is obvious that the clamour for health
administration by NMA is not based on the
wish to serve people better but to corner
public funds and the dictate for pecking
order.
He also asserted that we like quoting
developed countries and we know that the
British even appointed non-health
professionals as hospital administrators.
In the 1960s and ‘70s when professional
health service Administrators were in charge
of the management and administration of
hospitals, the Nigerian health sector ranked
4th in the Commonwealth. In 2006 the
Nigerian health sector was ranked 196th out
of 201 countries by the WHO. In 2011, the
Nigerian health sector was ranked 51 out of
53 countries in Africa by the Mo Ibrahim
African Governance Index Rating. Since 1985
medical practitioners through decree 10 took
over the management and administration of
the sector, it has been a sad story of
continuous decline and persistent crisis in
the health sector. It is a fact that the NMA
and its affiliate bodies are known more for
strike and clamour for salaries and
allowances in Nigeria. Suddenly, it now
knows the prescription for reducing tension
and crises in the health sector.
Alas! What we see in Nigeria today is an
orchestrated campaign to mislead the
government again by the Nigerian Medical
Association: “The NMA believes that the
tension and crises in the health sector will be
greatly reduced if certain services are
privatized through the Public-Private
Partnership (PPP) arrangement. Such services
that can be easily privatized include:
Laboratory Services, Pharmacy, Radiography,
Physiotherapy, Catering and
Laundry” (Vanguard 28/9/2012);
Similarly, the Association of Chief Executives
of Federal Tertiary Hospitals: “Meanwhile, all
Federal Tertiary Hospitals are to submit
accurate estimates of their financial
requirements for outsourced services to the
Hon. Minister of Health through the
Director, Hospital Services, within two weeks
to facilitate the meeting with the Hon.
Minister of Finance and Director-General,
Budget Office of the Federation on the
provision of funding for outsourced
services” (The Guardian 16/7/2012). Through
newspaper advertorials and concerted effort
in hospitals, they are working to jettison the
National Medical Laboratory Services Policy
through the privatization of core services in
the hospitals.
Dr. Michael Adekunle Charles, a public health
specialist and medical Director of St. Paul’s
Hospital & Maternity Centre, Ebute Meta,
Lagos had said:
“There will be more significant improvements
in health care delivery in Nigeria, if trained
and experienced administrators are allowed
to head the country’s health institutions,
rather than the present system which allows
only doctors to head these institutions as a
right. According to him, most of the people
who studied medicine and who are heading
national hospitals do not have any
experience in health management and
hospital management. We need people that
studied management to head our health
system. I think there will be more significant
improvements, if we do this. In Germany
where I studied, a board of directors usually
heads a hospital. The board has as members
a doctor, a lawyer, an accountant etc. The
overall head of that team is usually not a
medical doctor, unless such a doctor has
extra qualification in administration”. –
Pharmanews, Nov. 2004, vol. 26 No. 11 pg.
55.
The NMA leadership in an attempt to cajole
the Government of their good intention if
any said that NMA as a responsible
professional body and the custodian of the
peoples' health, would continue to support
the Government as it strives to improve the
health of our citizens through committed zeal
in the discharge of our duties in a press
release after their meeting of Friday 23rd
May, 2014.
If NMA admits that health sector is made up
of team players then it should discard the
idea of self projection as leader of the team
as anyone with administrative competence
and resource management irrespective of
his/her professional background in the
health sector can lead for a good result.
I therefore submit that the tide of bickering
in the health sector can be stemmed to its
low ebb if these submissions are taken and
acted upon.
1. That the Federal Government must not
succumb to the cheap blackmail of NMA and
her allies by granting requests that
undermine the interest of the Nigerians.
2. That Government should without further
delay institute appropriate disciplinary
measures according to the provisions of the
Public Service Rules, to curb this unfortunate
phenomenon of unregulated display by NMA
turned into political activism and
gangsterism to the extent of total lack of
respect to laws and regulations. The earlier
this scenario is arrested the better for the
nation.
3. With their recent actions, what is the
place of these statements? Rather it is a blab
of semantics from a set of lunatics who do
not respect the sanctity of lives of Nigerians
rather they chose to abandon Government
hospitals for their privately owned ones at
the expense of the Government they pledge
allegiance. Who is fooling whom?
4. Resident doctors should be tamed to
observe the rules while on training and
various Teaching Hospital and Federal
Medical centre should employ Hospital paid
and graded Consultants not relying on the
touting set of Consultants from the
University on secondment to the adjoining
Teaching Hospitals who are more concerned
with the place of their primary assignments
rather than rendering service they are paid
for which accounts for patients not seeing
Consultants on their clinic days hence leave
these patients’ care in the hands of students.
5. Stakeholders’ round table meeting should
be arranged devoid of sentiments and ego to
discuss the way forward in the health sector
with respect to statutory laws and
regulations.
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08022640555

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The Chairman of the Medical
and Dental Council of Nigeria
(MDCN), Dr. Roger
Makanjuola, believes the
action of the doctors is
unethical.
He said: “It is unethical for doctors to go on
strike. Practitioners must respect the
provisions of the Code of Medical Ethics in
Nigeria as prescribed by the MDCN. Medical
doctors and dentists can no longer embark on
industrial actions in Nigeria. It is only in
extreme cases that doctors would hence forth
be allowed to embark on strike.
“Notwithstanding, even in such extreme
cases, certain measures must be put in
place before doctors can abandon their duty
posts. When such industrial actions occur,
the care of our patients is protected. The
Code stipulates that no patient can be
abandoned in the midst of his or her
treatment. A striking doctor must make
arrangements to hand over the continued
care of his patients before he leaves his
post. Also, provision must be made for the
continued provision of services for accident
and emergencies and the care of those
with serious illnesses and life-threatening
conditions.”
Dr Makanjuola added: “If any doctor goes on
strike and it is reported to the Council, we will
investigate and if found culpable, sanctions
would be imposed. It is also expected that
hospitals’ managements would want to take
advantage of this directive. It could be
challenging really, this is because, if the
doctors have o tool to work with, coupled with
an environment unsuitable for job, naturally
they would explore all options first, then if
everything fails to achieve redress, then the
last option would be to down tool.”

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...As they set to shut down Hospitals from
January 15th
Fejiro Oliver

The medical workers in Nigeria under the
umbrella of JOHESU has called on the
Presidency to kill the idea of Surgeon General
in the country to allow peace reign in the
health sector or witness a total closure of the
nation’s hospitals.
This warning was handed over on 6th January
2014 during a press briefing by the union in
Lagos. In a press release sent to us, they
enumerated the problematic areas of the
health sector as;
1. Post of Surgeon-General in Nigeria and
Arbitrariness in the Health Sector
2. Skipping of CONHESS 10
3. Consultancy Status for Healthcare-
Providers
4. Implementation of Agreements signed with
Government since 2009
5. The National Health Bill
6. Amendment of Act 10 of 1985
7. National Health Insurance Scheme
8. Double Salary for Honorary Consultants
According to them “the information provided
on the need for the post of the Surgeon-
General cannot be a compelling factor to
waste scarce public funds for an ego trip. The
precedence of a Surgeon-General draws its
parallel from only the U.S.A. It is not the
norm in any other part of the world. The best
in terms of ranking ever achieved by a
Surgeon-General was as an Assistant Secretary
of Health. Today the incumbent Surgeon-
General reports to an Assistant Secretary of
Health in the United States which promotes
the concept.
It is instructive to note that the office of the
Assistant Secretary of Health to which the
Surgeon General reports in the U.S.A. is
junior to the Minister of State for Health in
Nigeria.” They further noted that creating
such an office will be a duplication of the
Minister of Health, since there is a director of
Public Health under the ministry. Their
refusal also stemmed from the fact that the
bill has already been rejected by the 6th
National Assembly as well as the Justice
Abdullahi Gusau Committee on Harmony in
the Health Sector.
They berated Olukoye Kuti who created the
Medical Salary Scale in the nineties which is
the bane of the health sector today. The
statement wonders why a Medical Doctor
should earn 200% salary above his colleague
in any sector. “The insistence that other health
worker must not be allowed to skip CONHESS
10 which is now a major demand in the quest
to placate Doctors not to go on strike is a
national embarrassment and fraud. Doctors
are now demanding to enter the public service
on salary GL 14 after National Youth Service.”
They urge the government to respect the
court ruling which allows for them to skip
CONHESS 10. The Medical workers asked the
government to immediately obey the court
judgment on the issue of consultancy which
was stopped. They wonder why there can be
no consultant in other medical field when they
are specialized professionals, just as it obtains
in other parts of the world.
They bemoaned as situation where ‘the
promotion of our members has been withheld
for decades. Professional regulatory laws and
service circulars continue to be recklessly
compromised by the Federal Government
working on the advice of the Federal Ministry
of Health, like we recently witnessed again at
NAFDAC for instance where the Director-
General of the Agency has been re-appointed
in flagrant violation of Section 9 of the
enabling NAFDAC Act which provides inter-alia
that the Director General “must have a good
knowledge of PHARMACY, FOOD and DRUGS”.
Further they urged the government to
implement the new wages and call duty
allowance. The issue of the National Health
Bill according to them contradicts the
constitution, especially some paragraph which
vested power on it to regulate the medical
profession when an act has been passed
vesting such powers on the various medical
boards.
They demanded for the amendment of the act
coined by Kuti. “The foundation for all the
years of injustice in the health sector is
grounded in the military drafted Teaching
Hospital Act 10 of 1985, a creation of Late
Olikoye Kuti. The statute facilitates imbalance
in board appointments in favour of doctors,
stagnation in the career strata of health
workers as well as other exclusive privileges
for doctors in a multi-disciplinary sector”, it
stated
The statement exposed that consultants in the
medical and dental council earn double salary
as honorary consultants since they are
University employees but also collect money
from the teaching hospitals where they come
once a week to choose patients to treat. They
therefore called on the government to
privatize medical services in private hospitals.
“We put on record that 50% of total health
budget is dedicated to the payment of only
consultant doctors in Federal Health
Institutions. This is the main reason why
Nigerian Medical Association and Medical and
Dental Consultants of Nigeria continue to
agitate against Integrated Personal Pay Roll
System (IPPRS) because it subsequently will
detect those who earn double salary.
Government therefore needs to privatize
medical services in public hospitals in
Nigeria.”
They asked for a meeting with Mr. President
who is the father of the nation to enable
them air their views, while a fifteen days
ultimatum was given to the government to
meet their demands.
Consequent upon this and the expiration of
the 15 day ultimatum earlier given, the Joint
Health Sector Unions and the Assembly of
Healthcare Professionals of Nigeria in league
after appraising all its options painfully direct
all its members to proceed on a 5-day
warning strike from Wednesday January 15 to
Tuesday January 21, 2014 to enable
government led personally by President
Goodluck Jonathan redress through
constructive dialogue its prayer/grievances as
reflected in this position paper which shall be
made available to government. The condition
precedent to dialogue with President Jonathan
is a minimum conditionality which is also
non-negotiable as the President who is the
father of the nation must be willing to give all
his children a listening ear in a conflict that
continues to fester as a rotten and infected
wound because the future of healthcare-
providers in Nigeria can no longer be left with
Presidential aides who find it difficult to
disguise their affection for the interest of only
one profession in a multi-disciplinary sector.
In the event that Government does not enter
into meaningful dialogue within two weeks of
this notice, we shall be left with no option
than to commence a more excruciating and
total nationwide strike to enforce our
liberties.

[quote author=thepathologist]Nigerians want surgeon-general of public health. Usa has four surgeon-general(navy,army,air force and public health). Pls, let us get info before writing.[/quote

WHAT A LIE.
Haven told the world who a Surgeon General
Is and that it can be occupied by any medical
corps, some are minting lies that USA has 2
SG. Oh no, they don't. They have one and the
current Is Rear Admiral Boris Lushniak. (Fejiro Oliver)

Damilola Olusegun Adeaga wrote from UK and I
concur
You can only have positions like surveyor-
general, attorney-general, comptroller-general
etc in cases where only one profession exists in
such system. We have only lawyers in the legal
profession, hence only lawyers can become an
attorney-general. We have only the surveyors
(registered land surveyors of the surveyors
council of Nigeria), hence only a surveyor can
become surveyor-general of the federation; an
engineer cannot be a surveyor-general.
Surveyor-general oversees survey practice only.
He doesn't dabble into the affairs of engineers,
architects and other non-surveyors.
In the health industry, we have more than one
profession (medicine, nursing, pharmacy,
physiotherapy, medical laboratory science and
so on).
The position of Surgeon -general (if it should
be at all) should be to regulate 'medical' (not
health) practices (amongst the doctors only).
How can the surgron-general be in charge of
public health? So as to dominate, dictate to and
control things to their own advantage?
America has such position in their army, and
not for the civilian health system, and the
position is open to doctors and non-doctors. It
is based on merit, and not that only a doctor
can be.
It's just like saying that only an army officer
can become a defence minister, CSO or chief of
defense staff of the country; that the airforce
or navy cannot.
Nigeria doctors are just arrogant, proud and
power-hungry.
Nigerians have rejected the surgron-general
position .. We don't want it....

SURGEON GENERAL? PRESIDENT JONATHAN; DO THE NEEDFUL OR TENDER YOUR RESIGNATION LETTER ASAP
Fejiro Oliver

Constant attention by a good Nurse may just be
as important as a major operation by a surgeon. Dag Hammarskjold

President Jonathan is surely a man that loves
courting controversy; searching for troubles
where there is none and at the end gets his
fingers burnt and finally he blames his political
opponents, Social Media critics and online
Journalists for his woes. The regrettable thing is
that haven wooed the entire problem; he gets
entangled in a web of quagmire which ropes
him and throws him off balance. What manner
of New Year gift is this to Nigerians? Such is
the type of President many of us will be
regretting for standing under the scorching sun
to cast our precious votes.

For the record, I am neither a media
consultant to JOHESU nor any health union,
neither have I defended them beyond the basic
facts of the issues arising out of the current
brouhaha in the health sector. I have also had
cause to defend many physicians within the
scope of their job and will always do. So let it
be!
The crisis in the health sector is still boiling
and yet our President who doesn’t give a damn
has concluded plans to create an irrelevant
office called ‘Surgeon General’ for Nigeria and
Nigerians. This certainly is no good plan as
many will think; certainly not. This is another
office meant to siphon public funds by the
Presidency and his band of looters. I have
spent three good days consulting all over the
world on who an SG is and no one has given a
good reason why Nigeria should have such
bogus position. Not even the majority of the
physicians see any need for such apart from
the elites who will fight over it.

Going through the comments in various
newspapers that have their presence online; it
is evident that Nigerians do not want such a
position. More criminal is the clause that it is
the exclusive preserve of Medical Doctors. This
is where whoever constructed the bill got it
wrong. This is where we know that our
President must have his PhD queried if he does
not know that the SG is an all inclusive position
for all medical staffs that are clinically inclined.

Here we go.
The SG is a position created exclusively for the
military in 1798 when the US Congress
established the US Marine Hospital Service.
Originally, the corps was composed only of
physicians. As medicine became complicated
with the realization that most of the injured
war victims do not always need surgery but
Physiotherapy, Nurses attention or only taking
of drugs provided by the pharmacists, the
position of the SG was made open to any of the
officers in the Medical Command (MEDCOM)
who must be a lieutenant General. Thus on
December 7th 2011, Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho.
RN was sworn in as the first woman and first
NURSE to officially be in command of the
Army’s largest medical organization. That day
proved to the world that the appointment was
no longer based on medical first degree but
most qualified among all the health workers.
At the ceremony, Gen. Raymond T. Odierno,
chief of staff of the Army, said the impact of
the Army surgeon general goes well beyond the
Army to the “national and international level.”
“This position requires a special officer that
can lead change and achieve unity of effort in
the dynamic, joint interagency and also in a
multinational role working with our allies and
partners around the world,” he said.
Horoho previously served simultaneously as the
U.S. Army deputy surgeon general and 23rd
chief of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps.
She earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill and a Master of Science in Nursing as a
clinical trauma specialist from the University of
Pittsburgh. She is a resident graduate of the
Army’s Command and General Staff College and
the Industrial College of the Armed Forces,
where she earned a second Master of Science
degree in National Resource Strategy.


Another Nurse who served as the SG was Gale
Pollock after the then Army SG, General Kevin
kIley resigned due to the controversial Walter
Reed Army Medical Centre Scandal in 2007
A policy change in 1996 made it possible for
someone other than a physician to serve as the
Army surgeon general, according to the Army
Medical Command. The policy reads that “the
surgeon general may be appointed from
officers in any corps of the Army Medical
Department and, while so serving, has the
grade of lieutenant general.” The President
should automatically get this policy change as
soon as possible.
Mr President, it is the words of General
Raymond that I bring to you today. He never
said the position required a special medical
doctor or a special surgeon but a “special
officer”. To further prove this point, a
Pharmacist is the current Deputy Surgeon
General by name, Rear Admiral Scott F.
Gibberson, and should the current SG resigns
or exit under any circumstance; Gibberson, a
Pharmacist will take over the hallowed position.
The system we wish to copy must be copied
completely with the position made open to all
medical workers.


The arrogance of a profession who swims in
delusion of self importance should not becloud
the generality of Nigerians who have seen far
than they do. Taking a look at the bill sent to
the Senate smacks of selfishness with roles that
has already render the position of the Health
Minister useless.
“He/She shall articulate scientifically based
health policy analysis, and advise the President,
National Assembly, and the Minister of Health
on the full range of critical Public health,
medical and health system issues facing the
Nation.
He/She shall elevate the quality of health
practice in the professional disciplines through
the advancement of appropriate standards and
research priorities.
He/She shall provide leadership and
management oversight in National emergency
preparedness and response i. e coordinate
health and medical services delivery during
national disasters.
He/She shall fulfill statutory and customary
functions on a wide variety of Federal Boards
and Government bodies as required by
appropriate representation.
He/She shall promote health and healthy life
styles by adherence to norms and standards,
this he shall do by providing guidelines on
health matters that affect the citizenry”
“The Surgeon-General of Nigeria (SGN) shall
appoint numbers of persons as Director or
heads of various departments provided the
appointment shall reflect the Federal Character
of Nigeria” they say. Whose money will they
waste for the SG to appoint his cronies as SA,
PA, SSA, etc? An intern medical doctor recieves
N180, thousand per month which a level 14
officer in most Federal civil service don't get.
As a junior resident, his take home pay is N273
thousand which is the salary of some directors
in Federal civil service; and as a senior resident
officer, his pay packet is N350 thousand
monthly and a consultant takes home
N800,000 thousand monthly while some gets as
much as N1.6 million, which is an annual pay
of many senior Federal civil servants, yet
someone comes to drum into our ears that it is
not true. If these people collects this
outrageous sum in a country where we don't
pay tax on the things we spend like our counter
parts abroad; how much will the SG collects
monthly? N5 million or more monthly apart
from the other loots that will be budgeted to
run the office.
What other work does the Minister of health do
other than the above listed for the proposed
SGF? Whoever thought up this idea ought to be
behind bar. To think that the SG will serve for
tenure of six years when the President who
appoints him stays for four years is certainly
the works of men who wants to use the office
to feather their next. Is the SG our problem in
the health sector? A million of them cannot
stop any Nigeria from going to seek medical
treatment abroad. If I wish to go to Germany
for treatment; it is my hard earned money and
no SG can block the airport to stop me or any
Nigerian from entering the next available plane
to go to Germany. Why deceive ourselves that
the SG can decide who goes abroad for medical
treatment? No profession must be allowed the
misadventure to ride on another like they are
princes; just as no occupation should have her
ego massaged for peace to reign. This attitude
of masturbating the ego of all medical workers
especially NMA must stop. If the SG must be
created; then the sperm of justice must run
through the embryo of all the clinical workers
and not a selected few.
Can we stop this deception of creating this
position that will further ground the health
sector and focus on solving the ones on
ground? The governor of Taraba State, Danbaba
Suntai does not need surgery to come back on
his feet today but physiotherapy. Do we then
create the office of the Physiotherapy General?
Do we need to remind ourselves that Obasanjo
closeness to Senator Andy Uba is because he
was rehabilitated by the latter who is a doctor
of physiotherapy? Did he ask the then President
to create a special post for his colleagues? Any
attempt by Mr President to create this post will
bring anarchy not just to the health sector but
Nigeria as a whole. He should get ready to
create the office of the tutor general, Reporter
General, Engineer general, bricklayer general,
Suya Man general, Banker General, Driver
general, Pharmacist general, and even
corruption general which will be headed by
Stella Oduah, Alison Madueke or Goddey
Orubebe. It is as serious as that. The President
should focus on building of quality hospitals
that will make our leaders get treated at home.
It is a lie from the pit of abyss to tell Nigerians
that medical tourism is due to the non
availability of a Surgeon General. For crying
out loud; only five countries arguably have the
office of Surgeon General and we do not have
to follow suit. Enough of this copy cat culture
in us, when we have not finished copying how
to practice the true democracy. It’s another
sub-standard lie for NMA to Nigerians that
Nigeria best brains in Medicine and Surgery are
abroad. Oh my God, it means we all have been
treated by quacks that are left in this country
all these years. We are simply finished!
All other medical workers especially the Nurses
and Physiotherapists are the worst hit as we
have them practicing abroad more than the
physician. There is brain drain in every sector
and it is entirely not the fault of Nigeria, but
personal decisions. Do we bring all the health
workers registered in their various boards to
confirm this claim?
We certainly do not have money to waste on
this borrowed post that is coming to duplicate
the minister of health. Come to think of it,
which of our medical worker in the Armed
Forces is up to the rank of a Lieutenant
General? If we must copy anything America, we
must also copy their prudent way of spending
and it has to begin from the budget. Any
attempt to gag the president into creating this
monster position without following the
Americans whom we are borrowing it from will
certainly prove to the world his weakness, and
a weak man cannot govern a country like
Nigeria. This is worse than the current
challenge of the All Progressive Congress (APC),
as it will indirectly affects the masses. What are
we even saying? The bill has been brought to
the Senate and House of Representatives and
they in their wisdom have thrown it out. It
went before the Justice Abdullahi Gusau
Committee on Harmony in the Health Sector
and was utterly rejected. This bill will certainly
not see the day without the assent of the
lawmakers, and if in whatever form it succeeds;
Mr President should please tender his
resignation letter should the health sector goes
on strike. We do not live in an animal farm
despite the President being a graduate of how
to take care of animals.
It is still a rumor for now and President
Jonathan can still warm his way back by
dousing it and reassuring us that it will never
come to pass; at least not in his regime and
never should it be. Do the needful. Happy New
Year pals.

These little things matter…
Fejiro Oliver, a Journalist can be reached on
secretsreporters@gmail.com and
+2348026797588 (sms only please). Follow on
twitter @fejirooliver86 and Facebook
fejirooliver86.

Constant attention by a good Nurse may just be
as important as a major operation by a surgeon
Dag Hammarskjold
President Jonathan is surely a man that loves
courting controversy; searching for troubles
where there is none and at the end gets his
fingers burnt and finally he blames his political
opponents, Social Media critics and online
Journalists for his woes. The regrettable thing is
that haven wooed the entire problem; he gets
entangled in a web of quagmire which ropes
him and throws him off balance. What manner
of New Year gift is this to Nigerians? Such is
the type of President many of us will be
regretting for standing under the scorching sun
to cast our precious votes.
For the record, I am neither a media
consultant to JOHESU nor any health union,
neither have I defended them beyond the basic
facts of the issues arising out of the current
brouhaha in the health sector. I have also had
cause to defend many physicians within the
scope of their job and will always do. So let it
be!
The crisis in the health sector is still boiling
and yet our President who doesn’t give a damn
has concluded plans to create an irrelevant
office called ‘Surgeon General’ for Nigeria and
Nigerians. This certainly is no good plan as
many will think; certainly not. This is another
office meant to siphon public funds by the
Presidency and his band of looters. I have
spent three good days consulting all over the
world on who an SG is and no one has given a
good reason why Nigeria should have such
bogus position. Not even the majority of the
physicians see any need for such apart from
the elites who will fight over it.
Going through the comments in various
newspapers that have their presence online; it
is evident that Nigerians do not want such a
position. More criminal is the clause that it is
the exclusive preserve of Medical Doctors. This
is where whoever constructed the bill got it
wrong. This is where we know that our
President must have his PhD queried if he does
not know that the SG is an all inclusive position
for all medical staffs that are clinically inclined.
Here we go.
The SG is a position created exclusively for the
military in 1798 when the US Congress
established the US Marine Hospital Service.
Originally, the corps was composed only of
physicians. As medicine became complicated
with the realization that most of the injured
war victims do not always need surgery but
Physiotherapy, Nurses attention or only taking
of drugs provided by the pharmacists, the
position of the SG was made open to any of the
officers in the Medical Command (MEDCOM)
who must be a lieutenant General. Thus on
December 7th 2011, Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho.
RN was sworn in as the first woman and first
NURSE to officially be in command of the
Army’s largest medical organization. That day
proved to the world that the appointment was
no longer based on medical first degree but
most qualified among all the health workers.
At the ceremony, Gen. Raymond T. Odierno,
chief of staff of the Army, said the impact of
the Army surgeon general goes well beyond the
Army to the “national and international level.”
“This position requires a special officer that
can lead change and achieve unity of effort in
the dynamic, joint interagency and also in a
multinational role working with our allies and
partners around the world,” he said.
Horoho previously served simultaneously as the
U.S. Army deputy surgeon general and 23rd
chief of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps.
She earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill and a Master of Science in Nursing as a
clinical trauma specialist from the University of
Pittsburgh. She is a resident graduate of the
Army’s Command and General Staff College and
the Industrial College of the Armed Forces,
where she earned a second Master of Science
degree in National Resource Strategy.


Another Nurse who served as the SG was Gale
Pollock after the then Army SG, General Kevin
kIley resigned due to the controversial Walter
Reed Army Medical Centre Scandal in 2007
A policy change in 1996 made it possible for
someone other than a physician to serve as the
Army surgeon general, according to the Army
Medical Command. The policy reads that “the
surgeon general may be appointed from
officers in any corps of the Army Medical
Department and, while so serving, has the
grade of lieutenant general.” The President
should automatically get this policy change as
soon as possible.
Mr President, it is the words of General
Raymond that I bring to you today. He never
said the position required a special medical
doctor or a special surgeon but a “special
officer”. To further prove this point, a
Pharmacist is the current Deputy Surgeon
General by name, Rear Admiral Scott F.
Gibberson, and should the current SG resigns
or exit under any circumstance; Gibberson, a
Pharmacist will take over the hallowed position.
The system we wish to copy must be copied
completely with the position made open to all
medical workers.


The arrogance of a profession who swims in
delusion of self importance should not becloud
the generality of Nigerians who have seen far
than they do. Taking a look at the bill sent to
the Senate smacks of selfishness with roles that
has already render the position of the Health
Minister useless.
“He/She shall articulate scientifically based
health policy analysis, and advise the President,
National Assembly, and the Minister of Health
on the full range of critical Public health,
medical and health system issues facing the
Nation.
He/She shall elevate the quality of health
practice in the professional disciplines through
the advancement of appropriate standards and
research priorities.
He/She shall provide leadership and
management oversight in National emergency
preparedness and response i. e coordinate
health and medical services delivery during
national disasters.
He/She shall fulfill statutory and customary
functions on a wide variety of Federal Boards
and Government bodies as required by
appropriate representation.
He/She shall promote health and healthy life
styles by adherence to norms and standards,
this he shall do by providing guidelines on
health matters that affect the citizenry”
“The Surgeon-General of Nigeria (SGN) shall
appoint numbers of persons as Director or
heads of various departments provided the
appointment shall reflect the Federal Character
of Nigeria” they say. Whose money will they
waste for the SG to appoint his cronies as SA,
PA, SSA, etc? An intern medical doctor recieves
N180, thousand per month which a level 14
officer in most Federal civil service don't get.
As a junior resident, his take home pay is N273
thousand which is the salary of some directors
in Federal civil service; and as a senior resident
officer, his pay packet is N350 thousand
monthly and a consultant takes home
N800,000 thousand monthly while some gets as
much as N1.6 million, which is an annual pay
of many senior Federal civil servants, yet
someone comes to drum into our ears that it is
not true. If these people collects this
outrageous sum in a country where we don't
pay tax on the things we spend like our counter
parts abroad; how much will the SG collects
monthly? N5 million or more monthly apart
from the other loots that will be budgeted to
run the office.
What other work does the Minister of health do
other than the above listed for the proposed
SGF? Whoever thought up this idea ought to be
behind bar. To think that the SG will serve for
tenure of six years when the President who
appoints him stays for four years is certainly
the works of men who wants to use the office
to feather their next. Is the SG our problem in
the health sector? A million of them cannot
stop any Nigeria from going to seek medical
treatment abroad. If I wish to go to Germany
for treatment; it is my hard earned money and
no SG can block the airport to stop me or any
Nigerian from entering the next available plane
to go to Germany. Why deceive ourselves that
the SG can decide who goes abroad for medical
treatment? No profession must be allowed the
misadventure to ride on another like they are
princes; just as no occupation should have her
ego massaged for peace to reign. This attitude
of masturbating the ego of all medical workers
especially NMA must stop. If the SG must be
created; then the sperm of justice must run
through the embryo of all the clinical workers
and not a selected few.
Can we stop this deception of creating this
position that will further ground the health
sector and focus on solving the ones on
ground? The governor of Taraba State, Danbaba
Suntai does not need surgery to come back on
his feet today but physiotherapy. Do we then
create the office of the Physiotherapy General?
Do we need to remind ourselves that Obasanjo
closeness to Senator Andy Uba is because he
was rehabilitated by the latter who is a doctor
of physiotherapy? Did he ask the then President
to create a special post for his colleagues? Any
attempt by Mr President to create this post will
bring anarchy not just to the health sector but
Nigeria as a whole. He should get ready to
create the office of the tutor general, Reporter
General, Engineer general, bricklayer general,
Suya Man general, Banker General, Driver
general, Pharmacist general, and even
corruption general which will be headed by
Stella Oduah, Alison Madueke or Goddey
Orubebe. It is as serious as that. The President
should focus on building of quality hospitals
that will make our leaders get treated at home.
It is a lie from the pit of abyss to tell Nigerians
that medical tourism is due to the non
availability of a Surgeon General. For crying
out loud; only five countries arguably have the
office of Surgeon General and we do not have
to follow suit. Enough of this copy cat culture
in us, when we have not finished copying how
to practice the true democracy. It’s another
sub-standard lie for NMA to Nigerians that
Nigeria best brains in Medicine and Surgery are
abroad. Oh my God, it means we all have been
treated by quacks that are left in this country
all these years. We are simply finished!
All other medical workers especially the Nurses
and Physiotherapists are the worst hit as we
have them practicing abroad more than the
physician. There is brain drain in every sector
and it is entirely not the fault of Nigeria, but
personal decisions. Do we bring all the health
workers registered in their various boards to
confirm this claim?
We certainly do not have money to waste on
this borrowed post that is coming to duplicate
the minister of health. Come to think of it,
which of our medical worker in the Armed
Forces is up to the rank of a Lieutenant
General? If we must copy anything America, we
must also copy their prudent way of spending
and it has to begin from the budget. Any
attempt to gag the president into creating this
monster position without following the
Americans whom we are borrowing it from will
certainly prove to the world his weakness, and
a weak man cannot govern a country like
Nigeria. This is worse than the current
challenge of the All Progressive Congress (APC),
as it will indirectly affects the masses. What are
we even saying? The bill has been brought to
the Senate and House of Representatives and
they in their wisdom have thrown it out. It
went before the Justice Abdullahi Gusau
Committee on Harmony in the Health Sector
and was utterly rejected. This bill will certainly
not see the day without the assent of the
lawmakers, and if in whatever form it succeeds;
Mr President should please tender his
resignation letter should the health sector goes
on strike. We do not live in an animal farm
despite the President being a graduate of how
to take care of animals.
It is still a rumor for now and President
Jonathan can still warm his way back by
dousing it and reassuring us that it will never
come to pass; at least not in his regime and
never should it be. Do the needful. Happy New
Year pals.
These little things matter…
Fejiro Oliver, a Journalist can be reached on
secretsreporters@gmail.com and
+2348026797588 (sms only please). Follow on
twitter @fejirooliver86 and Facebook
fejirooliver86.

The President/CiC
Aso Hill Villa
31st December 2013.
Every man, every woman who has to take
up the service of government, must ask
themselves two questions: 'Do I love my
people in order to serve them better? Am I
humble and do I listen to everybody, to
diverse opinions in order to choose the
best path?' If you don't ask those
questions, your governance will not be
good.
Pope Francis I
Sir,
NOW I KNOW IT IS TOO LATE FOR YOU
With so much pressure mounted on me by the
Nigeria and International media do I write to
you once again before the year end. May I let
you know that I received your letter, even
though addressed to me, but was read first
before me by the public through the media.
Even the attempt by your Media S.A to use
my daughter against me was also gotten. I do
not have issues with since you claimed mine
never got to you first before the media
published.
Mr President, in less than eleven hours from
now, you and I will be shouting ‘Happy New
Year’ and will even exchange text messages
and call each other, but I have deemed it fit
to send you this last message before you and I
will shout the ritual shouts of joy. It doesn’t
end there that the new year is very close, but
it’s also my pleasure to tell you that in less
than 70 days of 2014, I will be 77 years, a
year which crossed the biblical three scores
and ten, and thus should not be afraid to
speak the truth even if it hurts. And you may
not easily remember this, but 2014 will make
you 57 years of age, a year which you were
born-1957. From all available calculations, I
am older than you with 20 years, an age ripe
enough to father you; hence this letter is like
a message from a father to a son and not as
an ex-president to a sitting president like you
alluded in your reply to me.
Be that as it may, your reply jolted me back
to reality that I made a mistake in the title of
my last letter to you – ‘Before it is too late’. I
just realized that it is already too late for you
to make amends. Very few leaders make
positive things happen within two years of
leadership and you are obviously not in that
category, as you have less than fifteen months
to hand over the baton, except you wish to
contest again, which will be a breach of the
personal vow you made not to run. Let your
conscience be your judge on that. I wish to
now answer the posers you raised in your
reply to me.
Joe, you raised the issue of Boko Haram
ravaging the North East being ravaged by
terrorists and insurgents; and haven cross
checked the eight years I ruled as President,
there was no such record of such happening
in my regime. A pilot has a co-pilot incase
the plane is drifting afar and you were the co-
pilot when late President Musa Yaradua held
sway, and Boko Haram reared their ugly head
which your regime has now made beautiful.
Mr President, I wish to know like many
Nigerians what advise you gave to your boss
to stem the tide then, in private or during the
Federal Executive Council (FEC) meetings. To
put the blame of Boko Hara solely on Yaradua
will be a great disservice to his memory.
As a matter of fact, Boko Haram was not
prominent during Yaradua’s regime; rather
your kinsmen from the creek who termed
themselves militants were the ones having a
field day. It is these militants that your
former boss dealt with which has caused us
the current peace we enjoy in the Niger Delta
as well as more inflow of cash which your
Minister of Petroleum has turned to her
personal fiefdom today, awarding contracts to
her cronies, while she plans to sell of the
refineries to them with your able connivance.
If Yaradua could solve a problem in your
region, it will be more honorable for you to
do so to his region; that is what my people in
Yoruba term as a fight of the dogs. As you
admitted in your letter that I advised you to
use the carrot and stick approach, I still
maintain you do so. I regret to say that your
approach has not been sincere enough.
You mentioned my military tactics against Odi,
stating that it never yielded the desired result.
Mr President, my invasion of Odi remains the
best strategy to have used then, considering
the fact that we were just entering democracy
and all insurgence has to be quenched
immediately. If I were to take the same
decision again, I will take same and I have no
regret in what I did. You referred to the
attack on you in 2007 and I begin to wonder
who was in control then. You were the
Governor and had all the apparatus of state to
effect arrest; even to apprehend innocent
citizens and term them suspects were within
your power, thus I see no reason why such
should even come up in your letter.
I had my faults during my tenure but I never
laid blames on the past leadership. For you to
write that kidnapping and armed robbery
began long before you became President is
totally untenable. May I also remind your
Excellency that I was not also the President
then, but I didn’t complain. My job was to
reposition while yours is to consolidate, and
to the best of my conscience; I repositioned
the country to the path of democratic rule
where the Soldiers have been perpetually kept
in the barrack.
You claimed that I am aware of prosecuted
corrupt officials by this regime, but I am
sorry to say that I am completely ignorant of
any corrupt public officials that you have
jailed. They are not hidden Mr President, as
they abound around you. What is Stella Oduah
still doing in the Aviation Industry if truly you
are prosecuting them? Why is Diezani Alison
Madueke still doing her beauty pageant show
close to the Oil sector if you mean your war
against corruption? Do I need to mention
your Attorney General, Education Minister or
the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs amongst
sundry others? It is no longer news that the
EFCC has become a toothless bulldog under
your watch. I may be accused of being
selective in those they prosecuted but that is
a tale peddled by the media by my then
political opponents. Nigerians wish to see
those selected corrupt few who will be jailed.
Joe, I did not mince words when I wrote that
you are sinking the ship of the PDP. Since
your ascension to the throne of Aso Rock, our
party fortune has nosedived. None of the
governorship elections held under you has
seen us coasting to victory; rather you dine
with the opponents. It is my belief that you
agreed with my letter on this, hence our party
is standing solidly behind our candidate, Tony
Nwoye, to challenge the Anambra guber
election in court. I do know that it is all to
the gallery as nothing good will come out of
it. In PDP, rigging is the game and you cannot
claim to be unaware of it. How did you get
into power if we didn’t rig you in? Do I need
to remind you that your home state which
produced your ‘house boy’, Seriake Dickson
was rigged? It makes no sense claiming a saint
when you are a product of what you
condemn.
Your Excellency, the most virtuous prize for
statesmen is honor. You did not just tell me
that you will not contest the 2015 election,
but told other governors. Before my letter
was written to you, many governors have told
the public that you made the pact with them
to run for only one term. While it is your
right to run again, I wish to remind you that
at my age I will not lie, especially not against
someone young enough to be my son, more so
you are my protégé. It was you promise to me
to lead for one term that made me announce
to Nigerians that they should vote for you, as
you have promised to run for one term. The
video footage of the rally where that
statement was made is still available for you
to watch. Let me now be the liar before
Nigerians, but let God be the judge.
I do hope that in the coming year, you would
have looked into the last letter I wrote to you
and make amends, especially concerning our
political fortunes. You have two chances to
redeem the party from losing the 2015
election, which is to win the Ekiti and Osun
States governorship election coming up in
2014. Mr President, your opponents in those
states will be planning to rig as well, and it
will be foolhardy for you to believe that mere
going to present the flag to our candidate is
enough to win the election. Remember that
they are the incumbent, but also have a flash
back that we did it in 2003 in four South
West States with the exception of Lagos where
we swept way the incumbent. I need not teach
you the tactics, as you have practiced it
already in your home state. Sir, snatch the
victory in these two States and send a message
for 2015; then let them approach the tribunal
for court victory which if well played they can
never get.
Before the year ends again; I wish to
apologise to Nigerians for imposing on them
wrong Presidents who have not tasted what
they voted for, and while it may be too late
for you to make real positive impacts on the
common man like we did with GSM, you can
begin tackle one serious and pressing issue
which will keep you in the minds of Nigerians
for long; something tangible that they can see
to forgive your numerous sins. They are easy
people to handle and please with a forgiving
spirit; this you and I know. As it has become
customary, I will also leak this to the Press.
The first one written to me by former EFCC
Chairwoman, Waziri was leaked to
Elombah.com and the next one was leaked to
Premium Times, but for this I am yet to
decide who will get it first.
As you cross over to the New Year, Mr
President, I wish you a more eventful New
Year devoid of Occupy Nigeria.
Please accept the assurance of my highest
consideration to your office and warmest
regard.
These little things matter…
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Secrets Reporters at 02:10

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AN IGBO MAN SET HIMSELF ABLAZE IN ABUJA TO PROTEST ECONOMIC HARDSHIP IN NIGERIA AS JONATHAN PAYS HIS ANIMALS 1.5M EACH PER MONTH

For Okonko Iweala and Jonathan, the economy
is growing in aso Rock and they have created
1.6M jobs in Aso rock while Nigerias whallow in
hunger and poverty. In the USA, unemployed
citizens are paid about 1, 600 USA monthly as
grant , that is about 250k. In Nigeria the
president uses about 200 Million to make his
garden, 560 Million to eat and drink while civil
servanys earn 18K and more than 70% are not
employed and cannot even earn 18K a month.
To this Igbo man, na em brother be president
ohhh. like Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
Kentucky, benefits tend to be significantly
higher and come closer to meeting the
standard of living that workers might have
grown accustomed to. New Jersey, for example,
offers maximum jobless benefits of $598 a
week, nearly twice the national average. This
was on AIT network news yesterday and the AIT
reporter actually shared it on facebook with
the post below " ejection threat from the
Landlord; 7 Children out of school; Mother's
Corpse in the mortuary; no single food in his
house; lost his business; faced with loan
repayment from microfinance bank.... all hope
was lost and Mr. Fedrick Onuigbo
succumbed to economic threat in Nigeria. on
23rd Dec. when arrangement was in top
gear for the yuletide for many families, the
families of Onuigbo was thrown into
mourning as the "Bread Winner" decided to
end it all by himself. He walked out of his
house at early hour (6 am), bought fuel and set
himself ablaze behind NNPC Filling
Station in Gwarimpa Abuja. According to the
family members, Late Fredrick could no
longer understand the definition of "Economic
Growth" on the pages of newspaper and
Television. He wondered why "Economic
Growth" is no longer about food on table, roof
above the head, affordable medical facilities,
good education.... he was caught in the
web of economic depreciation which has been
choking him for years now. Similar
incidence happened in Tunisia and had resulted
in revolution and change in governance.
THIS IS PATHETIC."

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In a dramatic move that may jolt many
political commentators, President Goodluck
Jonathan surprisingly stormed Abeokuta few
hours ago to pay a surprise visit to former
President Olusegun Obasanjo at his Hill top
mansion.
A close source who was at the venue
explained that the visit was unscheduled as
the former president did not inform any of
his aides of such an important visit. on
arrival, President Jonathan informed Chief
Obasanjo that he came to greet him for the
yuletide.
The president met Obasanjo playing a local
game of AYO wearing a long traditional attire,
Jalamia. Although Obasanjo’s body language
did not express friendliness, yet he was said
to be fatherly in his approach throughout the
visit.
President Jonathan however left Hill Top
exactly 3.35pm.
Source: News of the People
Secrets Reporters at 09:14

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This country is truly curse, and maybe doom for total system failure because the corruption level is too high for Nigeria to survive it, and no hope for a better leader, Nigeria need a true leader not just anyone call a President.