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Chei a beg, make laffu nor kill man.

Dis joke abi na charity begins at home.

I know your type. Is Sean Spicer the only black man there or just one of many white men?

SIRTee15:
She wouldn't be the first to be booted out of trump cabinet...
Sean Spicer who was shamelessly defending trump on completely n outright ridiculous policies as the white house press secretary was unceremoniously dismissed.....
Pls everything isn't about race....

Dis Nigeria no good o.

Where were Yoruba when the same Fani Kayode was dragged to court?

Where were Yoruba when Tafa Balogun was dragged by a moving Police van?

When Tinubu, Saraki and his Yoruba wife money was seized? Bank Chairman Erestus Akingbola, Shodipo for forex and others picked up?

Instead of supporting them like the Igbo, you cried ole ole ole. You better learn from your Igbo brothers.

No be so una keep quiet when they killed Ademolegun in the North, Akintola in the West because na Awo den dey fight for. The same Awo Ironsi refused to release until Gowon did.

They immediately claimed credit for Awo release. No wonder they call Yoruba coward. Una no dey hia wod.

Igbo kwenu!

She might have gotten carried away until she was shocked into realities of USA comptemt for successful African Americans.

Wow!

I did not realize that Dele Giwa, Dele Momodu, Segun Ogini, Ayegun, Apata etc are from Bini or Edo. I thought they were from the West. May be the Mid-West got me confused.

We cannot let E-Warrior know this, they will expel all the Bini that are Yoruba from Edo State. Hopefully with their Oba that always lease land at coronation from Ogiso children.

We learn something everyday!

Most Africans have tribal marks including Hausa, Igbo (ichi) and Yoruba.

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Which one you be? Abeokuta or Benin

As a Yoruba man from Abeokuta I
was told Oduduwa was the first man created by God just
like the Bible said Adam and Eve were the first to be
created by God.

In Lagos, there
could not be a clash, it was a place of reunion for
Edo's and Yoruba[b] it was said Eko, which is Lagos, and
in our local dialect is a Benin word.[/b]

It is too late to change how Oba Akiolu was interpreted. The influence and blood of Bini that have been accommodated for too long will be washed clean.

It is surprising that they have not denied their father, Alagba from Ilesa.

Ilesa should be beating their chest, not their half Bini half Awori mother.

Representatives of Arab Muslim and Judeachristian religions. Wet in concern African dia?

Ndi ara.

Can not believe this new denial that Yoruba was the lingual franca in Benin palace similar to Itsekiri. Read the Oba of Benin book that started this novel theory of Oduduwa.

He translated Benin to Yoruba as Ile-Ibinu. He translated Eweka to Owo mi ka.

Soon you guys will deny you ever bear Yoruba names if you belong to the royal family.

All the novel theory started because Ogiso has never accepted Oba and Oba has to lease the land each time at coronation from Ogiamen.

Now, do you have to speak Italian and German to tell the difference, if you are exposed to both?

There are Kora that speak your language better than you. Portuguese cannot speak your language but you took pride in your Oba speaking foreign language.

You guys are just using pedestrian logic since no serious historian will even touch your rejected Oba in Benin looking for relevance with igbale.

rhektor:
How would the British who did not understand the languages tell what language was been spoken? I'm not saying he was right to have asserted that the yoruba language was spoken in the Benin palace but to refute it with British not stating that is joke in itself. I still find it difficult to believe that the Edo will Speak Yoruba in the palace but this should be refuted in way that will not make mockery of common sense

No place are all these factors displayed than Lagos. Ashipa has been silent as the compromised first king of Lagos after a truce between Lagos and Bini came to a standstill in Isale Eko history. Every section of Lagos has its own Oba and chiefs: from Aromire, Onikoyi, Olumegbon, Ojora (my dad’s mother), Suenu, Onitana etc. were all children of Ogufuminire. Those that cannot differentiate each uniqueness lump Lagos Island, Brazilian Quarters, Ikoyi, Victoria Island, Iddo, Ijora Ebute-Meta, Surulere, Shomolu, Ikeja Ajegunle etc. together with old Western Region as Lagos State. If you own houses anywhere or leased land for 99 years; you own Lagos? Haba!

For full disclosure: my paternal family compound has been raised to three story building at the corner of Enu Owa and Iduganran right in front of Oba Eko palace. Like most Lagos Awori, I have no kinship with Bini as Oba Eko whose maternal side was Erelu Kuti daughter of Akinsemoyin that married Alagba from Ilesha. Kuti’s mother was Awori descendant of Ashipa; of the Aromire family. Ashipa was rewarded with the first King of Lagos as compromise in gratitude for carrying the fallen Bini Prince back home. Ashipa was the father of Ado, the second king of Lagos.

https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/260687/state-of-origin-double-dip-causes-resentment.html

Where has the newly created rivalry between Yoruba and Bini landed their advancement or that between Igbo and Yoruba?

Guess who are laughing?

Ikwokrikwo:
Ambrose Ali isn't Afonja

Congratulations, though I wish it was Igwe, Emir or Oba that they were so proud of.

But why can't they claim their states? There must be something about this Lagos. Everyone you meet outside Nigeria is from Lagos.

What is it about Lagos?

There must be other places in Nigeria.

Mr. Education,

Can somebody please translate to this guy in Hausa or Fulani.

Where on earth did I write that Hausa and Fulani are the same?

Oh yeah?

I think your real problem is you are one of those Fulani wannabe ready to throw your brothers and sisters under the bus, sorry, under the bridge.

Fulaman198:
You and Batoundey are one in the same, you have the exact same writing style. If you simply do not understand what I'm saying, perhaps you should pick up a book.

Mr. Education,

You are totally off the point. Read what Babtoundey is trying to convey again.

Hausa are more like their brothers and sister around them than like Fulani, the invaders!

Got it?

babtoundey:
This is wonderful and as well beautiful. Hausas, the real Hausas, are Africans. I used to have this belief within me that there is not much African about them judging from their dressing, dominant religion and even language that always sounds Arabic to me. Sometimes I felt there is little difference between their language, music and culture and that of the Arabs.

But how come little or nothing of all these exist today?


And the dressing of the Bori priestess is very similar to that of priestesses of Osun in Yoruba land.

Mr. Education, you sound uninformed.

Hausa are Africans related and similar to their neighbors compared to Fulani or Arab. If you do not understand that after all these information, you need your colo-mentality checked

Fulaman198:
Who said anything about Africans being Europeans. We are quite different culturally from Europeans, however not all Africans have the same culture. Africa is far more diverse than Europe.

Some humans are "genetically" programmed to worship their fellow man. That is why we will always have the poor among us.

Even the Queen someone mentioned has been cut to size. Some people are willing to die for these glorified humans as their god.

Was it not a governor that went to challenge someone the other day because he did not stand up when he, a whole governor came in. We have passed the age when you can force people to respect you, especially someone old enough to be your father, no matter who you are.

Those who earn respect, command it without asking. At his age, arrogant Obasanjo prostrated for Ooni. A boy younger than his son. Do you know how many traditional rulers have been disrespected?

I pity the old man.

On first impulse, I supported those against Tinubu and his cousin.

However, since the majority shareholders are against the management made up of Tinubu and co. looters, the investigation by SEC has been completed, not stopped, it seems the meeting is going to go on despite the fact that majority shareholders want it postponed.

OBJ, Amosun and Adeosun cannot be on the same side as Tinubu that wanted Edun as Finance Minister in the first place.

The Tribune quote is very informative. Can someone with financial market skill please explain not tribal warriors.

Major shareholders move to sack Oando’s board, management

Major shareholders of Oando Plc, a major oil and gas company in Nigeria, are making moves to oust the company’s board as well as the management led by Mr Wale Tinubu.

The major shareholders, Ansbury Investment Incorporated and Alhaji Dairu Manga, made their intention known in separate petitions to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Oando, in a statement issued last week, confirmed the petitions and said the SEC was already investigating the matter.

Both Ansbury and Manga allege gross abuse of corporate governance and financial mismanagement, their reasons for calling for the removal of the management team and sack of all board members.

Mangu, who is said to own about 17.9 per cent share of the company, expressed his displeasure about the management of the company, especially the handling of the ConocoPhillips transaction.

Ansbury, on the other hand, had raised serious concerns about the capacity of the management team to effectively run the company.

Ansbury claimed ownership of 61.9 per cent of the British Virgin Island-based company, Ocean and Oil Development Partners Ltd (OODP BVI) while the remaining 38.10 per cent is owned by Withmore. The two companies control 99.99 per cent of Ocean and Oil Development Partners Nigeria Ltd (OODP Nigeria). OODP Nigeria controls 55.96 per cent of Oando Plc. So, indirectly Ansbury Investment Incorporated owns 55.96 per cent of Oando jointly with Withmore Nigeria.

According to Ansbury in its petition, “Strong uncertainty regarding the going concern of the group (Oando) had already arisen in 2015 and strengthened in 2016 as pointed out by the auditors in their report.”

Ansbury added that “In the previous financial statement, the management had proceeded to liquidate part of the assets of the company and many are going to be liquidated, and in particular, under the notes to the account, management intends to sell its participation in OER (the last asset attributable to the company) in the name of restructuring or reestablishing the group’s going concern.”

Ansbury then called on SEC “to urgently look into all the issues and prevail on the board of Oando to convene an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) in order to change the current management and board of the company.”

It also asked the regulatory body to allow Ansbury, in its capacity as an indirect majority shareholder of the company to intervene in the management of the company through its team and consultants, alleging that it had been sidelined on the board and in the management through the deliberate frustration of efforts to constitute a board for OODP Nigeria, the vehicle that could earn it its place on the board of Oando.

SEC acknowledged the petition and commenced investigations into the allegations.

But while investigation was ongoing, Ansbury sent another letter to SEC penultimate week asking it to postpone Oando’s Annual General Meeting slated for September 11 in Uyo pending the resolution of the company’s shareholding matter.

Ansbury claimed in the letter that it “holds 61.90 per cent of the shareholding in OODP BVI, which in turn holds 99.99 per cent of the shares in OODP Nigeria, which in turn holds approximately 56 per cent of Oando shares. Notwithstanding this, Ansbury has no visibility of, or input in the management of Oando, or in fact OODP Nigeria.”

The company expressed concern that Withmore “will improperly vote OODP Nigeria’s Oando shares without Ansbury’s input.”

Following this letter, SEC set up an 11-man committee to look into the claims of Ansbury.

The committee was chaired by Mr Charles Udorah, a private legal practitioner and a former Commissioner, Legal and Enforcement of SEC.

Nigerian Tribune gathered that after listening to all the parties on August 30, 2017, the committee noted that it might be difficult to postpone the AGM because of the nearness of the date. It added that minority shareholders are entitled to attend and vote at meetings and based on the statutory provision on quorum of meetings of AGM, the minority shareholders can successfully form a quorum and hold a valid meeting without the majority shareholders.

It also stated that Ansbury’s request to postpone the meeting would constitute SEC into a court of law, thus asking the company to seek redress in a court of law, adding that suspending the AGM is not likely to resolve or aid the resolution of the issues raised in the resolution.

The committee, however, assured Ansbury that SEC was working on its petition “and will continue to investigate the issues raised by Ansbury to a logical conclusion.”

In a statement issued by Oando, the oil company acknowledged that “two petitions were filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleging gross abuse of corporate governance and financial mismanagement. The SEC has since commenced an enquiry in response to the petitions.”

Oando added that the petitions had “no merit as the issues raised have received board, shareholder and, where required, SEC approval. Other matters highlighted by the petitioners could have been directed to the company and would have received the necessary clarification.”

http://www.tribuneonlineng.com/major-shareholders-move-sack-oandos-board-management/

Good research and opinion.

Unfortunately, Nigerians are too divided to recognize or accept one another.

There was an article I read, “My People are killing My People”, about the fight between close relatives – Ijaw, Itsekiri and the Urhobo youths. Or between Aguleri and Umuleri, or Ife and Modakeke or Fulani and Jakun, Tiv or Yelwa and Shendam. I have not added those between Sunni and Shiite, Moslems and Christians over foreign religions. Africans, calling one another unbeliever of foreign indoctrination.

The simple answer is yes. There was slavery when Gahafi was in power but not specifically by him.

As much as he worked against it, he also used Africans as mercenaries. That led to even worse treatments of Africans during their civil war.

dont8:
Who's justifying that barbaric act by those scallywags, open your mind and purge yourself of this religious extremism. I ask again, before Gaddaffi was overthrown by Obama adminstration, was there slavery in Libya, answer that and we are game.

How does that justify slavery today, especially when most of the victims are either Africans at home or in Diaspora?

dont8:
Let's be logical for once, if there was no war in both Libya or Iraq, would you have heard of slave trade? Slave trade practice was a normal way of life the ancient days and biblical time, Abraham the father of faith had a slave (so was is the furore all about), in the time of Jesus it was practiced and not once did he object or speaks against because it was normal in those days of yore.

Both religions took Africans as slaves. Muslims slaves were treated harsher, castrated and simply killed to control their population.

Thank the African rebels of Bastra that made it risky and dangerous for Arabs, even when united against African rule for many years before they restored Arab rule and subdued their African conquerors.

Don't fool yourselves, both Muslims and Christians blessed Africans in deaths and sacrifices.

All races and people practiced slavery but people treated other race or ethnic groups more savagely.

Yet, we still pray and worship in their religions instead of cleaning up ours. Pity.

Another One!

Tell us about how your Oduduwa fund his way to Ile-Ife and the name you know him as in Akoko Edo, please.

This may be the father of all Yoruba.

No Son Of A Woman But A Lady Could Have Tumbled Mugabe


Former President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe finally gave up power after 37 years because he fell into the bosom of his wife. As one of those quotes attributed to him: one woman’s mango in the mouth of a man is worth two on her chest. He got carried away in his old age plotting his succession in the bosom he felt most comfortable in, instead of rewarding those that have been loyal to him during Guerrilla war struggle for Independence. Oh Delilah, here you come again O!

There is no sound gold standard economics to justify reducing Zimbabwe money to toilet paper. African leaders have to realize that no matter how good they were or how hard the jungle fight was, it’s better to leave when the ovation is at its height.Mugabe fought hard to standstill and later rewarded himself in luxury. He was in heavenly bliss while the rest of Zimbabweans suffer the economic penalty. The British certainly pushed Mugabe to an extreme; they procrastinated in fulfilling promises to his comrades. But, Sampson never knew Delilah would be his downfall.

Smart women know their spiritual or God-given power,so they watch men make empty sound we call “shakara” from my neck of the hood. Most folks do realize that behind every successful man is a woman and that a woman can make or break a man. Actually, ZsaZsa Gabor, the fame American actor and icon said only foolish women that do not realize their power would push a man too far.Robert Mugabe and Grace Mugabe story will be told from different perspectives.

How could a brilliant and powerful Robert Mugabe that was not moved by the world powers or sponsored internal chaos, planted from both friends and foes; suddenly succumbed to the wishful grace of Grace Mugabe as his replacement? Zimbabwe, contrary to the pictures painted by those that tried its downfall and were not successful, was not one of those banana republics.

While there are women that have fought oppression along with their husbands, Grace Mugabe wasn’t one of them. She was an assistant that clung Mugabe’s heart. Good enough for him but questionable as the leader of Zimbabwe. Most of the ladies that have replaced their husbands as leaders were reluctant and glorified into positions. Grace Mugabe that became repulsive to the people she wished to rule, was not one of those revered women. ZsaZsa Gabor was right!

The act of negotiation of returning fertile land to their African owners can be delicate. While it is true that white farmers contributed to seized arable land in return for financial incentives they could get from the western world,the encouragement they promised Mugabe were not delivered. If the British and others had cooperated with Mugabe as much as he did with them and negotiated in good faith, Zimbabwe could have continued as breadbasket not useless cash.

During negotiation, Mugabe like Mandela had to report and justify his position to his comrades. Going back to them after coming up with empty promises and after so many years of coming up dry, it became dangerous for a leader. When he was yielding to British, Mugabe was wined and dined by the Queen, the Pope received him and the western world respected his intellect from the degrees he earned. He bent over and accommodated their compromise too many times.

Though known as fierce, he could not deliver enough favorable terms to his people. Even after Independence, the words of Ian Smith, the former Rhodesian Prime Minister: that Rhodesia would not become independent as Zimbabwe in his lifetime hunted the Country. Indeed, the sanctions also hurt the white farmers because there was no place else they could enjoy the lifestyle they had in their Country. Those that left had no good intention for Zimbabwe anyway.

The problem between white farmers and Mugabe had more to do with mean spirited souls and bad faith against Africans. Nigeria thought the farmers could repeat the same agricultural yield benefit when given land and all the financial incentives they asked for. It never happened. They took the money, land and other enticement without performing as expected. Some went back to Zimbabwe, other western countries and South Africa with the cash and retired as Ian Smith.

This is one of the reasons Zimbabweans bear with Mugabe for so long. However, 37 years is a long time. Mugabe is not the only brain in Zimbabwe that could explore other means, direction of attracting trading partners to resurrect favorable exports and imports, which might have given Zimbabweans breathing space. The last person that could accomplish that was Grace M!

How could she? The training she got from Mugabe was not the type needed to champion the cause and struggle of their people patiently waiting for the long reign of Mugabe to end and explore better economic opportunities. This is something African leaders have in common, they cannot hand over peacefully until they are pushed to the brim.They just cannot face the exit. Who else would accommodate a 93-year-old man outside his home or village for so long?

It is one thing to bow to the power of your own woman but for Mugabe to also order the Army Chief, Chiwenga, a career soldier and decorated veteran of Zimbabwe’s 1970s bush-war against white-minority rule, to pledge loyalty to Grace for peaceful transfer of power was senile.

Mugabe former deputy Emmerson Mnangagwa, now sworn in as President that had stood by him for 52 years, compared to his wife Grace that thumbed her nose to the people was not even a close match or an alternative.Mugabe’s fall after 37 years in power ended with a battle to succeed him thathe unwisely created despite all those clever sayings credited to him!

Nevertheless, during swearing in ceremony Mnangagwa urged Zimbabweans not to undertake “vengeful retribution” against Mugabe. He claimed that he valued democracy, tolerance and the rule of law but would tackle corruption. Well, well, well every African head of state said so.

Other African head of state: Paul Biya at 84 years old ruling Cameroon for 42 years; Eduardo do Santos of Angola and Nguema Mbasogo in Equatorial Guinea for 38 years; Sassou Nguesso of the Republic of Congo for 33 years to Yoweri Musevini in Uganda for 31 years: must be warning their wives or lovers to stay clear of power struggle.Zimbabwe passive coup worked peacefully.

Whether this was a military coup d'état, just looked like one, walked like one or sounded like one needs no debate now until we see the consequences. Do not forget that Rawlings came back in Ghana, Ironsi claimed the civilians invited him to take over in Nigeria and Mobutu forgot to leave after killing Lumumba in the most repulsive way that still draws tears from some of us.

Source: Farouk Martins Aresa
Published: Thursday, November 30, 2017

https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/260522/no-son-of-a-woman-but-a-lady-could-have-tumbledmugabe.html#

When I made example out of cassava bread and helicopter from scrap yard, I thought I was making my point simple enough. Little did I know I would be challenged on that.

But thank you sir for understanding my point and specifically giving the X-ray example.

At the risk of being misunderstood again, let me give another analogy. We ask parents to try and love their children equally. You never know which of them would return your investment in them. We all have a role to play.

I am not an engineer but if everyone is invested in, their motivation would be high to invent and make life easier for those not even in their fields. This is why most universities now have interdisciplinary units where Arts and Science meet to dream and generate funds or make schools and country self sufficient.

Yes, I saw the argument of the Vice-Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello. What I took out of it was the diagram of a member that compared GDP to university funding. May God bless him.

The mumu Vice Chancellor on welfare all his life, paid to go to school, is comparing the amount spent on foreign graduates with that spent on Nigerian graduates. Even if he is not asking Nigerian students to pay more, which African country has the GDP big enough to those of Oxford or Harvard?

I wonder how much Cuba spends on their medical graduates because the world recognize their educational system as one of the best in the world. How many students can even afford to attend Nigerian private schools?

Ladies and gentlemen, we all need to sit down and think. This is not a bi or tri partisan issue. Young people cannot wait for Gani Fawehinmi, Tai solari or Wole Soyinka to invade the Senate and the House. They played their parts. The future of Nigeria that Africa and the rest of black world depend on is at stake. Nigerian, imagine, from the land that used to flow with wara and honey, are dying in the sea and deserts. The future of the Country is in your hands, the future belongs to you not your dads or grandmas.

Exciton:
Agree with everything you said.

The annoying thing is that they've been listing really fixable issues as their reason for leaving: no Panadol, no water to wash hands, no electrical power, no separate rooms for TB patients etc. Some guy also said Gabon has better equipment than us. Surely, our health budget must be higher than Gabon and some other African countries with better healthcare. So, what exactly are their bosses doing with the funds?

Of course we are a poorly developed nation, we aren't gonna have the money to fully stock our hospitals with the nicest equipment. That's why engineers, scientists and doctors have to work together to, at least, make an attempt to build equipment at a much cheaper cost. I previously stated the use of 3D printing to make cheap stuff.

As you said, to the best of my knowledge (I do some XRD measurements), there's no reason why we (a nation of 180 million people) can't build an x-ray machine on our own. You're just focusing x-rays on a specimen and they hit a photographic plate - no major post processing analysis required. You accelerate electrons at high potential off some low ionization energy material, aimied at a target material like copper and you produce x-rays. Figuring how to ensure safe doses and correctly focusing the x-rays on the area of interest is all that's left.

One thing I'm sure of is that if we all keep running away, we'll never build a great nation.

Ola Ekundayo,

Again, nobody here glorified lack of infrastructure.

I do not want to argue too much about Pro. Happi especially when a nurse and a doctor died over Ebola.

But to take credit away from Happi and give it to Harvard School of Public Health is the complex Africans have been fighting forever.

Indeed, HSPH sent staff to Ede for training. It was kind of embarrassing when at Contagion Conference at Harvard his name was mentioned, I asked the speaker later to spell his name for me.

He pointed to an humble black man and said - ask him.

I asked if he was from LUTH because it was Lagos that disciplined Ebola. He said Ede.

What? Which university? Redeem!

Yes, of course Harvard now supports him after he had proved Nigerians can handle it and knew what to do. He had already diagnosed Ebola when international bodies arrived in Nigeria. When he stated this on the second day of the conference, he got a big applause led by yours truly.

Look let me stop.

BTW, Happi is originally from Cameron.

Thank you for that curriculum comment.

Every comment here recognized the inhospitable environment every worker no matter his educational background found himself. It is nothing to glorify.

Some have issues with those students that have benefited most and were subsidized most from the adverse system- running away with our investment.

I have to tell this story. One of the Nigerian trained doctors came for postgraduate course. When he told the class that he could not even get clean water to wash his hands after operations, I was so ashamed, I did not know when I disputed his story in class.

Though I realized he could be telling the truth. He was told he needed to go back home and fix the problem. Coming back home, I knew it was not going to be easy. But the recognition, respect and pride at home cannot be compared to the disdain you get abroad, even if you become the President of United States.

If Prof. Happi was waiting for readymade equipment from abroad, instead of modifying what he had to come up with novel method, he would not have diagnosed Ebola in 48 hours.

That is how we complained about how expensive tractors, chicken feed and wheat were until some thought about trytor, modified old fashion way of feeding chicken and sold it as import, used cassava in bread before the public accepted it.

My friend is crying about Xray. Nobody could find out or make Xray out of old machine but a guy in Kaduna can make helicopter from scrap yard?

Pidgin2:
You have said it all. It's time to change things, as it is, we are simply training for the West. Imagine this scenario; our doctors pay less than 10% of what American doctors pay to get trained through our Universities yet they all want to earn as much as doctors earn, working in one of the most robust economies in the world

It's time for change, Cuba has done it, China, India and many more. If our medical school curriculum focuses largely on training for tropical diseases, emphasis should also be given to diseases peculiar to the black race and development of herbal medicines, it will help a lot and also make our doctors less attractive to the West. Those who want to broaden their scope can go and pay for Western education and work there afterwards.

The problems here are 1. Expectation as the top notch in the community 2. Comparison with the richest western capitalist countries but not the poor ones or the socialist countries.

I cannot but notice the guy that commented that doctors that leave are heavily subsidized in Nigeria, then compare themselves with those with debilitating loans and high standard of living barely living the good life with high mortgages and private schools.

In countries like Sweden and Switzerland where high income is taxed to a level playing field, or Cuba, Russia and others where more women are doctors and admission into medical schools are not based on lineage or who you know. None of you mentioned those countries for obvious reason.

In short your main concern is money. What about engineering and other scientific studies where brains are equally demanded?

Why are they not crying so loud? You talk about equipment, make yours and stop depending on ready-made. You have the largest laboratories and equipment in the bush you ignore and refuse posting to. Foreign doctors use them to teach their students and patent discoveries in their countries.

Ebola was diagnosed in a small town called Ede in a new university called Redeem. Hello, how much is Prof. Christian Happi paid?

Sincere congratulations to old and young doctors that come back home, or qualified in Nigeria and worked under gruesome conditions, in some case no electricity or generators and other worse conditions in the villages. Many of those that left spend the rest of their lives seating for regional exams.

Nigeria must stop training doctors for rich countries where most of them are underemployed but would not confess.

We must change curriculum to train doctors that will be useful at home like China, Russia and Cuba. Yet, their doctors get Nobel prize.

See how everybody dey abuse my contiri after all de investment in ya'all.

Please divert all those money to train community health officers jor. Dem nor dey run, everywhere you post dem, dem dey go.

Convert all medical schools to health technologies. Did Chinese doctors or Russian doctors run?

No land in Nigeria is for sale, you can only lease for at most 99 years.

What you do with what is on top of the land is up to you. Sell it for another 99 years lease!

The greatest losers are Chacogo/Changori or whatever. Just ask all the kora that bought shops at "Tom" Jones, Idumagbo, Tinubu and Docemu streets.

What attract people to your city or towns are tolerance, accommodation and respect for local culture.