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80k!! Is mattress servicing involved?

jechona:
Atleast there are other professional courses that are qualified for residency. The 'yoruba degree' has a target market right? Its' residency can as well be done in it.

Skills only suport in keeping food on your table, it doesn't make you a professional in your discipline.

Am considering the problem of 'half-baked graduates' here and not 'surviving in Nigeria'.

Many lay more emphasis on survival, I do. Everybody doesn't have to be a specialist.

Op, residency is even not compulsory for doctors but a very large percentage of them enrol to remain relevant in the medical world.
However, I think it won't still be fair if u use doctors as ur benchmark reference because even during residency, doctors earn relatively big!
I don't also see residency apply to all disciplines, postgraduate studies is an equivalent.

Lagusta:
This thread shows that none o you all (except one) have not been to camp before....

This can never be allowed in camp, nor would it be allowed outside camp too (when going for CDs or clearance)

O wetin be una problems sef....

No mind those hypocrites, the op should rather have mentioned this that actually was real..

nikkypearl:
Endtime wife
@heykims u typed "209lines" and "989words".. Like seriously Na your thread?

u counted 209 lines and 989 words, na so u dey jobless, like seriously? No mind me jare, na copy and paste.

hmm monogamy and world deception

AGONY OF MONOGAMY
This write up was written by Chief Tola Adeniyi, a former MD of Daily Times.
AGONY OF MONOGAMY.
It was at the Church service for the 90th birthday of the legendary Matriarch of
the Awo dynasty Chief Dr Hannah Dideolu Awolowo in Ikenne that the thoughts
that prompted this article began.
Some well known highly placed gentlemen and their wives were called upon to
partake in the wine sipping, bread breaking ritual called Holy Communion. As
soon as these respectable ladies and gentlemen, all of them past age 70, and
amongst whom were renowned professors, high court judges, legal luminaries
and business moguls, finished their spiritual blessing and were returning to their
seats, they caught a pitiable sight in their over-flowing garb of hypocrisy.
They wore forlorn mien plastered with furrowed frowned faces like some one
afflicted with putrid smell of heavy dose of fart.
They looked as if they were mourning a three-year-old boy mistakenly killed by
his own father, or the passing of a poor woman who has just succumbed to
excruciatingly painful cancer.
They clung to their wives as if they were newly wedded. I temporarily forgot
that I was in a holy Church, the spiritual enclave of Christians.
I almost laughed my head off because I knew each of the ‘holy' ‘monogamous'
men intimately and by Jove, I knew of their second, third or fourth wives/
liaisons/
mistresses with whom they had sired several children.
To the whole world they were champions of monogamy, but to their hearts and
conscience they were celebrated polygamists, or at best, serial monogamists.
Pshaw!
I saw pain written all over them, the agony of living a lie, the unease of
hypocrisy, and the shame of going through life pretending to be what you are
not.
This is the sort of agony a lot of the so-called monogamists go through all their
lives.
The series of lies they sell to their wives, and the double life they present to
their pastors and church leaders, most of whom are actually equally guilty of
hypocrisy and double life living.
This piece is not set out to condemn or criticize monogamy. Monogamy is
perfect for those who believe in its concept and can genuinely keep to it. I too
have been married to one lovely woman for almost 45 years and it has been like
a marriage made in heaven. I happen also to be the promoter along with some
friends the 35-year-old Family Club of Nigeria which is dedicated to the
upliftment and celebration of marriage and family values.
The article is designed to expose the hypocrisy and pain associated with
embracing false notions which are really not observed by any culture in the
world, and to advise those who erroneously sentence themselves to a life of
sadness and emptiness because they were deceived to believe that there is
some utopia somewhere called monogamy.
I am very much aware that this article will generate a lot of controversy most
especially from those who live holier-than-thou life and have continued to
deceive the world that they are upholders of a doctrine that is not supported by
true and enlightened interpretation of any religious doctrine.
The white men, I am yet to see any human being whose skin colour is like that
of chalk, came and told the unfortunate lands they invaded that the cherished
cultures, traditions and religions of such lands were rubbish, and instead
indoctrinated them with values which they themselves never believed in or truly
practiced.
We know of King Henry Vlll, and several major historical figures in
‘Christian'Euro
pe who had more than one wife in addition of a string of wives who their ‘laws'
forbade them to address as wives but who nonetheless perform all the
functions of wife minus name.
God bless President Mitterrand who openly confessed to having two women in
his life, with the one in the other house with whom he fathered an 18-year-old
daughter at the time he passed on.
I have schooled, worked and lived virtually in all the continents of the world and
I make bold to say with all emphasis at my disposal that no culture on planet
earth truly practices monogamy.
My Greek, Italian, Russian, British, American and other Caucasians routinely
visit their other wives [called by other names] with whom they have children.
But back in the homes shared with the one carrying the ring, they are
monogamists!
If God had wanted humanity to be monogamous He or She would not have
made the pigeon the only monogamous creature. The cultures that practice
polygamy had always known that at any given time, the number of available
marriageable women far out number available men plus the fact that an 80-
year-old man, if he has money, is still very much in the market whereas a 60-
year-old woman may not be that lucky. The biological limitation to a woman's
productive age is also a factor. Why should a woman therefore remain on the
shelf till age 45 (!) when she could jolly well get married as second or sixth wife
to a man who can afford to share life's responsibilities with her?
Why should a woman leave a man with whom she is No 1, simply because he
took a second wife and end up being numberless in the hands of several men
with whom she naturally shares bed just because of some doctrine she hardly
understands?
All the women who should go and marry but are saying they do not want to
share their man with another woman in a polygamous setting, are sharing
current boyfriends with several other women. Where is the logic?
The argument that children in a polygamous house are always at each other's
throat does not hold water. Many siblings of monogamous families are known
to have had worse and irresolvable, irreconcilable squabble, with dirty bitterness
over inheritance than children from different mothers.
The agony suffered by both men and women in the hand of unnatural laws and
doctrines is too stifling for comfort.
In 2002, five hundred and two Reverend mothers were reported to have died
while procuring abortion in Rome (!!). Nigerian Tribune wrote an editorial on the
unfortunate incident. And stories of Reverend fathers having children and
sodomising young men in their care are legion! Why the hypocrisy? Why should
the world continue to live the life of Ostrich?
A well known Nigerian journalist hid his other wives from his wife because his
religion would not permit of it and his wife, living in monogamy should not hear
of it. At his funeral, 9 Funeral Service programmes by his 9 wives surfaced and
the woman parading the ring collapsed. It was the grace of God that prevented
double interment that day!
The Western world which had not learnt the art of living amicably with more
than one partner under the same roof has indulged in multiple serial marriages,
divorcing innocent wives under flimsy excuses so that another woman can
move in should not be measure of standard for the world.
Thank God Mrs Hillary Clinton in the US and Mrs Cook in England were very
much wiser. They refused to allow some indiscretion on the part of their
husbands to ruin their marriages.
There was a well known American actor who passed on about a decade ago
and all his 11 ex-wives with their numerous children attended his funeral. To
ridicule the lie of their hypocritical existence, all the women were recognized and
addressed as wives. As far as records show, the man had 11 wives!
Society must rethink this issue of pretentious monogamy vis-à-vis polygamy so
that in the not-too-distant future we do not end up with millions of unmarried
women whose life style would be worse than prostitutes' and millions of
children whose fathers would be nowhere to be found.
(THE TRUTH IS EVER HOLY, NATURAL BUT BITTER TO ITS ANTAGONISTS!!!

Wisdomkosi:
http://leadership.ng/news/479376/agency-says-needs-n500m-annually-tackle-hivaids-virus-enugu

“Some of the PLWHA are now stranded because they cannot afford the Anti
Retroviral Drugs.

really, they now buy antiretroviral drugs themselves, thought it should be free.

Half a billion to combat HIV?
Well it isn't too much for an annual budget anyway but for the way we reason and operate in Africa, we all know where an handsome chunk of that money will end.

nollynude stars sef turning preachers..

Mackson01:
Before nko. OAU IFE has for long been 9 or 10 years for medicine. Now it will be 12years for sure.

Go get ur facts right plz, they rarely spend more than 7 years in OAU..

TB Joshua, a man of God dodging justice..

hmm I sincerely believe Yahaya should be the legitimate APC candidate but for his anti-party speech after he lost at the primary, I go for Faleke.

Op, u mean bride or mother-in-law?

Jesus was drunk when he promised his second coming - Catholic leaders


A SPOKESPERSON for the Vatican (Roman Catholic) officially announced that the second coming of Jesus, the only son of the God, may not
happen now after all, but urged followers to still continue with their faith,
regardless of the news.
Cardinal Giorgio Salvadore told WWN that this years 1,981st anniversary is to
be the Vatican’s last in regards to waiting for the Lord to return to Earth.
“We just feel Jesus is not coming back by the looks of it.” he said. “It’s been
ages like. He’s probably flat out doing other really good things for people
somewhere else.”
Nearly two thousand years ago, Jesus promised his disciples that he would
come again in chapter John 14:1-3 of the bible: “There are many homes up
where my Father lives, and I am going to prepare them for your coming. When
everything is ready, then I will come and get you, so that you can always be
with Me where I am. If this weren’t so, I would tell you plainly”
The Vatican defended Jesus’ broken promise, claiming “he was probably
drinking wine” at the time when he made the comments.
“Having the ability to turn water into wine had its ups and its downs.” added
Cardinal Salvadore. “We all make promises we can’t keep when we’re drunk.
Jesus was no different.”
The church said it will now focus attentions on rebuilding its reputation around
the world, but will keep an optimistic mind for the savior’s second coming.

http://mzansidaily.co.za/jesus-is-not-coming-back/

The letter earlier sent by JOHESU and AHPA to Mr President

His Excellency
President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR
Aso Rock Villa
Abuja
Your Excellency,

APPRAISING APPOINTMENTS IN THE FEDERAL MINISTRY OF HEALTH.
We bring you glad tidings of the approaching yuletide season and
of the end of year.
For Nigeria it has been an eventful year under your distinguished
leadership and we can only hope it get better.
While Nigeria appears to be on course for a great future, we are
worried that the ever boiling Health Sector appears to be headed
for more heated discourse especially against the background of
recent appointments in the leadership strata of the Federal
Ministry of Health.
Your Excellency, we concede that the Constitution gives you a
legal leverage to appoint your Ministers in the bid to steer the
ship of the state. We have tried to be understanding and matured
in the strong hope that your administration’s change mantra will
bring long expected succour to our ailing Health Sector.
Your Excellency, the appointment of two Medical Doctors as
Ministers in Charge of the Federal Ministry of Health equaled the
precedence of former President Goodluck Jonathan, GCFR, which
unfortunately catalyzed unprecedented dislocation of the
component elements of the Health Sector in that dispensation.
The only ameliorating balm in that discourse (the Old Jonathan
Order) was that the Permanent Secretary in Charge of the Federal
Ministry of Health were always administrators or non-care
providers. Today even that has been taken away because the new
Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Health is also a
traditional strong advocate of the interests of only her Medical
Doctor colleagues from her time as a Permanent Secretary in the
office of the Head of Service of the Federation.
To compound the woes of all other health workers apart from
Doctors which we represent, the Federal Ministry of Labour and
Productivity which ordinarily should arbitrate over our welfare
demands which the hegemony of Doctors over-bearing leadership
truncates at the Federal Ministry of Health is now being headed
by yet another Medical Doctor, Dr. Chris Ngige. The obvious
fallout of this dangerous but unprecedented structure against the
professional destinies of all health workers apart from Doctors
can be summarized in the reflected phraseology- calamitous future
expectations.
For a Health Sector where Doctors hitherto reduced a supposed
Federal Ministry of Health to a Ministry of Doctor to now be
officially and legitimized as home to only Doctors who constitute
less than 5% of the workforce at the detriment of the majority of
over 95% in our humble opinion Your Excellency, appears to
epitomise neglects of the feelings of the gross majority of health
workers and will aggravate the volatility in the sector instead of
abating it .
For sake of emphasis the Nigeria Medical Association is already
reaping the expected fruits of the whirlwind of benevolent
appointments. On Friday, November 13, 2015 the Hon. Minister
of Health, Prof. Issac Adewole visited the Nigeria Medical
Association (NMA) Secretariat in Abuja where he met both the
Nigeria Medical Association President, Dr. Kayode Obembe and
National Assocaition of Resident Doctors (NARD) President, Dr.
Muhammed Askira. As expected the demand list included:
(1) Preservation of the status quo ante in the unskewed
appointments in board constitution and membership of the 55
Federal Health Institutions.
(2) Imposing the Yayale Ahmed Panel report which only the NMA
favours in the Health Sector. This is at a time other health
workers are challenging and infact seeking quashing of this
report at the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN). Today
we are aware the Health Minister and Labour Minister are
raising legal teams to join forces against us at the NICN.
(3) Implementing the agenda of the Nigeria Medical Association
(NMA) through the National Health Act. The Federal Ministry of
Health has already set up committees and structures made up
exclusively of only Doctors as usual.
(4) Imposing relativity/skipping for Doctors on the Federal Health
Institutions even when other health professionals who got
National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) judgments in their
favour since 2010 have not been paid by some Chief Medical
Director (CMDs) in the Federal Health Institutions (FHIs).
(5) Exclusive overseas training for Medical Doctors through
improved residency programmes.
(6) Designing new welfare schemes for Corper Doctors.
(7) Introduction of pension and gratuity for Resident Doctors
( Perfecting domination of Doctors in the National Health
Insurance Scheme (NHIS)
(9) Payment of Doctor-University Lecturers with the CONMESS scale
and privileges.
(10) Recognition of Doctor’s Postgraduate Fellowship over Ph.D in
their careers as academics.

The Hon. Minister was reported to have assured his colleagues to
be patient as he would actualize these demands.
We have continued to evaluate this situation in the last few days
and it is only in tandem with commonsense that we now
respectfully request Your Excellency to look into our prayers
which include:

(1) An urgent need to balance the various appointments already
made at the Federal Ministry of Health in the interest of enduring
peace in the Health Sector.
(2) A dire need to appoint healthcare providers of diverse
background within the rank and file of our members as Special
Adviser on Health to the President, Senior Special Assistant on
Health in addition to lawful appointments of our members who
should head some of the key parastatals in the Health Sector
based on existing condition precedents in the relevant statutes.
(3) An immediate approval of the adjustment of the CONHESS scale
as was done with CONMESS scale since year January 2014 to pave
way for implementation based on approvals in the 2016 budget.
This must be in addition to other welfare demands of JOHESU
members.

CONCLUSION
Your Excellency, we do know that different versions of the
situation in the Health Sector pervade the land. As citizens of this
country, we are fed up with a status-quo that continually
consumes and diminishes our potentials because our
commonwealth is always been poached while our privileges as
citizens are breached as well as trampled upon.
We are of the firm opinion that as Your Excellency builds
structures to preserve our national heritage, the collective
destinies of all shades with tendencies of our people must be
reckoned with. This cannot be said to be a reality in the Health
Sector where it continues to be convenient to sacrifice the destiny
of 95% of the workforce for the pecuniary interests of a few
sacred cows.
It is therefore our hope Your Excellency will urgently redress the
myriad of serious issues raised in this memo in the typical
commendable spirit Your Excellency has been championing a
turn-around in our entire nation.
Thank you very much Your Excellency.

http://mhwun.org/media-centre/news-events/36-johesu-ahpa-call-for-inclusive-decision-making-in-the-ministry-of-health.html

This letter was written by Dr Paul John in response to an earlier letter written to the president by JOHESU and AHPA http://mhwun.org/media-centre/news-events/36-johesu-ahpa-call-for-inclusive-decision-making-in-the-ministry-of-health.html
It is the usual attitude of the NMA to snub any publication by the paramedical staff attacking her members as the association believes they are just noise makers and are not worth a reply.
However, Dr Paul personally replied this.

Mr President: I write in response to the recent petition to you signed by the
chairman JOHESU, comrade Jay Josiah and the chairman AHPA,Dr Godswill C.
Okara with the above titular theme. For ease of reference, JOHESU stands for
Joint Health Sector Unions whereas AHPA stands for Assembly of Healthcare
Professional Associations. The said petition raised specious points which if not
immediately corrected may derail the public. This rebuttal is necessary
because neither my leaders nor my elder colleagues will respond to the
spurious allegations raised against them in the petition because to them,
Nigerian medical doctors are not in competition with any group and responding
to such allegation may give the petitioners undue recognition; hence,
the petition is not worth the attention of Nigerian medical doctors .

APPOINTMENT OF TWO MEDICAL DOCTORS IN THE FEDERAL MINISTRY OF
HEALTH
In the petition, the petitioners argued that it is unfair to have two doctors in the
ministry. I want to specially thank you for your well-thought-out appointments
so far. Gone are the days when people who were not eligible were appointed to
different government positions in order to appease a particular group.
Meanwhile, in the Federal ministry of Justice, the current Permanent Secretary,
Barrister Taiwo Abidogun, is a lawyer. Are there no paralegal workers or other
workers in the Ministry of Justice the same way we have these paramedical
workers in the Health ministry? The paralegal workers there have never
complained that both the Permanent Secretary and the Honourable Minister of
Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation are lawyers because the
paralegal workers are aware that for the ministry of Justice to move forward,
sensitive positions must be manned by technocrats . Thus, one would begin to
wonder why it is difficult for these paramedical workers (JOHESU and AHPA) in
the health sector to know that before the desired change will be established in
Nigeria, all appointments into government positions must be devoid of
sentiments, nepotism, tribalism and other mundane considerations.

DR AMINA SHAMAKI IS BIASED
The petitioners went on to posit that the current permanent secretary Federal
Ministry of Health, Dr Amina Shamaki is biased as she only favours her fellow
medical doctors. They mischievously cited her roles as a permanent secretary in
the office of the Head of Service of the Federation. This rabid hatred by
these paramedical workers against Nigerian doctors is proverbial. The
petitioners were silent over the position of the permanent secretary when the
immediate former Permanent Secretary, Mr Linus Awute, with MSC in
Agricultural chemistry and Soil science was there. To the petitioners, it is better
that the position be left unoccupied than being occupied by a medical doctor.
Such hatred is not new as when the current director-general of NAFDAC, Dr
Paul Orhii, a medical doctor, was at the verge of being appointed, they wrote a
similar petition to the then president. After their petition was ignored, they went
to court with suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/259/09 to challenge the appointment of
Dr Paul Orhii arguing that section 9(1) of the NAFDAC Act Cap N1 LFN 2004
stated, inter alia, that the DG of NAFDAC must be a person with good
knowledge of pharmacy, food and drugs. They failed to realise any medical
doctor has those qualities and that since the inception of USFDA (United States
Food and Drug Administration) in 1906 that 13 out of the 21 Food and Drug
commissioners (a term for our own Director-General) were medical doctors.
Expectedly, the said law-suit was struck out by the federal High court sitting in
Abuja, on April 2012 for lack of merit. They are at it again with the appointment
of this woman of substance in the federal ministry of Health.

THAT DR CHRIS NWABUEZE NGIGE WILL WORK AGAINST THEM
In the petition, they argued that with another medical doctor
superintending the Federal Ministry of Labour and
Productivity, their welfare demands will be rendered
nugatory. It is on record that since the national leadership of
NLC (Nigerian Labour Congress) is headed by a paramedical worker, Comrade
Ayuba Wabba, no Nigerian medical doctor, either acting as a group or as an
individual, has ever opposed or seen the leadership of NLC as a threat to the
welfare of Nigerian doctors. As I have said before, there are some professions
that are naturally made to be competition-free. The same way that the
professor of paralegal studies can never be addressed as a lawyer hence cannot
head Ministry of Justice, that is the same way the professor of a paramedical
course can never be called a medical doctor. If Dr Ngige were posted to the
ministry of Water Resources, Agriculture or any other ministry that does not
have direct link with the Ministry of Health, the petitioners would also find a
way to bring in Dr Ngige into their spurious petition .Surprisingly, If Nigerian
medical doctors come out today to say, Abuja is the federal capital of Nigeria,
the petitioners and their group will come out to dispute this obvious fact.

THAT MEDICAL DOCTORS CONSTITUTE 5% OF THE WORKFORCE IN THE
MINISTRY OF HEALTH
Well, I am not aware of the criterion they used to get their data .Is it not
preposterous and serendipitous that the same group that was accusing past
ministers of health, chief medical directors, medical doctors of our hospitals of
not employing their members has just found out that they now constitute about
95 of the workforce in the ministry and by extension, in the health sector? I
congratulate them on this new finding and at same time, I urge them not to
complain of unemployment among their members as they are already leading
Nigerian doctors in the area of employment hence they should not disturb Dr
Ngige, who is faced with the challenge of massive unemployment in the country.

ON THE HISTORIC VISIT OF THE NEW MINISTER OF HEALTH TO NMA
SECRETARIAT
To the petitioners and the associations they represent, whatever a Nigerian
doctor does or says is wrong until proven otherwise. Where were the petitioners
when the immediate past government sacked about 16,000 striking resident
doctors under the watch of a minister of health who is a doctor? Where were
they when Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu, a medical doctor, challenged his colleagues
to an open national debate over his colleagues' demand? Have these petitioners
sent any invitation to the new minister of health to come to their secretariats
and he refused to come? We are not surprised at their reactions as we have
since adapted to their belligerent nature in the sector. Were they not the ones
shouting ,'International best practices ' and when the idea of privatisation of
the health sector , which is the fulcrum of the much-touted international best
practices, was mooted , they openly opposed it for no other reason than
Nigerian doctors supported it and for the fact that the said privatisation would
pay an individual according to the economic value of the person's qualifications
and work and not according to the ability to form more unions in the sector or
draw more media attention. What else do Nigerians expect from a group that
supports medical tourism abroad for no other reason than Nigerian doctors
oppose the idea?

ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE YAYALE AHMED PANEL REPORT AND A
LEGAL SUIT PENDING BEFORE NICN
The way the petitioners applauded the panel sent chills down the spine of
Nigerian doctors when the panel was still investigating the cause of the
incessant crises in the sector. They went on to accuse the former president of
planning to stop the panel from releasing her report. Surprisingly, the same
group has made a volte- face, accusing the report of the panel of being lopsided
in favour of Nigerian medical doctors. What an irony!
The petitioners went ahead to claim that the Health and the Labour ministers
are raising legal teams to join forces against them in the NICN( National
Industrial Court Of Nigeria). My little knowledge of legal practice shows that in
a legal suit the respondents are entitled to defend themselves in line with
section 36 of our constitution (as amended) hence if the petitioners or their
associations have gone to court as plaintiffs mentioning the federal ministry of
Health and Labour as respondents ,the ministries are morally and legally bound
to respond to the charges against them unless the petitioners are now ordering
the respondents not to respond to the legal suit against them .

ON THE RECOGNITION OF DOCTORS' POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP OVER
PHD IN THEIR CAREERS AS ACADEMICS
Your Excellency, the first day I saw a headline comparing PhD and Doctors'
postgraduate fellowship on the television ,I nearly aspirated the food I was
eating because I burst into uncontrollable laughter . My laughter was due to the
resemblance of the arguments to the interview once granted by Chief James
Akwari Iroha (known as Gringory Akabuogu), the writer and initiator of the
popular NTA drama series called 'The New Masquerade ' ,which featured
characters like Zebrudaya Okoroigwe Nwogbo alias 4:30 , Ovularia,Clarus,
Nathy, Jegede Shokoya etc. While answering questions from Chukwu Eke
( reporter), about his inspirations in initiating the soap opera , late Mr James
Iroha had this to say about his own family:
My father had a man called Etudo as his house keeper .He was a native
of Ikot Ekpene , Akwa Ibom state. It was he who took care of all of us -
my siblings and I. The man was very kind to us,very honest and very
assiduous .If you did not pass your exam very well, he would not allow
you to go back to school, my father gave him money to pay our school
fees. So he was in deed in charge. For instance, I remember when my
sister got credits in all her subjects; he refused to accept the result .He
scolded her for getting credits instead of passes. After all, she was
given money .For him, the credits she got meant that she was owing,
what was good for him was 'pass' period.
We may forgive Mr Etudo because he was uneducated. But how are we going to
forgive a group of educated individuals who now believe that anybody that gets
a credit or distinction will be punished, believing that a pass grade is higher
than a credit/distinction? If a PhD holder starts as a lecturer 2 while a medical
doctor with a postgraduate fellowship starts as a lecturer 1 in the academic
field, is it not clear to the petitioners and their friends that
doctors' postgraduate fellowship is superior to PhD. Following the line of
reasoning of these petitioners, tertiary institutions who advertised their minimum
requirements as five O' level credit in relevant subjects to admission seekers
will now refuse to accept candidates with distinctions in the relevant subjects
because just like Mr Etudo in the interview all they want to hear is PhD and not
doctors' postgraduate fellowship. That is what Sir Robert Hutchison in his
popular Aphorism called,' Putting knowledge before wisdom, Science before art,
and cleverness before common sense....'

http://www.medicalworldnigeria.com/2015/11/re-appraising-appointments-in-the-federal-ministry-of-health-by-dr-paul-john#.VlrAedKrRdg

Nonsense, fake pastors everywhere...
All these Nigerian pastors no receive any call from God, na missed call they all saw. They now wan dial God by force. Pathetic!!

Zellie:
Really? How many dentists do you think a standard hospital NEEDS

I'm impatiently waiting for the answer to this..
How many dentists are working in standard hospitals coz from my experience I can say d ratio of medical doctors to dental doctors in top government tertiary hospitals is way more than 30:1, worse in general hospitals that is if u even find any. In Comprehensive health centres, PHCs etc, u find none.
In private practice, I need not mention...

mm

ikevin:
I strongly feel what @LomaXx is referring to is:
A: a doctor (mbbs) lecturing on physiology instead of a dude who studied physiology, got a M.Sc and Phd and starts lecturing medical students.
B: we have semi-quantitative means of quantifying variables in sciences when definite measures are not needed sometimes, such as mildly acidic, strongly acidic or using the + sign to indicate the quantity. So people might as well say not too stressful, quiet stressful, very stressful OR +, ++, +++ etc. Just my thoughts though.

1. Factors Influencing the Preference of Medically Qualified Over Non-
Medically Qualified Teachers in Nigerian Medical Schools
What he probably means by the first topic by non-medically qualified is like a graduate of physiology, anatomy etc teaching medical students. I believe he should have been more specific citing the preclinical phase as the study area. It is actually a subject of controversy for now and it has already been proposed by the association of provosts of Nigerian universities to stop non-medical doctors from teaching medical students in d pre-clinical stage as from 2019 or 2020.

2) Prevalence of Stress Among Students: A Comparative Study Between
Medical Students and Non-Medical Students in Nigeria Universities
Quantifying variables doesn't work in this case, this is medicine and is specific. Using the word 'Prevalence' already means u are dealing with a specific health condition that has its criteria for diagnosis. Therefore u must have made a diagnosis before u add it to preexisting prevalence. Examples are prevalences of HIV, tuberculosis, schizophrenia etc, all these have their criteria and lab investigations for diagnosis. Stress is subjective, what one sees as stress differs from what another sees it as and it isn't a specific diagnosis in mental health. Mental health conditions like d different neurotic disorders, depression etc have their specific diagnostic criteria using ICD10 or DSM ( for those who understand) that don't require laboratory investigations.
I strongly advice lomaxx to review his studies well nd avoid a an ambiguous topics hence the entire project may see an unpleasant outcome.

lomaxx:
Good evening everyone. Please I would need the help of medical students in executing 2 projects. It's a personal work and the results would be sent to appropriate authorities on completion and hopefully seek publishing in reputable journals.

Most importantly, I want to have a representative statistic so it would involve many medical schools.Two each in the North West, North East, North Central, South West, South East and South South.

I want to execute the two projects at once and not one after the other. The topics are:

1) Factors Influencing the Preference of Medically Qualified Over Non-Medically Qualified Teachers in Nigerian Medical Schools

2) Prevalence of Stress Among Students: A Comparative Study Between Medical Students and Non-Medical Students in Nigeria Universities

I would need as much help as I can get with respect to distribution of the questionnaires and getting it back. I would provide a stipend to cover any cost you might incur in the process.

Additionally, your contribution would not go unnoticed as I would reference you as one of the authors. Should in case you have a research career in the future it's a good way to start. I started the same way when I was in 400 level and I was a 3rd author in a article that was published in the African Journal for Food Science. And off record, I guarantee you research mentorship should you need my help.

It's not an emergency. I want to get interested hands so we can get the job done in time. So please quote my ID( u don't have to quote this write up), I'll send you a
pm and we can exchange contact and work from there.

I'll be grateful if you help.

I need you.

Welldone bros, but I have issues with these your topics
1. Factors Influencing the Preference of Medically Qualified Over Non-Medically Qualified Teachers in Nigerian Medical Schools - did u expect non-medically qualified individuals to be employed as lecturers in medical schools in the first place, is it even a valid question?

2) Prevalence of Stress Among Students: A Comparative Study Between Medical Students and Non-Medical Students in Nigeria Universities- Stress isn't a definitive diagnosis in medicine, I believe definitive health conditions like anxiety disorders, depression with standard criteria for diagnosis should be used.
I don't know if u are a doctor or not but I think your topics require more scrutiny.

Figurine. Did Ramsey Noah actually die in that film?
Then this Indian film with about 4 magicians robbing banks nd playing some other pranks, I've forgotten the title..

I never expected the promo to be real anyway, so not surprised about all these lamentations. After all, they re just selling not manufacturing..
BTW, can anyone share the experience of these yakata thing in previous years, were they real?

Favolly:
I use First bank and Fidelity bank

..and their services in terms of financial security, internet banking facility nd erratic debits?

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Eko bank bha?
..lemme hear comments..

Hello nairalanders, I just need your advice on the most reliable banks to operate in Nigeria.
My present bank has been frustrating me over the months alerting me of erratic and unreasonable deductions from my account. I just got a text from them yesterday alerting me of a 215naira debit from my account, they called it card enhancement, similar amount deducted last month too.
I don't want to mention the name of the bank but it shares a name with the Yoruba version of the name of the city Lagos.
I want u guys to advice my on the best suitable banks in town with the following qualities:
Guaranteed financial security
No erratic nd unreasonable deductions from customers' account
Good internet banking.
Moreso, I'm landing a job in few weeks time that will fetch a 6-digit monthly income God willing and I don't want a bank that will mess with my money. Also, should i open this new account before I get the job or I can wait till after I've started the job, this is my first job.
Thanks
Mod, I beg u please let this make front page because I want a wide range of contributions to select from. Many others will also learn from this.

Lalasticlala

Op, what d hell is this, what's this nonsense?
Why tag d thread breaking news, all these Nigerian graduates sef..

GdexFolami:
I heard this and I don't believe that's why I want to ask u guys...is it true that SLT ND2 students(polytechnic) already know how to test blood.asin test blood sample and derive its genotype ...

blood grouping and genotype ain't difficult procedures, all they need are d electrophoresis machine nd blood group antisera. Since they are Science lab Students, then they may carry them out in labs.
But they will have their restriction in medical investigations anyway. Medical investigations electrolytes profile, serum creatinine, urea etc, liver function test and some others are advanced which they are not likely to touch even full blood count with differentials...
In short there are many medical investigations from chemical pathology to hematology, microbiology then histopathology.
They can only be exposed to only the simple few in both their OND nd even HND programs. Even d medical lab scientists specialize in just one of d four listed above.

Guys check out this, u go laugh tire..
The hilarious life of a Nigerian medical student
http://zikoko.com/list/the-hilarious-life-of-a-nigerian-medical-student/

This is serious. PMB needs to come in and talk some senses into his folks, they shouldn't insult d seat of the presidency with this display of sh*t...

Lalasticlala, solidarity forever....

Guy, sincerely u guys in Ogbomoso still dey enjoy o as over d years despite d frequent strike actions u encounter in school, I still haven't seen any set that used more than 5 years in school maybe except for d 09 set that finished in January making it like a month into d 6th. The school can always compress the calendar to compensate for d lag like they always do.

It is d clinical students esp medicine and MLS students that actually are much affected with this. They actually spend many more years in school than ever anticipated.
U go almost faint if I tell u how many years I spent for a 6 year course without any repeat.
400level in medicine is about 18 months long, my set spent 33!! That's almost 3years Though na Akala ownership crisis cause that one nd u guys neva felt any effect of d crisis in Ogbomoso...
If the school strike for a month, it can cause d medical students 2months as they may repeat d entire posting. Calendar isn't compressible.
Me I don escape o, now a doc..
Still proud of lautech though for the quality...