₦airaland Forum

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How did he know?

Just vomiting global warming conspiracy theory ipsissima verba.
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HRich:
How much do you think will be enough?

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It will only take 5 Dasukis to run it into deficit.

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omanifrank:
For All Who Have Been Wondering Why There Has Been Abysmally Poor Power Supply


For all you who have been wondering why there has been abysmally poor power supply,

I wish to bring to your notice that PHCN is no more in the business of power supply.

The company now supplies bread.

You may wish to contact the PHCN office nearest to you for all your bread needs.

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It is the Olajumoke's syndrome.

PHCN is hoping for "grass to grace" miracle.

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I beg to differ.

$10b is not enough considering the problems facing a country of about 200million people.
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onatisi:
You sef you get time.

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12am - 3am == slow time.

Browsing the net fills the void....until my pager goes off.

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koboko69:
Do u guys actually know the meaning of dwelling in the past? Its these same lots that have been telling us Jonathan would have done better, Okonko is better than Kemi, blabla, now we are showing u lots that your hero was even borrowing to pay salaries at 57usd and this is all u can bring forward. Shame on u

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Comprehension is your problem.

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Jonathan did his time and moved on. As it is, Jonathan cannot influence any policy to protect any special interests in Nigeria. Therefore, any individuals or group that are still latching on to Jonathan are wasting their lives, time and effort. Yesterday is gone and lost. Intelligent people live the present and plan for the future. It is disheartening watching people trying to revert to "yesterdays" while burning their futures. And one would think they should know better.
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Everything about the bible is centered on the Jewish religion and culture, packaged and sold to other cultures as the ultimate religion. Christianity is a religion just as Buddhism, Islam, Scientology, etc. share diverse opinions about life after death.
Even among the Christians, different sects believe that others are doomed. Catholics vs Protestants vs Pentecostals. Who is right? Throw in Jehova Witness into the mix and the confusion gets worse. I was raised in the church but deep inside I know something does not sound right. It is self-evident that even the preachers of theword do not believe what they are preaching. I believe that if it makes you feel better about yourself, embrace religion but don't knock down anyone who thinks otherwise. It is a matter of opinions.

Do Christians follow the bible? No. They pick and choose or paraphase the verses to support a particular agenda -- treating the bible line a buffet. If someone engages in a ritual, it is considered a sin. If our grandfathers worship idols, they are termed barbarians. But a roadside carpenter will create an image, a priest blesses it and the faithfuls bow down to it. By the way, why is the Catholic mass called a ritual? Ritual is not bad but Nigerians have associated that term with evil with the exclusion of the ones done by the sect they hold sacred.
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Everything about the bible is centered on the Jewish religion and culture, packaged and sold to other cultures as the ultimate religion. Christianity is a religion just as Buddhism, Islam, Scientology, etc. share diverse opinions about life after death.
Even among the Christians, different sects believe that others are doomed. Catholics vs Protestants vs Pentecostals. Who is right? Throw in Jehova Witness into the mix and the confusion gets worse. I was raised in the church but deep inside I know something does not sound right. It is self-evident that even the preachers of theword do not believe what they are preaching. I believe that if it makes you feel better about yourself, embrace religion but don't knock down anyone who thinks otherwise. It is a matter of opinions.
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Some people had only church wedding and lived happily ever after.

Some people had court wedding and were sent six feet under by their spouses.

When there is a will, there is a way.

Vett a partner before you marry.

When your partner wants to walk away from marriage in Nigeria, let him/her go. The court justice may try to protect, but street justice is heartless.

Most importantly stay away from marrying people with evil mind.

Church or court wedding--the dead has no rights.
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ONLY POOR PEOPLE PAY TITHES.

Rich people donate to the churches.

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This is why you kill them if they invade your community.

That way, you will know why you are being arrested.

It makes no difference. You kill or be killed. I'd rather be on the offensive. There is no way out. Nothing is resolved peacefully in Nigeria. You don't take negotiation to an ab.oki fight.
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I bet you he had a better life in the few years on earth than a whole lot of Nigerians. Don't cry for him. It was his destiny.
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Isn't this man a senator?

What has he done in the senate to address the situation?

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Drabeey:
Nairalanders, i need your advise ASAP.
Pls note only mature minds only. Pls do not abuse or.......
I made up my mind to put it here than killing myself thinking all by myself.pls dont mind my diction, i have big thumbs

I met this young beautiful lady about 2 years now and ever since we've been friends and just friends.
I took it further to ask her out, but she declined but after up to a year of disturbance, she said yes and......


Fast forwarded till present. I Proposed my love to her with a ring and she was overwhelmed that day. She said yes without ado( i even shared some pics here).

Backward to that time i asked her out. Yes, she told me she is dating one white guy. She told me it isnt anything serious and now she is no more dating him, just that they are now best of friends and he render helps to her. I believed her and we started the relationship.

After i gave her that ring, she has been one very...... girl.
Its either we fight today,quarell tomorrow and.......

She's just been fruustrating my life.

One day we had a little misunderstanding over the phone, and the next thing i saw was her text, telling me she already flushed the ring. I was so mad that day, but i love her and i forgave her later.

Fastforward to last week, i saw a picture on her dp( she was wearing a guys cap and posed in a very lovely house ) . Without suspecting, i asked her where that nice place was and she answered that 'why was i asking'?
I told her jokingly that just to know if that was her new house and she told me it was the white guys house and that was his cap she wore.
My mind got heavy that day and i wasnt myself throughout.

Just of recent, what she did on her dp was so annoying. She snapped her hands and the guys hands on her dp, showing bothe hands as if telling someone "we are married".

I told her to remove it which she did and told me it was an old picture, at least more than a year. Yes i believed and we moved on.
Now to the major problem im facing now, she doesnt pick my calls again.
She will later call back and tell me she's been busy or sleeping and that was why she isnt picking calls.
Apart from that, she doesnt chat again nowadays. She's always online yet, she will never talk to me. She hasn't replied my messages since 2days now...


I need advise on what to do. I love her yet, im afraid she already moved on. Should i just break up with her or wait till........


Pls advise me.

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How could you put your two balls in a plate and hand it over to a lady?

Be a man! Where is your father? You sound like someone raised by a single mother.
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IYADARA:
I have been enduring all manners of insult from my boss for over 2years now... But this time around, I don't think I can stand it any more

Just yesterday, he said to me *you are not adding any value to my firm* hummmmm I am seriously lost and confuse right now

I don't want to wait till he sacks me, I have no plan *b* and am thinking of dropping my resignation letter before he sacks me.

Please I need sincere advise on what to do,... If u have ever been there, what did u do?

I will appreciate ur response

Thanks........

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Everyone seems to detest it but the folks that master the art of kissing a.ss get way ahead of others. It is pure art.

Don't forget the principles of 48 Laws of Power.
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LOL.

I hope Linda Ikeji is reading this and come off her phantom high horse.

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stevecantrell:
Its true devaluation favours Foreign Investor but will this improve the situation for the ordinary man the street in a country where we import everything ? No, absolutely not.

Neo-cons want to further exploit us under the guise of investment and PMB says "no, I will rather diversify the economy and tackle corruption." Your average Foreign investor don't care about the local economy...that's where the conflict lies.

We have nothing to export except, soon-to-be- worthless crude, devaluation will damage the average Nigerian. That's fact.

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Impressive!

Isn't it surprising how some Nigerians are swallowing the bait of IMF without understanding what is at stake? Isn't it shameful that Nigerians are more concerned with foreign investors than local investors? This is exactly why conspiracy theorists believe that education could be a tool of slavery. Every proponent is only vomiting academic thesis and theories.

SMH.
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anonimi:
How will you revive a non-existing manufacturing base?
Do we have the COMPETENT engineers, mathematicians, technicians, administrators, accountants, teachers, drivers, mechanics, bricklayers, etc?
No!
Do we even have the raw materials to run the old machines?
No!
Is it not by creating the environment for FOREIGN investors and ensuring that ALL our children are EDUCATED to have a pool of SKILLED labour at different levels?
Now, tell us which stupid foreign investor will bring in her money at N199 but can only repatriate the profit at N325
Do you see how Buhari's confusion simply makes a bad situation to be WORSE

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So devaluing the naira will achieve the desired result?

If no progress has been made from $1==N1 till $1==N199, I expect nothing different if $1==N500. Inflation will hit the roof and the minimum salary remains N18k/month.
If you build, they must come. Ask China. Ask Nnewi.

No light, bad road network, poor security, poor sanitation, fraudulant masses, confusing policies, and you think devaluation is the magic wand?

There are too many natural resources in Nigeria. The educated ones have no idea what they are beyond what they read in the textbooks. Until oyibo rolls in their bulldozers and create value for these resources, Nigerians will be moping around like educated illiterates. Devaluing the naira will not attract foreign investors. Even if it does, it will not be in a sector that will benefit the masses.
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Presidency is the office while the President is a person.

It is surprising that most Nigerians cannot differentiate between the two.

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The author sounds ridiculous and ignorant.

He said that Nigeria exports oil and imports almost everything else. Yet the solution he is proferring is the devaluation of naira. Incredible!

Nigeria needs to revamp her manufacturing base to rely less on import. Now that is a solution. It is not a rocket science. If you fail to tell your story, someone would do their best to tell it. This has been the bane of the unprofessional Nigeria media that allows foreign media to tell their stories because the local media is highly compromised to be credible.

There you have it.
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In Nigeria, educational qualifications are for titles only. Hardly would anyone mesmerize you with his intellectual prowess that one may be forced to enquire about their qualifications. No! They throw their qualifications(engineer, arch., pharm., atty., etc) in your face first and then proceed to show their tabula rasa grasp of the subject matter thereafter. I believe that Nigerians are inherently bereft of critical thinking ability.

There you have it.
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Jonathan2787:
[color=#000000][b]Yes its true we all want to travel out the only chance we get, and at the slightest opportunity we get, because of simple ignorance and because we are curious,we believe standard of living is high, my aunt who resides there for 15 years now has a nice car and bought a house in abuja, she said they are paid based on how many hours they work not this monthly salary here in naija, they have uninterrupted power supply, wifi everywhere(my favorite), no police brutality, freedom of speech, awesome educational system, highest level of civilization, most beautiful, serene environment,

BUT IN A NUTSHELL SHE TOLD ME I AM BETTER OFF IN NIGERIA IF I CAN BE EDUCATED AND MAKE BY BIENG SELF EMPLOYED, BECAUSE ALL THE GOOD THINGS I HEAR ABOUT US IS ONLY ENJOYED BY THIER CITIZENS EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT AMERICAN AND GETS A CERTIFICATE OF CITIZENSHIP, YOU WILL STILL SUFFER TO MAKE IT THERE, HINDRANCE EVERYWHERE, YOUR CERT IS NOTHING THERE, YOU CAN'T BECOME A BOSS OF A COMPANY THAT ISNT YOURS THERE, THE TRUTH IS YOU ARE ALWAYS A KING IN YOUR HOME, EVEN IF YOUR HOME IS HELL, BUT THE MOMENT A KING LEAVES HIS HOME FOR A FOREIGN LAND HE BECOMES A SLAVE TO THE KING IN THAT LAND, ITS BETTER I BE A KING IN NAIJA THAN BE A SLAVE ABROAD, HERE I DO THINGS FREELY WHICH WILL GET ME JAILED INSTANTLY THERE, A WORD IS ENOUGH FOR THE WISE.[/color][/b]

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LOL.
Your aunt lived somewhere for about 15years, bought a car and a house in Abuja. She advised you not to go and you listened. Car and house no dey hungry you? So your biggest issue is the hardwork involved or the fact that you cannot get away with petty crime? I no blame you. Daddy and mummy still dey feed you.
When you graduate and finish youth service, your attitude will change. Of course, you can be the king in Nigeria at the gas station with your jerrycan in tow.
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How many people know the worth of the watch?

Next to the ones carried by mallams, most people cannot tell the difference.

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witorwitoutyou:
Shey na dane gun d soldiers use,make dem try kolashnikov or better revolver,make we c weda d guy go survive

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There is no gun called kalashnikov...so you know

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Originalsly:
Guess her blood is on your conscience....no amount of money can erase that. I am shocked that you as a doctor would be bringing your patients' medical issues to a public forum. Was it necessary? ....isn't there some kind of privacy code? You own a hospital ...you should have a plan to ensure that the patients' bills are paid....guarantor/have collaterals, something... but not be putting the people business and sufferings out here in public and claiming blood is not on your hands.

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Name of doctor: unknown
Name of hospital: unknown
Name of patient: unknown
Exact location of hospital: unknown

Therefore, no Privacy Act was violated by the OP.

Calm down.

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EreluY:
It's only the padre, and not the seductionist(s), who is under oath. The latter has nothing at stake, really. The padre either sticks it out or quit if he no longer has the moral stamina and resolve to stay true to his calling. In the same manner, if a medical doctor cannot stay true to her/his calling with reference to the Hippocratic oath, s/he should (if s/he has a conscience) call it a day perhaps by moving into another sector where s/he can stay true to her/his calling. Junior doctors in England are currently demanding better working conditions with a threat that if the government fails to act, they'll move to other parts of the UK (especially Scotland and Northern Ireland) or abroad (Middle East, Australia, Canada, etc.). Rather than fold their arms and watch patients die, they'll simply move elsewhere. Only then can they, like Pontius Pilate, wash their hands clean of a patient's blood.

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The junior doctors are threatening a government that cares to listen. Doctors in Nigeria can threaten to move to Bermuda triangle and the government couldn't care less. Like I always say, most Nigerians are directly or Indirectly benefiting from the messed up situation called Nigeria. They will resist any transformation that may bring positive results in their lives collectively.

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Case in point: Remember the guy that wasted N235k on a phone last week? Does he have N200k saved for medical emergency? Probably not. Nigerians value image over health or do I say, things that matter. The same way Nigeria celebrities will be portarying opulent lifestyles and cannot afford a few millions when kidney problems set in.
It is understable when a patient presents with a chronic condition that might have exhausted his savings. Nigerians have their priorities screwed up. I hate to generalize but it is a fact.


Folks cannot put up N100k for medical treatment but the same folks will spend millions at the burial if the patient dies. Do they buy coffins on credit? Since there is no health insurance in Nigeria, best practice remains "no deposit, no treatment". It is needless helping those who do not want to help themselves.

beautycrush24:
Yea yea....the blood is not in your hands....we know. But why not charge them d least you can? Someone will b admitted for one day and d doctor will be callin 50k bill. Is that fair? When you see a patient and d people that accompanied him/her then u can guess how rich or poor they are. If u observe they're not well to do, then charge exactly what u'll need to treat them without thinking of gains. Cos wen d bill is so high, the person wont even know where to start from.
You can make ur money off the rich ones....nobody will blame u for that

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At the end of the month, the hospital will have to pay their staff as well as procure medications and materials for others. Don't forget that hospital is not a charity organization.
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OP: It is not your problem. Blame the people and the system. Nigerians move around with the notion that they can outsmart anyone. It is surprising that even the ones thst have good jobs would spend money as if it is going out of existence. There are no savings for emergency. Not my portion, they would say until the emergency happens. We hear stories of hospitals holding patients hostage and the public will rain curses on the hospital.

Dasuki, FFK, Metu looted so much that their families can afford to travel to anywhere in the world for medical care. Arrest any of them and the same people who would be the victims of the embezzlement would come for their defense. So what can one do? Let nature and circumstances continue to weed out the unfit. It is best to remain indifferent.
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RedCapChief:
The doctors want to come back to Nigeria and are asking for financial assistance in relocation and you are asking about Hippocratic Oath.
Who is going to pay the custom duties when the returnee doctors want to import their MRI machines and colonoscopes?

Please stop mentioning "Hippocratic Oath if you don't understand what it means."

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That dream is dead. It is not worth the trouble. I have medical pieces of equipment including EKG machines, ultrasound machines, ABG machines, BACTEC, etc packed in a warehouse in Lagos. I killed that dream of venturing into the murky water of healthcare in Nigeria. I will definitely auction off the machines and move on. I can't live in Nigeria neither can one comfortably rely on a manager. So why bother. Even if the conditions are met, none of the doctors are moving back to Nigeria.
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Stealing is corruption.

No need dressing up a vice using semantics to confuse and convince.

Nigerians understand the context of the statement credited to Jonathan. There is no need for technicalities.

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