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as69:
The man is speaking facts honestly. People act like marriage is some kind of investment where the returns are guaranteed but for a Nigerian man in this economy the risk is too high.

I know guys who married, built the house, paid bride price, took care of everything — and then the wife packed and left with the kids when things got tough. No accountability, nothing. The court system will still favor her.

That said sha, I dont think all women are like that. Some women genuinely hold their men down and contribute. The problem is you can't always tell who is who until its too late.

The real issue is that our society still has this old mindset — man must provide everything — but has also adopted new ideas where the woman has freedom to leave if she feels like it. Its a one sided deal now.

Marriage still has its value but a man needs to choose very carefully these days. Financial compatibility should be discussed openly before anyone says I do. If she earns money but expects you to pay all bills, thats a red flag. Period.

Who is this society r talking about? It's u and i. So the earlier we change the forecast the better

So why did your god select a few people to show his ID?
Also wtf is his ID?

ogascomax:
I checked some of the things you said are contradictions but they are not. To you they are but to us they are not. Your lack of understanding of scripture or God's word create that gap in knowledge that you have. Scriptural can not be interpreted with the senses because it was given through the wisdom of God. But I will find out time to answer a few of them. But answering them are not the problem but you accepting the truth at the end.

Lol 😆 ok
Lemme be direct.
Can one see god and live? I need a yes or no

EXPRESSSMAN:
Well, there are many things a doctor can do in such a situation, but first, let's understand this concept of God. God created human beings to be in absolute control of the earth. Just like Angels, demons and animals have their own domain. He created the medicine you are talking about. God sometimes, for his own purpose, intervenes in the affairs of man. Many doctors and scientists confirm this. So you don't ask why God didn't heal you. That's not a good question. I am not a religious person, but I believe in God and know that God intervenes in the affairs of man from time to time. It is not about religion. You don't need to go to church to know that God exist. Just look at your life and your environment. They will tell you that God exist.
And to your question, what I expect doctors to do under such a situation? Let me tell you it is not every aspect of medicine that involves giving drugs, injections or operations. The doctor's body language and handling of the situation in many cases, go a long way in the patient's healing and recovery.
When I was a kid, if they took us to a hospital, the doctor would check our tongue, mouth, nails and eyes before anything. But these days, when I took my children to the hospital, the doctor would be on his seat and only ask some questions and recommend a test. No physical touch on the child or examination. I used to feel very sad about their new method.
As I said before, it is only in Nigeria that a critically sick patient would be sent away because we value money more than human life. In other climes, they would have taken samples for examination, fluids and an assurance and message that the person is a human being and will get well. If you pass this kind of message through your action, the person will not die.

You still didn't answer my question why god would create medicine and make it imperfect and costly. Just like a regular Christian,u dodged the question. When u answer the question, I'll know u r serious. And what has my life gotta do with the existence of god? Also cos some doctors talked about god doesn't mean it created medicine. So if Muslim doctors call on Allah, does it mean he created medicine too? Just answer the question.
We still touch and examine patients till tomorrow,especially if it warrants it. It's not all complaints that require exam. If you have certain complaints, we wont require invitations to examine u. Did you even read what I said earlier, I asked u what reason did they refer the patient,and u r here talking about running tests. If there was no bed space,where tf do u expect them to keep the patient for the tests? So r so he'll bent on blaming doctors,that u havent processed any of the questions or comments I made. Just like a typical Nigerian

LordBiden:
Bullcrap,hiv is not real.

The fear mongering is to make people take the antiretriovieal drugs which contains the hiv itself.

It's the western world invention to discourage overpopulation.

So HIV hoaxers still dey. Whoa! Na wao

EXPRESSSMAN:
You are asking how did God came in.. Some one that the doctors recommended to be transported in an ambulance because they believe that he could not survive the next one hour. But he lived to get to Owerri. Then at Owerri, he could not get any help again. He was abandoned in an unconscious state for 3 days before the hospital sent for him. Now you think that his survival was ordinary.
Meanwhile , the hospitals in Lagos kept rejecting him. That was why his people say that they should bring him to Owerri.
His survival was not a small matter, it was not kidney related but he went through dialysis for some months.
Now apart from Nigeria , do you think that a patient like that would be brought to the hospital in any country and they told them to take him back.
It could only happen in Nigeria.
Now you're defending the doctors saying they are not the one to provide bed and equipment.
What happens to making some alternative arrangements for his treatment until such a time a bed space would come out. What about doing some diagnostics for his case. Is 3 days not enough for someone in such situation to die. And from all the things that happened, you don't think that his survival for a great miracle.

First things first, ambulances are used for transport of LIVING humans who are critical. It contains equipment and drugs to resuscitate and maintain this sick folks. It's also manned by critical care personnel and emergency physicians. Obviously dead folks wont need all these. If your god actually works,why does he need doctors? Why does your god need the help of medicine to work? How can he create science and medicine and hand it over to fallible humans like me who can make mistakes and accidentally k!ll patients? Why did he make the healthcare very costly that some of his believers can't afford it? What's easier,praying and getting healed immediately OR being treated by fallible humans after paying huge amounts of money,and spending time?
Also the doctors said to take him to other facilities. Its not their fault hospitals are poorly equipped.
We dont reject patients. We simply refer. That is a lie Nigerians post to discredit doctors. If I cannot handle a case,I simply refer u. Most times the patient doesn't go where we refer them. I live in lagos. There are critical care facilities both private and government. Obviously the privates cost more. My own hospital take a deposit of 3m for Intensive Care. So if you have the money,u pay and we admit. And this is not all u pay,this is initial deposit. U may end up spending 6 or 7m. And u actually believe there are better hospitals in Owerri than Lagos? Lol 😆
Again. If he was brought with kidney disease and hes stable,he can be managed at home. Many people have kidney disease and are being managed on outpatient basis. It's not miraculous
When u say alternative arrangement, what exactly do u mean? When we tell u we can't take a case,its usually cos of bed space or lack of amenities or personnel. I dont really know which of the reasons the hospital had but for either of them,there is absolutely nothing we can do. If u think there is,let me know.

ogascomax:
Are they no billionaires active on other platforms. How many post do you read from me daily. Do I have to be a billionaire to be rich or having wealth? There is not a single contradictions in the Bible. If you have show me the contradictions.
What are the lies, show me?

Check my profile. I did a thread in bible gaffes which includes contradictions,lies and half truths. And I didn't even cover all of it.
Here it is https://www.nairaland.com/7659505/book-bible-gaffes

EXPRESSSMAN:
Hmmm, my guy, N200k was used to charter an Ambulance and you said it could be mild sickness. When did we start to use Ambulances for mild sickness?
Anyway, the guy was rejected by other hospitals. It was an inter state movement. The doctors believe that the guy will die on the way so they recommend that he should be transported in an Ambulance. It was from Lagos to Owerri. When they got to Owerri and discovered that he was still alive, they took him to FMC Owerri. That's when the incident happened.

He developed the sickness suddenly. They said that his blood mixed with water in his body. That's the sickness. He was paralyzed and unconscious for days . That was his condition when the hospital turned him away. They could not go to another because they have been previously been rejected by others. But to God's glory the guy is full of life as at today.

I am a doctor, not just any but with 18 years experience. Patients abuse ambulance
About the index case,why should a patient be transported from Lagos to Owerri? Why didn't they take him to critical care hospitals in Lagos? I dont understand this blood mixing with water BS. Yes the doctors in Owerri were right in referring him cos there's nothing. So he was rejected cos of no bed space which is not the doctors fault. I wonder how u managed to blame doctors for that. We dont build,equipment or staff hospitals. Also i told you that the best options for some cases is immediate referral and not every case deserves a 'first aid'. This is one of them
And how does a god come in here? What did the god do?

EXPRESSSMAN:
Well, I heard you. Anything that happens in a hospital is attributed to doctors.
A friend of mine was taken to FMC in an ambulance because of the seriousness of his condition. They told the people that they should take him home because there was no space. No First aid, no treatment for someone in such situation. He was taken home by the same ambulance and abandoned to his fate.
Then 3 days after, the hospital sent them to bring him. He recover fully after treatment by the same hospital.
Can you imagine that.

U forgot or neglected to say the most important information....the diagnosis. What did the man have? They sent him home because he probably had a mild illness,so its not an emergency. Just because they brought him in an ambulance doesn't automatically translate to an emergency. If he had a serious life threatening case,they would have at least sent him to another hospital. The fact he was still alive days later without any intervention means he wasn't that sick.
I want to expunge this ihnora nce amongst NL that 'first aid' must be administered to every emergency case. Sometimes if a hospital is resource poor,either personnel,equipment or meds,the patient is best sent somewhere where he can receive attention. Lemme give example. A man comes with a road traffic accident and is unconscious and has fluid or blood coming out from his ear or nose. He most likely has a raised ICP from head injury. If a center doesn't have mannitol,the best thing is send that patient on his way to get a brain CT (non contrast) so as to commence management straight away. Keeping him in that resource poor center is counter productive. Hope this helps

ogascomax:
I have gained all those things you mentioned and more, eternal life.

Security? Can't say the thousands of Christians slaughtered in the north had it
Intelligence? From interfacing with Christians on this forum,u guys are far away, especially u
Wealth? Hmm. I can't talk about ur bank account but I doubt someone so active on NL can be a billionaire
Eternal life? How do u know this? Did u die and resurrect or is it because a book like the bible said so? A book that is filled with lies and contradictions?

EXPRESSSMAN:
Believe me, Nigerian doctors in government hospitals are not trying at all. Their attitude towards the patients is not good. They can abandon a patient in the middle of an operation when they hear go on strike.
But we are blaming the government for the rut in the hospitals and not the doctors. But the doctors need to put humanity in their services.

No we dont abandon patients mid operations during a strike. I'm sure u dont know some doctors work during strikes,especially the ones in neonatal and intensive care unit. We dont wear ward coats during such actions to prevent detection. Of course the media won't let u know that. It's against the anti-doctor propaganda they have.

Mtmike:
Wanna be medical practitioner, would have love to respond to you but from your second line i also know your sense of reasoning is too close to the ground. God help you

Explain to me how the unavailability of antivenin is the fault of the doctor, Mr. Non wanna be medical practitioner

EDUECO:
What is the function of anti venom?

Just give the answer before I can school you more on what you don't know.

What you don't know is far greater than what you know.

Antivenin counteracts the action of the venom. Lemme stop here. Oya let's hear your 'schooling'

ogascomax:
Coming from a non Christian so I don't really bother about your opinion. There is nothing like be a Christian in all of this world. If you are not a Christian then you are lost.

I wonder what I'll gain from being a Christian. I won't gain security,wealth,intelligence etc. So what is there? Oga park well joor

Dtruthspeaker:
So if you agree that religion is a tool how then do you now blame the tool, instead of the person tooling? Like blaming AK47 instead of blaming the bandits.

At least u agree its the tool

uche87:
On the 30th of January, 2026, I fell ill while at work. After struggling through the rest of the day, I returned home to rest. When my condition worsened, I decided to visit the Accident and Emergency (A&E) unit at my local hospital.

I arrived at exactly 10:13 pm. Within a minute, I was booked in by the receptionist and asked to wait. Shortly after, a nurse called me, took my details, and recorded my vital signs. I was then asked to return to the waiting area to see a doctor. That moment never came.

Instead, I was called twice more by nurses to repeat the same observations, each time urged to remain patient. A notice board nearby displayed the previous day’s estimated waiting time — seven hours. My ordeal lasted until 9:30 am the following morning. I never saw a doctor. Eventually, a specialist nurse briefly attended to me, offered verbal reassurance, handed me a leaflet, and asked me to leave. The A&E waiting area became a temporary shelter. People turned chairs into makeshift beds. Others left in frustration. The environment was chaotic. Police officers intermittently brought in injured suspects in handcuffs, adding to the tension and discomfort.

As I sat there, exhausted and unwell, my thoughts drifted back to Nigeria. I remembered a day in 2016 at a government hospital in FESTAC Town, Lagos, when my condition deteriorated so badly that the crowd insisted I jump the queue. I also recalled how, at the private hospital attached to the multinational firm I worked for, I could see a doctor within five to ten minutes.
Now, in the UK, seeing a doctor sometimes feels like winning a lottery. According to The Sun, 554,018 patients in England waited 12 hours or more in A&E in 2025. Data from the Nuffield Trust shows that during peak periods, over 61,000 patients per month experienced 12+ hour waits — around 11% of all emergency admissions. At a minimum of 12 hours per patient, this amounts to over 6.6 million hours lost annually.

Unsurprisingly, many Nigerians living in the UK now travel back home for major surgeries and treatments. It is often faster, cheaper, and far less stressful.

While the quality of healthcare in the UK and Nigeria may appear worlds apart, few imagined that Nigeria would one day serve as a medical lifeline for those living abroad.

Beyond healthcare, the economic reality is equally sobering. Many Nigerians sold land, cars, and family properties to relocate. Today, they struggle under hyper-inflated rents, rising energy bills, and high living costs, barely staying afloat.
Securing a white-collar job often feels like requiring divine intervention. The system appears structured to trap certain groups within physically demanding, low-paying roles. Warehouse work destroys the body. The care sector drains emotional and physical strength. Mental health support work, though meaningful, exposes workers to extreme violence and psychological trauma.

NHS England records over 100,000 violent incidents against healthcare staff annually — an average of 285 assaults every day. In June 2025, Irene Wanjiru Mbugua, a 48-year-old care worker originally from Kenya, was tragically killed by a patient in the West Midlands. While rare, such incidents reveal the severe dangers frontline healthcare workers face daily.

Social conditions are no less concerning. 21% of people in the UK — about 14.2 million individuals — live in poverty. Without social safety nets, this figure would skyrocket. Additionally, 24 million people receive at least one form of state benefit, including pensions, disability support, and working-age benefits, highlighting the scale of economic vulnerability.

In terms of safety, police recorded 53,047 knife-related offences in England and Wales in the year ending March 2025. While the UK remains safer than Nigeria overall, rising violent crime remains deeply troubling.

For parents seeking better opportunities for their children, another danger lurks — hard drugs. Government data shows 16,212 children aged 17 and below were in drug and alcohol treatment between April 2024 and March 2025, a 13% increase from the previous year. This underscores the growing exposure of young people to harmful substances.

Meanwhile, in Nigeria, social life thrives. Community bonds remain strong. Laughter is louder. Life feels fuller. In contrast, the UK work culture often reduces life to an endless cycle of work, bills, exhaustion, and survival. Tragically, between 2024 and 2025, several Nigerian students and workers collapsed and died in the UK due to stress and exhaustion, including cases in South Wales and Hertfordshire.

I’ll end on a lighter note. The stress levels here are so intense that almost everyone snores like old power generators. Many refuse to believe it — until shown video evidence. This was never the case back home.

The hustle has shifted gears. And this one runs at a dangerously high speed.


https://www.facebook.com/thevillagetowncrier/posts/pfbid07zzcx9Rbfz6E1pgRdcSMga5vtcjzCYBgLYwqARrzsKTQU69pJs3jbqgkA7ZRcsnkl

That's the NHS for you. It is government funded and thus always congested. Compare it to our general and teaching hospitals here in Nigeria. You cannot compare an NHS in the UK to private hospital in Nigeria which you pay for out-of-pocket or use HMO (which you're paying for indirectly). When you come to government hospitals here,you'll understand that the NHS is cool

Hezzyluv:
For those of you who believe nothing like juju, keep deceiving yaself you hear...

I'm sure u r a graduate and u believe this news from a gossip outlet without a shred of evidence. Not just that,no autopsy carried out to determine cause of death,yet u r 100% sure it was jazz. Wasted education

EDUECO:
Pharmaceutical anti venom might be in short supply but natural anti venom is in abundance.

The venom of a snake is neurotoxic and causes inflammation of the body tissues.

Natural anti venom is neuroprotective and anti-inflammatory to the body tissue.

In the absence of medical treatment from an hospital;moderate to high dosage of natural anti venom like tumeric,garlic,nigella sativa,moringa leaf or seed,onions,clove,bitter kola,et cetera would definately neutralize the snake's venom.

Bitter kola etc don't have enough anitvenin to counter the inoculum from the snake,and even some of them don't have any antivenin properties

ruggedtimi:
not movie bro. Here is the girl's post during her trip to qatar. Had to blur her identity.

Which post? I didn't see anything

EXPRESSSMAN:
Believe me, Nigerian doctors in government hospitals are not trying at all. Their attitude towards the patients is not good. They can abandon a patient in the middle of an operation when they hear go on strike.
But we are blaming the government for the rut in the hospitals and not the doctors. But the doctors need to put humanity in their services.

Why this hate nah? Which doctor abandoned a patient in the middle of an op? U guys just fabricate lies on the go

ogascomax:
You are the joker not Christianity.

Christians are the butt of jokes anywhere in the world. So buzz off

Mtmike:
Wanna be medical practitioner, would have love to respond to you but from your second line i also know your sense of reasoning is too close to the ground. God help you

U have no response cos u got none. Quit hating. If u r jealous,hug a transformer

Diamond098454:
Everytime billing what do you mean by this billing billing billing? Haven't you seen guys that doesn't wait for there girl to ask them for something before they do it?

Sorry,we dont associate with homeless girls

nairalanda1:
The press release says there was ASV and it was given.

TO quote directly from it

We want to clarify that the management team at Federal Medical Centre, Abuja acted promptly and with the utmost care upon Ms. Nwagene's arrival. Our medical staff provided immediate and appropriate treatment, including resuscitation efforts, intravenous fluids, intranasal oxygen, and the administration of polyvalent snake antivenom.

Is it not Nigerians? They will look for something to blame the hospital or doctors. Someone was blaming doctors in one thread, for unavailability of drugs and bed space. As in eh,we don see something for these people hand

EXPRESSSMAN:
All these medical jargons is to save their face. Government owned hospitals in Nigeria don't care. This is for those who don't use these hospitals. If you go to Luth in Lagos and see how accidents victims are packed on bare floors, then, you will understand that there is no hope for emergency situations in Nigeria.
Meanwhile, the author of this information should have reserved his medical terminology for his fellow doctors and write what the agitated public should understand. This is how to communicate.

So whose fault is it that there's no bed space for patients? Is it that u people wake up and decide to hate doctors

Freshandfitpod:
Are you Muslim? You sound offended.

Your blood of Jesus is useless

Mtmike:
THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME THIS SAME HOSPITAL IS CALLED OUT FOR NEGLIGENCE AND GROSS MISCONDUCT.
THE ATTITUDE OF THEIR PERSONNELS IS WORSE THAN WORSE THING YOU CAN EVER IMAGINE
AND TO CROWN IT UP THEY RESORTED INTO COOKING UP THESE LIES
COMMON, SNAKE BITE TREATMENT TURNED SERIOUS CASE IN 2026, THIS IS CLEARLY NOT THE ISSUE OF GOVERMENT, IT IS MORE OF THE STAFFS WORKING THERE
THEY NEED TO BE AUDITED
THEY ARE MURDERERS!!!!!

Your hate for medical personnel is affecting your reasoning.
Even if there is no ASV is it the doctors' fault or government's? Did the tell you they didn't attend to her?
Are you usually this ddenseez

Kingsley34:
Christianity is looking like a joke

Was there a time it wasn't a joke

ruggedtimi:
100% real… let me share a chilling story from last year.

A wealthy friend’s younger brother, heir to their late father’s empire, planned a week in a luxury Lekki apartment with his girlfriend. She delayed her trip from Port Harcourt, so he arranged a costly backup plan with a one of his lagos based girl and he had to pay ₦1.6m. Unexpectedly, his girlfriend arrived later in the week, sparking a violent quarrel..the girlfriend left and plotted with some boys to blackmail him for ₦30m. When that failed, she accused him of internet fraud and reported him to the EFC.

For nearly a month, EFC audited his accounts, investigated his father’s business, and searched their family home. Nothing incriminating surfaced. He swore never to return to her but weeks later, he flew her to Doha, Qatar. Once he entrusted his sister with keys to five family cars that she should never released the key to him, it happened his girlfriend wanted him to send their GLE to Abuja for her but somehow he realized himself the morning he was suppose to send the GLE with an arranged driver.
He opened a logistics company in her name with ten bikes.

His mother had a dream of death to one of her kids...The guy had several accidents and one was with the girl on their way back from Ph airport...Worried mother visited a powerful priest at Imo. It was discovered that his girlfriend had used powerful juju on him draining his life. He wasn’t meant to see January 2026. When confronted, she confessed her mother had been taking her to native doctors.
The girls mother sent juju to the guy's mother. The woman couldnt walk for days, she went back to the priest in imo and the priest did a back to sender. It landed on the girl
The very next day, she called her boyfriend in tears, claiming that whatever his mother did was hurting her.
Out of anger, she threatened to wipe out his entire family including my friend. Alarmed, they took the matter to the authorities.
With solid evidence from WhatsApp chats and voice notes, their lawyer compelled both the girlfriend and her mother to sign a binding undertaking: if anything happened to any member of the family resulting in untimely death, the responsibility would fall squarely on them.

What's the name of this movie

Freshandfitpod:
kai! That is a medical error from them

No its not. Research before talking

Dogalmighty17:
Providing CPR on a snake bite victim? This only further pushes the venom deeper into the body.
The first question any competent medical professional will ask is, what kind of snake bit her? This will quickly narrow down and pinpoint the most effective anti-venom for that particular kind of snake.

The shameful disgrace of Nigeria is that the whole federal capital territory doesn't have a centre equipped with anti-venom that any hospital across Abuja can call and have it available in minutes.

Abuja is expanding. It is inevitable that this expansion will reach areas that certain wildlife have long regarded as home. These displaced animals, snakes inclusive, start entering residential areas. The case of the Airforce personnel who got bitten by a snake that crawled through her soak-away into her toilet, is fresh in memory. Her house was built in a freshly claimed area.

Yet just a 45 minute drive from Abuja, along the Abuja-Keffi expressway, is a snake farm owned by a retired Chief of Army staff. The most evil CAS this country has ever had. Snake venom is steadily harvested from that farm and shipped abroad.

If you dont know about any topic,why don't you research before responding, or simply shut it. That is my problem with many nairalanders
Snake venom can cause cardiac arrest and thus CPR is required. Whether ASV was available or not,is up in the air