₦airaland Forum

DEAFandDUMB:
Having studied all the views submitted so far by our great noble technocrats, I can boldly say that what we all are craving for is a better Nigeria with a sustainable development.. But the approach to follow is what am kind of finding difficult now.. Should we go by the way of restructuring? But will that put an end to the uprises both in the North (book haram) and South (NDA). Ideal federalism happens to be a viable option but the disadvantages seems to be more disastrous then even what we are facing now cos if some states becomes too powerful, they might start comtempleting on testing their might on weakers states or even the centre.. Then I remembered one comment that said something about our attitudes towards our dear country, which I believe is part of the reasons we still where we are now and then i sat and thought over it and later came up with this single question.. Can Nigeria ever be great again if we the citizens always see it as dying patient without any hope of recovering.. Let's try to do our part in making Nigeria and her system a workable reality...
Thanks all..
One Love..

Everyone is shouting regionalism or true federalism citing laziness mentality in the current sytem as their reason. My question is this:is there any state that isn't dependent on oil presently? Are we saying that only the States blessed with crude oil currently have the right to be Lazy cos if regionalism comes into play today the proceeds from the sale of oil will go to only them (ie breeding worse spoilt lazy bones).
I'm a realist and the truth is: you can't just come on a hot day in a hot season when the entire country is experiencing so much hardship and start screaming regionalism/resource control. Even you own baby needs to be weaned over a period of time with the sole aim of pushing him/her to Independence. Remember this saying "The peace you make available to your neighbors is the peace you will enjoy", the mess we are currently in as a country needs to be cleaned to a reasonable extent and value reorientation needs to be established in the minds of many of us (especially our leaders) before any discussion about regionalism would yield the expected results.

Does having crude oil in a State translate to hard work by the people of that State? I seriously need to see the hard work in individuals from States blessed with crude oil who have been screaming regionalism like they are better than others.

I read here some days back that the FG is looking for major shareholders in the Brass LNG project in Bayelsa State. Instead of Bayelsa indigenes to look inward and motivate their billionaires to cease this opportunity, they will be playing dumb until outsiders partner with the FG then in a few years time, you will hear them screaming marginalisation listing names of outsiders that are benefiting from that project.

It's a real pity that we really don't know what our problems are in this great country. Bring regionalism today and see how the whack wicked greedy leaders usurp all the power and continue this vicious cycle over again. Even lazy bones are now calling others lazy like the crude oil in their region was brought there through their hard work.

Let's fvcking grow up already, gosh!!

Evina:
What is wrong with you?
I don't even bother reading the expression of your bitterness and anger at the truth!

Many have agreed with me!
Just you and your Colleague disagreed in the exact same bitter manner I earlier pointed out, that is akin to many in your profession.

Deal with the wrong attitude! Don't attack those who point out the truth!

Continue yarning opata!

Bitter? Not in a million years dear, far from it.
I can bet you that I have been trained to be thick skinned and my experiences from work have also impacted on me in like manner (all thanks to nursing practice in Nigeria and the attitudes of some patients and the general public towards nurses and nursing).

Would love to care for you (be it curative or preventive) to give you a different mindset from your held view on the "Horrible Nigerian nurses".

I dislike generalization cos it's the alter of more than 25% of the bad public image of nursing in Nigeria. I believe it all boils down to the salesman saying of "a well treated customer speaks about the good treatment of the service(s) to just one person while a badly treated customer speaks to a minimum of four people about his experience", same reason while you hear folks saying bad news travel faster than wildfire.

Just like every other profession, nursing in Nigeria has its shortcomings likewise nurses and reason for this is multifactorial but won't bother going into details. Be assured that we are seriously on a value reorientation mission to give ourselves the right name we truly deserve, though it's not a walk in the park mission, hopefully we shall get there.

Lending us a positive leaning in our quest would get us there faster and smoother than maligning us, that's the reason behind my direct attempt on your jugular earlier. Trust me when I tell you that no love was lost in the process anyway. We are cool.

Welcome onboard dear, your support would be highly appreciated.

Shalom!

Evina:
If you sense ignorance in a post and you have the needed knowledge to correct such ignorance, do it with all sense of humility.

Your response only affirms what I have earlier mentioned about Nigerian trained nurses! You are NO DIFFERENT!

And if I was wrong about your HORRIBLE attitude, you wouldn't feel so pained and be so defensive.

As your lordship pleases, many have tried correcting you but deliberate attempt to hold unto what you neither know or sure of wouldn't allow you to quit and research.
Narcissistic personality wouldn't let go and here you are again trying to justify another self view about Nigerian nurses. Clap for yourself for winning.
You seriously need to work on yourself cos the fact that you are not a nurse doesn't justify your attitude (whether it's good or bad, decide that for yourself and do the needful).

Please, in the future when you crave to have an opinion on an issue and you feel there is need to defend such opinion irrespective of superior views, all you need to do is to be empowered through proper and relevant knowledge.

If you needed to know you should have rather asked. Teaching without readiness to learn equals negligible impact

Evina:
This is good.
Passion is good. It makes you go the extra mile.

Last resort in my earlier post because it is cheaper to train as a Nurse in comparison to obtaining a B.SC.

You rely need to update your knowledge on Nurses training my dear.
There is and has been a training program for Bachelor of Nursing Science Certificate (B. N. Sc) in the Universities and it's for the duration of 5yrs plus a year internship program (ie 6yrs in total).

Drop from your high horse and get yourself equipped with relevant information before you brazenly showcase your ignorance consciously/unconsciously. A word they said is enough for the wise.

Shalom!

delishpot:
Haaaaaleeeeluuuyyyaaaahhhhhh. Nurses killed my Mother. Yes I said it. My mom was reacting to a Med a stupid idiotic doctor (whom if I curse I would say he should die as horribly as my Mom did) administered on her by in Ph(this doc was just busy chasing skirts up and down the hospital. He would leave a Ward round half way if he sees a pretty woman walk pass) . The stupid nurses on duty told my sister that the allergic reaction was a small price to pay for my Mon to get well. They sat there till the woman died. I hope the cleanup story is true.

Hard luck to you and your family, may her soul continue to rest in peace. Amen. I really don't know what to say, I pray and work towards a better health team daily where every member is well equipped to do his/her part where & when necessary and gives utmost respect to other members of the team. My happiness is the work in progress and the zeal in this generational nurses to transform the profession for the betterment of the profession and everyone.

May God continue to comfort and replenish y'all for your lost. It's well

chigoizie7:
There is no exception here sis, even the ones in private hospitals are the same, they only comport themselves @times for fear of being sacked immediately by the hospital management.

After watching scrubs, greys anatomy and hearing from some of my aunts that are nurses abroad, I had wanted to marry a nurse, but as I grew up and had many encounters with them, I come to detest them, even the naija set of doctors that carry themselves as if to say na God dem be.

How can you say "There is no exception here Sis"?
Have you met all Nigerian nurses?

FYI, I Have never had a patient complained about how badly I cared for him/her, in fact they are always finding ways to stay in touch with me afterwards. I know few patients and their relatives who are studying nursing right now cos of their encounter with me. I also know many nurses that are like and even better than myself. The new generational nurses are having sleepless nights because of the bad public image of nursing in Nigeria, Nursing World Nigeria readily comes to mind.

Please, don't be in a haste to generalize on an issue next time, bad generalization is an issue we have been battling in nursing (especially in Nigeria).
Of course, many are speaking from series of bad personal experiences. Nevertheless, there is an ongoing in-house cleansing to give y'all the very best in the nearest future. Renew your faith in us, Nursing shall get it right someday.

Shalom!

tohpahz:
I still stand on my point.. bns is just a certificate program..
I knw they learn on the job,but thats for those who want to..
It's really disappointing wen after getting the so called cert nd spending 6months in service, someone cant even do dressing properly nd wen u try to teach dem,they take it like ' what can u teach mi, am way better than u' they end up doing the wrk haphazardly.. is this how the nursing profession is supposed to be. ? and am talking abt a personal experience here
At least d docs whu are bin taught are willing to learn from d nurses..
As for ur betting 1kobo on d nursing process use.. its quite tasking but i can assure u that although it's not implemented in every case fully, it's done to an extent by me.. there are so many factors militating against its use.
Nd finally newly graduated docs can fuc.k up sha..
Mks me remember my pts days ..

Thanks.

You are gradually justifying my stand the more, wound dressing is just a procedure in nursing and I'm not holding brief for anyone cos I know hundreds of BNSc RNs that could rival you optimally in the procedure (maybe school you on it too #lolzz).
BNSc is not a mere certificate, and calling holders of it "so-called graduates" won't demean it in anyway (maybe only in your mind).

You need to know what current trends in nursing are as well as scopes of nursing. One can be a sound nurse in specialties in nursing that have little or nothing with wound dressing.

Thanks for being honest in your write up anyway

Shalom!

tohpahz:
Including d one that doesn't know the do's nd donts of dressing.. nd this particular one was doing her nysc.
I laugh!

How many BNSc nurses have you worked with?
Have you worked with newly engaged intern doctors before (If yes, can you share their level of inexperience on engagement with your facility and that of when they rounded up their internship program)?

I wonder why most experienced nurses are magnanimous in the show of benevolence to the inexperienced doctors, guiding and assisting them graciously through their transition stage but become "monsters and parrots" when newly engaged nurses (BNSc RNs & SON RNs alike) need same tutelage from them. They scream it loud to high heavens when the new nurse makes redeemable blunders but call for others sympathy when their own negligence results to the death of a patient.

Everybody learns on the job. However, what you cited is not a strong point to water down the BNSc program to a "mere certificate program". There's more to nursing than the routine practice within the four walls of the ward. I can bet my 1kobo that you don't use the nursing process in your daily handling of your patients.

This is the 21st century and the earlier you emancipate yourself from the misconception of limiting your capability as "just that routine Nurse in the ward" to a progressive mind who is capable of covering the ward, carrying out research works, making progressive policies, developing curricula, and transforming the body of nursing in all totality both in Nigeria and the world at large, the better for you and everyone.

Wish you success in your endeavors

tohpahz:
You think.

This is where d problem lies.. that's y i nid dat cert..

Someone thinks nursing ends with Resume your shift, do the usual routine for the patient using the old techniques as done by Nightingale and receive your monthly alert and "when faced with an emergency call the Dr" and wait. After all no be my cross to carry. Pheeeeeew!!!

kudos dear, you rock

Let me school those feeding others with lies about degree nurses. The degree program formally called Bachelor of Nursing Science (B.N.Sc) has a one year practically oriented internship program imbedded in its curriculum to cover any lapse in the practical development of graduates of the program. For reasons best known to whom it may concern, graduates of the BNSc are chunked out into the labour market without going for this internship.
Every profession has its ups and downs and nursing is not an exception to this reality.The prayer of every progressive nurse or nursing sympathizer is for the full implementation of the BNSc program (internship inclusive) so that we all can have the nursing of our dream in Nigeria. Yes, it's not easy for any sane mind (nurse) who is progress loving to be at peace with the state of the profession today, I know nursing will get it right soon cos the handwriting on the wall is bold enough for all to understand the message.

Some days back, someone tried to educate us on NL on the differences between a career and a job. So, OP both career and job abound in nursing. Your greatest frustration would be felt when you pursue a career in nursing cos thousands of nurses fighting tooth and nail to convince you that "black is white" litter everywhere you turn to in Naija, to make it worse, they will tell you that black doesn't exist and has never existed.

Truth is, nursing is beginning to get it right after a very long slumber and some of the best things that would happen to nursing in Nigeria are:
1) The implementation of internship program for BNSc graduates.
2) Complete affiliation of all Schools of Nursing to Departments of Nursing in the Universities.
3) Conversion of all Post Basic Specialties to Post Graduate Specialties in nursing (ie who specializes with an equivalent of a diploma certificate and wants to be called or treated as a specialist/consultant/professional).
4 Etc etc

OP, Nursing is a very lucrative profession and a perfect career choice if ventured into with the right mindset. Nobody can pay the direct equivalent to nurses for their jobs but there is a huge difference between being paid well and being paid peanuts. However, what is worth doing is worth doing well, go for BNSc program.

Nursing will get it right, thanks for choosing nursing as a career.

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Bhanjea:
Obviously from your post above,you re either a nurse with degree or probably u re just a person that is more grounded on what people say around you,without you examining ur resolution.
It's so funny when u regard a nurse that attends school of nursing as a local nurse but you av failed to recognise the fact that this school of nursing nurses are:
1. More practically oriented compared to the university nurses
2. Much more sought after in oversea countries than the university nurses
3.This school of nurses are mostly the ones the graduate nurses run after during their clinical rotations while in training and while practising to cover their flops.
Actually,I can't blame people like you because,the system values theory more than practical.
How many clinical hours do the so called graduate nurse have?,u can bet it with me that its not up to the numberof theory hours,that's why many patients are dying in our hospitals ,since we have neglected praticals and we re jumping into the book oriented nursing that produced people like you
So please don't refer to them as local nurse,they just decided to choose that pathway for their nursing licensure or u tell me what the essence of a bnsc degree in nursing is without you passing the nursing council exams and both the "local" and the graduate nurse do sit for the exams to attain a smiliar qualification to practise

You came online, typed all that BS just to insult your teachers/lecturers with your stvpid ideology?

Same mentality that has kept the nursing profession stagnated for donkey years in the health sector. With your kind of thinking, one can conclude that hospital based trained quacks parading as nurses are the best since they have all their training in the hospital blending it with practicals #pleaseRecieveCommonSense

If you are a registered nurse from a school of nursing you better go back to school and get your first degree (and possibly develop to PhD etc) peacefully so that you can proceed to the peak while upholding professionalism in Nursing as obtainable in other professions.
"A word they said is wise enough"

anigold:
Supporting Arsenal FC is one of the most depressing adventure in the last 12 years.....

Which kind heart break, its worst than my first heart break i had with that heartless gal...

Have been trying to wrap my fingers round why people support Arsenal FC for more than a decade to no avail. I guess, it's the 8th wonder of the world.

freshdude99:
Young man, I disagree with you totally. Why,bcz politics is all about what works best for you within an entity. Nigeria is no Europe or America, Nigeria is and will remain Nigeria. Southerners irrespective of W or E value education bcz we are prowestern. Good, its supposed to be a comparable advantage for us in Nigeria but guess what, the opposite is the case. Fulani herdsmen will kill and commit all manner of atrocity, the police will call them illiterates and release them after some days. For ur information bro, the west with their medias e.g economist, NYT etc. Don't have Nigeria's interest at heart. So if u are expecting them to write good tinz abt us, bro forget it, ask china and they will tell u better.
I totally got the points u tyna posit, but vehemently refused to accept it. Jonathan never lacked ideas, he had it in full. The problem is that Nigeria, that's me and you aren't ready yet to make a headway. U want a Yoruba man to be the one that will take us there irrespective of the route while I want an Igbo man to take us there irrespective of the route too and an Hausa man also thinks its only his brother that can take him to the promise land. The moment we can solve that problem first, then we all are ready. Mind you the only way Europe could solve theirs was by giving almost all tribe a country of their own. Some country in Europe is just 3million, some 2m. I hope u will understand where am heading to

How have states controlled by "our own" fared? A typical example (Bayelsa) is being presented here.

bettercreature:
Politics is just like a game of chess,last night i was thinking about how to stop the Saraki led senate from further dabate on CCT bill and a friend mine told me those forces behind his problem might hasten his trial and Nigerians should stage a deadly protest but i told him that is not possible
Just look at what happened today,those forces behind Saraki trial has already blocked all his way out he is just fighting a lost battle
While we are here discoursing todays issue,those forces are already anticipating Sarakis next move and planning how to counter it

Someone used the NDDC as an example of a vetoed bill by 2/3 majority of NASS during OBJ and I reminded him that Nigeria/Nigerians of today share little or no similarity to what was obtainable during OBJ's.
SERAP already reported the CCT bill issue to the UN, a senator from Bauchi got stoned over the weekend and now CCT daily trial for the SP
Reality check (Appraisal) is the first step in planning a battle if you want victory. Contrary to this, is at your own peril.

Nigerians are neither dumb nor silly
We are watching

chukwudi44:
Saraki is also a Northerner and has also gotten 82 senators (more than 2/3) to pass a vote of confidence on him before.Forget Tinubu!! This is national politics

You seriously need to rethink.
Power belongs to the people, NASS would be shutdown by the people before they could attempt to veto the president's decision on the matter. Do not underrate Nigerians on this matter please.
If those in the NASS think that the presidency and the people will just fold their hands and watch them play to the gallery then they have a very long way to go.
NDDC as an example under OBJ happened for two reasons namely:
1. Nigerians didn't have the kind of awareness on political issues that they have now (all thanks to poverty and joblessness, giving Nigerians more time to think of the political happenings in the country) evidenced by the result of the last presidential election where an incumbent was clearly booted out of Aso Villa.

2. Most Nigerians who engaged in politics back in the Obj days were in support of the NDDC just to appease the ND and create a fair system of justice since they are the mitochondria of the country.

Nigerians and the Presidency are neither docile nor stupid.

We are watching.....

mapet:
In addition, aside from the limited objectivity on TonyeBarcanista's part, some facts are sacred and have been twisted
1. The Erroenours (call it padded) was withdrawn, corrections (ammendements) made. These ammendments were sent by the budget office to the various committees. This was based on the agreement between the joint house and the presidency. The Budget Office has released a statement confirming that Cal-Lag rail line was part of the ammendment it sent to the committee on transport and committee on appropriation.
2. Amaechi when defending the budget to both committees highlighted to those ammendments. He specifically mentioned the Cal-Lag rail lines, state specifically the routes

From the above, Goje and Jibrin reference to the original budget is not only disingenous, but in bad faith. I shudder to ask, why is Goje and Jibrin, trying to hide under the "padded-budget" excuse? Are the two telling us that they were not aware of the ammendments? when Amaechi presented it at the committees, did they raise any objection? why didn't they say ahead that they were not going to recongnise the ammendments

Also, it shows that most of the Senators and HOReps were oblivious of the details of the budget and worse still were unconcerned. Imagine, Ben Bruce's excuse was to refer to a tweet by budgetIT? All the Senators whose constituencies are along the Cal-Lag route did not even offer any form of assistance or resistance. The presidency had taken its blame on the padded budget, but this time the presidency has no blame. Why the Jibrin and Goje send the budget to the presidency without sharing it with their colleagues in the committee, then later appologise to them with the excuse of time constraints? why did Jibrin send text, alerting his committee members to be ready in anticipation of PMB's refusal to sign the budget, to be ready to resist the FG.......

I can't even imagine why anybody will see altruistic intent in Goje's and Jibrin's version of the budget. How they conveniently rerouted the claimed N57b to useless and senseless projects in the North (Keke Napep, Vaccines, Solar Street lights etc), the normal route to fleece funds out unchecked.

Check this:

If the SS & SE representatives mean well for their region then they should have raised dust immediately they saw in the initial budget that provision was made for kano-Lagos Rail lines while none whatsoever was made for their region. They should have been the ones negotiating through Amaechi's Office to include the Cal-Lag Rail lines in the amendments and work together with him to lobby their colleagues in accepting and capturing it in the budget sent to the President.

But a situation where bitterness and pull-down syndrome now lords over "common sense" will make such representatives from the region shamefully curse and defend the undefendable. After all, it's the "prodigal son" that will take the glory if APC administration succeeds in their region. Yet they preach "common sense" from their high horses. A clear case of a make-up artiste that abhors the mirror.

Yes, the North have tried to outsmart the South which has been made very clear by the "prodigal son" from the South. Is it not time for the representatives from the south to bury their hatchets, commend their "prodigal son", and work together to see to it that this Cal-Lag Rail project is not only included in the budget but implemented to the latter?

There is only but a thin line between Politics and Unionism. The North know how to identify this line but the South, it's all about Politics, damn Unionism.

horsepower24:
Bros. Lie small small. The highest transfer on that *737* is 100k daily.

I had a friend who was threatened to transfer money and he reported the case to the police got a police report and his funds were returned after the culprit was apprehended.

Police report is just for checks so that I don't come back and claim that a legitimate transfer between me and you was a fraud. How would you feel if someone you did a job for pays you after so much wahala and goes to the bank that he mistakenly transfers the money to you. And the bank reverses the transaction? Now the onus is on the police to ensure proper investigation is done before releasing such reports.

I am a lawyer and I av worked on some cases as this with banks and I have noticed that most times, customers lie.

I expect a lawyer to have a good sense of comprehension. Saying my folk got scammed of 320k doesn't translate to being scammed via the *737# portal. As a lawyer, you shouldn't have concluded like that, won't insult you cos I believe you have learnt something from your mistake. I only brought that instance up to show y'all that the process of recovering stolen fund via fund transfer (whether *737# or others) even with the introduction of BVN isn't as easy and fast as they are presenting it. It is not just tasking but involves more spending, suspense, time consuming and tension between you, family and the bank. I'm speaking from experience here. Don't forget that the victim must continue to live, you know the rest. Peace

ceekay247:
Your friend should have hotlisted his card by calling GTCONNET on 08039003900 or 08029002900 immediately he lost his card. Even could have also block his line by calling the mobile service provider (Airtel - 111, MTN - 180, etc). These processes could have render the thief efforts senseless. The *737# USSD idea is a beautiful innovation that other banks will soon bench mark GTBank on and not "beautiful nonsense" as you tagged it. I have been using it for several months and it is highly convenient and safe. Just for card holders and phone users to know what next to do immediately you lost your cards and phone. *737# is a welcome innovation. ....wouldn't you rather bank with us

Calling Customer Care is faster than the thieves dialling *737# to enable a transfer? Let's be realistic here please, GTbank shouldn't have automatically placed all customers on the service and violating the rule of PIN is another issue. Those making suggestion about a police report and tracing the money are just learners. My folk got scammed of 320k at the beginning of last month and had done the police report/tracing stuffs yet we haven't heard anything from them till date. Imagine losing your life savings because of such security flaw and undergoing the rigorous task of recovering your money, who is going to be sustaining you while at it?

I like the Op cos he went further to suggest a solution to the flaws. GTBank should please do the needful and other banks trying to key into this innovation should build a better system for us. Surely, we will achieve a near perfect system in everything if we are open to good suggestions and can work towards achieving them. Shalom!

obstead200:
Dont mind the theiving idiots.
They spend N16m monthly to power a 500KVA and a 350KVA? They are criminals.
My institution (a federal tertiary institution) runs more than 25 generators. At least half of that number is running at any given time. Yet we dont spend up to 8m monthly on diesel.

I don't usually do this but the CMD sounds more like a th!êf to me. If only EFCC/ICPC could focus their searchlight on the management of public hospitals. It's bad enough that the facilities are under funded, worse of is the fact that the little fund allocated to the health sector is looted with reckless abandon evidenced by this CMD testimony. #533333.3333 daily on electricity alone yet no light in the facility? Gosh!!!

lcoral:
Government fooling its self but the hospital management fooling themselves the most. Who do they think they are deceiving or they forget Nigerians are more enlightened. Any hospital coming out to say they who lamps for surgery ought to be shut and management probe.
The union is just telling us how incompetent most of d CMDs are in terms of their managerial skills.
These patient pay huge fee for major surgeries and operations, we know how much of IGR hospitals generates yet they can't fuel a generator set for a 4hour procedure. I believe there are some linen that aren't meant to be washed in public.

God bless you real good. 16million divide by 30days is 533333.33333naira, that's how much the CMD is telling us that the hospital spends on electricity (aside PHCN) daily, yet the doctors are saying they conduct surgeries with lantern.
Nigerians being who we are just swallowed that and started blaming Buhari, APC, PDP GEJ etc, when are we ever going to grow brains in this country? That CMD needs to be fired and thoroughly questioned by EFCC.
A facility spending that much daily on electricity that still complains about darkness and could only provide power for 4hrs needs all her managerial staff arrested.

Doctors managing the hospitals and still allowed to operate their own private hospitals is the first problem of the health sector #IMO

micodon:
A simple question to you is: Where in the Bible did anyone celebrate Christmas?

The shepherds or wise men celebrated Jesus birth.
Where in the Bible is it written that celebration of Christmas is a sin? Have told you the simple reason for the choice of 25th December as the date of birth of Christ, present your objection with rationale and if possible give an alternative date with your reason OR forever hold your peace on the matter

Sanchez01:
I have tried justifying it too. Why do you think Christians say "He is the reason for the season"? Some have come to know but still fight it. Emperor Constantine of the then Roman Empire who was partly Christian and partly Pagan then just so he could keep everyone together fused the celebration of Christ + that of Mars, a Roman god together to realize the celebration of December 25 today.

Please, quit deceiving the gullible. Christmas means Christ mass, listen to this "There are many different traditions and theories as to why Christmas is celebrated on December 25th. A very early Christian tradition said that the day when Mary was told that she would have a very special baby , Jesus (called the Annunciation) was on March 25th - and it's still celebrated today on the 25th March. Nine months after the 25th March is the 25th December! March 25th was also the day some early Christians thought the world had been made, and also the day that Jesus died on when he was an adult".

Please, stop the talk on Christmas already, you can go ahead with others, like the decision and decree by emperor Constantine which gave birth to Sunday as a day set aside for workers to rest and celebrate the Sun god which has been wrongly chosen by Christian as the Sabbath day commanded by God in the ten commandments to be kept holy. On Christmas, I fault you brother.

At first, it was Bangi moon then his attention was called to it, he changed it to Ban-ki Moon. Someone asked about the capital of England and what Ban-ki Moon means, He directed her to use Google.
Why can't he just use the same Google to get the spelling of Bangi moon or Ban-ki Moon right? If you have to talk about intelligence then you should at least be intelligent or play smart. Shalom!

A7:
Position of Islam on copulation is both parties must be legally married, the female must hit puberty, and must give her consent and if she is under the care of any guardian, that guardian has to bless the union. And premarital sex or adultery have no room in Islam.

When you say you condemn criminality down south I find that very difficult to believe, Ese's case is blown out of proportion because there are certain set of people in this country with fixated position to always smear others with different cultural, religious or political ideals from theirs.

You utterances will be much appreciated if you bombard the social media, and the press condemning the heinous attrocities perpetrated by your religious figures and other like minded vagabonds you use to shield and embrace with open arms. Till then, your words will continue to not hold water, just like in your mind you know what you wrote is false, people will equally discard it as false.

How is Islam practised in the developed world? does this position of underage marriage hold water among Muslim in the US? I really need to know

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nobilis:
You see why I said our youths are listless and directionless

This is the kind of news that should spark up a media frenzy. This is the kind of news that should trend on Twitter and Facebook until WAEC realises her stupidity and calls herself to order.

But such news is posted here and there is virtually no reaction over such an outrage.

But if it is useless things that will make no impact on our lives in the long-term as individuals or as citizens of this nation, people will be ranting and making all sorts of silly comments and remarks just to be noticed.

No wonder our country is this way.
We get the kind of leaders we deserve and no wonder the older generations don't take us serious because we're such a bunch of unserious individuals.

Leaders of tomorrow, my foot.
Tufiakwa!!!

I posted something about New millennium hospital in Akwa Ibom State (a government owned tertiary healthcare centre) placing an embargo on the employment of Nigerian health workers while importing health workers from India and other countries. To my greatest surprise, only one person commented on the thread. If it was a thread about wizkid or Linda Ikeji or one useless news that has no direct impact on the society, u will see every Tom, Dick and Harry psychoanalysing every word and everyone that cares to comment.

Real Tufiakwa!!!

A friend of mine (a Nurse) went to apply for a Nursing job in the New Millennium Hospital in Akwa Ibom State (the one built by the then Governor Godswill Akpabio). He was told that the hospital only employs foreign health workers as the management has directed that Nigerian health workers should not be employed, he was later encouraged by the receptionist on duty to just try his luck since he is an Indigene of the State. However, He was told that Nigerians are only recruited for positions such as; receptionist, driver, security and the likes.

Truly, we have been hearing tales about the hospital maintaining such a policy which was confirmed only yesterday by this my friend.
I have sent a tweet to the #commonsense senator to lend a voice against this policy, I have tried to get more information on the legitimacy of this policy in a government facility to no avail.

Pls my dear NL, how can our government discriminate against her own citizens this way? Why should a government that is encouraging us to patronise Naija made ban citizens from working for her but goes behind to import workers? How can a facility built from tax payers money discriminates fragrantly against same tax payers this way? What message is the government passing or trying to pass on the health workers trained in the country OR what is the government trying to say about the education sector of the country as a whole?
We need to unanimously raise our voice against this abuse happening in the New Millennium Hospital and the likes in this country.

Please, tell it to whom it may concern. Shalom!
Nrs. Jago

A friend of mine (a Nurse) went to apply for a Nursing job in the New Millennium Hospital in Akwa Ibom State (the one built by the then Governor Godswill Akpabio). He was told that the hospital only employs foreign health workers as the management has directed that Nigerian health workers should not be employed, he was later encouraged by the receptionist on duty to just try his luck since he is an Indigene of the State. However, He was told that Nigerians are only recruited for positions such as; receptionist, driver, security and the likes.
Truly, we have been hearing tales about the hospital maintaining such a policy which was confirmed only yesterday by this my friend.

I have sent a tweet to the #commonsense senator to lend a voice against this policy, I have tried to get more information on the legitimacy of this policy in a government facility to no avail.
Pls my dear NL, how can our government discriminate against her own citizens this way? Why should a government that is encouraging us to patronise Naija made ban citizens from working for her but goes behind to import workers? How can a facility built from tax payers money discriminates fragrantly against same tax payers this way? What message is the government passing or trying to pass on the health workers trained in the country OR what is the government trying to say about the education sector of the country as a whole?
We need to unanimously raise our voice against this abuse happening in the New Millennium Hospital and the likes in this country

Pls, tell it to whom it may concern. Shalom!

Nrs. Jago

BlackOyinbo:
Nooooo. You can't tax them for the donations (offering ) people give because, those incomes have been taxed at the source.
However, if the pastor or any other church worker is on salary, he must pay Personal Income Tax. But since the church is not a company and is not supposed to be incorporated for profit making, it should not pay tax. But if the church has any business, that biz must pay tax.

They should be taxed right from offering. Citizens whose incomes have been taxed still pay tax on goods bought from the market, when they lodge in hotels, etc. I don't see anything wrong in taxing offering

On a serious note Op, will the job give you time to continue your job hunting? will it give you time to self develop in your field? are you ready to grow in the 'oyel' industry?

These are some of the questions that you need to successfully answer before picking that job.

I once worked as a waiter/marketer (15k per month) for an eatery, but I resigned cos the job was taking too much of my time and I didn't have plan of settling in the hospitality/food business.

Think it through very well before taking the first step and ensure you have plans on ground. Life is a joke anyway and same time too important to live without a plan.

Chubhie:
You mean part of the arms deal was used to fund PMB campaign? Nothing must happen to a patriot as Dasuki till we hear his own side of the story.

Dasuki was appointed in June 2012 but uniforms arms and ammunition started coming in from October 2014. Who is fooling who pls??