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To all you haters. I hope you remember that GEJ won an election in Nigeria i.e. He was voted in by majority of Nigerians. So if you dont like him its strictly your biz.

To all you haters. I hope you remember that GEJ won an election in Nigeria i.e. He was voted in by majority of Nigerians. So if you dont like him its strictly your biz.

luka1981:
for those saying doctors are saint. bla bla bla. for goodness sake they are human beings with human feelings. just read this
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-863862.0.html#msg10131181

Its really funny that you had to go and search NLs archives to substantiate your claim.
Nobody are saying there are no perverts in medicine (just like any other profession)

My advice to you is this: next time your wife is pregnant you should manage her yourself. Afterall the doc didn't force you to come to his hospital.

The ingenuity of the 'Igbo spirit' at work

@op
This is a very funny question. You should try and visit a teaching hospital and see up to 10 people looking while your wife is being examined. Your wife is even an obstetric case where most of their privates and body overall look quite disgusting. I wonder what you will say about gynaecological cases esp infertility where they are quite young and beautiful. Moreover its not advisable for a doc to examine a woman without another lady there.
Do you think you think its only your wife that has privates? That doc must have examined countless number of privates while in med school.
Have you heard of exams like DRE (where you put your hand into a persons anus) or scrotal exam. I've seen these done countless times by women with most of the guys having no qualms about it.
You talk about sharia law. I think its because people like you that northern nigeria has one of the highest maternal mortality ratio in the world.

All-in-all you have the right to refuse medical care from a doctor or not to allow a particular exam to be carried out on you. But you should use it wisely and not over trivial issues.

To those asking what goes on in the docs mind.
Let me say med students start learning about these structures from 2nd yr using texts and teaching aids and its not until 5th year they really start vag. exam. By then most of those impulses would have be suppressed or absent within the exam room. He would have done countless b4 graduating and specializing. Its just like asking why do docs have no feelings toward dead bodies. So most times they feel NOTHING. But there would always be perverts.

@op so from your line of thought, you can
also say gospel musicians should give people their cd's for no amount.

As regard Gideons bibles. I know you like using them and enjoy being given freely. But have you ever asked yourself how they are are provided freely to people? Or do you think they are produced and transported for free? Also have you bothered to ask yourself how Gideons survive?

There is absolutely nothing wrong in encouraging people to buy books from time to time especially if its geared towards their spiritual growth. Also in these days of rampant false teachings it is very important for such books to be from trusted authors. Although this shouldn't be done excessively just like every other thing

Rest In Peace sister Perx.
This is really really sad

Leopantro:
to end the discussion, i want you all to preview just one single app on android,watch the video then come back here and talk about the superiority of BB or android. the name of the app it SPD SHELL.just google it.

The app is cool. I use it on Nokia 701 symbian belle. So I don't think its limited to android.

I know this topic is not about symbian but since we're talking about smartphones I think I should digress a little bit.

I use Nokia 701 running symbian belle and all the android fans I've come across have not been able to give me cogent reasons why android is better. But on the other hand I always give them baffling reasons

He wept because at that point he moved from the ministry of a Prophet to that of a priest.
If you follow the story before this you will notice that he acted like a Prophet. It seemed as though he didn't care about Lazarus as he knew he was going to raise him and Infact was telling Laz sisters that they shouldn't worry as he would live again. But when he arrived he moved into his priesthood ministry where he was touched by the agony of the people around him.

PS: I would recommend a message (can't remember its title but u can find it online) by Bishop T. D. Jakes where he spoke exclusively on this. Infact he preached the whole message on that verse and its one of the best messages I've listened to

charles316:
u mean samsung ace s580 is a low-end android phone? then which do u suggest i get? cost is an issue to an extent.lol

It may have been a mid-end phone when it was released but its quickly becoming a low-end android phone.

If you think you would experience what all people are saying here then u need to have a rethink.
IMO any android phone with lower specs than this is now worth it: 512mb Ram, 1GB ROM and 1GHz CPU processor speed. Also check out the battery life and the android version it runs

charles316:
guys,i need help here. presently,i use bold 2 but i want to get a bold 4. I have heard of samsung ace s580. do u advice i go for the bold 4 or samsung ace s580 ?
what are the advantages? and disadvantages? pls help

My advice to you is this: Don't ever buy any low-end android phone

EMMAACHILE:
With an android, u don't need a BB. I had both and the BB was useless after getting the android gadget.
Android is like a mini-pc and does almost anything a pc does and u have access to more than 450,000 applications.
Throw the BB to the market and make sure u get a good android phone or tablet.

And how many do you have on your device?
You would agree with me that majority are either nonsense low quality pirated apps of the original ones or bugs and viruses. So please stop bringing up this issue of 450,000 apps when talking about android.

BlackBaron:
Broke country

Even Apple's got more money than that.

Man sharrap!
Our foreign reserve is not thesame as our worth

Good but what about all the money they stole. I also want to see it returned and people jailed

They would have to recoup their investigatory and legal costs first before deciding how what percentage of the amount left to return.
I personally would not want the money returned back directly to the Government. Instead it can be given to multinational agencies like UNICEF to undertake specific projects in the state

@op Seeing you cannot deny the fact that support may be in the form of salary, I think I should tell you that good and bad in Christianity is not always a direct opposite or white and black. There are alot of things that are neither wrong nor bad.
Also you should endeavour to read bible passages in appreciation of the context in which it was written.
Just like when Jesus told his disciples to give freely. He was simply referring to acts like demanding a reward from people before or after preaching or praying for them. This has nothing with churches supporting their ministers

Lastly, I would prefer if you refer to it as stipend and not salary. Because if you know how much many priests are said especially those in orthodox churches you would understand that it in no way equates to their effort and is rather just to meet basic needs

@op
Can you deny the fact that support can be in form of salary?

I think you all are missing something- RELATIVITY
You dont expect settlement of a spouse worth 5 Billion to be thesame with that of one worth 500 million under thesame circumstances.
Nobody is asking whether its too much or not enough. C'mon its just common sense

@sagamite I really thought you were more matured than this. I followed this topic from page 1 and noticed you called almost everybody with different views from yours cretins. Well let me say if you are trying to dissuade someone from an opinion it would be better to trade intelligent points and not insults.

And to everybody against this practice. Let me ask you what you have done personally to change it rather than limiting your rants to NL

Societies make and change laws as they see fit and most times this laws reflect the thinking of the general populace
Its just like an American having issues with Nigerias law on homosexuality. Or a Nigerian having issues with Americas law on polygamy.
If you have issues with such laws move over to your country

shiiit nairaland should make it possible for people to edit their posts especially those using phones

mrmayor:
@goshen,

Churches except the Orthodox one are all registered as [size=13pt]Private Concerns[/size],
For the Anglicans, their Bishops and Arch Bishops are elected/Chosen by Council Of Bishops. The Rt.Rev can on stay in Office Bishop for not more than 10years after which he must Retire.

If you read the last paragraph of my reply you will notice acknowledged that and took care of it.

On the 10year tenure for Bishops I really dont think its true as they remain bishops retire only when they reach the set, die age or resign voluntarily.
Atleast I know that one my previous Bishop stayed on seat like almost forever and the current one is soo young that no one is even dreaming of becoming the bishop of the diocese cos he will be around for almost 30years

Personally I think we should look at the big picture and not insult people because some leaders have misused their authority

I think the ultimate human head of different religions (and denominations) are not rotated (except in few exceptions)

Look at the Roman Catholics and Anglicans. Nobody rotates their bishops, (although some may move to head a new diocese) Archbishops, Primates or the Pope. Infact they have cannonical powers and can prefere any priest to any post and are expected to be obeyed.

Even in Islam I have not heard of the Sultan being rotated or any other supreme Islamic leader.

You can also look at our traditional setting. In my area and all areas I know of the Chief Priest is never rotated

Also the question of some people being favoured is just natural. Afterall even Jesus favoured some disciples and showed them things like the transfiguration which others didn't see. Like I remember the former Primate whose Warden- a very young priest was made a Bishop when a diocese was created in his home town.

In summary: I know democracy is very good, but for the survival of certain structures it should not be practiced fully within their confines. Atleast the case of Cardinals or other Bishops voting for a new Pope, Bishop or Primate as the case may be is enough democracy. Atleast this preserves the 'cult status' of some of these positions.

texazzpete:
Sorry, that phrase was true in 2006. not any more, i'm afraid.

That phrase is still very true now. Well lets say although the gap is bridging some phone manufacturers have come to be known with some qualities over the years
UI - IPhone
Sleek and wonderful design - Samsung


Ruggedness and battery life - Nokia

texazzpete:
The Samsung Galaxy S from 2010 has superior hardware to the Nokia 710. And it's now less than 60k in the market.

As of last month I couldn't get any piece of that phone below 70,000 in the major shops in my area and I would be very sceptical to purchase it below 60,000

Also looking at just the hardware specs of a phone alone doesn't give you the full picture. U have to look at it together with the operating system and the manufacturing details to get the real feel. E.g

A windows phone doesn't need all these specs to perform very fast. Infact all other things being equal any windows phone with 1GHz processor
is much faster than any other phone with thesame specs.
Also its a known fact that symbian-run phones require at lower specs will still give you thesame feel as some android-run ones with higher specs

A Nokia phone running symbian with a battery capacity of 1300mAh will last longer (especially during usage) than an android phone having thesame battery capacity.


All-in-all I've used some phones with very high specs and noticed that some other phones with lower specs perform much better.
Well its all about the hardware-software synchronization

well to all you android fans I say carry on.
But I think we are being too harsh on Nokia. Well after considering all the hype about android phones I decided to get myself Nokia 701 which runs the new symbian belle and here is what I think:
1. I think the new symbian belle is cool and satisfies all my demands. All this talk about Nokia phasing out symbian is premature as it is due in 2016 which is a very very long time in the smartphone world. I wonder how many of u will be using thesame phone in the next 2yrs talkless of in 4 yrs.
BTW the Cindy and Donna and even the full windows support update for symbian is still not yet out
2. I am an application freak and I have noticed that 99% all the applications i find useful are already available on belle eventhough its still new. Let me ask you how many applications you have and their functions and you will notice the important ones are already on belle.
3 No other phone make compares with Nokia hardware power, durability and battery life
4. Even if Nokia finally moves over to windows phone. It would be a kind of hybrid (Nokia hardware + windows UI)
5 At 52,500 Nokia 701 proves to be the best value for money phone. At least no other phone below 70,000 provides one with thesame specs

Where are those still questioning the quality of Serie A?

Is this how ACN wants to overthrow PDP?
Very soon somebody will come here and paint PDP as Nigerias only problem and ACN as our saviour and saint

Like I said on another thread I see PDP taking some states from ACN at the next elections

As we are here talking grammar some peeps are already taking hectares for free.

BTW I want to hear what some bigots have to say about this

nakedwire:
It is kind of a display of their skills, expertise and confidence.
Surprisingly nurses and pharmacists have no problem with the damn (chicken dey scatter ground) hand-writings.

They should have no problem reading it cos most of the statements are kind of pre-determined and follow a particular rhythm. So you know what you are expecting to see next.
Also there are alot of words localized to the medical profession and most of them have standard short-forms.
So all-in-all bad writing + numerous short-forms = where chicken dey scatter ground

For those of you saying they do it to confuse their patients. I think that is absolutely wrong
Why not look at fresh graduate from med school or house officers and see if theirs is any better.
Also in most where hospitals the patient is not allowed to handle their folder, you could take a look into it and see whether you can read what is being written
The idea of patient not understanding what is written is just an added consequence and not necessarily an advantage as you can ask you doc for both the names of your drugs and he/she would tell you

Well as a medical student who is almost through I think this is quite a funny question but its also quite true.
Sometime ago I  noticed my handwriting was much more worse than when I got in. Infact at a stage I stopped trying to make it better and now I purposely write roughly.
Some of the reasons I think are responsible include:
1. The volume of what you are expected to write in exams and quizes to get the pass mark. This is particularly true because the deterioration of my writing started in my 2nd year when I had to write volumes to get a  little above 50 especially in my anatomy quiz
2. The lecturers are also not helping matters especially in clinical classes where they expect you to copy slides as fast as they read it. So you have to write fast and also use alot of abbreviations
3. It gets to its peak as a House Officer where you have to write notes in the patients folder as fast as you chief is speaking to avoid being insulted and embarrassed in front of students and patients (like young man which school did you finish from? How did you even pass your exams?)
5. You have to learn from your predecessors and do likewise
4. I know this may sound weird but I think its cool to write roughly


But we should also note that not all have bad writing. Many of the females have nice and legible writing but as for the guys its really bad (like where chicken dey scatter ground)