₦airaland Forum

chuxyz: I look at ladies who say they like being themselves and can't help but ROTFLOL. With most of them applying makeup like one coming outta a paint factory. Not to talk of the ego with which some will sway those expensive artificial hair as if it is the end of the world while they look down on every other person as if they are a piece of shit. There is one thing i want you all to know: Being oneself starts with being natural. Once a lady can't be natural, never accept a word when she says she is or likes being herself. Trust me that's a fat lie. Any lady who makes up is actually indirectly telling you that she is what she really isn't. In conclusion, i will like to tell you ladies that being yourself starts with being natural and if you all can do this, men will appreciate you more.

EasternLeopard: That's what Nigeria needs to build to counter BH rockets which saharareporters said might be deployed by BH in the future if BH is not stopped now.

Nigeria needs to build a single man portable anti-rocket-missle-shell radar/infared weapons.

with a clueless president?

Orhu: If passing the PIB is a problem and is causing delay they can as well break it down into segments and pass those that are feasible at the moment because as it stands Nigeria is loosing billions of dollars due to this delay.

wisemany2k: Nigeri's biggest problem is that we play politics in everything including FID. We, as a nation shouldn't be where we are today if the right people, are in the right positions, to make the right decisions. For instance, i've been hearing of brass LNG since 2006 but 8yrs later, we are still talking of FID!!!



@bolded, that is a big slap on the face of the "so called" economic gurus and industry negotiators. As fas as I'm concerned, [b]the PIB has nothing to do with the delay in the project. If we don't have capable hands on deck to secure long-term market commitment from buyers in Asia and across the globe, then we should hire foreigners and sack the lazy people sitting on those big seats that don't know their jobs. [/b]For Christ sake, it took Dangote and Indorama less than 4 years between conceptualizing a profitable downstream project (Fertilizer and refinery plants) to FID and even up to construction stage. Dangote and Indorama are not being run by spirits or deities rather, by intelligent people that are held accountable for their productivity.

Let productive people occupy those positions and we will see results. #bringbackproductivehands

Phonon: It is all good brother. I think the Nigerian market will fizzle out if the government doesn't do something fast. Already, the US has stopped importing oil from Nigeria. Asia is the new market for our LNG and oil. Western Canada (British Columbia), East Africa and the United States Gulf Coast are three of the geographic centers of the coming wave of LNG expansion and if Nigeria just sits there, we will be 'drinking' our gas.

Delafruita: this post proves how ignorant you are hence i wont bother tutoring you.do you know how many flotillas have been denied entry into gaza?9turkish activists were killed by isreali troops when a flotilla was attacked.the press is accorded entry into every region without hinderance.perhaps except the reclusive north korea where they are not allowed in with their cameras.thats why its called a free press.isreal cannot stop pressmen no matter how biased they perceive them to from entering gaza

vanstanzy: Nigeria reeks of mismanagement in all quaters. I have already said it that this PIBill wont be signed by this govt thats so engrossed in 2015 politicking. This is going to be a huge lose to Nigeria, but who care?
Long live 2015 elections!

emk4lif: Brass LNG should come on stream by 2017 while Chevron's Escravos Gas To Liquid and Bonny LNG are all also doing quite well, Olokola LNG is however a dead project, both the govt and the IOCs have basically pulled out.
If only NASS would pass the PIB and reverse the trend of major IOCs increasingly divesting from Nigeria. Virtually all the major projects are on hold due to policy instability .

seguntijan: This is a speech made by Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to his cabinet about three weeks ago. It was reprinted by Affan Sosibo for the African National Congress Youth League on the 8th July 2014.

"We are not obliged even the least to try to prove to anybody and to the blacks and Arabs that we are superior people. We have demonstrated that to the blacks and Arabs in 1001 ways. The State of Israel that we know of today has not been created by wishful thinking. We have created it at the expenses of intelligence, sweat and blood………We do not pretend like other whites that we like the blacks. The fact that, blacks and Arabs look like human beings and act like human beings do not necessarily make them sensible human beings. Hedgehogs are not porcupines and lizards are not crocodiles because they look alike. If God had wanted us to be equal to the blacks and Arabs, he would have created us all of a uniform colour and intellect. But he created us differently: Whites, Blacks, Yellow, Rulers and the ruled. Intellectually, we are superior to the Blacks and Arabs; that has been proven beyond any reasonable doubt over the years. I believe that a Jew is honest, God fearing person, who has demonstrated practically the right way of being……By now every one of us has seen it practically that the Blacks and Arabs cannot rule themselves. Give them guns and they will kill each other. They are good in nothing else but making noise, dancing, marrying many wives and indulging in sex. Let us all accept that the Blackman is a symbol of poverty, mental inferiority, laziness and emotional incompetence. Isn’t it plausible? Therefore that the Whiteman is created to rule the Blackman……And here is a creature (Blackman) that lacks foresight….. The average Black does not plan his life beyond a year”

abdulkayus: Guy abeg keep schooling dem. They dont knw history only to spew thrash. Just cos Hamas do t do their biddin, they hav now been termed as terrorists.
Jus cos Isreal, US and their balls lickers d EU term dem as terrorists doesn't mean we shld follow their hypocrisy. Mandela and d ANC where also term as terrorists jus cos dey are fightin for their rights and land. Up till 2008 Mandela was still label as terrorist by d US, and dey hav d guts to come for his burial and eulogised him. Hw I wish South Africa didn't invites dos hypocrites. As a Nlander said on dis thread, one man terrorist os another man freedom fighters. If US and EU want to condemn a group or person, they will jus term dem as terrorist and wit d propaganda of their media, they will keep drumming that into ppl head until d masses agree wit d designation.
There is no biggest terrorists on dis earth like d hypocritical US. They are fightin d Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan bt supportin dem in Syria and Libya, wat a joke.

benebaby77: Before you guys make any opinions about
the conflict in Israel and Gaza. pls check
these facts and figures:
1. Gaza was invaded by Israel in 1967 &
ever since Israel is illegally occupying the
whole of the Gaza strip.
2. Gaza is surrounded on three sides by
Israel who has blocked all these three
sides by Israeli army.& Navy.
One side is border of Egypt where the
Egyptian army along with Israeli & UN
observers & monitors blocks the entry of
any body from/to Gaza.
Gaza is literally huge prison where not
even a bird can enter without Israel’s
permission.
3. Gaza has no sea port or airport or even
a train station.
4. Gaza residents cannot leave Gaza as
they don’t even have passports. Plus there
are Israeli checkpoints at every place. Also
no one from any country can enter Gaza
without Israel’s permission which is
impossible to get , forget about ordinary
man even the top politicians of powerful
countries had been denied entry in Gaza
by Israel. Gaza is a place which is totally
cutoff from the rest of the world.
5. Each and every daily use commodities
comes through these Israeli check points.
Even the milk, wheat medicines all items
come through these Israeli check points.
Israel charge taxes on all the items witch
goes through these check points.
6. Gaza is like a big jail. It is entire country
under seize. Even inside Gaza Israel have
several check posts at important junctions.
The Israeli army harasses and humiliates
Gaza citizens every day as the Gaza
citizens cross these check posts.
7. The UN has urged Israel numerous times
to remove this illegal seizure of Gaza but
Israel never listen to UN .
More then 50 resolutions have been
passed by UN against Israel but with USA
always on its side so Israel just doesn’t
care.
8. The food and essentials are always in
short supply in Gaza as Israel delays,
discourages and harass its imports in
Gaza. Shops don’t have enough rations,
hospitals don’t have enough and essential
medicines. Power is in short supply, petrol
and gas is in shortage too. The inflation is
highest in the world in Gaza as a result of
it. The poverty is rising at the highest rate
also. The Gaza children’s are among the
worst malnutrition children now.
9. There are no specialized doctors or
equipments to treat the serious injury or
disease in any hospitals. Every now and
then Israeli army bomb Gaza and the
innocent civilians get hurt during
bombing. These wounded civilians plead
and beg in the check points to let them out
for treatment but they kind Israeli army
never let them. So the wounds which
could have been treated become more
severe and often the wounded becomes
handicapped for the rest of their lives.
10. Once a thriving society and rich people
now have become beggars & prisoners in
their own country.Can you imagine the
trauma the humiliation the harassment the
pain in the hearts of these people who
have been invaded and made prisoners
and slaves in their own country?
They have been struggling for their
independence since almost 50 years now.
With each passing day Israel is
constructing new settlements for its Israeli
citizens in their land. With each passing
day their hope of independence, a hope to
live a normal life like any other human is
fading away. Every night they sleep in
pain and every morning they wake up
with sorrows.
In the pretext of peace talks Israel actually
is delaying their independence to capture
more and more of their land everyday by
constructing new Israeli homes and
settlements. The Palestinians know this
and they are watching it helplessly. Just
like a goat watch the lion eats its children
but can do nothing. They are shedding
tears of blood. With Israeli soldiers
harassing them , cursing them, abusing
them mocking them, hurting them , killing
them everyday in their very own land, all
Palestinians can do is watch and cry.
What suggestions do you have now? The
western paid media is making &
broadcasting news in such a manner that
one should feel as if Gaza residence are
the one who are occupying Israel and
Israel is fighting for the it freedom......

onitshaigbo: I'm so proud of my country Israel! Biafra will also rise and prosper in a region surrounded by enemies.

Delafruita: this post reeks of ignorance not only of basic history but of international politics.[/b]the [b]isreal-palestine dispute is completely different from all those you listed.all those wanted to leave a union to stand alone.palestine was never part of isreal.infact palestine has never been part of any country.jordan first annexed the westbank from it in 48' claiming it was keeping it in trust till isreal seized it in 67'.isreal got its nation in 48' with its boundaries carved out.it refused the palestineans citizenship which they didnt want in the first place.many migrated to jordan where they received residence cards and eventual citizenship.others remained in palestine in hopes of a state.you see,all these problems were caused by the british.right from 1922 when they promised to divide the ottoman into jordan and palestine till 1946 when the carved out transjordan and then 1948 when they decided to give the palestinean lands to isreali "returnees".the palestinians have spent 7decades been stateless,oppressed,maimed and you expect them to rejoice?

Delafruita: this isnt about what hamas is or isnt designated as.this is about isreal's insistence on encroaching into palestinean territory and using its allies to block palestine's bid for statehood.isreal insists it has withdrawn from palestine territory yet continues with its blockade.by the way,blockade is the new,refined term.it used to be intifada which it still is in action but not in name.obama has continued to re-echo that isreal has to agree to a two-state solution.give the palestines their darn country.egypt has been bought over with billions of dollars in aid.the camp david accord was supposed to broker peace and not make egypt a little puppy before isreal.its unfortunate sadat died and mubarak only cared about money and power.

The palestinians did almost everything asked of them.whenever a peace offering is brokered,they are always there.they were in oslo,arafat held a couple meetings with various isreali PMs,ehud refused to sign the final agreement in 99 and worse still leaked details of what the palestineans conceeded to the press thus embarassing arafat and Assad.

Isreal again decided not to elongate the moratarium on construction in the west bank in 2010 despite pleas from obama,the UN and even the entire world.

Have we so easily forgotten how isreal shelled innocent women and children with phosphorus bombs in january of 2010?how over 2500 people died?

Isreal is the aggressor here.palestine wants a state,give it to them

0rlando0woh: From roads (ore etc) to railways to power sector privatisation to automobile manufacturing sector to agricultural revoultion and now refineries.
Little by little GEJ is using his fresh air to solve the problems APC's Obasanjo made to look like rocket science.
Where there is a will, there is a way!

njokusboy: Point number 5 is a big fat lie, no man intentionally marries established b'itc he's, now bitch is relative, going to the club does not make one a bi,t'ch, there are girls who go to a club with their boyfriends and respect themselves, but those who go to a club to attract other men and pitch in with every tom, d'i'c'k and harry are on another level...
No responsible man wants them.. They can marry them without knowing their secrets though... Every man wants to marry a good girl not one that has been mounted by every stallion in town and has the attitude of a cheetah...
Dat is why my igbo brothers sleep with 1000 girls and quietly return from the village with a little, ignorant unknown girl in tow....

CyrusLevi: Did you watch Obama's address,lemme guess No,do you know Ukrainian Intelligence intercepted a phone call of the Pro-Russian Separatist acknowledging shooting the plane down.

ifex370: choi... see this fine girl...
*wipes tears

Fatdon: Goodluck doing good things for our county.

EkoIle1: This is really a life and money saver considering the lives lost to kidney disease and other related medical conditions Nigerians travel abroad to treat with billions on Naira every year.

AjanleKoko: Here we go again

Is the boy the president of Nigeria?

IdiatFF: I think this is a wrong move for Joyce Banda and her cabinet; this is very un-African. When will African countries stop been beggar nations? Malawi has shown that it's a beggar nation by this act. It's an act of cowardice and it thus confirms what Ms Dambisa Moyo argued in her book 'Dead Aid'. Our leaders are just too lazy and very uncreative. What has Banda done to making sure Malawi moves away from depending on aid from these western countries who never mean well for her country? .. mtchew!!!!!!!!

nnewa: Benjamin Chukwunonso Ajufo
THE NIGERIAN HEALTH SECTOR: THE FACE OF
JANUS AND THE MATCH TOWARDS TOPHET!
BY
AJUFO,BENJAMIN CHUKWUNONSO
The Nigerian Health Sector has been in the news for
some time now, as a result of the lingering crisis
that has bedeviled the Sector. The HEALTH sector is
expected to be a place of total wellbeing but why is
there so much hostility in the Sector which has
taken a hydra-headed form? Why is the Sector
matching towards Tophet; the Valley of Destructio

n?
There is so much misinformation, impunity,
violation of Established Rules and Codes of
Conduct. Why is the Place polarized with mistrust,
and disharmony? Why has the Government allowed
herself to become a pawn in the hands of Nigerian
Medical Association (NMA) and Medical and Dental
Consultants Association(MDCAN) which are not
legally recognized Trade Unions ? Why does the
Government allow double Standards within the same
Sector? The government that was able to restrain a
registered Trade Union from going on strike has not
stopped an unregistered body posturing as a Trade
Union. Why has the Government allowed the
Constitution of the Federal Republic, to be violated
by NMA who sees herself as the Imperial Majesty,
who must continue to subjugate other workers in
the Health Sector? Before we bring answers to
these numerous WHYS, let us x-ray the
pathogenesis of the crisis in the Health Sector.
SALARY STRUCTURES IN THE HEALTH SECTOR
Under the then President, His Excellency Alhaji
Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, the Nigerian Government in
2009 had approved two different Salary Structures
in the Health Sector. These two Salary Scales were
known as Consolidated Medical Salary Scale
(CONMESS) and Consolidated Health Salary Scale
(CONHESS).Medical Doctors in the Service of the
Nigerian Civil Service are on CONMESS, while every
other person working in the Health Sector was
placed under the CONHESS structure. Before the
emergence of the late President UMARU MUSA YAR’
ADUA, President Olusegun Obasanjo, had placed all
Nigerian Health Workers under a unified Salary
Scale.NMA had seriously kicked against this unified
Salary Scale. It was NMA that negotiated CONMESS
for her members while the Joint Health Sector
Union (JOHESU), a recognized Trade Union made up
of all Unions in the Health Sector outside Medical
Doctors, negotiated CONHESS for her members.
Below is the two Salary Scales.
CONMESS SALARY SCALE
CONMESS 01----- HOUSE OFFICER/YOUTH CORPS
DOCTOR – Grade Level 10
CONMESS 02----- Registrar/Medical Officer - Grade
Level 12
CONMESS 03----- Senior Registrar Grade 11/Senior
Medical Officer Grade 2 Grade Level 13
CONMESS 04---- - Senior Registrar Grade 1/Senior
Medical Officer Grade 1 Grade level 14
CONMESS 05------ Consultant/Principal Medical
officer Grade 2 Grade Level 15
CONMESS 06------ Consultant Special Grade 2/
Principal Medical Officer Grade 1 Grade Level 16
CONMESS 07-------Consultant Special Grade 1/Chief
Medical Officer Grade Level 17
CONHESS SALARY SCALE
CONHESS 7 INTERNS/NYSC ----------- Grade Level 8
CONHESS 8 X -Officer 1 ----------- Grade Level 9
CONHESS 9 Senior X-Officer ----------- Grade Level 10
CONHESS 11 Principal X- Officer ----------- Grade
Level 12
CONHESS 12 Assistant Chief X-Officer ------------
Grade Level 13
CONHESS 13 Chief X-Officer ------------- Grade Level
14
CONHESS 14 Assistant Director X-Officer ----------
Grade Level 15
CONHESS 15 Deputy Director X-Officer -------------
Grade Level 16
CONHESS 16 Director X-Officer ---------------------Grade
Level 17
THE FACE OF JANUS AND THE MATCH TOWARDS
TOPHET!
In the late 2009, NMA, started a campaign of
calumny, against members of JOHESU , that they
were Skipping, which she alleged as a violation of
Government policy. And they as Medical Doctors are
treated unjustly in the health sector .As shown
above, we have seen that NMA members were the
greatest beneficiary of the Government approved
Salary Scale, with higher entry point and jumbo
pay.NMA was of the opinion that any member of
JOHESU, who had moved from CONHESS 9 -to
CONHESS 11, should be brought down by one grade
level. JOHESU members were unjustly accused of
skipping and the polity was heated up. The Public
Service Rule provides in 020205 and 020205 (e)- To
be eligible for appointment into the Federal Public
Service (e) possess requisite qualifications as
provided for in the scheme of service. The
accusation was faulty because in the Scheme of
Service for JOHESU members, there was nothing
like Grade level 11.In fact it is a misnomer to term
the movement from Grade Level 10 to Grade Level
12 skipping. This is not skipping, because there is
no level 11 and what you have in the Scheme of
Service is movement from Grade level 10 to 12.The
Ministry of Health was seeing through the prism
and binoculars of NMA. She supported the
recommendation subscribed by NMA that all
JOHESU members who have moved from Grade
Level 10 to Grade level 12 should be brought down
by one Grade level. In a circular dated 11th of
January 2010 , with reference number HCSF /EPO/
EIR/RR/B.63755/T1/77 ,the office of the Head of
Service of the Federation stopped the movement of
JOHESU members from Grade 10 to Grade level 12.
About a year later, the Head of Service in a similar
circular dated 10th of February, 2011 with reference
number HCSF/EPO/EIR/63755/T1/149 called the
movement of Workers from Grade 10 to Grade Level
12 an unauthorized Skipping. By June 2011, the
Health Sector was already heated up with drum
beats of war between the Workers under the aegis
of JOHESU and the Nigerian Government
represented by the Ministry of Health. It should be
recalled, that as at June 28th 2010, in a meeting
held at JUTH GUEST HOUSE in Abuja all Chief
Medical Directors and Medical Directors under the
auspices of Committee of Chief Executives, Federal
Tertiary Aspect in Nigeria, unanimously agreed and
released a memo with the reference number
CCEHTH/SEC/V.1/86 on the 29th of June 2010
addressed to all Chief Executives of Federal Health
Institutions. Article 3 on the topic was-
implementation of circular on CONTISS forbidding
skipping of Grade Level 10 or any Grade level. The
decision taken was;-(1) Members decided that by
July this year (2010) all Federal Tertiary Hospital
should have fully implemented the circular with
effect from 1st April 2010.All officers who had
skipped Grade level 10 should be brought down by
one grade level except those occupying the
appointive posts of Director of Administration.(2)To
effect this all CF.Os should simultaneously issue a
circular to all affected staff on the 12th July,2010
informing them of the plan to implement the
circular in July. This memo was signed by M O.
Adeoba for: Chairman CCEFTH. Immediately this
directive was later implemented, the Health Sector
was thrown into chaos, JOHESU gave the
Government ultimatum to change her decisions
which was not workers friendly, but the Government
refused. Moreover the Government failed to
implement agreements signed with JOHESU since
2009. This was now followed with a Strike action by
JOHESU who accused, the Government of not
keeping with the principle of Collective Bargaining.
As a result of the crisis in the health Sector on the
9th of August 2011, The Minister of Labour waded
into the matter, but the Ministry of Health was not
satistisfied by the resolution, and the matter was
later taken to the National Industrial Court for
adjudication. After a legal battle between the
Ministry of Health and JOHESU, the Court ruled in
favour of JOHESU in 2013, that Government was
wrong to have denied JOHESU members her right.
And that JOHESU members appointed Consultants
were wrongfully stopped as consultants. After the
judgment, from nowhere, NMA/MDCAN who were
not a party to the suit, cried foul that the Court
Judgment should not be implemented. They as
usual were the one that hoodwinked the
Government, to have taken the wrong decision that
was upturned by the Court. Suddenly they started
accusing government of favouring JOHESU
members, and that they must skip, even though that
no JOHESU member was skipping. Now that the
Government is trying to muster the courage to do
what is right, NMA/MDCAN has chosen to fight the
Nigerian patients, by denying them services and
declaring a strike action. Note that it is the same
patient they have told the world that they own and
that all their actions is for the best interest of the
patient. Today NMA/MDCAN who insisted that they
must have a different salary structure are the ones
imposing on the Government what other employees
should earn .The same NMA/MDCAN that
wrongfully accused JOHESU members of skipping
and even lost this matter in court is the one, now
championing skipping for her members, even when
doctors scheme of service does not grant such.
What a double standard!
NMA/MDCAN AND CALCULATED SABOTAGE.
Since July 1st 2014,NMA AND MDCAN have denied
patients the right to treatment even when the
National Industrial Court had ruled that all parties
involved should maintain status quo ante. Dr
Obembe the leader of NMA, who also happens to be
a member of MDCAN has continued to defy Court
orders under the guise that it is MDCAN that went
to Court. One is forced to ask, “Is Dr Obembe not a
member of MDCAN”? Again, does NMA have the
moral justification to call for strike when she is not
a Trade Union? Can NMA go on strike on an issue
that is already before a Court of competent
jurisdiction? How does NMA think that the
Government will be negotiating with her on an issue
before the Court? MDCAN in a calculated ploy to
deceive the Nigerian populace came on air to
declare that they are not on strike and that they are
not joining NMA in the strike action. The truth of
the matter is that MDCAN is on strike they are not
on ground, and they are not working. MDCAN and
her fellow consultants, who have so designated
themselves as the owner of the patients, have
abandoned the patient they say they own. On the so
called minimal achievable demand, NMA should be
told in clear terms that they are not achievable. In
the immortal words of the erudite Justice Niki Tobi,
JCA ( as he then was) “when an issue is before a
Court of competent jurisdiction, even though it takes
time, the parties must wait ,they must not jump the
gun, they cannot go for self help” What NMA is
doing now is self help and transfer of aggression on
the innocent patients they have acclaimed to own.
The issues raised by NMA/MDCAN are before a
court, so negotiations and decisions cannot be
taking on such matters.
NMA/MDCAN strike is a strike of Prejudice and Ego
trip, and Government should be firm to stop this
hydra-headed problem. The Members of the
National Assembly and the Government should not
cave in to the blackmail by NMA/MDCAN. They
must be firm to make NMA/MDCAN see that their
actions are against the state. This is the only way
to make NMA/MDCAN amenable to the laws of the
land and eschew impunity. The Government should
know that Nigerians and indeed the world is
watching! JOHESU members account over 95% of
the Healthcare work force, so the Government must
be careful not to be seen to show favoritism. But
must stand on the pedestal of equity and justice to
call a spade a spade. The agitation by NMA/
MDCAN that only they should be Directors, Hospital
Chief Executives, and Consultants should be
jettisoned in a jiffy. This is because such demands
are not supported by any statute in Nigeria. If one
is to use the principle of balance of convenience,
how does appointing other healthcare experts as
Directors, Consultants in their specialized
disciplines, affect members of NMA/MDCAN? Even
when the different approved scheme of service, for
all these professionals, allows them to reach the
zenith of their career and recognizes such
appointments. How does it affect NMA/MDCAN?.
NMA/MDCAN should know that the other Healthcare
Workers are not a conquered people and that the
hospital is not their capitalist empire. The hospital
is a government parastatals set by law and must
operate within the confines of the law setting it
up.NMA/MDCAN should throw away the toga of
medical capitalism and imperialism by embracing
medical humanism. A Physician is expected to be
compassionate, and service oriented devoid of
prejudice. NMA/MDCAN should go and study the
preamble to the declaration of Independence of the
United States of America, composed in 1776 which
reads thus, “We hold these truth to be self-evident
that all men are created equal, that they are
endowed by their creator with certain inalienable
rights; that among these are life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness” So do all medical personnel in
the health sector who is not an allopathic physician
do affirm. NMA/MDCAN should know that for a
nation to excel, it must be build on equality of all
men, rights of life, liberty and pursuit of
happiness.NMA/MDCAN are not the employers of
the Nigerian Health Workers, so she cannot decide
what Nigerian Health Workers get. The issue of
relativity is unfounded and has no basis on any
Nigerian Statute book even indeed world over. No
professional’s wage bill is determined by the wage
bill of another, but by Governments’ Terms of
Appointment into the Service.
On the floor of the Nigerian National Assembly,
when, the incumbent Minister of Health, Prof
Onyebuchi Chukwu ,was being screened to become
a Minister, he was asked, “how would he maintain
peace in the health sector that has been so laden
with interprofessional disharmony?”. The Minister
answered that he would do all it takes to bring
harmony into the sector. Again, he was also asked,
“what are his views that only one professional
group is the one virtually in control in the health
sector and that other healthcare professionals are
not so involved in leadership of the System?”. The
Min. of Health again answered; that “we will get
there that it is a gradual process that things are
changing.” To the Most HIGH be the glory that the
Hon Minister told the world ,that his action of
stopping the consultancy status of other health
workers, was as a result of the complain made by
NMA. It is on the same issue, that the National
Industrial Court has said that, that action was in
error, a violation of workers right to collective
bargain. Now that the Hon. Min. of Health has
started seeing that NMA/MDCANS’ actions, are in
bad faith, he must be firm to right the structural
injustices in the Health Sector. So that he would
have lived up to his words, “that he would do
everything in his power to bring harmony in the
health sector.” The crisis in the health sector has
gotten to where it is today, because of the over
bearing attitude of some allopathic physicians, who
have forgotten that medicine is the art, act and
science of healing, whose scope is beyond
allopathic medicine. It is highly unfortunate that
NMA/MDCAN leadership personified in the person of
Dr Obembe has suddenly forgotten that the word
medical is an adjective which means related to the
art, act and science of healing. A situation, where
allopathic physicians in a false mindset sees only
themselves as being medical and other healthcare
experts as non medical breeds/creates a wrong
image. The future allopathic physicians must be
nursed and nurtured to have a mind set of medical
humanism to give a good medical image that does
not thrive on rancor, falsehood and a doctored
ideology. The word medical is not a synonym for a
doctor, for if it were, it would not be seen placed in
front of the word doctor as in the term “medical
doctor” for that will be tautology. Every healthcare
professional involved with the act, art and science
related to healing are all medical personnel. So the
word medical is not an exclusive term to designate
allopathic physicians but all that is involved with
healing and healthcare services.
Conclusion
Now that it is so glaring that NMA/MDCAN strike is
sabotage against the state, because they are
causing untold hardship to the citizens of Nigeria.
This as a result of their ego driven demands. And
have failed to obey Government orders, because
most hospital Chief Executives being members of
MDCAN are in sympathy with them. They have
failed to call NMA/MDCAN to order to suspend the
strike, even when there is a court order. As a result
of the death of Nigerians, based on this sabotage,
the Federal Government should invoke the powers
conferred on her in section 18(1) and 18(2) of
University Teaching Hospitals (Reconstruction of
Boards, etc) Act CAP 463 LFN which states 18(1)
“The President may, notwithstanding any provision
of this Act, take such measures as occasion may
warrant in order to improve the efficiency or due
administration of the teaching hospitals specified in
the Schedule to this Act.”
18(2) “ For the purpose of section (1 )of this
section, the President may appoint or give such
authority for the appointment of Military
Commandments to take charge of administration of
any of the teaching hospitals specified in this Act
for such period as may be stipulated in the
authority.
Again, section 19 of the act, on the definition of
hospital states “Hospital includes all institutions
(however called) controlled by the board.”
Government should as a matter of urgency bring
sanity into the system by making sure; that this
sabotage by allopathic doctors is stopped. The
Government should declare their actions illegal. As
the Health Sector moves towards TOPHET a symbol
of collapse, we must do all it takes to salvage her,
by doing what is right!
AJUFO,BENJAMIN CHUKWUNONSO. WRITES FROM
ASABA IS the Secretary Association of Medical
laboratory Scientists Delta State Branch.
16/7/14

thuao: The battle in health sector has taken another turn as johesu has sued nma over the illegality of their strike

http://www.punchng.com/news/johesu-sues-nma-says-doctors-strike-illegal/

prettyprettywow: lol. so much bitterness. pele

Samgreguc: av adviced u to go make a research on the world consult before inorder to show me where the meaning states that it is Physicia-only but, u seem adamat to dat.
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After your research, we can talk.
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Clinical Pharmacy is more than despensing but, we dont seem wanting to adopt it and thats one reason why we are where we are.
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Until, we cherish our Pharmacist as supposed and allow them play their role, we will never get good health care.

Samgreguc: are u this like this?
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Are they Physicians?
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Maybe the Physician wil also produce the drugs?
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Whether we like it or not Physicians can't do all what others can do and vice versa so, what's the basis for that phrase(same capacity)?
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Please, be truthful okey?

customized13: dat means ph is cheap na, if you pay 500k per annum in GRA, some parts in lagos pay 1.2million per annum.

GentleMimi: Bullcrap. You sure know a lot about low IQs,cos u've exhibited it to the point of seeking so hard for fear and respect. Tah! Make i begin fear you,because u type in blue fonts. Mucheche!.
Abt four people or more also doubted your ''patient'' status. That shows u're not too smart abt hiding it. Yet u talk of ''intelligence''. Uhuuun..