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Look get a life.

There are other professionals more beneficial to the country deserving better pay than physicians. Medicine is not the most difficult field, engineering is, and they get nasty pay. that is if they can even be gainfully employed.

If Nigeria pampered engineers the way doctors are spoiled, we will be the rival of the Asian countries in technology. Then maybe we could pay doctors like the countries you japa to.

Medicine is a social and humanitarian service but I must say, we like other countries value doctors because they save lives. It is not the way to break the bank. The best scientists are busy with research getting little pay.

Until you realize government jobs are not the way to get rich, demanding a larger share of the pie every other government is getting paid from, no matter how much you are paid, you will japa as always. Japa and go and wash toilets until you pass youy exams or get posted to Alaska.

If you want to get rich, quit government job and go into private practice. There is no difference between your demand and that of politicians looting the Treasury.

BTW, take political parties and politics out of this. No government can meet your demand or should meet it when there are more pressing needs out there.

Chibuezem:
lies upon lies
This is how I know that you are simply wishing out on propaganda.
Before APC came into power and destroyed the economy , the current salary structure was manageable and doctors were not leaving in droves.
inflation is up by 500% but your salary is up by 20% shameful.
A sane government will adjust salary structure to match economy for its civil servants but nope they will rather spend billions on political campaigns
If you compare the salaries of doctors in these countries you mentioned you see that Nigeria is the lowest with little allowances attached to it.
At FMC the least a doctor who has gone through medical school, graduated and is done with housejob earns 450,000 naira which is roughly $333 but 12 years ago this was $1700 per month with good access to security, insurance , free education for his children etc.

I will say it again that the reason doctors japa to better countries is that countries like Nigeria have decided to impoverish doctors by paying them peanuts.

Simple as that

I expect these types of reactions from those who think the way to the bank is through medical training.

1. In the first place the Britain most Nigerian doctors run to, no longer pay them better than nurses or other workers, sending them to areas they refused to work in Nigeria with odd shifts.

2. Those who trained Nigerian before the 80s you indicated, left well paying jobs abroad to come home.

3. The Scandinavian countries do not pay doctors more than other workers and they do not japa.

4. Canadian doctors do not japa to the States for more money. Those who did, run back home.

5. Have you ever asked why Nigerian doctors do not japa to Eastern countries?

It is not only doctors that japa for more money, Nigeriaca never afford to pay them as social or humanitarian workers, many Nigerians do and those doing well in Nigeria regret but too ashamed to run back.

If Nigerian doctors want more money, work night and day like doctors abroad.

Money and greed is the DNA of most Nigerians. This is why NIGERIA is regressing. Until our VALUES change back to traditional cultures, Nigeria is done!

Chibuezem:
what kind of brain fugue are you spewing ?

The reason why Nigerian Doctors are leaving is because your government have refused to pay them well
A senator earns more than a doctor where is that done in the world ?
China that you are yapping about pays their doctors more than this cursed government has.

Unlike other ethnic groups, Yoruba have no territorial ambition. People in West Africa and far away in the Americas claim Yoruba Culture and Religion.

The problem of scarce labor on the farms is not only in the developed countries. It is creating hunger in Africa. African Youths would rather go overseas for any job, even farming, than stay at home and do the same types of jobs done abroad. Their rationale is they get better pay there. But they also pay dearly for housing and utilities. If the natives are living from one paycheck to another abroad, imagine migrants at the low level of the ladder, how worse off they are with bills.

Farming is a thorny issue worldwide, yet it remains the only means of survival against hunger. Old farmers are resting and their children are leaving the land for better opportunities and a less arduous working environment. As much as the native population are against migrants from poor countries, their working class will keep on complaining about the high cost of food too. Dedicated farmers and migrants are the only ones left to work on the farms for low pay abroad.

Where is the former Osun State Governor Aregbesola's O'Beef which he taunted while in office? He sent Youths and agricultural workers to train in the State of Saxony-Anhalt in Germany. Many of them were reallocated at Oloba Cattle Fattening Hub in Iwo to practice the techniques learned abroad under the Osun Rural Enterprise and Agricultural Program. Unfortunately, we never heard about it again since Aregbesola left office.

O’Beef was supposed to turn Osun State into Beef baskets in order to supply meat to the large market demand in Lagos and the rest of Southwest before capturing the rest of Nigeria market demand for beef. Experts from Zambia and South Africa were brought in to introduce Zambia Boran and crossbreed with local cattle at Oloba 78 hectare ranch with enough capacity for 10,000 cattle. We must keep on trying to resuscitate it, bring back farming before the Oil curse.

There are other factors for the shortage of farm hands in African countries. Civil, ethnic and terrorists are driving the remaining dedicated farmers out of thor land. In this modern age when grazing of herds has been limited to farms, old habits of rearing herds from one place to another have devastated crops, fruits and vegetables. Cow rearers that used to carry long sticks to control their herds are now carrying AK47s.

No matter what we do, doctors will continue to leave for their country of choice because that is where we train them for.

How many Community Health Officers have left the country after training?

Train doctors the way China train their doctors for China. From Barefoot Doctors.

Even India with almost the same "International Standard" mentality as Nigeria, keeps more doctors at home than Nigeria because they are trained for local remedies. Ayurveda barefoot doctors.

Apart from the children of Babalawo that were lured to medical schools through Primary Healthcare, Nigerian doctors specialize in "Abroad Diseases" taking overseas exams before they even graduate.

Drastic Hunger Require Deployment To The Farms With Incentives https://search.app/rdBSYmMTyiFAx7D5A

DRASTIC HUNGER REQUIRE DEPLOYMENT TO THE FARMS WITH INCENTIVES

Asian countries including China alleviated drastic hunger during famine in our generation, so can we. Those trying to make it a political issue are hypocrites that never solved it while in Power, especially among Talikawa in the North. They capitalize on it as the Privilege class enjoyed the subservient subjugation of the poor. Ironically, some candidates finally wake up to ride on hunger in the land into the Presidency. Where were they before now?

We have to find ways of attracting people back to the farm. Humongous buildings without tenants or built for show but hardly occupied year round have replaced farmlands. During our lifetime, many Asian countries were starving. While technology has improved the production of food, people have been lured back into food production. China and other countries are even in the position of exporting food with a generation of famine.

The cry of hunger is getting louder, calling for urgent action that can only be ignored at our own peril. Political parties are using it against one another. There are many people out there unemployed that would be glad to get a good pay working on the farms. But the wages have to be right with good environmental conditions and housing. We provide housing for Youth corpers, soldiers and offenders, why not for farmers at this critical stage of hunger in the land?

If people have the choice of being idle on the street, hungry begging for money and stomach infrastructure or being locked up at a Police station waiting for bail, many will choose to be on a better paying job, organized on farms like Obasanjo Farm, throughout the country. It is not that there are nobody trying like Obasanjo Farms, Danjuma and Dangote tried and failed. If it takes Cooperative societies like the past, so be it.

We have to find a way to lure some of our Youths back to the farm. Politically, it is not attractive and may turn off some voters. But it is better than the nefarious activities the Youths engage in these days. Some of those desperately heading to the sea and desert find themselves engaging in most of the activities they shun at home including farming as their best legal option. Instead of donating organs, sold as slaves or unwilling sex workers.

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Why are Igbo so obsessed with conquering people who do not want to be part of them under the British formation of old Eastern Region or so-called "ethno-linguistic homogeneity" like colonial powers?

Today, even the Arabs are calling pure Africans like Somali and those around them Arabs based on the same "ethno-linguistic homogeneity".

By force or tulasi! The same with Fulani that want to dip the Koran into the sea.

This is the same mentality Igbo use trying to conquer other parts of Yorubaland or other parts of Africa like Ghana or South Africa.

Can't you guys see the consequences?

By the way, it was ragtag Yoruba Army made up of palm-wine tappers, farmers and soldiers that defeated Biafran battalion at Ore, not British.

The others made so much money; they did not know when to stop. They kept on gouging more loots like a hungry squirrel keeping more food than they can eat. Meanwhile, their people were and are still languishing in poverty not knowing where their next meal is going to come from. Such deliberate indifference is inhuman denoting inhumanity of man to man. Yet, angry Nigerians take their pound of flesh out of poor hungry people that steal in the markets.

Self-aggrandizement without their blood and sweat is at the expense of hard-working masses and natural resources that belong to all, not just a few that got elected one way or the other. It is mind bugling why people would love to see their people suffer while they enjoy it. It takes a masochist spirit to see fellow Africans in melancholy without fear of being attacked, consumed or stoned because they give pittance as stomach infrastructure.

While everyone has their choice of preferred candidate, which is their free choice, one must wonder why anyone has to hold his nose to vote for the least corrupt candidate. It is not that we do not have well known activists that have dedicated their lives right from college to the betterment of their fellow men and the country. Unfortunately, none of them register appreciable votes in every election. Though they continually contest for elections.

Even worse, the deliberate indifference to how politicians acquire billionaire status has attracted dare devils in the population that graduated into banditry extorting ransom from the working class and abet with the same politicians to loot the Treasury. Bandits kidnap people and name their price. The politicians negotiate on their behalf, double or triple the amount of ransom demanded and pocket the rest. Who is going to hold them responsible?

SHOW YOUR GOVERNANCE RECORD NOT PERSONAL ATTACKS

We want to see your personal records and achievements in office as Governor, Vice President and President. These politicians are so bold to double down on what the whole world already knows about them, challenging informed Nigerians to bring out any evidence of money laundering or corruption. Stop the insults, abuses, hate and fake promises. Haba!

Where are Atiku’s U.S abettors U.S Rep. Jefferson or girlfriend; Tinubu’s Mueez Akande co-indictment and Obi’s drug mule Chinenye Ezewuzie hidden? Nigerians must not be distracted by those that have failed to deliver while in offices. They are all fighting for the key to our Treasury. All we are settling for at this point is the least of all the devils. Shine your eyes well O.

Political cronies are a bunch of political embezzlers from former Attorney General Malami, Petroleum Minister Dezeani, Governor of Central Bank Emefiele, Ekiti Governor Ayo Fayose, to Father Christmas Dansuki point to unprecedented avarice. They all have perchants for building Estates all over the world, acquiring luxury cars and going on exotic vacations without any guilt about the Environmental Oil degradation of Niger Delta farms swamps that lay golden eggs.

The poor and working class masses watch as many of the people they elected do the macabre dances celebrating in the midst of Poverty. Calls for more states and local governments only increased politicians to boost the number of kleptomaniacs exponentially. Any allocation is pocketed by the first opportunist before it reaches the people for which the benefit is directed. Even infrastructures are inflated beyond any reasonable profit. Preferably in foreign contracts

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Eko's accommodation, tolerance, mentoring, wokeness as role models make enough room for all including someone like you from within.

bigpicture001:
Lies from out of hell...always say the truth so u can be free..I am Yoruba myself and we are all taught to dislike the igbos..and the ladies never marry them..
Why do u come online to spew rubbish...
A grown up man lieing like a kid

EKO IS NOT FOR SALE

It is important to go far back on the history of Eko before those who suddenly discover “Lagos” mischievously call it A No Man’s Land! When we were growing up, our parents employed us to continue the liberal culture to the point that whenever a stranger enters Eko at dusk; we must make sure he is fed, clothed and given a place to sleep before dawn. Little did we realize that some of the strangers came with a mission to take over!

Many of them raised their children never to trust Yoruba. Some have a goal of dipping the Koran into the Atlantic Ocean and others want to lead the Yoruba Government on the native soil. There were a few towns with Federal presence before Eko. Calabar, Port Harcourt and now Abuja have Federal stations but not the cultural environment of accommodation, tolerance and liberal (now called Woke) that made Eko unique. Funny how proud conservatives love the “woke” Eko.

The first choice of their Emirs, chiefs, politicians, professors and billionaires for relocation after being chased, prosecuted or persecuted; is either Eko or Ibadan for the freedom of Live and Let Live culture. Those who came for schooling from primary to university level hardly return home because they are welcomed. Most followed their role models and mentors while some were trying to snatch glory from the shoulder of the giant!

Ikeja Industrial and Housing Estates created demands for workers all over Africa. Free Education attracted more Nigerians locally and teachers worldwide. There were American Peace Corps, Canadian CUSO International Canadian University Service Overseas and many Asian teachers that were employed. Though Peace Corps and CUSO were Non-Profit Volunteer organizations, some of them stayed after their initial deployment.

Eko or Lagos that many of the strangers focus on based on its generous culture, social and economic survival, are privileges of the surrounding Yoruba culture that nourished the environment. Others took their businesses to Lagos in particular and Western Nigeria in general because of the large patronage of informed or educated consumers.

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The different opinions have also been informative. The same way oil, cement and rice were/are smuggled out, to cause price increase, is why Nigerians pay more.

Nigerian traders and dealers hoard goods to create scarcity and increase prices. Then sold them at outrageous prices.

We have been here before. We stopped importing expensive foreign rice so that local rice could sell. Then the price of local rice went above the price of foreign rice.

When the price of cement was 2000 and more, people cried out and blamed Dangote. He reduced the price of cement to dealers so that they could sell at lower retail price.

A dealer that did in Akure had to close his shop when fellow dealers threatened to burn it.

Nigerians, when are we going to blame instant profits and greed instead of blaming Government for everything!

Some people are just making mountain out of any hill "valley". Show us Tinubu's Indictment or Conviction of a crime in the USA please!

After all these years propaganda from Asian drug convicts, those on death penalty row and families of those executed for drugs have not been able to rope Tinubu into their gang.

Yet, wail daily like coal calling calling pot black. Come up with conviction or shut up forever. You are tunning those who have reservation about Tinubu into his voters.

This was written in 2020 but it has gotten worse.

Politicians and their cronies are spending hard foreign currencies for image enhancement and image damaging of their opponents.

How far EFCC since days of Obasanjo with Ribadu as Chairman.

Bunch of miseducated gullible hypocrites wailing when they see poor people getting a little relief like this, sachets of rice, 50k for Akara Gala Suya or puff-puff small businesses.

But are all over the social media defending moneymissroads that buy a plate of rice, a loaf of Brioche bread, a bottle of imported Champagne for 50-100k each o!

They don't BLAME freedom, democracy, outrageous profits, greed at home and abroad.

They blame taxes, cost of labor, import levy.
They blame Government, EFCC or Elections as if you are forced to vote in the booth.

Any type of relief for the poor masses send their anger to high heavens.

Warped logics from miseducated gullible hypocrites.

OP, you asked question pretending you want to learn but refuses to.

Many languages, cultures and norms have been pointed to you but still refused.

NdiIgbo say though age is respected, achievement is revered.

You missed your target of criticism by a wide margin. The English and American many of you adhere to as examples of modern cultures compared to "archaic" culture is misplaced.

Sometimes you may call your colleagues or senior colleagues by their first name Bob. Any colleague or bosses above that, you show utmost respect if you want to keep your job.

This notion of Igbo have no king also has a limit. They have constituted authorities very few dare disrespect.

Take some learning you have been given here and stop fidgeting around.

I will not discount plagiarism. Most of you have to realize that PhD research itself is a layer of work based on precedent, those you agree with and those you disagree with. You cannot pull anything out of the air, your brain or experience without supporting with the work of others!

Indeed supervised graduates trying to obtain their PhD have accused their professors of stealing their work.

Without condemning or supporting this guy, Black academia have always been sorted out for attacks that would not fly against white professors. Even Harvard Black professors have been scrutinized by racists wondering how they make any accomplishments.

Put any professor or research on microscope, you will see the work of others. This is why one must credit previous research as often as you can. The problem is how often because many times, like language, they tend to imitate one another.

Black people too jump on their own to quickly wondering how you succeed in a white world while they fail!

Half A Century Of Sweat Blood & Pension Sold By Prodigal Children

Parents are living longer than their own fathers and mothers due to better lifestyle, healthcare and improvement in traditional medicines. But their children cannot wait that long and they want their parents out of their own houses sooner. It is either these children want to share the spaces to themselves, sell the house to share the proceeds or just blow the money they did not work for. Either way, the parents are facing a new dilemma they never anticipated around the world.

Many parents thank their God for African cultures and local balanced upbringing for the success and exemplary behavior of their children. But we must be sincere, many parents tried their best and their children still fell by the wayside. More children provide comfort whenever they can and make sure they pay back their parents in kindness, gratitude for the effort and sweat expended on them. Every parent can’t blame themselves or get all the credit for the way children turn out.

It has been taught many times that the best inheritance you can leave your children are good character, values and local cultural education. Otherwise, no matter what they inherited from your sweat, blood and pension would be sold in a day to those with values, character and skill to live on. There is a tendency by parents that have worked hard since their childhood days with their poor parents to swear that their children would never go through such a hard time.

Unfortunately, this is the worst burden they can place on their children because those children would hardly learn how to survive. Since they cannot survive on their own except with a silver foot in their mouth, their children will become poor again like their grandfather. Those ones may teach their children how to survive. It is like a revolving destiny of poor parents, wealthy children to learn how to escape the poverty of their parents.

These privileged children develop a strong sense of entitlement to the parent’s sweat, labor and properties as if they acquired them by their own diligence. They want their own share of what never belonged to them except by the blood relationship they share with their parents. Even a little resistance from any of the parents elicit a strong sense of hatred, enough to call bandits or friends to kidnap them in exchange for ransom from their parents.

It happened to a father that loved his son so much, he never revealed to him that he adopted him without any blood relationship. Though his father was still healthy and strong, when he fell ill, the adopted son had already planned how to move him into the Old People's Home. The father was so pained and surprised, he had to rearrange his will with his lawyer. This adopted son finally gently told the father the house was sold and must move to a good homecare.

This adopted son already planned how he was going to spend the money with his friends and spouse. Before closing on the house, the lawyers had to do title checks. When the Prodigal son was informed that he is not the biological son and the house cannot be sold before the death of the father, he fainted. Even more shocking was when he was told the house would go to orphans. It can never be sold until the father’s death.

Politics is not the only way to get rich and teachers are not the only ones poorly paid.

There are different ways of getting comfortable, wealthy but not necessarily getting filthy rich.

When you go to school and work at the same time, the goal should be how to lift up yourself. When you do two jobs, live as if you have one job.

The other job is an investment on your goal. Never go to school and work or do two jobs forever. One is an investment for the future while you make ends meet.

Remember, many people make the same salary but spend it differently for better outcomes.

There are no saints between European and American greed. But this is too blatant and in your face.

There are enough caution that anything he touches die.

Waiting for them to bomb FIFA to Stone Age.

Look at what greedy Nigerians have turned the Poverty Capital of the world into.

Notables either share bags of rice to feed your belly or drugs for travel to Asia.

Your choice.

Up to this day, only one certain group of people still defend drug dealers and blame everything or anything else for it.

Una nor get shame or other values?

Abubakar Case History. From 2000 to 2008, Jennifer Douglas, a U.S. citizen and the
fourth wife of Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President and former candidate for President of Nigeria, helped her husband bring over $40 million in suspect funds into the United Statesthrough wire transfers sent by offshore corpor to U.S. bank accounts. In a 2008 civil complaint, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleged that Ms.

Douglas received over $2 million in bribe payments in 2001 and 2002, from Siemens AG, a major German corporation. While Ms. Douglas denies wrongdoing, Siemens has already pled guilty to U.S. criminal charges and settled civil charges related to bribery and told the Subcommittee that it sent the payments to one of her U.S. accounts. In 2007, Mr. Abubakar was the subject of
corruption allegations in Nigeria related to the Petroleum Technology Devel Fund.

Of the $40 million in suspect funds, $25 million was wire transferred by offshore
corporations into more than 30 U.S. bank accounts opened by Ms. Douglas, primarily by Guernsey Trust Company Nigeria Ltd., LetsGo Ltd. Inc., and Sima Holding Ltd. The U.S. banks maintaining those accounts were, at times, unaware of her PEP status, and they allowed multiple, large offshore wire transfers into her accounts. As each bank began to question the offshore wire
transfers, Ms. Douglas indicated that all of the funds came from her husband and professed little familiarity with the offshore corporations actually sending her money. When one bank closed her account due to the offshore wire transfers, her lawyer helped convince other banks to provide
a new account.

In addition, two of the offshore corporations wire transferred about $14 million over five
years to American University in Washington, D.C., to pay for consulting services related to the development of a Nigerian university founded by Mr. Abubakar. American University accepted the wire transfers without asking about the identity of the offshore corporations or the source of
their funds, because under current law, the University had no legal obligation to inquire

Atiku did and Jonathan Cabinet did. You forget "it's our money and can do anything we want with it".

anonimi:
Does Atiku have a bigger ability to loot Nigeria than Tinubu has