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Mrs Adebola Sikirat, is currently at war with her children after her sons beat up and injured a young man who has been in a romantic relationship with her. Mrs Adebola was said to be dating the man who is the same age as her first son, Joseph.

According to LeadershipNG, the lover boy identified as Maurice, was in the habit of visiting the woman’s home located at Adeola Odeku street, Victoria Island, a widow, and most times, pass the night there. But the bubble burst when one of Joseph’s friends who is also close to Maurice, confided in Joseph that Maurice is dating his mother and has been regaling them with how Mrs Adebola pants when he mounts her..

Joseph was said to have become very angry with the revelation and involved his younger brother Mark, They laid out plans on how to catch Maurice red-handed. They decided to lay ambush for the lover boy.

True to the reports they got, Maurice came late in the night with the intention of passing the night there as usual, not knowing that his cover had been blown. After waiting for a while, the brothers went back to the house and met Maurice naked in their mother’s bed. The angry sons descended on him, giving him the beating of his life.

It reportedly took the intervention of neighbours before the badly wounded Mr. Maurice was released and rushed to hospital in critical condition.

Source: http://naijaparrot.com/boy-lands-in-hot-soup-at-sugar-mummys-house-in-lagos/

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NIGERIA 2015: Jonathan has Divine Backing, Buhari is No Match for Him – Ex-Anambra Gov. Ezeife

By Olawale Kadir on October 22, 2014 @ 6:57 am

Ahead of the 2015 elections, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, a Third Republic governor of Anambra State, has said a Presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, is no match for President Goodluck Jonathan, as he (Jonathan) is a tool in the hands of God.

According to Ezeife, Buhari and all other presidential aspirants on the platform of the APC can’t defeat Jonathan in the 2015 as the President has the backing of God.

He also said he is confident that if Buhari eventually emerges as the APC candidate for the elections, Jonathan would defeat him with a much more wider margin than he did in the 2011 elections.

“Jonathan appears to be a tool in the hands of God. God does everything with a purpose and it doesn’t appear God has finished with Jonathan. Others can contest for the Presidency, at least, that will make money to flow around to poor people. There will be no change in Aso Rock after the 2015 presidential election.”

“There will be no contest. Buhari is no match for Jonathan. This is a clear case. Look at how Ebola ended in Nigeria. They are still battling with it in America. Look at the level of development that is going on. The man (Jonathan) always acts as if he doesn’t know what he is doing but he will be doing everything right.

“Now we are talking about ceasefire with Boko Haram. Those who said they would make Nigeria ungovernable have failed. Nigeria is still governable and Jonathan is governing it,” said Ezeife.

Source: http://www.today.ng/news/nigeria-2015-jonathan-has-divine-backing-buhari-is-no-match-for-him-ex-anambra-gov-ezeife/

Rest in the Lord's bosom daddy as you join the "so great a cloud of witnesses". Your works live on.

Phantom and co. in support of the late greedy doctor, i ask only one question: WHY DID DR IKECHUKWU SAMUEL "TREAT" / MANAGE HIS PATIENT IN A HOTEL ROOM AND NOT AT SAM STEEL CLINIC, Rumuokoro (his clinic)?
I must say that this late doctor in all his years of medical practice has never admitted a patient in a hotel (of all places). He knew of the Ebola outbreak; or Candy (f), wasn't he aware that his patient came from Lagos? The only location in Nigeria with a lab-confirmed incidence of Ebola as at the time he supposedly agreed to secretly treat the diplomat.
Well, he got unlucky. RIP Dr Ikechukwu. I wonder how many digits was the pay cheque that made him not report to Government Incidence team for Ebola. Somebody (Phantom) said the doctor didn't know his patient had ebola. Let me quickly ask that person if he was part of the stealth medical team that was paid to treat the diplomat?
The truth is bitter. Dr Ikechukwu acted based on motivation from how much Naira and kobo he stood to rake in, dissing ethics, safety of his wife and 3month old baby, and sadly, his life (considering the fact that as at when he accepted the deal to treat the diplomat, adequate protective clothing wasn't even available yet).
Today, Nigeria would have been nearing the last phases of finally containing the EVD if not for this ugly development from a supposed frontliner (Dr Iyke) on the defensive despite how knowledgable he was about the modus operandi of the virus. This reminds me of the Nurse that took off from quarantine in Lagos to Enugu, again, despite how knowledgable i suppose she was of the EVD.
LET ME SOUND THIS NOTE OF WARNING TO ALL HEALTH WORKERS: IT WILL DO YOU OR YOUR FAMILY NO GOOD IF YOU ALWAYS CONSIDER PERSONAL GAIN ABOVE PUBLIC HEALTH.
Because as i write, primary healthcare workers Rivers State have concluded plans to go on indefinite strike from 1st September, 2014 even in these critical ebola times in the state. What's the reason? They want MORE PAY as usual.
#NigeriaMustBeBetter

xp17: if you want to shittt on a road, make sure you ain't going to pass that road again. Nigeria don't really need to reply the US in other to use the nano silver.

speaking from common sense, the so called nano silver appears like scam to me. this is just an independent business man who is looking to put more money in his bank . beside, nano Silver was not originally meant to cure Ebola, it was for other unrelated sicknesses, unlike the zmapp which was made just for this purpose .hence, US skepticism should be given a benefit of doubt.

if nano silver must be used, no federal budget or commitment must be made until it becomes the right medicine for Ebola . more so, a plan B (zmapp) should also be seek for, incase this fails .and from the way Nigeria is taking it, I don't see US obliging to our future requests for zmapp, should nano silver fails. perhaps, they are awaiting Nigeria crawling back to them, begging like a baby.


answer for the gods only

Bro, NanoSilver must not be specifically made for ebola virus before it can work. Matter of factly, most inventions and solutions to most problems today were discovered from sources much at variance and unconnected with the problem (as it were). But Alas! Those "Pesticides" became the "Anti-Ebolas".
Amongst numerous examples, take "Tramadol" for example, since we are talking about drugs here.. This is a drug that was made and is still used as a mega pain killer especially for fatally traumatized patients. But it was discovered that it had this side effect of enhancing libido. That is why till today, as you read, people are buying it to enhance their sexual perfomance. From the very beginning, it (Tramadol) wasn't formulated to be an aphrpodisiac, but today you know the story.
So, for all I care, america should leave Nigeria alone. We don't need america to watch our back - as if they ever cared! We depend on you, you despise us; we man up and become independent, you still want to despise us. America, be warned!!! Since WHO has approved the use of experimental drug(s) to combat ebola, who is FDA to poke nose into what NAFDAC approves?? USA, again, Be Warned!!!
#NigeriaMustBeBetter

What do you think? I personally think that the dotted lines in this article, when joined together, suffices to pin the US Military as the most authentic source of this recent outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa. Read patiently between the lines.

The US Military and the Ebola Outbreak
By Robert Wenzel
Economic Policy Journal
August 8, 2014

I continue to suspect that the Ebola outbreak in western Africa may have been the result of U.S. military biowarfare research gone awry.

As I previously reported:

The epicentre of the current Ebola epidemic is the Kenema Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. BeforeItIsNews claims the hospital houses a US a biosecurity level 2 bioweapons research lab. That claim is unconfirmed, however, this we do know.

Analysis of clinical samples from suspected Lassa fever cases in Sierra Leone showed that about two-thirds of the patients had been exposed to other emerging diseases, and nearly nine percent tested positive for Ebola virus. The findings, published in this month’s edition of Emerging Infectious Diseases, demonstrates that Ebola virus has been circulating in the region since at least 2006—well before the current outbreak, reports Global BioDefense.

According to GBD, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases has been operating in the area since 2006, supposedly working on “diagnostic tests.”Author Randal J. Schoepp, PH. D. reports that because the USAMRIID team just happened to be working on disease identification and diagnostics in the area, they had pre-positioned assays in the region to address the ebola outbreak:

We had people on hand who were already evaluating samples and volunteered to start testing right away when the current Ebola outbreak started.

The laboratory testing site in Kenema is supported by the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center-Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System. Other contributors to the work include the Department of Defense Joint Program Executive Office-Critical Reagents Program, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Cooperative Biological Engagement Program, and the DTRA Joint Science and Technology Office.

Metabiota Inc., a non-government organization (NGO) is also involved in the testing. It lists among its partners, the Department of State, Biological Engagement Program and the Department of Defense, Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Advisors to the NGO include Admiral Gary Roughead, former US Chief of Naval Operations.

In an August 1 story, the Army Times informed:

Filoviruses like Ebola have been of interest to the Pentagon since the late 1970s, mainly because Ebola and its fellow viruses have high mortality rates — in the current outbreak, roughly 60 percent to 72 percent of those who have contracted the disease have died — and its stable nature in aerosol make it attractive as a potential biological weapon.

Since the late 1970s and early 1980s, researchers at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases have sought to develop a vaccine or treatment for the disease.

Last year, USAMRIID scientists used a treatment, MB-003, on primates infected with Ebola after they became symptomatic; the treatment fully protected the animals when given one hour after exposure.

Two-thirds of infected primates were protected when treated 48 hours after exposure, according to a report published last August in Science Translational Medicine.

As I reported earlier, MB-003 appears to be part of the “secret serum” treatment being administered to the two Americans that are now in the U.S. and who contracted Ebola.

Friday in a television interview on Defense News with Vago Muradian, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Dr. Jonathan Woodson said, ”One of the things I don’t think many people realize is what a huge valuable asset the military health system is to this nation.”

“Not only are we a key enabler so that service members, men and women who … go in harm’s way will be taken care of, but we are a public health system, an education system, a research and development system.”

“The recent development with infectious disease issues in Africa — they are turning to the U.S. military to provide expertise.”

The Defense Department earlier this week issued a statement, which said:

A small group of military and civilian personnel assigned to the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, or USAMRIID, is in Liberia as part of a larger U.S. interagency response to the world’s worst outbreak of the Ebola virus which continues to spread in West Africa, a Defense Department spokesman said today.

Army Col. Steve Warren told reporters that personnel assigned to USAMRIID have established diagnostic laboratories in Liberia and Sierra Leone, two of three countries where the outbreak has been spreading in recent months.

“We also evaluate and develop diagnostic instruments and technologies for use in forward field medical laboratories and with the Joint Biological Agent Identification and Detection System, called JBAIDS, the diagnostics platform used across the DoD,” the statement added.

It’s really not a big jump to suspect that the military has also been doing research on Ebola as a bioweapon. As the Army Times notes about Ebola, “its stable nature in aerosol make it attractive as a potential biological weapon.” What better place, via the eyes of the U.S. military, to be messing around with such research than Africa? The thinking might go: If there is a misstep with the virus, research blowbacks don’t happen around US civilian populations.

It appears that some locals in eastern eastern Sierra Leone may have just such suspicions.

Specifically, they appear to be very suspicious of the “help” US personnel want to provide Ebola victims. Some of this suspicion may be the result of a failure by the locals to appreciate the techniques of modern medicine, but some may also be the result of whispers and rumors from locals who may have been low level workers close to US military research before the outbreak blew up.

Mainstream US media is now claiming that rumors about the early lab work at the Kenema hospital, where US military research may have been going on, were being spread by a “mentally ill former nurse.”

According to Bloomberg, the nurse is now in custody. Bloomberg also said that the nurse charged that health workers were using Ebola as a ruse to kill people and collect body parts. Whatever the nurse was really saying, the locals are certainly not happy with the research and the hospital.

Residents of Kenema in eastern Sierra Leone threw stones at the hospital and a police station, reports Bloomberg.

There is no smoking gun here, but one can certainly draw dots around the facts that suggest the U.S. military was the bad actor in this Ebola breakout.

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US Government Holds Ebola Virus Patent

In a comment to my post, The US Military and the Ebola Outbreak, Alex Zougle notes:

Another dot to connect is that the US Gunverment holds a patent on Ebola:http://www.google.com/patents/US20120251502

They sure do:

PATENT

Human Ebola Virus Species and Compositions and Methods Thereof

US 20120251502 A1

ABSTRACT

Compositions and methods including and related to the Ebola Bundibugyo virus (EboBun) are provided. Compositions are provided that are operable as immunogens to elicit and immune response or protection from EboBun challenge in a subject such as a primate. Inventive methods are directed to detection and treatment of EboBun infection.

Publication number US20120251502 A1
Publication type Application
Application number US 13/125,890
PCT number PCT/US2009/062079
Publication date Oct 4, 2012
Filing date Oct 26, 2009
Priority date Oct 24, 2008
Also published as CA2741523A1, 4 More »
Inventors Jonathan S. Towner, 4 More »
Original Assignee The Government of the US as Represented by the Secretary of the Dept. of health
Export Citation BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
Patent Citations (2), Non-Patent Citations (, Classifications (39),Legal Events (1)
External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
The invention provides the isolated human Ebola (hEbola) viruses denoted as Bundibugyo (EboBun) deposited with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”; Atlanta, Ga., United States of America) on Nov. 26, 2007 and accorded an accession number 200706291. This deposit was not made to an International Depository Authority (IDA) as established under the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure, and is a non-Budapest treaty deposit. The deposited organism is not acceptable by American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), Manassas, Va., an International Depository Authority (IDA) as established under the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure. Samples of the stated Deposit Accession No. 200706291 will be made available to approved facilities for thirty years from the date of deposit, and for the lifetime of the patent issuing from, or claiming priority to this application.

Reprinted with permission from Economic Policy Journal.

The Best of Robert Wenzel

But won't one be expected to travel to his school to apply to go for service? Even though call up letters would be gotten online? Or one would also apply online to be shortlisted by his school for batch c?

With due respect to my teachers, senior colleagues and colleagues, the call for downing of tool by the doctors is needless having read the ratio in which the strike was called upon.

Over the years, having worked within and outside Nigeria both in clinical and public health domains, I am strongly obliged to state that the nation’s health drawbacks are essentially caused by doctors who ordinary are meant to be the leaders of the health team. It suffices to state that, while it is true that the leadership of the health team is like a birth right, their roles and responsibility are equally a birth right, only when these are aligned that we can claim the leadership of the heath team. Come to think of the request placed before the federal government, It is sad to note that the issues are quite petty and trivial to culminate to such a decision that will result to irreversible consequences and loss of lives.

As a medical doctor with over fourteen years experience, I have never had a course to question if I am the head of any health team where I found myself as the most senior doctor or the only doctor in a collection of health practitioners in a health mission, for the simple reason that, I know my bound and appreciated that even the weakest link in my team count. I will also not pursue vanity to a disreputable feat. The posture and activities of my colleagues both at the public and private sectors is appalling, such that it has left some of us who have seen our shortfalls and have made or shown some resentment to it are seen as deviance. We must note that what we think and promote is what can endear us or otherwise to the good books of the government, other health workers and the general public.

For me, I am not surprised at the backlash we receive from other supposedly team mates in the hospital. Looking critically at their opposition to us, you will naturally find out that something is wrong with us as doctors, if not, how could we have lose the confidence of all our team mates including non medic such as the ward attendance, administration staff etc? The truth of the matter is that, if we change our corrupt and indiscipline posture, we will naturally occupy our rightful place. Take for instance, the Heads of Hospitals and many health agencies are being led by the doctors, most of which their hall mark is characterized by kickbacks, high contract inflation even to outright thieving of public funds. Our colleagues will promise heaven and earth to be appointed as heads of organizations, but as soon as they get there, their best friends and new found colleagues are the finance and admin managers and the procurement practitioners.

I have survived several heartbreaks from my colleagues (very senior) in the past and have vowed never to listen to their germane-less advocacy for headship of the health team. From national assignments to international and so many other clinical/public health engagement I have found myself, one of the most recent once was in a supposed tertiary institution headed by a doctor anyway, where doctors no matter your rank should go to the record office and queue up for prescription paper being issued by an officer below the rank of a record officer. I have also been to an organization where patients are dying in troops for simple reason of lack of machine to run tests for a certain class of patients visiting a specialty clinic. Another one was a jamboree organization where names are submitted arbitrarily for ad-hoc jobs that needs some level of expertise, yet competency was dropped into the bin and meritocracy upheld.

The peak of my heartbreak was when I worked in one of a supposed tertiary institution where in a bid to save patient life, a doctor rushed to the theatre to get an oxygen as a last point where such equipment are unarguably handy, could not find one, and we watch the man die. Here, I am not saying the man couldn’t have died, but could have died gracefully, and with some human effort. One can count on and on the rots in organizations headed by doctors.

Now my question is:
1. Of what value is the appointment of a DCMAC adds to the already CMD and CMAC that has been exclusively for doctors?
2. How does the work of a doctor be affected by the appointment of the most senior health practitioner to direct the activities of his other colleagues as a director or
3. How is your work being affected if a health practitioner has reached a level of expertise in his field and he is refered to as a consultant”.

It is quite worrisome to hear my colleagues have downed tools for the simple reason that the post of a Surgeon General is yet to be filled, even when the two ministerial slots are occupied by them. I believe that the hazards’ allowance be reviewed, but doctors especially our Consultants most justify the little that has been paid by actively and routinely availing themselves in the daily routines of the hospital instead of turning attainment of Consultant in the hospital as a gateway to truancy ; my colleagues certainly know what I mean.

We are already fast losing our respect from the government and the general public, and in recent time even from our colleagues whose disposition is for the good of man.

Let me also use this opportunity to congratulate our President who has just assumed office and to urge him to be steadfast in his decision where reasoning should take over precedent than mere emotions and sentiment. Accept my unalloyed loyalty.

This piece is a wakeup call to my colleagues to look up within us and appreciate the rots and imbroglio our actions and in-actions has brought to this noble profession and the health sector in general; as the only way to solve the problem of a leopard wanting to be called a lion can only be addressed by a change of behaviour of the supposed “LION”.

About the author:
Dr Abdul is former UN medical personnel in Trinidad and Tobago.

Forgive this lengthy write up, but I just have to bare the minds of Nigerians concerning the health sector. Sometimes I can’t help but wonder if some people or a group of persons think Nigeria is their fiefdom where they dictate what happens to others living therein. I’m even tempted to believe that these people feel they have the power to determine who gets the breath of life, but thank God men are not God and never will be.

Nigeria may be a country where even fools wish to lead the wise and no one will question it. Nigeria may be a country where everything and anything goes, but that is when we all keep quiet and allow it to be. For months I have refused to comment on the imbroglio happening in the health sector, where some people have assumed the toga of almighty and sworn with swords in their hands to be the Pharaoh that will never let my people go. For months, many people peddle lies that I am a Medical Laboratory Scientist who went for Journalism training again and hence have always written to favor the scientists. This rumor came from Ladoke Akintola Teaching Hospital, Ogbomosho who has been in the news of recent, through my reports; and like I always say, who cares what they say.

Millions of Nigerians who I have interacted with in the cause of my silence are disturbed at this trend; where a group of workers among the health sector has taken it as their God given right to determine the destiny of other health workers. We are terribly perturbed that the Nigerian Medical doctors have become the pain in the ass in the medical arena when they should be co-players. Just when we thought that the Dr Osahon Enabulele formerly led Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) will be a better body since his tenure expired; we are rudely shocked that his successor, Dr Kayode Obembe may throw the cherished association into worse disrepute than Enabulele did.
What manner of ego is it that a group of employed workers by the government will tell the government how to relate with other employed medical workers? What was Obembe thinking when he demanded that Nigeria give all physicians’ special cars with special plate number for whatever God knows what? For crying out loud, no one forced any child to study medicine or dentistry and thus no one should graduate from his/her school and begin to tell us what to give to them. This is not just super superiority complex but an attempt to tell us Nigerians that we either give them what they want or they give us hell. Take this from us NMA, not in this life or in the next world will Nigeria be stupid enough to give any of your member cars with special plate number. Soon they will be telling all Nigerians to leave the roads for them when they pass in a supposed hurry to attend to emergency. Soon they will tell us to create a special road for them to drive on with siren blowing and following them. No wonder a great man once said “Physicians and politicians resemble one another in this respect that some defend the constitution and others destroy it.”

Just when we were about to get over their ‘night of a thousand laugh’ car demand, came a 24 demand which must be met within 14 days or they shut down their services. This is the bone of contention which we must make known to Nigerians to decide for themselves if we can continue to keep their services or ask them to go open their private clinics or privatise the hospitals. We have had enough of these clowns masquerading as life savers, like they are the only medical workers who save lives in the hospital. Little wonder a legal practitioner called them ‘merchant of deaths’ in his article. Here we go Nigerians.

The NMA wants the FG to appoint 4 Deputy Chairman Medical Advisory Committee (DCMAC) for each teaching hospitals and 3 for FMC. Lovely demands but utterly crazy. What will these DCMAC be doing when we already have a CMAC? Let Nigerians be aware that what NMA simply want is a DCMAC for clinical services, works, welfare and security, which none of them is trained or equipped to perform, talk less of supervising it. The FG should as a matter of urgency scrap the position of DCMAC in the first place as it merely duplicate the works of the directors in the hospital. These extra positions demanded by the NMA which has now become Nigerian Mental Association is a sure way of looting more funds, as budget will be allocated to them to run the non- performing office. Nigerians say no to DCMAC.

We never knew that the NMA is now the employer of medical and health workers in Nigeria. If not, they won’t dare to demand that no other worker in the hospital should be appointed a director. The FG should not bow to these lame and wicked demand of theirs and make the mistake of not appointing any worker in the hospital to directorship level. What does NMA mean by the position ‘distorting the chain of command’ when other directors are appointed? If the NMA members do not want the position of directors, they should remain stagnant and allow the others who merit it become.
If JOHESU demands to skip a grade level, then it may also be just that NMA skip level 12, but to use the word ‘MUST’ is uncouth and rude. We pay you guys and determine what level you skip. Nobody in civil service skips level 12, but they skip grade level 11, so demanding to skip such level is simply unreasonable. Your entry point is already too much that we are considering stopping it, so don’t go asking for the impossible.

This is where I know that Obembe and his band of jolly riders may have taken a shot of vodka before making this particular demand. How can a supposed enlightened group of persons tell the FG that no other medical worker should be called a consultant? For crying out loud, the medicine that we practice do not apply to physicians alone but to all clinical staff and the word ‘consultant’ is not an exclusive preserve of those with MBBS/BDS but for those who have undergone the training and the board of his profession or hospital deems him/her to be a consultant. Has NMA no shame that it will attempt to practice world standard but wants to turn the rule upside down when it does not favor them? I am aware that the NUAP National President, Felix Faniran is a Neuro PT consultant. Will NMA now tell Obafemi Awolowo Teaching Hospital he works to stop paying him his consultancy fees? If every medical workers becoming a consultant will cause anarchy in the health sector like NMA envisaged; so be it. This selfish group of arrogant creatures cannot determine for another profession what to designate to their members.

If the FG reached an agreement to pay NMA all their arrears, there should be no reason why they should not be paid. The FG should as a matter of urgency begin to compile all the monies owed them and paid to them. The laborer is worthy of his wages! Agreed that the National Health Bill is a good wind that will blow across the nation, but the words written in it cannot apply to other medical and health workers. The NHB as it stands is only a bill for physicians and until the grey areas are ironed out, that bill should not be passed.
The issue of Surgeon General to be appointed for the federation does not hold water. It has been discussed before that such a post can only be appointed in Nigeria if it is made open to all clinical staff like it is in other countries where it exists. By the way, the position will only be duplicating other posts in the health sector. Nigeria has other issues bothering them than this thiefing pipeline of SGF that NMA wants to hijack. NIGERIANS SAY NO TO SGF! Now we have no problem with telling the FG to pay some bunch of lazy men called ‘honorary consultants’ who only stay in their private clinics clinical duty allowance, but to demand for 90% of CONMESS is fraud. How can a man who is not a full time staff be paid such a huge sum of money when the real resident doctors who do the jobs get nothing? The FG should not fall to this demand as other workers in other agencies will also make theirs. If this money must be paid, then all honorary consultants from other medical field should be paid same.
I wonder what these physicians consider as hazard. Are they more exposed to hazards that the white angels who stay with patients and do all the dirty clinical jobs in the hospitals? Are they more exposed than the Med Lab Scientists who carry out all the tests in the hospitals? Are they more exposed to harm than the radiographers who face radiation daily and risk not having children? What then makes them feel that they should earn N100,000 as hazard allowance a month apart from their jumbo pay? The President should not dare to attend to this demand which is selfish and not in the best interest of the nation, but just to enrich their pockets. The hazards face by the journalists daily cannot be compared to theirs, as we risk losing our lives for every story reported, yet those who work in the government media have not demanded such amount for hazard. This clownish demand cannot be met.

Our pampering of the physicians for long has made them look directly at us in the face to tell the country to sponsor them for residency abroad. Are NMA and the FG not aware that other medical workers undergo residency? If residency is granted to physicians to go abroad, then the FG should also be ready to foot the bill of other medical workers to undergo theirs abroad too. Enough of these demands and forceful request by NMA! They should be thankful to Nigerians who work in other sphere for not making such heavy demands, but allow them to have their ways. But our docility must not be taken for foolishness. “The Overseas clinical attachment must be fully restored and properly funded in the interest of the nation”, they say, but we know it is not in the nation’s interest but theirs. Anyone who wants to do his residency abroad should be ready to foot his bills and come back home to negotiate for better pay.
If our security operatives were up and doing, many physicians ought to be behind bar for violating the laws of the land. When we are shouting that NMA has no right to go on strike since it is not a labour union, they come with a demand that common house officers should be members of National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD). When did house officers become resident doctors? This demand is aimed at stopping house officers from working whenever they go on strike. It is my humble advice to the government to sack every house officer who goes on strike during NMA/NARD strike. It is not just illegal but a criminal offence.
Now this is the most foolish and illiterate demand of them all that “the position of Chief Medical Director/Medical Director must continue to be occupied by a Medical Doctor as contained in the Act establishing the tertiary Hospitals. This position remains sacrosanct and untouchable”. These people must be feeling like one super human from another planet with powers to do the undoable. Nigerians, we all need a big chain to tame these guys before they throw the health sector into anarchy completely. For the avoidance of doubt, the act establishing the tertiary institutions was unilaterally done by one of their cronies, Olukoya Ransome Kuti who plunged the health sector into its current woes. What must be understood is that the title ‘medical’ does not refer to physicians, but anyone clinically inclined. If the word medical should be used to become the CMD, then those who read Medical Laboratory and Medical Rehabilitation should be the Bonafide leader of the hospitals. Be that as it may, other medical workers should concede clinical leadership to the physicians, knowing full well that they are more grounded in clinical practice than others. But on this, they only coordinate, not boss around; a team where the Medical doctor is just first among equals.
Anyone with a clinical background should be the CMD irrespective of the medical course read. To attempt to compare my revered profession, law, to medical courses is sheer stupidity of the highest order. I do not speak because I’m set to get my second degree in Law, but the unarguable truth is that law is the only profession without a branch while in the university. Law is the only profession that is not a multi discipline faculty, but this is not so with health courses where we have over 5 courses related and each one can do what the other do a great extent. Just anyone with a medical background can be a CMD and if the physicians do not feel comfortable with it, they should quietly build their own hospitals and chose how to run it, or go form their own country where they can dictate to the President whom to appoint as the Chief executive. We have had enough of their madness and since they have refused to be tamed; Nigerians are left with no choice but to give then the Governor Babatunde Fashola treatment should they embark on their proposed industrial action.
In USA, 49 states remaining Michigan (which is on the way) grants Doctors of Physiotherapists first contact access to patients without referral from any other medical team, but in Nigeria, these egomaniac set of creatures will fight tooth and nail to stop it, claiming international standard that they don’t know and do not care to know, the truth is that the time has come for every profession to be take full charge of themselves and not allow NMA or the FG to determine how their profession should be practiced. Any attempt to stop any other health team like Pharmacy from getting their PharmD would be resisted or nursing from doing internship and residency will be countered. If it means closing down all other professions in medical college for the next generations to read only Medicine and Surgery, since they will not be allowed to practice the international standard of medicine, so be it.

For those who will scream that I failed Medical School, hold your God damn breath for I have heard it a million time and for those who will say I have been paid to put this up; save your weak brains the thought for I have been told so thousands of time. I refuse to be part of a cheated generation and a supporter of oppression. There are no masters in the health sector but all co-workers and allied to each other. For now I can exonerate the Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu who has condemned their demands long before now, while working with him and the Yayale led harmonization team to see how health practice is done in other developed countries. My resolve to help the health team to attain world standard remains unshaken and everything it takes to travel round 10 countries in the six continents to investigate how it is done there is already been put in place.
Take this from me dear Dr Kayode Obembe, but your regime began on a wrong note. So so bad that we have to begin your tenure with the sound of war, but you surely can do better. While wishing you well and talking to you soon, accept my sincere congratulations on your victory. Like two birds in the sky, we surely will sit together and chat away as friends and partners in the coming days as I drink from your spring of knowledge and question you on why you embarked on this infamous route. As you go through this dear physician, think on this “the field of Western medicine has seemingly become literally nothing but medicine. Are doctors are on their way out, to be replaced by self-service pharmaceutical vending machines?” ~Grey Livingston.

These little things matter…

Fejiro Oliver, a Journalist, Social Critic, Activist and Media Consultant can be reached on secretsreporters@gmail.com and +2348026797588 (sms only please).

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Both Kelechi Iheanacho and Dele Alampasu have been invited by Fifa as part of dignitaries to witness the annual Fifa Ballon d’Or to be hosted in Zurich.

Iheanacho and Alampasu were adjudged as the Most Valuable Player (Golden Ball) and the Best Goalkeeper (Golden Gloves) in the just concluded Fifa Under-17 World Cup, which Nigeria won for a record fourth time, and the youngsters have now been chosen as part of the select crowd that will witness the event.



The invitation was contained in a letter signed by Sandra Marfurt, Fifa's Head of Special Events and Guest Management, and it read;

"On behalf of Fifa, I would like to congratulate you once again on winning the Adidas Golden Ball Award (Iheanacho); Golden Gloves (Alampasu) at this year’s Fifa’s Under-17 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates for the best player of the tournament."

The announcement was made to the team on their return from a dinner which was organized in their honour by Niger State, Governor Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, who handed a gift of N20 million to the Golden Eaglets.

Source: http://www.kickoffnigeria.com/mobile/news/38969/kelechi-iheanacho-and-dele-alampasu-invited-to-fifa-ballon-dor-