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For me, Efe thought he was a good man. He practiced goodness and kindness initially. He had principles, but fell victim to circumstances and ended up loosing himself in the process. He didn't stand for what he believed in the long run, like just choose a side already, good or bad. Staying true to himself. And if he really didn't want the business, he could have decided to leave after getting enough money, maybe relocate his family to another country and start life afresh... Have a plan. That escape he wanted to make at the end, it should have been at the beginning or a normal part of the plan in the long run, but both Efe and Oboz were greedy. Efe never held himself accountable for his wrong actions. He was displaying wannabe street smartness, but not strong enough for the street... He was a victim of circumstances, showing the ugly side of humans in certain tough situations. But, Who are we to judge though cos who knows what we would do if we were in his shoes??

shinaola21:
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Since when you have created this your nairaland account how many likes and your shares have you received and how many posts have you posted??

I created mine April 2025 and I've received 1221 total likes n 87 total shares,still counting tho 😊

April here... No wonder e still dey shark u... Give it 2 years, you'll forget nairaland ever existed... Lol... What prompted you to get an account though

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There's nothing like CHEW nurse. It's either a Registered nurse, or a CHEW (Community Health Extension Workers) usually works in health centers.

I was in a situation like this before. My experience is one that I won't want anyone to go through that's why I'm writing this. I tried going for nursing at first, I wrote the exam, but it wasn't successful. I didn't really believe in myself cos people told me it was too difficult to get into school of nursing and even after a successful entrance and paying high tuition, they'll still do weeding exam after 6 months and unsuccessful candidates will be kicked out. I didn't believe in myself so I just took people's advice cos I also know about people that have tried to but didn't work for them. I also didn't believe in myself because I felt I wasn't smart enough cos its believed that nursing school is for extremely smart students. In secondary school I only managed to pass my chemistry and physics. I even struggled to maintain my average position.

I took the form again and this time, I took the community health form too so that if anyone works or both works out, I'll choose nursing. You know the normal process, after exam they'd call for interview. It so happened that the Community health exam came first which was okay, meaning it'll be the interview I have to go for next. But the interview date for the CHEW fell on thesame day as the nursing entrance exam. I didn't know what to do. I didn't have confidence in myself that I'll pass the nursing exam. I cried so many times. The night to the exam, I cried all through. I was advised that I can't pursue two rats at thesame time, I might end up losing the both and then spend another year waiting for nursing form to come out again and who knows if it'll work the next year and I'll end up taking the CHEW at the end of the day. That's how I went to for the CHEW interview. I just thought to myself that its not that bad afterall, CHEWs can take delivery and work like a normal nurse, no one will even know you're not a nurse. Naive me. I went for the interview and forfeited the Nursing exam. My heart was heavy and I cried profusely.
Anyway, the interview was successful.

Then I started classes.
It wasn't what I expected. I went to a good private school and had good expectations from this institution, at least I'm in school now.
The standard of lecture was just so low, even me that felt I was a dullard knew this place is not meeting to standard. I was among the few smartest people in the class. I knew classes should at least have some degree of competition, but it wasn't competitive at all. Many of the lecturers were student of the school and just went for about 1 year program before coming to teach in the school, so you'd understand the standard of lectures we were getting. I was surprised to see youth corpers posted to the school for nysc. I just felt like, so this school is really an advanced secondary school like they say. I was even more pained to understand that CHEWs cannot work independently except under supervision even after graduation. I felt out of place especially when younger lecturers with University degrees would come to teach but the students would complain that they don't understand. Small physics and chemistry that is baaic knowledge in secondary school, my classmates would say they don't know it. I couldn't even have a smart intelligent conversation with your classmates. They'd say I form too much. Only few people speak correct English, the others are pidgin English all the way. Lol. People that really wanted to speak English struggled with it, even the lecturers were not helping cos their Grammer was worse. I felt bad but I told myself that I know what I came here for.

For practical aspect, the school I went to didn't really focus on practical in school. Some of the students in the class were auxiliary nurses, some chemist shop owners, some were learning pharmacy business and just decided to come to the school to have a certificate in health. Those set of people I just mentioned already have some experience with patients, so lecturers just assumed we already know practical aspects. There's no real training in the school except it's time for practical exam and you just meet your seniors to tell you how the practical exam is done. The lecturers don't prepare you for the practical exam or how to go about it.

There's practical posting for about 2 months each year. We were mostly posted to private hospitals. Auxiliary nurses usually worked there. We weren't assigned to any nurse or doctor in particular and it wasn't really monitored. I tried to help myself by getting close to a particular nurse (not registered nurse though, she's called a nurse in the hospital. In fact, there's no registered nurse in that hospital) and she helped me. I learnt a lot from her. People that didn't take the practical posting seriously were just there. Students behaved like market women speaking pidgin everywhere and no coordination whatsoever.
The only government hospitals that we managed to go to for practicals, the nurses and midwives didn't really welcome us. They asked us to go to the immunization area, they said that's where we belong. There's this general idea among health workers that CHEWs are dullards and I can't really blame them because many of us don't really respect ourselves.

The second practical posting was to health centres. We met our fellow CHEWs in the field. We felt at home because they were CHEWs too. We were allowed to carry out some procedures under supervision. But the health center I was posted to wasn't very busy, so we didn't really get to see much cases.
People would see us outside and say "hey nurse". They call us nurses. Even many of us, if they ask us what our profession is, we'd say we are nurses. We aren't nurses, and it's hard explaining it to people. At the end of the day, they'd say... Abeg I don't understand that one you're saying, you treat people hence you're a nurse. It's really sad cos it takes thesame 3 years to study Community health, and thesame 3 years to study nursing. The bad thing is, you're not taught how to treat people in the school, you're not taught in practical how to take deliveries. Sad to say, only few of us took deliveries under during practical posting (less than 10% of the class) I'm among the majority that didn't. Throughout my 3 years of training, I didn't even take an assisted delivery, and it is true of over 60% of the class. Many cannot even treat an ailment. Now we're graduates and out of school, ready to go and treat people with this little training. Many graduates have decided to go and gain experience at some private hospitals for about 6 months or a year before they can confidently say they are health workers.

I was disappointed with what I experienced in the school. In my second year, I wrote and entrance for a midwifery school and I passed with almost 70%. I just wanted to drop out and continue with the midwifery, but it didn't make sense to me. So I waited till I graduated. I wrote another exam to nursing and I passed. I'm currently doing my nursing degree and I realized I'm not really dumb. I just wasn't interested in physics and chemistry then that's why I didn't pass then. But since my heart has been yearning for the nursing, I took it seriously and I passed.

If you're going for community health, understand you're not studying nursing and also understand that the training is different. You should be prepared for what you'll get.

I see many people today searching for nursing schools, and one person out of nowhere will start suggesting school of health that it's a nursing school. Some have fallen for this. One of my classmates then said she didn't know it wasn't thesame as pure nursing until she stared the CHEW program. If you're recommending school of health for anyone, help them understand that it's not nursing. When I was still in school of health, somebody came to take form. She came with her father, he said he is looking for where they'll take the nursing form. If it was someone else they saw, they'd have directed them to collect the community health form. But I told the man and his daughter that nursing is not offered in the school. Then they'll be the one to decide if they'll take the form or not.

If you're suggesting CHEW for anyone, help them understand the difference between CHEW and nursing so they can make informed decision about their future.

Shalom

I'm a CHEW and was once in this predicament. CHEW is different from nursing. They have different regulatory bodies. So, you can't just switch like that. If you're going under a new regulatory body as a new member, you have to start as a fresh member. If you're switching to BSC nursing as a chew, just know you're starting from the beginning. Your only advantage will be that you already have an idea about health. For now, Chew CHPRBN(community health practioners registration board of Nigeria) and NMCN( Nursing and midwifery council of Nigeria) are not collaborating in training students at institutions. Thanks

Are you a CHEW? If so, you already know that chew refer medical cases more. CHEWs only treat minor ailments, not the the type that nurses have been trained to handle. Standing order is not bad though.

"When there is no doctor, there is community health! Even where there is doctor, there is community health"

Nursing also offers opportunities and specialties. After RN, you can decide to be an anesthetic nurse, pediatric nurse, psychiatric nurse, oncology nurse, cardiac nurse.. the list of opportunities is very wide. But CHEW doesn't offer that. Though you can decide to study CHO after your 3 years of CHW

For those coming here later to ask thesame question in future, know that a CHEW is not a registered nurse and no matter how people tell you that it's thesame, know that they are not thesame. I did Studied community health and I'm presently studying nursing and I can tell you they're not thesame. Chew is only recognised in Nigeria, but RNs are recognised globally. Sometimes, it can even be difficult to explain to someone that you're not a nurse because you give injection and work in a hospital or health center, but it doesn't make you a registered nurse because community health is limited in their scope of practice. During training, many of the ailments you'll come across, they'll tell you to refer to a higher professional. A chew Cannot have their own private establishment except a doctor is present there. After you graduate, you cannot be left to practice independently. Any chew you see doing that is obviously breaking the law and they can be arrested for that, they need to have someone to supervise their work. And it's sad because it study duration takes 3 years to finish, thesame time it would take a nurse to study RN. RNs can work independently in their private set up without any problem. RN and CHEW each have their own scope and area of practice and rn will give you more opportunities both locally and internationally. Some people will even tell you that community health is even better than nursing, but that's left for each person to decide. Just one advice, if you're studying community health, don't think it's nursing you're studying, and don't give other people the impression that you are a registered nurse. Opportunities can come later on for nursing jobs abroad and because people think you're a nurse, they'll try to link you up with the job to make sure you have it, but you'll only be disappointed when they tell you it's registered nurses they're looking for not a CHEW. So, spare yourself the stress and know what you're getting into when you decide to study community health. It's not Asif community health is bad though, it's the fact that people say it's thesame with nursing that is the bad thing. If you study community health, you also have an edge, you can work as an health worker in an health centre, you can own a chemist shop, you can open a private establishment and employ a doctor or a CHO, you can own a pharmacy and employ a licensed pharmacist. The good thing is you will already have an idea about health and so, you'll know what the doctors and pharmacist are doing. You can work and live well in Nigeria as a CHEW. But as of the time of writing this post (June 2023) CHEW is not recognised outside the shore of Nigeria border.

RN and CHEW each have their scope. So you should go into the one of your choice with your mind made up.

I'm still looking for the ababio PDF though. I've searched everywhere. Google, Twitter, telegram... Nothing. It's almost impossible to find

Basic123:
Did you observe how reasonable people were with their comments then.You will think it was an American forum like Reddit!

Me chatting from 2023 and replying a 2005 post. That's when some University freshers now were born Omo!! Things have really changed. And it's going to keep changing. This conversation would still be here even in many years to come. Wow. If you see this message between 2025 to 2030... Reply me

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I kept receiving notifications from an app called giniex, created by infinix... After I installed the app, my phone has been rebooting on its own.. It can restart on its own up to 3 times within five minutes... It's just frustrating�

Guess who I saw today

"Area" can be difficult to use in starting a sentence

Bolt driving business
Crypto business (If you have a good a reliable tutor)
Affiliate marketing (e.g Click bank, ebay, Amazon)
Freelancing
Poultry
Snail farming


I can't go into details in all of them... Just look them up

Kobojunkiee:
I abhor smoking... I am not a fan of it at all, but when it comes to God and the things of God, we are to preach only that which is as declared by Him and Him alone.

My conscience not agreeing with something should not in any way be confused with God not agreeing with it. I will give you an example of what I mean. Say a friend asks me for money to purchase medical marijuana, I may hesitate because I am against smoking, but it would be counted a sin against me if I then refused my friend's request because God has not called me to judge by my conscience by His law.

Lol. Using ur example. It's just like you saying... You don't drink poison... But you'll give money to ur friend to buy poison for himself... Wow... What a great way of showing love....

Kobojunkiee:
Jesus Christ no send you principles... He came to you as a Law and commands that you trust and obey His teachings and commandments, and not your personal ideas and opinions.

It's not a personal opinion... It's just common sense.

I understand that some people are just here looking for comments that will justify their bad habits so they won't feel too bad about it.

But the fact that your conscience is not agreeing with what you're doing is enough reason to think twice.

Juicer117:
smoking is not bad there are many reasons we could use judge each other but I will ask why is weed created why is all this things We see created ..well people say it's for man use but we all don't accept good or bad in life so there is nothing like bad it's created for man use .... that's my opinion

There's something called misuse. There are so many drugs today that were manufactured for good purposes, but people use them wrongly. That doesn't mean that they were made for such use.

Same thing with plants. God will never create something so that we can use it to destroy ourselves. It's just humans abusing stuff

Krismas:
Genesis 30:14-16 Jacob smoke weed, Abi u holy pass Jacob ni?

Jacob had nothing to do with the Mandrake. He didn't even smoke it. I don't know where u got that from. Lol.

I don't think you know what a Mandrake is that's why you're talking this way.

Below is the picture of a Mandrake. Jacob didn't smoke any weed

There's something called priniciples. Principles are not laws
How do principles differ from laws? Principles provide the basis for laws. Rules, which tend to be specific, may be for some particular time or situation, but principles are timeless
A careful study of the Bible reveals that our heavenly Father provides fundamental directives that cover a variety of situations and aspects of life.
For example, 2 Corinthians 7:1 advices everyone to be clean from every defilement of both flesh and spirit. Smoking does not make you clean in the flesh.
Smoking causes cancer, respiratory diseases, heart diseases, effect on pregnancy.
A person knowing all of this, and still keeps doing it shows that he does not appreciate the free gift of life.
It's just like commiting suicide. Engaging in something you know can kill you but you still do it anyway.

Smoking does not show love for neighbor as report shows that people who get in contact with second hand smoke are more at risk of developing health issues.

So how do you think God views someone who puts his life and the life of others at risk?? You think he'll be happy about it.

Kobojunkie:
If Jesus Christ Himself never said suggested how often it should be done,why then propose that in His stead?

U have your answer up there...

But if you so wish.... You can use it as your breakfast lunch and dinner for the rest of your days....

(Walks away)

Kobojunkie:
Nowhere in your "cited bible verse" are you told that there is a time of year for what Jesus Christ instructed you. In fact, you could choose to do it everyday even and it would still be in obedience to the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Jesus commanded his disciples to commemorate the Lord’s Evening Meal, but he did not specifically say how often. (Luke 22:19) Some feel that it should be observed monthly, while others observe it weekly, daily, several times each day, or as often as a person feels is appropriate. However, here are some factors that should be considered.

Jesus instituted the Lord’s Evening Meal on the date of the Jewish Passover (which commemorated Isreal's deliverance from Egyptian bondage), and he died later that same day. (Matthew 26:​1, 2) This was no coincidence. The Scriptures compare Jesus’ sacrifice to that of the Passover lamb. (1 Corinthians 5:​7, . Passover was held only once a year, on Nisan 14. (Exodus 12:6, 14; Leviticus 23:5) This suggests that Jesus’ death should be commemorated only as often as the Passover was​—annually, not daily or weekly.

For several centuries many professed Christians commemorated Jesus’ death once a year. Because they did so on Nisan 14, they were called Quartodecimans, meaning “fourteenthers.” Concerning them, historian J. L. von Mosheim wrote: “The Christians of Asia Minor were accustomed to celebrate this sacred feast, commemorative of the institution of the Lord’s supper, and the death of Jesus Christ, at the same time when the Jews ate their Paschal lamb, namely on the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month [Nisan]. . . . They considered the example of Christ possessing the force of law.”

Yes, of course... All you have to do is read up the cited Bible passage dear.

It's that time of the year again when we come together to observe the memorial of Jesus' death as recorded at Luke. 22:19 & 20

We invite you to join us as we observe the memorial of Jesus's death on 27th March 2021

CC. Lalasticlala

Tom wanted to believe in God but became disillusioned with religion. See how

Me, still thinking..... Come to think of it... She'd still have albino kids if she marries an albino, but with you, the story can be changed. She may have non-albino children, she can still have albino children too...... For me, I won't have any problem living with an albino wife or children, I just hate the way people discriminate against them. For that reason, be ready to accept the kids, albino or not... And build their confidence to avoid low self esteem issues.. Make them highly educated so that when they speak in public, they'd be well respected. That's what I'd do if I were in your position.

OP, I think I understand you even though I've never been in that situation before. She's a human just like the rest of us, but the thing that seems to be a problem is the skin color and the rest that goes along with it. If I were in your position, I'd have no problem living with an albino, I have them as friends, but you know you two wont be the only ones involved in the long run. what I'd be worried about is having albino children. I just wish albinism can be cleared from the world totally cos its not a good condition, but, if you have it, you have no choice but to live with it. I dunno, but I think bringing albino children into the world to suffer discrimination and other guranteed health challenges is selfishness. Like I said, I have no problem living with an albino, i just won't want to bring albino kids into the world and let them suffer like their mom did... I don't know about others, but I think I'll be a problem for me

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