₦airaland Forum

Sikiratu:
That's why there is a rotation. You have night and morning shifts to create a balance in the lives of medical personnel.

There is nothing like outside consultation hours in an hospital that knows it's worth. Consultation hours is mostly for out patients and those in the wards.
Let's have a scenario here, you are very sick on a Friday and rushed to the hospital only for you to be told ........
Sorry you came after consultation hours. Come back Monday Morning 9am. Thank you. Sir you don't even have an appointment.....
How will that make you feel??

Every hospital has consultation hours, just like every other office does. Those doctors and nurses have personal lives too you know. No hospital does GP consultations for 24 hours of the day. All over the world you can't just casually walk into a hospital by 6am and expect to be seen by a doctor; you will only be attended to if you have an emergency.

olas24u:
Your reasoning is terrible,it will take several year to dislodge the shit in your brains.get some exposure outside of you enclave.

There's nothing wrong with my reasoning; rather there's everything wrong with you horribly bigoted reasoning. You speak so much about the "developed world this and the developed world that," but you clearly have no idea how anything works anywhere outside your little enclave. If you're truly experienced in the ways of the developed world as you so claim, you wouldn't be so averse to 'orderliness'.

In the developed climes you talk about, you cant just walk into a freaking hospital and expect to be attended to without an appointment or outside official consultation hours except you have an emergency - The rules are simple, and your ability to follow them without coming to lament online is a simple measure of your level of exposure.

Outside consultation hours, if it is the culture of the clinic or hospital to observe whatever kind of prayer or tradition ritual, it is not your freaking business what they do in their own time. You only have a right to complain if their prayer or break time or whatever it is overlaps your appointment time.

If you have a problem with people practicing their faith, spit it out already and stop beating about the bush trying to teach anyone here about how exposed you are. With your much acclaimed level of exposure, if you still do not know how to respect the the personal time of others and show tolerance, then you're not in anyway better than the unexposed man living in a forest.

Onlyonebuhari:
It is against our professional. Where in the hippocratic oath can we find that? So you mean the buddist and atheist do that nonsense too or they went through different training. Your patient is the number one consideration not useless morning devotion.

So because a person is a doctor, they shouldn't have a personal life outside their patients right?... Everything else they do is "USELESS" right?.. If a patient comes outside consultation hours, the doctors and nurses should leave everything else in their lives and attend to a patient who can't stick with a clearly communicated appointment time?

olas24u:
You cannot be rational in thinking when you become so religious.

Religion is not for the rational minded; they are two opposing things. There's a reason RELIGION is alternatively called "FAITH". Faith is all about believing in things that are NOT, as if to say they WERE. If you are trying to be rational or logical, you cannot have faith; you have to choose one - Faith or Rationality! And when we make our choices, we should try to respect the choices made by others.

olas24u:
This is common sense, religion is different from professionalism.it does not make sense zyhe hospital is not a church.its for services.

Freedom of religion and belief is a right in the UK. There's nothing wrong with a person choosing to pray in a hospital for a patient or anywhere else. It only becomes a problem if the patient or the family of the patient disapproves it and you still go ahead to pray by fire by force. Heck! prayer mustn't be restricted to a building called church

Onlyonebuhari:
It is against our professional. Where in the hippocratic oath can we find that? So you mean the buddist and atheist do that nonsense too or they went through different training. Your patient is the number one consideration not useless morning devotion.

So if the hospital starts the business of consultation by 9am, why exactly should anyone be losing sleep about what they do before 9?

Kendumazy:
I didn't ask you not to pray but the issue of not talking to anyone before praying even if it's an emergency seems somehow to me. That's my point.

But it's just a personal thing; different people have different ways they relate with God and no one is saying the other person is right or wrong. Some Christians may say they cant taste alcohol, or wear earrings or hair extensions; oetc. But as long as they don't impose their personal ways on everyone else or judge others for not being like them, then there's nothing wrong with that. We should try to be tolerant of the cultures of others.

olas24u:
And you think this is right?A Nigerian nurse was once jailed in the i.k for praying for miracle .

So because the law in the UK persecutes someone for having a religious faith, does that necessarily make it a right and proper thing?

Kendumazy:
Honestly, we should serve this our God with sense. Even God will vex say "you can suspend the devotion and attend to the patient if anything wrong should happen to the patient"
There was a friend we wanted working on a deal together, called him one morning like that to give him an important update, he didn't pick. Later picked and said he saw my calls but couldn't pick because he just woke up and preparing to do morning devotion, said he doesn't speak to anyone in the morning without his morning devotion done first. I just canceled the deal. I dislike people who makes this religion of a thing something hard with their rubbish and nonsense principles. Am a Christian and I believe serving our God isn't hard. Let's do away with rubbish, unreasonable and foolish principles.

Oga, there's nothing wrong with a person having a personal culture of communing with their God before they start their day. For you to have a problem with that, you're simply being a bigot (i.e. intolerant of the views/culture of others).

I always tell people something, if the message is so important or an emergency, send it as an SMS and highlight the importance (and maybe the other party might reconsider their priorities). But hating on someone simply because they say they have to pray before starting their day, I'm confused at the kind of Christian you claim to be.

Nkisiva:
A Lady took to her social media page to express her anger towards an hospital she went to see the doctor with her kid for some check up around 8:30am whereby she was told to wait till they finish morning devotion before attending to her.

See screenshot of her post below:

https://www.everywherestew.com.ng/2019/05/lady-angry-with-hospital-for-telling.html?m=1

What if the official consultation time for the hospital starts from 9am? Would this lady complain this bitterly if the person she met wasn't doing morning devotion but just sat down idly and asked her to wait till 9?

Buckubuck:
Obviously you have brought into govt propaganda. But let me just make a point for you. The period we achieved highest growth rate since 1999 was between 2001-2005 during the OBJ years. Oil prices then was not up to $100. GDP is not about just money. It is actually a measure of economic productivity, like how productive your economy is

Which propaganda are you referring to?... That word is used very freely on this forum and sometimes I wonder whether the people using it actually know what it means.

You agree the GDP is a measure of economic productivity, but have you forgotten that oil is still the very life blood of Nigeria's economy which every other sector still feeds on?... With Nigeria almost solely dependent on oil dollars, when oil prices crash and oil dollars stop coming in, what do you think happens to the productivity in all other sectors?... Or did you also buy into the simple minded political analysis that Buharis bad policies were solely responsible for the productivity crises between 2015 and 2017?... Why exactly did the nation's GDP rate also crash progressively (down to 2%) between mid-2014 and mid-2015, a period when we didn't have the 'bad Buhari policies yet?

Why exactly do you think everyone talks of the need for diversification?... As long as Nigeria contunues to depend almost solely on a single commodity for income, Nigeria's entire economy will continue to be at the mercy of oil prices and oil sales.

Meanwhile, you're right about Nigeria having its highest growth between 2001 and 2005, but in that period, oil prices were relatively high (i.e. higher than the preceding period). I'm not however saying economic policy and productivity weren't good then, but oil was still the soul of it all.

grandstar:
Yes, the PDP years may have been helped with a higher price but that does not account fully for it. Better economic policies were instrumental.

You need to remember that OBJ took over from the most corrupt government in the nation's history and had been fantastically corrupt prior to that for at least 14 years.

Also, during OBJ's second term, he was able to pay down the country's debt , leave $20bn in excess crude account and $60bn in the reserves. It was perhaps the most fiscally prudent government the country ever had. It did not reckless spend and share the higher oil earnings which were at most during his at $65/barrel

It wasnt simply the higher oil prices that fuelled during OBJ''s term as he banked a good chunk of it.

The truly profligate government was the Jonathan government but even then, a good part wasn't oil based.

If the country simply followed Jonathan's policy till now, growth rate will be between 4%-4.5%by now.

The country needs some bew reforms to fuel growth but certainly not the lame duck policies that PMB is pursuing

I prefer to listen to what economists actually have to say about the current state of affairs and they blame Buhari's Statist and command policies. Sanusi was unrelenting in condemning Buhari's pegging of the Naira and the severe forex shortages which forced companies to close as they had no dollars to import stock. This led to massive layoffs and a severe recession followed.

It was not that Buhari ended the sharing of money that is the oroblem. No economist has ever given that as a reason. It sounds unacademic.

Since you claim it wasnt largely a function of oil price, why was it that even with the good economic policies of GEJ, the gdp growth rate still rapidly dropped to 2% before GEJ handed over?... With the way the rate was dropping before GEJ bailed out, do you also think those 'good' economic policies would have prevented the recession despite the fact that oil prices continued to crash further?....

Regarding your last sentence, you say you havent heard economists literally saying "Buhari ended the sharing of money", but can you also claim you havent heard anyone lament the lack of money in circulation?... Money in circulation is one of the primary drivers of the high economic indices Nigeria enjoyed prior to 2015. The lack of money in circulation post 2014 (courtesy of oil price drop) is the reason our beautiful economic indices began to tumble from mid-2014. Currently, with oil prices hitting $70, if we go back to the typical government sharing/squandering which we had prior to 2015, I bet you, the GDP growth rate will hit the roof again.

SoNature:
I know that Buhari is not reasonable, but he can prove me wrong by unbundling the power/works/housing sector.

Why would a rational man want a lawyer to lead the power sector?

He should get a dedicated engineer for the sector and redeploy Fashola to works and housing (he is doing a good job there).

More importantly, set a target to end the national grid nonsense!

Every state must generate their own power...if a state cannot, they should buy from a neighboring state that can. The power sector should be commercialized completely. Then get private investors to invest in the sector and supply power to communities.

I know we are not progressing in Nigeria, but why we don't admit that is something I don't understand.

Lack of engineering or technical knowhow isn't the reason why Nigeria lacks electricity. The problem facing the power sector in Nigeria is not an engineering or technical problem, it's an administrative problem and needs a good administrator to solve it. So placing even a nuclear or rocket scientist as minister for power wouldn't automatically solve anything if the person cant navigate the chaotic administrative terrain.

grandstar:
It was not simply because the crude oil prices were high that Nigeria's economy was doibg much better than now. If the oil price today should touch $100, I doubt the growth rate will go beyond 4%.

What you have left out is that Buhari pegged the exchange rate upon assumption of office and this singular policy crippled the Economist and caused a very severe recession that lasted 6 quarters. Nigerian economists such as Soludo, Sanusi and Utomi put the blame on him.

Presently, the country operates a multiple exchange policy which screams quacks are handling the economy. All these are Buhari's doing.

Yes, some growth was due to the high oil price but not all of it. It was primarily due to the fact that the pre-Buhari governments implemented pro market policies.

You're right, the pegging of the exchange rate caused (and may still be causing) some problems, but No, I still stand by my previous statement that the growth we saw before now hitting between 6 & 7% was purely artificial and a function of 2 things; (1) high oil prices and (2) the typical profligacy that follows the easy oil money (i.e. govt sharing/looting money and wildly spending it will always reflect positively on the economy and that was the primary driver of the high gdp growth rates in the recent past)..

Yes the economic policies in the past were logically better, but the effects of those economic policies never really materialised because of the attendant profligacy (corruption) that accompanied leadership. If the 'sound' economic policies in the past were truly responsible for any the growth, how come the gdp rate nosedived instantly from mid-2014 when oil prices began crashing?

Something you're right about however is that even if oil prices hit $120 now, the gdp rate wouldn't automatically bounce up to the highs of 6-7% as was the case in the recent past. But the reason isn't because of "Buhari bad economic policy" as you claim, rather it's because the govt isn't sharing and spending money wildly. With oil prices up to $70 today, the only reason the rate hasnt reached at least 4% is cos the government isnt sharing money and spending indiscriminately like is the typical tradition for Nigerian governments.

Ofklaw:
It is with great sadness I write to you about the frequent robbery/kidnap along Ahoada/Elele/emouha axis of East-West road. It has almost become a norm and security operatives have turned a blind eye to these occurrences.

There are over 10 check points beginning from Ahoada to emouha it is actually a shame and failure on the path of our security to have all these check pionts and yet these criminals operate successfully. We have the SARs and other police squads on those check points. The SARs men are known to intimadate drivers and harrass passengers with expensive phones and laptops. The police men in other checking points are known to collect 100 from drivers and any drivers who refuses to pay that is when they remember to check for car particulars and search the vehicle all in the bid to delay the driver. Their presence have no effect security wise at all. There have been numerous cases of robbery and kidnaping on that road. There have been whipers that they even work hand in hand with these criminals by leaving their duty post thereby allowing the criminals to operate or not trying to come to the rescues even when they can hear the sound of gun shots which is usually few meters away from their checking points.

Numerous drivers have lost their lives on that road likewise passengers who either end up being killed, raped or dragged (Kidnap) into the bush from which they are taken to their den where ransom are demanded. The case of the Agofure Motors driver who was killed and his passengers kidnapped leaving the lady who was cripple behind knowing fully well that she cant join the marathon to their den. I once heard one the drivers of Agofure Motors saying that they have lost up 15 drivers on that road likewise drivers of other transport companies, private car owners.

I had an encouter with these hardened criminals on the 1st of April 2019, on a monday morning at about 7:30 am, at first it seems like April fool but I was in the middle of a cross fire, gun shots of different sounds, guys who ought to be doing legitimate jobs holding and shooting guns of different caliber. From my Vehicle we could see a helpless driver who was shot right in our very own eyes strongling to survive on the ground. Our driver who was once a victim sometime ago (on his face he has scares, one side of nose blown off, he said eleven bullets were removed from his face and his passengers were taken away that night) miraclouly maneuvered the vehicle out of the horrific scene, even when two of the hoodlums continuously aimed at our Vehicle. The driver was able to drive to nearest checking point signaling all on coming vehicle of the dangers ahead. There were about 6 police men on duty and we told them about the ongoing robbery of which they could hear loudly sounds of gunshots but they didn't move an inch, they waited till we stopped hearing gunshots before they sluggishly drove towards the scene but by that time they were already gone into the bush, I heard there is a river deep inside the bush and they come with boats.

From all observations I think it is the Army that can fully engage these guys in combat. They are not faceless, they are from those communities within, a proper combing of these communities to fish out these criminals need to be done. The elders from these communities have failed to caution their sons. Those checking points should be occupied by the army and new checking should be set up at intervals where these guys still operate. The SARs and Police on that road should be removed from those checking points, they are of no use security wise, they are only there to extort money from drivers and Passengers.

This is a humble plea to the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike to take the necessary actions to eradicate these criminal, we know you are busy with the election but our lives matters too. I am calling on the Nigerian Army, we dont care how this operation is going to be called wether python, cobra, Viper dance all we want is safe travels along that road. And not leaving out the federal Government we need urgent intervention.

A single word of warning from Wike would stop all these nonsense. The people perpetrating all these are militants (or do we call them ex militants?) who are well known by the leaders in the state.

I know this can be stopped by just the governor because When Amaechi was governor, he grounded the activities of militants and cultists in the entire state for 8 years; he planted the top militants and cultists in the state in holes and swore to kill them if they crawled out. I remember even kingpins like Ateke Tom (who by the way is currently a celebrated king in Rivers) lamenting from his hole back then that Amaechi wanted to kill him.

But the moment Wike became governor, the first thing he did was to bring back those top militants from relegation and empower them to be his personal security and political thugs to the admiration of many idiots who think they are 'doing' Buhari and Amaechi. Now the militants are on rampage and everybody is wondering what's wrong. The other day it was Don Wani's rampage which went out of hand until he was killed.

The solution to all these is simple, irrespective of their so called superior fire power, the perpetrators of these acts can be stopped with INTELLIGENCE because every single one of the perpetrators are very well known by those in government.

Acedave1:
i swear apc are using dis killings for ritual..God judgement on oshiomole

When Amaechi was governor, he planted all cultists, militants and criminals in a hole and swore to them that they would be killed if they crawled out. Guess what?.. the miscreants all stayed put in their caves and lamented for the 8 full years of Amaechi.

The moment Wike became governor, he brought out the relegated militants and empowered them to be his personal security and political thugs to the excitement of a multitude of idiots who think they are 'doing' Buhari and Amaechi. Now Rivers state is being turned to the kidnap capital of Nigeria and some ignoramuses are blaming ApC. Just few days ago, a full coaster bus of passengers (ordinary Nigerians) were kidnapped and taken to God knows where in Emohua and you think the governor doesnt know who did it?

DonFreshmoney:
Imagine we are even 1.9%.. not even entered 2%. While the next country is 3.2%. When we were nearing 6% under goodluck jonathan. Buhari is a mess. Smelly mess

Buhari did not knock down Nigeria's GDP growth rate; Nigeria's overdependence on a single volatile product is what knocked down our GDP growth rate. Unfortunately, millions of Nigerians, including the most educated and enlightened are still ignorant of this fact; we only understand economics from the uninformed viewpoint of apc vs pdp politics.

Nigeria's GDP growth rate since 1999 has been directly proportional to oil price; oil price goes up, our GDP growth rate rises and vice versa. All the people saying Buhari is the reason our growth rate is 1.9 are obviously ignorant of the fact that from mid-2014 when oil prices began dropping, the so called 6% growth rate progressively started dropping too and was already at 2% by the before GEJ and PDP bailed out.

grandstar:
I doubt it gulps up to 60% of foreign exchange

Well, you're probably right, although I'm very sure I've heard 60% mentioned somewhere, but I just did a quick google search now and couldnt find 60% anywhere; I only saw 40% (this however is still a huge sum which would affect much if eliminated).

https://www.businessnewsreport.com.ng/40-forex-demand-used-petroleum-product-importation/

grandstar:
Inject the much needed life? I very much doubt it

Nigeria probably needs close to triple of what he is investing in foreign investment yearly to make really impactful change.

What I like about this project is that for the first time, he is investing in a sector the country has comparative advantage in .

If Dangote's refinery is ramped up to full capacity, together with the one or two modular refineries springing up currently, and the NNPC refineries working at just 5-10% capacity, Nigeria can comfortably kiss petroleum products import goodbye. Petroleum product importation currentlg accounts for up to 60% of Nigeria's total forex demand. You can never overemphasize the effect on the exchange rate and the economy at large should Nigeria stop importing petrol.

Congrats to her! ...and may another thunder fire the idiot that released her picture.

bigpicture001:
Don't be too scared my friend....dangote is un friend and not enemy...

He will singlehandedly make Nigeria great again..first by reducing d the exchange rate by about 50%.....

I have nothing against Dangote. He's currently the smartest and luckiest businessman in Nigeria today. And you're right, when he's done with his current set of ambitious mega projects (refinery, fertiliser and petrochemical plants and subsea gas pipeline), not only would he hit the Forbes top 10, he would also inject the much elusive life back into Nigeria's economy.

bigpicture001:
You analysis and concern over monopoly is good...but the truth is dangote..would not hold monopoly in this industry. this is because..the three existing refineries would b privatised immediately dangote finishes his so that effective competition can ensue....

Dangote and the rest are ok for our future refinery needs...we don't want capital flight issue...MTN Nigeria bought her licence for 256million nd invested over 5billion since then..bought they shiped out over 100billion since inception....

Just know it that any economomy that cannot hold on to money it makes will never progress...leakages of financial capital shouldn't b encouraged...


Once again...we say "no to capital flight"

The bolded part of your message, it's quite amusing that many Nigerians still do not understand how things work in Nigeria. Do you really think Dangote would allow those moribund refineries come back to life after he completes his?

Aliko is a shrewd businessman who thrives in aggresively maintaining his monopoly; if you doubt, go and ask people like BUA and IBETO. With all the noise and promises Kachikwu made about restoring the NNPC refineries by 2019, I wouldn't be surprised if Dangote has a hand in the frustration of Kachikwu. At this time (its already even late), Nigeria desperately needs anything that can stand as competition to Dangote. If Dangote becomes the sole producer of petroleum products post-2019, Nigerians would be lucky if the buy petrol for anything less than N220.

OladimejiRufai:
Saudi Arabia...


There are more important issues than this affecting the Ummah/Muslims and the world...

Please, deal with that first..


And besides, you may not be wanted here... Many have started linking this development to initiating terrorism in the land


To do such a project on a land where you are not wanted may become a failure in the end... I hope the Saudi government can see this...

The only good thing about most of the nonsense comments I've read on this thread is the inconsequentiality of the opinions of the people who are opposed to this massive FDI. Those people saying the refinery isn't welcome have no say, and the refinery (if it comes to fruition), would probably not even be built in their domains.

Printerscanner:
Ambode is an unfortunate fat fool. He ia just perfect for his untrained wife who sacked and diagraced a Clergy. Birds of the same feathers flock alike, fools of the same bitter mind fucck together.

You actually sound like a very bitter child. Have some water!

Edodefender:
Niger delta money.

This further reinforces the already known fact that all Niger Delta leaders a imbeciles...

Olukologia24592:
Show me the developed country that used statues as a means of development in their communities. You are the worst Governor in South East, and the 2nd after Yaya Bello

Statues are simply for aesthetics. And aesthetics is a part of development.

CID11:
When Udenwa was there, we were not suffering like this. ORO may God punish you and your entire generations.Even my 60 years ago aunt is hawking second hand clothes to survive in Owerri. You retired her before her time without paying pensioners for more than three years. Even if there is a rerun, you won't be a governor neither will you have any resources to rig.We the Owerri people will supervise your disgrace. You are not going to senate. Fraudster of a governor

Did Udenwa and Ohakim pay pension?... Were pension arrears fully paid off at the time Tochas became governor? ...Just asking for a friend..

Without a doubt...

When the man was fighting for the democracy we have today, when he was being thrown in prison unlawfully by the military, he was a hero.

All of a sudden, he chooses to pitch tent with APC over PDP and gbam! he suddenly becomes "fake lawyer"... Wailers!

kingreign:
Now, here's the sad breaking news.
The driver of the car has died.
May his soul find rest.
Amen.

Very sad...

Reminds me of the line in Eedris' song Nigeria Jaga Jaga - "if you see Keyamo bie-bie, dem lock am for jail for Abuja... kingsley agbe sef dey for there... na Ade Bendel na him dey feed all of them"

kingreign:
Adrenaline still high, when the levels of adrenaline comes down, he may slip to coma and prolly give up. From that picture, I can tell the vehicle took a severe impact which made it go up in flames. That guy may be having 3rd degree burns.

Anyways, I wish him total recovery.

I imagined the same thing whrn I saw that picture... A lot of Nigerians seem not to understand the concept of adrenaline pumping just after an incident. The guy in that car looks like one in a very critical condition and whilst he may even stand and walk unaided, he may go into serious pain induced shock later and may not survive it if he doesnt receive urgent medical attention. God help him!