₦airaland Forum

Mr..Cork:
nice thong!

Onlytruth: How many Nigerians have been killed in less than 6 years? Let me help you. Go and find out how many have died so far and are still dying from Fulani and other ethnic groups' wars alone, I bet you it may beat 50,000. Now throw in the number of deaths from Boko Haram, Niger delta militancy, kidnapping and police extra-judicial killings in Nigeria.
Some of you need to be woken up every morning by 5 A.M and given 72 lashes of koboko on bare butts!

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Mr..Cork:
And she's white: mwaaaaaaaah!!

onila: I am a blessed virgin
a disciplined one
I got pride and dignity

Onlytruth: Yesterday was 5th of May, and Mexicans in the US celebrated "Cinco de Mayo". I'd never really known what it meant and never cared to find out until yesterday. I know very little about Mexico (been there once) and never bothered to know much more. In researching "Cinco de Mayo", I ended up researching Mexico.
All these years, I've often compared Nigeria to Mexico in terms of Economy and human development, but boy was I shocked out of my wits! Here are a few of my findings:

Mexican population: 114,975,406 (July 2012 estimate)
Population rank in the world: 11th
Mexican GDP (official exchange rate):$1.185 trillion (2011 est.)
Mexican GDP per capita: $15,100 (2011 est.)
Mexican Life Expectancy at birth: 76.66 years
Mexican Doctor/Patient ratio: 2.893 physicians/1,000 population (2004)
Health ranking in the world: 41
Health expenditure: 13.8% of GDP


Nigerian population: 170,123,740 (July 2012 est.)
Population rank in the world: 7th
Nigerian GDP (official exchange rate): $247.1 billion (2011 est.)
Nigerian GDP per capita: $2,600 (2011 est.)
Nigerian life expectancy at birth: 52.05 years
Nigerian doctor/patient ratio: 0.395 physicians/1,000 population (2008. )
Health ranking in the world: 117
Health expenditure: 5.8% of GDP (2009)

Source: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html



Now, what caught my attention most is the doctor /patient ratio.
There are not up to half a doctor for 1000 Nigerians!

Anyway, I will follow up with the other scenario/perspective - a scenario that assumes a disintegrated Nigeria.

blink182: ...make ℓ̊ go bath.

afrodoc: unfortunate that most people coming here to post are very ignorant of the issues on ground.a good example is OK/2/NV whose brain (by his own admission) has been trying (and failing) to boot for sometime now
their services were crap? and the services of other states paying CONMESS were non-crap? these same lagos state doctors a good number of whom leave the country and have good careers outside the country?
ask urselves what made d services crap? d quality of d doctors themselves or the quality of equipment,drugs e.t.c made available by the state government?

blink182: Doctors behaving like animals, money ȋ̝̊̅ƨ̣̣̣̇̇̇ more important than human life. Everybody wants τ̅☺ wear bling bling and drive jeep. I've been hearing about the useless bunch called Lagos state doctors and i've been waiting for this day.

This will cause a radical change in the system and force everyone τ̅☺ sit up. Employed civil servants seem τ̅☺ forget for everyone of them, there Α̲̅я̩̥̊ε̲̣̣̣̥ thousands unemployed. Instant civil service job currently sells for 800k in my state.

Now ℓ̊ wait for Τ̲̅ђε̲̣̣̣̥ day PHCN staff-symbol of incompetence will go ☺ƞ strike only τ̅☺ be replaced by young and smarter people.