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Look @ who is calling a party chairman incompetent because he is ass-licking a more grossly incompetent Buhari alongside Tinubu.

Buhari just remains an unmitigated disaster that Nigeria have ever seen & should never never be seen in our national life again.

“He said all through his public life, he had never contravened his oath of office.
This was not by design but I appointed people on their merit without the slightest bias. The present Federal Executive Council is also evenly balanced; again not by design but by respecting and rewarding individual qualities,’’
By concentrating the heads of most of Nigeria's security agencies including that of the para-military in the hands of core hausa-fulani Muslims
You can only keep on deceive yourself.

That will be a fantastic idea.Nigeria needs innovative thinkers.

".......Publishing the list of persons standing trial in courts and calling them looters was an unfortunate act of irresponsibility by the Federal Government."
"................The act of irresponsibility was worsened by the fact that the All Progressives Congress, APC, leaders standing trial were excluded by the Federal Government."
“............This is an irresponsible Federal Government that has no respect for the rule of law. They have become the judge, the prosecutor in cases before courts."
“All they want to do is tie the hands of judges to ensure all those standing trial are convicted at all costs.” Very,very irresponsible I tell ya.Check out the same hypocritical Lai Muhammed then in the opposition when a similar thing happened years back-https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/263893-lai-mohammed-garba-shehu-condemned-efcc-for-publishing-alleged-looters-list-in-2007.html

When will this happen in Nigeria .Enough of this carnal religiosity that is not commiserate with our moral values.

Oh Nigeria!

Yesufu claimed that the abduction of the girls was a move aimed at paving the way for President Muhammadu Buhari’s approval of $1billion to purchase equipment for the fight against Boko Haram insurgency.
Every reasonable person knows that Chibok & Dapchi girls kidnap were well scripted political scam.

“From nowhere, Malami went and appointed another set of lawyers to do his job for him, and for few million dollars too.”
The Cable Foundation, a partner organisation of TheCable newspaper, is currently in court to seek an order of mandamus compelling the AGF to release the details of the repatriation agreements with the lawyers.

APC government lies still being busted. Morally corrupt government filled with die-hard professional crooks.Malami is still the AGF because Buhari is also grossly corrupt.

Political prostitutes Anyway the political transfer window have been opened.

fk001:
BH is a terrorist organization that you cannot wipe it in a single day.
But at least let's applaud this administration.
BH doesn't have any territory under them now unlike before that they declared many states as their territory.
BTW have you seen or heard of Shekau this days in the News?

Where were you when Buhari was promising to wipe them out in 2month during his campaign A BH the APC government have not only give ransom to but have also granted amnesty?
BH that is still doing maximum damage till today? Abeg accept the reality on ground.

Buhari’s Media Aide, Garba Shehu had said, ” The loud voices of critics with selfish ambitions and ulterior motives should not be a veil that keeps Nigerians blind to the many ways God has blessed us and improved our lot through the Buhari administration.”
See the ass-lickers them. Even a lots of chronic zombies are now tired of defending this failure.

In a tweet, the activist wrote: “President Muhammadu Buhari @MBuhari cannot be doing the same thing himself, his party and citizens criticised last administration and not expect to be criticised.

“Himself and his party may be silent but we the citizens would criticise.
Only his zombified followers think otherwise.The self-deception of the infallibility of the Buhari will be its greatest undoing.The government have done extremely worst of all it have accused past government.

nairavsdollars:
its been long Amaechi has that terrible look like a coup plotter

Lol

That was when he was politically innocent & have not been "pregnant" from embezzling Rivers State money.

He lamented the rot perpetuated by officers posted on highway patrols, saying, “You often hear them begging – your boys are here, they are hungry, they need pure water. These things are regrettable.

“These days promotions are not done in the police on merit but on account of favouritism.”“People got postings not on account of their professional expertise, but because they were in good relationship with their superior officers,” Tsav lamented.
Now Tsav-another northerner have taken his heat on the equally heavily northernized NPF.Lets see if the Buhari's government will term it "hate speech" and crucified him as in the case of TY Danjuma.
Nigeria is absolutely rotten from the head to toe.

Practice makes perfection.Nice one there CR7.

The video x-rayed by our correspondent shows graphically violent images used to portray President Muhammadu Buhari, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2015 elections, as a supporter of Sharia law who will brutally deal with opposition and negotiate with terrorists. This video was created by Cambridge Analytica for the Jonathan campaign.
So what do Nigeria have today? Have all these predictions not come true? Haven't Buhari been sympathetic to the islam/sharia cause even before he becomes president
Haven't he granted amnesty to BH terrorists (https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/boko-haram-deserves-amnesty-presidency/)
Of course next in line are his maruading killer fulani brothers. So pls swerve.

Those who lost jobs due to the bad economic policies of this useless governments have a sad story to tell.Lai remains a liar that he is.

fk001:
Wetin concern them? We Nigerian's love him no matter how hard you try to tarnish his image.

Meanwhile hear the same hypocritical Buhari talking some years back:
The only solution to the present political uncertainty in the country is for the National Assembly to set machineries in motion for the impeachment of ailing President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua."
- Muhammadu Buhari (March 10, 2010, Sun Newspapers)
Even Lai Muhammed advocated a daily briefing of the Nigeria nation on the health progress of the then president.But what do we have today? So serve Buhari with some dignity.

Lai-Lying-Liar Muhammed go buy plenty job for APC.

In a government whose leader said;
-"An attack on BH is an attack on the north"?
-"BH should be granted amnesty" & did same while now in power?
-Granted a $1B fund to fight a BH that have been technically defeated
Who more can be sponsoring terrorism than the present wicked APC government & it's apologists?

When did the National Assembly approve the spending of the $1 billion? Or can the President spend $1 billion belonging to Nigerians without the approval of the National Assembly?”
“Since they said they have defeated Boko Haram, and later told Nigerians that they had ceasefire agreement with the insurgents, what else do they need a whopping sum of $1 billion (over N370 billion) for; if not to fund the 2019 elections?

“Also, up till now, the government is yet to give satisfactory explanations as to the abduction and return of the Dapchi School Girls. With the hurried approval of $1 billion, is it not being reinforced that the Boko Haram insurgency has become a source of looting public fund by this government?
This government kept shoting itself on the foot

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday insisted that the Presidency should make public all issues relating to the so-called private visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to London.

The party, which queried the Presidency for always shrouding issues around the President in secrecy, pointedly demanded a “full disclosure on the scope, purpose, direct destination, duration as well as the cost and source of the funding for this undisclosed tourism.”

A statement by PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan sid President Buhari is not a “private citizen and cannot embark on private trips, wrapped in secrecy, since his upkeep draws directly from national resources and taxpayers’ money.”

The statement reads, “While the PDP has nothing against Mr. President embarking on any trip, we insist that as the President of the Federal Republic, there must be full disclosures to Nigerians because the citizens deserve to know the purpose of the visit and the cost on the nation.

“We know that Mr. President is billed to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) scheduled to take place between April 16 and
20, but Nigerians are wondering why he is taking off to an undisclosed destination in London two clear weeks ahead.

“We ask: Is President Buhari and his handlers hiding anything from Nigerians so much so that they cannot disclose the reason and duration of the so-called private visit?

“Nigerians are invited to note that this secret visit has a departure date but silent on the purpose, date and place of arrival.

“Today, our economy is hemorrhaging and the citizens are languishing because of the continued lack of accountability and total incompetence of the Buhari-led administration.

“The PDP insists that public officers at all levels, particularly theoccupier of the office of the President, must be accountable, transparent and answerable in all their dealings at all times, especially under an administration that claims zero tolerance for
corruption.”


Read more at http://www.247nigerianewsupdate.co/2018/04/reveal-real-reason-buhari-is-travelling.html?m=1#lzq2ESyU0575BOS6.99

Guess this money was what Femi Adeshina called Buhari's "statutory allocation"? Bible was right,"Let him that have no sin be the first to cast a stone" No Nigerian politician is clean.

April 3, 2018Ayodamola Owoseye
”I accidentally met over 200 young male and female medical doctors, including consultants in Hawthorn Hotel, Abuja being interviewed by some Saudi Arabian officials to be employed to work in Saudi Arabia.

”At first, I thought it was a conference taking place in the hotel where I visited a guest. I saw an Arab gentleman addressing a mammoth crowd at the lobby of the hotel asking them loudly to ‘go and come tomorrow’.

”I curiously asked a lady who appeared dejected and was waiting with a file in her hand what was happening?

”The lady told me that they were all medical doctors, who were in the hotel since 7.00 a.m. for an interview for employment and that over 100 ‘had been successful’.

”The rest were told to come tomorrow for the continuation of the interview…”

This is the narration of Shehu Liberty, a lecturer at the University of Maiduguri who on January 31, wrote an open letter on his Facebook wall to President Muhammadu Buhari, pleading with him to make an effort to halt the ‘mass exodus’ of qualified doctors out of the country.

Mr Liberty said the doctors seemed to have made up their minds to leave the country in spite his “attempt to persuade them.”

“I cannot believe what I saw today. What is really wrong with the health sector in Nigeria that warrants qualified doctors to abandon the country to work in Saudi Arabia? Why can’t the various governments at all levels employ them? I am certain that their services are needed in most rural communities in Nigeria?” he said.

What we’re doing to check medical quackery in Nigeria – NMA President Ogirima
There has been a reported massive brain drain in the medical sector in recent years as many medical doctors are leaving the country on daily basis.

Nigerian doctors have been migrating to U.S, Canada, Saudi Arabia, the UK and many other nations across the globe, investigations reveal.

Relevant medical agencies in Nigeria could not provide official data on emigrant doctors, but statistics from General Medical Council (GMC) UK, as at July 2017 shows that over 4,765 Nigerian doctors are working in the UK. This is 1.7 per cent of the total of the UK’s medical workforce.

This trend has been having negative effects on Nigeria’s health sector. As a result of this, experts say, Nigeria is experiencing a shortage of doctors in most of its hospitals.

Also, experts say the ratio of medical practitioners to patients in the country is very low. Official records reveal that Nigeria currently has one doctor to attend to 3, 500 patients in the country, which is a far cry to the WHO recommendation of one doctor to 600 patients.

EMIGRANT DOCTORS GIVE REASONS FOR LEAVING

A Nigerian doctor working in the UK, Ayokunle Michael, said the situation of doctors migrating from the country is not ”yet bad, but will soon get worse”.

He said with the UK opening its borders to commonwealth countries, and many Nigerian doctors having information about the working condition and welfare package there, many are still bound to move.

“Nigeria should brace itself to losing more of its doctors, most of the people going to Saudi Arabia are just using that as a stepping stone. Majority aim to enter U.S, UK, Australia, Canada and other European countries with better job opportunities.”

Mr Michael explained that the Nigerian working environment is getting more hostile to doctors.

“I left the country almost six years. Before I left, I was struggling to get a good job in spite spending almost nine years in school without failing. I left when it was becoming frustrating and the opportunity presented itself. Some colleagues took the opportunity, while some decided to stay back. Some of those who stayed back are also leaving, the situation is getting worse,” he explained.

He said many of his colleagues inducted into the practice in 2010 are yet to find stable jobs.

Mr Michael also lamented that medical examinations are getting more expensive in Nigeria.

”The amount paid to do the primaries at the National Postgraduate College of Nigeria or The West African Postgraduate College is getting more expensive. The ‘high dollar rate’ has not also been helping matters,” he said.

According to him, ”it is far better to spend less in writing the PLAB (UK examination) which guarantees a better future if the person passes than spending such huge sums on examination that might end up useless”.

ABSENCE OF DATA

As at the time of this report, PREMIUM TIMES’ efforts to get the official statistics of number of doctors practicing in the country and those who have left from the Medical Dental Council of Nigeria, (MDCN), the agency which regulates the profession in Nigeria, were not successful.

However, the mass exodus of doctors has been a burning issue in the country with officials of the medical association giving various conflicting statistics of their member, especially those who have left Nigeria for greener pastures.

MDCN is the agency with the mandate to register and regulate the medical profession in Nigeria.

The agency, as part of its duty is tasked with the responsibility of registering newly inducted doctors, renewing licences of doctors in the country and also keeping record of those leaving the country.

The agency is also meant to have a record of foreign doctors who come into the country to work.

PREMIUM TIMES in a letter dated December 4, 2017 to MDCN, requested the total number of Nigerian doctors currently practicing in the country and those who have left.

Another Freedom of Information Act (FOI) reminder was sent to the agency in January requesting for information on the report.

However, four months after the first FOI was submitted to MDCN, there has been no response despite numerous visits to the agency by the reporter.

An official of MDCN, however, told PREMIUM TIMES that the agency has ”registered about 80,000 doctors and dentists in Nigeria including foreign trained personnel,” since its creation in 1963.

“Out of these 80,000, there are some people who are dead, some have left the country, some no longer working as doctors and some have stopped renewing their practicing licences. Some of the older doctors have been given a ”life time practicing certificate” and do not need to keep renewing their licences yearly,” he said, asking not to be named.

He also said MDCN should have a record of those who have left the country because, ”Nigerian trained doctors who want to go abroad to work usually collect a ‘letter of good standing’, which is a form of recommendation from the agency to the medical regulatory board of the country the medical practitioner wishes to move to.”

NMA WEIGHS IN

PREMIUM TIMES also approached the Nigerian Medical Association, (NMA), for data on doctors in Nigeria and those who have left.

The effort was also not successful as the association’s authorities referred the reporter back to MDCN.

The NMA in an official response to a letter sent by PREMIUM TIMES said it has no such data as it is “just a professional association.”

The association said MDCN is the registering and regulatory body and is the ”custodian of such information and should be the ones to provide such”.

According to NMA, ”MDCN is the regulatory body which is responsible for registration, keeping records and disciplinary action of the professional body and as such should be the custodian of the data”.

However, the NMA president, Mike Ogirima, in a separate reaction said though NMA does not have an official statistics, ”about 10,000 to 15,000 Nigerian doctors are working outside the country and 90 per cent of them were trained in Nigeria.”That gives a figure of 9000 -13,500 doctors trained in Nigeria but now working abroad.

He said many Nigerian doctors are leaving the country ”due to the unconducive working environment in the hospitals”.

”We need the government to improve the working environment, provide necessary tool for doctors and improve their welfare package,” he said.

Mr. Ogirima said the association is already making efforts to have its “own statistics of members working in the country by introducing a professional stamp which would be owned by individual doctors.”

”This stamp is expected to have the doctor’s name, registration number and this will enable us have records of the doctors in the country and also help prevent quackery,” he said.

However, Mr. Ogirima said the practitioners in the country are registered with MDCN.

“In our association, we are trying to complement their (MDCN) effort by introducing doctor’s stamp, which will be mandatory on all medical document that will be used by any physician in this country. With that, we will be able to capture the statistics.”

”An NMA App will also be available on both android and iOS as from April, every doctor is supposed to subscribe to that and statistics will be made available at the finger tips from NMA office,” he said.

An NMA official, Olumuyiwa Odusote, last year said 40,000 out of the 75,000 registered Nigerian medical doctors are practicing outside the country.

Mr. Odusote had also said the rest ”are also planning to leave.”

Mr. Odusote said 100 doctors had resigned from the University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan in 2017, while in the last two years, ”800 doctors resigned from hospitals owned by the Lagos State Government.”

He also said that in 2012, more than 1,000 doctors wrote exams for the West Africa College of Physicians in order to gain admission into Nigerian teaching hospitals, ”but in 2017 only 236 doctors sat for the same exam”.

DOCTORS SPEAK

Magnus Ogaraku , the former chairman NMA Kogi State chapter in a telephone interview with PREMIUM TIMES said there is no way Nigeria health workers especially doctors would not leave the country for greener pastures, because ”the work environment is no longer conducive for them to keep practicing their profession.”

Mr Ogaraku said the migration of professionals in the hospital is not peculiar to doctors alone. He said other health practitioners such as nurses, pharmacists, and laboratory scientists, among others have also been leaving the country.

Mr Ogaraku said the migration of the health manpower in Nigeria has affected many hospitals in many states.

He explained that some of the factors responsible for the migration has been the poor working environment which is not friendly. He said the equipment needed to work are not available and this has not given people the ability to do their work effectively.

He also said the inter-discipline rivalry between the sectors has also had a negative impact on the hospitals as this is one of the reasons why some doctors leave the country.

“The doctors do not like this rivalry as it has made the work difficult. Many health workers now want to do the job of the doctor, some people do not like that and so most of them leave,” he said.The third factor, he added, is the poor and irregular remuneration.

He explained that doctors working in Kogi State are currently being paid 60 per cent (of salaries) and there is a 100 per cent tax deduction.

Another doctor who spoke with PREMIUM TIMES, Wale Ajayi, said most doctors are leaving due to the poor condition of service and ”half or no pay by most of the states.”

He lamented that Osun State for example has been paying doctors half salaries for over a year.
“My head of department, a professor, just left the country last year. I do not blame them (emigrants),” he said.

Another doctor, Abiodun Babajide, said he has been ”processing leaving the country for two years”.
Mr Babajide lamented that he finished his housemanship since 2014 and has since not secured a viable job.

“It is sad. When you see most of my colleagues discuss, it is not about where to work in Nigeria, but about opportunities abroad. Most of us want to leave, the country is not conducive for us. It is bad that we spend over eight years in school, not counting housemanship, and yet you find no good job,” he said.

Mr Babajide said the trend of doctors leaving the country is not new, but has only gotten worse and ”might still become more severe if a solution is not found to it.”

”Most of my colleagues do not even want to write primaries (for the West Africa College of Physicians) again. Why should they? Most of our seniors who did primaries have not gotten placement for residency. Their primaries are expiring without them getting a place to use it.
Do you think most of them can pass that examination again? Why should we waste our time here in Nigeria when we hear the way they treat our colleagues who have left the country?” he asked.

Speaking on his choice country, Mr. Babajide said he would prefer going to the UK or U.S., ”as they offer doctors one of the best services”.

A survey conducted by the Nigerian Polling Organisation, NOIPolls, in partnership with Nigeria Health Watch in August 2017, showed that about eight out of 10 medical doctors are currently seeking work opportunities abroad.

This, the survey said, cuts across junior, mid and senior level doctors in both public and private medical institutions.

Many, it noted, registered to write foreign exams such as PLAB for the UK (30 per cent), USMLE for the United States (30 per cent), MCCE for Canada (15 per cent), AMC for Australia (15 per cent) and DHA for Dubai (10 per cent) amongst others.

SOLVING DILEMMA

Mr Ogirima said a solution to the problem is for the government to bring in public private partnership into the health sector.

He said this would enable the system to work more effectively and give room for employment of more staff.

“There is a need for state governments to employ doctors as most doctors are jobless. In a country where we don’t have enough doctors, we can’t even employ the ones we trained. The government must increase the capacity of our health institutions, even if it means building more hospitals.

“There are several abandoned projects in the country but the health sector shouldn’t fall under such category. Government should build more hospitals, employ more hands because doctors are dying due to fatigue,” the NMA president said.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/263833-special-report-anxiety-as-nigerian-doctors-leave-country-in-droves.html