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What I find truly amazing in this drama is the way the acting Governor referred to this adult male with 2 wives and 10 children as "up and coming"! All these mallams self.

carmelily:
@topic
na as you keep your head them go barb am. full stop.

At least make no china man go begin pursue me with clipper because I be black!

Take it or leave it. The average china man is racist towards black persons.I can't understand what they hinge their sense of superiority on whether it is their diminutive stature or their peculiar oriental ugliness.

They will discriminate against you whether you are a legal or not. Unfortunately the Chinese Government is making this prejudice a state policy by asking bar tenders not to serve blacks.It is unfortunate that their irresponsible govt will behave this way knowing fully well that Chinese citizens are every where (looking for opportunities) including Nigeria where we can easily have them for lunch.

Hello Mike. I admire you for your vision and preparedness to work towards it. From the way I see it, it is difficult to impress employers of labour in today's Nigeria with foreign degrees no matter how high-sounding. More so when every TDH can sit behind a table and pluck a couple of academic degrees from around the globe without moving an inch.

I think it will help a lot if you can get a place after your academics with any of these asset management firms over there irrespective of position. You can be with them for like 6mths or 1yr. Pay should be secondary to you at this stage. Once you get that on your CV, you can come back home and tell employers what you wouldnt earn.

Not sure how long you ve been married and hence how much and how well you understand your husband.

But what you said hardly suggest a rocky marriage.It sounds like your man is concerned about things being done correctly, personal discipline and determined to drive his point home.All these can be traced to the kind of upbringing he 's had. Do not mistake his behaviour with that of some lily livered  whimp who though is fed up of the marriage does not have the courage to say so.

You must not listen to people like seun only to regret later. Most men with short fuse like your husband can be very passionate and deep in their love for spouse. See it as a weak point of his and even accept blame when you are right sometimes and you will have >60 yrs of marital bliss together.

No girl asks this kind of question unless she has something to hide in which case I say be kiaful.

The NSE at the moment is a bad dream to investors and a nightmare for that tribe of wise men called margin traders who borrow huge sums at considerable interest to trade.

I have often heard people say the downturn is an opportunity and a good time to buy, I say not this one. Take your money and run.The confidence the market has especially with foreign investors is at an all time low.

When the ill wind changes direction we will know and peeps will be on time. Meanwhile time to siddon look. Someone set his benchmark at 39000.Great guide.

izeek:
there have been 4 great depressions to the american stock market,
the japanese stock market also experienced its share.
just to mention a few.
the nigerian stock market is goint through a face alot of other markets have experienced.
come to think of it, the nigerian market have been able to weather the storm for a long time now,
and beliv me alot of professionals have anticipated this long ago.
the market will surely bounce back, and it would be stronger and better.
this my dear is the right time for long term investments.

There is no doubt that the market will rise again. But what u have to note is that when you have these crashes it is people, individuals, persons who bear the brunt. There can be serious social consequences.

A man was involved in an accident and as a result he lost his wee wee.

His doc reassured him saying they have the expertise to transplant his little finger to replace his wee wee

The man said: Oh no doc you can have my left arm. I hardly use it anyway

@Kongi
I hear you my brother. Adenuga and Aliko might fail woefully as CMD for all we know.

The NHIS is good to the extent that it has offices around the country into which are employed paid Nigerians.Unlike the NHS the NHIS has been reduced to a regulating commission.The responsibility of enroling civil servants mins, agencies and parastatals has been ceded (!) to registered HMOs among which the NHIS in its infinite wisdom divided enrolees. This presupposes at once that no more HMO is welcome!!

These HMOs are required to have offices in all the six geo zones but most of them have nothing save for gsm nos and of course account nos with which deductions of workers salaries are siphoned. Providers get nothing hence workers get nothing. Meanwhile colossal deductions are being made. Your senior NHIS friend will give you details. At the same time some desperate providers are knifing themselves over the few enrolees earlier made.

In summary Nigeria is way too low on the human probity index required for a health Insurance on a scale the NHIS portend. Unfortunately like the Land use decree, everyone concur it does more harm than good but no one has the courage to do sth about it. NHIS is enriching HMOs and impoverishing doctors.

Dont do it. Especially those just getting married. This is one of very few things capable of exposing a man's true concealed self.

Kongi:
Pennywise, [b]business schools are not for the Adenugas or the Ekene dili Chukwus, [/b]they are for the me and yous of this world who need to be schooled in the art of making money.
Adenuga, Aliko and co don't need to go to business school to learn how to make money.

Ziga bros, with the advent of NHIS in Nigeria as well as private medical insurance, healthcare is a business! i don't want to advertise on this site but there are very competitive private health insurance schemes which are run as a business. Things will change in Nigeria hopefully very soon. Some people have taken the 1st step. Funnily enough, they are not doctors but have the foresight to see what the country will need from healthcare services in the very near future.

@Kongi

Your comment will suggest that rather than employ business/hospital mgt trained people we should rely on a supernatural means of identifying the likes of Adenuga and Aliko that at the minimum will not run our hospitals aground before employing.

The truth is- that you can remove a goitre with your eye closed does not mean you can manage people and resources with the same dexterity because you are not so trained. Many of these super CMDs venture into private practice but fail woefully and fold up.The headship of these hospitals is partly responsible for the fratricidal wars going on be it doctor vs doctor or doctor vs others in these hospitals.So unnecessary.

For NHIS, this is the biggest on going fraud in the health sector at the moment.It is likely going to continue for sometime because the Nigerian masses are at the recieving end and afterall what is 5% of the basic of the average worker's salary? And in what way has it affected the average M.O remuneration? Zilch! In the meantime let the party continue for the 20 or so odd HMOs registered by it.

With respect to the private medical Insurance (HMOs) being used by some elite companies though better than the NHIS, the income by most of the providers actually depreciated not increased.The whole idea was to enhance income so that they can pay well and improve on the quality of services. Most of the money goes to the middlemen. Before they came in, no substandard practice could hope to get a decent retainership anyway. Now the HMOs play providers one against another and then pay starvation capitation.Who suffers?To every rule there is exception. The employer paying the money should feel the pulse of his employee.

In fact to cut a long story short, NHIS not be silver lining for doctor pay.Na cesspool. Big can of worms.

@Kongi
Your observations are noted my friend but if everyone had the business acumen of Adenuga or Ekene dili chukwu (late Chief Ilodibe), there wont be need for business schools.

[quote author=sly-k link=topic=159551.msg2687046#msg2687046 date=1219324998]long number of academic study does not translate to cash.

if you want money as a medical doctor, sit down and plan how it will work out not you looking for salary.[/quote]This is true for medicine as it is for engineering, law, pharmacy etc.

The injustice the Nigerian doctor faces goes beyond the inadequate absolute take home pay. The state has failed to recognize the peculiarity of the job with respect to its demand not just on expertise but also on the time of the doctor.

When other care providers close at the end of a day or night shift, the doctor doesnt have that luxury. He closes at 4pm but he is mandated to do a second job called 'call' that lasts longer and can be more tedious.For this he is given a little stipend which makes his take home just a little above that of the other more important members of the healthcare delivery team- I mean nurses, pharmacists, optometrists,etc.

For this usually they will go on strike and get across the board wage increase by a government without a health care plan, policy or vision of any kind.It is for this reason these group of proffessionals are much better paid than their peers in countries with similar GDP (at the expense of doctors). It is for the same reason that Nigerian nurses in Government hospitals earn more than PHD holders in Universities and before a bachelor degree holding teacher can hope to earn a fresh nursing graduate salary he needs to work for 10yrs.

In Nigeria, every healthcare provider wants to be a medical doctor but not all want to go to medical school.The unions and lobbyists of some of these fields are so brazen.Some  have forced the arm of the NUC backward to approve needless 6yr programmes for optometry and pharmacy and then arrogate to themselves the title Dr.Those who spent 4yrs reading these courses a few years ago and left with bachelor's degree who were 'dr' (with lips covered by closed hands) are now being publicly addressed as such. Optometrists now get paid call duty. You wonder, for emergency lens?

In the final analysis, every failure can be traced to one thing that we have distinguished ourselves in-that is corruption. One aspect of this argument I however don't subscribe to is making doctors the chief managers of hospitals. This practice cannot be justified by any sound logic and for Christ sake it hasnt worked in the past.It should be left to managers the way it is done in the States and elsewhere.

Emma GSM:
d woman have not commite any ECONOMICAL CRIME ,

You are wrong. This is a self evident case of obtaining money under false pretense (419) if it goes on trial. However it is

doubtful if the Obama issue is the sole reason SEC petitioned EFCC. There has been sth of a cold war b/w SEC and the

NSE over the way Onyiuke has been nursing her sick baby.

This whole thing is nothing but a personal vendetta crafted by one man called Aondoakaa.A most unusual man with an unsusual name.

Since the head of Government is either not there or has gone to sleep, why not use the instruments of Goverment to your advantage? A lot of people do not know that Aondoakaa as a defence lawyer co-opted Farida Waziri into standing surety for at least one Governor that EFCC (under Ribadu) brought before the courts. To say this country is unlucky to have this president is an understatement.

Queenisha:
what  normal country would institute discrimination of HIV patients
except one stuck in the stone age.
They can take their Dubai and shove it.
They'll soon start checking for those with intact hymen

Never mind the bunch of idiotic mallams.They lay claim to piety but have only one fixation-sex. Unfortunately America has speculated them and their oil into reckoning. Otherwise where was dubai on the tourist map 10 years ago. Animal in human skin (Fela, God bless his soul).

Any Yikpata corper in the house? My spirit still lives in that camp. Will be there soon for an exorcism.

Dis kind yeye thread naim dey confuse our little girls dey put sand sand for man garry. Seun, wipe am off quick.

Virginity indeed. We all know  the latest fraud in town

Chat2MeBac:
I don't need to lie to have longevitity, I prefer telling the truth and live happily ever after. ,  I am a virgin too, a reconstructed one that is. It aint no lie jare.

This is more desirable. Will pay double.

Chat2MeBac:
Na wa for Nlders o, I was speaking to Nigerian guy I met at the gym. He said "All" nigerian girls are virgins until 3mins you are about to screw them, then all of a sudden they remembered they were raped by a neighbour, or their uncle molested them, or worse off, they accidentally fingered themselves. I don die,  

Wise girls. Fear them! So that your days will be long and prosperous.

CCTV concept- Indeed another indicator of the mirage and falsehood that is Abuja.

Bureaucrats will sell a non viable dummy (in this case a city-wide CCTV in Nigeria) for a fantastic price tag. Of course it fails. Another comes in to embellish same idea with an equally humongous price tag.The objective is the same- a reason to justify spending done while in office. They should save their breath.They need no justification. Let them just take the money and leave us alone until sanity and order begins to prevail in Nigeria under a new Government. Afterall it will amount to nothing but yet another corruption scandal with a figure (that is if the press gets wind of it).

I lost mine at the ripe old age of 17.If it had been delayed by 1 week, insanity would have been certain. Its not as if there is much difference between sane/insane p'wise anyway .

This is a true war machine. You cant lose any battle with this. Any where.

Most women drive out of sync with other motorists.They will slow down when they have no need to, fail to use their trafficators as appropriate, are clumsy and generally cause frustration for other road users. Believe me the road is definitely where you dont want any woman near you-unfortunately the finer she is the worse/bigger the problem. You will be surprised to learn she has been driving for 20 yrs.

Some how I get the feeling that this might be an African woman or Nigerian woman thing. Because with my UK resident sister (a generally mild mannered person ), you better sit tight when she gets behind the wheel.

@Poster,

Doctors will generally advise that you make love to your spouse 2-3 times a week for one year b/4 you worry about infertility.

Secondly, if sperm count and quality is adequate and the woman is fine, there is no need for her to stand on her head after intercourse like some peeps are trying to suggest afterall a lot of pregnancies result every day from backyard, against the wall activity!

Thirdly, even if sperm is as thick as glue, it will undergo liquefaction and eventually come out.

@rabblerousers

Y'all shut it if you have nothing to say. Poster may have conjured a hypothetical situation to address the inner pains of some folks who will benefit one way or another from these posts. Shooo!

@ topic
Indeed I have seen some of these classified posts of 27-28yr old men looking for sugar mummies not more than 35yo

Why do you want to be a man, when the boys are having all the fun.

ahwuyen:
pennywise
do u have an idea of the annual pay of ETB

I have no clue. But no doubt it must be quite good.

agboifo:
These Nigerian banks may not actually be advertising on CNN, but rather on DSTV who slots in the ads during CNN's commercial breaks.

Zenith bank sponsor's CNN Africa.