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larride:
Are you factoring in family bills, expenses incurred by the private practice and other miscellaneous?

It's possible tho but it will come at great sacrifice from the family.

Theflint1:
You've left numbers and embraced conjecture


Yes, doctors have always striked, doesn't mean there wasn't a time when things were better than they are today, with as much or even less strikes sef

Doing another job alongside your government work has been frowned upon since forever, but it has never stopped government workers from those selling melon, clothes, jewelries, land, private medical practice and even ghosting totally.

DissTroy:
You referenced 2006ish. I focused on that period. I can't speak for the 80's or times past. The document publicly available - which I shared here - only shows from 1998.



I have given you the numbers and the links. I have shown you how the meal allowance per annum was #10,800 per annum in 2006 for CMDs. Again, it's on page 82 in that link. Stop hopping across different time periods like a mudskipper in the same argument.

Doctors earned better than other civil servants on average, but not enough to have funded forays for their kids into schooling abroad in 2006ish. Not with the forex rate weight against annual salaries.


I agree. Mr Faruk was dealing in scorpion venom and 'mercury' from grandfather clocks, too.

DissTroy:
I also agree that Wike's father owned companies which he inherited like he boasted on live television which explains why he can purchase mansions from Omoku to Florida.

A Yahoo Boy record label owner with 4 signees who have less than 100,000 listens on Spotify and 26,000 Youtube views performing at university departmental nights can afford to buy houses in Banana Island, fund Nollywood actresses, and splash on cars.
Maybe he sells Habanero pepper on the side to celebrities, and we don't know.

We keep trying to explain away what is obvious.

Ibime:
By aviation rules, if your airspace is not blocked to another country, they can make an emergency landing if in trouble

Traore is just being a buffoon for propaganda purposes as usual

Theflint1:
In 2011, a CMD would have been earning around 7.5M per year from private and personal practice, which would come to around 50K USD. From that money he'd have been able to sustain two kids in the higher institution in many parts of Europe, and some parts of the USA.

School fees for both kids 12K per year
Living expenses for both kids 18K per year
(flight was typically twice, once at the beginning of their program, and another at the end of their 4 year program, so that's miscellaneous).

The CMD would have still had 20K USD (about 3M then) to guide in Nigeria.

Mr Faruk was accused of spending the equivalent of 300M per year on his children's school fees, while on a salary of 50M per year...there's no Math you want to solve that'd explain how he's able to do that through his salary.

You could have criticized Mr Faruk for being corrupt and living way above his income without using it as an opportunity to resurrect an Akamu argument you made some time in the past, but alas

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Bimmarlykay:
Try landing in NK,and tell KIM aviation rules.😎

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Theflint1:
In 2011, a CMD would have been earning around 7.5M per year from private and personal practice, which would come to around 50K USD. From that money he'd have been able to sustain two kids in the higher institution in many parts of Europe, and some parts of the USA.

School fees for both kids 12K per year
Living expenses for both kids 18K per year
(flight was typically twice, once at the beginning of their program, and another at the end of their 4 year program, so that's miscellaneous).

The CMD would have still had 20K USD (about 3M then) to guide in Nigeria.

Mr Faruk was accused of spending the equivalent of 300M per year on his children's school fees, while on a salary of 50M per year...there's no Math you want to solve that'd explain how he's able to do that through his salary.

You could have criticized Mr Faruk for being corrupt and living way above his income without using it as an opportunity to resurrect an Akamu argument you made some time in the past, but alas

MonsieurCoder:
School fees for both kids $12k/year, in which University in the USA?

Theflint1:
Today it might be difficult for most CMDs to do that, but around those 2006 Dem, which was one of the examples given, it was common to see fresh medical grads doing housmanship getting like 150K per month, and this came to around $1,000.

I'm sure your CMD from that era would have been taking like 500K per month (plus allowances) that's around $3,000, his two months salary would comfortably pay for a semesters tuition, plus small upkeep money for a child in the UK, or other European countries.

So that people could take their kids abroad less than two decades ago isn't automatically sign that they were corrupt or stealing from the government...these things were a lot easier to manage then.

This is happening in Bangladesh

A woman harassed by jihadis for wearing western clothes in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh is becoming worse than ISIS pic.twitter.com/Imt9QhhTwW

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afrodoc2:
These are the people that Dayo wants to give gun to.

izzou:
My Brother

This is my humble advice.... Abeg let such people go when you're in such situations

I have noticed lately that there are a large number of people you see everyday, walking about with mental issues. They are one word or step away from displaying madness.

You know the worst part? They have nothing that they are living for...If you kill them, nobody go cry. If dem kill you, nobody go still come bail them.

If that guy had a gun, he would shoot the Lexus owner without blinking.

Especially this Lagos, I no even dey follow anybody talk sef. Make all of us manage our madness internally

BlueRayDick:
I understand u and naturally I act like a humble person who avoids trouble at all cost even when I’m provoked .

However , there’s a limit to which one’s gentleness will last I mean the Lexus driver remained calm and didn’t give room for the guy on foot to escalate things but still he ended up throwing such a huge rock at the windscreen to over escalate the matter .

I doubt the most humble person on this thread will be able to hold his anger at that point . It will take super extra divine intervention to hold ur anger at that point . Even for someone who has comprehensive insurance that covers that kind of malicious damage , u go still wan deal with the attacker make him body for tell am .

afrodoc2:
Don't engage in physical altercation no matter what. People underestimate how easy it is to die or how easy it is to kill someone.

The best you can do and the worst you should do is to show your Lexus ownership and lock him up.

afrodoc2:
Most of the figures you are using are wrong.

Whether 2006 or 2011 no CMD could have sent 2 kids to the US or to Europe for university studies from his salary.

afrodoc2:
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Lambastic lamba. Common ke?

It was 60-90k and in most hospitals more likely to be closer to 60k than 90k.

Theflint1:
My sis did housmanship in Borno around 2007/8 and her numbers touched or was just above 100K per month, and that was as a lab scientist.

izzou:
100k in 2008?

You sure?

Theflint1:
My sis did housmanship in Borno around 2007/8 and her numbers touched or was just above 100K per month, and that was as a lab scientist.

afrodoc2:
Lab science intern salary in Nigeria 2008: 60k to 100k with federal and state to state variation.

Medical doctor house officer salary in Nigeria in 2008: 70k to 100k with federal and state to state variation.

150k house officer salary in 2006: Still Lambastic Lamba.

afrodoc2:
Lab science intern salary in Nigeria 2008: 60k to 100k with federal and state to state variation.

Medical doctor house officer salary in Nigeria in 2008: 70k to 100k with federal and state to state variation.

150k house officer salary in 2006: Still Lambastic Lamba.

Theflint1:
That 150K was more around 2011/2012, and it typically started from like 120K, 150K was the higher band...I was mixing up salary eras on that

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