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Re: Why Nigerian Doctors Dominate Candidacy For The WACS Primary Examination In 2026 by Lanretoye(m): 12:21pm On Aug 06
Tenses:
Look at them.

Throwing up 'POPULATION' when it suit their agenda.

Country A is selling fuel cheaper than Nigeria which is a producer of refined and crude petroleum

tinubu people: what is the population of country A.
oga relocate to the country asap,crying river doesnt fill fuel tank
Re: Why Nigerian Doctors Dominate Candidacy For The WACS Primary Examination In 2026 by Emeskhalifa(m): 12:32pm On Aug 06
Didijiji:
iWEEP for Nigeria under APC

It takes grace to recover the damage done by that occultic coven
Still doesn't mean Obi will be different.

How y'all put your hope on these politicians baffles me.

Either you guys have a hidden agenda or it's something else
Re: Why Nigerian Doctors Dominate Candidacy For The WACS Primary Examination In 2026 by airsaylongcome: 12:36pm On Aug 06
Looool! Depends on which UNI the docs graduate from. I think Unilag medical grads don’t rate WACS
Re: Why Nigerian Doctors Dominate Candidacy For The WACS Primary Examination In 2026 by Didijiji: 12:56pm On Aug 06
Emeskhalifa:
Still doesn't mean Obi will be different.

How y'all put your hope on these politicians baffles me.

Either you guys have a hidden agenda or it's something else
Check alllllllll my posts and show where I said Obi this Obi that
Re: Why Nigerian Doctors Dominate Candidacy For The WACS Primary Examination In 2026 by DrTee1(m): 1:51pm On Aug 06
Can I buy you a cold bottle of whatever you drink, please?

What you wrote here is truly golden.

nairalanda1:
Yeah, but the harsh truth is that health care, quality healthcare is expensive.

One can get quality healthcare in the UK for example, but UK citizens and residents pay exorbitant taxes for the thing...infact UK tax can chop incomes before other things come in. USA own is even worse. You will pay a large chunk of your salary in health insurance, and then you fall sick and even after your insurance pays, your remaining cost would force you to beg for money via gofundme in real life.

The problem is, the cost of research and machinery is very high. It costs a lot of money to keep an MRI machine running for example, ya need constant light to begin with among other things. If Nigeria somehow managed to build 5 teaching hospitals that are like the African center of medical excellence in Abuja per state, the MRI cost would chop a large segment of the budget. Housekeeping costs of a hospital is another matter. I mop the floor of my house at best twice a week. Hospital where i work, it is 3-4 times a day. IMagine the cost.

If we want quality healthcare, e go cost money. A lot of money. Sane poor countries like Cuba invest in preventive medicine, which helps, but not by much.
Re: Why Nigerian Doctors Dominate Candidacy For The WACS Primary Examination In 2026 by DrTee1(m): 1:55pm On Aug 06
Now, yet again, you are right - until you wrote "not Tinubu". I'm guessing you wrote that so that you aren't accused of being an APC data boy. Lol.

There's no way we can vote anyone solely on the basis of what the person says. We've got to vote based on what we know the person can do, or has done, or what we can see, not whatever the person simply says.

nairalanda1:
The massive subsidy of currency by previous governments is why we are in the economic problems we are in now.

Yes, and tinubu removing it was not because of reforms, but because he was forced to do so, no spare dollars, and our revenue was under pressure.

The problem with your comment, and don't be mad, and no I am not a tinubu supporter......is that you want government to subsidsie dollar for you so that you can buy imported goods cheaply.

Which is economic self sabotage. We did that for decades, and got into a massive debt that forced the deregulation you are complaining about. We also lost billions of dollars to round tripping...and so forth.

But crucially, we did not develop the productive capacity we needed to develop things like a strong export industry of manufactured goods, and crucially a very sustainably strong currency. Because our currency is not sustainably strong. It has been progressively getting weaker and weaker since 1973, and all we used to slow the weakness was spending billions of dollars on doing that, with disastrous resoults.

Even the subsidizing of the naira was not used strategically to help our domestic productive capacity grow, it was also used to import frivolous stuff. Worsening the matter. Had subsidized dollars been left to import components and vital raw materials for our domestic industries only,we would have been on a better standing by now.

But we didn't.

Result, we ended up in debt that forced the subsidy on dollars to go anyway.

You should vote for a candidate in the next election that talks about domestic production. Not tinubu.
Re: Why Nigerian Doctors Dominate Candidacy For The WACS Primary Examination In 2026 by nairalanda1(m): 2:30pm On Aug 06
DrTee1:
Now, yet again, you are right - until you wrote "not Tinubu". I'm guessing you wrote that so that you aren't accused of being an APC data boy. Lol.
Yes, because you kids think of things in terms of daily bread. Anyone who doesn't think like that is not suffering therefore must be data boy.

There's no way we can vote anyone solely on the basis of what the person says. We've got to vote based on what we know the person can do, or has done, or what we can see, not whatever the person simply says.
Obi is not perfect, I know he is part of the system, but in 2019, 2023, and even now, he did talk about productivity. Enough to tempt me away from my lifetime of voting for smaller parties that were not apc or pdp or the big wee...to vote for him next year. But then again, you guys love your daily bread, not long term thinking, which is why you get bad government all the time.

And you abuse people like me.
Re: Why Nigerian Doctors Dominate Candidacy For The WACS Primary Examination In 2026 by gudugudumeje: 2:33pm On Aug 06
West African Postgraduate Medical College Exams; not WACS......
Re: Why Nigerian Doctors Dominate Candidacy For The WACS Primary Examination In 2026 by nairalanda1(m): 2:37pm On Aug 06
gudugudumeje:
West African Postgraduate Medical College Exams; not WACS......
At west African level, there are separate colleges for the surgical specialites (opthalmology, obstetrics and surgery) and the other specialites. WACS looks after the surgical, WACP which you mentioned looks after the other fields.

Then there is the National Postgraduate medical college, which is the nigerian variant and looks after all the fields surigical and non surgical.

Attached...logos of the three colleges.

Re: Why Nigerian Doctors Dominate Candidacy For The WACS Primary Examination In 2026 by DrTee1(m): 3:13pm On Aug 06
You kids? Did that come from you as a defense mechanism?

I checked the date you created this account. You should check mine, and consider an decent review, or apology.

nairalanda1:
Yes, because you kids think of things in terms of daily bread. Anyone who doesn't think like that is not suffering therefore must be data boy.



Obi is not perfect, I know he is part of the system, but in 2019, 2023, and even now, he did talk about productivity. Enough to tempt me away from my lifetime of voting for smaller parties that were not apc or pdp or the big wee...to vote for him next year. But then again, you guys love your daily bread, not long term thinking, which is why you get bad government all the time.

And you abuse people like me.
Re: Why Nigerian Doctors Dominate Candidacy For The WACS Primary Examination In 2026 by nairalanda1(m): 4:06pm On Aug 06
DrTee1:
You kids? Did that come from you as a defense mechanism?

I checked the date you created this account. You should check mine, and consider an decent review, or apology.
Yep, and I stand by my comment because your response has proved me right

You kids , yes!
Re: Why Nigerian Doctors Dominate Candidacy For The WACS Primary Examination In 2026 by DrTee1(m): 5:38pm On Aug 06
Fair enough, if that makes you feel better.
nairalanda1:
Yep, and I stand by my comment because your response has proved me right

You kids , yes!
Re: Why Nigerian Doctors Dominate Candidacy For The WACS Primary Examination In 2026 by nairalanda1(m): 5:39pm On Aug 06
DrTee1:
Fair enough, if that makes you feel better.
You want free stuff. That is why you guys never have good government, and that includes tinubu supporters.
Re: Why Nigerian Doctors Dominate Candidacy For The WACS Primary Examination In 2026 by DrTee1(m): 5:46pm On Aug 06
I honestly do not think you deserve my attention.

Someday, you'll mature.

nairalanda1:
You want free stuff. That is why you guys never have good government, and that includes tinubu supporters.
Re: Why Nigerian Doctors Dominate Candidacy For The WACS Primary Examination In 2026 by nairalanda1(m): 5:52pm On Aug 06
DrTee1

I honestly do not think you deserve my attention.

Someday, you'll mature.
Yep someone that abuses me for saying that subsidy has to go because we need more investment as a result, and then lies that I am a tinubu supporter, is asking me to be mature.

The guy that is immature is the one calling me immature

And he blocked me!

Ah well, nairaland. Most people like DrTee1 think with their poverty, and not long term. That's why tinubu is ruling over them...it is that short term thinking that makes them choose people like him

Well, it was worth a laugh

Sometimes I feel like the old man here...
Re: Why Nigerian Doctors Dominate Candidacy For The WACS Primary Examination In 2026 by APOPTOSIS: 7:00pm On Aug 06
ppogba:
Simple common sense.

Number of doctors produced in Nigeria.
Exactly
I tire ooo
So people can't reason again.
People don't know that Ghana, Sierra Lonne are like Rivers state and Oyo
Re: Why Nigerian Doctors Dominate Candidacy For The WACS Primary Examination In 2026 by ppogba: 7:46pm On Aug 06
APOPTOSIS:
Exactly
I tire ooo
So people can't reason again.
People don't know that Ghana, Sierra Lonne are like Rivers state and Oyo
My brother, the era of reasoning is almost gone for good.
Re: Why Nigerian Doctors Dominate Candidacy For The WACS Primary Examination In 2026 by TEYA: 9:24pm On Aug 06
nairalanda1:
Thank you., Noted....still proves my point. We got 237 million people.

If anything, 1003 doctors doing speciality exams and Ghana with other countries providing 95 people to do same exams shows how under resourced many African countries are, doctorwise. And the effects of the decade long brain drain.
Oga, going by the figures, these countries constitute about 20% of the West African population, the doctors from those countries constitute only 9% of the doctors sitting for the exams, so I don't know what point you said I prove.
Re: Why Nigerian Doctors Dominate Candidacy For The WACS Primary Examination In 2026 by SamuraiXXX: 4:16pm On Aug 07
CorperKola:
Of course of course
We are too poor and too many
If i had to pick a country to live
I dont know about you but if i can pick a country to live I'll pick a scandinavian country with high gdp and gdp per capita and a small population of like 5 million
Sweden norway and the likes
Cost of living is high in those countries you mentioned especially Norway
Re: Why Nigerian Doctors Dominate Candidacy For The WACS Primary Examination In 2026 by CorperKola: 5:57pm On Aug 07
SamuraiXXX:
Cost of living is high in those countries you mentioned especially Norway
You are stressing me needlessly
Google norway cost of living and quality of public services and read what comes up
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