₦airaland Forum

yemaldo: They are useless anyways(at least for now) people are dying on daily basis and do doctors doesn't care, so y blame do federal government alone, they are all guilty

Too risky to work as a doctor now, because of Ebola virus infection risk.

deeobserver209: I used to support these doctors but when I got to learn how political their strike dived into and their superiority complex, I withdrew my support for them.
The main bone of contention is the demand for the establishment of the office of the 'Surgeon General of the Federation' which they argue should be established to take care of Health care matters in the country, just like the situation in the United States.
But things got crappy when they insist that only Doctors be appointed as a Surgeon General. Arguing that doctors are more qualified for the position considering the amount of time they spend on their course of study. This didn't go down well with the nurses who feel that such plan would only subjugate nurses to the background. The nurses were of the oppion that the office of the Surgeon General should be left wide open for whoever will be qualified to occupy, be it Nurse or a Doctor. They cite an example with the United States were the current Surgeon General is a Nurse.

The bone of contention was MD of federal hospitals, not surgeon genera. which


FG has already acceded surgeon general to doctors.

Why only resident doctors? Jonathan, this is scapegoating and going for soft target, in the hope that consultants would return to work. Shame!!

Bring back our men!!

We keep blaming mr sawyer for Ebola dx in naija. What measures did we put in place to control it's spread to Nigeria? Did we quarantine Liberian, Guinean and Serra leonean visitors? Did the staff at the private hosp where mr sawyer was rushed take precautions when they knew sawyer was a Liberian resident. Was mr sawyer prohibited from traveling by the Liberian authorities? he was the Liberian ECOWAS rep when he came to Nigeria.

Alexk2: ...Even this Ebola case will pass just like bird flu in Jesus name.
Nigeria must survive this trying tym and come out strong.


my question is; how come USA get the 'antidote' when the disease is termed 'west africa thing'.?..to me, USA have questions to answer; i just never trust them for 1ce.

Pls stop this conspiracy against the United States of America. THEY' VE BEEN RESEARCHING FOR THIS CURE SINCE 1976; experimental drug for the cure discovered since 2012. Read about it here:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZMapp

priscaoge: May God save us from this deadly virus We Have had enough lately. This Boko Haram is too much for us to bear,So Ebola there's no space for u in this country I pray they use every possible means to evacuate this wicked virus because this is more deadly n wicked than Boko Haram

Fear not, sister. There is now a cure!! Experimental drug Zmapp.

Read about it here:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZMapp

uglyogre: Men are big fools. Sex is all they know. Idiotas!

It's what brings children into the world. It's what marriage, Inlaws is about. That is why parents are together to look after children. No sex, no marriage, no children, no parenthood. No love. No humanity

fellis: @bold, awww, sorry about that, I didn't know you guys felt like that. Alright maybe I was harsh before, I understand where you guys are coming from.

The fact is that sex is associated with pleasure and is driven by desire induced by dopamine( a brain chemical that drives addiction to drugs or certain behaviours) and testestrone that induces arousal. The more sex u have, the higher the drive. Sex can be controlled, and the more u control it the better you can stay without it. Many men engage in sex to show love for their wives as well, and not just for pleasure alone

May be due to a lack of desire due to hormonal, psychological or social stress, mood changes, and may not be wickedness. Her libido may just be low. The spreadsheet is a good idea to encourage her do something about it. A lady said she lost desire for sex following delivery of her last baby since two years ago. Just accepts husband's approach to please him. It turned out on further assessment she had dysthymia, a low grade depression requiring treatment.

thegoodjoehunt: The Sports Minister had to meet with the Super Eagles team when they refused to play. He was shocked that the players problem with lack of funding and neglect went as far as the Nations Cup and confederations cup.

Funds which have been released by the government for those players.

Also during friendly games, lack of adequate hotels, poor transportation and many other problems were complained by the players.

The Sports Minister promised the players that he would provide their bonuses and match allowances for the World Cup. The Federal Government intervened and provided the World Cup money.

Now FIFA heads say government hands no right to look into funds that can not be accounted for.

So the best choice is to be obedient and allow the NFF run themselves as FIFA wants it.

The NFF should have a supervising board and a complaints commission where players can make complaints. There ought to be accounts auditing bodies set up by the NFF to regulate its activities. The EFCC and the police are also there. So no need for FG to interfere directly. There is more to the issues than just FG supporting players financially and looking into NFF accounts.

I don't understand you Nairalanders supporting FG to interfere/control NFF. Were we not the ones complaining that ministers, governors, senators and the president send list of players to the coach? Were we not the same people complaining that govt officials influence choice coaches and technical advisers? Closing and freezing NFF account is wrong and indicates govts foolery and bragadrey in response to FIFA's corrective measures. So if a president's election was funded by a millionaire the millionaire should control/interfere in govt?

Is the entire money in NFF account govt money?

Another overreaction of Jonathan which he should reverse.

The fact is that the job of the CEOs of these hospitals is 95% admin. So whowever heads this post must show evidence of capacity to lead, administer health facility, manage human, financial and material resources. Doctors core training is managing of patients. To be CEOs they should undergo training and experience in health service, public admin and leadership trainning. Every member of the health team who has the qualifications, experience in hospital can become a CEO. This model works well in Australia. The depts can be headed by their professional members. Docs feel threatened for no reason. Experience is that in Nigeria most doc CEOs have only clinical qualification and so learn on the job from the DA.

Docs should learn to use the team model in pt care : show respect equally to other professionals in health service, and realize that their contribution to pt care is only part of the whole care of the patient. If no drugs from pharmacists, no nurses to give the meds, nurse patients, no records , no lab, doctors work is useless in public hospitals. Docs who relate well with team spirit and equally respect other staff are more respected, work less and happier in the profession

In summary in my view any qualified health professional can be CEO of public hospitals

Godbest: Evil brain and the likes i seriously pity ur ignorance of THE WORD OF GOD THE BIBLE. Believe it or not d Bible is 100% accurate and correct.. It because of ur evil mind that y d truth is not know to you.. In Gen 6:7 the bible said that the main purpose of d flood was to destroy d wicked generation And God did that by his Ever great mighty Power. In Gen6:19 God told Noah to take just Two of every flesh and fowls male and female.. Food = Gen 6:21 tell us dat ALL FOOD were gotten 4 event. As of Hiv it is a punishment from God upon man in our generation. It was not in their generation. Pls remember He is God he know how to preserve the righteous from His punishment toward the sinner. And all those science lie that you are believing will put your life in danger...

There you go again with faith belief! You cannot even do a little reasoning with your brain and mind. Why are the stories of a single ancient Nigerian kingdom or Greek city state not in the bible? Do you that those genesis were written thousands of yeRs after the events they wrote about? The bible books were authoress cover less books.

The Noah flood story is mythical story of the Jews, that has no scientific basis of possibility. It makes a god who is harsh punitive and unforgiving because it reflects the mind of the ancient Jews. Compare this to the god preached by Jesus in the New Testament because the gospel authors were influenced by Hellenistic philosophy

OLAADEGBU: Nests in the Ark

"Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch." (Genesis 6:14)

Details surrounding the story of Noah and the Flood have long caused laymen and theologians alike to stumble and compromise.

None could argue that the wording was not clear.  God had commanded Noah to build a wooden boat of huge dimensions and to take on board representatives of land-dwelling, air-breathing animals.  The Flood, Scripture reveals, devastated the entire world.  But nineteenth-century theologians, pressed on by Hutton, Lyell, and others proposing the new uniformitarian interpretation of earth history, became convinced that the scriptural account must be understood in a figurative sense.  Their twentieth-century counterparts repeat this error, promulgating the non-biblical idea that the Flood was only local.

Some have wondered how Noah could gather all the animals, but the Bible simply says they "went in two and two unto Noah into the ark" (7:9), evidently migrating to the location on God’s command.

Their care while on the Ark has also been raised as a problem.  But, in all likelihood, the animals entered a state of semi-dormancy, as nearly all of their descendants do today when faced with danger over which they have no control and from which they cannot flee.

Scripture supports this idea in our text: The word "rooms," which is more properly translated "nests" everywhere else in Scripture, implies a small place to sleep or nestle, rather than a large cage.  The job of caring for the animals may have been difficult, but our gracious God would have seen to it that it was possible.  Questions like these are no cause for compromise. JDM

Why so difficult to understand that this a myth geared towards encouraging the people of Israel to glorify the power of their god and they sprang from a pure ancestry. If you examine the story objectively it makes little sense to believe that a man over a hundred years old could assisted by only 7 people could build such an ark. Why did god not just create a new set of animals after the flood instead of asking to preserve them? That would have been easier.

It is said that: did god create man in his own image or did man create god in our own image?

I think the Noah flood story is a myth, or at best, was a local flood event in the area Noah lived. He probably survived the flood with a few other people. The bible writers may have blown the story out of proportion to illustrate that faithfulness to God is the key to survival. Mind you the genesis story were written not even by Moses but by unknown Jews in about 600 and something BC while enslaved in Babylon.

Myths were woven into the stories and they did not expect anyone to believe the story as true, just like we do not expect our children to believe folk tales of tortoise and the rabbit as true. The aim of Noah flood story is to emphasise to the Jews that if you are faithful to Yahweh you can survive any peril; be it floods, volcanoes, earthquakes. Mind you they were refugees, prisoners and slaves in Babylon when these stories were written and they needed all the encouragement to hold fast to their religion.

This should be the perspective from which to understand all bible stories; they are not accurate historical accounts of events, hence have no authors names , but just to illustrate points regarding power of God and man's relationship to the cosmic. Always ask what is the lesson here not what the event is when you read bible stories. 98 percent of the stories are mythical but are of theological benefit to those who are religious.

venorite: Op its not just the politicians.humans are naturally greedy and wicked.I don't know why some people will steal a country's money to build houses that no one will stay in it.go to maitama,asokoro and the likes and u will weep for nigeria.some people are worth billions of dollars while some can't even have 3 square meals.some times I just thank God for death cos only God knows what will have happened if people didn't die or could buy life.just try and be good,help people u can, and u will be blessed

Before you brand all the Abuja property developers with all the vices and demonic names, pls consider the high cost of land in Abuja that pushes cost of housing development ad thus the rent.

Perhaps govt can regulate the cost of Abuja land to help push down the rent.

GEJ and Abati pls note.

I just got my zenith MasterCard debit card, and very eager to do some online shopping. Nairalanders what's the most reliable store I can buy things online? Also can I shop with zenith debit MasterCard on amazon?

Thanks for sharing your experience.

Oliseloke: There are very few "professional" video vixens in nigeria...a lot of what u see are university girls who happen to be sexy and can dance...most of dem don't even get paid...

Blame the poor quality of the music videos not on the girls but on the producers, directors and choreographers as well as the costume and makeup artist of the videos. The girls are like actors performing the scenes prepared for them.

Merry Xmas to all Nairalanders and their families and loved ones. Happy holidays, peace and goodwill to all

Nairalanders please describe your ex with a movie title. It gives a succinct summary of how the relationship was. For example die[/b] hard[/i][b] when your ex was difficult to get rid of.

Thanks for sharing

rozzay: My dear u r very correct. I personally don't like bras wen am not goin far I wear tube which is light. Weneva I remove my bra I feel pains sef esp dese bras dey make now very hard wit vitafoam I tire ooo wen am @ home nd don't wear bra I feel no pains but we can't do without it dats d sad thin.

Yeah, like asking men not to wear underpants when going out, despite the disadvantages.

papa_nnamdi: This could be true, I witnessed somthin dat may validate dis survey.
I servd in benue for some time,
Now during dat period I noticed so many out of place stuffs, one of which was the size of female bosoms,
The females even teenage girls posses extreemly large breasts,
Surprisingly, these tenage girls dont wear bras, its believed that, if you wear a bra, you definitely are a married person' a teenage girl once told me..
Now that is a little funny, but to my amazement, the ladies in this rural area in benue have pointy breasts, I know dis cos d tip of the breasts is always visible after they are dressed.
Its really unbelivable buh I think its tru, they hardly wear bras, but as big as their breasts look, it is still very firm and pointy, unlike d ones I have seen before, in lagos and other neighbourin states
So I think this claim could be true.

Thank me lara.

Thanks. My observations too while growing up as a secondary school on my rural home town in isoko delta state, where women hardly used bras then. Even among the mature women too

10 things you didn’t know about Mandela
at Monday, December 09, 2013



He was loved and admired the world over, profiled in books and movies, and showered with awards and accolades. But even the most public of personalities have little-known facts buried in their biographies.

Here are 10 surprising facts you probably didn’t know about Nelson Mandela:



1. He lived up to his name: Mandela’s birth name was Rolihlahla. In his Xhosa tribe, the name means pulling the branch of a tree or troublemaker. (The name “Nelson” was given to him by his teacher on his first day of elementary school. It’s not clear why she chose that particular name. It was the 1920s, and African children were given English names so colonial masters could pronounce them easily).

2. He had a cameo in a Spike Lee film: He had a big part in Spike Lee’s 1992 biopi (Preview) c “Malcolm X.” At the very end of the movie, he plays a teacher reciting Malcolm X’s famous speech to a room full of Soweto school kids. But the pacifist Mandela wouldn’t say “by any means necessary.” So Lee cut back to footage of Malcolm X to close out the film.

3. There’s a woodpecker named after him: From Cape Town to California, streets named after Mandela abound. But he’s also been the subject of some rather unusual tributes. Last year, scientists named a prehistoric woodpecker after him: Australopicus nelsonmandelai. In 1973, the physics institute at Leeds University named a nuclear particle the ‘Mandela particle.’

4. He married a first lady: Before tying the knot with Mandela on his 80th birthday, Graca Machel was married to Mozambique President Samora Machel. Her marriage to Mandela after her husband’s death means she has been the first lady of two nations.

5. He was a master of disguise: When Mandela was eluding authorities during his fight against apartheid, he disguised himself in various ways, including as a chauffeur. The press nicknamed him “the Black Pimpernel” because of his police evasion tactics. “I became a creature of the night. I would keep to my hideout during the day, and would emerge to do my work when it became dark,” he says in his biography, “Long Walk to Freedom.”

6. A bloody sport intrigued him: Besides politics, Mandela’s other passion was boxing. “I did not like the violence of boxing. I was more interested in the science of it – how you move your body to protect yourself, how you use a plan to attack and retreat, and how you pace yourself through a fight,” he says in his biography.

7. His favorite dish is probably not yours: He’s been wined and dined by world leaders. But what Mandela loved eating most was tripe. Yup, the stomach lining of farm animals.

8. He quit his day job: He studied law at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and opened the nation’s first black law firm in the city in 1952.

9. He was on the U.S. terror watch list: Mandela wasn’t removed from the U.S. terror watch list until 2008 — at age 89. He and other members of the African National Congress were placed on it because of their militant fight against apartheid.

10. He drew his inspiration from a poem: While he was in prison, Mandela would read William Ernest Henley’s “Invictus” to fellow prisoners. The poem, about never giving up, resonated with Mandela for its lines “I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.” You may know it from the movie by the same name starring Morgan Freeman as Mandela.

Source: CNN.com

Source

http://www.nigerianeye.com/2013/12/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-mandela.html

We should be mourning for Nigeria too, not only for Nelson Mandela

Hey Nairalanders, what do you do to "kill" time when waiting at airports, bus parks or just for someone or something to happen. For me it's music and games on my ipad. Let's hear yours. Thanks for sharing.

The op's thread is quite interesting. The reasons are generally due to prejudice, racism, group think and ignorance in that order. Africa is believed to be the home of primitive man and what interests the western media is poverty, suffering. This leads many to believe it has nothing developed to show the world in terms of roads, buildings universities etc.

Those claiming the British brought civilization to Africa may be right but don't forget the ancient Egyptians and Carthaginians were Africans and the Druids, ancestors of the British were civilized by the Romans.

luvinhubby: R.I.P anyhow, but why is that part of the news concealed, though it is in Dailytrust.
Lesson : Live right & control your urge.

Yes, that's right. And stop using Viagra and energy boosters for sex and pleasure as these are known to raise blood pressure and cause irregular heart beat and rhythm leading to sudden death.

wellmax: Come o, shey na every day we go dey follow wetin this people wear.
Hmmm, vanities sha

Na waoo! Una mumu don do!!

Is omosexy not getting too old for this kind of work , being a married woman too? Better to consider more reasonable options.

I wish mr president speedy recovery!

He probably went to london for treatment in the first place, and this story given by mr Abati may just be a coverup. Saharareporters will give the facts soon.

Here is the harrowing story of Haija, a teenage Christian girl who showed courage, wisdom and devotion in the face of torture from gangster and terrorist group Boko haram


In the gloom of a hilltop cave in Nigeria where she was held captive, Hajja had a knife pressed to her throat by a man who gave her a choice - convert to Islam or die.



Two gunmen from Boko Haram had seized the Christian teenager in July as she picked corn near her village in the Gwoza hills, a remote part of northeastern Nigeria where a six-month-old government offensive is struggling to contain an insurgency by the al Qaeda-linked Islamist group.

In a new development, Boko Haram is abducting Christian women whom it converts to Islam on pain of death and then forces into "marriage" with fighters - a tactic that recalls Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army in the jungles of Uganda.

The three months Hajja spent as the slave of a 14-strong guerrilla unit, cooking and cleaning for them before she escaped, give a rare glimpse into how the Islamists have changed tack in the face of Nigerian military pressure.

"I can't sleep when I think of being there," the 19-year-old told Reuters, recounting forced mountain marches, rebel intelligence gathering - and watching her captors slit the throats of prisoners Hajja had helped lure into a trap.

Nigerian security officials say the Islamists have pulled back after army assaults since May on their bases on the semi-desert plain and are now sheltering in the Mandara mountains, along the Cameroon border around the city of Gwoza. From the hills they have been launching increasingly deadly attacks.

The rugged mountain terrain - as fellow al Qaeda allies found in Afghanistan - has proven an advantageous base for a movement that once styled itself the "Nigerian Taliban" and sees all non-Muslims as infidels who must convert or be killed.

The United States designated Boko Haram a terrorist group on Wednesday. Western governments are increasingly concerned about the wider threat posed by the group, which wants to create an Islamic state in a religiously mixed country of 170 million and which has ties with al Qaeda's north African wing.

Hajja's account of how Boko Haram has adapted and survived in recent months underlines the difficulties governments in the region face. The spread of the threat was underscored by the kidnap on Thursday of a French priest in Cameroon, an attack France believes may have involved Boko Haram.

The following day, Nigerian troops raided a base for the group in the Gwoza hills. The army said it killed 29 Boko Haram fighters and was "closing in" on the rebels.

Forced to convert

The group, whose name broadly translates as "Western education is sinful", has killed thousands during a four-year insurgency against the Nigerian state, targeting the police and armed forces as well as politicians and then turning on Christians in the predominantly Muslim north of the country.

The military offensive launched in mid-May, and the fact that large numbers of civilian vigilantes have supported it, has triggered a fierce backlash against local people by Boko Haram. The militants have killed hundreds in the past few weeks, including in massacres of school children.

The Islamists dragged Hajja along rocky mountain paths and slept in caves in the hills, a landscape unfamiliar to most Nigerian soldiers, recruited from the plains.

She ceremonially converted to Islam, cooked for the men, carried ammunition during an attack on a police outpost and was about to be married to one of the insurgents before she managed to engineer a dramatic escape. She says she was not raped.

"If I cried, they beat me. If I spoke, they beat me. They told me I must become a Muslim but I refused again and again," Hajja told Reuters in an interview. Her family name is withheld to protect relatives still living in the Gwoza area.

"They were about to slaughter me and one of them begged me not to resist and just before I had my throat slit I relented. They put a veil on me and made me read from the Koran," she said in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, where she is now living.

At least a dozen teenagers like her remain in captivity, Michael Yohanna, a councilor in Gwoza's local government told Reuters. Some have married commanders, recalling Kony's LRA, which abducted thousands of "wives" in a 20-year war in Uganda before a truce in 2006. Kony remains a fugitive.

A man called Ibrahim Tada Nglayike led the group Hajja was with. On one mission, Hajja was sent to stand in a field near a village to attract the attention of civilians working with the army. When five men approached her, they were ambushed.

"They took them back to a cave and tied them up. They cut their throats, one at a time," Hajja said. "I thought my heart would burst out of my chest, because I was the bait."

Among those who did the killing was the Muslim wife of the leader Nglayike, the only other woman in the band of fighters.

Reuters verified Hajja's account of having been abducted with independent figures in the region. Boko Haram shuns the media and none of its members could be contacted for comment.

Hajja says the long-bearded insurgents lived a basic lifestyle, eating corn, millet and occasionally meat from animals they stole and which she slaughtered.

The group, armed with AK-47 rifles and pistols stolen from police they killed, moved every day around the hills to avoid being tracked by the army and slept in the caves to shelter from the cold and for protection against air assaults.

"They didn't use phones but they had a radio," Hajja said.

"They would listen to BBC Hausa or Voice of America and jump and shout if they heard about Boko Haram attacks."

Toothpaste effect

Forced out of cities and semi-desert bases since Jonathan declared a state of emergency in May, the militants have mostly retreated to hills and forests on the Cameroon border.

"It's the toothpaste effect: squeeze one end and it comes out the other. They have proven resilient and are adapting faster than the military," a Nigerian security source said.

Army commanders denied Boko Haram had any control over the Gwoza mountains: "We are curtailing their activities and I can assure you that ... the insurgency will soon be a thing of the past," Lieutenant Colonel Adamu Garba Laka said.

But a Nigerian general asked Cameroon this month for help in fighting Boko Haram, and the backlash against civilians has made the conflict deadlier than ever.

According to one security source, in the five months after Jonathan declared a state of emergency in the northeast there were 1,708 deaths in 83 violent clashes, compared with 667 deaths from 117 incidents in the previous five months.

Pushing the conflict into poor rural regions, like Gwoza, where Hajja was seized, runs the risk of radicalizing more disenchanted youths and drawing more people into the violence.

"Gwoza has disintegrated. We have no schools, no hospitals, no government offices functioning," said councilor Yohanna.

"I worry that youths will take the law into their own hands. It will become a war between Christians and Muslims."

Insurgents moved freely through the hills and even into the town of Gwoza, Hajja said. Fighters made trips to collect cash, ammunition and weapons from the Sambisa Game Reserve, a forested region where Boko Haram has established camps.

Informants, mostly farmers, would warn them of approaching army patrols, Hajja said, adding that the rebels also appeared to have sympathetic contacts among the troops - something Nigerian military commanders deny.

"They know the area very well and many people help them because they are afraid or support their cause," Hajja said.

On once occasion, Boko Haram commanders were able travel from Maiduguri, the state capital on the plain north of Gwoza, to meet the guerrilla group in the hills.

Hajja said her unit carried out dozens of attacks, killing police and anyone suspected of aiding authorities.

The longer the insurgency goes on, President Goodluck Jonathan, a southern Christian, will come under increasing criticism from his northern opponents as elections in early 2015 draw closer.

He risks growing resentment from a northern population who believe he is out of touch with their troubles.

It is also becoming a drain on Africa's second largest economy - Nigeria allocates a fifth of its budget for security.

Hajja eventually escaped by feigning severe stomach pains. Thinking her too ill to flee, the insurgents sent her to hospital escorted only by an older woman. Once she was among other people, Hajja threatened to denounce the group to police, prompting the woman to abandon her and flee.

"I finally tore off the veil and I cried," Hajja said.

"So many times I thought I'd die."

Reuters

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http://www.nigerianeye.com/2013/11/convert-to-islam-or-die-christian.html