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Ibime: Except to say that Abramovic could not find his ar.se with his hand when it comes to football matters nor could he "critically evaluate" anything to do with football (which he only started watching in 2003) as he has proved time and again.

Just because RA is owner and billionaire does not prevent me from saying he knows nothing about footbal. . . and you my friend are talking absolute rubbish.

RA "critically evaluated" the signing of Torres and Shevchenko without asking the manager whether they fit in with the style of play, "critically evaluated" the sacking of Mourinho, "critically evaluated" the sacking of Ancelotti, then "critically evaluated" that AVB was better to replace him than Guus Hiddink.

My friend, quit talking jargon. My neice knows more about football than Abramovic.


Luck is RDM winning one competition, not TWO.

You might say he used tactics combined with some good fortune to win the UCL, but what do you expect him to win with. . . better players that Chelsea dont have?

A man used Salomon Kalou, Ryan Bertrand and Bosingwa to win Champions League and all nincompoops like yourself know to do is shout "luck, luck, luck".

Perhaps a footballing neophyte like yourself expected him to use these players and outplay Barca and such.

He finished 6th in the league yes, but you forgot he played 20 games in 60 days and used his reserve team for those league matches, besides those matches were not like Bolton or Stoke, more like Man City, Spurs, Arsenal, Newcastle sandwiched in between Barcelona and Napoli and other heavyweight matches and no way he could use the first team for those matches and still stay in Europe.

You think RDM is going to accept "probation" contract when at least 5 clubs would offer him good contract this summer?


Roman Abramovic is a fool when it comes to football matters. . . .and so are you!

You saved me the trouble of replying him!
Coach beat barca at camp nou with 10 men and someone says it's 'luck'. The same coach clawed back a 3-1 deficit to beat Napoli, then went on to win the UCL at the home of their challengers....Na wa o!

Spirit of Okija: Yes!!

You dont have anything to worry about .. Only the greedy fall victim to scammers!!

This kind of m0r0nic logic is repeated so often , lesser minds start believing it.

What is 'greedy' about dating scams, inheritance scams and yes, even lottery scams?! You neanderthals think every scam is the 'dead dictator' scam.

Last i heard, greed is not a crime.

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booqee: My sister just got a job offer in d same company her fiance works. She's confused on accepting d appointment because she thinks it doesn't make sense to work in d same company with her would be husband, but then its been a very long time she's been searching for a job, and she doesn't want to lose dis one opportunity she's finally got. Besides the salary is a REALLY fat one , infact bigger dan her qualification. She asked for my advice, but i was just moping, as i was confused as well.
Pls guys what do u think she should do??

Short answer?

Your sister is rather daft.

naptu2: The Telegraph

A doctors’ strike would betray their patients.

By Sarah Wollaston

Last Updated: 9:36PM BST 15/05/2012

The BMA is being unrealistic in opposing reasonable increases in pension contributions.

This week, the British Medical Association is trying to persuade doctors to vote in favour of strike action – the first such action since 1975. In doing so, the BMA proves yet again how out of touch it has become with the interests of patients and doctors alike.

When I joined the BMA after qualifying as a doctor in 1986, I was unaware that it was a union. I had assumed that it was a professional organisation supporting standards and education. And like most doctors, I joined mainly for a free copy of the weekly British Medical Journal, which at that time was the only way to find out what jobs were available.

Now, in a “Pension Ballot Special”, a BMA newsletter tells members that the association has no choice but to vote on industrial action for a “fairer” approach. It splashes on the 14.5 per cent that, crucially, only the highest-paid doctors will have to contribute towards their pensions. It claims, misleadingly, that no patients would be harmed by industrial action.

The BMA tries to persuade GPs that they could open for their usual hours during industrial action but not carry out any pre-booked or routine appointments, or issue any repeat prescriptions. Likewise, hospital colleagues are invited to turn up and make decisions about what is or is not an emergency. The results would not only be farcical but dangerous: doctors would find themselves facing an exasperated and irritated public. If that sounds unreasonable, well, the BMA industrial relations officer will be on hand to give guidance. He or she can expect to be very busy. The public is unlikely to have much sympathy.

Thirty years ago it was different. Doctors were relatively overworked and underpaid, but their vocation and professionalism commanded public respect. Then, thanks to a spectacularly mishandled negotiation by Labour in the 1990s, the much-needed investment in the health services went towards large pay rises, hand in hand with a reduced service to the public. GPs ditched out-of-hours work and Saturday surgeries because ministers misjudged the relative value of payments to doctors for these services. In other words, they failed to ensure that patients’ needs were paramount.

Labour also waved through the European Working Time Directive, which undermined continuity of care and, if anything, worsened working conditions and training for junior doctors. Assuming that all consultants were on the golf course or seeing private patients, the Government insisted that they should be paid only for the time they spent on NHS work. It should have come as no surprise that it ended up paying even more because of unpaid time that consultants were previously giving to the service for free.

A decade later, doctors are well paid and few GPs work Saturdays or nights; their out-of-hours work has largely been delegated to others and continuity of care has been eroded. The public are simply not going to feel sorry for striking doctors who earn more than £100,000 per year, sometimes for a four-day week.

To put the issue into perspective, doctors earning more than £120,000 pay 8.4 per cent of that into their pension pot. This would eventually rise to 14.4 per cent, but for those on a salary of £45,000, contributions would rise to just 9.3 per cent, an extra 1.4 per cent after tax relief. To get an equivalent pension in the private sector would require about a third of the same salaries – and doctors are living about 10 years longer than they did in the 1970s.

The rest of the country has woken up to the reality of pension costs – and we may soon witness what happens to a country like Greece, which has failed to do so. No government wants to pick a fight over public sector pensions, but to ignore demographic and financial realities would dump the burden on the next generation. Why should our children pick up the tab?

I hope doctors will follow at least one aspect of the BMA’s advice: “Whatever your views, it’s vital you vote.”

I’m often asked what the difference is between being a GP and an MP. One wag put it like this: “About £40,000 a year.” I would add that, as an MP, I now pay 13.75 per cent towards my pension, and work evenings and many Saturdays. Of course, one of the main differences is the way people feel about you. I hadn’t realised how much people respected doctors until I entered Parliament. That support matters, and a vote for strike action over pensions is a sure way to lose it.

Perhaps every doctor should ask a friend in the private sector how much pension they will receive, and how much they must contribute. They might be in for a shock. The BMA have made the wrong call; this is an unnecessary strike that would not be victimless. I sincerely hope that doctors will vote to put their patients first.

Dr Sarah Wollaston is Conservative MP for Totnes and a former GP

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9267399/A-doctors-strike-would-betray-their-patients.html

Please learn to read your post before you post it. The MP cannot dredge up sympathy for doctors to strike when they earn more than 100000 pounds per year

Do I need to tell you how much 100000 pounds in Nigerian money is? Do you think any medical doctor earning half of that in Nigeria will have cause to grumble?

Let the UK Government slash doctors salaries to 30000 pounds per year and see how the doctors will take it.

naturalwaves: Honestly speaking,these doctors are ingrates,never satisfied.My friend who hasn't even gone 4 service and doing his housemanship gets 140k per month.Freshly appointed smallee doctors get close 2 260k per month.Almost all dose doctors av their own private clinics and dat's where they stay most of d tym abandoning their duty post.All they'r afta is ow 2 develop their private hospitals.Wen last were u at Lasuth? U need 2 see d degree of heartlessness dat's usually displayed by dz so called docs and nurses(dz 1s are worse).It is not their fault anyway,it's because nobody probes or questns a doc 4 d loss of life in dis useless part of d world unlike d US 4 e.g.Aside just building up doctors,they should teach dem character and gud behaviours as a course. In d olden days,doctors are lyk Angels,wen u see dem,u feel ur problems are ova and wen a nurse touches u,u feel secured.BUT now,they are lyk monsters,they behave as if they do not lyk d kind of job they do.If ministry workers,teachers and evry1 goes on strike,wat wil happen? cos a newly appointed teacher gets 56k. D doctors even operates on shifts and av their various areas f specializatn,it's not as if they all practice gen.medicine.Truth be told,these docs are ingrates and needs 2 considerate b4 they go on useless strikes.As 4 me,I dnt even want d govt 2 reinstate them.

1. Where did you hear that fresh doctors get N260k monthly? Entry level doctors in Lagos state are not even taking home 200k monthly. Even the state commissioner for health has corroborated this several times. Why are you spouting such m0r0nic lies?

2. You say most doctors have private clinics. Do you have any idea how much it costs to build a private clinic? Can YOU build a 3 bedroom bungalow in any decent area in Lagos on 200k monthly?

3. You complain about Doctors now no longer acting angelic and that they are not comparable to their counterparts in the US. Have you, in your infinite imbecility, considered how much doctors earn in the US compared to this hellhole called Nigeria? Do you expect a doctor who has to feed a family, transport himself and clothe himself to be ecstatic at work for N140k monthly? Do you have any idea on how many patients a Lagos doctor sees per day?

hadidas4real: Nigeria government are heartless, cos they change money like cloth and create another without any value. Am in south africa nw their highest currency is 200 rand equivalent to 4000 naira. Nigeria is running down small small

Onyatinu: Sanusi Lamido is finding a way to finance Boko haram, he tried Islamic banking it didn't work out, now he wants to change N200note. Of which money will be spent nd wasted in Changing d note. God pass all of u sha

Such m0r0nic people on Nairaland. Kai!

slimyem: his reasons for not liking her friends doesnt hold water!
What does he want her to do?
Dump her friends for him?
Mtcheeeeeew.
If he nor like dm,make him go mop ocean!
Nonsense!

To be honest, this does nothing to remove the popular notion that you're a bit of a m0r0n. Learn how to read!

whizcode: What are d advantages of d psp vita over d normal psp.pls enlighten us

Don't be lazy. Google it up.

velo10: I will when your site gets more traffic

Excellent reply!!

[quote author=ekt_bear]I'm not the one who sets the level. Lagos government and Lagos folk decide what they want the minimum quality level of a doctor to be for their state.

But once they've decided what X is, then buy as much labor at that quality level as they can. Which necessarily means finding the cheapest guys you can at the level of quality you want..[/quote]So hypothetically, you would have been happy to stridently support Fashola if last year he had decided not to pay the minimum wage of 18k to state workers...and the workers had gone on strike?

Finally, if you admit it is the duty of the Government to maximize their own enjoyment even if it means its at the expense of the employees...why are you so against GEJ and the PDP? Afterall it can be argued by them that Nigeria is ticking just fine (and the big boys are enjoying) even if the masses are complaining

'Free meter' yet you'll pay 5k as 'connection fees'. Then they'll charge you an illegal monthly 'meter maintenance fee'.

Nonsense!

mikeansy: I think instead of these never ending ridiculous claims of rigging by the opposition, they should roll up their sleeves and work for victory if they truly want power and genuinely have anything different to offer Nigerian people. It is in the interest of Nigerian politics that change does happen someday but that change will come through politics and not terrorism!

'Ridiculous claims?'

83% of registered voters in Imo state were recorded as having come out to cast their votes for PDP/GEJ. Do you need anyone to sit you down and tell you that massive rigging took place?

Look, no matter your differences with Buhari, pretending that there was no rigging severely damages your reputation.

[quote author=ekt_bear]Lmao.

Boot-licker of Fashola. I don't give a damn about Fashola. He isn't the point. There is a bigger issue at stake here.

Honestly, some of ya'll are dumbazzes...I probably shouldn't be wasting my time expecting you to see the larger picture.[/quote]Is there any bigger dumbazz than the one who contributes here because of the 'hypocrisy and selfishness of the doctors' yet cannot seem to see the hypocrisy and selfishness of the Fashola administration?

4llerbuntu: ok, this is all about more money right?

fine.

but after paying these doctors more money, will the equipment they need to work also magically appear in the hospitals? will the hospitals expand, and multiply to help the congestion issues?


i think the answer to that is no, therefore they will get paid like double their current wages for doing the same things they have been doing, in the same useless work environments, with the same absence of meaningful equipment to justify their white coats and lofty title!!


i wonder why fashola simply did'nt offer to sack half of them and use their salaries to double the ones remaining. im sure this greedy arses would have taken that deal!

like how many professions in this country earn anything near what these docs earn now? i need examples.

last week they were comparing their wages to that of politicians! like bloody hell!!

For such an intelligent fellow, you sure do LOVE to delve into the m0r0nic side of life sometimes.
The Lagos State doctors are asking to be paid in line with what their federal government counterparts earn. This move to CONMESS will not anywhere near 'double' their salary. Are you saying the Lagos State government is paying their doctors only half what FG pays theirs?
Really daft contribution from you here...I suggest you stay with Linux and Android o!

Secondly, improving their salaries will NOT improve their equipment. But equipment is just half the story. The competence, motivation and welfare of the doctors is also another critical portion. Would you give me your car to repair just because you can make a blanket statement that Nigerian mechanics are usually poorly equipped with latest technology?

[quote author=ekt_bear]So these guys enjoy free accommodation while they strike, no?

Why on earth does either the state or FG offer free housing?

Don't they realize that it makes it easier for the doctors to strike?[/quote]Because if they did not offer any form of housing to SOME of these doctors, the gross inadequacy of the salaries paid to the doctors would be blindingly apparent.

I cannot remember when last you posted an intelligent comment on this Fashola/doctors issue. All you do is parrot the State Government's position, attempting to use the hippocratic oath's tenets to place the doctors as the guilty party. You also forget Fashola swore an oath to protect the lives of Lagosians too.

The incremental improvement in remunerations the doctors are asking for will not amount to any massive sum. I challenge you to multiply 788 by an optimistic estimate of 30k increase per head and see if it is an apocalyptic sum like Fashola and his goons are claiming. All this has become is a matter of pride and hardheadedness on the part of the Lagos state govt...and praise-singers like yourself have swallowed the bullcrap hook, line and sinker.

Years and years of dialogue and threats and still the employer has not budged. Lagos state deserves a well motivated workforce of doctors and i wish the good citizens of lagos have the brains to understand this. As i am fond of saying, I have yet to meet any Lagosian who has ever given a medical doctor a discount on account of their noble profession. Asking people to give up the chance to better the lives of their families just because 'they have to save lives' is frankly mor0nic.

werepeLeri: Buhari likes violence - he is blood thirsty - he survives on blood spilled by his supporters and by BH - cant he make a comment without recourse to using the word blood and bloodletting? Tell me.

I could say the same thing about you and Beaf...it's on record on Nairaland how you folks capered with glee everytime your MEND brethren ambushed and killed innocent soldiers and civilians in the Niger Delta.

Kobojunkie: [size=14pt]Mass failure: Too much emphasis on Mathematics and English-Educationists[/size]

The Professor further said “too much emphasis on paper qualification affects the reasoning of candidates…I think we have placed too much emphasis on paper qualification. These candidates are told that if they don’t make all their papers, they would not enter the university. Now, it’s either they study, cram or cheat. And just a few of them actually study. A large percentage of them just want to cheat their way through these external exams and get into the university. Their focus is on making their complete papers.”

So why not just say the real reason for the mass failures is because very few of these kids actually do what they are supposed to do and actually STUDY?

Some of these Professors are fond of overthinking issues!!

OYINBOGOJU: IKEJA – Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, yesterday, renewed the call for the creation of state police.

Speaking on "Options and Strategies for Restructuring the Nigeria Police Force," at a public hearing on Police Reform in Nigeria, in Lagos, Fashola said: "The opposition to the establishment of state police structures in Nigeria has largely been driven by an exaggerated, misleading and unfounded precedent focusing on the abuse of state police through political interference and manipulation."

He noted, however, that "upgrading the existing police system as the central law enforcement institution in the country cannot occur in isolation. It must be part of an overarching restructuring of the total law enforcement infrastructure, including a reform of the criminal-justice system insulated from politics.

"It is, therefore, with total conviction that I believe that there is a need for the establishment of state police. If we say we are practising true federalism, then each constituent part of the federation such as the states, municipalities and federal government all have their autonomy for their daily affairs, while issues like international affairs, common currency, defence and other unifying interests are vested in the Federal Government."

http://odili.net/news/source/2012/may/18/338.html

I hope nobody listens to this man.
When he gets his own state police now he'll pay them less than what the federal police are getting and justify the reason by saying "Lagos state has a population of 17 million people"

When he can muster up the honesty and decency to respect human life and pay the Lagos doctors what their federal counterparts are earning, i'll take him seriously. Nonsense!

niddamugu: That is the problem with the Nigerian system. We always believe in the older the better. I expected GEJ to reduce the working age to 60 and allow for young and active ones between 28 & 50 to drive the system. The young ones cannot step in when we keep fielding and extending the irrelevance of the old ones.

This is the problem with poorly educated, half-baked armchair critics like yourself. You never take the time out to use your brains constructively to churn out intelligent analyses. How can any sensible person call for the flushing out of highly experience professors when hardly any excellent graduate is willing or motivated to stay behind and teach?

Go and find out, 90% of the new lecturers coming in are the fellows with either a 2.2 or those with good degrees who have looked for jobs fruitlessly and see the teaching profession as a last resort job.

Go and find out how much new lecturers are paid compared to what they'd earn as cashiers in UBA...the answer will shock you.

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Sorry for not posting my phone number here...but i like being paranoid

jigawatts: Dont ever compare Doctors to Policemen..... Even as useless as our policemen are, they are still more important than doctors, they put deir own lives on d line to save us....... A doctor doesnt need to put his life on d line for anyone. Whenever dere is crisis... We still look forward to seeing our policemen at d crisis point. Talking about policemen recieveing 'big bribes'.... Almost all dese doctors av very madt Private hospitals in Lagos metropolis....Thats more dan d bribe a policeman can never accrue in his lifetime.

You are a Grade A m0r0n!
Kindly tell us how people being paid less than 200k monthly will be able to build, equip and staff a private hospital in Lagos. I'm tired of this inane lie being repeated by you poorly educated folk who only exist to consume oxygen and resources meant for your betters.

SAFO: I'm in love with the HTC One X LTE. This phone is so awesome, I didn't think it would be that much of an upgrade over my HTC Inspire 4G but I was surely mistaken.

Aside from the locked bootloader, I don't believe there's a better phone on the market. The SGS III can't even compete with the beastly One X.

Yep it's an awesome phone. but the SGS III IS really more powerful. One X kills it in looks, though.

I wish I had LTE speeds here in Naija

lincy: @texaz. I hope u know dis thread is for seriouse contributors

Well, I know I could spell 'serious' even way back when I was in JSS1.
Do us all a favour and head back to the 'Celebrities' section. Don't you have any more juicy gossips on the kardashians to report and ruminate upon?
Aside from the general inanity of your posts, it's really a struggle dealing with your atrocious spelling.

lincy: De first orrupt citizens ar

1. Buhari 2.IBB 3.can't say about Abacha 4.OBJ etc.

Plz d key point is dat we ar not facing d realty.

Buhari is not d solution to nigerian problem his just nagging like a wounded lion his just coming to fight IBB back on governance clothen, I respect a man wen he fight backs from were ever he is he should fight him back now. If he is a man and stop waiting for wen he will be a president b4 he fights IBB.
He should lean from GANI (legal pract.) He fought the corrupt government from d floor, buhari should tak d president soft sport for granted. We don't want tyrants for a president, we had dem and dey didn't do well so let's give chance to de calm one and we don't expect Nigeria to turn over nite, it a gradual proceess which all hands has to be on desk, de corruption is existing on de down stream in our individual homes, let us be truthful to our selfs.

Buhari want to fight corruption wen during d last election an under age kids were hajacked to vote for CPC, what did say about it ? Nothing.

Please!

deseg: Hello, anonymous reporter. Firstly, may I ask why you hid your identity if you are not afraid of opposition(s).

We cannot dispute the fact that the University environment is a supposed to be a place where people are meant to develop a sense of responsibility and independency but have you observed that by the time you try to experience some things(whereby you would have learnt from those who have gone through the process already) for yourself, so much damage would have been made at the end of the day, time wasted, devalued reputation and so on. Also, the school (RUN) has got it flaws but it's not for you- Mr Anonymous- to now open up the weakness or weaknesses of a person, group or authority as if you do not have your flaws.

Your write-up is a long one so I might not be able to address every issue but let me quickly establish two key issues:

1. Before any student or parent send their children to a christian private University, they already have an idea of what obtains in such a place.

2. Every power is ordained of God and God instructs to obey our leaders and all those who are in authority. So, grumbling at this point is only an indirect way of bringing curses on yourself and if you desire to be free as a bird as I emvisage that you want to be; you can leave the school (RUN).

My final advice for you is that if you would not obey the authority under which you operate, live, study, e.t.c; back out of such group or society in order to stop raining curses on yourself.

A. Ajao.

here is another example of an educated illiterate and a brainwashed Zombie!

You say God instructs us to always obey our leaders...tell me, if the disciples had obeyed the Pharisees, the Sadducees and the Sanhedrin in their commands to STOP preaching about Jesus, would you have Christianity today?

Someone is bold enough to chronicle serious lapses in the way Redeemers Uni is run and instead of praises all you can babble about is curses?

One4me: i think those sa
l think those same MOPOLS should be re-armed, given double-dose of Alomo+Paragah and let loose within that Hospital, especially around the Doctors Rest areas!
Dont know who is a worse criminal, btween the 'stoned' Mopols and the heartless Doctors!

Mutherfuckers!

One4me

Why are you so ignorant?!

As someone said, it's the hospital adminstrator or owner that charts such rules, not the doctors who are mere employees on a barely adequate salary. I know its fashionable to hate on doctors these days...but still!

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lincy: De old service man should work with his age he is a tyrant best fit for an elder state man . I don't tink his government is gooD dat is y why he waz topped by IBB, he should go and rest

lincy: Buhari should take his leave in politics and bacome an elder stateman, or better still handle d affair of d ministries were he is best fit and save us with his mouth making propergandas dat will soon fight him back, she shouldn't tink dat coz d presidency is on d soft side with him even after promising d country dat there will be no peace if he looses his bid for presedency,I tink he is becoming 2 noisy for all I care.

What did he do to IBB dat step him down and almost slept with his wife ? Nothing and he here disturbing someone dat didn't do any tin to him threathening his government even when it quite clear he lost out.

This 'Politics' section is for intelligent and educated discussions...I implore you, return back to your usual 'Celebrities' section and continue your habit of posting updates on the lives of Kim Kardashian and Beyonce.

If you still feel the need to dabble in current affairs, I suggest you head over to the Nairaland BBA thread.

We have enough airheads here without adding another one with atrocious spelling skills.

linkin8k: which tablet is better than Xoom? Please don't mention iPad, am into android. Still reeling from my stolen Desire S....best phone ever

To mention a few...Asus Transformer, Transformer Prime, Samsung Galaxy tab 10.1...

gulfer: this inspector needs to explain how he came about so much LIQUID CASH?

Beaf: How did the policeman acquire 2m?

I'm pretty sure this was clearly stated in English in the OP.