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Udezue and Ezeuche - Unu ji si ike, onye were unu were nmadu.
Pardon my written Igbo if it's not written properly. But i hope you guys get what i 'm saying.

Why would you?

^^^^word!

Many Nigerians die on a daily basis from sicknesses and diseases that can be easily prevented or cured in many other parts of the world. To compound issues, Nigerians seem to have abandoned their faith in the hands of the many Nigerian corrupt political leaders who are insensitive to the cause of ordinary Nigerian populace. Why should Nigerians just bemoan, suffer in silence, and move on as if nothing has happened to them, as if all is well with their government and political leadership? Until our leaders in Nigeria come to their senses and realize the importance of sound indigenous socio-economic system, Nigerian doctors, other healthcare workers and professionals will continue to migrate in droves to other countries of the world.


Undeniably, Nigerian healthcare system is one of the worst in the world. There is a severe shortage of healthcare workers, particularly doctors, pharmacists, and nurses, and health institutions in the country are meager in number for the teeming population. The few existing ones in urban and rural areas have for long crumbled, begging for government funding and rehabilitation. It is high time Nigerians realized that there is no single functioning hospital in the entire country if what is obtainable in developed nations is a yardstick for measurement.

It is mind-boggling that fifty years after Nigeria's independence, Nigerian medical students and young graduates from nursing schools have no well-equipped hospitals in the country to practice what they are taught in schools and to advance their skills. Prescription drugs are scarce, exorbitant, and out of the reach of an average Nigerian. The few drugs that are available in the market are difficult to distinguish from good, expired or imitation ones by unsuspecting Nigerians. Government policies on health issues are besieged with loopholes; their implementation is inept due to unnecessary bureaucracies, lack of quality improvement foresight, and corrupt political leadership in the country. To make the matters worse, electricity supply in our hospitals, homes, offices, industries, and other places is erratic or epileptic. In fact, it has become a tall dream to have an uninterrupted full electric supply in any part of Nigeria for a straight twenty-four hour period or for several days without a power outage. As a result, it becomes a big risk to carry out medical surgeries and other invasive procedures in the few existing Nigerian hospitals, due to incessant power failures.

Instead of finding a way to correct or solve these socio-infrastructural and health problems and imbalances in the country, improve our indigenous facilities, so that Nigeria would join the comity of developed health systems in the world, our short-sighted, inept, and corrupt public leaders choose to travel out of the country in search of medical treatment, even for the slightest sickness. The irony of it is that most of these Nigerian corrupt leaders, as private individuals, never dreamt of traveling abroad for medical attention, and some of them have not even made a foreign journey since their birth but immediately they are elected or appointed into political offices, their craze for foreign medicare starts like a wild fire. This they do at the expense of Nigerian tax-payers and public funds and, at times, their foreign medical trips engulf unspeakable millions of dollars for the most easily treatable ailments, millions of money which in organized human societies could have been invested in developing efficient domestic health care system for the common good of the people.
One may ask: how long will Nigerian leaders continue to depend on the developed nations for their medical treatment? Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, Nigeria’s former military dictator, from 1985-1993, presided over the longest transition program in human history. He flew in and out of Europe for medical check-ups as if his ancestral lineage is traced to that continent. Babangida’s frequent medical trips to France in particular, as Nigeria’s head-of-state were for a mere radioculopathy case, a wound believed to have been sustained during the Nigerian civil war between 1967 and 1970. As a Nigerian and former head-of-state, Babangida did not feel a pinch of remorse or guilt for taking his late wife, Miriam to the United States, rather than a hospital somewhere in Minna, Abuja, Lagos, or elsewhere in the country for the same purpose. With all the resources available to his disposal, he could have built good hospitals in Nigeria, including a center for cancer treatment, equipped just like the one he patronised in Los Angeles, U.S.A. during his eight-year of military dictatorship. It is unfortunate that the former First Lady died on December 27, 2009 at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Johnsson Comprehensive Cancer Centre in the United States, where she received treatment for ovarian cancer. Today, Nigerians still believe that the money looted by Babangida, along with his cronies during his reign, is enough to make Nigeria the envy of other neighboring states in Africa economically and medically.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his Vice, Atiku Abubakar continued from where Babangida and other past leaders stopped. Both Obasanjo and Atiku traveled to Europe for medical trips with reckless abandon during their eight-year (1999-2007) administration. Atiku, for example, was flown to the United States under “emergency” conditions to treat mere muscle pulls on his knee, which he sustained after a strain in his gymnasium. The message to the rest of the world meant that there is no existing hospital or a medical center in an entire country as rich as Nigeria that could treat an ordinary strain injury. Obasanjo and Atiku’s unrestricted medical trips to foreign lands are a tacit “vote of no confidence” in Nigerian medical services, practitioners, including in the so-called Nigerian leaders. Political leaders in Nigeria, even in their retirement, should be held accountable for failing to provide the necessary infrastructure for efficient medicare in the country.

Mahathir Bin Mohammad, former Prime Minister of Malaysia, was and is a good national leader worthy of emulation by Nigerian government officials. Mohammad governed his nation for about 22 years during which period he was able to transform Malaysia from a third world status to an industrial giant. During his administration, he invested heavily in his nation's health-care system; he built numerous, well-furnished hospitals; he even established the first and best world university whose main plank is nursing education. Mohammad never traveled out of his country for once during his administration for medical treatment. Another good leader of sterling quality is the former South Korean Head of state, Gen. Park Chung Hee. He ruled his nation for about 19 years, during which time he established sound indigenous healthcare system, including industrial infrastructure that catapulted a hitherto, under-developed South Korea to the comity of the most technologically advanced nations in the world. Gen. Hee never traveled out of his country for one day to foreign nations in search of medical attention when he became ill. Like Bin Mohammad of Malaysia, he built first-class and high-standard healthcare institutions in South Korea. Again, Nigerian government officials, especially the Chief executives, should borrow a leaf of leadership competence and accountability from Lee Kuan Yew, the former Singapolean Head of State. Lee Kuan Yew was is the architect of what is today known as a highly industrial and developed Singapore. In no small measure, Yew established and advanced indigenous medical system and institutions in his country, and he never traveled out of Singapore to France, Germany, USA, Russia, China etc in search of medical treatment all through his period of administration, a habit that has become a craze among Nigerian leaders.

Although Fidel Castro was rated as a dictator during his years as a Cuban Head of State, his sterling achievements in the development of education, advanced medical technology, and efficient health care system should be things of emulation to our leaders in Nigeria. On account of Fidel Castro's able leadership qualities in capital investment and infrastructural development, barring Western propagandas, Cuba is today one of the world's developed nations. Cuba has the highest number of qualified medical doctors in the world compared to population. Her high-standard healthcare system is a model, and it makes this Caribbean island the third best in the whole of Western Hemisphere, using life span as an index. Canada is the first; Chile is the second while the USA is in the fourth position. Also, Cuba has a lower infant mortality ratio than most of other developed nations of the world, even lower than those of the USA and UK.

It is true that Fidel Castro ruled his country for many years, but he never, for one day, traveled out of Cuba to obtain medical treatment in any foreign country. Today, Cuba is a world-class medical tourist center, and many Nigerians and citizens of other nations rush to this Caribbean island to acquire solid education, especially in the fields of medicine and nursing. Nigerian political leaders should emulate good leaders around the world who have invested much in advancing the standards of their nations' indigenous health care systems and other social infrastructure. The future belongs to those who always see the possibilities before they become realities. Mad rush for foreign medicare by Nigerian political leaders is a great disservice to the nation. Enough is enough.

When a lady is pregnant, all friends touch the stomach and says, "CONGRATS" but none of them ever come and touch the Joystick and say "GOOD JOB". Moral of the story: Hard work is never appreciated only results.

denny4ril:

Why Women Walk All Over Some Men

It's because you let them.

After all, you can *only* be walked all over if you
*allow* other people to walk all over you.

Here's something I've learned from a self-defense
class years ago,

Do you know why people lie, cheat, rob, and do other
horrible things?

It's because they know they *can*.

Bullies look for people they KNOW they can bully.

Robbers look for people they KNOW they can rob.

Cheaters look for people they KNOW they can cheat
easily.

In short, bad guys often look for people they KNOW
they can hurt without much consequences.

Now, in a relationship, it is only natural for a
couple to test each other's boundaries. Whether you would
like to admit it or not, women often subconsciously do silly
things to see what kind of reactions they get from a guy.
It's all part of courtship.

If the guy doesn't give the woman a wimpy response
when she tests him, then her attraction for him will raise.

But if the guy lets the woman have something that is
unreasonable, then her attraction for him will drop and she
will test him further by making more unreasonable requests.
Eventually, she will lose all respect and just walk all over
him.

@denny4ril Spot on. Need i say more?

[quote author=Jayluv*** link=topic=495260.msg6581262#msg6581262 date=1281969080]I took my time to read all the postings and to be honest, our ladies are just one and the same. It is pathetic that no one culd comdem the acts of the lady. Does it means u all indulge in double dating? Does it means u all encourage immorality?

And to the guys----many of u even believed the lady did well. Indirectly, u've encouraged double dating by the so call 21st century attitude. No wonder the "MUMU" husband married somebody that left him 5 yrs ago.

I'm not in anyway surpporting the poster, but he is not a loser in anyway. You might call him wicked for sleeping with the lady for so long when he knew he won't marry her. He should learn hw to call spade a spade and how to let go anything he didn't need.

Come to think of it, do u guys/gals know how many times the poster might av sent the lady thru abortions? Do u consider the trauma this lady might av gone thru? Don't u think sleeping with somebody and not marrying the lady is more than anything u might think of? I guess this might not av meanings to u and that is the more reason we av disguised LovePeddler as wife. May God deliver all of us.[/quote]@Jayluv - Thank you, cuz you 've spoken my mind.

Let's see what they can do now that the power is in their hands.

^^^ Seconded.

The question is as old as the problem itself…

Why do men cheat?

Is monogamy really a myth?

Are guys predestined to cheat because it is human nature?

Scientists have long explained that men are biologically motivated to seek out multiple sex partners. This natural instinct ensures a healthy gene pool and the survival of our species.

If this is true, then one cannot expect fidelity from a man. It kind of lets guys off the hook when they wander doesn’t it?

So why do we feel guilty? If it is a man’s biological right to have sex wherever, whenever, with whomever, why should we worry about being caught?

Because somewhere along the way, self imposed “ethics” and “morality” placed restrictions on human behavior…including sex!
Perhaps if we guys didn’t seem to derive such pleasure from sex, it wouldn’t be such a sin. Think about it. If sex with multiple partners were just another “chore” for men as cleaning house and cooking meals is to women, would you girls get upset about it?
Probably not…poor guys!

Nevertheless…men do enjoy sex…a lot…and not always with their partner!

I think they are Russian-American with their blond hair and facial outlook, especially the guy doing the rap. Nice sind though.

I, for one has never believed the story about Gideon Akaluka and have always wondered where Gideon was defecating and where the witness was to have witnessed such a private occurance.

Reminds me of the igbo lorry driver who was alleged to have knowingly reversed his lorry over a copy of the koran and therefore was sent on an august visit to his maker at the hands of his fellow nigerians.
It was obvious that his killers just needed an excuse to waste him as two pertinent questions, readily rose to my mind:
1. How is one expected to notice a copy of the koran on the road when reversing a lorry? and
2. What was the damn book doing on the road in the first place if it is as sacred as our northern brothers wants us to believe.

My belief is that someone knowing fully well that the lorry was full of goods, probably threw the book on the floor behind the lorry and then yell that the driver has just desecrated the koran and the rest as they say, is history. For all we know, there might have not been any koran book lying on the road in the first place. Our northern brothers(?) needed the flimsiest of excuse(i.e the eclipse of the sun or a danish caroon of mohammed) to take off our heads to the milleu sound of "allahu akbar".

Yet we have someone like of Sanusi, the modern-day Wada Nas(ty) blaming us southerners for being slow in transforming to nigerians. What a mo.ron! Does he really think that the family of Akaluka and others like him who lost their loved ones to such senseless killings at the hands of his (Sanusi's) kit and kins will ever want to be seen as a nigerian as these barbaric id.iots?

This marriage of inconvenience is not working. It hasn't worked in its 50 years existence.
SO, WTF are we waiting for?

@T9ksy - From my personal observation, this is the first response of you that is not (Bigoted)anti- Igbo on NL. Good response btw. I always knew people change, so too you can. No offence.

^^^ Lazy dude, always wants to read stories with one paragraph.

I think Lola should take the offer and save Gbenga's life,which is most important. 

But hope Gbenga wouldn't  deliberately take Viagra for the week Lola stays with him.

SMH at the level of Greediness being displayed by his sons.

The Transportation Security Administration identifies many, many official threats to our skies, from contact lens solution to gel shoe inserts to throwing stars.

Even in the wake of the "Underwear Bomber," though, boxer shorts have been considered generally safe — unless, that is, as New Mexico safety Deshon Marman discovered Wednesday at San Francisco International Airport, airline personnel can see a little bit too much of them:

On Wednesday, San Francisco police got a call about 9 a.m. that someone was exposing himself outside a US Airways gate, Sgt. Michael Rodriguez said.
An airline employee spotted Marman before he boarded Flight 488, bound for Albuquerque, and complained that Marman's pants "were below his buttocks but above the knees, and that much of his boxer shorts were exposed," Rodriguez said.


The employee asked Marman to pull up his pants before he boarded the plane, but he refused, Rodriguez said. Marman allegedly repeated his refusal after taking his seat on the plane.

"At that point he was asked to leave the plane," Rodriguez said. "It took 15 to 20 minutes of talking to get him to leave the plane, and he was arrested for trespassing." Marman allegedly resisted officers as he was being led away.

Rodriguez told a local TV station that the 5-foot-11, 195-pound Marman, 20, "was not threatening anybody directly," but the airline's dress code forbids "indecent exposure or inappropriate" attire, and "being disruptive" in any fashion once on the plane may interfere with the crew. He was charged with trespassing, battery and resisting arrest, and was being held on $11,000 bail ahead of a scheduled arraignment Thursday afternoon.

Marman's mother told the San Francisco Chronicle that her son was in "an emotionally raw state" after attending the funeral of a recently murdered high school friend on Tuesday, and was targeted by authorities "because of the way he looks - young black man with dreads and baggy pants." She also said that Marman, an incoming juco transfer to New Mexico from the City College of San Francisco, hoped to honor his friend's memory by making it to the NFL. She called him "a good kid trying to make it, and he's going through a lot. And then this happens." For what it's worth, his official New Mexico bio describes Marman as a "true leader with a winning mentality."

Thus ends the initial account of one of the dumbest incidents ever recorded on this site, which is saying a lot. There's plenty to go around. There's Marman, wearing a potentially provocative outfit in a very public place and (allegedly) defying people with the authority to haul him off a plane and into a cell over something as trivial as his pants. There's security, seemingly creating a very real problem with significant consequences from an exceedingly small or nonexistent problem that presented no real threat and could have been prevented much earlier. There's the predictable cesspool of racist comments beneath the story everywhere else it appears Thursday morning on the web.

Personally, I feel a little dumber for having spent a portion of my morning on it, and for actually feeling compelled to offer this parting advice, applicable to any situation you can possibly encounter in life: When in doubt, always pull your pants up.


http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/Grieving-New-Mexico-safety-hauled-off-plane-boo?urn=ncaaf-wp2673

^^^ Not ally shack, it makes delusional.

Should we call this Religious RASCALITY?  

Bakare has totally lost it by going berserk in the house of God. How dare a pastor call someone bastard? *Smh*

Just like someone said earlier, the truth will always prevail. Yeah, Dexter Isaac spill it out, you have always been a suspect in the shooting of Tupac Shakur. 2pac music will always remain an inspiration to me. He was a true soldier.

@op - Did you follow the advise you were given concerning your Control freak Bf? If yes, let us here from you.

White007:
A Naija boy abroad called his mum to say he's got AIDS. His mum begged him not to ever come back home. Surprised he asked why and she replied; If u come, your wife go get am and give your younger brother who go give house girl and she self go give your papa and your papa go give me and i go give driver who go give your sister. If your sister get am, the village don get am be dat! We are counting on u 2 die alone

Lwkmd!

Barely 24 hours after Police in the federal capital territory raided and arrested over 1,000 persons suspected to be potential terrorist' recruits, the Nigerian Army said it has researched and found solution to the Boko Haram crises.


Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Azubuike Ihejirika who made the disclosure at the signing ceremony of the upgraded version of the Nigeria Army Training Manuals, noted that with the outcome of its research which focused on the modus operandi of the Boko Haram religious sect ready, the army was set to confront the menace headlong.

General Ihejirika however disclosed that the Nigeria Army would work in collaboration with other security agencies especially the Nigeria Police to achieve success.

Said the Army Chief, "The menace of Boko Haram is not only a cause of concern to the federal government, the international community is watching to see how the government will tackle the issue of Boko Haram and terrorism. But I want to say that we have found a solution to it and very soon, they will start putting it into use".

While calling on all Nigerians to rise up to these challenges of terrorism, Boko Haram and other related threats, the Army Chief said Nigerians should come out and support the security agencies to put these menace behind us.

"We will still continue to research into ways of dealing with Boko Haram, terrorism and other worrisome threats to our nation's wellbeing and this will lead us to getting it right as the army embarks on its transformation process.

He disclosed that out of 406 manuals in the Nigeria Army, 102 of them have so far been reviewed in line with modern realities and signed while work is ongoing on others."

Also speaking, permanent secretary, Ministry of Defence, Dr Ezekiel Oyemomi, represented by the Director joint services, Abdulrazak Salawu said that training and retraining of the armed forces constitutes major components in the transformation process of the armed forces and also serves as ingredient of modern warfare.

He added that it is essential to continuously update their training aids, so that it can fall in line with modern trends in the military.

@op - Are you kidding me? You are dealing with a maniac here and he is going to make your life miserable. He is insecure and he is excessively jealous. The earlier you take a decision, the better. If not, you in for rough ride. Beware!