Don’t tie your healing to the hope that someone is going to someday regret what they did to you. Some people do not regret doing you wrong. Some even forget doing you wrong. Some are unaware of their wrongdoing. Some will never accept that they did you wrong.
She knows alot of Nigerians are very stup!d and f00lish 💔. Small rice distribution here and there and the whole calls for her resignation will quell down.. If they just add tirikay ontop, many of our people will be happy with her. We are not a serious people unfortunately 😕
How Hired Thugs Obstructed My Visit to Benue State
Yesterday, I attended the opening of the national campaign office of an opposition presidential candidate, Governor Seyi Makinde in Abuja. My presence was intended to demonstrate that politics can and should be conducted in an atmosphere of mutual respect and civility. As Governor of Anambra State, I made it a point during electioneering to welcome visiting opposition members personally, provided they acted within the ambits of the law.
Guided by that same commitment to decency over partisanship, I travelled to Benue this morning, arriving at approximately 9:00 a.m. on a purely humanitarian mission: to visit the grieving families affected by the horrific killings in Yelwata, where over 270 people were massacred.
Regrettably, our convoy was prevented from proceeding to the community by thugs chanting, “Peter Obi, go back.” It was deeply distressing to witness such hostility. I came to Benue not for partisan politics, but to mourn with our people, to listen to families who have lost loved ones, and to offer comfort at a moment of unimaginable sorrow. That a mission intended purely to show solidarity, compassion, and support could be obstructed in this manner is deeply alarming.
At a time when our nation should be united in grief and resolute in preventing further bloodshed, we must reject any action capable of deepening our divisions. The people of Benue - and all Nigerians - deserve to sleep without fear. They deserve to travel without fear. They deserve to cultivate their land without fear. Above all, they deserve a country where the state places the protection of human life far above political expediency.
Although we were unable to reach the community today, our thoughts and prayers remain steadfastly with the victims, their families, and the entire Yelwata community. We shall continue to work until the primary responsibility of government - the safeguarding of every Nigerian life - is restored. Until then, we cannot truly say we have built the nation our people deserve.
A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO
Do Nigerian Cotizens actually know their rights? Or we just watch foreign movies and try to copy them by saying ‘I Know my rights’ … Are these rights being taught in schools starting from primary one?
Better take care of yourself and do that thing you always wanted to do without regrets. We are having people in their 30s and 40s come in with stroke and cardiac arrest these days.
The one that we just received now shock me. 😭😭😭
I tell my non-medical folks that if they think the Nigerian health system is terrible, then they should imagine what they’d think if they know what healthcare workers know about the system. The average outsider is only privy to a fraction of the mess we are in.
Healthcare workers are overcompensating, improvising, and covering up systemic lapses that should otherwise have made the entire system collapse a while ago. Patients and the relatives are also forced to make sacrifices and pay heavily to remedy the situation.
The outsider sees that the lab is delaying result. The healthcare worker sees that there is no light to process samples because the hospital is owing electricity bill and someone is sitting on the money.
Full blood count takes up to a week because a tertiary health facility still processes their samples manually, and you won’t even get platelet count and haemogblobin concentration. The patient thinks it is just a delay, meanwhile, the result isn’t even complete.
You’re finding it difficult to see a consultant because there is only one in the state, covering multiple government (and private hospitals) and their annexes.
For every fault you see, there is a rot that runs much deeper and someone has painted over it like all is well.
Vote out Tinubu in 2027.
Being a doctor in Nigeria can be a cruel experience.
You know exactly what to do.
But you don't have what you need to do it.
The oxygen isn't available. The drugs aren't available. The equipment doesn't work. The ambulance doesn't come.
And somehow, you're still expected to save the patient.
The government fails you.
The patient blames you.
And you stand there helplessly watching a situation that could have been managed properly elsewhere deteriorate in front of you.
The painful part?
The same system that kills Nigerians can kill the Nigerian doctor trying to save them.
Then you leave Nigeria and realise something:
Some of the things we call miracles are actually just functional systems.
A few days ago, I called an ambulance for a patient.
It arrived before I dropped the call.
I honestly thought:
“God when?” 😂
Because if you've worked in Nigeria, you know how extraordinary that feels.
Nigerian doctors don't suddenly become better doctors when they leave Nigeria.
They simply get the tools, systems and support to practise medicine properly.
Maybe the question isn't:
“Why aren't our doctors doing enough?”
Maybe it's:
“Why don't we give our doctors what they need to do the job?”
Too often, they are simply trying to perform miracles without the tools to do their jobs.