Lemuel Irabor

I just want to tell stories. Maybe, even mine..
👣☀️

The destination is certain. I am now focused on the journey..
#path

[Lemuel Irabor @LemuelIrabor]

The end of a thing..

Reintroducing:
Dr. Lemuel Onyinyechukwu Irabor, MBBS (Nig.)

#UNNMBBSClassof2024
What a journey.

[𝕀𝕋𝔸ℂℍ𝕀 𝕌ℂℍ𝕀ℍ𝔸 ⚛ @joshibza]

These doctors allowed themselves to be manipulated, and that was how the crisis at OAUTHC began. Things operated in a deeply dehumanising manner until the situation escalated into a national outcry. One would have expected the New Federal Centre to learn from OAUTHC’s mistakes. Instead, management chose to copy the very practices that favoured them, and I am already seeing the same dangerous pattern repeating itself.
It is unfortunate that history is being repeated. I hope that when a patient eventually dies because a doctor on call abandoned duty to go look for food, the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) of that centre will still be able to defend those involved.

By contrast, at the Federal Teaching Hospital Gombe (FTH Gombe), they give you meal tickets which you can use to eat at the hospital eatery or even outside with vendors like Madam-Do-Good.
You are issued 10 tickets on weekdays and 30 tickets on weekends. This applies across the board, including to consultants. As corps members, we would collect tickets from Senior Registrars (SRs) and consultants. Remarkably, the tickets remain valid for the whole week (up to 5 days), and they are never rejected even if the date has passed.

There is clearly something deeply wrong with the Southern part of Nigeria. When it comes to the abuse and mistreatment of human beings, especially in institutions that are supposed to care for people, the South unfortunately leads with distinction in these evil practices.

[De Black Star ★ @niq_black]

We are the only continent, the only race trying to be more Arab than Arabs, more European than Europeans, more American than Americans, and more religious than the places Christianity and Islam actually came from.

We literally want to be everything except ourselves

[A.I. Adamu @isasquare]

Here's some food for thought:

Last year, about 100 women died at childbirth in UK🇬🇧 .
In Norway 🇳🇴, not a single woman died at childbirth last year.
In contrast, 75,000 women died at childbirth last year in Nigeria 🇳🇬.
This. Is. Not. Acceptable.

[CallUnc @Callunc]

Me stuck in a meeting that has nothing to do with me but the manager still wants me in

[Jason Ryan @jasonryanmd]

It’s good that USMLE exams test rare disorders. All doctors should be familiar with these, and patients suffer when we miss these diagnoses.

It’s bad, however, that USMLE exams require memorization of the causative DNA mutations of rare disorders. This can be looked up in seconds. The massive time spent on memorization like this could be much better spent learning things more helpful to patients.

[Trev @Tokyo_Trev]

I am not sending a video on why I think I am the perfect fit for the job. You can go to hell with your vacancy

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

If you need evidence that physically hitting children does not work and often even makes them worse, you only need to look at Nigeria, a collectively battered and abused population, where people have become worse, more badly behaved, more violent, less disciplined over time.

[Dr Zahoor Ahmed @ZahoorAhmed1450]

Which drug is commonly used to treat bedwetting (nocturnal enuresis) in children?

(a) Imipramine hydrochloride
(b) Imipramine pamoate
(c) Both of the above
(d) None of the above

[word otaku @word0taku]

level 1: what’s the word?

[word otaku @word0taku]

level 3: what’s the word?

[Ereme @twyse_116]

Sharing a public testimony about surviving the same accident your friend d!ed in is insane

[Ibrahim @IbnLMubarak]

You need to understand that paying a little extra for your comfort and convenience is absolutely okay.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

It is highly interesting and deeply ironic that Nigeria is currently being paraded as having the "world's best-performing stock market."

To put statistical illusion into clear mathematical perspective, South Korea comfortably has over 200 publicly traded companies with an individual market capitalization exceeding $1 billion USD. In stark contrast, the total number of companies on the Nigerian Stock Exchange with a market cap exceeding that same $1 billion mark sits at a measly, fluctuating 11 to 18. Furthermore, the South Korean Stock Exchange is home to over 2,500 listed companies, whereas the entire Nigerian stock exchange is struggling to maintain even 150. To make matters infinitely worse, the annual revenue of just one single South Korean conglomerate, Samsung, comfortably exceeds the entire, devalued annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

So, it is obviously completely insane and deeply delusional to imagine that Nigeria is genuinely outperforming the rest of humanity in its actual economic output, industrial productivity, or stock market indices. Nigeria is currently the undisputed poverty capital of the world, where small businesses are collapsing by the dozens every single day. So that begs the question: what does this glowing market report actually mean for the ordinary people of Nigeria?

Well, for one, if a struggling, debt-ridden developing nation suddenly starts to heavily outperform advanced, highly industrialized nations on its stock exchange, it is actually a massive, flashing red indicator that the country in question is facing a severe and monumental hyperinflation. Nigeria is currently experiencing historic, record-breaking inflation, so this stock market boom is merely an indicator that wealthy oligarchs, institutional investors, and local investment banks have smartly recognized that if they hold their cash in standard bank accounts during this highly volatile period, they will lose their purchasing power every single day. Since they cannot easily access scarce foreign currencies like US dollars or Euros due to strict government currency controls, they desperately dump their fast-depleting Naira into solid, tangible local stocks like Dangote Cement, BUA Group, or MTN Nigeria just to preserve their wealth.

So, this triumphant news report that we are passionately commanded to celebrate is actually a terrifying warning sign that Nigeria is experiencing severe, runaway inflation. The local elites, corporate cartels, and bank directors are frantically tripping over themselves to buy blue-chip local stocks strictly to hedge against currency collapse, and this sudden, desperate surge in local demand has artificially driven up the prices of these shares to such a disproportionate, heavily padded percentage that on paper, it looks much more profitable to invest in the Nigerian stock market than in the highly productive, technologically advanced South Korean stock exchange.

Another major reason for this artificial stock market spike is the aggressive, reckless increase in interest rates by the Central Bank of Nigeria on behalf of the IMF and the World Bank. While this brutal rate hike has successfully collapsed thousands of local manufacturing businesses because commercial banks are now charging as high as 40% interest on business loans, it has also temporarily attracted a massive influx of volatile "hot money" from foreign speculators who are lending money to the Nigerian government by purchasing short-term treasury bills and sovereign bonds just to greedily exploit these high yields.

It is crucially important to historically emphasize that Nigeria is absolutely not the only developing country to be declared the "best-performing stock market in history." Mexico proudly achieved this exact same fraudulent title in the run-up to 1994, and it ended up almost collapsing their entire national economy into absolute oblivion. At the time, the Mexican government, acting on the strict advice of the World Bank, aggressively increased interest rates and adopted painful Structural Adjustment Programmes that triggered massive hyperinflation across the country. This temporarily, artificially increased their foreign reserves as yield-hungry international speculators dived in to exploit these high interest rates, causing their local real estate markets and stock exchanges to explode into a virtual goldmine for foreign investors. But this artificial boom did not even last for a few years. The moment the United States Federal Reserve increased its own interest rates, international investors panicked, liquidated their assets overnight, and pulled their hot money completely out of Mexico. This massive, sudden capital flight almost collapsed the Mexican Peso, forcing their desperate government to raise domestic interest rates to an astronomical 70%, but even this extreme measure was not enough to save the country from descending into total state failure. This was the exact moment Mexico was forced to accept a humiliating, sovereignty-destroying bailout from the IMF and the United States totaling a massive $57 billion. Exactly $20 billion of that came directly from the US treasury, but it came with the highly insulting, neocolonial condition that all revenues from the global sales of Mexican state-owned oil must be deposited directly into the Federal Reserve Bank in New York City as collateral to secure the debt, while the IMF forced even more brutal, structural adjustment programs on Mexico that the country has still not fully recovered from even to this very day.

So, while this stock market boom is currently being heavily marketed as another monumental, ground-breaking macroeconomic achievement by the Tinubu Administration, it is in reality extremely dangerous, deceptive, and reckless. Not only does it completely fail to reflect the actual, material reality on the ground, which is that Nigeria is currently the bleeding poverty capital of the world, but this exact, artificial economic bubble has the direct, terrifying potential to completely collapse the Nigerian economy, trigger massive capital flight, and permanently reduce the country to a subservient, bankrupt puppet state run entirely by the harsh austerity measures, economic dictates, and financial chains of boardroom terror organizations like the IMF and the World Bank.

[Renzo™ @fwrenzo1]

I miss when "The News" was just a guy in a suit telling you what happened, instead of a 24 hour panic machine designed to make you hate your neighbor so you don't notice your rent went up 30%.

[fresils @iFresils]

please, wear your nice clothes everyday. the special occasion is being alive.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

The African independence movement of the 1960s succeeded in changing the color of the people in power.
The current generation is now burdened with the much harder task: changing the system of power itself.

[Confidence ☭ @cbginsight1]

The future of Nigeria will not be built by citizens who introduce themselves first by tribe or religion. It will be built by people who understand that exploitation has no ethnicity and liberation demands solidarity.

[O R O M A ✨ @_Romsss]

Omo, Nigeria healthcare system pisses me off…..why are we still using our palms to count contractions?????