The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors should not have to beg for what has already been agreed upon. The Federal Government signed a deal on the Professional Allowance Table, and now it wants to abandon it. This is not governance; it is betrayal.
Our resident doctors are the last line of defence in hospitals that are already collapsing. They work gruelling hours, in impossible conditions, for pay that insults their sacrifice. And now, the government seeks to take away the little that was promised? The Tinubu administration must demonstrate commitment to the issues: 19 months of unpaid Professional Allowance arrears; promotion arrears gathering dust; a Medical Residency Training Fund stuck in bureaucratic limbo; and a government that treats its doctors as an afterthought and remains unconcerned as they flee the country in droves.
Every doctor Nigeria loses to the UK, Canada, or Saudi Arabia is a failure of leadership, not a failure of patriotism. You cannot ask people to serve a nation that refuses to honour its own word.
I stand with NARD. Pay what you owe. Honour what you signed. Or explain to 200 million Nigerians why their hospitals will go dark on Tuesday. -AA
I still remember one random day in uniβ¦
Walked into the gym and saw one guy absolutely destroying the punching bag with pure will. No fancy setup, just raw aggression.
Me too I said βhow hard can it be?β
Picked up gloves to spar.
In my head, I was toughβ¦ strong core, body shots donβt move me like that.
We started light.
Then boom β ONE clean liver shot.
Omoβ¦ my body just shut down π
Not immediately like a headshot⦠it delayed for like half a second, then everything hit at once. Legs gone. Breath gone. Pride gone.
I tried to stand strong because people were watching⦠lasted less than a second. I folded, clutching my side like my life depended on it.
That pain is not normal pain.
Itβs deep. It spreads. It lingers.
Like your inside is being twisted and your body is betraying you at the same time.
Closest thing? Maybe getting hit in the ballsβ¦ but even that doesnβt fully explain it.
Ever since that day, I respect the liver shot differently.
Itβs not just a punchβ¦ itβs a βfight-ending button.β
Now imagine a random person being that punching bag
Anthony Joshua is hitting with his left hand π
Why are you people tagging and dragging me under this post? Did I kill her? Am I snakes' representative?
What we need right now is to pray for the soul of the departed and educate ourselves about how to prevent something like this from happening again.
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