@afolabiodun The worst part of Nigerians are the ones in diaspora who wakes up everyday in a saline country but doesn't which their own "dear nation" could be remotely close.
No need for this shenanigans. Just spend the money paying all kid related bills.
You want more humans, pay to have them. You know how much kids costs, both in monetary terms and otherwise etc??
The Japanese Government is helping people find love to solve for their critically low birth rates.
People are not having enough kids in Japan, so the Government is stepping in with a dating app.
The dating app is being rolled out to help people find love, get married and have children.
The app even requires users to sign a pledge that they are looking to get married and not just a casual relationship.
Japan’s ageing population is projected to fall by 30% in the next 40 years.
Japan is proof that no matter what the problem, one solution always is - let’s create an app around this.
A most heartwarming story that I heard yesterday, at the FHN conference. A Nigerian neonatologist moved back to Nigeria from the UK 4 months ago to set up a Neonatal intensive care facility in Lagos.
Her first patient: a premature baby who weighed 620 grams. Yes. Grams. Less than 1kg. Born to a woman who’d been trying for a baby for very many years. Four months later, baby now weighs 2.27kg, and is doing well.
She shared this story on a panel with 4 other Nigerian doctors who’ve moved back home over the last decade. Every single of them spoke about how fulfilling it has been, even while acknowledging the challenges of life and business in Nigeria. Nobody downplayed the very real issues - electricity was high on their lists, for example.
But they all spoke with first-hand experience of how, even amidst the challenges, there are opportunities, and vistas of hope. Listening to that discussion is one of the best things I’ve experienced this year. I personally think all of those doctors deserve National Honours.
For me it’s a constant reminder that we just have to get things right as a country. We don’t have a choice!
A day before, I sat on a panel at BRF’s book launch, and shared my vision of a Nigeria as a medical tourism destination (we already have a medical tourism visa, by the way!). And I told HE @drobafemihamzat (repping @jidesanwoolu) to please work to fasttrack the planned Lagos Medical City, as part of the things governments are doing to support private enterprise in healthcare.
There’s of course A LOT that governments can and should be doing, that’s a topic for another post.
We must share the stories of everything that’s going on. We cannot focus ONLY on what’s not working. We must give equal (if not more!) energy to what’s working, as well. What’s changing for the better. The people making heroic moves and investments. There’s a lot more to the story of healthcare in Nigeria, than failure and Japa.
God bless the FRN
— Tolu Ogunlesi
Let’s wait and see what new research outcomes say before we begin to regret.
I lived in Italy in 2020, and I saw the death toll, know people who lost family members.
Worst case, we are Guinea pigs in a subpar clinical trial
lol. Pls close your bible. And actually talk to humans
Marriage and the whole responsibility of it, the pressure the society puts on women to uphold the family…
women are out of their minds with stress… first thing that’s affected? Sex drive
A few years ago, I asked my mom why women are promiscuous before marriage and then withhold sex after marriage. She opened her Bible and read me Genesis 3 and said “It’s not about sex, it’s about control.”
My kid brother is at the verge of marrying an Igbo girl from Orlu, Imo state. With the spate of promiscuity, cruelty and immoral demeanor I read here about Igbo women for the first time I am really concerned. Funny enough even the Igbo women are not beating the allegations.
So she’s an extremely clean person with a touch of OCD, what’s the problem.
You, the husband is not complaining, let outsiders stay in their home.
Also not kissing babies is correct, they are very fragile. Wiping breasts before feeding is hygienic too 😆
This comparison isn’t fair.
When you see the “not allowing” for women it’s usually about the more basic life aspect.. finances, work, child related stuff, education etc
But yeah let’s compare
We are all biased sha. Because when I hear that a woman didn’t ‘allow’ her husband to come back to Nigeria to enter politics and even threatened him with the divorce, my mind doesn’t even go to abuse. But as soon as it’s a man doing the un-allowing for anything…🚨🚨🚨🚨