If you are studying Veterinary Medicine in Nigeria, this is for you.
Let me tell you the truth nobody told you in school.
Veterinary Medicine in Nigeria is not the lucrative profession they sold to you in JAMB brochure, career talks, or motivational seminars. It is a respected profession, yes. It is an important profession, yes. But financially, Nigeria is not structured to reward it.
You were told you would be saving animals, running big farms, consulting for multinationals, and living comfortably. What they didn’t tell you is that most Nigerians don’t even take their animals to the vet. They treat goats with herbs. They treat dogs with paracetamol. They call roadside “experts” to treat cows. They only remember a real vet when the animal is already dying.
Nigeria is a country where people will spend N200k on a phone but argue over N10k consultation fee for their dog.
You will graduate after six hard years. You will do housemanship. You will serve. Then reality will hit.
Most veterinary clinics are struggling. Most farms want cheap labour, not professionals. Government veterinary jobs are scarce and poorly paid. Private practice requires capital, connections, and patience.
You will see engineers doing tech. Lawyers doing real estate. Pharmacists running logistics. Doctors doing startups. And vets wondering where the money is.
Not because you are not intelligent.
Not because the course is useless.
But because the Nigerian economy does not value animal healthcare the way developed countries do.
In the UK, US, Canada, and Australia, vets are paid well. Pet insurance is normal. Animal welfare is taken seriously. Farms run on science. Research is funded. Consulting is big business.
In Nigeria, people still argue that goats don’t need injections.
So if you are studying Veterinary Medicine, wake up early.
Don’t wait till final year to start thinking. Don’t believe that your certificate alone will save you. It will not.
You need strategy.
You need to think beyond clinic work, learn agribusiness, understand animal production.
You need to explore export, research, nutrition, pharmaceuticals, and tech.
You need to build a brand, not just earn a degree.
Veterinary Medicine is powerful. But Nigeria is not designed to reward it by default.
If you don’t design your own path, the system will design poverty for you.
This is not to discourage you, it is to prepare you.
Because passion without planning is suffering.
And in Nigeria, reality does not respect titles. It respects value.
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This video triggers me a lot. Every time I see it on my TL. I’m triggered and angry because I had the same experience in 2000. 25 years later, it’s still happening. I wrote my SSCE in 2000. Cleared all subjects, but then the English result was cancelled. In those days, nothing like social media to rant and hold WAEC accountable, so anything you saw, you took it like that. With English canceled, I looked forward to the GCE I had registered for, knowing I just needed to focus on that English. I prepped for it like my whole life depended on it. My Centre: Community Grammar School, Ayobo, Ipaja. I remember these things because, as a kid, that event took a toll on me.
The day we wrote English, the Essay was in the morning, while the objective was supposed to be in the afternoon. The morning papers went smoothly until it was time to write the objective in the afternoon, the WAEC rep didn’t show up until around 7 pm. They locked the gate so no one could go out. When he eventually came, we were told to go out and get candles before the exam could start. Come back in 10 mins!
17-year-old me was running around Ayobo to buy candles to write the SSCE in an area I didn’t know at almost 8 pm. I won’t talk about how the people selling candles hiked the prices immediately. Candidates were buying candles and cutting them in half. Some folks submitted the answer sheet with candle wax everywhere.
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But while Wike plays the game for relevance, Tinubu is operating at an entirely different level. His moves are not reactionary; they are premeditated and calculated. Unlike his political allies and opponents, Tinubu does not play for survival – he plays for absolute control.
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UNIBEN Veterinary Medical Students Deserve to Be Heard!
We shouldn’t have to learn critical courses like Surgery and Anatomy online. With only seven lecturers, inadequate infrastructure, and added costs for internet subscriptions, we deserve better support for our education.
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We are curious to know what the public thinks about the 3-letter word - VET or the 12-letter word - VETERINARIAN.
Please share your thoughts/comments with us.
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Dear President @officialABAT,
I wish to call your attention to the exclusion of the Veterinary Council of Nigeria @VetCouncilNig from the funding list of national health regulators.
For a country whose animal health needs are grossly underfunded both in terms of human and financial resources, this decision will further weaken the activities of both the council and the veterinary profession at large.
Global realities and trends where over 70% of diseases affecting humans are of animal origin and the pandemic of antibiotics abuse is dangerously on the rise especially in livestock production demands that a renewed vigour be injected into the animal health system starting with the VCN.
Moreso, animal health is a strong pillar of #OneHealth so exclusion of the regulatory council at a time like this undermines our commitment to driving One Health initiatives.
Your Excellency, permit me to suggest/advice that the VCN by added back to the list while a new timeline for de-funding be worked out that gives all affected agencies a timeline to workout sustainability plans.
Our profession requires enormous funding support especially for the private sector to thrive effectively in meeting the growing needs of animal health in urban, rural and underserved communities across Nigeria. While in India last year, you spoke strongly about your commitment to the livestock sector in Nigeria and the potential therein. Veterinarians and other animal health professionals are going to be the driving force behind that success and it will be a great time to demonstrate that commitment Sir.
I urge you dear Sir, to rethink this decision as it will be in the best interest of the Nigerian public and the over 100 million livestock farmers and millions of pet owners across Nigeria who depend on animal health professionals for the health of the their animals.
You are a leader that listens and I am confident you will intervene in this regards too.
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Yours in service,
Dr. Akpem Terese Shadrach
Founder, @vetkonect@NigerianVets
P.S. Please help me get this to Mr. President.🙏
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@shadrachAkpem This is the first time I am seeing the face behind the name, your name has gone far ahead of you for good. The seeming failures of today are our stepping stones to the success of tomorrow. You live to fight another day Dr 💪
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