Ayodeji Olukayode

Medical Doctor | Writer | Editor | Clinical Research

[Sai Ishaya @Sai_Isshayya_]

Again, not even surprised that these two are using their platform as a laundromat for prejudice.

You take crude, violent xenophobia from the streets, run it through a 5-minute historical monologue about the Boers & apartheid, have two grifting Nigerian hosts nod along, & sudenly it emerges clean, pressed, & ready for consumption 💀

The historical timeline is correct right up until the conclusion. Black South Africans did emerged from apartheid into a structurally rigged economy. But to look at an economy still entirely dominated by white monopoly capital & decide that African migrants are the structural problem is a very deliberate misdirection. They know exactly who the White elite gatekeepers hoarding their resources are, but there is a collective lack of nerve to even mention them loudly on a podcast.

It's infinitely easier to harass a Zimbabwean waiter, burn out a Nigerian shop owner, or demand that Chidimma Adetshina be stripped of her citizenship than it is to challenge the actual architects of the post-apartheid economy. The African migrant is the sacrificial lamb. They are the path of least resistance—the only ones within reach of the stick and the cutlass.

If even the VCs who made it out of the shanties lack the nerve to look their actual economic oppressors in the eye, what hope is there for the mob in the streets?

[Ifeanyichukwu. @peclif]

In this book, Coetzee teaches us some major lessons in writing: Don't waste your reader's time; allow the story to move; let the sentences do the work.

[M. O. @Apatapiti_]

Final thoughts on this Simi issue:

1. Her response was awful. She should have instead taken responsibility, apologised and admitted the folly of her tweets.

2. The existence of those tweets do not prove she did those things. She could have very well just been shit posting. In fact, she very likely was just shit posting perverted stuff like many did here back then. I said this same thing for Ezra, Peruzzi, the CCI Pastor.

3. She's been held by same standards that have been established here and by which many others (men) have been judged for years.

4. Regardless of the foregoing, I still do not believe that mistakes like that should define a person for life. I do not subscribe to such cancel culture. There should always be a place to apologise and retract awful statements made in folly. This is what our yellow house FC have said shouldn't exist and that's why we're here

5. Please, do not ignore the concerns of your little sons and brothers. Look out for them. Pay attention to them.

[Prince Ogunoye® 🦴 @OgunoyeTheFirst]

This day last week, I was inducted as a Fellow of the West Africa College of Surgeons following my success at the April WACS exam.

I also won the Alh Sanusi Mohammed prize for the Best Candidate in Clinical and Oral exams.

I give Glory to God, My family, trainers, colleagues.

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

“We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”

—Charles Bukowski

[Sai Ishaya @Sai_Isshayya_]

I’ve been following the broader conversations around this case, and the dominant theme has been around healthcare regulation. That’s an important direction, but there are IMPORTANT things to take into consideration.

Firstly, as someone has already pointed out, it is important that medical professionals and regulators be at the forefront of conversations around regulatory reforms. If they don’t lead the push for accountability and standards, any policy changes that come will be reactive, superficial, and misdirected.

What I however want to point out is that you can’t talk about reform, regulation and governance in ISOLATION, as if Nigeria’s healthcare system is a normal functioning system that simply needs stricter rules. The framing is dishonest. You cannot regulate a system as though it is functional when it is fundamentally operating in SURVIVAL mode (look at his comparison to the UK 😅)

This is a system that is chronically underfunded, understaffed, and running on broken infrastructure. Staff are underpaid, overworked, and often practising in conditions that already violate "best practice" before a single clinical decision is even made.

Accountability matters. Negligence should have consequences. But building regulation that is mainly punitive, in a collapsing system, becomes messy and unfair when the systemic issues are ignored. What standards are you realistically going to enforce when hospitals don’t even have the tools and infrastructure required to meet them?

The truth is that governance and funding are not separate conversations. Regulation without resourcing is theatre. You can create a new regulator, revise the laws, set up panels, announce probes, even run a few high-profile sanctions, but if you don’t fix staffing ratios, pay, infrastructure, supply chains, and training capacity, nothing changes. Negligence will keep happening, not because Nigerians are cursed, but because unsafe systems reliably produce unsafe outcomes.

So yes, call for accountability. But that accountability and reform must be intelligent. It must include the State(& the Judiciary which needs REFORMS more than ever. That is his own constituency after all).

It must include the hospital management. It must include the procurement corruption. It must include the collapse of emergency pathways. It must include the "no oxygen," "no blood," "no bed," "no scanner," "no anaesthetist," "no specialities" realities. Above all it must include the government that has for decades neglected healthcare and made it an afterthought instead of a priority.

Otherwise what we’re really doing is blaming individuals for drowning in a river the government refused to build a bridge over.

[Ben X @Benn_X1]

I think most of you are being clever by half.

A resonable counter argument to "non-muslims are being killed by muslims as a way to propagate/enforce Islam" is NOT "muslims are being killed too".

Are non-muslims also killing muslims due to their beliefs? This is the real issue!

Don't tell me it is political when every terrorist attack is preceded by 'Allahu Akbar'. They don't chant the slogan of a political party or movement. This is clearly RELIGIOUS fanaticism. There is no other way to put it. It is what it is.

Saying that muslims are also being killed is making a strawman argument. People die everyday owing to different causes. We are saying people are being killed BECAUSE of their beliefs or lack of beliefs.
You can deceive people who don't know about the different sects in Islam. And yes, the inter-Islam violence is mostly sectarian and still driven by beliefs.
Some muslims believe their own understanding of Islam is better than others and go on to attack fellow muslims.

We can pretend about it, but 'moderate' muslims understand it and that is why they'd rather accuse the victims of islamophobia than condemn the terrorists.
The 'moderate' muslim has no problem with enforcing the propagation of Islam, they only disagree with Boko Haram's approach.
ALL muslims want Islam to enter every household on earth! This is an extremist idealogy that does not respect the rights and freedoms of other members of the society.

[dru. squatch @hurtch]

I am not advocating for the invasion of my own country but I think at this point, it's very clear that we need external help.

It is now imperative for the @officialABAT government to invite the US government (or any other willing government) and allow them to set up security support units in the conflict-ridden parts of the country.

We cannot do this alone.

[M. O. @Apatapiti_]

We must also understand that the existence of any religion is almost always, by default, a blasphemy against the other.

This is why it's senseless to insist people must respect/regard your god or faith. Religious freedom inherently comes with freedom to reject your god and completely consider your god needless, powerless, non-existent and useless. Just as you have the freedom to believe the complete opposite.

This freedom must always be personal and carry no repercussions whatsoever. Victimless 'offences' like blasphemy, apostasy, and the likes have no place in modern society.

The only problem here is in the first line of this post. We're dealing with beasts in human skin. And so there's no way they can understand anything but what they already believe.

[Dr. Opeyimika Aremu 🚀 @LifeOfOpeyimika]

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[Vanadium Vee @Victoryolamide3]

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[Ayodeji Olukayode @Thedeejaytopson]

Floranorm nikan nimo mo. 1 sachet dly.

[Her Fokken Majesty 🥰👑 @cremechic11]

Those of us who are just hearing or Floraïku today, abeg come this side 🤣🤣

[Raphael @Raphael_Eloka]

I just released an article on my journey to matching into residency.

Tried to be as detailed and honest as possible, hopefully it answers some of the questions I’ve been getting lately.

Grateful for all the kind messages. Hope it helps someone out there

https://t.co/E29Lg6yiI4

[Cardiology Interest Group, Nigeria @cardioIGnigeria]

Big congratulations to Dr. Kelechi Ughagwu @Kelechiup on successfully matching into residency!👏🏾

From all of us at Cardiology Interest Group, Nigeria— we are proud of you!🌟

Don’t forget to apply to join CIGN if you are interested in cardiology too: https://t.co/0QDmCxEbtS

[Lo Po Bia @Kelechiup]

My dreams are gradually becoming a reality.
I matched!!!

[Sai Ishaya @Sai_Isshayya_]

Reading stories of the adversity & failure IMGs had to overcome to achieve their dreams is what makes MATCH season awe-inspiring for me.
Behind the smiles, there have been lots of sleepless nights & long days.
It is why I am very put off by IMG-bashing. The road is ROUGH.

[NIGERIAN CANCER SOCIETY @NigCancer_NCS]

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[Ayodeji Olukayode @Thedeejaytopson]

@ShembeNonto The Great Gatsby.

[Ayodeji Olukayode @Thedeejaytopson]

@oluafolabi Congratulations, Boss.

[Dr. Boluwatife OLU Afolabi @oluafolabi]

Glad to cap off what has been an extremely intense year by passing my qualifying examination and proceeding into PhD candidacy.