Our house help asked for a ₦10,000 salary increase.
We said no immediately.
Her request: ₦70,000 → ₦80,000 per month.
Our decision: Let her leave and save the extra ₦10,000.
She resigned.
Two weeks later, after struggling to do all the cooking, cleaning and laundry ourselves, we hired someone else.
The reality:
• New house help’s salary: ₦90,000/month.
• The irony: We ended up paying ₦10,000 more for someone who had to learn everything from scratch.
We refused to pay ₦80,000 to keep someone who already knew our home, our routines and our preferences…
But happily agreed to pay ₦90,000 to a complete stranger.
Doesn’t make much sense, does it?
Yet this is exactly how many companies treat loyal employees.
They reject a reasonable raise, lose experienced staff, then spend even more recruiting and training a replacement.
Loyalty rarely gets rewarded.
Sometimes, the fastest way to earn more isn’t to work harder…
It’s to change employers.
Men, true strength is not about staying silent but about standing up to your friends who abuse, rape, or demean women. Let's redefine masculinity by holding each other accountable.
#JusticeforChristianah
We do not want a "bro code" that prevents you from speaking up when injustice, assault, bullying, and rape is being done by your fellow "bro"
We want a "bro code" that holds us accountable.
Speak up!
#JusticeForChristiannah
Men aren't the problem, women aren't the problem, but EVIL people living amongst us are; And it can be anyone cos evil isn't gender based. We have seen both genders be victims, culprits, & perpetrators. Pls always remember this when addressing issues, generalisation is dangerous.
I repeat
Before you agree to date anybody on this app, before you start talking stage
Take your precious time, take the whole day, put your phone on DND, and GO THROUGH ALL THEIR TWEETS, especially their REPLIES
A lot of psychologically imbalanced people dey roam this app ooo
Today is NOT the day for whataboutism. Women have every right to be angry, you should be angry too.
The society is collapsing right in front of you but you’re looking for cheap points to score? Are you not ashamed?
Is it until it hits home before you get it?
“Women stay safe“ but Christiannah was with her “friend”
“Women stay safe“ but Mercy was in her house sleeping
“Women stay safe” but Bamise was on a state owned bus
“Women stay safe” but Uwa was in church
“Women stay safe” but Augusta was with her boyfriend
Stay safe where??
Bro, we need to start taking tweets seriously and reading deep meaning into them
I’m scared of some of y’all.. he’s k!lled his own ex gf, his sister and innocent Christianah and he has been dropping hints on twitter
Nigerian nurses are terribly underpaid and heavily overworked. Many of them barely make 150,000 naira a month. That is barely £75 an entire month.
These are people with children, relatives, wives and husbands who they have to care for. They have to pay rent, pay school fees and pay bills from these peanuts they earn. This is why many of them are leaving Nigeria.
The nursing council has stopped verifying their licenses which means it is now impossible for any one of them to leave the country to chase greener pastures elsewhere.
Govt is not ready to pay them better.
Govt is stopping them to travel abroad.
Pay them well, you say no. Let them leave the country, you still say no.
We must all lend our voices and speak up for the nurses. It is the nurses today, who will it be next? Doctors? Lab scientists? Dentists? Radiographers? Pharmacists? Accountants? Engineers?
Remember this quote:
“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
—Martin Niemöller”
Please speak up for nigerian nurses today. Don’t wait for when it will be your turn because it will be too late by then.
Lend your voice. Use the hashtag.
Please retweet and share. It only takes 2seconds to get this message out.
#EndTheNursingLicenseVerificationSuspensionInNigeria
I’m not a nurse.
Maybe you reading this is also not a nurse.
But let me explain to you how tyranny works:
This madness that the govt is trying to do with nigerian nurses by holding them hostage and refusing to verify their license so they can’t travel abroad;
If it succeeds, you are next.
The tyranny you ignore today because you think it’s not your business will one day come and knock on your door to also destroy your life.
Please lend your voice.
Let’s all speak up for nigerian nurses.
#EndTheNursingLicenseVerificationSuspensionInNigeria
I want to raise an alarm about a horrible injustice being carried out against nigerian nurses.
Many of them don’t have the voice, the reach, or the platform for their pain to be heard or seen so I will gladly do it for them.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMcN) is refusing indefinitely to verify license for any nurse who plans and wants to travel abroad.
The license verification is a mandatory requirement for any nurse who trained in Nigeria to relocate abroad for work as a nurse.
The decision by the NMCN means:
1. Any licensed nurse who is in Nigeria now cannot relocate abroad for work. So they can’t move from Nigeria to uk, usa, Saudi or anywhere else.
2. Any licensed nurse who trained in Nigeria but already abroad cannot leave where they are for anywhere else. So they can’t move from uk to usa, Canada or anywhere. They are stuck where they are.
This is a form of professional imprisonment and hostage. And it makes zero sense however you look at it.
Nigerian nurses are overworked, underpaid, overused, under-appreciated and unfulfilled with their work in Nigeria.
This is why they want to leave Nigeria.
The answer to underpaid, overworked and unfulfilled health workers is NOT to hold them hostage in a system and a country they no longer want to be in. We need to address the issues, pay them better, make work more fulfilling and build a country that professionals are happy to live in.
The government is full of lunatic retards.
There is no other explanation beyond this. Otherwise, they should know that the only people who suffer this draconian decision by the NMCN is the patients and populace at hand.
When you force nurses, or any other professionals, to work against their wishes, what kind of care do you think the patients will get? Do you want patients to be treated by nurses who have mentally logged out of the system, who no longer wish to be in the country and who are being professionally held hostage against their will?
If this is not clear madness from the NMCN, then please tell me how else you define and explain insanity.
It’s an absolute disgrace and distasteful shame that rather than engage the nurses in a productive process that addresses their concerns and offers them juicy packages that discourages them from leaving, the NMCN is choosing the shameful path of professional hostage taking.
Tomorrow, when someone goes to a general hospital, and they see a nurse who is morose, irritable, upset and uncaring; you will wonder why. But you will never know that is a healthcare professional who is forced against her wishes to work in a system she no longer wants to be part of.
And don’t get me wrong:
I’m not saying I want all nurses to leave the country. I’m only saying the solution to the problem of nurses leaving is to specifically address the reasons why.
What I’m saying very emphatically is that the answer is NOT to simply place a technical ban on their escape and forcefully make them attend to patients who will only most likely be the ones to suffer potential half-hearted treatment from a nurse who is completely fed up of the entire system but has been tied down and forced to work.
What I’m saying is not a joke.
Canada has confirmed it. Saudi has confirmed it. Texas/USA has also confirmed it.
Today it is the nurses being held hostage. It could be doctors tomorrow. Or dentists. Or pharmacists. Or dietitians. Or opticians. Or optometrists. Or engineers. Or physiotherapists.
It could literally be anybody. It could be you. Please kindly lend your voice. Please let’s speak up for these nurses.
Pls share this everywhere.
Kindly retweet to create awareness.
Gist with Smallie: Deluxe edition 🔥
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I don’t know if it’s the fuel scarcity but the way people are fighting for fuel at the filling stations is the same way Afrobeats artistes are beating one another on Twitter today.
Wear your bullet vest as we navigate the battlefield.
Dear Nurses;
Here are the 3 KEYS to CAREER DEVELOPMENT…
1, Courage
2, Commitment
3, Positive Motivation
1, Courage: being courageous makes you curious about learning the ideal way around things… the more curious you are, the more knowledgeable you become, and the more courageous you’ll be in taking career development steps..
2, Commitment: once an opportunity presents itself, your commitment is imperative to growth.
3, Positive motivation; *positive* because there are negative motivations too… staying positively motivated will keep you on track.
Building to right attitude to growth will make you stand out.
I hope you found this useful…
Cheers 🥂
NMCN & EXTORTION be like 5 & 6… Bonnie & Clyde kinda relationship!
END EXTORTION!!!
END UNFAVORABLE POLICIES!!!
SUPPORT YOUR NURSES!!!
LISTEN TO US!!
#NMCNVERIFICATIONRULE#saynotonmcnverificationguidline