In 2019, Damilola Savage was the most promising young lawyer in Lagos.
Sharp. Hungry. Beautiful mind.
She had one dream: to make partner at Okonkwo & Associates before 35.
What she didn’t know was that the firm had already decided her fate — before she walked through the door on her first day.
Okonkwo & Associates occupied the entire 14th floor of a glass tower on Adeola Odeku Street, Victoria Island.
Senior Partner — Chief Emeka Okonkwo, SAN.
62 years old. Silver-haired. Yale-educated. A man who had drafted legislation that shaped modern Nigeria.
And a man who did not lose.
i’ve removed ego and shame from the experience of liking people. me liking someone is my personal decision, but that doesn’t mean they’re obligated to like me back, desire me or act according to my expectations. i don’t see rejection or lack of reciprocity as an attack on my self worth.
and by “shameless,” i mean i’m not carrying embarrassment on my head because i like someone. whether i text first, express interest or end up liking them more than they like me, it is what it is. i’m not going to start acting emotionally detached just to protect pride. i also think people who genuinely find mutual attraction, emotional alignment and timing at the same time are very lucky because it honestly doesn’t happen as easily as people make it seem.
The urea breath test and H. pylori stool antigen test are excellent non-invasive tools for detecting active H. pylori infection, one of the commonest causes of peptic ulcer disease. High sensitivity, high specificity, very useful clinically.
But they do NOT confirm the presence of an actual ulcer. You can carry H. pylori WITHOUT ULCERATION, and you can also develop ulcers from NSAIDs, alcohol, smoking, severe physiologic stress, etc., WITHOUT H. PYLORI INVOLVEMENT.
Definitive ulcer diagnosis, including location, size, bleeding risk, and exclusion of malignancy, still requires upper GI endoscopy with direct visualization. So a negative H. pylori test does not automatically mean “no ulcer,” just as a positive result does not automatically mean an ulcer exists.
The Heads of Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria had unanimously agreed that the Minimum Admissible Scores for admissions into Universities should be 150, Colleges of Nursing, 150, and Polytechnics, 100.
Only in medical school you'd see a man who's 25 yrs old living student life.
Hostel boy.
Depending on his parents to barb his hair.
Even money to buy boxers.
Med sch destroys your OT as a young guy
Effort you're supposed to put into chasing money,u go use dey chase distinction
Toba is a very great guy.
He’s so knowledgeable that I’ve always felt he was meant to be at @NASA or working on spaceship missions. Not only did we finish from the same secondary school, TASUESS in Ijebu-Ode (same school as @AYOKUNLE_MD), but we also represented the best state medical school at different levels, while I was in my finals. We emerged as the second-best medical school in Africa out of 37 medical universities in 2022 (even @the_beardedsina thinks we were the best in the tournament).
Toba’s answers were things I had never heard of before. Some of his remarkable responses in quiz competitions included Time Magazine’s Person of the 20th Century (Albert Einstein) and the full name of Isaac Newton’s Principia (Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica).
It didn’t stop at basic science but extended to complex medical knowledge. His understanding of concepts is unrivalled. At times, it honestly feels like he belongs in the league of minds like Einstein or Hippocrates, rare thinkers of another era.
For context, I finished in 2022 with six distinctions, which was a record for my school, following Chromo (Dr. Alabi Olugbenga)'s footsteps, so I understand what excellence looks like. Every record is meant to be broken, and I’m so pleased you surpassed this milestone. Toba has my highest recommendation, and I believe this should go beyond the College of Health Sciences and should be the best result in @oou_agoiwoye.
I’m calling on the state governor @DapoAbiodunCON to please recognize and celebrate this outstanding achievement and give it the attention it truly deserves, and on the president @officialABAT to also acknowledge and honor this level of excellence.
I can’t argue with consistency (Secondary school grades, WASSCE, JAMB, and now Medical School). When someone shows up, delivers, and keeps raising the bar over and over again, you just have to respect it. It speaks for itself. His efforts should not go unnoticed.
Greater height, brother, this is the least you'll ever be.
8 years ago, I began this journey to become a doctor, after 8As and 1B in my WASSCE and a score of 347 in my UTME.
The journey is finally over, with distinctions in Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Pathology, Pharmacology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and Internal Medicine.
for our 8-5 with alternate weekend comrades
this is your life every month
the variable is if you don't do night
you work 276hrs a month (Still in excess of 100+ hrs above the recommend hours)
let's be educated let's have a paradigm shift
we deserve better
#MO#DO#NMDOU
This is i not just the mainland it transcends to other places in our country
let's unite and stand against exploitation
Enough is enough
let's share massively
#MO#DO#NMDOU
Victoria Acerta ✊