Jamiu

Ordinary human

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

No Student Should Suffer for Leadership Failures

Following my visit yesterday to the Faculty of Dental Studies at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), I was inundated with reports concerning developments at the University of Calabar (UNICAL), where issues around the Dental students’ graduation and induction quota have sparked serious concern. While the specifics of the matter are still unfolding, I understand that the Vice Chancellor has recently assured the public that steps will be taken to resolve the crisis. I appreciate her for this promise, and I look forward to a favourable resolution.

Whatever the root cause, one thing is clear: no student should suffer due to what I consider a failure of leadership. We must give our youth the necessary education, particularly in critical fields like science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Education in these areas is far too important to be jeopardised by bureaucratic or institutional lapses. Whatever the issue, the students must remain in school and graduate appropriately without compromising standards.

I feel their concern, as I faced a similar situation as the former Governor of Anambra State, when the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria shut down our medical school at Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, citing the absence of a teaching hospital—a basic requirement for accreditation. Students who had already spent 3 to 4 years studying medicine were told they could only graduate as biologists or in other science courses. I had just assumed office, barely one year in, when I met the crisis, but I refused to let those innocent students become victims.

I pleaded with the Council and told them that the children did not cause the issue and should not be made to suffer for it. I promised to take full responsibility and committed to building a functional teaching hospital within two years. They told me it was impossible to build such a facility in two years. But I insisted, because leaders must be solution-driven, especially when the lives and futures of our young people are at stake.

In less than 18 months, I fulfilled that promise. I built and commissioned what is now known as Odumegwu-Ojukwu Teaching Hospital in Awka, saving not just the accreditation of the medical faculty but the futures of young aspiring doctors to this day.

I call on the Federal Government to give this situation the urgent and decisive attention it deserves by providing both financial and institutional support to the university leadership. The Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar and her team must be empowered to resolve this issue immediately, to ensure that no student is made to suffer for circumstances that are in no way their fault.

At this critical time in our nation, we cannot afford to continue the downward trend of neglecting education and healthcare, or of failing to lift people out of poverty, while wasting resources on areas that bring no tangible value.

Our children must not continue to lose their future in Nigeria.

A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO

[OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @OurFavOnlineDoc]

GOOD NEWS!!!!
After we called on @PeterObi yesterday,
He has now put out this statement.

Thank you everyone that retweeted and shared my open appeal for Peter Obi to speak on the plight of the UniCal dental students.

Thank you 🙏🏿 @PeterObi for standing with the oppressed and unfairly treated. May posterity be kind to you.

Thank you again sir.
Pls everyone help me wish this good man a happy birthday sir.

#SaveDentalStudentsOfUnical

[OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @OurFavOnlineDoc]

Yesterday,
He was “discharged days ago and recovering”.

Today,
He has died this afternoon in London bed.

These are the animals in government.
They just simply don’t know when to stop lying. They lie, lie, lie and continually lie even in the face of death.

Complete lunatics.

[Great Oracle Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary. @AbdulMahmud01]

They ruin our country. Die abroad. And their remains are returned to the country for burial.
The Nigerian paradox.

[Morris Monye @Morris_Monye]

Noooo @PeterObi don’t tweet that thing.

[Malachy Odo II @MalachyOdo1]

Shettima is now an undertaker?

[AMB. SERAH IBRAHIM @TheSerahIbrahim]

The laugh I have laughed because of this picture🤣😭🤣

Lol, they just put random papers in front of him to take pictures, to the point that the first paper there is even map of Nigeria 🤣😭🤣

[Jamiu @jamilladee]

Over fake dollar bills?

[Instablog9ja @instablog9ja]

Your next move?

[Peoples Gazette @GazetteNGR]

Splash FM orders ban on Naira Marley songs across all stations
https://t.co/6L5QOuYVbN

[Eghosa @TheEghosa]

@kalgo_idris @Jack_ng01 @AishaYesufu This is a very disgusting take on someone hustling for their daily bread. He literally supported his candidate in the hopes of getting a better life not to get paid by the candidate. I’m sure that’s too complex for you to understand

[MCca_Xn @McCa_xn]

@kalgo_idris @AishaYesufu What is wrong with his work?? Na so you no get sense??

[Johnville500𓃵 🇳🇬 🇮🇪 @Johnville500]

@kalgo_idris @AishaYesufu This guy just got a hoooge endorsement added to his integrity and hard work.

[AIS_💙_Savita @smartakukoma]

To buy a Mercedes Gear Box you need 900k to 2m for used ones oo.. to fix it is around 100k to 500k depending on what spoilt inside.. these are lower class Benz oo.. so imagine fixing 20 in a month. You are sure of N2m - N5m.. all of us must not be in office, all of us must not be efizy to make money.. without them the Labourers some of us will suffer because we'll spend more money to buy things instead of fix it.. imagine a working class family Benz has a Gearbox issue that can be fixed with N100k instead of fixing it he buys a brand new for N2.5m because there's no technician to do it. So trying to shame a technician because he chose his political party is a wrong move. Retrace..

[BIG JOE OF LAGOS✌️🇳🇬®️ @JosephOnuorah]

@kalgo_idris @gigoGHOST @AishaYesufu Disgusting 🤮 to reason in this way.

To try shaming a man because of his enterprise - that’s a criminal and indolent mentality!!!

[Aisha Yesufu @AishaYesufu]

@Demchille @kalgo_idris Davidi how you dey?
I take my own train my children well. Wetin your mama take her own do?

[Uno. @skeleuno]

@kalgo_idris @AishaYesufu Wow Idris .. I hope you can tell them how your father slept with your mother niece ! Let the world know take it off your chest !

[EDEH @ViktorEdeh]

@kalgo_idris @AishaYesufu He has to be given shishi to make a decision that’ll suit his future and business?
In any case,there’s dignity in labour… that’s money he’s holding or servicing right there.

[Jamiu @jamilladee]

@poshbab @UjuChukwuma__ @AfamDeluxo Honestly! 😂😂😂

[Muse @poshbab]

@UjuChukwuma__ @AfamDeluxo Stop being a nuisance