If "Hmm" can pull 4.4M impressions, then at least 1M of you can amplify this:
I'm building interactive software for Anatomy and Pathologies specifically in Black skin.
RT if you believe it matters.
On the 16th of December 25, I discovered a deadly evil being perpetuated by citizens against fellow citizens. In the course of this story, I'll make use of fictional names but real locations where they occured.
On that Tuesday morning, Olamide, a 25 year old boy came back to his apartment in Rumuigbo with his Toks Lexus RX 350, which he bought the previous week, and was celebrating with everyone. He had picked up the car from Apapa, Lagos, where he went with a mechanic whom he met on FB marketplace and drove down to see his people in Delta before proceeding to PH on that day. The car had been in his possession for over 7 days before he came to PH.
Let me give you a backstory on Olamide. He is an only son with 6 sisters and he is the 4th child. His father is in Quatar, working as a boat operator and his mother is a teacher in one of the government secondary schools in Delta state. Olamide is a waiter in one prominent place in Onne, hence the urge to get a car. His dad sent him the money for the car since the boy wasn't patient enough for one to be shipped to him.
While we were celebrating, we heard gunshots outside the gate and almost immediately the gate flew wide open. Operatives of EFCC and NPF filled the compound and everyone was in panic mode. I sharply went inside and called the NAF base and Army barracks, sent my location and went outside. I was on pass so I had no official capacity to act, hence my silence. They told everyone to lie down, started rough handling everyone. Some started going door to door, pounding and shouting that everyone must come out. I tried talking to the one I sensed was the most senior and he shunned me. I didn't argue or drag. They checked their tablet and kept pointing at the car, "oga na the car be this. Tracker no dey lie." While they were at it, 4 vans filled with soldiers arrived, and 6 of them came into the compound. Upon seeing them, I got up immediately and told everyone on the floor to stand.
We started asking questions, and they said the car belonged to a yahoo boy and it was seized by the EFCC. They claimed the car was missing from their lot and they have been tracking it for over 4 months, so I had Olamide describe the vendor's location and calls were made to Lagos, some soldiers and some members of the Lagos RRS stormed the place, picked up the seller and began interrogating him. That's where things went dark.
The car seller has an active agreement with a handful from the EFCC. If a young guy buys a car, they install trackers and sell it to him, wait for some days and bust the guy, retrieve the car and arrest him while tagging him a yahoo boy. The car is then returned to the car dealer and the dealer gives EFCC their own share from the car sales proceeds. The mechanic is in on it also.
After all these exposé, I realized that we have a very long way to go as a country.
To the young men, do your research before you walk into any dealership to buy a car. Ask questions, swallow pride. That 24-48 hours of information gathering will save you a long time in prison.
A lot of what some healthcare workers dish out to doctors, they wouldn’t tolerate themselves. After my BSc in Pharmacology, many of my classmates went for service and were posted to hospitals for their PPA. In several of those hospitals, the chief pharmacists dismissed them
Every other dept will slack but the HO is the one to run helter skelter to cover up. Pharmacy won’t do theatre pack complete, lab won’t upload result until you get there, porters won’t go and collect the blood, nurses won’t check vitals.
Very frustrating period for the HO
Those Jos students have really suffered to say the least , I almost took up appointment with them in Jos before my current job, when my colleagues who ran away from the faculty sat me down and explained to me the situation of things in their faculty of dentistry. O boy, I ran away without looking back. I feel the problem is not with their dean, college of medicine or their HODs. The problem is with the University management, federal ministry of health and education. We all know that without adequate budgetary allocation, nothing can be done to savage the UniJos Dentistry. I spent 5yrs and 2Months as an undergraduate student in school in university of Ibadan, we can all imagine what someone that has spent 10yrs without the hope of graduating even in 2yrs time may be going through. Let be say this, most of the counterparts of these students in university of Jos are already registrars as we speak while they are still in 400L after 10 precious years have been wasted.
Another interesting story, there were two ladies I know, one entered Unimaid dental school while the other entered UniJos Dental school at the same time 10yrs ago, the one who entered Unimaid dental school is currently a registrar working with us, while the one in UniJos dental school is currently in 500L, waking up each morning, carrying placards, being assaulted by the university securities, begging just to be allowed to graduate. This is the wickedness and man inhumanity to man and no one should allow this obnoxious injustice to stand. I personally appeal to all those I will tag under this post to kindly do the needful, to savage what is left of the only dental school in the North Central part of Nigeria. A stitch in time, saves nine.
#SaveUniJosDentalStudents
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They call male health assistants, male porters, male nurses, every male on scrub “doctors” but call female doctors in coats “nurses” and you think the female doctors are angry because they feel superior (bullshit btw) not the ingrained stereotype that women can not be doctors?
Let me give my hot take on this polycule matter.
Multiple sexual partners is a risk factor for cervical cancer.
Before you do poly whatever;
1. Get screened for cervical cancer and
2. Take the HPV vaccine
After you’ve done all of the above, suit yourself!
Oh I shall be here because just weeks ago, Nigerians were defending their right to keep foetuses diagnosed with disabilities/special needs.
Ask them what it means to take care of such people, even remotely, they don't know jack. Even the people living with the disabilities don't recommend because this is their reality and it's not cute or funny.
Not asking anyone to kill their foetus or baby. That one is a very personal decision. But it's not about moral posturing or forming self righteous when the topic comes up, we must also address the real issues.
There's hardly proper accessibility in public buildings, transport systems for wheelchair users, sign language inclusion, support services for families. Absolutely nothing that shows disabled people are being considered in planning or policy.
So as we speak from emotion or religion, let's also think about what it means to bring those type of children into a society that isn't built to support them. These are the conversations we should be having and not just the ones that make us feel good about ourselves. 👍
#pastedfrommyigwhereifirstsawthevideo
This week’s episode is for the girls - fitting, since International Day of The Girl Child just passed by.
We are joined by @Malala , a Pakistani female education activist, who reminds us the importance of education, community, structure and balance for every girl, everywhere in the world.
She gets real about the pressures and life differences in being Malala the activist vs Malala the woman. She also shares some (extremely peaceful) advice on dilemmas about a girl who built her family business from the ground-up, only to be pushed out, and another who believes her siblings hate her. It’s thoughtful, peaceful and very for the girls 🧡
Full episode is now available on YouTube.
1. Joshua, you’re a liar, and you’re not even a smart one.
2. I checked flight logs on Flightradar24 and the flight schedule for British Airways for April 2023 and found that they operated their flight BA74 from Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos (LOS) to London Heathrow (LHR) daily. However, all of these flights departed in the evening, not the morning. The flight typically departs around 22:50 local time (WAT) and arrives at Heathrow around 05:25 the next day (BST). Evening departure was standard for BA74 throughout April 2023. The flight is approximately 6 hours and 35 minutes.
To ensure I did justice to that, I also checked if British Airways operated a private jet service from Lagos to London in April 2023. I found that British Airways does not operate any private jet service on that route. Their only offering on this route is the scheduled commercial flights, particularly the daily BA74 service (operated by a Boeing 777 or 787 with over 200 passengers).
Therefore, your claim that “His elder brother ended the call and instantly booked an emergency flight for him to London the next morning. British airways, they fixed him on the first flight, his brother sent him the ticket and boom he flew and landed London the next morning” is an obvious lie. There’s only one daily flight from Lagos to Heathrow, there’s no such thing as “first flight”. And how can he fly out from Nigeria “the next morning” and land in London “the next morning” when it’s a 6hours35 minutes flight?
3. I know that the standard practice is that if a patient is arriving with an air ambulance or there was an in-flight medical emergency, an ambulance would be waiting at the airport. So I checked logs from Flightradar24, FlightAware, and AirNav Radar. My search showed that in April 2023, most instances of British Airways flight from Lagos to Heathrow (BA74) completed their routes on time. A few had minor delays due to weather or air traffic. However, no squawk code 7700 (which is the code for in-flight medical emergency) was activated for any of the flights. So it is impossible for an ambulance to be waiting at the airport for your friend.
4. Your post inferred that Nigerian doctors are unqualified and failed to make a proper assessment and diagnosis of your friend’s condition. That is also wrong. The Medical Training in Nigeria is one of the best and, unarguably, the most comprehensive medical training programs in the world. Doctors trained in Nigeria are trained to be efficient in both low-resource settings and high-resource settings.
In the UK, where you claimed your friend eventually received the proper diagnosis and treatment, Nigerian-trained Doctors are among the most sought-after medical professionals. According to The Guardian, in 2022, India accounted for 11% of all doctors sponsored for UK skilled worker visas. They are only behind India, which had 20% of doctors sponsored for the UK skilled workers visa. In 2021, data for countries with at least 100 candidates Showed That Doctors trained in Nigeria achieved a first-time pass rate of 70.1% on PLAB Part 1 and 64.0% on PLAB Part 2. Indian graduates, coming next to Nigerians, achieved a 67.8% first-time pass rate on PLAB Part 1 and a 62.5% pass rate on PLAB Part 2.
According to the most recent data released in September 2023, about 2.0% of doctors in the NHS workforce in England are Nigerian nationals. Nigeria is only behind Indian (8%), Pakistan (3.7%), and Egypt (2.9%). This shows that Doctors trained in Nigeria are qualified and that their training meets international standards.