Nigerian FG approves NYSC reforms: 🇳🇬
- New uniform
- Now headed by a civilian
- Orientation camp moved from three weeks to six weeks
- Focus now on leadership, entrepreneurship, and digital skills
- Replaces ‘Passing Out Parade’ with graduation ceremony
I understand that current state of our economy has forced a lot of people to find multiple sources of income BUT a lot of you have absolutely no business being entrepreneurs.
NYSC new reforms
- Orientation now set to be six (6) weeks to train corp members on digital, leadership and entrepreneurial skills
- Uniform to be changed
- Now to be led by a civilian
- Every form of parade and paramilitary orientation to be scrapped
- Passing out Parade to be replaced by a graduation ceremony
IF A HEAVILY PREGNANT WOMAN COLLAPSES IN FRONT OF YOU.
DON'T BE SCARED, BE BRAVE.
SHARE TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW
There is a particular hush that enters a room when a pregnant woman collapses, a hush that feels like fear holding its breath, and like hope waiting to be summoned. And as a gynae doctor, I have learned that in those quiet, trembling seconds, what you do and what you refuse to fear can save not one life, but two.
And so, let us speak plainly, and yet tenderly, about what must happen.
1. First, do not panic.
Because panic is a thief. it steals clarity, and it steals time. Breathe. Steady yourself. You cannot rescue another while drowning in your own fright.
2. Check if she is present.
Tap her shoulders. Call her name the way you would call someone back from a drifting edge. Is she breathing? Is her pulse humming softly under the skin of her neck?
These answers guide your next breath, and your next move.
3. Tilt her belly, slightly, purposefully to the left. Because the womb, in all its beauty and weight, can press against the great vessels at her back, and because shifting it gently to the left frees her heart to receive blood again.
It is a small movement, yet it is also a quiet miracle.
4. And if she is not breathing, start CPR. Immediately.
Place your hands in the centre of her chest, just below and between her breasts, and push. Push as though life itself is calling through your palms. Push hard. Push fast.
Give breaths if you can.
Call 911, or your emergency number, because skilled hands are on their way but your hands are the first responders her body is waiting for.
5. Remember the unforgiving truth of time. In pregnancy, you have 4 to 5 minutes, not stories, not speculation, not hesitation, just minutes.
Minutes that can make the difference between a life restored and a life remembered.
And let me say this with the gentle firmness of a doctor who has seen too many preventable tragedies: For all the campaigns, and the jingles, and the well-funded PR… it will be a quiet tragedy if you still do not learn CPR.
Learn it. Practice it. Carry it like a form of love. Because one day, and may that day never come, and yet may you be ready, it might be your hands that hold the thin thread between life and loss.
Share this. Spread it.
And perhaps… save someone.
NO PREGNANT WOMAN DESERVES TO DIE
"Forget about body count. Body count doesn't always count. Sometimes it's better to marry a lady who has gone into the world and experienced life than to marry one who hasn't. Those you think are less ev!l, what they are doing behind the scenes will shøck you."
— Canada-based Nigerian doctor, Zo, reveals the advice he recently gave to his abroad-based male friend after the friend planned to call off his intended marriage upon hearing that the lady slept with two other men he knows in Nigeria.
Alhamdulillah! 🤍💙
With hearts full of gratitude and joy, we’re overjoyed to announce that in the early hours of yesterday, Allah (SWT) blessed my husband and me with the most precious gift ,our beautiful baby boy. 🤍
Alhamdulillah, our little prince, mummy, and daddy are all doing well.
We pray that Allah (SWT) keep him under his divine protection, grant him good health, wisdom, strong Imaan, and makes him a source of joy, peace, and barakah in this life and the next. Ameen. 🤲🏽
Alhamdulillah for His mercy, His perfect timing, and for making us parents. Truly, every praise belongs to Allah. 🤍
“Nobody invented Gèlè"
Yoruba women at the club in Gèlè (Yaba Lagos, 1960s)
Yoruba woman at work in Gèlè (1940s)
Yoruba women at their shop in Gèlè (Lagos 1946-47
Yoruba women at home (1950s)
Not every headwrap is Gèlè. Yorubas tied scarves too.
Gèlè is a specific Yoruba style with a long documented history and this specific style spread across Nigeria through cultural exchange.
It is okay to acknowledge this rather than trying to rename it. It is also okay to correct misinformation, there’s nothing high IQ about letting false narratives spread.