I did 14 months of house job in Lagos without pay.
When we went on strike, they paid 8 months and reported us to MDCN.
The hospital also refused to sign me off.
My NYSC was delayed by 7 months.
I worked & saved for 7 years, wrote my exams, and relocated to the UK.
6 months salary in the UK was more than ALL my salaries in Nigeria COMBINED.
Nigeria treats her Doctors poorly. Period
There's something Ycee did with that Olodo Uprising...the impact is still being felt.
Because I am not sure I have randomly seen educational excellence being celebrated in a minute.
And as he is walking into that venue with his shaved-down Afro hair, he is going to plop on a mandatory powdered wig because an English king in the 17th century was balding from syphilis.
Are we cursed as a people?
Reminder that in high school the biracial and yt kids in my school were never made to cut their hair or style it to look appropriate.
Reminder that Nigerian men were so heavily profiled in 2020 bc of their way of expression (hair, clothes etc) it resulted in actual death.