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MD 🩺 CEO @thehairconfidante

[BIGGEST VIRG @StudentByNature]

So this APC supporter asked me to go and hug transformer because I said I would not vote for Tinubu.
I hugged the transformer for 12 hours straight, nothing happened. No light.
Please everyone should get their PVCs

[✯𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐆, 𝐌𝐃 @Dr_youngy]

Things Tinubu wiped out in just 3 years

1. Middle Class
2. Car dates
3. Sleeping with AC
4. Sleeping with generator on throughout the night
5. Buying Augmentin
6. The affordability of Amala Central’s food
7. Car dates

[Ojone @ojoneads]

@bumiyo_J @iyore__ Congratulations babygirl 🥳

[The ICIR @TheICIR]

[VIDEO] - At least 14 people were killed in a brutal attack on Angwan Rukuba Road, Jos North LGA, Plateau State. Gunmen reportedly shot at injured victims as they fled for medical aid.
Video credit: @Osamacomedian

[AFO @Dr_Afo]

Being a House Officer fresh out of medical school in a Naija teaching hospital is how they collect your fresh doctor dreams and slowly grind them into garri with the hospital floor.

Dr Chinedu just graduated from UNTH. His ward coat was crisp, trousers with ironed edges that could cut paper, stethoscope shining like medal and parents proud.

For his mind, he's thinking; write primaries sharp, enter Cardiology residency, finish in record time, go to India for fellowship in intervention cardiology.

He resumes housemanship with full chest and naive optimism. He thinks; “This one year na just stepping stone. Finish am, smash exams, become cardiologist. This is my calling!”

But by month three, Dr Chinedu Bumbum don already begin to smoke.

Within five months, he has already done:
🩺 Done back-to-back 36-hour calls like say na normal routine
🩺 Clerk patients, draw blood, chase labs, write notes till his hand beg for mercy
🩺 Covered multiple wards when senior doctors no show or travel
🩺 Run from medical to casualty to labour ward like person wey dem send on errand

Five whole months without one single kobo salary. Not even transport money. Every 18th, NARD go promise dem dey promise “this week e go enter.”

MDCN keep whining him. After six months, they eventually pay one month out of the six he has worked.
Chinedu keeps surviving on pure water, garri, call food and pure belief.

Then typhoid + malaria decide to do combo on him. His body became hot like oven, and he no fit stand up for four days.

When Dr Chinedu finally drag himself back to the ward, management call him sharp: “You were absent without leave. So your house job extended by 2 weeks.”

Extra two weeks. Unpaid. Because he dared to fall sick.

He begged that he was only absent because he was sick, but all his pleas fell on dead ears. His seniors turned their backs on him.

They called him lazy. Them say he no fit work under pressure. That he's too soft.

But the wahala isn't just in the hospital. Feeding na serious daily battle and transport na war. He swallows his pride and borrow from Opay.

Quick loan. “Once salary arrears enter, I go clear everything,” he tells himself. And since salary no enter for the next 4 months. Interest begin climb like fuel price.

The calls start morning, afternoon, night: “Hello sir, your repayment date don pass o.” Different voices. Different threats.

Dr Chinedu changes his number one day like thief. Block everywhere. Stop picking unknown calls.

He drags the remaining months in pure survival mode. Tired. Broke. Angry. Disillusioned. Furious.

Last day of house job. Dr Chinedu signs out, drops coat into waste bin, waka out through that same gate he entered one year ago with big big dreams.

Inside his heart, one solid resolution land like rock: “I will never do residency in this country. Never. Not cardiology. Not anything. Not here.”

The same boy wey started with fire in his eyes come out with only house job certificate and one broken dream.

We laugh through the tears but the unpaid labour, the debt, the sickness punishment, the loan app harassment, and the shattered passion are very, very real.

Many house officers finish and make this same vow. Nigerian doctors deserve way better than this kind system.

[vada @vadavaebae]

Can’t wait to experience a relationship with a man that don’t play bout me🤧😩

[AFO @Dr_Afo]

Everyday I think about this profession and the trajectory it's heading.
I've always been an avid reader.
Loving books and being a class topper is a reason I'm a doctor today.
But medicine is a jealous profession because it's so voluminous.
You make diagnosis by combining your knowledge of signs and symptoms in medicine, surgery and other Fields with pathology, anatomy, physiology, pharmacology and more.
It's a lot.
Sometimes it takes more than a doctor to make the right diagnosis.
It's easier now that you can quickly brush up stuffs with Medscape and other med apps.
But to be a great doctor, you need to constantly read.
Not just big books.
But studies, guidelines, papers, atlases and so on.
For a naija doctor busy hustling locum to survive, where do you find the time?
When you're busying running from one hospital to the other just to make sure your kids school fees and rent are paid on time, while still saving for Japa, where do you find the time to actually be a great doctor.
It's a true dilemma.
Sadly, there's really no easy solution.
Because for real, the most dangerous doctor is the one who doesn't know he is wrong.
And you don't want your surgeon thinking about his daughter's unpaid school fees while repairing your gastric perforation.
May God helps all of us.

[Snipes @snipes199]

The health sector is crumbling, and this government has the audacity to show us the receipts.
Minister Ali Pate just admitted: Out of ₦218 BILLION budgeted for capital projects in the Ministry of Health in 2025, only ₦36 MILLION was released. That's 0.016% basically pocket change that couldn't even fix one broken hospital generator.

Meanwhile, ₦500 MILLION was released to the Special Assistant to the President on Media & Policy Communications for "strategic global media engagement. "Let that sink in. We can't build hospitals, equip labs, hire more doctors, or fix decaying facilities for citizens dying from preventable diseases... but we have half a billion naira to polish the government's image abroad?
Priorities: Propaganda over people.

Image laundering over lives saved. Nigerians are suffering, no sleep, no healthcare, no hope while funds meant for our survival are diverted to "strategic" PR stunts. This isn't governance. This is daylight robbery of our future. If this doesn't wake us up, nothing will.

We should demand better. Demand accountability. Demand our money works for US.

[oseni rufai @ruffydfire]

I haven’t slept through the night since Min. of a health Ali Pate revealed that only N36 million was released for capital projects for the health ministry last year.

N500 million was released to SA to the President on Media& Policy comms for ‘strategic global media engagement’
Adesuwa

[Lesh 👸🏽❤ @LadyLionSA]

Working from home with your partner around...what a treat 🥺🤌🏽🔥🔥

[Upcoming rich girl💰 @Favour_Kammie]

Why must I hustle to go to another man’s land to earn well with my degree ?
What sort of rubbish is this 😂
Everyday I wake up I feel a new wave of pain and regret

[Dr POPOOLA 🌐⚕️ @popoolaadaniel]

I woke up this morning heavy.

Sad… or maybe depressed. I’m not even sure anymore. There’s a dull confusion that comes with it, like when a word no longer fits the feeling it’s meant to describe.

Imagine loathing a profession you once loved.
Really loved.
The kind of love that made the long nights feel meaningful.
Now I catch myself irritated by patients I’m supposed to care for, supposed to sit with gently, supposed to understand. And that thought alone makes me hate myself a little. But empathy is hard when stress is constant and the pay is almost insulting. When your body is present and your spirit is already gone.

Some days I genuinely want to go back to school. Start again. Read another course. Anything that doesn’t feel like this slow erosion of the soul.

I’m tired.
Not the kind of tired that sleep fixes.
I’m fatigued in my bones.

Then I look ahead. At our consultants. Our professors. The people we’re told to aspire to become. And it’s terrifying. They are poor. Not just financially, but in joy. In light. In peace. Unhappy. Bitter. Worn down. Sometimes it feels like they’re warnings, not role models. And I wonder quietly… is this the destination?

Many doctors are depressed. We don’t say it loudly, but it’s everywhere. In the short tempers. In the dead eyes. In the dark jokes we laugh at too hard.

This profession kills us daily.
Not with one dramatic blow.
But slowly. Methodically.
Piece by piece.

We're Nigerian Doctors.

[Roland Decker 🦉 @RolandDecker]

@nard_nigeria Watch the full interview here
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[DeyemiTheActor @_deyemi]

Some are being triggered by #TheHerd on @NetflixNaija for showing our current reality?

The same terrorist attacks I witnessed first hand on my way to Gembu, Taraba during NYSC?

Abeg if you’re part of the few that have sense pls help me RT this poster for everyone to see it! 👀

[Dr Mohammad Usman Suleiman @mohagirei]

RESPECT THE MESSAGE, AND NECESSARILY THE MESSENGER

NO ONE IS INFALLIBLE

Permit me to observe all possible protocol, with due respect, all due diligence and all due recognition.

Dear Distinguished and Esteemed NARDites,

Much has been said and made about the methodology the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) adopted in pressing home this current agitation in the last two months.

Much has also been made of the character, attitude, demeanor and intentions of members of NARD—From the National Officers to the National Executive Council, from the President to the Members of NARD.

These assertions range from subtle (and obvious) intimidations, misrepresentations, miscommunications, missed communications and even outright misunderstandings and misinformation. This even includes calling into question the love for our jobs, profession, patients, constituted authority and even the nation.

Harsh and unprintable names, adjectives and pronouns have been used to describe all of us under the umbrella of NARD.

However, a few facts are unyieldingly undisputed, undiluted, uncontested and undeniable.

First, the genuineness of the agitation, the injustices therein, the need to resolve them, the ‘welfarism’ nature of them and the importance of all of it in ensuring effective patient care is clear to all.

Second, the resolve of members of NARD remains unshakable, unencumbered, unstoppable and uncompromising.

Third, the chronic nature of these demands, the acute on chronic exacerbations precipitating them and the damage it has caused for the country is crystal clear.

Fourth, the seriousness of the issues, the urgency needed in ensuring they are fixed for the long term, the courage of NARDites to ensure they are fixed is not in doubt. The debate thus far has acknowledged this.

NARD is yet to see any conversation, interaction or conciliation that has taken away the above facts from the table.

This is why this message from NARDites across Nigeria is very loud and clear.

This is why this message has resonated even outside the boundaries of NARD.

The old saying "do not throw the baby away with the bath water" crystallizes another old saying of "don’t shoot the message, shoot the messenger"

Permit me to call on all our Dear and Distinguished NARDites across the country and all the opponents and proponents of this current agitation to avoid the tactic of shooting both the message and messenger.

Even if Government does it, and it has done that quite obviously, do not descend to that level.

Doing so loses the essence of the message, opens the struggle up for ridicule and allows the argument to change to ‘these boys lack respect’

Remember fellow NARDites, these agitations aren’t a ‘ward round’. Even though some would love for it to be so. It is where some want the debate to go to. It is the only way these types of people know to engage with NARD and NARDites.

I therefore call on all of us in NARD and those outside NARD that support us in our hour of need to steer clear of the temptation to answer these negative descriptions attached to NARD and it’s genuine agitation.

Dear NARDites, person wey report case to police first no mean say e go win the case, But in this case, na we report fes and na we come dey win the case.

Victory at the end, is enough. Victory at the end, should be enough. Victory at the end, must be enough without yielding to unnecessary digressions, distractions and disillusions. This will only lead to distortions, disappointments and disasters.

STEER CLEAR OF ORAL MISGIVINGS THAT FURTHER DILUTES OUR ANAEMIA

I urge us all to stay focus, hold the line.
No go sell person market oh, sell ya own market abeg. NARD Market Dey sell very well.

No one (and nothing) is infallible…Except permitted by God Almighty.

Yours ’Militantly’,
As Always,

P-MUS of @nard_nigeria
23:11:2025

[NARD @nard_nigeria]

DAY 18 OF OPERATION TICS

Dear Nigerians,

This Fight Is for All of Us!

When doctors cry out, it’s not for comfort ,it’s for the survival of healthcare.
We want hospitals that work, patients who live, and a system that values life.

Our demands are not selfish, they are the heartbeat of a healthier Nigeria.

Stand with us. Speak up. Demand better.
Because when healthcare fails, everyone suffers.

#SaveHealthcare | #NARDStrike2025
#SaveTheDoctors | #OperationTICS

NARD MEDIA TEAM

[Olúwatósìn Olaseinde @tosinolaseinde]

I’ve been watching the #ResidentDoctors strike and we all need to lend our voice. For over two weeks, NARD doctors have withdrawn their services — and the government still hasn’t fully answered.

These aren’t petty demands. NARD says N38 billion is owed in unpaid salaries and allowances. Resident doctors are the backbone of public hospitals — yet their welfare keeps being ignored.

According to NARD, only 2 of 19 demands have received “progress.”

At UCH (Ibadan) — a premier teaching hospital — resident doctors have fully complied. Consultants are trying to manage, but it’s not a sustainable solution.

These doctors are not striking to be difficult. They’re striking because conditions are untenable: low pay, high work pressure, no long-term security.

The president has now directed the Health Ministry to act, but NARD insists their 19-point demand must be fully met. Partial payouts or half-measures won’t cut it.

As someone who cares about long-term sustainability, I know this matters: A broken health system isn’t just a loss for doctors — it’s a loss for all of us.

@nard_nigeria deserves more than lip service. They deserve real, lasting reform. This is not just a strike — it’s a fight for justice, dignity, and healthcare for every Nigerian.

I’m calling on fellow Nigerians, public servants, and every leader who can influence this: Stand with them. Amplify their voice. Push for a resolution that lasts, not a band-aid fix.

To @nard_nigeria — your cause matters..
We stand with you.

[victoria orenze @victoriaorenze]

My Nigeria 🇳🇬

Doctors are on strike nationwide due to unpaid salary and arrears, poor working condition and environment, salary structures not adjusted, people are not treated, people are suffering and dying and there is suppose to be a government, there is supposed to be senate, National Assembly in this country right???

How wicked can the men in power be??

When I say pharaohs don’t know how to let go and only God delivers from the hands of pharaohs, it’s clearer by the day.

You refuse to prioritise the well being, health, security, education to mention a few of the people you lead.
There is no way you will not get the reward of the wickedness you are sowing. Unfortunately it doesn’t stop with you, what you sow, you generation unborn will reap it if the Lord tarries. You are destroying their future already.
Nigerian 🇳🇬 government, Nigerian 🇳🇬 leaders, you have refused to repent and I pity you!

[Dr. Olawale Ogunlana @doctorwalesmd]

Nigerian Doctors in 2014 - Able to pay bills, buy cars, travel, live up to the responsibilities and standards of life expected from a Doctor

Nigerian Doctors in 2025 - owing PalmPay due to unpaid and owed salaries

😭😭😭😭😭