Over-centralisation continues to be one of the major banes of Nigeria’s problems. Why do we have a “national grid”? Why don’t we have several grids that cover smaller regional areas? Why should the whole country be in darkness at the same time?
@SirJarus Sadio Mane indeed saved his country from a football suicide call made by their coach.
The coach made a very bad judgement in calling his players of the pitch as nothing about that decision would have ended in their favour.
Mane won Senegal this trophy by his great character!
HOW DO DOCTORS EAT MEAT AFTER CUTTING FLESH IN THE OPERATING ROOM.
DO DOCTORS FIND IT AWKWARD DURING INTIMACY.
Doctors have feelings, we do not turn into a 20ml syringe and needle at the end of life. 😌
I smile when I read this, because it is such an honest question, and because it comes from curiosity, not cruelty. And so I will answer you gently.
First, how do we live with ourselves? We live with ourselves by learning, slowly and carefully, to separate the body in pain from the body in life. In the theatre, a human body is not flesh and blood in the way the mind imagines it; it is responsibility, it is focus, it is reverence.
When I open a body, I am not 'messing with it.' I am protecting it. I am listening to it. I am trying to return it to the person who loves it. And when I later sit down to eat a plate of rice, even with beef, it is not casualness, it is gratitude. Food tastes like life when you have spent the day keeping someone alive.
As for seeing deterioration, disease, loss, yes, we see it. We see breasts after cancer, after infection, after neglect, after time has spoken loudly. But what medicine teaches you is not disgust; it teaches you humility. You realise very quickly that nothing in this world is frozen at its most beautiful moment.
Everything changes. Everything softens, scars, ages. And instead of making desire disappear, this knowledge makes love deeper. You stop loving perfection and start loving presence.
About sex, and I answer this softly, and honestly, and as a married man, medicine does not kill desire. It matures it. When you have seen bodies in their most vulnerable states, you learn that intimacy is not about tissue or shape or fantasy. It is about trust. It is about being chosen and choosing back. It is about safety. Desire survives because it is no longer naive; it is anchored. It knows that this body, imperfect and changing, is still worthy of pleasure and tenderness.
And perhaps this is the quiet truth: doctors do not become numb. We do not turn into syringes at the end of life. We become selectively tender. We learn when to be clinical and when to be human. We learn to hold grief at work and joy at home. We learn that the body is both sacred and ordinary, and that understanding this does not make life less beautiful. It makes it more honest.
So yes, we live with ourselves. And we eat. And we love. And we still find wonder in bodies, not because they are flawless, but because they are fleeting.
This heartbreaking story of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie losing her son due to negligence in a Lagos hospital made me think about a lesson I learned in Dubai.
Last year, I parked in a spot reserved for people with special needs for a quick errand. It was a Sunday, parking was free, and I thought it wouldn’t matter. I was in and out in three minutes. Still, I got an SMS almost immediately. A fine. Not the standard 150 AED parking ticket fine. This one was 1000 AED - around N400k. My eyes turned red, and I could not appeal.
That painful lesson taught me accountability in a way I will never forget. Since then, I have never even considered bending that rule.
That is what is missing, or at least far too weak, in Nigeria.
When there are no real consequences, people get away with negligence and the system doesn't learn or improve. In places with real accountability, everyone thinks twice, rich or not.
And that is what makes systems work.
@BashirAhmaad It's now a culture for both @thenff and the @NGSuperEagles players to always do this whenever they see momentum is in their favour in any tournament.
If the players feel they are doing the country a favour, let them make good this promise for once so we can all rest abag!
@AJSilverCFC Let him hurry & quit biko !
It is called a national team & not Victor Osimhen's team.
Nothing can justify his gutter behaviour in a game he already scored 2 goals assisted by d same Lookman & d team won 4 nil on d night
What would he have done if d team was losing d game?
@ELEGBETE1SPORTS His gutter behaviour yesterday rubbed the coaching crew, the entire team, and all football loving Nigerians, the joy of a superb performance and outstanding result by the Super Eagles.
Victor Osimhen should grow up or fall out !
@FisayoDairo Osimhen failed to realise that the current Super Eagles team can flourish without him & his ego.
Akor Adams in my opinion can step into his role and do quite well with the support of Lookman & Simon/Chukwueze.
Talent without good attitude is calamity waiting to happen!!!!
@ShehuAA You are blaming the president for destroying all the opposition parties and leaving out the opposition leaders for showing lack of character & maturity needed to build a formidable opposition.
Imaging Man Utd supporters blaming Man City for ManU's poor run in the league.
Habaa!
@_MrChima@ruffydfire To the best of my knowledge, Refai is yet to interview any current or former president of 🇳🇬 or any other country in the world, nor has he been invited to any presidential media chat.
To him, he is the best & boldest journalist in 🇳🇬 today bcos he can "put it to you"