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Kobojunkie:

There is NO WAY continuing with ESTABLISHED Failure ( Failure for the last 12 years STRAIGHT-NO PAUSE) is any better than the alternatives we have, even today. We all sat back and watched the Nation come to a complete halt under the Yar adua/Jonathan ticket. He has been given time to redeem himself and instead of hitting the ground running, since unlike everyone else out there he again has experience that ought to work as an advantage for him, he has shown he does not have anything to offer. By next month we will celebrate one year(for those who need him to get one year before we rank him) and no signs that anything substantial has been accomplished to date. What we keep getting,even a year into his istration are promises and not much else.

Yes, I agree we do not have the best pickings this time around BUT it is NO EXCUSE to choose to CONTINUE THE FAILURE of the last 12 years, NONE WHATSOEVER!

I think that's a very dim view(no insult intended) but you dont expect GEJ to completely transform the nation in such a small space of time. Power's improving thats for sure and I will count him an overachiever if we have free and credible elections as promised, keeping my finger's crossed on that but read somewhere that inec was in the process of prosecuting double registrants . Lets not throw away the baby with the bath water. Lets give the guy some time to actualize his programs.

Kobojunkie:

I hate to say it but I feel I need to @emeka_gh. I don't know who made the above statement but the person tagged you for sure.

Madam Kobo, I ire your tenacity but what alternatives are you proposing, This is a case of voting the best of a lot of bad options, I can never vote for Buhari or Ribadu for a lot of reasons which do not border on your list above. So cool it down a notch . nuff said.

Wadeoye:

Any poll that says Jonathan wins Lagos is fibricated - how will that happen? Rigging or what?

Without doubt GEJ will sweep Lagos clean. An opinion to the contrary means that person does not live in Lagos and not in tune with the political inclination of Lagosians. Ofcourse fashola is a no contest. Clear your eyes.

Chelsea fans have started on the road Arsenal fans took. Believe it or not the Barca team has no equal. Better pray to avoid them if you do qualify. nuff said.

Akolawole:

Yes, go and check the record very well.  People fear Barca so much but Barca dont want to play Chelsea at all.

FYI: The very first time in the last 10 years that Barca will have just one shot at goal was our last match in stamford bridge. Unfortunately, it was the goal that qualifies them on away goal rule.

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Arsène Wenger's displeasure was easily understandable as he ended the match raging at the referee who had shown Robin van Persie a second yellow card, and the Frenchman continued his diatribe in his post-match interviews. But now he needs to lay aside that sense of injustice and give attention to some of the deep-lying issues exposed by Tuesday night's elimination from the second of the four competitions that were still in Arsenal's sights a mere week and a half ago.

On Saturday night Arsenal travel to Old Trafford, where they meet Manchester United in an FA Cup sixth-round tie which could reduce their list of targets to one or, if the evening goes well, and given that United lie only three points ahead of them in the Premier League table, renew the hopes that another Double, the third of the Wenger era, could be on the cards.

"This is when a manager earns his money," George Graham, a former Arsenal manager, remarked on Talksport, and it is hard to imagine his successor getting much sleep between now and the weekend as he plots to arrest the sudden disintegration of a side that until very recently looked like fulfilling all the potential he has so insistently claimed on their behalf.

Only three weeks ago we were acclaiming perhaps the greatest performance of Wenger's decade and a half in north London, when they took on the world's best club side and prevailed not just through speed and skill but courage and sheer will to win, the very qualities they had so often been accused of lacking. In truth, they were fortunate that Lionel Messi so untypically missed two clear chances to score and that the referee denied Barcelona a plausible penalty claim, but still there were signs that Wenger's constant reiteration of a belief in his side's "spirit" indeed had some substance.

On Tuesday, however, their virtues were blown away and only the flaws remained. They may have been within one decent Nicklas Bendtner finish of smuggling themselves through to the next round, but such an outcome would have been an offence against natural justice, whatever Wenger and Van Persie might say.

The surprise was in the way Arsenal approached the match. Wednesday morning's Spanish papers were withering in their condemnation of the English side's disinclination to attack, a derision compounded by Arsenal's failure to complete their mission. Spanish observers did not like it when José Mourinho ordered Internazionale to pack their defence in last year's semi-final, but at least Mourinho's success earned him a measure of respect.

The scornful cartoon in Mundo Deportivo had Wenger reading from the Mourinho coaching manual: "The fault for not having a shot on goal , is the referee's, the referee's, the referee's, the referee's, the referee's." But when he reflects on Tuesday's events, he can hardly be proud that his side became the first since 2004 to fail to a single shot in a Champions League match.

Dismay and perhaps even a measure of shame are the proper responses to such a lamentable feat. Barcelona are a wonderful team, but they were playing with two replacement centre-backs. Despite the freakishness of the possibility that Bendtner could have put his side through to the last eight, Arsenal did nothing to deserve any form of reward. The absence of Thomas Vermaelen, Alex Song and Theo Walcott played a part, and the marginal condition of Van Persie and Cesc Fábregas was clearly unhelpful. But the displays of Tomas Rosicky, Abou Diaby and Bendtner in particular cast doubt on Wenger's readiness to invest further deposits of faith in players who have spent most of their Arsenal careers underperforming.

Diaby, positioned alongside Jack Wilshere in front of the defence but with a relatively free commission, again highlighted the inability or unwillingness of Wenger to plug the gap left by the likes of Patrick Vieira and Gilberto Silva. A strong, driving midfield player used to be an Arsenal characteristic, and Javier Mascherano showed how it should be done, even in a side fundamentally dedicated to attack. Argentina's captain, one imagines, is a player Wenger could have acquired a few years ago, although he might not have fancied doing business with Kia Joorabchian.

Rosicky and Samir Nasri were virtually absent from a game in which they were given enough scope to make an impact. Nasri, so stunningly effective in the first half of the season, seems to have forgotten that his best contributions come when, like Messi, he takes on opponents at close quarters in the penalty area. As for Bendtner, his heavy touch was as apparent as it had been in South Africa last summer, the point at which Wenger should have cut his losses on the Dane.

Eavesdropping on Arsenal ers during the flight to Catalonia, it was interesting to hear one of them compare Wenger to L Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology. "What Arsène's running isn't a football club – it's a cult," the fan said. Barely even half-joking, he was representing that large section of the to whom Wenger's pursuit of his vision has been too single-minded, and that a more flexible and realistic attitude to investment and recruitment would have long ended the drought since the club's last trophy. What they want is for Arsenal to act like the other big clubs. To them, that means buying an Andy Carroll rather than a Marouane Chamakh, or splashing out on the established qualities of a Mascherano rather than hoping for a Song or a Diaby to mature.

To accept such criticisms, and to take the appropriate action, would require a radical change in Wenger's approach. It would mean itting that for several seasons his squad has lacked a balance of skill and strength, of artistry and resilience, of fantasy and functionality. Given the strength of his convictions, that seems unlikely to happen – which means that Arsenal's fans, however much they ire his integrity, cannot seriously expect the future to live up to the past any time soon.


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VERY SUCCINCT ANALYSIS, EVEN ARSENAL ER ARE DOUBTFUL OF THE QUALITY OF THE TEAM   A VISIT TO OTHER FORAS WILL THROW MORE INSIGHT TO HOW PEOPLE WORLD WIDE VIEWED THAT GAME. ARSENAL FANS IN 9JA SHOULD NOT BE BLINDED TO THE SUBLIMAL FOOTBALL PLAYED BY BARCA.

lekyar:

dondavids:

This is to all you Barca fans who are making noise about Barca's 76% Ball possession.

Ball possession is not the only way a team can win a match.

Italy has won 4 world cups based on strong and disciplined defensive play.

Greece won the European Cup Playing only Defence and scoring once in a while.

Chelsea coached by Guus Hidinnk Almost won Barca Using Excellent Defensive Tactics, if not for the referee's blunt refusal to award any of the numerous legitimate penalties. At a point during that match Pep Guardiola even conceded defeat and went over to congratulate Guus Hidinnk During that encounter at stamford bridge.

Mourinho knocked out barcelona last season using strong defensive play and good counter attacking football, though he lost five nil with an undesciplined Madrid side, He have proven that he knows how to win barca, chelsea 4-2 defeat of barca at stamford bridge.

Ajax in 1996 lost to Juventus in the UCL final despite playing beautiful possession football because Juventus muscled them off the ball
during 120 mins and outplayed in the penalty shootout.

Yes Barca plays possession football, good for them but a good counter attacking team with speedy forward line and strong defence can easily

defeat barca anytime any day.

Possession football is good, but so is defensive football and conter attacking football.

Arsenal played defensive football during the fisrt half, then switched over to 433 before the referee had an epiphany to kill the game for arsenal.

Had the referee left 11 men on the pitch for both teams, Arsenal would have won the match even without many shots on target.

The truth that Barca fans are not telling anyone is that their defence was very weak yesterday. the few times that Arsenal attacked them, their

make shift defense was grasping for straws. In their confused state, they even scored any own goal. Only a disorganed defense scores own goals.

If Van Persie wasn't taken off by the referee, he would have defintely destroyed the already weak barca defense, especially in the second half when arsenal decided to come out and play attacking football.

Barca had all their attackers fit, if Walcott was fit, did his fast dribble runs on barcas weak defense, the story would have been differnt.

Barca may have won but they are not undefeatable.

A team like Shankter Donesk with their 3 free scoring brazilian attackers or Even Tottemham with speedsters Bale and Lennon will definitely give

Barca fans lots of nightmare, so you guys should enjoy now you shall all cry later.

One game at a time bro that's how you win a championship. Who's next? then we can start a thread from there but for now we know who are the masters.

dondavids:

This is to all you Barca fans who are making noise about Barca's 76% Ball possession.

Ball possession is not the only way a team can win a match.

Italy has won 4 world cups based on strong and disciplined defensive play.

Greece won the European Cup Playing only Defence and scoring once in a while.

Chelsea coached by Guus Hidinnk Almost won Barca Using Excellent Defensive Tactics, if not for the referee's blunt refusal to award any of the numerous legitimate penalties. At a point during that match Pep Guardiola even conceded defeat and went over to congratulate Guus Hidinnk During that encounter at stamford bridge.

Mourinho knocked out barcelona last season using strong defensive play and good counter attacking football, though he lost five nil with an undesciplined Madrid side, He have proven that he knows how to win barca, chelsea 4-2 defeat of barca at stamford bridge.

Ajax in 1996 lost to Juventus in the UCL final despite playing beautiful possession football because Juventus muscled them off the ball
during 120 mins and outplayed in the penalty shootout.

Yes Barca plays possession football, good for them but a good counter attacking team with speedy forward line and strong defence can easily

defeat barca anytime any day.

Possession football is good, but so is defensive football and conter attacking football.

Arsenal played defensive football during the fisrt half, then switched over to 433 before the referee had an epiphany to kill the game for arsenal.

Had the referee left 11 men on the pitch for both teams, Arsenal would have won the match even without many shots on target.

The truth that Barca fans are not telling anyone is that their defence was very weak yesterday. the few times that Arsenal attacked them, their

make shift defense was grasping for straws. In their confused state, they even scored any own goal. Only a disorganed defense scores own goals.

If Van Persie wasn't taken off by the referee, he would have defintely destroyed the already weak barca defense, especially in the second half when arsenal decided to come out and play attacking football.

Barca had all their attackers fit, if Walcott was fit, did his fast dribble runs on barcas weak defense, the story would have been differnt.

Barca may have won but they are not undefeatable.

A team like Shankter Donesk with their 3 free scoring brazilian attackers or Even Tottemham with speedsters Bale and Lennon will definitely give

Barca fans lots of nightmare, so you guys should enjoy now you shall all cry later.



One game at a time bro that's how you win a championship. Who's next? then we can start a thread from there but for now we know who are the masters.

Barca simply outclassed arsenal yday. Even if rvp remained in the game the goals would still have come. The foot only left the pedal when they had achieved the minimum requirement for qualification. No team like Barca, I would be real scared to go up against them if I were not a fan. More luck next time. Like i posted before the game only parking a bus in front of their goal (as attempted) could've earned they a draw but they were pathetic so's their fans with all these excuses.

CarlosVent:

Arsenal will surprise every one

So when Arsenal wins it's a surprise but if it's a Barca win it's no big deal. That tells u all about the status of both teams.

Tunsbobo:

Trust me, these Barca guys are over-confident. This is the same attitude they put on at the emirates 3 weeks ago, tommorrow would not be any different! Great Barca would fall heavily tommorrow. I'm i wrong? Time will tell!

No over confidence here. Arsenal were underrated @ the Emirates but this not going to happen at nou.

ideylaff:

BARCA 1 : 1 ARSENAL OR BARCA 1 : 3 ARSENAL

AMEN.

Got to yield the best result could be a draw for Arsenal if they park a but across the goal post like inter did. Anything short of massive defense will be a annihilation of Arsenal. You guys need all the luck I insist.

otokx:

I don vex; if Arsenal win i go buy Barca jersey

U wicked ooo, Barca all the way. I second U.

hackney:

^^yes oo! !
arsenal can go and win that thing for there oo!

Wishful thinking.

Ekpoma1:

I dnt knw why alot of u lik talkin rubbish. Same way u all ate bck your words in d 1st leg @ Emirates, same will happen 2 u @ Nou or Doom camp. I promise u all anti-Arsenal that. Barca are beatable we proved that and again we gonna do that rite there in their home. I no fit shout afta all, i no be barca fan.

You will need a bigger dose of the luck you had @ the Emirates to survive at blitzrieg at camp nou. Trust me.

zeituni:

Trust me you are far from a humanist, everything you have said here contradicts that because you forget that doctors are also human beings,can also be patients.But again,i guess you did not know that,your intellect proves you are just another pimple faced teenager.Just look at you alluding to the 17th century to back up your poor judgement forgeting that doctors was/were kings then, I aint suprised, i just feel you are doing the right thing, throwing  in the towel when you know your brain can't sustain, Really,it is not my fault you dont have the intellectual capacity to make good points and stand by them,

Will not issues with you forthwith, lets see how the face off turns out if it becomes protracted. People are already turning to alternatives for relief , the casualties are high already. Keep dwelling on specifies instead of the overall picture, you can't squeeze water out of stone. bear that in mind. You seem so frustrated if would be a mistake to place a patient in your care with your present state of mind. Keep on the topic and off my back if you feel justified that the people may well die for a few coins. Please also define your concept of wealth and poverty. Because your concept of poverty maybe another man's paradise. Reality of Nigeria.

Bolded part, is this topic enough to pull all that. Surprised!!!. Seems simple enough to me, Millions of people are been sacrificed to reinstate one man. How much more simpler can it be Mr Dokita/Philosopher.

zeituni:

So ther you go that is the hippocratic oath and i dont see the contract with poverty,
For that ignoramous ,lekyar or what ever you call urself, You alluded to the 17th century well deal with it!we are in 2011.You can go back to that era if you want.In 17th century europe doctors were kings and was/were more respected and earned more.Very typical of arrogant ,block headed Nigerians that split facts to suit themselves ,everything is selective with you people because you just are not capable of looking at things with your eyes, YOU HAVE TO RESORT TO OTHER PRIVATE ORIFICES ,SAD

lekyar link=topic=611042.msg7799748#msg7799748 date=1298643721:

Ignoramus indeed, Hmm, not going to resort to such on this forum, I'm a humanist, growing up, I revered Doctors for the empathy and care. I have not measured their grievances on a fiat of some oath which they don't believe in. Keep up the expletives as would any teenager you see on the street. So you took up medicine to become a

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millionaire or the call was inborn. That rest my case.

zeituni:

So ther you go that is the hippocratic oath and i dont see the contract with poverty,
For that ignoramous ,lekyar or what ever you call urself, You alluded to the 17th century well deal with it!we are in 2011.You can go back to that era if you want.In 17th century europe doctors were kings and was/were more respected and earned more.Very typical of arrogant ,block headed Nigerians that split facts to suit themselves ,everything is selective with you people because you just are not capable of looking at things with your eyes, YOU HAVE TO RESORT TO OTHER PRIVATE ORIFICES ,SAD

Ignoramus indeed, Hmm, not going to resort to such on this forum, I'm a humanist, growing up, I revered Doctors for the empathy and care. I have not measured their grievances on a fiat of some oath which they don't believe in. Keep up the expletives as would any teenager you see on the street. So you took up medicine to become a Doctor or the call was inborn. That rest my case.

Recently carried out HIV test and we were about 40 guys. Wasn't nervous until the result were been called out , was the 4th person tested and I was called out first, this got everyone staring at me but it turns out the 3 guy up front got positives. Can you imagine my relief. I'm much more circumspect in my sexual relationships now and its approached the infinite point of one.

@ flkr uve not incorporated the core tenets of your training. How long have you been on strike, are you not bothered abt the cost in lives of the people of the state. If people like you lived in 17th century europe you and your lot would've been beheaded or hung for treason. You guy earn a lot more than other workers in the state. Play fool long enough and you become one.

@Mustay I am aware just emphazing the culminating degeneracy of the medical workers prolly trip of as a result of the Doctors strike in Lagos

@Pariski stop been trivial and self-centered and think deeper because life encomes all this things, you're not alone

@Eko ile tnks 4 enlightening us more @Seanet02 tnks also.

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Doctors’ strike claims female journalist, twins
By Bukola Adebayo and Olunike Asaolu
Thursday, 24 Feb 2011

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The 14-day old strike by public health workers in the country on Wednesday claimed more lives as a female journalist with Eko FM, Mrs. Adeola Olulana, and her twins died as a result of the non-availability of health workers at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba.

However, another journalist with Daily Independent Newspapers, Mrs. Olufunmi Falobi, narrowly escaped death as she gave birth to a baby boy inside her husband’s car in Lagos.

Olulana, aged 35, was a producer at the radio station before her death. Federal health workers under the aegis of the Assembly of Healthcare Professionals Association and Unions, comprising nurses and pharmacists in public hospitals in Nigeria, had on February 15 ed other state doctors on an indefinite strike to protest the alleged withdrawal of teaching allowances and other discrepancies in the Consolidated Health Workers Salary Structure.

Deola’s husband, Biodun Odulana, who spoke with THE PUNCH on the telephone in Lagos on Wednesday, said there were no doctors, nurses or attendants to attend to his wife as at 4 a.m when they arrived at the hospital. He said this was shortly after the deceased fell into labour on Monday.

“Her water broke around 4am on Monday and we rushed to LUTH to meet everywhere in total darkness. It took another 20 minutes for the security guard to get a torchlight before he could open the gate for us and we rushed directly to the emergency unit.

“But there was no single soul there to handle the situation; no doctors, nurses or even attendants to lift her from the car,” he said.

He explained that due to this, she was rushed to Regina Mundi Catholic Hospital, Mushin, where she was rejected because the family could not raise the sum of N150,000 demanded for a caesarean section.

Consequently, the late Olulana was taken to another hospital. By the time they got to the hospital, she had already become quite weak, her husband said, adding that the doctors tried their best to save her life by evacuating the dead twins.

Despite the doctors’ efforts, Olulana died of complication and bleeding. Biodun blamed the government for his wife’s death, saying, “This government is not a responsive and responsible one.

“How can health workers be on strike and the major order of the day is politics and campaigns by our leaders? I blame my wife’s death on this strike.

“I’m appealing to health workers, for the sake of humanity and others that have died due to this situation, to call off the strike immediately.”

Falobi told our correspondents that she had ed for antenatal at the General Hospital, Ifako, Lagos before the strike began. She and other pregnant women, Falobi stated, were assured that whenever it was time for delivery, they would be attended to at the hospital.

“But on getting to the hospital gate, we found that it was locked. Then, we were told by the gatemen that there was nobody around - the doctors, the nurses, and the delivery nurses - had all ed in the strike.

“I was disappointed, I almost fainted. As at the time we were looking for a hospital, the baby’s head was already out.

“It was around 11pm and a woman, who had a little knowledge about delivery, helped us with it. Then we went to a hospital nearby to do the clean up,” she said.

However, the President of the Lagos State chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association, Dr. Bamisan Temiye, said doctors were still working. He stated that they could not work without the assistance of other health workers.

Meanwhile, the Chief Medical Director of LUTH, Prof. Akin Osibogun, has said the strike has caused unnecessary loss of lives. He appealed to striking health workers to return to work and continue negotiations with government.


I hope this all stops .

bhusayor:

Stop ke? why now?

Bad girl

baslone:

It's obvious a lot y'all aint bin there so you can afford to crack dem jokes!

Cheating is mostly considered a female problem, guessing @ op is female.

zerocool:

Yes, TCD is right. Salary increase is from 74% to 75%. Just 1% increase. U tink say na beans c become dokita? Abeg go collect JAMB form and see if u won't spend 10 years studying as a medico and if u're unfortunate, u may be adviced to withdraw after 4 years in medical school, if you under-perform. Let the doctors fight for their financial welfare jare.

On a serious note the Doctors have to yield ground, Have you been to any of the state hospitals lately, The masses a dying as a result. Some us studied engineering and the applied sciences  and we know it's not beans as you say but it is expected and imperative the the medical profession shouldn't resort to such inhumane arm twisting tactics to get their demands. They should call off the strike

WorkingDoc:

Sad sad sad, indeed on the average as a working mom and doctor I see more than 60patients  a day. I leave home by 6.30am to get to work before 8am and leave work on a good day by 5pm on a bad one even when am not on call 7pm to get home 9pm if am lucky. I have no car ( oh maybe I just missed out on the roll call when the cars were issued out or maybe all of us in my department missed out on it seeing that our rules claim they gave them out to us)! I live at Ibafo and everyday commute by public transport ( a mix of Okadaand danfo to Lagos Island getting increasingly difficult to dress formal as is expected of me and still ride Okada, I ignore pitiful looks of shame i see on my neighbours faces everyday as I spread my legs to leap with pride on the okada I know what the locals are thinking, " A whole doctor riding okada to work" alas they know not that I cannot afford any better on my salary and with my small family of two children I have to do what I have to do. I live in Ibafo because that is the only place my meager salary can afford the housing rate ( after all my govt only pays me 13000 as part of my so called salary for housing allowance , I guess I missed out again on the roll call for free housing)!

My children attend some kind public school( and we all know what those standards are) because I have to cut my coat to size, where can I now a single mom afford to get the average of 1million for a good private school when my total wages in a year barely comes to that million oh and yes I am earning just 120000 on a good month! On days when the Oracle just decides to tax more I take home 110000 so sometimes I never know what the tax will be next month I just pray it is 120000 and swallow my pride and thank God for the peanuts threwn my way. I find it increasing hard to sleep as I wonder if ever on this salary and at this rate can I ever dream that one of my children will get the oppportunity to follow in my career path. Education is the foundation to a good future and right now I know in my heart I am not doing right by my children.I have neighbors and my mother helping out with the children while I work taking care of other people. Yet even then finacially I cannot provide these care givers what they fully need to help care for my children. I am a single mother today because my job is so tasking and my hours crazy my hubby left us, his reason," On cal on call never at home to be wife and mother and nothing to show for it!" So while I was busy servicing the system someone busy servicing my home and my husband. Where does this all leave me?! I spent years getting this education in hopes of a better brighter future and now I work 3 times more than my counter parts and earn way less. . I am on strike because my beloved Governor never paid me what he promised he did not keep his word and my family is crumbling! if u'd like to see my last paycheck maybe we can meet and then u'd know this is a matter of life and death, for me and for the patients. I am only asking to be justly compensated for the hard work I do. I dont even have time to seek extra work because this occupies my whole day and by the time am home am useless to everyone including myself. I'd love to invite u all to live a day in my shoes, do my calls and for that person that called it only a few hours, it is a few hours saving lives, all u need are minutes seconds to make a difference between life and death.

Cumulation of stress, frustration and poverty does not a good doctor make nor does it reduce mortality or improve health standards. The buildings are beautiful but what about the people who will work in it? I am not the government. It is not my job to provide health service for the people, i am only a tool in Fashola's hands for him to get the job done. He is the governor to the people of which I am part off. I am tired of the lies, the name calling and the suffering and I am not alone . In the end I am only just human too and this strike is my cry for help! So please before u start judging though a doctor I have to save myself to save others!

WorkingDoc link=topic=611042.msg7792348#msg7792348 date=1298555622:

Sad sad sad, indeed on the average as a working mom and doctor I see more than 60patients  a day. I leave home by 6.30am to get to work before 8am and leave work on a good day by 5pm on a bad one even when am not on call 7pm to get home 9pm if am lucky. I have no car ( oh maybe I just missed out on the roll call when the cars were issued out or maybe all of us in my department missed out on it seeing that our rules claim they gave them out to us)! I live at Ibafo and everyday commute by public transport ( a mix of Okadaand danfo to Lagos Island getting increasingly difficult to dress formal as is expected of me and still ride Okada, I ignore pitiful looks of shame i see on my neighbours faces everyday as I spread my legs to leap with pride on the okada I know what the locals are thinking, " A whole doctor riding okada to work" alas they know not that I cannot afford any better on my salary and with my small family of two children I have to do what I have to do. I live in Ibafo because that is the only place my meager salary can afford the housing rate ( after all my govt only pays me 13000 as part of my so called salary for housing allowance , I guess I missed out again on the roll call for free housing)!

My children attend some kind public school( and we all know what those standards are) because I have to cut my coat to size, where can I now a single mom afford to get the average of 1million for a good private school when my total wages in a year barely comes to that million oh and yes I am earning just 120000 on a good month! On days when the Oracle just decides to tax more I take home 110000 so sometimes I never know what the tax will be next month I just pray it is 120000 and swallow my pride and thank God for the peanuts threwn my way. I find it increasing hard to sleep as I wonder if ever on this salary and at this rate can I ever dream that one of my children will get the oppportunity to follow in my career path. Education is the foundation to a good future and right now I know in my heart I am not doing right by my children.I have neighbors and my mother helping out with the children while I work taking care of other people. Yet even then finacially I cannot provide these care givers what they fully need to help care for my children. I am a single mother today because my job is so tasking and my hours crazy my hubby left us, his reason," On cal on call never at home to be wife and mother and nothing to show for it!" So while I was busy servicing the system someone busy servicing my home and my husband. Where does this all leave me?! I spent years getting this education in hopes of a better brighter future and now I work 3 times more than my counter parts and earn way less. . I am on strike because my beloved Governor never paid me what he promised he did not keep his word and my family is crumbling! if u'd like to see my last paycheck maybe we can meet and then u'd know this is a matter of life and death, for me and for the patients. I am only asking to be justly compensated for the hard work I do. I dont even have time to seek extra work because this occupies my whole day and by the time am home am useless to everyone including myself. I'd love to invite u all to live a day in my shoes, do my calls and for that person that called it only a few hours, it is a few hours saving lives, all u need are minutes seconds to make a difference between life and death.

Cumulation of stress, frustration and poverty does not a good doctor make nor does it reduce mortality or improve health standards. The buildings are beautiful but what about the people who will work in it? I am not the government. It is not my job to provide health service for the people, i am only a tool in Fashola's hands for him to get the job done. He is the governor to the people of which I am part off. I am tired of the lies, the name calling and the suffering and I am not alone . In the end I am only just human too and this strike is my cry for help! So please before u start judging though a doctor I have to save myself to save others!

Doctor's are not the only professionals facing hardship as a result of poor remuneration but by Jove they are supposed to save lives . That's a primary objective. To see this responsibility so undermined is saddening. I ask myself is society so debased that Doctor's done tools because of not reaching a 100% target in their negotiation. Trade union negotiation is all about give and take. The state yielded ground, so the Doctor's must be magnanimous. "the arrow of the Gods". The strike is unpopular. Got to take my wife to a private clinic.

dabrake:

Rvp, samir, arsh, cesc, , will al b @ nou camp. we'll silence al playa haters dia cuz we'll gun d catalans @ camp nou. lst seasn was injury plagued & al u gun haterz, u shld knw by now cuz i found out dat since 2006 (sorry, your only knwledge abt ftball is ua ability 2 shout "4 lyf"dat al dat is nided 2 beat valdes is a gud shot away frm his position.guners al d way(nb: gunerz faithfuls, we're nt arses. check d meanin' of d wrd ARSE in your dic )

We all know Arsenal (my fav in the epl) are not in same class as Barca (The most sublimal team on planet earth) but they have a prayer if key players like Xavi, puyol, Jeffren and valdes don't get fit before match day. These unforeseen circumstances might way heavily in arsenals favor. Hopefully we hope to see a full squad at camp nou. Then we define the classification. No hot air.

Kobojunkie:

I have heard it before myself but never really discovered what those who make the claim even mean. Electronic voting, IMO, is simply another way of gathering and counting votes. Not certain in what particular way our constitution declares this method unacceptable.

Agreed, that's why the legthieveslators should hold it as a priority to make it as unambiguous as possible.

Kobojunkie:

Ok  . . . wait  . . . what part of our constitution declares it unconstitutional? I am trying to understand what you mean by the above.

Got to brush up on the constitution. But always been the argument advanced for not going electronic.

Kobojunkie:

^^^^ What constitutional loophole?

e voting is not constitutional yet.

Jega's right try as we may to wish it away but the constitutional loophole for rigging vie the manual voting has always been there. The legislative arm for their convenience have shied away from plugging it. The blame rest mainly on the legthieveslator.

Is she in anyway related to ex gov igbins

http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/clubfootball/news/newsid=1384108.html

Would do well if the fans could keep their focus on the big picture. Congrats to Arsenal. Barca are sublimal. Best team in the world lose or win my money is on them

GEJ made a blunder and faux pas by this generalization. but who is reading, it makes no difference to a great %age of the voting electorate (jmo).

Mobinga:

marry marry, na force?

You know dats the 9ja way. Only way to respect a lady. Just my observation,