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armadeo:


Untrue.

Goes to show how ignorant u are...Its all a fall out of the conspiracy against optometrists by the ophthalmologists...You dont know anything about optometry and u want to argue...I have a handbook for the ophthalmology residency,and i laugh so much when i see their scheme of work...Not to mention that they wont even venture into the field of physiological optics...Remove micro surgery and a good 500 level student of optometry will effectively lecture their part 2 residents...so wat are u talking about...The other day i was talking with a final yr medical student and we got arguing....i told him i would ask him 20 questions on eye conditions,both visual and ocular and he wouldnt be able to answer 1.I did and he couldnt even attemt one....And i didnt even go to the realms of ophthalmic optics....i just threw simple questions from ocular pathology,neuropathology,and ocular clinical proceedures...
My friend go and psyche optometric eye doctors b4 talking...What makes ophthalmology a difficult specialty is optics...Guess who is the boss when it comes to optics...u r right.The optometrist is.

armadeo:


You are an optometrist be proud of your proffesion don't say eye doctor.

Why are u guys so callow?Who is an eye doctor?If a general practitioner who knows nothing about the visual system answers a doctor,how much more an optometrist?The difference btw an ophthalmologist and an optometrist here in nigeria is only surgical proceedures...And pls tell me how many ophthalmic surgeries the ophthalmologists perform minus CE and Laser TB for glaucoma?
I have heard so many people tell d lie that ophthalmology residency is 6yrs,while its 4 yrs.They spend their part one learning what a 200 level optometry student already knows with the exception of microsurgery.
All those diseases u ophthalmologists clutch to their chests are treated in private clinics by the optometrists,y hv their not been actions against fall outs from their incompetency?Why have their not been reports of damage to eyes against ODs?
Pls stop misleading d public...An optometrists offers d full spectrum of eye care services...And when it comes to complex refractive proceedures,ophthalmologists are wack...do we then say they are not doctors because of that?

chidarlus:
from what am seeing in dis trend,i don begin doubt sef...... Out of d two dudes(they both finished from uniben) that told me d scored 80(grad of biochemistry) and 78(grad of optometry), i doubt the 80 person because d guy didnt sound convincing and as for the 78 person i believe because the guy is good and he scored 81 in d putme(and have already bin offered medicine yr 1 merit list ooo) and i saw his ission letter.......but come to think about it,its likely d may score upto that amount considering that the physics they set for us is dia year 1 physics(examples in dia textbook ooooo).and if eng,bio and chem could fetch me above 60(i honestly didnt touch my phy,tot d do negative marking) y wont some oda persons that attempted upto 10 of the physics questions score that high.....but no matter what you score,just keep praying to God,he is the auto finisher

Just know this:A Doctor of optometry cannot go back to write jamb to enter medicine...Either he failed out of optometry school or stopped half way...Its impossible that an OD will go back to write jamb....Bsc Biochemistry,maybe...OD,no way.So d guy is just taking you for a ride...

chidarlus:
from what am seeing in dis trend,i don begin doubt sef...... Out of d two dudes(they both finished from uniben) that told me d scored 80(grad of biochemistry) and 78(grad of optometry), i doubt the 80 person because d guy didnt sound convincing and as for the 78 person i believe because the guy is good and he scored 81 in d putme(and have already bin offered medicine yr 1 merit list ooo) and i saw his ission letter.......but come to think about it,its likely d may score upto that amount considering that the physics they set for us is dia year 1 physics(examples in dia textbook ooooo).and if eng,bio and chem could fetch me above 60(i honestly didnt touch my phy,tot d do negative marking) y wont some oda persons that attempted upto 10 of the physics questions score that high.....but no matter what you score,just keep praying to God,he is the auto finisher

Just know this:A graduate of optometry cannot go back to write jamb to enter medicine...Either he failed out of optometry school or stopped half way...Its impossible that an OD will go back to write jamb....Biochem,maybe...OD,no way.So d guy is just taking you for a ride...

efedua:
surely it will be 4years

Could still be 5yrs.Med lab science is 5yrs.Nursing is 5 yrs.Optometry is 6yrs plus internship making it 7yrs,if u r able to finish in 6yrs.Many finish in 8yrs.Add internship and it becomes 9yrs.

efedua:
u guys have to be kidding, when jamb tells u the real thing u will try to put urs forward. who told u SLT is 5yrs in any institution in Nigeria, SLT in all uni is 4yrs, it falls under the faculty of science. maybe u are mistaking it for medical laboratory science which is 5yrs.....they are different, one is a lab. technician and the other is a med/lab. scientist

SLT in uniben used to be only part time.Being part time its 6yrs.But since it has become full time,i dont know how many yrs it is now.

Zeus777:
Read ur own post carefully and you will see that nigerian health system is disted.
An optometrist is a primary health care giver like u rightly pointed out. So I wonder why they are bein posted to secondary and tertiary health institutions where we already Hv the opthalmologist ( a specialist medical Doctor)who is trained to manage complicated eye conditions.only to find the optometrist competing for consulting rooms and patient wt the opthalmologist!! Optometrist are supose to be at the primary health centres then refer difficult cases to the secondary or tertiary hospital to be seen by opthalmologist

1.A primary health care practitioner means they are the first point of entry in the eye care practice.They should refer cases to the ophthalmologists or other specialists as the case maybe ,other than the other way round in which the opthalmologist use the services of the optometrist as a form of differential diagnosis.

2.Like u said,the opthalmologist MANAGE complicated eye conditions.optometrists are trained to DETECT and DIAGNOSE these complicated eye conditions.How about opthalmologists let optometrists do this without feeling threatened.

What i find funny is ophthalmologist extending "complicated" to mean any condition outside refractive errors.who is fooling who.
In private clinics optometrists successfully manage all those conditions opthalmologists are quick to label as 'complicated'.

Its all about the money....make no mistake about that.

Zeus777:
Read ur own post carefully and you will see that nigerian health system is disted.
An optometrist is a primary health care giver like u rightly pointed out. So I wonder why they are bein posted to secondary and tertiary health institutions where we already Hv the opthalmologist ( a specialist medical Doctor)who is trained to manage complicated eye conditions.only to find the optometrist competing for consulting rooms and patient wt the opthalmologist!! Optometrist are supose to be at the primary health centres then refer difficult cases to the secondary or tertiary hospital to be seen by opthalmologist

nagoma:
The "wannabe Doctors" are desperate . Pharmacists , Optometrists and even ambulance drivers want to be referred to as Docrors and they refuse to go through medical school.

I think u should be smart enough to know that Optometry has actually proved that u dont have to go to medical school to be a dr.Or to be a surgeon for that matter.American optometrists perform surgical proceedures.Nigerian optometrists are soon following suit.They already have the didactic knowledge,the clinical part will soon follow.

So medicine men and women,prepare to really moan and cry.

nagoma:
The "wannabe Doctors" are desperate . Pharmacists , Optometrists and even ambulance drivers want to be referred to as Docrors and they refuse to go through medical school. The confusion in Nigeria's healthcare continues as we copy blindly from America.

Thank you sir.Perhaps we should copy from yugoslavia. Medicine men are just players in the health field,just like the ambulance driver or gatekeeper,no more,no less.What irks me most is the hypocrisy of the medicine men and women.That is y a medicine man slapped a nurse in the hospital.The medicine people spend all their time denigrating and degrading other health care professionals and their titles.and they suceed because they have the greater with patient and are also the more visible personnel.They distilled that visibility into their title'dr'.this means that medicine suffers collateral damage whenever other health care professionals use d title.guess wat,u guys will suffer more of this damage in the future.

Medicine stole the title 'dr' from the academia because their governing body could do so legally.and now they want everyone to think its theirs.like they hv been deceiving unknowing nigerians.Guess wat optometry was smart enough to add 'dr' to their own title...ur degree combination is mbbs,theirs is obbvs,and u guys can only bicker,whimper and simper all you like, which is ur job,they are legal 'drs'.change it if you can.

Medicine know they stole it in uk,at least there they are honest,thats y they drop the title like its hot once they finish their residency.They know they stole it.

Pharmacy should get their acts together and quit giving personnels like the cupboard 'drs' here the chance to further their agenda.

Pennywise:

Those are extremely wide subject areas. You had a topic or a few week exposure to make you a better pharmacist doesnt mean you have done pathology and therefore should be called doctor. Nurses 'do' all the subjects you mentioned in greater depth than you but they still have the humility to remain and be called nurses. Real pharmacists are too busy and too professional to be dragged into non issues like this. You lot should aspire to become better pharmacists, not title raiders.

This goes to show how ignorant you guys really are....look at that course outline again,are those courses for pharmacists?have you even bothered to look at a pharmacist's curriculum...on the contrary its an outline for optometrists who do those courses in greater depth than any medical curriculum can handle.only ophthalmology training can come close to anything near the depth of what optometrists do in their undergraduate studies..

what do you mean by nurses having the humility to answer nurses...u guys denigrated the title of other health care practitioners by ur attitude towards them which was geared towards making them look incompetent....guess what,the more nigerians become educated,the more they will see through ur charade...medicine men and women should be the ones to learn humility and quit meddling....even in this forum,in this discussion u r trying to act smart by appearing to a side on the divide....and who gave u d authority to say who is a real pharmacist and who is not....u use ur warped view of doggish loyalty to the medical cabal to distinguish between the proffesional and insecure pharmacist....in all i dont blame u,i blame pcn.i do,indeed.

deols: The year is 2058. I see a man in a security personnel garb with a tag, Consultant gateman. He works in a teaching hospital and the Union of teaching hospital gatemen just won a lawsuit. They are afteral doctors, like the nurses and pharmacists. Cleaners are now directors and orderlies run the board meetings.

On a serious note,I believe pharmacists,nurses,etc should be taught 2 have a sense of pride in their professions. The run after titles should b discouraged and good attitude to work emphasized.

And i ask you,y did the medical 'drs' (or medicine men as i prefer to call them since there is no doctor in their degree,at least here in nigeria)start arrogating to themselves a name meant solely for phd holders.They robbed the degree from academics....try whatever they can,the cult called nma cannot stop change....either you go with it or it breaks you...nigeria medical shrine is overdue for a breakdown....

joker5180: you are right. I have seen a number of optometrics parading themselves as "doctors" and been paid salaries using medical doctors circular- CONMESS. Some of them call themselves 'eye doctors'. It is only in tertiary health institutions that they are place where they belong- refraction room.

And that refraction is the milk of ophthalmic practice.Ophthalmologists want to kill themselves over it...when u refer patients to them they slyly keep the patient in the waiting room under a good view of their spectacle show rooom hoping he or she makes a selection...tell me how many surgical proceedures ophthalmologists perform in nigeria,with the exception of CE and maybe trabeculoplasty....can they perform scleral buckling or retinal photocoagulation....shrrap my man....In case u dont know refraction is what ophthalmologists survive on....and they suck at it.

And digest this...optometrists diagnose every ocular disease,using a vast array of techniques and proceedures,treat with pharmacological agents and any opthalmic aid,refer to other health care practitioners WHEN NECESSARY e.g neuro-surgeons,neurologists,ophthalmologists,gp etc,with adequate referral letters,counsel,monitor,evaluate, and manage the conditions where necessary....perform the integration of clinical data and risk factor analysis associated with these proceedures...

In eye clinics run by optometrists,ophthalmologists are just invited to perform any surgical proceedure required,mostly CE after which they leave.post management is done by the optometrists....and lets not even go to the residency curriculum of ophthalmologists...optometrists in usa perform ophthalmic surgery,these proceedures are taught didactically in nigerian optometry schools,the clinical aspect will soon follow...medicine can do all they can,but they cannever stop change...it surely is coming....

ige101: No point there my dear.Do u also know that anytime a driver drives on d way he put his life on the line?

Thank you very much sir!!!And nigerians know their right.tell me how many medical doctors have been sued either as tort or criminally.soon u will tell me that your insurance coverage is climbing through the roofs because of the risk associated with medical proceedures.if the laws were working in nigeria dont u think more than half of nigerian medical 'drs' would be in jail today?

Pennywise:

It is not in doubt that Nigerian pharmacists need a more didactic curriculum to become better professionals even if it means increasing study yrs to 6.

But that doesnt entitle them and optometrists to the prefix 'Dr'. Architects spend 6yrs in sch, yet they are not addressed with the prefix 'Dr'. In the US pharmD or not pharmacists are not called doctor sb except in Nigeria.

Why the fixation with the title? A lot of people doctors or not see a sinister motive esp when viewed against the background of the unending acrimony in the health sector.

No point.Architects dont do pathology,pharmacology,anatomy,physiology,epidemiology,community health,clinical psychology,neuropathology,human genetics,clinical sessions,biochemistry,microbiology,ocular pathology,oc6lar pharmacology ,physiological optics series,amongst numerous others....and with 50% as mark for every course....try again fella.

joker5180: I see nothing wrong in health professionals striving to improve their skills but I always doubt the sincerity of doing so if there a hidding secrete to it.
No nigerian university award " doctor of ............" as first degree except in the case of optometry ( which is a desaster).
The degree " doctor of .......," is ONLY awarded to students who undergo a postgraduate training in form of PhD.
People who study MEDICINE AND SURGERY are awarded MB,BS( bachelor of medicine, bachelor of surgery) by universities. The title "Dr" is given by their regulatory body.
An additional year doesnt equate to a PhD.
They just want parade themselves as "doctors" in the society and nothing else.

You guys are so ignorant that i shudder....pls tell me why the doctor of optometry degree is a disaster...do u at all know hw medicine men came to be called doctors?it was through crass envy of the title when it was only possessed by phd holders...so please tell me more about the disaster

emmatok:

Lies Igbos don't like Wole Shoyinka.

Stop you hypocrisy.

like i said,he is a gift.i dont like u because u r related to him,so save ur breath abt hypocrisy.he is d only good thing to write home abt yorubas.i appreciate the guy on a level which you will always be too daft to comprehend.

papparatzzi2013:

There is no difference between u and musiwa!!!!

ad hominem-the last resort of the intellectually puerile.

papparatzzi2013:

You are indeed disillusioned and hollow. Everything you typed are your beer parlour conjectures.

The truth is, we don't care about what you think . The Bottomline is, we don't encroach on your enclave and we don't care about what happens in your enclave. We have no apology to anybody's father.

Anyone that doesn't like our sweet land and face can shout Biafra again.

ive long been disillusioned.so you are correct.The only Yoruba man i respect is wole soyinka.And of course he is not just a yoruba man.he is a generational gift to mankind.

u come here to argue that you guys fought a war.which war?chicanery worked for u so kudos.but that is where it stops.it will never work again,because we all know that our enemies are not the hausas.its the yorubas.

i salute all the puritanical and nationalistic igbos,that seek for the head of oduah.you will only end up like zik who was so immersed with nationalism and do goodism that his people became orphans.while he was being pan african,awo was plotting his strategy.

Those that do not know their history r not only condemned to repeat it,but to remain a slave to it.

[quote author=St.Ola]


So after Igbos led what was meant to be a national revolution, but chickened-out of the task of killing their own leader, it was the West that caused it?

When foolish Igbos resident in cities and barracks in the North were displaying pictures of Nzeogwu in their homes and shops, pictures of the slain Northern Premier, and calling the attention of northerners to it, it was the West that caused it?

When they played machine gun songs all over the North, taunting the locals on how THEY killed their leaders and how the Premier was crying like a ram, prompting Ironsi to ban such songs, it was the West that caused it?

When The Igbos fled the North after the May pogrom, and Ojukwu sent them back to receive a 2nd dose of their treatment for chestbeating by the September pogrom, it was the West that caused it?

When Ironsi decreed a Unitary government, thus confirming the Northern fears of an Igbo domination, it was the West that caused it?

When Ojukwu seceded and trumpeted the strength of the biafran army, it was the West that caused it?

As I've already said, the North saw through your schemes. They nipped it in the bud, and taught you a lesson you have relayed to your children.

So now you are looking for a new weeping tribe in Nigeria to take over from you. So you gradually scheme as usual, trying to paint any tribe that will let you as the problem with Nigeria.

Need I tell you that your methods are so archaic and self


Everything boils down to one thing.we hv learnt our lessons.our enemies are not those that wield the gun,but those who seat behind the scenes and orchestrate mayhem.
even if some people caricatured the situation,did the western papers hv to print it?did they hv to trumpet it as if it was the igbo national policy.the yorubas knew wat the wanted,and they went all out to get it.
Today their techniques hv not changed.whenever their is a shot in the north they rush to posture it as an igbo vs hausa fracas.but yorubas get involved,they dont print it.ive said it.if the igbos fail to understand the chicanery of the yorubas and their insidiuos plots,they hv themselves to blame.

[quote author=St.Ola]


So after Igbos led what was meant to be a national revolution, but chickened-out of the task of killing their own leader, it was the West that caused it?

When foolish Igbos resident in cities and barracks in the North were displaying pictures of Nzeogwu in their homes and shops, pictures of the slain Northern Premier, and calling the attention of northerners to it, it was the West that caused it?

When they played machine gun songs all over the North, taunting the locals on how THEY killed their leaders and how the Premier was crying like a ram, prompting Ironsi to ban such songs, it was the West that caused it?

When The Igbos fled the North after the May pogrom, and Ojukwu sent them back to receive a 2nd dose of their treatment for chestbeating by the September pogrom, it was the West that caused it?

When Ironsi decreed a Unitary government, thus confirming the Northern fears of an Igbo domination, it was the West that caused it?

When Ojukwu seceded and trumpeted the strength of the biafran army, it was the West that caused it?

As I've already said, the North saw through your schemes. They nipped it in the bud, and taught you a lesson you have relayed to your children.

So now you are looking for a new weeping tribe in Nigeria to take over from you. So you gradually scheme as usual, trying to paint any tribe that will let you as the problem with Nigeria.

Need I tell you that your methods are so archaic and self


Everything boils down to one thing.we hv learnt our lessons.our enemies are not those that wield the gun,but those who seat behind the scenes and orchestrate mayhem.
even if some people caricatured the situation,did the western papers hv to print it?did they hv to trumpet it as if it was the igbo national policy.the yorubas knew wat the wanted,and they went all out to get it.
Today their techniques hv not changed.whenever their is a shot in the north they rush to posture it as an igbo vs hausa fracas.but yorubas get involved,they dont print it.ive said it.if the igbos fail to understand the chicanery of the yorubas and their insidiuos plots,they hv themselves to blame.

papparatzzi2013:

Oga u no know jack.

Even your ohaneze aka Ikenga and Massob can't yarn the rubbish you just did.

Who cares if you hate us or not. We are a people of 50million and 1 population, who gives a hoot about one enclave.

What goes around comes around definitely. The is why the full dose of your karma was received in the 60s. Your thought ours came in 1993 but thank God for our Hercules-forged pen that we used effectively to fought our war without a single gun shot. That is wisdom. Karma will only catch up with evil doers dude. What did u do, u na carry ur Ghana-must-gos and ran back to alaigbo. Why dint we hold you responsible for not fighting our battle for us.

Y are you talking like you dont know anything.which wars did d yorubas fight?which of the yoruba elders did not receive bribe from abacha to keep quiet?some finished eating and went back to fight again...wat war are you talking about?if there is anything we need to learn from the yorubas its the need to destroy ego to survive.obasanjo consorted with abacha but wen he asked him to him to south africa during the inauguration of nelson mandela,he shied off only to go secretly.
wat war are u talking abt? cowards.hv u ever fought any war,those of u that went to visit abiola in prison only went to get info for abacha.

zik and the south west.who went on rampage against awolowo?who was his enemy that incited violence in the sw was it not akintola?

thats y d igbos dont know their enemies.obasanjo said it in his autobiography,entitled,my command.ironsi was actually emoty headed.those that advised him are those that castigate him today.like those that would hv advised gowon but stood aside to watch him make a fool of himself.they had an agenda.

when the yorubas were outcompeted in ncnc they left to form ag along tribal lines.whenever the yorubas are outcompeted they cry domination!

St.Ola:



How does the above explain why Igbos claim Yorubas are touts then in another breath complain that Yorubas flood every profitable company both public and private?

How does it explain the hate an Igbo have for a Yoruba doing well even within his own tribal enclave talkless of outside?

How does it explain the fact that Igbos have made it a duty to think about the Yorubas as a reference point to any of their own successes in life, to the extent that catching-up with the Yoruba is the Igbo motto from both the young and old?

How does it explain the fact that Igbos have stated in clear that they are unconcerned about the Minister's guilt or otherwise, and would consider a just action by this national government as a betrayal of clannish trust on the part of the President?

Have we ever had such display of shameless ethnic camaraderie before in a democratic dispensation?

How does it explain the fact that igbos claim they are envied, yet with hateful outburst, Yorubas doing so well does not go down well with the Igbos, but they see not the envy therein?

How does it explain the fact that Igbo mutineers could not take the life of their own regional leader but rather sat for discussions, yet they emptied bullets into other regional leaders and the Prime Minister?

How does it explain the fact that the subsequent Igbo military head declared a Unitary government over erstwhile federating semi-autonomous regions, and foot dragged on appropriate disciplinary action for the mutineers?

The truth is the North long saw into your agenda at domination and your egotism. They rightly put you in your place when you insisted on rubbing it in. You have found civilised foes in the SouthWest, so you're emboldened to take a mile when given an inch. Just as one Igbo contributor once wondered why so many Yorubas are in the service of LASTMA - a Lagos state agency, a revelation of their immeasurable disdain for Yorubas in Yoruba territory.

All the shameful comments regarding a simple case of corruption now assuming a tribal dimension and your empty threats to hinder a president that swore to defend the country's constitution, is a reflection of who you were, and who you are.

St.Ola:



How does the above explain why Igbos claim Yorubas are touts then in another breadth complain that Yorubas flood every profitable company both public and private?

How does it explain the hate an Igbo have for a Yoruba doing well even within his own tribal enclave talkless of outside?

How does it explain the fact that Igbos have made it a duty to think about the Yorubas as a reference point to any of their own successes in life, to the extent that catching-up with the Yoruba is the Igbo motto from both the young and old?

How does it explain the fact that Igbos have stated in clear that they are unconcerned about the Minister's guilt or otherwise, and would consider a just action by this national government as a betrayal of clannish trust on the part of the President?

Have we ever had such display of shameless ethnic camaraderie before in a democratic dispensation?

How does it explain the fact that igbos claim they are envied, yet with hateful outburst, Yorubas doing so well does not go down well with the Igbos, but they see not the envy therein?

How does it explain the fact that Igbo mutineers could not take the life of their own regional leader but rather sat for discussions, yet they emptied bullets into other regional leaders and the Prime Minister?

How does it explain the fact that the subsequent Igbo military head declared a Unitary government over erstwhile federating semi-autonomous regions, and foot dragged on appropriate disciplinary action for the mutineers?

The truth is the North long saw into your agenda at domination and your egotism. They rightly put you in your place when you insisted on rubbing it in. You have found civilised foes in the SouthWest, so you're emboldened to take a mile when given an inch. Just as one Igbo contributor once wondered why so many Yorubas are in the service of LASTMA - a Lagos state agency, a revelation of their immeasurable disdain for Yorubas in Yoruba territory.

All the shameful comments regarding a simple case of corruption now assuming a tribal dimension and your empty threats to hinder a president that swore to defend the country's constitution, is a reflection of who you were, and who you are.

I cant start arguing the point of whether this issue of oduah is worth sacking a minister for in nigeria or not is right or wrong because even the point in itself is moot.that is not the case at all.we all know wat the case is

An igbo hating a yoruba has actually missed his or her road.we dont build our achievements on hate.we build it on competition.the igbo simply has to know that the music has changed,so the dancing must change.
Hate has worked for the yoruba tribe.y are you complaining now?is it because it has started backfiring?You guyz are the champions of ethnic sentiments.that's the credo of your political ideology.and difference engenders hate,stendhal said it many years ago.when they could not outcompete in a single party they resorted to party tribalism.

All these your posturings are typically yoruba in nature.like obasanjo inciting abacha to seize power in the interest of national unity...i laugh.

we know the issue.i assure you we are no longer naive.we will destroy the individulaism of our people,because in today' s nigeria its like an appendix.it used to be our strong point.now its our weak point...
But for the yorubas,believe me karma exists.what goes around must come around.

papparatzzi2013:

The whole write up is meant for the dustbin.

Why will Hausas go to Ethiopian Airline and request that they should ply Kano? International investors take business decisions and not a decision based on ethnicity. So your assumed and perceived enemity exists in your mind.

So you think what Yorubas think of is Enugu Airport when they have roads, schools, hospitals and the rest to develop. Whoever have such a time will never achieve anything in his own life because he will alway be watching out for his enemy

Bros, no one can hold you down against your consent. No one is interested in the failure of Enugu Airport. Apart from ease of commuting for easterners, the revenue goes to FGN. Also, PH has been handling international flights for ages, has that affected lagos in anyway. I can assure you, the same way most major airlines pilots do not sleep in ph (they usually sleep in lagos or Ghana - ask people in he industry), they won't be sleeping in Enugu too, if the issue of security is not tackled.

That is duty of people of that region and not that of lagos again.

Go and check up the info.its there on net.u are talking of porthacourt airport.hw many international flights do they handle,despite the cosmopolitan nature of the city?only 3!viz;malabo,frankfurt and paris.lagos handles over 24.so wat are u saying.wen porthacourt broke down they could only send the domestic flight to enugu and owerri.they sent the rest to lagos.so in whose interest is the underdevelopment of southeastern aviation system.

The issue is that the yorubas have discovered the weakspot of nigeria:that zone of comfort erected by them where they play up the north vs east antipathy.they create the mood with their pen and stand aside to watch it hatch like an expectant mother,because ultimately the child will be theirs.think of the pre war tension in 1966.who fanned up the embers with constant depiction of the slain politicians,inciting carnage,ultimately setting up the confrontation as a north vs east confrontation?playing an arbiter when they clearly had an agenda?it was the south west.
like i said if the igbos fail to recognize their enemies and know that the enemy is very intelligent,and stop this knee-jerk reaction to issues,they deserve watever comes to them.
The yoruba is a very advanced tribe.intellectually inclined.they r actually the only tribe in nigeria that have a clearcut political ideology.others are just fighting on their(the yorubas's) fields.
They have developed their strategems over years.and untill the igbos grow to the understanding that they are fighting an advanced army,so long will their struggles be puerile.

Like you rightly stated(like the yoruba that you are),no one can be held against their wish.

St.Ola:


I have since realised that anyone that is non-Igbo must be half baked according to the Igbos. Only Igbos are qualified in Nigeria. FFk wasn't even there for up to a year, yet he flooded the place with Yoruba?
Is it Dr. Harold Demuren that is half baked? Have we ever had anyone so qualified head the NCAA?

I still don't understand the hate that Igbos have for Yorubas even on their own land.

You complain that Yorubas are touts, then complain that they flood everywhere you did not expect to find them.

Are you Igbos normal at all?

The average Igbo is irked that he resumes work in a place and his tribesman is not the head of the organisation. He's more irked that so many Yorubas seem to be doing well in both government and private establishments. They would rather have themselves in those positions they've found the Yorubas.

They can't even keep the hate to themselves. They still come online to complain that Yorubas flood everywhere.

Well, I thought Yorubas are touts?

It hurts the Igbos so deeply that despite their own early agenda to dominate, the Yorubas seem to still be an albatross that cannot be overcome.

Keep up the walk, you'll catch-up soon!

The igbos had one problem:they never knew who their real enemy was.its just that now they do.perhaps this issue will show more clearly the insidious nature of yoruba attacks on igbos.
The hausas being straightforward declared that they dont want the enugu international airport.they sent a warning to the ethiopian airline warning that their plane must also ply kano if it would at all ply enugu.not minding the fact that amino kano international airport,kano has up to 6 international flights which do not ply enugu.
now hausas we undestand.they have an agenda and they played their hand openly so we responded in kind.
But the yorubas had to go back and play their hate insidiously.they hv to remove the minister for aviation.and i ire them for this,so much.after all politics is not a game for the dimwitted.the yorubas are so good that even some half-assed igbos are falling into the trap their fathers fell into-not knowing who ur real enemies are.
The pen is mightier than the sword.understand this and you would understand the yorubas.
The greatest enemy is that which knows how to marshall thoughts of others against u.those that kill by the sword make enemies and conquests of their contemporaries.but those that kill with the pen make will make slaves of both generations to come.They that control the press of any nation controls the mood of her citizens,and defines reality for those who would not think for themselves,like the north and boko haram.

papparatzzi2013: And they want presidency?

Just for them to speak up in a clear case o injustice, they are playing ethnic cards again that they are well known for.


Always playing a "we" vs their imaginary enemy that exists in their fiction of their minds.

unfortunately the enemy is not only real,but palpably determined.

eggheaders: Igboid defending criminals since time immemorial. When the common thief Jim nwobodo stole common generator from national stadium. The senate presidency saga ko talk of thief like nzeribe they still award him with a red cap and a feather to crown it. Smh for this kind of humanoids.

look at this slowpoke.after all the theft by a former southwest pdp chieftain who was even convicted,yoruba elders rolled out drums including obasanjo to give him a hero'welcome.mumu.or wat are u trying to say?abiolas family begging for handouts from the murderers of their patriach.mumu.

rafindo: it is only in nigeria dat airport are built out of sentiment nd politics/onitsha metropolis has no land for such project.an airstrip with a funtional monorail systrm is better.no olympic size stadium yet,decent skyline nd good infrastructure.airport business is not groundnut or spare part trade.

you started of accusing people of tribal sentiment in trying to develop their place,and ended up the butt of ur own joke.people that are into spare part and groundnut trade hv no business with airports...envy is a mocker. it will always throw up the petiness in you..

anybody who has been offered ission to any science course like pharmacy,optometry,dentistry,physiology,nursing,bch.mcb,etc,but does not know what to expect from the course in of credit loads,departmental marking schemes,academic rigours,employment opportunities,job prestige etc. can pm me for clarification.

odizeey: Gud nyt every one i love u all,including origbim sorry o bt dat name reminds me of ma sec sch friend,. Gud nyt. We shall see tomorrow

no problem.sleep tight.