The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, says “the sense of entitlement syndrome in the country is too much”.

Ngige stated this on Monday while fielding questions on Arise Television’s Morning Show program.

The Minister’s statement is coming on the heels of threat by the health workers to embark on strike following a proposed bill in the National Assembly to curb brain drain in the health sector.

Recall that the House of Representatives, worried by the imminent threat of brain drain in the nation’s health sector, had proposed a bill to address the crisis.

Sponsored by Ganiyu Johnson, representing Oshodi-Isolo Federal Constituency 2 of Lagos State in the House of Representatives, it seeks to amend the Medical and Dental Practitioners Act to prevent Nigerian-trained medical or dental practitioners from being granted full licences until they have worked in the country for at least five years.

The bill has continued to attract opposition from healthcare practitioners.

However, Ngige said that people borrow money to study medical courses in most countries, which they pay back after graduation.

He claimed that it is the reason they don’t leave their countries unlike their counterparts in Nigeria.

Ngige said, “It’s left for the education ministry and universities to fashion out what they can do where we now train people free of charge because they pay N48,000 to N50,000 a session for medical training. Whereas their counterpart abroad pays $100,000 in the US and £78,000 in the UK.

“They borrowed the money from the bank and when they graduate as medical doctors, they are paying back. That’s why they’re not even leaving their country.

“And here we train you free.
I obtained that free training. In fact my own I was even on scholarship. Why won’t I be patriotic to serve my country?
“So you asked that the bill taken to the National Assembly by a member be removed that it is one of the reasons you want to go on strike?
“How can a government tell a member who has done a private member’s bill, it’s not even an executive bill, to withdraw it?
You now enlist it as one of the conditions to go on strike. That’s absurd.

The sense of entitlement syndrome is too much in this country..”

Saga16:
The man is speaking facts.

XY23:


It's also not fact that state actors use state resources for medical tourism abroad? They will continue to play us, since the majority of the masses are too gullible. Why not reset across board?

N3TRAL:
If you have passed through a public university in Nigeria and then you think Dr. Ngige isn't making sense , then you should forfeit your degree.

Education in Nigeria is heavily subsidized. Nigeria cannot train you almost free of charge and then you run away to a foreign country when Nigeria lacks sufficient manpower in your field of endeavor. The practice is worse than being unpatriotic. It is wickedness.

Medical doctors spend less than a million naira in tuition in Federal universities to complete their program. In fact, during the NYSC program, most medical students make back the money they spent on their tuition.


Many medical doctors in the foreign countries you wickedly dump Nigeria for spend the first two years of their career paying back student loans. Their salary is high because of the high cost of living in their country which is why they pay an average of 100,000 USD for medical education ( tuition+ others fees).

The government doesn't intend to stop you from migrating. No, they'll be stupid to do that because it's against the tenets of FHRs .
The FG is simply telling you, if Nigeria is the worst country on Earth, go to Canada, US or UK and spend 50,000 USD to acquire medical training and then work for them. If you want to benefit from our subsidy then you must compulsorily serve us for a few couple of years.

---

However, the policy of the FG is not good for the long run because medical consultants, experts and specialists will greatly reduce in Nigerian hospitals as there's no embargo placed against them.

What's the need of having many medical doctors who are not really proficient?

The best practice remains improving the welfare of Medical practitioners and enlightening them of their Hippocratic oath to serve their black brothers and sisters.

---

God Bless Dr Ngige. He's a patriotic Nigerian!

BigIyanga:

Folks like u that studied wotowo course like anthropology of Sambisa forest are filled with envy that their degrees have no value in Naija market let alone abroad.
There is time.. you can go back and take JAMB and WAEC in order to become a doctor.. patriotism by action should start from u

N3TRAL:



Lol, far from it. I studied the most prestigious course in the humanities.

N3TRAL:
If you have passed through a public university in Nigeria and then you think Dr. Ngige isn't making sense , then you should forfeit your degree.

Education in Nigeria is heavily subsidized. Nigeria cannot train you almost free of charge and then you run away to a foreign country when Nigeria lacks sufficient manpower in your field of endeavor. The practice is worse than being unpatriotic. It is wickedness.

Medical doctors spend less than a million naira in tuition in Federal universities to complete their program. In fact, during the NYSC program, most medical students make back the money they spent on their tuition.


Many medical doctors in the foreign countries you wickedly dump Nigeria for spend the first two years of their career paying back student loans. Their salary is high because of the high cost of living in their country which is why they pay an average of 100,000 USD for medical education ( tuition+ others fees).

The government doesn't intend to stop you from migrating. No, they'll be stupid to do that because it's against the tenets of FHRs .
The FG is simply telling you, if Nigeria is the worst country on Earth, go to Canada, US or UK and spend 50,000 USD to acquire medical training and then work for them. If you want to benefit from our subsidy then you must compulsorily serve us for a few couple of years.

---

However, the policy of the FG is not good for the long run because medical consultants, experts and specialists will greatly reduce in Nigerian hospitals as there's no embargo placed against them.

What's the need of having many medical doctors who are not really proficient?

The best practice remains improving the welfare of Medical practitioners and enlightening them of their Hippocratic oath to serve their black brothers and sisters.

---

God Bless Dr Ngige. He's a patriotic Nigerian!

Mindlog:


Which course?

sonature1:
Considering that the globalization is a threat to a poor country like Nigeria, it's understandable why Nigerian government came up with that bill to stop doctors from leaving the country.

Why would a Nigerian doctor expect to be paid what his counterparts in the US and UK earn? Those countries are extremely rich and Nigeria is a big joke. The earlier we all realize this, the better for us. The only way Nigerian doctors can escape that law is attending a private university (I suppose), which most average families cannot afford.

Leadership is tough, and Nigéria needs smart people to unlock its potential through diversification and judicious use of scarce resources. If we keep voting for people like Buhari and Tinubu, this country is doomed for good.

Jorussia:
This issue is a very sensitive one.I think a reasonable exchange rate of 150-250ngn to USD is going to take of the need to search for
greener pastures by our health workers.If the economy is doing good and inflation is low,most people won't think of going oversea.

N3TRAL:


LL.B., B. L., LL.M., CIArb (UK).

I'm not yet 25.

N3TRAL:
If you have passed through a public university in Nigeria and then you think Dr. Ngige isn't making sense , then you should forfeit your degree.

Education in Nigeria is heavily subsidized. Nigeria cannot train you almost free of charge and then you run away to a foreign country when Nigeria lacks sufficient manpower in your field of endeavor. The practice is worse than being unpatriotic. It is wickedness.

Medical doctors spend less than a million naira in tuition in Federal universities to complete their program. In fact, during the NYSC program, most medical students make back the money they spent on their tuition.


Many medical doctors in the foreign countries you wickedly dump Nigeria for spend the first two years of their career paying back student loans. Their salary is high because of the high cost of living in their country which is why they pay an average of 100,000 USD for medical education ( tuition+ others fees).

The government doesn't intend to stop you from migrating. No, they'll be stupid to do that because it's against the tenets of FHRs .
The FG is simply telling you, if Nigeria is the worst country on Earth, go to Canada, US or UK and spend 50,000 USD to acquire medical training and then work for them. If you want to benefit from our subsidy then you must compulsorily serve us for a few couple of years.

---

However, the policy of the FG is not good for the long run because medical consultants, experts and specialists will greatly reduce in Nigerian hospitals as there's no embargo placed against them.

What's the need of having many medical doctors who are not really proficient?

The best practice remains improving the welfare of Medical practitioners and enlightening them of their Hippocratic oath to serve their black brothers and sisters.

---

God Bless Dr Ngige. He's a patriotic Nigerian!

Obi2saveNigeria:


Garbage!

Why not pay them well so they won't leave?

You pay corrupt senators that lazy about millions but want to pay doctors peanuts?

APC is a disaster that happened to Nigeria.

N3TRAL:
Education in Nigeria is heavily subsidized. Nigeria cannot train you almost free of charge and then you run away to a foreign country when Nigeria lacks sufficient manpower in your field of endeavor. The practice is worse than being unpatriotic. It is wickedness.

Medical doctors spend less than a million naira in tuition in Federal universities to complete their program. In fact, during the NYSC program, most medical students make back the money they spent on their tuition.

Saga16:


You were correct until your last paragraph.

Tinubu is actually an astute administrator.

Why you guys argue is really baffling.

There is no state that is as progressive as Lagos is.

sonature1:


Oga, Lagos growth has nothing to do with Tinubu. Even if you make an idiot the governor of Lagos, investments will still be flowing into Lagos because it has always had the market (population) and infrastructure (airport, seaport, etc.).

Plus, Tinubu is too demented, old and sickly to run a country as big as Nigéria. Nigeria is not his tiny Lagos, which is the smallest state in the country. Given how bad Nigerians naturally are, you will need to go and inspect some things yourself and not depend on what your subordinates tell you. That's why governors like Umahi and Zulum are doing well. Tinubu is too frail for that.

By the way, this thread is not about Tinubu. I just had to reply you because you quoted me. I have made my point and won't reply you again.

Blue3k:


Would you be favor is reducing subsidies and having students pay for their own educations? If your answer is no tell us why.

N3TRAL:


Do you think the traditional ASUU industrial actions are just because of investment in tertiary education only? One of the demands of ASUU is that IPPIS should be suspended as their payment framework and UTAS adopted instead. IPPIS is used by the bulk of Federal Government employees, why should there be a special treatment for ASUU? How will other employees feel?


Let me teach you today, the only lasting solution to ASUU strike is to increase fees of tertiary institutions by at least 100% for a start. It is called "The Problem of Dirty Hands".

No Federal Public University in Nigeria pays above $200 which is low for even qualitative basic studies anywhere in the world. It is very low to provide standard education in a bankrupt country.
The sessional fees of a good private secondary school in any Nigerian town is more than the cumulative fees for an undergraduate course in Federal Universities across the country.

Whenever there was regime change as far as the 80s, successive military governments never failed with the reassurance that ASUU strike would never occur. When democracy came in 1999, the leaders of the new republic swore to bring a permanent end to ASUU strikes.

Your candidate proposes that trillions should just be released to ASUU

Do you know how much previous governments have given to ASUU?

Nigerians want welfarism with the privileges available to capitalist societies. The only bad thing Buhari has done regarding ASUU is letting the strike endure longer than it has ever in the last 40 years!

Below , national dailies from 1981.

Mindlog:


Mine is B.A (C.Psych), MBPsS (UK), MSc. CCP

I am not even yet 16!

N3TRAL:


Well, it's not a joke. I've paid my dues!