Opinion: Ngige’s Incestuous Affair With Marie Antoinette, By Festus Adedayo
At present, about 72,000 doctors are said to be on the register of the Nigerian Medical and Dental Council, 40,000 in active practice, with the rest caving into an earlier shambolic advice by the minister of health, Isaac Adewole…
Perhaps the most insidious aspect of Ngige’s waffle was his justification of the emigration of doctors on account of the equipment they send home and the cash they repatriate therefrom. “When they go abroad, they earn money and send them back home here… I know a couple of them who practice abroad but set up medical centres back home.
Pardon my having to borrow a twin concept that makes up a popular argot gleefully propounded on the streets of Yorubaland to define an anomaly that fructified recently in the palace of Fredrick Obateru Akinruntan, the Olugbo of Ugbo, the riverine Ilaje local government area of Ondo State. At that event, Akinruntan finally deflated whatever was left of the balloon of respectability and reverence for ancient Yoruba traditional stool.
Second is the strangeness of his new toga as one to coronate kings.
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