Nigeria: Should We All 'Check Out' of the Country?

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It sounds very much like an apocryphal tale. But it is true that the joke is once again on Nigerian society in general and the medical profession or the health sector in particular.

What I am saying is that Nigeria has lost yet another batch of medical experts to the larger world. Thousands of highly trained medical doctors have just departed these shores for greener pastures abroad as the outcome of incessant strikes embarked upon by the National Association of Resident Doctors. They have gone to join millions of talented Nigerian intellectuals, academics and professionals, who have been driven out of our land by the harsh realities of our current existence. It is not a matter of profound argument or intellectual debate to say that the death of the Nigerian middle class due to equivocation and compromise has long been awaited. Yet, implicit in the very meaning of compromise as a means of harmonising the best features of opposing values is an element of tension. And it is this unwearied straining after the ideal within the actual, rather than any tame begging of issues, that imparts so invigorating a tone to the social life of our dying middle class.

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