Writings of Olabanji Joel

If you want to be great in life, marry someone who support your dreams, he or she might not have the same vision with you at first but flexibility to make your dreams theirs and to make theirs yours should be considered so that the vision won't be dead even before it start. It's better to remain single than to marry wrong. Behind great men, there are great women and vice-versa. The saying that love is blind is an archaic statement which doesn't apply to the kind of world we live in anymore, if you fall in love with the wrong person, call  your sense to order  and fall out of the love so that your dreams can  come to reality. I started being very sensitive about relationship and marriage when the wife of Omoyele Sowore stood strongly by him when he was illegally detained by the Nigerian Government, his wife wasn't known before but ensured the release of her husband by using all the opportunities she had. My sensitivity to marrying right increased after seeing various hom...

When someone is celebrated, a life of impact is what is being celebrated and not position, when position get celebrated over the life of impact, it means impact in the person's life is lost- Olabanji Joel So it's Buhari's birthday, should we celebrate him for the farmers who were killed while working to make food available for us all or for the over 300 kidnapped students? Should we celebrate him for the devalued naira or the recession in the country? Should we celebrate him for the increased fuel price, electricity tariff and the price of cement? Should we praise him for incessant borrowing without a significant impact on our economy or should Buhari be celebrated for being clueless and insensitive to the happenings of the nation? What should we celebrate Buhari for? Well, Buharists will say he should be celebrated for the uncompleted railway which has gulped billions of dollars and has emerged the country in massive debt for future generations, the second Niger bridge whi...

Nursing in Nigeria today has had more downs than the ups which could be recorded, the retrogression occurring in the profession can be said to be from the weakness which has been shown by many of our leaders over the years, the professions which were initially behind us but later had courageous leaders to lead them are now ahead of us, what is left for nursing in my country is to struggle with Dental therapist, health information managers etc. The reason why HND which has been imposed by our leaders on us was rejected by many when it was introduced is because something more than HND is needed in Nursing. Scrapping of Schools of Nursing or integration of schools of Nursing to the surrounding universities and upgrading all the post basic schools to post graduate schools would have moved nursing to an enviable height in the health care sector but our leaders have not been bold enough to take the huge step needed to this great height, instead, they preferred settling for the smaller altern...

Nurse Ajibola is a great fighter for human right, she has been OOUTH Unit NANNM Treasurer before the shocking termination of her appointment, during her tenure, the detail of how the Executives who handed over to them spent the Association's money wasn't handed over to her, she questioned these people and this was how her problem with the Union Executives started, along the line, she was removed from the Hospital Nurses WhatsApp forum because she expressed her feelings about how she was shouted on because she wanted to ask question after having a three and half hours meeting. Some Nurses were unjustly demoted from conhess 7 to conhess 6  which they got employed with, these Nurses met with her and she advised them on how to go about it, these young Nurses did all they could but never got promoted back, their unjust demotion was later saddled around thier point of entry and qualification. Nurse Ajibola was against the unmerited punishment meted at Nurse Tega, she supported him at...