What started as a three-day warning strike over sundry issues whereby government issued queries to them and also ordered that they appear before a disciplinary panel to explain their action, the medical doctors in Lagos State-owned hospitals then embarked on indefinite strike which led to their mass dismissal, as both parties are now in court.

Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris who confirmed that the government is tired of strikes in an interview with Sola Ogundipe & Chioma Obinna, in this concluding part of the interview said the sacking of 788 striking doctors was a difficult decision for the government but was taken in the overall interest of the health sector.

PRIOR to the inception of the present administration in Osun State, no one would ever have thought that the tremendous reformation being witnessed in the education system in the state today could be possible.

This government is tired of strikes. Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris who confirmed this in an interview with Sola Ogundipe and Chioma Obinna, was only echoing the thoughts of millions of Lagosians and Nigerians as a whole.

TODAY, a visit to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH and several other state government hospitals in Lagos shows empty casualty departments.

TRIBALISM/ethnicity/sectionalism: It is my contention that tribalism, ethnicity and sectionalism played the most part of Nigeria’s political instability. Most of the military interventions experienced in Nigeria were inspired by tribal and ethnic tendencies inherent in the country’s social diversity.

As part of the restructuring of the Lagos healthcare system, new doctors are daily being recruited to replace the sacked doctors. Chief Medical Director, LASUTH, Ikeja, Professor Adewale Oke sheds light on ongoing efforts to restore sanity into the system.

If heaven knows no rage like a woman scorned, members of the House of Representatives’ ad-hoc Committee probing the near collapse of the Nigerian Capital Market, saw first hand last week, the rage that can be displayed by big ladies who chose to go after one another’s jugular. This was no ordinary rage.

It was not as if the outcome of the subsidy probe was exactly pre-empted, but even before the Farouk Lawan Probe Committee of the House of Representatives embarked on the energy sapping , fact-finding exercise, many Nigerians had known that there will be culprits.

All I can I say is that we have been overwhelmed into insensitivity by sheer excess. I have studied very carefully those figures and I have had to take a couple of aspirins after every paragraph, after every figure to ask and pinch myself; are we really living in the real world? Or whether this is some kind of fantasy world which is projected onto the pages of newspapers.