by Chiemezie Madu | Apr 25, 2026 | Uncategorized
A few years ago, I was at a conference where the depleting health workforce and staff attrition in the UK health system, the NHS, was discussed. Among ways proposed to improve this was to make staff ‘feel more valued’ at work. To assess current...
by Chiemezie Madu | Mar 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
My friends and family often say I have a photographic memory. They may be right. Twenty-five years ago I walked through the gates of Federal Government Academy Suleja, in far away Niger state, Northern Nigeria (FEDACAD for short) for my secondary education and I...
by Chiemezie Madu | Sep 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
I read a story recently on popular Nigerian music producer, Don Jazzy gifting his friend a wrist watch worth almost a hundred million Naira ($60,000) and it made me reminisce on the Don Jazzy-D’Banj story; two promising young men with identical origins but...
by Chiemezie Madu | Sep 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
I vividly recall the last time I cried like it happened only yesterday. It all started on a casual morning in mid-2015 when I was working as a medical officer in a private hospital in Auchi, Edo state, just having completed my National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) year....
by Chiemezie Madu | Mar 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
If there is one thing I struggle with in life, it is time management. There always seems to be too much to do in so little time. A friend once asked if I thought 24 hours was enough time in one day. The answer was yes and no. Yes because we are stuck with 24 hours...
by Chiemezie Madu | Feb 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
Recently I have assisted some applicants review their applications to universities or employers overseas and I find many of them grossly incomplete and nonchalantly prepared. From a mile away, you can easily sift those who read the job description or admission...
