Nigeria, Feb. 2 -- When the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) introduced centralized posting for housemanship training, the intention was reformist and corrective. The policy was designed to confront long-standing abuses in the old system with charges of nepotism, tribal favoritism, bribery, uneven distribution of trainees, and institutional delays that left young doctors stranded for months. Few could have imagined, however, that a reform meant to sanitize the system would provoke a more aggressive backlash: open resistance to regulatory authority, administrative defiance, and a public unravelling of conduct from a top medical administrator whose academic pedigree and managerial training should have suggested better judgment....