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  • Ailing woman requires N5m to stay alive

    Years ago, Mrs. Chidinma Obasi was bubbling over with good health. But in 2013, she fell ill and her condition changed. She started experiencing health challenges. Initially, she did not know what was happening to her, but it was later confirmed in hospital that she’s suffering from adhesion; her intestine has joined like a glue.

    To her, it was as if the world has come to an end, considering the complications that followed the disease.

    Disturbingly, she had been told she would need about N5million to overcome the ailment.

    Miss Sandra Obasi, her daughter, told The Nation that her mother became ill in 2013 and did her first operation in 2014 for hysterectomy. Through the process, her bladder was damaged, but was later corrected in Ebonyi State.

    According to her, her mother has done multiple surgeries to set the adhesion free, but to no avail.

    Sandra said she had gone through hell trying to save her mum since the illness began.

    She added: “A consultant at the Imo State University Teaching Hospital (IMSUTH), Orlu, Dr. Orjiako Sunday, confirmed the disease and recommended that a transplant be carried out to solve the problem. We, therefore, made an inquiry on how to go about it and they told us that it could only be done successfully in India and the treatment would cost about N5million.”

    Mrs. Obasi, the 46-year-old widow mother of two, from Ehime Mbanno Local Government Area of Imo State, told The Nation that since the confirmation of the disease and recommendation for an urgent treatment in India, she has been living on drugs.

    “Drugs have become my food. I neither eat nor drink water. I take drugs every hour and it costs me about N20,000 per week. My fear is that if I fail to do that, it will spell doom for me. That may be the end of my life.”

    She said the weekly drugs have rendered her family bankrupt and appealed to the government, corporate bodies, non-governmental organisations, religious groups and individuals to assist her raise the money for a successful treatment in India.

    “I am a widow. My family has exhausted the money they have in taking care of me. We are left with nothing. Because I don’t want to die now and leave my children to suffer, I decided to cry out for help, so that people can rescue me,” Mrs. Obasi said.

    She can be reached on 08036796936 or 08060418013. Account details: Sandra Chinasa Obasi, Account No 2092090358, United Bank for Africa (UBA).

  • Man, 34, needs N5m for heart surgery

    Man, 34, needs N5m for heart surgery

    Thirty-Four-year-old Joshua Adekoya is currently at the precipice of life. Though blind from childhood, Joshua is currently on admission in the Main Ward of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) for a congestive cardiac failure. As a result, he urgently needs to undergo a heart surgery (cardiac aortic root surgery), to stay alive.

    Hitherto a vibrant young man, full of hope, Joshua used to be very active in sports and in 2012, he won silver medal for Lagos State in the para-athletic event of the National Sports Festival. He has however been in coma since January 20 and placed on oxygen because he has not been responding to drugs. His legs and stomach are swollen as a result of the illness and his wife has even left him to his fate, making his situation more precarious.

    To stay alive and pursue his hopes and aspiration, Joshua is requesting help and generous donation from well-meaning Nigerians and foreigners alike. Doctors say he needs N5m to undergo the surgery. Efforts have been made to reach the Lagos State Government but help has so far not come.

    Joshua’s friends and family are hereby calling on the Lagos State Governor, prominent Nigerians and everybody who may be moved to pity. For confirmation, interested donors should visit the Main Ward of LASUTH.

    Joshua’s account details are: Joshua Adekoya, GT Bank 0012757629. For enquiry, you can call 07036602682 or his 08140293592.

  • Cleric demands N5m from police for alleged illegal detention

    A school proprietor, Pastor Ochuko Osusu, has asked the police to pay him N5 million damages for allegedly detaining him illegally.

    He is suing the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Solomon Arase at the Federal High Court in Lagos for the enforcement of his fundamental rights.

    Osusu, the proprietor of D Glory Top Private Schools, Legasa Phase 11, Lakowe, said he was detained illegally at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) Panti.

    Lagos Commissioner of Police, Deputy Commissioner of Police (SCID), and Inspector Solomon Ojo of SCID are the other respondents.

    Through his lawyer Kayode Bankole, the plaintiff is praying the court to declare that his arrest on May 11 and detention till May 19 was in gross violation of his right to dignity of human person, personal liberty and private life.

    He also wants the court to hold that third and fourth respondents violated Section 34, 1 (a) and 44 (1) of the 1999 Constitution by allegedly carting his documents away.

    Osusu is praying for a declaration that the respondents have no right to interfere with his legitimate activities or shut his school.

    He sought an order restraining the respondents from further arresting him or threatening to close down his school, and demanded an apology.

    The applicant was arrested following a complaint that a three-year old girl was defiled in the school.

    He said the police assured him that he would not be prosecuted since he had no direct link to the alleged crime.

    “On the day of the alleged incident, the applicant never saw or had any contact whatsoever with the victim since he was only the administrative head of the school.

    “Moreover, he had just arrived from one week spirit convention of the Nigerian Baptist Convention at Ilorin,” the plaintiff said in a supporting affidavit.

  • Eight-year-old Jemila needs N5m to live

    Eight-year-old Jemila needs N5m to live

    Eight-year-old Jemila Mohammed Umar, a Primary Four pupil in Kaduna State, is a sickler and needs help urgently.

    She nurses an ambition of becoming a medical doctor, a career she chose to enable her give care to sickle cell patients, an ailment she suffers from. The fear of her parents, however, is that her career may be not even take off owing to her health condition.

    Jemila, according to her father, Alhaji Umar Mohammed has been going through the pain of sickle cell anaemia for the past seven-and a-half years. Even though she was born with the ailment, her parents only got to know six months after.

    Alhaji Mohammed said: “There are eight children in the family, but she is the only sickle cell carrier among them. She suffers severe body pains and organs disorder whenever the crisis starts and has to be admitted in the hospital frequently.

    “She experiences a couple of crisis a year during which she complains of hand-foot syndrome characterised by swollen hands and feet. My fear is that, the signs and symptoms of the disease manifest between May and June each year. Therefore, we take measures to manage episodes that are uncomplicated at home but in most cases, we take her to a nearby clinic for medication where she would stay for at least a week.

    “Application of ‘cola nut’ balm to relieve the pains in the hands and feet is another medication we have adopted in managing the crisis at home,” he said.

    He further explained that Jemila’s case has left the family financially and emotionally devastated, adding that, “the condition is characterised by excruciating pains which distinguish neither day nor night. Whenever the crisis starts, the whole family does not sleep as we exchange roles to pacify and comfort her, but all in vain because the pains are stubborn and determined until when God Almighty sends His relief. And, at last, when sleep sneaks in on her, we don’t wake her up.

    “Doctors at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) Benin-City said for Jemila to get cured, she has to undergo stem cell transplant. The procedure requires the injection of healthy cells into her body to replace the damaged ones.

    ”A hematologist and stem cell transplant expert at UBTH, Dr. Nosa Bazauye said it will take between two and three months for her condition to stabilise after the operation. The transplant will use cells donated by her family members. The cell samples of her siblings will be taken to a hospital in Switzerland for verification before choosing the right donor.” he stated.

    For the surgery to take place, Alhaji Mohammed said the sum of N5 million was needed; an amount of money too difficult for the family to get. He is therefore pleading for help from the government, individuals and organisations to save the life of his daughter.

    He pleaded to individuals, organisations and government willing to assist to send donations for his daughter’s recovery to First Bank, with account name: Mohammed Umar and account number 3075634882 (Current) or UBA with account name – Mohammed Umar and account number 1014957735.

    While praying that God will replenish whoever assists his daughter in multiple folds, Alhaji Mohammed said he doesn’t mind if any individual, organisation or government will prefer to foot the bill directly, through UBTH.

  • Lagos waste dump worth N5m daily income, says Fashola

    Lagos State governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola said waste management has become a big business, adding that the famous Olusosun waste dump in Ojota is capable of generating N5million daily.

    The governor, who spoke  during the closing ceremony of this year’s Lagos State Science and Technology (LASSTECH) Week  at the Main Auditorium, Alausa, Ikeja, said the state government had intervened in the business by providing hand gloves and face masks to people who do business at the place to reduce the risk of contacting disease.

    He told a group of students drawn from public primary and secondary schools in the state that the government is investing massively in education because it believes it holds the promise of lasting happiness for all.

    According to him, waste management has become an imperative in view of the damage the activities of man has done to the environment, adding that the government has completed a sorting and recycling plant in Alimosho which would be commissioned for use soon.

    Addressing the pupils, he said there was no substitute to hard work, promising that the state government will continue to invest in their future by providing the infrastructure necessary for them to acquire knowledge.

    According to the governor, other nations have gone ahead of the country, stressing that the state government is investing  youths ducation not only to catch up with those other countries but to also overtake them.

    He advised the students to take their studies seriously, arguing that hard work makes them fulfilled.

    He also enjoined the pupils to ensure that they allocate one hour daily to serious studies after the normal school schedule, stressing that adherence to such a tight schedule does not only enthrone self-discipline in them but also makes them to inculcate the habit of planning.

    He said: “Work hard, never be afraid. Nothing is impossible because everything that was said to impossible before are now possible. Hold on to your dreams. Every dream you have must come to pass but you must work hard; work first and then pray. That is what the scripture says.”

    Responding to questions asked by the students, Governor Fashola said he is motivated to work because of the belief he has that Nigeria is yet to attain its full potential. He said he also beleives in Lagos State that had provided him the opportunity to serve.

    On challenges, he told the students that being entrusted with the responsibility to look after the welfare of 21million people itself is a huge challenge.

    He said he does not beleive he has enemy, adding that people with strong opinion about what they think should be have the right to do so.

    He however said his administration always welcomed constructive criticisms, arguing that it makes the government to  do more.