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http://www.newstatesman.com/alan-white/2013/01/trials-roseline-akhalu

Absolutely heartbreaking story which illustrates how desperate Nigeria is that a person with renal failure living in Nigeria is on an express train to death...unless of course they've enough money to afford treatment.

This is a masterpiece, classic example of what it is: life as a Nigerian in and out of naija can be very frustrating, almost impossible! Either way you are still doomed. Those who run the state know nothing but to loot and lie, and people still hesitate to kick against them. Whatever health problem it is, without those other serious countries, even our 'leaders' are doomed as they will never 'know' how to make those things work here! Any little headache they simply fly off like witches to foreign lands to seek med help.
Even, many more, similar unreported, even worse occurences than this abound!

chingyjant:
Your comment funny D.I.E.There is though atom of truth in your comment sha but there is still little hope though lets just trust in God

many more people more than ever before are relentlessly determined to make it more hopless

If I say what I want to say some ignorant Nairalanders will start attacking themselves but I will say it. This woman's problem is more spiritual than physical. She may be religious yes! The devil is not afraid of religion ofcourse he can even sponsor it if it causes more distraction. Let her seek God and get on fire and you will see sicknesses dis*ppear,freedom granted, husband etc
The devil came and stole her peace, killed her husband and destroy her joy

Now, I nearly never respond to comments on here but, the submission above reminds me that Nigeria may not rise from it`s sick bed in my generation.
That a commonsense medical condition is blamed on some magical spiritual hocus pocus tells me that it is time, the activities of these marauding religious bigots alias pastors and Alfas are effectively regulated.

Techwriter: If I say what I want to say some ignorant Nairalanders will start attacking themselves but I will say it. This woman's problem is more spiritual than physical. She may be religious yes! The devil is not afraid of religion ofcourse he can even sponsor it if it causes more distraction. Let her seek God and get on fire and you will see sicknesses dis*ppear,freedom granted, husband etc
The devil came and stole her peace, killed her husband and destroy her joy

Bros! So devil can get to her anytime and your god cannot.... Una with una devil .. I hail o!!

jydebiz: Dear nairalanders, lets keep the good work we can all make donations to save Rose's life if we can get across to her. I also know there may be some NGOs in Nigeria that may be of help. Alternatively, this situation is more spiritual than physical in my own opinion she may visit the Redemption camp somewhere in Nigeria, there is a stand that handles such emergency there and she will be back again on her feet through the wonderful healing power of the Almighty God, there has been such cases that I heard of like this that was brought down from the US and the woman was completely made whole, please let her try.

Story story... STORY

KingPradas: There is no place like home.

There is no Place like hell... Naija

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There is no Place like hell... Naija

There is no such thing as hell...that is simply the figment of your religion...there is good and evil ...And evil is what politicians and greedy Nigerians met out to their fellow human beings.! The actions of man not the land!

pDude: My children will never have the opportunity to ask me, "Daddy, when everybody was hustling and relocating abroad, where were you?" by the grace of God.

Nigeria is a sad and hopeless place.

I always swore not to have my kids in Nigeria. That country is a failure

@4play

So, I'ka Di ndu? Ehn

Who gives a phuck where people have their kids? Who? Better people have their kids in Nigeria and even send their kids to Nigeria to school. Story story.

^^^ If you can't beat them, join them


Tufiakwa that my kids study in that cursed country. . Tufiakwa I say

Just came across another

In 2009, Onikosi was diagnosed with hepatitis B. Although I was still at Sussex, and in regular contact with him, he never told me this. Neither did I know that two of his brothers, Hanuna and Kolade, had died of the same illness at home in Nigeria. Despite the fact that the chronic liver condition suffered by Onikosi and his brothers, causes debilitating symptoms such as sickness, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, itchy skin, weakness of the limbs, loss of appetite, constipation leading to severe painful bleeding and discomfort over the liver area and, if untreated, leads very quickly to the loss of life, Onikosi seemed still to be endlessly campaigning for the causes he believed in. In 2009, the final year of his degree, I was on maternity leave, but I met him volunteering at Brighton and Hove Black History Month.

Because of this, I was shocked to learn of Onikosi's diagnosis and angered by the decision of Theresa May to deport him to Nigeria despite his illness. After graduating from Sussex, Onikosi continued to work, pay taxes and volunteer in the UK. The Home Office disregards this and, following legal appeals and the intervention of Onikosi's MP in July 2012, deems it correct to send Onikosi back to Nigeria where virology specialist, Dr CI Anyanwu, explains there is "no definitive treatment available for the level of his condition he is experiencing".

In austerity Britain, the government has no qualms about universities accepting international students to pay huge fees to keep a virtually unfunded higher education system going. Foreign students are regularly referred to as cash cows by cynical university managers. Yet those same cows are accused of "milking the system" as soon as they overstay, no matter the reason, even when it means life over death.

Integration, a word beloved of post-9/11 western governments, suddenly becomes an irrelevance when it comes to wrenching from their homes people who have put down roots, created professional links, and benefited the society. Onikosi has lived in the UK for five years. It is the country in which he entered adulthood, as well as political consciousness. He has contributed to this society in ways in which his peers, born into the privilege of citizenship, may do also but do not have to in order to prove their worth.

There is no doubt, barring a miracle, that removing Onikosi to Nigeria will result in this young man losing his life. The UK is quick to preach when it comes to human rights abuses in other countries, but equally quick to moralise when the same victims of global inequality put its own ethics to the test. Are we really willing to cause a third, useless, death in one family? Because that is what failing to act to help keep Onikosi in the UK, where his chances of survival are good, will ultimately mean.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/25/why-luqman-onikosi-remain-britain