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Phones / Re: Nokia Care @ Nigeria: by farydah: 6:39am On Aug 21, 2016 |
Hello. Pls I'm unable to download opera mini on my Lumia 1020, I cannot upload my CV on job sites and I think I need a software upgrade generally. I honestly am only enjoying the camera on this device. Can someone pls put me through on how best I can enjoy this phone? P.S the current software version is 8.0 |
Health / Re: NEW BORN BABIES! Are U A New Mum? Then Lets Discuss Babies Here!!!!! by farydah: 9:24pm On Jun 16, 2016 |
ifyjip:my son had the same in both brreeaassrts at birth. I was asked not to touch it and it disappeared wen he was about a month old. Pls stop massaging it or pouring hot water as its not wound. Best wishes ma'am 3 Likes |
Health / Re: NEW BORN BABIES! Are U A New Mum? Then Lets Discuss Babies Here!!!!! by farydah: 7:25pm On Jun 10, 2016 |
simababe:tanx maam. Will try it 1 Like |
Health / Re: NEW BORN BABIES! Are U A New Mum? Then Lets Discuss Babies Here!!!!! by farydah: 4:34pm On Jun 10, 2016 |
Hello mommas. Pls what antifungal cream can i use on my 4months+ son's ringworm? 1 Like |
Health / Re: NEW BORN BABIES! Are U A New Mum? Then Lets Discuss Babies Here!!!!! by farydah: 10:27pm On Apr 25, 2016 |
zaynie:this is the first time he's constipating since his birth. I didn't need to give him the laxative as he pooped massively in the afternoon and it was thankfully not hard. Phew! Tanx for ur response and advice 1 Like |
Health / Re: NEW BORN BABIES! Are U A New Mum? Then Lets Discuss Babies Here!!!!! by farydah: 1:57pm On Apr 25, 2016 |
babythug:. Its a laxative meant to relieve constipation. My son is suffering badly from it and even has anal fissures. Just got home and heard he'd pooped so I won't need it any more appaz |
Health / Re: NEW BORN BABIES! Are U A New Mum? Then Lets Discuss Babies Here!!!!! by farydah: 11:21am On Apr 25, 2016 |
Good day mamas. Pls is liquid paraffin(in the recommended dose) advisable/effective for my 2+ son? |
Health / Re: Pregnancy Are You Pregnant Or Going Through A High Risk Pregnancy,,lets Talk by farydah: 10:52pm On Mar 25, 2016 |
Hello everyone. @topic, with my 1st baby(baby tore me up and he weighed 4.4kg) I had no libido issues throut the pregnancy and we resumed DTD by 4th week or so and we never needed lubes. However, with this baby(born in jan, weighing 4kg, with no tear) libido was kinda low durin pregnancy and at 9weeks postpartum, I'm still quite Dry durin DTD, lol, but abit interested in(TMI). Anywais, I'm Still hoping/waiting for improvement. So from my experience, I'll say maybe its a case of each pregnancy with its own issues. May all preggies carry to term and ATCs receive their miracles. Cheers 5 Likes |
Health / Re: NEW BORN BABIES! Are U A New Mum? Then Lets Discuss Babies Here!!!!! by farydah: 4:23am On Mar 12, 2016 |
tatacherie:I had both avent and tommee tippee. I preferred the avent as I didn't have to lean forward while pumping to prevent leaking but the reverse was the case with tommee tippee. 2 Likes |
Health / Re: Banker Shot During Cousin's Funeral By Police. by farydah: 8:01am On Oct 04, 2015 |
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Health / Banker Shot During Cousin's Funeral By Police. by farydah: 8:00am On Oct 04, 2015 |
HOME / NEWS / HOW GUN SHOT SALUTE
GOT BANKER PARALYSED
How Gun Shot Salute Got
Banker Paralysed
By Reuben Buhari
— Oct 3, 2015 5:01 am | Leave a comment
When Mr Haruna Gajere set out to attain the
burial of his cousin in the village, he never
thought he will return in a wheelchair. Two
years later after the burial, Gajere,
paralyzed from the chest down,
consequence of a 21-gun salute that ended
tragically, has been moving from hospital to
hospital while toying with the idea of suicide
writes Reuben Buhari.
As a 33-year-old happily-married banker of
many years, Mr Haruna Gajere, with a
beautiful wife and two children, like every
other human out there had robust plans for
the future; plans that include concluding a
rewarding career within the banking halls
and retiring peacefully into farming later in
life.
However, an unjustifiable twist of fate in the
form of a freak accident has now confined
Gajere to a wheelchair for the last two years.
His fault was to be by the graveside of his
deceased cousin, a mobile policeman who
was being saluted with the traditional 21-
gun salute. After the policemen were
through discharging their guns, Gajere,
some few meters away from the grave side,
was found lying on the ground in a pool of
his own blood, arising from the bullets of
one of the policemen.
It started on 27 January, 2013 when Gajere
who was then working with a new
generation bank in Kaduna, decided to go
home to the village for the burial of a cousin
– a mobile policeman who had died in Lagos.
Before that faithful day, Gajere was actively
involved in making plans to accord his
deceased cousin a befitting burial, and on
the date of the burial, he finally made his
way to Yarbung village in Kachia local
government of Kaduna state. Devoid of any
clairvoyance hint of a life changing incidents
that awaits him, Gajere left for the village
early on a Saturday morning. However, the
burial couldn’t take place that Saturday
because the police contingent that
accompanied the corpse arrived in the
village very late. So the burial was shifted to
Sunday morning.
On Sunday morning, the burial proper
commenced. The shoes, the cap and the belt
of the deceased were laid on the coffin and
the policemen who were to give the final
customary salute to a fallen comrade in the
form of a 21-gun salute took position some
meters away from the freshly-dug grave
that was crowded with sympathizers – both
relatives and those who were there out of
curiosity.
The policemen then raised their guns and
with the muzzle of their AK 47s pointing into
the sky, released some volleys of bullets
into the sky. However, one of them had a
malfunction. His gun jammed and it didn’t
discharge. With a bewildered look on his
face, he lowered the gun and kept trying to
rectify it. Against standard precautionary
measure adopted by most security men
with arms, he didn’t put his gun on safety
mode. Gajere, meanwhile was some meters
away helping those mixing the cement that
would be used in plastering the grave after
the coffin had been lowered into the hole.
He was just in the process of adding water
to the already mixed cement and graveled
when his world exploded.
The policeman with the jammed gun was
still lowering his gun and trying to fix it
when the gun started emitting bullets into
the crowd. Gajere while still bending at the
waist to pour the water was shot in the
shoulder. The bullet went straight through
his chest, missing his heart by inches and
hit his thoracic spine. Unknown to him,
three of the 12 vertebrae that made up the
thoracic spine got damaged immediately.
Three other people around the grave also
got shot. One had a bullet through his leg
while another got a bullet in the back.
Luckily for them, theirs weren’t life
threatening.
He was rushed to Ahmadu Bello University
teaching hospital Shika in Zaria where MRI
and CT scan done on him confirmed that
apart from the spinal cord injury, he also
had three fractured ribs. The bullet stayed
there for nine days before he finally had the
first spinal cord decompression surgery.
After that, he stayed in the hospital for five
months and his hope that he could stand
and walk again got dashed when he
couldn’t. He became paralysed from the
chest to his legs feeling no sensation when
touched. He couldn’t excrete on his own and
started passing urine with the help of a
catheter. A full bustling 33 year-old reduced
to a wheel chair when he temporarily left
the hospital. The spiraling effect of the
incident condemned his 30 year-old wife –
Peace Gajere to a lifelong duty of a
caregiver, who also has to source for the
house’s sustenance.
Haruna, who recently wrote a letter to the
chairman of the National Human Right
Commission, Professor Chidi Odinkalu,
asking for his intervention on the issue,
explained that the policeman who fired the
shot and the police command refused to
come to his aide all through the two years
and eight months that he has been sourcing
for medical help to his condition.
“My condition is so critical and likely to
deteriorate unless urgent steps are taken for
my treatment by experts abroad and it
appears that the police that caused my
injury is not willing or ready to act
immediately or at all. This is because even
when I met with the Assistant
Commissioner of Police (ACP) upon my
discharge from the hospital, the ACP told
me that the police is not responsible for the
act, that the police man who shot me acted
on his own personal capacity as an
individual and as such he should be
responsible for my ordeal, despite the fact
that he was on an official duty. The most
painful and annoying aspect of all was when
the legal head (a woman) of the Kaduna
Police High Command insisted on talking to
me by proxy, saying there was no point
seeing them. She was referring to her and
the ACP. This i objected to and insisted on
seeing the person I was talking to, instead of
through the phone.”
Gajere explained that he want the police to
help him because life has become financially
and emotionally difficult for him having
spent about N3,350,000 on medication
since the beginning of the 32 months that
he has been down.
“At the moment, I find life difficult. I pay for
virtually everything in my life, including
urinating, defecating and sleeping. This is
because it involves the use of drugs to aid
the process and catheter for depositing of
urine. I am also on physiotherapy exercise
that cost N50,000 per sessions. This i do 20
sessions per months to keep my body
system active.
He added that he has toyed with the idea of
suicide on several occasions, but has held
back by the comforting thought of his wife
and his two children – aged four and two
respectively. He is however asking the
police to help sponsor his treatment to a
specialist German hospital for corrective
spinal cord surgery and physical
rehabilitation at a cost of 120,000 Euro. This
includes cost of surgery, transportation and
hotel bills, rehabilitation fee for therapy and
other logistics.
LEADERSHIP weekend however, in deciding
to find out whether live bullets are used
during a 21-gun salutes, spoke to some
persons within the police and military
formations. A reliable source within the
military said, “Usually rubber bullets or
blanks are used. However, it is not unheard
of for live bullets to be used. It is however
rare. The police source who also spoke said,
the police used live bullets, but the guns are
pointed up to avoid any accidents.
However, for now Haruna Gajere, while
battling to get justice from those concerned,
continues to lived each day as it comes.
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Agriculture / Re: Starting A Poultry Farm (a Blog) by farydah: 5:33am On Aug 28, 2015 |
Tmex:Ok. Tanx a lot. Appreciate ur response |
Agriculture / Re: Starting A Poultry Farm (a Blog) by farydah: 5:32am On Aug 28, 2015 |
rileyy:I vaccinated dem at 2wks. Will ask d vet abt d drug u mentioned. Tanx alot |
Agriculture / Re: Starting A Poultry Farm (a Blog) by farydah: 1:07pm On Aug 27, 2015 |
farydah: Can I plsss get a response |
Agriculture / Re: Starting A Poultry Farm (a Blog) by farydah: 6:34am On Aug 27, 2015 |
Pls what do I give my 7week old broilers that have crusty, black sores on their heads and around the eyes?? Help plssss |
Agriculture / Re: Practical Broiler Production, A Step By Step Tutorial With Pictures 150 birds by farydah: 6:25pm On Aug 26, 2015 |
Hello everyone. Pls my 7 weeks Broilers have some crusty sores on their heads and especially on their comb. What do I give them pls? |
Career / Re: MTN Call Center -mayfair Garden By Cnssl/ison Bpo by farydah: 5:44am On Aug 18, 2015 |
klarke:Thank you verry much! I never regretted participating in the protest in Jos. I wish you people complaining will step up and actually protest too. All these complaining won't help u guys. It may seem easier said than done because I know the job market is harsh but would u rather die in this modern day slavery? Imagine new mothers being denied Maternity leave!! Hmmmnnnn una try sha. Wish u guys all the best |
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: Is First Bank Recruiting by farydah: 6:03pm On Apr 22, 2015 |
Pls has anyone here who selected North been called? 2 Likes |
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: FG: SURE-P Graduate Internship Scheme by farydah: 6:06pm On Apr 14, 2015 |
Temmy198:Tanx but this number is also switched off. |
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: FG: SURE-P Graduate Internship Scheme by farydah: 11:58am On Apr 14, 2015 |
Biko have surep cc lines been changed? Because the numbers are ALWAYS switched off when I call |
Health / Re: NEW BORN BABIES! Are U A New Mum? Then Lets Discuss Babies Here!!!!! by farydah: 3:33pm On Apr 06, 2015 |
MiracleMum: Best believe those women don't bother feeding the said infants pap much less seek advice on where to dump them. |
Health / Re: NEW BORN BABIES! Are U A New Mum? Then Lets Discuss Babies Here!!!!! by farydah: 1:50pm On Apr 06, 2015 |
We're suppose to share helpful tips and our experiences here and not force our opinions on others please. I don't think any woman will embark on 9 months journey, sleepless nights and financial sacrifices only to do what is not good for her baby. Besides not all fingers/health conditions are the same for everyone. If a woman is comfortable doing as she pleases with her baby, please, please, advice her, share your thoughts and opinions by all means but don't berate her like you love her kid more than she does. Nobody is an authority on this motherhood thingy. We all learn everyday. That said, please let's give our views and 'jump and pass' the one we don't agree with. 4 Likes 1 Share |
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: Firstbank Is Recruiting by farydah: 6:48am On Apr 06, 2015 |
Found this on twitter. FYI I don't work with FBN. I'm just an applicant like most people here.
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