Source:
http://lindaikeji..com/2009/10/caroline-johnsons-message-to-all.html

Caroline Johnson, the lady diagnosed with Leukaemia I featured on my blog many weeks back, is back in Nigeria after undergoing treatment in India. To everyone who helped, with money, with prayers and by spreading the news around, I say thank you on her behalf. Though still recuperating, Caroline found strength to write a letter to everyone. read it below.*

Dear all,
HE KEPT HIS WORD…

This is Caroline Johnson and am happy to write this letter. Firstly, I would like to let you know that Jesus Christ really lives and I thank God for seeing me through.

I sympathize with those out there going through this because I have been there; I know what it is to be helpless, hopeless and sick. My prayer is that our good Lord will rise up on your case as he did with mine.

I am inspired and glad to write you all and with sincere appreciation deep down within me, I would like to say a BIG THANK YOU to every one who has been a part of my medical trip to India and above all your Prayers.

I arrived safely from India and I am in good health. Before I left as you must have read, I was diagnosed with LEUKEMIA (cancer of the blood) and with CENTRAL NERVOUS complication and breakdown to the point that I could no longer walk, loss of hearing and loss of vision and at a point I started having seizures. But today, no single LEUKEMIC CELL (cancer cell) can be found in me! PRAISE GOD!

Though I have scars and still on physiotherapy due to a foot drop, I know that my Lord will perfect that which He has started. I will be going back to India in a couple of months for further check up.

In as much as I would like to thank every one personally which I know may not be possible, you can reach me on my e-mail caroline@savecarolinejohnson.com and on my yahoo messenger cece_za@yahoo.com my face book Caroline Johnson. I will personally respond to every email I get to read.

Once again, thank you very much, the good lord will bless you, keep you, uplift you and continue to show you mercy.

Before I conclude, I thank God for giving me a second chance to be what He wants me to be, the mother to my wonderful children and wife to my ever supportive, loving and caring husband.

Thank you very much and God bless you all.

Caroline Johnson (a.k.a Uju Heavens Gate)
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matrim:

not to pour cold water on your yarns but u can't force me to treat gunshot victims,it is my right to decide as a medical doctor who i want to render care to,so although it may not be ethical it definitely cannot be illegal. enough of jungle legislation pls

Sagamite:

After 10 years, we find a spark in the brain cell of hundreds of morons, that pack into the legislative chambers, to correct the policy prescribed by a supermoron.

Someone actually sat down and formulated a policy that states that an individual dying of gunshot wound that obviously will need rapid medical intervention should first seek out the police force, explain to them the circumstances of his wounds, get a note from them and then take a journey back to the hospital before he is treated.

Retarded souls!!!

barry06:

@Kech, "Pls dont blame me ok. cos u jumped to conclusion without basis. thats not very professional of u. i am only switching job ok. if the pay is good. so its not a do or die affair. i hope u get".

@fizzybaba. i appreciate your input. its very insightful.

Goodluck to all nairalanders.

For everyone else going for the tests. Research, Research, Research!! Do a research on the company, what they do, what the post you applied for entails (as regards to the company itself) and how you can contribute to the success of the company in your own little way!! You can read your GMAT or GRE or JAMB or whatever you think is necessary for the test, but always remember that there are probably going to be other applicants as smart as you are. They won't accept everybody so you need to distinguish yourself from the pack. Don't depend on the test scores alone. 100% will not get you the job if you don't know anything about the company or what you want to do there. (Unless you are going through the "back door" )

MUZBO:

You see, family pressure. But em . . . even me a guy will marry that neurosurgeon guy o! I'll just pack my things to the hospital, wear a cap that says: neurosurgeon's wife and snap at everybody.

Rosabelle:

I completely disagree. That discipline, I believe he learnt from his environment and its who he is.
I have noticed that as irresponsible and loud as the yoruba's are, a yoruba's man's priority in life is to send his children to school by hook or crook, and to makesure whenever there's a celebration to be had, he borrows the right amount of money. [b]Gradually I see the ibos and hausas picking on the education road. [/b]Theres nothign special about a man working hard in nigeria to send his children to university. It is everybody'S story.
As for the hard working part, I think the ibos work very hard and with more education and refinement, could contribute a great deal to the direction nigeria is taking.
@Onlytruth, I dont think other Nigerians are the one's to recognise any attributes the Ibo's have. I think the Ibo's owe it to themselves first and foremost to clear up their own house before anything can be done.

By Asma’u Joda & Iheoma Obibi
Grace Ushang was a young Nigerian woman who had every right to expect a bright future. Now she is dead merely because she was female. On the day that Nigeria celebrated its 49th Independence Anniversary on 1 October 2009, NEXT Newspaper reported that Ms. Ushang from Obudu in Cross River State, a member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) serving in Maiduguri, Borno State, was raped to death by some men still at large, who, according to the story, “took offence because she was wearing her Khaki trousers – the official uniform of the youth corpers.”

The cavalier brutality of this morbid tale of criminal vigilante action is compounded by the official response to it. The Director-General of the NYSC reportedly travelled to Maiduguri ostensibly to discuss this crime with the State’s law enforcement authorities. Rather than denounce this for the crime that it is and reassure our young graduates on national service that their wellbeing preoccupies the highest levels of decision making, the Director-General merely advised Youth Corpers to “take their personal security seriously because whatever we provided is not enough. They must learn to be security-conscious.” Pray, how?

The compounded crimes that killed Grace Ushang painfully return our attention to the pervasiveness of violence against women in Nigeria and the growing resort to vigilante action to police vague notions of feminine propriety and decency. In 2008, the Chairperson of the Nigerian Senate’s Committee on Women, Senator Ufot Ekaette introduced a bill in the Senate to prohibit so called “indecent dressing”. At the public hearing on the Bill in July 2008, there was a consensus that its provisions portended great danger for the safety and security of Nigerian women. The Bill proposes to grant intolerably dangerous powers of arrest and invasion of the most intimate privacies of the woman’s body imaginable to both police officers and ordinary citizens to undertake vigilante action against women they merely perceive to be “indecently dressed”.

Senator Ekaette’s Bill covers any female above 14 years wearing a dress that exposes “her breast, laps, belly and waist… and any part of her body from two inches below her shoulders downwards to the knee” (such as the much-admired Fulani milk maid). Also liable to become a criminal if this Bill were to become law is any person dressed in “transparent” fabric (such as Lace) as well as men who expose any part of their bodies between the waist and the knee (such as men relieving themselves by the roadside). All these people and more would presumably attract arrest from zealous policemen. If this Bill becomes law, there will not be enough prisons or mortuaries in Nigeria for its victims. It will licence vigilante violence against women, leading to fatalities like the fate that befell Grace Ushang.

Grace Ushang’s story demonstrates the fallacy of the justifications for laws like the Senator Ekaette’s Indecent Dressing Bill. Those who wish to commit crimes of sexual violence need no excuse. They must be treated like the predators they are. If a woman, like Grace Ushang, dressed in regulation clothing prescribed by the Federal Republic of Nigeria is considered to be so indecently dressed as to be put to death by the most vile acts of violence imaginable, how do we guarantee the safety and security of Nigerian women in the uniformed services, such as the Armed Forces, Police, Prisons Service, and Immigration?

The killing of Grace Ushang is part of a pattern of violence against women that deserves urgent attention across borders in this year of the 30th Anniversary of the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). In some countries of Sahelian and East Africa and the Middle East, women who survive rape get put to death for allegedly bringing dis-honour to their families. Or are charged with zina (adultery) as they “have made love”; as any form of sexual intercourse consensual or non consensual, can be translated to mean “love making”.

Only recently in Sudan, Lubna Hussein, a former employee of the United Nations, along with 12 other Sudanese women, were charged with the offence of dressing indecently for wearing trousers. Sudanese law prohibits ‘dressing indecently’ in public. Absurd? Yes, certainly, by Nigerian standards, where no person bats an eyelid at the sight of women in jeans, or in offices, clad in trouser suits – or so we thought until Grace Ushang was raped to death. Sudan’s laws, however, criminalise a woman’s dressing, prescribing lashing and an unlimited fine for any woman ‘in public’ dressed like a ‘man’.

Lubna resigned her employment at the UN, which would have granted her immunity from trial, to compel the courts to take a stand on an issue she feels (quite rightly) should be a matter of public concern, because they impact directly on her human dignity, freedom of choice and privacy. By her action, Lubna placed Sudanese ‘justice’ in the global spotlight and should, hopefully, trigger change in policy and law in that country.

We may not yet have a law that determines what a woman (or man) can wear but there can be no tolerance of the growing tendency towards vigilante enforcement of notions of indecency. Sudan and Nigeria have similar lawmakers it seems. Surely, someone sat down and determined for Sudan, in his opinion, what is permissible as a woman’s choice of dress, and garnered Parliamentary support for his personal belief that wearing trousers was an abomination that should be penalized. In the same manner, some persons in the Nigerian Senate are unilaterally and arbitrarily attempting to decide for Nigerians what should be the acceptable form or mode of ‘dressing’ for women. No account has been taken of the diversity and the culture in both countries, or even of the fact that in African rural settings, women routinely expose much more, without giving a thought to it being ‘indecent’. Nor has there been any reckoning of the effect that this will have on the safety of women.

As Sudan struggles with the implications of its indecent dressing laws, and its courts struggle to find ways around it, Nigeria’s own lawmakers appear bent on imposing these retrograde and potentially explosive laws over here. While they are looking for ways to move forward, our legislators seem determined to throw us back into the past.

Our lawmakers should focus on passing measures that promote human dignity, preclude discrimination, and guarantee human wellbeing. Instead of a law on indecent dressing, they can accord priority to enacting a law to protect all Nigerian women from the wanton violence and ensure that all perpetrators of such violence are brought to justice. As a first step, the Senate should vote down the Indecent Dressing Bill and firmly close any further arguments on it. In its place, and in memory of Grace Ushang, we need a federal law on violence against women. That would be an appropriate way to commemorate the tragedy of her senseless killing.

Asma’u Joda & Iheoma Obibi are on the Steering Committee of the Nigerian Feminist Forum (NFF)

barry06:

Hi Everyone,

I equally got the SMS and i ve confirmed my test location.
My problem now is not even the test format, since its a selection test one should be prepared
Mentally,physically, and otherwise.

The real thing is that i cant remember the position i applied for.
Is there anyway i can look up my profile?

Best of Luck to all invitees.

posakosa:

Well said Kech, I despise my EX a lot if I attend the wedding, I will cause havoc for the sake of it,

funkystanl:

This happened to a friend of mine who attended her ex-boyfriend's wedding. She was filled wit tears almost making it public, thanks to another friend Who went wit her.
So can you attend your Exes wedding? On what grounds? What will you and will you not do at the venue?,

aisha2:

The boys mom just called and asked me to inform others not to send money into the uncles account, she said the uncle has been diverting the money. This is the type of stuff am talking about, when money starts coming in, people in situations like this can turn to monsters. I may have to go to Enugu myself next week to get information about the scheduled surgery. The kind of thiongs i see in this my work is heart breaking, some families turn a tragedy like this into a meal ticket, Please whoever is collecting the donations, just hold on to it, when we are sure of surgery, we will give you the name of the hospital

Quote from: redsun on October 01, 2009, 01:37 PM
I just sent some money by western union to his uncle,one Dominic Chilemo(002348064162432),he doesn't even know about nairaland talk less of the efforts we are making to help his nephew but i have adviced him to tune in and follow up with the happenings.I hope he is the right person,even though he sounded humane,one never knows but then,i have satisfied my concsience.

It is just my way of celebrating the fucking independence,reaching out to someone in dire need.We should all learn to reach out no matter how little,it could make a huge difference.

tpia.:

here's one of the half illiterate literates i was talking about.

omar22:



You sound like an abandoned project!!!!

OgidiBoy:

That's an insulting to people that hang themselves, what about he cuts his wrist and slowly bleed to dead with all that hate in him.

vanni:

Its obvious that genevieve is a force to reckon with. No wonder the comments keep flowing. She obviously attracts alot of attention otherwise you would simply have ignored the thread and waka pass. But no, you were struck again by this girl whose achievement knows no bounds. In your littleness and inferiority complex, you cannot comprehend why despite all verbal attacks, contoversy and media mis-information about this STAR, she continues to make waves.

So in your smallness and defeated state of mind, you resort to writing unkind remarks about her appearance on Oprah's show. Face the truth, she has added another first to her many firsts. As a commentator said yesterday " Genevieve sat down in her home in Nigeria and Oprah came knocking" Have you noticed that things which say or do, it can't unbless her.
most actresses struggle for Genevieve achieves effortlessly? That's because she is blessed and no matter what you haters
Your opinion of genevieve are entirely yours and yours alone. It probably will begin and perish on Nairaland. Genevieve fortunatley may never get to know it in her lifetime. Being on Oprah may mean nothing to you haters, but mark my words, this is just the beginning of a new chapter in her lfe.

The more you try to bring her down, the more she lifts the bar higher. There is a force behind her unending success and thats the BLESSING of God that maketh rich and addeth no sorrows with it. Thats why her achievements are so remarkable because by strenght shall no man prevail.

You too can be a winnner and be celebrated only if you first celebrate others. For what you do not like can NEVER come to you. The sky is too big for everyone to shine and Genny is LIVING HER LIFE ON PURPOSE. she is doing what she knows best and getting paid for what she loves.

How about you? are YOU LIVING YOUR LIFE ON PURPOSE? Or are you in the wrong profession? You can still make changes. So do that and quit hating.

Those who hate never find love.

McDoe:

She used to be pretty looking. But age is telling on her seriously. On her choice as face of Nokia AFRICA, I thought there use to be a process of selection, or has it been changed?

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The year is almost coming to an end but the blessings seem to be pouring in non stop for Rita.

Just a few months after she became one of Globacom's ambassadors, olofofos are whispering that she has just been elected as the face of Nokia Africa and was paid over one million dollars for a 6 month contract.

Hear, ''Rita will be promoting Nokias new product which is Nokia N97 in Africa. There will soon be a press conference to announce it. Rita is really excited about this Nokia deal, the blessings are too much that's why it would be easy to count all of her teeth if you tried as she cant stop smiling''.

Congratulations Rita, our forefathers say ''he who eats alone suffers from diarrhoea''.