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Nigeria has lost one of its most prominent voices in sickle cell advocacy following the passing of Toyin Ibidunni Adesola, the founder of the Sickle Cell Advocacy and Management Initiative (SAMI) whose lifelong commitment to humanity transformed countless lives within the sickle cell community.

Her passing, announced jointly by the Adesola Family, and SAMI, marks the close of a defining chapter in Nigeria’s campaign for greater awareness, improved healthcare, social inclusion, and support for persons living with sickle cell disorder.

For six decades (Sept. 1, 1965 - May 11, 2026), Toyin Adesola lived with sickle cell, standing stoutly at the forefront of advocacy for sickle cell warriors and their families, devoting her life to public enlightenment, counseling, support initiatives, and policy engagement aimed at improving the quality of life for people living with the condition. Through resilience and compassion, she became one of the most respected and recognizable figures in Nigeria’s healthcare advocacy landscape.

As Founder of SAMI, she built an institution that evolved into a beacon of hope and a safe space for countless families navigating the physical, emotional, and social realities of sickle cell disorder. The organisation became widely known for its awareness campaigns, advocacy programmes, support interventions, and efforts aimed at reducing stigma while promoting genotype education and early detection.

Beyond SAMI, her influence resonated strongly across the broader advocacy community. As the longest-serving Chairman of the Coalition of Sickle Cell NGOs, she played a pivotal role in fostering collaboration among advocacy groups and healthcare stakeholders, helping to harmonize a united front on sickle cell issues.

Her extraordinary dedication to the cause earned her admiration across civil society, the medical community, and humanitarian circles, with many affectionately referring to her as the Sickle Cell General, a title that reflected both her courage and her tireless commitment to the struggle for better care and dignity for sickle cell patients.

Associates and members of the advocacy community have continued to pay glowing tributes to her life and legacy, describing her as a compassionate leader, mentor, mobiliser, and a rallying point for the sickle cell community.

In their statement, the Adesola Family and SAMI described her as “a pillar of strength to families battling sickle cell disorder, a source of hope to countless warriors, and a woman whose life embodied service, empathy, and sacrifice.”

The statement added that her enduring legacy would continue to inspire future generations of advocates and humanitarian workers committed to the sickle cell cause. “Though she has departed this world, her voice will continue to resonate through the movement she helped build, the lives she touched, and the hope she gave to thousands.”

Funeral arrangements will be announced by the family in the coming days.


Jesus is Lord

What a beautiful soul. May her creator accept her return.

My baby mama is just trying to force me to marry her without even her trying to know our genotype. Some women can be desperate sometimes


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May her soul rest in peace

Amazing Grace... No limits ..
Live life ..Just live life no matter what

God gives;God takes.
She's done her bit. Every sojourner goes back home eventually.

May her soul rest in perfect peace and continue to find favour in heavely places.

Sickle Cell is a terrible disease.
It is like having death lurk around a person from the date of birth till the end. Death lurks around all of us, but Sickle Cell raises it to a power of two.
May her soul rest in peace.

She tried at 65 years, I can imagine the agony she went through

Rest in peace mama. You've etched your name in the plaque of history.

Nice and inspiring profile.

May God rest her soul and continue to inspire others to follow her advocacy footsteps for healthier Nigerians.

Sonofgod1990:
My baby mama is just trying to force me to marry her without even her trying to know our genotype. Some women can be desperate sometimes

so you had a child without knowing your genotypes already cos you were so desperate to knack too

Una no check before una born?

Sonofgod1990:
My baby mama is just trying to force me to marry her without even her trying to know our genotype. Some women can be desperate sometimes

Get tested people.Know your genotype.Love is not enough in marriages.

Don't bring a sickle cell child into the world to suffer.

it is very very PAINFUL when your parents especially yo mama passed ON. Rest well

Sonofgod1990:
My baby mama is just trying to force me to marry her without even her trying to know our genotype. Some women can be desperate sometimes

Is the child you already have a sickler?

A Gentle Soul just passed away.
History will not forget you for your good work's to mankind and humanity.
May your Beautiful Soul Rest in Peace 🕯️

Was she a General real real ? Or just a title

izombie:
Is the child you already have a sickler?

Through eye gauge the boy dey do me like say na AS.

May her soul rest in peace

QuantAnalyst:

Una no check before una born?

She thought she can hold me down because of the child. She don't know that my mind no dey were she's

She deliberately kept the pregnancy. She dey even pressure me to give her Belle again as we talk ... just dat my people doesn't like her and she knows about that.

I'm planning to stop calling her on phone make I know if she can get another boyfriend. She just love me like no tomorrow

Chai. May your soul R.I.P madam. Amen

Well done the general,I pray God console the family she left behind and may the good work she done not perish after her departure.

By now there should be a cure for sickle cell if our scientists really cared and wanted to.

Sonofgod1990:
My baby mama is just trying to force me to marry her without even her trying to know our genotype. Some women can be desperate sometimes


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Hate speech. What has Burnley Arsenal got to do with the aforementioned topic

Lanretoye:
so you had a child without knowing your genotypes already cos you were so desperate to knack too

The pregnancy came due to the influence of alcohol

adamkkk:
Was she a General real real ? Or just a title

I think title if I'm not mistaken.

Most sickle cell are fvcking brilliant like hell

Aunty Toyin used to bake cakes on credit for me as a broke student. She and her family were our neighbors many years ago.

Rip Toyin .

1 in 100, you lived long oOoOO

May the Lord grant her soul eternal rest. Her constitution of the gene is better than others with the same malady . I know anything patient that is 66 years old and still alive.

Sonofgod1990:
My baby mama is just trying to force me to marry her without even her trying to know our genotype. Some women can be desperate sometimes


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From your prediction I know you're battling with something in your head... so its after she has turned your baby mama before you know you've to check out you people's genotype?... you've cum and you're back to your senses right? because your dick was thinking for you.
You want to turn the girls life to a single mother while you keep walking around the earth devouring ladies abi?