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Don't faulty for these frauds. FUNAI is taking only 500 students, and this is from the registrar himself whom I had audience with recently.

No supplementary list o! Don't fall for scams!

The last rate was N159, but I can push for at least 50k reduction from rates on the street. So where you have N159 on the street, you can get for N158.50. Obviously there has to be volume for this to make sense, if you know what I mean.

Fhemmy,

What volume of dollars do you purchase daily? If you are serious I can get you competitive rates as I usually have dollar inflows all the time.

Lenny5000:
I believe in Nigeria and have contributed more to it than you can ever realize. By using the words " I don't want to waste my time" I want you know that I am not related to this Baby or the mother in anyway, she is just someone my kid sister knows. Also by helping her you are not helping me in anyway. So the "I don't want to waste my time" doesn't come to play here. She is a Nigerian, and a human. I heard about the story just like you are also hearing about it and decided to help the way I know. If you are moved by her story and wants to help the way you know, you should do so by all means, Doesnt stop me from airing my opinion just like you did. What I implied by my post is I wont be making that Decision of ENUGUN just as nobody would make decisions about my family for me. The Mother of the baby should make that decision herself. Let me state here that I am not running this show or trying to dictate anything, I am just trying to get help to the baby the way I can. If you or anybody else for that matter know more and wants to help you are very free to do so. Please lets not make this thing personal because it is not. Bless

The "I don't want to waste my time" was directed at the conclusion you made that because Perx died in Nigeria after being operated on (and this is a lady who was sick for a very long time as gather from the appeal), you would prefer the foreign treatment option.

Such dismissive statements will not help your cause. It is not easy to raise N2m. People are stretched. Now I came up with a suggestion that will be a cheaper option and will work as well because of two children whom I know had the same problem and were treated in a Nigerian hospital and you practically dismissed it off because Perx died.

Yes, I will reiterate that I will not waste my time trying to initiate the contact if you do not believe in it. If you are stuck with your foreign treatment option and you blank out alternatives, you will run into problems.

The first step is to arrange for them to go to UNTH to be seen by the heart specialists there. To the best of my knowledge, the Benin teaching hospital does not have heart specialists.

Be wise!

Going to the KHF is a long process because the foundation has a long waiting list.

The surgery that child needs can be done in UNTH. All that needs to be done is to inquire from the appropriate medical team how much it will cost for the treatment (admissions, tests, drugs and operation). Then with a clear focus and information, the fundraising can be done and the child treated there.

I am not saying we should not raise funds, but I feel it is sheer stupidity trying to raise N2m for them to go to India when about N500,000 can do the job at UNTH. Even Sudan has a world-class heart surgery centre.

We need information. Lack of information will make people blunder around in the dark. I can make some contacts and in 24 hours, I will have the approximate cost of treating that child in Nigeria, which will cost the family FAR LESS and bring them closer to a solution.

Don't mind the guy.

Hole in the heart operations are carried out very routinely in UNTH with very good success rates. That it is not talked about in the media does not mean they do not occur.

I wonder why there is so much push to go to Sokoto to look for what is in the sokoto.

I will ask people here not to give a dime until this case is verified and that they have exhausted the UNTH option which I am very sure will work for them. Like I said, I know two families whose kids were operated there and they survived and are doing very well.

All this madness for medical tourism in India has got to stop.

Lenny5000:
I understand you being busy and like I said I don't reside in Nigeria and will need somebody in Nigeria that can do all you said. Do you know of any such person? Here is the email add you requested for : sumochildcare@gmail.com
Though I just had a rude shock to hear of the passing of PERX that was operated in Nigeria, I have been so sad and now am so skeptical about Nigeria that it's not funny, Anyway I wont Personally be making any decision on where Baby Gracious will be operated as far as Nigeria is concerned unless the mother does, I would rather follow her Doctor's diagnoses and hope for a Europe surgery, etc

So because someone died in a hospital, you now decide to condemn the entire health sector? DO you know the complete story of Perx's illness?

You guys in the diaspora should believe in your country. Some of us have received all our medical attention here in Nigeria and we are still bouncing strong.

If you know you are not a believer in getting a local option that works and will eventually be affordable to the family of this baby, it is better you say so; I don't want to waste my time.

You are complaining of slow responses yet you want to use a more expensive option. Good luck to you, but I do hope you know that even in the US, for every transplant case that sails through, many more die on the waiting list.

Be open to options and don't jeopardise the life of that baby looking for expensive options abroad. I rest my case here.

Lenny5000:
Stagger, thank you so much for your post. Did you read my post up there about Baby Gracious? If not please do and lets take it from there, Like I said on my post I dont reside in Naija and the Baby's mother cant do much for various reasons, So if you are sure about the Surgery in Enugu for less than a million naira, there the baby might get help faster that it is now, Can you find out more about the Enugu Hospital? I mean can you take that upon yourself to be in charge? I will buy Credit on your phone for you to make some contacts, Lemme know how to get your number. Bless

I am presently busy right now but I can get someone to provide the information you need to proceed in 48 hours. You will have to provide an email address where you can be reached off this forum. Once you have the information, you can take it from there.

Like I said, the surgery can be done there at UNTH and it will be nowhere near the N2million being requested for.

Before we start rushing to raise funds, we need to identify some key points.

1) This surgery is routinely performed at the UNTH in Enugu. They have a solid reputation and I am not sure it will cost up to N750,000 in that hospital.

2) I would suggest that someone makes contact with the medical team in charge of heart operations there, with the complete medical history and then the total cost of the operation will be known. We can then proceed from there.

I am saying this because in this country, we have become so obsessed with medical treatment abroad that it has gone to levels of complete stupidity when there are very competent doctors here.

THIS OPERATION CAN BE DONE RIGHT HERE IN NIGERIA. I am saying this because I know 2 families whose children had a hole in the heart and they were fixed in UNTH. Those children are very healthy and are now teenagers!

Let us use our common sense and reduce the cost of this surgery for the family. It will be easier to raise money for that surgery in Nigeria than to start looking for N2million for the child to travel to India with all the logistical issues to be raised.

OP,

Did the churches tell you they cannot open their own banks like the Vatican?

Who made you a financial consultant? This is how some of you set yourself up for spiritual slaps by poking your nose into what does not concern you.

~Killz~:
[color=#000030]Can violence ever be justified? Especially when your life is not at stake? For gawd's sake it's just an object! Can you value an inanimate object above a human life?[/color]

I know a guy whose wife killed with a pestle in a domestic argument. I know another whose wife smashed all his car windscreens while shocked neighbours stood and watched the show of horror. Yet another one was doused with acid by his wife while he was sleeping here in Abuja last year. What do we call that?

That is gross insanity of the first degree.

Women need to know their limits. Honestly. The OP walked away and the woman still went to cause more aggravation.  

I doubt that beating the woman was the best way to have handled it. I would have just ended the relationship and that would have been it.

But it shows you the level of disrespect that today's women have. I cannot even picture my mum smashing my dad's phone in a fit of anger. Same goes for my mum-in-law. Women of nowadays are just uncouth animals.

Op,
you are indeed a very stu.pid human being. You can afford to buy music CDs from coke-using musicians whose lifestyles are highly immoral and whose music is pure filth, but you criticise men of God who write books for our edification?

The information passed across is what is being paid for, and I buy many of such books from local and foreign men of God without inhibitions.

It is only paupers like you who have never handled bulk money all your life that have the time to talk such nonsense!

May God pepper dat your mouth!  

Frankly, I think your child may have a problem. I have seen 2 year olds who can count without issues.

This is the same Emeka Offor and Chrome Consortium that Obasanjo awarded the Turn Around Maintenance contracts to some few years back.

I wonder why the move to declare him bankrupt. He is the main reason why Nigeria's refineries are not working. HE SHOULD BE ROTTING IN JAIL AND NOT BEING DECLARED BANKRUPT. WTF!

UNIPORT is not an academic environment and anyone who has been to that school can see it in the air. Students there spend ore hours in shows and joints and clubs than in the classroom.

Besides what does the OP mean by UNIBEN effort?

Sad news, but I have to comment on the deaths in sleep we have been seeing recently.

It is very important for people to go for medical evaluations at least twice a year. For 2 years, I was feeling out of sorts. I could not pinpoint what it was.

It was during a blood donation when a laboratory scientist remarked off-handedly that my "blood was rushing fast" that I decided to go for a blood pressure check and the results shocked me. I am now taking BP medication.

Lesson: many of us do not evaluate our health. We put it off, and concern ourselves with running around chasing contracts, putting so many hours into work, etc.

The question is: at what cost to our health do we do all this?

So while we mourn the loss of the MD, please, let us take out health matters more seriously. Many people are walking corpses and they do not even know it.

My 2 Cents.

N157 for dollar sellers
N159 for dollar buyers.

FCT price.

Please fly.

I drove that road 2 weeks ago (Option 2) and I really did not enjoy the journey.

Ogboraph,

this ur username dey sweet me like this oha soup wey I dey chop now!

Join the Navy as an officer and get posted to the Eastern Naval Command. Enough money from bunkering.

OP,

You are indeed worse than a cretin.

So how do you expect a full-time pastor to pay all the bills that you pay as a Nigerian?

^^^^^

This Mcdave guy is here again, disguised as a widow. Now this is over the top. Can the mods delete these posts please?

The problem of western education is that it has blunted the concept of submission.

My mother never knelt before my father one day. But she defers to him in decision making and everything. That is why they have been married for close to 50 years.

In contrast, you see young women who think that because they now work, have an education and all, there will now be two captains in one boat. Then tomorrow they will complain loudest when the man starts spending time with another woman who knows how to do the job outside.

LEXYLOV:
Even in the western world people buy fuel into can for their domestic uses. What a dumb policy, bunch of illiterates in power, From Jonathan to the last man in his party and administration are clueless and dumb. God have mercy on Nigeria and save her people from retardeen maladministration who only understand looting and nothing else.

Do people in the Western world bring generators and jerry cans to filling stations to buy fuel so as to resell in front of the same filling station?

It is our attitude and way of life as Nigerians that force governments to place such restrictions.

My company can do this for you, but pricing is an issue. How much are they ready to pay?

2kurupt:
@Stagger. So the boat users should be out of work & remain hungry while they reach out to the govt abi? Secondly can't you see the difference between 1989's electricity situation & present reality?
Must we always sheepishly support any policy govt spits despite it been bullsh!! t??!

How have they been buying fuel since 1989?

The reason that law was enacted was because in times of scarcity, fuel stations would sell fuel to the jerry can peddlers who would sell it on the black market at 100%. This occurs even now.

Come to Abuja and see what is happening. 10 litres of fuel being sold at N2,000 last week, right outside a filling station. What rubbish!

The Rivers state government is only enforcing a law that has been in effect since 1989. I do not know why all the noise about it.

The best the boat owners can do is to reach out to the government for exceptions to be made for their members.

Hmm. Better get a lawyer otherwise you will be repossessed!

Season 5 here we come.