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I can see stupidity running through your veins. Your lack of creativity is obvious in the childishly formulated fake news you wrote above. No source, and no confirmation. Yet, some other colleagues of yours with brains of a child are quick to open their mouths to expose their stupidity on this thread.

No president ever produced in this country has ever divided us as a people on religious and ethnic lines than this current GEJ administration. The tension emanating from the actions and in-actions of the president is rather heightening grouses and dissensions amongst the people.

I have always said this and I will continue to say it. Only a misguided and brainwashed fool would want to argue the fact that GEJ has totally failed this nation. The level of corruption under his regime has so been aggravated that even "Corruption" itself now throws salutations at the mention of Nigeria.

Total disregard for the rule of law. You get away with anything once you are under the protection of the symbolic unbrella. Little wonder our security apparatus have been so reduced to mere object of ridicule among comittee of nations. What else could have enboldened a governor elect to prompt attacks on serving judges if not factors as these?

GEJ has truly failed this Nation no doubt....

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Chisos!!!!

At 54, young women and men are captured and held by terrorists for 172 days and the president couldn’t be bothered to mention it in his speech. Of course such distractions are unbecoming, aren’t they? There is a coming election to be won and that is of paramount importance to our ruler and his minions.

Nigeria is 54 and yes it is a huge milestone indeed, therefore let’s roll out the drums and celebrate because we have added another year as a republic. But before we sing, dance and make merry, I would love for us to pause and reflect in sincerity; is this really the best we can be at 54?

Child plays inside an oil drum at the waterfront in LagosChild plays inside an oil drum at the waterfront in Lagos

While arguments can be made for or against, I believe sincere observers will agree that we could have done better. Compared to other African nations with whom we gained independence at about the same time, we were lucky to have the population or human resources to rival the best, therefore even the West was afraid of what we could become after they left us to our own devices.

We also have the most sought after natural resource: oil!

And with that we were set to become the biggest and the best African country. We were set to become the leader of the black nation. But, 54 years later, have we truly fulfilled our potentials?

Years of mismanagement and frivolous leadership, wastage of our common patrimony and failure to plan for the future have now come back to haunt us and yes, we are paying the price big time.

When the British left our shores, we were saddled with the responsibility of educating ourselves. At least education was supposed to be the bedrock of human development. Sadly, we haven’t done a good job of that, have we? While the original aim of the first British settlers was to educate “savages” on the basics, i.e. how to read and write especially in English, the latter thrust of education in Nigeria by the British towards the end of their period of colonization was to prepare mid level workers who could work in government offices and function appropriately as second class citizens, teachers, policemen, etc.

But since the British left, we have not done better in the area of education. You can’t point at a concise policy on education to herald an industrial revolution. In fact we have regressed to the point where Nigerians now have to travel to various countries in search of quality education that is fast becoming a mirage back home.

You will be shocked at the number of Nigerians in backwater countries like Malta, Cyprus, Benin Republic, Ghana, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, etc. with the attendant ill treatment and at times unexplained but violent death of so many Nigerian students whose only sin was going to study abroad; with their parents now left alone to mourn their losses.

All these happened and is still happening because the government at home has effectively ensured that education is killed and if possible, totally destroyed, after all an uneducated people are easy to deceive and manipulate; just throw in some ethnicity and a little dose of religion, then sit back and watch them fight over trivialities like dogs fight over bones. Little wonder that we have the highest number of out of school children in the world. Currently, Nigeria has over 11 million children of primary school age out of school. Indeed our future is “bright”.

In the area of health, one can only weep. Some military adventurist years back, in a coup broadcast, referred to our hospitals as mere consulting centers. I guess we have improved on that as the hospitals have now become more of a mortuary for the poor citizens of Nigeria while the “big men” can go to the UK, Germany, Saudi Arabia or even India for treatment, leaving the rest of us to either die in hospitals that are ill equipped, poorly staffed and loaded with ill motivated personnel; or better still, we take our destinies into our own hands by flocking to men and women of various religious persuasions who gleefully promise to heal us of all sicknesses. Indeed ours is a theater of the absurd.

In the area of agriculture, we have been told recently that the government is working hard to ensure food security. But one wonders if food security means constant increase in prices of basic food items in the markets. While propaganda may serve you for a time, the reality is that propaganda and television adverts don’t feed the people. No wonder the ones who said they have made giant leaps in agriculture still campaign by giving the people bags of rice. Indeed we are a people quick to stand logic on its head and thanks to the poorly educated and semi-literate young goons all over town, these wicked rulers are never in short supply of young men and women who will usually rise to their defense even when reality stares them in the face. But as Nigerians, we keep living in an Illusion. Little wonder that 54 years after independence, politicians still share rice, noodles and other nonsense as “stomach infrastructure” and the people hail them as messiahs.

After 54 years of independence, Nigeria as a country cannot boast of 5,000 megawatts of electricity. In fact in a recent publication, a government official asked us to give the present government kudos for increasing electricity generation to 5,000 MW in a country of about 170million people, after the same political party in power has spent more than $22 billion dollars on fixing electricity in less than 15 years on the saddle of governance. Meanwhile, the Three Gorges dam in China has the capacity to generate 22,500 MW of electricity and was constructed at the cost of $26billion.

Norway today has an official population estimate of 5,096,300. But interestingly, the country has a sovereign wealth fund of $828.66 billion), fractionally more than a million times Norway’s population, theoretically making every citizen a millionaire. How did they achieve this? They planned ahead. The country also discovered oil in the '60s, but unlike Nigeria, the leaders (not rulers) didn’t devise a sharing formula on how to “chop I chop” like ours did and are still doing, rather they envisioned a bright future for their children and unborn generation. Today, the quality of life of a Norwegian is what an ordinary Nigerian will not dare to dream of neither imagine because it is clearly unattainable given our present circumstances.

What we have and have always had, have been gangs of philanderers, intent on stealing as much as they can from the public purse, irrespective of the impact of their actions on the majority of the people they purport to lead.

Today we have what we call the “looted Abacha funds” the world over. But I ask, was it only Abacha who stole or is it because he was unfortunate to have died in office, unprepared? Taking into cognizance salary and total earnings, can Ibrahim Babangida, also a former despotic military adeventurist in politics, ordinarily afford the exotic hill top mansion he owns based on his military salary and other perks? Abdulsalami Abubakar is so wealthy, he even bought one of the electricity generation companies recently sold.

You may wish to ask the white bearded general if his salary was so fat as a soldier. Let me not even start with the coterie of ex governors, ministers and other lucky gangsters who have held political offices in the past. Rather than plan for the future, these people steal as much as they can get away with, build mansions and huge walls to hide themselves away from the ordinary citizens; while siphoning the rest abroad in the hope that they and their children can live on same whenever and if ever they manage to escape from the Armageddon they are intent on creating back home.

At 54, ours is a country where you can get away with anything and I repeat: anything! Recently in the USA, there have been a few reported breaches of security at the White House and we all know that Julia Pierson, the director of the U.S. Secret Service, has resigned and taken responsibility for the lapses. Well, that wouldn’t have happened in Nigeria. In fact, if anyone dared to call on her to resign, like Stella Oduah, such a person will have to contend with the usual “rent a crowd” people with placard asking that their daughter be left alone.

Such a person who dared to ask her to resign will be accused of fighting against the ethnic group of that official and if after several months of defiantly remaining in office, against better judgment, she voluntarily decides to seek greener pastures, she will be awarded the highest chieftaincy title available by her community and some overnight women groups will also surface asking her to contest for the senate. Such is the appalling level we operate at as a people.

Julia Pierson, the embattled director of the U.S. Secret Service, resigned her position because security was breached under her watch. She didn’t send any loquacious and foul mouthed spokeswoman to blame an opposition party, neither did the president complain and wail to the press about how such a breach was a ploy by some unnamed people to destabilize his government and embarrass him. That is the level of decency and responsibility expected of public officials in a country that holds her citizens in high esteem.

Asking officials to take responsibility for their actions (or in-actions) in Nigeria is akin to declaring an ethnic war on that official. While Julia Pearson took responsibility even though no lives were lost, she recognized her failure. Not in Nigeria, where a minister who superintended over the gruesome murder of about 20 unemployed youths due to his naked greed and negligence, remains in office unperturbed.

Abba Moro, the interior minister of Nigeria did not only supervise the death of young job seekers, he enjoyed so much immunity to the point where he has recently blessed the same Nigerians by asking citizens to pay much higher fees to get new or renewed international passports.

Such is the level of governance and leadership in Nigeria and one need not wonder why at 54, the president of the country delivered a customary anniversary broadcast but over half of the people couldn’t watch him speak live because there was no electricity to power their televisions and watch their “ruler” address his “subjects”. The president also praised himself for the privatization of the electricity sector, but what most Nigerians can see today are higher electricity bills for more darkness.

At 54, a nation that cannot educate her citizens at home and treat both the poor and rich in local hospitals successfully, is not a nation to be taken seriously by more serious nations. As big as Nelson Mandela was in stature, while he was alive, he received his medical treatments locally.

The northern part of Nigeria had in the past, had leaders who never took education seriously. Today, insurgents find willing hands in the poorly educated and totally unemployable youths. Sadly, the south of the country which was making some progress, decided to borrow a leaf from their fellow yoke givers in the north and destroyed education in their region as well.

Currently, the south of Nigeria is gradually but surely building its own type of monster that will one day rise up to consume it. From fraudsters to kidnappers and violent armed robbers, someday (and it may be soon) if unchecked, these unorganized band of criminals will grow and become worse than what the north east of Nigeria is currently witnessing.

Sadly, the rulers are so blinded by their greed and selfish desire to grab and grab and grab some more, not reading the signs of the times. A decade ago, we could all swear on our lives that no Nigerian could be persuaded to become a suicide bomber. Today, we all know better.

I cringe in horror as the various gangs in power steal all they can, leaving in their wake so much poverty, sorrow and pain among the people they are supposed to be governing. Wicked and unconscionable, they send their own children to Harvard and Oxford while closing down higher institutions in the county for months without any fear of a backlash. They rush their wives, concubines and selves to foreign lands to treat simple catarrh while their poor country men and women die in hospitals because they can’t afford drugs worth N1,000.

At 54, the future of Nigeria is trapped in a maze where retired soldiers are richer than legitimate businessmen because they dispensed oil blocs among themselves or stole money meant for security under their watch, while thousands of their citizens are mowed down like cattle by bloodthirsty gang of killers.

At 54, young women and men are captured and held by terrorists for 172 days and the president couldn’t be bothered to mention it in his speech. Of course such distractions are unbecoming, aren’t they? There is a coming election to be won and that is of paramount importance to our ruler and his minions.

No nation can rise beyond the level of education it offers its people. Nigeria at 54 may not have been an Eldorado, but certainly we don’t deserve to be in the mess we currently find ourselves in. Nigeria is one of the largest producers of crude oil yet we still import refined oil for domestic use. What a shame!

A nation where there are no consequences for actions is a nation inviting chaos. Pensioners die regularly while queuing to collect mere pittance, which they may not even get, while some officially sanctioned thieves have been making away with billions in pension funds with no consequences or punishment.

If Nigeria is to make progress, there must be consequences. Rhetoric only seem good on paper, nobody is fooled in reality. We can’t fight corruption when the leadership is confused as to what constitutes corruption and what can be referred to as “mere stealing”.

Education and health is the bedrock of any long-term development plan and sustained success. Nigerian leaders can’t keep pretending to be blind to what we daily witness as our reality.

Nigerians as a people have a responsibility to force her leaders to become responsible. A fish starts to rot from its head. Sadly, years of mis-education and impoverishment has damaged the psyche of the average Nigerian so much that people will confidently tell you to pray rather than hold public officials accountable. No wonder religion is such a big deal in this clime. How else do you explain sane people behaving irrationally?

What is private should be private. How a private aircraft turned into a commercial one without official licensing is something that can only happen in Nigeria. And should anyone ask too many questions, a curse is placed on such a person in “the name of The Lord”. Of course religion is the trump card of tyrants and despots. With it, they control the minds of the adherents and manipulate otherwise commonsensical individuals to lose their identity and fall in line.

Nigeria will be great again but no great nation or civilization has ever been built on loud prayers and resounding Amens. Great civilizations and industrial revolutions are built on education, hard-work, sincerity of purpose and are led by a selfless leadership willing to take the hard decisions. Even Nehemiah and Ezra, in the bible, respectively stood up and built. They prayed but they worked hard to get results.

May God grant us great leaders but more than that, may we have an intellectual revolution. It is time to rebuild Nigeria.

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MTN this afternoon saying
"Know interesting facts about
your country. text NIG to
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...And as a good citizen of
Nigeria. I decided to know
more facts about my dear
country....
I subscribed and immediately
they deducted 100 Naira from
my account, and the first fact I
received was...
*"Do you know that Nigeria
national flag has two colors
which are green and white?"
Secondly they sent. "do you
know that the first letter of
Nigeria is N?"
Thirdly was. "do you know
that river niger is in Nigeria"
Have been crying since..
What do think might be the
next fact?

You people no go kill person with laughter oooOOooo Do you know Boko Haram leader is a Nigerian?

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The spate of lawlessness under GEJ‘s administration has reached such an unfortunate height. This is a govt that manipulates all available security mediums within reach to intimidate, coerce, oppress and surpress the opposition ports.

People like Marylin Ogar has for some times now been shamelessly acting the scripts of the federal govt thereby disregarding professional ethical practices.

A body like the DSS which ought to be seen as being neutral in all aspects has now turned to an instrument indirectly controlled by the presidency just to get at the oppositions.

This judgment is a clear victory for democracy in dis country, but i won‘t be surprised if as usual, the DSS, courtesy the federal govt decides to prevent the rule of law from prevailing.

We all know what is going on in Ekiti presently!

lilprinze: Lol and pound is also deprived from Igbo

derived

hopilo: MY TO 4 THIEIVES ARE IN THE 4 CARDINAL POINTS OF THE COUNTRY.
NORTH - BORNO
SOUTH - AKWA IBOM
EAST - ABIA
WEST - LAGOS

Go back to school!!!!

1stola: RUBBISH!
WHAT A STÙPID THREAD.
I JUST WASTED MY MB.
*hiss*

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U can only be comparing tiwa with ASA..

Compare Tiwa with AS..wetin? bros, if na joke stop am o. even if u serious... STOP AM.

Tiwa Savage is incredibly talented, no doubt, but ASA is way high more talented than any artist , male or female Nigeria of present has to offer now.
You doubt me? Do a research on ASA!!!

By Chinedu Agwu

Health Correspondent
Pushed by a combination of greed and the downturn economy, many young Nigerians are now traveling to Asia with the sole aim of selling their kidneys to hospitals and individuals in need, IrohinOodua was reliably informed today. A person can survive on one kidney even when the pair has been sold.

The source, a medical doctor who lives in Asia, told our correspondent in Lagos that an average population of 10 Nigerians visit Asia every month with the sole aim of selling one of their kidneys to people and institutions in need.

“Nigerians have earned a new but terrible reputation in Asia. They come in to Asia every month to exchange their kidneys for money. There are institutions and individuals bogged down by kidney failure in Asia. Nigeria has become the largest market for kidneys needed for transplant in Asia”, the health official who does not wish to be named told our correspondent in an exclusive chat.

According to him, young people bogged down by poverty from across the country are offering their kidneys for sale at very cheap cost. “They are falling over each other to sell their kidneys. They do not care about what happens next but they are more concerned about surviving today’s hardship. Many of them have successfully sold their kidneys in Asia,” the source said.
According to him, the Nigerian foreign missions are aware of this development but have done practically nothing to stem the tide.
According to him, the average cost of a kidney is in the equivalent of N200,000 apart from the cost of transportation which is provided by the hospitals or individuals in need.

He said the main destination of Nigerian kidney donors is Malaysia, India and Thailand.
Experts say change in lifestyle, feeding patterns and public health hazards account for the increasing number of kidney failures in Nigeria. The country’s health services lack the capacity and the human technical know how to manage the increasing kidney-related diseases.
Experts say kidney failure is a medical condition in which the kidneys fail to adequately filter waste products from the blood. The two main types are acute kidney injury, which could be treated and chronic kidney disease which is difficult to reverse.
Doctors determine is a patient had kidney problem through urine test. Symptoms include but not limited to low urine output, pain, fluid retention, swollen legs ankles or feet. In Nigeria now fewer that 160 kidney transplants have been handled by local doctors, say Mr Ayo Shonibare, a doctor and President of Transplant Association of Nigeria, (TAN) http://irohinodua./2014/09/08/young-nigerians-selling-their-kidneys-for-profit-in-asia/

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Chisos!

wesley80: I love you too even though you seem to be quite daft!

Chisos!

allanphash7: oro no dun, o fe ke. kiss my ass fool.








i dont exchange words with dog like you go and bite you people






e-diot

Hahahaha! I laugh in pidgin English. Opolo e ti dudu ju. Aguntan lasanlasan ti n se b‘eniyan ni e.

You ain‘t nothing to me man. Onponu aiyeraiye. Hahahahahahaha!

allanphash7: [s]the whole world saw your post and laugh, you felt ontop of the world like a champion not knowing that you a filty rag, well you go back home to ask your people that who is dancing skelewu on your destiny cos you have completely gone to where people like you are. Eranko[/s] jatijati

Now i see you are terribly suffering from the law of diminishing returns. A problem you inherited right from child birth. no wonder you are faced deeply with unwarranted inferiority complex that makes you wanna lick the boots of others. Our arguments started with ur GEJ till whatever thing... you are nothing but a cheap long time neglected fossil with partially fixed modulus obloganta

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You want some share?

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You wan finish that guy ni?
Take it easy on him man!

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alaileko omo ale

May day! may day!!

Infectious animal from the ZOO of Zaire on the loose.

Animal name: allanphash7
Recommendation: Treat with insecticide!
Disease Level: Beyond calculation.
Current location: nairaland

Wow! This is inspirational. May the Good Lord God give us the wisdom to discover and exploit our hidden potential to the fullest and to His Glory In Jesus' Name... Amen.

eHNNN! Kiss ke?

The last time i kissed was over 20 minutes ago, and i will not kiss for the next 30 minutes because Ebola dey town. abi? no be wetin u wan hear be dat?

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I rest my CASE on YOU!!!.

By Florence Amagiya

He and his wife-to-be had lofty dreams of living fulfilled lives and raising wonderful children together. The fiance was two months pregnant and their traditional marriage had been fixed for October.

His fiancee, a graduate nurse, had just secured a job at First Consultant Hospital, Lagos. He too also just got a marketing job with an oil and gas company. She was reluctant to go to work on the first day she was expected to resume on account of ‘morning sickness’ (pregnancy symptoms) and he encouraged her.

She did! Lo and behold, her first duty and first patient to nurse on her first day at work was the late Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American, who brought the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) to Nigeria. And that decision put a full stop to the lofty dreams of a promising family. Welcome to the world of Mr. Dennis Akagha, the husband-to-be of late Miss Justina Ejelonu, the nurse, who contacted and died of the Ebola disease from Mr. Sawyer.

In an exclusive, explosive and passionate interview with Saturday Vanguard, Akagha, who contracted the disease from Miss Justina, was quarantined, treated, cured and discharged last week, spoke on how and why his fiancee died, how he contacted and survived the disease, how he was stigmatized and abandoned by co-workers and neighbours, and why victims must be given adequate care. He said perhaps, Justina would have survived with better care. Read on:

His thoughts on Ebola and late Justina

The truth is that Justina and I were not legally married, we were planning for our traditional marriage in October and she just got this job. She was a qualified graduate nurse and got the job at the First Consultant Hospital in Lagos. She resumed duty at the hospital on the 21st of July, while Patrick Sawyer was admitted at the hospital on the 20th.

He was her first patient. She was one of the nurses that nursed him. She was pregnant and so her immune system was weak, which made it easy for her to contract the disease. On that first day which was a Monday, she was having some pregnancy symptoms, but I just encouraged her to go because it was her first day at work. Sawyer was her first patient.

The next day, Tuesday, she didn’t work on Sawyer. Wednesday and Thursday, she was off. Then on Friday, Patrick Sawyer died. They didn’t know he had Ebola, it was three days later that they realized it was Ebola.
Dennis Akagha and Late Justina Ejelonu

Dennis Akagha and Late Justina Ejelonu

When did you know that she had contacted the Ebola virus?

It was after Sawyer died that she told me she nursed him but that she was on gloves. She even thanked God that she didn’t have direct contact with him. The fever continued and we thought it was just pregnancy symptoms and even when she went to her hospital, they confirmed the same thing. She took drugs and ran tests, yet it persisted. At night, she was usually cold and feverish and her body temperature was usually very high. At a point, I began to suspect that she had contacted the virus. I did some research on the disease and realised that she was having similar symptoms.

On the 14th of August, it became serious, she started stooling and vomiting. I had to clean up everything. All of a sudden, she started bleeding and she started crying that she had lost the pregnancy. I had to call her relatives and other people. The bleeding persisted and I had to clean up everything.



While you were attending to her did you wear gloves?

Initially I was not wearing gloves because I felt I had already been exposed to the virus. But later I cautioned myself and started wearing nylon on my hands. But I couldn’t stay away from her. I kept consoling her. Even when I took her to the hospital, she wanted to hold me and I told her to also consider my safety. She managed to hold herself and was able to find her way out in a pool of her blood. We chartered a taxi to the hospital, but first, I took her to First Consultant Hospital because I felt they should know more. When we got there, I was directed to IGH, Yaba. I told the taxi driver to take us there. The driver wasn’t even aware of what was going on as he took us to Yaba.

Justina was on the floor for 30 minutes before she was attended to. She was screaming that she was going to die. She was seriously bleeding, she had to come out of the taxi and lay on the floor. I ran around, trying to get doctors to attend to her. After everything, they took her in, took her blood samples and the following day, the result came out that it was Ebola. They washed the taxi with chlorine and also bathed the taxi driver and I with chlorine spray.

At that point, the taxi driver knew what was going on, he couldn’t even take me home because he was so scared. I had to look for somewhere to pass the night in the hospital. Early the next morning, I left the Hospital. The taxi driver is alive today, nothing happened to him. We have been checking on him and the last time we spoke he told me, he was fine.

So what happened after you got exposed to the virus?
•Akagha with Dr. Terry

•Akagha with Dr. Terry

14 days after I was exposed to Ebola, my temperature rose from the usual 35.2 degrees centigrade to 37.2. The Lagos State government gave me a thermometer the day I dropped Justina off at the centre. It took them two straight weeks to visit my home and to disinfect it. Before they came, I had already done the much I could do. I used bleach and detergent to clean the whole house, furniture and clothes inclusive.

After that, what happened?

We should be reminded and educated that a healthy person with Ebola virus cannot get anybody infected, except if the person is sick and totally down with the virus like what happened to Sawyer and to my late wife-to-be, Justina. I contacted the virus because Justina was very sick and I was taking care of her without any appropriate protection. When we knew what we were dealing with it was almost too late for me as I had already contacted the virus.

Since you had already visited the centre what else was done for you by the state?

The Lagos State government sent health professionals to check on me regularly to know how l was doing or if l had the signs of the virus manifesting. So they used to come around to check on me. At some point they created scenes with their visits. I was embarrassed and I was stigmatized. I complained severely to them that I didn’t like what they were doing. Then, one Saturday they visited again, I complained about the pains I was beginning to experience; excruciating pains around my waist. I started praying and asking people to pray for me.

Before this time, I believed in the Holy Communion, so I usually take it daily and do feet washing. I was going to the hospital daily to see late Justina. Initially, I was seeing her through the window and she would say I should take her out of the hospital. She complained of lack of care.

Perhaps, Justina would have survived the virus, if not for the state she was in. Her immune system was down because she was pregnant. Along the line, she had a miscarriage and lost the baby due to the Ebola virus disease.

The doctors, who were supposed to do an evacuation on her couldn’t do it because they claimed that an evacuation was too risky as she was heavily infected and may pass on the virus to another person.

Since nothing was done even after the bleeding had stopped, it led to more complications for her because the already dead foetus somehow got rotten in the womb and started a damaging process which led to further complication. Meanwhile, she was still stooling and vomiting and since nobody could dare to touch her, she was left on top of her excretions even when she couldn’t do much for herself due to her weak state. She was given her incisions and other drugs. I believe if some people survived Justina should have been one of them. At a point, I wished I was a doctor myself; I would have taken the risk of doing the evacuation because it really affected her.

When was the last day you saw Justina?
The Lagos State Ebola quarantine centre and Late Nurse Obi Justina Ejelonu

The Lagos State Ebola quarantine centre and Late Nurse Obi Justina Ejelonu

The last day I saw her, I had to go inside the ward because she was so unkempt as nobody attended to her. At that time, the quarantined patients were in the former facility where there was no water and she had messed up herself again. I had to look for water to clean her up, change her pampers and arrange her bedding. Since I was aware of what I was dealing with, I got myself protected while cleaning up the place. I made sure she looked better than when I saw her. Justina was shivering the last day I saw her, one side of her stomach was already swollen, and her legs were also swollen. I prayed for her. At a point, she needed oxygen and the hospital couldn’t provide it. Her friends had to provide it. That was the last day I saw her.

On Sunday Morning, I called her line like I usually did before visiting her, but she didn’t pick her calls. When I got to the hospital, I was told that she was dead.

Was she taking your calls while she was at the facility?

Yes, in fact she called me that last day and I knew she was going to give up, because she was saying some funny things. She said I should tell my people to go and meet her father so as to finalize our marriage plans, that she’s leaving that place.

From what you have said, were you not scared that you may die as well from the disease?

I personally don’t believe in taking medications. I had the mentality that I wasn’t sick. I told the government what I was experiencing. On the day they came to pick me up for treatment, all of a sudden, my temperature went back to normal. The shivering and pains were all gone. So they decided that they would be checking on me. But it got to a point people stopped selling things to me. It was as if the government got a report that I shouldn’t be around. So, they came and said I should go with them that they wanted to take my blood sample. I went with them and they took my blood sample, I was kept in a ward known as the ‘suspected ward.’

The result came out and it was positive. I was then taken to a confined ward. One of the doctors from UNICEF, a white lady told me that they were having issues with the results and that they would have to re-run the tests. They did the tests again and it was still positive. I told them that it wasn’t my result and that I was healthy. I was even doing my usual exercises (press-ups) every morning. I kept telling them that I wasn’t sick. They took my blood sample the third time. That night, they told me that I tested negative in the last result and that I don’t have any reason to remain there. That was how I was discharged.

While you were going through all these at the facility what happened to your job?

I was a marketer in an oil and gas company. I worked on commission basis, but at a point, I realized that people were not calling me and when I called they won’t pick my calls. Even the person that I report directly refused to pick my calls and also refused to associate with me. Justina and I just got our jobs, she got hers at First Consultant Hospital and I got mine as a marketer with the oil and gas company.

Do you think that the government or First Consultant Hospital should compensate Justina’s family?

Although, no amount of money they give to the family will bring her back I think the government owes Justina’s family a lot because she died trying to save a situation. Justina died in active service as her death wasn’t natural.

So how did your status change from positive to negative?

I was reading a book on healing and taking of the Holy Communion. So I learnt to take Holy Communion morning, afternoon and night. I also engaged myself in feet-washing every day before going to bed. The Almighty God saved me; the Holy Spirit healed me. It wasn’t as though l didn’t fall sick as l had direct contact with Justina but the Almighty God healed me. When I was discharged, I got to my house on Saturday evening and spent two hours the next day, Sunday, thanking God on my own. I didn’t go to church or anywhere because of the already established stigma but today I can confidently attend church activities because I guess they all know I’m free now. I know my faith and belief healed me. God also worked for me apart from the fact that my immune system is also working. I believe I got healed also because friends prayed for me.
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heart attack looming for some people... but to add salt to injury, massive oil in Ogun state awaiting full scale exploration soonest, ondo already an oil producing state, Gold in Ibadan awaiting excavation... make i pause for here... i no fit SHOUT Joooooooooooor.... O'dua a gbe wa oooooooooo................................................................

Witness says angry Sawyer spat blood on health workers
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By Akinola Ojikutu
IrohinOodua has been reliably informed that the 40 year old late Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer deliberately visited Nigeria to ensure the country has her bitter dose of the Ebola Virus Disease, (EVD). Sawyer died on July 26 after falling ill on arrival at the Murtala International Airport, (MMA) in Lagos.

He was later diagnosed with EVD from which complications he later died.

The Department of State Security, (DSS) confidential report on Sawyer may have informed the statement by President Goodluck Jonathan who described Sawyer ‘mad.’

The late Liberian was taken to the First Consultants Medical Centre Ltd where he died five days after desperate efforts to save his life by Nigerian medical personnel failed.

A medical source said Sawyer knew he had the EVD, his senior sister having died of the disease. The source said Sawyer’s sister was scheduled to marry a Nigerian, but that the proposed marriage failed when the bridegroom absconded on learning that his bride was infected with the deadly virus.

“Sawyer felt his late sister was infected by the Nigerian. In anger, he decided to visit Nigeria and spread the virus in the spirit of vengeance. But in reality, the Nigerian bridegroom had no EVD.” Unfortunately, IrohinOodua could not independently confirm this claim. However, Sawyer’s widow said her husband was in Nigeria to seek better medical attention for the EVD. If her claims her true, then it means that Mr Sawyer was aware of his status, though he did not disclose same at the First City Consultant where the was admitted after falling ill on arrival.

The source revealed that in a fit of anger, Sawyer spat blood on health workers assigned to him while he continuously cursed them. “He was unruly. He spat blood and turned the hospital into a kind of battle ground,” said the source who claimed he got first hand information on the gory incidence.

Authorities at the First City Consultant said Sawyer was fully conscious and gave his clinical history but did not make reference to being EVD patient.

“He told us he is a Senior Diplomat from Liberia. Laboratory investigations confirmed malaria whilst other test for HIV, Hepatitis B&C were negative. He was admitted and treatment commenced”, a statement signed by First City officials, Dr B.N Ohiaer and Dr A.S Adadeveoh stated.

Dr Adadeveoh later died some days after Sawyer passed on. Mrs Adadevoeh, the granddaughter of Nigeria’s independence struggle icon, Mr Herbert Olayinka Samuel Macaulay has been described by many Nigerians as the “heroine of the time” considering her sacrifices before she died of the disease which she contacted from the late Sawyer.
http://irohinodua./2014/08/22/fresh-facts-suggest-late-sawyer-on-revenge-mission-against-nigerians/