Midday Aura with
@Edisbrown_
❓- What’s that one Lagos life hack you’ve discovered that genuinely changed your life?
SPILL IT!
Help another Lagosian survive.
📷107.1📷 #lagosislistening#lagos
This is the maths teacher from Evergreen schools Enugu. His name is Master Chisom Unachukwu.
His students took 1st, 2nd and 3rd positions for Junior Category for South East Maths Olympiad Grand Finale.
These boys are hooot!!!!
This is my sisters course mate
He was kindnapped in uyo
The kidnappers demanded a ransom and it was paid in full
Yet they didn’t release him
It’s been 3 months now 💔💔💔
What’s this country really turning into for goodness sake 💔💔💔
Inside this small Uyo .
My name is Zainab. I’m 27 years old. An SS.
That is, I live with sickle cell disease.
My parents are both AS.
Oh, they They knew.
They were told.
They still married.
They said God approved it. They said love would be enough. They said faith would cover the consequences.
I am the consequence.
I was diagnosed before I was two. My childhood memories are not playgrounds or cartoons,they are; hospitals, needles, and adults whispering when they thought I couldn’t hear.
In primary school, I missed classes so often that teachers stopped asking why. Some classmates thought I was pretending. Some thought I was cursed. I learned early how to smile while feeling different.
By secondary school, the pain episodes became more frequent. I would wake up excited for school and end the day on a hospital bed. I watched my mates grow normally while my life moved in pauses, school, hospital, recovery, repeat.
At 15, I lost my younger brother to sickle cell.
We were both SS.
That day changed me forever.
My parents broke down in front of me — crying, apologizing, saying “We followed faith. We didn’t think…”
But the damage had already been done.
Sometimes I forgive them.
Sometimes I resent them deeply.
Both feelings live in me.
In university, I tried to be normal. I joined sickle cell advocacy groups, volunteered with awareness organizations, spoke at events, encouraged parents to test their genotype. People call me strong. They call me a warrior.
What they don’t see is me crying alone at night after another silent pain episode.
They don’t see the fear that comes with planning a future in a body that doesn’t always cooperate.
And Relationships?
That’s another wound.
I’ve been loved… briefly.
The moment conversations turn serious about marriage, children, commitment….they leave. Some are honest. Some ghost me. Some promise forever and disappear quietly.
One man once said he would do anything for me. He talked about taking me abroad, better care, a life without fear. I believed him. For the first time, my heart rested.
Then one day, he stopped calling.
That heartbreak triggered one of the worst crises I’ve had as an adult. Not because of physical stress but because hope collapsed.
Now I’m older. The pain episodes come differently. Less dramatic, but more exhausting. My body recovers slower. My fears are heavier. I ask myself questions my parents never asked each other.
I am strong, yes.
But I am tired.
If you are AS and the person you love is AS, please love your unborn children enough to stop and think. Faith is not a license to ignore knowledge. I am a proof to that
I didn’t ask to be a lesson.
But if my life can prevent another child from being born into avoidable pain, then my voice matters.
That’s why I’m writing this to you. Because people listens to you and this story needs to be heard. I hope that your audience share this till it reaches those who are about to walk by faith and not by sight, Sickle Cell is real!.
Adeyinka, keep rescuing lives, I love how you raise awareness and say the truth unapologetically, those who do not like you are probably those who wish they could be you. Have you met you?. Oh,I see you Queen Ade💪🏻
@adeyemi0976@zenmagafrica@GossipMillNaija What's going on? I hope you are feeling better now and have decided not to end it. The world needs you here! You are special. You don't have to go through it alone. Take care of yourself and I can't wait to see you at the top!
@specimen_alesi@zenmagafrica@GossipMillNaija Please, I hope you are feeling better now and have decided to continue. The world needs you here! You are special. You don't have to go through it alone. Take care of yourself and I can't wait to see you at the top!
@olawalemurital3@Just_Boitee_@Daddyzee02 Honestly, the focus shouldn't be on anyone or group of persons in particular because we are all affected, directly or indirectly. Let us start conversations that seek solutions in a manner that we can actually achieve something, instead of igniting national or religious feuds.
@Just_Boitee_@Daddyzee02 Let us individually lend our voices without making the next person look like the cause of our problems. Let us start conversations that seek solutions instead of escalating the problems. We know we have to do something but how do we go about it?!! How do we stop this?
@Just_Boitee_@Daddyzee02 It's a time for us to come together under one umbrella as "Nigerians" and do all we can because this is one thing that can ruin the unity we have tried to build over the years. Our Muslim brothers are being blamed and this can cause a religious war which is unnecessary.