"Why I ran away from Nigeria
My son went to school, and on his way back home he fell and hit his head on a concrete wall. He became unconscious.
He was very close to the house when it happened. He had a physical injury and lost some blood. Thankfully, a retired nurse who lived next to our house helped us stabilize him.
She immediately told us to take him to the general hospital. When we got there, the nurses went to call the doctor, who was hesitant to come. We had to shout before she finally, sluggishly, came to inspect him.
She didnโt do anything. She told us to take him to UCH straight away. We drove at such speed, as if trying to hold his breath for him.
When we got to UCH, we met a woman inside a tricycle in the emergency section. We queued behind her.
Three other vehicles arrived with emergency patients. The doctor came out and told us there was no space โ the beds were full. He said we would have to wait until some became vacant.
The woman we had met in the tricycle died before us, and her people took her away in tears while cursing the hospital.
The other two drivers left to look for care somewhere else. The doctor told us we were free to seek medical attention elsewhere, but the hospital would not be held responsible for anything that happened. He repeated that he could not tell us when a bed would be available. His words: โIt could be in the next 5 minutes, 30 minutes, 3 or 5 hours.โ
We waited for more than 4 hours. At some point we had to make a scene. Another doctor came out and told us to go and buy an emergency pack.
We waited another hour before a doctor came to examine him. By then his breathing had weakened. He said my sonโs condition was now critical and that they needed a stretcher urgently. Five minutes later they brought one and wheeled him into the emergency ward.
Five minutes after that, he was declared dead.
The reality hit me: there is no regard for life in Nigeria. I was broken ๐
I asked the doctor one simple question, which he could not answer: If my son had been one of your children, would he have stayed in the car for more than 4 hours while you claimed there were no vacant beds in the emergency unit?
He was our only child in Nigeria. That was the day we started planning our relocation from Nigeria.
As I speak now, 12 years have passed since we left. We are yet to have another child, and all medical efforts have not yielded results.
My son should not have died at all. We helplessly watched life leave his body."
ยฉ Jonathan Philip
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- pray first thing every morning, last thing every night
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- every time you catch yourself worrying, immediately surrender it to God
- never stop learning, ever, no matter what
- recognize no one is stopping you more than yourself
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During my NYSC last year in Adamawa State, our CDS group visited a prison.
Till today, I genuinely donโt think Iโve recovered from what I saw there.
We went there with good intentions. We carried detergents, food items and other little things we thought would help them. The plan was simple talk to the inmates, encourage them, advise them and remind them that life could still change for the better.
The moment we entered the prison compound, the atmosphere changed completely.
One of the officers told us to drop all our phones inside a small office before going further. At first I didnโt think much of it, but the moment that door closed behind us, I started feeling uncomfortable. The silence inside that place was not normal.
As we approached, the officers ordered them to come out and sit on the floor for us. Around 70 of them slowly walked out and sat quietly without making noise.
Most of them were very young. Maybe around 21 to 28 years old. Boys that looked like they should still be in school or hustling outside trying to survive life.
But what shocked me first was their appearance.
Almost all of them looked extremely skinny. Their hair was completely barbed low to the point where you could clearly see the shape of their skulls. Not normal skinnyโฆ the kind that makes you uncomfortable when you look too long.
Then I noticed an old man sitting among them.
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My friend made 20 million naira last month.
He is 26.
No degree.
He is a Computer Science dropout.
First salary: 50k.
Last month: 20 million naira.
What changed?
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