With today’s ambience, I am reminded of how badly I miss the early morning drives to school, especially those days where the roads are less busy, the the temperature is closer to cold than hot and oooh the feeling of being covered by the gentle warmth of the early morning sun
I've come with another begging bowl 😞😫.
Hafsat is a 13 year old girl, an IDP from Jibiya in Katsina state, who found herself in our hospital with acute kidney injury.
She has been having fever, body swelling & reduced urine for a month.
She needs dialysis URGENTLY.
She's drowning in her body fluids.
Parents are impoverished.
In fact, the mother's blood pressure is through the roof, likely because of the stress of the girl's sickness.
We have managed to get her enrolled under a health insurance scheme, but they need money for many things that are not available in the hospital.
Please help this family with whatever you can.
For those needing to corroborate the story, I'll get the father's number tomorrow.
Please reach out if you wish to help this patient. 🙏
Dr. Olubosede, HOD Pediatrics, State Hospital Akure. The residents reported me unnecessarily and she batted them away.
One day I was so tired after a neonate kept me up all night and was dozing off during morning review. I was supposed to work that morning till 4pm but she sent me home to rest and asked another doctor to cover for me.
The day I really respected her was when we failed to get IV access for one child. I tried, resident tried, consultant tried. Shishi. We sent Ambulance to her house to pick her at 2am and she came, used her left hand and got IV access on the same hand we didn’t see anything. She also got another to collect blood. Love her so much.
I am of the opinion that poverty means different things to different people. It has a subjective lens to it. However, regardless of the lens from which people are viewing it from, it boils down to one thing: A condition where the world gets smaller and smaller until you are only left with the present moment.
This is why we sometimes say, a person is poor in the pocket but rich in the mind. And while this is a beautiful truth, we also have to admit that a hungry stomach is a loud distractor for a brilliant brain.
Is poverty a lack of shelter? Sure. Is it a lack of food? Of course. But deeper than that, poverty is the theft of time and potential. It is the weight of having to spend your entire day solving the problem of survival instead of the problem of progress. You might have the intellectual wealth of a king, but if your environment treats you like a ghost, that wealth stays trapped.
In fact to me, the most dangerous form of poverty is when a person starts to believe that the world has no room for their contribution. It is the quiet realization that your choices have been made for you before you even woke up.
Also, wealth and poverty are not opposites; they are different levels of freedom. You can have a bank account that is overflowing but a spirit that is bankrupt, leading to a life that is hollow and meaningless. On the other hand, the person with nothing but their dignity can be the most grounded person in the room.
But we must be honest: dignity is hard to maintain when the basic foundations of life are missing.
To cap it all, Poverty is the wall that stands between a person and the version of themselves they were meant to become.
Abuja/Gwagwalada please help me!!!
I need 2 pints (at least) of O-pos blood for a critical teenager on dialysis. Lack of blood and low pcv has halted the dialysis (among other social issues).
I also need B-pos for a toddler with severe malnutrition and oedema. @Haima_Health
As Nigeria moves toward another campaign and election season, people should brace themselves for an internet saturated with fake AI videos and manufactured voice notes. The technology has become frighteningly sophisticated and gets better by the week. What looks real will often be false.
This is the moment to insist on responsibility. Verify before you share. Question before you react. Lies will travel faster than facts if we let them. And if you have older relatives and parents, now is the time to warn them not to trust and forward a video or an audio clip simply because it sounds convincing.
Judging by what we are already seeing, the 2027 Nigerian elections will be fought not just at the ballot box, but in the gutter.
It is with heavy hearts that we announce the death of Damilola Balogun on the 1st of January 2026 😢
Damilola was a loving wife, a devoted mother, and the main applicant for her family on skilled worker visa.
Just five months ago, she welcomed her beautiful baby into the world. What should have been a time of joy soon turned into a painful and tragic journey no family should endure.
It all started when Damilola began complaining of severe migraines. She visited Walsall Manor Hospital, where she was treated and discharged. Three days later, she returned with the same symptoms, but no cause was found and she was sent home again. Two weeks later, the headaches persisted, and this time she was admitted. Doctors administered antibiotics and carried out an MRI scan and a lumbar puncture.
The results revealed water on her brain, and Damilola was urgently referred to Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, for surgery. The surgery was initially successful, and there was hope.
Tragically, three days later, Damilola went into a coma and was placed on life support. Despite all medical efforts and prayers, it was confirmed that she could not recover. On the morning of 1st January 2026, the life support machine was switched off.
While others were welcoming the first day of a new year in celebration, this family was plunged into unbearable grief.
Damilola leaves behind three children aged 11 years, 10 years, and a 5month old baby, her husband, her mother and grandmother.
Since this ordeal began, her husband has been unable to work, staying by her side throughout hospital admissions and recovery attempts. Their savings have been completely exhausted, and the family is now facing funeral costs and the immense responsibility of raising three children without their mother.
We are humbly asking for your support; no amount is too small. Your donation will help:
•Cover funeral and burial expenses
•Provide immediate support for her children
•Ease the financial burden on the grieving family
Please consider donating and sharing this page. Let us come together to show this family that they are not alone during their darkest moment.
Thank you for your kindness, prayers, and generosity. 🙏
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Finance bros: 500k+/m entry level
Opinions: Yes they deserve it, bank make billions, the real work starts after 5pm blah blah
Politicians: basic salary $150k, steals 10x or more.
Opinions: Is it your father's money, politicians around the world are rich, if you get there you'll do worse blah blah
Cameraman: 10k per photo, 500k+ for photography event cover, videography 1.5m
Opinions: They know their worth, even 500k is cheap, camera is 3m blah blah
NNPC and Seplat bros: 600k+/month
Opinions: it's oil and gas, what do you think?
Doctors: 260k+/month
Opinions: Your purpose for existing on earth is to save lives, hospitals don't make shit, why are you so greedy to prioritise money over human lives, so you want 1m/month lol blah blah
The BBC has confirmed that the number of Muslim travellers abducted by militias in Plateau State is 28, not 12 as was widely reported by some media outlets. We humbly call on the relevant security agencies to act swiftly and decisively to secure their immediate and safe release, apprehend the perpetrators and ensure they are brought to justice.
This is the groundnut of death💔💔💔. Those mouldy spots on it? They produce aflatoxins.
Aflatoxins destroy the liver.
They cause liver failure.
They kill. 💔💔
You can’t wash them off.
You can’t pick “good ones” out.
If it’s mouldy, throw it away.
Share aggressively.
This is preventable.
“Japan Will No Longer Be Accepting Nigerians To Come And Study In The Country, And They Have Also Initiated A Ban On Nigerians Who Want To Study There. Nigeria Needs To Do Better.”- Nigerian Lady Based In Japan Narrates
I borrowed a friend money last month and she promised to pay back Dec 15th. Woke up to her message this morning asking for my account details cos she got the money quicker and wants to pay back now. That’s how normal people behave, not some people who are thieves that even after due date, they will be airing you on top your own money o
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“An MoU that does not guarantee immediate and verifiable action is not worth the paper it is written on"