A woman who was among those kidnapped from Ariko village during their Easter church service has given birth to a child in the bandits' camp. Remember, women, little children, and some men have now been in captivity for 58 days. However, this woman gave birth a week ago. A woman who emerged from the camp after trekking for 3 days in the bush said the birth was difficult because the pregnant woman, like others in the camp, was malnourished.
According to her, the pregnant woman was ill when labour began, but with the help of other women experienced in traditional birth, they managed to help her give birth. She said the women pooled bits and pieces of their clothes that hadn't been washed since they arrived and wrapped the child.
When the bandits refused to give them anything sharp to cut the umbilical cord, after about an hour, a woman, out of desperation, used her teeth to cut it. Later, they pleaded for water to clean the child and the mother, but the bandits refused, saying they wouldn't waste water on a child who wouldn't survive. They wanted to go to a nearby stream to wash the child, but the bandit said no.
They also pleaded with the bandits to release the women so she could go home with the baby, but the bandits refused. The next problem was that the mother's breasts had no milk, as nothing came out because she was so malnourished. A while later, the child began to suck the little that started to come. Hours later, they were still pleading for water to wash the child and the mother when it began to rain.
The woman said they resorted to wetting a cloth in the rain and using it to wipe the child. She said the child was still alive five days later when she came out, though part of the umbilical cord attached to the navel had not yet fallen off.
She described acute hunger and pus-filled rashes covering most of their skin, especially the children's. She described little children and the women with heads full of lice. She spoke of how young children in the camp are persuaded to drink large amounts of river water just to fill their bellies and reduce hunger. She spoke of how the bandits will lead women into the bush to forage for leaves, which they boil and eat. She spoke of a time when they went 5 days without anything to eat except boiled leaves and water.
She spoke of how the men are always chained with bicycle chains. She said that sometimes the bandits lead some men into the bush to pluck mangoes, which are then shared out as meals. She spoke of taking a bath only every 7 or 10 days. She said the bandits would escort women and men, in batches, to bathe in the river and then watch them, especially the women, while they bathe naked.
She said other sensitive things that can’t be mentioned, but please include them in your prayers.
Written by Reuben Buhari
The mosque was demolished to make way for a critical road construction project, and afterward Obi built a new and better mosque to replace the one that was demolished. Even here in Kano, I can count many mosques that were demolished by the government for road expansion projects. Shameless old Man hamma.
When I told people they rape men too, They didn’t believe me.
Kidnapped victims might never recover from the trauma.
They will ruin you for life.
Imagine being Bent over and your Dignity brutalised infecting you with HIV and Hepatitis B in the process.
You are in Danger!
A man was sodomized and raped while in captivity. By the time he was released after 2 months, he was HIV positive.
He told me he wants to take his own life.
My hairdresser and I have a mutual friend whose husband was kidnapped. They paid millions in ransom, but the trauma didn’t end there. He was reportedly sexually assaulted while in captivity. Despite therapy and treatment, months later he still hasn’t been intimate with his wife.
Please who can we reach out to in Edo State? A man named Lucky Benjamin Ugbe living in Benin has been molesting his 15-year old daughter and we need help.
This is also a big problem.
-The NHS urgently needs more Black donors, especially for the Ro blood subtype critical for sickle cell patients. But current malaria screening rules are quietly locking out thousands of eligible Black African donors (including possibly this guy).
-Grew up in Nigeria or Ghana? You'll face a malaria antibody test before donating. Test positive(which most will, for potentially decades after leaving their home countries) land you're deferred. Yet that positive result almost certainly reflects old immune memory, not active infection or any REAL risk.
-The policy doesn't distinguish between someone who arrived from Lagos last month and someone who left 20 years ago as a child and never returned. Both will get deferred. That's a blunt instrument that disproportionately hits exactly the donor communities the NHS needs most.
–What we need is not impossible if they truly care about the groups affected are: Quantitative antibody levels rather than binary positive/negative results, formal weighting for time since leaving endemic areas, PCR testing for actual parasites rather than using antibodies as a proxy, and above ALL a long overdue evidence-based policy review.
Sickle cell patients, overwhelmingly Black,nare running short of the specific blood they need. The policy review can't keep being delayed.
His test did not show traces of malaria parasite.
This is what likely happened:
-When he filled the form he was flagged immediately under the "lived in endemic area for 6+ months" rule (or another one that indicates he had lived in Nigeria for a while)
-One of the screening test done was a malaria antibody test (MAT)—Not parasite (P-falciparum doesn't live for more than a few weeks to months in our blood, won't be there for 10-12 years).
-After years of repeated childhood exposure to P. falciparum, their antibody levels would very likely still be detectable, the immune system maintains long-term antibody responses to pathogens it has encountered repeatedly. (That's why by virtue of you living in Nigeria you are likely semi-immune).
-A positive MAT = deferral (You have not been "banned" from donating blood, you can still try again in the future to see if you no longer have antibodies and are free to donate).
@_Nicksy@YarKafanchan Its my father's fault. He made me watch the 1990 world cup final with him. That's how it started🥲. Arsenal don do me something sha, but it's ending in praise this year 😃
I received a shocking SOS from a friend yesterday
She's been sick for years and has exhausted her resources
She needs the help of well-meaning Nigerians to stay alive
We'll appreciate every donations towards saving a soul
Kindly repost to your TL, your mutuals may wish to support her too
Her account details is in the flier
P.S: I have her permission to share this
P.S.S: If you need clarifications, kindly DM me