A community friend of mine loss his mom to this incident back in either 2003/2004. Ever since then, we were just kids as far i can remember, that's how every if his siblings was taking by his Aunties to stay with.
A woman has just given birth.
Everybody is happy. Then suddenly, she starts bleeding.
This is postpartum haemorrhage, and when it happens, no one has time to ask where the drug, tranexamic acid or TXA is.
That drug, Tranexamic acid can help reduce deaths from bleeding when it is given early after PPH starts.
So if a facility is providing emergency obstetric care, TXA should not be something they start looking for when the emergency has started.
It should be there.
As a man, if your wife is preparing to give birth, ask if the facility has TXA available. Same thing if you’re pregnant and preparing for delivery.
Ask questions. Know what is available.
Prepare before the emergency comes.
RT so that expectant mothers and fathers can see this very important message.
Source: Data, provided by @womenadvocate and @LSHTM.
The narrative that Leaders of the so-called SouthSouth & Southeast or even those in the National Assembly are against #Biafra is irrelevant. What’s relevant is the POPULAR WILL of the people, which can be determined only through a REFERENDUM. Like it or not, it shall happen.
Corruption concerns
Weak social welfare support
Economic hardship for workers and pensioners
Declining living standards
Increased cost of doing business
Foreign exchange instability
Low wages compared to inflation
General economic hardship for ordinary Nigerians.
All these are what's happening under Tinubu and APC Government.
High cost of living
Food inflation and hunger
Fuel price hikes
Naira devaluation
Rising poverty
Unemployment and underemployment
Business closures
High transportation costs
Electricity tariff increases
Poor power supply
Insecurity and kidnappings
Banditry and terrorism
Rising cost of healthcare
Expensive education
Housing and rent increases
High taxation and levies
Reduced purchasing power
Youth unemployment
Rising public debt
Make I HODL when insecurity dey 9ja? How sure am I if Nigeria won't happen to me? Imagine 40+ students are kidnapped from their school and are held hostage in the Bush and those in govt still sleep at night. No remorse, empathy, sympathy, humanity. The just don't care
Make I HODL when insecurity dey 9ja? How sure am I if Nigeria won't happen to me? Imagine 40+ students are kidnapped from their school and are held hostage in the Bush and those in govt still sleep at night. No remorse, empathy, sympathy, humanity. The just don't care
Same anthem my parents have being hearing since their existence. Now they gave birth me and I am still hearing this myth. The moment we tell ourselves the truth, that is where our answer is.
Three weeks ago, my 23-year-old neighbor was kidnapped on her way to Kontagora in Niger State.
While in captivity, the bandits repeatedly raped her taking turns sleeping with her night after night. Still, they kept bargaining with her father over the phone, demanding ransom even as they violated her.
Her father fought with everything he had. He hustled day and night, borrowed from everyone, took loans, sold whatever he could determined to bring his daughter home.
When he finally gathered the full amount, he called the bandits and begged them, ‘Please, give the phone to my daughter. Let me speak to her. I want her to know I’m coming for her.’
They gave her the phone.
In a broken, traumatized voice, she told her father: ‘Dad, do not suffer yourself looking for the money. They have been sleeping with me. I’m traumatized. I can’t forgive myself. Even if I’m released, I’ll kill myself. Don’t bother paying the ransom.’
Those were the last words she ever spoke to him.
While her father was still holding the phone, he heard the gunshot. He heard his daughter being killed. Moments later, the bandits sent pictures of her remains to him, a final act of cruelty.
A 23-year-old girl. My neighbor. Someone’s daughter, someone’s sister, someone’s friend gone in the most horrific way possible.
This is not just one story. This is the nightmare too many families are living in Niger State and across Nigeria. Young women snatched on the roads, violated, used as bargaining chips, and discarded like nothing.
Living in Nigeria has become truly scary. You wake up, you step out, and you don’t know if you or your loved ones will return home. The fear is constant. The pain is constant. And too often, justice never comes.
Rest in peace to my neighbor.