As of today, diesel is ₦1,840 per liter and petrol is ₦1,340 per liter.
How exactly is a growing business supposed to survive in this economy?
This is insane!
The first thing on my to-do list when I land in Nigeria? Tasting @Ms_Jmk food. I’ve been craving it for way too long 😋🇳🇬. Like JMK eat is calling my name
The first thing on my to-do list when I land in Nigeria? Tasting @Ms_Jmk food. I’ve been craving it for way too long 😋🇳🇬. Like JMK eat is calling my name
I used to be big on addressing stuff because I felt like communication would fix things. But it's so draining now. Let people be who they are and move on.
By 25, you should hold yourself to such a high standard of self respect that you’re able to comfortably dissociate with anyone who cannot meet those standards.
I share this with a heavy heart.
In mid 2022, I had an emergency and was rushed to Uniport Teaching Hospital UPTH.
I'm too traumatized to give details of the things I saw with my eyes in that emergency ward but I watched 14 people die in a space of 24 hours and their corpses carted away like it was nothing.
All those deaths were avoidable. All of it. They died from negligence, anyhowness, cross contamination, zero of medical equipments.
100 people. 1 oxygen mask. Tell me, what are your chances?
I was brought in because I was unable to breathe. My life was ebbing away. You will think I will be given oxygen or a first aid immediately to save my live but no. It was until the next day that I received any treatment at all.
Guess the treatment?
Malaria medicine.
I managed to survive till the next day then I told my sister if she doesn't take me away that I was going to die. Everybody I met when I came had all died. If you don't die from negligence, you die from cross contamination. It was only a matter of time.
Infact, I had to wait for somebody to die before I could get a stretcher to lay on.
That morning, around 6 am, a heavily pregnant woman walked in with her husband. She was bitten by a snake.
She walked into the hospital herself still agile and full of life.
But guess what?
After explaining that a snake bit her, NONE of the doctors did anything for her. They kept interrogating her one doctor to another.
To God in heaven, they kept at this till around 1 pm. No medication was administered to her all this time. I knew because she was sitted besides me all this time.
By this time, the poison had already circulated and the woman couldn't walk again. She couldn't speak again. She was not strong again. Then they put her in a wheel chair and asked her husband to go and buy handgloves and cotton wool so they can give her drip.
This woman did everything right. She came early and strong. They had 7 hours to save this woman but they didn't. Instead, they spent the time interrogating her. Asking her irrelevant questions like why she will be at a farm by 6 am while pregnant and asking her if she was sure it was not hallucination.
I'm almost certain that woman died with her pregnancy. I escaped before I could find out.
I remember another time I had an emergency and after a few hours of struggling alone, I succeeded to get a ride to the nearest clinic.
In that dire state, they told me they will not attend to me because it was their prayer time. I thought it was a joke. I was rolling on the floor begging for my life. The ladies all started to cover their hair with handkerchief and they began clapping and singing, that was when I understood they were serious.
Their prayer time was more important than saving a human life.
I can go on and on narrating what I have experienced in the hands of medical personnels in this country. Some you will not believe.
It is true that Nigerian government has failed almost beyond repair. But a failed government is one thing. The lack of ethics by these medical personnels and utter disregard for human life is another. They do not even try to hide it.
My heart is broken.