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By Ogar Monday When Blessing Bassey saw her menses for the first time at age 12, she was confused and thought she would bleed to
By Johnstone Kpilaakaa Bulus Weng* resides in Jenta Mangoro, a suburb of Jos metropolis in North Central Nigeria laden with several inadequacies including poor sanitation
By Mustapha Usman 30-year-old Alex Ozo was born with sickle cell disease (SCD). All his life, he had suffered countless episodes of pain known as
By Peace Oladipo ADO-EKITI, EKITI – Serah Igbekele, 26, lived in pain as a swollen boil under her genitals incessantly tormented her. The primary school teacher
By Arinze Chijioke When Naomi Irumakwe gave birth to Eberechi (her third baby) at a private health centre in 2009 in Umuahia, Abia State, the
By Abdulrasheed Hammad DANJA, KATSINA: When Ismail Maikudi’s six-year-old son came down with severe malaria in May 2022, doctors at the Danja Comprehensive Healthcare in Bagaruwa
By Violet Ikong LAGOS: For giving birth to a child with a hunchback and enlarged head in June 2014, she had brought a curse and bad
By Kehinde Ogunyale FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE: In 2018, Mustapha, then 9-month-old, suffered biliary atresia, a blockage in the tubes that carry bile from the liver to
By Abdulgafar Adebayo LAGOS: On December 17, 2022, about 10 cancer-sick children gathered with their parents inside a waiting room at the oncology unit of the
By Abdullahi Jimoh TANKE, ILORIN – Zacheus’ father stressfully shouldered the burden of his family’s daily sustenance alone as his wife was a full-time housewife. So
By Peace Oladipo ILORIN, KWARA – “Pray hard,” the doctors implored Morufat Abimbola Ayodele, whose 12-year-old daughter’s health condition had worsened. In December 2022, little Faizah was admitted
By Quardri Yahya ISARA, OGUN: When Olumuyiwa Talabi was first diagnosed with type 2 or “adult diabetes” in his early 40s, he did not give it
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