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   Four-year-old Omonigho Abraham is currently battling for his life at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, after his scalp was eaten by two dogs at home. The dogs chewed the skin off his head and exposed his skull during the shocking attack which happened on Thursday last week on Adegboyega Street, Akesan Estate,Igando,Lagos. I spoke with his Father today and after he disclosed that the boy was not getting enough medical care,I have decided to take it upon myself to open a #SaveOmonighoAbraham SOS fund. I cannot do it without you. The attacks dogs that ate Omonigho's head flesh have been released to their owner.

  Four-year-old Omonigho Abraham is currently battling for his life at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, after his scalp was eaten by two dogs at home. The dogs chewed the skin off his head and exposed his skull during the shocking attack which happened on Thursday last week on Adegboyega Street, Akesan Estate,Igando,Lagos. I spoke with his Father today and after he disclosed that the boy was not getting enough medical care,I have decided to take it upon myself to open a #SaveOmonighoAbraham SOS fund. I cannot do it without you. The attacks dogs that ate Omonigho's head flesh have been released to their owner.

    The huge disfigurement was sprouting from the centre of her lower jaw bone and was formed by cells that usually make the enamel of teeth. Miraculously the teenager was still able to eat and speak, but became so self-conscious that she stopped going to school. After local hospitals failed to help, Grace was admitted to charity hospital Mercy Ships, where she underwent a four-hour surgery to remove the tumour, lower jaw and teeth. Grace said local doctors offered no treatment because they remained baffled by her condition.  "It started from a little swelling inside and the gums started growing little by little," she said. "We went to hospital and they didn't know what it was - they did nothing."  Grace's mother Christine says she was forced to watch her daughter suffer and had no idea who to turn to for help. Christine said: "I didn't know what to do - in hospital they just talked a lot but did nothing."  Describing what it's like to live...

Delta Woman passed After Alleged Surgical Error at Eku Hospital Mrs. Anesther Egede, a mother of three, died today after complications from an appendectomy at Eku Baptist General Hospital, Delta State. According to her husband, Godson Egede, doctors allegedly left a large piece of cotton wool inside her abdomen during surgery  After the operation, her health declined—she couldn’t pass stool for two weeks and suffered severe abdominal pain. An MRI at a different hospital revealed the foreign object. The hospital’s medical director reportedly offered free corrective surgery, but the same team performed it again. Her condition worsened, and she died the next day. The family has petitioned several authorities, accusing the hospital of negligence. The lead surgeon, Dr. Emmanuel Ebom, denied the claims, saying she died at another hospital. The hospital’s management has not publicly accepted responsibility, citing the matter is now in court.

  A Lagos based hospital has successfully removed the world’s largest fibroid tumour from a patient named Miss Abimbola Esther Akinade. An independent laboratory confirmed the tumour weighed 26 kilogrammes, double the size removed by Indian doctors around the same time last year. The medical team at Safehand Hospital, Old Ojo Road, Lagos, led by the Director of Anaesthesia, Emergency and Family Medicine,  Dr Innocent Okoawo , removed the tumour from the 37-year-old Nigerian lady. The three-hour long surgery was performed in February 2014, two months before doctors in the south Indian city of Chennai performed a similar surgery to remove a 13.6kg fibroid tumour from a 52-year-old lady simply called Latha. Until now, the Indian doctors were known to have the record for removing the largest fibroid tumour. Dr Okoawo told AfricaNewesday, that an independent confirmation of the size of the tumour he successfully removed prompted him to seek to correct the record. Seramoses Diagnost...

       Nígerians in shock as lady almost loses finger from wearing her fiancé’s engagement ring for 10 years. The engagment ring refuses to come off as the lady almost loses her finger from wearing it for years. The lady identified as Evelyn Detordzi received the ring from her fiancé who had promised her marriage. She put on the ring with the hope of settling down in a short time. However, things did not progress as she had wished and for years, she had the ring on. When she tried sometimes to take it off, it never did. The ring started eating into his finger. However, all efforts to get rid of the ring and save the rotting finger failed. In a conversation with Adomonline,com after the ing had been successfully removed, Evelyn said she failed to heed her pastor’s call not to wear the ring when it was given to her. She eventually realized that the ring could have a spiritual force behind it when it refused to come off as her finger swelled. “I don’t think he had any e...

  A man identified as Dalandi Babatunde Sanusi was allegedly poisoned to d3ath by his friends in Otokutu, Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State.      Human rights activist, Comrade Israel Joe, disclosed this in a Facebook post on Friday      According to him, a neighbour said Danladi was found with white foam coming out of his mouth and nose after he was allegedly brought home by two of the deceased's friends last Tuesday and ‘’abandoned.''      Danladi's girlfriend and mother of his 4-year-old son rushed him to a hospital where he d!ed the following day.      Taking to his Facebook page, Isreal Joe wrote;   “You all in Otokutu know Dan or Lotto yahoo as popularly called. His real name is Dalandi Babatunde Sanusi. He is from Kwara and Kogi states respectively. He was doing well in lotto but later joined the anti-cult in Otokutu.”    I know you guys are surprised you haven't seen him for the peri...

  A 43-year-old housewife, Bisola Awodele, pictured left, was on March 8 arrested by men of Ogun state police command for pouring hot water on her husband causing him grievous bodily harm.    A statement released by the spokesperson of the command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the suspect was arrested following a report by her husband, Peter Phillips, who ran to Sango ota area command with first degree burns all over his body and reported that his wife, a mother of five accused him of getting drunk always as a result of which she picked a pot containing already boiled water, and poured it on his body.    Upon the report,  the area commander ACP Muhideen Obe quickly directed his JWC section to effect the arrest of the murderous woman. The team swiftly moved to the scene where the suspect was promptly apprehended.  On interrogation, the suspect explained to the police how her husband is fond of coming home drunk always without contribut...

  A 26-year-old woman, Ifeoma Okaze, a native of Okwerike Village in Abaomege, Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, has been arrested and arraigned by the Ebonyi State Police Command for allegedly burying her five-month-old daughter alive. The tragic incident took place on a piece of empty land behind her yam barn, where she is said to have dug a shallow grave and buried the baby, Miss Roseline, who was still breastfeeding at the time. According to the police, Ifeoma confessed that she took the action as a way to get back at her husband, following constant arguments and fights over allegations of infidelity. She claimed that the emotional stress and repeated accusations pushed her to commit the unthinkable act. A neighbor, who spoke on condition of anonymity, narrated that the couple had quarreled earlier that morning. After the usual argument over the woman’s alleged late nights, Ifeoma reportedly bathed and fed baby Roseline, who then fell asleep. She left the child in t...

 In a deeply painful scene that unfolded this afternoon in Benue State, a grieving man was left with no choice but to carry the corpse of his late mother on a motorcycle after the hospital allegedly refused to provide a mortuary van to transport her body home for burial. Unable to afford alternative means, the man embarked on the heartbreaking journey back to their village, with his beloved mother strapped to the back of a bike — a moment that captured the harsh reality many Nigerians face in times of loss. Photos from the scene have left many in tears and raised serious concerns about the dignity of the dead and the challenges of the poor.

   According to a post shared on Facebook by Abraham OC Ogolo, doctors at a Nigerian hospital removed a giant fibroid weighing 26kg from a woman's stomach. His post below: "Doctors from Safe Hands Medicare Center Nigeria have removed this. According to the hospitals social media report, confirmatory results shows that the mass weighed 26kg in Histopathology lab and was a 32cm degenerating fibroid. This makes it the Largest ever mass to be removed from an individual in any part of the world. Update: this surgery took place today in Nigeria...but still news to many..so continue reading... The surgery was done without blood transfusion Access to good healthcare can make a difference. This is the reason I campaign vigorously for universal access to good quality healthcare. It is a common belief in Africa that a woman with a large mass such as this one may have been cursed by someone in her present or in her past life. Some unqualified personnel may even attempt to make incisions (...

       The senior Pastor of Rabboni Centre Ministries in South Africa, lesego Daniel has made headlines once again for feeding his church members with millipede and beer as holy communion. The controversial pastor backed his bizarre action with claims of God giving man everything that lives on earth as food and asking him not to discriminate. While giving his congregation the millipede, bottles of beer and other alcoholic drinks which they ate and drank in ‘Communion’, Pastor Daniel stated that any food man prays on, can equally be the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ and could be taken as the Last Supper. The church uploaded pictures of the “mass feeding” on its Facebook page and an official statement which reads: “Truly this scripture was fulfilled in Rabboni centre ministries today as our father has been teaching us that anything can be declared to be the body and the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, we don’t discriminate because God gave to us everything that lives ...

The Enugu State Government has condemned the barbaric attack on a woman, Mrs Chinonso Echegi by her husband, Sunday Onyeahanachi Echegi.      LIB reported that Echegi cut off his wife's hand over a misunderstanding at  Ibagwa Ani in Nsukka Local Government Area of the state.     The victim is currently undergoing treatment at Enugu State Teaching Hospital while the fleeing suspect has been arrested.      Speaking through the Commissioner for Children, Gender Affairs, and Social Development, Ngozi Enih, the State Government condemned the barbaric attack and assured that the administration would ensure that the perpetrator faces the full wrath of the law.        Ms Enih, who visited the victim in the hospital said the tragic incident highlights the urgent need to eliminate gender-based violence (GBV).    “It is deeply heartbreaking and horrifying to share the tragic incident of Mrs. Chinonso Echegi, whose hand...