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Posted: 25 Jan 2016 08:00 AM PST
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Posted: 25 Jan 2016 07:00 AM PST
A friend of Nollywood actor, Charles Okocha who was shot on December
27, when a drunken policeman pumped a fusillade of bullets from an AK47
rifle into his stomach at a traditional wedding ceremony, held in
Uruagu, Nnewi, Anambra State sent a lengthy piece on how the actor was
treated negligently at the Nnamdi Azikwe Teaching Hospital.
Read his piece below:
I am not just
worried but I’m mad about what happened as we tried to save Okocha’s
life. I was at Danduko’s house on December 27, 2015 for the traditional
wedding of his daughter. What really happened was that the trigger-happy
police officer saw an actor he recognized and in excitement he said,
‘Look at this my guy, let me throw one in air for him (meaning to give
him gun salute).’ As some people said, he was drunk and apparently
forgot that he had previously set the gun on rapid fire. His intention
was to fire one shot into the air. He pulled the trigger, but could not
control the gun again because up to eight or nine bullets flew out. The
bullets hit two people, Sam Belonwu Dim and Charles Okocha.
When I rushed out of Danduko’s compound, I saw Charles Okocha lying
helplessly on the ground. People started shouting, ‘Hey, ewoo, it is
that actor oo.’ Some people even brought out their camera phones and
started taking pictures of him without doing anything to save his life.
Here was somebody who was dying and needed help. I shouted at them. So
many cars that were parked outside blocked the way. My own car was
parked at a primary school some metres away from the scene of the
incident. Okocha’s intestines were already coming out, but he was strong
enough to hold them.
Okoye immediately got some people to help him carry the actor to
the primary school where his car was parked. Continuing the tale, he
said: “With two other guys accompanying me, we sped to Nnamdi Azikiwe
University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH), Nnewi. But what we experienced was
a nightmare. Okocha was crying, ‘Please help me, I don’t want to die,
Jesus help me.’
At the hospital, the conduct of the nurses and doctors was so
annoying. The other people who helped to bring the actor to the hospital
were angry and started shouting at the medical personnel. I told my
friends that making trouble or even shouting at them could make our
friend Charles to die unattended to. I had to beg the nurses and all
that. They were just telling us, go here, go there, sign for this, sign
for that. I was obediently doing all that even faster than they
expected.
“It was over two hours and thirty minutes before the doctor that
was to conduct the surgery came. Then I was told to go and sign approval
for transfusion of blood. I told them to check if my blood could match
his, and said that I was willing to donate blood to save his life. They
said it would take longer time, that they already had blood in their
bank. But they said what they had in their blood bank would have to pass
through test one, two and three for HIV/AIDS. They said they were
waiting to do the last one. For the fact that the case was urgent, they
said that if I had no objections, I could sign that I approved for them
to use the one they were not very sure of being HIV free. They said they
are waiting for the last confirmatory test that the blood was HIV-free.
“At
this point I said to myself, between this guy dying now and dying many
years later for HIV/AIDS if at all the blood will be HIV positive, that
the option is to save his life now. Today HIV positive patients
sometimes live longer than those who do not contract it. It can now be
controlled. But that will not be the portion of my friend, Charles
Okocha. When I went to the person managing the blood bank, she said:
“Ahha what can I do for you and she continued eating her food. She
expected me to wait for her to finish eating when someone was dying. But
when she saw my red eyes, she dropped the food and covered it to attend
to me.”
After the issue of blood transfusion was settled, Okoye said that
the simple act of moving the patient from the emergency ward to the
theatre by the two female porters became another hindrance to the effort
to save the actor, as he said that they were very sluggish. His offer
of assistance to help push the wheeled stretcher was rebuffed.
His words: “At the end of the day I was just pleading, petting
and begging and they were able to move the young man in a stretcher to
the theater door. Then an argument ensued between them. Friends and my
brother who came along with me wanted to shout but I pleaded with them
to calm down so that the matter would not get worse. From what I
observed, they don’t really care about people, whether they make it or
not. After all, they did not cause the accident and, therefore, not
interested in whether the person lives or dies. That is the impression
people have about the hospital.”
All through the duration of the surgery that lasted for four
hours, Okoye waited anxiously. When it was completed, Okocha was wheeled
into the male special ward.
“I don’t want to mention how many people that gave up as I was
waiting on the same night as I was at the emergency unit. I don’t want
to talk about an accident victim brought in there and was not treated
because those who brought him could not pay N500 for him. And I had to
pay for him. I am not talking about another accident victim who was
brought in that night and what a nurse could only say was, ‘Imagine the
kind of alcohol smell that is coming from his mouth, look at what he has
done to himself,’ while the guy was bleeding profusely,” Okoye said.
Even after the surgery had been done, it was as if the devil was
still determined to harvest the actor. More trouble came his way after
he returned to the hospital to have the external stitches removed. What
happened immediately after the stitches were removed was shocking, as
Okocha further narrated.
His words: “He was just sitting down and all of a sudden we heard
a noise like a balloon burst. Behold, everything in Okocha’s stomach
came out. You know it was a major operation.
“Nurses rushed over, looked at him and ran away. Anybody who
looked at his dangling intestines could not behold the sight. It was a
gory sight. But Okocha was courageous enough to hold his intestines from
dropping on the ground and he turned his face away from his hands so
that he would not faint at the sight of his own intestines coming out.
“After about 25 minutes the so-called surgeon came in again. He
went back to start all over and Charles began to go through the pains he
had a few days ago. It was an annoying thing. When they came to the
ward they said openly that they were supposed to have used nylon three
for the stitching but what was available was nylon one and they had to
use what they had at least to save his life that day. Why I am angry is
that they could have told us to rally round and get the right material
and any other thing they needed. Any drug given to a patient at the
teaching hospital is paid for before it can be administered.
“Is it not a reasonable step that they should have sent us to get
the right stitching material, that is, nylon three, to avoid the
bursting? They were bold to tell us why the stomach burst. That is the
reason I’m mad. I have never seen a thing like that before. And we heard
that the nylon is only sold for N700.00.
“I know that I’m nobody, just a young man who is trying to
survive. But I have contacts through my business as an event planner. I
have been sending text messages to important people I know, pleading
with them to get the federal government to conduct investigation into
the way the teaching hospitals operate. This thing must be investigated.
People are undergoing bad moments in some of these government-owned
hospitals.”
Sunday Sun reporter met with the Chairman, Medical and Advisory
Committee, NAUTH, Nnewi, Dr Evaristus Ede Afiadigwe, who stood in for
the Chief Medical Director (CMD), Professor Anthony Igwegbe, and he
dismissed the claims of Mr Okoye even though he admitted that there was
an incident of a burst stomach involving the Nollywood actor, Okocha. He
said there was no negligence in the treatment of Okocha. He noted that
the bursting of a stomach was a medical experience that could occur any
time.
His words:
“I heard about the eruption, stomach burst. The doctor wanted to
use Nylon 2 Defilon but what was available was Nylon 1. It is not
possible that everything you need, the number and quality will be
available at every given time. And you know that was on a Sunday. But
the Nylon 1 is used and one still gets a perfect result. I don’t know
why this should be made an issue. I investigated the incident by myself
and discovered that there was no negligence. The Nylon 1 and Nylon 2 are
of high quality not even the 3 you are talking about. Life and death
are actually in the hands of God. We did everything humanly possible to
save Charles Okocha’s life. And this is what one should be grateful for
instead of painting the hospital black.
“We do conduct audit on how our doctors and nurses work and we
have a disciplinary committee, which handles erring medical personnel.
There is no negligence in this matter. Some doctors even use Nylon 1
ordinarily. It is just that the doctor said he wanted to use Nylon 2.
Nylon 2 was available in the hospital but it wasn’t available at the
time the doctor was doing the surgery. There was a repeat surgery and it
was successful,” Afiadigwe said.
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Posted: 25 Jan 2016 06:00 AM PST
New reports has it that Nigerian singer, Wizkid, has just welcomed his second child some few days back.
According to online sources, the singer had secretly impregnated his
American girlfriend, Blue Diamond and has now welcomed a son from the
lady who is said to be best friends with American reality TV star
Natalie Nunn.
A Photo of Wizkid and his alleged Babymama
Unconfirmed reports have it that when Blue Diamond became pregnant
with Wizkid child, she flew in to Lagos where she gave birth to a boy
who they’ve called Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun.
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Posted: 25 Jan 2016 05:00 AM PST
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Posted: 25 Jan 2016 04:00 AM PST
Seems like the controversy everyone thought to be over between Olamide of YBNL and Don Jazzy of SMD isn’t ending anytime soon.
Investigations revealed indigenous rapper, Olamide who featured
in Tiwa Savage’s newly released music video of her street-esque track
‘Standing Ovation’ deleted everything that has to do with Mavin Records
from his Instagram including the famous picture of himself and Don Jazzy
a day after reconciling, following the Headies’ spat.
Olamide who helped promote the song by posting pictures from the music
video as well as snippets of the video on his Instagram page has
somewhat deleted the photos.
The pictures no longer exist on the Bobo singer’s Instagram account.
See a snapshot of Baddoo’s IG account below:
We strongly believe all this was as a result of Don Jazzy deleting
all the pictures on his Instagram page leaving out a sole photo- bearing
the Mavin logo and was fueled by Tiwa Savage’s husband, Tee Billz who
not until a few days ago put up an apparent swipe on Instagram which
many assumed to have been directed at the YBNL rapper over his behaviour
towards his wife’s label boss, Don Jazzy, at the Headies.
See Teebillz’s insinuating posts below:
A photo posted by Mr Billz (@teebillz323) on Jan 23, 2016 at 2:39am PST
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Posted: 25 Jan 2016 03:30 AM PST
Olasunkanmi Ajala, current wife of singer 9ice got a chain with the
names of all the four children of the artiste imprinted on the pendant.
But, a certain lady with the username @astonishbabee on Instagram is revealing certain dirty secrets on about her.
Nobody knows if the accusations are right though.
See screenshots of her comments below:
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Posted: 25 Jan 2016 03:00 AM PST
Yesterday, January 24, 2016 marked the 7th year anniversary of
popular Yoruba actress, Ronke Oshodi-Oke’s marriage to her heartthrob,
Gbolahan Anthony.
The actress took to Instagram to share photos of the both of them with some touching words.
The actress, who got famous in the industry due to her comic style
and large bosom, has 3 kids. The eldest, named Olajumoke, is from a
previous relationship while the actress has two other children with her
husband, Gbolahan.
See her posts below:
A photo posted by Ibironke Ojo-anthony (@ronkeoshodioke) on Jan 23, 2016 at 10:32pm PST
A photo posted by Ibironke Ojo-anthony (@ronkeoshodioke) on Jan 23, 2016 at 11:05pm PST
A photo posted by Ibironke Ojo-anthony (@ronkeoshodioke) on Jan 23, 2016 at 11:08pm PST
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Posted: 25 Jan 2016 02:00 AM PST
Nollywood actress, ChaCha Eke shared some lovely photos of herself and her daughter in adorable matching outfits and pose.
The yummy mum is obviously enjoying some quality time with her daughter.
More photos below:
Who rocked the outfits better? Mummy or daughter?
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Posted: 25 Jan 2016 01:30 AM PST
Popular Yoruba actress, Mercy Aigbe Gentry attended an event yesterday looking smashing in a pink and gold ensemble.
She shared photos of her glamorous makeover.
More photos below:
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Posted: 25 Jan 2016 01:00 AM PST
Dayo Amusa is an actress, singer and producer.
Early Life
Born as the first child in a family of five, Dayo Amusa grew up in
Surulere Lagos, Nigeria along with her mother Mrs Abiola Amusa a
business woman and her father Mr Kolawole Rasheed Amusa an Engineer
before retiring.
She attended Kenny-Tee Private School Surulere Lagos Nigeria. She had
her Junior Secondary School at Mayflower Secondary School Ikenne Remo,
Ogun State.
Then she went ahead to finish her Senior Secondary School at Mamak
Secondary School Sagamu, Ogun State. Dayo Amusa has a National Diploma
in Food Science and Technology at Moshood Abiola Polytechnic Abeokuta,
Ogun State Nigeria.
Acting Career
Dayo Amusa kicked off her career in Nollywood in 2002 as an actress.
In 2006 she sojourned into movie production and within a short spate of
her incursion into the Yoruba sector of Nollywood she has made a
positive statement.
Although she acts mostly in Yoruba language films of Nollywood, she has also acted in English language films.
Movies she has acted in includes:
Igbese
Aiye mi
I go blow my mind
Unforgivable
Achievements
She won the Best Lead Actress at the 2013 Best of Nollywood Awards and Best Film Award for her 2014 film Unforgivable at the Yoruba Movie Academy Awards.
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