After 7 Children, Mom Gives Birth Again To 5 Babies At Once

 Ashiri understands before welcoming their fresh set of children, the couple already had seven children and were looking at having an eighth child but the pregnancy turned out to be quintuplets.

The mother, identified as Dominika Clarke gave birth at a hospital in the southern Polish city of Krakow on Sunday. The babies were delivered by caesarean section at 29 weeks and still require respiratory support.

Speaking to reporters at the hospital on Tuesday, the new mother who was in the company of her British husband, Vince said: “We were planning to have an eighth child but there turned out to be more.”

According to her, she felt “better than expected” after the rare pregnancy.

Speaking further, she called her pregnancy a miracle because the odds of conceiving quintuplets were one in 52 million.

“As a mathematician, I like these kinds of statistics,” Clarke said.

“We had a greater chance of winning the lottery than having this crowd.”

Head of the neonatology department in hospital, Ryszard Lauterbach said they look forward to joyfully discharging the mother and the children.“We hope that we can arrive at the joyful moment of discharging them from the hospital,” said Lauterbach.

The children, three girls, and two boys, were named Arianna Daisy, Charles Patrick, Elizabeth May, Evangeline Rose, and Henry James.

 

 

2023: Wike Is A Coward – Nwibubasa Reveals Wike’s ‘Final Choice’ Of Presidential Candidate

 Nwibubasa stated this in a recent interview with The Punch.

He however accused Wike of lacking the courage to openly come out himself and declare support for

 

The spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council in Rivers State, Leloonu Nwibubasa has alleged that Governor Nyesom Wike has directed his supporters to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Bola Tinubu in the 2023 presidential election.

Nwibubasa stated this in a recent interview with The Punch.

He however accused Wike of lacking the courage to openly come out himself and declare support for the APC presidential candidate.

Asked during the interview if there is any truth in rumours that Wike is supporting the APC presidential candidate, Nwibubasa responded that government appointees in Rivers State including those elected on the platform of the PDP as chairmen of council and members of the state House of Assembly and even members of the House of Representatives and Senate have been speaking to the people at the grassroots, directing them to vote Bola Ahmed Tinubu for president.

He however alleged that Rivers State people have been rejecting the directive

According to him, Wike decided to go through that route so that if things don’t go right at the election, the blame won’t be put directly on him.

He made the submission when asked to confirm his claim that Wike has directed Rivers State people to work for Tinubu.

“We all live and work in Rivers State and the party is our party. The people they invited for the meeting were party men. They came back and reported that they were told to vote for Tinubu.

“The fact that Governor Wike is not courageous enough to stand and pronounce this and is giving this duty to his lieutenants also tells you that he wants them to bear the blame and not himself. 

That is not the quality of a good leader. A good leader should be able to stand up courageously and tell the people, this is where we are heading, whether good or bad, those that want to work with him will work with him.  

“We are calling on him again to keep to his words. He told Nigerians that in January he was going to name his preferred candidate and that he would campaign for the candidate in the 36 states of the federation. It was all over the news platforms. Up till today, Governor Wike has not had the guts to tell the people clearly who he wants them to vote for. This again tells on his integrity,” Nwibubasa submitted. 

 

Veteran actors Chidi Mokeme and Hank Anuku reunite in heartwarming video

 

Veteran Nollywood stars Chidi Mokeme and Hank Anuku have warmed the hearts of many people following their beautiful reunion. 

 

Their junior colleague, Zubby Michael, shared a lovely video of the duo jumping for joy and beaming with excitement as they hugged each other tightly.

This follows a string of controversies surrounding Anuku and a rumoured mental breakdown.

This reunion is to the delight of the fans, who have expressed concerns over the actor's health. 

 

Recently, Kate Henshaw and Chidi Mokeme also stirred reactions with their heartwarming reunion kiss

The close friends and career colleagues left many puzzled about their friendship after they shared a kiss on a movie set.

Mokeme wrote on his Instagram page, sharing the video, that he and Henshaw have been friends for over 30 years, even before entering Nollywood.

Chrisland School: “I’m responding to the cries of a mother” Mercy Johnson speaks out, reveals her phone conversation with school management

 

Nollywood actress, Mercy Johnson Okojie has spoken out on the death of 12-years-old, Whitney Adeniran, a student of Chrisland International School, Opebi, Lagos.

Taking to her Instagram page, the mother of four, whose kids attend the school, revealed that she has spoken to the management to heed to the voice of Whitney’s mum, and release the details of what happened to their daughter.

According to Mercy Johnson, she is responding to the cries of a mother going through the worst pain ever, who wants to know how her child died suddenly.

 

While sending her condolence to the deceased’s parents, she stated that no parent deserves this.

“I’m responding to the cries of a mother going through the worst pain ever. A mother who wants to know how her child died so suddenly @bam.babycity

No parent deserves this, no one. Since I saw this heartbreaking video this morning, I’ve called to plead with the school @chrislandinsta to do as Whitney’s mum has cried for and release the full details of what happened to her daughter. We are all waiting.

My condolence to Whitney’s family. My prayers are with you”.

The actual audacity to be irresponsible Iyabo Ojo blows hot over new reports on Whitney Adeniran’s death

Kemi Filani earlier reported that Iyabo Ojo had called out Chrisland School over the death of his student, Whitney Houston.

Iyabo Ojo called out the school for their audacity to be irresponsible.

She told them to tell the truth about her death to the parents as the negligence from their school is appalling.

Iyabo questioned if the news making rounds that she died from electrocution is true and why the vendors at their event didn’t come with child proof equipment.

This coming after a fresh reports on her death, contradicted the school’s claims. Instagram blogger, Gistlover revealed that at the stadium where the Interhouse sports was held, Whitney wanted to purchase popcorn and candy from one of the vendors at the event.

The blog claimed that she got electrocuted through one of the machines and she passed out. They had to rush her to the back of the stadium and poured water on her.

According to the blog, when she wasn’t responding, they took her to the health centre but by this time, she already passed away.

The report was given by the kids who were present at the time.

 

 

Naira Re-design: CBN, This Cash Squeeze Is Squeezing Nigerians.

 

The biting scarcity of the new naira notes which has led to the rationing of currency notes in the country should be a grave source of worry to the monetary authorities. Nigerians are exasperated and frustrated as most ATM terminals across the country are not dispensing. The situation has become so dire that there are reports of women in labour dying due to the inability of their loved ones to make cash deposits in the hospitals. Only yesterday, placard-wielding civil society groups marched through the streets of Lagos, demanding that the redesigned Naira notes be made available. It is clearly the failure of leadership that has now brought the country to this sorry pass. Those pushing the citizenry to the wall must be wary of the social unrest which a pushback can cause, particularly in this election season.

It has become so bad that residents of border communities in Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina, Adamawa and Kwara states have now resorted to CFA franc which is the legal tender in eight West African countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo. This is happening in Nigeria even though Section 2 of the CBN Act makes it clear that the naira is the currency of payment for the domestic supply of goods and services in Nigeria. Nigerians living in these border communities switched to CFA franc following the increasing rejection of the old Naira notes coupled with their inability to access the new naira notes. Should the people then be blamed for finding a way out of a chaotic cash squeeze?

Nobody anticipated that the situation will be this haywire when the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on October 26, 2022, announced its plan to redesign the N200, N500 and N1000 banknotes. President Muhammadu Buhari subsequently unveiled the notes on November 23, 2022, while the apex bank fixed the January 31 deadline for their validity. As the deadline approached, the new notes couldn’t be accessed by Nigerians in the banking halls and ATMs. Businesses stalled as other means of payment became overwhelmed. It is so disheartening that stashes of the scarce Naira notes are now been flaunted by terrorists who the federal government ab initio said were the target of the policy.

A bandit kingpin, Kachalla Baleri, terrorizing parts of Kaduna State released a video showing him and some armed men displaying N1000 and N200 notes. He went on to say, “They (the government) redesigned the naira, poor people who are innocent don’t even know about it. Some don’t even own up to N10,000. The people they are referring to as terrorists have hold of the money. This is the new N1000 note, this is the new N200 note”. If the new Naira notes are so soon being used to finance terrorism, what then is the point of this harrowing inconvenience? We just hope this is mere propaganda by the terrorists.

In response to the excruciating difficulties of Nigerians, the central bank on Thursday directed the commercial banks to commence the payment of the redesigned Naira notes over the counter, subject to a maximum daily payout limit of N20,000. In a statement signed by its Director, Corporate Communications Osita Nwanisobi, CBN downplayed the severe sufferings its policy has caused Nigerians as mere “queues at Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) across the country”. Naija News makes haste to tell the apex bank authorities that it is actually worse than that. CBN can’t be noticing queues when there are videos online of near stampedes and affrays at ATM galleries! More so, citizens have been left stranded to the extent that at least N1200 is charged out of every N10,000 withdrawals they make from their accounts via POS agents.

It remains to be seen how this new directive to the deposit money banks (DMBs) will make any difference given that they have severally been fingered as frustrating the Naira redesign policy. The CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele said this much when he appeared before the House of Reps Adhoc Committee on the New Naira Redesign. Last month, the CBN told Nigerians to refuse to collect old notes from banks. The banks themselves have denied getting enough of the new Naira notes from the CBN. It must be stated that the CBN is not smelling of roses in the altercation between it and the commercial banks on the availability of the new notes. Given that it is the regulator, the dog should wag the tail and not the other way around. If bank officials have been caught in sharp practices to the detriment of Nigerians, the apex bank must deal decisively with this to restore sanity to the system.

The Association of Senior Staff of Banks Insurance and Financial Institutions (ASSBIFI) challenged the CBN to publicly declare how much of the new Naira notes have so far been printed and distributed to banks for disbursement compared with what has been withdrawn from the public. Naija News believes that this is truly a question that the apex bank must address. Emefiele had gleefully announced that courtesy of the Naira redesign policy, 75 per cent of cash outside the banking system to the tune of N1.9trn have been mobbed up. Yet, he was silent on the number of new notes issued by the central bank to keep the nation’s economy afloat. A significant portion of these monies that have been so mobbed up is the working capital of small business owners. They obeyed the CBN directive by depositing their old Naira notes only for them to end up unable to lay their hands on the new legal tender.

The CBN remains a public institution and there must be a human face to its policies. Effecting a measure that has so hurt the masses in a democracy is highly unacceptable! What sort of thoughts went into this chaotic policy in the first instance? The conundrum and suffering which have been created by this ill-thought-out policy go to show how removed policymakers in the country are from the people. The sort of quandary and confusion those in the countryside have been thrown into by this naira redesign policy can only be better imagined.

Why will the CBN go about fixing what is not broken when there are other matters requiring its attention? If it’s about the cashless policy, Nigeria is already in a good place in that regard. Out of the total money supply of N52trn, the cash component is just N2.6trn which translates to a cash-to-GDP ratio of 5 per cent. Even advanced nations of the world don’t have it this good. More so, there was a 42 per cent increase in cashless transactions as of 2022. This is a huge letdown as these persons are now at the mercy of exploitative POS agents! So much for the financial inclusion drive of the monetary authorities. The CBN must be reminded that the rural economy cannot do without cash in their quotidian lives. Urban centers residents can make do with e-transactions. After all, some members of the upper class transact business only in US dollars.

If it’s too much to expect the CBN to find practical solutions to this cash squeeze in the system, the apex bank should at least return the excess cash it has mopped up from the system. Naija News believes it can do this by allowing the old and new currencies to co-circulate until such a time that there is enough of the redesigned Naira notes. Nigerians don’t deserve to be denied their hard-earned money when most needed, and neither should their businesses suffer low patronage. The Nigerian people should be spared this exploitation by unscrupulous bankers and POS operators because they want to make cash withdrawals. The CBN must rethink this calamitous Naira re-design policy now!