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David sped down the busy avenue, his car urgently cutting through the traffic while his children cried in the back seat. The sound of the children’s sobs filled the air, mingling with the noise of the traffic and the accelerated beating of his heart. “It’s okay, sweetie, we’re almost there,” he said more to himself than to his daughter Lily, the eldest of the triplets, who lay pale and motionless on the back seat.

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The day had started as usual, with David working in his home office. The children, enjoying their Saturday, were playing happily downstairs. But everything changed when his 7-year-old daughter’s curiosity led her to climb a ladder in search of a board game that was on top of the cupboard. The search for fun turned into tragedy when she lost her balance and fell.

“Dad, Dad!” The screams of Eddie and Henry were the first sign that something terrible had happened. Hearing the commotion, the man ran down the stairs, his heart beating at a frantic pace. When he reached the living room, he found Lily lying on the floor, an image that froze the blood in his veins. The girl was unconscious, with a deep wound in her abdomen caused by a sharp toy that had pierced her during the fall. The ground around her was stained with a small pool of blood that contrasted painfully with the paleness of her skin.

Without wasting a second, David acted. He lifted the girl carefully and quickly rushed to the car. Each movement was calculated, although made in a frantic rush. The boys, crying and confused, followed their father, still not fully understanding the gravity of the situation. Now, as he rushed to the hospital, David outran each car with a mixture of precision and desperation, his mind focused solely on getting there in time to save his daughter. The fear of losing his daughter was a constant shadow pressing down on him from the inside.

Finally, the hospital came into view, a beacon of hope at the end of a tortuous journey. The father parked the car in one swift movement and ran to the emergency room, carrying his daughter in his arms, followed closely by her brothers, all very desperate. “Help! Help! Please help my daughter!” Each word was filled with deep terror, reflecting the weight of the situation in which he found himself.

He was alone, responsible for looking after the children during the week, as his wife, a manager at a cosmetics company, was away on a business trip. What would normally have been a normal week turned into an unexpected nightmare. He worked from home to be close to his children, but the poor father could never have imagined that a tragedy like that would happen so suddenly, right under his supervision. Remembering his children playing peacefully and now seeing his sons crying in terror at seeing their sister in that state broke David’s heart. How could an innocent play be transformed into a horror scene? This question haunted his mind and heart.

The medical team acted quickly to deal with the emergency when they saw the little girl, but they soon faced another critical challenge. The hospital’s blood bank was dangerously low, severely compromised by other patients in serious condition who were using up all the stock. Lily’s urgent need for blood added an extra layer of desperation to the already tense situation. However, the father immediately offered to donate.

“Well, then, let’s check your blood type and compatibility for you to donate blood to your daughter,” said the doctor.

David interrupted them, driven by urgency. “There’s no need. My wife and I are B positive, so my daughter is B positive too,” he said, pulling up his shirt sleeve, eager to help. Next to him, his sons, Eddie and Henry, were crying, still shaken by the trauma and the tense atmosphere of the hospital.

However, the doctors insisted on continuing with the tests. “Even so, sir, it’s protocol. We can’t proceed with a transfusion without carrying out prior tests. In the meantime, we’ll use O blood until the results are confirmed. It’ll be quick,” the doctor explained, trying to appease the distressed father.

Reluctantly, the man agreed, watching as his and his daughter’s blood was collected for tests. Sitting beside her hospital bed, surrounded by his two boys who continued to cry, David felt trapped in a real nightmare. Seeing his little girl unconscious, intubated, and hooked up to heart monitors was a heartbreaking sight. Every beep from the equipment was a cruel reminder of the fragility of life and the helplessness he felt at that moment. Every second dragged him deeper into an abyss of fear and uncertainty.

In the midst of the chaos, as the doctors rushed through the preparations for the transfusion, the man managed to pull himself together to call his wife. His hands were shaking as he waited for her to answer the phone. As soon as he heard her voice, a wave of emotions washed over him. “Honey, I don’t know how to tell you this, but something happened,” David began, his voice wavering under the weight of fear and guilt. With every word, he struggled to maintain his composure. “Lily fell off the ladder. We’re in the hospital now. She needs blood, but there’s a complication,” he confessed, feeling responsible for not having kept a close eye on the children while he was distracted by work.

On the other end of the line, a heavy silence was followed by a muffled scream. “What? Oh my God, Lily!” the woman exclaimed, with the sound of something falling in the background indicating her haste in moving.

“I’m packing now. I’m going to the airport.”

“No, honey, they’ll take care of her. Go to your meeting,” the husband tried to dissuade her, his shaky voice trying to convey calm.

“No, absolutely not. I’m canceling everything. I’m coming back right now,” the woman said, the determination in her voice cutting off any protest he might have made before she hung up the phone.

Back at the hospital, the tension was palpable as David waited for the blood test results. After some time, the doctor finally returned, and the father quickly rolled up his sleeve, ready to donate. However, what the doctor said next made him freeze.

“Sir, unfortunately, you won’t be able to donate blood to your daughter. You were right when you said you were B positive, but your daughter is A positive,” said the doctor, his expression serious and cautious.

“I beg your pardon?” Incredulity crept into David’s voice. “The test must be wrong. Do it again. My wife and I are B positive, so our children are too.”

The doctor guaranteed the accuracy of the test, but the man wouldn’t accept it. “Test all my children then. They’re triplets. You’ll see that they’re all B positive,” the father argued, his voice filled with a mixture of despair and denial.

Reluctantly, but at David’s frantic insistence, the doctor agreed to test again. “Come on, boys, let’s do the test,” said their father, leading them into the examination room, each step fraught with tension. The boys, confused and frightened, followed him, holding his hands as they walked down the brightly lit corridor of the hospital. But what David could never have imagined was about to happen, unfolding in a twist that would shake the foundations of his family.

The minutes dragged by like hours as David waited, his heart beating fast. He was alone in the waiting room, his every thought revolving around the excuse the doctor would give for his very serious mistake. However, when the man finally appeared, the grim expression on his face did not bring good news.

“Sir, as we said, Lily is A positive, just like her brothers,” he said patiently, handing over the result papers.

The man picked up the documents with trembling hands, his eyes scanning the lines in search of some mistake, some hope. “But that doesn’t make sense,” he muttered, with frustration and confusion evident in his voice. He and his wife both had blood type B, one of the coincidences they found interesting when they started dating. How is that possible? It doesn’t make sense because if that’s the case, neither my wife nor I could be the triplets’ parents unless…” his voice faltered, swallowed up by the harsh reality that was beginning to set in. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

The possibility of not being the biological father of the triplets hit him like a punch in the stomach. He remembered when his wife had announced her pregnancy while he was abroad. He had spent almost a year in Spain for work, and when he returned, he found the triplets already at home with his wife. Could she have cheated on me? he wondered, his mind spinning with the implications of this harsh possibility.

Seized by a sudden need for clarity, David asked for a DNA test. “I’ll pay whatever it takes, but I need to know now,” he insisted, determined to find out the truth. The hospital, sensitive to the complexity and urgency of his situation, quickly carried out the test. The man spent hours in unspeakable anguish, each moment increasing his fear and anxiety. And the test confirmed it. When they returned with the DNA results, the silence that followed was deafening.

“I’m sorry, Mr. David, but you’re not the girl’s biological father.” The words fell on him, heavy and definitive, crushing any hope he might still have had. And as fate would have it, at that very moment, the door to the waiting room suddenly opened. His wife, visibly shaken and rushing straight from the airport, entered. As she approached, panting and worried, the space between them never seemed so vast. The truth had destroyed his world, and now he was faced with a reality he couldn’t escape.

When Maryanne arrived at the hospital, David’s expression was a mixture of hatred and despair, loaded with all the pain of betrayal, a sight that made

her shudder. Before he even said a word, she walked over to him, noticing how his teary eyes seemed to be sparking with anger.

“How is she?” she asked hesitantly, dreading the answer.

A nurse intervened, trying to ease the palpable tension. “She’s stable now, ma’am. We’ll get a new shipment of type A blood for her soon.”

When she heard about her daughter’s blood type, Maryanne’s face visibly paled. Her husband, seeing the change in her expression, seized the moment to finally ask.

“Who was he, Maryanne? Tell me.” Tears streamed down his face as he refused her consoling touches.

“Who?” she replied, pretending to be confused.

“The guy you cheated on me with, the real father of the triplets.” David was visibly stunned, his words laden with a mixture of accusation and pleading for unspoken truths.

“What are you talking about? You’re their father, honey.” They were now arguing openly, ignoring the stares of those present. The children, who had been crying until then, stopped sobbing, clinging to their parents’ words, trying to understand the drama that was unfolding.

The man started shouting so frantically that Maryanne was forced to say something that would change everything. “I’m not their mother either,” she dropped the words like a bomb, silencing everyone around her.

There was a long pause. “What? What do you mean?” David asked, shock evident on his face.

Maryanne knew there was no avoiding the truth now. She took her husband to their daughter’s room and closed the door, ensuring some privacy. Inside that hospital room, with the walls absorbing every painful whisper, Maryanne began to reveal the past that had shaped her in such an unexpected and tragic way. As it turned out, the couple was struggling to get pregnant, and after numerous unsuccessful attempts and procedures, David had to go to Spain on business. This left Maryanne alone in charge of continuing the fertility treatments that had become a stressful and emotionally exhausting routine. She was inseminated and soon announced her pregnancy, a brief moment of joy that shone like a beacon of hope in the darkness of her previous frustrations.

However, the joy was short-lived. The problems weren’t over. The poor mother lost her baby in the first few months, a devastating blow that made her feel as if the universe was conspiring against her happiness. It was then that the clinic delivered more devastating news. They had analyzed David’s semen and discovered the reason for her constant losses: his biological material was unviable. The man was unable to have children. This revelation fell on his wife like a sentence, sealing the fate of a family they had wanted so much to build.

The loneliness of those days was overwhelming. She felt isolated in her suffering, navigating a sea of uncertainty without her husband by her side to share the weight of her discoveries. Desperate and not knowing how to proceed, the woman kept the secret. She didn’t want to destroy David’s last hopes, not while he was so far away and unable to face that reality together. She carried a storm of emotions inside her, struggling between honesty and protecting her husband from the harsh truth. Every day she wondered how she could go on alone, how she could rebuild from the ruins of their shared dreams.

It was then that an opportunity arose. Maryanne heard about a young woman who was about to give birth and was planning to give up her baby for adoption. Moved by a mixture of despair and hope, she decided that she would take care of the child. It seemed like a solution, a way to bring joy to her husband without revealing the painful truth. She arranged everything in secret, keeping her actions and feelings hidden. But fate had other plans. At the moment of delivery, life decided to multiply its surprise. Not just one baby was born, but three. The triplets were a shock that challenged her ability to keep the secret. How could she hide three lives born out of an act of desperation and love?

Thus, shrouded in secrets and lies, Maryanne forged the motherhood of the triplets. She raised them as if they were hers and David’s, nurturing them with love and care, but always under the shadow of the untold truth. This secret was a burden she carried every day, a burden that only came to light on that fateful day in the hospital when circumstances forced the truth to emerge from the depths of her pain and loneliness. “We’re just not their biological parents, but they are our children in every sense of the word,” the poor woman said through tears, revealing the depth of her pain and her unconditional love.

David, paralyzed by the magnitude of the revelations, could barely process the emotions that overwhelmed him. She had done all that to spare him even greater suffering, to maintain the illusion of a happy family that they both wanted so much. When the man finally came to his senses, moved by a mixture of admiration and renewed love, he embraced his wife. Together they cried, releasing years of secrets and lies but also years of genuine love and shared sacrifices. Amid the tears, there was an understanding that their lives were irrevocably intertwined by the good they had tried to do for each other.

The boys, witnesses to this reconciliation, approached timidly. They also hugged their mother, in a gesture that sealed a new understanding of what really constitutes a family. It wasn’t blood that defined them, but the love they shared. In time, they would fully understand that their mother’s actions had been motivated by love, a love so great that it went beyond blood ties. They would soon grow up and see that.

And Lily was carefully treated by the doctors. She underwent surgery, and with the affection of her family, began to recover. It was a time to heal wounds, to strengthen bonds, and to learn to forgive and move forward. David, faced with the truth that he was not the biological father of the children he loved so much, found within himself the ability to forgive his wife’s great lie. He recognized the immense sacrifice she had made, giving up her own dream of getting pregnant and adopting three children, and keeping the truth hidden so that he could fulfill his dream of being a father without the burden of his own infertility. Her decision to start a family under such circumstances demonstrated a commitment to love and to their dream that her husband couldn’t help but appreciate.

As the family began to recover, they found themselves stronger than ever. Now, with all the secrets revealed and the wounds beginning to heal, they saw themselves not just as a family formed by extraordinary circumstances but as an unbreakable unit, strengthened by the challenges they had overcome and the love that defined them. Now they were stronger than ever.

 

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Leaked Video Of Gen. Diya Crying And Begging Late General Sani Abacha

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Gen. Diya was crossed examined at the Human Rights Violation Commission (HRVIC) on the coup plan 1997 to overthrow Gen. Sanni Abacha, He bluntly denied the fact that he was part of the plan but he admitted he knew about the plan. He further explained that he was afraid of being killed by the Coup Master Planner if he revealed the plan.

He denied pleading with Gen. Sanni Abacha but was shocked to see the video where he truly knelt down before Gen. Sanni Abacha as tendered by the Lawyer…Click Here To Continue Reading>> …Click Here To Continue Reading>>

 

Gen. Diya Oladipo then was appointed as Chief of Defense Staff. He was appointed Chief of General Staff in 1993 and Vice Chairman of the Provisional Ruling Council in 1994. In 1997 Diya and dissident soldiers in the military allegedly planned to overthrow the regime of Sani Abacha. The alleged coup was uncovered by forces loyal to Abacha, and Diya and his cohorts were jailed. Diya was tried in a military tribunal, and was given the death penalty. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

 

 

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July 29 In Nigerian History: Aguiyi-Ironsi And Fajuyi Assassinated In Ibadan

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Aguiyi-Ironsi (L) and Adekunle Fajuyi (R)

Nigeria has seen the rise and fall of many military regimes since she became a sovereign state in 1960 and this, at every turn, has altered the direction of the country.

A second coup since independence which happened on July 29, 1966, would see to the brutal death of Nigeria’s Supreme Commander, General J.T.C Aguiyi-Ironsi (the nation’s 1st military head of state) and his friend, Lieutenant Colonel Francis Adekunle Fajuyi, who was the sitting and 1st Military Governor of the Western Region…Click Here To Continue Reading>> …Click Here To Continue Reading>>

 

Aguiyi-Ironsi was a guest at the Government House, Ibadan, as he came to hold a meeting with traditional rulers in the Western region. Ironsi arrived Ibadan the previous day and unknowingly, he met his death during the counter-coup which is generally believed to be a retaliation to the January 15th 1966 coup in which prominent Northerners in power were killed.

The Northerners were believed to hold a grudge since the first coup as they lost leaders including Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (Nigerian Prime Minister) and Sir Ahmadu Bello (Sardauna of Sokoto and Premier of the Northern Region). They tagged it an ‘Igbo Coup’ as no Eastern casualty was recorded in both the military and public service as even the West lost Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola in the coup. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

This counter-coup of July 29, 1966, led by General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma was tagged the bloodiest coup by many in the history of Nigeria. Ironsi and Fajuyi’s death which still remains a controversial debate among historians because how they were killed isn’t clear but both bodies were found in a bush in outskirts of Ibadan. Read a comprehensive account of how Aguiyi-Ironsi was killed here.

Aside from the Head of State and Western Military governor, many other casualties were recorded in the army and most killed or maimed were Easterners, particularly Igbos. This will be one of the many reasons the country would go into a civil war the following year as the Eastern region tried seceding.

54 years after, we remember this gruesome act done in the Brown Roof City and how much has happened or changed since then.

 

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This Is Why An American Magazine Labelled Sani Abacha as “Thug of the Year” In 1995

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General Sani Abacha is perhaps Nigeria’s most enigmatic head of state. He reigned from 1993 until his death in 1998. General Abacha was born in Kano state, northern Nigeria on September 20, 1943. He hails from Kanuri in Borno state.

He passed out of the Nigerian Military Training Centre in Kaduna where he proceeded to Mons Officer Cadet School in Aldershot, England before being commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant in 1963.

He is held by some as Nigeria’s most successful coup plotter. When he was still a Second Lieutenant with the 3rd Battalion in Kaduna, he took part in the July 1966 Nigerian counter-coup from the conceptual stage. He could well have been a participant in the Lagos or Abeokuta phases of the coup the previous January as well…Click Here To Continue Reading>> …Click Here To Continue Reading>>

 

Abacha fought for Nigeria in the country’s civil war against Biafran secessionists continuing to rise through the army ranks.

He was instrumental in the 1983 Nigerian coup d’état which brought General Muhammadu Buhari to power as well as the August 1985 coup which removed him from power. He announced the coup which removed the government of Shehu Shagari.

When General Ibrahim Babangida was named President of Nigeria in 1985, Abacha was named Chief of Army Staff. He was appointed Minister of Defence in 1990. With Babangida’s resignation, an interim government headed by civilian President, Ernest Shonekan was formed.

Sani Abacha became the first Nigerian soldier to attain the rank of a full General without skipping a single rank in 1993. In the same year, he moved for the ultimate.

Shonekan resigned and transferred power to Sani Abacha in a move widely believed to be another bloodless coup. In September 1994, he issued a decree that placed his government above the jurisdiction of the courts, effectively giving him absolute power. Another decree gave him the right to detain anyone for up to three months without trial.

General Sani Abacha

Abacha is noted for helping restore peace and democracy to Sierra Leone and Liberia after the civil wars.

On his administration of the Nigerian state proper, he established The Petroleum Trust Fund aimed to address major economic issues facing the country at the time. Between 25-100km of urban road in major cities such as Kano, Gusau, Benin, Funtua, Zaria, Enugu, Kaduna, Aba, Lagos, Lokoja, and Port Harcourt was planned to be constructed each. A N27.3bn contract was awarded for road rehabilitation in the first quarter of 1996.

There was a restructuring of major insurance companies that supported SMEs across the entire country.

Abacha mandated the PTF to publicise its accounts as it was the second-largest public corporation at the time. In 1997, the account of PTF showed that it disbursed N24.3bn on roads, N21.2bn on security, N7.8bn on health, and N3bn on other projects. Other disbursements include N2.2bn on water supply, N936m on food supply and N476m on education. It realized a total of N1.049bn from various investment activities.

It’s curious the sums which emerged after his death that he stashed in overseas accounts as the Abacha administration became the first to record unprecedented economic achievements overseeing an increase in the country’s foreign exchange reserves from $494 million in 1993 to $9.6 billion by the middle of 1997. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

He also reduced the external debt of Nigeria from $36 billion in 1993 to $27 billion by 1997. His Petroleum (Special) Trust Fund is also hailed for infrastructural projects and interventionist programmes in education, water and health.

His wife is credited with setting up the National Hospital in Abuja viewed as Nigeria’s foremost national hospital, which was initially set up as a hospital for women and children before its upgrade.

Nonetheless, Abacha was ruthless with groups he considered hostile to his administration between 1993 and 1998. There was a crackdown on the civil rights groups, media and pro-democracy groups.

It was also under him that Nigeria became a perpetual importer of petroleum products as the refineries packed up. The emergence of the ‘foul fuel’ which damaged car engines and released a repugnant smell was in his time.

General Sani Abacha earned the title ‘Thug of the Year’ from Time magazine in 1995 after the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa. Abacha developed the habit of working only at night. Availing himself to be seen publicly rarely while being averse to granting interviews.

The events of his death on June 8, 1998, at the presidential villa in Abuja are murky and while the official account is that he suffered a heart attack, other accounts say he was in the company of two Indian sex workers flown in from Dubai when he died. He was buried on the same day, according to Muslim tradition, without an autopsy. This fueled speculation that he may have been murdered by political rivals via poison.

Foreign diplomats, including United States Intelligence analysts, believed that his drink or fruit (apple) was laced with a poisonous substance while in the company of prostitutes.

Abacha was married to Maryam Abacha with whom he had had seven sons and three daughters.

In March 2014, the United States Department of Justice revealed that it had frozen more than $458 million believed to have been illegally obtained by Abacha and other corrupt officials.

On 7 August 2014, the United States Department of Justice announced the largest forfeiture in its history: the return of $480 million to the Nigerian government.

Stashed sums in other accounts have been discovered with the Nigerian government working to have the funds returned.

 

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