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Pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly and one-time vice presidential candidate, Tunde Bakare, says Nigerians can shut down the government as a result of the repeated herdsmen killings. According to him, the recent directive by the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, that vigilante groups and weapons bearing individuals should surrender their weapons without making reference to the herdsmen, shows that the Buhari-led administration is completely compromised.

Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Digital/New Media, Tolu Ogunlesi, has described Nigerians as animals for ‘slandering Naomi Campbell’. Campbell, a super model, had shared a tweet alongside several photos with Buhari at the Eko Atlantic City launch. Naomi post the tweet and her pictures of Buhari that stirred up controversies on the social media, before she delete the said post.  Reacting, the Presidential aide recalled that Naomi had met late ex-South African President, Nelson Mandela more than once.

This came as the Kaduna state government on Friday said the decision of the Senate to reject its request for $350 Million Dollars World Bank loan for infrastructural development amounted to “elevating the ego of some of its members above the demands of public policy”. Senator Shehu Sani reacting to the Senate’s rejection of President Muhammadu Buhari’s request for Governor El-Rufai to borrow from the World Bank a loan of $350Million Dollars for infrastructural development as contained in the 2016 – 2018 External Borrowing (Rolling) Plan said further that: ‘They will leave for their children mansions to inherit; they will leave for your children debt to inherit. ‘They want to auction the Children of the poor to Mr Breton Woods in order to secure a comfortable life for their children.’ Recalled the Senate on Thursday rejected Kaduna State Development Policy Operation (DPO) in the sum of USD350 million as contained in the 2016 – 2018 External Borrowing (Rolling) Plan of President Muhamm...

Imasuen Richie was one of the young men who left Nigeria for Libya in 2016 with a view to finally land in Europe in search of greener pastures. But sadly, he found himself inside the Libyan prison after he was sold as a slave. It was in that situation that he met CNN crew who came into the prison where he narrated his ordeal and that of other Nigerians in prison. Just last month, the CNN crew visited Edo state to do a report on Human Trafficking and also spoke to Richie. Richie who is now working in a barbing saloon to make ends meet as well as assist his mother and younger ones narrated his experience in Libya. He also spoke about the curse placed by the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare 11 on human traffickers. Excerpts: Can you tell us why you decided to leave Nigeria in the first place? I left Nigeria in July 2016. I was actually heading to Europe but when I got to Libya, the person I paid money to did not deliver it to the driver who took me there.

The Ekiti Government says it has paid N400 million as compensation to those affected by the ongoing demolition exercise in the state. The State Commissioner for Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Mr. Tayelolu Otitoju disclosed this during a press conference in Ado-Ekiti on Friday. Otitoju explained that government’s action on the demolition was not to deliberately render residents homeless, and thereby make life difficult for them, as being insinuated. He said that the exercise was part of the Urban Renewal programme of the present administration, aimed at giving Ado Ekiti, the state capital and other major towns a facelift that would make it wear the toga of a real state capital. The beneficiaries received between N100,000 to N2 million as compensation, depending on the nature and size of the structure because, some of them were either built with mud while others were modern houses.

Gov. Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara state on Friday directed security agents to shoot and kill anyone caught carrying firearms in the state. Yari gave the order in Anka when he visited the emir to condole with the emirate over the killing of over 30 persons by gunmen in Bawan Daji village of Anka local government area of the state. He said “this is an order from the president and from the governor of the state.” According to him, “we cannot continue to watch criminals as a parallel government, doing what they want and carrying sophisticated firearms, maiming and killing innocent citizens in the state.” 

The Federal Government has released a list of some of those who have allegedly looted the nation’s treasury. The Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, released the list during a press conference in Lagos on Friday. According to Channelstv, Mohammed said the individuals include officials in the past government. The names in the list revealed by the Federal Government include PDP chieftains who are currently being tried for corruption and financial crimes. “The PDP has challenged us to name the looters under their watch. They said they did not loot the treasury. Well, I am sure they know that the treasury was looted dry under their watch. Yet they decided to grandstand. This shows the hollowness of their apology,” Mohammed said as he released the names.

The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo at the 10th Bola Tinubu Colloquium held to mark the 66th birthday of the APC national leader, however, not so restrained in looking back saying: “Upon all I had seen in government in the past three years, the corruption of the previous five years is what destroyed the Nigerian economy. “Every time we talk about corruption, our opponents say don’t talk about it. Just do your own. But we must talk about it. The reason why we must talk about it is that we must let our people know that we can’t afford to go this way again. “Never again should we allow a system where people take the resources of this country and steal the resources, use the resources against the people and at the same time they want to continue to rule the people.”

Travelers to the United States will soon have to submit their social media identities, previous telephone numbers and email addresses, a measure that could touch 10 million people per year. According to a State Department plan published Friday, visa seekers — whether visitors or would-be immigrants — will be presented with a list of social media platforms. Applicants will be required to identify which they use and provide “any identifiers used by applicants for those platforms during the five years preceding the date of application.” “Other questions seek five years of previously used telephone numbers, email addresses, and international travel,” the notice, published in the Federal Register, revealed.

Public commentators and thousands of Nigerians invaded the social media space on Thursday, condemning the roles allegedly played by some presidential aides in the controversial award for President Muhammadu Buhari by the Martin Luther King center a few days ago. Pictures of the delegation from the centre, The King Center, presenting the award on behalf of the family of legendary American civil rights activist to Buhari at the Presidential villa, found their way into the media space hours after the visit. Obviously uncomfortable with the development, The King Center tweeted on Wednesday, dissociating itself from the award. The statement, released via @TheKingCenter, read, “The award given to President Buhari of Nigeria was not given by The King Center, at the request of The King Center or by the children of #MLK and CorettaScottKing.”

If speculations making round the social media is anything to go by, then the popular Nigerian blogger and Entrepreneur, Linda Ikeji is finally Engaged.  The news of Linda’s engagement flooded the social media on Tuesday with her sister, Sandra Ikeji confirming it on her Instagram page. Sandra wrote: ”Congratulations @officiallindaikeji So happy for you sweet sis! This tells me that sometimes the wait is worth it. ”Can’t wait to plan your special day!@eventsbysi are you readyyyyyy? #it’sagetaway.”

The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Ibrahim Idris today ordered the immediate removal of the Commissioner of Police in Kogi State, Ali Janga following the escape of six suspects from police custody early this morning and replaced him with Esa Ogbu. He also redeployed the Commander, Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, in the state, the Divisional Police Officer ‘A’ Division, Lokoja and other police officers implicated in the escape for negligence, dereliction of duty and gross misconduct.

A 44-year-old man, Paul Edobor, has allegedly abandoned his wife after she was delivered of triplets in the Esan North-East Local Government Area of Edo State. It was learnt that Paul, a commercial motorcycle operator, fled his home in Uromi when his wife, Ugomma, had the three identical baby girls. He was also said to have ignored phone calls from his wife, whom he married 12 years ago. Ugomma said on Tuesday that her husband had lamented his inability to cater to the triplets as he struggled to take care of the two children she already had for him.

She welcomed her twins with ex-husband Nick Cannon via Caesarean section, back in 2011. And Mariah Carey proved to be every inch the doting mother on Tuesday, as she chose to celebrate her birthday at Disneyland with her kids Moroccan and Monroe, six. The singer, 48, was seen beaming with delight as she pushed her mini-me daughter along in a pram, as she explored the park with her brood.

Sen. Dino Melaye Police in Lokoja said on Wednesday that the two suspects that named Sen. Dino Melaye as the supplier of guns to them had escaped from custody.  The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Ali Janga, disclosed this at a press conference in Lokoja. Janga said that the two suspects, Kabiru Seidu alias Osama and Nuhu Salisu alias Small, escaped at about 3:21 a.m. at the A Police Division in Lokoja where they were being kept in lawful custody. According to him, four other suspects escaped along with Seidu and Salisu, bringing the total number of fleeing suspects to six.

The Lagos state government has shuts major routes and declares Holiday for President Buhari's visit, also declared Thursday, March 29, a work-free day ahead of the President’s two-day visit to the state. The new Ikeja Bus Terminal constructed is ready and will be commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari. 

The tenth person to be murdered in London in just 12 days is the son of a Nigerian politician who was given an award for saving a woman from a sex attack. Abraham Badru, 26, was shot dead near his family's home in Hackney on Sunday night at around 11pm. Paying tribute to his son, father Dolapo Badru, 62, a member  House of Representatives, Lagos Island Constituency 1 , similar to the House of Commons in the UK, described him as 'quiet and hard-working'.  Abraham  was the only child of his mum. Late Abraham Badru, 26, only child of his mother 

Online Photo of a lady sleeping  Nigeria’s current economic challenge traced to years of bad leadership has been attributed to lack of better sleep awareness just as VitaFoam Nigeria Plc furnished the first government sleep laboratory at the Federal Neuro-psychiatric Hospital Yaba, Lagos with mattresses, pillows, beds, among others to enhance the sleeping conditions of people with sleep challenges. Speaking at the “World Sleep Day 2018” in Lagos, Managing Director, Vita Foam Nigeria Plc, Mr. Tayo Adeniyi, said that the organizational cost of insufficient sleep from a report, shows that Sleep-awareness programs can produce better leaders. Adeniyi who was represented by the Group Technical Director, Mr. Abbagana Abatcha, stated: “Much of Nigeria’s current economic challenges which can be traced to years of bad leadership, would have been averted if we had better sleep awareness programmes in our society.

The Senate, yesterday, frowned on reports that senators have been given  $50,000 bribe to stop plans to override President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto of the Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2018 on sequence of election. Consequently, it mandated committee, headed by Senator Samuel Anyanwu (PDP, Imo East) to carry out a holistic investigation into allegations that some senators and House of Representatives members were being bribed by the executive with $50,000 and $30,000 respectively. The Senate particularly asked the committee to carry out a thorough investigation on the allegation published in  a national daily of Monday,  March 26, 2018, and report back within one week. Resolution of the upper chamber was sequel to a motion moved to that effect by Senator Peter Nwaoboshi (PDP Delta North).

Paul Moore, of Leicester, attempted to kill 47-year-old Zaynab Hussein on September 20 last year as 'revenge' for the London 7/7 bombings and the Parson Green tube station attack. Ms Hussein was struck once in Acer Close in Leicester, and then driven over again moments later as the 21-year-old laughed, a court heard. Moore then tried to cause the 12-year-old serious harm by driving the same vehicle at her moments later, with the schoolgirl's bag being thrown up in the air.

A 28-year-old man has done the unthinkable by helping his wife of six days marry her long time lover. Basudeb Tappo, a native of Pamara in Nalanda district of Bihar in India, had married a 24-year-old woman from Jharsuguda’s Debdihi village on March 4. On Saturday, three young men, one of whom claimed to be Tappo’s wife’s cousin, visited the couple at Pamara. The three were welcomed by Tappo’s family and while two of them left the house to see the village sights with Tappo, the ‘cousin’ was allegedly seen with the wife. Some villagers who heard of the misdeed allegedly mobbed the lover. The newly married woman then came forward and confessed that they had been lovers, but her relatives had allegedly opposed their match and married her off to Tappo instead.

The family of Saudi billionaire Sheikh Walid Juffali has sold off more than 400 items from his sprawling country estate in Surrey. The everything-must-go sale saw art works by Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol auctioned off alongside a £55,000 'crystal' piano and even a pair of 19th Century cannons. Dr Juffali died, aged 61, from lung cancer in 2016 after fighting a £200million divorce battle with his ex wife, former Pirelli calendar girl Christina Estrada.

  A 13 year-old boy was suspended from his school for drawing pictures of stick figures bearing guns and knives. Alex Herring’s father James hit out at Roseboro Salemburg Middle School after his seventh-grader boy, was axed from school for two days over the drawings. One of the photos shows a teenage mutana ninja turtle bearing a knife, while another shows a stickman pointing a rifle. A third shows a magician, while a fourth shows a man wearing a hat and carrying a dagger. James, from Roseboro, N.C. says the drawings were inspired by he and his son’s hunting trips, and added that both are well-versed in firearm safety. Alex's drawing  Alex

A young woman was today fighting for her life after being crushed under a pallet of bricks which fell five storeys from a crane.  Bricks could be seen scattered around the victim as she lay on the pavement with bystanders giving her first aid (left and top right) next a building site in Mile End, East London. Paramedics took the woman to hospital with severe injuries after the incident at about 9.30am today outside Bow Corner, a new development of luxury flats. Witness Aladdin Rahman said: 'My friend who's a bus driver and was driving a bus at the time it happened, said that some bricks had fallen on the woman.

BBC newsreader George Alagiah said his advanced bowel cancer woulds have been detected earlier in Scotland. His stage four progression of the disease means he has only a 10% chance of surviving the next five years, he said. The 62-year-old presenter, who lives in London, discovered the cancer had returned before Christmas. It had spread to his liver and lymph nodes by the time he was initially diagnosed with the disease in 2014 after noticing blood in his stools. He said the cancer was caught ‘very late’ and may have been detected earlier if England had similar screening procedures to Scotland. In Scotland both men and women are automatically offered screening for bowel cancer every two years from 50 years old – yet in England it starts at 60. The chance of survival for five years or more for those with stage four bowel cancer is less than 10%. However, if it is caught at stage one the chances are near-100% according to Cancer Research UK. Speaking to The Sunday Times, Mr Alagiah sai...

A father of 12-year-old son died in his arms four days after his brother passed away. Chris Bacon, of Oldham, Manchester, lost both his son Jett and big brother Tim, a Living Ventures food entrepreneur, to cancer in May 2016. Recalling the worst week of his life, Chris, 48, said: ‘To watch your loved ones die in front of you, and Tim was my best buddy, but to watch your own son take his last breath, you can’t ever get over that. ‘It’s incomprehensible really, you wouldn’t wish it on your worst enemy.’ Jett died a year after being diagnosed with rare bone cancer Ewing’s Sarcoma, at the age of 11. Tim, 52, had battled lymphoma, cancer in the blood cells, for 14 years, but in his last two years had developed melanoma.

A businessman who stole £9,800,000 used his ill-gotten gains to fund a lavish lifestyle of 96 houses and a fleet of luxury cars. Jason Butler, 46, masterminded an international VAT scam to steal ‘enough money to pay for more than 500 new NHS nurses’, HMRC said. Butler owned Ferraris, a Lamborghini, a Rolls Royce, a Mercedes and a speedboat while his property portfolio included a luxurious home in Marbella and 96 houses in Leeds. Formerly of Leeds, Butler created hundreds of false invoices to steal millions of pounds in VAT and tried to hide the scam in a complex trading chain involving companies in the UK, Gibraltar, Spain and the US. He told investigators he bought almost £60 million worth of personal data, relating to Payment Protection Insurance (PPI), but was really trading cheap raw data and forging purchase invoices to falsely reclaim VAT.

Nigerians who railed against the candidacy of Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 presidential election have an unending acoustic harmony. The lyrics were first written about 90 days into the General’s presidency. And the harmony became more entrenched in plangency as the metastasis of distress and despair grows like unbridled wild fire all across the country. If you are one of the 15 million Nigerians who bought into the CHANGE slogan spewed out and chanted by Candidate Buhari and his votarists, you must have been sniped at and embarrassed a few times by your friends or enemies with words such as these: “But we warned you not to vote for Buhari”. “Didn’t we tell you Buhari was bad?” “Your eyes don see, now; look how the man dey do us”. And the chiding goes on-and-on. There was and still is a widespread consensus belief within this opprobrious cohort that Goodluck Jonathan would have made a better president in his second term, and by now, Nigeria would have surpassed China and America i...

The Lagos State Police Command has commenced investigation into the death of a visitor to a Chinese lounge and bar on Adeniran Ogunsanya Street, Surulere, Lagos.  The visitor, Willie Uyime, had gone to the bar in company with his friends on Saturday to have fun. While they were drinking, Uyime unknowingly drank insecticide in a container placed on the table in front of him at the bar.  After some minutes, he reportedly started gasping and was rushed to the Randle General Hospital where he was confirmed dead. In the course of searching for the cause of his death, it was discovered that he drank the insecticide, thinking it was water.

The Co-Chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Mr. Bill Gates, again on Monday criticised the Federal Government’s Economic Recovery and Growth Plan. Gates, in an interview with the CNN, said that the Federal Government’s investment in education and health was not good enough. “While it may be easier to be polite, it’s more important to face facts so that you can make progress,” the philanthropist told a room of Nigeria’s government elite that included the President. In an exclusive television interview with the CNN, Gates said he spoke out to implore Nigerian politicians to focus on human capital and its large youth population.

The European Union has given Facebook two weeks to answer questions raised by the scandal over personal data harvested from the social network, according to a copy of a letter obtained by AFP on Tuesday. “Have any data of EU citizens been affected by the recent scandal?” the EU’s justice commissioner Vera Jourova wrote Facebook, listing one of the questions. “I would appreciate a reply in the next two weeks.”

A wild tiger killed a 41-year-old woman who was collecting fodder for her cattle outside her home in south-eastern Nepal, police said Tuesday. Police officer Dilip Raj Jha said the animal, suspected to have come from the nearby Parsa Wildlife Reserve, on  Monday pounced on the woman’s from behind and killed her on the spot. “The two men who went to retrieve her body also came under attack from the tiger sustained minor injuries.”

A five-year-marriage is on the brink of collapse as Mrs. Musilimat Olasuyi told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos that her husband, Oluwagbemiga, permitted another man to sleep with her in their matrimonial home. The 48-year-old trader told the court on Monday that the man made love to her in her matrimonial home with her husband’s approval. “It was not my fault. “ I did not voluntarily submit myself but the man in question charmed me to make love to me with my husband’s agreement all because of his selfish ambition,” she said.

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 60-year-old resident of Adeniji Street, Iyana Ishashi area of the state, Stephen Uwa, for the death of his lover, 45-year-old Joy Vincent. Vincent had visited the suspect in his house last Sunday. He was alleged to have returned her dead to her house on Osha Arigba Street, Imude, and fled. But Uwa, who was arrested the following day, claimed that she was unconscious when he took her home. It was gathered that Uwa and three others had on Thursday brought the woman in a vehicle, but did not meet anybody at home.

Russian businessman Sergei Mavrodi, whose MMM pyramid scheme deprived millions of Russians of their savings in the 1990s, has died of a heart attack, according to Russia media. Reports said the 62-year-old was rushed to the hospital late on March 25 with pain in his chest and died several hours later. Mavrodi's MMM financial pyramid was a typical Ponzi scheme in which earlier investors receive their profits from subsequent investors. Mavrodi promised returns of 20 percent to 75 percent a month, as well as lotteries and bonuses for investors.

The Secretary General of the Yoruba Council of Elders, Dr Kunle Olajide, has confirmed the death of YCE’s President, Chief Idowu Sofola, a prominent Nigerian jurist, Bencher and former President of the Nigerian Bar Association. Sofola, who died on Friday night in Lagos at the age of 84, took over from retired Maj.-Gen. Adeyinka Adebayo, who passed on in 2017. Sofola, who was born on Sept. 29, 1934, was the first black to be appointed the Secretary of the International Bar Association and was a prominent member of the Ikenne Social Circle and the Obara Ruling House for the Alakenne Royalty.

About four years after Iyabo Obasanjo wrote an open letter to his father, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, the former President has described his daughter as a tough woman who will not put up with any nonsense from anyone. Obasanjo said this at the Eko Hotel and Suites, Lagos, on Thursday while addressing women at the 14th annual lecture of the Women in Management, Business and Public Service, where he urged women to play more active roles in politics. Blaming the minor role being played by women in Nigerian politics on men, the former President said, “It is out of the selfishness of our men; they will look for anything to keep women under and look at the sort of things that we do.

The Taraba State government on Friday said a shortfall in revenue allocation and the need to pay salaries as and when due were the reasons why the state government had not paid retirees gratuities running into N11bn. The state’s Head of Civil Service, Mr. Simon Angyo, said this at the state’s accountability programme called, ‘Face the Press’. Angyo explained that though the government was promptly paying salaries, pension and other entitlements of workers and retirees, the payment of gratuities was a challenge.

Prison Break and Chicago Fire star DuShon Monique Brown has died aged 49 The actress passed away on Friday at St James Olympia Field Hospital. The cause of death is yet to be determined. Her spokesperson, Robert Schroeder, said of the actress’ ‘untimely death’: “ We are devastated by the loss of a very talented and kindhearted soul. ‘DuShon was a film, television, commercial and voice-over actress who also graced the stages of many Chicago theatres. She brought laughter and joy to many and will be greatly missed.’ Prison Break fans will recognise her as Sara Scofield’s friend Katie Welch, who she played for 13 episodes.

Paris Hilton was out having a boogie in Miami, when she suddenly discovered she lost her $2 million (£1.5 million) engagement ring. According to Page Six, in the early hours of Friday morning, the 37-year-old had her fiance Chris Zylka and the club security searching the VIP section high and low for her missing jewellery. Luckily for the TV personality, her ring was found in someone else’s ice bucket at the former soda factory RC Cola Plant. We have no idea how it got there, the only explanation is if it flew off the star’s finger and glided across the room while she was tearing up the dance floor.

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and his wife Dolapo; the Co-Chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Mr. Bill Gates, on Friday attended the wedding reception of Alhaji Aliko Dangote’s daughter, Hajiya Fatima, and her groom, Jamilu Abubakar in Lagos. Prominent persons at occasion included wife of the President, Hajiya Aisha Buhari; Speaker, House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara; the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi; and others.

The police in Ondo State on Friday arraigned a 45-year-old man, Bolaji Ajasa, before a magistrate’s court in Okitipupa for attempting to touch the breast of a hawker, Ajoke Ibisanmi. Ajasa, who has no fixed address, is also standing trial on a charge of unlawful assault before Magistrate Banji Ayeomoni. The News Agency of Nigeria reported that the prosecutor, Inspector Zedekiah Orogbemi, told the court that the accused on February 21 assaulted the complainant by punching her at a construction site at new Ayeka in Okitipupa.

The Ogun State Police command has arrested a 36-year-old man, Owolabi Musiliu, over the alleged mysterious death of his lover, Fausat Idowu,. The suspect, who is a mechanic at the Mechanic Village in the Camp Area of Abeokuta, was alleged to have taken 40-year-old Fausat, a divorcee and mother of four, to a hotel in Abeokuta for sexual pleasure when she fell ill and died mysteriously. But, in a brief interview with journalists when he was paraded by the Commissioner of Police, Ogun State Command, Ahmed Iliyasu, on Friday, Musiliu, a father of three, explained that it was the first time he and the deceased attempted to have sexual intercourse since they started dating about six months ago.

The Christian Association of Nigeria, the #BringBackOurGirls coalition and the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar lll-led Jama’atu Nasril Islam, have disagreed over the amnesty promised to repentant Boko Haram insurgents by President Muhammadu Buhari. The President on Friday promised to grant amnesty to members of the Boko Haram sect who are ready to drop their arms and embrace peace. Buhari made the promise at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, while receiving girls who were abducted from their school in Dapchi, Yobe State last month and were released on Wednesday. He said, “While further efforts are being made to secure the release of every abducted citizen in Nigeria, the government is ever ready to accept the unconditional laying down of arms by any member of the Boko Haram group, who show strong commitment in that regard.

Kenyan woman who was verbally and physically abused after giving birth on the floor of a state-run hospital in Kenya won a landmark 2.5 million shillings ($24,789) in damages on Thursday. Josephine Majani delivered her baby on the floor of Bungoma District Hospital in 2013 because all the beds were occupied.  When nurses found her lying on the ground, she said she was slapped and insulted for dirtying the hospital floor. Bungoma High Court Judge, Abida Ali Aroni, said the hospital violated her right to health and dignity, adding that the authorities failed to dedicate adequate resources for maternal healthcare across the country.

Maryam Alexander sat calmly with a bowed head, hugging her two-year-old son, David, to her chest. She paused and shed tears intermittently as she told the story of pain she had been going through since her son was diagnosed with retinoblastoma in August 2017. According to the American Cancer Society, retinoblastoma (or simply Rb), is a rare malignant form of cancer that rapidly develops from the immature cells of a retina, the light-detecting tissue of the eye. It is the most common primary malignant intraocular cancer in children, and it is almost exclusively found in young children. Though most children survive this cancer, they may lose their vision in the affected eye(s) or need to have the eye removed, a possibility that has been making Maryam, a widow, to be sad if her son couldn’t get treatment on time.