Mysterious Deaths Of Pregnant Women In Lagos-Ogun Boundary Community

Mr. Alex Egbon looked forward to an  elaborate naming ceremony for his fourth child.  But that was not to be.  His joy was cut short. The wife, Christiana, 32,  lost her life shortly after she gave birth to a baby. Mrs. Egbon, a teacher was the third woman in one month to die during child birth […]

Kemi Died At Childbirth, Exactly Twenty Days After Her Wedding

The late choreographer Kemi Omotoyinbo died during childbirth in a private hospital in Lagos on October 1st, exactly twenty days after her wedding to her husband Godwin Eloanyi.  Her husband took her to the private hospital where she was in and out of labour for several days. When it was certain that it wasn’t possible […]

Tragic death of Onome due to negligence of hospital management

The  family members of Onome, from Agbarho Town in Ughelli North Local Council of Delta State is still trying to put behind them the tragedy that shook the family on September 19, 2014, when their wife, Onajite Otiotio Onome, popularly called Jite, died at Saint George’s Memorial Hospital, located at No. 6 Rasheed Alaba Williams, […]

WARDC demands list of detained women at LUTH

The Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC) has written to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) requesting for details on the number of women currently detained by the hospital for their inability to offset bills relating to pregnancy and child birth, after being certified fit for discharge. The letter addressed to the Acting Chief […]