Peep the cover girl, Guardian Woman, February 2024🥰
As I shared with
@IjeomaOdia
of
@GuardianNigeria
, “I believe the educated girl of today, is the empowered woman of tomorrow.”
I hope you enjoy reading this interview, as much as I enjoyed giving it.
Banky and Adesua’s testimony further reinforces why I always scream...
Stop pressuring couples. Stop asking unnecessary questions. Stop cracking mindless jokes. Stop feeling entitled.
Be a safe space. Be sensitive. Mind your business.
Many people are fighting unseen battles.🥺
When Desmond Elliot mentioned pregnant women looting...
I half expected that the next humane thing he’d question would be;
“How badly have we failed our people that they’d put their lives and their unborn children at risk to loot. Can we retrace and fix this?”
Common sense...
Someone said to me,
"Doc, You started work, you are no longer as regular to Church."
Me: Those would be my weekend call days. Can't leave the patients
Her: "Hmm, don't choose your Job over God."
Me: "You wouldn't say that if you were sick in the ward"
Medicine is a Ministry🙏
I am a Dr, yet what I have been shouting for years, it takes one tweet from
@aproko_doctor
for my family to listen 😄.
He is family.
Because of Nonso, many Africans with coconut head, are living healthier lives.
Influence, is his only crime. The ingratitude & bullying hurts.
Still feels surreal but I’m somebody’s whole mummy and “snack” now.
I cheer when there’s a burp, cry when the colic sets in, and jump when the poop comes through. No amount of theory completely prepares you for this.
This is motherhood and I’m here for it🙏🏽. Welcome, Baby Z.
Dear
@jack
@verified
Can we give
@aproko_doctor
the deserved gift of verification on or before his birthday this October 26th.
Why?
Content• Consistency• Numbers• Impact• National Treasure• Marketer Twitter inc.• >6 Parody accounts in his name.
RT if you agree
#EndSARS
Dear women after a C-section, we advice you wait 1 year and 6 months before conception, not delivery, I said Conception!
This is to allow the uterine scar heal properly. Disobedience can lead to uterine rupture or Atony, leading to Massive blood loss, womb removal Or, Death!👂👂
“Congratulations o, natural or IVF?”
“Congratulations o, normal or CS?”
“Congratulations o, epidural or Hebrew woman?”
Resist the urge to be nosy and insensitive.
Say your congratulations or skip.
No one owes you their medical history, and if they share it’s a privilege.
Being a Female Doctor in Nigeria can be hard mehn.
You will dress up in all your Full Doctors regalia with your male colleagues and Your patients will still call you Nurse.
And when they realise they are wrong, they ask for the 'Main Doctor'
I just ask for the main patient.😏
Dear parents,
If the fish, meat, egg, (any protein) is enough for one or few... it should go to the children🙏🏽.
Not the adult or “man of the house”.
Your children need the protein more than you do.
They don’t have to be malnourished, for you to feel ‘respected’!
Thanks.
Called my dad this morning to sing for him, he was in a meeting.
He picked and without a care in the world, shouted;
“My Baby, My Baby. Thank you o.”
Then sang along “How old are me now... how old are me now?”
😂
This man that we will hear his car horn that year and Japa!❤️🤗
Not all heroes wear Capes. Some wear Masks and have scars.
While we were here trending
#CoronaVirus
, some people were in the front lines.
Here’s to these everyday heroes, fighting to keep China and the rest of the world safe from the deadly disease. 👏
📷 People's Daily, China.
Me: “This is your forehead.” (proceeds to drop a peck on it)
My toddler: “Wow, my forehead😃”. (Points to it)
A few seconds later.
Tap, Tap.
“Mummy, this is my forehead. Where is my five head?”.
Na the explanation we still dey untop. Anatomists, well done o. 😭
“Washing machine is for Lazy people”
“Mortar & pestle gives the food a better taste than blender”
Next time, don’t type these on social media. Phones are for lazy people.
Trek to our houses one by one.
Since poverty won’t permit you to understand the value of Time & Technology
I wrote a short essay. I wasn’t confident about it. Sent it to my husband to review.
He: Babe, this is 🔥. I made a few edits to better communicate your thoughts. Check it out and let me know what you think.
I opened his copy... and 🥺tears. This guy, steady blows my mind! ❤️🙏🏽
Tried climbing the bed to rock my son to sleep and my leg cramped.
Not wanting to startle him, I squeezed my eyes shut and “chested” the pain. Opened my eyes to my son sitting up with a worried expression.
“Mama, you ok?”
Me: I’ll be. Just my leg.
And he does the sweetest thing
It’s Hilda Baci’s PR team for me 💯.
We all need that team that can bet on you, even when others won’t.
Also a lesson to 🇳🇬 brands to be more visionary. I saw a lot of missed brand Ad opportunities. I mean, unbranded cooking oil & salt, with >50 Nigerian recipes. Una jonse. 🤦🏽♀️
With chills I remember the dead bodies (Cadaver) we used in our anatomy dissections as med students. Mostly Young men.
Said to be unidentified criminals.
I always asked, what efforts were made to identify them?
Today, years later, I wonder if they were all ‘criminals’.
#ENDSARS
“I’ll kill you and nothing will happen”
No, it wasn’t a ‘criminal’ talking... it was the so called Special Anti Robbery Squad.
They were talking to my brother, who tried to find out their reason for forcing him to enter their mini bus.
My brother. Student. Nwannem
#EndSarsNow
Just like that... we’ve been married for a year 😄🙏🏽.
Congratulations to us paddi mi
@cc_akanno
. Thank you for making me not feel ‘married’. Thank you Jesus for thus far.
Year one of forever 🥂.
#TheCCBond
📸:
@Gazmadu
I just saw a video of a protest-prayer walk. A mixed Christian and Muslim crowd. Praying together in Illorin. Together.
Sent goosebumps down my spine
This cause cuts across sects, religion, culture, language, class.
It’s not a time to be selfish. Divided... we fall!
#EndSARS
I just got a call from a friend I have known since secondary school!
She has been HIV+ from age 2. Meaning all my years of knowing her, she has been HIV+.
She is married to a HIV-ve man who married her despite her status. She has a HIV-ve baby.
I swear, you can never tell!😱
I cried today🥺
A week after our anniversary and gift exchange, my husband said he had an additional present for me. Hard girl like me, I’m like, “Hia, ok…👀”
He proceeded to hand me a wristwatch case. I opened it and guys, the flood gates opened😭!
It was no ordinary watch👇🏽
I recently asked a group of children what they would like to be when they grow up.
The girl among them said she will love be a Governor.
The boys said, "That's for Boys"
I opened my mouth to correct the impression, then she said
"Ok, I'll just be a President then"
#DayOfTheGirl
Dear all,
About asking couples (esp women).
“When are we expecting our baby?”
“Your belle still flat?”
“Time dey go”
I know you MAY mean well but stop. It’s INSENSITIVE and Non of your business.
- Choice
- Infertility
- Miscarriages
Whatever the case, don’t add to the pressure.
I met a 9 yr old Child in the ER, obstructed labour, Pain🤧
"So she got pregnant at age 8?😱
"She is 'married" They said
Happy
#Childrensday
to all the Children who like her have been robbed of their childhood by a failed society and Perverts in husband clothing🤧
#ChildNotBride
To be a man is not a day’s job 😂.
My husband trying to get me out of a foul mood.
“Baby”.... Silence
“Chi Chim”
“Chi Chi of Africa”
“Boo”
Silence.
“Nwanyioma Wetin dey vex you na eh?”
“My one and only hoodlum”
Me: WTH 😅😂.
#HusbandOfTheYear
🤗
Our December was like a movie, luckily God was the director and He can be trusted.
Thank you for turning your pain into purpose. Your healing is permanent
@aproko_doctor
♥️
Throughout December of 2022, I was fighting for my life. I went blind in one eye on the 3rd of Dec. 2022 & on the 5th, I was diagnosed with a brain tumour.
Today I stand here before you to share my story. It has been a long road to recovery but each day is better than the last.
Akara and Pap on Saturday mornings, is the elder sister of Sunday Rice.
Especially when you have no place to go on a Saturday... plus it’s raining and there’s light 😭.
Heaven.
Who else can relate?
Dear medical students,
Some advice...
Enjoy your life. Create memories. Make friends. Take trips. Take pictures. Learn new skills.
Live. Love. Laugh. Learn!
You don’t have to give up one for the other. Balance is key.
For this medicine wey we dey so... ‘EXAM’ no dey finish.
Bio Update!
75,000 African applications, 10,264 🇳🇬 applicants, 300 shortlisted for interviews. 4 intensive vetting stages, 57 selected 🇳🇬finalists, 3 rejections later, say hello to the latest
@WashFellowship
Fellow.
I can’t keep calm! Thank you
@USinNigeria
for this opportunity
My son singing “you’re the only fine girl”, and touching my cheeks when he observes I’m visibly vexed with him, will never get old🥰😅. Plus he’s best in, “I’m so sorry mummy. Big hug”.
This toddler has my mumu button.🥹
Happy posthumous birthday Dr Stella Adadevoh.
Even Google remembered and dedicated this Doodle to you.
Plot twist is that many Nigerians will ask, “Who is she?”.
It shouldn’t be so, but
#ThisisNigeria
Without your efforts, some people will still be bathing with salt.
#Ebola
Being a Man anywhere, esp in Nigeria is not a Day's Job.
Our young men are dropping like flies.
Why?
Societal and economic pressures, plus underlying risk factors of heart diseases.
African parents, easy on your sons.
Women, support the men.
Ask them Genuinely, "How are you?"
🥂
How far?
How far is that we do this and more with phone lights hanging from between our lips.
We substitute incubators with hot water bags wrapped with clean sheets to warm up these babies when the lights go off
Or are you angry we don’t make videos? Our power banks are dead 😏
At 55, mum said something “crazy”.
She was going back to school.
At 56, she took a step, secured a scholarship.
Today, she’s 59, and a PhD holder in Media & Mass Comm. It was tough with all her responsibilities, but she DID IT!
That’s who I call MOM!
Happy Birthday my Dr. Star🎉
@YourBabysDoctor
@DesireUba
This! Many mothers who desire to exclusively breastfeed need to be sensitized that there could be lactation delays. Formula can suffice till breastfeeding is established and sustained… then exclusive BF can start from there. A fed and healthy baby is our priority! Selah!
Thank you Jesus, Another 365 days, and I can't be quick to forget that this app added so much joy, coins, and laughter to my year.
Thank you all for sticking with this girl.
Cheers to greater exploits and more medically broken tables.
I am accepting gifts all month.
#HBDDrZobo
SEX EDUCATION is not...
“Don’t talk to that boy o. If you let a boy touch you... you’ll get pregnant”
SEX EDUCATION is...
“I see T likes you. That’s great, who wouldn’t, you’re a beautiful smart young woman. It’s ok if you like him too, however...”
Then you tell the truth!
Funny, but being an Whatsapp Admin can be relevant in your CV/application.
It depends on the group quality and your pitch💯.
“I own a Whatsapp group”
VS
“I chair a virtual hub of 250 digitally innovative professionals, championing healthcare promotion and advocacy in Nigeria”
#ZoboSippers
, Have I said
#HappyNewYear
to you?
My bad🙏🏽
I don’t even know what day of the week it is... been busy getting Married to the
#Loml
.
Stay tuned, I shall be back 💥. Tidying some paper work 😉.
Yes, I’m accepting wedding gifts
#SipsZobo
Mrs
#DrZobo
👰
#TheCCBond
I cover DJ Switch and everyone still stuck in the darkness at Lekki toll gate with the blood of Jesus.
God over to you, the arm of man has failed us. It’s only you we know! You’re our refuge and our fortress.
Pillar of cloud by day and fire by night.
God we look to you😭
Thank you
@MercyShips
for all you do. 2pics. Same boy.
In Africa he'll be written off as a Witch, beggar. He'll grow up depressed from all the inabilities.
He'll be taken for deliverance every Midweek. And all he needed was Surgery. Surgery, that is "Not our portion" in Africa.
No matter how good your intentions, please don’t attempt to feed children food, snacks, drinks without their parents’ consent.
Asides the home training angle, some children may be on strict health diets, may have food allergies. Also, food choking hazards.
Lives are at stake.👂🏼
You have heard that a man can shoot blanks. Ejaculate semen, with few or no sperm cells.
But, did you know that it is also possible for a man to ejaculate, little or NO SEMEN?
Technically, he produces semen but it doesn’t enter the vagina. It goes back into his bladder. 👇🏽
Don’t wait till you can buy your parents a car. Start with what you have, where you are. They will appreciate it.
2 things to note:
- He who is faithful in little will be faithful in much
- Tomorrow is never promised, so love and appreciate the people who are in your life today
Surreal moment🥺
My 16 month old son was drinking water from a cup off my hand, and some spilled on the floor. He paused, looked down and toddled off. Before I could make sense of it all, he returned with a rag, mopped it and resumed drinking.😲
He’s been observing. So proud.😭
About Sex Education!!!
This is the video, every parent should watch with their kids.
It gives you a platform to kick start Sex Education the right way.
Holidays are here, arm your children with Sex Ed.
What other means can we use? Do share.
#LetsTalk
#Pants
_Credit NSPCC
One day I went to buy sanitary pads as a student and the price had climbed. I ranted. I was broke. My flow needed two but I could only afford one Pack. My friend assisted me with another.
Now what of those with no help?
Sanitary pads should be free or cheap
#PayAttentionToHer
📣
“Where does it hurt? Here?”
He points to my knee. I just nodded.
He reaches down, drops a kiss on my knees, and says
“Feel better?”
I nodded.
Then, opens his arms and says “Big hug. Aww. Sorry mummy.”
He’s just two.
Just here still wiping tears and counting my blessings.🥹
He slid it away. I had no idea it still existed… until today.
He remembered I’d once told him how much it meant to me. So he fixed the glass and engine.
I hugged him and cried. Was it the most expensive gift? No. The best? Yes!
Cos for me, it’s really in the little things.🥰
A year today. I was battling for my life in the theatre.
What I thought was ovulation pain was a ruptured appendix!
It was 2 weeks to my Trad introduction.
The person who helped me make the diagnosis wasn’t a Dr, she is a non medic friend of mine who follows my health posts.👇🏽
Let the violence begin!
No Free DM Consultations.
“But you swore an oath”. Quaker Oat! Show me the part where it says I should give you free consultations and die as a martyr. I’ll wait 🤔.
You see this sense of entitlement, that professionals ‘owe’ you? Miss me with it!👇🏽
You know him as Dibia Aproko, Okirikiri.
I call him Nwanne, cos he has proven time and time again that he is family.
You are truly a wise and hardworking man Nonso. A gift to this world.
God bless and keep you.
Happy Birthday Doc
@aproko_doctor
Dear Men, when your wife is Pregnant, you too are pregnant.
It's advisable that you go with your wives for at least their 1st Antenatal day and at least 3 other times as the Delivery date draws Nigh. It takes the presence of two to make a baby. And 1 absentee to pressurize.🙌
I am honoured and I am ready to serve!
Thank you
@UNDPGeneva
for this great opportunity to partner and expand the work we all are doing towards achieving health for all.
#SDG3
Cheers to a great tenure. 🍷
#SipsZobo
We welcome to Dr Chioma Nwakanma
@DrZobo
as our new SDG Finance Geneva & GSIV Ambassador ! Together we advocate for improved access to quality health in Africa and promote the positive impact of our Growth Stage Impact ventures on the sector –
Headline:
“Govt donates 100 beds to teaching hospital. Hosts free medical outreach for X”
We Clap!
“Father donates a plate of rice to his child”
You get?
The office of the Government is NOT HUMANITARIAN! It is their DUTY to provide QUALITY HEALTHCARE
I won’t clap for my right!
Some people just want to live quiet lives and it’s ok.
Some women just want to be Housewives and it’s ok.
Some men want to be stay-home dads and it’s ok.
Don’t try to impose your perception of success on the next person.
The goal is to be happy in & with the CHOICES you make.
Imagine if DJ Switch and the other protesters hadn't gone live, provided their video evidence, shared their stories, our case would have been worse.
They are the Real Heroes. We won't also forget our fallen heroes whose only crime was believing in the 'Nigerian Dream'.
#EndSARS
🎉🥳 Loved. Blessed. Grateful, for one more year.
I don’t know tomorrow, but I know He who holds tomorrow, He never fails.
Happy Birthday
#DrZobo
)❤️❤️❤️
Special shout-out to my girl
@chef_amakaa
On many days, I tap from her dogged faith. Zero tolerance for negativity. Prayers & praise always up. Pushing and smiling through her own pain. Nonso couldn’t have found a better partner and friend.
I ♥️ you Nne. Truly, we get backing!
Presently, having “Nigeria” and “Democracy” in the same sentence is hypocritical.
“Nigerian Democracy” is an Oxymoron
Nothing democratic about a nation that polices my basic human rights.
#KeepitOn
#June12thProtest
Akah and Claire’s video further reinforced why I am Pro Dad Antenatal classes.
Not just the clinic sessions, but the classes where you prepare parents for the new phase.
It’s one thing to want to support, it’s another to know how to.
Nobody is fully prepared for parenting.
🙏🏽
Our former Minister of Health said Drs can be farmers, his tailor is a Dr.
Our New Minister of health doesn’t know if we are paid Hazard allowance and even doesn’t understand why we need it. After all
#COVID19
screening is like our everyday job.
It’s Good Friday. No comment.
Here are some safety tips for our pregnant Moms this period:
- Register at a good centre closest to you
- Have the hospital’s contact of the
Obstetric or General emergencies. Also the contact for the Labour ward if you’re almost due.
- Take your medications religiously
RT👇🏽
Ah! I am overwhelmed! If I reply everybody, Jack fit suspend my account. I will reply small small.
But until then... know that my heart is full.
I am excited about the journey ahead, and I am grateful I have your support.
Who dey breeeeeeaathe? Cheers to more wins 🍷
#SipsZobo
It’s so easy for one Mother to take care of 6 children. But so hard for 6 children to take care of one Mother.
May we not forget our Mothers’ labors of love.
May our parents live long to see us succeed.
May we never bring sorrow to their hearts when we do!
Amen!
My mum calls me every 2 days.
Always goes this way:
“Chi, how are you? Are you sure? Work? Please be safe with this
#COVID19
, biko Nneoma. I’m praying for you”
Why am I telling you this? Healthcare workers have people who want them alive too.
We need PPEs!
#ProtectTheFrontLine
At 23, no matter what you do, no matter where you are, enjoy and learn from your process. Have sense and be thirsty for more knowledge.
Our journeys differ and there’s no common destination.
But you see sense... good sense, please have it.
Thanks.
"So Dr, you want to disvirgin my 17yr old Daughter?"
The way she put it.🙄
"Not really Ma, to treat, we have to break her Hymen. She has IMPERFORATE HYMEN. That's why she hasn't menstruated. Absence of Hymen doesn't make her less a virgin, some are born w/o it🤷"
THREAD
#DrZobo
@aproko_doctor
My mother-in-law told me this before I got married:
“That thing you can’t tolerate in him. See him here, Better start now to tell him. Don’t even mask it. If you start tolerating it now. You will tolerate it forever.” That woman is one of my greatest blessings 🤗😄.
Someone said he/she makes it a point of duty to block all the Drs on Twitter because most use banters to pass their message.
LOL, if we teach you medicine the way we were taught...
-You’d be bored to death
-You’ll skip a post that could save your life
Audience = Content
However,
Team HYMEN, I have gist for you.
1) Not every woman is born with a hymen
2) Not every woman will bleed during her first sexual intercourse
3) Some women have imperforate hymen. Completely sealed, even menses can’t pass.
4) A woman’s rape plea isn’t less cos she’s not a ‘virgin’.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you’re not a HEBREW WOMAN!
You are your village woman and a daughter of God (if you so profess)
Stop shaming women to their untimely death.
CS is not a taboo!
“Congrats. Boy or girl. Normal or CS?”🤷🏽♀️
A SAFE DELIVERY should be the focus!
We just lost my friend's mom to Cervical Cancer.
After months of moving from State to state, joining long queues for radiotherapy and waiting for repairs.
2 Radiotherapy machines: 195 Million citizens
Cancer is the worst disease ever.Nigeria is the worst Country to have it
2019!
Here are some facts:
1. Over 70% of African women have fibroids. Genetics. It’s very common
2. It has nothing to do with sexual promiscuity, or unprotected sex.
3. This message is aimed at shaming and vilifying women. Disinformation
4. He spoke to no Doctors!
5. This ‘sermon’ 🗑
I can’t count the no of lies patients have told me.
I remember the first. Had a leg ulcer. I had ruled out every possible cause, during my clerking, then I asked his genotype. He said AA.
I sent for a test.
At the end, his genotype was SS, he knew, but it wasn’t his portion.🤦🏽♀️
“My wife claims she is a virgin, but didn’t bleed the first time we had sex.”
Watch this to learn the truth about first time sex and “bleeding”.
#SipsZobo
Retweet, you could be saving a life or relationship. 🙏🏽
#DrZoboReacts
If you think it’s not your business let me explain a potential target.
You’re at risk if you’re:
- Young
- Male or Female
- Dreadlocks
- Afro
- Dyed hair
- Gorimapa (skin cut)
- Rolled up sleeves
- Jeans
- Laptop
- Phone
- Gmail or Yahoo mail
- Tattoo
- Human
- You
#EndSarsNow
Yo! I haven’t stopped screaming since I found out
@IfyAniebo
is
@GRVlagos
’s wife.
Ah, my support has doubled! I have been following her career trajectory for 7 years. A real STEM and Global health queen + more. Peep the bio na😍!
Lagos, you can’t miss this duo!
#LP
#March11
Dear Men,
The Fertility Clinic is not a Women's hub.
So when I ask your wife to go back and come with you... You better bring yourself and your Sperm along.
In Marriage, You are Pregnant together. You are infertile together.
Infertility doesn't have a Feminine face
#SipsZobo
After I saw one of my Patient's relative nearly collapse from the stress of running hospital errands, I realised:
"It is not just the Sick who bear the pain. Their care givers feel it too"
You are as healthy or as Sick as your loved ones. Pray, not just for you, also for them🙏
According to recent research from the Uni of IBADAN,
@aproko_doctor
@wakawaka_doctor
and I, put out a higher percentage of health advocacy messages compared to WHO & UNICEF.
We get coconut head 😂. No rest till you normalize healthy living.
Cc:
@Tosynicole
, Prof
@bisiolawuyi
🙏🏽
I posted a picture of my husband and I on my story recently and I got a message from a junior friend.
She’s 17.
It went this way:
“Aww😍. God when 😭😭”
I replied:
“When you focus on your studies, explore the world and discover your purpose. You’re not missing in action Love🤗”