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Nigerians are now familiar with gaunt figures lying critically sick on the bed and plugged to dialysis machine begging for donations from government and kind-hearted members of public.
The solicited funds usually run into millions of naira to:
Cover the cost of temporary dialysis in Nigeria and subsequent organ
transplantation overseas. The latest of such is the music producer, OJB
Jezreel, who says he needs about N16m to treat his kidney disease.