By Martins Ifijeh
Since 2003 till date, Nordica Fertility Centre has successfully treated infertility in couples, hence producing over 3500 babies, the Managing Director of the organisation, Dr. Abayomi Ajayi has said.
Speaking at a virtual press briefing recently as part of activities to mark Nordica’s 18th year anniversary, Ajayi said he was glad the centre has put smiles on the faces of thousands of couples in Nigeria.
He said: “Within the last 18 years, we have helped families with over 3500 babies and we are looking forward to doing more in the near future. I am encouraging Nigerians to take their healthcare seriously. Infertility is a medical condition. It should be treated as such.
Novel mentorship programme helps stall brain drain for 12 Nigerian doctors
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By Sola Ogundipe
The fortunes of the Nigerian health sector received a boost recently as 12 medical doctors in diverse areas of medicine, were powered following their successful completion of a novel mentorship programme for medical doctors.
The young physicians, five male, and seven female, who are products of the Dr Abayomi Ajayi Physicians Mentoring Programme, an initiative designed to assist the average Nigerian doctors to unveil their full potential, are ready to face the tough but rewarding terrain of the Nigerian health sector.
The Dr Abayomi Ajayi Physicians Mentoring Programme was primarily designed to tackle brain drain. Led by Dr. Abayomi Ajayi, the CEO, Nordica Fertility Centre, Lagos, working with 10 acclaimed and successful professionals in a diversity of callings, the mentees were taken through the nitty-gritty of stewardship, partnership, and demand generation even as they learned
Nigeria ranks 2nd highest in paternity fraud in the world
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By Sola Ogundipe, Yetunde Arebi & Evelyn Usman
A DNA test revealed that Christopher Johnson wasn’t the biological father of the three children he had nurtured and invested in for almost two decades. The children, Esther, 19, Shirley, 17 and Stephen, 15, were born by the same mother who unfortunately was deceased.
Christopher, a successful but retired architect, was compelled to find out the truth about the paternity of the children after a stranger turned up one day to claim he was their biological father and challenged him to a DNA paternity test.
By Sola Ogundipe, Yetunde Arebi & Evelyn Usman
A DNA test revealed that Christopher Johnson wasn’t the biological father of the three children he had nurtured and invested in for almost two decades. The children, Esther, 19, Shirley, 17 and Stephen, 15, were born by the same mother who unfortunately was deceased.
Christopher, a successful but retired architect, was compelled to find out the truth about the paternity of the children after a stranger turned up one day to claim he was their biological father and challenged him to a DNA paternity test.
Christopher received the shock of his life when the result proved that the stranger was indeed the children’s real father. It turned out that the man and his late wife had been involved in a long secret love affair that produced the three children he erroneously assumed belonged to him.