CEO of LifeBank @lifebankcares, @kolatubosun’s Wife, Tia, Eni and Kiitan’s Mom!
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He designed our blood donor app - the messages you get from us - he designed all these in like 4 days! He was a genius! He was also kinda shy. And so sweet. Oke Obi - Enadhuze!
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Please do NOT attack hospitals! Please please - Health workers are NOT the enemy! Our job is to save lives. Please please DO NOT attack hospitals!
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I loved Oke. He was sweet, hilarious, and a design genius. As someone who always wanted to be a designer, I looked up to this young guy who could design so well! He worked at LifeBank during Uni breaks. We always kept in touch! Oh Oke! May God comfort your Mom!
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Ladies and gentlemen, it’s tomorrow! #NoiGoesToWTO! We are giving away N100k to the best dressed! Dress up like NOI and send her a message of support as she goes to WTO! #AnkaraArmy stand up!!!!
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Last night, I was in Lekki Traffic for 6 hours. It was painful but I made it home. The kids protesting want to live. They want to make it home. It’s not easy to be cooped up in your car that long, but being shot to death by SARS is worse! So let them protest because #SARMUSTEND!
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We are trying to desperately move blood to hospitals! Hoodlums won’t let us pass. Please Yaba is a mess. People will die if we don’t move quickly! Please help!
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Someone should really study how omugwo (and other concepts like it) potentially reduce post partum depression in African women. I will sponsor it!
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My son is 6. He is mouthy. Spirited. And does not back down! I don’t want to teach him how to deal with SARS in 10 years. I don’t want to have to explain to him how he is unsafe in his own country. In 10 years, he will be a target so I need you to #ENDSARS.
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This is Saifura! Boko Haram shot her in the head days ago. Her only crime was to be a midwife who worked to save vulnerable mothers from death. They asked her to kneel and they shot her in the head. She had 2 children. She was a hero. Today I bear witness to a magnificent life!
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The price of food is too high! The price of food is too high. I am relatively privileged and I still feel it. Imagine people who are genuinely poor. The price of food is too high. It’s complete madness! Open the borders. We need food! We need to feed the kids. Come on!
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So we taught our 5 year old about consent today and now he claims he hasn’t given his consent for bathtime. How to get out of this?!
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So if you know anyone who needs emergency Oxygen, call AirBank, our medical rider is waiting to help save a life 24 hours a day, 7 days a week! 💙 lifebank.ng/airbank
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Dear Protesters, please let lifesaving supplies pass through! If you block all access, people will die. We are all on the same side but we cannot stop a bike clearly marked as moving blood and blood products from getting to the hospital. Thank you as you comply!
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This is the first time a problem in Nigeria affects everyone in Nigeria! Nowhere to run to. You can’t throw money at it. Your other passports don’t help! You can’t get minions to deal with it! It is an unrelenting and egalitarian enemy! The only cure = a working health system!
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If I should die at the frontline of this battle. Tell my babies I did my duty. Tell them I was never afraid! ❤️
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I used to tease him about his name. Ok Oke! Ok Oke! I’m shattered! We all used to sit around one single table at CcHUB day in day out working on LifeBank! He was a believer. He still offered to redesign for us in 2019 years after he left LifeBank.
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We found a case, tested, confirmed, quarantined, and informed the public in a professional way in under 48 hours! (Let’s hope we confirm all contacts have been traced and quarantined in another 48 hrs) I’m so proud! More of this! More! Thank you to everyone who made this happen!
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I have lived in Nigeria for 7 years. As far as I’m concerned, the country is consistently getting better! It’s still hard to live here, but it’s getting better. I don’t know where the despair comes from, the oil crash has been hard...yes, but as a whole we should be optimistic!
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Ghanians showed up to withdraw their money from a bank where a woman was assaulted. As in people showed up. Im so inspired!
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Delivering 12,500 pints of blood to 250 hospitals in 44 minutes (on average) in Lagos and Abuja for 3 years and round the clock (24 hours, 7 days a week) with $300k raised is a super power. If no one will toot our horn, we will do it ourself! #LifeBank
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Yesterday, LifeBank in partnership with @nimrnigeria launched a mobile testing center to help expand testing in our community for #COVID19! We had the idea 5 days ago, built the facility, got funded & launched! We’ve tested 70 folks and can’t wait to expand testing to 200 a day!
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40 years ago, a boy was born in Ibadan. 12 years ago, he made a friend on Twitter. 11 years ago, he met the girl. 9 years ago, he married her, and here we are, building a big life, raising 2 kids, and loving hard. @kolatubosun I want to marry you again! Happy birthday dearest! 💙
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Running LifeBank is mostly excruciatingly difficult but days like today make it all worth it! As a Nigerian, an indigene of Ondo State, for us to deliver lifesaving supplies in hours to the victims of the #Owo attack is incredible! This work is the only thing that gives me hope!
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Another update on Quip! We’ve now reached 900 hospitals across Nigeria! We found 149 ventilators (and physicians who can use them), 109 respirators, and 136 ICU beds! We are now focusing on fixing broken ones, calling even more hospitals, and offering this to public hospitals!
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Kola and I are thrilled to announce the birth of our little love; IfeKiitan Tubosun! Our love for him is boundless and we are delirious with joy…& sleeplessness. Big brother is curious, Dad is proud, and Mom is exhausted! Thanks to my team @LifeBankCares and an amazing husband!
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Thank you Mr. Ma! Let them know that we are who we’ve been waiting for! We will continue to do the work and show them that greatness is evenly distributed! ❤️
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Do you know how hard it is to get 200 million people to agree on one single policy - It’s almost impossible. But we all agree that it’s time to #ENDSARS!
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Average Delivery time at LifeBank Lagos is now 44 minutes across central Lagos. 3 years ago, it was 3 hours but we’ve learnt so much and now we can get blood and other essential products to the hospital between 19 minutes (shortest) and 53 minutes (longest). 👌🏾 Rockstar team!
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What is the point of becoming a billionaire and then see a government doing evil to your people and feeling pressure to be quiet? Isn’t the point of money to have freedom? Freedom to speak. Freedom to push. Freedom to make the world a little more just?!
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Diasporan Nigerians should really refrain from lecturing those of us living and trying to do this thankless work. You people should face your working roads, and light and let us build this thing how we can. Help us when you can but your judgement is rejected! Thank you!
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Beyonce built a testing center for her hometown! I built a testing center for my hometown. I am basically Beyonce now! You can’t tell me nothing! 🐝🐝🐝 #beygood
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Tell your banks to fund biomedical research centers for the next 5 years. Tell them to fund oxygen supplies. Tell them to fund a bioengineering school. Tell them to build ppe factories. Tell them to open a latex factory! Tell them to do the hard things!
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First Cardiology performed Open Heart Surgery by a local team today! I am so excited and feel so proud that this is now available in Nigeria. Plus your favorite startup that could supplied the blood they needed! How cool is that?! ❤️❤️
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8 years ago, Kola and I got married. A few days later, I was car jacked and they took my wedding rings. Of all the things they stole, this was the most devastating. We’ve had mis-matched rings ever since. Today we got new sets and it just feels like a lovely milestone. ❤️
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LifeBank is the little startup that could. For 3 years, we’ve been quietly innovating, building, and rescuing people in our community! Thank you @google for helping us tell our story! Y’all we are on the google homepage! Happy World Blood Donor Day! about.google/intl/en-GB/stor…
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Whine all you want but Beyoncé is still better. Someone does a 2 hour straight dance routine after having major abdominal surgery and carrying and delivering 2 live human beings in 8 months! MJ can never!
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So I almost died yesterday. I am convinced the pilot lost control of the plane for 3 minutes. I screamed my soul out and wept the whole of the flight. I’m so glad to be alive, see my family and to love on them. I’m never entering a Boeing plane again! You can’t pay me to do it!
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You can back President Buhari. You can back Atiku. You can back Aunty Obi. You can back whoever you want. It does not make you evil, it does not mean you've sold your soul. It just means you have a different vision for the country. It is allowed! We all need to calm down.
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Guys, we are in trouble on Lagos Ibadan Expressway. Packed buses being allowed to move without a pass. They just bribe the officers. I saw it myself just now. I’m scared!
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If the case load for #COVID19 keeps going up! Nigeria will need ventilators, respirators & ICU beds. We believe all hands must be on deck. We’ve built a national register for critical equipment. We’ve reached 200 hospitals and found 126 units! Test it out quip.lifebank.ng!
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My passion for maternal health started over 11 years ago in Kano! After grinding for a decade, and becoming a Mother myself, the business that was built to rescue women in childbirth is finally in Kano! I am so emotional and proud! Sanu Kano! We are here! ❤️ #LifeBank
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Ladies, if you have a full time job, and you do ALL (most) the chores in your house, cook most meals, and look after the children, you are going to die fast and you will look terrible while you are alive. Demand he help you or hire someone. Enjoy this life, you only have one!
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This is Hauwa Liman. A few hours ago, Boko Haram executed her and stole her future. Her only crime was being a health worker who cared for Nigeria’s most vulnerable people in the North! I am here to bear witness to a life of service. We will not forget you. Rest Sister!
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Last night, we got a call from a hospital in Ikorodu but the team was like err. The Dad was desperate; his baby girl had sickle cell and she was in trouble and needed blood. So we took the order. We got there 2 hours and 30 minutes later and saved the day. #BloodNinja #Riders
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Please wear a mask. Please wear a mask. Please wear a mask. This country cannot take another lock down. Please wear a mask!
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Since we launched AirBank we’ve moved about 2,000 units to hospitals both fee paying, and for free! To isolation centers for COVID-19, and to normal clinics for pneumonia for kids. I’m so proud of the AirBank Team and I cant wait for this product to be widely available in Africa!
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Adire hasn't developed. Textiles died a long time ago. China is now producing Dutch wax. Our lace are made in St. Galen. Aso Oke never updated to softer wool. Ancient leather production is still stuck in ancient times. No development. No progress.
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Judge Nigerians with Iyin, Bosun, with Odun and Oyin! Judge us with Anthony Joshua and Dr. Olutoye! Judge Nigerians with Chinedu from Max and Chimamanda. Judge us with Justices Oputa and Oso! Judge us with Wole Soyinka and Fela Kuti and Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, not with Invictus!
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Listen, we’ve built a business with revenues in millions ($), we’ve stopped like 50,000 people from dying; most are women and children, FIFTY THOUSAND (like… we count them), we’ve digitized the supply chain for 3 products, innovated like lives depended on it (because it does).
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So the story of BOAT by LifeBank began 2 years ago. A clinic called us in a panic. Someone needed 5 pints of blood. We found the pints in our database and our MD Rider was already at the blood bank, then they called that they only need 2 bags so we adjusted and delivered.
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Quietly moving 22,000 units of blood, oxygen, medicines, and medical samples for 4.5 years with $500k in capital, and 45 team members in 3 cities and running 24/7, never shutting down, with no grants, is hard but we like it!
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Today I spent my day at 3 isolation centers in Lagos and I am just humbled at the incredible sacrifice of everyone who works there! I’m floored by their calm and their grace under terrifying conditions! May God protect them!
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Now wondering if I can have my boy skip Social Studies in school. Teacher says the Mom cooks and takes care of the home. My son was like my mommy does not cook. It’s Miss Mary that cooks. So now he has taken to calling Miss Mary his second Mommy! 😡😡😡
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It all started with this tweet. I remember feeling deeply moved by his story. 5 hospitals and no Oxygen! That seemed unacceptable to me. I knew that I won’t be able to look away! And that I was going to do something and luckily, the most amazing team in the world, agreed!
So 5 hospitals didn't have oxygen and we lost you, Chris! 5 goddamned hospitals! Loving this country is HARD!!! Nigeria sucks...😢😢💔💔💔
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AirBank by @LifeBankNigeria is LIVE! I am so thrilled guys. We worked so hard to figure out how to help our most vulnerable citizens, children under the age of 5! Now access to Oxygen is just one phone call away 24 hours and 7 days a week! Let’s go! lifebank.ng/airbank
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Happy #T35 birthday to me today. God has been so good to me throughout #T34! I learnt how to be disciplined and I’m so grateful. The theme for this year is care! The goal is to care for all of my people. I have been eating cake all day! What an amazing life! Whew! #BirthdayGirl
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There are a million NOIs in the world and we are behind her. We wish her the best as she goes to lead the World Trade Organization. She has shown us that we can and because she’s doing it, we will as well! This is the day that the Lord has made and my heart is glad! #AnkaraArmy
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Today at @LifeBankNigeria we've had our busiest day. We moved about 30 units and helped 15 patients. How cool is that?!
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Government Health workers are underpaid overworked and they are trying their best! Please don’t attack them! We need them ALL alive!
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Friends, are you ready? We are going all out to show her how we love her so! #AnkaraArmy get ready! It may take 2 people to get the gele tied properly (how does she do it?) Get your necklace, your spectacle, your Ankara ready! N100k cash price for the best dressed! #NoiGoesToWTO
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Raise your daughters in a household where their Dads do domestic chores! It is so essential to their psyche! My father always does the dishes in my house while I was growing up, so now I refuse to do all the house chores.
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Thank you @Google for telling our story! 🐝🖤✊🏾
Nigeria has the fourth highest maternal death rate. Hospitals rely on blood banks in the city of Lagos, but deliveries often arrive too late. See how the team at @LifeBankNigeria uses @googlemaps to improve blood access and save lives → g.co/lifebank
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Feminism in marriage isn't a battle for dominance but a beautifully complex partnership where if one partner gets tired or discouraged, the other partner holds up the ship.
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I’m excited for El Rufai’s win because here is a man who stood up for children and took a massive risk and still won a second term! Now your governor won’t have any excuse for why he can’t fire bad teachers, face the unions, and do right by Nigeria’s children!
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There are many women like me in Nigeria. Comfortably middle class. When SARS see us, they call us ‘ma’. We cannot let our experience of them shield us from the truth of their murderors rampage. It won’t shield our kids. We have to see and bear witness and demand that we #ENDSARS!
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Yesterday, I lost my grandmother - Cecilia Arinola - She helped to raise hundreds of kids who she didn’t birth, me included. She was the center for many of us. She was 82, I thought we had more time. I thought she’d live forever. I’m heartbroken.
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The things that kill people in Nigeria / Africa's are so ridiculous! Like death by glove shortage. Death by no oxygen. Death by lack of proper lab testing. Death by fake drugs. Death by absenteeism. Death by no emergency care. Death by carelessness. It's so completely pedestrian.
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I work from 9am till about 10pm 5 days a week. And 11 - 6pm on Saturdays on average. I also travel for about 1 week every month! That’s my life. A lot of women lead these type of lives and we need to have that conversation about the changing roles of women in our society!
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How do you talk about spending 3 full years, a ton of money, hundred trips to Abuja & Kaduna just hoping to get permission to do something innovative for your country & being hit with a stonewall of indifference & ignorance? And having to go to another country to execute! How?
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If there is one thing I want you to know, it’s that we are who we’ve been waiting for and we are not afraid. Thank you @cartierawards for this honour. Ladies and Gentlemen, meet the 2020 Sub - Saharan Africa Laureate. If you are a woman in business, watch this space! 🖤🐝
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Happy birthday, Nigeria! This time last year I was being dragged for saying I see progress. I’m back to say I still see progress - our country is still standing, and getting better! It has many problems, I live them every day, nevertheless, I will not despair and I won’t leave!
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AirBank is now available 24/7 in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Ibadan, Kano, Jigawa, Nassarawa and Nairobi! We deliver emergency oxygen on a bike, and scheduled delivery via trucks! If you are ever in trouble, call @LifeBankCares! We truly care! 💙
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We should create a National Trust Fund for Nigerian police! We know they are under paid so we have to invest in them as we are demanding reform! NPF has to be reformed but they cannot be hungry too! We should open the fund up for all of us to donate as well.
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Thank you sir, Mr. President @MBuhari for this kind recognition! We will continue to do the work and inspire a critical mass of our people to solve our problems and allow Nigeria to live up to her great potential. With your support, we will take LifeBank to the skies in Nigeria!
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Doctors/Nurses will rather have PPE than hazard allowance! Because even if we 10X your allowance, it means nothing when you are dead!
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My guy and I have a date tonight so I have been telling everyone at LifeBank about my date. I had to leave work early and I’m so excited. They think I’ve lost my mind because again we’ve been married for 7 years but I don’t care, I’m just excited! #DateNight #OneLife ❤️😜
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People like me are not meant to build the future! I was born female, I am a mom, My creator made me generously (shitta amala hasn’t helped), I didn’t go to big schools, and I have no network (my parents were teachers)! But when you live in your purpose, anything is possible!
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Nigeria should put out a national purchase order for anyone who can make PPEs! And let’s seed factories and small scale makers! This is the time to start making things! We cannot rely on other countries! There’s no point in making it easier to ship from outside! Make things!
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I can leave Nigeria today. If I give in to despair, I will have to leave. Many of you cursing me out have left! For me to stay and build, I have to acknowledge what’s working and commit to scaling that. The only way to stay is to do the work joyfully! Joyful impatient warrior!
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Monday & Moses - Thank you for facing down bullets, sticks, and all sorts to get blood to our hospitals this afternoon. I’m so proud of y’all! Guys Team LifeBank have made it to the hospital. Thank you for all your help!
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Last night I had a nightmare about James Nwafor from Awkuzi Sars! I don’t know where Awkuzi is but I know this man is a monster! I am so ashamed that we let this monster terrorize so many for so long! For this reason we must bring justice to him swiftly! #JusticeforSARSvictims
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Today, @LifeBankNigeria @CAP_PLC @RisinTideAfrica & @LSMOH launched a 24/7 free oxygen service for Covid19 patients! #AirBank has been in service for over a year and we are so glad to do more with it! Today we’ve expanded that service to the 3 isolation centers in Lagos State! 💙
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Omg guys!!!! I met GREYWORM!!!! Greyworm!!!! Guys!!!! I’ve never been so happy in my life!
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Guys, let’s give blood at the General Hospital, Lagos Island today or tomorrow! The victims have been taken there and the blood bank is really lovely! It will only take 1 hour and the pint you give can help up to 3 people! #LifeSavers #BloodDonors
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Around this time 5 years ago, I had been laboring for 19 hours, I didn’t know I still had 7 more hours to go! Thank God for his favor. My little boy is 5!!! 🥰💙🎊
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James Nwafor of Awkuzi Sars hasn’t been found or arrested. There’s no discernible man hunt for this alleged monster. They’ve kept quiet. This man took so much from so many and he is apparently going to get away with it! I am nauseated and I’m afraid! Find this man! Find him!
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Yesterday, @lifebankcares signed an agreement with Yobe State Ministry of Health to digitize their supply chain using our technology! This agreement will guarantee zero stock out of critical supplies across hospitals in the state and serve 2 million people! #hospitalsofthefuture
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So Ojuju Calabar worked so well in the past, but this evening, during bath time, toddler retorted that he will beat Ojuju Calabar and send him to naughty corner. 😨😨 #Shook
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My apologies for the dramatic tweet last night. I hadn’t slept in a while and I hadn’t seen my family. I was traveling back home from a different city and was reflecting on the last 2 months! Everyone at the frontline have these kinda thoughts. We all appreciate your prayers!❤️
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There are a few people who are kind, selfless, and have power! @Chikwe_I is one of them and he is such a great model of what to do when you get into leadership. Thank you for your service. Happy birthday Chikwe! May all the good things come! ❤️
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To the bubble argument - I have been kidnapped & carjacked. Medical error almost killed me & my child. Government agencies have tried to kill LifeBank! I have been cheated and I have been poor. Hell I got chickenpox in a public bus one time. I am not in a bubble! I see progress!
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Greatness comes from unexpected places, this is what Jack Ma’s career taught me! My story is completely unexpected. I am a plump 33 year old black mother, no one expects anything special from me! I am so thrilled to be in the running as Africa’s Business Hero 2019! God is good!
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