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Liver Cancer, Kidney Issues On The Rise In Nigeria – Prof Amodu Reveals

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9 months ago

January 3, 2025

By Dauda Isamail

As Nigerians continue to find ways to adjust to current realities, furmost photo medicine researcher in the country, and Professor of phyto medicine from the Triune Biblical University, USA, Professor Ben Amodu, has warned that liver cancer and chronic kidney disease, including kidney failure is disturbingly on the rise.

Speaking to AljazirahNigeria Newspapers in Abuja yesterday, Prof Amodu said: “Currently liver cancer appears to be on the rise. In the last one week alone, I’ve gotten over seven patients who have come to treat liver cancer. Meanwhile I don’t think I treated more than one case of liver cancer in the last one year.

“So we need to ask ourselves why it is becoming an everyday affair now, not just liver but kidney issues too like Chronic Kidney Disease, CKD and even kidney failure.”

He said authorities in the health sector should not take this alarming rise passively.
“That is what officials in the health sector and in the Federal Ministry of Health as well as the Nigerian Center for Disease Control, NSCDC, as well as other relevant agencies in the health sector should do.

I say this because virtually all my patients have all been to the hospitals for treatment. It is when they seem not to be getting better that they rush down to us here,” he said.

He then expressed surprise that after the Nigerian government had recognised his research into cancer cure over a decade ago, it seems to have forgotten about him and the same research they once recognised after the research was concluded on a most favourable note.

“lMeanwhile this is the same government that asked me to go to Cuba since I was researching into a cure for cancer to see if I could incorporate what they were doing into my cancer cure.

But when I concluded my research and came up with a very effective cure for breast, prostrate, bronchial, liver, abdominal and other forms of cancer, the same government seems to have turned a blind eye to my efforts, despite the fact that our work has gone viral and has gained recognition across the globe.

“But one thing I thank God for is that patients have continued to contact us and those we have successfully treated are not keeping quiet about it.

“Right now we have the needed solution for diabetes, High Blood Pressure, enlarged heart, issues with the eye like cateract, glaucoma etc, malaria, enlarged prostrate, diabetic ulcer, and many more.”

He then called on the ministry of health and all it’s agencies to take the increasing cases of liver cancer as well as kidney issues seriously.

“Let us look inward for solutions to the health issues disturbing our people so we can begin to attract medical tourism to Nigeria,” he concluded.

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NYCN: High Court Bars Gbenga, others from holding election

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6 hours ago

October 7, 2025

The Gleamer

Josl Ajayi

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory has issued an order restraining Comrade Ademola Gbenga, Comrade Okechukwu Nnamene and others from conducting the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) election slated for October 7, pending the determination of the substantive suit before the court.

Justice J. E. Obanor, in an order dated October 6, 2025, in suit no: FCT/HC/CV/3803/2025 and motion no: M/12204/2025, sighted by our correspondent, directed the Inspector General of Police and the Department of State Services (DSS) to enforce the court’s order.

The claimants/applicants in the case are the Incorporated Trustees of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) and Ambassador Sukubo Sara-Igbe Sukubo, representing the existing leadership of the Council.

The defendants include Comr. Ademola Gbenga, Comr. Okechukwu Nnamene, Comr. Abel Abaji, Comr. Alex Allen Akin, Comr. Hassan Mamman, the Inspector General of Police, and the Department of State Services.

It would be recalled that the NYCN, during its National Elective Convention held in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, from September 20 to 22, re-elected Ambassador Sukubo Sara-Igbe Sukubo as President alongside other executives.

However, dissatisfied with the Sukubo-led leadership, Gbenga and his allies formed a parallel group and planned to conduct another election in Abuja on October 7.

Consequently, the court ordered all parties to maintain the status quo regarding the leadership of the NYCN, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.

The Order read in part, “Upon hearing the Motion Ex parte and the accompanying affidavit of. Amb. Sukubo Sara-Igbe Sukubo listening to P. Ulofu ESQ., of counsel to the Applicants praying this Honourable Court for the following:-

“An Order of Interim Injunction restraining the Respondents (Gbenga and others) or any person(s) acting through them or on their behalf from conducting the scheduled election of the 7th day of October, 2025 or taking any further step concerning the subject matter of this suit respectively pending the hearing and determination of the motion on Notice.

“An Order of Interim Injunction directing the Respondents to maintain the status quo with respect to the leadership of the National Youth Council of Nigeria, pending the determination of and determination of the motion on notice.

“An Order directing the 6th (IGP) and 7th (DSS) Defendants/Respondents to enforce the Order of Court restraining the 1st to 5th (Gbenga and others) Defendants, their privies, agents, or howsoever called, conducting the scheduled election of the 7 th day of October, 2025 or taking any further step concerning the subject matter of this suit respectively pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice.

“And for such further or other orders as this Honourable Court may deem fit to make in the circumstances of this suit and or application.

“The court ordered as follows: Application is hereby granted and order made as prayed. Case is adjourned to 16th October, 2025 for hearing of Motion on Notice.”

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