Lucky Boy Comes Back To Life A Day Before Doctors Turned Off His Life Support

Miracle! This 13-year-old boy opened his eyes a day before doctors were due to turn off his life support machine, Metro UK reports.

Trenton McKinley’s parents had just signed papers to have their son’s organs donated after he suffered a severe brain trauma.

He suffered a severe brain injury two months ago when the car he was in was flipped over in a crash. The teenager, from Alabama, suffered seven skull fractures and has been in hospital ever since.

‘I hit the concrete and the trailer landed on top of my head. After that, I don’t remember anything,’ Trenton told Fox 10.

His parents were told by doctors that their son ‘would never be normal again’.

‘All I saw was a stretcher with his feet hanging out. He was dead a total of 15 minutes,’ Trenton’s mother, Jennifer Reindl, said.

‘When he came back, they said he would never be normal again. They told me the oxidation problems would be so bad to his brain, that he would be a vegetable if he even made it.’

Trenton was barely breathing in the days following the crash and his mum made the heartbreaking decision to sign papers to donate his organs.

‘Five kids needed organs that matched him,’ Jennifer said. ‘It was unfair to keep bringing him back, because it was just damaging his organs even more.’

A day before doctors were going to take Trenton off of life support, the 13-year-old began showing signs of brain activity and movement.

He started breathing on his own and in late March, he woke up speaking full sentences, his mother wrote on a Facebook fundraising page. Trenton still has a long road to recovery and has had surgery on his brain three times already.

He will need another operation to reconnect a missing piece of his skull, his mother wrote online.

Trenton said he believes he went to heaven before he came back to life.

‘I was in an open field walking straight,’ Trenton said. ‘There’s no other explanation but God. There’s no other way. Even doctors said it.’

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VP Osinbajo Fires Back: Releases Details Of Grand Corruption Under Jonathan

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s office has revealed details of mind-boggling corruption during the Goodluck Jonathan era and even called them a tip of the iceberg.

The details were released in a reaction to the accusations by pals of former President Jonathan, who claimed Osinbajo made unsubstantiated allegations about grand corruption during the Jonathan era…

The statement by senior special assistant on media, Laolu Akande, said the Vice President did not at anytime accuse Jonathan in person, but only said the blatant corruption cases were committed during his presidency.

The full statement:

“WE have read reports attributed to “a media office of former President Goodluck Jonathan”. It is clear from the foul language of the authors that the statement could not have come from the former President, but from the motley group of loud and rude characters whose brief seems to be to deny all and anything said against the former PDP government and to do so in the crassest possible language.

The alleged spokespersons of the former President say that facts long in the public domain, some even being used to prosecute several corruption cases are lies and that those of us in government restating these well known facts are liars.

They accuse Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, of lying against the former President or his government citing their involvement in the stealing of three billion dollars, while speaking recently at The Platform event on the 1st of May.

Just for clarity, I quote the Vice President “Grand corruption remains the most enduring threat to our economy. Three Billion US dollars was stolen in what was called the strategic alliance contacts in 2013, three Nigerians were responsible, today three billion dollars is one trillion Naira and our budget is 7trillion! ….”

Two issues emerge. First, no mention is made of the former President.

Second, the story is not only true, it has been in the public domain for almost three years and it is the subject of criminal investigation and trials both here and in the UK.

The spokespersons also say that the allegations of corruption against the PDP government are mere lies. For clarity, the facts are laid out as follows:

As the Vice President said, $3B was stolen in the so- called NNPC Strategic Alliance Contracts. The three persons involved are Jide Omokore, Kola Aluko and the former Petroleum Resources Minister Diezani Alison- Maduekwe. The companies of both Jide Omokore and Kola Aluko lifted Nigerian crude oil and kept the proceeds. The total sums converted is in excess of three billion dollars including royalties, taxes and fees unpaid for the asset from which the crude was taken. The case is the subject of a trial in Nigeria, and criminal investigation in the US and UK, and the assets of all three individuals have been forfeited in Nigeria, the US and the UK.

The criminal diversion and theft of sums in excess of $2.5 billion meant for purchase of arms to prosecute the war against Boko Haram: The first phase of the investigations revealed several sordid details, many of the assets of culprits have been seized from them and they are facing trial.

The release of the sum of $289m in cash on February 25, 2015: Documents including cash vouchers indicate that the the sum of $289,202,382 was taken from the Joint Venture (JV) Cash Call Account No. 000-0000-11658-366 of the NNPC/NAPIMS with JP Morgan Chase Bank, New York, USA.

N70 billion was released in parts from the national treasury between January 8 and February 25, 2015.

In another illegal disbursement, 25th August 2014, N60B in cash in tranches of N40billion and N20billion: The sum was not tied to any project or procurement and was then shared between two security agencies under the supervision of the then NSA. Most of these sums ended up in the hands of senior PDP members some of whom have returned parts of the loot. Some are standing trial for these offenses. These facts are in the public domain.

There was yet another set of illegal fund withdrawals under one week between January 8and 16, 2015, where the sum of N1.5 billion was released in three tranches of N300m, N400m and N800m respectively. This money was released from the MEA Research Library Account

Another document showed that N10 billion was released to the Office of the National Security Adviser by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on September 15, 2014. The money was released in tranches of foreign exchange of $47 million, $5 million, 4 million Euros and 1.6 million Euros. A letter from the Office of the NSA in November 2014 further showed that the monies were released as ‘funds for special services’. This particular release of N10B was sourced in November 2014 from a N40 Billion CBN released funds meant for Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR. Investigators showed that this money was released for the PDP Presidential Primaries.

Lamido Sanusi, then CBN Governor was sacked for speaking up about the over $20billion missing from oil proceeds.

These cases of grand corruption and open looting of public resources pauperized Nigeria and left us with little or no savings in the years when oil was selling at 100 to 114 dollars a barrel and we were producing 2.1 million barrels a day. When in 2015 oil prices went even as low as between 28 and 35 dollars a barrel and oil production fell to less than one million barrels a day we had no buffer, no savings, to tide us through.

The amount released from CBN in cash on a single day, ie the US$289M ( N88.1Bn) is enough to fund 244,000 N-Power graduates for a year, or pay for 1.2Billion school meals or complete half of Lagos -Ibadan or half of Abuja -Kaduna -Kano roads.

The Vice President also made the point that in 2014 with oil prices as high as 120 dollars per barrel, the total capital released for Power, Works, Housing, Defence, Transport, Agriculture and Defence were just N152Billion for the whole year.

By contrast, the Buhari administration committed N578Bn to the same Ministries in 2016 with oil prices as low as US$28 per barrel as part of the strategy to end the recession. The government was able to do more with less by stopping grand corruption and impunity.

Recently, the Minister Coordinating the economy in that administration has written a revealing book : Fighting Corruption is Dangerous: The Story Behind the Headlines. Who knows, perhaps her stories too are all lies!”

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Man Survives After Being ‘Attacked While Sleeping’ In Delta

A young man identified as Ukolo Way, has taken to social media to narrated how he is lucky to be alive after allegedly surviving a strange attack in Asaba, the Delta state capital.

According to him, the poison was sent to him while he was sleeping…

He revealed that this is the second time he’s surviving such attack which nearly killed him.

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Rich Kidnapper Evans Causes Drama In Lagos High Court

Billionaire kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike alias Evans, who was brought to Igboshere High Court sitting in the Lagos Island, reportedly caused a scene this morning.

Evans is facing counts of charges bordering on kidnapping and unlawful possession of firearms, refused to come down from prison van (black maria) to enter the court not until the sitting judge ordered he should be bundled inside the court.

SR gathered that the prison warder also said that Evans had earlier refused to follow them from prison but he was dragged.

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Sad! Stubborn Cab Driver Dies In Accident Minutes After Refusing To Heed Advice In Lagos

A Nigerian man, Ashara Samuel Adekunle Aska has cautioned people on the need to avoid reckless driving after a driver lost his life in a fatal road accident because he refused to heed warning from passengers.

According to Aska, the driver was warned about his reckless driving but he refused to heed to the words of advice leading to his death. The sad story…

“Good morning family and friends in here.

I am writing this article so you all can help me to thank God for spearing my life again. Early hours of yesterday, I was travelling from Abeokuta to Ajah for a business trip and I went to the popular Kuto park to board a car and on getting there the car I saw was full and I was asked to wait for the next turn. When it got to the next turn I rushed to the front of the car to seat because I was the first to get there and eventually I used the seat belt unconsciously and they started calling on passengers so the car can be filled up and we leave, all along I was seated still in the car I didn’t comeout except from the bottle water I bought from a little girl at the park that was all, thereafter the car got filled up and we started moving.

When we got to the front of governors office at Oke mosan it was remaining small for the driver to hit a bike man from behind and I raised an alarm and told him why is he not concentrating and he started arguing with me and the rest passagers joined me to shout at him and he kept quite and not long the driver apologize saying he knows what he’s doing that in fact he has been driving before I was born that I should not be angry after all that he knows what he’s doing that we’ve nothing to fear.

Then we continued our journey, the driver branched to a petrol station he filled up his tank and we faced the journey proper suddenly I noticed he was attending to his phone then he was looking down not facing the front suddenly he faced the front and our car jumped on the culvert diving the car somersaulted 5 times.

At first I didn’t notice it was an accident I thought it was a movie or dream until the car tumbled the third time I notice it was an accident and I started shouting Jesus, eventually the car stopped and I found the driver lifeless in my front then I removed the seat belt and came out of the vehicle if not for the seat belt and God intervention I would have been a gone person.

Out of all passengers in the vehicle I can only see myself and a man as the only survivor in the car with no injury or stuff.

Please family and friends help me thank God for his faithfulness and love over me, if it was a car I bought I know many will be greeting me or if I eventually finished building my house many will also congratulates me.

Please, my family and friends help me thank God for keeping me alive and counting me worthy despite my unfaithfulness, I don’t know where to start from… Pls join me in thanking God… Hallelujah…”

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How To Stop Whishing…and Start Living Your Life

Let’s face it, we are busy people. There are always things going on and there are no signs of life slowing down.

Work. Sports. Church. Spouse. Friends. Kids… This ever-growing list is the perfect excuse for not taking action.

I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news first: there is no perfect time. Now some good news: there is no perfect time.

Why is that good news?
Because it frees you from searching for something that doesn’t exist. It removes the excuses you’ve been telling yourself to avoid taking action. It brings honesty front and center and forces you to deal with it.

And you know what else? It’s Biblical. Solomon talks about facing the uncertainties in life in Ecclesiastes.

“Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.”
– Ecclesiastes 11:4 (NIV)

When you wait for everything to line up just so, you’ll be waiting forever. The Living Bible translation puts that same passage this way: “If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done.”

As a personal trainer, I hear the time excuse maybe more than any other excuse. I get it. We all have a lot going on in life.

Yet just because I understand the excuse doesn’t mean I agree with it. I have a maxim that you may not want to hear: We do the things we most want to do.

If it’s important enough to you, you make time for it. That’s why I don’t ever say, “I don’t have time for _______.” Instead, I’ll say, “I won’t make time for ________.”

The time excuse certainly isn’t limited to fitness. Perhaps you’ve put off daily quiet times because you can’t create the ideal schedule for them. Maybe you’re not having regular date nights with your spouse because the calendar is packed with other stuff. Or maybe you’re not in church regularly because you’re too tired on the weekends from all your activities during the week.

Keep in mind, this is part of the enemy’s strategy, to keep us “busy,” too busy for things that matter most.

He’ll even deceive us into wearing our busyness as a badge of honor. It’s as if activities equals productivity and productivity equals worth.

It doesn’t have to be this way. 

We serve the Great Redeemer. Our God is the God who put the hands of time in motion. He has the power to slow the clock on our behalf so that we can honor Him mind, body, and soul.

If you truly want the things you say you want, the things He wants for you, stop watching the wind.

Don’t stare at the sky or wait on the weather.

To reap you must plant.

The day has come.

There is no better time to live life right than to start living it today… by His strength… for His glory.

[written by Matthew Pryor]

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More Details On Story Of Tenants Flogged By "Soldiers Hired’ By Lagos Landlord

Some soldiers, who were reportedly acting on the orders of a Lagos landlord, on Saturday allegedly tortured an asthmatic patient on Lekki Palm City Estate, Ajah, Lagos State.

It was learnt that the soldiers, who were five in number, stormed the estate with the landlord and an agent after a disagreement…

The soldiers were said to have flogged a tenant, identified only as Ayoyemi and his younger brother, till the latter passed out.

The victim, who was reported to be asthmatic, was rushed to a hospital where he was allegedly stabilised.

A resident, who did not want to be identified, said trouble started after Ayoyemi, a nurse, moved into the house in March 2018.

He said, “The tenant needed an apartment and went on an online advert platform where he got the contact of the agent, called Dominic. The agent informed him that the apartment available was N1.3m per annum.

“Ayoyemi paid N1m, including N100,000 agency fee. He later paid an additional N250,000, remaining N50,000, which he promised to pay later.

“After all the payments, the agent told him that the landlord would like to speak to him on the telephone. The landlord said he did not want young men in the apartment. Ayoyemi was angry that he was just telling him after he had paid. He asked for a refund, but the landlord refused.

“Last week Saturday, some policemen barged into the house and claimed that they came from Alagbon with a petition to search the room. They saw a laptop in Ayoyemi’s room and asked what he was doing with it. He unlocked the laptop for them and after the search, they did not find anything incriminating.”

The resident said on Thursday, the agent came to the house and Ayoyemi challenged him for not picking his calls during the time the policemen visited the house.

He explained that Ayoyemi’s younger brother alleged that the agent and the landlord gave their names (the siblings) to the police.

The unidentified brother was said to have been involved in a scuffle with the agent during which Dominic’s phone fell and the screen was shattered.

The disagreement reportedly made the tenant to decide to quit the apartment and he asked the agent to call the landlord on the spot to communicate his decision to him.

“During the telephone conversation, the landlord said he only gave the tenant’s name to the residents association on the estate. He told Ayoyemi that he would give him a notice to quit the following day.

“Later, the landlord changed his words and said if he wanted to leave he could leave, but he would not refund the rent until he found a new tenant.

“On Friday, while the tenant was away at work, the agent came back to the house with a policeman from the Ajiwe Police Station. The policeman spoke to Ayo on the telephone and said his attention was needed at the station,” he added.

Punch learnt that Ayoyemi promised to honour the invitation.

However, on Saturday, the tenant was reportedly preparing to go out when some soldiers, accompanied by the landlord and agent, allegedly stormed the house.

“Three of the soldiers were in uniform; one wore camouflage trousers and the last one just put on a camouflage cap. The five soldiers did not wear name tags.

“It was the new tenant that they beat up first. When his brother came outside, they beat him up as well. They did not allow them to utter a word. They used belts and AC hose to torture the three of them, including a friend who had visited. But Ayoyemi’s brother was the worst hit. When he collapsed, they asked Ayoyemi to get his inhaler. When the brother could not find it on time, the landlord and the agent dashed into their cars and left.

“The estate Chief Security Officer later reprimanded the landlord for using soldiers and said they could have invited policemen to handle the matter,” the resident said.

Punch gathered that the police at the Ajiwe division later informed Ayoyemi that the agent, Dominic, petitioned the police, saying he was attacked at the house and money was stolen from his bag.

When Punch contacted the nurse on Sunday, he confirmed the incident, but said some landlords on the estate had begged him to let the matter go.

He noted that some friends had also advised him against taking up the case.

Efforts to reach Dominic and the landlord were abortive.

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Chike Oti, said the police did not have a record of the incident.

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