Tuesday 23 April 2013

UNBELIEVABLE! Mother Loses Her Triplets Because She Can’t Pay N4,000


For Temitope Sanni, the birth of a set of triplets has become more of a curse than blessing: Shortly after they were born, the babies, all boys, died one after the other. Reason being that she and her husband could not raise the N4,000 required of them to buy drugs.
Because of the family’s indigent condition, she delivered the babies at home…
In the parlour of their Face-Me-I-Face-You house at Ilogbo, a town close to Sango-Ota, Ogun State.
The home delivery was carried out by her niece. Seeing that the kids were too fragile, the mother and father were advised to take them to a clinic. At a nearby clinic, Damisile Medical Centre, the family was advised to rush the babies to a general hospital.With N2,500 as all they could gather, the family rushed the babies to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), but were told that there were no beds to admit the babies and their mother.The mother and father dashed out of LASUTH and went to the Federal Government-owned Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH). By the time they arrived at LUTH, one of the babies had died. At LUTH, they were told to go buy some drugs for the remaining two boys. The total cost of the drugs was put at N4,000. They couldn’t raise N4,000 and nobody in the hospital was willing to help.
According to Nigerian Compass, having paid transport fare from their home, first to LASUTH and then to LUTH, the total money left on the mother, a petty trader, and her husband was N1,850.
In frustration, they left for home hoping to raise money from family friends. By the time they got home some 30 minutes after, another of the boys had died. Few hours after, the third also died.
PLEASE: do we have government in this country? We observed that ex-militants are giving billions of Naira, Boko Haram is being begged to take amnesty involving billions of Naira…
…but National Assembly say they can’t make financial provision for the poor and vulnerable. How sad!

Saturday 20 April 2013

List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita - 2011-2012/13

List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article includes several lists of countries by gross domestic product at purchasing power parity per capita, the value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given year divided by the average (or mid-year) population for the same year.
Gross domestic product (GDP) dollar estimates are derived from purchasing power parity (PPP) calculations, per capita. Such calculations are prepared by various organizations, including theInternational Monetary Fund and the World Bank. As estimates and assumptions have to be made, the results produced by different organizations for the same country tend to differ, sometimes substantially. PPP figures are estimates rather than hard facts, and should be used with caution.
Comparisons of national wealth are also frequently made on the basis of nominal GDP, which does not reflect differences in the cost of living in different countries (See List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita). Using a PPP basis is arguably more useful when comparing generalized differences in living standards on the whole between nations because PPP takes into account the relative cost of living and the inflation rates of the countries, rather than using just exchange rates which may distort the real differences in income. Other figures include savings (not just income), such as national wealth. GDP per capita is often considered an indicator of a country's standard of living;[1] although this can be problematic because GDP per capita is not a measure of personal income. See Standard of living and GDP.
Several economies which are not considered to be countries (the world, EU, and some dependent territories) are included in the list because they appear in the sources. These economies are not ranked in the charts here, but are listed in sequence by GDP for comparison. Non-sovereign entities, former countries or other special groupings are marked in italics.
All figures are in current international dollars (Intl. $).