Abandoned Hope: How Nigeria’s Multi-Billion Naira Cancer Centre, About 200 Acquired Vehicles Lie In Ruins While Funds Flow For New Vehicles, Medical TourismBy ONOJA BABA AND PAUL UTABOR

On the ever-busy Umaru Musa Yar’Adua Expressway in Abuja stands a towering monument to Nigeria’s broken promises — the International Cancer Centre (ICC). Conceived in 2008 by Mrs. Turai Yar’Adua, wife of the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, the centre was meant to be a beacon of hope for the poor and a game-changer in cancer diagnosis, treatment, research, and education. Today, nearly 17 years later, it has become a ghost town, its expensive medical equipment and hundreds of vehicles rusting away under the scorching sun, while cancer patients across the country die in their tens of thousands each year. Watch the full story carefully documented below:The post Abandoned Hope: How Nigeria’s Multi-Billion Naira Cancer Centre, About 200 Acquired Vehicles Lie In Ruins While Funds Flow For New Vehicles, Medical TourismBy ONOJA BABA AND PAUL UTABOR first appeared on Secret Reporters.

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