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Organ harvesting is now a common place in different parts of Nigeria, just as kidnappings and ritual killings. Sadly,  this ugly development continues unabated with the active involvement of some of those in the health, law enforcement professions and government circles.  Indeed, the hunger and poverty in the land and the insensitive  nature, attitude and behavior of the government has forced  a number of Nigerians to look for organ harvesting, kidnappings and ritual killings as certain means to various ends. This is disturbing.

 God our creator   is honored and worshiped because He alone  can clear our record. God offers  forgiveness for all our sins when we ask for it. Psalm 130 (A Song of degrees.) Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD. 2 Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. 3 If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? 4 But  there is  forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared. 5 I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. 6 My soul  waiteth  for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning:  I say, more than  they that watch for the morning. 7 Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD  there is  mercy, and with him  is  plenteous redemption. 8 And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

 The Minister of Health has been advised  to ensure the renovation and rehabilitation of obsolete and moribund health facilities in government-owned hospitals  across the country. This advice was given by a member of the National Executive Council(NEC) of the Non-Academic Staff Union and Associated Institutions(NASU), who doubles as the  branch chairman of the union at the  University College Hospital(UCH), Ibadan, Nigeria, Comrade Kehinde Abiona. ''The Minister of Health needs to look inwards and ensure that the moribund facilities that are the health sector are revived. Since the President Olusegun Obasanjo administration carried out the only major facility upgrade  in 2005, nothing has been done by successive administrations. It is almost about two decades since the major overhaul has been done.'' Comrade Abiona also called on the Minister to ignore  the agitation for the privatization  of government-owned hospitals saying, ''such agitati...