{"id":27305,"date":"2014-05-31T06:05:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T05:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=27305"},"modified":"2014-05-31T06:05:40","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T05:05:40","slug":"dora-akunyili-is-not-dead-rumour-very-upsetting-says-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/dora-akunyili-is-not-dead-rumour-very-upsetting-says-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Dora Akunyili is not Dead&#8230;Rumour very upsetting says family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The family of Professor Dora Akunyili is \u201cvery baffled\u201d by\u00a0persistent rumours of the death of the former minister of information and communication.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Although the family has been forced to issue denials almost on a daily basis, the rumours have refused to die down. Rumours started circulating about her \u201cdeath\u201d in the last three weeks, forcing her media aide, Isaac Umunna, to issue\u00a0regular bulletins on her health since she was flown to India on an emergency last month.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Again on Friday, the rumours came \u00a0up again . A\u00a0website reported that she was dead, eliciting messages of \u201cRIP\u201d on the social media. \u201cShe is not dead,\u201d a member of the family, who declined to be named \u201cbecause I am talking reluctantly \u201cIt\u2019s appearing to us that while many people are genuinely concerned about her health, some are actually wishing her dead. We cannot understand the motive.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the family is \u201cbaffled\u201d by the unrelenting rumours. \u201cWe get calls almost everyday from\u00a0people asking, \u2018Is it true?\u2019 We are very hopeful that she will recover. The doctors say her condition is improving. Her husband, Dr. Chike Akunyili, updates us regularly. He is a medical doctor. Our prayer is that she will be well and come back home. These rumours are killing us,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Umunna who spoke earlier Friday said &#8221; It is just a wicked rumour. This is about the fifth time they will say she is dead. How many times would she die. She is responding to treatment and by God&#8217;s grace she would be back home&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0The \u00a0former director-general of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) was recently quoted as sending this message from her hospital bed: \u201cI am comforted by the fact that prayers are going on for me in churches and mosques as well as in private homes. God is answering the prayers. He has already healed me. I am only waiting for the physical manifestation of the healing. I am grateful to all Nigerians. I look forward to recovering and coming back home to rejoice with you all.\u201d The nature of her illness is yet to be made public, but there have been reports of cancer.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Additional reports from thecable.ng<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family of Professor Dora Akunyili is \u201cvery baffled\u201d by\u00a0persistent rumours of the death of the former minister of information and communication. \u00a0Although the family has been forced to issue&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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