Woman delivers sextuplets • First in Nigeria.

Above are the Harris sextuplets who are the first Afro-American sextuplets in the U.S

NIGERIA recorded the birth of its first set of sextuplets on Saturday at the Olabisi Onabanjo Teaching Hospital (OOTH), Sagamu, when a woman, Mrs Amuda Ajoke Bello, aged 32, gave birth to the babies around 4.00am. Speaking with Sunday Tribune, the Chairman, Board of Directors of the Teaching Hospital, Professor Femi Ajayi, said the woman was delivered of the babies through caesarean section around 4.00am on Saturday by two doctors.

Professor Ajayi disclosed that the woman had two kids before the recent delivery. The babies, three boys and three girls, who are under intensive care unit at the hospital, weighed between 650, 600, 850, while the three others weigh 900 grams respectively. The woman, who hails from Ijebu Igbo, in Ogun State, is said to be in stable condition. Professor Ajayi attri-buted the feat and the success of the birth to “pure professionalism.”

This was the first time the nation would be recording this highest birth as four were delivered at one hospital in Minna, Niger State, last year. The father, a battery charger, was said to have fled when he received the news. The Ogun State Commissioner for Health, Dr.Mrs Abiodun Oduwole was on ground to see the mother and the children. The management of the Hospital has decided to take care of the medical bill in a bid to lessen the burden of the parents of the sextuplets.

That is my country. OMG, the father fled probably due to the poverty issue.

Source: Nigerian Tribune