Publisher of The Guardian Newspaper, Maiden Ibru, went emotional on Tuesday, February 2014, at an event held in Lagos when she wept while speaking at the occasion. The wife of the late Minister of Internal Affairs, Alex Ibru, was recounting how her husband died some years ago due to cancer.
She was a guest at the Big War Against Cancer in Nigeria, which was flagged off at Lagos Airport Hotel.
Mrs Ibru was narrated the last two years of the life of her late husband and the trauma she went through.
Practically everyone in the packed hall shed some tears as she narrated in detail the race against time, the huge toll on the family and the lost battle to save the life of her husband from cancer.
She called on all governments in Nigeria and the private sector to take urgent action to ensure that facilities are provided in Nigeria for early detection of cancer for most citizens.
According to her, if the facilities were readily available and her husband’s condition detected on time, he would not have passed on at the time he did, having survived an assassin’s bullet.
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