Lutheran General Hospital Lagos Nigeria?
It's a scacm. Your wife was not in an accident and is not in the hospital. Your wife's phone/laptop have been stolen and hackers are contacting you I can guarantee you haven't seen her on Skype - meaning it's not her Call your country's Embassy ASAP to report this. If your wife is really in trouble THEY will take care of everything Plus why would you pay for oxygen??? You can't get a visa for Nigeria without insurance and the insurance covers your medical bills. Any doctor trying to get you to pay is breaking the law and needs to be reported. So call the Embassy so they can report this doctor to the police to trying to ask for a bribe Not to mention there is NO such hospital as Lutheran General Hospital in Lagos - it doesn't exist So contact the Embassy ASAP. If your wife is American, contact the ACS office at the US consulate in Lagos http://nigeria.usembassy.gov/contact.htm... Telephone: (234)-1-460-3600 (ACS only) -- if you are calling from the US dial 011 first
Is there a St Pauls hospital in Lagos or Ikeja, Nigeria?
If you have not met your fiance in person you are being targeted with a very common scam. The fact that you were contacted by a doctor shows it is a scam. By law doctors cant to speak to anyone but immediate family or govermment officials about a patient. Fiancees are not immediate family as you aren't family. Do not send any money. If your fiance is a foreigner you need to immediately call their country's embassy. The embassy website has an emergency services number for citizens. The embassy will send over a representative to check on your fiance, pay any outstanidng hospital charges and help your fiance get home or transferred to a specialist hospital. Do not speak to the doctor. Do everything through the embassy so you know you are not being scammed. Let them deal with everything as they are in the country and can help your fiance and will communicate back to you. Every week you read another story about another person's online boyfriend or girlfriend or fiance who was in a serious car accident on their way to the airport, went to the hopsital and were called by a doctor. This scam happens at least once a week. Just look on this board alone to see how many people were asing about hospitals in Nigeria because of a bad accident someone they met online was in. This is just a way to steal your money The only St Pauls hospital I can find in Lagos Nigeria is this one: St Paul's Hospital & Maternity Care. 71 0ndo street, by tapa Ebute Meta Lagos State. Tel: 01- 8139224 Call the number above not the one the so-called doctor gave you But instead it's better to call your fiances embassy and let them deal with everything
Is there a hospital in ikeja lagos called tomade general hospital?
There is no hospital by that name anywhere in Nigeria. That address belongs to Sterling Bank, there is no hospital near there http://www.ngex.com/bd/b/Sterling-Bank_3... And Awolowo Road is in Ikoyi not Ikeja Please tell me you didn't meet someone online and now they are claiming they (or their child) needs money for medical treatment. It's a long running scam to steal your money
Does New Life hospital really exist in Lagos Nigeria?
SCAM ANY time a person you meet online but have never met in person asks for money for ANY reason, it's a SCAM There are NO exceptions. Why do romance scammers always have a sick child or parent who needs money for surgery or they are going to die? This story is told hundreds of times a week on dating and social networking sites Read this http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowTopic-g... http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?... http://www.s10forum.com/forum/f42/nigeri... -- look at post #49 where they claim the hospital is in Ghana, not Nigeria NEVER send money to anyone you meet online for any reason. I don't care if they are from Nigeria or Norway or Nebraska
Do you have to pay for hospital care in Nigeria?
You are talking to a scammer - why does every Nigerian romance scammer end up in hospital then needs money for medical treatment?? Let me guess - you met online. She claimed to be falling in love with you very quickly. She said she was coming to visit you, maybe to marry you. And did she get carjacked or in an accident on her way to the airport to visit you, or on her way to the Embassy to get her visa? This story is told thousands of times a year Nigeria has a National Health Insurance Scheme http://www.nhis.gov.ng/ How would any hospital know upfront if you didn't have money to pay? You don't pay in advance for medical treatment. Even in a private hospital you are invoiced, usually 30 days after you are discharged and patients can work out a payment plan with the hospital to pay back the bills. No government hospital in Nigeria can refuse to treat a patient in an emergency who does not have money. If that were the case, poor people would have no access to medical care And if this person claims to be foreign, nobody would ever go to Nigeria without insurance. I hope you haven't sent this person any money
How can I find out for sure if there is a military base in Lagos, Nigeria? How do I find a soldier and do a background check?
Things to look out for:Original contact is unsolicited (random facebook request, etc)Contact is overseas, or somewhere hard to get to from where you areContact will escalate the relationship as rapidly as possible, moving to ‘we have to get married!’ even before meeting in real life for the first time.Contact will soon need funds forTicket/travel to visit youUrgent medical care for themselves/mother/childEmergency funds after they were robbedReplacing something they have lost/damaged and are threatened with loss of job/in fear of their life - common in the ‘fake military person loses gun’ scamWays to check if it’s a scamDo an image search on google (it’s easy). Does the image they have sent you appear connected to any other names? They often steal them.Google their name (in quotes), and possibly add their location. If you are lucky something clear comes up, and you can compare it to what they say - especially things like company profile pages are useful, as these are less likely to be fake. You may also see reports about someone with that name being a scammer. BELIEVE THEM. The scammer has sent out loads of requests, not just to you.Look out for inconsistencies. They are often working on several people at the same time. They may call you (or themselves!) by the wrong name, get confused about who in the family is sick, where they live or what they do, or even their age.They may well suggest you keep the relationship a secret from friends and family. This is because they know an outside observer is far more likely to notice the scam.They will often avoid video chats, as they are working off a script which is harder to do face to face. They will have loads of excuses as to why, even though the have a computer and internet connection.If you say you cannot afford to send them money, they will ask if you have anything to sell, or can get a loan. Would anyone who really loved you demand you get a loan to help them?If you do forward them some money, they will have a great excuse about needing more. The medical treatment was more expensive. The criminals demanded more. They need a bribe to pay for a travel visa. This will continue until you catch on or run out of funds.Money will be requested through untraceable, irreversible means, most often Western Union, but some will ask for other things that are easily converted back into cash, like iTunes vouchers.
What is it like to live in Lagos, Nigeria?
Thanks for the A2A.I have lived in about 5 other states in Nigeria and passed through others and I can tell you for a fact that you can't find a state like Lagos. Lagos is a place of extremes. There's madness, chaos, beauty, excitement, stress, serenity, nice people, crazy people - all things are at their extremes.Picture a regular work day. You wake up by 5am hoping to leave early enough to get to work on time. It's a fact that your workplace is actually 30mins away (Lagos is actually very small. Most places aren't very far) but realistically you need to leave nothing short of an hour early to have any hope of getting there on time. Why? Because there are 2million other people following the same route as you and have no regard for laws. You close by 5pm and you rush out because the difference between leaving by 5pm and leaving by 5:05pm is the same as getting home by 6pm and getting home by 7:30pm. Yes. 5 minutes is all it takes for the “traffic spirit” to do its work. This is why there are many mad drivers on the roads. Everyone is rushing. If not, you get home just in time to take a shower to resume the next morning.If you use public transportation, then you are in for another ball game. First, pray you have no chubby passengers because you will be squashed. Then pray you have normal passengers because you could end up sitting beside a person and find out a chicken is staring at you from their bag. This is however better than when you ride with fish sellers and get to work smelling like you are part tilapia.Then comes the holidays. (Note, Nigeria has holidays for any and everything. Christian, Muslim, politics, unions, lovers - all have holidays for different things). You have like 10 shows to choose from. Comedians, musicians, everyone has a show or concert or gig to host. All your hard earned cash is spent having fun. After all, you no fit kill yourself. I have friends that have literally hopped from show to show to show in one night just to have fun.Truth is, it doesn't have to be a holiday to have fun. There is always one event or the other every weekend. Lagos is fun like that. And if you don't wanna go far, there are bars like every corner.If you wanna stay in Nigeria, Lagos is the state to be. You'll have fun. You might be frustrated and angry and stressed but you'll definitely enjoy every bit of it.