A 95-year-old man from West Virginia has become the oldest organ donor in United States history after he died last week.
Cecil Lockhart, of Welch, West Virginia died on May 4, and his liver was donated to a woman in her 60’s.
The Center for Organ Recovery & Education (CORE) announced the news in a statement.
“CORE is incredibly proud to have been able to make this historic organ donation possible,” said Susan Stuart, CORE president & CEO. “This landmark in the field of transplantation is just another example of CORE’s pioneering legacy and commitment to innovation, which, over the last 40 years, has given 6,000 people in the United States the opportunity to save more than 15,000...
A Federal High Court sitting in Kano has sentenced a 28-year-old man, Abubakar Suleiman, to two years imprisonment without an option of fine for trafficking 30 women to Libya.
In her ruling on Thursday, March 25, the presiding judge, Justice Sa’adatu Ibrahim-Mark, also ordered the convict to pay an additional N250,000, adding that he will serve additional three months in the correctional centre should he fail to pay the said amount.
The National Agency for the Prohibition In Persons (NAPTIP) had charged Suleiman, a resident of Kadawa Miltara Quarters in Ungogo Local Government Area of Kano, with one count of trafficking in persons.
The Prosecution Counsel, Barrister Abdullahi Babale, told the court that the defendant on February 10 conspired...
